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LI prenups, postnups tackle agunah crisis

By Malka Eisenberg In a move to confront the agunah (“chained woman”) crisis in a creative way that also reaffirms the marital commitment of Jewish couples, an Orthodox congregation in Merrick held a post-nuptial/pre-nuptial document signing celebration on Tu B’Av, a day on the Jewish calendar with special significance for marriage and Jewish unity.

The July 22 event at Congregation Ohav Sholom was initiated by its rabbi, Ira Ebbin who told The Jewish Star that almost 50 couples came to sign, with some bringing their children to the party.

“All in all there were around 120 people in attendance, which for a Monday Night is a really nice turnout,” he noted. The couples ranged from being married one month to 60 years. “The program crossed all age demographics, which is one of the reasons it was

such a great program.”

Ebbin explained that the idea for the event originated with Rabbi Chaim Marder of the Hebrew Institute of White Plains who had a similar pre/post nuptial agreement signing at his synagogue.

“When I announced it from the pulpit several weeks ago, I mentioned Rabbi Marder and said I hoped other communities would follow suit.”

His two goals in running the program were for his congregants to become “more passionate and involved in the agunah issue” and to stress the importance of establishing the halachic pre-nuptial agreement as a standard for all couples contemplating marriage.

An agunah is a married woman who has become separated from her husband but cannot remarry because the husband refuses to deliver to her a religious divorce or it is not Continued on page 16

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Matthew and Jessica Lerner prepare to notarize their post-nuptial agreement while notaries witness the signatures. Answering questions and providing notary services are attorney Debora Grossman, Dr. Elliott Grossman, and Ira Kolko, a Human Resources specialist.

Five Towns educator slams freeing of 104 killers

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Standing opposite the Israeli consulate on Second Avenue in Manhattan, New Yorkers protested the release of Palestinian killers by Israel. From left: Helen Freedman, executive director Americans For a Safe Israel; Rabbi David Algaze of Havurat Yisrael of Forest Hills; protest organizer Tamar Adelstein, and Dr. Paul Brody of Great Neck. All 104 prisoners have “blood on their hands,” said Brody.

The decision by Israel’s cabinet on Sunday to approve the release of 104 Palestinian prisoners who were convicted of committing terrorist acts prior to the Oslo Accords in 1993 was strongly criticized this week by a noted Five Towns educator.

“On the surface, the idea of releasing yet more Palestinian terrorists with blood on their hands appears to be a foolish error,” Rabbi Yotav Eliach, principal of Rambam Mesivta High School in Lawrence and teacher at Rambam and Midreshet Shalhevet in Valley Stream told The Jewish Star.

“Israel has been down this road before, and we all know that it ends badly.”

Eliach has been lecturing and writing about Zionism, Israel and the Israeli Arab conflict for 30 years.

The terrorists are to be released in four stages over nine months. Israel is not expected to receive anything in return for this except an agreement to sit with Palestinian negotiators to discuss the possibility of talking peace. The cabinet vote was 13 to 7.

Among those slated to be released are kidnappers and murderers of teenagers, teachers and off-duty soldiers, men women and children.

From monitoring Palestinian Authority statements, it is clear that the PA’s message to its people is that “all of Israel belongs to the Palestinians,” said Eliach, a resident of Woodmere, and that “Israel is an illegal and immoral entity.”

The PA views the use of terror as a legitimate device in its bid to destroy Israel.

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“Israel must be removed from the map in stages, and any agreement that weakens Israel is one worth pursuing,” according to the PA, Eliach said. “Hence the PA has no interest in creating a peaceful Palestinian State next door to the Jewish State of Israel.”

While Eliach insisted that there is no justification for the release of the terrorists, perhaps “Israel’s agreeing to release PA terrorists and resume peace talks with the PA may be the price Israel is being forced to pay to guarantee that the U.S. will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons — and that the U.S. is prepared to use force if need be.”

Eliach continued: “Bibi, who knows the PA and its leaders quite well, will be able, when all is said and done, to expose Abu Mazen to be no different than Arafat was at Camp David in the summer of 2000: A dishonest, double talking, Mufti-like leader [referring to the Mufti of Jerusalem who collaborated with the Nazis] who when push comes to shove is incapable of recognizing Israel’s right to exist as a sovereign state, and her right to live in secure borders. In essence he will call Abu Mazen’s bluff and show that Israel really has no one to talk to.”

“Israel may bring up at these negotiations that there are Continued on page 16

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Psalm 27: We repeat it … for repentance and penitence

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mong the most consistent liturgical works on the Jewish calendar is the twice daily recitation of Psalm 27, beginning next week, heralding the upcoming high holidays of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Succos.

The Book of Psalms has experienced numerous new English translations and commentaries that warrant your attention. This KOSHER week’s essay will focus BOOKWORM on Psalm 27 through the works of four authors.

Dr. Amos Hakham in his classical work “Da’at Mikra With the Jerusalem Commentary” [Mosad HaRav Kook], English translation, states what will serve as the thematic introduction to this essay: Alan Jay Gerber “In Midrash Tehillim we find: ‘The Lord is my light’ on Rosh Hashanah, ‘and my salvation’ on Yom Kippur’ [and that] “He will hide me in His tabernacle’ on Sukkot’.” Thus, we see an inherent textual justification for the recital of this psalm at this time of year.

Rabbi Chaim Miller, in his latest commentary and translation to the Psalms [Kol Menachem Tehillim, 2013] asks, “Were the Psalms composed with prophetic insight?

The Sages drew a distinction between actual prophecy, and lower levels of the inspired mind, which are often referred to as ruach ha-kodesh, with Tehillim falling into the lat-

ter category.” This serves to set the tone for his beautiful work.

Further on, Rabbi Miller goes into some detail as to the liturgical role the Psalms play during this holiday season, breaking it down to four distinct time segments.

“1. Elul and Tishrei. From the second day of Rosh Chodesh Elul until the eve of Yom Kippur, in addition to the regular daily reading, three additional chapters of Tehillim are said daily.

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Rosh Hashanah.

Throughout both days of Rosh Hashanah, from an hour before the afternoon service on the eve until the evening prayer at its conclusion, a great effort is made to read Tehillim at every moment possible.

“3. Yom Kippur. In 5711 the Rebbe, zt”l, began the custom of reciting the entire Tehillim with the congregation after the evening service on the night of Yom Kippur.

“4. Hoshanah Rabbah. After midnight the entire book is read with the congregation.”

All this is according to the Chabad tradition and are recited in addition to the twice daily recitations of Psalm 27.

Rabbi Miller begins his commentary of Psalm 27 with the following, based upon the first verse, “G-d is my light and my rescue …

G-d is my life’s strength.”

“Spiritual self-evaluation has to be an honest one, of all that has been done and left undone. However, a human being cannot be an impartial judge where he himself is con-

cerned, for where he is personally involved he is too subjective to be infallible in his self-estimation; the intrusion of his intellect, the feeling of self-love, create a tendency toward a slanted evaluation.”

This comment serves as an apt set up to the whole holiday theme of penitence and self-evaluation both within ourselves, and before G-d in our worship.

Another new commentary and translation on Psalm 27 was recently published by Kehot / Merkos L’Iyonei Chinuch as part of their new siddur, “The Siddur Illuminated By Chassidus, Weekday Shacharis.”

The translation was composed by Rabbi Eliyahu Touger, who together with Rabbi Sholom Ber Wineberg produced the extensive commentary.

In the commentary to the opening verse, “G-d is my light and my deliverance,” the authors state the following: “This verse alludes to the 13 Attributes of Mercy that are drawn down in the month of Elul and which shine forth during the 10 Days of Repentance. … What is the vessel that enables G-d’s light to remain on this physical plane? Torah study. On this basis, we can understand the background behind the connection between Elul and Torah study hinted at in the verse, ‘I am my Beloved’s and my Beloved is mine,’ that is identified with Elul.”

The second to the last verse serves as the

closing teaching by Rabbi Touger. He quotes the first part, “Had I not trusted,” and teaches that “the word, ‘lulay,’ translated as ‘had I not,’ uses the same letters as Elul, albeit in the reverse order. Implied is a connection between Elul and trust; in Elul, man’s powers of trust and faith can be intensified.”

Thus, by implication, is the justification for the recital of this Psalm at this time of year.

Our last teaching is from a commentary

by Rabbi Dr. Martin Shmuel Cohen from, “Our Haven and Our Strength, The Book of Psalms,” with a new translation and commentary.

Rabbi Cohen teaches us the following: “At the time of year when people find their thoughts turning more and more frequently to their relationship with G-d, it is both bold and brave to read the 27th Psalm over and over as part of public worship, almost as though its message were in need of intense inculcation. And what is that message?

“Simply that G-d may be known even today in the normal way human beings know each other, that G-d must be served to be known, and that even the most assiduous performance of rites and rituals must be deemed meaningless in the absence of faith in a G-d who can be encountered, not merely obeyed.”

FOR FURTHER STUDY Consider the following as worthwhile followup to this week’s column: “Sefer Tehillim: Shiur #1 Psalm 27,” by Rav Elchanan Samet [Vbm-torah.org/archive/ tehillim]; “Tehillim: the Book of Psalms, Mizmor 27, Faith in the Land of Life,” by Rabbi Avi Baumol [virtual.co.il/education/yhe]

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By Malka Eisenberg He’s low-key, reassuring and rabbinic, speaks easily to his charges and could easily be one of them, as he brings North American Jews closer to geulah [redemption].

In ten years, through Nefesh B’Nefesh, Rabbi Yehoshua Fass, along with Tony Gelbart, has succeeded in moving 35,000 Jews along the path to accomplish their dream of living in Israel.

After gently retrieving a child who wandered up the aisle of the plane, carrying him back to his mom, he quietly explains his own path to aliyah [immigration to Israel] and his role as facilitator to an unprecedented flow of Jews back to their ancient homeland.

“I always wanted to move to Israel,” he told The Jewish Star, during last week’s NBN flight that carried 231, including 106 children, to renewed lives in Medinat Yisrael.

Fass said that he and his wife had a “ten years or bust” attitude to aliyah. His original life plan included medical school but he switched to “rabbinics.”

At Yeshiva University he earned his smicha [rabbinic ordination] and degrees in education and biology, taking the position of associate rabbi at the Boca Raton Synagogue in Florida. But the murder of a 13-year-old cousin by a Hamas suicide bomber in May 2001 shook him out of his complacency.

“It made us recalibrate,” he said.

The Fasses shared their desire to move to Israel with their peers, expecting to be called “crazy.” Instead, others echoed their thoughts on aliyah and voiced similar yearnings but worried that they were held back from living in Israel by “bureaucracy, lack of a social network, strikes, employment.”

Photo by Malka Eisenberg

Rabbi Yehoshua Fass, NBN founder and executive director, speaks at JFK Airport last week before Nefesh B’Nefesh’s latest flight of olim (immigrants), flanked by (from left) Erez Halfon, vice chairman of NBN; Russell Robinson, CEO of Jewish National Fund; and Shamai Keinan, Karen Kayemet L’Yisrael board member.

He decided to confront the problem using market research and, together with his congregant and partner Tony Gelbart “from day one” in this enterprise, worked to smooth the financial, professional and logistical problems. He noted that before then “no one was addressing the obstacles” that capped at about 1,000 a year the number of people making aliyah from North America. The founding of Nefesh B’Nefesh in 2002 “created an organization that made a robust new wave of modern Zionism possible.”

Structured as a five year business plan, NBN, thought Fass, would be a supplementary program. He “never thought that Israel would outsource” the aliyah process to NBN,

working in concert with the Jewish Agency and the Jewish National Fund. He stressed the need of “human capital” for “other entities to bring their projects to fruition” and the need to “utilize” the workings of NBN “to tackle projects.” He cited the “impending medical shortage,” the need to “bring doctors to Israel” and being asked by groups in Israel “can you increase the number of doctors.”

“It’s not just Aliyah,” he stressed. “It’s leveraging Aliyah to meet the national needs.”

He explained that he helped create an infrastructure to bring more olim and is working to bring more olim, to continue the growth with other projects. NBN, he said, will be working “cross denominationally” across the

Jewish people in North America, increasing outreach in colleges and continuing to support lone soldiers from around the world.

Some of their other programs include the go south program, encouraging olim to consider moving to the southern areas of Israel and its counterpoint the go North program, helping olim to move to Israel’s northern communities. They support olim who join the army and live in Israel without the benefit of a family network in Israel, receiving support, emotional and financial, from the Friends of the IDF in conjunction with NBN. NBN, aside from offering a free one way flight and cab ride to their new home in Israel, aids those contemplating Aliyah with questions and assistance in planning aliyah, housing, community selections, education, employment, financial help, paper work, benefits from the government and agencies, healthcare and army or national service.

Thirty percent of the funding for NBN is provided by the Israeli government and the rest, 70 percent, comes from individual philanthropists and foundations including the Marcus Foundation, Irving Moskowitz, FIDF, Legacy Heritage, Russel Berrie and others.

“It’s so exciting and incredibly inspiring, fulfilling the dreams and bringing thousands home yearly, furthering the national growth of the country,” said Fass.

Fass lives in Beit Shemesh with his wife and seven children, four born in Israel.

Rabbi Fass seems to radiate an inner peace as he looks over this next planeload of idealistic Jews homeward bound. A modern day Joshua, leading the descendants of those desert travelers across a different body of water, on the wings of 747s, home.

Christian students push Israeli points on campus

By Debra Rubin, JNS.org WASHINGTON — Sam Bain knew that life could be dangerous in southern Israel, with rockets fired indiscriminately across the border from Gaza. But it wasn’t until the Ohio college student visited an Israeli day care center near the Gaza border that the reality truly hit him.

This day care center was a bomb-safe facility. “We don’t have bomb-safe day care centers in America,” Bain told JNS.org.

“It was almost a wake-up call” about the reality of life in Israel, he said.

Bain visited the Jewish state in 2011 as part of a Christians United for Israel (CUFI) campus trip. Last week, he was one of 400 students representing 157 campuses at the group’s Washington Summit, which drew more than 4,000 people. Session topics included Israel 101 – The Basics of the Arab Israeli Conflict, Myths and Facts: Refuting the Negative Myths About Israel, The Biblical Mandate to Stand With Israel, A View From the Hill, and featured a video address by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

CUFI primarily draws its support from evangelicals who cite two main drivers for their backing of Israel: one, a biblical mandate that God gave the land of Israel to the Jewish people and, two, shared values, including freedom and democracy, with the United States.

Indeed, that’s the case for the two students whom CUFI made available for interviews with JNS.org. Bain, a senior business management major at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio, and Vika Mukha, a rising senior majoring in political science and media studies at the University of California,

Berkeley, both describe themselves as nondenominational Christians who grew up with positive outlooks on Israel.

Both believe there are not enough voices on behalf of Israel on college campuses. Bain, who has visited campuses across Ohio, said he’s seen anti-Israel sentiment and anti-Semitism. “It is not the most friendly environment and they’re going to present a biased side of the issue,” he said. “You have to go in there and tell them that’s not how things are.”

The freedom “we have in this country depends on freedom in other lands,” Bain, 24, said.

Part of Mukha’s motivation stems from her roots in the former Soviet Union. Born in Belarus, she came to the United States as a baby. “I had ancestors who were persecuted in the Soviet Union because of their faith.

The same people who persecuted them persecuted the Jews,” Mukha, 20, said.

At UC Berkeley, she finds herself in a hotbed of anti-Israel sentiment. Earlier this year, her college’s student government, following 10 hours of debate, passed a resolution calling up the university to divest from companies that do business with the Israel Defense Forces. (UC Chancellor Robert Birgeneau said the vote would not change the system’s investment policy.) Of the 200 people who voiced their opinions during the all-night deliberations, Mukha said, she was one of only two who spoke from a Christian perspective.

Earlier in the year, she attended a campus pastoral panel featuring four Christian ministers who criticized Israel on human rights.

“They were claiming to represent Christians, but they weren’t representing me at all,” she said.

“Berkeley has over 80 Christian student organizations,” she said. “I would love to present to them from our point of view why it is a biblical mandate” to support Israel, Mukha added.

The impetus for campus chapters came from students themselves who contacted the organization seeking information about Israel, according to David Brog, CUFI’s executive director.

Founded in 2009, CUFI on Campus has 120 chapters and has trained 2,000 students to advocate for Israel, officials say.

Some chapters, such as Mukha’s, draw only a handful of members, if that many. “What you want them to do is try to do events that are well attended,” Brog said.

Sometimes the lack of interest is due to apathy, both Bain and Brog say. “At a lot of Christian schools, Israel is not a value that’s taught; we’re trying to change that,” Brog said. At other schools, where anti-Israel sentiment might be strong, people are afraid to support Israel publicly. “Not a lot of students, Jewish or not, have the guts to do it.”

That the CUFI activists aren’t Jewish can give them credibility that Jewish students, who some assume automatically will defend Israel, don’t always have. People “may wonder ‘what is this black guy from a small town in Dayton, Ohio, doing supporting Israel?”

Bain said. That can help legitimize his message, he said, “because I don’t have an obvious self-interest, other than the fact I love the Jewish people.”

CUFI doesn’t staff campus chapters, but provides support for the students, including inviting them to the summit as well as to a winter student program held in San Antonio, Texas, where the organization is headquar-

Photo courtesy of JNS.org

College students Sam Bain and Vika Mukha, at the 2013 Christians United for Israel Washington Summit. tered. In addition, up to 40 of the top students are selected for an annual trip to Israel.

A campus display at this week’s conference showed what students may be up against, from an “apartheid wall” that’s gone to national campuses to quotes from professors denigrating Israel.

Recently, the organization has increased its social media presence. A Facebook page has more than a million “likes.” A CUFI on Campus app regularly provides users with articles about Israel, responses to anti-Israel items in the news and messages from the staff “to help keep their spirits up,” said Joshua Ahrens, CUFI’s national campus coordinator.

Not all the articles have a political perspective either, said Ahrens. “We want students to see that Israel is such a positive presence in the world,” he said. “If Israel helps farmers in India with their crops, nobody can say [the article is] biased.”

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Nefesh B’Nefesh’s Rabbi Fass facilitates geulah

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J.K. Rowling’s message: Never judge a book by its ‘cover’

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here’s a “new” star author on the scene named Robert Galbraith. The writer, who the publisher, Little Brown, described as “a former plainclothes Royal Military Police investigator who had left in 2003 to work in the civilian security industry,” debuted with a detective novel about the suicide HIPPEST RABBI of a supermodel called “The Cuckoo’s Calling.”

But alas, as with many first-timers, the novel’s initial run sold a pitiable 500 copies despite some heavyduty kudos for this “amateur.” Publisher’s Weekly called the book a “stellar debut” while the Library Journal’s mystery section pronounced the novel “the Rabbi Simcha debut of the month.”

Weinstein India Knight, a novelist and columnist for the Sunday Times, tweeted on July 9 that she thought Galbraith’s work was good for a debut novel.

Ah, but then Ms. Knight received a shocking tweet by one Jude Callegari, who informed the reviewer that the Robert Galbraith was a “she” and more … the “she” was the pre-eminent novelist of our times, J.K. Rowling!

Undaunted, Ms. Knight notified Richard Brooks, arts editor of the Sunday Times, who began his own investigation — which went nuclear. After discovering that Rowling and Galbraith had the same agent and editor, he sent the books for linguistic analysis which found similarities!

It was confirmed that “the former plainclothes Royal Military Police investigator, who had left in 2003 to work in the civilian security industry,” was in fact the titanic J.K. Rowling, the best-selling author of the 21st

century, who turned Harry Potter into a global phenomenon.

Once “his” (or her) cover was blown, the book immediately shot from Amazon obscurity to number one.

As a struggling author myself, I was fascinated by Rowling’s decision and her motives.

After all, her legendary rags to riches story rivals any magic trick Harry Potter could pull-off. More fascinating is the fact that this one-time welfare mom began writing Harry in her mid-30s, but as an “unknown,” the series was spurned by many high level editors before the first of her seven novels about the boy wizard was published in 1997.

We can all learn a beautiful message from Rowling’s secret. She could have sold millions by attaching her real name to her new book, but Rowling’s choice was defined by her success. The fake author was reviewed by nonjudgmental eyes, and critics seemed to like it, some critics even noted how the male author partially understood the feminine mind!

The Jewish mystics note that in order to preserve our free will, the Almighty must hide within the world. Rowling said, “It has been wonderful to publish without hype or expectation and pure pleasure to get feedback under a different name.” She displayed the courage, chutzpah and determination to keep challenging herself — by staying in the shadows.

The Torah notes how much more accomplished one feels when one has worked for something as opposed to being given a free ride. Rowling chose not to ride her name but rather let her words do the talking.

Perhaps she also accomplished more for those of us who are struggling writers. By hiding, Rowling suggests the folly of following fashion or fads and inspires us to use our minds and hearts. This is altogether not a bad idea in a world where the object of the game has become fame and success without really trying.

‘The Torah notes

how much more accomplished one feels when one has worked for something as opposed to being given a free ride.’

Before Zimmerman, DOJ should probe Freddy’s massacre

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fter calling the ruling an atrocity on encourage Harlem residents to boycott his MSNBC program, Al Sharpton Freddy’s. Learning from his Crown Heights wants the federal governexperience, Sharpton let others ment to act. push the anti-Semitic hatred, but POLITICS TO GO “There are grounds for civil it was done on his show. rights charges here,” he said on “We are going to see that this Meet the Press, adding, “There cracker suffers,” Powell is heard would never have been protests telling a crowd in one broadcast if there had been an arrest and if on Aug. 19. “Reverend Sharpton the police department there did is on it. We have made contact what it was supposed to do.” with these crackers. We don’t Despite Reverend Al’s protesexpect a lot out of them. They tations, local police did do their haven’t seen how we feel about job. After examining all the evianything yet. We are going to dence, police believed Zimmershow them.” man’s story. However, they were “They think they gonna drive overruled to keep agitators such this man out of business, they as Sharpton happy. gotta be out of their minds. We Jeff Dunetz Former police chief Bill Lee are not gonna stand idly by and told CNN that his investigation let a Jewish person come in was hijacked, that evidence was Black Harlem and methodically shared improperly and that he was pres- drive black people out of business up and sured to arrest George Zimmerman, simply down 125th Street. If we stand for that, to placate the protesters. we’ll stand for anything. Which we’ve been “It was [relayed] to me that they just doing.” wanted an arrest. They didn’t care if it got At a September 9 rally, Sharpton told a dismissed later,” he said. crowd: In the end, a jury of six women agreed “I want to make it clear to the radio audiwith the police’s original decision — they ence and to you here that we will not stand believed Zimmerman’s claim of self-defense. by and allow them to move this brother so Before the Justice Department gets in- that some white interloper can expand his volved in the Zimmerman case, it should business on 125th Street.” investigate an 18-year-old civil rights case Ironically, Sharpton was the interloper. which lead to the deaths of Angelina Mar- He was living in Hollis, Queens, around the rero, Cynthia Martinez, Luz Ramos, Mayra time that Freddy’s opened in Harlem, and Rentas, Olga Garcia, Garnette Ramautar, living in New Jersey when Freddy’s was Kareem Brunner — the seven victims of the burned down. When other white-owned massacre at Freddy’s Fashion Mart. Their businesses fled the neighborhood as the deaths can be traced to the racial incitement population became more African-American, of one man, Al Sharpton.

Fred Harari, the owner of Freddy’s, contin••• ued to serve the neighborhood.

In 1995, the United House of Prayer, a On an October 21 Sharpton broadcast, large African-American church, was also a Norman “Granddad” Reide said: major landlord in Harlem. It raised the rent “I am saying to the Jewish community at Freddy’s Fashion Mart, a Jewish-owned and specifically to Abraham Foxman, that clothing store that had operated from the you come out and utter a word, accusatory same Harlem location for over 40 years. In remark against Reverend Sharpton, Jesse turn, Freddy’s had to raise the rent on its Jackson, Donna Wilson, Reverend Shields, or sub-tenant, a black-owned record store. A Gary Byrd, we will boycott you and nobody landlord-tenant dispute ensued. As he has loves money any more than the Jewish peodone so often in his life, Al ple. Thank you.”

Sharpton turned this nonIn court papers filed the day racial economic dispute before the fire, Harari and two into a racial conflict. employees described weeks of The Sharpton-led proprotests outside the clothing tests began in August and store in which demonstrators came to a head on the threatened employees, hurled morning of Friday, Dec. 8, obscenities at “bloodsucking when Roland James Smith, Jews” and talked of burning Jr., who had been part of down the store.

Sharpton’s protests, walked Sadly, Roland James Smith, into Freddy’s Fashion Mart, Jr. listened to the calls and pulled out a gun, ordered burnt the store down. all the black customers to In the aftermath of the leave, spilled paint thinner massacre, Sharpton criticized on several bins of clothing NYPD investigators for quickly and set them on fire — a linking the fire to the protestfire that resulted in killing seven people plus ers, but the police evidence and the tapes Smith. The only African American left in the proved him to be a liar. story was Freddy’s security guard Kareem After first telling the press, “What’s Brunner, 22-years-old, who was ordered to wrong with calling someone a white interstay by the mass murderer Smith. loper?” he apologized for using that term.

At the time, the faux-preacher claimed He never apologized for the Jew-hatred he wasn’t involved in the protests — he was broadcast on his radio shows and spoken at only there to mediate. He also claimed there the rallies he helped to organize. He continwas no anti-Semitism involved in the pro- ues to deny that the rallies had anything to tests, but he was lying. do with the firebombing.

Soon after the massacre, the Jewish AcA jury found George Zimmerman not tion Alliance, a New York-based civil-rights guilty. A jury, or the Department of Jusgroup, released audiotapes and transcripts tice, never tried Al Sharpton. Sharpton was of several of Sharpton’s weekly radio shows found not guilty by the same media that in which Morris Powell, leader of the 125th convicted George Zimmerman without seeStreet Vendor’s Association, can be heard ing any evidence, and MSNBC gave Sharpusing racial and anti-Semitic language to ton a TV platform to spew his hatred.

‘A jury found

Zimmerman not guilty. A jury, or the Department of Justice, never tried Al Shapton.’

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here are six remembrances that are included in the siddur at the end of Shacharis. Remembering the Exodus, Shabbos, G-d’s presence at Mt. Sinai, what happened to Miriam, how you provoked G-d in the desert, and to destroy Amalek.

This list does not include all the times the word zachor (to remember) appears in the Torah. Nor does it include any of the PARSHA OF seven times we are THE WEEK told v’zacharta (and you shall remember) — all of which appear in the book of Devarim (5:15, 8:2, 8:18, 15:15, 16:12, 24:18,22).

Interestingly, the instruction to remember Sinai is really “not to forget,” as the verse does not Rabbi Avi Billet even have the root word zachor.

Why are the v’zacharta’s not included in the daily remembrances? Five of them are repeats: “Remember that you were slaves in Egypt.”

One of them is a reminder of the 40 years journey. The remaining one reminds us to remember G-d, for He is the One Who gives us the strength to prevail.

Our original list of six does include a reminder of the 40 years — not of the way G-d tested us for 40 years to see if we’d never-

theless fulfill the mitzvos (8:2), but of how we provoked G-d. Our daily pick of these two is more important for us because it reminds us not to repeat what we did wrong.

Perhaps remembering the Exodus, Shabbos and G-d’s presence at Sinai would be enough to remind us on a daily basis to remember G-d Who gives us strength.

Which leaves us with remembering that we were slaves in Egypt, which can also be subsumed in the “remembering the Exodus.”

And yet, it is mentioned five times in Devarim, twice in our parsha. Even if it is not a remembrance of its own merit, the fact that it is repeated so much should suggest it is quite an important detail in the overall remembrance of the Exodus.

This assumption requires us to see how the instruction appears in each context.

The first one (5:15) appears in the context of the Ten Commandments, as a reminder for why we must keep Shabbos — because we were slaves in Egypt, and this was one of the first ingredients of freedom from Pharaoh. One day off per week.

The second one (15:15), the first of the two in our parsha, comes in the context of describing how to send off the Eved Ivri,

the Hebrew servant, from his servitude. He must be treated well, and must be sent on his way with a full suitcase and an ample supply of food.

The third reminder of being a slave (16:12) comes in the context of instructions surrounding celebrating the holiday of Shavuos, which, at least on the calendar, coincides with the penultimate moment of the Exodus process — the receiving of the Torah. As the commentaries point out, the Exodus from slavery was designed to bring us to that moment: at Sinai, receiving the Torah.

Remembering our most humble beginnings at that point helps us appreciate Shavuos even more.

The final two reminders of our slavery come in Devarim 24 — the former as part

‘Having been a

slave in Egypt sensitizes you to treat the needy and society’s weakest in a manner that helps preserve their dignity.’

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of the ethics of how to treat the stranger and the orphan in judgment, and the latter instruction is to leave some of your produce for them and the widow. Your having been a slave in Egypt helps you empathize with the plight of these people, and sensitizes you to treat the needy and society’s weakest in a manner that helps preserve their dignity.

Remembering having been a slave leads to a number of different lessons, primarily focusing on identification, empathy, and appreciating the good we have in our lives.

There are too many details attached to the single remembrance to warrant its own daily remembrance, while the reminder of the Exodus essentially covers it anyway.

But, truth be told, even if it is not a specific mitzvah, it is a detail of our history that should not be overlooked. It helps put things in perspective and reminds us of most important priorities: caring for our fellow man, appreciating the freedoms we enjoy, and celebrating our special relationship with G-d.

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his week’s portion, Re’eh, begins with Moshe’s dramatic presentation of the blessings and the curses, which seem at first glance to be all about the rewards and punishments that await us when we enter the land of Israel, just across the Jordan river: “Re’eh anochi noten lifneichem hayom brachah u’klalah…“See, I present before you today a blessing and a curse.

“The blessing: that you shall listen to the commandments of Hashem your G-d, which I command you this day. And the curse: if you do not hearken to the commandments of FROM THE HEART Hashem your G-d, and OF JERUSALEM stray from the path that I command you this day, to follow other gods that you did not know.”(Devarim 11:2628) Moshe continues: “And it shall be, when Hashem your G-d brings you into the land that you are coming to, to inherit, and you shall place (give) the blessRabbi Binny ing on Mount Grizim, Freedman and the curse on Mount Eival.” (11:29) How does one “place” blessings or curses on a mountain? Further, it seems that these blessings and curses take effect only when we actually enter the land of Israel, and seem to be related to a specific place: two mountains, which stand across from each other in a particular valley. And the Torah makes sure we know exactly where this valley is: “Are they (these mountains) not just across

the Jordan, beyond the Sunset Highway (towards the Sun), in the land of the Canaanite, that dwells in the plain, opposite Gilgal, near Elonei (the plain of) Mamrei.” (11:30) Tradition tells us that these mountains, whose names remain to this day, stand above and on either side of the valley, which leads into the city of Shechem (Nablus). What is so important about these mountains, why must the blessings and curses be placed “there” and why are these blessings and curses not delineated here? Why do we have to wait another three weeks to read what they actually are?

Rashi tries to resolve one of our questions by suggesting that “you shall place (give) the blessing on Mount Grizim, and the curse on Mount Eival.” refers to those who bless.

And Moshe (27:11-13) does later explain that when the Jews actually enter the land, six of the tribes will stand on one mountain and six on the other. But, as the Ramban (11:29) points out, this does not seem to fit the text, especially as the Torah does not actually mention those who are blessing at all!

And there are other difficulties: Why does Moshe tell the people to “look” “today”?

What is so special about this particular day?

One also wonders why the Torah chooses to begin discussing a mitzvah that appears to have little or no bearing on this topic: to destroy Canaanite idolatry. What does the command to destroy Canaanite idolatry have to do with the consequences of our general behavior as a people?

When Judaism began, and Avraham first entered the land of Israel at G-d’s behest, guess what his first stop was?

“And Avram passed into the land as far as the site of Shechem.” (Genesis 12:6) And Rashi makes the point of saying that “(Hashem) showed him Mount Grizim and Mount Eival, for there Israel received the oath (promise) of the Torah.” (Rashi, 12:6) So Moshe tells the Jewish people, that when they enter the land, they need to go back to the place where it all began. The Talmud tells us (Tractate Sotah 36a): “In a single day, Israel crossed the Jordan and came directly to Mount Grizim and Mount Eival, a distance of over 60 miles.”

What Moshe is saying, suggests the Ramban (11:29), is that they must choose the path of blessings. Until this point, the Jewish people have been living a life of very little choice. Manna falls from the sky, water appears from a magic well, and all their actions meet with immediate reactions, such that they are not really choosing, merely testing.

As they enter into the land, the next generation of Jews are told that their time has come to choose. How do you choose to live?

Do you want to live a life of blessing, or a cursed life? The choice, in the end, is yours.

Perhaps that is why the actual blessings and curses do not appear here, because they are not yet the topic, they are the result of this topic much later on. Here, we are not dealing with the consequences of our choices; we are dealing with the choices themselves!

Four thousand years ago, an individual,

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alone in a world full of idolatry, heard a calling and made a choice. Moshe gives his descendants the same challenge: to choose to make the world a better place to be.

Maybe this is why when we enter Israel, part of that choice entails breaking the idols, just as Avraham did. Before we can fill our lives with the light of seeing things the way they are meant to be, we have to let go of all the obstacles that keep us in the mire of the mistaken objectives that idolatry represents.

This is the legacy of the city of Shechem, where Joseph is buried. Joseph was really the first Jew to live and die in true exile, sold by his brothers into Egyptian slavery, and he chose to live up to who he was meant to be, despite all the challenges he faced.

This might be why we are told to fulfill this command “today” — because every day is a new day, the beginning of the rest of our lives, and how we choose to live that life is entirely dependent on how, first and foremost, we choose to view the world.

It is no accident that the portion of Re’eh, all about seeing things in a different way, always precedes Elul, the month leading up to Rosh Hashanah, and the month that represents in Jewish tradition our attempt to see the world as it was meant to be, and decide how we can do a little better this year in helping it and us to get there.

May Hashem bless us all in the coming year with the vision to see the cup as full, and the doors as open, and allow us the wisdom to see things in a better light, and the strength to then make them be that way.

Best wishes for a sweet, happy and healthy new year, Ketivah Ve’Chatimah Tovah, Shabbat Shalom from Efrat and Yerushalayim, Binny Freedman

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For Germany and Israel, a textbook case

By Jeffrey F. Barken, JNS.org Almost 70 years after the Holocaust and 50 years after Germany and Israel established diplomatic relations, a textbook commission is shedding light on how the two countries are promoting their sustained cultural and historical connection.

Dirk Sawdowski, chairman of the German-Israeli Textbook Commission, explained that there is a fundamental difference between the German education system and the Israeli education system that “finds expression in each country’s secondary and high school textbooks.”

“Although both systems try to impart western and democratic values, the Israeli curriculum is largely indebted to educational principles arising from the necessity of nation building,” Sawdowski tells JNS.org.

“German textbooks, meanwhile, employ a very different, almost post-national reading of history, which is, of course, a result of Germany’s problematic past.”

In an ambitious project begun in 2010, textbooks in Germany and Israel are under review. The German Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israeli Ministry of Education teamed up to finance a survey of their separate educational systems to assess how each country portrays the other’s history in school textbooks, for ages 12-18, and recommend improvements. The survey probes different textbooks’ treatment of geography, political treaties and issues arising from globalization, with special emphasis on their comparative histories of the Holocaust.

“Before we could begin it was necessary

Courtesy Dr. Arie Kizel

Members of the Israeli team working with the German team to assess textbooks. that we reconcile our methodologies,” Dr. Arie Kizel, the chairman coordinating the Israeli team, tells JNS.org. “Every textbook is written and read in a cultural context.

Therefore, we had to work together to filter biases and strategize how we approached each text.”

Today, there are three groups of German and Israeli researchers working under the aegis of the commission. Communication is possible through simultaneous language translation.

An early obstacle confronted by the commission involves textbook sample size.

“Since Israel is significantly smaller than Germany and there is only one state-approved curriculum, the Israeli team was able to survey all of the textbooks currently being used in Israel,” Kizel says.

In Germany, however, educational mat-

ters are administered differently among the country’s 16 federal states. There are also diverse curricula for different school types.

Textbook publishers, therefore, try to adapt themselves to the different policies and curricula by publishing a series of schoolbooks in a number of versions. Consequently, there are nearly 1,200 different textbooks in Germany, all relevant to the subjects being surveyed, and the selection of texts varies depending on the region.

“We could never survey such a huge volume of textbooks sufficiently,” Sawdowski admits. “Instead we picked out five federal states: Bavaria, Berlin, North-Rhine Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Saxony as the focus for our research.” This choice has resulted in the examination of more than 400 titles bearing either short passages or longer chapters specifically related to Israel.

For Germans, this encompassing view of the German education system is providing useful demographical information. In places like Berlin, where there are many immigrants from Muslim countries, cultural and political factors lead to unique educational policies, and different teaching methods and materials are in use. Discrepancies in how Israel is portrayed reflect underlying cultural evolution, revealing lingering misconceptions about the past.

Already, Sawdowski has observed some general trends. “Israel is mainly depicted in the context of the Middle East conflict,” he says. “Only German geography textbooks discuss other topics relating to Israel, like agriculture, technological achievements, water use, and tourism. When Israel is presented in the context of the Middle East conflict [they mostly] try to draw a balanced picture and to maintain neutrality.”

From the Israeli side, Kizel has not commented extensively about his team’s early findings regarding Germany’s portrayal in Israeli textbooks.

“There have been significant changes in the way that schoolbooks are written both in the linguistic context and in their choice of subject matter,” he says, emphasizing that it is still too early to draw any conclusions about the textbooks his team is reviewing.

The next phase of the project calls for the completion of research in 2014 and the development of bilateral recommendations for the improvement of textbooks.

“Proposals will be presented in 2015 in celebration of 50 years of diplomatic relations between both countries,” Sadowski says.

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emember when buying a cup of coffee meant ‌ buying a cup of coffee. Sure you had a choice of what type, regular or decaf; skim or regular milk; sugar or sugar substitute, and hot or iced. Then came the avored coffee creamers, followed by avored coffees. You could have made it at home, or bought it at a luncheonette, candy shop or coffee shop, which was basically a mini restaurant that served breakfast and lunch along with coffee.

Today, coffee is no longer just coffee. You can order it spiced; full fat, low fat; topped with mounds of whipped cream, and avored with chocolate, vanilla, mint, coconut, pumpkin, hazelnut, almond, mounds and cheesecake. It can be frapped, blended or whipped, or swirled with your favorite ice cream or frozen yogurt along with your favorite cookies added WHO’S IN THE to the mix (which by the way, I’d like to KITCHEN inform those having it made with low fat yogurt does not mean a huge serving is low calorie, just saying). Today’s coffees also come in an abundance of sizes from small to about the size of a bathroom in Manhattan.

And of course, today there are special coffee chains to choose from. True, some of the different coffee beverages are $5 or $6, but, hey, a specialty server is preparing your drink — and not just one. You order the drink from one person, who will ask your name so that Judy Joszef when your coffee is ready they can call out your name. The second person takes your payment and the third person prepares your coffee. Give yourself enough time. This isn’t the same as the old days when you ordered a coffee and the waitress comes by and pours you a cup. This, my friends, is a whole different experience. I’ve seen people at Penn Station ying out of the store and almost knocking over little old ladies to catch their train.

I was never a serious coffee drinker. I like the taste of coffee but actually prefer the instant as I ďŹ nd the store bought cof-

fees a bit too strong. All my friends know I order half a cup of coffee, the other half boiling water, and then add skim milk.

I can’t see spending $5 on something I can make myself for a fraction of the price. My daughter had her friends over years ago and I made them avored iced coffee. They remarked, “Wow, Judy, how did you get it to taste just like the ones we buy? Can you teach us how?â€? I smiled and said “sure, make a cup of avored coffee and add ice cubes and milkâ€? — they were amazed.

I must admit, though, I did end up buying a small skinny mocha lattĂŠ one day when I was about to board the train. As much as I wanted to say “this isn’t worth the exorbitant price,â€? I loved it (don’t tell my daughter!)

The next time my husband Jerry stopped to pick up a coffee when he was on the road, I asked him to order one for me. I thought I was clear, I asked for a skinny mocha lattĂŠ, with the sugar substitute frothed in the hot milk, made extra, extra hot. He said, “I’m going to mess the order up, why don’t you come in and order it.â€? I was too lazy, which was too bad because once on the road again I took a sip of what turned out to be a regular cup of lukewarm, very light, very hazelnut coffee.

Since then I learned how to make my own skinny mocha lattĂŠ and my other new favorite, light mocha frappuccino. Before I share my recipe with you, I thought I would share some coffee history and legends.

The history of coffee goes at least as far back as the 13th century. The original native coffee could have come from Ethiopia, Sudan or Kenya, and was cultivated by Arabs in the 14th century. The earliest evidence of the coffee tree appears in the middle of the 15th century, in the SuďŹ monasteries of Yemen.

The word “coffee� was heard in English in 1582 via Dutch koffee, which was borrowed from Turkish kahve, which in turn was borrowed from Arabic qahwa.

There are several legendary accounts of the origin of the coffee, including this one: A Yemenite SuďŹ mystic was traveling in Ethiopia. He observed birds who seemed to have a lot of vitality and noticed they were eating a type of berry; when he

tried it, he experienced the same vitality.

Once coffee found its way to Europe, many felt the Pope should ban it, calling coffee the drink of the devil.

To their surprise, the Pope, already a coffee drinker, blessed coffee, declaring it a truly Christian beverage From Italy, coffee spread to Paris. The ďŹ rst French cafĂŠ was opened in 1686 by Italians. By 1700, the English were drinking coffee.

Around 1720, one of the French king’s mistresses gave a coffee plant to a French lieutenant; on an ocean voyage to the Caribbean, he protected the plant from storms and pirates. He planted it on the island of Martinique and plantations soon grew from French Guyana to Brazil and Central America. By 1790, half of all the coffee in the world was grown in Haiti by African slaves.

Instant coffee was invented in 1906 by Mr. G. Washington, an Englishman living in Guatemala.

Today, coffee is a giant global industry employing more than 20 million people.

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Mikvah ‘Bar Mitzvah’ in Brooklyn Heights Tahitian breezes blew through Brooklyn Heights last Wednesday night: Fresh fish and Polynesian chicken were being served under an authentic grass Tiki hut; palm trees dotted the room; and visions of pristine, blue-andtan beaches graced the walls.

An indoor mirage? No, a Modern Orthodox synagogue, Congregation B’nai Avraham, was celebrating the 13th anniversary of its mikvah, the ritual Jewish bath whose history goes back thousands of years.

“People are here because mikvah [the law of immersion] is totally current, and more alive than ever,” said Rabbi Aaron Raskin, the synagogue’s leader, as he surveyed the flower-lei-wearing crowd of 20-something singles, married couples, and diverse guests.

The featured speaker, Sarah Esther Crispe, discussed the kind of loving intimacy that a marriage needs to survive and how the observance of mikvah could sustain that.

“Love is a head-to-head, heart-to-heart, soul-to-soul, body-to-body connection,” said Crispe. editor of theJewishWoman.org.

Observance of mikvah “gives us the opportunity to effect the emotional quality of a marriage, to work on our own communication and how we demonstrate our love, how we comfort and support our spouse without being physical during the days when we re-

frain from physical intimacy.”

Sexual relations not involving procreation were discussed. A mystical diagram of the Hebrew word lev (heart), taken from the writings of 13th century Kabbalist Abraham Abulafia, was displayed, and inspiring words exchanged.

Two congregants, the evening’s honorees, spoke of their mikvah practice.

Natalie Botton Buchwald, a newcomer to the neighborhood, described her emotionally-charged visit to the B’nai Avraham mikvah after her first month of marriage.

“My hair was still wet, and I was walking down Court Street and I couldn’t believe that I had just been a part of what Jewish women have been doing for thousands of years,” she related.

“Did the people around me know? I almost wanted to say to them, ‘do you know what I just did?’

The feeling of connection was so amazing.”

Naomi Weinberger, the night’s other honoree, was introduced by her mother-in-law, Charlotte Weinberger, who raised her family in Oceanside and followed her son’s family to Brooklyn Heights.

“We have been blessed with terrific mikvah ladies who are connected to the mitzvah to the nth degree,” Naomi said.

“What’s more, its beautiful design is modeled on a Turkish bath mixed with a day spa — it’s a little jewel in our shul.”

‘I had just been a part of what Jewish women have been doing for thousands of years. The feeling of connection was amazing.’

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L’Accuse! Turkey frees bird charged as Israeli spy Authorities in Turkey have exonerated and freed a bird that was accused of being a spy for Israel.

According to Turkish daily Hurriyet, residents of the village of Altinavya in the eastern province of Elazig became suspicious when they found the kestrel, a common Eurasian bird belonging to the falcon family, with a metallic ring stamped with the words “24311 Tel Avivunia Israel.”

The villagers immediately delivered it to authorities, who proceeded to bring the bird to Firat University for medical examinations, including x-rays, to determine that it wasn’t carrying microchips or other spying devices.

Fortunately for the residents of Turkey — and for the bird — the bird was determined not to be a threat and was allowed to fly away.

This isn’t the first bird accused of being an Israeli spy.

Last year, residents in Sudan claimed that a captured hawk was carrying spy devices for Israel. The hawk was found with labels in Hebrew that said “Israel Nature Authority” and “Hebrew University Jerusalem.” In 2011, a bird found in Saudi Arabia was also accused of being a spy when they found a tag for “Tel Aviv University” on its leg.

Ornithologists often attach tracking devices to birds to track their migratory patterns.

Palestinian’s Facebook map labels all Israel ‘Palestine’ As renewed Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotiations began Monday, the Facebook page of Palestinian negotiator Mohammad Shtayyeh featured a map including all of Israel with “Palestine” written on it in Arabic letters.

Middle East analyst Oren Kessler reported the presence of Shtayyeh’s Facebook page map on Twitter. Last December, the Fatah party marked its 48th anniversary with a similar symbol. The Fatah anniversary logo included a map identifying all of Israel as “Palestine,” along with the slogan “The state and the victory,” Palestinian Media Watch reported.

Pope eyes trip to Israel Pope Francis is considering making his first trip to Israel as pontiff next year.

The head of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics said that he might travel to Israel to mark the 50th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s visit to Jerusalem in 1964, according to the Times of Israel. Pope Francis visited Israel once before, as a young Jesuit priest, as the Yom Kippur War broke out in 1973.

During a visit in April, the first by a head of state to the newly elected Pope, Israeli President Shimon Peres formally invited Pope Francis to visit Israel. The Pope reportedly accepted the invitation “with willingness and joy,” a Vatican spokesman said, Reuters reported.

Hezbollah links its wings Following the recent European Union designation of only Hezbollah’s “military wing” as a terrorist organization, a Hezbollah official confirmed that the Lebanese group does not distinguish between its military and political wings.

“Everyone knows that Hezbollah’s political and military wings are one and the same,” Hezbollah international relations official Ammar Moussawi said after a meeting with EU Ambassador to Lebanon Angelina Eichorst, Ya Libnan, an English-language Lebanese daily, reported.

Eichorst said that the primary reason for Hezbollah’s designation was its role in the Burgas bus bombing last summer that killed five Israeli tourists and one Bulgarian, Ya Libnan reported.

Israel Newsbriefs from JNS.org Arab media ousted from Navy system counters anti-ship missile Gaza over harm to Hamas Russian Israel’s Navy has begun installing a new Hamas has closed two Arab media bureaus in Gaza over their coverage of the Palestinian terror group.

Ismail Jaber, Hamas’s Attorney-General, told the Associated Press that the group had closed down the bureaus of the Saudi Arabian owned Al-Arabiya and the West Bank-based Ma’an News Agency because they “spread fabricated rumors” that “harm the Palestinian national interest and resistance movements.”

But a Ma’an correspondent told the Associated Press that Hamas was upset with Ma’an reports that Hamas terrorists were contributing to the chaos in the Sinai Peninsula.

Hamas has been feeling increasing pressure since the ouster of neighboring Egypt’s Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in early July.

Hamas, which is an offshoot of Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood party, is concerned about Egypt’s military crackdown on Islamic extremists in the Sinai Peninsula.

Hamas, Iran meet on ties Despite differences over the civil war in Syria, senior Hamas officials met with Iranian and Hezbollah officials in Beirut last month in an effort to mend ties, the Saudi-owned newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported Sunday.

Palestinian sources cited in the report said “Important meetings were held in Lebanon at the end of last month between officials from Hamas, officials from Hezbollah, and Iranian officials in an attempt to resolve any differences.”

Last year, multiple reports claimed that Hamas had vacated its long-standing Damascus headquarters, so as not to be seen as supporting President Bashar al-Assad, whom Iran and Hezbollah staunchly back in his battle against rebels. —Israel Hayom

Syrian Christians facing religious cleansing In a recent visit as part of a humanitarian aid mission to Syria, Dr. John Eibner, CEO of Christian Solidarity International, met with a Syrian Christian man from the city of Qusayr who described the religious cleansing of his home by Islamic extremists.

According to Solidarity, before the civil war the city of Qusayr, located in eastern Syria near the Lebanese border, had around 40,000 people, including 7,000 Christians.

“In late 2011, the Sunni townsmen came and told us to either join them in anti-regime demonstrations or leave the town. If we didn’t, we would be killed,” Fadul Abu Yohanna Kasouhah, a Christian resident of Qusayr, described to CSI. According to Fadul, the Sunni Islamists in his village used the loudspeakers from the Mosques to name the Christian families by name and told them to leave.

Fadul described how his cousin was gunned down by Sunni extremists for refusing to leave.

“My cousin Bater said, ‘We will not leave.

This is our town, our land.’ He was recently married, and his wife was seven months pregnant. They shot him to death as he was going to work on his motorbike,” Fadul said.

Eventually, the local Sunni extremists were joined by foreign Islamic jihadists and cleansed the town of Christians, according to Fadul.

defense system on its missile boats that would protect them from the feared Russian Yakhont anti-ship missile, Israel Hayom reported.

The Barak 8 medium-range missile is designed to intercept airborne threats, including enemy aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, anti-ship missiles and cruise missiles.

“History has never seen ships capable of controlling territory as well as Israel’s Navy using the Barak 8 missile,” according to a source familiar with the weapon.

Weiner hit for donation from Al Jazeera lobbyist Former Brooklyn Rep. Anthony Weiner, who is facing growing pressure to quit the race for mayor over his growing “texting” scandal, is also under fire for accepting a $4,950 campaign donation from John Merrigan, a lobbyist for the Al Jazeera television network.

“Al Jazeera and its lobbyists are no friends to New York City or our Jewish community, and Anthony shouldn’t accept their support,” Boro Park Councilman Lew Fidler said. Al Jazeera aired taped propaganda messages from al-Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

“Anthony Weiner should know better than to accept contributions from friends [at] Al Jazeera, which has been a voice for terrorists and spewed hatred against Jews and the state of Israel,” said Brooklyn Assemblyman Alan Maisel. “They have echoed and attempted to legitimize hate speech about wiping Israel off the map. It’s disgraceful.”

Dagestan rabbi’s condition The Chabad-Lubavitch emissary and chief rabbi of Derbent in the Republic of Dagestan, who was shot near his home and underwent emergency surgery, has been upgraded from serious to “satisfactory” condition.

Rabbi Ovadia Isakov, 40, was leaving his car after having performed the ritual slaughter for kosher meat when he was shot, sustaining a gunshot wound to his right lung and liver.

Conflicting reports indicated that there were between one and three assailants who escaped from the crime scene. Isakov’s Jewish appearance “is among the possible motives investigators are considering for the attack,” said Russia’s Investigative Committee in a statement.

Dagestan is a predominantly Muslim Russian territory bordering Azerbaijan. The attack was condemned by the acting head of the region and blamed on “extremists and terrorists.” Israeli Army Radio reported the attack was most likely criminal, not terrorist.

Israeli doctors and medical assistants assisted with Isakov’s treatment.

Putin to visit Iran in August In a bid to restart talks over Iran’s nuclear program, Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to visit Tehran in mid-August, a few days after Iranian President-elect Hasan Rouhani is inaugurated into office.

Putin may offer the Iranians an alternative to the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system — after the Russian-Iranian arms deal was frozen

by Israeli and American pressure on the Kremlin. According to the report, Moscow would instead offer the S-300VM system, which is

designed to defend against ballistic, cruise and air-to-surface missile attacks.

The British Foreign Office, meanwhile, announced that it would boycott Rouhani’s inaugural ceremony, declining to send a diplomatic representative. There has been no British diplomatic staff in Tehran since November 2011, when a mob of protesters ransacked the U.K.’s embassy and residential compound. — Israel Hayom

PLO leader in Pakistan: Oslo pact doesn’t OK Israel Speakers at the international Palestinian solidarity conference called “Palestine: Manifestation of Muslim Ummah’s Unity,” held in Karachi, Pakistan, said that Israel is an illegitimate state that must cease to exist.

Mohammad Zazeh, who is described as one of the leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the international Palestinian group headed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, said the PLO has never recognized Israel as a legitimate state, and that the 1993 Oslo Accords should not be misunderstood to have constituted Palestinian recognition of Israel.

“Israel is an illegitimate state. Palestine belongs to Palestinians. An independent state of Palestine is what the Palestinians will get recognized,” Zazeh said.

Egypt: Protect Christians Human Rights Watch joined the growing number of international human rights groups calling on Egyptian authorities to do more to protect Egypt’s ancient Christian community.

“Egyptian security forces should be on high alert to prevent and halt sectarian violence in the current tense and polarized situation,” Nadim Houry, acting Middle East director at HRW, said in a statement. “Egypt’s religious and political leaders should denounce the dangerous escalation of sectarian attacks.”

According to HRW, at least six attacks on Christians have taken place since former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi’s ouster on July 3, including in Luxor, Marsa Matrouh, Minya, North Sinai, Port Said, and Qena. In most of these incidents, security forces failed to take the necessary action to prevent or stop the violence.

One of the oldest communities in Christianity, Egypt’s Coptic Christian church was established by one of Jesus’s apostles, Saint Mark, in 42 CE. Coptic Christians constituted a majority of Egypt’s population until the Middle Ages, when Islam, introduced by the Arab invasions in the 7th century, eclipsed their religion.

New Belgium King Philippe praised by Jewish leader The president of the Belgian Israelite Consistory, Baron Julien Klener, at the abdication ceremony of Belgian King Albert II and the coronation of his son Philippe praised the new king’s “intellectual curiosity that has led him to take an interest in the diversity of human thought and in the various beliefs.”

While he was still crown prince in 1993, the new king had unveiled a plaque in which Belgian Jews expressed gratitude to non-Jewish Belgians for the rescue of many Jews during the Holocaust, Klener noted, according to the World Jewish Congress.

More recently, in 2012, King Philippe attended the 56th pilgrimage to the Dossin barracks, a former assembly camp from where thousands of Jews and Roma were transported to concentration camps, as part of the National Day of Jewish Martyr of Belgium and the 70th anniversary of the start of the deportation of Belgian Jews.

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By Robert Gluck, JNS.org Fifty years after Hannah Arendt came out with her controversial book, “Eichmann In Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil,” a new film from German director Margarethe Von Trotta revisits the famed Jewish political theorist and her views on the lieutenant colonel of the Nazi SS. Born to Jewish parents in 1906 in Hanover, Germany, Arendt studied philosophy, was briefly imprisoned by the Gestapo, fled to Paris, was interned in and escaped from the detention camp in Gurs, emigrated to the United States, and achieved fame, if not notoriety, for her coverage of the Adolf Eichmann trial for The New Yorker.

Von Trotta’s film “Hannah Arendt,” focusing on four years surrounding the 1961 Eichmann trial, opened at the San Courtesy Deutsche Post AG via Wikimedia Commons.

Francisco Jewish Film Festival on July 28. Ron Feldman, coThe Hannah Arendt stamp, first issued in Germany editor of “The Jewish Writings of Hannah Arendt” and a visitin 2006. ing scholar at the Graduate Theological Union, led a post-film discussion at Congregation Sha’ar Zahov (Reform).

“The film reasonably portrays a lot of the personal situ- things provocatively and could have been a little more subtle ations Arendt found herself in when she started writing her and thoughtful. I don’t hold her blameless.”

Feldman said Arendt’s most controversial assertion was book, and the intellectual and political controversies around it,” Feldman told JNS.org. “It portrays how she developed her her criticism of Jewish leadership.

“The biggest issue was she wrote critically about the conthinking. It’s not a documentary, it’s a biopic.” duct of Jewish leadership during the war In an interview with her publicist made and claimed that Jewish leaders cooperated available to JNS.org, Von Trotta talks about mostly inadvertently with the Nazis,” he her use of black and white archival footage said. “She was not sympathetic to it and so of the trial to capture Eichmann’s “not-thinkmany people claimed that she was blaming ing” character. The now-famous line — “the the victims. She was not blaming the victims. banality of evil” — that Arendt used to deShe was blaming the conduct of some Jewscribe Eichmann still reverberates today and ish leaders. That is a subtlety that escaped. usually leads to a heated discussion about This was not a new thing but came out in a the Holocaust. new way.”

“You can only show the true ‘banality of In “Eichmann In Jerusalem,” which came evil’ by observing the real Eichmann,” Von out in 1963, Arendt’s thesis is that the great Trotta said. “An actor can only distort the imevils in history generally, and the Holocaust age, he could never sharpen it. As a viewer, in particular, were not executed by socioone might admire the actor’s brilliance but paths but by ordinary people who accepted they would inevitably fail to comprehend STANLEY MILGRAM the premises of their state, and they thereEichmann’s mediocrity. He was a man who American psychologist fore participated in those evils with the belief was unable to formulate a single grammatithat their actions were normal. cally correct sentence. One could tell from “With her staunch refusal to obey anythe way he spoke that he was unable to think thing other than her own knowledge and in any significant way about what he was dobeliefs, Arendt could not be more different than Eichmann,” ing.”

Arendt was no stranger to controversy and Feldman, hav- Von Trotta said. “His duty, as he himself insisted, was to be ing studied her work for years, understands her more than faithful to his oath to obey the orders of his superiors. In this blind allegiance, Eichmann surrendered one of the main most.

“There is still interest in these issues that happened 50 characteristics that distinguish human beings from all other years ago. ‘Eichmann in Jerusalem’ is still read in universities species — the ability to think for himself.”

A refugee from Germany, Arendt surfaced in an Upper and the book has had an amazing lifespan and this film was made,” Feldman told JNS.org. “Certain authors have claimed West Side apartment and in classrooms of the New School, recently that this is one of the more important intellectual where she taught. Already a successful writer, The New Yorkand political controversies in American-Jewish intellectual er magazine sent her to Jerusalem in 1961 to witness and write about the trial of Eichmann, one of the architects of the circles in the 20th century.

“When Arendt went to the Eichmann trial and wrote about Nazis’ “final solution.” Transfixed and agitated, Arendt began it, there were ways in which she wrote about it that were pro- to formulate the concept of “the banality of evil,” opening a vocative and also critical of the way the trial was handled by flood of controversy that changed her life forever.

Using black-and-white footage from the actual Eichmann the Israeli government. Part of it was simply that she wrote

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tion of the banality of evil comes closer to the truth than one might dare imagine.’

Courtesy Rasputinfa via Wikimedia Commons.

Hannah Arendt’s grave at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.

Courtesy Heinrich Hoffmann via Wikimedia Commons

Adolf Eichmann trials and weaving a narrative that spans three countries, the new film features Barbara Sukowa as Arendt. Born in Berlin, director Von Trotta is one of the leaders of the New German Cinema movement and one of the world’s best-known feminist filmmakers.

In a key scene, Arendt stands before a lecture theater full of her students, insisting that anyone who wishes to write about that period in history has a duty to try to understand what makes ordinary people into tools of totalitarianism.

American social psychologist Stanley Milgram interpreted Arendt’s work as stating that even the most ordinary of people can commit horrendous crimes if placed in certain situations and given certain incentives.

He wrote, “I must conclude that Arendt’s conception of the banality of evil comes closer to the truth than one might dare imagine.”

Arendt did not suggest that Eichmann was normal or that any person placed in his situation would have done as he did.

According to her account, Eichmann had abdicated his will to make moral choices, and thus his autonomy. Arendt’s book, criticized by many Jewish leaders who said it exhibited coldness and lack of sympathy for the victims of Holocaust, was only recently translated into Hebrew.

The book’s ending states, “Just as you (Eichmann) supported and carried out a policy of not wanting to share the earth with the Jewish people and the people of a number of other nations — as though you and your superiors had any right to determine who should and who should not inhabit the world — we find that no one, that is, no member of the human race, can be expected to want to share the earth with you. This is the reason, and the only reason, you must hang.”

“A lot of people looked at the subtitle and didn’t read the book and thought she was defending Eichmann and somehow minimizing what Eichmann did,” Feldman told JNS.org.

“What Arendt was really claiming was she saw in Eichmann that relatively normal people could be drawn up into a movement like that and act in evil and horrific ways.”

According to Von Trotta, Arendt stayed true to her views on Eichmann despite the criticism.

“Her refusal to be overwhelmed by despair and helplessness makes her, in my eyes, an extraordinary woman whose light still shines today,” Von Trotta said. “A woman who can love and be loved and a woman who can, as she put it, ‘Think without banisters.’ That is, to be an independent thinker.”

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Prenup in Merrick…

Continued from page 1 known if he is alive.

Rabbi Ebbin introduced the program with a quote from Shemot 22:22-23 stressing the importance of hearing the cries of the widow, orphan, convert and the poor and pointed out that the agunah’s suffering should be included in this admonition.

“This is a cause that is particularly close to my heart as my family has had two agunah cases that were only resolved through financial extortion,” he emphasized in the email.

Ebbin wrote his Masters thesis on this years ago. “Progress since has been steady but not fast enough in my opinion. Events like this create greater awareness and lead to greater use of the document for the next generation.

“Everyone in that room will now demand that their children and grandchildren sign a prenup before they get married.”

The program was supported by several shul sponsors and endorsed by his friend and colleague Rabbi Jeremy Stern of ORA (Organization for the Resolution of Agunot).

Rabbi Marc Volk of the Young Israel of Merrick announced the program at his shul on Shabbat and encouraged his members to participate as well.

When Ebbin first came up with the idea, he thought people would sign up right away

for the cause, the event and the free food from Carlos and Gaby’s.

The flier advertising the celebration called for couples to “set an example for your children, grandchildren and for others; demonstrate that signing this document does not mean you love someone less, but that you love someone more and that you are willing to protect them at all times.”

But he realized that they needed to be educated about the issue and its importance.

The current halachic prenup was drafted

by Rabbi Mordechai Willig, Sgan Av Beth Din of the Beth Din of America and a Rosh Yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University, in consultation with halachic and legal experts.

It was introduced in 1994 but its roots go back to the early middle ages to the Takanot Shum, communal enactments set up by the leaders of the Jewish communities of Speyer, Worms and Mayence, and a later iteration published with other legal forms in the Nachalat Shiva in 1664 by Rabbi Shmuel Ben David Moshe Halevi of Bamberg, Germany.

The current prenup is endorsed by many respected rabbis including Rabbi Gedalia Dov Schwartz and Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.

On the website ThePrenup.org readers can learn the background of the docu-

Rabbi Ebbin joins the men in simcha dancing following the post-nup signing.

Photos by Susan Grieco

Married 55 years, Alan and Hilda Yanofsky restate their vows. mentand see and print out the document that should be signed by both spouses, with two witnesses each and a place for the signatures to be notarized. It states that the document “provides that in the unfortunate event of divorce, the beit din will have the proper authority to ensure that the get (divorce document) is not used as a bargaining chip.”

It ensures that in the event of a divorce both parties agree to use a panel of Jewish law judges arranged by the Beth Din of America and the husband is required to pay a set fee daily until the Jewish divorce, get, is received.

The site further explains that the document prevents suffering in withholding a get, demonstrates mutual respect for the partners and protects against any mutual harm in the event of a divorce.

Ebbin and his wife had intended to sign a pre-nup when they got married. “We were proud to be one of the couples who signed the post-nup at the event. People took the issue very seriously. We had a legal council available to answer any questions about the agreement and she and I were busy the entire time explaining what everything meant.

It would be wonderful if in theory we could be a community that is secure from Agunot issues.

“In theory if everyone in the community signs a post-nup, Ohav Sholom and Merrick would be the first community that I know about that has resolved the issue in their area completely by having everyone sign a postnup and by committing that everyone getting married would sign a pre-nup. While we fell short of that goal, the awareness is definitely there now.”

Rabbi Ira Ebbin, 38, joined Ohav three years ago, replacing Rabbi Jeremiah Wohlberg who had been the rabbi there for 47 years. He received his smicha (ordination) at RIETS in 2001 and has degrees in psychology and public administration. He lives in Merrick with his wife Chevi and four children.

“For Ohav Sholom to hold an event like this is truly a wonderful accomplishment and a wonderful statement about our congregation,” Ebbin pointed out.

“We have a very diverse congregation of nearly 300 family units from all different age groups and different levels of observance. A program like this crossed all demographic lines. People learned a great deal, and came out to help support an incredibly important cause. I’m very proud of them.”

Music and separate dancing followed the signing of the documents.

Woodmore educator rips plan to free 104 killers…

Continued from page 1 already two states: Israel and Hamasistan in Gaza. Are we negotiating to set up a third state?” asked Eliach. “Why will this state be any different than Hamasistan in Gaza? Being that the media is following these talks, this point will finally be made to the entire Western World! This would be eye opening and cause many people to stop and reassess the entire Peace Process.”

Eliach expects that “Israel may also use the forum of the negotiations to lay to rest the absurd notion that the Palestinian issue is the linchpin to all Middle East problems.

Hence stop giving it so much attention and credence!”

••• Friends Ronen Karmani and Lior Tubol went missing in Israel in 1990. Their bloated bodies were found days later, bound, gagged and stabbed repeatedly. Their murderers killed two others and were convicted, receiving a sentence of four life sentences plus 20 years.

“How is it possible?” demanded Mazal Karmani, mother of Ronen. “How could a

person, a judge, whoever’s freeing them, free such monsters? They’ll come back and do more and more things like this in our country, they’ll kidnap soldiers, they’ll lynch people, they will destroy more and more families.”

The list includes Palestinians from Ramallah and Jericho, arrested in October 1988 for throwing a Molotov cocktail at an Egged bus that then burst into flames killing Rachel Weiss and three of her young children. Israeli soldier David Delarosa also died in the bombing when he attempted to save the family.

In another brutal attack in 1992, four terrorists, slated to be freed, entered an IDF base near Kibbutz Galed hacking to death three teenage Nahal recruits with hatchets, knives and a pitchfork. They were each sentenced to three life sentences.

The Jerusalem Post quoted Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon calling the release “choosing a bad option over a worse option” and a decision made “with a heavy heart.”

Some analysts posited this deal was in exchange for American support for a military confrontation with Iran over its nuclear program, according to the Jerusalem Post.

The head of the Shin Bet, Yoram Cohen, warned the Israeli cabinet against releasing prisoners, stressing that Israeli security will be compromised “both in the immediate threat to the public and because of the erosion in deterrence. The chance that the prisoners will go back to terrorism is relatively large.” Ynet reported that 44 of the 1,005 Palestinian prisoners released for Gilad Shalit have already been rearrested for terrorism.

Five years ago Netanyahu opposed releasing prisoners.

“The government decided to release terrorists and I ask, why? In return for what?

What have we received? This crossing of a line, of releasing murderers, is dangerous in the struggle against terror. It weakens Israel and strengthens terror elements.”

MKs Gilad Erdan and Yisrael Katz of Likud, Yair Shamir and Uzi Landau of Yisrael Beytenu and Naftali Bennett, Uri Ariel and Uri Orbach of Bayit Yehudi voted against the release. Silvan Shalom and Limor Livnat of Likud abstained. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Yuval Steinitz, Moshe Ya’alon and Gideon Sa’ar of Likud, Sofa Landver and

Yitzhak Aharonovitch of Yisrael Beytenu, Yair Lapid, Yael German, Yaakov Peri, Shai Piron, Meir Cohen of Yesh Atid, and Hatnua’s Tzipi Livni, and Amir Peretz voted in favor of the release.

Arlene Kushner, an American Israeli journalist, has compiled a list of emails and fax numbers of Knesset members involved in the decision to release the terrorists and is calling on concerned readers to write emails or send faxes “politely and briefly but strongly” insisting that this should not have happened and asking why it did, and ex feelings of disgust and anger and disappointment and promising continued activism to seek wiser and more courageous leadership. To access this information, go to http:// bit.ly/19xUVFN Kushner noted the importance of praising those in the cabinet who voted against the release as well. She also stressed the importance of supporting deputy ministers who work strenuously to protect the rights of Israelis, citing them as Israel’s future leadership.

These include Danny Danon, Ze’ev Elkin, Tzipi Hotoveley, and Avi Worzman.

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By Malka Eisenberg The vote for the dual positions of Chief Rabbi of Israel came in on the Haredi side of the equation last week, with 150 representatives electing the sons of two previous chief rabbis.

Rabbi David Lau, 47, Modi’in’s chief rabbi and son of a former Ashkenazi chief rabbi, Yisrael Meir Lau, was selected Chief Ashkenazic Rabbi.

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, 61, son of Shas spiritual leader and a former Sepahrdic Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, was selected as Sephardic Chief Rabbi, the Rishon LeTzion.

Great Neck activist Dr. Paul Brody noted that he “had the privilege of spending two Pesach holidays with Rabbi David Lau” and said that based on the rabbi’s speech and demeanor predicted that he would someday be chief rabbi.

“Hopefully he will be a uniting, unifying force in Israel. He is Haredi but I think he is Tzioni and has strong feeling for the Zionistic State of Israel. The Lau family represents the victory of the Jews over Hitler.”

“Both candidates are very qualified and have experienced growing up in a household of chief rabbis,” said Rabbi Zev Meir Friedman, Rosh Mesivta of Rambam in Lawrence and Dean of Midreshet Shalhevet in Valley Stream.

“In their own merit they are scholars and have great potential for leadership. I hope the election of the chief rabbis will result in the unity of Klal Yisroel and not just focus on the agenda of any particular segment of the population.

“I recall that Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, zt”l, was very concerned with the idea of a chief rabbinate being an elected position with political overtones. Politics and halacha should not mix. It was sad to see many very divisive comments made that didn’t lead to achdut as it should have to unite all the people.”

Each candidate accrued 68 votes of 147 votes cast for each position.

In the Ashkenaz contest, Rabbi David Stav, chief rabbi of Shoham and founder of Tzohar, an outreach organization for secular Jews, and a candidate favored by the religious Zionists, came in second with 54 votes.

Another candidate, Rabbi Ya’acov Shapira of Mercaz HaRav, garnered 25.

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, chief rabbi of Tzfat, was in second place for the Sephardic seat with 49 votes.

Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, a Holocaust survivor, served from 1993 to 2003; Rabbi Ovadia Yosef served from 1973 to 1983.

The new rabbis will serve for ten years and deal primarily with issues of kashrut, the rabbinical courts, and social matters relating to marriage, divorce, conversion and death.

A proposal by Likud MK Moshe Feiglin to end the duality of the chief rabbinate, electing only one at the end of the current ten year term, is also being backed by MKs Naftali Bennett and Tzipi Livni.

The election was held in Jerusalem’s Leonardo hotel. The 150 member panel voting for the two positions included 80 rabbis, with the 70 others including members of Knesset, heads of municipalities, regional authorities and religious councils, including ten women representing the Religious Affairs Ministry chosen by Minister of Religious Affairs Naftali Bennett.

“This is a joyous occasion, of course, but there is also a sense of great responsibility,” Lau told the Israel Hayom newspaper. He said that he was with his father who hugged him and said that he “has a heavy burden to carry. I pray that I will be everyone’s rabbi and the Chief Rabbinate will be everyone’s rabbinate.”

“I thank G-d that I have been blessed to sit on the same chair as my father,” said Yosef.

Rabbi David Lau studied at Yeshivat Hayishuv Hehadash and Yeshivat Bet Matityah, was the first rabbi of Shoham and then the chief Ashkenazic rabbi of Modiin. He is a major in the Intelligence Corps reserves. Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef is the rosh yeshiva of Hazon Ovadia and author of the halacha books the Yalkut Yosef.

Among the critical issues facing both rabbis include agunot (women in need of a Jewish divorce), increasing accessibility to the rabbinate for secular Israelis, peace talks, and the upcoming shmittah (Sabbatical) year.

The National Council of Young Israel congratulated the rabbis on their new offices and welcomed the opportunity to work with them in the future. “At a time when the Jewish people desperately need to bridge the divide between the ultra-Orthodox and the religious Zionist communities, Rabbis Lau and Yosef are poised to play a pivotal role in the reunification of Jews in Israel and around the world.

“As the well-respected and popular chief rabbi of the city of Modi’in and as the longtime host of the ‘Ask the Rabbi’ program on Israeli TV, Rabbi Lau has earned a reputation as a knowledgeable Torah scholar who has the unique ability to relate to a wide array of people in a very diverse community. We are certain that Rabbi Lau will follow in the footsteps of his father … who was a great ambassador for the State of Israel. Rabbi David Lau

Chief Sephardic Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef

Chief Ashkenazic Rabbi David Lau

is a devoted religious Zionist who recites Hallel with a blessing on Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel Independence Day), a religious practice that highlights his Zionistic sentiments and proIsrael tendencies. With his stated intention to unite Jews both in Israel and in the Diaspora, and his proven track record of embracing Jews from all walks of life, Rabbi Lau will undoubtedly be an exceptional emissary for

the State of Israel and for Jews worldwide.

“As the scion of former Sephardi Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef comes from a distinguished family that has dedicated itself to religious service.

A learned man whose breadth of knowledge in Torah law is extraordinary, Rabbi Yosef will be a true spiritual leader for the people of Israel and for all of Jewry.”

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