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By Ed Weintrob Two Democrats will face-off on Tuesday in a primary election for the seat vacated by Todd Kaminsky’s elevation to the state Senate.

The primary winner — Long Beach City Councilman Anthony P. Eramo, 42, or former Nassau County legislator Jeffrey M. Toback, 56 — will face the -HIIUH\ 0 7REDFN Republican nominee, Atlantic Beach resident Missy Miller, on Nov. 8.

At a forum hosted by the Long Beach League of Women Voters last Wednesday night, Tobak and Eramo clashed over a signature Kaminsky $QWKRQ\ 0 (UDPR issue: Albany reform.

Eramo endorsed Kaminsky’s view that legislators should not hold outside jobs while Toback said that such a restriction See Primary choice on page 20

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The four Orthodox synagogues in Long Beach and Lido Beach have joined together as the United Kehilla.

The Kehilla celebrated its ďŹ rst event on Sunday during Labor Day weekend — a barbecue that attracted 200 people to the Lido Beach Synagogue. In addition to food, there was a petting zoo, pony rides and a DJ. Tropical storm Hermine mercifully kept its distance.

The participating shuls are the Long Beach’s Bach Jewish Center at 210 Edwards Blvd., Young Israel of Long Beach at 120 Long Beach Blvd., and Sephardic Congregation Benai Asher at 161 Lafayette Blvd., as well as the Lido Beach Synagogue at 1 Fairway Rd. in Lido Beach.

The spiritual leaders of each synagogue — Rabbi Moshe Greene of Bach, Rabbi Shaul Rappeport of Lido Beach, Rabbi Chaim Wakslak of the Young Israel, and Rabbi David Bibi of the Sephardic Congregation, recently met to coordinate formation of the consortium and to plan activities for the next few months. “Instead of each shul working independently, we are now joining forces and combining resources, in order to provide a much more robust and engaging programing to Jews in the entire area,� said Rabbi Rappeport. “This is such a wonderful neighborhood to live and raise a family in, which already has so See Long Beach and Lido on page 22

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By Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman, JNS.org The indelible legacy that the late Rabbi Maran HaGaon HaRav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv, zt�l, has left on his community is still felt today. It is felt broadly through his halachic rulings on medical issues.

Tens of thousands of people visited his gravesite in Jerusalem’s Har Menuchot cemetery to mark his fourth yahrzeit last month. And a new documentary, “The Interpreter of G-d’s Word in our Time, Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv: 1910-2012,� was recently shown on Israeli TV. Rav Elyashiv died on July 18, 2012 at age 102. He and his wife, the late Sheina Chaya Levin, had 12 children.

The 90-minute ďŹ lm, which chronicles the rabbi’s life, tells his story from the perspective of those who knew him as a rabbi, teacher, family member and leader. It focuses on Rav Elyashiv’s uncanny ability to delve into Jewish texts. For him, studying was like a drug. For 90 years,

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For 22 years, he served as a dayan on the Beit Din Hagadol of the Chief Rabbinate, until he resigned in protest over a ruling by the late Rabbi Shlomo Goren.

However, Rav Elyashivâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s protocols for the Chief Rabbinateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s batei din are still in force today.

Rabbi Dov Halbertal, an Israeli attorney, said Rav Elyashivâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s halachic opinions would travel instantly from his synagogue or study to the rest of the world.

He recalled how on one particular Sukkot, Rav Elyashiv made a statement about the placement of a particular individualâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s schach. That statement immediately went abroad. Before the end of Sukkot, all of his followers had changed the way they positioned their schach.

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Campuses under siege: How kids fight back Commentary by Arnold M. Eisen, for JTA As over 300,000 Jewish college students arrive on American campuses this month, what they experience there is likely not only to broaden their minds and uproot long-held assumptions, but shake their Jewish selves to the core.

They will contend with powerful faculty and student voices accusing them of complicity in a regime of privilege and oppression here in America and of colonialism, genocide and apartheid in Israel.

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement and its campus allies have had little impact thus far either on the investments made by universities or on the policies of the governments of Israel or the United States. They are, however, diverting enormous time and resources from important work of Jewish education and community building. No less important, they are causing untold numbers of students to keep their heads down where Israel — and Judaism — are concerned, and to feel ashamed when they have every reason to be proud.

I am not afraid that Jews or other college students will fall for the Big Lie about Israel.

The world is a dangerous mess right now, nowhere more than in the Middle East. Simplistic narratives of good and evil like those propounded by the BDS movement are unlikely to prove persuasive to anyone who reads up on the matter or exercises their minds.

But I do fear growing doubt among some Jewish undergraduates that the Jewish community and tradition are worthy of their involvement and commitment. I worry about increased suspicion — thanks in part to language endorsing BDS positions in the platform released by a coalition affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement — that students can stand up for justice as Jews, and can fight mass incarceration and racism as supporters of Israel. I want all to know that they can and should maintain

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deep ties to the Jewish community and tradition at the same time as they claim membership in larger communities and work alongside others for universal causes of justice and peace.

My message to students, this fall in particular, is this: Have pride in your Judaism. Learn about its history and Israel’s. Keep your minds and hearts open. Maintain the moral courage to reject claims that Israel practices apartheid and genocide — because they are unequivocally false. Work to create spaces on campus where one can openly, and lovingly, question choices and actions made by Israel’s leadership, and America’s, without giving up attachment to either. As Jews, we must stand beside those fighting against inequality and injustice, and should do so regardless of the incorrect views that others hold of Judaism and Israel.

As a committed Jew, I am commanded to

have unceasing concern for both Jewish learning and the struggle for justice. That same passion attracts me to the State of Israel, which I view as an attempt to translate age-old Jewish values into policy. This attempt, which will always fall far short of perfection, deserves our enduring support — and, when necessary, our critique. Like any nation, Israel requires such challenge and correction if it is to remain true to its founding ideals. Israel has a lot to figure out, many wrongs to make right, incredible achievements on which to build, deep-seated currents of bigotry to overcome, a proud tradition of democracy (the only one in the Middle East) to develop, and the hopes of many millions and many centuries that it dare not betray.

But history shows that whenever people say that Jews (or any other group) are largely to blame for significant portions of the world’s

ills, or that things would be perfect if only Jews stopped insisting that we, too, have a right to live in the world, or that the Jewish state, or the Jewish community, has no right to exist unless it conforms to allegedly “universal” ideals demanded of no other people as a condition of legitimate survival — something is dangerously wrong. That point of view, which sadly has a long history behind it, must be resisted.

Though they will hear its rhetoric and see its demonstrations, few students will ever visit the BDS website, where one learns that the movement is avowedly part of the Palestinian national struggle against the very existence of the State of Israel. BDS materials say nary a word about the partial responsibility of the corrupt Palestinian government in the West Bank or the murderous Hamas regime in Gaza for the failure of the peace process thus far. One hears a great deal from BDS and affiliated groups like Jewish Voice for Peace about Jewish and Israeli culpability — but nothing about mistakes made on the Palestinian side, oppression committed by it, the blatant anti-Semitism built into its policies and publications. BDS is silent about the many countries that are guilty of abuses far worse than those charged to Israel.

Much of the Middle East is in flames. The Syrian death toll has passed 400,000. And not a single Middle Eastern society guarantees equality and justice for all its citizens — women and men, Christian and Muslim — to anything like the degree that Israel does, however imperfectly.

As we approach Rosh Hashanah, my hope for the new year is that no Jewish students leave Judaism behind in the name of universal ideals — or leave Israel behind in the name of Judaism.

The world desperately needs the skills and knowledge they will acquire on campus. Judaism needs their passion, perspectives and engagement. Israel needs their voices, proud and strong.

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“The Prime Minister presented Israel’s position that he is always ready to meet with President Abbas directly and without preconditions,” Netanyahu’s office said in a statement. “He is therefore reviewing the Russian President’s proposal and the timing of a possible meeting.”

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Israeli Air Force pilots recently trained alongside their Pakistani and Emirati colleagues, as part of an international exercise held in the United States, Israel Hayom reported.

Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates have no diplomatic ties with Israel.

The annual Red Flag drill has been in place for 41 years, set in place as part of the U.S. Air Force’s conclusions from the Vietnam War. Traditionally, the squadrons participating are assigned to “red” and “blue” forces, with the American squadron acting as an enemy — “red” — force. The aircrews practiced engagement and interception, striking targets, rescue and recovery missions, and intelligence gathering.

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The new Israeli ambassador to Egypt, David Govrin, presented his credentials to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, who welcomed him as the military band played the Israeli national anthem on Aug. 31.

“In a brief conversation I had with him in Arabic, he asked about my personal background and I told him, among other things,

about my early acquaintance with Egypt as a diplomat in Cairo as well as my academic education in Middle Eastern studies,” Govrin told Israel Hayom. The Egyptian president apparently also conveyed to Govrin his desire to revive relations with Israel.

Israel’s embassy reopened one year ago after being shut during Arab Spring protests.

Hebrew University ranks high in poll Hebrew University in Jerusalem again placed first in Israel and 148th in the world in this year’s university rankings by British education and study abroad company Quacquarelli Symonds. The ranking, published Monday, is yet another international acknowledgement of the university’s research and academic teaching prowess.

Quacquarelli Symonds, which creates an annual table listing the world’s top 600 universities, focuses on each academic institution’s performance in the areas of research, teaching, employability and internationalization. It further uses six specific indicators in its ranking methodology: academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty-student ratio, citations per faculty, international faculty and international students.

Tel Aviv University and the Technion took the 212th and 213th spots, respectively.

Shot at Tomb An Israeli soldier was shot Thursday during a patrol securing Israeli worshippers at Joseph’s Tomb near Nablus. The soldier was rushed to the Rabin Medical Center in Petach Tikva, suffering from moderate injuries. The IDF launched an investigation into the incident.

Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus is under the Palestinian security forces’ control. Jewish prayer in the compound is permitted, but worshippers are required to coordinate their visits with the military, which escorts them in and out of the area.

According to available details, military, Border Police and Civil Administration troops were securing a convoy of 16 buses carrying Jewish worshippers seeking to pray at the site.

Local Palestinians rioted, hurling stones and firebombs at the troops, who used crowd control measures to restore order.

Czech textbooks drop Jerusalem The Czech Education Ministry has ordered the company printing the atlases used in the country’s schools to cease naming Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Army Radio reported.

According to the report, the order followed a complaint from the Palestinian Embassy in Prague. The textbook’s publisher was instructed to mark Tel Aviv as the capital instead, and was warned that refusing the order could jeopardize his ties with the Czech ministry.

Jerusalem and Prague maintain friendly ties, and the decision enraged Israel.

“This is a reprehensible decision. Palestinian incitement knows no bounds, It is no longer satisfied with poisoning the minds of Palestinian youth -- now it wants to spread lies and misinformation among Czech youth as well,” the Israeli Foreign Ministry said in a statement, adding it was in touch with Prague to reverse the decision.

—News reports from JNS.org

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rabbi with New York roots. Every week, the ofďŹ ce is to move to a home in a different West Bank settlement in an effort to reach Israeli Americans where they live â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and turn them out to vote for Trump.

In the month since Republicans Overseas Israel launched its campaign, it has set up ďŹ ve ofďŹ ces â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the others are in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Raanana and Modiin. Next up are Bet Shemesh, Holon and the Gush Etzion region of the West Bank. Efrat and Beitar Ilit, which like Karnei Shomron have large American populations, are to get the third and fourth West Bank ofďŹ ces.

The strategy is to target young Americans in Israel who do not usually vote and especially immigrants from such pivotal swing states as Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Brot estimated that there are 30,000 eligible swing state voters in Israel, including 10,000 to 12,000 from Florida alone. Republicans Overseas Israel thinks that could be enough to tip the election in Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You talk about a 500-vote margin in [Florida, which decided the presidential election of] 2000. Well, last election there were over 7,000 votes from Florida [in Israel]. There were thousands more

from Ohio. There were thousands more from Pennsylvania. So the answer is yes, in a close election we really can make a difference.â&#x20AC;?

A late comer to the Trump cause, Zell said he had never seen so much excitement for a U.S. presidential candidate. Public registration events throughout Israel regularly run out of Trump stickers, T-shirts and pins, he said.

Democrats Abroad Israel, the partyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ofďŹ cial body in the country, have questioned the notion that Americans in Israel are in tizzy over Trump. An Israel Democracy Institute poll in March found that most Israelis preferred his rival, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, 38 percent to 28 percent. There is no recent data speciďŹ cally on how Americans in Israel are likely to vote. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People are very much concerned about Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rhetoric and his reputation,â&#x20AC;? said Merrill Oates, the Democrats Abroad vice chair for Asia, the Middle East and Africa. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They may have some disagreements policy-wise with Secretary Clinton, but they feel she is a reliable person who they can have conďŹ dence will steer the ship of state with a steady hand.â&#x20AC;?

Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disparaging remarks about Muslims and Mexicans, among other controversial statements he has made on the campaign trail, have been criticized by American Jewish groups.

In December, even Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized Trump for saying he would bar all Muslims from entering the United States.

At least in the West Bank, though, the overwhelming number of Americans seem to be backing the real estate billionaire.

Rabbi Chaim Spring, 79, who agreed to let Republicans Overseas Israel use his home as its Karnei Shomron ofďŹ ce (and drape it with Trump banners) described himself as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;big Trump supporterâ&#x20AC;? who watches â&#x20AC;&#x153;a lot of Fox News.â&#x20AC;?

A New York native and former U.S. Army chaplain, Spring moved to the West Bank 43 years ago and now works in book restoration and binding. He said the United States could not survive a continuation of President Barack Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s policies, which he said were making the country â&#x20AC;&#x153;a second-rate powerâ&#x20AC;? feared only by Israel. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Trump is a generous, down-to-earth person. That he has such wonderful children speaks a lot about him. His daughter is Jewish, and not only that, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Orthodox,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to be the smartest guy in the world to be president. You just have to be an honest person. And Hillary Clinton is not honest. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s it.â&#x20AC;?

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By Andrew Tobin, JTA KARNEI SHOMRON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Supporters of Donald Trump opened a campaign ofďŹ ce here on Monday in what they said was a ďŹ rst on behalf of an American presidential candidate. They said that Americans from swing states who are living in Israel might cast decisive votes in Novemberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s election.

While the chief Israel strategist of Republicans Overseas, Tzvika Brot, said there was no political signiďŹ cance to the launch of ground operations in the West Bank, Mark Zell, the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s co-chairman and vice president of the parent Republican Overseas, quickly contradicted him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not entirely true,â&#x20AC;? Zell told reporters, standing before a Hebrew-language Trump banner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[The Republican Party platform] eliminated any reference to Israel as an occupier. That wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just a play on words, that was a real statement that coincides with Donald Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own statements recently that when it comes to building homes and synagogues and schools for Arabs and Jews in Judea and Samaria, this is an issue for the Israeli government to decide and the Israeli people to decide.

It is not something that America should be dictating to Israel.â&#x20AC;?

Chaim RosenďŹ eld, 19, was one of two young volunteers at the opening of the Karnei Shomron ofďŹ ce, immigrated to Israel from Queens with his family as a young child and now lives in Talmon, where he is waiting to be drafted into the Israeli army. He said most of his friends in Israel, American or not, were Trump supporters, but few were informed about voting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most of them either donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think they can [vote] or they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty simple. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my job,â&#x20AC;? RosenďŹ eld said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really so important having a strong America and a strong Israel. It really affects both sides.â&#x20AC;?

Brot, a former political journalist for Yedioth Acharonot, said right-wing Knesset members, including Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick, had wanted to attend the opening, too. But he said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the head of Glickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Likud party, and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, the head of the Yisrael Beiteinu party, had nixed the idea in an effort to stay out of American politics.

Republicans Overseas Israel is not afďŹ liated with or funded by the GOP but coordinates with the party and the Trump campaign in the United States.

At the Karnei Shomron ofďŹ ce in the northern West Bank, the group had set up laptops on a kitchen table in the home of a local

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Woodmere’s ‘No. 6’ getting ready for HALB

By Jeffrey Bessen The terrazzo floors are being cleaned, walls for the classrooms are going up, windows are being installed and the color-coded wires are being bundled. The former Number Six School in Woodmere is being prepared for occupancy by the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach (HALB).

School officials said they could move their first through eighth grade students in by the end of November.

“It’s a big job, an 80,000-squarefoot building, all the trades are working in the building,” said HALB Executive Director Richard Hagler, as he guided a reporter through the maze of workers, equipment and materials.

HALB bought the 6.67-acre site, which includes the 80,170-squarefoot school building, for $8.5 million, along with $2.7 million that will be held as a guarantee that Lawrence will realize more than $565,000 in annual savings on what the district now spends on transportation for HALB students.

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students who attend HALB live in or very close to the Five Towns, HALB officials said. The sale was approved by public referendum in 2014.

The Lawrence School District spends about $10 million to transport more than 4,000 private-school students and 2,500 public school students. This year, the district has contracted for 13 buses for HALB students, according to Jeremy Feder, Lawrence’s assistant superintendent for business and transportation supervisor.

Hagler said that the gymnasium’s wood floor is being preserved, there will be about 100 parking spaces, and car traffic will flow in from and out to Branch Boulevard. Buses will use Ibsen Street, he said.

There will be six new basketball hoops, three ballfields and two swimming pools for HALB’s summer program, Hagler said, with one of the pools sloped for younger swimmers, Hagler said.

Jeffrey Bessen is editor of the Nassau Herald, where a version of this story appeared.

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By Deborah Fineblum, JNS.org Is it a coincidence that the two people most intimately involved in creating the Hebrew Music Museum are both Levis, descendants of the tribe dedicated to providing music in the Temple?

For 12 years, Laurent Levy, the museum’s sponsor, and Eldad Levy, its director, (they are not related) each had a vision of creating an interactive, state-of-the-art museum in the heart of Jerusalem that would celebrate Jewish music. “When we met five years ago we were both amazed that we shared this dream,” said Eldad Levy, a professional musician. “He said ‘Let’s do it’ and that was the beginning.”

During five years of planning for the museum, they collected hundreds of authentic instruments from around the world, conducted real estate negotiations in the city’s trendy Ben Yehuda neighborhood and designed and built a one-of-a-kind exhibit space.

Representing an investment of 20 million shekels — about $5 million — the Hebrew Music Museum swung open its doors in April.

Today, the Levys’ dream has become a reality. The place attracts more than 1,000 visitors a month who come to see, and hear, what it’s all about. They’re immersed not only in the history of Jewish music, which has taken so many guises depending on place and time, but also how it ties back to the music of the two ancient Temples, one of which stood not far from their location.

Inside the museum, 260 musical instruments, from seven lands where Jews have lived in the Diaspora, are spread throughout seven rooms. Each room is decorated sumptuously in the style of the country it represents: Yemen, Morocco, Central Asia, Iraq, the Balkans. In a room develoted to Israel and Europe (don’t miss that gorgeous hand-painted ceiling), there’s a harp much like the one King David played while composing his Psalms.

In each room, visitors can listen to the music of each place and time using handheld tablets they’re given when they enter the museum. These portable devices are programmed with explanations in five different languages; Hebrew, French, English, Spanish and Russian. The message is a potent one: each place Jews have lived, they have adopted the local instruments, and often the folk music of the region, and infused it with Jewish tradition, lyrics and soul.

“When designing the museum, we kept asking ourselves, ‘How can we touch people’s hearts with the power of Jewish music from throughout our history?” Eldad Levy said. “We knew they’d need to hear the music, see the instruments and learn something about the

culture we developed in each place we lived.”

One recent example of this fusion is Klezmer, which was popular in 18th century Eastern Europe at the time of the chassidic master Rabbi Baal Shem Tov. It continues to attract die-hard fans today.

Dating back much further is Jewish life in Iraq. There’s a faithful replica of the kind of Babylonian harp Jews played there 3,000 years ago. The original instrument was excavated by Germans archeologists, who’d been conducting digs in Iraq in the early 20th century.

“As amazing and beautiful as [the instruments] are, the real story is what’s behind the instruments,” Levy adds. “They were each an expression of Jewish life in these places.”

By far the highlight for most visitors is the temple room that features a large model of the Second Temple, which stood on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount for 420 years before it was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE. Patrons put on virtual reality headsets, which took three years to develop and program, to gain an inside view of a recreation of the service going on inside the Holy Temple. This is the place to hear a seemingly universal word escape the lips of young and old alike, “wow!”

“It’s like you‘re in the Beit HaMikdash with the kohanim,” said 11-year-old Yosef Levi (also no relation) who lives in Gush Etzion and was visiting with his grandmother. “You can see them working in there and you can hear the music.”

Hearing the music (which Eldad Levy composed) that’s the most important part of the virtual reality experience. “The job of music – and we’re talking about Jewish music – is to connect one person to another and another, wherever we live, and that’s helped keep the Jewish people strong since Temple times,” he says. And, he adds, “Maybe that’s why people keep coming back to the museum and bringing their friends and relatives.

Religious or not, they’re all able to feel it.”

Yosef’s grandmother Elsa Levi, a native New Yorker who now resides in Neve Daniel, enjoyed the experience, saying, “It was amazing to see so many instruments from around the world that Jews played, instruments I never knew existed.”

The Levys are not done with their vision just yet. They’re building another story onto the roof for a 400-seat auditorium for concerts, films and presentations. It’s projected to open next year.

Still, with or without an auditorium, Yosef Levi is recommending his friends go. “Yeah, they’ll see all kinds of instruments from all over the world that don’t even look like instruments” he says. “Wherever Jews lived, we always had our music.”

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The Betrayal of Syria’s Kurds BEN COHEN VIEWPOINT

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rom Moscow to Washington, we are told that the principle enemy in the Middle East is the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organization. At the same time, the outside powers that have intervened in Syria’s horrendous conflict are waging a phantom war against IS as a cover for separate military campaigns that end up empowering these very same barbarians.

We’ve known that the Russians and the Iranians have been following this strategy for at least three years. Both Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and the Islamist mullahs in Tehran have backed the regime of President Bashar al Assad to the hilt, with the tacit approval of the United States. As the Wall Street Journal reported recently, the Obama Administration’s determination to secure last year’s flimsy nuclear agreement with the Iranians meant that the “red lines” the president declared in Syria over Assad’s use of chemical weapons turned out to be a more anemic color. The Iranians got their deal and all the financial benefits that went with it, while the peoples of Syria and the entire region were forced to realize that, under Obama, the much vaunted American empire is actually what Chairman Mao [Zedong] once called a paper tiger.

Just as the war against Islamic State has, for Russia and Iran, been a war to keep Assad in power and extend the territory under his control, so it is with Turkey, which last week sent its troops over the border into Syria. The Turks say they are targeting IS, but in the same way that the Russians and Iranians have turned their firepower on civilian targets and non-Islamist rebels alike – strengthening IS by default – Turkey’s real agenda in Syria is to crush the burgeoning Kurdish national movement in the north and east of that country.

The visceral hostility of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Kurdish aspirations has been well documented. In the wake of July’s failed military coup, Erdogan has banked the messages of support from foreign leaders, particularly in the United States, to launch a crackdown on the universities and the press, and to continue the demonization of Turkey’s own Kurdish minority as a fifth column threatening the country’s integrity.

Erdogan set the tone for his latest campaign against the Kurds at a rally in Istanbul a few days after the coup attempt, when the Turkish leader addressed a massive crowd waving banners with such IS-style slogans as, “Order us to die, and we will do so.” Erdogan’s call for national unity, however, did not extend to the Kurds, and the proKurdish HDP party was deliberately excluded from the rally. As one of the leaders of the HDP, Figen Yuksekdag, pointed out in an interview with the Kurdish website Rudaw, the coup was carried out by the same Turkish military that had repeatedly attacked the Kurds. Now Erdogan, he added, is “kicking the HDP out of the political conversation in the country.”

On the military front, the Turks have long been concerned by the successes of the Kurdish YPG militia in Syria, claiming that these fighters are indistinguishable from the militants of the PKK, who have been fighting Ankara’s rule in the southeast of Turkey for decades. The U.S., it should be said, does not share this view, and regards the YPG as the

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most able and courageous fighters in that part of the Middle East. “[W]e draw clear delineation between the PKK and the Syrian Kurds, as I said, who are part of the many groups that are fighting against Daesh,” U.S. State Department spokesman John Toner explained on July 2.” Toner added that Washington had been in dialogue with the Turks over its support “for those Kurdish forces who are, frankly, very capable forces fighting to remove Daesh from its foothold in northern Syria.”

And yet now that Turkey is attacking an ally of the U.S., the Obama Administration is restricting itself to verbal criticism. U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter is one of several officials to have called on both Turkey and its local allies and the Syrian Kurds to concentrate on defeating IS, rather than each other.

But Secretary of State John Kerry has already shifted the balance towards the Turks.

Speaking at an August 26 press conference in Geneva with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, Kerry played down the U.S. relationship with the YPG, speaking of a “limited engagement” with “a component of Kurdish fighters on a limited basis.”

These are, frankly, mealy-mouthed words, given the central role played by the Kurds in liberating the town of Manbij, just south of the border with Turkey, from IS. It also shamefully ignores that the YPG is the only military force in Syria to have carried out a humanitarian operation, rescuing thousands of sick and dying Yazidis in the Sinjar region from further

The U.S. was blindsided by the Turkish offensive, delivering another blow to America’s standing in the region.

massacres and other outrages, including the kidnapping of young girls, by IS terrorists in the winter of 2015.

On top of that, the U.S. now looks like it has been blindsided by the Turkish offensive, thereby delivering another blow to America’s standing in the region. The State Department behaves as if it really believes that war against IS can be separated from the other challenges in the region, whereas a successful policy needs to deal with the unresolved issues that allowed IS to flourish in the first place.

Chiefly, this means setting the removal of the Assad regime as a specific goal, and seeking a political solution that will permit all the nations and ethnicities in northern Syria – Arabs, Kurds and Turkomans among them – to live with a minimum of conflict. As long as Turkey carries out its aggression against Syria under the pretext of pushing the Kurds east of the Euphrates river, and as long as Iran and Russia continue to back Assad with impunity, Syria’s agony will continue.

We have been in this position many times before. Some might remember that in September 2013, Putin penned an Op-Ed for the New York Times in which he praised Obama for seeing the opportunity behind “the Syrian government’s willingness to place its chemical arsenal under international control for subsequent destruction.” We all know where that led us.

The next American president will face a stark choice. Either succumbing to a regional alignment that now includes Turkey, which has abandoned its longstanding aim of demanding Assad’s removal, alongside Iran and Russia, or striking out on a different path to end Syria’s suffering and the extraordinary instability that goes with it.

Ben Cohen is editor of Tower.Org.

RABBI BINNY FREEDMAN THE HEART OF JERUSALEM

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his past week in Israel, the challenge of running a modern day state against the backdrop of a 3,000 year old tradition again came to the forefront. Tens of thousands of commuters, including thousands of Israeli soldiers returning to base Sunday morning, were confronted with trains not in service due to critical work on the tracks that could have been done on Shabbat but for the vehement objections of some of the chareidi parties which threatened to bring down the government.

There are two sides to every story, and it is no small challenge to ensure that the traditional character of the Jewish state is preserved, while ensuring that the country can run without compromising the safety and security of its citizens. (Electricity is generated and hospitals remain open, as do highways, on Shabbat, yet there is need of much dialogue on this topic.

It is fascinating that this debate is being revisited in the Israeli press as we prepare to read the portion of Shoftim, which opens with the obligation to appoint judges and a police force, and includes as well as the mitzvah of a Jewish monarchy in the land of Israel. There is a fascinating detail noted by the Lubavitcher Rebbe on this portion, which may shed light on the aforementioned controversial discussion.

The Opening verse of our portion (Devarim16:18) tells us: “You shall appoint Judges and guards in all your gates that Hashem gives you … who must judge Israel with Justice.”

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aimonides (Rambam Sefer haMitzvot, Positive Mitzvah 176), quoting the Sifri, tells us this mitzvah applies to all of our gates — even in the diaspora. There is, according to Maimonides, a mitzvah to appoint a Jewish court even outside of Israel.

Yet, the Sifri (Bamidbar 35:11) continues, if a person commits an accidental homicide necessitating his running to one of the six cities of refuge (Arei Miklat), such cities were not created outside of the tribal lands of Israel. (This is based on the verse saying, “These are the cities of refuge” [Numbers 35:15]).

Given that both are the judges and the cities of refuge are part of Judaism’s mechanism for ensuring justice in society, why can the former exist anywhere whereas cities of refuge can only exist in Israel?

Contradictions often mean we need to redefine our terms, or at least our assumptions.

Is anything that happens to us really an accident, or does it always carry a message and perhaps even a responsibility?

Why, after all, should a person who accidentally caused someone’s death be liable at all?

As an example, regarding a person who accidentally falls from a roof (Devarim 22:8), we are exhorted to build a railing for safety purposes so that there will “be no blood on the house when the faller falls.”

The implication is that the person was meant to fall, the only question being why he

fell from this particular roof. Seemingly, the person liable for an accidental death was in need of character refinement.

And while the judges necessary to determine that verdict need to be in every Jewish location, the actual character refinement meant to take place in a city of refuge, which was essentially a city of Levites, could only take place in Israel.

There is something about the environment in Israel that lends aid to character refinement in a way that cannot happen for a Jew anywhere else.

The reading of Shoftim always falls at the beginning the month of Elul, which leads up to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and is the month associated with teshuva. So this mitzvah of appointing judges and its connection (at least in the Sifri) with cities of refuge, must be intricately connected with teshuvah. t is easy to understand how appointing judges in all our gates is deeply connected to repentance and our preparations for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. If we want to atone for our past mistakes and transgressions and do better this year, we need to judge our actions, past and present carefully, and we need to place those judgments in all of our “gates.”

Rav Chaim Vital (the well-known student of the Ari, quoted in the Talelei Orot on Shoftim) suggests that the verse here is in the singular (lecha) because “every man has

We must create an environment where we can take refuge, in order to experience what the world could be like.

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a number of ‘gates’ through which external influences (both positive and negative) enter his body: the gates of sight, hearing, smell, speech. … To protect himself man must establish judges … that carefully examine these influences and determine whether they are of benefit.”

Perhaps this represents the impact of the proper environment on the process of rehabilitation and character refinement. And that is why the cities of refuge only function in the land of Israel, the ultimate environment for growth and character development for a Jew. Indeed all of the mitzvoth and discussions in Torah regarding geographic imperative — all the way up to the focus on the building of a temple, a sanctuary for G-d in Jerusalem — are really all about creating an environment where one can so deeply experience Hashem’s presence that one almost cannot help but be impacted in a positive way. (That may be why the cities of refuge were actually Levite cities; Levites served in the Temple and would therefore be expected to create a more sensitive, ethical and holy environment.)

While the State of Israel needs to prioritize the safety and security of its citizens, it must never allow itself to forget the value of a 4,000 year old tradition that includes the creation of a land where Hashem’s presence is constantly felt.

Meanwhile, we must do more to create a more sensitive environment where we can take refuge, in order to experience what the world could be like: in our homes and communities as well as our schools and public and business institutions.

Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem.

Contact Rabbi Freedman: Columnist@TheJewishStar.com

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Jerusalem street ďŹ ght: Yehuda v. Menachem ALAN JAY GERBER KOSHER BOOKWORM

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n excellent scholarly essay by Rabbi Norman Strickman, professor of Jewish Studies at Touro College, piqued my interest in the legacy of Judah Ha-Levi, the famed rabbi and leader of 1,000 years ago whose classic â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Kuzariâ&#x20AC;? has served as the theological guidepost for our faith through times good and evil.

In addition to Rabbi Strickmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Misinterpreting Judah Ha-Levi,â&#x20AC;? published in a recent edition of Hakirah: The Flatbush Journal of Jewish Law and Thought, my attention was drawn to an essay by Israeli real estate entrepreneur Gedaliah Borvick on the origin of Jerusalem street names.

Borvick deals with one of the most prominent residential streets in Rehavia, a street with an almost unpronounceable name â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Rechov Ussishkin. It is home to the Beit Hanassi shul, whose rav is the distinguished Rabbi Berel Wein.

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ber of stories circulating why and how this name change occurred,â&#x20AC;? Borvick writes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The most famous legend goes as follows:

Menachem Ussishkin was one of the leaders of the Zionist movement. â&#x20AC;Ś He championed the See Jerusalem street on page 15

Mosheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in Shoftim: Follow a leader like me RABBI AVI BILLET PARSHA OF THE WEEK

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he shofar sounding last Sunday began the wake-up call of the month of Elul that reminds us that Rosh Hashana will soon be upon us. The commentary of Rabbeinu Bachya on the coming parshas has found an important place in my own Elul and teshuvah-focused experience. This week we will look at one of his important teachings.

In the context of reminding the Israelites not to follow the inďŹ&#x201A;uence of the necromancers of the surrounding nations, a seemingly uncharacteristic comment escapes Mosheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lips: â&#x20AC;&#x153;A prophet from among you, from your brethren, such as myself, will be whom Hashem your G-d establishes for you. Listen to him [the prophet].â&#x20AC;? (18:15) In Hebrew, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;commentâ&#x20AC;? is all of one word: â&#x20AC;&#x153;kamoni,â&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;such as myself.â&#x20AC;?

Many commentaries suggest that this comment refers to the previous word, meâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;achekha

(from your brethren), in which Moshe says that any prophet you will have will be from the Israelite nation and he will teach you the ways of G-d and will not steer you in the direction of idolatry or the occult â&#x20AC;&#x201D; kamoni, meaning â&#x20AC;&#x153;along the lines as I have properly led you.â&#x20AC;?

Rabbeinu Bachya points out, for example, that one might think achekha includes a prophet from the children of Eisav or Ishmael. This is another reason why Moshe is clear to say kamoni, only from a direct Israelite lineage.

All these disclaimers are nice, but the fact remains that if Moshe needed to bring an example, he could have just as easily used his brotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name, or he could have pointed at Yehoshua as he did in Bamidbar 27 and Devarim 1 and 3, saying, â&#x20AC;&#x153;A prophet â&#x20AC;Ś such as Yehoshua who will be

taking over when I am gone.â&#x20AC;? Why did he say what seems like a hubris statement â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll want a prophet like meâ&#x20AC;?? After all, Moshe was the humblest of people (Bamidbar 12:3), so certainly this comment is out of character!

The Baal Haturim notices that kamoni has the same numerical value as anav (humble) (both equal 126). Moshe does not want to say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am humble,â&#x20AC;? but he does want to suggest, in code, what is a good quality of a leader. umility is not deďŹ ned as thinking you are a nobody. Humility means knowing who you are, and not making a big deal about it. It means understanding your role, as you understand that you are a nobody in comparison to G-d. Most importantly, a humble leader knows that circumstances have brought him or her to a

The shofar reminds us to follow leaders who help us maintain our focus â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a Jewish experience that follows the model set at Sinai.

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position that commands respect or is an inspiration to others, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the position which is respected before the person ďŹ lling it earns the respect based on his deeds.

Rabbeinu Bachya explains Mosheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wordchoice as follows, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The prophet should be like me, meaning he should follow my precedent.

He should not add nor subtract or uproot a single mitzvah from the Torah, unless he is an established prophet and the speciďŹ c circumstance warrants it [for instance, Elijah bringing sacriďŹ ces on Mount Carmel during the time of the Temple]. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ours is not a religion in which we believe in Moshe is prophet and leader on account of the signs and wonders he did. It is all on account of our having heard G-dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s word directly from Him [at Sinai], as did Moshe. We know it, we were witnesses to it, as it says (Shmot 19:9), â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Behold I am coming to you in a thick cloud so that the nation will hear when I speak with you, and they will believe in you [as My chosen leader] foreverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.â&#x20AC;?

Rabbeinu Bachya quotes Maimonides (Foundations of the Torah Chapter 8) as the source for his position, and Maimonides conSee Moshe on page 15

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Be wholehearted (tamim) with your G-dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; RABBI DAVID ETENGOFF

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ur parasha, Shoftim, contains the pasuk: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Be wholehearted (tamim) with the L-rd, your G-d.â&#x20AC;? (18:13) This English version reďŹ&#x201A;ects Rashiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s midrashically-based comment on our verse: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Conduct yourself with Him with simplicity and depend on Him, and do not inquire of the future; rather, accept whatever happens to you with [unadulterated] simplicity and then, you will be with Him and to His portion.â&#x20AC;?

In contrast to Rashiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s analysis, the approach of Onkelos to our pasuk, and throughout the entirety of his Aramaic translation of the Torah, suggests a different connotation for tamim,

namely, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;lim, or perfect and complete. Furthermore, while Rashi focuses upon a person being wholehearted with G-d, Onkelos emphasizes the proper manner that one must adopt in his approach toward the Creator: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Perfect and complete you shall be regarding the awe and fear you should have for the L-rd your G-d.â&#x20AC;?

Whether we adopt Rashiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s or Onkelosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; explication of our pasuk, it is apropos to turn to a halachic investigation of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Be tamim with the L-rd, your G-d,â&#x20AC;? and examine its relationship to the Taryag Mitzvot (613 Commandments). As in nearly all matters of Jewish jurisprudence, there is a machloket (disagreement) as to the status of our verse (is it included or excluded from Taryag Mitzvot?). In this instance, the major disputants are the Rambam (Maimonides) and the Ramban (Nachmanides).

Maimonides neither includes â&#x20AC;&#x153;Be tamim with the L-rd, your G-dâ&#x20AC;? as a commandment in his Sefer HaMitzvot, nor offers any justiďŹ ca-

tion for his omission. Nachmanides, however, suggests a rationale as to why Maimonides excluded our verse from the Taryag Mitzvot: Perhaps the master (the Rambam) thought that [â&#x20AC;&#x153;Be tamim with the L-rd, your G-dâ&#x20AC;?] is a general command that incorporates all of the mitzvot in regards to the proper manner that one is obligated to walk on the paths of the Torah.

[As such,] this matter is similar to the verse, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Praiseworthy are those whose way is perfect (temimei derech), who walk with the law of the L-rd.â&#x20AC;? (Tehillim 119:1) Therefore, he [Maimonides] did not bring this verse into his accounting [of the Taryag Mitzvot, since he clearly requires speciďŹ city regarding the mitzvah action to be performed, and not a metastatement describing the ideal spiritual approach to serving the Almighty]. (Critical Notes to Maimonidesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Sefer HaMitz-

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by Maimonides, number 8, translation my own) Nachmanides disagrees with Maimonidesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; decision to exclude â&#x20AC;&#x153;Be tamim with the L-rd, your G-dâ&#x20AC;? from the Taryag Mitzvot and, instead, includes it in this classiďŹ cation. He formulates the general parameters of this commandment in the following fashion: The eighth mitzvah that we are commanded is for our hearts (i.e. minds) to be perfectly aligned with Him may He be blessed. And this is as it is stated in the Torah: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Be tamim with the L-rd, your G-d.â&#x20AC;?

The essential matter of this command is that we should associate our hearts (minds) with Him alone, may He be blessed, and believe that He, and only He, performs all actions in the universe, and that He alone knows the truth as to what the future will bring. Moreover, it is See Be wholehearted on page 15

an element of teshuva should be considered by Jerusalemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s city fathers to reinstate the original street name, Rechov Yehuda HaNassi, there in its rightful place at the center of this iconic historic community. Thus, the timing of this essay.

If you want to know more about the lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s journey of Yehuda Ha-Levi, may I suggest that you read Hillel Halkinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beautiful and accessible biography, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yehuda Ha-Leviâ&#x20AC;? (Schocken Books, 2010). Not only does the author present the scholarly role played by Ha-Levi on the development of our faith, but he further enhances Ha-Leviâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work in poetry, philosophy, religious leadership, and his proven love for Eretz Yisrael, in moving there under the most dire of conditions. Also, may I suggest that you check out Ha-Levi at the Vitual Beit Medresh (VBM) website of Yeshivat Har Etzion for a complete analysis of the Kuzari. This analysis has been published in two volumes, authored by Rabbi Shalom Rosenberg, entitled, â&#x20AC;&#x153;In The Footsteps of the Kuzariâ&#x20AC;? (Yashar Books, 2007). This work is worthy of your intense study.

And ďŹ nally, I strongly suggest that you also pick up a copy of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Kuzari: In Defense of the Despised Faithâ&#x20AC;? (Feldheim, 2009), an excellent full-blown translation and comprehensive commentary by Rabbi Daniel Korobkin.

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Be wholeheartedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;Ś solely from Him that we are allowed to ascertain the nature of future events, through the vehicle of his prophets, or His men of mercy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; namely, through the Urim vâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Tumim [under the direction of the kohan Hagadol]. As such, we are prohibited from seeking out soothsayers and their ilk, and we must never believe that their words will surely come to pass. (ibid) In sum, the Ramban maintains that â&#x20AC;&#x153;Be tamim with the L-rd, your G-dâ&#x20AC;? is a constitutive element of the Taryag Mitzvot which mandates that we turn to the Creator and His earthly representatives for knowledge of forthcoming events.

Concomitantly, we must eschew the words and visions of necromancers who purport to foretell the future through divinations.

Thus, by turning solely to the Almighty, and by consciously rejecting the socalled prophecies of human oracles, we demonstrate our unmitigated allegiance to Hashem and live lives that are tamim with Him. av Tzadok ha-Kohen Rabinowitz of Lublin (1823-1900) views our verse, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Be tamim with the L-rd, your G-d,â&#x20AC;? in a different light.

Rather than discussing the substantive content of â&#x20AC;&#x153;be tamim,â&#x20AC;? he emphasizes the expression, â&#x20AC;&#x153;with the L-rd, your G-d,â&#x20AC;? as the modality through which one can attain temimut (perfection or completeness). Yet, how does one achieve the status of being â&#x20AC;&#x153;with the L-rd, your G-dâ&#x20AC;?? To answer this question, Rav Tzadok quotes a pasuk from Sefer Shemot: â&#x20AC;&#x153;And you shall worship the L-rd, your G-d, and He will bless your food and your drink, and I will remove illness from your midstâ&#x20AC;? (23:25). He notes that the verse explicitly states, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I [Hashem] will remove illness from your midst,â&#x20AC;? and proceeds to metaphorically explain its import: All of this [the removal of illness from our midst] does not take place by itself. Only Hashem, may He be blessed, has the ability to remove [illness]. This is similar in kind to a ďŹ lthy garment â&#x20AC;&#x201D; even though you soak it in water, the person who is washing it must scrub at it until he removes its grime. Nonetheless, without

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water the dirt will not be removed. (Likutei Mamarim, page 86; this and the subsequent passage, translation my own) According to Chazal, water often symbolizes Torah.

By way of illustration, Midrash Rabbah, Sefer Bereishit 24, explains the verse, â&#x20AC;&#x153;And they [Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brothers] took him [Joseph] and cast him into the pit; now the pit was empty there was no water in it,â&#x20AC;? (Bereishit 37:24) in this fashion: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rav Acha said â&#x20AC;Ś â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;there was no water in itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; connotes that there were no words of Torah â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which is allegorically referenced by the word â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;water.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Rav Tzadok follows this line of reasoning and states that the water he references in his parable is none other than Torah.

Moreover, it is Torah that ultimately enables one to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Be tamim with the L-rd, your G-dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;:â&#x20AC;?

The reference to â&#x20AC;&#x153;waterâ&#x20AC;? speciďŹ cally refers to divrei Torah [halacha] and divrei Aggadah [nonhalachic Torah subjects].

This is so, since through them, one may recognize He who spoke and thereby created the world, and, thereby, bask in the light of the face of the living King. [As such,] the Torah states: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Be tamim with the L-rd, your G-d,â&#x20AC;? [this means,] when one is with Hashem and His followers [Torah scholars], then he will be perfect and complete without any lack whatsoever.

When viewed from the widest perspective, our pasuk is ultimately urging us to fulďŹ ll the moral, ethical and spiritual charge issued by Hashem to Avraham Avinu: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am the Almighty G-d; walk before Me and be perfect (tamim).â&#x20AC;?

This message is particularly apropos for the month of Elul, as we prepare ourselves for the Yamim Noraim and the coming year.

Like Avraham, may we, too, strive to strengthen our relationship with the Holy One blessed be He, so that we may serve Him in faithfulness, authenticity and temimut.

Vâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;chane yihi ratzon.

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By rejecting the so-called prophecies of human oracles, we demonstrate our unmitigated allegiance to Hashem.

Continued from page 14 tinues the point saying that every sign Moshe did was to get the people to follow him to Sinai. But every sign also gets people thinking, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maybe this guy is a magician.â&#x20AC;? The Sinai experience changed all of that forever.

When Moshe says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;G-d will appoint a prophet kamoni,â&#x20AC;? he is saying, â&#x20AC;&#x153;It will be so clear in your eyes who is a true prophet, because he stands for Torah, is guided by the Torah, and doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t change the Torah.â&#x20AC;? He needs to use himself, and not Aharon or Yehoshua, as an example, because it was Moshe who was on Sinai. This is not arrogance. This is knowing and understanding what his role was, is and remains forever.

Judaism has always been a religion in which the Written and Oral Torah was sacrosanct. In different circles, and across a large spectrum, it has become about many other things. Chumras, how â&#x20AC;&#x153;frumâ&#x20AC;? you are, what clothes you wear, how you look, where you send your kids to yeshiva, social action, social justice, right-wing politics (more common in observant communities), left-wing politics (more common in non-observant communities), and â&#x20AC;&#x153;tikkun olam.â&#x20AC;?

The shofar and Elul remind us, as does Moshe, that we need to look to and follow the examples of leaders and leadership that help us maintain our focus â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a Jewish experience that follows the model set at Sinai, of a commitment to and observance of G-dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s word, in which nothing (beyond certain social changes as ďŹ tting to the world in which we live) is added to or subtracted from the Torah.

To contact Rabbi Billet: Columnist@TheJewishStar.com Rabbi Billet is off this week. A version of this column appeared in 2012.

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Now, get this: â&#x20AC;&#x153;In 1933, on his 70th birthday, Ussishkin decided that it made most sense to him to change the name of the street where he lived, and rename it after himself. That very night, Ussishkin brought in some workers to tear down the street signs bearing the name Yehuda Ha-Levi and put up the new street signs. To ensure that no one would consider taking down these signs, he immediately hired artists to fashion colored ceramic signs for building corners, emblazoned with the name of the new street.â&#x20AC;?

As a devoted student of the holy writings of Yehuda HaLevi, and a full member of Beit Hanassi shul, I was aghast at this infamous saga, and of the gall that it represented. I thought that this being the beginning of the season of repentance,

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Among Rav Elyashiv’s closest followers was Rabbi Halbertal. After learning for five years under the late Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, he was looking for a teacher in Jerusalem. Rav Elyashiv was recommended to him and after his first class, he couldn’t stop himself from going back.

Being an Rav Elyashiv groupie for Rabbi Halbertal became like a second job. He began going to his daily class, but then attended on Shabbat and holidays, and for the morning prayer service and the 20-minute question See Rav Elyashiv on page 22

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Continued from page 1 Rav Elyashiv, however, did not only influence the haredi community, especially in Israel; his rulings on medical issues continue to impact Israeli medical ethics and hospitals today.

Rabbi Dr. Avraham Steinberg, director of the Medical Ethics Unit at Shaare Zedek Medical Center, consulted with Rav Elyashiv on questions pertaining to handling births on Shabbat, uses of modern technology and issues of fertility, among many other medical ethical questions.

“I had an almost open door to him because I asked him questions that pertained to the public at large,” Steinberg said.

And Rav Elyashiv didn’t waste a minute on small talk.

“You would just straight ask the questions,” Rabbi Steinberg said. “He’d give you an answer and that was it. Then he opened his book and started studying, even if you were still sitting there.”

There were many examples of Rav Elyashiv’s rulings, but the case of his ruling on Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) is perhaps the most descriptive. PGD is a procedure used prior to implantation to help identify genetic defects within embryos created through in vitro fertilization to prevent certain diseases or disorders from being passed on to the baby.

“If you find the disease, then obviously you destroy the fertilized egg,” explained Steinberg. “If you don’t find it, you can implant it.”

Rabbi Steinberg consulted on PGD with Rav Elyashiv since the procedure is complicated, according to Jewish law. A man must donate his sperm and it could involve discarding fertilized eggs.

“Rav Elyashiv ruled that it could only be done in cases of serious diseases and, secondly, only if through the whole process there’s a chance of finding a healthy fertilized egg, which would lead eventually to procreation,” Rabbi Steinberg said. His ruling led to the opening of Shaare Zedek’s PGD department, considered among the best in the country.

During his 40-year medical career, Steinberg said he’d consulted with other great rabbis, including the late Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach. In contrast to Rabbi Auerbach’s rulings, Rav Elyashiv tended to be strict “because he was afraid that physicians or the people that would have to perform certain procedures would not do them correctly,” he said.

Rav Elyashiv also ruled on issues of politics. He was educated by Zionist leader Abraham Isaac Kook, but he was not a Zionist.

However, he was generally also not willing to discuss peace or relinquishing land. He believed in a greater Israel.

Dr. Yosef “Yossi” Beilin, an Israeli statesman and scholar who has served in multiple ministerial and leadership positions in the Israeli government, came to Rav Elyashiv in the 1990s in hopes of garnering support of Agudat Israel party members for a peace plan then presented by President George Bush.

Agudat Israel politicians were adherents of Rav Elyashiv.

“I came to him to tell him about the peace process and the need for the religious parties to join us,” Beilin told JNS.org. “I wanted to be able to answer [then] Secretary of State [James] Baker positively that the Israeli government was united in taking part in an international conference for peace. He didn’t argue with me, he listened to me, but he didn’t say much.”

Eventually, the Agudat Israel party supported the process. Beilin said to this day, he does not know if Rav Elyashiv pushed for that party support or not.

He was impressed by Rav Elyashiv’s demeanor and recalled how the rabbi was “re-

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he Institute for Science and International Security last week published a report revealing yet another part of the P5+1 deal that’s been kept secret from Congress and the American people.

The Iranians, we’ve now learned, were given a secret side deal — in addition to the one that was revealed in July — reducing Iran’s bomb-building breakout time to less than 5 months (the Obama administration had promised the deal would expand the breakout time to a year).

The administration claims it informed Congress of key Joint Commission decisions on implementation day, but in a confidential manner. However, Reuters reported that New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Menendez, a vocal critic of the Iran deal and a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told it that “I was not aware nor did I receive any briefing” on the side deal.

The institute’s report outlined three areas where the rogue regime was given secret exemptions and one area where Iran was allowed to exploit a loophole. The description of the exemptions is very technical, but they all lead to the same thing: Iran will have purer nuclear fuel and more of it.

The report also said “the Joint Commission also agreed to allow Iran to keep operating 19 radiation containment chambers larger than the accord set. These so-called ‘hot cells’ are used for handling radioactive material but can be “misused for secret, mostly small-scale plutonium separation efforts.” Plutonium, like Uranium is a nuclear weapons fuel; the explosive power of a bomb using either fuel is about the same. However, a Plutonium bomb is more dangerous because of the radiation fallout — Plutonium emits alpha radiation, a highly ionizing form of radiation (it releases more radioactive particles), rather than the beta or gamma radiation released by a Uranium bomb.

As described by the institute, “The deal allowed Iran to meet a 130-tonne limit on heavy water produced at its Arak facility by selling its excess stock on the open market.

But with no buyer available, the joint commission helped Tehran meet the sanctions relief deadline by allowing it to send 50 tonnes of the material — which can be used in nuclear weapons production — to Oman, where it was stored under Iranian control, the report said.”

The institute also confirmed that the U.S. and its partners are right now considering whether to make past exemptions permanent, and create new ones (otherwise Iran will again end up violating the deal by missing deadlines). In other words, rather than enforcing the deal the U.S. is capitulating again, this time by allowing Iran to “push the goal posts forward.

Six weeks ago the Associated Press discovered a different secret deal which eased the restriction on the more advanced centrifuges which enrich the nuclear fuel more quickly,

in this case twice as fast. It is estimated that the use of advanced centrifuges reduce Iran’s breakout time to build a bomb from one year down to six months during the first decade of the agreement, and down to four months beginning in year 13. This latest revelation, permitting Iran to keep a greater amount of purer nuclear fuel shortens the break out period even further, because they have a head start in the enriching process.

These latest concessions make the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran virtually worthless.

According to the Administration, before the P5+1 deal Iran’s breakout time to build a bomb was about three months. They claim the deal as originally described extended the breakout time to a year.

The secret deal described by last month’s AP centrifuge scoop cut the breakout time from one year down to six months (during the first decade of the deal). The latest revelation by the institute shortens it even further.

Let’s look at a best case scenario. What if the latest secret deal only shortened the breakout time by only one month? It means the time needed for Iran to breakout and build a nuclear weapon is down to about five months total.

Remember before the P5+1 agreement, the president claimed the breakout time was three months. Therefore, based on the new information our impotent president negotiated a deal that lengthened Iran’s breakout time to build a bomb by two months — only 60 days — from three to five months.

Before the P5+1 deal the Iranian economy was on the verge of collapse because of the sanctions imposed by the U.S. and U.N. Thanks to the release of the frozen cash and the easing of sanctions, the Iranian despots were able to begin propping up their economy and go back to providing cash and weapons to their terrorist buddies.

And there is one of the other result of the deal. Thanks the weakness and concessions displayed by President Obama and his two secretaries of state, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, the terrorist supporting regime of Iran and many of other enemies of America look at the United States as a paper tiger. That’s why we’ve faced incidents such as when Iran captured our boat and sailors in January 2015.

Now that these secret concessions have been made public, I wonder if members of Congress who sold their souls (and the safety of American, Israeli, and Saudi Arabian children) to their party regret their decision These concessions should not be a major surprise. From his first day in office, Barack Obama has lied about every major program he tried to shove down the throats of American voters. Beginning with the “shovel ready” projects of the stimulus which turned out to be reward for the Democrats’ political buddies, or his false claim about cutting spending (he did cut spending but only after he doubled spending) to telling Americans that Obamacare would allow then to keep their insurance if they liked it, all the way through to the Iran deal, Obama has lied about the structure of his programs. He has put our collective futures and those of our children and grandchildren in grave danger.

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his past weekend, my husband and I had the privilege of dog-sitting for my granddog Murphy. This time, Murphy’s parents (my daughter and son-in-law) weren’t here; they were off to a wedding in Florida. I took care of his every need, and Jerry became his best buddy. Jerry was in charge of the fun stuff. Jerry would lie on the floor, so that he would be at the same level as Murphy, and the puppy would be licking his face, madly wagging his tail and having a grand old time.

So, from Thursday night until Sunday morning Murphy had our undivided attention. Then Jerry’s daughter Elana, her son Benjamin and their cat, Abby, decided to join the fun.

Before they arrived, I explain to Elana that Murphy did not yet have all of his shots and was not supposed to be near any other animals or go outside, therefore Abby was going to have to stay in a bedroom upstairs which Ilana said would not be a problem.

Easier said than done. Abby was not happy being cooped up in a room and we felt guilty having to do so. I told Ben I would pick up Murphy and hold him and he can let Abby have the run of the house for a little bit. As soon as they laid eyes on each other, Abby jumped backwards and Murphy … well let’s just say I wasn’t sure whether she wanted to eat her or play with her. Abby was only too happy to go back to the bedroom.

Although the weather forecast was for it to be raining cats and dogs over the weekend, the only cats and dogs were Abby and Murphy! Abby left later that day and Murphy didn’t seem upset.

When the kids took Murphy home, they also took all of the homemade goodies I prepared for him — fresh-baked salmon, boiled chicken and carrots and rice, and (as a treat) watermelon cut up into tiny pieces. Jerry and I were outside saying goodbye as they were heading home in an Uber. I kid you not, I’m embarrassed to say it wasn’t very much different than the first time my kids left for Camp Morasha.

Since I was busy all weekend, and left the column writing for the last minute, coupled by the fact that I’ve been writing this column for four years and I’m running out of recipes, I had to think quickly. Then it hit me: Yogurt. I haven’t written about yogurt yet! But I needed to do a bit of research first. istorians agree that yogurt and other fermented milk products were discovered accidentally as a result of milk being stored by primitive methods in warm climates. We know that the word yogurt is Turkish in origin.

Most agree that it was the Neolithic people of Central Asia who came up with the concept of yogurt. The Herdsmen would milk the animals and store it in containers, which were made of animal stomachs. It seems the natural enzymes in the containers curdled the milk, essentially making yogurt. This not only kept the milk longer, it is thought that people preferred the taste, so they continued the practice, which then evolved over centuries into commercial yogurt-making.

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It wasn’t long before word of the perceived health benefits of yogurt traveled through to other peoples, and the consumption spread throughout the East. The first industrialized production of yogurt is attributed to Isaac Carasso in 1919 in Barcelona — his company “Danone” was named for his son, “Little Daniel.”

After Turkish immigrants brought yogurt to North America in the 1700s, it really didn’t catch on until the 1940s when Daniel Carasso, the son of Danone founder Isaac, and Juan Metzger took over a small yogurt factory in the Bronx; the company is now called Dannon in the United States.

Yogurt with fruit on the bottom was first introduced in 1947 by Dannon. The popularity of yogurt soared in the 1950s and ’60s It’s reported that Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire, and his armies lived on yogurt. And, everyone knows that there are people over 100 years of age, and still thriving, who credit eating yogurt every day for their longevity (of course, many a shot of alcohol might have been had as well, but that’s another story).

Around 1900, scientists started studying and isolating the bacteria that made yogurt.

Soon after, they were able to combine selected strains that would culture reliably for commercial creameries. These blends are called direct-set cultures.

But how do you define yogurt?

In 1981, the FDA defined fresh, prepared yogurt in the United States and stated that it must include Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus.

Many things have changed since people first cultured milk into a thick, tangy snack.

However, yogurt is still tremendously popular and enjoyed around the world. If you’d like to make your own yogurt, or just want to try something you’ve never tried before, here is a simple recipe. I’m sure your children or grandchildren would find it interesting as well.

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He favors term limits instead.

Both expressed dissstisfaction with reform legislation passed in the legislatureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last session.

Toback said that awarding hefty pay raises to members of a scandal-scared legislature â&#x20AC;&#x201D; part of the reform package â&#x20AC;&#x201D; was â&#x20AC;&#x153;bad government and the optics of it is horrible.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Right now,â&#x20AC;? said Eramo, â&#x20AC;&#x153;most people have lost faith in Albany.â&#x20AC;?

Referring to himself as â&#x20AC;&#x153;in the middle,â&#x20AC;?

Toback said that â&#x20AC;&#x153;thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enough liberal Democrats in the state Assembly â&#x20AC;&#x201D; we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need one more,â&#x20AC;? a reference to Eramo who is endorsed by the Working Families Party.

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Law School, and with local young Jewish Avraham Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;nai excited This reporter interviewed of Eliyahu. I brieďŹ&#x201A;y guests about their recollections the comic book rabbi, caught up with Simcha Weinstein, snappy dresser, serious who blurted, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eliyahu Raskin â&#x20AC;&#x201D; dragged back into the doer â&#x20AC;Ś we love him!â&#x20AC;? before being sea of dancers. one of the shulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s After the bedeken, Penny Rosen, founders, shared her thoughts of Eliyahu. and have loved â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve known him since he was a baby, talk,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was him dearly even before he could books to read to him often at the Raskin house, bringing mind, he easand Yankel. Eliyahu has such an inquisitive reading with me, and ily picked up on nuances. He loved Eliyahu prewell after the boys could all read themselves, ferred my voices for the characters.

Chalav Yisroel Swiss â&#x20AC;&#x153;I remember once ďŹ nding some lunch, staking cheese, and Eliyahu coming for Shabbos cheese board so his out that block of Swiss on the marble ďŹ rst. it get not would brothers him a little, but it â&#x20AC;&#x153;My best memory might embarrass Bar Mitzvah age and is very sweet. He was approaching no longer could sit had to sit in the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s section, could mitzvah, he gave me on my lap. The night before his bar world to me.â&#x20AC;? a last huge hug, which meant the I have alPenny added: â&#x20AC;&#x153;In addition to his intelligence, kindness to all.â&#x20AC;? ways been impressed by his innate chatted about her While reďŹ lling her drink, Sonia Beker warm wishes for the happy couple. guy and full of fun. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eliyahu was always a high energy his siblings and other with interacting socially loved He streak. He was fearkids, and had a benign, mischievous invincible and unless, loved to take risks, always feeling still quite small, he endaunted. I remember when he was his footing and fell, thusiastically climbed a tree, missed But his energy injuring his head and requiring stitches. by this mishap. level and zest for life were not diminished sensitive young â&#x20AC;&#x153;Today, Eliyahu is a warm, humorous, family and everyone man, full of good spirits towards his to his rabbis and teacharound him. He was a great asset his knowledge and ers in his studies, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s applying Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;nai Avraham as Congregation at skills people excellent now very busy climba teacher and in outreach work. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great success and joy ing the tree of life, and we wish him truly love him.â&#x20AC;? in his work and in his marriage. We vigorous dance set, While cooling off from a particularly was the very ďŹ rst kid Naomi Weinberger noted that Eliyahu bar mitzvah. She also she ever heard recite a maimer at his a group to tap out a recalls him sneaking away at times from ping pong, played often tune on her keyboard. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And he loved be volleying and then, at our home,â&#x20AC;? she added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You would from Eliyahu.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;wham!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a slam and lots of giggling line-by-line each Fran Bast related the following story Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll bet you this bantime her dance line passed by. "Fran:

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There will also be a new approach to Torah learning in the community in which all of the shiurim offered will be coordinated through the United Kehilla and open to all members of the community.

Events will rotate among the different synagogues. The barbecue was held at the Lido Beach Synagogue.

Anyone interested in spending a Shabbat in Long Beach or Lido Beach, or who would like more information about these communities, is invited to contact any one of the local shulsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rabbis: â&#x20AC;˘Rabbi Greene, rabbi@bachyouth.com â&#x20AC;˘Rabbi Rappeport, rabbi@lidoshul.org â&#x20AC;˘Rabbi Wakslak, cwakslak@att.net â&#x20AC;˘Rabbi David Bibi, davidbibi@gmail.com

Continued from page 17 and answer sessions that followed each daily minyan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was fascinating being a part of it and listening to his answers,â&#x20AC;? said Rabbi Halbertal, who transformed from a Religious Zionist to haredi under Rav Elyashivâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guidance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But it was very hard on the family. Sometimes I would ask myself, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Am I a tzadik or the opposite. Being so devoted meant being late to happy occasions, bar mitzvoth, sheva brachot.

You were busy, you couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t deal with the small children because you had to go to Rav Elyashiv in the morning and stay after. It was so much devotion.â&#x20AC;?

And yet, Rabbi Halbertal said that while he believes that Rav Elyashiv knew who he was, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say I was close with him. To be close with him? I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think there is such a concept.â&#x20AC;?

The documentary tells how Rav Elyashivâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grandson came to visit him after not seeing him for a year-and-a-half. Rav Elyashiv was engrossed in his studies. When his grandson approached him, he did not embrace the young man nor express any love. Rather he simply said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why now?â&#x20AC;?

Still, no one can deny the manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greatness, Rabbi Halbertal said. While at one point, earlier in Rav Elyashivâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s generation, there were many religious leaders ranging from Rabbi Moshe Feinstein to Rabbi Aharon Kotler, but

by Rav Elyashivâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ nal decade of life, he was the only one left. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And then when he passed away, we have nothing,â&#x20AC;? Rabbi Halbertal said.

He continued, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You could talk about Rav Elyashiv like you would talk about [Mahatma] Gandhi,â&#x20AC;? he added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If such a man would not have lived with us, we wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe there could be such a man.â&#x20AC;?

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