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Hewlett mobilizes backpack chesed By Malka Eisenberg

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Rebbitzen Shani Lefkowitz and Rivky Lefkowitz pack a bag together.

More than 100 volunteers converged Sunday on the Yeshiva of South Shore in Hewlett to stuff backpacks for children in need. Participating in an event organized by Supplies for Success, children, parents and grandparents came from Brooklyn, Manhattan and West Hempstead, as well as from the Five Towns and Far Rockaway. Donated backpacks and contents were age appropriate — more colorful for younger students, more mature for older ones, and included notebooks, filler paper, looseleaf books, crayons, pens, pencils and other supplies. This is the 12th year of Supplies for Success, said Irwin Gershon, Long Island director for health care professionals and Tov B’Yachad, an organization that he described as “an Orthodox initiative taking place within the UJA.” Donated supplies are collected throughout the year by shuls and individuals. Batsheva Aaron of Anshei Chesed of Hewlett “secured the location for packing last year and this year,” Gershon said. “Rebbitzen Lisa Septimus of Young Israel of North

Siblings Akiva and Shira Laya Krasnovsky help load a car with backpacks. Woodmere started the project a few years ago [collecting for the project] and it spread to other shuls. Two years ago I got six shuls to come together; this year it’s 12 shuls.” “We want to engage them in terms of the services available,” said Janet Bienenfeld, associate director of UJA-Federation of Long Island, “to help them understand what UJAFederation does — tikun olam, chesed, helping people, doing mitzvot. Hopefully it will ultimately translate into fundraising. They will understand that we are there for the

community. To help schools, shuls, Achiezer, individual families, the JCC.” Joel Block of the JCC noted that in the wake of Sandy, many more need this. He also said that students came to help and received chesed hours, a requirement at many local schools. “What could be better,” he said. The school bags are distributed to those who request it, including the JCC, West Hempstead kosher food pantry, Young Israel of Bayswater, the Greater Five Towns JCC and kosher food pantry and local schools.

Bridge or Dam: MK Lipman’s Israel unity push In his short time in the Knesset, Maryland expatriate, Ner Yisrael rav and now member of Knesset Dov Lipman has sought to unite the disparate elements of Israeli society, integrate the Charedim, increase positive views of Israel around the world and appears to back a more left wing view regarding relations with the Arabs. “This is definitely the only office (in the Knesset) with baseballs,” he told The Jewish Week during a wide-ranging interview in Jerusalem, nodding to the two balls on his bookshelves signed by Ernie Banks and Boog Powell. He also has a worn gavel on his desk, the handle leaning on a rough, beige, fist sized rock. “This is my father’s gavel,” he said reverentially. He said that his father was religious and successful in the U.S. government — illustrating the ability to bridge the Jewish and secular worlds. Lipman was hit in the leg by the rock, thrown at police by protesters against grave desecration in Beit Shemesh. He saved it to “remember if we are not cautious what

could happen to us as a people if we don’t work together.” Lipman was born in 1971 in Silver Spring, earned a BA in Talmud and smicha (rabbinic ordination) from Ner Israel in Baltimore and an MA in Education from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He has an extensive background as a yeshiva educator and administrator. He made Aliyah in 2004 and he, his wife and four children live in Beit Shemesh. He was elected to the 19th Knesset in May 2013 as the 17th seat of the Yesh Atid party. Lipman has taken the position of liaison with the English speaking community, having renounced his U.S. citizenship to sit in the Knesset but retaining ties to the U.S. and other communities interested in learning about Israel. He stresses the importance of education in Jewish studies and positive information about Israel in his position sitting on the Diaspora Affairs Committee. “We have to find ways to make Israel exciting as part of education,” he said. He lamented the state of Hebrew language education, noting that after 12 years of yeshiva or day school in the U.S., the graduates still are not fluent in Hebrew.

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He detailed his and others’ work on public relations for and the legitimization of Israel to connect organizations and efforts worldwide to work together and unify the message. He is working on assisting those in the medical field to facilitate transferring their licenses to Israel upon Aliyah. Lipman stressed the importance of being an activist, that it’s “critical to get involved--it doesn’t matter if you are less aggressive” and not fluent in the language. He said he was very active in Silver Spring, and initially “I was intimidated here … do something … the country’s young.” The day the Jewish Star met with Lipman, the Charedi Continued on page 13

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On Monday, Israel named the ďŹ rst 26 of the 104 Palestinian terrorist prisoners that it agreed to release as a goodwill gesture for the restarting of Israeli-Palestinian conict negotiations. But while the Palestinian terrorists will initially earn their freedom in this deal, efforts are underway in the U.S. to bring about the further prosecution of those terrorists whose attacks harmed American citizens in Israel. Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ) is urging the Department of Justice to work closely with the Israeli government to ensure that no terrorists who have killed or harmed Americans be included in the prisoner release deal. Should Israel release such terrorists, Salmon urges the DOJ to prosecute them under the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1990 — which stipulates that whenever an American is killed anywhere around the world, the U.S. has a right to bring the terrorist to the U.S. to stand justice. He notes that in the Gilad Shalit prisoner swap deal in 2011, which released 1,027 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Shalit’s freedom after more than ďŹ ve years in Hamas captivity, “approximately 20 of those released had been involved in terrorist acts where an American citizen was killed.â€? At the time of the Shalit prisoner swap, a number of American legislators — including Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), former Reps. Joe Walsh (R-IL) and Howard Berman (D-CA), and 52 other members of Congress — wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder on the matter, urging him to prosecute the released Palestinian terrorists.

In a reply letter sent to Sen. Inhofe dated April 5, 2012, which JNS.org obtained from the Endowment for Middle East Truth, a proIsrael think tank and policy center in Washington that is supporting Salmon’s push, Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich described “signiďŹ cant impedimentsâ€? for prosecuting terrorist attacks that occur overseas. In particular, Weich noted that terrorist attacks in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza “present particular challenges.â€? According to Weich, these challenges are related to Israel’s crime scene evidence collection. “For Israeli ofďŹ cials, the focus following an attack is often, understandably, on clearing the crime scene to minimize disruption, taking steps to prevent a further attack, and neutralizing operatives responsible, rather than on collecting evidence consistent with standards required for prosecution in the United States,â€? Weich wrote in the letter to Inhofe. Complicating matters further is the U.S. involvement in the effort to restart IsraeliPalestinian conict negotiations, led by Secretary of State John Kerry. But Sarah Stern, founder and president of EMET, told JNS.org that she believes “if there is a will, there is a wayâ€? when it comes to U.S. prosecution of released Palestinian terrorists. Stern added, however, that she does not believe the DOJ has the will to prosecute these cases and is instead pointing to legal and bureaucratic obstacles that can easily be overcome. “I know there are serious obstacles, but if we really wanted to get these terrorists, we could,â€? Stern said. Stern pointed to the case of Ahlam Ta-

mimi, a Palestinian terrorist who was sentenced to multiple life sentences for her participation in the 2001 Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing in Jerusalem that killed 15 civilians, including two Americans. She was later set free as a result of the Shalit deal. Tamimi now lives in Jordan and has become something of a celebrity. She hosts a television show on a Hamas-run satellite TV station about Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, according to the Jerusalem Post. “We have an extradition treaty with Jordan. We could bring her to justice,â€? Stern told JNS.org. This sentiment has been echoed by Sherri Mandell, mother of terror victim Koby Mandell, 13, who was brutally stoned to death along with his friend Yosef Ishran, 14, while on a hike outside of their home in Tekoa in the Gush Etzion area of Judea and Samaria in 2001, at the beginning of the Second Intifada. Koby was an Israeli-American and his murder inspired the creation of the DOJ’s OfďŹ ce of Justice for Victims of Overseas Terrorism (OJVOT). The Koby Mandell Act became law after it was incorporated into a larger spending bill in 2005. It required the U.S. Attorney General to establish the OJVOT to monitor acts of terrorism against Americans outside the U.S., and to attempt to bring to justice those terrorists who have harmed Americans. Stern said that she believes the OJVOT is not living up to its mission. “They could be a real advocate for the victims of terrorist attacks,â€? Stern said. Since 2005, the OJVOT has only prosecuted one terrorist who murdered an American citizen— the killer of a Christian missionary

in Indonesia—according to EMET. Again referring to the Tamimi case, Stern believes that it presents an opportunity for the U.S. to do more for the victims of terrorism as well as to deter future violence against Americans. “That case could set an excellent example to the world and show terrorists that they will be held accountable for killing American citizens,â€? Stern concluded. Arnold Roth, whose 15-year-old daughter Malki was killed in the attack orchestrated by Tamimi, has been highly critical of both the Shalit deal through which Tamimi was freed and the latest deal to free 104 Palestinian terrorists for renewed Israeli-Palestinian conict negotiations. “From the standpoint of simple negotiating theory, what Israel has done, even if Israel never actually delivers, is a losing move,â€? Roth told JNS.org in July. “Even if there were a case for saying Israel ought to concede to a list of pre-negotiating demands from the other side, freeing terrorists ought never to have been one of them.â€? “I am emphatically not political, and it does not come naturally to me to be speaking against something the government in its wisdom decided to do,â€? Roth added. “But the idea to hand over murderers in order to prime some sort of negotiating pump simply enrages me.â€? Among the 26 terrorists in the ďŹ rst phase of the prisoner release for Israeli-Palestinian conict talks, 17 were convicted of murder, and the remaining prisoners were jailed on charges of manslaughter, attempted murder, kidnapping and conspiring to commit murder.

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or the last 12 years, while I called Brooklyn my home, I referred to myself as an Englishman in New York, as I was born and raised in Manchester. That changed Wednesday, when I become a full-fledged Yankee in the Federal courthouse in Brooklyn. Manchester is not a bad place. With a decent and dedicated Jewish population, antiSemitism, while it exists, could be worse, and you almost nearly find a decent bagel mit lox. When we think of “Jewish” places, first of course is our beloved HIPPEST RABBI Israel (where one day I hope we will all settle), also Miami, but New York, with its almost two million MOTs, and particularly Brooklyn, where a Jewish renaissance is well under way. There is even a sign on the Williamsburg Bridge that reads, “Leaving Brooklyn: Oy vey!” As comedian Lenny Bruce once quipped: “If you live in New York, even if you’re Catholic, you’re Jewish.” I love seeing a Sukkah on Fifth Avenue, a minyan at Yankee games, and a kosher knish from a vending machine at an airport. Believe me, this, you wouldn’t see too often in England. So last week, I took the pledge that made me an American, feeling a sense of pride and privilege to belong to a country that has so embraced and fostered Jewish history, culture and values, in a courthouse surrounded by people of all ages, races and religions. As I perused the crowded court room, I realized that America really isn’t a melting pot, but rather a salad bowl bursting with a vast variety of “greens” which together make this land something extraordinary. On the back wall there was a mural depicting people who built our country’s infrastructure. The presiding judge told us the story behind the mural. The piece, called “The Role of the Immigrant in the Industrial Development of America,” was painted in the 1930s by Ed-

Rabbi Simcha Weinstein outside the Federal courthouse in Brooklyn with fellow new citizens Samuel and Susan Elhadad, members of Congregation B’nai Avraham in Brooklyn Heights. ward Laning, and it was originally hung in Ellis Island. Over the years, the mural fell into disrepair and the Immigration and Naturalization Service askedthe Chief Judge of the Eastern Court of New York, Jacob Mishler, for permission to destroy the work. Mishler, who was Jewish, was struck by the mural, which reminded him of his father’s journey to America, and he refused the request. Instead, he commissioned the mural’s restoration and in 1971 moved it to the ceremonial courtroom in the Federal courthouse. Judge Mishler would then ask the immigrants who passed through to look at it and remind themselves of what it means to become an American. Now it hangs in the room where immigrants are naturalized. As the High Holy days approach I see this scenario as central to our lives. On becoming a citizen of the United States, especially in New York, I see a parallel. During this holy time, we are called to the Heavenly Court to stand trial for our lives; much like new immigrants, we wait patiently to return our souls from exile and enter the Promised Land again. Rabbi Simcha Weinstein, chaplain at Pratt Institute, author “The Case for Children: Why Parenthood Makes Your World Better,” was voted “New York’s Hippest Rabbi” by WNET 13.

Should Jews support a boycott of Vladimir Putin-led Russia?

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ne of the oft-repeated criticisms of munities residing in the target state. the movement to boycott Israel is I don’t entirely share that view. Boycotts that it portrays the Middle East’s only were not invented to target Jews (the word healthy democracy as the ultimate rogue originates from nineteenth century Ireland, state, ignoring at the same time those au- where Charles Boycott, a British landowner, thoritarian regimes that violate the most was ostracized by the surrounding commubasic human rights on a daily basis. Frankly, nity for unfairly treating his tenants), nor that’s why I’m pleased to announce that the have they been restricted to Jews (think of boycott I’m writing about here has nothing the boycott of racially segregated buses in to do with Israel, the Palestinians, or the Montgomery, Alabama, which brought the Middle East in general. civil rights movement unprecThis time, the target is Rusedented attention). VIEWPOINT sia. Under President Vladimir Instead, we should judge Putin, Russia has reverted to the boycotts through two considerhabits of the old Soviet Union, ations: Is the boycott justified, cracking down on internal disand can the boycott be effective? sent, backing the world’s worst When it comes to Israel, most regimes, such as Syria and Iran, boycott advocates believe that and adopting a confrontational the Jewish State has no right to stance toward the United States, exist; insofar as their actions are most recently by granting asydirected toward the elimination lum to Edward Snowden, a fuof Israel as a sovereign state, we gitive who is regarded by many can safely deem their motives Americans as a traitor. to be horrendously unjust, not As a stalwart of what he reto mention anti-Semitic. In the gards as “traditional” values, Russian case, however, no one Ben Cohen Putin has also declared war on is challenging Russia’s right to JNS.org homosexuality. In July, Putin exist. Indeed, doing so would signed a bill that makes it illegal be patently absurd. Instead, the for gay couples to adopt Russian-born chil- boycott is directed at changing an unjust, dren. And if you are a heterosexual couple discriminatory policy. Changing policy was living in a country where gay marriage is le- also the goal of the Montgomery bus boygal, then you too are prohibited from adopt- cott, and of the American boycott of the ing Russian children. 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, in proThere’s more. Visitors to Russia who are test against the Soviet Union’s invasion of suspected of being gay, or of supporting the Afghanistan. cause of gay equality, can be detained by the Given that our sense of justice is propolice for up to two weeks. Even the mere foundly offended by Russia’s aggressive act of educating children about homosexu- stance towards the gay community both ality could land you with a heavy fine or domestically and abroad, it is reasonable to prison sentence, because you’d be engaging assume that the moral case for a boycott is in what the Russian state calls “homosexual a sound one. Once the discrimination is repropaganda.” scinded, the boycott will follow suit. These ugly measures What, however, of its efhave rightly sparked outfectiveness? Boycotts are rage in the free world. Some fast developing a reputation activists, particularly in the for achieving only a sense of gay community, believe worth among those engaged the time is now right for a in the boycotting, with little boycott of Russia. As The practical impact on the tarAtlantic magazine described get. Again, look at Israel: it, “from Vancouver to Lonwhile it might be emotiondon” gay bars and clubs are ally satisfying for, say, antidumping Russian vodka. Zionist Jews to declare “Not On top of that, prominent in My Name,” the material celebrities like the Americonsequences for Israel of can playwright Harvey Fitheir boycott activities are, erstein and the British actor thankfully, pathetically invisStephen Fry are advocating ible. a boycott of the 2014 WinThat explains why some ter Olympics, which will be Russian gay rights activists held in the Russian resort of are — wisely, in my view Sochi. — playing down the signifiHow should Jews ascance of the current boycott. sess these Russian boycott calls? The ques“To be honest, I don’t see the point in tion is an important one, because we have boycotting the Russian vodka,” rights advobeen on the receiving end of many boycott cate Nikolai Alekseev told Gay Star News. campaigns over the last century. The Nazis “It will not impact anyone except the comfamously coined the term “Kauft Nicht bei panies involved a little bit. The effect will Juden”—“Don’t Buy From Jews”—in their die out very fast, it will not last forever.” campaign to ruin Germany’s Jews on the eve In similar vein, Hudson Taylor, director of the Holocaust; in 1945, the Arab League of a non-profit organization promoting tolinitiated a boycott of the Jewish community erance in sport, told ESPN that the “intent in the British Mandate of Palestine, which of an Olympic boycott is understood, but later mushroomed into a boycott of the State the outcome doesn’t create the necessary of Israel; and in our own time, the Boycott, change. …We are advocating that people Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement speak out, not sit out.” has attempted to demonize Israel as the reSpeaking out is exactly the right stratincarnation of apartheid-era South Africa. egy. Inasmuch as the boycott calls highlight Because of these experiences, many Jews Russia’s grotesque violations of the human understandably feel that we should have no rights of gay people, they are welcome. But truck with boycott campaigns anywhere — let’s not be fooled into thinking that feelotherwise we risk looking hypocritical, as ing good about ourselves is a substitute for well as potentially endangering Jewish com- meaningful action.

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n our post feminist world, a case in Devarim 22 is very troubling. After consummating his marriage, a man finds that he hates his wife. Instead of following the Torah’s instruction for how to absolve a marriage through divorce (as described in Devarim 24), he chooses to invent charges against her that she was unfaithful, most likely to get out of having to pay her Ketubah. To save a few shekels, he tries to destroy her reputation. Her parents produce PARSHA OF evidence to prove their THE WEEK daughter’s innocence, at which point “the city elders shall then take the man and flog him. They shall fine him 100 [shekels] of silver [as a penalty] for defaming an Israelite virgin, and give it to the girl’s father. [The man] must then keep [the girl] as his wife, and may not send her away as long Rabbi Avi Billet as he lives.” (22:18-19) Isn’t this supposed to be his punishment? What about her? Must she be condemned to live with this ingrate, this despicable individual who clearly doesn’t like her, who makes up horrific stories about her rather than go through the proper channels of either reconciliation or divorce, just to save money? Why must she be stuck to this low-life? The Talmud (Ketubot 40a) explains that in cases similar to this (and if the parallel is not clear in the Talmud, the Torah Temimah assures us that it should be clear), the girl

has every right, and is even instructed, to say “I don’t want him.” Her refusal, as the Malbim explains, gives her an easy out, and rids her of this nuisance of a man who doesn’t deserve her and who tried to destroy her life. If she doesn’t want him, there is no longer a positive commandment that he must marry or remain married to her. Let us assume for that the girl decides she wants to stay with him. Maybe she thinks no one else will want her. After the accusation, anyone who Googles her name (even after she is proven innocent) will see the accusation at the top of the search engine. She may think she will have no shot at a life other than with this man. ■■■

How is his inability to ever get rid of her a punishment to him, while at the same time being in some way to her benefit? In Biblical and Talmudic times, being married was automatically beneficial to a woman, as she was supported by her husband. Even if he somehow succeeds in divorcing her, he would have to take her back (Yerushalmi Ketubot 3:6). Even if he discovers a real flaw in her, which could have absolved him of his marriage responsibilities — she becomes blind or lame, etc. — he is stuck. He must maintain and support her (Sifrei). Even if she is barren for ten years, a condition which is viewed in some circles as grounds for divorce (though see Rama Even Haezer 154:10), he must maintain her (Malbim). However undesirable a spouse she might become, she must still be taken care of by her husband or his estate. This is an incredible guarantee with no precedent anywhere else. Obviously most people, who marry for the long haul, will be in tune to take care of one

another no matter what conditions come up. They don’t need reminders. Equally obvious is that the man who fabricates a story to save a little money will not hesitate to jump ship when the going gets rough, and he needs an incentive to change. It must be understood that the Torah’s rules only work for people who are committed to following them, who accept the ruling of a court and who do their best to follow the law. Every person tries to cut corners, but when the judge in a court says to follow a ruling based on Torah principles, the devout person becomes grounded and does his best to comply. The Torah says, “She must be a wife to him. He may not send her all of his days.” “She must be a wife to him” reminds him how he must always view her. She is his wife. He must raise her up, cherish her, and honor and appreciate her. He may never shirk this responsibility. It forces him to change his entire approach to females and to this woman in particular. Since she will now be with him for the long haul, if he does not want to have a miserable life, he must be the most amazing husband, doting, pampering, respectful, loving. His bond is meant to turn him into a real mentsch. Our communities (and faith communities in general) are the biggest proponents for marriage. And while divorce rates are rising (and are, in some cases, absolutely necessary), it is only through the method

described in the Torah – that the man must write for and give his wife a divorce document – that marriages must end. The concept of the present-day “Agunah crisis” is so anti-Torah, it is a stain on any community that supports the use of a Get as a tool of extortion or preventing a woman from being able to move on with her life, property and custody battles not withstanding. (Fight if you must, but without using the Get as a bargaining tool.) The message given through the obnoxious husband in Devarim is that the marriage union must be respected, and that a man must do what he can to see his woman as “his wife,” who is to be honored and respected (see Rambam Hilchot Ishut 15:19). Divorce is only an option if it is done through the prism of respecting another human being and the Torah’s instruction and with a divorce document that frees both people to move on with their lives. An even better option, when divorce isn’t absolutely necessary, is for people to view their marriage as sacrosanct, and to work very hard to do what is possible to raise the other person up. People who view their responsibilities in marriage as givers and supporters, rather than as takers and selfish individuals, have a much better chance of living out the blessing of the mitzvah: “He can not send her away for the rest of his life.” Because he loves her so much and treats her so well, he cannot imagine a life without her as the center of his universe.

‘The Agunah crisis is so anti-Torah, it is a stain on any community that supports the use of a Get as a tool of extortion.’

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Ossie Schectman (left), the first scorer in NBA history, with David Vyorst, executive producer of “The First Basket,” a Jewish basketball documentary named for Schectman’s historic field goal. team historian for the Knicks, told JNS.org. For many Jews like Schectman, childhood was about little else but basketball—particularly for Jews whose parents came to America from Europe and settled in the lower east side of Manhattan. Narrated by Peter Riegert, the film named after Schectman’s historic field goal begins with the following statement: “Basketball. Before going global it rebounded off of a few Jewish neighborhoods. Who knew?”

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“Ossie was one of the nicest, most humble guys you could ever meet, and that is my lasting impression [of him],” David Vyorst, executive producer of “The First Basket,” told JNS.org. “He had been in a nursing home for the past several years. He called me when he first checked in and every so often just to let me know how he was doing. It was quite bittersweet.” Schectman began his playing career at Samuel J. Tilden High School in Brooklyn and later played guard and forward at Long Island University. He was a member of LIU’s undefeated 1939 National Invitation Tournament and National Championship team, and in 1941 he was named a Converse first team All-American. While industrialization, immigration, and urbanization drastically transformed America at the turn of the 20th century, many Jewish Americans like Schectman saw basketball as an ideal sport since it taught teamwork, cooperation, discipline, and obedience. During the Progressive era, the popularization of basketball among Jewish youths in urban areas primarily occurred both in settlement houses and at communal institutions. Jews went on to play a significant role in the NBA’s formative years. When Schectman played for the Knicks, the team’s roster sported significant Jewish flavor—his teammates were Sonny Hertzberg, Stan Stutz, Hank Rosenstein, Ralph Kaplowitz, Jake Weber, and Leo “Ace” Gottlieb.

“The two qualities that Jewish players and coaches brought to basketball that made them successful were passion and intelligence,” Peter Horvitz, author of the Big Book of Jewish Sports Heroes, told JNS.org. “Those early players played the game hard and with great aggression. They also honed their skills and used strategy to a degree that other players, perhaps, did not.” Besides for the Knicks, Schectman played for the Philadelphia SPHAS (South Philadelphia Hebrew Association) from 1942-46, before the formation of the modern NBA. The SPHAS, founded by Eddie Gottlieb, won seven American League championships from 1934 to 1945, including two championships while Schectman was part of the team. “At that time the American League championship was equivalent to the world championship, as the American League was the highest level of basketball in the U.S., or the world,” Horvitz said. Over the years, Schectman would become one of basketball’s great ambassadors. In Florida, he anchored the South Florida Basketball Fraternity, a large group of senior citizen hoopsters who met regularly for corned beef and war stories. “His son called down and told [famed longtime NBA referee] Norm Drucker and the word got around to us,” Stan Diamond, a spokesperson for the fraternity, told JNS.org. “Ossie was the oldest one in our organization and I saw him at the breakfasts and luncheons. On Dec. 17 we’re having a luncheon at the Polo Club in Boca Raton and we’ll be mentioning Ossie. Ossie was a great guy; you couldn’t find a nicer man. We miss him.” Schectman’s wife’s passing last year triggered his move from his longtime Florida home to suburban Westchester, NY, in order to be near his son and family, D’Agostino said. Reached at his Florida home, Drucker said Schectman “was a great ballplayer and a close personal friend.” “He was a year or two older than me. We played ball and then came the war. Then he played for the Knicks,” Drucker told JNS.org. The very beginning of Schectman’s oneseason career for the Knicks would then go on to cement his place in NBA history. “There were no such things as play-byplay sheets back in those days, no formal documentation, so those first two points [in league history] always carried an air of mystery about them,” D’Agostino said. “But the grainy black-and-white film that survives from that first night in Toronto does seem to bear him out. That’s Ossie, old number 6 in blue and orange, barreling in for two soon after the opening tap.”

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John Starks, winning Knick, entertains kids at Hillel By Jeffrey Bessen His career heyday was more than a few years before most of the children he spoke to were born, but John Starks, former New York Knickerbocker, possesses the cache that kept Hillel Day Camp kids from second grade to eighth entertained in the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway’s gymnasium on Aug. 2. Starks, who played guard for the Knicks during one of the more successful periods for the NBA team, explained to the youngsters who are participating in the basketball camp that it was hard work that got him to play professionally. “Practice makes it look easy,â€? he said in explaining how he can shot from different distances from the basket — with one hand — and consistently make all the shots. Camper Josh Bellehsen “schooledâ€? Starks by niftily putting the ball between the star’s legs. A player, which at one time bagged groceries in a Safeway and went undrafted in 1988, told the kids, “You have to go through the drills and work, if you don’t you’ll never get any better.â€? The campers began believing Starks as he made those shots from varying distances. He also showed them how he shoots with his right hand, but uses his left as a guide for greater accuracy. “Shooting is about balance,â€? said Starks, who had a few kids practice what he had just taught them. “For the kids it’s exciting to see a star like John and it’s a great reward for their work over the last four weeks,â€? said Camp Director Ari Solomon. Fifth-grade campers Joseph Masri and Jonas Kahne both thought Starks’ visit was great. “Getting to see John Starks and learning to shoot better,â€? Masri said is what he appreciated. “It was really cool that I saw John Starks in person,â€? said Kahne, adding that he will follow Starks’ advice on shooting. “And one day I will end up making a three-pointer with one hand.â€? This story ďŹ rst appeared in the Nassau Herald

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All Jewish communities beyond pre-1967 lines ‘illegitimate’ Reacting to Israel’s announcement of 1,200 new housing units in eastern Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria, Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday that the U.S. “views all of the settlements as illegitimate.” The territories acquired by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War are considered disputed and subject to final status negotiations,according to the U.S. view. In 2004, President George W. Bush wrote in a letter to then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that it is “unrealistic to expect that the outcome of final status negotiations will be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949.” “Ever since the Six-Day War, countless presidents, both Republican and Democrat, have said that the 1967 lines were indefensible, and that there was no way that Israel should go back to the 1967 lines,” Sarah Stern, founder and president of the Endowment for Middle East Truth, told JNS.org.

Terror group: Cloud over Hours after a Grad rocket was intercepted by an Israeli Iron Dome battery in the southern city of Eilat for the first time, a Salafi Palestinian terror organization claimed responsibility for the attack. “We want to emphasize that Eilat and other Jewish cities will never enjoy security, tourism or a flourishing economy. The Jews will pay for the jihadi fighters who died in Sinai. Sinai will stand strong against Israeli aggression,” the statement said.

Nazi slogans, Hitler pictures The Simon Wiesenthal Center has called for a global boycott of a company producing Italian wines whose labels sport Nazi slogans and images of Adolph Hitler.

Israel Newsbriefs from JNS.org A Norwegian couple recently discovered the wines, produced by Vina Lunardelli, in the coastal Italian town of Rimini. Last summer, American Jews Matthew and Cindy Hirsch noticed the wine labels in a supermarket in the town of Garda.

Eydie Gorme, 84 Jewish-American singer Eydie Gorme, who became famous for her popular duet performances with her husband Steve Lawrence in the 1950s, died in Las Vegas on Saturday at the age of 84. Born Edith Gorme in the Bronx in 1932, the singer’s parents were Jews of Spanish descent who were born in Turkey and immigrated to the U.S. Her fluency in Spanish helped propel her to fame in Spanish-speaking countries as well as in the United States. Gorme and Lawrence starred in the television series “The Steve Lawrence-Eydie Gorme Show,” and won a Grammy Award in 1960 and an Emmy Award in 1979.

Iran tie to 1983 bombing Iran’s newly appointed defense minister, Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehghan, has links to the 1983 U.S. Marine barracks terrorist attack in Beirut that killed 199 American and French servicemen, says an Israeli think tank. According to the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA), Dehghan, who has spent his entire military career in Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, was sent to Lebanon in the

early 1980s to help organize and train Shi’a militia units that would become known as Hezbollah. Part of his mission was to establish Iranian control over Hezbollah through the creation of a central command center.

‘Incitement and peace’ “Incitement and peace cannot coexist,” wrote Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday night, ahead of the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations this week. Netanyahu’s letter, according to Israel Hayom, referred to a statement made by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas July 29 that a future Palestinian state “would not see the presence of a single Israeli — civilian or soldier.”

Israeli drone strike in Egypt An Israeli drone strike inside Egypt in the troubled Sinai Peninsula has killed four terrorists and destroyed a rocket launcher, two senior Egyptian security officials said, the Associated Press reported. According to reports, two explosions were heard in el-Agra, which is south of Rafah, a city in the northern Sinai that borders the Gaza Strip. The Egyptian military said the strike was coordinated with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), AFP reported. The strike came a day after IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz shut down the Eilat Airport for two hours amid undisclosed

security concerns. But Egyptian authorities cited by Ma’an News Agency said that terrorists in the Sinai planned to target Israel with shoulder-fired missiles. Since Egypt’s 2011 Revolution, the Sinai Peninsula has grown increasingly lawless, with several terrorist groups operating there.

Catholic Holocaust education A group of 40 Catholic school educators traveled to Washington as part of a program to learn more about the history of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. Over a five-day period, the program seeks to educate participants about the history of anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and recent changes in Catholic-Jewish relations. “Bearing Witness is a unique program in its partnership between the Catholic and Jewish communities and our joint commitment to changing the dynamic between our communities so that the past does not serve as a model for our future engagement,” Abraham H. Foxman, ADL national director, said. Since 1996, ADL’s Bearing Witness program has trained more than 1,700 Catholic school educators.

Don’t make ‘bad deal’ With renewed Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotiations underway, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat warned against Israeli concessions relating to his city. “If the deal collapses because it hinges on the Jerusalem issue, so be it. It is better not to make any deal than to agree to a bad deal,” Barkat told Israel Hayom in an interview published Friday. Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotiations will resume August 14 in Jerusalem.

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Consider the following factors: “Jews and Arabs, meanwhile, rubbed shoulders on the streets of Jerusalem in 1913 as they always had. Granted, there was more suspicion now than in the past. After all, the Yishuv – the community of Jews in Palestine – had grown considerably over the last decades, not only through the inward migration of religiously motivated Jews but through the migration of those inspired by a new secular philosophy, Zionism, the political ambitions and implications of which were yet unclear. Palestine had a modern Jewish Zionist city, Tel Aviv. There were scattered settlements of Zionists across the land. Fresh Jewish acquisition of land, controversial for decades, was actively discussed, debated and [mostly] criticized in Arab newspapers — though this did not prevent willing Arab sellers and organized Jewish purchasers from finding ways to circumvent Ottoman regulations, and the steady process of Jewish colonization continuing as a result.” Further on, the author makes the following observation: “What Jewish immigration might ultimately mean for the political destiny of Palestine and for the existing Arab population of the sancak of Jerusalem was unclear in 1913. The Zionist idea of a Jewish homeland was still a dream taking form. … Zionism as a political movement was essentially a pressure group within the Jewish world rather than

intervention, and to keep Arab nationalism in check. Preventing Jewish immigration was hardly an existential question at this point, as long as immigration did not lead to a movement for Jewish political independence.” Much of what was to unfold for the next century was to prove to be unprecedented in both the history of Jerusalem, and for Jewish history itself. Tensions between the two communities in the holy land lie just beneath the surface, ready to ignite at the slightest instigation. Some of these are briefly detailed by the author. However, 1913 itself was not to be defined by them. In 1913, over 100,000 Jews were to settle in New York City, a staggering statistic when we consider the comparative few who were to immigrate from Eastern Europe to the holy land. Yet, by 2013, the number of Jews in Israel, edging now toward the seven million mark, was to eclipse the size of the American Jewish community. 1913 was the year that witnessed the completion of the Woolworth Building, destined to be the world’s tallest till the completion of the Empire State Building less than two decades later. 1913 was to be the year that witnessed the birth of Dr. Jacob Mozak who was to live his life of close to, but not quite, the full century mark, as a faithful servant to his G-d, to his faith, to his people, and to his country. He was fully cognizant of the place that 1913, the year of his blessed birth, had in history. Both his life and his knowledge of history is what inspired my writing this week’s essay. May his legacy and sacred memory serve as a blessing for all whose lives were touched by his goodness

the unambiguous representative of all Jews everywhere.” The on-the-ground Zionism of land settlement was still a slow going, slow growing process whose future was yet to be witnessed and defined. Nevertheless, as 1913 unfolded, many things were happening that were to foreshadow events that were to define the fate of the Jews of the Holy Land in ways that were completely unforeseen by them in that fateful year. Emmerson writes: “Thus while some Zionists saw Jerusalem as the inevitable centre of Eretz Israel — the home of the holiest Jewish site, after all, and a Jewish-majority city — and many more accepted the symbolic power of Jerusalem as a means of raising money for the Zionist project, the city was hardly the sole or even central preoccupation of practical Zionists.” This was to eventually evolve into a contrary policy that three decades later saw Jerusalem as the capital of the new state. But first there was to be experienced a disappointing British occupation, two world wars, a Holocaust and only then, political independence. 1913 was a year of peace; never was such an atmosphere to be experienced again in that part of the world. In 1913, events failed to foreshadow even a hint of the Great War that was just a year ahead. “The Ottomans’ key objectives were to maintain order, to prevent events in Jerusalem from offering a pretext for further foreign

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his week’s essay is dedicated to the memory of my dear neighbor, Dr. Jacob Mozak who would have been 100 years old this week. 1913, one hundred years ago, is the subject of a very interesting book entitled, “1913: In Search of the World Before The Great War,” by Charles Emmerson [Public Affairs, 2013]. Designed as a city-by-city survey KOSHER of events prominent to BOOKWORM each that year, the author gives us a unique historical panorama of a world on the brink of a military and political disaster. My focus will be on the author’s take on a city beloved to all my dear readers, Jerusalem. “Jerusalem in 1913 was not a city on any Alan Jay Gerber great trade routes. It was not of any great military significance. Though no one knew the number of its Ottoman and foreign inhabitants with any certainty, it was certainly not a large city by any means, numbering no more than 100,000 at most, of whom perhaps half were Jewish [many of whom were not Ottoman citizens], a little over one-quarter Christian [mostly Arab] and a little less that a quarter Muslim…” Such were the demographics of that era. As for the political factors, the author goes into some detail in describing an era that today is almost unknown to most of us.

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uring his negotiations to restart talks, Secretary of State Kerry reiterated President Obama’s position that Israel should begin negotiations by agreeing to return to the pre-1967 borders (they didn’t). Afterwards they criticized Israel’s move to build additional homes in existing communities. Put aside for a moment that Judea/Samaria is the only place in the world where the President of the United States believes people of a certain religion (Jews) are not allowed to live. What the President and the Secretary of State won’t admit to is, there is no such thing POLITICS TO GO as pre-1967 borders. That imaginary “green line” running through the West Bank is the 1949 Armistice Line. But even the armistice lines were never meant to be a “border.” The armistice line was created solely because that’s where Israeli and Arab forces stopped fighting at the end of the War of IndeJeff Dunetz pendence (with some added adjustments in certain sectors). Therefore, that 1949 line that people call the 1967 border is really only a military line. Article II of the 1949 Armistice Agreement with the Jordanians explicitly specified that the line that was designated did not compromise any future territorial claims of the two parties, since it had been “dictated exclusively by military considerations.” Of course the Jordanian rationale for that clause is to allow them to claim territory inside the armistice line for their very own. Even the “famous” UN Resolution 242 passed by the UN Security Council five months after the Six-Day War recognized that the 1949 Armistice line was not supposed to designate final Israeli borders. Anti-Israel forces changed the meaning of 242 by adding one simple article to the resolution: “the.” They claim that 242 calls for Israel to withdraw from “the” territories taken during the Six-Day War. The resolution actually says that “Israel should withdraw from territories” taken during the war (no article). Adding the article changes the meaning from withdrawing from some to all territories. It was no accident “the” was left out. Diplomats are very exact in their language. During the negotiations to create resolution 242, Arab governments tried three times to have “the” inserted in the resolution and their request was rejected. But, by repeating what they wanted the resolution to say all these years, the Arabs succeed in convincing many people, including President Obama, to accept their distorted interpretation of 242. Statements made by the drafters of Resolution 242 prove there is no ambiguity about what they meant. Lord Caradon, sponsor of the draft that was about to be adopted, stated, before the vote in the Security Council on 242: “The draft Resolution is a balanced whole. To add to it or to detract from it would destroy the balance and also destroy the wide measure of agreement we have achieved together. It must be considered as a whole as it stands. I suggest that we have reached the stage when most, if not all, of us want the draft Resolution, the whole draft Resolution and nothing but the draft Resolution.” Michael Stewart, (Great Britain) Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Af-

fairs, in reply to a question in Parliament, 17 November 1969: Question: “What is the British interpretation of the wording of the 1967 Resolution? Does the Right Honourable Gentleman understand it to mean that the Israelis should withdraw from all territories taken in the late war?” Mr. Stewart: “No, Sir. That is not the phrase used in the Resolution. The Resolution speaks of secure and recognized boundaries. These words must be read concurrently with the statement on withdrawal.” George Brown, British Foreign Secretary in 1967, on January 19, 1970: “I have been asked over and over again to clarify, modify or improve the wording, but I do not intend to do that. The phrasing of the Resolution was very carefully worked out, and it was a difficult and complicated exercise to get it accepted by the UN Security Council. I formulated the Security Council Resolution. Before we submitted it to the Council, we showed it to Arab leaders. The proposal said ‘Israel will withdraw from territories that were occupied,’ and not from ‘the’ territories, which means that Israel will not withdraw from all the territories.” (The Jerusalem Post, January 3, 1970) Arthur Goldberg, US representative, in the Security Council in the course of the discussions that preceded the adoption of Resolution 242: “To seek withdrawal without secure and recognized boundaries...would be just as fruitless as to seek secure and recognized boundaries without withdrawal. Historically, there have never been secure or recognized boundaries in the area. Neither the armistice lines of 1949 nor the cease-fire lines of 1967 have answered that description…such boundaries have yet to be agreed upon. An agreement on that point is an absolute essential to a just and lasting peace just as withdrawal is.” Eugene V. Rostow, Professor of Law and Public Affairs, Yale University, who, in 1967, was U.S. Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs: “Paragraph 1 (i) of the Resolution calls for the withdrawal of Israeli armed forces ‘from territories occupied in the recent conflict,’ and not ‘from the territories occupied in the recent conflict.’ Repeated attempts to amend this sentence by inserting the word ‘the’ failed in the Security Council. It is, therefore, not legally possible to assert that the provision requires Israeli withdrawal from all the territories now occupied under the cease-fire resolutions to the Armistice Demarcation lines.” (American Journal of International Law, Volume 64, September 1970, p. 69) Geraldo de Carvalho Silos, Brazilian UN representative, speaking in the Security Council after the adoption of Resolution 242: “We keep constantly in mind that a just and lasting peace in the Middle East has necessarily to be based on secure, permanent boundaries freely agreed upon and negotiated by the neighboring States.” When it comes to Israel, the world has a very short memory. Not only were there no 1967 borders, but also there was never an intention for Israel to move back to the 1949 armistice lines. And certainly there was no call for Israel to begin negotiations by ceding all territory gained in the Six-Day-War. That’s why Obama’s and Kerry’s call for Israel to stop building communities outside the 1949 armistice lines is so absurd. It is also why the UN is being disingenuous every time they call for Israel to retreat to the 1967 borders, since it was the UN who first declared that there was no such thing as 1967 borders.

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Between the yeshiva and the Army Just over three years ago, my son began his studies in Yeshivat Maalot, a Hesder Yeshiva which combines rigorous Torah studies with a demanding Army service. He and his friends have just returned to the Yeshiva after more than a year in combat units. Not all returned, however; one of their friends was killed in a battle with terrorists; and the return to the Yeshiva isn`t always easy…

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

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centage not in the work force it is important to get them past the required service hurdle and into the work force. He also cited the “polarizationâ€? in Israel and the need to bring together the secular and charedi sectors, that they “are not involved in the country ‌ we need to work together to heal the wound.â€? He also stressed the need to combine work and general study with Torah learning as is done in his Alma Mater of Ner Yisroel with the devotion to Torah study broken briey with secular studies actually strengthening the students’ Torah studies. “The Talmud says that a lot tried to live like Bar Yochai and failed,â€? quoted Lipman. He had reservations of so many in that system, pointing out the yeled noshair phenomenon with two percent “falling awayâ€? from religion in the “broader community, seven to eight percent in the charedi communityâ€? and he cited one rabbi saying that he thinks up to 20 percent fall away. He calls on the charedim to use their inuence and show the beauty of their community to the general public and not “view it as us against them.â€? He said that changes will have to come “from the bottom upâ€? since anyone at “the topâ€? — the rabbis — “will be viliďŹ ed. “It’s not easy to hear people calling you names like Haman and Amalek,â€? he said. “They don’t have the courage to do it. Opportunities have to be provided.â€? He said that he is in â€?quiet communicationâ€? with members of the charedi community; “more are realizing that I can be an address to help them. Instead of saying ‘not one boy is going into army,’ they should say ‘let’s build yeshivos and programs to do them together.’ They are missing the opportunity to work together.â€? He said the grass roots members of the charedi community are approaching him for help with employment. He said one started an employment agency and Lipman approached an employment agency to open a division for charedim. He speaks with non religious groups so they should see that the “average religious person is tolerant, respectful and not aggressive in nature.â€? He also cited a Torah study program once a week at 3 p.m. on Tuesdays in the Knesset Beit Midrash where secular and religious MKs learn together. Some of the other controversial moves he supports is pushing for one chief rabbi instead of the two Sephardic and Ashkenazic at the next voting cycle, punishing graďŹ tti on any religious site with six years in prison, a ban on foie gras — with the one vote against for fear of threatening shechita in the EU, allowing the Bedouin to stay in the squatters towns they set up — making them ofďŹ cial towns but not permitting them to build or live elsewhere in the Negev. Although he said that he is not involved with security issues, Lipman said that Yesh Atid is “against the (building) freeze in the major blocks (in Judea and Samaria), and Jerusalem can’t be divided.â€? He said the release of prisoners is “gut wrenchingâ€? and there shouldn’t be any “preconditions about releasingâ€? but said that “people don’t know what security threats were missed by releasing them.â€? And as for building he said what is done has to be in “Israel’s best interest. We are not looking for a happy marriage but a good divorce (from the Arabs).â€? He protested that “even those advocating peace love Israel and give their lives to Israel’s existence.â€?

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Continued from page 1 draft bill, also loosely known as the Peri Share the Burden Committee draft bill, passed its ďŹ rst reading in the Knesset earlier that morning. In response to the vote, United Torah Judaism MK Meir Porush handcuffed himself to the podium microphones in protest, other charedi MKs said psalms and slichot and tore their clothes (kryia) as a sign of mourning for what they said was the destruction of Torah. The bill requires registration in the army by charedim but if they are between the ages of 18 and 22 when the law is enacted they can defer till age 24 and may then be exempt from service and be allowed to join the work force. If the registrant is 18, he can defer till 21 and can then either join a charedi brigade or community service and after serving either return to yeshiva or join the work force. Those who do not enlist could be subjected to imprisonment. The bill has to pass two more Knesset readings before it is brought up for a vote. If it does pass it will be fully implemented in 2016 to allow time for program development for the charedi student/ soldiers. In addition, an exam will be instituted to provide for 1800 charedi and 300 religious-Zionist exceptional scholars to continue to study from the yearly draft pool. Lipman defended the bill and Yair Lapid, the head of the Yesh Atid Party in the Knesset. “He has never said that he wanted to ‘empty all the yeshivas’,â€? protested Lipman. “I would never be involved. The plan is a historic compromise.â€? He frowned on the kryia of the chareidim in the Knesset. “A person on the street will hear this and believes them. It’s misinformation.â€? He implied that the bill is a positive development. “It is the ďŹ rst time in the history of Israel that Torah study is categorized as service to the nation,â€? he beamed. There will be “1800 a year designated as elite scholars and their Torah is their service. The government said they view Torah study as a signiďŹ cant contribution to the State of Israel.â€? The vote was 61 to 29 in favor, he noted. “Those who are not elite can learn Torah day and nightâ€? to age 21 and then have to serve. The draft starts in 2016. “They have to build programs in the army for charedim — they have no desire to take them and throw them into the army.â€? Lipman cited a charedi yeshiva program near Petach Tikva that combines Torah study with learning technology and then to serve in a technology context while continuing to learn Torah and daven (pray) with a minyan (quorum). “They never leave the yeshiva,â€? he said. “We know that the army doesn’t need every charedi boy,â€? he emphasized, explaining that they can participate in national service such as volunteering in medical clinics, in the community, in old age homes, border patrol, assisting Holocaust survivors. He quoted Lapid saying “I want to meet the rabbi who would say that helping a Holocaust survivor is what they call bitul Torah (wasting time from Torah study).â€? He emphasized the “tremendous chesed in the charedi communityâ€? such as Zaka and stressed that that could be their service. He cited the integration of the charedim into national service and into the work force as necessary to help them economically that with families of ten children and a large per-

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Back from camp, with school ahead: Musing on amusements A s usual, when the third week in August rolls in, I think back to the days when my kids returned from camp. After the initial nausea of opening the trunk wore off, we’d decide what special trip the family would take. In my day, when we finished day camp, or came back from sleep away camp, we were not ready for school, period. Maybe, if we were lucky, the truck with the “The Whip” ride would stop on our block. It had about ten seats; we’d pay our quarter and our seats would whip around for about five minutes. We knew how to live back then. Amusement parks have always been popular with our kids. One year we went to Lancaster, to Dutch Wonderland. It was small enough, and had enough rides to make the younger kids as happy as the older ones. There was a type of water flume that WHO’S IN THE seemed mild enough for my son Jeremy, KITCHEN who was a little over two at the time. Only problem was, the last fall was a bit steep. Jeremy insisted on getting in the boat with his older brother Daniel and his dad. We all tried to change his mind but to no avail. I stood with other moms waiting to catch just the perfect picture at the end of the ride. Well, let’s just say Jeremy looked exactly like the kid from the film Home Alone. He was white as a ghost, his hair was standing on end and he was basically in shock. He didn’t say a word for at least a half hour after he Judy Joszef got off the ride. In the years that followed, he would never step foot on a roller coaster of any sort. A few years later in Disney, when Jeremy was about seven, his dad said he understood how he felt, and that no one would ever make him try something he didn’t want to do (though to this day I still try to get him to taste salmon every now and then), but that he should know that all the rides are carefully monitored and checked for safety issues, although they seem scary. Jeremy nodded and said “nice try, but I’m not going on.” I waited with him while the others were on Space Mountain and then we went to the “alien,” a stationary “ride” with scary visuals. We were all seated, when all of a sudden there was a loud noise and all the lights were shut off. We were sitting in the pitch black and just then a harness in back of our chairs clamped around our necks and locked us in place. We couldn’t move at all. Just then, Jeremy’s dad, said, “Excuse me, I need to get out of this ride.” The attendant said, “I’m sorry sir, once it starts we can’t stop the ride, it will be over in 20 minutes.” Jeremy’s dad said, “You don’t understand. I’m claustrophobic and you have to get me out of here.” Jeremy leaned over and said, “Dad, listen, it’s really safe. It just seems scary, nothing is going to happen to you, they have these things checked out all the time.” It was priceless! That same day my older son was annoyed at us for something, which for the life of me I can’t remember. He stormed

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State fairs offer a special kind of summer fun, incorporating rides, animals, unusual food (only some of it kosher!) and a myriad of educational opportunities. A New York family is pictured at the Iowa State Fair, which wraps up its annual run on Sunday, Aug. 18. Funnel cakes (pictured) is a typical off-the-stick state fair treat. off saying he was going to find other parents. Just then a Disney employee dressed as Frankenstein (who obviously overheard what Daniel had said) stomped over, picked him up by the back of his shirt and started walking away while muttering, “I’m your new dad.” The timing was great, and he behaved beautifully the rest of the trip. Since then, Daniel has never wanted to trade in his parents again and Jeremy has basically rode on every monster size roller coaster in every state he has ever visited. After reflecting on my family’s experiences at amusement parks, I was curious as to their origins. Let the ride begin… Periodic fairs that began in England in 1133, are a parent for the amusement parks we have come to know today. In Elizabethan times, fairs had entertainment, food, games, and carnival-like freak-shows. In the United States, the county and state fairs also played a part in the history of amusement parks. These were annual events that lasted from a few days to a few weeks, to celebrate a good harvest. Live animals, baking and cooking competitions were common. It has also been said that amusement parks grew out of the pleasure gardens that became especially popular at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. It was a place where people could take a break from dreary city life. The oldest intact still-surviving amusement park in the world opened 1583 and is called Bakken, which translates to “the Hill.” It’s located in Klampenborg, north of Copenhagen. London had Vauxhall Gardens, founded in 1661 and closed in 1859. Another park in Copenhagen is Tivoli Gardens, built in 1843, and still exists. The parks usually consisted of booths, entertainment, fireworks displays and some “rides” such as introduction to the modern railroad. Another type of fair is the World’s Fair, which began in 1851 in London, England. They constructed the Crystal Palace, which became a landmark. It was built to celebrate the industrial achievement of the nations of the world. Just so happened Britain was the leader at the time. What most closely resembles the amusement parks we know today was the “World’s Columbian Exposition,” in Chicago in 1893. The fair was enclosed and included entertainment, engineering and education. It was also the debut of the first steel Ferris wheel, and included shooting galleries, penny arcades, shows and rides. In 1955, Disneyland opened in California and completely changed the landscape of the amusement park industry. Following Disneyland, many other parks tried to copy its ideas, however, none could match its success. Today The Walt Disney World Resort consists of four theme parks and is the most visited vacation resort in the world! Of course, while researching this article I couldn’t help but think what type of food I could write about it. After reading dozens of articles pertaining to amusement parks I realized one snack mentioned most was the funnel cake. Try it at home and enjoy it with your family. Just make sure to wipe the powdered sugar off your face when you’re done.

Funnel Cakes

Ingredients for 12 cakes •1 1/2 C milk •1 1/2 C water •3 eggs •¾ tsp vanilla extract •4 1/2 C flour •1/3 C sugar •1 1/2 Tbs baking powder •1/4 tsp salt •Canola oil for deep frying •Confectioner’s sugar for dusting For 12 cakes •In a large bowl, beat eggs. Add milk, water and vanilla until well blended. Combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt; beat into egg mixture until smooth. In a deep fryer or deep enough pot, heat oil to 375°. •Cover the bottom of a funnel spout with your finger; ladle 1/2 cup of batter into the funnel. Holding the funnel several inches above the oil, release your finger and move the funnel in a spiral motion until all the batter is released. I actually found a funnel that has a rod with a ball at the end which controls the start and stop of the of the batter. I picked it up a Home Goods. •Fry for 2 minutes on each side or until golden brown. Drain on paper towels. Dust with confectioners’ sugar and serve warm. Judy Joszef is a pastry and personal chef as well as a party planner. She can be reached at judy.soiree@gmail.com

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