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There’s joy in Woodmere as HALB celebrates new home

By The Jewish Star The Five Towns joined the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach on Sunday in celebrating a chanukat habayit at its new elementary school on Church Avenue in Woodmere.

“From the humble beginnings that HALB had over 50 years ago in a small See HALB celebration on page 8 From left: Rabbi Yaakov Trump of YI LawrenceCedarhurst; Marvin Shenker, executive director of YILC; Dr. Mott Weitz; Dr. Herbert Pasternak; HALB Board Chair Lance Hirt; and Rabbi Aaron Fleksher of HALB. The Jewish Star / Theresa Press

YU prez: ‘Torat emet’ is school’s top core value

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‘InvestFest’ fair follows formal investiture

By The Jewish Star Cedarhurst paused to remember the loss, the heroism, and the miracles of 9/11, at the village’s annual commemoration on Sunday.

In his invocation, Rabbi Shay Schachter (top right photo) of the Young Israel of Woodmere said, “we pray that G-d, the Master and Creator of the world, grant us all the strength and the fortitude to stand firm together against all forms of terror, of extremism, of bigotry, of hatred, of racism, and of all evil that can be found in different forms in our world.”

“We have a solemn obligation to those who died or were injured on Sept. 11th to never forget what happened,” said Mayor Benjamin Weinstock (bottom). “We saw evil, but we also saw the best of America.”

Ari Schonburn (middle), a 9/11 survivor and author of “Miracle and Fate of 78,” recalled his experiences that day. He was waiting to change elevators on the 78th floor when the first plane hit.

Lawrence-Cedarhurst Fire Department Chief David Campell, saluting during the playing of Taps, read the names of local 9/11 victims.

shiva University,” the first is “Torat Emet — we believe in Truth.”

Delivering his investiture speech to an assembly of 2,000 at YU’s Wilf Campus in Washington Heights, with many more listening in by livestream, Rabbi Berman spoke of the “Five Torot, or the five central teachings, of our institution.”

“We do not just believe in Torat Emet but also Torat Chayyim — that our truths and values must live in the world,” he said.

YU’s other central teachings, he said, are “Torat Adam,” “Torat Chesed,” and “Torat Tziyyon, the Torah of Redemption.”

Following the formal ceremonies, the YU community parYU’s new president, at the “InvestFest” street fair on Am- tied at an “InvestFest” street fair sterdam Avenue after the investiture ceremony, was a along Amsterdam Avenue.

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By The Jewish Star The fifth president of Yeshiva University, Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman, said on Sunday that of the “five values that personify Ye-

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By Alan Jay Gerber This week marks the sheloshim of the petirah of one of our community’s leading rabbis and educators, Rav Aharon Brafman, zt’’l. Rav Brafman’s entire life was dedicated to giving to the youth of our community the best religious education geared to preserving the genuine observance of our religious faith.

His legacy was influenced by his close relationships with three of the most respected rabbis and educators of the previous generation: Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky, Rav Gedaliah Schorr, and Rav Avraham Pam, all of blessed memory.

As proof of his scholarship, he was to start his career in chinuch in his mid 20s as a maggid shiur in the mesivta of Torah Vodaath.

He was later destined to impart their teachings to a new generation of youth here on Long Island’s South Rav Aharon Brafman, zt”l, and his brother, attorney Ben Brafman Shore together with Rav Yechiel Perr, shlita, as the menahel of the Yeshiva of Far Rockaway, a position he would serve with distinction for the rest of his life.

Rav Brafman’s anivus and unassuming manner was to prove to be the hallmark of his service to all of our community. His untimely passing will certainly have an impact upon all and his legacy will surely set the pace for all his students and all our community to follow by example for the many years to come.

May his memory serve as a blessing for all in the bond of everlasting life.

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Vanity Fair editor was a make-believe Jew Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, who is stepping after 25 years at the helm of one of the world’s best-known magazines, told New York magazine in 2000 that for years he had pretended to be Jewish during the 1970s.

A friend of Carter’s, Craig Walls, recalled one time when Carter told other journalists and writers at a party that his mother “would kill” him for eating pork. Asked why, he said, “Because I’m Jewish,” Walls recalled. Carter confirmed to New York magazine that he had pretended to be Jewish.

“I was reading a lot of Kerouac and a lot of Ginsberg,” Carter told the magazine. “And I thought, if you’re going to be an intellectual in New York, you’ve got to be Jewish. It wasn’t some experiment, like ‘Gentleman’s Agreement,’ or anything like that. It was just … I thought …

I just found it. … I don’t know. It was so much more exotic than what I really was.”

Carter, 68, said Thursday that it was “simply time” for him to move on and enjoy some time off

before deciding on a “third act.” He had planned to leave a little earlier, he told Vanity Fair in an interview published online, but he wanted to stick around for Donald Trump’s presidency.

Carter for years has had a gleefully hostile relationship with Trump, ever since he attacked the then swaggering New York property tycoon as a “short-fingered vulgarian” in Spy, a magazine Carter co-founded in 1986 prior to ascending to Vanity Fair in 1992 as successor to Tina Brown. In June this year, he excoriated Trump in a widely read editorial.

Carter created A-list parties each year in Los Angeles after the Oscars that attracted gaggles of celebrities. He left his mark on the magazine also by creating a complementary annual Hollywood issue with a fold-out portfolio of stars lavishly photographed by Annie Leibovitz, whom Carter helped turn into a legend.

The magazine also honed its reputation wwith serious business and crime investigations and political reporting.

Supremes: No Shabbat transit Israel’s Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit that called for public transportation on Shabbat.

The court on Monday decided not to hear the case, filed by several liberal groups and a left-wing Meretz party lawmaker, Tamar Zandberg, after it said that the filers had not properly asked the Transportation Ministry to institute Shabbat transit, a step that’s required

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The court also pointed out that no bus company had joined in the lawsuit, the Times of Israel reported.

The Israeli government last week in a filing in response to the lawsuit said that public transportation on Shabbat is not an essential need, which would be a requirement to permit the violation of the status quo.

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Bavarian Premier Horst Seehofer and International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach were among those attending the ceremony.

Some 200,000 Jews are now living in Germany, mostly from the former Soviet Union in the years following German unification.

The memorial cost 2.35 million euros, or about $2.8 million. The funding came primarily from the State of Bavaria, the German federal government, the City of Munich and the International Olympic Committee. Until now, the main memorials have been a sculpture and plaque.

Charlotte Knobloch, head of the Jewish Community of Upper Bavaria and Munich,

and former president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said in a statement, “The [1972] attack was not just against Israel, not just against Jews. It was an attack on all of us, on the Olympic idea, the vision of freedom and peace for all humans.”

She applauded an additional as yet incomplete element of the memorial — a “school of democracy” to be located in the tower at the Fürstenfeldbruck airport, site of the botched rescue attempt.

Ahead of the dedication ceremony, German news media featured interviews with family members, including Am Ankie Spitzer, who was 26 years old when she lost her husband, the coach and fencing master Andre Spitzer, in the attack. She told Deutschlandfunk radio that she could not deal with the fact that her loving husband had been brutally murdered and “no one regretted it.”

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Why Orthodox Jews are moving to South Bend

Shlomo and Michal Wadler moved to South Bend from Brooklyn six years ago. They have have two children — a 7-year-old girl and a 4-year-old boy who is a Hoosier, a native-born Indianan.

ing religious ones. That has helped make Jewish day school tuition in Indiana supremely affordable — free in some cases — for Jewish families that meet certain income requirements.

It’s one of the reasons the Orthodox Union is promoting South Bend as an attractive option for Orthodox families looking to relocate from the Northeast. South Bend has about 100 Orthodox families, the OU estimates. In addition to the South Bend Hebrew Day School, the city is home to a high school yeshiva for boys and a Bais Yaakov for girls.

Residents say South Bend offers a welcoming atmosphere without the stress and high cost of living in a big city.

“I like the quiet and the pace of it,” Franks said. “The cost of living is very low, so you can put a lot of your emotional efforts into the right type of things other than financial stress.”

Because the city’s Orthodox community is so small, members work hard to make new arrivals feel at home.

Shlomo and Michal Wadler, both Brooklyn natives, moved to South Bend six years ago so Shlomo could study for his doctorate in theology at Notre Dame. Michal works as a physical therapist, and the couple has a 7-year-old child and a 4-year-old Hoosier — an Indiana native.

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By Ben Hartman for the OU via JTA It has been more than a decade since Curtis “Yehuda” Franks moved to South Bend, Indiana, and most of the time he doesn’t give a second thought to being a visibly Orthodox Jew in this Midwestern city.

Franks teaches philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, a prominent Catholic university known for the Fighting Irish football team, which has helped make the city of 100,000 an island of cosmopolitanism in the rural Midwest. It’s also home to a small yet vibrant Orthodox community.

But leave South Bend and it’s another world. Franks, who with his beard, white shirt and dark pants looks Hasidic, remembers stopping to buy tires at a Sears in smalltown Indiana and being asked by the cashier if he was from a nearby Amish village. When Franks told her that he had never heard of the town, the cashier told him, “Oh, you’d love it there.”

Franks is among a growing number of Orthodox Jews who have moved to South Bend in recent years. The city has all of the key infrastructure elements necessary for an Orthodox Jewish life: two Orthodox synagogues, a kosher market, an eruv, a mikvah, a day school and high schools. But South Bend offers another draw: a state-run school voucher program in which public funds can go toward tuition at private schools, includ-

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Why Orthodox Jews are moving to South Bend ing from $4,500 to $6,950, depending on the grade. Last year, 57 students were on a full voucher and 26 were on a partial voucher, according to Silver.

Five years ago, Shani and Aryeh Kramer were living in Lakewood, New Jersey, when Aryeh saw a job advertised for a kosher grocer “out of town” and became curious. When their air conditioning broke down on the eve of a July 4 weekend — with no one available to fix it — they decided spontaneously to drive 13 hours to make it to South Bend for Shabbat. Today, Aryeh manages the local Midwest Kosher and Deli in South Bend.

“We fell in love with the small-town feeling,” Shani Kramer said. “This is a place where you can be somebody and every sin-

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“We fell in love with it and six weeks later we moved here,” she said. “South Bend found us rather than the other way around.”

They have four children.

“Our goal is that anyone who has moved here will be successful — either they have a job offer waiting for them here or they are able to continue their work there,” said Michall Goldman, outgoing executive director of the Community Development Initiative of South Bend, which tries to bolster Orthodox Jewish life in the city. She said that a family with six children can make around $100,000 per year and still afford a decent house.

The median price of homes in South Bend is $99,000, according to Zillow.com, with the median price per square foot at $77.

That’s a fraction of prices in the Northeast, where most Orthodox Jews live. In Brooklyn, square footage costs 10 times the South Bend price, according to Zillow.

South Bend also benefits from geography.

The city is only 95 miles from Chicago and a four-hour drive from Cleveland and Detroit.

The local airport has daily flights to Newark.

Notre Dame is a major source of employment for professionals from across the country, and the area has extensive opportunities in the medical and mental health field.

About five to 10 new Orthodox families move to South Bend each year, Goldman estimated.

Most Orthodox arrivals know and care little about South Bend’s Catholic reputation or the history of the Notre Dame football team, which is believed to have invented the now popular phrase “Hail Mary” to describe a desperation pass and whose stadium is

known for the Touchdown Jesus mural on the main campus library visible from the stands.

“In our demographic they haven’t really heard about it,” Goldman said.

The Jewish community of South Bend has a storied history and long has been part of the fabric of local life. The Jewish Federation of St. Joseph Valley, which includes South Bend and the surrounding area, estimates the overall Jewish community at 1,800. Orthodox Judaism here dates at least back to the 19th century. Hebrew Orthodox Congregation, the black hat-style Orthodox synagogue in town, was established in 1887.

The other Orthodox shul is the Midwest Torah Center.

Every two years, the OU holds a Jewish Communities Fair in New York where families considering moving can meet with representatives of communities interested in recruiting Orthodox Jews.

Rabbi Judah Isaacs, who as the OU’s director of community engagement works to help bolster South Bend and other “out of town” Orthodox communities like Southfield, Michigan, and Overland Park, Kansas, says he highlights the intimacy, low cost of living and anchor Orthodox institutions when trying to sell these Midwestern communities to potential newcomers from the Northeast. He tells the communities they must have jobs available if they want to draw new families.

“Orthodox Jews moving to the Midwest need to go with an out-of-the-box perspective,” he said. “Small can be nice.”

This article was sponsored by and produced in partnership with the Orthodox Union and was produced by JTA’s native content team.

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Continued from page 5 “It’s an extremely warm community,” Shlomo Wadler said. “For the first few months, people were bringing us meals for Shabbat.

I don’t think we cooked for Shabbat for the first couple of months.”

Zvi Silver, who moved to town from Pittsburgh seven years ago and is now the board president of the South Bend Hebrew Day School, said, “Everyone knows each other and looks out for each other.” He said the school has seen steady growth in recent years, with 170 students enrolled this fall, up from 159 last year.

Even without vouchers, standard tuition rates at South Bend Hebrew Day School are amazingly low by New York standards, rang-

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the backyard in 1977. Among various annuals and perennials, she planted a cherry tree and an evergreen. “I showed it to my husband with great pride — then he took a tiny stick, planted it in the ground and it took over the whole thing,” she said of the vine.

Jiji’s initial plan wasn’t to make wine — he just thought the vine would add a bit of distinction to the backyard. Seven years later, however, it produced enough grapes that he thought he may as well give it a try. Jiji knew a bit about winemaking, having watched his father’s primitive process, and he studied up, buying books and pamphlets and equipment.

That first harvest, in 1984, yielded 24 pounds of grapes, enough for nine bottles. To date, the record is 712 pounds in a single harvest.

Vera is proud of Chateau Latif — after all,

she came up with the name, a play on the Rothschild winery Chateau Lafite, whose vintages are among the most expensive in the world. (Chateau Latif’s wine, by contrast, has no price point — Jiji doesn’t have a license to sell it, so he shares it with friends and family.)

Aside from its location, the vine itself is something of a rarity — most wineries have a lot of space and therefore grow their grapes on numerous short vines.

As each summer nears its end, Jiji begins to measure the sugar content of the grapes on the vine. Once he has collected enough data, he determines the prime 10-day period to harvest the grapes, usually in mid-September. After the harvest, the grapes go to the basement, which houses the wine cellar, the machinery that Jiji uses to process the grapes into juice, as well as a one-of-

a-kind refrigerator that he built himself. The juice ferments there, eventually becoming wine.

It takes up to two weeks for the sugar in the juice to turn into alcohol, and another nine to 12 months for the sediment to settle and the liquid to clear and begin to look like wine. During this fermentation period, the gases created during this process escape through a special valve that lets air out but not in.

And now, as the days shorten and the nights grow cooler, Jiji’s house will again come alive with activity as friends and family gather to pick the grapes and crush them into juice to begin the fermentation process.

“It’s a very unusual activity, the harvest, but people always enjoy it,” Jiji said. “This is our 33rd year, and there are people who have been with us for 30 years.”

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By David I. Klein, JTA Latif Jiji looks over this year’s crop at Chateau Latif with an expression of satisfaction.

If you’ve never heard of Chateau Latif, you’re not alone. It’s not from the south of France, nor is it from Napa Valley. Rather, it’s terroir is the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

As far as he knows, Jiji is the only winemaker in Manhattan who grows his own grapes on the island. The “chateau” is the brownstone that Jiji, 89, has shared with his wife, Vera, for the past 50 years, and the winery’s grounds are their 15-by-45-foot backyard. The grapes come from a single vine, measuring more than 100 feet, that grows out of the garden, up the exterior wall and onto the roof.

Though the vine draws its water from the East River, its roots stretch back to a different waterway: the Shatt Al-Arab, the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, on which the Iraqi port city of Basra sits and where Jiji was born in 1927. He caught the winemaking bug from his father, who grew grapes and made wine in the courtyard of their home on Basra’s main thoroughfare.

Jiji said his passion for wine “came from being Jewish in Iraq, celebrating Passover.” The making and drinking of alcohol, he explained, was something that separated Iraq’s Jewish and Christian minorities from the country’s Muslim majority, for whom alcohol is forbidden.

During his childhood, Basra was a sleepy town with about 10 synagogues and two Jewish schools, Jiji told JTA. Life in Basra was peaceful, he said, and the Jewish, Muslim and Christian residents of the city coexisted nicely.

But in 1941, after Iraq’s short-lived alliance with Nazi Germany prompted a British invasion, rioting and looting that targeted Jewish neighborhoods and businesses broke out in the city. The pogrom became known as the Farhud — an Arabic term meaning “violent dispossession” — and while it was limited to looting in Basra, in Baghdad nearly 200 Jews were murdered and hundreds more wounded.

The Jijis were spared most of the violence, and they opened their home to friends and relatives fleeing more dangerous parts of the city.

“Jewish people, of course, were frightened,” Jiji said. “Friends and relatives started to come to our house; we had probably about 50 people.

“A lot of people in the house started talking about what to do if we were attacked. We had no arms, but we had long sticks and at the end of the long sticks we put a bolt. We carried them around in case someone tried to break down the door, but no one did. “ Eventually the violence subsided and things returned to more or less normal within the Iraqi Jewish community. But in the years to come, the Farhud would be remembered as the beginning of a downward slide that led to the conclusion of 2,700 years of Jewish life in Iraq.

Jiji recalled listening on the radio to the 1948 United Nations vote to partition Palestine. Though his family cheered at the founding of the State of Israel, he knew his life In Iraq was over. By the fall he was enrolled in college in the United States. Within the next decade, the rest of his family had fled to either the U.S. or Israel.

Jiji’s life in the U.S. began in an unlikely place, at Hope College, a devoutly Christian school in Holland, Michigan. He then transferred to the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology to earn a degree in engineering and ater earned a doctorate at the University of Michigan. He received U.S. citizenship in 1961 and remained an academic, teaching engineering at various universities, including the City College of New York, where he worked until his retirement in 2014.

Jiji met Vera — the child of Jewish immigrants from Hungary, who grew up in the Bronx speaking Magyar at home — in 1954 at an event in New York for radio station WBAI. And while Jiji’s vine was initially an homage to his father and Basra, it is also, like the four children they raised together, the product of the couple’s marriage of more than 50 years.

Vera had planned an elaborate garden for

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Sunday’s chanukat habayit featured a sefer Torah procession, an inspiring video presentation about the school (find a video link at TheJewishStar.com), refreshments, a carnival, and a concert with Mordechai Shapiro.

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Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman’s investiture speech at YU to accept the truth from whatever source it comes. We know that there are great truths to be discovered in the study of the human mind, the physical world, literature, legal interpretation and more. Our belief in the higher purpose of education is true for all of humanity.

In addition, Torat Chayyim requires everyone to be engaged in the project of applying these values and truths to the world, and we look to all of our faculty and intellectual leaders to guide us in this effort. As such, by utilizing our vast, interdisciplinary resources, Yeshiva University is uniquely positioned to address the most pressing moral issues of the day. In an era in which there is a breakdown of civil and civic discourse, we stand proud as educators, thought leaders and moral voices for our generation.

These are our first two values: Torat Emet and Torat Chayyim. ut Yeshiva University does not only believe in truth, it also believes in humanity. Our tradition teaches us that each individual is created in G-d’s divine image and that it is a sacred task for each individual to hone and develop their unique talents and skills. In addition, we are charged with the obligation to use these unique gifts in the service of others; to care for our fellow human beings; to reach out to them in thoughtfulness, kindness and sensitivity, and form a connected community.

These two values, humanity and compassion, are our next two Torot: Torat Adam and Torat Chesed.

One of the aspects of YU that simply amazed me when I was walking around the university in the spring is the way in which these themes of Torat Adam and Torat Chesed manifest themselves in each of our schools.

For example, in Cardozo Professor Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum leads the Ferencz Human Rights and Atrocity Prevention Clinic, which fights against human rights violations and genocides around the world.

Dr. Bill Salton heads the Pardes Clinic of the Ferkauf School of Psychology which provides low-cost, high-quality psychological treatment for a Bronx population that would not otherwise be able to afford it. The Wurzweiler School of Social Work is launching a new innovative mental health clinic, which will help people from all walks of life cope with life stress issues.

When I was visiting the Albert Einstein College of Medicine I encountered a group of people sitting around a table who were introduced to me as super-scientists. I asked them about their research and each shared with me their work on some matter crucial to the betterment of humanity. One was a leader in the fight against AIDS, another the Zika virus, a third, breast cancer.

And this spirit exists not only in our graduate schools, but in our undergraduate schools as well. I was walking in the library one night and saw two students with YU tshirts. I asked them where they were coming from and they replied: the START Science Program. This is a program in which every

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Here is a portion of the investiture speech delivered on Sunday, Sept. 10, at Yeshiva University by Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman. hat is Yeshiva University? What does it stand for?

In my mind, there are five values that personify Yeshiva University, which I would call the Five Torot or the five central teachings of our institution.

The first is Torat Emet — we believe in Truth.

We believe that G-d gave the Torah to Moses at Mount Sinai. We believe that in that Torah there are eternal values, not subject to the vagaries and vicissitudes of history. It is this pursuit of truth that animates our intense study of Torah during the day and deep into the night which, in turn, deepens our relationship with G-d.

But we also believe that our goal is not simply to sit, study and live in some ivory tower but that we must be fully engaged in the world and responsible to the world.

We do not just believe in Torat Emet but also Torat Chayyim — that our truths and values must live in the world. ho are our graduates? They are rabbis and Jewish educators and they are lawyers and doctors, accountants and financial analysts, social workers and psychologists, mothers and fathers, community leaders and leaders of industry — all of whom are out in the world, acting daily as productive citizens of society. …

Here in Yeshiva University our students have the opportunity to not just learn about Judaism but to experience Judaism, to appreciate that Shabbat is not just something we keep, it is something we treasure, and that living a life of faith adds great meaning and joy to one’s life.

Moreover, at this moment in time, as cultures shift and as moral intuitions inevitably adjust, all parents know how difficult it is to help their children navigate the tension between tradition and an increasingly complex world.

Yeshiva University, located at the nexus between heritage and pioneering, provides the students of the next generation with the tools for critical critique and self-reflection so that they can not only weather the storms and tempests of contemporary moral discourse but also leave here both rooted and nimble, anchored in our values and equipped with the language and sophistication necessary to succeed as leaders in the world of tomorrow. …

The educational philosophy of Torah uMadda is based on Maimonides’ directive

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week over one hundred Yeshiva University undergraduate students go to the local Manhattan public schools to teach children about science and technology.

When I heard this I was very impressed, but it was only later that I discovered that this program was actually launched by undergraduate students at Yeshiva University seven years ago and has subsequently spread to chapters in countries across the world.

And this is emblematic of our student body, as hundreds of our students participate in these kinds of programs throughout the academic year, channeling their unique talents into extraordinary acts of kindness. Just last week our Student Life Department initiated student-led missions to Houston to help our fellow citizens recover from Harvey. Within minutes our sign-up sheet had over a hundred students volunteering to go. …

These are our first four principles: Torah that is True and Torah that is alive; a belief in human capacity and the need to reach out to others.

And there is a fifth: Torat Tziyyon, the Torah of Redemption.

Torat Tziyyon of course directly relates to the project of building the modern State of Israel. And this is very important to us as proud Zionists.

We certainly encourage students to move to Israel and we encourage those who live outside of Israel to devote their time and resources to help Israel further its role as a shining light to humanity. But it is also much more than that, because the return to Israel in Jewish theology is, in and of itself, part of a much greater narrative. Torat Tziyyon tells us that we are not accidents of history, nor even simply participants in history, but we are drivers of history. orat Tziyyon requires us to understand that as human beings we all have one common, overarching goal, and that is: to redeem the world, and transform it for the better; to birth a world suffused by justice, goodness, prosperity and transcendence. If, as Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed, “The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice,” then Torat Tziyyon charges us with the task of moving history forward.

This directive applies to all of humanity. And at this moment in time — more than at any point in the entire span of Jewish history — the Jewish people are capable of partnering with the full breadth of humanity to move history forward. …

We live in an era that is miraculous and wondrous.

The Jewish people are no longer lost in exile but have once again returned to their homeland. Torah study is open and accessible throughout the world. Where once we might have looked at our neighbors and saw only persecutors, today we may look at them and see potential partners. And this presents us not only with great opportunities but also great responsibilities.

As Rabbi Soloveitchik taught us in 1956, in this very room, from this very podium – some of you may even have been in this room — kol dodi dofek, the voice of G-d is meta-

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phorically calling to us, knocking at our door.

He has placed us in this incredible time, and he beckons us to respond.

Yeshiva University represents the kinds of thinkers and dreamers who have always believed in embracing history and its opportunities. Now more than ever before it is time to think bigger, to think beyond our individual selves, to move history forward, to spread positive values to the world and to fight for peace and prosperity for all of humanity and with all of humanity.

Torat Emet, Torat Chayyim, Torat Adam, Torat Chesed and Torat Tziyyon — Truth, Life, Humanity, Compassion and Redemption.

These are the Five Torot that differentiate us and are our identity. They root us deeply within a structured value system while providing moral guidance and direction in living our lives. They propel us to develop our talents and skills while directing us to reach outwards and connect to others in kindness.

And they inspire us with a grand, historic purpose to make a difference, and impact the world. his is what we believe Judaism represents and what G-d wants from all of us. This is not just about Modern Orthodoxy, or even Orthodoxy. These are our messages to the Jewish people and to the world at large.

This is who we are — this is our philosophy of life.

And now that we have discussed the idea of Yeshiva University, we can focus on outlining the future of Yeshiva University as an institution. Once we have established who we are, we can now lay out where we are going. And I have to tell you that the future of Yeshiva University as an institution is bright and it is exciting.

When Yeshiva was founded in the early twentieth century, it met the needs of an Orthodox Jewish immigrant population with limited higher education possibilities. Over the generations, our specific form and structure has shifted depending on times, needs and circumstances, but the core mission has always remained the same.

At this point, the world has changed greatly but our task of educating the next generation of students and future leaders has not changed, it has just shifted to be in synch with our new realities. Today, perhaps more than ever before, there is a need to raise generations of students who are both deeply rooted and forward focused. And Yeshiva University will continue to look ahead into the future to open up new worlds for them. …

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At Sunday’s Yeshiva University investiture, from left: Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman with his immediate predecessor, Dr. Richard M. Joel; Dr. Joel with Senator Charles Schumer; and former YU President Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm with his granddaughter, Stern College of Women sophomore Devorah Lamm. Photos courtesy YU

Rabbi Berman spoke about his wife’s grandmother, Bubbe (pictured), “an extraordinary woman who survived the Holocaust by evading the Nazis hiding in caves, forests and cemeteries … with Shlomo [her husband] and a few of their nephews and nieces, but no one else in their large family was as fortunate. …

“Fast forward the story by a couple of decades, and one day Bubbe received a call from a friend of hers who just returned from a trip to the former Soviet Union. “Cyla” she said, “You need to sit down, I have something astounding to tell you. Your brother, Pinchas — he is alive. While you ran west, he escaped east. You each thought the other was dead, but Pinchas is alive and living in Russia.”

Bubbe immediately contacted him, but they

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were never able to meet, as soon afterwards Pinchas died.

“Pinchas, though, had a daughter named Gala, who married Vladimer. When they had a son, they named him Pinchas, after her father. Some years later, the Iron Curtain

modern Jewish State of Israel. Bubbe’s life represents the dramatic story of the Jewish people in the modern era, a story of an indomitable spirit able to transcend destruction and to rebuild a lost world.

‘To me, this story highlights the reality of the Jewish world today, as it provides a stark contrast with the Jewish world of yesterday.

The prophet Ezekiel foretells a wondrous future in which the dry bones of Israel are brought back to life, but for us living today we know that this is no dream; it describes our reality.

“Pinchas and Shlomo once left for dead have now returned in a new generation. And look at the world that they face today. It is an era that is simply unprecedented in Jewish history. …

“It is my great joy at this point to pause for a moment and acknowledge the presence of a woman who is over 100 years old, beli ayin ha-ra, who is here with us today celebrating the investiture of her grandson. Ladies and gentlemen, my Bubbe.”

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fell, and Gala and her family moved to Israel. Shortly thereafter, [my wife] Anita and I were studying in Yeshiva University’s center in Israel. At the end of the year, Anita gave birth to our first son, whom we named Shlomo after her grandfather who had recently passed away.

“I still remember the scene when Bubbe came to Israel for the bris. She was sitting with her new great grandson, Shlomo, on her lap, when in came a woman who carried a clear family resemblance. It was her niece Gala whom she had never previously met.

And with Gala came a little boy named Pinchas. And when Pinchas ran over to see the baby, once again Bubbe was surrounded by Pinchas and Shlomo.

“You see, they thought they could kill us, they thought they could remove us from the earth, but Pinchas and Shlomo were alive again, and this time they connected with each other in Jerusalem, the capital of the

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Continued from page 1 “Most new presidents of universities need to learn the story of their institutions to understand their narrative and its purpose, but I do not need to read a history book to understand Yeshiva University—it is in my heart and it is in my soul,” said Rabbi Berman, a graduate of YU and its rabbinical seminary.

“In an era in which there is a breakdown of civic and civil conversation, Yeshiva University is uniquely positioned to address the most pressing moral issues of the day,” he said in outlining his vision for the future.

Rabbi Berman served for 14 years as a rabbi at The Jewish Center, a modern Orthodox congregation on the Upper West Side, until immigrating to Israel in 2008. He taught Talmud at YU beginning in 1998.

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A recipe for apple pie kugel

By Ronnie Fein, The Nosher via JTA ne day many years ago – during the High Holidays yet — I called my mother early in the morning to yell at her about kugel. Really. In my family kugel meant skinny noodles mixed with eggs, schmaltz, salt and fried onions. I’d heard of the sweet kind from friends who rhapsodized about the ones their grandmas made. But I’d never tasted any of those because my mother told me they were horrible.

Years later, when I finally did, it was a watershed culinary moment for me. I was at a friend’s break-fast and she gave me a dishful of what I came to believe was the best noodle kugel I ever tasted. It had bountiful quantities of sugar and cheese, it was rich with dairy sour cream and it had a crunchy, butter-drenched frosted corn flakes crust.

“Ma! You were absolutely wrong. What were you thinking!” I yelled into the phone. I brought her a sample and she, no fool, realized how mistaken she’d been (although she still preferred our savory kind, which I still make often).

After that I became a sort of a sweet noodle kugel aficionado. I make all kinds: dairy and parve, with fresh fruit or dried, with a plain top or a crispy coat. Although these versions are sweet, I serve most of them with dinner – in the same way I serve applesauce

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or cranberry sauce with savory foods.

Recently I thought about the fact that kugel, being a kind of pudding, could actually make a nice dessert. Like bread pudding but made with noodles. So with apples-and-honey season in mind, I decided to go all in.

This is it — apple streusel pie kugel, lush with roasted fruit, orange-plumped raisins, cheese and a topping of oat-based streusel.

We ate it with vanilla ice cream once and another time topped with lightly sweetened heavy cream that had been whipped but still pourable. Don’t even think about the calories. Just enjoy.

Ingredients: 1 cup raisins 1/4 cup orange or apple juice 2 tablespoons honey 3 medium tart apples, peeled and cut into bite size pieces 6 tablespoons sugar 1 12-ounce package egg noodles 1 8-ounce package cream cheese 1/4 pound unsalted butter 2 cups dairy sour cream 6 large eggs 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 cup uncooked rolled oats 1/3 cup all-purpose flour 1/3 cup packed brown sugar 1/8 teaspoon salt

4 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces Directions: Preheat the oven to 400 F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Lightly oil a 9-by13-inch baking pan.

Place the raisins in a bowl. Heat the orange juice and honey in a small saucepan until the honey has melted. Stir to blend the liquids completely and pour over the raisins. Let soak for at least 30 minutes.

Place the apples on the baking sheet.

Sprinkle with 2 tablespoons of the sugar and toss to coat all the pieces. Roast for about 15 minutes, tossing the pieces once or twice, or until they are tender. Remove from the oven and set aside.

Turn the oven heat to 350 F. Cook and drain the noodles and put them in a large bowl.

In an electric mixer, beat the cream cheese and butter until thoroughly blended and softened. Beat in the remaining sugar until well blended. Add the sour cream and blend

thoroughly. Add the eggs one at a time, beating after each addition.

Stir in the apples, raisins (including liquid) and cinnamon. Pour the mixture into the noodles and mix to coat them completely.

Spoon the mixture into the prepared baking pan.

In a bowl, mix the oats, flour, brown sugar and salt. Add the butter and work it into the flour mixture until it resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle the oat mixture over the noodle mixture. Bake for 45-50 minutes or until lightly browned and crispy on top.

Ronnie Fein is a freelance food and lifestyle writer.

Pomegranate and honey glazed chicken

By Liz Rueven, The Nosher via JTA omegranates, or rimonim in Hebrew, are among the most recognizable and highly symbolic fruits in Jewish culture. Originating in Persia, these reddish, thick-skinned fruits (technically a berry) begin to appear in markets at the end of summer and are readily available for holiday cooking by Rosh Hashanah.

According to Gil Marks in “The Encyclopedia of Jewish Food,” the abundance of seeds, nestled into a white membrane and encased in a protective and leathery skin, is associated with the 613 commandments in the Torah.

They serve as symbols of righteousness and fruitfulness, as expressed in the Rosh Hashanah expression, “May we be full of merits like the pomegranate (is full of seeds).”

This ancient fruit, prized for its juice and seeds (called arils), is mentioned in the Bible as one of the seven most bountiful agriculture products of ancient Israel. It is associated with fertility and sensuality, and is mentioned six times in the Song of Songs.

In biblical times, pomegranates were used to add tart flavors to ancient dishes before lemons and tomatoes were discovered. Since then, pomegranates have been used to add unique and complex dimensions to Sephardic and central Asian soups, stews, sauces, chutneys and desserts. They may be juiced, dried, reduced, ground or pressed into pomegranate oil.

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Today, pomegranates are prized for their antioxidant and potent nutritional value, just as they were in ancient Egypt when the seeds were believed to heal intestinal disorders.

Juice, molasses (actually a reduction and thickening of the juice and sometimes called pomegranate concentrate or syrup) and arils are used in a wide range of applications including cocktails, glazes, simmer sauces, and glistening toppings for green salads and vegetable dishes.

In “The New Persian Kitchen,” author Louisa Shafia offers numerous pomegranate dishes, including a classic Iranian stew called fesenjan that is often served at celebrations.

The chicken is cooked with beets and thickened with coarsely ground walnuts and pomegranate molasses. As in many Persian dishes, pomegranate seeds are used as a glistening, jewel-like garnish.

Shafia illustrates removing the seeds a few different ways, but I like the “water method” best. Simply slice off the two ends and quarter the fruit with a knife. Submerge the

quarters in a bowl of cold water and pull out the seeds with your fingers. The pith and skin float to the surface as the arils sink to the bottom. Scoop out everything but the seeds and pour water and seeds through a mesh colander to collect them.

Consider using pomegranates in your Rosh Hashanah meals when it is considered a positive omen, or segulah, to incorporate symbolic foods in our holiday menus. Whip up this easy chicken dish and you’ll have both bountiful and sweet symbols covered.

Holiday chicken is potent with pomegranates goodness as this symbolic fruit is used in three ways: juice, molasses and arils (seeds). The flavors are bold, tangy and slightly sweet — a Middle Eastern-influenced sweet and sour.

Pomegranates are highly symbolic in Jewish tradition, most often associated with fertility and good deeds. By combining the tart flavors of pomegranates with honey here, the sweetness balances the tang and positive energy is imbued in this main course for Rosh Hashanah.

Note: The simmer sauce may be prepared two to three days ahead and refrigerated until ready to prepare the chicken.

Ingredients: 1 4-pound chicken cut in eighths (breasts cut in half if large) 4 tablespoons canola oil (separated: 2 tablespoons for simmer sauce and 2 tablespoons for browning the chicken) 1 large onion, chopped 3 cloves garlic, minced 1/2 cup pomegranate molasses 1/2 cup sweetened pomegranate juice

1/2 cup honey 2 cups vegetable or chicken broth 1 teaspoon cumin 1/2 teaspoon powdered ginger 1/8 teaspoon allspice 1/2 teaspoon turmeric salt and pepper to taste For the garnish: 2 tablespoons parsley 2 tablespoons pomegranate arils (seeds) Directions: Heat 2 tablespoons canola oil in a large pan (you’ll need a lid for later).

Sauté chopped onion until soft and translucent. Add minced garlic and saute for 2-3 minutes (do not brown). Add pomegranate molasses, juice, honey, broth and spices.

Stir and bring to boil. Reduce to an active simmer, and cook uncovered, for about 20 minutes or until sauce is reduced by about half the volume and slightly thickened.

Taste sauce and adjust seasoning. Too tart? Add 1 to 2 tablespoons honey. Want more kick? Crack more black pepper. Remove sauce from heat and pour into bowl.

Set aside.

Wash pan. Rinse chicken parts, pat dry, season with salt and pepper.

Heat remaining 2 tablespoons of oil in pan and place chicken parts skin side down.

Brown on one side and flip to second side. Do not crowd chicken in the pan, as this causes chicken to steam rather than brown.

Lower heat, pour prepared simmer sauce over the chicken. Cover pan and simmer on low for 35 to 40 minutes. Remove from pan and platter, garnishing with chopped parsley and pomegranate arils.

Liz Rueven’s blog, Kosher Like Me, features restaurant and product reviews, tips on events where like-minded eaters like her can actually eat, and news about folks in the food world.

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Bringing home a sweet new year … with honey Joni Schockett

Capon with Sabra, Honey, and Apricot Glaze (meat)

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hanah Tovah Umetukah. Have a good and sweet year.To bring that sweetness into the New Year, we cook with a lot of honey — in dishes ranging from traditional honey cakes to less traditional servings of honey briskets and chicken.

Honey is mentioned in the Torah as the hallmark of Israel, “a land flowing with milk and honey” (Deut. 31:20). A fact that I discovered years ago while doing a paper for a comparative religion course is that honey is mentioned in the holy books of every religions. I guess humans developed a sweet tooth very early on.

Honey is the most ancient of sweeteners. An 8,000 year old rock painting in Italy depicts a honey gatherer subduing a colony with smoke and then breaking apart the hive to get at the honey. Now, honey is now a huge agra-business worldwide.

Honey has different undertones of flavors depending on the food the bees eat and where it is grown. Clover honey is the most common, but other, specialized, honeys are also popular.

Orange Blossom Honey is a common type and comes from bees kept in orange groves. Buckwheat honey is as hearty and earthy as the grains that produce it. New kinds of honey, including rainforest and African honey, are becoming popular.

An interesting fact about honey is that it never goes bad. Honey found in ancient archeological digs is still viable. If honey solidifies, just heat it in a bowl of very hot water and it will be fine.

Experiment with honey as a sweetener in all kinds of sauces and baking. It has some health benefits, but it is still a sweetener, so those with health issues need to be aware that it acts like sugar on blood glucose levels. Also, remember: never give honey or any food with honey to a baby younger than 12 months.

Cranberry Glaze for Chicken or Salmon (pareve)

Serve this with any wild rice recipe (I add mandarin orange segments) and pass the extra glaze around to spoon over the rice.

GLAZE: 1 cup honey 1 jar apricot preserves (12 ounces) 1/3 to1/2 cup Sabra or orange or apricot liqueur Optional: 1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper, or 1/2 tsp. finely minced garlic, or tbsp. tamari sauce CAPON: 1 (6 to 9 pound) capon 6 tbsp. canola oil, divided 2 large onions thinly sliced 1 package dried apricots (8 ounces, or more if you like) 1 to 2 cups chicken stock 1 to 2 cups water Optional: 2 to 3 cans Mandarin orange segments, drained Place the honey, apricot preserves and Sabra liqueur in a medium sauce pan and heat until simmering. Add one of the optional ingredients if you like and mix well. Remove from heat and set aside.

Clean the capon and place on a roasting rack in a large roasting pan. Rub with 2 tablespoons of canola oil.

Heat a large skillet and add the rest of the canola oil. Add the onions. Sauté until golden, about 5-7 minutes. Place the onions in the bottom of the roasting pan. Cut the apricots in half and place them evenly around the pan. Add stock and water so that the liquid comes one inch up the side of the pan. Reserve the rest. Cover the capon with an aluminum foil tent. Roast in a 350-degree oven until about a half hour from done. To judge when it’s about 30 minutes from

done, I move the drumstick. It should move, but be a little stiff. At that point, begin basting the capon every 7-10 minutes, with the apricot glaze. Check the pan frequently and add more liquid if needed.

Continue to roast until juices run clear or until a meat thermometer shows 165 degrees in the thickest part of the breast and the thigh. The capon should be a rich, golden brown. Remove from the oven and let rest for 15 minutes.

To serve, slice the white meat and cut the capon into pieces. Garnish with the onions and apricots from the pan; add any leftover glaze to the pan. Add the mandarin oranges to the roasting pan and heat over a medium flame until heated through, about 3-5 minutes, scraping up any browned bits. Mix well and serve the gravy with the chicken. Serves 6 to 9.

Not Your Average Honey Cake (pareve)

This cake has delicious undertones of coffee and cocoa and just a hint of the Amaretto to bring it to a new taste sensation.

4 large eggs at room temperature 1 cup canola oil 1 cup very strong black coffee (1 tbsp. in 1 cup hot water) 1/2 cup orange juice 1/4 cup Amaretto, Whiskey or Rye (I use Amaretto) 4 tsp. pure vanilla extract 1 cup sugar 3/4 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar 3-1/2 cups unbleached flour 1 tbsp. baking powder 3/4 tsp. baking soda 1/4 tsp salt 1 tbsp. unsweetened cocoa powder 1 tbsp. cinnamon 1/2 tsp ground ginger

1 cup (generous) honey (I used blueberry or buckwheat) Preheat the oven to 350 degrees 30 minutes before placing the cake in the oven to assure a hot oven. Grease the bottom and sides of a 9 or 10-inch tube pan and line with parchment paper.

Set aside.

Place the eggs, oil, coffee, orange juice Amaretto and vanilla in a large bowl and whisk until completely blended. Set aside. Place the sugar, dark brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa, cinnamon and ginger in the bowl of an electric mixer and whisk to blend. Add the liquid to the dry ingredients and blend by hand until just blended. Add the honey and mix by hand.

Place the bowl onto the mixer stand and attach the paddle. Blend on slow speed until completely blended, scrape the bowl, and increase the speed to medium for 90 seconds or until the batter is the consistency of sour cream or thick sauce. Scrape into the prepared bowl, tap the pan once or twice to free any air bubbles, and place on the rimmed baking sheet.

Place in the lower half of the oven and bake for 45 minutes. Rotate the pan — back to front; lower the heat to 325 degrees and bake another 25 to 35 minutes or until a tester comes out clean. Remove from the oven and let cool in the pan for about 15 minutes. Use a thin silicon or plastic spatula to loosen the cake around the edges and around the tube.

Cover two plates with Confectioner’s sugar and invert the cake onto one of the plates. Immediately invert the cake onto the serving plate. Dust with more sugar or drizzle with vanilla glaze.

Vanilla Glaze (Pareve) 1-1/2 cups confectioners’ sugar 1/2 vanilla bean 1/2 tsp. pure vanilla extract 1-3 tbsp. almond milk, soy milk, or water Cut a vanilla bean in half and then slice open with a small sharp knife. Scrape the seeds into a bowl. Add the sugar, extract and milk and whisk until it reaches the consistency that will drizzle.

Drizzle over cake. Makes 1/2 to 3/4 cup.

Optional: Omit the vanilla bean and add 1 tsp instant coffee dissolved in 1 tsp, hot water.

Use orange juice instead of almond milk.

Omit the vanilla bean. Add 1 tbsp. honey and reduce milk to 1 tbsp. or less.

Apple Rosettes This is perfect for a first course fish dish or for a company chicken dish 1 tbsp. canola oil 1/4 cup finely diced red onion 1 tbsp. finely grated fresh ginger, more to taste 1/4 cup sugar or honey 1/3 cup plus 2 tbsp. dried cranberries 2 cups fresh cranberries 1/4 cup pomegranate juice, a bit more if needed 1/2 cup store bought teriyaki sauce Pinch black pepper Heat oil. Add onion and cook until softened.

Add ginger, garlic, sugar and dried cranberries.

Cook, stirring constantly, over medium-low heat, for 5 minutes. Add remaining ingredients and cook for another 5-10 minutes at a simmer.

Remove from heat. Process in blender or use an immersion blender until evenly chunky. Serve over chicken or salmon. Makes about 2 cups.

Can be easily doubled.

By Chef Franck Cherqui Inbal Jerusalem Hotel Ingredients: Yields 10 tarts 2 lbs frozen puff pastry, thawed and spread into rectangles 4 apples of your choice (my preferences are Pink Lady and/ or Granny Smith) Water, as needed Juice of 1 lemon 2-1/2 cups of unsweetened applesauce Powdered Sugar, as needed (for dusting) Essential material: Muffin molds Preparation: 1. Prepare a microwaveable container of 3/4 cup-full water to which you will add the juice of one lemon 2. Rinse the apples, cut them

in two then remove the core and the seeds (no need to peel them; leave the skin) 3. With the help of a mandolin (or a sharp knife), slices apples very thin (so that they are malleable) 4. As you prepare, arrange the slices in the container of lemon water previously prepared 5. Heat it in the microwave for 3 to 4 minutes to make the apples suppler (so they will be easier to work with) then drain them 6. In a microwaveable container, mix the applesauce with 2-1/2 cups of water, mix well, then heat 1 minute in a microwave 7. Butter the muffin mold then preheat oven to 350 degrees (180 degrees C) F. 8. Evenly cut your dough into 5 horizontal strips 9. Spread applesauce on each

strip of dough 10. Then place the apple slices on the top half of the strip (they must protrude from the strip of dough) by overlapping them 11. Fold the lower part of the dough over the apples 12. Gently roll the strip on itself by tightening well to obtain a beautiful rose

13. Immediately put in the muffin mold (if the center of the roses is not tight enough, slide a small slice of apple rolled on itself in the center) 14. Bake for about 30 to 40 minutes or until golden brown.

15. Remove from mold, and sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving

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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA PARIS — In a bid to preserve interest in the Holocaust by future generations, the Basel-based Anne Frank Foundation is about to publish the first authorized comic book based on the teenager’s famous diary written in hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam.

The 148-page adaptation, to be released on Sept.

18 in France and in some 40 languages worldwide, was presented to journalists in the French capital Thursday by the graphic diary’s illustrator, David Polonsky from Israel, and its writer, the Israeli film director Ari Folman, who is working on the first full-length authorized animation film based on the comic book.

The comic book, referred to as a graphic diary by its developers, was produced in cooperation with the Anne Frank Foundation, or fonds — the organization that Anne’s father, Otto, entrusted with preserving her memory — contains colorful illustrations both of realities described in the book, including the teen’s difficult relationship with her mother and sister, and her dreams and fantasies.

One full-page drawing, based on Anne’s writing about wanting to become a journalist, shows an older Anne sitting at her desk with framed newspapers in the background, including a Life magazine cover featuring a picture of her.

Another shows her family members and other Jews with whom they lived in hiding for two years in Amsterdam depicted as animals, corresponding to Anne’s humorous anecdotes about their personalities. Other drawings feature allusions to great visual artworks, including by Edvard Munch and Gustav Klimt.

“I’m worried we’re coming to an era where there won’t be Holocaust survivors on Earth, no living witnesses to tell the story,” said Folman, who was born to Holocaust survivors whom he said told him and his sister “way, way too many” horrible stories from the genocide. As they disappear, “the entire story of the Holocaust risks becoming something ancient so it’s essential to find ways to preserve” interest in the Holocaust, he said

during a Q&A in Paris.

Anne, her sister and parents and several other Jews were deported in 1944 to be murdered following a raid by Nazi soldiers on the so-called secret annex where they lived in hiding with help from the Dutch resistance. Anne died seven months later in a concentration camp. Her mother and sister also died. Only Otto survived, and he edited his younger daughter’s writings and had them published in 1947.

Folman, who is well-known internationally for his film about Israel’s Lebanon War, “Waltz with Bashir,” said his first reaction was to “immediately say no” after being approached by the Switzerland-based Anne Frank Foundation, or Fonds.

Folman and Polonsky initially turned down the offer, they said, because artistically they doubted their ability to make a contribution that would stand out from the many films, books, theater shows, operas and musicals that have been produced over the story of Anne Frank — perhaps the world’s most famous Holocaust victim following the publication in dozens of languages of her diary over the last seven decades.

There has been “too much done around the story,” Folman said. But he reconsidered after talking to his 95-year-old mother, whom she said is now “living with the goal of seeing the premiere” of the film he is making about Anne Frank.

Since the 1940s, many authorized and unauthorized adaptations of the Anne Frank story have been created in many media. In Japan alone, the Anne Frank story has been the subject of several comic books — graphic novels in the Japanese manga style. But these publications were not authorized by the Anne Frank Foundation for historical accuracy corresponding to Anne’s actual writings.

The film, Folman told JTA, will treat also the last “horrendous” seven months in Anne Frank’s life, despite the absence of material on this period written by her.

“We used other historical sources to address this part of her life,” he said. “It was a condition of mine to work on this.”

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By Josefin Dolsten, JTA The United States will return to Iraq next year a trove of Iraqi Jewish artifacts that lawmakers and Jewish groups have lobbied to keep in this country, a State Department official said.

A four-year extension to keep the Iraqi Jewish Archive in the U.S. is set to expire in September 2018, as is funding for maintaining and transporting the items. The materials will then be sent back to Iraq, spokesman Pablo Rodriguez said in a statement sent to JTA on Thursday.

Rodriguez said the State Department “is keenly aware of the interest in the status” of the archive.

“Maintaining the archive outside of Iraq is possible,” he said, “but would require a new agreement between the Government of Iraq and a temporary host institution or government.”

The archive was brought to America in 2003 after being salvaged by U.S. troops. It contains tens of thousands of items including books, religious texts, photographs and personal documents. Under an agreement with the government of Iraq, the archive was to be sent back there, but in 2014 the Iraqi ambassador to the U.S. said its stay had been extended. He did not say when the archive was to return.

Democratic and Republican lawmakers and Jewish groups have lobbied to renegotiate the deal, arguing that the documents should be kept in the U.S. or elsewhere where they are accessible to Iraqi Jews and their descendants. JTA reached out to lawmakers who have sponsored resolutions urging a renegotiation of the archive’s return but did not hear back in time for publication.

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Detail of a Tik (Torah case) and Glass Panel from Baghdad, 19th–20th centuries, part of the Iraqi National Archives Jewish Archive.

Iraq and proponents of returning the archive say it can serve as an educational tool for Iraqis about the history of Jews there and that it is part of the country’s patrimony.

In 2003, U.S. troops found the archive, much of it waterlogged, in the basement of the Iraqi secret services headquarters in Baghdad. Under Saddam Hussein’s reign, Iraq had looted many of the artifacts after the dictator drove the Jewish community out of the country amid intense persecution.

In the U.S., the artifacts were restored, digitalized and exhibited under the auspices of the National Archives in Washington.

Rodriguez was asked how appropriate treatment of the archive will be ensured.

“When the IJA is returned, the State Department will urge the Iraqi government to take the proper steps necessary to preserve the archive, and to make it available to members of the public to enjoy,” he said in the statement.

The archive is set to be exhibited at the Jewish Museum of Maryland Oct. 15-Jan. 15.

This Passover Haggadah from 1902, one of few Hebrew manuscripts recovered from Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters, was handlettered and decorated by an Iraqi youth.

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The exhibit page says the items include a Hebrew Bible with commentaries from 1568, a Babylonian Talmud from 1793 and an 1815 version of the Zohar, a Jewish mystical text.

“At this point, we have no new information for you about additional venues,” Miriam Kleiman, program director for public affairs at the National Archives, told JTA in an email on Friday.

Groups representing Jews from Iraq decried the return date.

“There is no justification in sending the Jewish archives back to Iraq, a country that has virtually no Jews and no accessibility to Jewish scholars or the descendants of Iraqi Jews,” Gina Waldman, founder and president of Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa, said Friday in a statement to JTA. “The U.S. government must ensure that the Iraqi archives are returned to its rightful owners, the exiled Iraqi Jewish community,” Stanley Urman, executive vice president

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for Justice for Jews from Arab Countries, echoed Waldman in saying there was no justification for sending back the archive.

“This is Jewish communal property. Iraq stole it and kept it hidden away in a basement. Now that we’ve managed to reclaim it, it would be like returning stolen goods back to the thief,” Urman told JTA on Friday.

Rabbi Andrew Baker, director of international Jewish affairs at the American Jewish Committee, emphasized that the agreement had always been that the archive would be returned.

“Certainly if there are more venues or museums that might wish to host this exhibition, that could be another reason for further deferring returning it to Iraq,” he told JTA on Friday.

Baker said the fact that materials have been digitalized ensures access to the archive no matter where it is physically located.

“Frankly, I would hope that while the position of the State Department is as been said, and a date has been given, that there can be and hopefully will be further understanding or agreements that might be reached even informally that would lead to further deferral of any actual return of the archive,” he said.

Marc Lubin, a government relations consultant who has worked on the issue, was critical of the agreement with the Iraqi government to return the archive.

“The Iraqi Jewish Archives case lifts the curtain and exposes the reality that the United States has entered into a number of agreements, in name of deterring looting, that in fact endorse foreign government claims on the property of Jews and other individuals and religious minorities,” he told JTA in an email.”

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New York’s city council voted on Thursday to spend $126 million of city funds on a $288 million plan to revitalize 20 blocks in Far Rockaway At the heart of the project will be the longailing Far Rockaway Shopping Center on Mott Avenue. The city hopes transform nearly two dozen vacant storefronts in the plaza, which sits like a rotting Chinese wall between the terminuses of the A train and the Long Island Railroad, into a vibrant downtown area.

Plans also include a park at the site of a current Department of Sanitation lot, funding for a new branch of the Queens Public Library, and improvements to the sewer system, sidewalks, public plazas and existing parks.

“Today, we begin the journey of building on the progress we have made over the past four years, by infusing hundreds of millions of dollars into infrastructure, quality jobs, parks, streetscape, transit improvements, and both community facility and open space,” said Far Rockaway councilman Donovan Richards.

“I’m pleased to have helped coordinate among the federal, state and city governments as well as community partners on the monumental Roadmap for Action,” said the area’s member of Congress, Gregory Meeks. “Through our ongoing efforts to increase affordable

housing options, improve transportation infrastructure, and boost the local economy, Far Rockaway will become a more competitive and attractive enclave of New York City.”

There will also be upgrades to the local city bus system for greater access to work, school and recreation. That includes an extension of the shuttle bus to the ferry landing at Beach 108th Street and installing real-time bus arrival displays at major stops.

“This plan represents the promise of what we can achieve when we come together to ensure that our neighborhoods are vibrant places of opportunity for current and future residents,” Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Maria Torres-Springer said. “Working across agencies, in lockstep with the community, we’ve created a blueprint for the future of downtown Far Rockaway as a dynamic hub for the region, with strategies to develop and safeguard affordable housing, protect tenants, improve infrastructure, and grow the local economy.”

City planners have said they want to turn Far Rockaway into peninsula’s commercial hub without evicting those who live there through rising rents or driving out small businesses in favor of larger corporations.

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By Penny Schwartz, JTA BOSTON — At 15, Elias Rosenfeld became a “Dreamer.�

At the time, the Venezuela native was attending Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School in Miami, where he had lived since he was 6 years old, when his Jewish family moved to South Florida from Caracas. His mother was a media executive and they traveled to the United States on an L1 visa, which allows specialized, managerial employees to work for the U.S. office of a parent company.

But tragedy struck the family: When Rosenfeld was in the fifth grade, his mother was diagnosed with kidney cancer. She died two years later.

In high school, Rosenfeld applied for a driver’s permit, only to find out that he lacked the required legal papers. He discovered that his mother’s death voided her visa. He and his older sister were undocumented.

Within five months, in June 2012, President Obama signed an executive order, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), granting temporary, renewable legal status to young unauthorized immigrants who had been brought to America by their parents as children. The order opened a world of opportunities for 800,000 young people who were now able to apply for driver’s licenses, temporary work permits and college. “Dreamers� refers to a bipartisan bill, known as the Dream Act, that would have offered them a path to legal residency.

Rosenfeld launched United Student Immigrants, a nonprofit to assist undocumented students that has been credited with raising tens of thousands of dollars for help with scholarships and applications. Now a 20-year-old sophomore at Brandeis University on a full scholarship, he spoke with JTA at a rally last Tuesday outside of Boston’s Faneuil Hall, just hours after President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced they would rescind DACA. The president gave Congress a six-month window to preserve the program through legislation. Or not.

The Boston protest was organized by the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, where Rosenfeld is an intern. He shared his story with several hundred people at the quickly organized rally.

Several Jewish communal leaders attended the rally, including Jeremy Burton, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston, and Jerry Rubin, president of Jewish Vocational Services. Representatives from the New England Jewish Labor Committee, which helped spread the word

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of the rally, held signs in the crowd.

Another Dreamer, Filipe Zamborlini, 28, who came to the U.S. from Brazil when he was 12 and now works as a career coach at Jewish Vocational Services, also spoke. “There’s a high level of fear and anxiety in DACA communities,� he told JTA. Rosenfeld recalls too well the sting and uncertainty of being undocumented. “It means you can’t do everything your peers and your friends are doing. You feel American, but you are suffering these consequences from choices you didn’t make,� he said.

But he also sounded a note of optimism, pointing out that Trump called on Congress to act. “We hope Congress follows their president’s word now and does the job of passing one of the many pieces of legislation� before them, Rosenfeld said.

While he readily admits to feeling scared and anxious, “I’m also feeling empowered and motivated from seeing the outpouring of support,� locally and across the country, he said.

To DACA opponents, including Jewish supporters of Trump,

Rosenfeld asks them to look at the facts and the stories of people like himself. “I don’t think it aligns with our values, with Jewish values and the Jewish community,� he said of a policy that would essentially strip a generation of people raised here of official recognition.

Rosenfeld cited the activism of a group called Torah Trumps Hate, which opposes policies that it considers anathema to values contained in Jewish teachings.

Despite the hardships he faced following his mother’s death, Rosenfeld excelled in high school. He completed 13 Advanced Placement courses and ranked among the top 10 percent of his graduating class, according to a Miami-Dade County school bulletin. Rosenfeld was widely recognized as a student leader, receiving several awards and honors.

Many students who were undocumented live in constant fear, even after receiving temporary legal status under DACA, Rosenfeld said. “There is fear behind the shadows,� he said. “We are always behind the shadows.�

Earlier in the day, before the president’s announcement, Brandeis President Ron Liebowitz sent a letter to Trump urging him not to undo DACA. “Here at Brandeis University, we value our DACA students, who enrich our campus in many ways and are integral to our community,� the letter said. “Reversing DACA inflicts harsh punishment on the innocent. As a nation founded by immigrants, we can, should, and must do better.�

Rosenfeld was attracted to Brandeis both for its academics and its commitment to social justice. He is studying political science, sociology and law, with plans to continue his advocacy work on behalf of immigrants. He hopes one day to attend law school and work in politics or practice law.

With a full schedule of courses and volunteer work, Rosenfeld gets by without much sleep, he acknowledged with an easy laugh.

The Brandeis administration has been supportive, he said, and there is a meeting later this week on campus to discuss school policy on the issue.

Asked what America means to him, Rosenfeld does not hesitate. “It means my country. It’s my home. There’s a connection. I want to contribute,� he said. “I just don’t think it’s valuable to want to kick out people that want to contribute to this country.�

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Self-hatred: It’s not just for the self-haters!

Personal view, by Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA I used to joke that I am not a self-hating Jew: It’s all those other Jews I can’t stand.

Like I said, I used to tell that joke.

In the current political climate, self-hatred is no laughing matter. Calling another Jew “selfhating” is pervasive and toxic — so toxic, in fact, that some observers can’t distinguish it from actual anti-Semitism. A lot of liberal Jews label Breitbart News anti-Semitic in part because of an article by right-wing activist David Horowitz that essentially called William Kristol a self-hating Jew. (Horowitz’s actual term was “renegade Jew.”) Similarly, the Washington Post explained last week that William Bradford resigned from the Energy Department over reports of his “racist and anti-Semitic tweets.” In the aftermath of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg urging followers not to vote for Trump, Bradford posted this tweet that the Post called anti-Semitic: “Who is this little arrogant self-hating Jew to tell anyone for whom to vote.”

Pretty nasty, but it turns out Bradford himself is Jewish. So is Horowitz, who explained that he called Kristol a renegade Jew because he felt the conservative pundit, in opposing Trump, had “betrayed the Jews.” Like Horowitz, Bradford apparently saw himself not as an anti-Semite but as a Defender of the Faith. Just like the Hungarian Jewish journalist who called financier and philanthropist George Soros a selfhating Jew. Or the Republican Jewish leader in Israel who called comedian Sarah Silverman a self-hating Jew. Or the JTA reader who called the late pundit Christopher Hitchens a self-hating Jew. Or the famous Jewish comedian (OK, Jackie Mason) who called Bernie Sanders a selfhating Jew. All of those who fling the charge would deny

course suggests that some people think they are.

On the flip side,the Jerusalem Post gave space to a 2,300-word essay arguing that “liberal Jews” who oppose Trump or criticize Israel are selfhating. In June, a writer for the the Daily Wire, the right-leaning news site, called Sanders (him again) a “self-hating Jew” because he gave a speech opposing the Israeli occupation.

If you’re interested, this is what Sanders said to earn the honorific: “I know so many of you agree with me when I say this occupation must end. Peace, real peace, means security not only for every Israeli but for every Palestinian. It means supporting self-determination, civil rights and economic well-being for both peoples.”

Describing Jewish liberals and Jewish critics of Israel as “self-hating” has become a reflex on the right, although occasionally the charge goes the other way, casting no more light on the issue at hand.

Accusations of self-hatred are serious business not just because they shut down debate.

They seek to excommunicate people based on political differences, and put the accuser in the position of Jewish Grand Inquisitor (and even Pope Francis has been known to say, “Who am I to judge?”). And they ascribe deep psychological motives to people based on flimsy evidence.

If you plan on calling someone a self-hater, you have to be pretty sure of two things: One, that the opinions they hold are those of genuine anti-Semites and not just people with whom you disagree; and two, they came to their opinions via some sort of self-lacerating neurosis.

Or just ask yourself this the next time you find yourself disagreeing with Bernie Sanders or Jared Kushner: What does “self-hater” add to your argument except a signal that you may not trust yourself to win the debate on its merits?

Comedian Jackie Mason, in Hallandale, Florida in 2016, called Sen. Bernie Sanders, shown at a news conference in Washington in 2016, a self-hating Jew. Mason by Carl Lender wia WikiCommons, Sanders by Mark Wilson/Getty Images

they are themselves being anti-Semitic. Here’s Mason justifying his use of the term to describe Sanders’ views on Israel: “If a non-Jew was saying it, people would call him an anti-Semite because he is an anti-Semite. Just because he’s a Jew doesn’t mean he can’t hate being Jewish because he obviously is a viciously self-hating Jew.” Got that?

No doubt, there are Jews who are “viciously self-hating” — or at least they base their worldview on what Leon Wieseltier has called “the internalization of the standpoint of the enemy.”

We’ve had our traitors and kapos and turncoats.

Post-emancipation, the Jews who believed that the “mirage” of anti-Semitic stereotypes was the real thing, as the historian Sander Gilman once put, were the subject of communal fascination and disgust and the topic of serious scholarship.

We know this because there are some really good jokes about self-hatred (look up the one

with the punchline, “Is that all you people ever think about?”).

But nowadays the charge is invariably political, pure and simple. Last month Naftali Bennett, Israel’s minister of education, used the term “auto-anti-Semitism” — from a Hebrew term for Jewish self-hatred — to describe critics of a government-approved science textbook that included the prayer for rain.

“Auto-antisemitism is a social-psychological phenomenon in which a Jew develops obsessive contempt and hostility toward Jewish tradition, Jewish customs and traditional Jews,” Bennett explained on Facebook, according to the Jerusalem Post.

Secular parents in Israel insist, meanwhile, that they don’t hate themselves or Judaism; it’s religious coercion that they can do without.

Anshel Pfeffer, writing in the left-wing newspaper Haaretz, noted that the Jews who voted for Trump “aren’t self-hating Jews,” which of

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Send your events to Calendar@TheJewishStar.com • Deadline noon Friday • Compiled by Zachary Schechter Thursday Sept 14

Iyun Tefilah: [Weekly] Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum at the Young Israel of Lawrence Cedarhust.

9:45 am. 8 Spruce St, Cedarhust.

Hachnasas Sefer Torah: Yeshiva Kesser Torah invites all for a special hachnasas sefer Torah horning Rosh Hayeshiva and Rebbitzen Harav Elyakim and Trani Rosenblatt. 1 pm. 147-36 69th Rd, Flushing.

Learn Maseches Brachos: [Weekly] Join Rabbi Eliyahu Wolf at the YI of Woodmere for a shiur on Maseches Brachos. 5:15 pm. 859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere. 516-295-0950.

Rosh Hashana Shiur: Men and women are invited to join Rabbi Dr. Aaron Glatt at the YI of Woodmere for a discussion on the Rosh Hashana Davening. 8:15 pm. 859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere. 516-295-0950.

Machshava on Rosh Hashana: Join Rabbi Dr. Ari Bergmann at the YI of Israel for a machshava shiur on Rosh Hashana. 9:15 pm. 859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere. 516-295-0950.

Halacha Shiur: [Weekly] Join Rabbi Yoni Levin at Aish Kodesh for a halacha shiur. 9:30 pm.

894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere.

Challah Bake: Chabad of Valley Stream invites women and girls Bat Mitzvah age and up to an erev haparshat challah bake. $25. 8 to 10 pm. 550 Rockaway Avenue Valley Stream. 516-825-5566.

Friday Sept 15

Erev Shabbos Kollel: [Weekly] Eruv Shabbos Kollel starting with 6 am Chassidus shiur with Rav Moshe Weinberger and concluding with 9 am Chevrusah Learning session with Rabbi Yoni Levin. 894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere.

Saturday Sept 16

Kumzitz and Selichos: YI of Israel invites all for a special kumzitz and selichos led by Simcha Leiner.. 9:45 pm. 859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere.

516-295-0950.

Pre-Selichos Message: Rabbi Shaya Cohen, Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshiva Zichron Aryeh and the founder of Priority-1 will be giving a pre-selichos message on “New Age Parenting Based on the Age Old Message of the Yomim Noraim,” at Congregation Tiferes Tzvi. Midnight followed by Selichos.

26 Columbia Ave, Cedarhurst. 516-295-5700.

Sunday Sept 17

Baalei Teshuva Through the Ages: YI of Kew Garden Hills will be holding a seminar on different famous baalei teshuva in Jewish history including Dovid HaMelech, Rabbi Akiva and Adam HaRishon. Free and open to men and women and children. 7:30-8:45 pm. 150-05 70th Rd. Timely Torah: [Weekly] Join Rabbi Ya’akov Trump, assistant rabbi of the Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhust, for a shiur on relevant Halachic and philosophical topics related to Parsha Moadim and contemporary issues. Coffee and pastries.

8 am. 8 Spruce St, Cedarhust.

Learning Program: [Weekly] At Aish Kodesh led by Rav Moshe Weinberger following 8:15 Shacharis including 9 am breakfast and shiruim on subjects such as halacha, gemara and divrei chizzuk. 894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere.

Gemara Shiur: [Weekly] Join Rabbi Moshe Sokoloff at the YI of Israel for a gemara shiu. 9:15 am. 859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere. 516-2950950.

Teshuva Shiur: Join Rabbi Shay Shachter at the YI of Israel for a shiur on Teshuva. 9:30am.

859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere. 516-295-0950.

Shofar Factory: Join Chabad of the Five Towns for a hands-on learning experience. Children will discover how a real shofar is made and get to make one for themselves. Open to the entire Five Towns community from 2 to3 pm at a cost of $5 for members and $10 for non-members. 74 Maple Ave, Cedarhurst. RSVP at 516-295-2478.

Monday Sept 18

Women’s Shiur: [Weekly] Dr. Anette Labovitz’s women shiur will continue at Aish Kodesh.

10 am. 894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere.

Bake Sale: HAFTR PTA hosts a pre-Rosh Hashana bake sale at the home of the Lent Family. 11 am. 81 Washington Ave South, Lawrence.

Insights into Rosh Hashana: Men and women are invited to join Rabbi Shalom Axelrod at the YI of Israel for a shiur titled “Insights into Rosh Hashana.” 8 pm. 859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere. 516-295-0950.

Seeing Things Clearly: [Weekly] Join Rabbi Shalom Yona Weis at Aish Kodesh for a shiur for women and high school girls titled “Seeing Things Clearly- Learning to View Our World and Our Lives Through Positive Lenses. 8:45 pm. 894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere.

Tuesday September 19

Insights into Rosh Hashana: Men and women are invited to join Rabbi Shalom Axelrod at the YI of Israel for a shiur titled “Insights into Rosh Hashana.” 9:30 am. 859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere. 516-295-0950.

Women’s Shiur: [Weekly] Rebbetzin Weinberger of Aish Kodesh will give a shiur on the “Midah of Seder in our Avodas Hashem.” 11 am.

894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere.

Jewish History: [Weekly] Join Rabbi Evan

Hoffman at the YI of Israel for a talk on Jewish History. 8:15 pm. 859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere.

516-295-0950.

The World of Reb Tazadok Hakohen: [Weekly] Shiur by Rabbi Yussie Zakutinsky at Aish Kodesh. 8:30 pm. 894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere.

Halacha Shiur: [Weekly] Join Rabbi Moshe Sokoloff at the YI of Israel for a halacha shiur.

8:40 pm. 859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere. 516295-0950.

Gemara Shiur: [Weekly] Join Rabbi Dr. Aaron Glatt at the YI of Israel for a gemara shiu. 9:15 pm.

859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere. 516-295-0950.

Sunday Sept 24

Women’s Teshuva Lecture: Join Michal Horowitz at the YI of Israel for a teshuva lecture for women. 9:30 am. 859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere. 516-295-0950.

Annual Teshuva Lecture: YI of Woodmere invites Rabbi Yissocher Frandto give a shiur on teshuva following 6 pm Mincha on Tzom Gedalia.

859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere. 516-295-0950.

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Insights into Yom Kippur: Men and women are invited to join Rabbi Shalom Axelrod at the YI of Israel for a shiur titled “Insights into Yom Kippur.” 8 pm. 859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere.

516-295-0950.

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Hey Hillary, what about ME? Jeff Dunetz politics to go

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en months after the election, Hillary Clinton appears and if she has gone mad with anger. In excerpts from her new book, “What Happened,” published on Tuesday, she blames almost everyone for her presidential loss.

Here are just a few: Bernie Sanders: Clinton says that Sanders “caused lasting damage” to her campaign, made it harder to “unify progressives,” and paved the way for Donald Trump’s “Crooked Hillary” refrain during the general election.

Sorry, Ms. Clinton, but if you want to blame anyone for people thinking you are crooked, I would blame whoever came up with the cockamamie You-Tube-Started-Benghazi lie, and also Peter Schweizer, whose exposed how you used the State Department to make Bubba and you rich. I would also blame whoever convinced you to put an insecure mail server in your basement.

Sanders, for his part, came up with a good (but inaccurate) response to Ms. Clinton’s charges. Speaking to Stephen Colbert on the CBS “Late Show” on Thursday, he said, “Look, Secretary Clinton ran against the most unpopular candidate

in the history of this country and she lost and she was upset about it and I understand that.”

That’s inaccurate, because Trump beat Clinton. That makes her the most unpopular candidate in history and at worst makes him number two.

Barack Obama: In her book, Clinton says that Obama urged her to go easy on Sanders, which made it feel “like I was in a straitjacket.”

“Throughout the primaries, every time I wanted to hit back against Bernie’s attacks, I was told to restrain myself.

Noting that his plans didn’t add up, that they would inevitably mean raising taxes on middle-class families, or that they were little more than a pipe dream — all of this could be used to reinforce his argument that I wasn’t a true progressive.

My team kept reminding me that we didn’t want to alienate Bernie’s supporters. President Obama urged me to grit my teeth and lay off Bernie as much as I could. I felt like I was in a straitjacket.”

She also blames the former president for not speaking out more forcefully about reports of Russian interference in the election.

“I do wonder sometimes about what would have happened if President Obama had made a televised address to the nation in the fall of 2016 warning that our democracy was under attack. Maybe more Americans would have woken up to the threat in time. We’ll never know.”

Matt Lauer: Clinton was upset at Lauer for asking about

Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton at their first presidential debate, at Hofstra University in Hempstead.

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the email scandal. “You’re communicating on highly sensitive topics. Why wasn’t it more than a mistake? Why wasn’t it disqualifying?” he asked. n her book Clinton writes: “Now I was ticked off, NBC knew exactly what it was doing here. The network was treating this like an episode of ‘The Apprentice,’ in which Trump stars and ratings soar. Lauer had turned what should have been a serious discussion into a pointless ambush. What a waste of time.”

See Hey Hillary on page 27

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In Argentinia murders, Timerman’s guilt unveiled Ben Cohen Viewpoint

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t has been 23 years since the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires was devastated by a Hezbollah truck bomb, claiming the lives of 85 people and wounding hundreds more. It is a little less than three years since Alberto Nisman, the special prosecutor investigating the AMIA atrocity, was found dead in his apartment, one night before he was due to unveil a complaint accusing Argentina’s own government of colluding with Tehran in a secret pact to exonerate the Iranians of responsibility. During all of that unforgivably long stretch of time, nobody has been prosecuted for either of these crimes, nor stood in a courtroom to reveal the truth.

While it’s often the case that delivery of justice takes time, it’s also true that the passage of time does not lessen the importance of pursuing the guilty. This is why, for example, any pity for elderly Nazi war criminals

Hector Timerman.

Cancillería Argentina via Wikimedia

who suddenly find themselves on trial is misplaced. For that same reason, when there is a sensational development in the epic tragedy that is the AMIA bombing—as there has recently been—we would be wrong to regard it as the latest installment of a detective story that began in the mid-1990s, and correct to see it as a milestone on the way to convicting

the Iranians and their proxies for this crime.

In late August, Argentina’s former ambassador to Damascus, Roberto Ahuad, appeared before the Argentine government’s official investigation into the collusion between the Iranians and the country’s previous president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. In his tes-timony, Ahuad gave an eyewitness account of two days in Syria in January 2011 that confirmed beyond doubt one of Nisman’s key claims: that Hector Timerman, Kirchner’s foreign minister, disappeared during an official visit to Damascus to secretly negotiate the pact with the Iranians.

Timerman has always denied that he did any such thing, dismissing the reporter who first made the allegation in 2011 as a “pseudo-journalist”—a just-about-viable position until Ahuad came along. ccording to Ahuad, one day after Timerman arrived in Damascus, he and the foreign minister were driven to a military airport near Damascus. Once there, Timerman and his aides boarded a plane provided by the Syrian dictator, Bashar al-Assad, after curtly in-forming the ambassador that his presence was superfluous. Ahuad, angry

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with Timerman for having embarrassed him in front of their Syrian hosts, then returned to Damascus. Several hours later, having received no word from Timerman, he drove back to the air-port.

Inside the terminal, Ahuad met a group of Syrian officials. They told him that Timerman had flown to the northern city of Aleppo for a meeting hosted by Assad, along with the Iranian foreign minister, the Syrian foreign minister, and Iran’s ambassador to Damascus. The officials added, said Ahuad, they were unaware of the reason for the meeting, and that all the arrangements had been cloaked in “absolute secrecy.”

An official account of the meeting did appear the following day, which stated that Timerman had met with Assad to discuss the strengthening of bilateral ties, “reinforced by the large presence of the Syrian community in Argentina”—a community from which, ironically, Ahuad hails. Needless to say, the presence of the Iranians was not acknowl-edged.

But back in Argentina, Alberto Nisman did not give up. Having been appointed in 2005 to lead the AMIA investigation by Kirchner’s See Timerman on page 27

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The Nachum Segal Network went to Houston last week to raise awareness — and funds — for the city’s hurricane-ravaged Jewish community. Nachum Segal broadcast from various sites around Houston, including the United Orthodox Synagogue, where’s he’s pictured speaking with Rabbi Barry Gelman on Sept. 9. The NSN Jewish Unity Initiative mission was sponsored by the Orthodox Union. Kruter Photography

Hey Hillary...

Timerman...

Continued from page 26 predecessor, her late husband Nestor, five years later, Cristina Kirchner’s government had performed a 180-degree turn on Iran, and the AMIA investigation was becoming a nuisance. Like any good investigator, Nisman went where the evidence took him, to the point that it cost him his life—a perspective shared by the official investigation into his death, which concluded back in May that the prosecutor had been murdered, despite Kirchner’s insistence that it was a suicide.

Kirchner, Timerman and several other Argentine officials could well face treason charges as a result of Ahuad’s testimony. In the interim, Timerman’s lawyer has told investigat-ing judge Claudio Bonadio that the former foreign minister wants to schedule a hearing where he will “clarify the facts” around the secret pact with Iran.

via the Clinton foundation, the lies she told about Benghazi, etc.

I worked hard to tell the truth about Hillary Clinton. But did she save any blame for me? Publicly Obama, Biden, Sanders, and those women marching all said nice things about her, yet she blames them. I, on the other hand, wrote about her deals with Russia and Haiti that enriched the family foundation, the truth about what happened in Benghazi, and how she hated Israel, and so much more. All of it true. Yet she didn’t blame me even a bit! I didn’t even get a “gee that Dunetz guy was a pain!” Do you see what I mean? I feel personally dissed!

On Sunday, Clinton was interviewed by Jane Pauley on CBS where she added more blame. She claimed that Trump “was quite successful in referencing a nostalgia that would give hope, comfort, settle grievances, for millions of people who were upset about gains that were made by others.” Pauley countered with “What you’re saying is millions of white people.” Clinton thought the point was so important she said it twice, “Millions of white people, yeah, Millions of white people.”

Even though Trump did better among African-Americans than the previous GOP nominee, she blames millions of white people. And me? She doesn’t mention me even once. Do you think it’s because I am Jewish?

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Given that Timerman’s lawyer implied in his letter that his client’s health is failing, perhaps there is a ghost of a reason to believe that Timerman—who has proven himself a liar time and again—wants to unburden himself.

Doing so would perhaps restore a small portion of the dignity that this son of a prominent Jewish family has lost in colluding with the murderers of Argentine Jews and non-Jews. It might even give him an opportunity to get his own back on Kirchner’s thuggish lieutenants, who lampooned him as “that [ex-plective] Jew” behind his back even as he was negotiating with Assad and Iran. Or it might result in yet another tissue of falsehoods.

The fact the net is now closing in upon the Argentine culprits in the AMIA story cannot be doubted. Will another two decades pass before we see the Iranian terrorists themselves in court?

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Continued from page 26 In her tome, the mean-spirited loser also attacked the SCHMOTUS, (Schmo Of The United States), good ol’ Joe Biden, for his comments after the election.

“Joe Biden said the Democratic Party in 2016 ‘did not talk about what it always stood for — and that was how to maintain a burgeoning middle class.’ I find this fairly remarkable, considering that Joe himself campaigned for me all over the Midwest and talked plenty about the middle class.”

Remember the Woman’s March the weekend of the inauguration? Hillary Clinton even found a way to blame them: “I couldn’t help but ask where those feelings of solidarity, outrage, and passion had been during the election.” And speaking of women, she blamed her gender for her loss: “What makes me such a lightning rod for fury? I’m really asking. I’m at a loss. … I think it’s partly because I’m a woman.”

The former Democratic Party standardbearer dishes out much blame for her 2016 loss. But she leaves out one important name: ME. In the decade prior to the 2016 election I researched and composed 1,503 articles, many of them for The Jewish Star, all revealing the true Hillary the mainstream media refused to identify — her anti-Israel background, her deals with Russia and other countries that helped to enrich her family

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Nitzavim-Vayeilech

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With our free will, can we stop being Jewish?

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he banging on the door was a shock, but everyone knew what it meant. The summer of 1938 was not an auspicious time to be Jewish in Berlin, yet Hans was not Jewish, or at least he was not Jewish anymore. He had been named Joseph at birth, but had long since forgotten the Jewish grandfather after whom he had been named. His mother had been Jewish but married a Christian German businessman and eventually converted to his faith; Joseph, married to a non-Jewish woman, never considered himself Jewish. The Nazis didn’t see it that way.

Someone had informed the authorities that he had been born of a Jewish mother, and his presence was requested at police headquarters. He was told he need not bring any belongings, it was simply an invitation for routine questioning. But there was no mistaking the nature of this invitation; he was not being asked, he was being ordered. And 70 years later, his daughter still remembers the fear in his eyes and the tremble in his voice when he gave her a hug and told her to go back to sleep.

They never saw him again. From eyewitness accounts after the war, they learned that he was taken to Gestapo headquarters and beaten and tortured for two days, though it is unclear what they wanted of him. On the third day he was sent to Dachau where he eventually died of exposure when a Nazi guard forced him to run and jump naked in the snow for an entire afternoon.

Fast forward 70 years. Again, it’s the middle of the night.

Surrounded by Arabs in the ancient city of Shechem (Nablus), a small group of Jews arrived to pray at the ancient gravesite of … Joseph. Although it is dangerous for Jews to enter the Arab city of Shechem deep in the heart of the Palestinian Authority, the army allows it under certain circumstances, once a month, in the middle of the night, when there are presumably no Arabs on the streets.

Joseph, Yaakov’s beloved son, has come to represent the Jew in exile, both for his ability to maintain his Jewish identity as a lone Jewish slave in the heart of ancient pagan Egypt, and for the fact that his sons, Menashe and Ephraim, were the first

that I am making this Covenant, but with whoever is standing here today, and with whoever is not here with us today.” (Devarim 29:13-14) And every entire Jewish person at the time was present, the sages conclude it was a covenant made for every Jew who will ever be born! But how can we be held responsible for a promise made by our ancestors before we were born?

Jewish tradition suggests that we were all at Sinai. The Midrash (Shemot Rabbah 28:6) tells us that the souls of every Jew yet to be born was present at Sinai, thus, we actually did accept the covenant out of choice when we said (Exodus chap.

24) “Na’aseh ve’nishma” (“We will do and we will understand”).

But what does this actually mean? here are two parts to who we are. There is the body, the physical reality we each occupy in this world; and there is the soul, our spiritual reality. The definition of all things physical is that they are limited. Hence, as Maimonides suggests, G-d cannot be physical, because G-d has no limits. Everything physical eventually ends, hence the body will eventually fail us and will return to the ground from whence we were created, the phenomenon we call death.

Yet, there is also a spiritual essence to who we are, and those are things which have no limits: the capacity to love and to give, to care and to share. There is no reason to assume this nonphysical part of our selves has to end.

Most people who share this belief think of this idea in terms of each person having a soul. But a person does not have a soul, a person is a soul. The essence of a soul is our will, or ratzon, and this will, cultivated properly, is what allows us to be who we are meant to be. And it is the soul that we are that drives the physical aspect of ourselves to make a difference in this world.

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Students wrapped in Israeli flags at a concentration camp fence during a HAFTR HS trip to Poland in 2014.

Jews born in exile. And this night, no one was afraid, for a very special group of people had come to the gravesite. Known as the B’nei Menashe, they hail from India and Nepal, and believe they are descended of the lost tribe of Menashe, son of Joseph.

Dispersed as part of the great exile of the ten tribes 2,700 years ago, when Assyria conquered Northern Israel, they are fulfilling a 2,700 year old dream. This night they are reuniting with their ancestor Joseph after nearly three millennium of dreaming. hat makes us Jewish? If it is a shared system of beliefs, what if someone chooses not to adhere to those beliefs?

Can a person decide not to be Jewish?

Maimonides makes it clear (Hilchot Teshuva chap. 5) that one of the essential principals of Judaism is free will. Despite G-d’s Omnipotence, we were created with the freedom to choose. Yet it appears that we cannot choose not to be Jewish. The Talmud (Sanhedrin 44a) makes it clear that no matter what mistakes a Jew makes and whatever his transgressions he or she remains a Jew. This week, our parsha, Nitzavim, references this question.

Moshe, in sharing his final words with the Jewish people, reminds them of the Covenant they accepted at Sinai, renewing it for all time and for all Jews forever: “It is not with you alone

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a person does not Have a soul, a person iS a soul.

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salms 35:9,18: And my soul shall exult in the Lord; it shall rejoice in His salvation. … I will thank You in a large assembly; in a mighty people I will praise You. An extremely devastating hurricane in Houston followed by another in Florida and took over much media attention for the better part of a week. Our hearts go out to those impacted by the storm.

For those who were touched by it and spared from catastrophe, it is a time to fulfill that which King David spoke of in Psalms 35. There are a number of tales in the Torah of individuals or groups who were spared from certain death, who reacted through singing praises of the Almighty. Such an attitude is certainly warranted today, for those who lived through a hurricane, especially if their damages were zero to nothing and all escaped in safety.

Parshat Vayakhel, the second of our double-parsha this Shabbat, describes the once in every seven years that the entire nation would gather in Jerusalem for Hakhel: “Then,

Moses commanded them, saying, ‘At the end of [every] seven years, at an appointed time, in the Festival of Succoth, [after] the year of release, when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord, your G-d, in the place He will choose, you shall read this Torah before all Israel, in their ears’.” (31:10-11) It is interesting that there is a debate as to when this would take place. Rashi and Rabbenu Bechaye say it was in the Sukkot immediately after the Shmittah year, in the eighth year. Targum Yonatan and R Yosef Bkhor Shor say that it is after 7 years from the last Hakhel, in the actual Shmittah year — at a time when people don’t need to tend to their fields and gardens, they can all afford to go to Jerusalem.

The Ramban on Parshas Reeh makes it clear that we pasken like the approach that says Hakhel would take place on the Sukkos immediately after the Shmittah year ended.

Essentially, anyone who had violated the rules of the Torah and worked during Shmittah deserved to have their crops ruined through untending, and this was a simple

way to punish those people, through requiring them to leave their homes and head to Jerusalem. hese two approaches bespeak of two different attitudes we can have when looking at our Jewish lives. Are we to gather at the end of a year when we have been abiding by the rules of Shmittah, not tilling the soil or planting any crops, relying solely on the benevolence of G-d?

Or are we to gather to celebrate what have hopefully been successful years of work and produce, giving ourselves a jumpstart for a year that may prove to be difficult because we’ll be observing Shmittah, but which works because we are so connected with G-d and the Land, as inspired by the great gathering that kicks off our Shmittah year experience?

The approach of having it after the Shmittah year is like celebrating a long marriage which has had its ups and downs, but has weathered its way through storms.

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if G-d is central to our approach to life, we ought to thank Him at every turn.

we should be excited because we’ve accomplished all that was necessary to prepare for this day and yet, we don’t know what the future will brings (just as the coming year is uncertain).

Will the bar or bat mitzvah choose to live a life of mitzvos? Will the newlyweds learn to live with one another in harmony, work through their kinks, and come out stronger as they grow together?

Both are legitimate, which is why both views exist. But it’s a significant question for us to ask ourselves, to consider how we view our relationship with G-d.

How much of our gratitude over the aftermath of a storm comes from the perspective of what could have been? How cynical are we about meteorologists and the hype they create? Will we pay attention next time? How do we view G-d’s role in the world? Do we see all that happens as being His master plan?

Do we think our behavior impacts what G-d does? Do we think the cause-and-effect equation of human input determining divine reaction is one which has global ramifications?

All this impacts how we respond toward G-d when all is over. With Rosh Hashana almost upon us, we ought to be asking ourselves what we believe. And if G-d is central to our approach to life, we ought to thank Him at every turn.

The scholarship of David Fuchs Kosher BooKworm

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e is a modest and unassuming person.

Yet the illumination of Rabbi David Fuchs’ scholarship shines a benefit to

all.

This year marks the tenth anniversary of his association with Koren Publishers through which he’s shared with us, for the high holidays and three festivals, a refined presentment of the laws of Jewish liturgy and a unique commentary on the tractates of the Mishnah that’s associated with them.

Rabbi Fuchs’ biography is the subject of this week’s essay, which is based on personal discussions and an email interview.

Born in Haifa in 1971, David was to serve three years in the IDF as an auxiliary in a combat regiment, and then served in a reserve regiment until being discharged in 2011. He attended Hebrew University, studying physics, and mathematics, and graduated with distinction.

From 1994 to 2007 he studied with Rav Yehuda Amital, and Rav Aharon Lichtenstein, both now of blessed memory, at Yeshivat Har Etzion, where he received his semicha, was

one of the first members of the advanced Iyyun Kollel, and edited Ma’alin Bakodesh.

In 1999 he married Tirtsa, a lawyer. They have five children and have been living in Alon Shevut in the Gush ever since.

Rabbi Fuchs describes himself as Modern Orthodox, however please consider this: “This term is very inclusive and broad, and I do not fit neatly into any of the sub-divisions I know of. I firmly believe in the Torah as the manifestation of G-d’s will, and that it was handed down, ‘l’avdah u’leshamrah.’

“I am also a religious Zionist in the simple sense of the term — believing in G-d as the director of history, I see the state of Israel as another manifestation of His will, and since on balance, it has greatly improved the lot of the Jewish people, I am very thankful for it.”

When questioned about his literary goals, Rabbi Fuchs responded: “The simple answer is that I set myself none — at least, as long as I am a Koren employee, the ultimate decision as to what I write rests with my superiors. But, when I write about any halachic, hashkafic, textual (by which I mean the reading of canonical texts), grammatical, literary, historic, philosophical and so on,I have to try to present as many of them as necessary in the most concise and lucid way.

“At the present, I am working on a new edition of the High Holidays machzorim in

Hebrew, and was asked to write a new commentary on the piyutim. The relevant prisms are multiplied there, as the Kalir [Eleazar ben Killir] wrote his piyutim in the context of a certain order of prayer, but they were adopted by the Ashenazic communities as a part of a quite different one, and in recent generations many of them are omitted. …

“Quite often the verses on which the Kalir based his piyutim have been understood differently by his readers, through the commentaries of Rashi and Ramban, the teachings of Rambam, and many others. And, in recent generations, modern commentaries on the siddur and machzor offer new perspectives, which are often more relevant to contemporary readers.”

Rabbi Fuchs demonstrates a mature grasp of the world and of Jewish prayer and the laws governing its daily practice, thus making his work relevant to all.

I conclude with the following observation

by Rabbi Fuchs: “As I make no claims to Torah greatness, I rely heavily on contemporary summaries, footnotes in books, and the recently developed electronic search devices. Of course, much care needs to be taken when proceeding in this method, and I make a point of checking the sources referred to, and I have needed to develop an intuition both to where to look, and how to sift the important from

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the less relevant ones. I am sure much of my work could be bettered.”

Until that time, Rabbi Fuchs represents one of the finest scholars in Jewish commentary and study in the world today. I am proud to know him, and learn from him through the use of the Koren siddur and machzor all year round. I highly suggest that you do likewise starting with this holiday season.

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his is the final Shabbat of 5777. We have been listening to the sound of the shofar each weekday morning throughout the month of Elul. This Motzai Shabbat, we will begin the recitation of Selichot to help us take the next steps toward heartfelt teshuvah and properly prepare ourselves for Rosh Hashanah.

Truly, it is no mere metaphor when the first verse of our parshiot, Nitzavim-Vayelech, states: “You are all standing (nitzavim) this day before the L-rd, your G-d, the leaders of your tribes, your elders and your officers, every man of Israel, your young children, your women, and your convert who is within your camp both your woodcutters and your water drawers, that you may enter the covenant of the L-rd, your G-d, and His oath, which the L-rd, your G-d, is making with you this day.

(Devarim 29:9-11) One question that captures my attention regarding this pasuk is, “Why is the statement, ‘You are all standing this day,’ written as ‘Atem nitzavim hayom,’ rather than the usual ‘Atem omdim hayom?’” After all, “om-

dim” is the far more common Hebrew verb for standing, and the one that is used quite frequently throughout Tanach. As such, what message is Hashem communicating to us by the use of “nitzavim?”

Let’s look at two instances of the word “n’tziv” (“standing,” or its variants) that are found in sefer Bereishit. The first concerns Lot and his wife. They are warned not to look behind themselves at the imminent death and destruction that will befall S’dom and Gomorrah (Bereishit 19:17). But instead of listening to the words of the malach (angel), Lot’s wife casts a furtive glance behind her and is turned into a pillar of salt — a n’tziv melech (Bereishit 19:26). What is the nature of a n’tziv? It is something permanent and unmoving. Lot’s wife’s transformation from a living and breathing person into an ever-standing and silent pillar of salt is a permanent reminder that she failed to heed the words of her Creator.

The second instance of the verb “n’tziv” occurs when Avraham’s servant, Eliezer, is waiting by the well and prays to Hashem to reveal Yitzchak’s future wife to him. The Torah uses the expression, “Henah anochi nit-

no force should remove us from being nitzavim of emunah in the house of Hashem.

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Continued from page 28 ability to change the world and this, suggests Jewish tradition, will never cease. Because the world needs this to become the place it was always meant to be.

A Jew can choose not to behave as a Jew and mask the physical role they play so that they are barely recognizable as a Jew. But no Jew will ever cease to be a Jew, any more than a person

zav al ain hamayim” (“Behold I am standing at the well,” Bereshit 24:13). Here, too, why doesn’t Eliezer simply say, “Henah anochi omed al ain hamayim?” Why does he employ the uncommon verb “nitzav?” I believe that Eliezer uses this word to teach us a crucial and fundamental lesson regarding the nature of emunah. In my estimation, he is publicly proclaiming his loyalty to his master Avraham and, ultimately, to the Ribono shel Olam.

Avraham made Eliezer take a shavuah (oath) that he would expend every possible effort to find Yitzhak a bride from his place of origin. In turn, Eliezer did his utmost to fulfill that shavuah — he would not be moved right or left for any reason. He had one course and one course only: nitzav — to stand and wait patiently for Hashem’s divine revelation to unfold. Thus, like Lot’s wife, he was standing permanently in place, albeit, for an entirely different purpose.

In my opinion, this is why “nitzav,” instead of the common verb “omed,” is used. iven the above, I believe that our parasha’s phrase, “Atem nitzavim hayom,” imparts a crucial message. It teaches us that no matter how powerful and persuasive

can cease to be artistic, or musical, or a child born in France. Indeed, this is at the heart of the days of awe that will soon be upon us.

Maimonides (Hilchot Tshuva 1:1) suggests that the central Mitzvah of teshuva is vidui: to be modeh before Hashem. But the word modeh also means to be thankful. Sometimes people have a hard time saying thank you, because they do not want to be beholden.

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But in truth we all are in debt. We owe all those who have given so much that we might live the lives we live, and we owe our creator the life we have been given. Which also means we owe ourselves; we owe the selves Hashem has created us to be.

May Hashem bless us all to live up to our selves so that this year can be filled with the peace and joy, love and harmony we all yearn for.

Wishing you all a sweet happy and healthy new year. Best wishes for a ktivah vechatimah tovah.

certain cultural norms and ideas may be, if they are opposed to the essence of the Torah and halacha, and represent the antithesis of our being an Am Kodesh (a holy nation) and the Am Segulah (the Chosen People), then: “Atem nitzavim hayom!” — We must stand fast today, and every day, in our love and devotion to Hashem and His holy Torah.

In short, no force on earth should ever remove us from being nitzavim of emunah (pillars of faith) in the house of Hashem. As Dovid Hamelech said so powerfully in sefer Tehillim 27:4: “Achat sha’alti m’ate Hashem oto avekash shivti b’beit Hashem kol yimei chayai” (“One [thing] I ask of the L-rd, that I seek — that I may dwell in the house of the L-rd all the days of my life”).

This, then, is the goal of our people — to always be “nitzavim hayom” (standing today), machar (tomorrow) and l’atid lavo (forever more) before Hashem.

May Hakadosh Baruch Hu grant us the spiritual strength and desire to reinvigorate our relationship with Him. Moreover, during these final and fleeting days of Elul, may He grant us the wisdom and will to prepare ourselves to stand contritely and humbly before Him, so that we may be judged on Rosh Hashanah b’rachamim rabim l’chaim tovim (with great mercy for lives filled with good).

V’chane yihi ratzon.

Kativah v’chatimah tovah! Tizku l’shanim rabot!

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