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Final push: Sept 1 rally hits deal With Congress racing toward action on the Iranian nuclear deal, a major protest against the pact is set for next Tuesday, Sept. 1, outside the Manhattan offices of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand who announced she would vote to support the pact.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham and former Democratic Sen. Joe Lieber-

man will headline the bipartisan rally.

Family members of victims of Iranian terror will also speak.

“Moral outrage is what New Yorkers feel about this dangerous deal because the Iranian regime has shown itself, since taking the American embassy in 1979, to be vile law breakers with com-

plete disregard for human life,” said Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, a rally coordinator.

Protesters will line the street in front of 780 Third Ave., between 49th and 50th streets, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, Tuesday protest is being organized by the Stop Iran Rally Coalition. Additional information is at StopIranRally.org

Sweet new year music and talk during Nachum Segal broadcast Nachum Segal brought his popular JM in the AM radio program to Cedarhurst on Wednesday, airing three hours of upbeat pre-holiday banter and music from a portable studio in front of ChapANosh in Gourmet Glatt.

Gourmet Glatt’s Yoeli Steinberg (center) discussed his unique kosher market with Segal and Nachum Segal Network General Manager Miriam L. Wallach of Woodmere.

Several local personalities, including Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky, joined Segal.

Steinberg reported on the air that he expects Gourmet Glatt’s new store in Woodmere to open by Sukkot, and said a Gourmet Glatt in a former ShopRite in Lakewood, New Jersey, might be ready for customers by Chanukah.

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By Anthony Rifilato Goldie Steinberg, a longtime Long Beach resident who gained fame as the sixth-oldest person in the world — and the oldest living Jewish person in the world and oldest Long Islander — died last week at age 114.

For more than a decade, Steinberg lived at the Grandell Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, and was surrounded by family and friends when she passed away on Sunday, Aug. 16.

“Goldie was a very special person, one-of-a-kind” said her grandson, Peter Kutner, 45. “She always put others before herself.

She was a fixture at Grandell; she will be deeply missed.”

Steinberg died of natural causes, a representative at Grandell said.

Relatives who couldn’t be present on Steinberg’s final day were invited to say their goodbyes via videoconferencing, Kutner told a Melville newspaper.

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UJA-Federation of New York CEO Eric S. Goldstein chats with UJA board member Lewis Broad at the organization’s Long Island Summerfest Concert in the NYCB Theatre at Westbury. With Goldstein at its helm, UJA-Federation has stepped up effforts to generate support from the area’s Orthodox communities. More photos on page 4.

‘Blended learning’ a new mantra at HALB

By Jeff Bessen A partnership between the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach and the Affordable Jewish Education Project has resulted in substantial academic gains for students.

The project’s 2 Sigma Education model combines traditional classroom learning with online instruction — “blended learning” — which allows students to learn at their own pace.

It began in the 2013-14 school year with a pilot program for HALB first-graders, expanding the following year to include kindergartners and second- and third-graders as well. This school year, which begins on Sept. 8, the program will also include fourth-graders.

HALB reports that low-scoring students who began the first year of the program went, on average, from the 11th to the 30th percentile in reading and from 12th to 51st percentile in math.

Applying one-on-one and small group instruction, along with realtime data, teachers pinpoint exactly what a student does or does not do well, identifying knowledge gaps, clarifying concepts and providing positive reinforcement.

“The 2 Sigma model is not a supplementary or occasional initiative; it is a shift in focus that has affected the way each of our students in kindergar-

In partnership with Affordable Jewish Education Project, HALB teacher Lauren Kaye worked with Meghan Gottrfied as other third-graders worked independently last year.

ten through third grade learned reading and math every single day,” said HALB Principal Rabbi Dovid Plotkin.

The Affordable Jewish Education Project had planned to open a Hebrew day school in Woodmere about three years ago (it has such schools in New Jersey and Westchester). At the same time, HALB was experiment-

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ing with its own blended-learning program. HALB President Lance Hirt said that instead of competing for the same students — more than 90 percent of HALB’s enrollment lives in the Five Towns — HALB contacted AJE about a collaboration.

“With the software systems now available to us, we are able to identify specific strengths and weaknesses of every child and address those needs in a personalized way,” Hirt said Children are stimulated by lessons presented on an iPad or laptop, and teachers are inspired by the new tools, according to Hirt.

Rabbi Avrum Sacks, AJE’s chief academic officer, who manages HALB’s 2 Sigma program, is on the HLAB campus several times each week.

“We are just blown away by how seamlessly the HALB teachers and students were able to weave 2 Sigma into their classrooms,” said Jeff Kiderman, an AJE co-founder and its executive director.

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By Lori Hinnant PARIS (AP) — The gunman had an arsenal that he claims to have stumbled upon in a park near the train station. Like three other men accused of drawing up failed plans for attacks in France recently, the suspect denied any links to terrorism, telling his lawyer he was homeless and only wanted to rob a train “to eat.”

Instead, the assault rifle jammed, and he was tackled and bound with a necktie by three Americans and a Briton who were celebrated Monday with France’s highest honor. Now, with many lives potentially saved on the high-speed train by quick-thinking and courageous passengers, the limits of a continent’s worth of security were thrown into relief by a lone attacker during a less-sophisticated act of violence.

“I don’t think we can rely entirely on the police, the law enforcement services. They will do their best. We can put in place the best intelligence networks, but somebody is probably going to get through at some stage. And my vision of this is that as citizens, we need to be prepared to think about how to act,” Chris Norman, the British businessman who helped bind the suspect, told The Associated Press.

“We need to have it in our minds, because if I had never thought it before, then I probably would’ve just been sitting in a corner cowering,” Norman said.

With thousands of Europeans believed to be radicalized by propaganda from the Islamic State group, and legions of security forces guarding the most visible targets, governments are increasingly worried about the possibility of carnage by individuals, with little planning, in a setting where there is minimal or no security.

If the attack fails, terrorist groups simply ignore it. If it succeeds, they claim responsibility for the work done by their “brother.”

“This creates a really interesting dilemma for law enforcement. You don’t have to be a mastermind or a sophisticated individual to kill a lot of people if you have weapons and they do not,” said William Braniff, director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. “You don’t have to be all that well-trained. There’s one threshold: You have to be able to load the weapon.”

That, apparently, was something the gunman identified as 26-year-old Moroccan Ayoub El-Khazzani was unable to do, according to Spencer Stone, the U.S. airman who subdued the attacker on a train from Amsterdam to Paris. Stone said he saw the man holding an assault rifle that “looked like it was jammed and it wasn’t working.”

The Islamic State group has issued no comment on the failed attack. But on Sunday, a pro-Islamic State media group released a nineminute video again calling on “Lone Lions” to kill Americans and Europeans.

“If it’s a foiled attack, the most obvious reaction would be to deny,” said Jean-Charles Brisard, a French security consultant and terrorism expert.

Another would-be attacker was arrested in April after he shot himself in the foot and called for medical help, drawing police attention to the blood trail leading to his arms-filled car and plans to gun down a church. He denied any terrorism links, despite what security officials described as extremist material found among his belongings.

In the Alpine region of Isere in June, an attacker accused of beheading his boss and trying to blow up a chemical warehouse has blamed domestic and work problems, despite having sent a photo of himself and the decapitated remains to an Islamic State contact in Syria.

Extremist groups have claimed responsibility for only 65 percent of attacks that can be attributed to them, according to data dating to 1998 from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. Islamic State’s rate of responsibility claims is in line with that figure.

The train gunman was known to intelligence agents in at least three countries, but according to his lawyer had been traveling internationally by rail for the past six months.

Germany Interior Ministry spokesman Johannes Dimroth told the AP that if the suspect is who he has said he is, Germany tracked him in May flying from Berlin to Istanbul — a popular gateway to Syria for militants.

Rolf Tophoven, a terrorism expert and director of the Institute for Crisis Prevention in Essen, Germany, said the thwarted train attack illustrates how difficult it is for authorities to prevent such violence by solo extremists or small groups.

“This is a development coming up more and more — not a huge terrorist network behind these guys, it’s enough to be inspired and get a weapon,” he said. “In Europe, you saw it against Charlie Hebdo, you saw it in Copenhagen, in the Jewish museum in Brussels, and now on the train.”

France was already calling for individuals to redouble their vigilance and willingness to act. Messages to that effect were broadcast in French train stations beginning Monday, similar to the ubiquitous “If you see something, say something” that appeared around New York after Sept. 11.

President Francois Hollande said that while two of the Americans who tackled the gunman were soldiers, “on Friday you were simply passengers. You behaved as soldiers but also as responsible men.”

The men showed “that faced with terror, we have the power to resist. You also gave a lesson in courage, in will, and thus in hope,” Hollande said.

Sept. 11 — in particular the actions by the passengers on Flight 93 who tried to retake the plane from the hijackers after learning about the World Trade Center attacks — seared into the minds of many Americans the need for dramatic action in the face of terrorism, Braniff said.

“It has entered into our consciousness because of that flight and the lionization of the people who brought that plane down. It is an iconic moment of resistance,” he said.

But Brisard cautioned there were limits.

“This is a cultural problem, and I doubt we can simply rely on heroes to reduce the threat,” he said. “I’m not sure it would happen the same way on another day.”

Richard Barrett, senior vice president of The Soufan Group and a former British intelligence official, said governments in Europe and the U.S. must balance calls with vigilance against public paranoia.

“That is what terror is about. It’s not about killing people but about making them afraid that they might be killed,” he said.

European governments have sometimes come under criticism for what some see as a lax attitude toward people flagged as radicals — and the latest suspect was apparently able to board airplanes and trains without difficulty, raising new questions — but Barrett said the sheer number of those under suspicion makes it impossible to track them all.

“The cooperation on this is all pretty good now. The trouble is just so many names,” he said. “How do you sort them all out, the risks, the threat?”

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More than 1,500 people attended UJA-Federation of New York’s Summerfest Concert, the group’s major event on Aug. 12 at NYCB Theatre at Westbury. Rob Thomas (top right) performed following a lavish dinner under a giant tent, award presentations and an auction. Pictured from left: (top row) Chavie Kahn with friends Leslie and Josh Wanderer of Lawrence; Robert and Wendy Frucher of Lawrence; Barbara Weiler and Susan Schlaff of North Woodmere. (second row) Jewish Star Advertising Director Celia Weintrob with Five Towns UJA leader Irwin Gershon; Lindsay Monin of Woodmere with fellow volunteers Jeffrey Cohen, Jodi Cohen and Jennifer Naiburg; Judy and Aaron Rosenfeld of West Hempstead. (third row) 2014 Robert S. Boaz Award honoree Todd Richman, North Shore Rep. Steve Israel, UJA-Federation of New York CEO Eric S. Goldstein, Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky, and Sumerfest Chair Matt Engel. This year’s Boas award was presented to I. David Pelton.

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At the evening event in Lawrence, women businesspeople came together to learn, network and tackle real challenges.

“There are many resources out there for women entrepreneurs, but for those who are Jewish — particularly observant women entrepreneurs — there is little that can offer comprehensive, holistic and appropriate support,” said Chaya Appel-Fishman, JEW founder.

The concept of a “Business Brainstormer Session” is simple yet powerful. In focused networking groups, women presented a business challenge they’re grappling with and got honest feedback and insight from their peers, each bringing their own unique perspective, experience and expertise to the table.

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Liat Siegel, Founder of Hadar Fashion and Interiors.

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he first Saturday in September will see Israel’s national soccer team travel to Cardiff, the capital of Wales, for a crucial qualifying game for next year’s European Championship in France. As is becoming the norm when any Israeli athletes travel abroad, the team will also face protests off the field, led by activists who believe that Israel has no right to compete internationally in the first place.

I mention this forthcoming event because one of the speakers addressing the anti-Israel rally outside the soccer stadium is Jeremy Corbyn, a far-left member of the U.K. parliament for the opposition Labour Party and, more importantly, the current front-runner in the battle for that party’s leadership. If Corbyn ends up winning the contest— triggered by the resignation of former leader Ed Miliband, following his poor showing in the U.K.’s general election earlier this year—we will have a vocal supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement at the helm of one of Europe’s more august left-wing parties.

Corbyn is a patron of the U.K.’s pro-BDS Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which is well known for its anti-Semitic targeting of Israel through its constant comparisons of the Jewish state with Nazi Germany and apartheid-era South Africa. But that, arguably, is the least of it.

During the last week, Corbyn has been confronted in the media over his connections to a London-based Holocaust denier and “Palestine solidarity” activist named Paul Eisen. In the past, Corbyn has vocally defended Ra’ed Salah, the leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel, despite Salah’s endorsement of the anti-Semitic blood libel and his claim that Jews were warned in advance of the Sept. 11, 2001 alQaeda terrorist atrocities. When Salah got into a legal tussle with the British authorities during an extended stay in the U.K., Corbyn urged a parliamentary inquiry into the influence of the “proIsrael Lobby” on government policy.

This sinister statement was made after it emerged that the Community Security Trust (CST), a professional and highly-respected body that deals with security for the U.K.’s Jewish community, had provided evidence of Salah’s toxic views to the government.

Now, Corbyn is seemingly going to lead the charge against the U.K. presence of the Israeli soccer team—which, ironically, only plays in European competitions because the Jewish state was expelled from the Asian Football Con-

federation in 1974, thanks to the diktat of the Arab League boycott of Israel.

Since Corbyn is an enthusiastic supporter of dictators like the now-dead Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and the still-living Vladimir Putin in Russia, it won’t bother him that the Arab boycott was pushed by some of the worst human rights abusers in history. In fact, he won’t be content until Israel is completely isolated, not just in the Middle East but in every corner of the globe.

No wonder, then, that a poll from London’s Jewish Chronicle newspaper reveals that almost 70 percent of British Jews are “concerned” by the prospect of Corbyn leading the Labour Party, with an overwhelming 83 percent expressing alarm at Corbyn’s infamous description of Hamas and Hezbollah as “our friends.”

What does this tell us? Most immediately, it tells us that the vast majority of British Jews aren’t buying the nonsense that anti-Zionism isn’t anti-Semitism, and that BDS carefully separates between Jews on the one hand and Israelis on the other. Much of the crowd who will cheer Israel’s soccer stars will be composed of British Jews expressing their emotional and cultural affinity with the Jewish state.

And because they will dare to do that, they will be harassed by a mob baying slogans about Israel’s supposed war crimes and racist roots, led by a man who aspires to become Britain’s prime minister.

Corbyn clearly doesn’t feel overly perturbed by the chatter about antiSemitism that is dogging him; when the Jewish Chronicle published a series of questions addressed to him, instead of picking up the phone and calling them—as any politician who cared about the feelings of the Jewish community would naturally do—he appointed a spokesperson to engage in an email exchange with the paper.

Thus did readers learn that “Jeremy” considers that “Holocaust denial is vile and wrong,” though at no point did “Jeremy” condemn by name any of the Holocaust deniers and conspiracy theorists (among them the followers of Lyndon Larouche, an American far-right leader) with whom he has associated.

Corbyn can take this relaxed attitude because he knows that his supporters regard accusations of anti-Semitism as a political smear with no credibility. This view is commonplace enough among progressives in America as well. By contrast, the term “anti-Zionism” is one they embrace warmly, regarding it as integral to their matrix of progressive values and goals, alongside opposition to austerity policies, environmental activism, “solidarity” with “progressive” regimes in the developing world, implacable hostility to any military actions undertaken by democratic governments, and so on.

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he past week has seen new revelations calling into question the efficacy of the P5+1 deal with Iran, and the truthfulness of what the Obama administration is telling the American people. Yet despite these revelations, a former supporter of Israel, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, announced on Friday that he would support the agreement with Iran.

As an American and as Jew, I believe Rep. Nadler betrayed this country, the 10th Congressional district of New York, and the Jewish community. He sold us out for his personal agenda, which I believe is based on politics not the facts.

Nadler is a very bright man and just the revelations of the prior week would prevent a non-political person from supporting the agreement. But Obama put extra pressure on Nadler because his support will help him sell the deal to other Democrats, especially after former Long Island Rep. Steve Israel, chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, decided to do the right thing and oppose the deal.

The big revelations this week included a Russian sale of missiles to Iran, Obama letters which eliminate the promise of sanctions “snap backs,” and a U.N. side deal promising that the terrorist state would be able to selfinspect its Parchin nuclear site.

On Aug. 18, Reuters reported that Russia would sign a deal to provide Iran with advanced S-300 ground to air missile systems.

These would be used to protect Iran’s nuclear sites. Originally Russia said it would observe a ban on selling the systems to Iran in response to requests from the United States, despite a loophole in UNSC resolution 1929 that did not cover

the systems. Then in April Russia said it would lift the ban but indicated that it would not sell the systems anytime soon. Three months later, it’s a done deal.

The Obama letters are promises to foreign nations that if Iran violates the deal and the sanctions are snapped back, their companies would be able to continue operating in the rogue nation without fear of punishment from the United States. In other words, the letters totally negate the snap back provisions of the deal As exposed by the Washington Free Beacon, “Sens.

Mark Kirk and Marco Rubio disclosed in the letter to the State Department that U.S. lawmakers have been shown copies of several letters sent by the Obama administration to the Chinese, German, French and British governments assuring them that companies doing business with Iran will not come under penalty. The Obama administration is purportedly promising the foreign governments that if Iran violates the parameters of a recently inked nuclear accord, European companies will not be penalized, according to the secret letters.”

Who told these senators about these letters? The White House. But the senators were told to keep the information from the public.

The purpose of the Rubio/Kirk correspondence is to make sure the public finds out that any possible return of sanctions for violation of the deal is an empty promise.

Sens. Rubio and Kirk asked the Administration “to publicly release these letters, which are not classified, so that the full extent of the Administration’s non-public assurances to European and Chinese governments can be discussed openly by Congress.”

The Associated Press discovered the secret involving the Parchin military base where intelligence believes the Iranians are developing long-range ballistic missile and where they conducted experiments relevant to detonating nuclear warheads. Recent satellite data proved the rogue regime is working to coverup its activity at Parchin. But now they may not have to, as the AP has released the details of a side agreement between Iran and the U.N. that will allow Iran to use its own nuclear inspectors to investigate Parchin.

Any IAEA member country must give the agency some insight into its nuclear program.

Some countries are required to do no more than give a yearly accounting of the nuclear material they possess. But nations— like Iran — that are suspected of possible proliferation are under greater scrutiny that can include stringent inspections. Otherwise, it is the equivalent of a just-robbed bank hiring the thugs who took its money to count what’s left in the vault. “Sure it’s all there!”

Can anyone reasonably believe that a nation that’s been playing hide and seek with U.N. inspectors for over a decade will actually confess its own violations?

These new revelations raise so many questions, including: If this agreement is so great, why is Obama holding back its full details? What else are we being lied to about? Why would a congressman with a pro-Israel track record succumb to political pressure and agree to a deal that puts residents of the “Big Satan” (the U.S.) as well as the “Little Satan” (Israel) in danger?

Rep. Nadler would be well served to rethink his political decision. If he doesn’t, there will be many to remind his constituents of his betrayal of America when he runs for reelection in 2016.

if the agreement is so great, why is Obama holding back its full details?

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Continued from page 6 includes a clever question that Jewish pollsters in America should also be asking: How do you feel when a politician describes himself or herself as “anti-Zionist?” The paper reported, “More than 44 percent say they ‘always’ think such a statement really means ‘anti-Jewish,’ with a further 27 percent saying they ‘often’ think the claim is anti-Semitic in its intent.”

It continued, “In total, almost 90 percent of Jews feel that ‘anti-Zionist’ is used as shorthand for ‘anti-Jewish’ by politicians.” lowly, slowly, does the mask fall: antiSemitism has twisted itself into anti-Zionism. We saw that graphically in Spain last week, when a reggae festival disinvited the American-Jewish singer Matisyahu after he refused to condemn Israel. Encouragingly, the fact that the festival backed down after a wave of protest, reinstating Matisyahu’s invitation, shows that there are many non-Jews coming around to a similar view.

We need to send a wake-up call to proudly identifying anti-Zionists like Jeremy Corbyn: refraining from attacks on Jews as Jews isn’t enough to absolve them of the charge of antiJewish bigotry. Substituting the word “Zionist” for “Jew,” or consorting with active anti-Semites (and then distancing yourself from them only once these meetings become public knowledge), is a shabby trick, and we are smarter than that.

Crucially, we understand that the immediate target of Western anti-Zionists isn’t Israel, but Jews in their own countries who identify with Israel.

Before I close, I should answer any reader who is wondering whether Jeremy Corbyn could actually end up as British prime minister. Given that many pundits are predicting that his own party will split if he wins the leadership, and that Labour has invariably been unelectable when it leans too far to the left, one would think that the chances are slim. But even as opposition leader, he will gain a bully pulpit that he could only have dreamed of just a decade ago.

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Hatred. Pure and simple, old fashioned hatred.

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Jew defining (and dressing) himself as Ultra-orthodox goes on a stabbing rampage at the LGBT pride parade in Jerusalem, murdering a 16 year old girl and seriously wounding five others.

Iranian leaders, while smiling for the cameras, lead marches declaring death to America and promising to destroy the State of Israel and every last Jew on Earth, reminiscent of another Persian’s attempt to do just that some 2,500 years ago in the story of Purim.

A suicide bomber walks into a crowded pizzeria in Jerusalem on a beautiful August afternoon in 2001 and detonates his bomb, murdering 15 people and injuring scores more.

What do these events share in common?

This week, while standing on our yeshiva’s rooftop in the Old City overlooking the Temple Mount above the Kotel, a few of us had the chance to watch and listen to a group of dozens of Muslim women, covered from head to toe in their religious garb, screaming and hurling epithets at a group of what appeared to be Western and Jewish tourists who were visiting the Temple Mount.

And what do all of these people seem to share in common? Hate. Pure, unabashed, unbridled and unmitigated hatred for others who are different, simply because they are different.

Why do they hate us so much? Why is a country like Iran, with 10,000 people for every

Jew, so dedicated to our annihilation? Why is Hamas’ charter dedicated to the eradication of Jews everywhere?

As a young soldier, I spent time in Lebanon.

Such a beautiful country, it remains devastated and constantly on the verge of conflict, largely because Hezbollah cannot make peace with the fact that there is now a State with a Jewish majority on its borders. Hatred has blinded them to what life could be.

Historians and philosophers have debated what caused Germany and other countries to so dedicate themselves to the destruction of the Jews that they murdered close to seven million people including one-andone-half million children.

It’s not economics. If economics were the root cause of anti-Semitism, then Hamas, the PLO and Lebanon would long ago have figured out that it makes more sense economically to make peace with Israel than to exacerbate a war which has been ongoing for nigh on 100 years.

Others suggest it is because we are so different, but that would not explain why hundreds of thousands of fully assimilated Jews, including those who had converted to Catholicism, were sent to the ovens along with everyone else.

Just this week, the music star Matisyahu was disinvited to a concert in Spain despite his having shed his religious garb and sidecurls in favor of a much more Western, hip hop look.

It’s what it’s always been: Plain old-fashioned hatred, which does not have to be logical.

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his week’s portion of Ki Teitzeh, which deals with some of the laws of conflict and how Jews are meant to behave in battle, contains a fascinating mitzvah: “Do not despise an Egyptian, for you were a stranger in his land. “ (Devarim 23:8) Incredibly, we are forbidden to despise the nation we might be most expected to hate!

Egypt enslaved us for over 200 years, using babies for bricks and mortar, coming in Jewish tradition to represent cruelty par excellence — and all this despite the fact that it was a Jew (Joseph) who saved the entire country from famine (Genesis 41) and transformed it into a regional and then a world power! So why are we enjoined from hating them?

Why shouldn’t we hate Hamas, Iran, Hezbollah, neoNazis and the Nazi murderers who still live, having escaped Justice after such heinous crimes? Do they really deserve any better? Don’t BDS activists who never let the facts get in the way of their own hatred and lies deserve our hatred?

Some say that even after all of our suffering in Egypt, we still owe the Egyptians a debt of gratitude for taking the family of Yaakov in when there was a devastating famine in the land, not to mention the fact that Moshe was raised by no less than the daughter of Pharaoh.

This line of reasoning in the Midrash would posit that this mitzvah not to hate Egyptians is all about gratitude. But perhaps it goes deeper.

Who really suffers from our anger? We do.

The Rambam (Maimonides Hilchot Deot

We are forbidden to despise those we might be most expected to hate.

(laws of character development, chapter 6) implies that the reason we are not meant to hate is because hatred eats up our souls. And if we are not allowed to hate Egyptians, then obviously we are not meant to hate anyone.

Hatred comes when others do not see things the way we do, and when we expect that the way we see the world is the way everyone should see it (see the Netziv’s introduction to the book of Bereishit).

We can certainly disagree with another person’s perspective, but only if we first respect the person. Hatred occurs when we lose sight of the value of the person who is behind the perspective.

Hatred has a way of poisoning the soul, causing us to lose reason and perspective, with catastrophic results. We owe it to ourselves to be sure we do not allow the hatred around us to cause us to become hateful as well. A person who is full of hatred is truly enslaved and it was only in our ability to let go of that hatred, when we got out of Egypt, that we were truly free.

It would be easy to mobilize people by stoking the flames of hatred; that was what Hitler did, and that is what leaders are doing in Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, the Gaza strip and the Palestinian Authority. We have to be better.

Three thousand years ago, on the banks of the Jordan River, Moshe exhorts us to judge evil actions, but not evil people. We can hate the sin, without hating the sinner.

May Hashem bless us with a year full of peace and tolerance and love, alongside the willingness to fight battles that need to be fought.

Shabbat Shalom and K’tivah ve’chatimah Tovah. Best wishes for a sweet, happy and healthy new year.

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veryone who is familiar with the story of Ruth knows the Talmudic sentiment (Yevamot 69a, 77a and Ketuvot 7b) that a Moabite female is permitted to join the Jewish people. The Talmud has a classic word-game which helps clarify the mitzvah in Devarim 23:4-7, that an Ammonite and a Moabite may never join the Jewish people.

The Torah gives two reasons for the mitzvah: “Because they did not greet you with

bread and water when you were on the way out of Egypt, and also because they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethosr in Aram Naharaim to curse you.” (23:5) (Compare this to Devarim 2:29) It is understandable that the Moabites would be viewed negatively in that generation. But forever? The modern reader will certainly be troubled by what seems to be a racial sentiment in this law, that there is an inherent flaw in Moabite males that can never be undone, that there is no way Moabite men can ever overcome their natural feelings towards the Jewish people, no matter how society evolves and the world changes.

Could this really be the Torah’s message?

To call this a racial flaw is wrong, because

Moabite women are welcome to join the Jewish people. But putting the Moabite men in such a category seems to fall under the rubric of a national “punishment” — irrespective of an individual’s behavior — that can last forever.

There is much more background to this story that is needed to help us understand the Torah’s message. Firstly, Ammon and Moav were children of Avraham’s nephew Lot. This made them, in Torah terms, brothers with the Israelite nation. They were untouchable and their land was untouchable.

However, owing to the fact that Sichon King of Emori had conquered the lands of Ammon and Moav (Bamidbar 21:26), their original lands were no longer unavailable to the Israelites. When Sichon came out to attack

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(Bamidbar 21:23), he opened himself to losing all his lands, including those he had conquered himself.

See how Israel treated Edom (Bamidbar 20:14-21), Esav’s kin, offering to merely pass through their land while reminding them, “We are your brothers, you know what we’ve been through,” we have no issues with you as we are merely going to retrieve our Promised Land. There is no reason to assume they would have treated Moav any differently (see Shoftim 11:18). And yet, Moav spends an entire Torah portion (Parshat Balak) trying to destroy the Israelite nation through necromancy and the curses of Bilaam.

The Midrash Tanaim raises the possibility that “when you come to a city to fight, you should first offer peace,” including reaching out in this fashion to the Ammon and Moav nations, but concludes that it does not include them.

Then the Midrash recounts an episode when a potential Ammonite convert came to the religious court during the Talmudic period. Rabban Gamliel told him he could not join the Jewish people, while Rabbi Shimon said he could. When Rabban Gamliel challenged Rabbi Shimon based on the verse in the Torah, Rabbi Yehoshua countered saying that Sennacherib had thrown the world into disarray by replacing populations, and there was no longer any truly identifiable Ammonite or Moabite.

In simple terms, this would suggest that G-d had a plan for a certain amount of time, knowing that Sennacherib would come along one day and neutralize this law — along with the law of killing Amalekites, etc.

Another answer is one that I first read in a sermon of Rabbi Norman Lamm from the 1960s in which he decried judging the Torah’s laws and narrative based on modern sensibilities which tend to be become more liberal over time.

And yet, maybe there is something to the everlasting grudge. Ramban says, “Even though they are your family, and Avraham your father loved their father [Lot] like a brother, you cannot be brothers with them, because they abrogated the covenant of brotherhood, and destroyed it forever.” Certainly until Sennacherib, the national punishment against the male Moabite population would be carried forever. This is not about the individuals — it is a collective rule that no Moabite can become an Israelite.

In our modern world, we often look to sins of the past and say “we are not like those people any more. We have evolved. We have tolerance and patience now.”

Think about the relationship between Jews and Christians for millennia, blacks and whites for centuries in the Americas, and all the politics which were attached to the Confederate Battle Flag in the aftermath of the tragic shooting in mid-June at the AME Church in South Carolina. Christians are often the biggest supporters of Israel, racism is not allowed in the US as an official policy, and long-time Southerners have had to express that the Confederate flag stands for honor and not racism, at the same time as it is being pulled off of flagpoles at public buildings. Society evolves.

Thanks to Sennacherib, even the Moabite could join the Jewish people today.

And yet I know people who had a falling out and will never move past their fight. They will never forgive. They will never pick up the phone and make the call to move on in peace. There is a piece of human nature in this. But it is unhealthy for a society, and especially for a Jewish community, to see these kinds of attitudes in play.

Rosh Hashana is fast approaching. We need to find a way to put the hurt behind us, and foment peace in our own ranks. Only then will our teshuvah be complete.

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Sounds of joy literally fill the air at So. Nasau SNCC Chances are very good that you’ve heard Brahm’s Lullaby, the famous cradle song. Every time a child is born, that beloved melody is being played over the public address system at South Nassau Communities Hospital’s Center for New Beginnings.

It not only adds joy to the new mother and father’s event, but also spreads that good feeling to family, friends, staff and other patients.

“Every action we take here at South Nassau is designed to inspire a spirit of hope, optimism, encouragement and wellness for our patients, their family members and friends as well as our staff,” said Sue Penque, chief nurs-

ing officer. “While this simple touch complements the expert care we provide for mothers and their babies, it also invites all patients and staff members to join in the celebration of the birth of the baby.”

“The first time a patient hears it they usually ask why that song is playing,” said Director of Nursing Gayle Somersteinom. “From then on when they play the lullaby you see a smile on the patients’ faces, knowing another baby was born.

“Even in meetings, when the song comes on, you see employees stop for a moment to let that absorb.” Named to the Becker’s Hospital Review list of “100 Hospitals with Great Wom-

A New Beginnings private labor and delivery suite at South Nassau Communities Hospital Center.

en’s Health Programs” in the United States, last year South Nassau delivered 1,958 babies.

The entire South Nassau center was de-

signed with parents in mind, from the labor and delivery suites, to the 24-hour visitation policy.

North Shore-LIJ teams up with Brooklyn’s Maimonides MMC The North Shore-LIJ Health System and Maimonides Medical Center announced this week that have entered into a strategic partnership,following discussions that have been ongoing since in February.

Beginning immediately, North Shore-LIJ and Maimonides will pursue a full integration in a phased approach, with both institutions maintaining their independence and separate governance structures. Maimonides will continue to operate as a full-service, tertiary and

teaching hospital and be a critical component of a growing network of services that the North Shore-LIJ Health System and Maimonides will establish in Brooklyn.

The strategic partnership will be composed of joint ventures and other activities that will

Primary Care, Pediatrics and Urgent Care in Hewlett From left: Linda Bryant, MD, Internal Medicine; Carolina Murray, DO, Urgent Care; Joann Carcaterra, DO, Internal Medicine

strengthen Maimonides and expand its leadership role in the region. North Shore-LIJ will work with Maimonides in enlarging its ambulatory network of clinical services to position the hospital for continued success as lead entity of Continued on page 10

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Winthrop Sleep Disorders specialist Qanta Ahmed will explain sleep disorders common in older individuals, the evaluation process, and tips for getting a good night’s rest. A question and answer period will follow the lecture.

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So. Nassau demolition

South Nassau Communities Hospital In another step toward restoring vital healthcare services to the residents of Long Beach and surrounding communities, South Nassau Communities Hospital has begun demolition of the Central, Founders, and East buildings of the former Long Beach Medical Center.

A complete abatement of each structure was conducted prior to the start of the demolition, including removal of asbestos, lead, paint and mercury containing materials such as exterior siding, roof shingles, tar paper, pipe wrap and interior floor tiles.

South Nassau officials have been working closely with City of Long Beach and regulatory agencies on the demolition. Residents

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can expect some noise during work hours (such as the crackling of wood, the breaking of concrete, and the rumble of construction vehicles) as building materials are crushed or hauled away to a recycling facility, but as mandated by the City of Long Beach, demolition work will begin no earlier than 8 am South Nassau opened Long Island’s first freestanding Emergency Department in Long Beach on Aug. 10 and has been receiving patients and ambulances there around the clock. The facility underwent an $8 million upgrade and has received praise from elected officials, community leaders, patients and first responders.

The first facility has six private treatment rooms, including an observation unit with three beds where patients can be held for up to 23 hours.

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Continued from page 9 one of the state’s three largest Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) programs.

In addition, North Shore-LIJ will provide Maimonides with capital resources and access to its extensive shared services infrastructure and expertise, enabling the hospital management to make needed investments while continuing to improve operating efficiencies.

Maimonides President and CEO Pam Brier “has built an organization focused on excellence with an unwavering commitment to meeting the health care needs of the communities served by the hospital,” said Michael Dowling, North Shore-LIJ’s President and CEO. “Maimonides is now a key strategic partner with North Shore-LIJ as our health system seeks to expand its presence in Brooklyn.

“We look forward to combining our complementary strengths as we work with the Maimonides Board and management team to identify other opportunities to meet the critical health needs of the borough’s 2.6 million residents.”

Brier, who recently announced she will retire at the beginning of 2016 after two decades of leadership at Maimonides, said, “North ShoreLIJ will be a great partner for Maimonides. We share a common vision about the need to find innovative approaches for managing care and keeping people healthy. And we have common values about putting patients first and supporting the doctors and other staff who care for them.

“This partnership with North Shore will — simply put — make an enormous difference in our ability to take better care of people who live in Brooklyn.”

“We are confident that this partnership will quickly provide value to both organizations, and also benefit the many diverse communities of Brooklyn that rely on Maimonides for their health care needs,” said Kenneth Gibbs, the current chair of the Maimonides board and Brier’s successor as president and CEO. “We look forward to working closely with North Shore-LIJ’s talented leadership as Maimonides continues to provide the excellent clinical outcomes that have placed our services in the top tier nationally. Everyone is a winner today.”

Maimonides is Brooklyn’s pre-eminent healthcare provider and among the largest independent teaching hospitals in the nation.

Widely recognized for its major achievements in advancing medical and information technology, Maimonides has 711 beds and over 70 subspecialty programs. For additional information on the nationally recognized services at Maimonides, visit maimonidesmed.org.

North Shore-LIJ Health System is one of the nation’s largest health systems, delivering world-class clinical care throughout the New York metropolitan area, pioneering research at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, a visionary approach to medical education highlighted by the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, and healthcare coverage to individuals, families and businesses through the CareConnect Insurance Co. North Shore-LIJ cares for people at every stage of life at 19 hospitals and more than 400 outpatient physician practices throughout the region. North Shore-LIJ’s owned hospitals and long-term care facilities house more than 6,400 beds, employ nearly 11,000 nurses and have affiliations with about 10,000 physicians. With a workforce of about 54,000, North Shore-LIJ is the largest private employer in New York State.

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henever I would hear that someone is a rawtarian, I assumed they were limited to eating carrots and celery sticks or other fruits and vegetables. I love the flavors of fruits and vegetables, but all day?

And only raw?

It’s not as if I ever considered becoming a rawtarian, nor will I be converting to it now.

But I now understand what it actually means.

And I will make a good, conscious effort to incorporate more of that raw produce goodness into my life.

Why? Because I had the enriching experience of hearing and learning from Julie Auerbach, originally of Denver; today, Chana Auerbach of Israel, where she is founding executive chef of Briah Living Foods. I joined a raw food demo hosted by Chana at the East Denver Orthodox Synagogue last week.

I came in curious about expanding my wellness repertoire. Certainly, by the time I left that was actualized. I understood that raw food is about eating food that is alive, but it is so much more than that. Between the raw almond milk, vanilla shake, jicama fries, peach cobbler — and my favorite, the spiralized zucchini, corn and tomato pasta salad — I left inspired. ere’s the story. Of all people, Chana or anyone from the Auerbach family are the last people on earth you would imagine becoming a vegetarian, let alone a rawtarian. I mean, we’re talking about The

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Auerbachs. For generations, meat distributors in Colorado. If they don’t qualify as the definition of carnivores, who does?

With her constant smile and between the whizzing of a blender and tossing of salads, Chana, in her tall strong and charming personality, graciously, openly, tackles an emotional and vulnerable topic and shares how she arrived at this food journey.

Chana is bald. She has alopecia.

In her early twenties, she was coping with feeling very ill, weak, and losing her hair. After trying everything, it seemed, to no avail, someone suggested raw vitamin supplements. It did the trick, and Chana had found her calling.

Nuggets of wisdom flow from Chana’s soul and leave her mouth as easily as her delicious recipes.

“Eating dead food makes you feel dead, whereas eating live food creates life,” or, “we’re built to heal ourselves.”

Her presentation is laced with humor, kindness and a lot of food intelligence.

For example, “When eating something new, it takes 10 times before the body accepts it.”

I never understood the whole point of juicing. I’d heard of people doing it, but didn’t really get it. If anything, I had learned that juicing is negative, as it removes the fiber. In two seconds, Chana demystifies the whole issue, explaining how important fiber is, but that consuming fiber is work for the body. So every once in a while, give the body a break.

Flood the cells with nutrients (i.e., juice) without making the body work. It’s a healthy break for the body (not as a regular habit, though). That fiberless drink, as a break, is what those juice cleanses are all about.

rained as a chef, Chana has amassed a lot of nutrition knowledge that she integrates with her love of cooking healthy, nutritious and raw food.

And her faith, and even intimate dialogue with G-d, shines through.

When answering a question from the audience about her hair growth, part of her answer includes “at this pointm G-d is just laughing with me.”

Chana talks about health accountability and encourages building community around eating healthy as support and encouragement for maintaining good eating habits.

She is real, though; she doesn’t come off like a pretentious perfect health-eating angel who doesn’t know or understand the human craving for treats or the social aspect of food.

She’s normal and validating. And therefore motivating.

Salt, raw honey and raw cacao, soy, vitamins, yeast, acid, spices, alkalizing, sprouting, and so much more, Chana’s presentation was dotted with tons of information. Any comment or question that was raised, she clearly had a command of the topic.

Her cooking, her faith, her kindness, all combined into one thing: Chana’s teaching.

She taught us how to prepare delicious, healthy food, how to think about our bodies and eating well, how to talk to G-d, and how she talked to her young students about her baldness.

Most of all, through her presentation, what Chana’s spirit taught us most was her unspoken lesson of overcoming challenges with confidence and grace. And what true beauty actually is.

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Talking rugelach: Dairy to be good?

By Robert Gluck, JNS.org Rugelach are a beloved traditional Jewish pastry, with a quirky history to boot, but they often present a kosher conundrum. Though parve rugelach are often a preferred dessert after a meat meal, some of today’s most popular rugelach are known for their dairy fillings.

Pastry chef Paula Shoyer—author of the books “The Kosher Baker: Over 160 Dairyfree Recipes from Traditional to Trendy” and “The Holiday Kosher Baker: Traditional & Contemporary Holiday Desserts”—calls herself “a huge fan of rugelach,” but says that over the years she has been “disappointed at the quality I find everywhere.”

“Kosher bakeries sell versions that are dry and filled with over-processed fillings, giving the cookies a fake, too-sweet taste,” Shoyer tells JNS.org. “As a result, I rarely buy them, or even eat them, at kosher events. The only rugelach I have enjoyed in years are from Zabar’s in New York, and those are good because they are made with butter and have so much chazerei (Yiddish for junk) in the filling.”

Shoyer, however, says she has perfected a parve rugelach recipe made with soy cream cheese and parve margarine. Like the Zabar’s version, she loads them with lots of fillings.

She calls them “everything rugelach,” and the recipe is in “The Holiday Kosher Baker.”

Where do rugelach come from, anyway?

According to Joan Nathan’s “Jewish Holiday Cookbook,” traditional rugelach are made in the form of a crescent by rolling a triangle of dough around a filling. Some sources believe rugelach and the French croissant share a common Viennese ancestor—crescent-shaped pastries commemorating the lifting of the Turkish siege during the 1683 Battle of Vienna. But this might be an urban legend, as both rugelach and their supposed ancestor, the kipferl, pre-date the

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early modern era, while the modern-day croissant did not originate earlier than the 19th century. This leads many to argue that the croissant is simply a descendant of either rugelach or kipferl.

Food writer and caterer Vered Guttman says the origins of rugelach date back to the Hungarian kifli, Austrian kipfel, and Polish rogal.

Shoyer, meanwhile, says rugelach “are an American adaptation” of Austria’s kipfel.

“Early versions used a yeast dough, but a recipe for the cream cheese version, popular today, was first published in 1950,” she tells JNS.org. “Today some are made into crescents, but many companies, including myself, like to bake the square ones which are faster to assemble and hold more filling inside.”

Jane Moritz, owner of the Challah Connection vendor, has specialized in Jewish and kosher gifts since 2002. Her rugelach were voted “best mail order dessert” by David Rosengarten, an American chef, author, and television personality who hosted more than

2,500 television shows on the Food Network from 1994–2001. Moritz’s rugelach were also featured on Epicurious.com as one of food blogger Sarah Kagan’s suggested “Eight Delicious Hanukkah Gifts.”

Challah Connection assists customers with holiday shopping, sending gifts for occasions ranging from a housewarming to a shiva, or simply gathering around the table with loved ones. The company, says Moritz, “takes the symbolic foods of the Jewish holidays and creates gifts around that for the most part, put people love our kosher bakery items no matter what the season. We can’t sell enough babka, challah, and rugelach.”

“Our rugelach really are delicious,” Moritz tells says. “They’re dairy-based rugelach.

They’ve got butter and cream cheese, which is great, although some people like to have parve rugelach so they can have them after a meat meal.”

Moritz says regarding her website’s sales, “Babka may be taking the lead over rugelach, but we sell a lot of rugelach.”

The aforementioned Zabar’s rugelach are touted by the company’s website as the favorite rugelach of New Yorkers.

“When you catch the warm aroma of our rugelach,” the website states, “you’ll immediately know why New Yorkers think ours [are] the best. Zabar’s rugelach would make Grandma proud: made by hand, flaky, rich, sweet, fragrant, and stuffed with raisins or chocolate. Each order contains a full pound of our famous rugelach, in your choice of chocolate or raisin.”

The Zabar’s rugelach are made from cream cheese, butter, cinnamon, chocolate, raisins, and more.

“It’s an old family recipe,” said Scott Goldshine, a Zabar’s manager. “Our store is highly regarded because, like our founders, we are

Broccoli and mushroom muffins

Dough ingredients 2 cups flour 100g butter, softened 1 egg ¼ tsp. salt ¼ tsp. sugar 3 tbsp. Water Filling ingredients 4 thick leeks (white part only) 1 pkg. small portabella mushrooms, cut into quarters 1 cup broccoli florets 3 cloves garlic, crushed 30g butter ½ cup Gilgal Chardonnay 250ml cream 3 eggs 1 spring onion, chopped Salt and pepper to taste Dough Preparation In a food processor or mixer, mix the flour and butter until the mixture becomes crumbly. Add the remaining ingredients and mix well. Put in the fridge for half hour.

Filling Preparation Cut the leeks, diagonally, into pieces about ½ cm wide. Sauté the butter and leeks in a pan, mixing occasionally, until the leeks turn golden. Add the mushrooms and season with salt and pepper.

Cook until the liquid evaporates. Add the broccoli and wine, bring to a boil and cook on a high flame until only two tablespoons of liquid remain. Add the cream, bring to a boil and turn off the fire. Strain the filling a little, and mix in the eggs and spring onions.

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very much sticklers for quality.”

Goldshine says Zabar’s emphasizes the principles of “quality control at all levels, constant tasting, constant sourcing of the best products available, rejecting things we don’t think are up to our standards.”

“Everybody’s grandmother has her own recipe for rugelach,” he says. “People make rugelach in different shapes and sizes and flavors. It’s morphed into many flavors. We carry 10. We do a very large business in rugelach. I can make a living selling just rugelach.”

like deep fried dough stuffed with lettuce and other ingredients.

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o funny husband stories this week, no family member engaged or married and no new news on the home front.

Instead of lamenting the end of summer (and my pathetic Atlanta Braves), I thought I’d actually write about food for a change of pace.

There are thousands of great dishes in the world. Knowing this, it’s not surprising that so many people mistake where certain foods originate. Following are some of the common ones that might surprise you.

French Fries

French Fries are incredibly popular all over the world. While the French have tried to claim them, they were invented by the Belgians and are still quite popular there. Some folklore stories say that some Belgians would often fry very small fish, and when they had no fish, they would make potatoes in the shape of small fish instead.

Egg Rolls

The Egg Roll that we eat in many parts of the western world isn’t all that much like similar Chinese food. The egg rolls westerners know was created by Chinese immigrants to America who were using what ingredients they had to make something that would seem like theirs, but was meant to appeal to Americans. The thick hard-shelled egg rolls are nothing like the actual spring rolls that you will find in Hong Kong or elsewhere in China. Spring rolls are much more delicate and light, while western egg rolls are more

Nachos were invented by a Mexican, out of extra ingredients that were on hand, but designed to satisfy the appetites of visitors from the United States. The man who invented them was known by the name “Ignacio,” which is where the name nacho comes from.

A man named Frank Liberto eventually starting selling them at stadiums and the rest was history. They became a very popular concession food.

Sushi Rolls

Most of us in America think of sushi rolls whenever asked about Japanese food. Truth is, sushi is not nearly as popular in Japan as it is among those who are trying to emulate Japanese culture. It is rarely eaten in Japan.

With fewer than a quarter of Japanese surveyed reported eating sushi even a couple of times a month, sushi in Japan is simply a meal usually reserved for an important event. And Japanese people would rarely eat the kind of rolls we are used to. What they usually eat is called nigiri, a long piece of fish with a big ball of rice wrapped around it using seaweed.

Spaghetti and Meatballs

When asked about foods that come from Italy, many people think of spaghetti and meatballs before anything else, but it’s not a dish of Italian origin. While it was invented

by Italians, they were immigrants in North America. More to the point, in Italy, spaghetti and meatballs is not on the menu, and not really something they serve. There rare occasions that pasta and meatballs are served at the meal, but they are definitely not served together.

Croissants

Most people think that croissants were invented in France; some westerners even say it with a faux French accent in an attempt to sound sophisticated (in English it is pronounced “cruh-sont”). However, the croissant is believed to have actually come from something called the kipferl. While there are many conflicting stories about how the croissant came to be, most believe that it was by an Austrian man. Legend says the man was an artillery officer from Austria who decided to open up shop in neighboring France, and that after introducing the kipferl the croissant eventually followed.

Pizza

Italians do have their own version of pizza, but it’s nothing like what many in America would expect it to be. The legends of who invented pizza, and where and how, are varried and many. In America, pizza is generally slathered in tomato sauce with seasonings, topped with a ton of cheese and then heaped with toppings. However, in Italy, pizza is a much more exquisite creation that might actually disappoint American food cravings.

They don’t always involve tomato sauce — some opting instead for fresh tomatoes — and frequently include fresh herbs and veg-

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etables, some mozzarella and olive oil. While both dishes have the same name, they are strikingly different.

••• This week’s recipe is for a chocolate croissant (pronounced with that phony French accent). It’s for all of my readers that have been asking for an easy recipe that cuts down on time, doesn’t involve many ingredients, but at the same time tastes delicious.

For busy moms with little kids, those who work long days and don’t have much time on your hands, this is sure to please. Enjoy!

Hi-tech and tikkun olam: Israel paves the way

By Daniela Berkowitz Decades have passed since Israelis invented a modernized drip irrigation to maximize limited water supply and make desert bloom, yet Israeli curiosity, drive and ingenuity toward excellence continues to thrive. Israelis are determined to lead in solving some of the most pressing humanitarian challenges. Working on the precepts of tikkun olam, Israel persists at the forefront of innovation, seeking to make life better for all. Just one avenue where Israel excels is health and medicine.

Nearly 1 billion people in developed countries consider emergency response expensive and delayed, while upwards of 6 billion people in the developing world simply lack access to any sort of emergence response. In cases of accidents, terror attacks or other medical emergencies, people are likely to die or suffer serious injuries because of a lack of proper response. With its unfortunate and long history of facing terror attacks, Israel has honed in on effective emergency response techniques to save lives quicker.

In Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, like in most major cities, ambulances typically get stuck in traffic and cannot arrive fast enough. Following the Second Intifada, a group of young ambulance medics watched too many people die because aid was unavailable. So they envisioned a solution, where medics could be notified according to their proximity to a reported incident. Equipped with medical supplies, they could rush over and stabilize victims within the minutes before the ambulance arrives. This model, now called United Hatzalah, dropped response times to under three minutes.

“We took chutzpah and ran with it,” said Eli Beer, founder of United Hatzalah of Israel. Since officially formalized in 2006, United Hatzalah has recruited over 2,500 trained volunteer medics to join the movement of community-based lifesaving. To fuel the program, the organization worked with Israeli startup NowForce to develop the LifeCompass app, an integrated GPS-powered system that records incidents, alerts nearby medics and guides them to arrive to the scene quickly.

In addition to the app, United Hatzalah has crafted and deployed customized ambulance motorcycles to weave through traffic. This “ambucycle” is stocked with medical equipment and works in tandem with LifeCompass. By way of practical ingenuity, United Hatzalah’s community-based emergency response model has exceled in cutting response time and attending to more people who need critical care.

United Hatzalah dispatchers received 245,000 calls last year, nearly a quarter of which are considered life-threatening situations.

Hooked on their effective program, United Hatzalah representatives have traveled the globe sharing their knowledge and expe-

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rience. “We have taken what we have learned in Israel and begun sharing it with others, because we know that we can help solve this world-wide challenge,” said Beer.

In July, Beer and Dov Maisel, vice president of international projects, traveled to Dubai to present the model to delegates from several developing countries. This model has been deployed in places like India, Lithuania, Argentina and Panama, and recently made its debut in the United States, with Jersey City into the United Rescue initiative.

While sharing tools and techniques with the world has huge merit, teaching and inspiring others to better the world is even more valuable, as Jewish proverbs explain. Israeli institutions are famed as major research centers and engaged in Israel’s role as the “Start-Up Nation.” At the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, innumerable cutting-edge research and innovation have been born in the halls of the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine.

“Ask any researcher or academic in medicine anywhere in the world and they will tell you that Israelis are world-class, first-class innovators,” said Dr. Debra Kiez, an emergency medicine clinician based in Toronto. Kiez also lectures at the Technion’s American Medical School program (TEAMS) on how to bridge Israeli and American medical systems. “Israel is doing a large amount in medicine and sci-

ence with very little; as a small yet impressive country, Israelis have a huge ability to discover, learn, innovate, research and teach,” said Kiez, who has worked in Canada, the U.S. and Israel.

“Hospitals and medical schools in Israel are rich learning environments … because people in Israel have learned how to maximize what they can do with very little,” she said.

TEAMS educates America’s future doctors, giving them hands on experience in a rigorous clinical setting while studying under top Israeli physicians and researchers. Graduates land residencies at top programs across North America and go on to successful and impactful careers as physicians, educators and researchers.

Like most American alumni from the Technion medical school, Dr. Samantha Jagger, now a cardiologist at AdvantageCare Physicians in Brooklyn, studied under Nobel Prize winners and stays connected to Israel by following all the published medical research.

“When I was a student at the Technion, I saw the first PillCam being tested during my rotations,” said Jagger. “Now it’s a routine practice everywhere!” Jagger added that there is a special ablation procedure used to solve rhythmic problems in the heart developed in Israel that she and her colleagues use frequently.

Dr. Jason Brookman, a 2004 graduate of TEAMS currently working as a fellowship program director and assistant professor in anesthesia at Johns Hopkins University, said his experience in medical school was “a stepping stone for the rest of his career.”

“Medical school is the foundation, like a background in a good painting, we paint as broadly as possible. With each additional training or residency, our medical careers get refined with smaller brush strokes. The nitty gritty details of medical practice rely on a solid foundation in medical school,” he explained.

Most of the benefits of studying in Israel is getting to learn from world-class experts while in a very diverse setting. As a small country with an extremely diverse population, Israeli doctors serve a wide range of people, with each population bringing unique diseases and cultural tends into the fold, said Kiez.

“My time at Technion and in Israel gave me a really deep cultural experience,” said Jagger. “I got a good understanding of how to deal with patients cross culturally, especially when you can’t necessarily communicate in their language.” Now working with Asian and Spanish speaking patients, she has implemented the skills and tools she garnered from working in Israeli hospitals teaching Russian, Arab and Ethiopian patients.

By combing top-class education and rich life experiences, Israeli medical school students are bridging the world, serving also as a light bringing positive healing into the world.

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Goldie Steinberg was joined by four generations of Steinbergs at her 113th birthday party.

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cause she wanted to be in a safe, secure environment.

Steinberg said she enjoyed the simple things in life, such as crocheting, reading the newspaper, and watching TV. She also enjoyed watching “The Price is Right,” and she spent her time watching the Yankees on TV — she lived to see the team win all 27 World Series titles and 40 American League Championship Series titles — knitting and helping out fellow residents. One night, when her roommate was coughing, she walked over to her and gave her a cough drop.

“Grandell Rehabilitation & Nursing Center mourns the passing of Goldie Steinberg,” Baruch Giberstien, Grandell’s administrator, said in a statement. “She touched the lives of all the residents here. She will be remembered as a warm, caring person. She was an inspiration to all of the residents and staff. She showed so many how you can live a productive

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Continued from page 1 we loved her,” he said. “She waited until everybody in the family said goodbye, and then she was gone.”

When she became a supercentenarian — someone who reaches the age of 110 — five years ago, Steinberg’s milestone birthday caught the attention of people from around the country, and she was even being studied by researchers from Boston University School of Medicine’s (BUSM) New England Centenarian Study, who contacted her due to her impressive age.

One of eight children, Steinberg was born in Kishinev, Romania — known today as Chisinau, Moldova — on Oct. 30, 1900. At the age of three, she survived the Kishinev pogrom, in which rioters killed more than 40 Romanian Jews, injured 600 and destroyed 1,500 homes and businesses over three days.

Steinberg came to the United States at the age of 23, an opportunity given to her and her two sisters by their wealthy uncle.

When she came to the states, she lived in an apartment in Brooklyn’s Bensonhurst neighborhood, and had two children with her husband, Philip Steinberg, who died in 1967. A longtime practicing seamstress, Steinberg resided in Brooklyn, where she rented an apartment for 72 years. She moved to Grandell in 2004, a place she referred to as “home.”

In interviews with the Long Beach Herald, Steinberg said she moved into the facility to be closer to her daughter, but also be-

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Goldie was world’s oldest Jew…

and rewarding life well into longevity.”

Heller told the Herald in an earlier interview that Steinberg always put others before herself. Steinberg once told him that when a person dies, the only thing that remains is the good name they build up.

Steinberg was known for taking care of the younger residents — that is to say the 90-year-olds, Heller said, and she was always concerned about whether everyone was getting served at meals, and made sure everyone had their bibs on and was comfortable.

“She’s the president of the floor,” Heller said. “Everyone here treats her like their own grandmother.”

In 2012, Hurricane Sandy interrupted Steinberg’s birthday, and all of Grandell’s residents were forced to evacuate.

The facility is a block away from the ocean, and Steinberg was unable to return for a month. When she returned after Thanksgiving, the staff threw her a belated birthday. In 2013, Heller said that Steinberg was a bit rundown after all of the commotion of Sandy, though a year later, she got her party, and she was in high spirits.

“She’s like the energizer bunny,” Heller said.

Steinberg attributed her long life to her children, Teicher said in a past interview with the Herald.

“Her children keep her alive,” Teicher said. “I also want to thank the staff at Grandell Rehabilitation and Nursing Care.

They also do a great job taking care of my mother.”

When asked about her favorite food in an interview with the Herald in 2010, she responded with a one word answer: “Breakfast,” said Steinberg, who later added vegetable soup and fish, though not fried, to her list.

Steinberg expressed excitement during her birthday celebrations and said that she was most happy about being able to see her family. “[I’m] very, very happy to see my grandchildren and great-grandchildren,” she said.

When asked about her fondest memories, of which there were many given her long life, her response was prompt, followed by a big smile.

“My family,” Steinberg said.

She is survived by her two children, Anne Teicher and Donald Sargent, as well as her four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. She was buried at Wellwood Cemetery in Pinelawn following a funeral service on Wednesday.

Anthony Rifilato is editor of the Long Beach Herald, where this story was first published.

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By Matthew Ern Officials from the federal, state and local governments met in Long Beach on Monday to urge Hurricane Sandy victims to have their insurance claims reviewed if they suspect they were underpaid after the storm.

In May, the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that it would reopen all 144,000 Sandy-related insurance claims following widespread allegations that engineering reports were doctored and homeowners were underpaid. The deadline to have a claim reviewed is Sept. 15, and it is not expected to be extended.

Roy E. Wright, the recently appointed director of FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program and the agency’s deputy associate administrator for insurance and mitigation, was in Long Beach on Monday, along with U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice, State Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky, County Legislator Denise Ford and city officials, meeting with homeowners and stressing the importance of having claims reopened.

“We should have got this right the first time,” Wright acknowledged. “It is very clear that there were errors. There were too many errors made. And it is our job to set those right, and more importantly, make sure that will never happen again.”

Wright emphasized that the September deadline is merely for beginning the process, and that homeowners are free to opt out of it at any time once a review has begun. They do not need legal representation to go through the

In Long Beach on Monday, from left: Roy E. Wright of FEMA, County Legislator Denise Ford, South Shore Rep. Kathleen Rice, Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky, and Long Beach City Council President Len Torres. They urged South Shore residents to apply to have their Sandy insurance claims re-examined before the Sept. 15 deadline.

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process, he added, and it is designed so they can do it on their own.

FEMA’s announcement in May came after more than 2,000 storm victims in New York and New Jersey took legal action against their insurance companies after they received estimates for repairs that they thought were too

Emunah Cedarhurst bake sale The Five Towns Chapter of Emunah of America is offering the community an opportunity purchase delicious baked goods —including challahs, cakes, cookies and kugels — as well as an assortment of beautiful gift items in time for the holidays.

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low. The issue gained national media attention when U.S. Magistrate Judge Gary Brown issued a scathing ruling in November that U.S. Forensic, an engineering company hired by the Wright National Flood Insurance Company, had “unjustly frustrated efforts” by two Long Beach homeowners, Deborah Raimey and her husband, Bob Kaible, who sought a damage claim after their home was destroyed in the storm.

Brown ordered that all insurance carriers and engineering companies involved in Sandy lawsuits provide property owners with copies of all reports on their homes and businesses, including any drafts and photographs.

“I think it’s very important for everyone in this community here to know that they still have time to sign up to get money, to get back in their homes,” Rice said at Monday’s press conference. “We have a lot of work ahead of us to reform NFIP, restore oversight and account-

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ability and restore homeowners’ trust that the insurance they purchase will be there when they need it. That wasn’t the case for too many Sandy victims on Long Island, and I encourage any homeowner in our district who may have been underpaid to resubmit their claim before the Sept. 15 deadline.”

About 12,000 claims have been reopened so far, Wright said, out of 16,000 policyholders who asked to have their cases reviewed. Each review should take about 90 days, he added.

“We are at a point in this process … [at] which I am beginning to see checks go out the door, and that’s the difference of today from times in the past,” Wright said. “I want as many people who have questions about their underpayments to continue to come in.”

Kaminsky said that he is pushing the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to amend the NY Rising program so that FEMA payouts won’t count as a duplication of benefits.

“We’ve been through a lot — do not be fearful anymore,” Ford said. “We have your back, and we will always advocate for you.”

Wright maintained that even if a case review results in a duplication of benefits, homeowners should still end up with more money than when they started the process. “I cannot imagine a circumstance by which there is less money in a homeowner’s pocket at the end,” he said.

“There may be a question about whether or not those insurance proceeds may need to be credited somewhere else, but in every one of those instances it doesn’t end up in a net loss.”

“We also encourage residents to explore reopening their claims in advance of the Sept.

15 deadline,” Council President Len Torres said “For those in Long Beach, we have our Residential Rebuilding Assistance Program, where a caseworker can assist folks with filling out forms and navigating through their rebuilding efforts. If anyone in Long Beach would like help, please contact one of our caseworkers at (516) 705-7222.”

Matthew Ern is a reporter for the Long Beach Herald.

Santino on Iran: A deal the world cannot endure

By Senior Hempstead Councilman Anthony J. Santino The proposed Iranian nuclear deal cobbled together by President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, and the Islamic Republic of Iran is riddled with risks the world cannot endure. This is why I firmly oppose the deal and stand with Senator Charles Schumer, Congresswoman Kathleen Rice, Assemblyman Brian Curran, the AmericanIsraeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC) as well as many religious and community leaders in firm belief the United States cannot ratify it. We must do everything in our power to prevent its passage by Congress.

The administration’s Iran deal demands far more scrutiny that it has received. Washington cannot allow this fundamentally flawed agreement to get approved, especially because it does not unequivocally eliminate a pathway for the world’s leading sponsor of terror to obtain a nuclear bomb.

After investing decades and billions of dollars to fulfill this objective, logic dictates that under no circumstance would Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, successor to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, agree to conditions that would permanently impede his nation’s success. If so, Iran’s very approval of the deal is reason enough to suspect that President Obama’s fullthroated denials, does no such thing.

The Washington Post last month bears this out in a report about disagreement between our country and Iran over the deal’s eventual

outcome: “the U.S. claimed the deal would stop Iran from procuring a nuclear weapon [as] Iran’s Supreme Leader appeared to be claiming that was not the case.” Key provisions of the deal suggest the Iranians are likely right.

President Obama claims his proposal halts Iran’s nuclear quest. Yet, rather than dismantle the program, the deal allows Iran to continue its nuclear weapons research and development, maintain its facilities, centrifuges, stock of enriched uranium and Intercontinental Ballistic Missile program, and absolve the Iranian government of on-the-spot international nuclear site inspections.

Other provisions that will prove highly advantageous to Iran include awarding the regime over $150 billion in unfrozen assets, plus additional sanctions relief in the range of tens of billions of dollars each succeeding year. This money will likely be put to immediate use to fund newer, more deadly forms of Islamic terrorism throughout the world, particularly directed against our greatest friend and ally in the Middle East, Israel.

In fact, rather than fully dismantling the program, President Obama’s Iran deal assists Iran’s present path to develop nuclear weapons. In fact, the most significant constraints on Tehran’s nuclear program lapse after 15 years — after which Iran is free to produce uranium on an industrial scale, while enjoying unfettered freedom and immense financial resources to regain its current role as the world’s lead sponsor of terror.

Past history, present facts, and simple log-

ic all dictate the obvious flaws in this deal.

It’s abundantly clear why a proposal that fails to completely block Iran’s pathway to a nuclear bomb must be rejected. However, its supporters like Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Nancy Pelosi disingenuously claim the only alternative is war. This comparison is not just false, it’s insulting. The only alternative to this deal is a better one.

Unlike the present proposal, a better deal would not trigger a nuclear arms race in the

Middle East, nor would it lift present bans on arm sales to Iran. It would also include a non-negotiable demand of reducing Iran’s centrifuges and uranium stockpiles to levels consistent with peaceful use, as well as a total halt to the Islamic Republic’s development of intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Other possibilities to bring to the negotiating table include expeditious inspections of Iran’s nuclear sites, backed by severe financial penalties for Iranian-sponsored terrorism, against citizens of any country, and particularly Israel. It’s instructive to remember that years of sanctions presently crippling the Iranian regime is a key reason Tehran came to the negotiating table in the first place.

If, for whatever reason, the time has come to seriously negotiate a new reality with Iran, then it is our duty to reject President Obama’s misguided proposal. By empowering our next president — whether he or she is a Republican or Democrat -– to negotiate a much stronger deal, we can ensure peace, protect the interests and security of our allies in the region, namely Israel, as much as we preserve the safety and security of the American people here at home. Additionally, no one can seriously argue that a nuclear Iran would not place the American heartland in that rogue nation’s crosshairs.

Anthony J. Santino is serving his fifth term and is Republican-Conservative-IndependenceTax Revolt nominee for Hempstead Town Supervisor this November.

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Ruderman Family Foundation “Room on the Bench” at the Luria Academy in Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights neighborhood is one of five winners of an international inclusion competition that honors Jewish organizations that operate innovative programs and provide services that foster the full inclusion of people with disabilities in their local Jewish community.

“Room on the Bench” (pictured) works to engage teachers, outside service providers and parents to create more integrated schools.

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The other winners are Yavne Institute in Montevideo, Uruguay; Jewish Family Service Association of Cleveland, Ohio; Kisharon’s Adult Employment Programme in the United Kingdom, and Beit Hillel in Ra’anana, Israel.

“As our worldwide Jewish community begins to accept and practice the value that all Jewish people have a right to belong and participate in Jewish life, this year’s Ruderman Prize in Inclusion awardees set the standard for the rest of our com-

The Prize highlights the recipient organizations as models for inclusion that can be replicated anywhere. Fully inclusive programs ensure that everyone in our community can participate together in all activities, without stigma or imposed limitations.

The Ruderman Prize in Inclusion is a signature program of the Ruderman Family Foundation, which believes that inclusion and understanding of all people is essential to a fair and flourishing community.

Hundreds of organizations from almost every continent have applied since the Prize was first announced in 2012.

Organizations from Canada, Israel, South Africa, Russia, Australia, Mexico, the U.S. and Argentina have received the award. This year’s winners include programs dedicated to employment, religious ethics, inclusive education and full community involvement.

Luria Academy’s “Room on the Bench” works to transform the experience of students with disabilities and their families munity organizations to aspire to attain,” said the foundation’s president, Jay Ruderman. “It is our hope that these awardees into one that fully integrates them as members of the Jewish not only serve as the gold standard for disability inclusion in day school community, collaborating with schools to create an their communities, but for the entire Jewish community across inclusive environment through modeling best practices, online guides and consulting services. the globe.”

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By Alina Dain Sharon, JNS.org When Kelly Webeck visited Nazi Germany’s former Chelmno extermination camp in Poland as part of the July 2015 European Holocaust tour of the Alfred Lerner Fellowship for Holocaust educators, she entered the small museum that stood in the center of the camp’s ruins and came across a sewing machine in one of the display cases.

Dutch Holocaust historian Robert Jan van Pelt, who guided the school teachers participating in the tour, described the sewing machine as an object that concentration camp prisoners chose to bring with them because they still had hope.

“You bring a sewing machine because you actually believe you’re going to sew again someday,” said Webeck, a community art educator in Houston, who recounted how after seeing the machine, “I had to leave [the exhibit]. It was too much for me.”

That moment is symbolic of the impression the Lerner fellowship, which is organized by the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR), leaves on teachers like Webeck.

“We’re not talking statistics here, 6 million, X number of Jews, X number of POWs,” said Amy McDonald, a fellowship participant who teaches history and an elective course on the Holocaust at Shades Valley High School in Birmingham, Ala. “What it boils down to is the tragedy of each individual life and each family.”

For the annual fellowship, JFR—which in 2014 awarded $1.7 million in support funds to non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust (individuals who are known as righteous gentiles)—selects 30 middle and high school English or social studies teachers from the U.S. and other countries who already teach about the Holocaust. As part of the program, the teachers first participate in an intensive summer institute at Columbia University.

At the institute, which was held in June this year, the teachers attend lectures by noted Holocaust scholars and then break into small groups to share their thoughts and develop new approaches to teaching the Holocaust. JFR fellows can also participate in a subsequent advanced seminar and join a two-week tour of European Holocaust sites.

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The crematoria at Dachau, pictured during a stop on July’s tour for Holocaust educators.

Since Holocaust education is not mandated in most U.S. states, the Lerner fellowship gives teachers more of “the grounding and the history, so that they can go back and present the subject to their students in the appropriate manner,” said JFR Executive Vice President Stanlee Stahl.

While JFR does not ask about participants’ religion in the application process, most teacher fellows have been non-Jewish, as is the case for all of the fellows interviewed in this story. McDonald, who is Christian, went on the 2015 Europe trip. She said she has always been interested in the Holocaust and World War II, but that her experience in the summer institute left her “in awe” of the “rich and complex” content presented and the opportunity to learn directly from renowned historians.

“It helped me uncover what I felt my passion was when it comes to education,” said McDonald.

On this summer’s Europe trip, McDonald was particularly moved by a visit to Tykocin, Poland, which had been a typical Eastern European town in

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the late 1930s, inhabited by Christians and Jews, until it was occupied by Germany in 1941.

“We walk out and we stand on this square where, on that particular day at the end of August in 1941, the Jews of this small town, approximately 1,400, were suddenly told to assemble in the market square,” McDonald described. “We are told how they are marched a mile or two down the road to an old school building where they spend the night. As a group, we get back on our bus and drive the mile or two down the road to this forest, and we walk in silence down into the depth of the forest, where we turn to these three mass graves.”

In Birmingham, McDonald teaches in a city where the Jewish community is fairly small and her students have little background on Judaism. Since her school’s student body is in a low-to-middle income bracket, few of her students have the chance to travel to Holocaust sites themselves.

Yet the students are “incredibly touched” by hearing testimony from the visits of the six or seven

Holocaust survivors who still live in the Birmingham area, said McDonald. She said they “see these Holocaust survivors as true heroes. In today’s world I don’t know that students really have heroes anymore.”

Webeck said that from her perspective, the Holocaust is primarily “a human history and not a Jewish history.” She has written a Holocaust education curriculum based on a collection of photos that she compiled for the Holocaust Museum Houston. The photos are portraits of Houston-area Holocaust survivors and still-life images of their residences. Webeck created a lesson plan based on the story of each survivor.

When students look at the photos, they think about how the survivors “choose to keep that particular part of their lives, that aspect of their history, present in their homes,” Webeck said.

Webeck regularly gives these lessons in the high school classroom of another teacher who participated in the Lerner fellowship, and she has used the photos in various seminars for other teachers. Her experience at the fellowship’s summer institute left her with some written sources that she plans to incorporate into her curriculum going forward, such as Alexandra Zapruder’s “Salvaged Pages,” a collection of teenagers’ diaries from the Holocaust.

After taking the fellowship’s European tour, which is chronological, Webeck also wants to rearrange her photo lessons into a chronological pattern and tell the history based on where the survivors in the portraits had lived.

Since Webeck took many new photos during the trip this summer, she intends to supplement her teaching materials with contemporary images of the places where the Holocaust survivors in her lessons lived. She said that will allow her students to “see that it’s a real place, with real color and real structure.”

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Seven decades after the Germans liquidated the Lodz Ghetto and sent its remaining Jews to Auschwitz, the Jerusalem-based nonprofit Shavei Israel, in partnership with the Lodz Jewish community, is opening the first Jewish kindergarten in the Polish city.

“There is a growing Jewish community in Lodz, as well as many Poles with Jewish roots who are becoming more and more interested in reconnecting with their heritage,” said Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund, adding that, “In looking for ways to strengthen Jewish life, we realized it is crucial to invest in the next generation of Jews and to provide them with a well-rounded Jewish education.”

The city was historically home to one of Poland’s most vibrant Jewish communities – and one of the largest ghettos during the Holocaust – but Jewish life all but disappeared from Lodz in 1944, Freund noted.

“Not only will this kindergarten provide an essential community service, but it will also serve as a symbol of Jewish revival in

Lodz. The fact that Jewish children in Lodz will be singing Sabbath songs, learning about the Patriarchs and celebrating the festivals is perhaps the best possible revenge for what was done to our people there during the dark days of the Holocaust.”

The Gan Matanel kindergarten at 18 Pomorska St. will be run by Shavei Israel’s emissary to Lodz, David Szychowscy, and his wife, Miriam Szychowsca, and has already registered ten children for the coming academic year.

“It is so emotional for us to be a part of the renewal of Jewish life here in Lodz, especially considering all that the Jewish community went through during World War II – and the total lack of Jewish education for decades,” said Szychowsca, whose own children will attend Gan Matanel starting next month.

“We are truly proud that our own children will be among the first Jewish kindergarten class in Lodz in nearly 50 years.”

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A Szychowscy child who will be attending Gan Matanel in Lodz, Poland.

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Prior to the outbreak of World War II, Poland was home to more than 3,000,000 Jews. Lodz, located in central Poland, held one of the largest Jewish communities in Europe, second only to Warsaw. In January 1945, when the Lodz ghetto was liberated by the Soviets, only 877 Jews remained from the more than 245,000 who had been incarcerated there.

There are approximately 4,000 Jews officially registered as still living in Poland, but experts suggest there may be tens of thousands of other Poles with Jewish roots who, to this day, are either hiding their identities or are unaware of their Jewish heritage.

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