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Parsha Re’eh, Rosh Chodesh Elul • September 2, 2016 • 29 Av 5776 • Candlelighting 7:06 pm, Havdalah 8:13 • Luach, page 19 • Vol 15, No 34
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Grateful tributes to Rebbetzin Jungreis By Ed Weintrob Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis, z”l, was eulogized last week for her pioneering kiruv work and as a rock of her family. “The rebbetzin had a special way of reaching the pintele yid (Jewish soul) in every person,” her son-in-law, Rabbi Shlomo Gertzulin, told an overflow crowd at her levaya on Aug. 24 in Agudath Israel of Long Island in Far Rockaway.
Rebbetzin’s legacy: See Kosher Bookworm, p. 18
Hundreds of volunteers — including 6-year-old Michael Fuld — assembled 750 school-supply-filled backpacks last Wednesday at Yeshiva of South Shore in Hewlett, during the seventh annual Long Island Tov B’Yachad Supplies for Success event organized by UJA-Federation of New York. The donation-filled backpacks assembled at YOSS will be given to students in need at local yeshivas. As many as 11,000 backbacks will be distributed throughout the metro New York area through UJA-Federation beneficiary agencies and yeshivas. Tim Baker
The shul’s spiritual leader, Rabbi Yaakov Reisman, said that “her message was always the same — unadulterated, unapologetic Torah principles and hashkafah.” Through her organization, Hineni, “people who never knew how to say Shema Yisrael, today their children are learning in yeshvas, kollels — frum families, not one, not 100, not 1,000 — they’re building klal Yisroel,” said Rabbi Gertzulin, executive vice president of Agudath Israel of America. The scion of a celebrated rabbinic family in Hungary, she and her close family were saved in 1944 when the Kastner train, carrying 1,600 Jews to Auschwitz, took them instead to safety in Switzerland. “She brought Hungary, with her illustrious past steeped in Torah and keeping of the mesorah, with her” to America, said Rabbi Reisman. “She had a dream, that not only would she survive, but that others would too.” Determined to fight the growing commonality of assimilation and intermarriage in America, “she started a revolution all by herself —no committee, no organization — called Hineni, in 1973,” Rabbi Reisman continued. “She didn’t come up with any new formula, she just reinterated
Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis with April Foley, United States AmUS Department of State bassador to Hungary, in Budapest in 2008.
our timeless past.” Jungreis and her late husband, HaRav Meshulem HaLevi Jungreis, zt”l, were pioneers of frum Long Island, settling in Bethpage, Valley Stream and North Woodmere where, in the early years, they may have been the only Jews fully comSee Jungreis on page 22
What those captured Palestinian weapons mean Friends of Israel often complain about what they say is the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s inadequate effort to make Israel’s case to the international community. And those complaints are not entirely without merit. But somebody in the foreign ministry’s hasbara division deserves credit for coming up with a simple, yet incredibly effective way of demonstrating what Israel is up against: show their weapons. Telling the world that hundreds of terrorists have been arrested, or thousands of weapons captured is mind-numbing. They’re just numbers. The public yawns and turns the page. But recall what the Israelis did after capturing in Jan. 2002 the Karine A, the Palestinian ship seized by Israeli commandos. They didn’t just issue See Captured weapons on page 8
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t’s one of the most disturbing photos from Israel that I’ve seen in years. I’m referring to this week’s image of the hundreds of Palestinian terrorist weapons captured in Israeli raids. It was enough to send shivers down one’s spine. And it revealed more about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than all the panel discussions, research papers, and expert A cache of Palestinian weapons confiscated by Israeli police. analyses with which we are always being bombarded.