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Shabbos Matos-Masei • August 5, 2016 • 1 Av 5776 • Candlelighting 7:46 pm, Havdalah 8:54 pm (Luach page 16) • Vol 15, No 30

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By Sean Savage, JNS.org With the United Nations long panned for harboring deep anti-Israel bias, Israel’s position within the international organization has often been deemed hopeless.

However, after a tireless effort by the Israeli delegation to the UN, earlier this summer the Jewish state was selected for the ďŹ rst time to head the UN’s Sixth Committee, one of the permanent committees at the world body playing an important role in shaping international law.

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(UNSC), one of the six principle organs of the UN. The council is empowered to establish peacekeeping operations, place international sanctions, and authorize military action. “For 68 years, we have been a full member of the United Nations in writing, but this privilege has not been actualized,� Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon told JNS.org. “For 68 years, we have been on the fringes and for 68 years we have worked so hard for our chance to make a sincere difference, and to head a committee at the United Nations General Assembly.�

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By Tammi Rossman Benjamin Director of AMCHA Initiative In 2012, the Electronic Intifada, an online anti-Zionist media outlet that aggressively promotes the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, ran a lengthy article suggesting that “allegations of ‘anti-Semitism’ create a real climate of fear� that is “silencing� pro-Palestinian student activists on U.S. campuses.

I couldn’t stop laughing when I saw the article, not because of the absurd nature of the charges — that Jewish students were somehow intimidating and silencing proPalestinian student activists just by virtue of speaking up about their own intimidation — I laughed because of the accompanying photograph. In one concise image, it revealed the utter disingenuousness of the thousand words that followed.

The photo, credited to Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at University of California Berkeley, depicted a large pole on campus that was

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The Temple Institute in Jerusalem plans to open the world’s ďŹ rst school to teach Kohanim all of the practical skills required to serve in the Third Holy Temple.

The curriculum at Nezer HaKodesh will include courses on the Temple service, theory and practice, and the role and application of modern technology in the Third Temple. For example, courses such as The Sacred Temple Vessels: Aspects of Engineering and Design, and The Mathematics of the Holy Temple, will be taught.

For the last 30 years, the rabbis and other scholars of the Temple Institute have studied

always hoped to reframe this period of Jewish mourning into one of hope and change, highlighting that all of the prophets and sages of Israel have predicted the eventual peaceful rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem. “The Temple service represents the purest connection between man and our Creator,� said Rabbi Chaim Richman, international director of the Temple Institute. “One third of the Torah’s commandments pertain to the Holy Temple service.�

The institute is seeking to raise $75,000 for this project through Indiegogo.com.

FREE SPEECH: On campus, a Jewish exception zation released earlier this week, revealed that over the past year the number of incidents involving the suppression of Jewish students’ freedom of speech and assembly by members of SJP or other anti-Zionist student groups had approximately doubled. For example, in April of this year, more than two dozen members of the General Union of Palestine Students at San Francisco State University disrupted and ultimately shut down a Jewish student event featuring a speech by Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat. A few minutes after Barkat’s speech had begun, protestors stormed into the hall and loudly chanted slogans such as “Get the hell off our campus,� “Long live the Intifada,� and “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free,� until the

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speech was prematurely terminated. Similar disruptions and attempted shut-downs of Jewish student events unfolded on campuses across the country.

It is telling that in our study we found a strong correlation between incidents involving the suppression of Jewish students’ freedom of speech and assembly and those involving the expression of anti-Semitic tropes that demonize and delegitimize Israel or promote its destruction: in 2016 all 12 of the schools at which the speech and assembly of Jewish students were suppressed played host to one or more incidents of anti-Zionist expression, and the greater the number of these incidents, the higher the likelihood that Jewish student expression would be suppressed.

Not only does this strong correlation suggest that anti-Zionist expression may incite conduct which harms Jewish students, it also underscores the breathtaking hypocrisy of anti-Zionist activists on campus, who vigorously exercise their own freedom of expression but deny Jewish students that same right and freedom.

In addition, the increase in incidents which trample on the civil rights of Jewish students indicates the growing success of a tactic known as “anti-normalization,â€? which members of SJP and similar anti-Zionist groups routinely employ to aggressively stie all pro-Israel expression. For example, in one of its founding documents the SJP group at Binghamton University outlined strategies for harassing Jewish students and disrupting or shutting down their Israel-related events in a section entitled: “Tactics and Strategies Used to Counter Zionist Normalization.â€?

Adherents of “anti-normalization� target

not only pro-Israel students, but anyone presumed to support Israel, ďŹ rst and foremost Jewish students, regardless of their actual personal feelings on Israel. As a result, Jewish students engaging in Jewish activity having nothing to do with Israel — wearing their Jewish sorority or fraternity letters, displaying Star of David necklaces, walking to Hillel for Sabbath dinner — report fearing for their safety and well-being. In addition, because of their support, or even just presumed support, for Israel, Jewish students report being rejected from progressive social justice activities such as pro-choice rallies, anti-rape demonstrations, Black Lives Matter events and racial justice conferences.

The situation has become intolerable for many Jewish students.

This past spring, the University of California system took a critical stand against the rising anti-Semitism plaguing its 10 campuses. Its Board of Regents issued a Statement of Principles Against Intolerance acknowledging that anti-Zionism is a form of anti-Semitism which incites additional Jew hatred and, like other forms of discrimination, has no place at the University of California system.

The Regents’ statement also singled out “actions that physically or otherwise interfere with the ability of an individual or group to assemble, speak, and share or hear the opinion of others,� stating that they “impair the mission and intellectual life of the University and will not be tolerated.�

Universities across the country must follow suit.

Rossman Benjamin is faculty at the University of California and the director of AMCHA initiative, a non-proďŹ t that combats anti-Semitism on college campuses across the U.S.

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Continued from page 1 photo with its caption, “Students face a climate of intimidation on several California campuses,� practically begged the reader to think: Which students are facing a climate of intimidation? Certainly not the members of SJP, whose bold and brazen “freedom of expression� to demonize and delegitimize Israel and promote efforts to harm it is literally smothering everyone else’s!

In the four years since that article was published, the smothering of speech depicted in the article’s photo has not improved. In fact, for one group of students, it has gotten worse. Much worse.

A study of anti-Semitic activity in 2016 on more than 100 campuses, which our organi-

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Touger makes this fascinating topic come to life and poignantly relays that even today, we remain ďŹ rmly connected to the Bais Hamikdash “The study of the Torah’s description of the Beis HaMikdash is deemed equal to its actual construction. Go, tell them to study the form of the Beis HaMikdash. And, as a reward for their study..., I will consider it as if they had actually built the Beis HaMikdash!â€? (Midrash Tanchuma, Parshas Tzav) The Levi Yitzchak Library is at 564 Central Ave. in Cedarhurst. Call 516-374-2665.

Pope won’t say Islamic terror Pope Francis on Sunday stressed he will not associate the religion of Islam with terrorism. “It’s not right to identify Islam with violence. It’s not right and it’s not true,â€? he told reporters aboard the papal plane as he returned home from his ďŹ rst visit to Poland last week.

Francis replied to a question on why he did not link the term Islamic terrorism with last week’s terror attack in a Catholic church in France, in which a priest was murdered by two suspects in the name of the Islamic State terror group. “Terrorism grows when there is no other option, and to the extent the world economy has at its center the god of money and not the person,� he said. “This is fundamental terrorism, it is against all humanity.�

Francis also said that there are small fundamentalist groups in most religions, including Catholicism, and that not all Muslims are vio-

lent just like not all Catholics are violent. “I don’t like to talk of Islamic violence because every day, when I go through the newspapers, I see violence, this man who kills his girlfriend, another who kills his mother-in-law,�

Francis said, in apparent reference to crime news in the predominantly Catholic country of Italy. “And these are baptized Catholics.� “If I speak of Islamic violence, I should speak of Catholic violence,� he said. “Of course there are extremists in all religions and in secular movements as well, and we must not generalize about people’s religions,� said Rabbi David Rosen of the American Jewish Committee, who joined Francis on his visit to Auschwitz last Friday.

Yet Rosen also said “it is a bit disingenuous not to acknowledge that much of contemporary terrorism is perpetrated in the name of Islam.�

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An interactive slideshow, presented by Malka Touger, will point out hidden details and fascinating stories, beginning at the gates to the Beis Hamikdash and proceeding inward all the way to the Kodesh HaKodoshim.

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His name was Shachar, which means the dawn, and the joke was that with him around it was always dawn, because he blotted out the sun. He was a massive fellow, and watching him squeeze into the gunner’s seat, the smallest, most confined place in the tank, deep in the belly of the turret, was a sight to behold. One would think with such a fellow sharing your tank, there would be a lot less room to breathe, but in fact the opposite was true. Somehow, his sharp sense of humor, and his always twinkling smile, made it seem like there was lots of room, and late at night when the maneuvers were done, guys would end up hanging out in our tank to shoot the breeze with Shachar.

Sometimes nine or ten guys would be crowded on and in the tank, sharing a good laugh. At the end of the week, back on base, the room I shared with a different group of guys seemed a lot smaller than the tiny tank turret we all had to maneuver around in.

In the winter, out in the field, it is incredibly depressing to have to sleep in the tanks.

The desert nights where we were training are bitter cold, and finding a spot in and around the tank to stretch out in was always extremely challenging. The best place to sleep, strange as it may sound, was usually (barring rain) out on the “sipun,” or flat rear of the tank, on top of the engine. Long after the tank went quiet, the heat of the engine kept the exterior of the tank warm, which made for a cozy night’s sleep.

Somehow, Shachar had figured out a way for all four of us to sleep out on the sipun. I thought this was a great trick, and made sure to watch how we slept as I thought it would be a great trick to share with my crew one day as an officer. But years later, as hard as I tried, I was never able to replicate Shachar’s feat, which is especially strange considering how much space Shachar himself must have taken up. In fact, one night, in trying to arrange my crew in just such a manner, I nearly rolled off the tank, sleeping bag and all!

I guess space isn’t about where you are; it is somehow connected to who you are. he second of this week’s portions, Massei, seems to be all about space — lots of it.

The parsha begins by describing the many journeys of the Jewish people in the desert en route to the land of Israel. Describing each stop along the way, the Torah delineates no less than 42 separate places the Jewish people passed through on their way to Israel.

From Ramses, the Egyptian suburb built

by Jewish slaves, all the way to the plains of Moab on the banks of the Jordan River, the Torah takes the time to list each and every

part of the Jewish journey from slavery to freedom, leaving us to wonder why so much space is devoted to a delineation of geographic progression. Why not just state that over 40 years the Jews made it up from Egypt to the staging ground along the Jordan, from whence the entry to land would begin. Why the need for so many “pit-stops”?

In fact, the desert is all about space, and much less about place — it is a place which is really “no place.” We get so focused on our own little places, the desert is a place where we don’t get distracted by any particular place, where we can appreciate the vastness and beauty of no place.

All of which is what makes this list of places and spaces in the desert so strange.

Rashi, in explaining why the Torah chooses to delineate each one of the stops on this long journey, suggests that it is “Le’hodiah chasdav shel ha’Makom” (“To make known the loving-kindness of G-d”) (33:1). One of the many names of G-d, which Rashi chooses here, is Makom, which means literally “the place.”

In other words, each stage in the journey affords us the opportunity to appreciate all that Hashem has done for us, by continuing to give us manna in the desert even while we were frolicking with the Golden Calf, and by transforming bitter water into sweet water at Marah, and allowing us victory in our battle with Amalek, and so on and so forth.

This is the recipe for our appreciation of our own journey each and every day. ost people will concede that the ability to appreciate all the good that comes into our lives is a valuable part of the journey and even transforms the journey itself. But the Torah may well be suggesting something much more significant: perhaps the ability to appreciate what we have been given and where we have come from is really an essential ingredient without which we will never arrive at our destination at all.

“Min ha’meitzar karati’ kah. Anani bamerchav kah” (“From the narrow confines I call out to G-d, and he answers me from the wide open spaces”) (Tehillim 118:5).

Why does King David suggest that we call out to G-d from the narrow confines?

Wouldn’t it be just as important to call out to G-d from the open spaces?

Imagine you are lost in the desert, wouldn’t you naturally call out to G-d to save you? And why, if indeed a person is in the narrow spaces, does G-d only answer him from the wide open spaces? Wouldn’t it be more powerful for G-d to come into the narrow spaces where we are and be there for us?

Take a close look at the problems we have in life as individuals and in our communities and you may notice that their root is always in the narrow perspectives we allow ourselves to fall into. Looking at life as black and white, or from our own limited perspective, perpetuates that same narrow view.

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agree with Cornel West. I never thought I would find myself writing those words.

West, a leading African-American author and intellectual, is a vicious critic of Israel.

He supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. He says Israel’s leaders are “war criminals.” In a speech at Princeton last year, he made the wildly absurd claim that the Israelis “are killing hundreds [of Palestinians] daily.”

But even a broken clock gives the right time twice a day, so on the rare occasion that West utters words of truth about the Palestinians or Israel, I must acknowledge that.

West was appointed by Senator Bernie Sanders to serve on the Democratic Party’s Platform Committee. He lobbied hard for a platform plank supporting the Palestinian cause, and was partly successful.

Speaking to a Jerusalem Post reporter on July 26, on the floor of the Democratic convention, West said that he was disappointed the platform did not go further, but he vowed to continue his struggle. He declared: “The Palestinians will be free, brother. Ain’t no doubt about that.”

And that’s where Cornel and I agree.

Since 1995, more than 98 percent of the Palestinians have been living under the occupation of the Palestinian Authority (PA) (and, since 2007, 100 percent of the residents of Gaza have been living under the occupation of Hamas). Ain’t no doubt in my mind: one day, brother, the Palestinians will be free of the cruel totalitarian Palestinian regimes that occupy and oppress them.

One day, brother, the Palestinians will have the freedom to democratically choose their leaders. Mahmoud Abbas was elected head of the Palestinian Authority in January 2005 for a four year term. Yet somehow he is still in office, seven and a half years since his term expired. And Hamas has not held a democratic election since taking over the Gaza Strip nine years ago.

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One day, brother, the Palestinians will have the right to freedom of speech. Najat Abu Baker, a member of the Palestinian parliament, recently hid out in the parliament building for seventeen days to avoid being arrested by the PA police. The warrant for arrest was issued because — as the New York Times put it — “Ms. Abu Baker said Mr. Abbas should resign and suggested that there would be money to pay educators if ministers were not so corrupt.”

One day, brother, the Palestinians will have the right to free assembly. Earlier this year, 20,000 Palestinian public school teachers went on strike because they had not been

paid (those were the unpaid educators to whom Ms. Abu Baker was referring). When some dissidents tried to hold a rally in support of the strikers, “the PA security services set up rings of checkpoints to prevent the teachers from attending the demonstration,” according to Ha’aretz. Twenty teachers and two school principals who did manage to reach the rally were arrested for doing so.

One day, brother, the Palestinians will no longer have their basic human rights violated by the Palestinian occupation regime.

According to the State Department’s most recent report on human rights around the world, the PA is guilty of “abuse and mistreatment of detainees, poor and overcrowded detention facilities, prolonged detention,

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tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a long time since I saw a gesture this desperate. At the recent Arab Summit in Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki announced that his boss, PA President Mahmoud Abbas, had asked the Arab states prepare a legal case against Britain in retaliation for the Balfour Declaration of 1917.

The Balfour Declaration, which took the form of a letter from British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to the Zionist leader Lord Rothschild, conďŹ rmed Britainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favorable view of a â&#x20AC;&#x153;national homelandâ&#x20AC;? for the Jewish people in Palestine, which came under British control towards the end of World War I. For that reason, the PLOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National Covenant dates the beginning of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Zionist invasionâ&#x20AC;? to 1917â&#x20AC;&#x201D;any Jews who arrived in the land after that date are considered to be illegal settlers. These days, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basically every Jew in Israel.

Of course, Abbas has been able to get away with this kind of incitement many times in the past, so there was no reason for him to expect any moral condemnation from Western leaders. Had he stuck to denying the link between Jews and the city of Jerusalem, or named another public square after a terrorist, he would probably have been spared the ridicule which has greeted his tactical error of going after the Britishâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and therefore going too far.

Similarly grandiose gestures by Abbas in the past â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for example his failed campaign for international recognition of a Palestinian state outside of negotiations â&#x20AC;&#x201D; have also gone south, so it should be no surprise if his threat to sue the Brits comes to naught. Within a couple of days of Malikiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nouakchott announcement, British diplomats were reporting their Palestinian counterparts telling them that there was no substance behind it.

Yet given that Abbas has been ďŹ xated on gesture politics for several years now, substance may not be the point here. Rather, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to remind the world that the Palestinian

question has not been resolved, and no matter what happens in the coming yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a Donald Trump presidency, thousands more refugees ďŹ&#x201A;eeing the atrocities in Syria, terrorist attacks in Europe on a weekly basis, Iran ďŹ&#x201A;outing the nuclear dealâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the peace the world craves will not come without the establishment of a Palestinian state. bbasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s woes are compounded by the fact that among the Arabs themselves, never mind the rest of the world, the worthiness of the Palestinian cause is diminishing. The combined threats of Iranian ascenContinued on page 18

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ome Democrats did their best to demonstrate where they stood in regards to the Israel/Palestinian conďŹ&#x201A;ict at their convention last week in Philadelphia (ironically known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;The City of Brotherly Loveâ&#x20AC;?). Many events inside and out of the Wells Fargo Center (where the main part of the convention was held) turned out to be anti-Israel hate-fests.

While they did not represent all the people at the Democratic convention, the lack of demonstrations in support of the Jewish state made the anti-Israel demonstrations stand out even more.

On the main stage, only one of the primetime speakers at the Democratic gala mentioned Israel. That was Hillary Clinton, who mentioned Israel as part of her bragging about the Iran deal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m proud that we put a lid on Iranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nuclear program without ďŹ ring a single shot â&#x20AC;&#x201D; now we have to enforce it, and keep supporting Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s security.â&#x20AC;?

A second Democratic speaker, Rev. William Barber, didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mention Israel but claimed from the podium that Jesus was a Palestinian.

In comparison, Israel was a much bigger topic at the Republican Convention in Cleveland (which I attended). Nine prime time speakers mentioned Israel, including Donald Trump. All of the comments spoke of the Jewish state in relation to changing Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s antiIsrael policies.

(The number of Israel mentions for each convention was counted from the transcripts of each speech, issued to the press by the host party.)

Much of the media commented on the number of American Flags at the DNC on the

ďŹ nal night of the convention, which was true.

Few mentioned the lack of American Flags on the early nights. The Daily Callerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alex Pfeiffer reported, â&#x20AC;&#x153;It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t look like there are any American ďŹ&#x201A;ags. The stage is bland and grey, with no red, white or blue present. A thorough look at the crowd present also turns up no American ďŹ&#x201A;ags.â&#x20AC;?

The lack of American ďŹ&#x201A;ags doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean there werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t any ďŹ&#x201A;ags at the convention. By searching â&#x20AC;&#x153;Palestinian ďŹ&#x201A;ag at 2016 Democratic Conventionâ&#x20AC;? on Bing or Google, one will ďŹ nd dozens of pictures of the Palestinian ďŹ&#x201A;ag both inside the Wells Fargo Center and at the protests outside the convention.

The pro-Israel news site Algemeiner suggested that â&#x20AC;&#x153;Palestinian Flags Outnumber American Flags at Democratic National Convention,â&#x20AC;? which was only true for the ďŹ rst night as the DNC added American Flags each night after the ďŹ rst.

More prevalent than the Palestinian Flags inside the convention hall were the delegates who were brandishing hand-held yellow signs with black letters proclaiming â&#x20AC;&#x153;I support Palestinian Human Rights,â&#x20AC;? and buttons proclaiming the same.

There was at least one Israeli ďŹ&#x201A;ag seen outside the convention â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a ďŹ&#x201A;ag that was burned during a anti-Israel protest. A U.S. ďŹ&#x201A;ag was burned at a different protest outside the arena. n the ďŹ rst day of the convention, Georgia Rep. Hank Johnson, a Clinton super-delegate, took time away from his partyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nominating event to speak at an anti-Israel meeting sponsored by the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. The Washington Free Beacon reported that Johnson â&#x20AC;&#x153;launched into a tirade against Israel and its policies toward the Palestinians, comparing Jewish people who live in disputed territories to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;termitesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; that destroy homes. Johnson also compared Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman

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to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, a remark that drew vocal agreement from those in the room.â&#x20AC;?

After facing heavy criticism for his rant, Johnson apologized on Twitter for his â&#x20AC;&#x153;poor choice of words.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Apologies for offense,â&#x20AC;? Johnson tweeted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Point is settlement activity continues slowly undermine 2-state solution.â&#x20AC;?

Also speaking at the same event was Democratic Party platform committee member and anti-Israel activist James Zogby.

The ďŹ nal night of the convention featured Rev. Barber who repeated the Palestinian propaganda point that Jesus was a Palestinian. He said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jesus, a brown-skinned Palestinian Jew, called us to preach good news to the poor, the broken, and the bruised, and all those who are made to feel unexpected.â&#x20AC;?

Any student of history knows that there is no way that Jesus could have been a Palestinian. According to most historians, Jesus was cruciďŹ ed somewhere between 30 and 36 CE, 100 years before the Romans changed the name of Judea to Syria Palaestina.

The name change came after the Bar Kochba revolt in 135 CE. It was meant as a punishment to those pesky Jews who revolted for a second time in 70 years. Palaestina came from Phylistiim, the Roman word for the ancient Jewish enemy, the Philistines. According to page 313 of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Archeology in the Near East, referenced by the Jewish Bible Quarterly, the Philistines had disappeared as a distinct people about ďŹ ve centuries before Jesus and six centuries prior to the Roman name change.

In comparison, the Republican convention had very few protests of any kind. The protests that did happen inside the convention were against a rules committee procedure. The protests outside were mostly anti-Trump. Not one Continued on page 18

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y husband Jerry was living the life as a senior in BTA’s super garbage class in 1973. Things could not have been going better, as he was naturally fun-filled and irresponsible. Then, a series of indelible events occurred, starting in the spring of 1973 which changed his perspective and expectations forever.

First, he was shocked when he didn’t get into Yeshiva University. Throughout high school, he and his best friend, Normy Gold, planned on being roommates and dreamed of how much fun this would be. When he didn’t get into YU, he couldn’t bring himself to tell his close friends, who all planned on continuing their fun-filled adventures together in YU. They used to say that BTA was their day camp and YU would be their sleepaway camp. Then, something else shocking happened. He was notified that he would not be invited back to camp Raleigh, as a counsellor, after 6 summers, where he loved to spend great times with his camp friends. In a couple months time, he felt exiled from the life and the friends he expected to spend the next few years with.

Upon hearing this story, my first response was, “Are you kidding me? Why have you been withholding this one? I had to resort to talking about my kids the last few articles, and you know how much they hate that!”

Next I asked him what could have been so terrible, that he did as a junior counselor, that they would refuse him a job as a counselor, he being the only one not asked back.

It went something like this…

His summer as a JC began with his mom accompanying him to the bus (the only staff member, to have his mom there for the send off) that would transport all the kids to camp.

His mom was heard telling Jerry’s counselor, Robert Honig, aka Hodge, who he would be working with, to make sure Jerry got a haircut while in camp. And so his summer began.

He instituted BTA cutting and compliance programs on Hodge’s day’s off where they did what the kids wanted, and cut arts and farts (as they called it), learning groups, and anything else they had no interest in. The inmates ran the institution on Hodge’s day off.

Raleigh normally ran on precision clockwork, both time and daily schedule meticulously followed. It was a boot camp of organizational perfection. Being with your bunk meant exactly that. When a period ended, it ended. If you were in the middle of a game, the game ended when the period did.

But Jerry managed to employ BTA chaos destabilization into the predictable sanity of Raleigh’s organizational expectations. His bunk was highly conspicuous. Once a week, when Hodge had a day off, and Jerry was in charge, his bunk was the row missing from davening, the empty table in the dining room, the ones to miss arts and crafts, and the no shows to learning group.

TA ran by the people for the people.

Why shouldn’t camp? Locke and Rousseau would have been pleased. However Rabbi Weinbach’s Camp Raleigh government wasn’t impressed. When Jerry got fired he took the bullet for camp democracy.

He was devastated, but he had to find something else to do for the summer. He refused to go to another camp, because he felt it just wouldn’t be the same and it didn’t feel right. He reluctantly chose a summer in Israel with no close friends on the trip. He remembers feeling sad.

The program began with a week stint on

an Israeli army base. They did basic training alongside their 18 year old Israeli counterparts. The last two days were spent on a gruelling hike along the mountainous Golan Heights.

He admired the Israeli kids and how responsible they were and never complained.

They stuck it out. After all, they would be entering the army and Jerry would be returning to America, where life would be easier for him. He felt the Israeli kids didn’t really know better, that they were actually supposed to be having fun as 18 year olds, not getting up at crazy hours to run in the dark, mindlessly traversing obstacle courses and climbing walls and ropes.

In the end, he was one of the few Americans to do whatever the Israel kids did. His competitive spirit refused to cave in and in fact he tried to out perform them. They begrudgingly respected him for refusing to quit as most of the other 18 year old American kids did. He completed his tour of duty in Israel and got back to the good old USA in late August 1973.

By then, Johnny Halpert miraculously got Jerry into YU (thank G-d for Jerry’s basketball skills, they came in handy!) and Normy and Jerry began to live the irresponsible funfilled life at YU, which they only dreamed about. Things couldn’t be better and Israel,

and the hardships of the Israel army base, was in his rear view mirror. On Oct. 6, 1973, Jerry entered Rabbi Landaus’ shetible (where he and his parents davened in Flatbush) fashionably late, to learn that everything was terribly wrong.

The Syrian army had overrun positions on the Golan Heights where Jerry had been hiking with his Israeli counterparts only a couple months before. An agonizing feeling viscerally pierced his childhood perspective on life.

“Oh my god, those kids might be fighting and dying, defending the very footsteps I mindlessly marched just to show those Israel kids that I was as good as them — perhaps even better than them,” Jerry explained to me. He said he was struck with profound pain and determined that he needed to get back to Israel, immediately, to do whatever he could to help his friends, his people, his homeland.

His parents refused to allow this. His mom said that she had lost so much in Auschwitz and couldn’t bear the thought of her son putting himself in danger.

Things became very intense between him and his parents, who were preventing him from doing what he, the man, no longer the boy, needed to do. They refused and Jerry was heartbroken for a long time. He said this

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was perhaps the one thing he could never forgive them for, while he fully understood and accepted their decision. Jerry recognized his love for Israel and the Jewish people, and that would remain with him for the rest of his life.

In trying to find an interesting Israeli recipe that would be new to most of my readers, I happened upon this one: Rice Flour Malabi.

This dairy recipe can be found at FromTheGrapevine.com [bit.ly/2arl9ME].

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By Barbra Rubin-Perry South Nassau Communities Hospital has been certiďŹ ed as a Level II trauma center by the American College of Surgeons. On July 19 the Emergency Department demonstrated its readiness to handles multiple trauma patients.

The call went out at SNCH: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Trauma team Level One E.R. west code gray lockdown E.R. activate code triage.â&#x20AC;? The large metal doors to the emergency room ďŹ&#x201A;ew open, and emergency medical technicians wheeled a â&#x20AC;&#x153;patient,â&#x20AC;? hypothetically bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds, in from an ambulance.

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South Nassauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board of directors felt compelled to meet the new challenge, and to be certiďŹ ed as a Level II trauma center. Its board chairman, Joseph Fennessey, said the ramp-up to the new criteria cost about $2 million. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Trauma does not discriminate,â&#x20AC;? Fennessey said.

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e experience different levels of surprise and shock. Regardless of how intellectually internalized something is, once it takes place, it is a different story.

The radical Islamist ideology that catalyzes killings is, sadly, a reality we are aware of.

Yet each time it happens, we feel the shock anew. Each time, we think that somehow now it will be stopped, that this time will be the wake up call and thus the last time we must cope with such terror.

There deep shock at the latest string of terrorist attacks these past two weeks in France and Germany, including the murder of a priest in Normandy. While the thought of going after clergy seems to have jarred many people, I should remind them that rabbis â&#x20AC;&#x201D; clergy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; were murdered in cold

blood just two years ago while worshiping in a synagogue, a house of prayer. That terror, which happened in Jerusalem, was largely unreported, and when it was, it was reported inaccurately by CNN. A couple of weeks ago, a Nigerian female priest, a mother of seven, was bludgeoned to death. On Tuesday, we woke up to the news â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a barely reported story â&#x20AC;&#x201D; of an Al Shabaab suicide bombing that killed at least 12 people in Somaliaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capital. The blood of non-Muslims, of Christians and Jews, has been spilled for a long time now, triggered by an extremist radical ideology.

It seems that the West divides between Coptic Christians, Yazidis, and Jews, as well as the location of terror â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Africa and the Middle East versus the West. When the unthinkable happens to us in the West, when terrorism reaches the shores of the West, the story is reported in full. When terror strikes non-Western countries or continents, it is internalized as a different matter altogether, with reasons and justiďŹ cations attributed to it or, all too often, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s met with plain indif-

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The dissonance is hard to comprehend. n Western society, acknowledgement of reality seems to be so deeply suppressed that it has yielded to a false sense of immunity, a sense that freedom has already been won and is permanent, without threats from forces bent on destroying it.

But freedom is such a fragile thing. not something secured for once and for all. Freedom must be defended. If freedom is being challenged as a victim, so to speak, anywhere in the world, we are all victims. When the lives and freedom of worship of rabbis in Jerusalem or a priest in Africa are threatened, we all are threatened.

It is an indictment of all of us Westerners, that when blood is spilt in non-Western parts of the world we are more or less detached compared to when this violence reaches our Western way of life. And we in the Jewish community, including myself, are just as guilty.

When the world ignores the pain of our Jewish and Israeli victims of terrorism, it hurts. And we feel the sting and alienation of

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I understand our Jewish communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s energy is limited and can only go so far. We each feel more connected to our own nuclear communities, more affected when hard stuff hits our own tribe. That is only natural. Especially since the Jewish community is a minority, and a minority that is once again starting to be a target of anti-Semitism.

But our empathy needs to extend to all humankind. Not just because we are all targets of the same extremist dangerous ideology, but because we are all human beings, a part of the tapestry of humankind. And we need to care and take care of each otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s blood, of each otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tears, of each otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pain.

We need to guard freedom and human dignity for each other.

None of us is untouchable. None of our freedoms is untouchable. The hope still lives within, but so does the fear.

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Among the major personalities affected by Wiesel’s literary inspiration were Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich and Natan Sharansky, both prisoners of communist brutality and torture, and Glenn Richter, one of the leading figures in the Soviet Jewry movement in the United States.

Richter, a founder and leader of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, said in a tribute titled “How Elie Wiesel Inspired the Free Soviet Jewry Movement,” distributed by the JTA: “On my bookshelves there are two rows of volumes on the Soviet Jewry movement.

Squeezed in among the tomes is a small, well-worn paperback with pages no longer

attached, ‘The Jews of Silence’ by Elie Wiesel. This slim volume is, however, a bridge.

It crossed him and his readers over from his prior works, hearing the screams of those silenced in the Holocaust, to an eloquent challenge in 1966 to listen to the cry of our silenced but living oppressed brethren in the USSR.” Richter continues: “For my contemporaries in high schools and universities in the 1960s, Wiesel’s cri de coeur was the first of three shocks that would galvanize our nascent public student based Soviet Jewry movement into a total wave of action. Wiesel ended ‘The Jews of Silence’ thus: ‘What torments me most is not the Jews of silence I met in Russia, but the silence of the Jews I live among today.’ Not yet the icon he later became, Elie reinforced his written, searing recollection of his visit with Jews in the USSR in talks to our SSSJ members. We connected immediately to Wiesel.”

Richter concluded: “Absolutely nothing can bring back the Six Million. Yet when three million of our brothers and sisters in the Soviet Union were threatened with spiritual annihilation, postwar Jewry finally stepped forward, their march begun, as Natan Sharansky often recalls, by ‘students and housewives’ inspired

by Elie Wiesel … may his memory be for us a blessing.”

Sharansky and his wife Avital issued

the following brief but heartfelt statement upon hearing of the passing of Wiesel: “Elie Wiesel was the collective moral compass of the Jewish people. He was the first to break the silence surrounding the plight of Soviet Jewry, and he accompanied our struggle until we achieved victory. We will miss him dearly.” erhaps the most iconic “prisoner of Zion” personality who survived the communist hell and live to tell his story within the context of his observance of traditional Judaism is Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich, who penned the following tribute: “The struggle to free Soviet Jews began almost spontaneously around 1964 both in the United States and the USSR. “Although an ocean divided us, the seed which germinated the struggle was the same, the Holocaust. In Russia, we found the graves of the Nazi massacres in Babi Yar, Rumboli

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and Ponary. The dead talked to us.

They demanded: do not forget. Learn from our experience. Leave this cursed place!

“You in America wouldn’t talk, wouldn’t tell the story. It was too hard.

People tried to forget. But, there was one man who was not afraid to tell the story, his name: Elie Wiesel. … His telling became a challenge. And, that is how the slogan for the struggle was coined — NEVER AGAIN! “Never again shall we permit our brethren to be persecuted and killed. Never again shall we sit back in the face of cruelty.

“Thus, as a result, not only did American Jewry begin thinking differently. A world public opinion had been created. Certainly, the message crossed the ocean and reached over the communist iron wall. As Ecclesiastes says: ‘Finally everyone will know the truth.’

“We needed a voice to spell out the truth, not only the voice of the soul, the Jewish neshama. Like the burning bush and Moses, it deSee Elie Wiesel on page 16

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he listing of the travels of the Israelites in the wilderness finishes, in Parshas Masei, with these verses: “They left Almon Divlathaymah and camped in the Avarim mountains in front of Nebo. They left the Avarim mountains and camped in the West Plains of Moab on the Jericho Jordan.”

(33:47-48) The problem here is that the presentation does not seem to follow the order of the Torah. Go back a few chapters and we find that they came to “Arvot Moav” (west plains of Moav) in 22:1, and a number of things took

place there, as noted in 26:3, 63 (census), 31:12 (post-Midian war), and of course Devarim 34:1 (Moshe’s ascent up Mt. Nebo to die), which suggests that Arvot Moav was the last stop.

The events on Mt. Avarim are described in Chapter 27:12, when Moshe is told, “Climb up to the Avarim Mountain where you will be able to see the land that I am giving to the Israelites.” Shortly after this he is told to appoint Yehoshua in his stead to be the leader.

One might argue, following the viewpoint of Rashi in the book of Bereishit, that there is no chronological order in the Torah. Whether they got to Arvot Moav first, or Mt. Avarim first does not really matter. Except that here, the Torah’s listing of the travels very clearly delineates how this is the order of travel.

To answer the seeming discrepancy, one might argue that Mt. Avarim is within Arvot

Moav — they stopped at the mountain first, and then settled in the plains of Moav. More succinctly, they had specific business at the mountain — Moshe’s reminder of his pending death — while the nation had general business which could not take place on the mountain but needed to take place in the plains.

But perhaps a better question to address is what is the purpose of Mt. Avarim? abbi Aryeh Kaplan explains: “This is the mountain range to the east of the Dead Sea, particularly at its northern end.

They are in front of Mt. Nebo. Some say that they were called Avarim because they were opposite the crossing point to Jericho (Tur; cf. Josephus, Antiquities 4:8:48). This would indicate that Mt. Nebo was on the site of the present Mt. Sh’anab, some 8 miles north of its traditional site. However, the stream Abu

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Arabeh flows into the Jordan almost exactly west of the traditional site of Mt. Nebo. Some say that it was called Avarim because from its peak one could see the burial places of Aaron and Miriam.” (Zohar3:183b; Bachya on 20:28).

Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch explains the mountain’s name to mean “Mount of Transition” — “This is the mountain through which the people will cross the Jordan in order to enter the Promised Land.” Of course, the transition from Moshe as leader to Yehoshua as leader also seems to be put in motion here. Hirsch also notes that the event described here is not supposed to actually happen at this point — Moshe was not meant to die yet; that would happen at the end of the Torah’s narrative.

The words of Sifrei (quoted by Ramban as See Transition on page 16

The problem of anger touched even Moshe RABBI DAVID ETENGOFF

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he first of our two parshiot (Matot and Masei) contains a rather quizzical pasuk: “Eleazar the kohen said to the soldiers returning from battle, ‘This is the statute that the L-rd commanded Moses’.”1 (Sefer Bamidbar 31:21) Eleazar’s new and unprecedented role as the teacher of our nation is particularly perplexing. Since Moses was the rebbe par excellence — and the one commanded by the L-rd — why and how did it become Eleazar’s job to teach “the statute that the L-rd commanded” to the Jewish people? Rashi, basing himself upon Midrash Sifrei Matot 48, suggests the following: Eleazar the kohen: Since Moses came to a state of anger, he came to err, as the

laws of purging gentile vessels eluded him. [Therefore, Eleazar had to teach them.] A similar incident happened on the eighth day of the investitures [of the kohanim], as it says, “He [Moses] became angry with Eleazar and Ithamar” (Sefer Vayikra 10:16); he came to a state of anger, so he came to err. Similarly, in the episode of “Now listen, you rebels… and struck the rock” (Sefer Bamidbar 20:10-11); through anger, he came to err.

The shared approach of the Midrash Sifrei and Rashi as to why Eleazar suddenly became the provisional rebbe of the Jewish people is found, as well, in a parallel passage in Talmud Bavli, Pesachim 66b: Reish Lakish said: “In regards to every man who becomes angry, if he is a Sage, his wisdom departs from him … [we learn this] from Moses. For it is written, “Moses became angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of thou-

sands and the commanders of hundreds, who had returned from the campaign of war,” (Sefer Bamidbar 31:14) and it is written, “Eleazar the kohen said to the soldiers returning from battle, ‘This is the statute that the L-rd commanded Moses’.” (Sefer Bamidbar 31:21) From this it follows that [the halacha of koshering vessels that was presented to the Jewish people by Elazar] had been forgotten by Moses.2 The message in these passages seems clear: Anger causes wisdom to depart from a person and, consequently, causes him to err.

If this could happen to Moses, the greatest of all the prophets, it is something that can surely affect all people. Little wonder, then, that the Rambam (Maimonides) embraces the rejection of anger as one of the constitutive elements of a spiritually healthy personality: Anger is also an exceptionally bad quality. It is fitting and proper that one move

away from it and adopt the opposite extreme. He should school himself not to become angry even when it is fitting to be angry. If he should wish to arouse fear in his children and household — or within the community, if he is a communal leader — and wishes to be angry at them to motivate them to return to the proper path, he should present an angry front to them to punish them, but he should be inwardly calm. He should be like one who acts out the part of an angry man in his wrath, but is not himself angry. The early Sages said: “Anyone who becomes angry is like one who worships idols.” They also said: “Whenever one becomes angry, if he is a wise man, his wisdom leaves him; if he is a prophet, his prophecy leaves him.” The life of the irate is not true life. Therefore, they have directed that one distance himself from anger and accustom See Anger on page 16

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Elie Wieselâ&#x20AC;Ś Continued from page 15 manded â&#x20AC;&#x201D; go and free your brothers and sisters from slavery! The voice sounded again and again. Elie would give no rest to himself. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You and we heard that strong, clear voice and together, we stood up. The strong, shofar-like voice of Elie Wiesel broke down that fortress of slavery. We were saved! â&#x20AC;&#x153;From here in Eretz Yisrael we salute you, Elie! Indeed, your soul is alive. Your strong voice continues to sound and call on us: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Until there is no longer injustice in the world, do not sit back â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ďŹ ght backâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;!â&#x20AC;?

We must learn from these three iconic ďŹ gures what it really means to ďŹ ght back against evil. Their examples should not be lost on us today, as evil still envelops us, both physically and spiritually. We must take heart not to retreat back into â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Jews of Silence.â&#x20AC;?

By the examples of Elie Wiesel, zâ&#x20AC;?l, and Rav Menashe Klein, ztâ&#x20AC;?l, his lifelong devoted spiritual mentor, and yibadlu lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;chayim, Glenn Richter, Natan and Avital Sharansky, and Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich, through their examples and their eloquence in writing and speech, may we, with G-dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s help overcome those who wish us harm and extinction.

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Transitionâ&#x20AC;Ś Continued from page 15 well) are striking; they equate Mt. Avarim, Mt. Nebo, Mt. Hor, and Rosh Hapisgah. If in fact the mountain has four names (Sifrei notes how multiple names given to one place is not unique â&#x20AC;&#x201D; we see in Devarim 3:9 Hermon is referred to by some are Siryon and by

others as Snir) the question is not a difďŹ cult one. Nebo and Avarim are the same place, and it is alongside the plains of Moav, the ďŹ nal encampment before crossing the Jordan River. (We can ask if Aharon and Moshe are buried on the same mountain!)

But I think a more important message we can extract from this Mount of Transition is that there will come a time when we will face the reality of our mortality. Do we ignore it and just let things ride, not caring about what kind of mess we leave behind when we depart, or do we responsibly set our house in order, so that when that moment comes, the transition is clear?

Most people do not like to think about these things before they see the Angel of Death knocking. But the truth is that despite Mosheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never-ending yearning to get to the Promised Land, he was the one who opened the conversation with G-d that the people should not be â&#x20AC;&#x153;like a ďŹ&#x201A;ock of sheep without a shepherd.â&#x20AC;?

I have heard of people who have bought cemetery plots (mostly in Israel) who have gone to the site to â&#x20AC;&#x153;look at the view.â&#x20AC;? Maybe Moshe went up Mt. Avarim at that stop, maybe he did not. Malbim notes that Moshe â&#x20AC;&#x153;wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t commanded to die at that time because he needed to lead the ďŹ ght against Midian and deal with a few more itemsâ&#x20AC;? before his time came to transition to the next world.

But he got the message and left a lesson for all time. Be wise, anticipate what is inevitably coming, make plans, and hopefully we are successful in the transitions of our lives, in leaving a lasting legacy and a clean house for those who are left to put together the pieces when we each go through our own ďŹ nal transition.

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Angerâ&#x20AC;Ś Continued from page 15 himself not to feel any reaction, even to things which provoke anger. This is the good path.3 The Ramban (Nachmanides), as well, focuses upon anger in the beginning paragraph of his famous Iggeret HaRamban: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hear, my son, the instruction of your father and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forsake the teaching of your mother.â&#x20AC;? (Sefer Mishle1:8). Get into the habit of always speaking calmly to everyone. This will prevent you from anger, a serious character ďŹ&#x201A;aw that causes people to sin. As our Rabbis said (Talmud Bavli Nedarim 22a): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whoever ďŹ&#x201A;ares up in anger is subject to the discipline of Gehinnom,â&#x20AC;? as it is says in (Sefer Kohelet 12:10), â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cast out anger from your heart, and [by doing this] remove evil from your ďŹ&#x201A;esh.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Evilâ&#x20AC;? here means Gehinnom, as we read (Sefer Mishle 16:4): â&#x20AC;&#x153;... and the wicked are destined for the day of evil.â&#x20AC;? Once you have distanced yourself from anger, the quality of humility will enter your heart. This radiant quality is the ďŹ nest of all admirable traits: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Following humility comes the fear of Hashem.â&#x20AC;?)4 In consonance with Maimonides, Nachmanides views anger as â&#x20AC;&#x153;a serious character ďŹ&#x201A;aw;â&#x20AC;? he diverges from the Rambam, however, by emphasizing angerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role in causing people to sin. On the positive side, he who successfully eschews anger from his persona will be able to pursue the path of humility, which, in turn, leads to awe of Hashem and, by extension, fealty to His commandments.

Perhaps there is no better time than the Three Weeks to engage in honest introspection, so that we can discover and face our faults and shortcomings, and engage in tes-

huvah (returning to G-d). Many of our failings may very well be associated with anger.

Beyond any doubt, nearly all prevent us from properly serving Hashem. Therefore, as the prophet Yermiyahu passionately declared so long ago, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Restore us to You, O L-rd, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old.â&#x20AC;?

(Megillat Eichah 5:21) Vâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;chane yihi ratzon.

1. This, and all Bible and Rashi translations, The Judaica Press Complete Tanach.

2. Translation, The Soncino Talmud with my emendations) 3. Mishneh Torah, Sefer Maâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ada, Hilchot Deâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ot 2:3, translation, Rabbi Eliyahu Touger, underlining my own 4. Sefer Mishle 22:4, the passageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s translation with my emendations, pirchei.com/specials/ramban/ramban.htm

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‘We’re almost there’

Continued from page 4 tives and opinions, even though we disagree with those opinions, results in more people being able to “share” the same space, and actually transforms the narrow confines we fall into back into the wide open spaces the world is meant to be made up of. This does not mean that we all have to agree, it just means that we should not disagree with someone until we first respect where they are coming from.

The ability to make room for other people’s way of looking at the world is often a form of largesse, itself a word denoting space. And when we refuse or are unable to do this, we will often be referred to as narrow minded. In fact, in modern Hebrew, slang for the word “large” denotes the ability to make room for someone else (and someone else’s perspective) in your space. nd this is where everything begins. For Hashem to create the world, He first has to make room for it. After all, before creation, there was only Hashem, also referred to as the Endless One. And if G-d is Endless and everywhere, and unlimited, how is there ever going to be room for me? And where can G-d put the world, if he is already everywhere?

This, in fact, is one of the inexplicable, wonderful things about a relationship with Hashem — the realization that in all of G-d’s greatness, there is still room for me. And that Hashem actually created me, which means I am important enough to be created, and

BOOK REVIEW By Merle Turitz Rabbi Dovid M. Cohen certainly has a lot to talk about. And why not? Academically, he is an accomplished scholar, attorney, therapist and educator. Rabbinically, he is a talmid chachum, having studied with some of the greatest Torah minds as well as serving as rabbi for the Young Israel of the West Side in Manhattan.

Familially, he is a respectful and compassionate husband to his “best friend” and the proud and loving father of their four children, one of whom led him to become a special needs advocate.

In his new book, “We’re Almost There,” Rabbi Cohen takes the reader on a journey of his life, with all its ups and downs, bumps and mountains, joys and disappointments. While each chapter reads like a random, free-association journey through the author’s brain, there seems to be one connecting theme: live fully in each moment and seek out the lessons placed before us by G-d. There are no coincidences.

Each chapter is filled with his emotional insights from Torah learning as well as, day-to-day living. In a deeply personal and honest recounting, Rabbi Cohen relates

even more, that without me all of creation would be missing something.

Of course, this also means that the same applies to everyone else. Even the annoying person incessantly honking his horn in bumper to bumper traffic is an important and even critical part of the fabric of the world. Doing that would actually make me a larger person, while making more room in the world.

The way out of the narrow confines we find ourselves in begins with figuring out what we share in common, and learning to respect each other at the very least for where our journeys began. And part of this is appreciating every step on our own and everyone else’s journeys.

It is not accidental that all this is going on, and indeed this week’s parsha is always read during the three weeks of mourning that mark the terrible period from the breaching of the walls of ancient Jerusalem by the Babylonians and Romans thousands of years ago, to the destruction of our temples on the ninth of Av. This period is also known as bein ha’metzarim, which can mean between the tragedies, but also can mean, in between the narrow confines.

Two thousand years ago, the rabbis believed we lost everything because we were too narrow, and did not know how to accept and respect each other’s viewpoints.

In fact, learning to appreciate each other’s journeys might be the greatest journey of all.

Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem.

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Even the annoying person honking his horn in bumper to bumper traffic is part of the fabric of the world.

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his experiences meeting the most holy and scholarly men and women whose paths he has crossed, providing him with insight and wisdom. Yet, of all of these sage and learned encounters, there is none who has provided him with greater clarity and, brutally honest introspection, then his special needs son, Yedidya. In those moments throughout the book, the reader is completely drawn into the Rabbi’s vulnerability and cemented to the next line.

“We’re Almost There” is beautifully written, with stories that are sure to make a positive impact on the reader.

Some live lives filled with wondrous and phenomenal experiences, who say they should record them on paper. Rabbi Cohen, fortunately for us, made true on that promise so his meaningful events can be a powerful lesson that life is not about the destination, but it is all about the journey.

“We’re Almost There” is an excellent read for anyone facing a personal struggle in his or her life. You may know the saying, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Rabbi Cohen not only makes lemonade, he finds the inner strength to make lemon cake and lemon ices — then adds shiny lemon icing on top of it all.

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Continued from page 1 Islamic countries, which are a considerable voting bloc equaling a quarter of the General Assembly’s 193 members. Danon explained that Israel’s move to head the Sixth Committee faced numerous roadblocks, especially from the Iranian and Palestinian delegations which “hypocritically argued that Israel isn’t worthy to hold this post.“ Anti-Israel bias continues to surface at the UN. Last month, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) proposed a resolution declaring the Temple Mount as sacred to “Muslims only.” Danon called the UNESCO resolution a “blatant attempt to rewrite the history books that has not gone unnoticed, and we will not let this biased and baseless UNESCO resolution rob us of our past.”

Despite this continued bias, Danon and the Israeli delegation have taken Israel from a defensive to an offensive strategy at the world body.

“As a country, we are global leaders in international law and counter-terrorism techniques and now we are privileged to have the opportunity to share our expertise with the nations of the world,” Danon said, adding that when he first arrived in New York a year ago, he implemented a two-fold approach.

“We will not allow any anti-Israel bias at the UN to go unnoticed and unanswered” and “we are not going to only defend ourselves, but in recognizing that ‘the best defense is a good offense,’ we are going to push for positive change at the UN,” he said.

Part of this change involved emphasizing Judaism and Jewish culture at the world body. This included successfully getting the UN to recognize Yom Kippur as an official holiday, and holding a model Passover Seder with more than forty ambassadors who were able to learn about Jewish heritage. There was even a screening of “Fiddler on the Roof,” to which more than seventy ambassadors and diplomats came and learned about the Jewish people.

“We are bringing Judaism to the UN; we

not only connect ourselves to our roots but also show the true face of Israel to the UN,” Danon told JNS.org.

The Israeli delegation has also taken a firm stance again the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement with the help of more than 50 U.S. Jewish organizations that came together under the umbrella of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and recently endorsed a UN declaration opposing the rampant discrimination against Israel in the UN and its agencies.

“For years we have witnessed and protested the escalating discriminatory practices and actions against Israel at the UN,” Conference of Presidents Chairman Stephen M. Greenberg, and Executive Vice Chairman and CEO Malcolm Hoenlein, said in a statement. “As we have seen in recent months, this bias is being manifested in outrageous and flagrant ways.

These actions not only distort the truth about Israel, they also undermine the principles of the UN and its Charter. It has to stop.”

An additional strategy Israel has also employed in recent years has been the building of diplomatic support for Israel in non-traditional regions such as Latin America, Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

This strategy bore fruit for Israel in late 2014, when both Rwanda and Nigeria helped defeat a Security Council resolution that would have imposed a 12-month deadline on Israel to withdraw from the disputed territories.

More recently, in July, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited four African nations, including Rwanda, to bolster their support for Israel.

“PM Netanyahu’s trip to Africa included visits in four countries only – none of which have seats at the UNSC today. Significantly, however, the trip did include Ethiopia, which has been elected to the SC as of January 2017 and whose vote may therefore potentially make a significant difference to Israel,” Michal Hatuel-Radoshitzky, a Neubauer research associate at the Institute for National Security

Studies (INSS), told JNS.org.

“While far greater resources and engagement will be needed in order for Israel to win substantial and much-needed support from African countries — the strategy of engagement, in my opinion, is certainly a positive one,” she added.

Moving forward, Israel’s next strategy at the UN is a lofty one — gaining a seat on the powerful UN Security Council in 2018.

The Security Council, which is comprised of five permanent members — the U.S., U.K., France, Russia and China — and 10 additional non-permanent members (who usually serve two year terms), is the only body of the UN with the authority to issue binding resolutions to member states. As such, serving on the Security Council comes with tremendous international credibility and respect.

“Our intention to be on the Security Council is very important to us. It is another glass ceiling that we hope to shatter,” Danon said.

“This council is the UN’s most important institution, and it plays a key role in safeguarding international peace and security.

Just as we insist that Israel must be treated equally throughout the UN, this is true as well for the Security Council,” he said.

Hatuel-Radoshitzky explained to JNS.org that Israel’s selection to head the Sixth Committee might also help bolster its chances for the non-permanent Security Council seat.

“According to the UN Charter, in presenting their candidacy for a non-permanent UNSC seat, states should be evaluated based on their contribution to “the maintenance of international peace and security and to the other purposes of the UN,” she told JNS.org.

“Naturally, chairing the Sixth (Legal) Committee can serve to strengthen Israel’s claim to a UNSC seat in this respect.”

However, due to the prominence of the Security Council, Israel is likely to face stiff opposition not only from Arab and Islamic countries, but even from allies like many European countries, who are sometimes troubled by Is-

rael’s policies towards the Palestinians.

“First is the time factor,” Hatuel-Radoshitzky explained. “The election is to commence two years from now, and in our region this is a very long period of time in which ample developments could potentially unfold, influencing Israel’s policies and actions, as well as those of her regional neighbors,” she said.

Additionally, the ballot for the Security Council voting is closed, meaning that countries that may publically endorse Israel, such as European allies, could potentially vote for another state without having to explain their choice, Hatuel-Radoshitzky said.

Complicating matters further for Israel is also its geographic membership at the UN. Although geographically sitting in southwestern Asia, Israel’s membership to the UN’s Asian group has been blocked by Arab and Muslim states. As such, the Jewish state belongs to the Western European and Others Group (WEOG), along with non-European countries such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

This means Israel faces more competition from other democratic countries for the seat.

The WEOG group is expected to produce two members to join the council in 2018. Currently, Israel, Belgium and Germany are competing for the position. However, Germany is expected to gain the seat, leaving the battle between Israel and Belgium for the final slot.

Despite the uphill battle faced by Israel for both continued legitimacy in the UN and a seat on the Security Council, Danon remains optimistic that Israel will achieve these goals in time.

“There is a lot of time to go between now and then, but we’re preparing for it. I believe that we’ve shown that Israelis are capable of reaching any position in the UN as our Sixth Committee victory has proven,” Danon told JNS.org.

“And in the end of the day, to win and make great achievements is not going to be straightforward or easy, but I have full faith that it is possible.”

Mahmoud Abbas’s desperate Balfour gesture…

Continued from page 6 dancy and Islamist barbarism have drawn Arab states from Egypt to Saudi Arabia further into Israel’s orbit. One senior Israeli army office even volunteered to a reporter for The Economist: “The Egyptians now are more anti-Hamas than even we are. They’re actually pressing too hard now on Gaza.”

Even if this remark is slightly overstated, the Arab drift away from the Palestinians is unmistakeable. Abbas’s PLO fears that Israel’s ultimate goal is to formalize peace with the Arab states without creating a Palestinian one in the process. This view seems to be shared in the Palestinian street. A recent poll among Palestinians found 78 percent of them acknowledging that their cause is no longer the leading priority in the Arab world, with another 59 percent angrily accusing the Arab states of allying with Israel against Iran.

But as much as the regional balance tilts against the Palestinians, there is precious little internal reckoning going on. The implications that accompany the difficult truth that they could have achieved meaningful statehood in the last days of Bill Clinton’s presidential administration, were it not for the intransigence of the late Yasser Arafat, are still to be grasped.

The West Bank and Gaza remain split between Fatah and Hamas, with both factions gaining in unpopularity. And yet rather than tearing up the old playbook, the Palestinians persist in advancing initiatives that question their own commitment to the two-state solution they insist the Israelis are wrecking.

Like the BDS and other campaigns ostensibly focused on securing justice for the Palestinians, Palestinian diplomacy has become just another vehicle for sullen grievance politics that bear little correspondence to the historical record.

Anyone who examines British policy in Mandatory Palestine will find numerous episodes that undermined the Balfour Declaration’s intentions towards the Jews.

Pressure from Arab leaders meant that in 1939, at just the time that the need for a Jewish “national homeland” had never been greater, Britain decided to limit Jewish immigration to 75,000 during the next five years, with any future immigration requiring explicit Arab consent.

In the years immediately after the Holocaust, British soldiers imprisoned, beat, and deported thousands of Jews who had escaped from the killing fields and concentration camps of Europe.

The PLO fears that Israel’s ultimate goal is to formalize peace with the Arab states without creating a Palestinian one in the process.

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hen the British finally threw in the towel on their mandate, the Arab states faced the choice between diplomacy and war. They chose the latter, and the consequences are still with us today, feeding the notion — expressed here by Sir Vincent Fean, a former British consul-general in Jerusalem, in an interview with The Guardian —that Abbas’s threat to sue the British was “a cry of anger and despair rather than a statement of intent … the problem is that the two-state solution that he has advocated and argued for for so long is rapidly drifting away.”

But depicting the Balfour Declaration as

a crime against the Palestinians suggests the opposite: that Abbas still cannot stomach the idea of legitimizing Zionism. As Maliki, his foreign minister, put it, the Balfour Declaration “gave people who don’t belong there something that wasn’t theirs.”

There we have it, a tired staple of Palestinian propaganda — denying Jewish indigeneity — recycled yet again. The conclusion that the Palestinian leadership prefers continued Israeli occupation over an independent state is becoming inescapable.

Ben Cohen, is senior editor of TheTower.org.

Distributed by JNS.org

DNC anti-Israel hate…

Continued from page 6 anti-Israel protest was observed by myself or the news media. wo other relevant observations about the DNC convention: •First, the 2016 party platform continued the backing away from support of Israel that began with the 2012 platform. And possibly more troubling for Americans who value a strong Israel to protect our interests in the Middle East, is that President Obama’s tenure, seen by many as antagonistic toward Israel, is being followed up with nominations of presidential and vice presidential candidates Clinton and Tim Kaine, who have extensive track

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records of not supporting Israel.

•Second is the fact that the mainstream media, quick to point out and obsess over every perceived racist act by the Trump campaign, totally ignored the story of Israel hate at the DNC. It seems as if the party of Harry Truman, who overruled his own State Department to become the first world leader to recognize the new state of Israel in 1948, and the party of Lyndon Johnson, the first American president to sell modern fighter airplanes to Israel, is abandoning its pro-Israel heritage and no one in the liberal media is reporting the truth.

Jeff Dunetz: Columnist@TheJewishStar.com

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