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Erev Yom Kippur • Friday, Sept. 29, 2017 • 9 Tishrei 5778 • Luach page 22 • Torah columns pages 22–23 • Vol 16, No 36

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With a pomagranate in hand, Shira Gross, first grader at the Shulamith school in Cedarhurst, is holiday-ready.

With thanks to Hashem, we express our gratitude for a fruitful 5777 (last week’s Rosh Hashana edition was our biggest ever!), and pray that 5778 finds us continuing in our efforts to grow this newspaper as one that merits the support of our exceptional community. As careful as we are about what we publish, and despite our upbeat view of the community we serve, publishing a newspaper is a stressful 24/6 endeavor that carries the risk that someone might inadvertently be hurt by something printed in the paper, by something omitted from the paper, or even in the process of assembling the paper each week. In these Aseret Y’mei Teshuva, The Jewish Star, and its editor-publisher individually, asks mechilah, forgiveness, from anyone who feels they were wronged. And we are mochel, granting forgiveness, to anyone who may have wronged us in some way. G’mar Chasima Tova to all. —Ed Weintrob

Justice G’burg speaks at DC synagogue Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told Rosh Hashana worshippers at the nondenominational Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in downtown Washington that being Jewish has helped her have empathy for other minority groups. Ginsburg, 84, said that Jewish values have guided her work on the bench. “The Jewish religion is an ethical religion. That is, we are taught to do right, to love mercy, do justice, not because there’s gonna be any reward in heaven or punishment in hell. We live righteously because that’s how people should live and not anticipating any award in the hereafter,” Ginsburg said.

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Before the eyes of the international media, British troops violently forced the ship’s passengers — most of them Holocaust survivors — onto ships back to Europe. The resulting reports helped turn public opinion in favor of the Zionist movement and against the pro-Arab British policy of limiting Jewish immigration to Palestine. But much else was happening in the aftermath of World War II, and attention soon shifted elsewhere. One of the few journalists to stick with the story was Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent Robert Gary, who filed a series of reports from displaced persons camps in Germany. Seventy years later and decades after his death, Gary is again drawing attention to the “Exodus Jews,” albeit mostly in Israel. An album of 230 of his photos will be sold at the Kedem Auction House in Jerusalem on Oct. 31, and a number of the imChildren posing for a photo in hats that read “Exodus 1947” in a disages reveal the reality inside the Robert Gary placed persons camp in Germany, September 1947. See Exodus flashback on page 18 By Andrew Tobin, JTA TEL AVIV — In the summer of 1947, when the British turned away the SS Exodus from the shores of Palestine, the world was watching.

Our Jewish birthright under attack We must counter destructive move by anti-Israel JVP Commentary by Jonathan Greenblatt, JNS Most Jews look on the fragment of our community that hates Israel and Zionism with a mixture of disdain, irritation and puzzlement. Despite data indicating that a split between American Jewry and Israel is deepening, the organized Jewish world has yet to seriously and effectively address the problem. Now, that fragment has decided to attack Birthright, the largest educational organization in the world, for offering free trips to Israel to young Jewish adults from ages 18 to 26. It would be a good time finally to get serious about a response. The campaign against Birthright comes from the anti-Israel organization Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP). This group may be the single most misnamed organization in the history of

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Holiday-inspiration: Breaking ‘manager mom’ mold By Dasee Berkowitz, Kveller via JTA A few nights ago, when I was cleaning up the kitchen after supper, it struck me. I’m really bored as a parent. I have the efficiency thing down pat. A food schedule for each night of the week. The ease of an afternoon spent with our three kids — snack, followed by craft, followed by dinner, bath, books, and then bed. Sure, there are outliers: my 3-year-old who doesn’t conform to my plans, or the erupting feud between my eldest and middle child. “I’m on it” (or in Hebrew, “katan alai” — this is small stuff), I say to myself, and handle whatever the issue is with aplomb. But at the end of the day, with a cup of mint tea in hand, I ask myself, “Is this all there is?” I joked with my son the other night when he inquired, “What awesome thing are we planning to do this afternoon?” I answered, “Nothing special.” His response was, “That’s so boring.” And then I said to him deadpan, “Let me teach you a little life lesson, son. Most of life is boring, except for occasionally when it’s not.” Was this really me talking? Who have I become? Manager mom, that’s who. It was bound to happen. Nobody can possibly keep this well-oiled machine called “our family’s life” going for eight years without falling into autopilot. It kind of says it all when you find yourself at the gas station, and in the quick business exchange of the attendant asking for your credit card, getting it back and checking a text about the homework for your first-grader, you think that the gas is already in the car and you start to drive away. But the yank of the gas nozzle, the spurting of gasoline everywhere, and the aforementioned attendant running frantically

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More patient with one, less distracted with another, better at following through on plans we agree on with the third. I took a good two to three minutes to clear away the part of me cluttered with extraneous thoughts, to be present for them (or as present as you can be when the 2-1/2-year-old starts to squirm away). With all the hours logged in synagogue for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, it was in that moment that I felt like I was encountering Ultimacy. The manager mom who had commanded them just a few moments earlier to get dressed in their new outfits and to put their shoes on gave way to mortal mom, the one who didn’t know what the year would bring, who would get sick or hurt, who would succeed, who would have good friends. All that this mortal mom knew for certain was that these relationships in front of me were real, alive, pulsing, and in need of my presence and love. I want to bring that awareness to my experience of the holidays this year, too. And if I’m lucky, I’ll be able to promote manager mom to fully-living-in-the-present-mortal-mom (try fitting that on a name tag). At least for the two to three minutes that it takes me to bless my children. Dasee Berkowitz lives in Jerusalem and works as an educational consultant, writer and mom of three kids. She also direct’s Ayeka’s Becoming a Soulful Parent project.

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Uncertain future for Tunisia’s Jewish survivors bira, the last remaining Jewish town in Djerba, located four miles north of the synagogue. Belonging to one of the Arab world’s few active Jewish congregations, their patience reflects a determination to preserve their ancient tradition in a tight-knit community of 1,000. Many members feel duty-bound to remain on the island even though they can envisage no future here for their children. “Everybody’s thought about leaving, myself included,” says Ben Zion Dee’ie, a 30-year-old yeshiva teacher who walked four miles to the El Ghriba Synagogue from his parents’ home in Hara Kebira, where nearly all Djerba Jews live. “The economy’s bad, the currency’s plummeting, tourism’s suffering because of terrorism and jobs are scarce and not well paying. It’s not perfect.”

But leaving “would be very difficult,” adds Dee’ie, who comes each year with other congregants to make sure El Ghriba has a minyan. “It feels wrong to leave where my ancestors lived for so many years.” Various factors, including state-tolerated violence against Jews following Israel’s victory over its neighbors in the 1967 Six-Day War, have gradually almost emptied Tunisia of the 110,000 Jews who lived here before 1970. A few dozen families left following the 2011 revolution that briefly installed an Islamist and anti-Israel party in power. That bout of instability was the latest chapter in the story that led to the near-total disappearance of centuries-long Jewish life from the Arab world amid hostility and poverty.

Jews on Djerba have also experienced these problems, not least in the explosion that al-Qaida terrorists set off outside the El Ghriba Synagogue in 2002 in which 20 people died, including 14 German tourists.The explosion occurred three weeks before the Jewish holiday of Lag b’Omer, when hundreds of tourists, including from Israel, gather at the El Ghriba for a pilgrimage that is particularly popular among Jews of Tunisian descent. “It’s the only time of the year that we can count on having a minyan,” Dee’ie said at the synagogue, where the sounds of the shofar on Rosh Hashana blended with the Muslim call to prayer and the chiming of church bells. After prayers at the synagogue — a normally quiet place where the only sounds are the wind’s rustling of the wicker mats on the floor and the crackling of the glass oil lamps hanging over the windows — the 10 men walk to a deep well nearby to perform tashlich, the ritual of atonement requiring a large body of water. Running for 200 feet beneath the sun-baked desert soil, the well used to service a complex of communal buildings and orchards belonging to the thousands of Jews who once lived here, but now it stands at the edge of a barren and open field. Then the men head to the home of Joseph Azria, 42, and his ailing parents — three of the few Jews still living in Riadh — to blow the shofar for Azria’s father, who is too old and weak to walk to synagogue. The old man smiles as his only son still living in Tunisia speaks about his hope for finding a Jewish bride in Morocco and possibly moving with her to Israel. The synagogue now is surrounded by antitank obstacles and permanently guarded by a platoon of soldiers toting machine guns. They forbid visitors from taking pictures and turn them away altogether whenever members of the Jewish community are in the building. Photography is also forbidden inside Hara Kebira, which has permanently manned checkpoints at its two entrances. Police officers in civilians clothes patrol the town, quickly intercepting and questioning anyone who seems out of place. Inside Hara Kebira, which has a chief rabbi, four synagogues and three Jewish schools, Jews walk around wearing kippahs, greeting passers-by with “shalom” and wishing one another “Shanah tovah.” Sukkot, huts with palm-tree canopies, are erected in every yard on the Jewish holiday and the whole neighborhood falls silent on Yom Kippur. Still, Hara Kebira residents do not advertise their Jewish identity outside their town: The men don hats over their kippahs upon leaving the enclave. “It’s a very good thing the police are here, they protect us, just like they protect you in Israel,” said Dee’ie, who studied at a religious seminary in Israel in 2007. He returned to Hara Kebira but moved away last year to Zarzis, where his wife was born and he teaches a classroom of 15 children from that city’s Jewish community of 130 members. Dee’ie’s father, the community’s most experienced mohel and schochet, still lives in Hara Kebira with his wife and Dee’ie’s nine siblings. They meet See Tunisia’s Jews on page 8

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Jews allowed to build a synagogue quite as large and impressive as the Portuguese Synagogue, Wallet added, which makes the building a testament also to the relative tolerance that Jews had enjoyed in the Netherlands for centuries, before the Nazis and local collaborators nearly wiped out the community. With so much history in view, folklore inevitably grew around almost every aspect of the synagogue — even the fine sand that is strewn on its floor, which some believe is a reference to the desert that the ancient Hebrews crossed on their way to Canaan. In truth, though, the use of sand on wooden floor was a common cleaning and maintenance method in the 17th century that has disappeared almost everywhere else. The Yom Kippur service also features prayers by Santo Servicio, the synagogue’s resident choir, which curates the special tunes that have evolved

here over the centuries. Sung in Hebrew in the Portuguese inflection, the tunes are melodic because they were composed in the 16th and 17th centuries to please the ear and compete with Christian choirs, Wallet said. It was part of a broader effort by community leaders to rehabilitate and preserve in Amsterdam what the Inquisition destroyed in Iberia. That effort is also evidenced in the thousands of manuscripts of the Ets Haim Jewish library, the oldest institution of its kind still in operation, which is part of the Portuguese Synagogue compound. “You can see in the books their enthusiasm about being able to reconnect with their Jewish traditions openly and resume the study of it,” said Ruth Peeters, a senior cataloger at the library. The library’s central role in the daily life of synagoguegoers is evident in the name that locals See Amsterdam on page 8

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sphere because all the candles are lit. The candles are illuminated as well when important dignitaries visit, including Dutch royals and world leaders such as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and the late President Shimon Peres. On Yom Kippur, the men of the community put on the traditional Portuguese Jewish top hats, an article worn by Jews who immigrated here from Portugal, Spain and their colonies when they adopted the church’s anti-Jewish Inquisition as policy. The wood used for the Torah ark was brought from Recife by Jews who fled the Brazilian city for Amsterdam. Flanking the ark are two 16th-century sofas from the Middle East. “The interior makes for a very cosmopolitan mix,” Wallet said. “You have artifacts from many corners of the world.” Nowhere else in 17th-century Europe were

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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA AMSTERDAM — As one of Europe’s oldest and most impressive Jewish buildings, this city’s Portuguese Synagogue is known far and wide for its majestic beauty. Built in 1675 for the descendants of Jews who fled religious persecution on the Iberian Peninsula, the Portuguese Synagogue today sees some 200,000 tourists annually. Inside its vast sanctuary, a massive Torah ark made of Brazilian Jacaranda wood towers over 17th-century furniture and a multitude of low-hanging golden chandeliers hang among 12 stone pillars. Its architect is said to have drawn inspiration from Solomon’s Temple, and the synagogue would be Europe’s largest and most ornate, according to historians. While the Portuguese Synagogue was later eclipsed by even larger and more magnificent shuls — like the one on Dohany Street in Budapest — the Amsterdam building remains a spectacular sight on any day of the year. Yet most of the synagogue’s visitors are not around on the day when its beauty shines brightest: Yom Kippur. On the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, the hall is packed to capacity as worshippers pray by the warm light of hundreds of candles — a tradition that dates back to the invention of electricity — accompanied by unique cantorial melodies that resemble operas. “It’s one of European Jewry’s most profound and beautiful sights,” according to Esther Voet, a regular visitor to the synagogue and the editor-inchief of the Dutch-Jewish NIW weekly. On Yom Kippur, entering the candlelit synagogue “has a cleansing effect – which is what Yom Kippur is all about,” she said. It’s also like “stepping into a time machine,” she added. “You feel that you are a link in a very long chain of Jewish tradition.” Few congregants experience this intergenerational dimension more than Ronit Palache, whose ancestors were among the early leaders of the synagogue. “Coming there means being a part of history, and it’s my history,” said Palache, whose greatgreat-grandfather was a chief rabbi of the Portuguese Jewish community. But you don’t need a personal connection to appreciate the historical dimensions of Yom Kippur services at the synagogue, according to Bart Wallet, a University of Amsterdam historian and author of the book “History of Jews in the Netherlands,” which was published in Dutch this year. “There is growing interest in attending on Yom Kippur and, in response, the community only a few years ago started assigning pre-ordered tickets,” he said. Some Jews, including Lipika Pelham, a London-based author and journalist with Indian roots, travel with their families especially to attend the Yom Kippur service here. Tickets cost just $22 but need to be ordered well in advance. On Yom Kippur, the service is essentially conducted by the community’s men, who are seated around the bimah, or pulpit, in the central section of the main hall. Male guests sit in pews surrounding the central section. Women sit upstairs, in the women’s section, “where we struggle to follow the reading of the text below, which is not easy because of the acoustics,” Voet said. Still, while it may be less than ideal for reading prayers, the acoustics at the Portuguese Synagogue work beautifully for musicians and singers — something that was key to the synagogue board’s decision 10 years ago to host occasional concerts here. During those events, non-Jewish audiences can get a taste of the Yom Kippur atmo-

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U of Maryland prof: Fired for being pro-Israel

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Israel remarks by a professor, Joy Karega. Last year, Landa accepted an affiliate professorship at the University of Haifa as a statement against potential academic boycotts of Israel. She also became involved in the Academic Engagement Network, an intercollegiate association of faculty who oppose the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. She spoke at the group’s 2016 conference, and it gave her a micro-grant to set up a research partnership with the Levinsky College of Education in Ixsrael. It was during that same time that Landa said she began feeling antagonism from her superiors. Days after she became involved in the Academic Engagement Network, Landa said O’Flahavan pulled out of their joint conference presentation — they had been working together for months. Also, days after she informed O’Flahavan of her partnership with Levinsky College, he removed Landa from her TLPL class. “They were opposed to what she was doing, they didn’t like it, they didn’t like the publicity she was getting for it,” said Kenneth Waltzer, executive director of the Academic Engagement Network. “She can be a little passionate, a little aggressive. They didn’t like that she was being so active in Israel.” In emails and text messages to Landa, O’Flahavan and Hultgren told her variously that she had neglected her professional duties (she had gone to Israel for Passover in 2016, but Skyped into class and had an assistant substitute for her, per university policy), or that the new class structure — due to a reorganization

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of the department — left her unqualified to teach. “While you certainly have the content and pedagogical expertise to teach elementary language arts through a traditional delivery (e.g., on-campus, face-to-face delivery), you have not yet cultivated the pedagogical expertise for on-site course delivery,” read an August letter from Hultgren explaining the decision. It also noted that Landa was teaching a full course load in the General Education Program. Landa believed that she did have the necessary experience for the class, having taught in public schools for more than a decade. She filed a grievance with the college claiming “religious discrimination, and capricious and unjust treatment.” The hearing board recommended that the grievance be rejected in June, but noted that Landa was qualified to continue teaching in TLPL. Days later, however, Landa received the letter not renewing her contract. Landa said the firing came as a surprise, even as she knew that O’Flahavan objected to activism on behalf of Israel. In 2015, he asked her not to hang an Israeli flag in her office, and Landa said O’Flahavan made comments disparaging her Oberlin activism. “I was shocked that he would facilitate the firing of a former student,” she said. “As I became increasingly politically active, from my role as an [Oberlin] alum to my role as a faculty member, he wanted to distance himself from me.” Landa’s former students have protested her firing. A letter published by 17 former students in the Diamondback, the school newspaper, said Landa “has provided a safe environment and approach to learning, in which students learned about the roots of racial bias,” and called for “reversing this careless decision and bring Landa back to this university.” A fellow TLPL professor also questioned the decision, praising Landa for her research and teaching. “I think she was awesome,” said the professor, who wished to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation from the department chair. “I think she did some groundbreaking work. I think she did some really neat stuff about anti-bullying. I think she was a fantastic instructor.” Landa is now working part time at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in suburban Washington and hoping for the best with her Title IX complaint. She has retained a lawyer in case she feels she has to sue. “Universities, when they have an opportunity to look at themselves and see if they did something wrong, they usually don’t find much,” she said.

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The main prayer hall of the El Ghriba Synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba. WikiCommons

carrying signs calling on “Levy the Zionist” to leave. The invitation to a Tunisian festival in July of the Jewish comedian Michel Boujenah provoked protests in Tunisia that local anti-racism activists said were anti-Semitic. Tunisia has several pending bills, introduced by Islamist and secular nationalists, proposing a blanket boycott on Israel and a ban on any Israelis from entering the country. Notwithstanding, Tunisia’s government is showcasing its Jewish heritage sites, including Djerba, whose ancient synagogue is on Tunis’ list this year for locales put forth for recognition as world heritage sites by the United Nations. The government has made several statements about the positive role of its Jewish citizens, invested considerable resources in renovating sites of worship and is considering allocating two seats in parliament for representatives of the Jewish community. But in parallel, authorities in Tunisia are “quietly confiscating” Jewish antiques, including a 15th-century Torah scroll whose whereabouts the government is refusing to disclose, according to an expose published last month by the French news site Dreuz. The effects of anti-Semitism in Tunisia may be “unpleasant at times, but they are not a threat to the survival of this community,” said Dee’ie, who was ready to immigrate to Israel last year with his wife because they could not find an affordable apartment to their liking in Zarzis. “Practical things matter: Whether Jews can find a Jewish partner, make a living and live a comfortable life,” he added. “I grew up here, but I don’t know if this is the place where my children will grow up.”

Amsterdam... Continued from page 5 use for this house of worship: Esnoga — a mashup of the Portuguese-language words for school, “escola,” and synagogue, “sinagoga.” At times, enthusiasm led astray worshippers and even the community leaders. Around the time the synagogue was built, the community was split between followers and opponents of Shabbetai Zevi, the Turkey-born Jewish eccentric who divided the Jewish world with his claim that he was the Messiah before his conversion under duress to Islam in 1666. Even this community’s founding father and rabbi for 40 years, Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, for a while was a follower of the man who would be known as the “false messiah.” Wallet said the debate on the issue was “a crisis for the community,” but was largely purged from its official records. But the community’s ultimate test came in 1940, when Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands, initiating racist policies that ended with the murder of 75 percent of the Netherlands’ Jewish population of 140,000. The Portuguese Synagogue was sealed, its library and treasures looted. But while Amsterdam’s Ashkenazi synagogue

The audience at a jazz concert in Amsterdam’s Portuguese Synagogue on Aug. 17. Cnaan Liphshiz

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Sukkot brings a joyous feast of earth’s bounty Joni Schockett kosher kitchen “On the first day you shall take the fruit of hadar trees, branches of palm trees, boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the L-rd your G-d seven days.” Viyikra 23:40 I love the sound of the shaking boughs on Sukkot and the fresh and bright perfume of lemon and citrus. I love how we go from the solemnity of the Yom Kippur fast right into the joy of Sukkot with singing and decorating and enjoying the bountiful foods available to us. Apples are at their height of deliciousness now. At a farm the other day, I saw several new kinds and the owner very willingly gave me a taste of all of them: Blondee Gala, Dayton, Freedom, Priscilla and more. Some that are returning, like Baldwins and Winesap, go back to our ancestors. I cannot wait to make apple cakes, pies and crisps for the fall. Squashes are also coming to the harvest now. These, too have new kinds added to the staples of acorn and butternut and Hubbard. There was an all-white squash and, of course, those that look like swans and make beautiful centerpieces. Squash soup is a perfect autumn meal starter. Sukkot celebrates the harvests of these foods and so many more. It is a joyous holiday that reminds us that our earth is remarkable and continues to feed us and care for us. As we celebrate this holiday of the harvest, we need to remember that we, in return, must care for and respect the earth. Chag Sameach!

Baby Eggplant with Caramelized Onions and Sun-Dried Tomatoes (Pareve or Dairy)

This is easy to take to a sukkot and can be served hot or just warm. 6 to 8 baby eggplants (each about 6-8 inches) 8 to 10 tbsp. freshly squeezed lemon juice, divided 4 tbsp. Extra Virgin Olive Oil 2 large Vidalia onions, thinly sliced 1 to 4 cloves garlic, finely minced 3 fresh tomatoes (Roma is best), seeded and chopped

Diced eggplant from the shells (See directions below) 1/2 cup thinly sliced zucchini, slices cut in half 1 jar (3-5 ounces) Sun dried tomatoes in oil, chopped, oil reserved 1/2 tsp. sugar Kosher salt Freshly ground pepper 1/4 cup fresh parsley, finely chopped 1 cup bread crumbs mixed with 2 tbsp. melted butter or pareve margarine of olive oil OPTIONAL: 1/4 cup fresh basil, finely chopped fresh or dried oregano to taste SAUCE: 3 tbsp. Canola oil Oil from the sundried tomatoes, up to 1-2 tbsp. 3 tbsp. freshly squeezed lemon juice 1 clove garlic, minced 1/2 to 1 tsp. sugar 1/3 cup water Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Lightly grease a large roasting pan. Set aside. Cut the eggplants in half lengthwise. Scoop out the middle of the eggplant, leaving a shell about 1/3-inch thick. Dice the eggplant and set aside. Place each eggplant half, cut side up, in the roasting pan. Drizzle with the 3 tablespoons of lemon juice and set aside. Peel and slice the onions. Heat a large skillet and add the olive oil. Add the onions and cook over medium-low heat for about 15-25 minutes or until deeply golden. If they begin to stick to the pan, add water, a tablespoon at a time to deglaze the pan as they darken. Add the garlic and tomatoes and heat 5 minutes, until the liquid from the fresh tomatoes reduces. Add the eggplant and zucchini and mix until softened, 3-5 minutes. Add the chopped sun-dried tomatoes, mix well and cook 3 minutes Add the halfteaspoon sugar and 3-4 tablespoons the lemon juice. Add the parsley and season to taste. If you like, add the basil and/or oregano. Adjust sea-

sonings to taste. Remove from heat. For the sauce, mix the canola oil with the, sundried tomato oil, lemon juice, garlic and sugar to taste. Add a scoop of filling to each eggplant half and then sprinkle with a tablespoon of the breadcrumbs. Drizzle with the olive oil mixture. Pour the water around the edge of the pan. Cover tightly with foil and place in the oven. Let roast for 20 minutes. Uncover and baste with the liquid. Add more water if needed. Cover and roast for an additional 20 minutes. Uncover and add more water if needed. Roast an additional 20-30 minutes, until golden and soft, checking to avoid burning. If tops begin to burn, lower the heat to 375 and tent lightly with foil. You may need to shorten cooking times. Serves 6-8.

Roasted Squash and Caramelized Onion Galette (Pareve or Dairy)

This is a great appetizer or side dish and also perfect for sukkah eating as it can be eaten hot or barely warm. CRUST: 2 cups unbleached flour or half white and half whole wheat flour 1-1/2 sticks butter or trans-fat free pareve margarine, cut into very small cubes 1/2 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. sugar 1/2 cup ice water or ice cold orange juice Filling: 1 pound butternut squash, cut into half-inch cubes 3 tbsp. dark brown sugar 4 large onions, white or red, peeled, cut in half and thinly sliced 2 tsp. fresh sage, finely minced 1 tsp. fresh parsley, finely minced 4 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil

Salt and pepper to taste For the Dough: Mix the flour, salt and sugar to together. Add the margarine and, with a pastry blender or two knives, cut the margarine into the flour until the mixture resembles coarse cornmeal. You can do this in a food processor with one or two pulses. Remove from the processor and place in a bowl for the next steps. Make a well and add about half of the ice water or juice. Blend with a fork until the water is evenly incorporated. Add more liquid, one tablespoon at a time, until the dough just holds together. Mold the dough into two discs, about 5 inches in diameter and wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours. While the dough is chilling, place the squash cubes in a zipper-type bag. Add two tablespoons of the olive oil and shake to coat. Place on a foil lined, greased rimmed cookie sheet. Sprinkle with the brown sugar, and bake at 400 degrees until fork-tender. Remove from the oven and set aside. Meanwhile, Heat a large skillet and add the remaining olive oil. Add the onions and sprinkle with a little salt. Heat over low heat, stirring often until the onions are caramelized and deep, golden brown, about 30 minutes. Gently toss the squash cubes with the onions Add the sage and parsley and season with salt and pepper. Set aside. ASSEMBLY: Remove the dough from the refrigerator and place on a generously floured table or counter. Quickly and gently roll out the dough until it is about 9 inches in diameter. Place on a parchment lined, rimmed baking dish. Repeat with the other disc. Mound half the filling mixture in the middle of each disc, leaving about 2 inches from the edges, free of filling. Carefully lift one edge of the dough up and fold over the filling. Lift another section up and fold it over the first part, making a pleat or crimp so the dough will stay put. Continue until all the dough is “pleated” up around the filling leaving a “hole” about 5 inches in diameter in the middle that is not covered with dough. Make sure the pleats are tight so that they won’t open during baking. Repeat with the second galette. Bake at 400 degrees until golden, about 2535 minutes. Each galette serves about 4-6 as a side dish and 6-8 as an appetizer. To serve, cut into thin, pie wedge slices. NOTE: For a dairy meal, you can sprinkle a bit of your favorite cheese over the squash halfway through baking.

Challah-baking’s no escape from Unetaneh Tokef tehilla r. goldberg view from central park

hese days of awe are such an interweaving of both pragmatic and spiritual preparation. As I weave and braid another challah, as I drench a rosette challah wreath with another layer of honey glaze, or come up with a fun way to embellish another batch of round challahs — of all things I cut out a #ShanaTova message atop — some of the round challah snails (and I am the one who usually rolls her eyes at the ridiculousness of hashtags and their constantly being appended everywhere in social media), I listen to songs of Days of Awe that inspire, or perhaps

an online class illuminating some of the liturgy. But, thank G-d for challah-baking and all the culinary holiday preparations, which I enjoy. Some years it’s a lot to focus on the spiritual dimensions of these days and their serious, even overwhelming, implications. In which case, I am grateful to keep my mind and hands busy preparing for these holidays culinarily. The ritual of the symbolic yehi ratson foods, and the personal familial foods that become symbolic, that become your tradition, are truly comforting. Growing up, my moth-

er developed delicious recipes for the symbolic foods. To this day, for me those flavors are the tastes of Rosh Hashanah. All of this leading up to Yom Kippur, a day completely absent of food. s I simmer and cook, I think about Yom Kippur and the prophet Jonah who tried to escape from G-d, whom we read about just as twilight begins to paint the horizon of our holiest

day of the year. Sometimes when I am so focused on the culinary preparations, and grateful to be busy with them, I wonder, am I channeling my in-

ner Jonah? Is this my way of escaping from the intensity of G-d and these overwhelming days? I had turned on a lecture about Unetaneh Tokef, the pinnacle for Ashkenazi Jews of Rosh Hashanah and the Yom Kippur prayers in a mere paragraph or two. It is the essence of the prayers, of our deep hope and wish for year of life and health. It is especially stirring knowing the story behind it. I often listened to the famous and very moving Kibbutz Beit Hashitah’s melody to this prayer. It was composed on the Yom Kippur of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, as news of another casualty from the kibbutz, and then another, kept coming in on the wires, in the end totaling 11 of their youth gone. Beyond the power of the prayer, this melody is almost like the anthem to the wound of a lost Israeli generation. The song inspires, and is sobering. But the lecture was an insightful one to be sure,

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How Jews around the world will break the fast

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By Gabe Friedman, JTA After weary and ravenous American Jews file out of Yom Kippur services, many return home to a similar meal each year to break the fast: typically bagels, lox and assorted accoutrements. For some, it’s an anticipated and tasty tradition. But for others, it can be an anticlimactic end to a day of repentance and hunger. Want to switch things up a little this year? Here are some break-fast recipes from Jews around the world.

Morocco

Harira is a Moroccan soup that usually includes chickpeas, lentils, rice or noodles, egg, tomatoes and a variety of other vegetables — and, sometimes, meat. It is an interfaith recipe: Sephardic Jews make it for Yom Kippur, Muslims make it during Ramadan. During the break-fast meal, some Moroccan Jews also like to down it with sweet tea or liquor.

Shredded apples with rosewater, an Iran treat.

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but the repeated language of the prayer —so sharp, so slice-y, so dice-y, life being cut and divided, and the graphic ways it can tragically end — I turn it off. I can’t listen. s a prayer it is one of the most meaningful journeys, one of the most powerful in all of liturgy. Through evocative and poetic metaphors of human life that travel from “shards of clay in the hands of a potter” to the ephemeral “blowing winds” that come and go and, ultimately, to a “fleeting dream” — something that isn’t even real — it sensitizes and humbles us so deeply. The fragility of human life. I can pray it, but I can’t overthink it. It paralyzes me. So I keep cutting and dicing the food, instead of thinking of G-d forbid life being treated in this way, of how real it is that we are so vulnerable — at the end of the day, just another form of material creature. Escape. Escape. Jonah. Jonah. Jonah. Jonah is of course punished and criticized for trying to escape from G-d. It is a wonder at how ridiculous this is — did he really think he was

Snapper for Pesce al’Ebraica.

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Italy

Italian Jews have a slew of Yom Kippur break-fast staples in their repertoire. One fish dish, appropriately named Pesce al ‘Ebraica (Fish, Jewish Style), is often served during the High Holidays. The recipe takes basically any white-fleshed fish, such as whitefish or halibut, and cooks it with honey, raisins and pine nuts.

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Greeks also cook an array of dishes for the Yom Kippur break-fast, but one that is especially calming for the empty stomach is Avgolemono, an egg and lemon soup. Since it only consists of a few key ingredients, it’s an easy meal to whip up quickly when hungry.

Cantaloupe for pepitada.

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ples with rosewater. The beverage is refreshing, thirst quenching and can be filling. This recipe mixes in alcohol to turn the drink into a festive cocktail.

Germany

One can find Zimtsterne, or “cinnamon stars,” at Christmas parties in Germany. But they are also traditional Yom Kippur fare. Observant Jews call them erste sternen, or “first stars,” as a reminder that one must see the first evening stars before breaking the fast. This recipe for the cookies combines the flavors of cinnamon, almonds, cloves and lemon peel.

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mixed with vanilla flavor. It acts as a calming and filling post-fast elixir.

Yemen

Slow-cooked breads, such as jachnoon and melawach, are a staple for Yemenite Jewish families for holiday and Shabbat meals. One variety popular after Yom Kippur is kubana, a rich and buttery bread that can be torn into individual rolls.

Mexico

Apples don’t have to only be eaten with honey on Rosh Hashanah. Iranian Jews enjoy a drink when Yom Kippur ends called faloodeh seeb, which combines shredded ap-

Melon seeds don’t sound like the ideal ingredient for making a tasty milk drink. But pepitada, a common Yom Kippur drink for Sephardic Jews in Bulgaria — once the home to as many as 50,000 Jews — as well as in Turkey and Greece, is just that: a milk made from the seeds of all kinds of melons often

In the 17th century, drinking melted chocolate was a daily custom in Mexico. According to Rabbi Deborah Prinz, Jews living in the Central American country, under surveillance by Spanish Inquisitors, typically drank chocolate at the end of the Yom Kippur fast — mirroring what other Mexicans did every day, but waiting until dark to do it — so as not to arouse suspicion about their secret Jewish identities. Talk about a sweet way to honor history.

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Avgolemono soup.

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outsmarting and escaping G-d? That it was possible? And to think of all the people and prophets who just waited and could only hope to be chosen as vessels to receive the word of G-d, and here Jonah is chosen, only to run from it? The midrash, however, highlights Jonah’s thoughtful and compassionate intentions on behalf of the Jewish people. Jonah was given the task of warning the city of Nineveh to change their ways and repent, or else. Rabbinic literature held that the nations are malleable and adaptable to changing their ways and repenting. Jonah sensed that his mission would be successful. Nineveh would repent. If so, then what about Jerusalem? Prophet after prophet warned of an upcoming destruction of Jerusalem and the holy Temple if the Jewish people didn’t change and

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repent, but no dice. The Jewish people didn’t change and Jerusalem was destroyed and the Temple was burned and the Jews were exiled. What a study in contrasts. Nineveh, a city that will yield and change, that will heed the word of the prophet of G-d, versus the Jewish people, stubborn, unchanging, exiled. No. Jonah wanted no part in highlighting this. He choose instead to escape and pay a high personal price for his decision to have his people’s back, so to speak. t is an ironic twist that on Yom Kippur, nearing the pinnacle of this holiest of days, we read of an escapee from G-d. But his reasoning behind that choice imparts the teaching and the power of creating change. Ultimately, that, too, is the message of the Unetaneh Tokef prayer. As the trembling

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prayer reaches its conclusion, the epilogue is a primal scream from us, the congregation: “U’teshuva, u’tefillah u’tzedakah, ma’avirin et ro’ah ha-gzeirah!” (“Repentance, prayer, and charitable good deeds have the power to remove the evil decree!”) Who are we shouting this to? To G-d? To ourselves? We all know instances where this formula failed or fell short. It doesn’t always prevail. Unfortunately, negative decrees are manifest all around us, all the time. But it is our call to ourselves for the potential to navigate the hard work of change: We can try and should make the effort to change and transform. It is worth it, for ourselves. And we hope that G-d will heed our cry as well. So escaping with Jonah and his message has its time and place and I am grateful for it, as I glaze another round piping hot challah, just praying inside, please, G-d, just let it be a blessed, joyous and healthy year. #ShanaTova Amen. Copyright Intermountain Jewish News

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‘Undemocratic Democrats’ slip sliding away: JPost The Jerusalem Post published this editorial on Tuesday: Israel has been a bipartisan issue in U.S. politics, at least since Democratic U.S. president Harry Truman recognized the world’s only Jewish state. Support for Israel was instinctual regardless of one’s party affiliation because it was synonymous with American values. But the rise in the popularity of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders signals an ominous change. In the run-up to the 2016 elections, Sanders, the first Jewish presidential candidate to win a major party’s [state] nominating contest, surrounded himself with people openly antagonistic to Israel. He chose Professor Cornel West and James Zogby as members of the 15-member Democratic platform committee. He tapped Simone Zimmerman, a vocal critic of Israeli policies, as director for

Jewish outreach before firing her in the wake of outcry from a number of Jewish leaders. Sanders’ position on Zionism is generally favorable. But he has on occasion revealed his own bias against Israel and sympathy for Palestinian leadership. In a 2016 interview with the New York Daily News, Sanders said he thought the number of Palestinian civilians killed by Israel in the 2014 Gaza conflict was 10,000. To his credit, when Sanders was confronted with the real number, he eventually accepted it. Sanders is making headlines again after claiming in an interview Friday with the leftwing website The Intercept that the U.S. is “complicit” in Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and that, under certain circumstances, he would consider supporting reduc-

tion in the yearly $3.1 billion military aid provided by the U.S. to Israel. Sanders was careful to nuance his comments by noting, “It’s not to say that Israel is the only party at fault.” But it is clear that his statements and appointment choices reflect a sentiment held by a growing number of progressive Democrats. Democrats’ support for Israel has traditionally been lower than that of Republicans. But the gap has grown. A Pew Research Center survey conducted at the beginning of January found that the difference between the two parties’ support for Israel is at an all-time high since 1978, when Pew starting checking. Pew asked the following question: In the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians, with whom do you sympathize more? Seventy-four percent of Republicans said they sympathized

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Continued from page 10 Savyon home, where the living room is filled with oil paintings and looks out onto a spacious garden and swimming pool. When the fundraiser took place, Gilat was recovering from cancer-related surgery and was very weak. Keren asked him to address the guests, but he wasn’t sure what to say. Then he thought about the work of Dr. Gal Merkel from Sheba Medical Center and Tel Aviv University, one of the scientists present that evening and a brilliant young cancer researcher involved in immunotherapy studies that served as the basis for Gilat’s own treatment years later. Gilat took out his box of immunotherapy pills and said, “This research is real, it’s not theoretical. Research saves lives. I am here today thanks to cancer research.” This summer, the U.S.-based Cancer Research Institute — the world’s leading nonprofit dedicated to immunotherapy — announced it was teaming up with ICRF to jointly fund immunotherapy-related research in Israel. The goal of the partnership is to combine CRI’s immunological expertise with ICRF’s longstanding relationships with Israeli institutions to encourage and support the best immunotherapy research in Israel and push Israel’s best scientific minds to increase their focus on such research. Eric Heffler, ICRF’s national executive director in New York, said Gilat’s determination to live and infectious optimism are great motivators for the organization and an inspiration to cancer patients. “Tamir shows that if life kicks you, you kick back harder,” Heffler said. “At ICRF, we are inspired to raise more money for cancer research thanks to Tamir’s drive and determination.” For his part, Gilat says that having cancer “has made me a better person. It showed me that my most precious possession is the time I have left.” This article was sponsored by and produced in partnership with the Israel Cancer Research Fund.

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rusalem is a new chapter of the Jerusalem intifada and … an affirmation that our uprising youth will continue to fight until the people and land are completely liberated,” Hamas spokesman Hazim Qassim wrote on Facebook. Palestinian terrorist organization Islamic Jihad also lauded the attack, saying it “embodies the living conscience of the Palestinian people and cause.” The Border Police officer killed in the attack was Solomon Gavriyah, 20, an Israeli of Ethiopian origin from the city of Be’er Yaakov. The slain security guards were Or Arish, 25, a resident of Har Adar, and Yosef Ottman, 25, from the Israeli Arab community of Abu Ghosh. “He (Ottman) was a young, quiet guy who got along with everyone. An exemplary guy … who was popular across the village,” said Issa Jaber, head of Abu Ghosh’s local council, in a conversation with The Israel Project. “As human beings we condemn every act of violence on any side, [it] doesn’t matter if it’s Jewish or Arab. [The] fact of the matter is that the security guards were both Arab and Jews.” Emergency response teams arrived at the scene soon after the terror attack, including members of Magen David Adom and volunteers from ZAKA. According to Israel’s Shin Bet security agency, the terrorist was a father of four who had a government-issued permit to work in Har Adar. The Shin Bet’s initial investigation indicated the terrorist “had significant personal and family problems, including those regarding family violence.” According to the agency, the terrorist’s wife fled to Jordan several weeks before the attack, leaving the couple’s children with their father. In a Facebook post before he carried out the attack, the terrorist described himself as a bad husband and said his spouse was “a good wife.”

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Exodus flashback… Continued from page 1 camps, where Jews continued to prepare for life in Palestine under trying conditions. Some of the photos, which have little to no captioning, capture the haunting similarities of the DP camps to those in which the Nazis interned and killed millions of Jews during the Holocaust, including images of Exodus Jews repairing barbed-wire fences under the watch of guards. But others show the Jews participating in communal activities and preparing for their hoped-for future in Palestine. In one photo, Zionist emissaries from the territory — young women dressed in white T-shirts and shorts — appear to lead the Exodus Jews in a circular folk dance. “The photos are pretty unique,” said Shay Mendelovich, a researcher at Kedem. “There were other people in these camps. But Robert Gary was one of the few who had a camera and knew how to take pictures.” Between 1945 and 1952, more than 250,000

Jews lived in displaced persons camps and urban centers in Germany, Austria and Italy that were overseen by Allied authorities and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Despite having been liberated from the Nazi camps, they continued to languish in Europe under guard and behind barbed wire. Gary was an American Jewish reporter who JTA sent to Europe to cover the aftermath of World War II. He detailed the living conditions in the camps more than a year before the Exodus journey: inadequate food; cold, crowded rooms; violence by guards and mind-numbing boredom. But he reported in September 1946 that the greatest concern among Jews was escaping Europe, preferably for Palestine. “Certainly the DP’s are sensitive to the material things and sound off when things go bad (which is as it should be), but above all this is their natural desire to start a new life elsewhere for the bulk in Palestine, for others, in the U.S. and other lands,” he wrote. “Get any

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group of DP’s together and they’ll keep you busy with the number one question: When are we leaving?” 4,500 board the Exodus In July 1947, more than 4,500 Jews from the camps boarded the Exodus in France and set sail for Palestine without legal immigration certificates. They hoped to join the hundreds of thousands of Jews building a Jewish state. Organized by the Haganah, a Zionist paramilitary force in Palestine, the mission was the largest of dozens of mostly failed attempts at illegal Jewish immigration during the decades of British administration of the territory following World War I. The British largely sought to limit the arrival of Jews to Palestine out of deference to the often violent opposition of its Arab majority. The Haganah had outfitted and manned the Exodus in hopes of outmaneuvering the British Navy and unloading its passengers on a beach. But near the end of its weeklong voyage, the British intercepted the ship off the shore of Palestine and brought it into the Haifa port. Troops removed resisting passengers there, injuring dozens and killing three, and loaded them on three ships back to Europe. Even after two months on the Exodus, the passengers resisted setting foot back on the continent. When the British finally forced them ashore in September 1947 and into two displaced persons camps in occupied northern Germany — Poppendorf and Am Stau — many sang the Zionist anthem “Hatikvah” in protest. An unexploded time bomb, apparently designed to go off after the passengers were ashore, was later found on one of the ships. ‘Back to the Reich’ The widely reported events won worldwide sympathy for European Jews and their national aspirations. An American newspaper headlined a story about the Exodus “Back to the Reich.” The Yugoslav delegate from from the United Nations Special Commission on Palestine called the affair “the best possible evidence we have for allowing Jews into Palestine.” Later, the Exodus achieved legendary status, most famously as the inspiration and namesake of the 1958 best-seller by Leon Uris and the 1960 film starring Paul Newman. Some, including former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban, credited the Exodus with a major role in the foundation of the State of Israel in May 1948. Gary, who was stationed in Munich, had close ties to Zionist activists; he reported early and often on the continuing plight of the Exodus Jews in the camps. His dispatches highlighted their continued challenges, including malnutrition, and unabated longing to immigrate to Palestine. In a report from Poppendorf days after the Exodus Jews arrived, Gary said the dark running joke in the camp was that the alternative to Palestine was simple: “Everyone would

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choose a tree from which to hang himself.” “The Jews of Germany demand and expect a chance to start life anew under reasonably secure circumstances,” he wrote. “They feel these places exist mainly in Palestine and the U.S. And they are determined to get there, either by legal or illegal means, or just by plain old fashioned patience.” Pnina Drori, who later became Gary’s wife, was among the emissaries that the Jewish Agency for Israel sent to the camps from Palestine to prepare the Jews for aliyah. As a kindergarten teacher, she taught the children Hebrew and Zionist songs. Other emissaries, she said, offered military training in preparation for the escalating battles with the Arab majority in Palestine. “In the photos, you see a lot of young people in shorts and kind of Israeli clothes,” she said. “We were getting them ready for Israeli life, both good and bad. You have to remember Israel was at war at the time.” Sticking with the story Gary was one of the few journalists who continued visiting the DP camps in the weeks after the Exodus Jews returned to Europe. Somehow he even obtained a fake certificate identifying him as one of the former passengers of the ship. But by late September 1947, JTA reported that British authorities had tired of Gary’s critical coverage and barred him from entry. “The fact that Gary and [New York newspaper PM reporter Maurice] Pearlman were the only correspondents still assigned to the story, and had remained at the camps, aroused the authorities, who charged that they ‘were snooping about too much’,” according to the report. Israel declared independence in May 1948, and after Great Britain recognized the Jewish state in January 1949, it finally sent most of the remaining Exodus passengers to the new Jewish state. Nearly all the DP camps in Europe were closed by 1952 and the Jews dispersed around the world, most to Israel and the United States. Gary soon immigrated to Israel, too. He married Drori in 1949, months after meeting her at a Chanukah party at the Jewish Agency’s headquarters in Munich, and the couple moved to Jerusalem, where they had two daughters. Robert Gary took at job at the Jerusalem Post and later worked for the British news agency Reuters. Pnina Gary, now 90, continued her acting career. She said her husband always carried a camera with him when he was reporting, and their home was filled with photo albums. Decades after Robert Gary died in Tel Aviv in 1987, at the age of 67, Pnina Gary wrote and starred in a hit play, “An Israeli Love Story.” It is based on her real-life romance with the first man she was supposed to marry, who was killed by local Arabs in an ambush on their kibbutz.

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resident Trump says he has made a decision on whether or not the U.S. will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, also known as the P5+1 deal and officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). While I have no knowledge of the president’s decision I do know that the Iran deal you were told about by President Obama and his cronies is not the real Iran deal. The reason the JCPOA isn’t the “real” Iran deal is that parts of deal were hidden from the public, and the Obama administration lied to America about other parts. A member of the Obama administration even admitted it. In a May 2016 New York Times Magazine piece, Ben Rhodes, who was Obama’s Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications, explained how he led the administration’s efforts to misrepresent the truth in order “to sell” the “Iran deal.” By law, President Trump must tell Congress whether or not he will certify Iran’s compliance with the P5+1 deal almost immediately after Simchat Torah (Oct. 15). Even if he does

not certify Iran as compliant, the president would have to take a separate action to pull out of the deal. From the point of view of U.S. law, since the deal was not a treaty but an executive action, Trump would not need Congressional approval to cancel it, but he is likely to seek their approval anyway. The only way to fairly judge the JCPOA’s value to the U.S. is to include the elements of the deal that Obama administration lied about or kept secret, including these: •The P5+1 deal gives Iran the capacity to enrich for BOMBS but NOT for power plants. The deal says that Iran can enrich fuel for peaceful purposes. However, under the agreement, Iran is allowed to keep 6,104 centrifuges. Former deputy director of the CIA Mike Morell told Charlie Rose in February 2015 that number centrifuges to will allow Iran to enrich enough uranium to produce bombs, but not enough for a program of nuclear power plants. •The JCPOA lifted the ban on the Iranian ballistic missile program. Before the deal, U.N. Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1929 stated that “Iran shall not undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons.” The P5+1 resolution passed by the UNSC changed the language and does not prohibit Iran carrying

out ballistic missile work but simply asks them not to carry out ballistic missile development. The resolution states: “Iran is called upon not to undertake such activity.” •The deal allows Iran to go nuclear after ten years. Do you remember when John Kerry insisted the Iran Nuclear deal was a “forever deal?” That was a lie. Some provisions expire after year 10, and the rest of them after year 15. Based on the agreement, by the end of year 15, Iran could have in place a nuclear infrastructure that would allow it to create a few nuclear weapons within months. •The promised sanction “snap-backs” don’t really exist. In Sept. 2015 the Washington Free Beacon reported that President Obama gave Europe, China and Russia a written promise that the U.S. will guarantee that their companies which make deals with Iran would not have to stop working with Iran should sanction need to be re-imposed if Iran get caught violating the P5+1 deal. •According to the framework for a deal released before the JCPOA was finalized, America was told that Iran would reveal the details of their nuclear program from its inception to the time the deal was made. We were told that as part of the agreement Iran would have to “fess up” to the U.N. inspectors about their previous nuclear activity. By understanding the Iranian nuclear program be-

On becoming an American Ben Cohen Viewpoint

his week, I became an American citizen. As I intently studied my naturalization certificate after the oath-taking ceremony, it struck me how fortunate I am to be accepted into this nation on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, of all occasions. I should stress that my own story is rather routine and uninteresting. I came to the U.S. from the United Kingdom with my family, I had a job and a home in New York, and as the years went by, I progressed from a work visa to a Green Card to full citizenship. Along the way, I did nothing more dramatic than fill out lots of forms and attend periodic interviews with immigration officials.

But there were 199 other people in the room with me, from 60 different countries, and with vastly different experiences that, nonetheless, led us all to this single moment. As I wound my way to my seat, climbing as delicately as possible over the outstretched knees and handbags on the narrow floor between the rows in the auditorium, I said hello to individuals I learned were originally from New Zealand, the Dominican Republic and the Philippines. When we went up to the stage to collect our naturalization certificates, it felt as if the entire world had been locked in the embrace of American democracy as we all swore the same oath of allegiance before the same flag: a fellow from Cote d’Ivoire, another from Mali, a young woman from Bangladesh, an older woman from Ukraine, even a couple of people from Israel. More than two centuries after the American Revolution, we accept the American idea of liberty as commonplace. But that ceremo-

ny reminded me of just how revolutionary it is. Thomas Paine — a son of Norfolk, England, who came to these shores in 1774 — wrote in his splendid pamphlet, “Common Sense,” that the “independence of America, considered merely as separation from England, would have been but a matter but of little importance, had it not been accompanied by a revolution in the principles and practice of governments.” These principles have been considered utopian, but I believe they also reveal a fundamental truth about how humans should be governed. We are imperfect, we are selfish, we will always clash, but we have as well common principles and common beliefs that bring us. For all the bitterness of our current politics, who wants to live in a society where beliefs and opinions are imposed from above? I’d rather be free to pick my way through the drek of social media than have my access blocked by the government. I’d rather be free

fore the agreement, the IAEA will know how, when, and where to inspect their program in the future. Two weeks after the JCPOA was agreed to, the Wall Street Journal revealed that Iran had refused to provide the information; the administration stopped asking. •The deal gives Tehran leverage to blackmail the West, since the Iranians can walk away from the JCPOA with a 35-day notice. Under Paragraph 36, Iran can claim that any of the P5+1 is “not meeting its commitments” under the agreement. That triggers a 35-day set of meetings. Once that clock runs, Iran can claim the issue “has not been resolved to [its] satisfaction” and that it “deems” that the issue “constitutes significant non-performance.” Iran can then “cease performing its commitments under this JCPOA in whole or in part.” •Iran gets to “self-inspect” at the Parchin military site. Before the agreement, the IAEA sought access to the Parchin site which has long been suspected of being the location where Iran was developing its detonation systems for nuclear weapons. In 2014, Iran even admitted to using Parchin to test exploding bridge wires, which are used as nuclear detonators. During a Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman promised lawmakers that IAEA inspectors would be able See Iran deal on page 21

to express disappointment in the society I live in – silly and unjustified or eloquent and persuasive – than be compelled by my rulers to toe the line. That is a key element of the historic promise the U. S. continues to offer. A collective sense of freedom — which breeds furiously divergent opinions, rather than dull uniformity — is what led the French writer Alexis de Tocqueville to note in 1831 that America’s free press contained “such a strange mixture of good and evil that, without its presence, freedom could not thrive and with its presence good order could hardly survive.” That ever-present tension, perhaps, is part of freedom’s very nature — yet as the years have progressed, “good order” has become more stable at no discernible cost to our revolutionary liberties. And it’s that same good order that allows us to take for granted what our forefathers in foreign lands certainly did not: the right to spend a peaceful Rosh Hashanah with one’s family in a land with no established religion. This year, I will do that as an American for the very first time. Shana Tovah.

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Continued from page 1 kind of faux-erudite, meaningless-intersectionaljargon-filled nonsense to which weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve conditioned our society to be susceptible, in the sense of stopping meaningful numbers of kids from taking a free trip to Israel, it wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work. But then, its primary purpose is not to damage Birthright the organization. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s designed to chip away at the heart of Zionismâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the need for and desirability of Jewish national consciousness. If JVP was interested in damaging Birthright, the organization, its marketing campaign would be #RejectBirthright. Instead, it wants to #ReturnTheBirthright. Return is a permanent state of surrender, and the definite article â&#x20AC;&#x153;theâ&#x20AC;? isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessary if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking about the proper noun Birthright. The manifesto is explicit: itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not okay that Israel exists. The campaign seeks to fertilize the idea among young Jews that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s acceptable to reject the Jewish national homeland â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with the ancillary benefit of maybe damaging an organization they dislike. For decades, the American Jewish community didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to make the case that Zionism addressed an urgent, ongoing Jewish need. The case was obvious. As the founding generations and miracles of the Jewish state fade into history, however, that clarity has been lost. But now that we do need to make this case, we seem to lack the conviction to do so. Whether out of a misguided desire to make the enemies of Jewish national aspiration welcome in our communities, exhaustion from an argument that never seems to end, or our own political misgivings about Israeli policies, we have failed and are failing to convince Jews of the continuing centrality of Zionism to who and what we are. The best response to the irritant of JVP would be to create and promote a core curriculum of unapologetic Zionism in every religious school and adult education program at every synagogue and JCC in the country. Not the history of Israel or the details of her defensive wars and conflicts (although that would also be valuable, if more politically problematic), but of the tremendous historical and intellectual roots of what the spiritual leader, activist and scholar Arthur Hertzberg called â&#x20AC;&#x153;the Zionist idea.â&#x20AC;? Imagine if the resources of the broad, organized Jewish community were brought to bear on such a project. Imagine if the rebellious teenagers of JVP and their ridiculous manifesto had to compete in the marketplace of ideas with Hess, Ahad Haâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;am, Klatzkin, Brandeis, Rabbi Kook and Jabotinsky!

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Continued from page 20 to inspect Parchin. But that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happen; instead, they allowed Iran to sign a secret side deal with the IAEA permitting the Iranians to self-inspect the facility. Other items kept from Congress and/or the public: â&#x20AC;˘According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iran broke the terms of the heavy water provisions of the deal twice in 2016, in February and November, but President Obama let them off the hook. â&#x20AC;˘A secret side deal discovered by the Associated Press in April 2016 allows Iran to upgrade and modernize its centrifuges and increase its enriching capacity, all before the deal officially expires in 15 years. â&#x20AC;˘In September 2016, the Institute for Science and International Security reported that in another secret deal â&#x20AC;&#x153;the joint commission agreed to exempt unknown quantities of 3.5 percent LEU contained in liquid, solid and sludge wastes stored at Iranian nuclear facilities. â&#x20AC;Ś If the total amount of excess LEU Iran possesses is unknown, it is impossible to know how much weapons-grade uranium it could yield.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;˘The Iran deal significantly reduces reporting requirements about Iranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nuclear program that existed before, according to IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano. â&#x20AC;˘The IAEA told Senator Tom Cotton and CIA Director Mike Pompeo (who at that time, in July 2015, was a Republican congressman from Kansas) that there are two secret side deals to the nuclear agreement with Iran that will not be shared with other nations, with Congress, or with the U.S. public. Those side deals may or may not be the ones revealed above. At the time, the only side deal that was already known was Iranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s self-inspections of Parchin, so it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that one. Apparently, there are dozens of other Iran nuke deal-related documents which are not even classified secret, but which the Obama administration nonetheless refused to release. There are broad suspicions that those documents contain embarrassing concessions to Iran: both additional U.S. obligations and exemptions from Iranian obligations. As a technical matter, it would be straightforward to release those documents. As a political matter, the Obama administration has consistently had trouble explaining why the public shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see them. There was some discussion of President Trump releasing these documents when he took office but he never has. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which was the first to reveal elements of the Iran nuclear program to the world, claimed in April 2017 that the rogue regime has not stopped its nuclear weapons program despite the P5+1 deal. Two independent nuclear investigators examined the NCRI evidence and concluded their findings are plausible but they couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t confirm them until the locations inside Iran where the work was being done were personally examined. In conclusion, I admit my belief that even without the presented here, the JCPOA is bad for the United States because it restricts the U.S. more than it restricts Iran. However, considering the parts of the deal kept secret from America and Congress, there is no reason the U.S. should stay in this horrible agreement. The information presented here gives President Trump enough reason to pull out of the deal, but he has much more information than do American citizens without security clearance.

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Kol Nidre: Velvel Pasternak’s legacy AlAn JAy Gerber Kosher BooKworm

ith the coming observance of Yom Kippur, the recently published “Behind The Music,” by the esteemed Jewish musicologist, Velvel Pasternak of Cedarhurst, affords us the opportunity to consider his take on one of our faith’s most prominent musical and liturgical works, Kol Nidre. Pasternak is no stranger to Jewish liturgy. He is a daily attendee at the services at the Young Israel of Woodmere, and at Shabbat and holiday services at the Chofetz Chayim Kehillah in Cedarhurst whose rabbi is Rav Aryeh Ginzberg. Pasternak’s life’s work involves the publication of Jewish music stories, anecdotes, articles, essays, sheet music, and reflections of the Jewish music tradition. In a timely piece for this time of year, please consider this brief essay on Kol Nidre that I am presenting to you as a sample of Pasternak’s scholarship: “A long-standing fable still exists with regard to ‘Kol Nidre.’ Many otherwise knowledgeable Jews believe that both the text and the melody of the prayer emerged from the Spanish Inquisition. They assume that the ‘Kol Nidre,’ essentially a formula for self-absolution, was specifically designed to free the Marranos who had been forcibly converted from their imposed obligations. “Abraham Z’vi Idelsohn, the outstanding

Jewish music researcher of the 20th century, notes that the Sephardim, the true heirs of the Marranos, sing ‘Kol Nidre’ with a melody that differs entirely from the one sung by the Ashkenazim. Rabbi Yehuda Gaon (740 CE) introduced the text and chant of ‘Kol Nidre,’ but it seems that it had a different function at the time and most certainly a different melody. It was not repeated three times nor did it have the present day preamble, ‘beyeshiva shel ma-ala’ (in the academy on high). The practice of repeating the ‘Kol Nidre’ three times was considered in a host of rabbinic responses. The most important, by Maharil, states that the cantor is ‘to extend the chant of the ‘Kol Nidre’ until nightfall. He must chant the ‘Kol Nidre’ three times, first in an undertone, then louder during the first repetition and even louder for the third, ‘for then we shall hearken with awe and trembling.’ “The first version of the melody appeared in a collection of liturgical synagogue chants published in 1785 by Ahron Beer, a cantor in Berlin. Although the transcription contains most of the familiar elements, the melody continued to change. One hundred years later Louis Lewandowski transcribed the melody and it appeared in print.” It was this melody that is the popular

chant that we sing to this day without change or alteration. Velvel Pasternak was born in Toronto and attended Yeshiva University, the Julliard School of Music and Columbia University. He teaches and lectures and researches Chassidic and popular Jewish music and is today the leading authority on this subject. A recent piece by Pasternak’s rabbi, Rav Aryeh Ginzberg describes the following about his neighbor and congregant: “In the more than 15 years that I have had the honor to daven together with Velvel, my admiration for him grows every Shabbos. He is one of the most modest and humble people that I ever met who sits quietly every Shabbos in the very back row and keeps to himself. If I hadn’t read about his vast accomplishments in the world of Jewish music, I, and others who sit with him each and every Shabbos for years, would never have known anything. This is vintage Velvel. “While being considerably older than most of the others in our shul, he never misses a shiur each week. He sits quietly during the shiur never revealing his knowledge in so many areas. However, every once in a while he will approach me after a shiur with

Journey from Elul to Yom HaKippurim rAbbi dAvid etenGoff

e have been on a spiritual journey since the beginning of Chodesh Elul. This month helps us to focus upon what is false and what is real, in order that we may pursue matters of ultimate spiritual import. In an almost palpable sense, it’s prepared us for the great and awe-filled days of Rosh Hashanah, when we again crowned the King of the Universe and it inspires us to redouble our efforts at teshuvah in anticipation of Yom HaKippurim. Before we encounter and rededicate ourselves to Hashem on Yom HaKippurim, however, we must encounter ourselves. In short, we must become accountants of the spirit. In general terms, the role of an accountant is to help us “make resource allocation decisions” (Wikipedia). By extension, when we act as accountants of the spirit, our individual and collective task is to determine the best way to allocate and use our innermost religious resources. This can only be achieved by engaging in cheshbon hanefesh, the ultimate act of Torah accountancy. We are fortunate that one of the greatest masters of Jewish ethical literature (mussar),

the Italian thinker Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato (1707-1746, the Mesilat Yesharim), helps us understand the constitutive elements of the Torah introspection process. He notes that an individual must “observe all of his actions and watch over all of his ways.” It is only when we subject the totality of our actions to scrupulous scrutiny that we will free ourselves from “a bad habit or a bad trait, let alone a sin or a crime.” This accounting must be both daily and exact “in the manner of the great merchants who constantly evaluate all of their undertakings so that they [their business ventures] do not miscarry.” Moreover, contemplative analysis must be done in a highly disciplined manner and with thoroughgoing consistency: “He should set aside definite times and hours for this weighing so that it is not a fortuitous matter, but one that is conducted with the greatest regularity; for it yields rich returns.” What are the “rich returns” that will accrue as a result of this depth-level self-exami-

nation? Here, too, Rav Luzzato enlightens us: “After engaging in such a reflection he will come to consider whether or not his deeds travel along the proper path. For in doing so it will certainly be easy for him to cleanse himself of all evil and to correct his ways.” (Mesilat Yesharim) om ha-Kippurim is the preeminent time to return to the path of serving Hashem and fulfilling His mitzvot. Based upon the insights gained through cheshbon hanefesh, we can engage in authentic teshuvah and then be worthy to receive the beneficent gift of kapparah (atonement) from our Creator. With Hashem’s help, may we have the discernment and wisdom to undertake the cheshbon hanefesh process and engage in authentic teshuvah, so we may become reconciled with our Creator. Then, may we be zocheh (merit) to receive the great gift of kapparah through the Almighty’s chane, v’chesed, v’rachamim (favor, kindness and mercy). As Yermiyahu the prophet declared so long ago, “Return us to You, O L-rd, so that we may return! Renew our days as of old.” (Megillat) V’chane yihi ratzon. Shabbat Shalom, G’mar chatimah tovah, and Tizku l’shanim rabot.

before we encounter Hashem on yom HaKippurim, we must encounter ourselves.

a comment or a question and it becomes immediately clear that his understanding of Torah in so many areas is significant and yet he remains to all the most unassuming person that you ever met, an example for all other to follow.” A PERSONAL NOTE This year, as you read and listen to the Kol Nidre chant, take a moment to consider the Pasternak musical legacy, and let his anivus, his loyalty to his faith and people, inspire you to emulate him. May I take this opportunity to wish you, my dear and loyal readers, a G’mar Chasimah Tovah, and do have a meaningful, spiritually rewarding, and easy fast.

Luach

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abbi Yissachar Shlomo Teichtal, author of Eim Habanim Semeichah, described a Kol Nidrei during the Holocaust, Yom Kippur 1942. He was in Hungary, from which mass deportations wouldn’t begin until 1944, gathered with many others in one of the only synagogues still functioning in that terrible time. The following is my translation of what appears in Mishneh Sachir, Yom Kippur 5703: I am recalling and transcribing in order not to forget what I saw and heard that Yom Kippur. A sight I had never seen before in my life. A vision that was awesome and dreadful, that Yom Kippur night. The rabbi came into shul, completely bent over. Bent over from the dread of judgment. But even more contributed to his being hunched over — the pain of our generation. The rabbis who were there told me he was bent over double the way he normally was, carrying both the fear of judgment with the pain the nation of Israel was going through. He was literally bent over to the ground. This is how he walked and stepped up to the holy Ark, and began crying out “Shir hamaalos Mimaakim Karasicha Hashem — from the deepest depth of pain reflecting our situation now, we CRY OUT TO YOU!” He began to enumerate the terrible things that had befallen them. “Where are my brothers? I’m missing my balabatim (congregants)!” And he started to name them: Where is this one? And this one? Last year he was here. We were ALL here together. And more and more and more — it’s impossible to recount everyone. Where is each one now?

And then he added: “Fathers who are here now are asking ‘where are our sons who were here last year?’ Sons are asking, ‘Where are our fathers who dedicated their souls to raising us, and who have now been stolen from us? Where are they?’ “The husband asks about his wife, and the wife asks about her husband. Where is she? Where is he? Small children who were stolen from their mother’s embrace, whose parents know nothing of their whereabouts.” He enumerated the multiple tragic stories that have affected families among us. nd then there was a tremendous emotional outcry, the likes I had NEVER BEFORE SEEN IN MY LIFE. Throughout the synagogue, men and women were crying, in a loud voice, screams which almost caused people to faint. Children six years old and younger were also crying in a loud voice — almost like a stone wall was crying with us without stopping. The rabbi continued, “Avinu Malkeinu, Our Father in Heaven, asei l’maan — do it for the children who study! Hear the simple cries of innocent children, over whom the Satan has no prosecutorial argument. See how they have been exiled, in this most difficult way, from their mothers. “Avinu Malkeinu, Our Father in Heaven, asei l’maan — do it for those who have been murdered over Your Holy Name! How many of acheinu bnei Yisrael (our Jewish brothers and sisters) have been killed by the hands of the cursed ones, even though they had done

NOTHING to deserve this fate! “Avinu Malkeinu, Our Father in Heaven — have mercy upon us and our children.” Through all of this expounding on the Avinu Malkeinus, the crying never stopped — the great sound of everyone’s voice, the broken hearts from every corner, both from the men section and the women section. I do not have the ability to describe this awesome sight which I saw in this synagogue — the only one in the country where a large number of people gathered, bli ayin hara, and Hashem should add for us 1,000 times this number, as the blessing of Moshe says, “The Lord your G-d should heap upon you a thousand fold.” n the whole country, many communities have already been destroyed, to the point that many did not even have a minyan in these Holy Days. And in my community of Pishtian, which had close to 500 Jewish families, since the expulsion from there from Pesach through Rosh Hashana, there are only three families left. No minyan at all. There is only a minyan where I am now because the rabbi here is a tremendous tsaddik, the Chief Rabbi, and in his merit, people came from all over the country to benefit from his shade. We are very grateful to the wonderful baalei batim, important, wealthy, influential, God-fearing men who were able to impress upon the officials of the city not to bring about the decrees of the country to this place in the manner that has befallen other communities.

Fathers are asking ‘where are our sons who were here last year?’ Sons are asking, ‘Where are our fathers?’

Rabbi Issachar Shlomo Teichtal

That is the main reason why this congregation is still here. Although even from here around 4,000 souls have been deported. But 1,000 people still remain here, and G-d should save them from the terrible decree. And they should remain here until G-d will bring a great salvation soon. Many who have become refugees from their cities are here as well, such as myself and my family, and that is why there is a large contingent here. This concludes Rabbi Teichtal’s recounting of that tragic Yom Kippur. The rest of the story is well-known, as Hungarian Jewry was largely wiped out in the summer of 1944, including Rabbi Teichtel. Let us allow the depth of the seriousness of that Yom Kippur inspire us to tap into what kind of day Yom Kippur ought to be. Shana tova to all.

Yom Kippur: Striving for greatness, meriting teshuva Rabbi binny FReedman The hearT of jerusalem

still don’t know how he made it into Infantry Officer’s course, but I do know how difficult it was for him. Overweight, and far from being an athlete, the physical challenges he would have to overcome seemed insurmountable. How would he run up a 3km mountain with a gasmask in the time allotted? How would he pass the Bar-Or 2km run test? How would he manage the morning runs for what seemed endless miles? And most of all, how would he get through Wingate and the Ason teva or “freak of nature” run and obstacle course? Two thirds of the way through the course we started training for the Ason teva (natural disaster) course and I stopped wondering about him and started worrying how on earth I would make it through myself. Every time we practiced it, after coming up soaked out of the river I could not seem to get up the 6 meter rope fast enough; between the extra weight from the water and my slippery hands and boots I just could not seem to get it. So one Thursday night I went down to the course on my own to practice and heard noises coming from the obstacle course, and there he was running the course; he simply refused to give in. Turned out he was in an artillery unit, and his commanding officer had convinced him to

apply for oficer’s course and had subsequently advocated for him to be accepted, and he did not want to let this officer who believed in him down. In the end, by the thinnest of margins (finishing the course with barely five seconds to spare) he passed. here is a fascinating suggestion in the Talmud (Rosh Hashana 16b): “Rav Kruspedai says in the name of Rav Yochanan: Three books are opened on Rosh Hashanah: The righteous are written into the book of the righteous and granted life, the wicked are written into the book of the wicked and decreed to die, and the intermediates are written into the book of the intermediates whose judgement is withheld until Yom Kippur; if they merit they are then inscribed in the book of life and if not…” What exactly is the book of intermediates? I have a hard time imagining three physical books on a shelf somewhere in heaven. G-d does not need books, and certainly would not need to open them nor inscribe them for the record; G-d is the record. Further, what are the odds that a person has exactly the same amount of transgressions as good deeds resulting in him being at the exact midpoint between guilt and merit? And if this was indeed the case, one mitzvah would

do the trick, so why does his or her judgement wait for Yom Kippur? Rav Hutner, in his Pachad Yitzchak, suggests that this intermediacy is not a status; it is, rather, a character trait. This idea reflects the person who is happy with mediocrity, who does not seek to excel or overcome, to achieve or to advance. Such a person just wants to get by, to be comfortable. I remember many years ago, upon returning for my second year of study in yeshiva, the disappointment I experienced upon discovering I had been switched into a different shiur with a different rebbe. Having spent a year under the tutelage of Rav Ezra Bick, I was excited to come back after a summer break and hit the books feeling I finally understood what was going on and what was expected of me. Hoping to convince Rav Bick to allow me to stay in his shiur I went to speak with him and he listened attentively to what I had to say until I mentioned that I felt I had finally gotten comfortable in his class. “Comfortable?! The last thing you should be if you want to grow is ‘comfortable’ — you should feel challenged!” And that was the end of discussion! (Years later, it still amazes me that I almost missed the chance to spend a year studying with Rav

the last thing you should be if you want to grow is ‘comfortable’ — you should feel challenged!

Shabtai haKohen Rappaport, a direct descendant of the Shach.) e live in a world where it is easy to be comfortable — but do we challenge ourselves to be better than we were last year? How can we be comfortable when so many families in Houston and Florida and Mexico and Puerto Rico don’t even have homes in which to be uncomfortable? Do we plan for another year of the same routine, because it is so … comfortable? Or do we become part of the making the world a better place in the coming year? The Rambam, apparently based on this Talmudic dictum, rules accordingly in his laws of repentance (Hilchot Teshuvah 1:2-3) suggesting that it is the person whose merits and transgressions are balanced who has the chance to do teshuva during the period between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. In this week we have the chance to be better, to rise to the challenge of how much better we can be. Just like that officer’s course cadet who late in the night on a lonely obstacle course refused to accept mediocrity. This year, once again we will gather on the night of Yom Kippur and hear the haunting sounds of the Kol Nidre prayers exhorting us to live up to the promises (the nedarim) we made to ourselves this past year. Let us resolve to rise this year far above and beyond mediocrity, lets us aspire to excellence — excellence in who we can be, and excellence in how we care for each other. Wishing all a meaningful Yom Kippur and a year of great blessings and much joy. Gmar Chatimah Tovah from Jerusalem.

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SKA & DRS shabbatons First year students at HALB’s Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls and Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School for Boys participated in yearopening retreats at Camp Kaylie. During their midweek trip, the girls had a wonderful time getting to know and bond with their fellow students outside of the school setting. During the boys’ shabbaton, the new DRSers created “a sense of achdut within the grade in an enjoyable and fun way,” said Rabbi Yisroel Kaminetsky, DRS menahel.

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HANC High eyes ‘canes In an inspirational assembly, HANC High School students heard their principal, Rabbi Shlomo Adelman, express pride in the yeshiva’s pre-Rosh Hashana activities, including a Houston relief mission. Rav Yitz Rabovsky, who led “HANC Hurricanes for Hurricane Relief,” and the students who participated in the mission shared their experiences. A Hatarat Nedarim was said followed by HANC’s music teacher, Dovid Klaver, leading the entire school in singing, filling the HANC auditorium with great spirit.

Rambam Mesivta’s Annual Teshuva-Thon featured Rabbi Herschel Reichman, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva University, as its Maggid Shiur. The learning program, on Tzom Gedalya, featured father and son davening, chavrusah, preparation of sources, and the shiur. Rabbi Reichman focused on practical aspects of teshuva. In analyzing the sources in Hilchos Teshuva, which the boys prepared with their fathers and Rambam rebbeim, Rabbi Reichman quoted a diyuk that he heard from his rebbe, the Rav. “Yom Kippur bestows forgiveness not just on those who have repented (the classical explanation of the words of the Rambam) but also on those who haven’t completely forsaken sin but are “in the process on doing teshuva.” As long as one realizes that he has to change for the better, and is committed to strengthening his relationship to Hashem, the process is in effect and Yom Kippur will provide atonement, Rabbi Reichman said.

MDS ‘caring with action’ With “Caring With Action” defining the 2017-18 year at the Manhattan Day School, Elul was designated as Kickoff With Kindness month and, due to the recent natural disasters, students at the Upper West Side school had many opportunities to do good. In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, MDS families joined with the community at large to raise funds and show support for those affected. Packages were filled with fidget spinners, playing cards and taffy to keep Houston children entertained and in good spirits, and they wrote Shana Tova cards (photo) to express their love and support to students in Houston. MDS middle school students said special tefillot, particularly the blessing of Roka HaAretz al HaMayim, asking Hashem to save the Houston and Florida communities from the overflowing waters.

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