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By Ed Weintrob As his latest group of olim boarded an El Al Boeing 777 charter to Israel on Tuesday, Nefesh B’Nefesh co-founder Rabbi Yehoshua Fass relished his organization’s remarkable achievement: With that ight, the 55th charter arranged by NBN since 2002, the group had sent 50,000 olim home.

But there’s plenty of work ahead. “We’re just beginning,� he told The Jewish Star. “It’s just a drop in the bucket.�

When the plane carrying 233 olim arrived at Ben Gurion airport on Wedneday morning, Brooklyn native Rebecca Glanzer, 22, was identiďŹ ed as NBN’s 50,000th oleh. She was among 75 Lone Soldiers on the ight — 41 of them are young women — who plan to soon join the IDF. See Charter with 233 on page 20

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Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an issue for Shabbos and every other day, and since it involves shalom bayit, why not confront it Shabbos Nachamu!

Mothers from the Five Towns and Far Rockaway are invited to do just that, by attending a panel discussion on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parenting Teenagers in Tumultuous Times: Challenges and Solutions,â&#x20AC;? at Congregation Shaaray TeďŹ la, 25 Central Ave. in Lawrence, at 5:30 pm.

The event, open to women of all ages from the Five Towns and Far Rockaway, will pose such questions as how can parents maintain open lines of communication with their teens, graciously say no and maintain their personal values when parents of their teenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s friends or classmates

are more permissive, and how can we raise children who see beyond themselves and are empathetic and interested in contributing to society.

Panelists will include Dr. Hylton Lightman, pediatrician and community activist; Mrs. Rachel Pill, LCSW, clinician in private practice; and Rabbi Yehuda Orlansky, 12th grade rebbe and Israel adviser at Mesivta Ateres Yaakov. The moderator will be Mrs. Sara Malka Krasnow, principal at Yeshiva Darchei Torah. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Raising adolescents is a major challenge we all face and sharing insights and tips from experts in mental health, family medicine and education will provide needed support and encouragement,â&#x20AC;? said Shaaray Rabbi Uri Orlian.

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Kulanu will honor Melodie and Marty Scharf at its annual scholarship dinner on Saturday, Dec. 17, at The Sands Atlantic Beach.

Kulanu Center for Special Services and the Kulanu Academy is a pride of the Five Towns for its leadership in mapping a productive path, within a Jewish environment, for chidren with special needs. The Scharfs are founders of Kulanu and have served on its board of governors and executive board. The Kulanu Academy school building, on Central Avenue in Cedarhurst, is dedicated in memory of Marty’s father, Abraham Scharf, z’l.

The Scharfs, from Lawrence, have for many years exemplified service to the Five Towns community and beyond; they have reached out to communities all over the world to aid and promote Jewish and personal causes.

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The Kulanu dinner provides an opportunity to honor the Scharfs while also supporting an outstanding organization.

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie this week signed a law prohibiting the state’s public worker pension fund from investing in companies that engaged in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.

The $71 billion pension fund provides coverage for about 800,000 current and retired state workers.

“It is important to the economic wellbeing of New Jersey that persons or entities conducting commercial trade and doing business in the state do not engage in boycotts of

a legitimate and viable partner with whom New Jersey can enjoy open trade contracting,” Christie said.

New Jersey joins nearly a dozen states that have passed anti-BDS legislation over the past year.

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon welcomed New Jersey’s action, saying that “state after state, we see our most important ally, the United States, continuing to stand by Israel in the fight against BDS. Legislative measures like the one signed today brings us closer to victory.”

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Racism won’t spoil Israel’s Olympic cheer: Bronze is as good as Gold TEHILLA R. GOLDBERG VIEW FROM CENTRAL PARK

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very time the Olympics rolls around, I want to believe in it. I want to partake in it from afar and cheer this idea of humanity coming together in the spirit of sportsmanship.

When it’s the Winter Olympics, I can watch the graceful ice skating for hours.

Sasha Cohen is poetry in motion, her gentle elegance and poise poetry for the eyes. In the Summer Olympics, gymnasts, whose moves seem to defy physics and straddle a line between gravity and magic, are simply breathtaking.

And those Olympic swimmers, flashing by like fish in the sea, are a wonder.

Although the Olympics are tinged by the morally depraved 1936 Nazi propaganda, and by the Munich Massacre in 1972 — let alone by commercialization and profit — each time, I want to believe. But too often, it seems that it can’t just be a “regular” Olympics experience when it comes to Israeli teams and to Jewish people.

This year, the Lebanese team wouldn’t ride join the Israeli team on a bus to the opening ceremony; disturbingly, the IOC acquiesced to the Lebanese and had the Israelis moved to a separate bus, like ghettoized guests. This was simply astounding.

It’s now acceptable to remove Israelis from a bus altogether, so as not to cause the Lebanese to sit with Jews? According to this logic, Rosa Parks should have been removed from the bus to avoid a ruckus. With Jews, however, it seems that racism and discrimination is acceptable. The Lebanese team refuses to ride with the Israeli team — let them be the ones to travel in a different bus. Although honestly, this kind of behavior ought to be automatically disqualifying for participation in the IOC games. hat prompted the Lebanese action?

Was it the primitive Muslim concept of najes (impure or unclean), of not making physical contact with a non-believer or even with the sweat of a non-believer? Najes is a concept that traumatized many a Jew on rainy days in Arab lands — to the point where they often stayed sequestered, locked indoors, lest a drop of rain that splashed a Jew bounce off and touch a Muslim.

Or, perhaps, the Lebanese delegation was not even Muslim, but Christian, and the del-

For a tiny country the size of New Jersey, a bronze medal is stellar accomplishment.

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Israel-ism is the reality I must accept, surrendering to the fact that waiting for a fair alternative is a pipe dream. Maybe. But I still hold out hope. eanwhile, amidst all of the upsetting behavior we witnessed, I saw gold galore. On the world stage, in my book, Israel got the gold — for transcendent sportsmanship, that’s for sure. Being up against so many haters and walking tall, now that’s real gold.

Of course, in terms of actual medals, Israel walked away with a bronze in judo. And I gotta say, I’ve really enjoyed Israel’s collective bliss over this. When it comes to Americans, I have no clue who the bronze winners are (don’t get me wrong — I’ve been so proud watching my fellow Americans in this Olympics, but getting the gold is what matters). I love that they are ecstatic the Israeli are over a bronze medal. For a tiny country the size of New Jersey, a bronze medal means more than mere bronze. It’s a pretty stellar accomplishment.

Ultimately, their joy also communicates an Israeli idea that goes beyond overcoming physical challenges at the Olympic level — that the spirit and the mind have always been qualities that Jews and Israelis champion above all else all.

So, with all the negative hullabaloo of this Olympics, it seems I did, after all, get to cheer it on from afar, and I did receive great joy in watching it.

Gold, silver, bronze. Black, white, Jew or non-Jew. Somehow, I guess I still do believe.

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egation was simply aghast at the thought of sitting on the bus with an enemy of their country. Well, then, what ought Israel do?

Israel rose above the politics. I thought that was the whole point of the Olympics was to foster, above all, a sense of humanity, and to rise above politics.

Why can’t we all just get along, even once in two years, declaring a temporary truce?

Why not?

And then there was the Syrian boxer who, after a lifetime of training for this moment, refused to compete against an Israeli in a June Olympics trial, thereby removing himself from potentially competing in Rio. This wasn’t the boxer’s personal decision to forfeit his hard work for hate, rather it was the decision of his country from which he took orders, because competing with the Israeli would mean acknowledging the legitimacy of the State of Israel (of course, by not competing for that reason they recognize Israel by default).

This circles back to the question: Why then bother participating in the Olympics?

Syria should have been instantly disqualified for such discriminatory behavior and lack of basic sportsmanship that blatantly goes against the spirit of the games.

Maybe I live in a dream world. Maybe this institutionalized anti-Semitism and anti

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ast weekend, emails associated with George Soros, billionaire donor to Democratic Party and anti-Israel causes, were leaked. The hack wasn’t of Soros himself but of multiple Soros-controlled organizations, including the Open Society Foundation.

One of the most important revelations in DCLeaks’ dump of 2,576 files is the revelation that Soros’ foundation has been funding anti-Israel NGOs on a grand scale.

A review the “Palestine/Israel International Advocacy Section” in a portfolio labeled “the President’s Office” explains that the foundation selects organizations whose focus is “rooted in human rights and international law,” grouped in three categories: 1. “With regard to Israel’s violations in the OPT [occupied territories]: The fight against impunity/accountability in relation

to violations of international human rights and humanitarian law committed in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Freedom of movement and lifting the closure of the Gaza Strip; The reversal of Israel’s settlement policy; The rights of Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Israeli prisons.”

2. “With regards to Israeli violations in Israel: Promote respect for the rights of the Palestinian Arab Minority; Promote freedom of association and expression, with a particular focus on attacks against Israeli CSOs; ProSee Soros on page 20

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RABBI BINNY FREEDMAN THE HEART OF JERUSALEM

The verses referred to here form the beginning of our portion of Va’Etchanan (Deuteronomy 3:23-26): First Moshe praises G-d and only then does he prays that he might enter the land.

This raises a question: If Moshe was such a great Prophet, did he not know that G-d had ordained that he would not enter the land? And for that matter, what was the nature of this prayer?

It seems that Moshe was trying to change G-d’s mind; but of course that would be ridiculous! In fact, this would seem to be one of the central difficulties regarding prayer in general: If we truly believe in G-d’s omnipotence, how can we constantly ask G-d for things which would seem to imply that we want G-d to change His mind? If someone is poor it must be because G-d has decided he should be poor, and G-d already knows whether this person will ever become wealthy, so why do we pray for sustenance and bounty? he idea that we should ask G-d for the things we want is itself heretical; after all, G-d knows what we want even before we know what we want! So how could Moshe ask G-d to enter the land, knowing that G-d

Jews do not believe in ‘prayer,’ prayer is a Christian word which means to beg or entreat.

The Hebrew word ‘tefillah’ may have an entirely different meaning.

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What comfort can be have in the death 10 years ago of Michael Levin, a lone soldier whose life was sacrificed in the Second Lebanon war? already knows the answer to the question?

What is the purpose of such prayer?

The truth is, Jews do not believe in prayer; prayer is a Christian word which means to beg or entreat, implying we are nothing.

Prayer would have us throw ourselves before the mercy of the court hoping that the great Judge will change the verdict, effectively changing His mind. But Hashem does not change His mind; indeed, G-d is as unchanging as he is all-knowing.

The Hebrew word for prayer is tefillah, which may have an entirely different meaning.

When Joseph visits Yaakov on his deathbed (Genesis 48: 11) he says, “Re’oh phanecha lo philalti,” which according to Rashi means “I never imagined (or wished) to see your face again.” (Thinking Joseph was dead, Yaakov explains that he never imagined he would merit to see him again.) Thus the root palel (the same root as le’hitpalel) means to wish or want.

Indeed, le’hitpalel, which takes the reflexive form according to Rav Kook, may mean to struggle with what we really want. We are not asking G-d to change, we are struggling with how we can change, which is what Jewish prayer is all about.

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Michael Levin is such a hero.

Determined to enlist in the IDF and fulfill his dream of becoming a paratrooper, he entered the draft center through a second floor window to get his papers. (The enlistment officer told him he was sometimes responsible for ensuring draftees did not illegally get out of the army, but had never seen a recruit avoid the guards in order to get in to the army!)

When the second Lebanon War broke out Michael was actually on a long awaited and well-earned leave in California with his family, which he immediately cut short; it was not in his nature to see his comrades go to battle while he stayed home.

Michael indeed fulfilled his dream as a paratrooper, crossing the border into Lebanon to defend his beloved Israel. Thousands of Israelis honored this lone soldier’s sacrifice and hoped that in doing so, they would offer some small comfort to his family.

Here we sit, ten years later. Are there any real words of comfort left?

his Shabbat, we read parsha Va’Etchanan, as we always do on the Shabbat after Tisha B’Av, along with the haftorah that begins with these famous words by Yishayahu (Isaiah): “Nachamu nachamu ami” (“Be comforted, so comforted, my people, says G-d”), giving this Shabbat its name: Shabbat Nachamu, the Shabbat of comfort.

Yet at the beginning of Va’Etchanan, Moshe, in his farewell soliloquy to the Jewish people on the banks of the Jordan River, shares that he begged G-d to be permitted to enter the land of Israel and that G-d denied his request in one of the most tragic vignettes in the entire Torah.

Why would a parsha meant to be comforting to the Jewish people after the commemoration of the destruction of both temples on Tisha B’Av begin with a request denied? How can Moshe’s sharing this tragic ending to his career be comforting?

There is a detail to this story noted by the Talmud which may provide us an insight not only regarding this question, but also regarding the way in which Judaism deals with the pain of loss in general: “Rabbi Simlai expounded: A person should always praise G-d before he prays (literally, before he is ‘mitpalel’). How do we know this?

From Moshe who first praises G-d and only then entreats him to enter and see the land of Israel.” (Tractate Berachot 32a)

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By Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman, JNS.org Cholent on Shabbat day. Brisket on Rosh Hashanah. Matzo balls and challah â&#x20AC;&#x201D; lots of challah. Jews love food, and much of Jewish culture centers on sitting around the Shabbat yom tov table together, sharing stories and a meal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Rambam advises that we recognize that which is permitted to us and put boundaries around that,â&#x20AC;? explains Rabbi Eli Glaser, a certiďŹ ed nutrition, wellness and weight management consultant who founded the health and wellness consulting company Soveya. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Surrendering to self-indulgence and gluttony â&#x20AC;&#x201D; even within that which is technically permissible â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is a considered degenerate with the permission of the Torah,â&#x20AC;? he said.

A report published in 2013 by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington found that the highest proportion of overweight and obese people â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 13 percent of the global total â&#x20AC;&#x201D; live in the United States, a country which accounts for only 5 percent of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population. A 2005 study by the Israel Center for Disease Control found that obesity rates in Israel are high, too, and becoming comparable to those in the United States.

Rabbi Glaser, a contributing writer on Aish.com, embarked on a journey about a decade ago to lose 125 pounds. He is among a growing number of Jews who are tackling health and wellness â&#x20AC;&#x201D; particularly obesity â&#x20AC;&#x201D; through a Jewish lens. He educates about the Torah perspective on protecting our health, as well as inspires and motivates audiences to take steps toward establishing a healthier relationship with food. Soveya â&#x20AC;&#x201D; derived from the Hebrew phrase â&#x20AC;&#x153;Vâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Achalta, Vâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Savata, uâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Verachata (You shall eat, you shall be satisďŹ ed and you shall bless G-d),â&#x20AC;? a part of the required blessing after eating a meal â&#x20AC;&#x201D; has 10,000 email subscribers.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Any new products â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they try to make them kosher,â&#x20AC;? says David Spigelman. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some 85 to 90 percent are already kosher.â&#x20AC;?

Meanwhile in Israel, Tanya Richardson started getting healthy six years ago after the birth of her third child. She joined a womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gym and began exercising. The positive results â&#x20AC;&#x201D; weight loss, increased energy, and a new social group she has found through running and participating in bike clubs â&#x20AC;&#x201C; led her to make her â&#x20AC;&#x153;whole life revolve around ďŹ tness and health.â&#x20AC;?

Now, Richardson is a certiďŹ ed Zumba and kickboxing instructor, as well as personal trainer in the Golan Heights. In late July, she participated in her ďŹ rst Iron Man triathlon in the Netherlands. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Going on a diet is not the answer,â&#x20AC;? instructs Richardson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It has to be a lifestyle change.â&#x20AC;?

A mother of four who is also managing a fulltime career, Richardson also ďŹ nds time to train every morning at 3:30 am. She runs and bikes in northern Israel, where she says she regularly has reason to stop and say the Jewish blessing for beauty. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our country is beautiful,â&#x20AC;? says Richardson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to train anywhere else.â&#x20AC;?

Her workouts give her a chance for spiritual reďŹ&#x201A;ection. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just you, G-d and the roadâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and the energy and drive to best take care of her family, she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest excuse is they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have time. If something is important, you make time.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not only must we maintain our exemplary standards of kashrut, but we should also understand that the quality of the food we put in our mouths has a direct impact on our physical and spiritual wellbeing,â&#x20AC;? adds Rabbi Glaser. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We use our mouths to learn and pray,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Should the same mouth that communicates with our Father in Heaven blurt out hurtful speech or consume unhealthy foods?â&#x20AC;?

The Jewish Star contributed to this report.

HEALTH, MIND & BODY 6HFWLRQ VSRQVRUHG E\ $OLQD %HUJDQ ''6 &HQWUDO $YH 6XLWH ) Â&#x2021; &HGDUKXUVW Â&#x2021; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Limiting ourselves to one serving of cholent is not restricting, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s elevating,â&#x20AC;? said Rabbi Glaser, who also writes under the moniker the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Running Rabbi,â&#x20AC;? explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It really is a mitzvah not to take seconds.â&#x20AC;?

Health coach Stacy Spigelman also believes that â&#x20AC;&#x153;we learn in the Torah to guard our bodies and souls,â&#x20AC;? but â&#x20AC;&#x153;our Jewish culture in many ways does not take that commandment seriously.â&#x20AC;? However, this paradigm is shifting, she says.

Long before Soveya there was StartFresh, the original kosher diet program that Erma Bressler founded in her Flatbush kitchen in 1980. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were the creators of kosher weight control,â&#x20AC;? Bressler recalls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We served a community that had nothingâ&#x20AC;? in that realm.

As word spread, StartFresh expanded from largely Modern Orthodox Flatbush into Boro Park and Williamsburg and other Chassidic nabes.

With the slogan â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dieting the kosher way!â&#x20AC;?

StartFresh now promotes itself through testimonials by people named Gittel and Rivka. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love the fact that I am told exactly what to eat on Shabbat and on Yom Tov. You also prepare me emotionally so I can handle anger, boredom, celebration, depression ... without overeating,â&#x20AC;? writes Rivka in her testimonial.

Shape Fitness now offers â&#x20AC;&#x153;kosher workout DVDs,â&#x20AC;? with kosher music and women in modest dress. Fit Yid offers a similar video for

Jewish Orthodox men with an all-male cast working out to Jewish music.

Spigelman embarked on her personal health journey ďŹ ve years ago when her weight peaked, and she became physically and emotionally uncomfortable. She connected with Medifastâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Take Shape for Life program, founded by Dr. Wayne Scott Andersen, self-published author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dr. Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Habits of Health: The path to permanent Weight Control and Optimal Health.â&#x20AC;? She recruited her husband, David, and together the couple launched a second career as Take Shape for Life health and wellness coaches. Spigelman lost 30 pounds by creating healthier eating and exercise habits, and continues to challenge herself by incorporating more healthy habits into her and her family membersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lives.

The Take Shape for Life program is not a Jewish program. However, David Spigelman says he connects to the program because of its â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jewish values,â&#x20AC;? such as learning to be grateful, appreciating the miracles of our bodies and operating out of free will. He says so many Jewish and kosher-observant individuals have joined the program in the last several years that Take Shape for Life has committed to providing kosher pre-packaged food, which customers utilize in the ďŹ rst phase of the weight-loss regime.

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Long Island families that were scheduled to made aliyah this week included the Fedelsteins of Great Neck, Meisels of Woodmere, Tenenbaums of West Hempstead, Samters of North Woodmere, and Leibowitzes of Flushing.

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Raised Muslim, Haq is a first generation immigrant who moved to the United States from Bangladesh at 13. His default inclination was to support the Palestinians because they were also Muslim.

“As I child, I knew I supported Palestine, I just didn’t know why,” he said.

Upon entering school, Haq reached out to his local Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a pro-Palestinian activist group that champions the BDS movement on campuses and is often

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Haq said he was outraged at images of Palestinians suffering from the 2014 summer war between Israel and the Palestinian terror group Hamas. He later helped his SJP group bring to campus the “Israeli Apartheid Wall,” which seek to highlight Israel’s treatment of Palestinians by mimicking the security barrier between Israel and the West.

Yet it was that very same wall, meant to protest Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians, which led him to become an advocate for Israel and attend the CAMERA conference.

“Ironically, it was at the Israeli Apartheid Wall was when I spoke to a former IDF (Israel Defense Forces) soldier for the first time. Before then, I used to believe that IDF soldiers were terrorists yet [we] had a genuine conversation

when he shared the story of his best friend being killed during Operation Protective Edge,” Haq said.

“It was at that moment when the image I held of IDF soldiers were humanized,” he added. “I realized that [I] and this former IDF soldier both wanted peace, we just had a different way of going about it.”

Calling it a moment of clarity, Haq’s interaction with the former IDF soldier set off a frenzy of learning for him. He realized that many proPalestinian organizations never hold Palestinian leadership accountable for their actions and that they solely exist to slander Israel,” he said.

Jason Storch, a Long Islander who is a senior pre-med student at Vassar College, got involved in pro-Israel advocacy after witnessing the “increasing level of tolerance towards open hostility at anyone so much as on-the-fence about BDS or Israel as a whole,” he told JNS.org.

“I felt it necessary to at least lend an alternative viewpoint I knew was being withheld from the discussion,” Storch said, adding that “Vassar as a campus is of course highly anti-Israel; however it is important to remember this manifests itself through an only decent-sized minority asserting themselves the loudest.”

As someone who has been on both sides of the conflict, Haq believes it’s important for students to truly listen to each other in hopes of forging peace, not only on campus but for the conflict overall.

“We should put down our talking points and truly listen to what the other side has to say,” Haq said. “So if you’re an Israeli or an advocate of Israel, take the time to listen to a Palestinian and vice-versa. When I heard that IDF soldier speak to me years ago, it was the first time I ever took time to listen to the other side of the story rather than be defensive. We have to understand that the only way to seek peace is for both sides to come to the table.”

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For dozens of pro-Israel college students, however, learning how to combat increasing anti-Semitism and anti-Israel activism on campus was their focus during summer’s final weeks.

Over 80 students from nearly 70 campuses attended a conference in Boston organized by CAMERA (the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America).

“Reports of intimidation on campus are becoming all too common across the globe,” said Aviva Slomich, CAMERA’s international campus director. “Unfortunately campus anti-Semitism seems to be on the rise, which explains why so many students are eager to learn the skills that are offered at CAMERA’s conference.”

Anti-Semitic activity was twice as likely to occur on campuses where BDS (the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign) was present, eight times more likely to occur on campuses with at least one active anti-Zionist student group such as SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine), and six times more likely to occur on campuses with one or more faculty boycotter, noted a report by the AMCHA Initiative.

The three-day CAMERA event, now in its sixth year, allows students to put the knowledge they gain from its seminars to practical use, such as learning techniques on how to talk with extreme anti-Israel activists and how to work within student government to fight BDS resolutions. These culminate in an impassioned mock BDS hearing on the last day, where students experience first-hand the challenges they may face during the school year.

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Continued from page 1 hat do we really want? Is what we want what we should want? Is it what we believe Hashem really wants us to want? Why do some want to play guitar while others want to build bridges?

Truth be told, much of how we came to want whatever it is we want is a mystery, a gift given to us by Hashem. And our challenge, indeed the essence of teďŹ llah, is to struggle to understand what we really want and what to do with it. And in so doing we connect with the true source of our ratzon, our deepest longings.

But often, we tend to forget that it all comes from G-d and that it is not about changing Gdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mind, but rather about changing ourselves.

And as Rav Kook suggests in his Ein Ayah commentary on tractate Berachot (quoted in the introduction to his Olat Haâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;reiyah), this is the essence of Rav Simlaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aforementioned idea: the reason we should always praise G-d before teďŹ llah is because once we are truly in awe of Hashemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greatness we will realize how absurd it would be to imagine understanding, let alone changing, His mind.

The portion of teďŹ llah we refer to as shevach (praise) is all about ďŹ lling ourselves with awe of the magniďŹ cence and endless greatness of Hashem.

Indeed, there is a balance between the values of struggling to understand Hashemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s world, while at the same time recognizing how limited our intelligence must be relative to the source of reality. There is a certain freedom in knowing we will never understand how and why Hashem directs or planned the world. All we can try to do is take note of the

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world with all its wonder and all its challenges and hope to change ourselves, and perhaps a little bit of the world in the process.

Even Moshe, before he struggles with why he so longs to enter the land of Israel, given that he will not be allowed to do so, will ďŹ rst praise Hashem and remind himself of the awe of the reality of Hashem, to ensure that he will not fall into the trap of thinking that even he, the great Moshe, will ever fully understand the ways of G-d. And in a way, that is his greatest comfort.

Perhaps for us as well, this is the greatest comfort in a world after Tisha Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Av and all of its pain and tragedy: the belief that even though we can never comprehend the ways of Hashem, nonetheless, after 2,000 years of dreaming to return home to the land we love and lost so long ago, we are home.

And perhaps, in some small way, when thousands from across the religious and political spectrum came to honor Michael Levinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sacriďŹ ce on that afternoon ten years ago, it gave voice to what all of us truly want for all of us. And maybe that can remain as some small comfort.

We owe it to so many to search deep inside of ourselves for the good and pure things we all want to make our land and our world a better place and soon. That is the greatest comfort of all.

To view a short yet powerful video sharing the story of Michael Levin, visit bit. ly/2aYQCWJ Wishing you all a Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem.

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Filling a beggarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s purse JUDY JOSZEF WHOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S IN THE KITCHEN Judyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s off thisweek to see her beloved Braves in Atlanta. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll likely have something to say about that next week. Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s column is from our â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Ofâ&#x20AC;? archive. like to think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m street-smart. Jerry, my husband, is gullible and naive. Whenever asked anything, Jerry never says no, unless it has something to do with me asking him to dress a certain way, then all bets are off. But when it comes to lending a shoulder to lean on, an ear to listen or providing help, Jerry is a softie.

When he was 13, Jerry had a good friend who was always over at his house to watch TV and hang out. His family didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have much money and Jerryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mom had a full kitchen and eating area in the basement as well as a kitchen upstairs. She liked to cook and serve downstairs during the week. When Jerry was in camp over the summer, his friend came by and asked if he could still visit even though Jerry was away. Jerryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parents, being extremely hospitable (and a bit naive) said â&#x20AC;&#x153;of course.â&#x20AC;?

When Jerry returned from camp, his friend came by and Jerry was excited to see him. But after high-ďŹ ving Jerry, he bounded up the steps to watch TV while Jerry ate dinner. Jerry thought it was odd that his friend didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to sit with him after not seeing him for so long, but he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say anything.

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left for camp. He insisted on treating Jerry to Yankee games and treated him to any ride he wanted at Coney Island, including his favorite, the Cyclone.

On the night that Jerry arrived home from camp, and he was eating downstairs, Jerry realized there was no ketchup. His dad offered to get it as he wanted to get something else as well. When he walked into the kitchen, there was Jerryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s friend with his hand in Jerryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s momâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pocketbook taking out money. Suddenly it clicked. For months Jerryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mom had been missing cash, very often. She didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t remember spending that much money, but she thought she was forgetting. Now it all made sense. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really the TV shows he was after. He said he wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say anything to Jerry or the others, but he wanted the boy to tell his parents and to have them call him. But they never called. Finally he called them and the boy always answered. Eventually he spoke to them and of course they couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford to pay them back and Jerryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dad was ok with that, he just wanted the young boy to understand that this was not appropriate behavior.

After hearing the story, I asked if at anytime his mom thought someone was stealing from her and he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Never, she shared everything they had, and only wished that the young boy had asked them for help. They would have been glad to assist him.â&#x20AC;? I then asked Jerry why he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think it was odd that a 14 year old boy would be treating him to all that, and he said, in true Jerry fashion, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought he was a great friend.â&#x20AC;? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the difference between Jerry and me. I would have immediately been skeptical.

Five years later, when Jerry went to Israel for the ďŹ rst time, his mom gave him â&#x20AC;&#x153;sheleach mitzvah geltâ&#x20AC;? to give to poor people. There

were quite a large number of dollar bills. Jerry asked ďŹ&#x201A;abbergasted, and asked, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Where am I going to ďŹ nd beggars in Israel to give this money to?â&#x20AC;?

Right off the plane he went to the Kotel.

He began asking out loud, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Where can I ďŹ nd poor people to give mitzvah gelt to?â&#x20AC;?

Suddenly, in what looked like the Frumma Sarah cemetery scene in Fiddler on the Roof, Jerry was accosted by a rapidly expanding throng of beggars, all clamoring for the money that Jerry had in his hands.

Within moments the huge stack of bills was gone and the crowd was still not satisďŹ ed, prompting him to share a substantial part of the spending money his parents gave him for the summer. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t so hard after all to ďŹ nd beggars in Jerusalem.

Talking of beggars, here is a creative side dish recipe called a Beggarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Purse.

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2 large onions, chopped ďŹ nely and sautĂŠed till they are golden brown and soft.

3 cubes crushed garlic (I use Dorot brand) Salt and pepper to taste.

Add the garlic to the sautĂŠed onions when they are almost ready. Mix well and add to the mashed potatoes along with salt and pepper.

Ribbons 2 bunches of scallions; just the long green parts will be used. Place in microwave for 15 seconds; you just want to make them limp so they are pliable.

Preparation Beat eggs with ďŹ&#x201A;our, milk, water and salt and melted butter. Cover the bowl and let the batter sit at room temperature for 1 hour.

To prepare crĂŞpes, spray an 8-inch nonstick pan with Pam. Then pour a ladleful of batter, swirl around to coat the bottom of pan, and then pour remaining batter in pan back into bowl of batter.

Cook crĂŞpe until golden brown, then ďŹ&#x201A;ip and cook second side for about 30 seconds.

As crĂŞpes are ready, stack on plate with wax paper between each crepe.

Assembly Place a crepe nicer side faced down touching the plate and place a scoop of the potato mixture in the center. Pull up the sides and tie a scallion around the neck of the purse using the photo as a guide. Place in oven on 200F long enough just to heat through before serving.

Makes a nice side dish to a dairy ďŹ sh dinner or use margarine and soy milk substitute and it can be pareve.

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Hegseth is the author of the recently released â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the Arena,â&#x20AC;? a vision for a new direction for American domestic and foreign policy based on a passage from a famous address by President Theodore Roosevelt: â&#x20AC;&#x153;A world without American leadership is a world set adrift, and the lesson that we have learned from the last seven years is that when America retreats the world becomes a far more chaotic place,â&#x20AC;? Hegseth said.

Frager, Brody and Jacobs have been responsible for bringing many inďŹ&#x201A;uential American ďŹ gures to Israel in recent years, including Gov. Mike Huckabee, Glenn Beck and Washington Rep. Dave Reichert. Frager said that the value of such a visit cannot be overestimated.

Having trained forces in counter-terrorism , Hegseth said America could learn from Israel in how to confront and overcome an enemy.

had â&#x20AC;&#x153;inferior campaign infrastructure overseasâ&#x20AC;? compared to the Democrats.

According to Sextonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s report, the comparable organization to Republicans Overseas on the Democrat side, Democrats Abroad, has traditionally had a more institutionalized relationship with the Democratic Party.

Alex Montgomery, communications director of Democrats Abroad, told JNS.org that the organization reaches out to its members in Israel and other countries â&#x20AC;&#x153;through emails and phone banking, reminding our members that they need to request their ballot to vote this year.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will very shortly start running ads on social media across Israel to let potential voters know how they can vote and answer the many questions voters from abroad typically have about the voting process,â&#x20AC;? he said.

In Israel in particular, â&#x20AC;&#x153;there are tens of thousands of U.S. votersâ&#x20AC;Śso the impact in the U.S. can be considerable, particularly for senate and house elections with tight races. As well as getting out the vote in Israel for Democratic candidates causes a ripple effect back home with U.S. voters who are inďŹ&#x201A;uenced by their families and friends in Israel,â&#x20AC;? he added.

Meanwhile, Republicans Overseas is working to catch up to the Democrats on outreach to voters in foreign countries, including Israel.

Marc Zell, co-chairman of Republicans Overseas Israel and the vice president of the international organization Republicans Overseas, recently acknowledged to the Jerusalem Post that outreach to American voters in Israel has begun late and has faced a lot of challenges. Nevertheless, he is optimistic about the project. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is late to do this, but better late than never. We have to move quickly. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not an easy task, but based on the positive reaction we have been getting, we have a shot at this,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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The delegation was joined by FoxNews political affairs analyst and commentator Lisa Daftari.

Hegseth, who holds the rank of major, served in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He was part of the FoxNews team assigned to both the Democratic and Republic conventions.

Hegseth told a media brieďŹ ng in Jerusalem that even after just a short time in Israel he understood that mainstream media was failing to provide a realistic picture of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s challenges â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and of its wonders. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seeing is believing and it is therefore critical that people of all backgrounds are encouraged

By Alina Dain Sharon, JNS.org Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has launched outreach to an estimated 300,000 eligible American voters living in Israel, according to reports in Israeli media. This type of outreach has, in the past, reportedly been made most aggressively by Democrats.

Bo Denysyk, a senior adviser for Special Voter Groups attached to Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort, said that although the Trump campaign is making efforts to reach eligible U.S. voters in various foreign countries, it is placing a special priority on the Jewish state. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With the Obama administration undermining Israel at almost every turn (especially by negotiating a horrible deal with Iran), we believe that Jewish voters, regardless of whether they are in the U.S. or Israel, will support the TrumpPence ticket in high numbers,â&#x20AC;? he said.

As there are large Jewish communities in battleground states such as Ohio and Florida, Denysyk said the Trump campaign is particularly interested in targeting Americans in Israel who come from those states and â&#x20AC;&#x153;can possibly provide the winning marginâ&#x20AC;? during the election. A Republican overseas operation estimates that there are about 10,000 and 12,000 Republicans from Florida in Israel.

A report published in March by an institute at the University of Oxford in the U.K notes past cases in which voters abroad made a difference in swing states, such as in the 2000 presidential election. If that election had included the ballots that arrived after the Nov. 26 deadline, former Vice President Al Gore would have won Florida, and the presidential election.

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Redemption and relevance for today’s Jew ALAN JAY GERBER KOSHER BOOKWORM

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mong the most gifted commentators on the Chumash in Israel today is Rabbi Francis Nataf, a longtime associate of the noted Jewish theologian and thinker, Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopez Cardozo of Jerusalem. Recently Rabbi Nataf finished his longawaited commentary on Devarim, the Book of Deuteronomy, which will be the focus of this week’s essay.

“Redeeming Relevance: In the Book of Deuteronomy — Explorations in Text and Meaning” (Urim Publishers, 2016) details some of the little-known themes in Devorim.

The following teachings by Rabbi Nataf will hopefully motivate you to obtain and read the full text for a better understanding of what motivated Moshe in his last days of leadership of our people.

“Most readers are aware that the book of Devarim is significantly different from the other books of the Torah,” writes Rabbi Nataf in an introduction entitled “Moshe’s Torah.”

“For instance, words and expressions that don’t appear anywhere else in the Torah suddenly appear here. This is especially pronounced when we encounter a new word or phrase that describes the very same object or concept referred to by different terms on

other books.”

Further on, the author is more specific: “Moreover, entire stories and commandments from the four previous books are now given completely different treatments.

Moshe’s new rendition of the incident of the spies that we already know from the book of Bemidbar is the most famous. Many other stories, such as the appointment of administrative judges, and to a lesser extent the actual giving of the Torah, are recounted from a new vantage point as well.

“Yet the most significant change is that Moshe generally now speaks in the first person, often telling us that “God told me…” as opposed to the more common narrative wherein we are told “God spoke to Moshe…”

The most obvious reason for this is that the majority of the book of Devarim records a series of Moshe’s speeches given to the Israelites at the end of his life, a time which, significantly, coincides with the end of their journey.”

When you consider this you will come to view the various inner meanings of the Torah text and their contents in a new perspective.

In a related essay by the author, entitled, “The Book of Speech,” we learn: “One of the first obstacles to understanding Devarim is thinking of it as a book. Devarim literally means ‘[spoken] words.’ Even if we might otherwise have missed the centrality of this notion, the book’s orality is brought to our attention right from the start: ‘These are the words that Moshe spoke.’ The text clues us in to the fact that, as opposed to the other

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books, Devarim, to its very core, is an oral work.”

Further on in this essay we learn the significance of the alternative title to Devarim — Mishneh Torah — which refers to the fact that this book contains many laws previously appearing in the Torah text.

“According to some commentaries, it does not refer to the duplication of previously recounted sections of the Torah but rather to a [section of the] Torah that requires our repetition of it and its constant review. … This approach differentiates Devarim quite explicitly from the other books, as the recitation and re-recitation of it defines its very essence.”

Now, my dear readers, please consider this last teaching, and of its most practical

application that makes Rabbi Nataf’s teaching so precious: “In our own lives we are aware that people purposefully repeat themselves in everyday speech.

Whether it is a parent repeating important instructions to a child or a politician turning back to a catch phrase, it is even often tellingly prefaced by the words, ‘I repeat.’ When the parent or politician repeats him- or herself, the words are not meant to convey new information, as they have already been heard by listeners. Rather, the speaker is using the words this time to convey emphasis, as if to say, ‘The following is so important that is bears repeating’.”

There you have, in one modest teaching, the basic underlying themes and methods that teach all that there is to know in this introduction to the book of Devarim, the Mishneh Torah, The Repeated Torah.

Rabbi Nataf received his smicha from Yeshiva University RIETS and a M.S. in Jewish History from its Bernard Revel graduate division. He currently teaches high-level text classes to post-college students at Jerusalem’s famed Darchei Noam. His column appears in Brooklyn’s Jewish Press and he is a frequent contributor to the Jerusalem Post and Jewish Action. His website is francisnataf.com.

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his week’s Torah portion, Vaetchanan, begins in the middle of Moshe’s explaining how, after he appointed Yehoshua as the next leader, he once again beseeched G-d for permission to enter the Promised Land. The response from the Almighty was “Rav Lakh” (“do not speak to me any more about this”). (3:26) The words “Rav Lakh” are translated by ArtScroll as “It is too much for you,” by Hertz as “Let it suffice thee,” and by Aryeh Kaplan as “Enough!”

The simplest explanations of the phrase come from R Samson Raphel Hirsch and Netziv in Haamek Davar. Hirsch: “You did yours. Through fulfilling your mission on earth … you’ve achieved your portion in see-

ing the greatness and strength of my ways.”

Netziv: “You did much for the benefit of the community. There’s nothing you can add in the dissemination of Torah.”

These perspectives suggest that G-d is telling Moshe that your destiny was to get this far, you’ve achieved what your life was all about, and now it is someone else’s turn.

There is nothing to discuss.

But the fact is that the term “rav lakh” has many interpretations, not just in terms of the specific meaning of the words, but in terms of the tone that G-d was employing. Was He angry or empathetic? Was He exasperated with Moshe, or was He trying to soothe Moshe and ease the pain of the harsh reality that his dream of entering the land had no chance of being realized?

Midrash Tanaim has 12 explanations for the term, some of which are presented here: (1) Moshe said, if the decree is that I should not go as leader, or on the land, or even alive, then let me go as a simpleton, or in burrows/ caves, or merely to be buried there. G-d said,

“You have enough.” (2) If you go into the land, you’ll be buried amongst dead people.

With Me, you’ll enter the realm of angels, and the angels will bury you. “Your destiny is so much more.” (3) Were you to enter the land, you’d never manage to see all of it. This way I will have you see the entire land from the mountain top. “You deserve more than what you are unknowingly asking for.” (4) A person who makes a vow goes to his teacher/master to nullify his vow. You should also listen to your master. “You have a master (a Rav).” (5) “You have much waiting for you in the world to come.” It’s like a person who tells his friend, “I have many things for you, don’t embarrass me by not showing up.” (6) I performed many miracles and wonders through your hand.

Now it’s Yehoshua’s turn. “Don’t take more than your share.” (7) You never had the yetzer hora really challenge you. And I’m not letting the angel of death take your life — I’m dealing with it myself. “Is that not enough for you?”

(8) “You have a master,” and He is telling the student what he should be doing.

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Yosef B’khor Shor notes a simple human failing, which I’ll compare to the children’s book, “If you Give a Mouse a Cookie”: “Once you get into the land, you’ll want to see the Temple…” Be happy with what you have — yours has been a good life.

There is another perspective that suggests Moshe is getting a comeuppance for his behavior in the Korach story. Let us recall that one of the accusations of Korach and company was that Moshe and Aharon have taken too much responsibility upon themselves. Moshe’s response to “Rav Lakhem” (Bamidbar 16:3) was “Rav Lakhem bnei Levi” — you Levites have plenty of benefits (Bamdibar 16:7). Even though Moshe was hurling their unfair accusation back in their faces, Moshe is still discredited for having stooped to their level. As a result, G-d recalls the phrase now, when Moshe is asking for more than his share, saying “Rav Lakh.”

Don’t ask for more than your share.

Daat Zekenim record a view that the word Rav comes from the word Riv which means “argument.” The suggestion is that the one who See Moshe on page 19

Thoughts on Israel’s being the ‘Chosen People’ RABBI DAVID ETENGOFF

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he theme of the Chosen People (am hanivchar) is repeated in a number of places in the Siddur, becoming a universally accepted principle of Jewish thought: •From the blessing before recitation of the Shema: “Habocher b’amo Yisrael b’ahavah” (He who chose His people Israel in love).

•From Friday night Kiddush: “Ki banu bacharta v’otonu kidashta mikol ha’amim”

(for He has chosen us and sanctified us above all other nations).

•From Festival Evening Kiddush: “Asher bachar banu mikol am v’romemanu mikol lashon” (Who has chosen us from all peoples and raised us above all nations.

•From the blessing for reading the Torah: “Asher bachar banu mikol ha’amim v’natan lanu et Torato” (Who has chosen us from all the nations and given us His Torah.

The concept of the am hanivchar is presented in this week’s parasha, Vaetchanan, as well: “For you are a holy people (am kadosh) to the L-rd, your G-d: the L-rd your G-d has chosen you to be His treasured people (am segulah) out of all the peoples upon the face

of the earth.” (Sefer Devarim 19:5)1 A careful reading of this pasuk teaches us that am kadosh and am segulah are two distinct aspects of our people’s designation as Hashem’s chosen nation. Am kadosh signifies that we are differentiated from all other nations in our singular dedication to the Master of the Universe and the precepts of His holy Torah. As such, we are the living embodiment of Moshe’s prayer to the Almighty following the Sin of the Golden Calf: “For how then will it be known that I have found favor in Your eyes, I and Your people? Is it not in that You will go with us? Then I and Your people will be distinguished from every [other] nation on the face of the earth.” (Sefer Shemot 3:16)

In contrast to am kadosh, am segulah focuses on our special relationship with Hashem. This thought was clearly expressed by the 19th century German commentator, Rabbeinu Shimshon Raphael Hirsch, in his explication of our term: Consequently, “segulah” is a singular possession to which no one else may lay claim. It, therefore, has no connection whatsoever to anyone other than it’s owner. A fundamental condition thus emerges in reference to “segulah;” namely, this concept demands of us [the Jewish people] in reference to our relationship with Hashem, that See Chosen on page 19

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11, 2001, has strengthened calls for stricter gun control laws. Yet in Israel, where many civilians carry ďŹ rearms, questions on how the terrorists acquired their weapons did not spark national debate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Israelis relate to guns totally differently than Americans,â&#x20AC;? said Marc Provisor, director of security projects for One Israel Fund, an organization that provides security equipment to Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley. Most of terrorists who have attacked Israelis in recent months have been neutralized by armed raelis, including police ofďŹ cers, off-duty Issoldiers, and even civilians.

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Avi Dobular, master shooting instructor at the Magnum 88 Range in Jerusalem, argued that the motivations are different when it comes to Israeli and American citizens wanting to own guns for self-defense. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Here [in Israel] weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not talking about somebody wanting to break into your house to steal your jewelry. Here it is an existential threat to your life,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Armed citizens increase the overall security of the nation and its people. There cannot be a policeman or an armed soldier on every block.

So an armed citizenry is very important.â&#x20AC;?

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Continued from page 18 holds an argument against you is Adam, the human who brought death to the world. You are supposed to die! Stop trying to push off the inevitable. Baal Haturim records this as well, before launching into a few new interpretations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Many times you did something against meâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; at the burning bush (Shmot 4:13), after your ďŹ rst encounter with Pharaoh (Shmot 5:22), your sarcasm in response to the lack of meat (Bamidbar 11:22), as well as the incident with the rock (Bamidbar 20:10). â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t deal with your arguments anymore!â&#x20AC;? Therefore, there is very little tolerance for your slip-ups because â&#x20AC;&#x153;they are too much for a person of your intelligence.â&#x20AC;?

Kli Yakar notes that the numerical value of the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lakhâ&#x20AC;? equals 50. As Moshe himself was the one who said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our Years are 70â&#x20AC;? (Tehillim 90:10). For Moshe, who is now 120, who has gotten 50 extra years, G-d is telling him, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gotten more than your ďŹ ll with an extra 50 years.â&#x20AC;?

One ďŹ nal interpretation, also from Kli Yakar, is that the phrase should be read in the form of a question. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rav Lakh?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;You are going to have a master â&#x20AC;&#x201C; now that your student Yehoshua is taking over?â&#x20AC;?

There are more interpretations, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll stop here due to limited space.

Two points to drive home: First, it is incredible to see how unsimple to understand a two word phrase can be. Loaded with inďŹ&#x201A;ection, intent, and even different possible translations, it is an ever present reminder that Torah study and understanding canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t simply be relegated to â&#x20AC;&#x153;What does ArtScroll say?â&#x20AC;?

Second, we see the complexity of Mosheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experience â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as a leader, as someone facing retirement, and someone who is not ready to accept his destiny, as someone who may be asking for more than his share.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Never before in the history of the Jewish people have thousands of women joined together week after week to light Shabbos candles, pray for each other, and give charity as a distinct group. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky

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Continued from page 18 we will be His sole possession in a total and complete sense â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in the very ďŹ ber of our spiritual being, in every aspect of our persona and with our entire volition and lives. Moreover, we must see ourselves as depending upon G-d alone, and never upon some other power or being â&#x20AC;&#x201C; this principle must shape the trajectory of our lives and inďŹ&#x201A;uence the essence and approach of all our actions.2 In Rav Hirschâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s view, therefore, the concept of am segulah emerges as the representation of our extraordinary devotion to Hashem, which encourages us to recognize that everything in our lives is â&#x20AC;&#x153;mâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ate Hashem hayitah zotâ&#x20AC;? (â&#x20AC;&#x153;comes directly from G-dâ&#x20AC;?).

(Tehillim 118:23) ow that we have analyzed two of the constitutive elements of am hanivchar, we are ready to deďŹ ne it in broad terms. I believe that the former chief rabbi of England, Sir Jonathan Sacks, offered one of the best modern presentations of this concept. He notes that many people are misled into believing that the idea of choseness is tantamount to G-d rejecting all the other nations and, consequently, connotes arrogance and elitism. Rabbi Sacks suggests, however, that nothing could be further from the truth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Do not think that G-d choosing one people means He rejects every other people. Absolutely not! That was never our way,â&#x20AC;? he said in a public lecture on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jewish Identity â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Concept of a Chosen People,â&#x20AC;? on May 8, 2001. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And that is why, again and again and again, G-d, the prophets say, is not our G-d only.â&#x20AC;?

Rav Sacks presents an entirely different approach to understanding our one-of-a kind role in Hashemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grand plan for mankind.

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ife presents each of us with our own playbook. We certainly make choices, and some of us take better care of ourselves and perhaps merit a longer life because of the actions we take. But do we ever want to be the people who are told by G-d, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rav Lakhâ&#x20AC;?? Some of the interpretations are positive, but most seem to remind Moshe that his time is up, and he needs to embrace that.

It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always have to mean that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to die. But it should mean that there is a time and place, within retirement, for example, or simply when one has fulďŹ lled what one set out to do in school or in a place of employment, to let go of certain stances or positions in order to let others have a chance, and to give them the space to shine. It seems that as much as Moshe understood Yehoshua had to take over, maybe he wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t so ready to give up everything and to fade into the sunset.

May those of us who recognize itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to give others a chance merit to live long lives so we can quell in the nachas that others have a chance to enjoy things we once held onto so dearly (maftir Yonah, reading the megillah, leading Kol Nidrei, being the rabbi or president of a shul [after leaving the position, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell the successor how to do his job], or any parallel example in a workplace, school, and beyond).

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He maintains that our election enables us to bring Hashemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s message to the world. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Jewish story, in its unique particularity, is the human story in its universality,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we would have been everyone in general, we would never have been somebody in particular. And if we hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been somebody in particular, we would never have a message for humanity in general.â&#x20AC;?

In sum, our chosen stature allows us to spread G-dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s message of hope and everlasting peace to the nations of the world. Moreover, every nation has its unique role to play in the drama we call â&#x20AC;&#x153;life.â&#x20AC;? As such, each nation has its own intrinsic value and inherent worth.

It must be constantly emphasized and taught that everyone is created bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;tzelem Elokim, in G-dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Divine image. This idea was given powerful voice in a famous statement of Rabbi Akiva: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beloved is man, for he was created in the image [of G-d]; it is a sign of even greater love that it has been made known to him that he was created in the image, as it is says, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;For in the image of G-d, He made manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.â&#x20AC;? (Sefer Bereishit 9:6; Pirkei Avot 3:14, translation, Rabbi Yosef Marcus) Thus, while we are the am kadosh, all nations have the potential to pursue holiness and thereby serve the Almighty in their own unique manner, for they, too, are beloved before Him. May we be zocheh (merit) to witness the fulďŹ llment of the prophet Zechariahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stirring words: â&#x20AC;&#x153;And the L-rd shall become King over all the earth; on that day shall the L-rd be one, and His name one.â&#x20AC;? (14:9) May that time soon arrive and herald true peace for all mankind when we will stand shoulder to shoulder in the recognition of Hashemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presence amongst us. Vâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;chane yihi ratzon.

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Continued from page 6 mote the rights of refugees in Israel.â&#x20AC;?

3. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With regards to the Palestinian Authorityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s HR [human rights] violations: Promote respect by the PA of its HR obligations in both the West Bank and Gaza.â&#x20AC;?

Another document describes the goal of their â&#x20AC;&#x153;Palestine/Israel International Advocacyâ&#x20AC;? programs as being divided between â&#x20AC;&#x153;a focus on raising the cost of the occupation and ending it on the one hand, and on human rights advocacy and protection on the other.â&#x20AC;?

Now letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s consider the organizations that received Soros funding.

For example, since 2001, the Soros network has given $2,688,561 to Adalah, a self-described â&#x20AC;&#x153;independent human rights organizationâ&#x20AC;? that is bent on taking away the rights of Israel, according to NGO Monitor. Adelah has accused Israel of war crimes on numerous occasions, including contributing charges to the long-discredited Goldstone Report and a fake 2002 report of an Israeli massacre in Jenin. Adalah has also called on governments to sever or downgrade their diplomatic relations with Israel.

Soros money also favored, to the tune of about $1.1 million, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;lam, a Nazareth-based Palestinian media center which claims that its mission is â&#x20AC;&#x153;to empower the Palestinian media landscape and society by promoting equal access to the Israeli media, encouraging a fair information ďŹ&#x201A;ow, and fostering professional standards.â&#x20AC;? Not included in its mission statement, but reported by NGO Monitor, is that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;lam manufactures and promotes allegations of media bias to further its political agenda.

New Israel Fund (NIF) is listed as having received $837,500 since 2009. NIF donates money to anti-Israel groups dedicated to making false charges and/or promoting the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including Adalah, Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Tselem, Breaking the Silence, Physicians for Human Rights, Social TV, and 972 Magazine, among others.

Women Against Violence (WAV), which received $1,430,000, demonizes Israel at every turn, and supports BDS. WAV and two other groups created a â&#x20AC;&#x153;My Land, Space, Body and Sexuality: Palestinians in the Shadow of the Wallâ&#x20AC;? campaign. NGO Monitor reports that

WAV publicized this campaign with a poster of an Israeli soldier reaching toward a Palestinian womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s breast that was captioned: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Her husband needs a permit to touch her. The occupation penetrates her life every day!â&#x20AC;?

Along with advocating for BDS, the Mada alCarmel Arab Center for Applied Social Research, which received $707,000 from Soros, was one of the creators of the Haifa Document in 2007.

The document calls for a â&#x20AC;&#x153;change in the deďŹ nition of the State of Israel from a Jewish stateâ&#x20AC;? and accuses Israel of â&#x20AC;&#x153;exploitingâ&#x20AC;? the Holocaust â&#x20AC;&#x153;at the expense of the Palestinian people.â&#x20AC;?

Other Soros-funded organizations include the Kayan-Feminist Organization, Mossawa Center, the Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens in Israel, Molad, and the Center for the Renewal of Israeli Democracy.

This isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the Sorosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; only foray into anti-Israel advocacy. He provided initial funding for J-Street, the faux pro-Israel organization thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been condemned by liberals such as Alan Dershowitz. Soros cut his funding to J-Street, after this reporter found and released documentation of his donations. Soros was afraid that

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Soros has long been a Democratic Party â&#x20AC;&#x153;sugar daddy.â&#x20AC;? According to Open Secrets, as of July 21, he had donated $12,969,936 to Democrats running for a federal ofďŹ ce (with nothing to the other party).

And now we know he is also funding a large slice of the anti-Israel movement.

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By Rafael Medoff, JNS.org For the ďŹ rst time, the State Department has explicitly accused the Palestinian Authority of promoting anti-Semitism, a signal Jewish groups hope will lead to a change in U.S. policy.

According to a newly released State Department report on international religious freedom, ofďŹ cial PA media â&#x20AC;&#x153;carried religiously intolerant material.â&#x20AC;? The report cited Palestinian television programs that called Jews â&#x20AC;&#x153;evilâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;denied a historical Jewish presence in Jerusalem.â&#x20AC;?

Previously, U.S. ofďŹ cials had labeled the PA denial of Jewish ties to Jerusalem as â&#x20AC;&#x153;material criticizing the Israeli occupation,â&#x20AC;? but stopped short of calling it anti-Semitism. Arab media channels that carried the anti-Semitic content were considered â&#x20AC;&#x153;nonofďŹ cial PA and nonmainstreamâ&#x20AC;? in last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s report.

The Obama Administration no longer claims that the PA is working â&#x20AC;&#x153;to control and eliminateâ&#x20AC;? expressions of anti-Semitism in its media outlets. OfďŹ cials dropped an assertion made in previous years that the PA acted to â&#x20AC;&#x153;prevent preachingâ&#x20AC;? of â&#x20AC;&#x153;sermons with intolerant or anti-Semitic messages.â&#x20AC;?

For years, Israeli leaders have accused the PA and its leader, Mahmoud Abbas, of inciting violence and anti-Semitism. Last year amid increasing terror attacks on Israelis, Abbas called for Jerusalemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s holy sites to be cleansed of Jews. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every drop of blood spilled in Jerusalem is pure, every shahid [martyr] will reach paradise, and every injured person will be rewarded by God. â&#x20AC;Ś The Al-Aqsa mosque is ours. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is ours as well.

They (Jews) have no right to desecrate the mosque with their dirty feet, we wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t allow them to do that,â&#x20AC;? Abbas said in a Sept. 2015 address on Palestinian TV. With the U.S. on the record calling the PA activity anti-Semitism, it could be a step closer to a change in U.S. policy towards the PA,

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which is overdue, Nathan Diament, executive director of the Orthodox Unionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Advocacy Center in Washington, told JNS.org.

In 2015, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the Palestinian Authority for â&#x20AC;&#x153;promoting anti-Semitic and anti-Israel rhetoric in its ofďŹ cial statements, media, and textbooks.â&#x20AC;? The measure was authored by U.S. Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) and Ted Deutch (D-Fla.).

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year â&#x20AC;&#x153;stemmed directlyâ&#x20AC;? from the kinds of antiSemitic statements cited in the new State Department report. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I recently raised this directly with a high level PA ofďŹ cial in a recent visit to Ramallah,â&#x20AC;? Deutch told JNS.org. He declined to provide additional details of that conversation.

With the ďŹ ndings of the report, several Jewish organizations are hoping it will spur action on Capitol Hill. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The question is whether Congress will ďŹ nally move beyond condemnations and seek to make U.S. aid to the PA conditional on ending anti-Semitism in the PA media,â&#x20AC;? said

Sarah Stern, president of the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET), a pro-Israel group based in Washington.

Zsuzsanna Ozsvath, director of the Holocaust Studies program at the University of Texas at Dallas, says when a regime sponsors anti-Semitism, a very dangerous line is crossed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important that the State Department has ofďŹ cially conďŹ rmed that the PA is doing,â&#x20AC;? she told JNS. org. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hopefully people will now take it more seriously. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned from history what happens when such regimes are not taken seriously.â&#x20AC;?

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