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Sinchat Torah • Friday, October 13, 2017 • 23 Tishrei 5778 • Luach page 21 • Torah columns pages 20–21 • Vol 16, No 38

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Wine & Dine

When our ‘appetizers’ made a dinner deluxe

By Joni Schockett s we broke fast this year, my family commented on the light meal I was serving and wanted to know where was the kugel and the salmon mousse and the cranberry walnut cake and bagels and lox and frittata and more. I had forewarned them that this year was going to be even lighter fare than last year, that we were “downsiz-

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ing” the break fast so that no one would feel distressed or uncomfortable at 9 pm.

I did make a simple apple cake for dessert and there was my signature zucchini leek soup and whole wheat challah and plenty of food, but not the foods that my family has expected for years and years.

We ended the meal with tea, See Remember when on page 16

Matzah ball meets pho in Jewish-Viet mashup

By Sonya Sanford ho (pronounced fuh) is a traditional Vietnamese soup that was popularized around the world by refugees fleeing the Vietnam War and its aftermath. Pho Ga is the chicken noodle variety.

For me, pho is a perfect meal: a big bowl of rich, aromatic, sweet, salty broth filled with satisfying rice noodles and tender meat, and balanced by toppings of fresh herbs, crispy bean sprouts and tart lime juice.

Jerusalem in the sukkah

While there may be no better place to celebrate Sukkot than in Jerusalem, this might be the next-best thing: A sukkah lined with panoramic photos of Israel’s famous and holy sites. It’s the creation of Andy “Eliyahu” Alpern, a photographer specializing in 360-degree images, who says that by providing an immersive, inside-Israel experience, his Panoramic Sukkah is “a way of sharing Eretz Yisrael with people all over the world who can’t be here.” Alpern, a 50-year-old Chicago native who now lives in Safed, is marketing his 5779 sukkahs — priced from $1,080 —at PanoramicSukkah.com. Read more at TheJewishStar.com.

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Some feel that any mashup of two differing traditional dishes is a crime against all that is holy in See Matzah ball on page 16

For Jerry, 50-year-old wrong is made right

By Judy Joszef y husband Jerry has always had a strong sense of right and wrong. When Jerry and his extended family attended the Turkins bungalow colony in the Catskills, there was no day camp or any other organized activities for kids — there were really no facilities at all, except for an outdoor pool. Thus, the kids really had to use their

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imagination to have any fun.

Born out of desperation, they began playing a game called WAR. Jerry’s oldest cousin, Harold Altman, aka Big, basically ran the show, made all the rules and picked all the teams. Jerry called Harold “Big” because he was five years older than he was and twice his size. Harold’s sidekick, Sandy Zlonick, was four See Judy on page 17

As we celebrate Simchat Torah…

NYU play glorifies Palestinian terror

By Rafael Medoff, JNS American Jewish leaders are denouncing plans by a New York University-affiliated theater to host a play that portrays Palestinian terrorists as heroes.

“The Siege,” which opens Thursday night — on Simchat Torah — for 10 performances at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts in Greenwich Village, focuses on the Palestinian terrorists who, in order to avoid capture by the Israeli army, seized Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity in the spring of 2002 and occupied it for 39 days.

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The play was created by the Freedom Theater of Palestine, based in the Palestinian Authority-controlled city of Jenin. Among those promoting it on YouTube is Ibrahim Abayat, one of the leaders of the church occupation. The Israeli government has identified him as the killer of New York City native Avi Boaz, in Bethlehem in early 2002.

The play was first performed overseas, in England, in 2015. The Board of Deputies of British Jews charged that it “promoted terrorism as positive and legitimate,” and the See NYU on page 2

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American Jewish leaders now are similarly alarmed.

“Having witnessed firsthand the ‘siege,’ a blatant terrorist outrage, I am especially outraged at this presentation,” Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman and CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, told JNS. “Diminishing the true nature of this brutal attack serves to whitewash terrorism at a time when this scourge is taking so many lives and threatening so many more.”

Hoenlein visited the scene of the siege at the time, together with WABC radio show host John Batchelor. “We were taken there in an [Israeli] armored vehicle,” Hoenlein recalled. “We saw the terrorists in the church wearing nuns’ habits, marching back and forth with rifles. They terrorized the people in the church.”

In a statement to JNS, the Anti-Defamation League said that “based on past reviews, we believe it presents a one-sided Palestinian view of the events of 2002, [when] Palestinian terrorists targeted Israeli civilians [on] city buses, in cafes, and even during a Passover seder, killing hundreds. We would hope those going to see ‘The Siege’ educate themselves as to the full events of this period and do not accept this representation as the full picture.”

B’nai B’rith International charged that the play “glorifies terrorism and is not appropriate on any stage. … At a time when terrorism has struck in so many places, it is highly irresponsible and reckless for such a public staging to take place.”

Betty Ehrenberg, executive director of the World Jewish Congress for North America, said, “Plays that glorify, whitewash, or garner sympathy for terrorists do a disservice to history and also present a danger, by romanticizing terror and providing the rationale for it.”

“The Talmud teaches, ‘He who is merciful to the cruel is destined to be cruel to the merciful,’” noted Farley Weiss, president of the National Council of Young Israel. “This play is merciful to the cruel terrorists and cruel to their Jewish victims. Nobody should be putting on plays that portray terrorists positively.”

Neither the hosts of the play at NYU, nor their financial backers, are anxious to be seen as endorsing “The Siege.” In a statement to JNS, Jay Wegman, senior director of the NYU Skirball Center, said the play “does not reflect NYU’s ‘position’ on a political controversy; rather, its staging reflects … the University’s commitment to the freedom of artistic expression.” He noted that an Israeli official involved in the Church of the Nativity negotiations will speak at NYU’s Taub Center for Israel Studies later this month.

“In America, you have the right to glorify terrorism, but that doesn’t mean the right should be exercised in every instance, let alone elevated as an art form,” said Amanda Berman, director of legal affairs at The Lawfare Project, a nonprofit legal-focused think tank. “The Skirball Center is magnifying the terrorists’ message, when we should be burying it.”

Another major theater in Manhattan, The Public Theater, last year considered hosting “The Siege” but decided against it. Yet Oskar Eustis, artistic director of The Public Theater, is currently quoted in NYU Skirball’s publicity, calling the play “thoughtful” and “brilliant,” and praising it for showing the terrorists’ “despair and passion, their anger and vulnerability, their arguments and struggle.”

In addition, Eustis will take part in a discussion at NYU Skirball on Oct. 16, together with the cast and playwright Tony Kushner, who has characterized Israel’s creation as “a mistake.”

Several Jewish and Israeli institutions are among the Skirball Center’s past financial supporters, including El Al Airlines, the Consulate General of Israel, and the Judy and Michael Steinhardt Foundation. “I hope they will speak out against Skirball’s decision to host ‘The Siege,’” said Young Israel’s Weiss. “They are uniquely positioned to let the Skirball Center know how they feel about this anti-Israel play.”

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He sources three of the four species that are carried during Sukkot: the etrog, the lulav, and leaves from the myrtle tree. The fourth, willow, grows in Japan naturally, including in a plot just outside Ohel Shelomoh.

The synagogue was renovated and rebuilt in 1970 atop the storage basement where the first Jewish settlers from Eastern Europe used to pray when they arrived in Kobe in the early 1900s. It has local and Jewish decorations, including a wall-to-wall gray carpet for walking shoeless, wood lattice in Japan’s signature shoji style, and the flags of Japan and Israel on

either side of the Torah ark.

Japan’s Jewish community of 1,000 people is a diverse group of expats – Israelis, Americans and French make up a sizable portion — with active congregations in Tokyo, Kyoto and Kobe. They all have trouble obtaining permits to bring kosher food and organic material to the island nation because of its strict limits on importing plants and animals, as well as quarantine requirements that are designed to limit the spread of invasive species and diseases.

But in addition to encouraging some Jews to smuggle in literally forbidden fruit and forcing some observant Jews into a vegetarian lifestyle, the obstacles are also creating interdenominational cooperation between Conservative and Orthodox communities that rarely

occurs elsewhere. Shortages in the four species mean that in Japan, the Conservative Jewish community in Tokyo — an affluent group of 110 families that includes many executives from English-speaking countries — get their Sukkot kit from Tokyo’s Rabbi Binyomin Edery of Chabad. And they buy kosher meat in consortium together with the Chabad’s chief emissary to Japan, Rabbi Mendi Sudakevich.

“The Jewish population here is so small that we have to put aside our divisions,” said Kobe’s rabbi, Shmuel Vishedsky, another Chabad emissary and father of four whose congregation comprises 100 members, including non-Jewish spouses. Rabbi Vishedsky welcomes the non-Jews in a manner that is rare in Chabad communities and more customary in Reform ones. In another liberal-like departure, he also allows women, Jewish or otherwise, to sit in the men’s section.

“What matters here in Japan and in life generally is to treat everyone with respect,” Rabbi Vishedsky said. “So that’s what we do.”

Moshe Gino, a member of the Kobe Jewish community who grew up in Israel, attends Rabbi Vishedsky’s synagogue with his Japanese-born wife, Hanna, and their twin 8-yearold daughters.

“It was important to me she convert, and then it became important to her,” Gino said.

The girls were born after her conversion.

Others, including Lior Pasternak, 36, who also has two children with his Japanese wife, come alone to shul. He arrived in Japan in the 2000s, during his post-Israeli army travels.

“This is the profile of most of the members of this community,” Rabbi Vishedsky said about the Kobe congregation. “By contrast, in Tokyo you will see more American expats with high-power jobs.”

On Simchat Torah, Rabbi Vishedsky throws open the doors of his synagogue, sets up a wet bar inside and hosts an alcohol-soaked feast that lasts well into the morning.

“You’ll find people sleeping it off as late as 10 am either in synagogue” or on the building’s large terrace, where Rabbi Vishedsky and his wife, Batya, each year erect a large sukkah that is open to all. This welcoming attitude is helping to draw in locals interested in converting, including Igor Iha, a neuroscience student at Kobe University who was born in Brazil to a family of Japanese descent and came to Japan four years ago.

“I looked into Christianity and Islam; it didn’t make sense,” he said. “But everything about Judaism felt right.”

Near the end of Yom Kippur, a visibly tired and thirsty Rabbi Vishedsky welcomed into the synagogue a group of 30 university students who came on a tour as part of their intercultural studies. Slightly afraid to offend, they asked about the religious objects around them and wanted to see a copy of the Talmud, a central Jewish text that commands great respect in the Far East.

After they left, Rabbi Vishedsky watched with an amused expression as the smuggler boasted to a journalist and other congregants about his exploits.

“The trick is to mix the forbidden materials with innocuous stuff,” the smuggler explained.

“I like to stuff the four species into a bag full See Japan on page 24

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But unlike other smugglers, the one from Kobe, who spoke to JTA last month on condition of anonymity, carries no cash, drugs or any of the contraband favored by his counterparts. Instead, he brings in kosher meat and, ahead of Sukkot, three of the four species.

“I don’t want to do it, but it’s the only way to make sure we have these items,” said the smuggler, a tall man in his 50s.

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In June, Trump signed a waiver delaying the implementation of the Jerusalem Embassy Act passed by Congress in 1995, which mandates the move of the embassy to Jerusalem.

The waiver can be signed every six months and has been signed by every president since the law was passed. It will come up again in January 2018.

Trump also said during the interview of the yet unannounced peace plan that his administration is “working on a plan that everybody says will never work, because for many, many years it never worked — they say it’s the toughest deal of all, peace between Israel and the Palestinians, so we’re going to work on that, and if that doesn’t work, which is pos-

sible, to be totally honest — some people say it’s impossible, but I don’t think it’s impossible, and I think that’s something that can happen, and I don’t want to make any predictions.”

Trump has called making peace between Israel and the Palestinians the “ultimate deal.”

During the interview with Huckabee, Trump also called the Iran nuclear deal “terrible” but did not say whether or not he would pull the United States out of the agreement.

“I can tell you I’m very unhappy with the deal. The spirit is not there,” he said.

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JTA President Trump now says he will not move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem until after his administration’s not-yet-public peace plan has a chance to be implemented.

Trump appeared on a talk show on the Christian Trinity Broadcast Network Saturday hosted by former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.

Trump said during the interview that a decision on moving the embassy would be made “in the not too distant future.” He added that it would not be implemented before the peace proposal was given a chance to succeed.

“I want to give that a shot before I even think about moving the embassy to Jerusalem,” Trump told Huckabee.

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By Ariel Ben Solomon, JNS In the predominantly Muslim Middle East, a sure way to rally opposition to any concept is to tie it to Israel.

Regional players such as Turkey, Iran and the Iranian terror proxy Hezbollah have done just that with Lebanon-based Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, saying that the Sept. 25 Kurdish independence vote was part of a U.S.-Israel plot to divide the region.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan alleged that the fact that Israeli flags were waved during celebrations for the “yes” vote for independence proved Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency was involved.

“This shows one thing, that this administration [in northern Iraq] has a history with Mossad, they are hand-in-hand together,” Erdogan said.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu denied these allegations during a cabinet meeting Oct. 1. Israel has been the only country to officially back the Kurds’ bid for independence.

“Few dispute the Kurds have a moral case for statehood. The problem has always been precedent, which is why its neighbors will seek to nip it in the bud,” Michael Rubin, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a former Pentagon official, told JNS. “Almost every regional country has their equivalent of the Kurds: Berbers in Algeria, South Yemenis and Saudi Arabia’s Shi’ite Eastern Province,” he said.

“The Middle East goes according to the rules of the marketplace—bargaining for a deal,” said Dr. Mordechai Zaken, an expert on the Kurds and head of minority affairs at Israel’s Ministry of Public Security. He is author of the book, “Jewish Subjects and Their Tribal Chieftains in Kurdistan: A Study in Survival.”

He added that this “bargaining” process usually includes threats, intimidation and exaggeration, but rarely any action.

Zaken, who served as Netanyahu’s adviser on Arab affairs during the latter’s first term as prime minister from 1996 to 1999, dismissed Turkish and Iranian rhetoric trying to tie the Kurds to Israel.

“The Kurd national issue started long before it had any connection to Israel and before the establishment of the Jewish state,” said Zaken, explaining that the Kurds were promised autonomy in the Treaty of Sèvres of 1920, which broke up the Ottoman Empire. But Turkey opposed and prevented the implementation of the accord.

Zaken said, “In 100 years nothing has changed,” while the difference today is that Turkey and Iran “are using Israel’s support for the Kurds and exaggerating its role, but the truth is that it has little do with recent developments in Iraqi Kurdistan.”

Asked about Palestinian opposition to Kurdish independence, Zaken replied, “Not only do the Palestinians oppose Kurdish national aspirations, but [so does] the entire Arab nation.”

Addressing the irony in the Palestinian position, the American Enterprise Institute’s Rubin remarked, “Such blind adherence to Arab unity undermines every argument Palestinians make for their own independence.”

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Why Orthodox are flocking to gritty English town

By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA GATESHEAD, England — It’s lunchtime, and as they wait for their sandwiches at a kosher deli, five young haredi Orthodox men have a lively discussion in Yiddish about Jewish texts.

Such a scene may be mundane in Jerusalem or New York, or even Antwerp or London. But it’s not a sight that many outside Britain would associate with Gateshead, a gritty miners’ town in northern England — a region that has seen its once large Jewish communities decline dramatically in recent decades.

Yet due to a unique set of circumstances Gateshead, which sits directly across the River Tyne from the city of Newcastle, has become home to the United Kingdom’s fastest-growing Jewish community.

A tight-knit congregation of 8,000 haredi residents now calls Gateshead home, and its size is not its only unusual aspect: The Jewish community here also has an unusual marriage of intellectualism with insularity and suspicion of foreign cultural influences.

To Jonathan Arkush, the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Gateshead has become “the haredi equivalent of Oxford: a unique university town for the very devout and a citadel of Orthodox intellectualism.”

The most prestigious institution of education in town is the Gateshead Yeshiva, a seminary founded 88 years ago with a student body now of 300 aged roughly 15 to 23. The teens and young men study 12 hours a day and live in dormitory rooms inhabited by three to four students.

The Gateshead Yeshiva’s reputation opened the door to at least five other yeshivas that are widely regarded as excellent. This, in turn, created the nucleus of a community of teachers who live here permanently. And that has helped make Gateshead into a major hub of intellectual activity in the haredi world, alongside the town’s seven Jewish bookstores. (The biggest, Lehmanns, is a well-known communal institution with 40,000 volumes in stock.)

Several students told JTA that graduating from the Gateshead Yeshiva will improve not only their knowledge of the Talmud but their prospects of finding a quality shidduch.

“A girl who wants someone who’s well-developed in his learning, a very, very good student, well, if you went here and did well here, the better girl you’ll get,” said Yishai Rose, 20, of London.

This wasn’t always the case, according to Joseph Schleider, a former leader of the Gateshead Jewish community and a historian who has studied the local Jewish community since its establishment in the 19th century by Jews fleeing persecution in czarist Russia.

A view of Gateshead, England.

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“In Lithuania, nobody wanted to marry a rabbi. It meant poverty” to women who were not brought up inside the haredi education system, Schleider said.

But in Gateshead, this began to change in the 1940s, when a seminary for women and girls opened. That provided “a nucleus of 400 girls who want only someone with rabbinical status,” he said.

This was “a very powerful development that changed the face of the Gateshead Jewish community more than anything else,” and it laid the foundation for the community’s current “renaissance,” as Schleider called it. Another seminary for women opened in 1998.

Still, Gateshead had a far smaller Jewish community less than a decade ago, when there was one small kosher bake shop and little spiritual activity outside its main synagogue, which is located behind the yeshiva. It did not have the amenities to pull in young couples or retain yeshiva graduates wanting to start a family.

Those started popping up in Gateshead shortly after the arrival in 2008 of its current chief rabbi, the New Jersey-born Rabbi Shraga Feivel Zimmerman. He’s known here simply as “the Rov,” a Yiddish pronunciation of the word rabbi.

“Before the Rov, things had been the same for many, many years,” said Shimon Guttentag, a senior administrator at the yeshiva, adding that the change has improved the quality “tremendously.”

Schleider said that Rabbi Zimmerman — who declined to be interviewed by JTA, citing a busy schedule — opened up the com-

munity, which Schleider said was more averse than it is now to interacting with the outside.

Schleider said the insularity changed somewhat under Rabbi Zimmerman’s leadership, as he “decided he’s not going to be buried in the synagogue but be a communitywide rabbi.”

One of Rabbi Zimmerman’s reforms was to allow the opening of Gateshead’s first kosher restaurant, Blooms, a takeout place. Previous rabbis had opposed the opening of such a shop to avoid unsupervised interaction between the sexes. But Rabbi Zimmerman approved it on condition that men and women be served at separate hours.

More critically, Rabbi Zimmerman led a massive investment in education for small children with the help of donors from outside Gateshead, transforming the town into an attractive option for large families. He also created couples counseling and other social services programs especially suited to haredi recipients. And under his leadership, communal representatives began to liaise more closely with municipal officials, locals say.

Yet this relative openness notwithstanding, the Gateshead Jewish community and its leader remain ultra-conservative, to the right of the majority of British Jews. The community shuns most media and cultural influences that are deemed foreign and morally corrupting. In June, Rabbi Zimmerman called for the removal or resignation of another Orthodox rabbi from London, Joseph Dweck, over Rabbi Dweck’s assertion that the growing acceptance of homosexuality in society was a “fantastic” development for humanity.

For many haredim, Gateshead’s appeal is an economic one: With housing becoming unaffordable in London, many religious Jews are looking northward for solutions. In recent years, some have moved to Manchester, the only other city in England that has seen its Jewish community grow. But now, “even prices in Manchester are rising,” leading many haredim to consider Gateshead, said Guttentag, a father of 11 whose family was among the first to settle in the town.

Gateshead is also one of the few places in Britain with a large Jewish community where anti-Semitism is not a primary concern.

The yeshiva doesn’t have any guards or even a perimeter fence.

“We are mindful of the situation today but thankfully, we’ve not had serious incident and it’s not a major problem affecting us,” said Rabbi Gershon Miller, a senior educator at the yeshiva.

Schleider said that part of this reality is the relative scarceness of “ethnic populations” — a reference to Muslims. According to a recent poll, Muslims in the United Kingdom are significantly more anti-Semitic than the general population.

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Poland’s revival marred by community infighting

By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA For close to 30 years, leaders of Polish Jewry have been celebrating what they call the revival of their once-great community from near annihilation during the Holocaust.

On occasions like the opening of Jewish kindergartens and other communal institutions, often held up as the first since the genocide, activists note milestones, contrasting them with the preceding devastation, communist-era oppression or worrisome developments elsewhere in Europe.

“As Europe is becoming more difficult to be Jewish [in], Poland is going in the other direction,” one key promoter of Jewish life in Poland, Jonathan Ornstein of the Krakow Jewish Community Center, recently said in an interview. He invited readers to “see this amazing rebirth of Jewish life.”

Poland, Ornstein noted, has small but growing Jewish communities in 15 cities and dozens of Jewish cultural festivals annually.

Others waxed lyrical about local expressions of philo-Semitism, like an odd but well-meaning mock Jewish wedding that took place last month in Radzanow — few of the guests were actually Jewish.

“It’s amazing that this heritage created by 3.5 million murdered Jews is still relevant today,” Jonny Daniels, founder of the From the Depths group for Holocaust commemoration in Poland, said of the wedding.

But in recent weeks, this narrative has given way to warnings by communal leaders of resurgent and potentially violent anti-Semitism that they say is being tolerated, if not encouraged, by the nationalist government since it came to power in 2015.

In turn, other Polish Jews have dismissed these warnings as exaggerated and a partisan attempt to hurt the government.

The split within the community, observers

rejected both the claims of rising anti-Semitism in Poland and of government complacency toward it.

To Hofman, the letter by Chipczynska is part of a “political war” by some left-wing Polish Jews against the ruling party, he said.

Bitter disputes among Jewish organizations are not uncommon in former communist countries, where personal and ideological rivalries are often exacerbated by the competition for government subsidies and restitution funds. The rise of nationalism in Hungary, Russia, Lithuania and Ukraine has fueled similar feuds where politics complicate the fight against anti-Semitism.

But Poland’s Jewish community had managed to avoid such splintering — at least publicly — until earlier this year, according to Piotr Kadlcik, the previous president of the federation of Polish Jewish communities.

“It’s sad to watch,” he said.

The split was on display on Aug. 17 when Hofman, Daniels and two Chabad rabbis met with Kaczyński, the ruling party official. Kaczyński has so far snubbed requests by other community leaders to meet. But he posed for a photo with Hofman’s group two weeks after receiving the accusatory letter co-authored by Chipczynska. After the meeting, which Hofman said was pleasant and earnest, Hofman defended the government and dismissed the allegations raised by Chipczynska.

“What anti-Semitism, what on Earth are they talking about?” he demanded. “In this country, I can walk around with a kippah anywhere I like, unlike in Berlin, Paris, Brussels. I go to Jewish cultural festivals in the middle of the street with no security. In France you would need an army battalion to give security.”

Chipczynska rejected any partisan motives in penning the letter and cited figures suggesting that hate speech and hate crime are on the rise in Poland.

The 27th Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, Poland, held in July, is a sign of renewed interest in Jewish Krakow Jewish Culture Festival life 70 years after the Holocaust.

say, leaves it open to government divide-andrule tactics.

Those insisting that the ruling Law and Justice party is not doing enough to address a rise in anti-Semitism include the head of the Warsaw community, Anna Chipczynska; the president of the Union of Jewish Communities in Poland, Leslaw Piszewski; and the European Jewish Congress.

Recent incidents include a statement by lawmaker Bogdan Rzonca of Law and Justice, an anti-immigration party, who wrote on Twitter, “I wonder why there are so many Jews among those performing abortions, despite the Holocaust.”

Two assaults by soccer hooligans on Israeli fans in Poland were also deemed anti-Semitic.

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Last week, the European Jewish Congress escalated the rhetoric even further, expressing “grave concern over the dramatic rise in antiSemitism in Poland.”

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By Ben Sales, JTA CHICAGO — Three days after a gunman killed 58 people in Las Vegas, a post in a Facebook group for Chicago Jews displayed a blurry photo of survivors fleeing the bullets. Next to it was a flier advertising ChiDefense Firearm Training with a Hebrew phrase underneath denoting that the company is closed for Shabbat.

The post got a few “likes” — and plenty of hate. One commenter called it “vile and distasteful.” Another wrote sarcastically that it displayed “impeccable logic.”

The man behind the ad, Jonathan Burstyn, an Orthodox gun safety instructor, apologized for any offense he caused but said that more than ever, Jews need to get armed.

“How many threats have there been on JCCs?” said Burstyn, 27, referring to the waves of bomb threats against Jewish community centers and day schools this year. “Is there ever an attack at an NRA convention or at a police station or at a gun store? No, because everyone’s heavily armed at these places.”

Burstyn, who goes by “Yoni,” grew up in this city’s Orthodox Jewish community and now trains members there to own, carry and fire guns.

He became a certified firearms safety instructor in January and has since tutored 50 people — most of them Jewish men — to carry concealed weapons. His trainees, he says, include a former Israeli soldier and an ex-KGB officer.

Burstyn’s love of guns is unshaken by the shooting in Las Vegas, where the shooter stockpiled 23 firearms, as well as any of the other many mass shootings in the United States. He is fluent in National Rifle Association talking points — from the “good guy with a gun” theory to a focus on Chicago, where strict weapons control has failed to stem a high homicide rate.

His gun advocacy also comes with a Jewish twist: Burstyn says the Second Amendment should be just as sacrosanct to Americans as Jewish law is to Orthodox Jews. In Burstyn’s reading, the Constitution is the American Torah and NRA President Wayne LaPierre is defender of the faith.

“The Torah is a timeless message,” Burstyn said. “Our founders who started this country knew better and entrusted us with this, just like Hashem entrusted us with the Torah — not to compare the two. Just like Orthodox Jews, we don’t reform the Torah. Wayne LaPierre is expressing faith in the Constitution.”

The son of a volunteer policeman, Burstyn

grew up around guns and shot his first rifle at age 6 — “a very invigorating experience,” he recalls. He lost interest in shooting until Illinois allowed concealed firearm carry in 2013. Burstyn obtained his license and began offering classes on Sundays. During the week he works at a nursing home, and on Saturdays he provides security for his synagogue.

Last week, standing at a shooting range in a baseball cap, protective glasses and earplugs, Burstyn fired his favorite everyday handgun — the Smith and Wesson M&P Shield — into the silhouette of a human body. His shots all landed within the target on the silhouette’s chest. The sound of bullets popped from the booths next door.

Burstyn believes gun ownership should come with rigorous training and safety. He says only well-balanced people should own guns, and his training course lasts 16 hours. It covers everything from how to breathe while shooting — inhale, shoot, exhale — to the laws concerning concealed carry and how to travel with a gun.

“When you’re carrying a gun, you’re a totally different person,” he said, describing the preferred temperament for gun owners. “There’s no such thing as road rage. There’s no such thing as getting upset. Your mind is calm. You’re steeled, you’re smooth. The best safety on a gun is the one between your ears — your mindset.

Burstyn is not alone among Jewish gun advocates. There’s a group for them called Jews For The Preservation of Firearms Ownership. The Golani Rifle & Pistol Club serves observant Jews in the New York-New Jersey area. And Richard Feldman, a former NRA lobbyist, is now the head of the Independent Firearm Owners Association, which supports gun rights.

“I think it’s only incumbent on the Jewish people who believe in the slogan ‘Never again’,” Feldman told JTA regarding gun ownership. “Just because it hasn’t happened here doesn’t mean it couldn’t happen here. I’m not saying it’s going to happen soon, but once you give up your right to protect yourself, you don’t get it back very easily.”

Burstyn’s gun advocacy does have limits. He supports, for example, a ban on automatic weapons. But while he knows a gun owner probably couldn’t have stopped the Las Vegas shooting, the tragedy only strengthened his resolve to remain armed.

“Shabbat, Yom Kippur, I always carry,” he said. “Of course you want to carry a gun all the time.”

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Cybertech a key to Frank, Wallenberg mysteries

By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA After 70 years of studying the Holocaust, historians still don’t know the exact circumstances of the tragic fate that befell two of the best-known victims of the Holocaust era: Anne Frank and Raoul Wallenberg.

Frank, the teenager whose journal of her days in hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam has sensitized millions to the suffering of 6 million victims, died in 1945 in Bergen-Belsen after the Nazis caught her. But nobody knows who, if anyone, betrayed her and her family to the Nazis.

Meanwhile, Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved countless Hungarian Jews by issuing them visas to Sweden, disappeared without a trace in the 1940s. Subsequent evidence emerged proving that the Soviet Union lied when it said he had died in 1947 in one of its prisons.

These mysteries separately have caught the eye of two American experts who both believe they can use the power of computation to make progress in the cold cases.

On the Frank case is a retired FBI agent, Vince Pankoke, who last week told the Volkskrant daily in the Netherlands that he has assembled a team of more than a dozen forensics and computer experts. They will use their expertise to scan archives with greater efficiency and speed than ever possible using orthodox methods of historical research.

And on Wallenberg’s trail is a mathematician from Baltimore, Ari Kaplan, whose specialty is to quantify baseball players’ performances to identify patterns over time, which can then be translated into effective strategies.

In both cases, any success will beat the odds.

Dutch police launched two thorough investigations to discover whether Frank was betrayed and if so by whom. The first in 1948 was unsuccessful; one mounted in 1963 was to no avail.

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“There is so much information available these days, from archives, old studies,” said Pankoke, 59. “For individual people it is impossible to overview in its entirety, but with the right software it’s achievable. That way you can connect the dots through analysis.”

Analysis is also the name of the game for Kaplan, the baseball fan and math whiz looking into the Wallenberg case.

His algorithms helped pinpoint Wallenberg’s exact cell in Lubyanka prison, according to Marvin Makinen, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Chicago who says he heard from inmates who saw Wallenberg alive long after the bogus death announcement.

The algorithm helped Kaplan and Makinen put together a complex database analysis of the cell occupancy at the prison from 1947 to 1972 based on partial Russian prison records.

In the analysis, Kaplan and Makinen show that some rooms in the overpopulated prison had remained empty — on paper, at least — for more than nine consecutive months at a time.

To Makinen, this suggested a prisoner or prisoners had been kept there but were not listed on the registry. He and Kaplan believe Wallenberg was kept in the cell listed as empty.

Moscow denied their request for more prison records, Makinen said.

Last year, Makinen and Kaplan visited Moscow to present officials with a 57-page report requesting specific documents, ranging from the Soviets’ wartime intelligence files on Wallenberg to papers dealing with the return in 1999 of Wallenberg’s personal items, Tablet reported this week in an interview with Kaplan.

The research suggests that receiving “just a handful” of the documents from the Russian state archives “would have solved the case or at least shed light,” Kaplan told Tablet.

Despite the impasse they have reached, Kaplan and Makinen may be on firmer ground than Pankoke. After all, they know the Russians took Wallenberg, whereas Pankoke may be barking up the wrong tree altogether, according to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.

Last year that institution, which runs the Anne Frank museum at the Amsterdam address where she hid before her capture and murder, published a report suggesting that Anne Frank and her family were never betrayed, but were caught by chance in a German raid aimed at suspected counterfeiters of food stamps.

The issue is controversial in the Netherlands.

For decades, the absence of a traitor in Anne Frank’s story has helped it become a tale celebrating the heroism of resistance activists who helped the family hide from the Nazis. But the discovery of a traitor could change the story dramatically, giving a face and a name to the massive collaboration that went on in the Netherlands during the Nazi occupation — a key reason for the murder of 75 percent of Dutch Jewry, which is the highest per capita death rate in occupied Western Europe.

Thijs Bayens and Pieter Van Twisk, respectively a filmmaker and journalist from the Netherlands, recruited Pankoke and initiated his investigation. They are working with Xomnia, an Amsterdam-based company specializing in processing and analyzing large amounts of information, to bring closure to her story, they said. The group, which has more than a dozen investigators, is documenting its efforts on a website called coldcasediary.com.

“The amount of data is overwhelming,” Bayens told The Guardian. “It is at least 20 to 25 kilometers of files at this moment and we have just started. To try and make all this data relevant is quite complex, so we started to work on artificial intelligence algorithms to rule the data, as they say.”

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“It just shows that it’s such an important thing that Christians also want it,” Kugel said.

“Jews don’t try to convince non-Jews by copying their religious customs, to try to bring them into our religion. We have so much belief in our own religion, we have no reason to copy others.”

Goode, however, doesn’t see her Doorpost Blessings as copies. She prefers to see the commonalities between Christians and Jews — after all, both faiths revere the same holy book.

“We Christians celebrate quite a few holidays that the Jewish people celebrate,” she said. “We do have similar history in that we both acknowledge the Old Testament.”

THE JEWISH STAR October 13, 2017 • 23 Tishrei 5778

By Ben Sales, JTA It’s affixed upon the doorpost. It’s wooden, thin and rectangular, but with rounded corners. It’s meant to fulfill a biblical commandment. And it bears a verse from the Gospel of John about the resurrection of Jesus.

That’s right: It’s a Christian mezuzah.

Karen Goode calls her creation the Doorpost Blessing, and it looks nearly identical to the small, oblong case that has adorned the doorways of Jewish homes for millennia. Both Goode’s creations and traditional Jewish mezuzahs are based on the same scriptural passage in Deuteronomy that commands Jews to inscribe the words of the Torah “on the doorposts of your house.” Jews recite the passage twice a day with the Shema.

Except, instead of placing parchment bearing two paragraphs of Torah verses inside the mezuzah, as Jews do, Goode engraves a verse on the outside of the Doorpost Blessing, either from the Old or New Testament. She also offers Doorpost Blessings bearing lines from Christian hymns. Altogether, Goode sells 25 varieties, in English and Spanish.

“I’m following what the Bible says,” Goode told JTA. “I’m taking it to modern-day standards. I’m reminding us of our blessings.”

Goode, who lives on Staten Island and works at a hospital, launched Doorpost Blessings as part of her interest in carpentry. She came upon the concept in 2014, and began making and selling Doorpost Blessings in their current form this year. She said the most popular ones bear Old Testament verses both from the books of Jeremiah and Joshua.

“I was looking for something that would speak of my faith and also carpentry,” she said. Goode is Christian but did not elaborate on which denomination.

Goode isn’t the first person to market mezuzahs to Christians. In 2014, a financial adviser in New York, Henry Zabarsky, created the Christoozah, a hollow red cross containing scripture on a parchment meant to be affixed to a doorpost. But Zabarsky, who is Jewish, told JTA that he is no longer involved with the Christoozah company.

Nor is Goode the only Christian to take on a Jewish practice in the name of fulfilling Old Testament dictates. Some evangelical Christians wear ritual fringes or kippahs, and some hold Passover seders — something Goode says she has done in the past.But unlike Christoozah, Goode does not credit Jews — and specifically the practice of hanging mezuzahs — with inspiring the product she sells. There is no mention of Judaism or mezuzahs on the Doorpost Blessing website, though Goode told JTA she finds the Jewish mezuzah “a beautiful item.”

“I’m not referring to a mezuzah,” she said of her creations. “I’m doing what the commandment says. I’m doing it from a Christian perspective, not a Jewish perspective. I would see similarity in that there’s a blessing hung around the door frame, but other than that I credit the Bible.”

Mendel Kugel, a Manhattan rabbi who runs MezuzahMe, a service for selling and examining mezuzahs, says Goode’s project is a testament to the mezuzah’s resonance as a ritual item. But he worries that the presence

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In Israel, scary clowns are no laughing matter

By Andrew Tobin, JTA TEL AVIV — Israelis aren’t particularly amused by teenagers dressing as clowns and lurking after dark. In fact, the costumed young people have caused a nationwide panic.

Since just before Sukkot, dozens of teens have been rounded up for scaring passersby in parks and other public places at night. The incidents happened in communities as far flung as Afula in the north to Beersheba in the south.

The phenomenon, reminiscent of the “killer clown” craze that swept the United States last year, has been widely attributed to the popularity of the recently released horror movie “It,” which is based on a Stephen King novel and features a murderous clown.

In a Facebook post, police confirmed that they had detained “many youths who had frightened civilians throughout the country.”

In the central Israeli city of Rishon Lezion, four 16-year-old boys were arrested for wearing clown masks to frighten visitors to a local park.

Last week, police detained an 18-year-old man in central Ramle and four children younger than 12 in the Negev town of Dimona for similar acts.

While some of the detained were released after apologizing for clowning around, a number of incidents reportedly have resulted in injuries. According to a television report on Israel’s Channel 10, two young men dressed as clowns pepper-sprayed a 10-year-old girl in Beersheba, while a 17-year-old male in the West Bank was lightly wounded when he fell while chasing a clown with a knife.

Israelis, of course, tend to be well-armed and are generally attuned to the threat of terrorism.

Mix that with a ubiquitous rumor of scary clowns and it’s a potentially dangerous dynamic.

Case in point: A Dimona resident expressed relief to Channel that he did not shoot someone dressed as a clown who startled him.

Young Israelis dressed as clowns are wreaking a bit of havoc across the country.

“As I was walking down the street on my way home in the middle of the night, someone jumped behind me with a clown costume and yelled at me — luckily I didn’t have a heart attack,” he said. “I had a pistol. Luckily I didn’t shoot him by mistake. This is really not funny.”

Indeed, both local and national officials are not treating the clown phenomenon as a laughing matter.

In their Facebook post, Israel Police vowed that “illegal” clown impersonators would continue to face “strict and uncompromising police enforcement.” At the same time, they urged the public “not to take the law into its hands and not to harm the youths,” most of whom have not caused any harm to people or property.

The police described the scary clowns as part of an “international trend that has gathered momentum on social media.”

across the country. A video of a clown who appears to be holding a knife in Beersheba is making the rounds on Israeli social media.

In response to what it said were reports by students of scary clowns “lying in wait for civilians and children,” the Education Ministry issued guidelines for handling the threats, including advising parents to “promote awareness of the issue” and report encounters to the police.

For educators, the ministry advised, “It is important to emphasize and take into account the age of the students. The conversations must be adapted to their developmental stage, and shouldn’t frighten but rather convey soothing messages and increase their sense of security.”

Meanwhile, many professional clowns in Israel are worried that their image is being tarnished by the impostors.

Itzik Ozeri has performed for decades as Itzik the Clown in the local media, at parties and at Schneider Children’s Medical Center in Petach Tikvah.

“Everybody is afraid now that our jobs will go down,” he told JTA. Safety is also a concern, he added. Ozeri said he was nearly assaulted — he was parked outside a gig in Beersheba when a group of teenage boys walked by and, seeing him in costume, one shouted, “It’s the killer clown!”

The boys picked up stones to attack him, Ozeri said, but were stopped by a group of peers who explained, “This is Itzik the Clown.

He’s a good clown.”

Ozeri said he understood the fear. Even his 25-year-old daughter, who grew up with a clown for a father, is afraid a clown will jump out at her on the streets at night.

Still, Ozeri said he has faith that this phenomenon — like so many others — will pass.

“I believe in G-d, I believe everything will be OK,” he said. “Just like this came, it will very soon pass.”

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The United States over the decades has seen various waves of hysteria over scary clowns. Last summer, hundreds of sightings were reported across the country. Many were hoaxes, but some led to arrests. In October, the White House even weighed in, with then-press secretary Josh Earnest saying, “Obviously, this is a situation that law enforcement is taking quite seriously.”

The sightings quickly spread to countries around the world. But Israel Police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld told JTA that this was the first time the phenomenon had come to Israel in a serious way.

“We’ve seen a case here or there over the years, but nothing on this kind of major or national level,” he said.

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Remember when appetizers made the dinner…

Joni Schockett kosher kitchen Continued from page 1 not coffee, and lots of water flavored with slices of orange, lemon and lime. Everyone felt good, ate well and then, in typical Jewishmother- guilt fashion, I promised a full blown appetizer meal in the near future.

That “appetizer” meal hearkens back to the beginnings of the 20th century when stores such as Russ and Daughters in New York and the G&G on Blue Hill Avenue in Boston sold hand-sliced lox, kippered herrings, sable, whitefish salad and so much more. Bagels, a mainstay of Jewish culinary habits, had come from the old country in the late 1800s and cream cheese added to the mix of foods.

Blintzes and sweet, cream-cheesy kugels also adorned tables on “appetizer” night meals.

By the time the Jews had migrated to the suburbs, the appetizing store became a distant destination, a place to visit for holidays and special events. And all too soon, it was but a memory of delicacies that would never again be had in quite the same way.

Machine cut, pre-packaged lox replaced the paper-thin slices cut by the talented people who had learned the art of wielding a long, razor sharp knife to produce those delicate slices. Whole white fish and kippered herrings and sable and more were harder to find in the untamed suburban lands until there was a critical mass of Jews, hungry for appetizers, in numbers large enough to support a kosher deli here and there.

When women went back to work, Sunday night meals became light, leftover fare.

The elaborate dairy meals with all kinds of smoked fish unwrapped from layers of thin, glass like paper and then waxed paper and finally white paper taped with the weight

and price stickers, became infrequent Sunday brunches, a time when more people could gather and eat a leisurely meal.

So I promised them a special meal, an “appetizer” meal as my grandparents called it. I will fulfill that promise and remember those Sunday nights in my house and my grandparent’s homes.

Smoked Salmon Bisque (Dairy)

1/2 stick butter 1 cup chopped leeks, white part and light green only 1 large onion, peeled and chopped 2 celery stalks, chopped 1 carrot, peeled and chopped 1 sprig thyme (optional) 2 to 4 ounces smoked salmon, to taste 3 cups water 1-1/2 pounds salmon filet, skinned, cut into large pieces 1/2 cup cream sherry or Marsala 1/4 tsp. saffron threads 3 ounces tomato paste *2 cups heavy cream *2 cups whole milk 2 tbsp. cornstarch 2 tsp. water Kosher salt to taste 1 tsp. to 1 tbsp. freshly ground black pepper, to taste Fresh parsley, leaves only *You can use up to 4 cups of cream, medium or even half and half. The more cream, the rich-

Matzah ball and pho...

Continued from page 1 food. I am not trying to provoke traditionalists, but I do believe that learning from other strong culinary traditions can enrich our own.

In that spirit, I started experimenting with homemade pho. It was a revelation to learn that the broth is made by charring onions and ginger before adding them to the stock, the depth of the broth’s flavor transformed by their smoky sweetness.

After making pho a few times, it occurred to me that the broth would go well with dumplings. Matzah balls are dumplings by definition. What would happen if they showed up? Why not combine my two favorite soups?

The outcome: Matzah ball pho is a highly compatible marriage of comfort food meeting comfort food.

Like traditional matzah ball soup, this dish is nourishing, filling and warming; but its flavors are also complex and unexpected together. The matzah balls are nutty and hearty, in contrast to the simple rice noodles one usually finds in pho. The broth has the spice of ginger, and sweetness of cinnamon and anise — nothing like classic matzah ball chicken broth.

Like any other pho, matzah ball pho can be served as a complete meal in and of itself, which makes the labor of this dish a little more worthwhile. There are enough toppings and additions to make this satisfying to eat,

especially served with a side of toasted challah or crusty bread. For all these reasons, this has quickly become a new classic in my home.

Note about the recipe: Traditional Pho Ga calls for fish sauce in the broth for extra umami flavor. Our recipe substitutes tamari for the fish sauce.

Ingredients: For the broth: 2 medium unpeeled yellow onions, halved 1 large 4- to 5-inch piece of ginger, cut in half lengthwise 5 quarts cold water 1 4- to 5-pound chicken, cut into parts 1/2 pound chicken wings 2 teaspoons kosher salt, or to taste 1 tablespoon rock sugar or Turbinado

er the bisque. I use all half and half, but heavy cream makes for a decadent and rich, once-ayear delight.

Heat a large stockpot and add the butter.

When melted, add the leeks and onions and stir to coat. Simmer until completely softened and lightly golden, adding a bit of canola oil, if needed. Add the celery and carrot and sauté until softened. Add the thyme, if using. Add the smoked salmon and cook until opaque.

Add the water and bring to a boil. Simmer for 10 minutes.

Add the salmon and simmer until the salmon is cooked through, about 10-15 minutes.

Remove the salmon with a slotted spoon and place in a large bowl.

Use an immersion blended and blend the vegetables until smooth. Add the tomato paste and the cream sherry and use the immersion blender again until smooth.

Add the saffron and mix well.

Reduce the heat and add the cream and milk.

Whisk to blend and bring to a very low simmer.

Whisk the cornstarch with 2 teaspoons of water and whisk into the bisque. Simmer on low heat for 15 minutes, whisking often to keep smooth.

Break up the salmon into bite-sized pieces, add to the soup and season with the pepper and salt, to taste.

Garnish with fresh parsley. Makes about 7 cups.

My mother used to make a version of this that required draining the cream cheese in a cheesecloth over a bowl overnight. This is easier and much more delicious.

1 pound brick style cream cheese 1 cup thinly sliced scallions or chives 1/4 to 1/2 cup finely diced purple onion 1/4 to 1/2 cup finely diced carrots 1/4 to 1/2 cup finely diced celery 1/4 to 1/2 cup finely chopped cucumber, seeds removed 1/4 cup finely diced radishes 1 tsp to 1 tbsp. finely minced garlic 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp. black pepper Soften the cream cheese and place in a large bowl. Add the vegetables and mix well using a large fork or spoon.Scrape into a serving bowl and serve immediately or cover and refrigerate until needed. Garnish with pieces of the veggies in the spread and some parsley.

Makes enough for a crowd.

Sour Cream Coffee Cake with Apricots and Prunes (Dairy)

Veggie Cream Cheese Spread

(raw) sugar 1 cinnamon stick 2 star anise 1 teaspoon whole coriander seeds 2 tablespoons tamari 1 small white onion, thinly sliced 4 scallions, thinly sliced For the matzah balls: 1 cup matzah meal 1 teaspoon kosher salt 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 4 large eggs, beaten 1/4 cup schmaltz or oil (vegetable or safflower) 1/4 cup minced scallion For the toppings: 1 large bunch of fresh Thai basil 2-3 limes cut into wedges 3 cups mung bean sprouts 2 Fresno chilies or jalapenos, sliced thin Hoisin sauce, to taste Sambal oelek (garlic chili sauce), to taste Sriracha, to taste Directions: To make the broth: Char your onions and ginger by either placing them on a baking sheet under a broiler for 8 to 10 minutes or by charring them over a gas flame on your stovetop for a few minutes on each side. The onions and ginger should be nicely charred but still firm — this essential step will deepen the broth’s flavor.

Once the onions and ginger are charred, remove the skin from the onion. Rinse the onion and ginger, and use a small knife to scrape off See Matzoh ball and pho on page 17

This old family recipe is still requested frequently.

CRUMB TOPPING: 3/4 cup chopped walnuts 2 tsp. cinnamon 1 tbsp. white sugar 3/4 cup dark brown sugar, firmly packed 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract 2 tbsp. melted butter BATTER: 1/2 cup butter 1/4 cup vegetable shortening (You can use all butter and omit this) 1 cup sugar 3 extra-large eggs 1 cup sour cream 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract 2-1/4 cups unbleached flour 3 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. baking soda pinch salt 3/4 cup finely snipped dried apricots (gently packed) 3/4 cup finely snipped pitted prunes (gently packed) 2 tbsp. flour Combine the topping ingredients and set aside.

Combine the snipped (I use a pair of small kitchen scissors for this and snip each apricot and prune into about 5-7 pieces) apricots and prunes.

Place in a bowl and sprinkle with the 2 tablespoons of flour. Toss to coat evenly and set aside.

Combine the flour, salt, baking powder and soda in a large bowl and set aside. Place butter, shortening and sugar in bowl of an electric mixer and beat until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, and beat well after each. Add flour mixture alternating with the sour cream beginning and ending with the flour. Add vanilla and beat well.

Remove bowl from the stand and fold in the fruit.

Grease and flour a tube pan, line the sides with waxed paper and grease the waxed paper. Pour half the batter into the pan. Spoon half the crumb mixture onto the batter and spoon the remaining batter over the crumbs. Spoon the rest of the crumbs over the batter and gently press into place.

Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes.

Remove from the oven and let cool for 15 minutes. Remove the tube insert and cake to a plate.

Let cool completely and, either loosen the cake from the tube and place on a serving platter or serve as is. Serves 10-12.

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A 50-year-old wrong is made right…

Judy Joszef who’s in the kitchen Continued from page 1 years older than Jerry and taller than him as well. Big picked Sandy for his army, with all the younger cousins and friends forming the other army to be led by Generals Jerry and his cousin David Steinberg.

They played WAR every day for four straight summers and Big and Sandy won every day.

The basic rules of the game were as follows: Everybody’s hands were their guns and when they fired, they made rapidfire shooting sounds with their mouths. Big would tell everyone to hide, but all the little kids would run to the same places every day and Sandy and Big eliminated them immediately. Even though Jerry, his brother Seme and his cousin David attempted to vary where they hid and start shooting when Big’s army approached, Big and Sandy (who also happened to be the judges in the game) would rule that the younger soldiers either missed their mark or they themselves were shot first, even if they weren’t. Big was the judge of everything, and that was that! nderstandably, Jerry thought this was unfair. His last summer in Turkins, he finally hatched a foolproof plan, so that his army could at least win once. Jerry had scouted out the entire colony and secured a new spot never used before. It was in a remote, unused portion of the colony. It was obscured in high grass and had barbed wire around it. Jerry knew they would eventually walk by there, as the game never ended until all soldiers on the opposite team were “shot.”

So there was Jerry, crouched behind a tree, in the brush beneath the barbed wire, waiting patiently for Harold and Sandy to walk by. He planned to quietly step out, when they were a few feet ahead of him, and shoot them from behind, so there could be no question about who shot who first or whether or not he missed. It was the perfect plan. Game, Set, Match! Jerry would finally win.

The plan was executed perfectly. The older kids were shocked — they had never been ambushed before. They turned around and started shooting at Jerry, and said “boom, we got you first, we won, game over.” Jerry was furious.

“What do you mean, I missed?” He cried out. “I was behind you, how could you have shot me first?” They just repeated, “Jerry, you missed,” even though they were shot from behind.

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Jerry was beside himself, his perfect plan was foiled, not by the truth, and this troubled him — for the next 50 years. Every now and then Jerry would mention the game to me. It’s surprised me, as I know his cousin Harold to be a fair, honest and wonderful person.

A few weeks ago Sandy was in our neighborhood visiting relatives, and Jerry bumped into him. Right before they Top from left: The three generals on Jerry’s team at Turkins — David Steinberg, parted, Jerry asked him. Jerry, and brother Seme. Bottom left: Jerry (standing) and (from left) Leslie Kell“Do you remember that ner a”h, Tommy, and Harry Zlotnick. Bottom right: Big (Harold Altman) with Jerry. one time when I hid in that obscure place under the barbed wire and in the brush. Do you remember what happened?” He replied. “I remember it like it was yesterday. You stepped out and you ambushed us. However, don’t you remember, you missed.”

Jerry was shocked that he had the same exact response as he did 50 years ago. He then asked: “Sandy, I was behind you, a few feet, I was shooting before you turned around. Do you 1-1/2 sticks butter (12 tablespoons) really think I missed you?” Sandy thought for a 1-1/2 cup coconut sugar second and began to laugh. “You finally got us!”

1 teaspoon instant coffee espresso powder Right before Rosh Hashanah, Big called Jer1/4 teaspoon sea salt ry to wish him a good Yom Tov. Right before 4 eggs, whisked well they hung up, Jerry asked the same question 1 teaspoon vanilla he had asked Sandy. He remembered the in1 cup all-purpose all-purpose flour cident vividly and insisted that they shot Jerry 1/2 cup cocoa nibs first. Then he reflected for a moment and said, For the Amaretto Mousse Layer: “No, I guess you really won.”

10 oz. bitter sweet or semi-sweet chocolate Jerry thanked him for remembering. It 5 extra-large egg yolks meant a lot to him.

1/4 cup Amaretto liqueur Apparently, the original ruling on the field 3 extra-large egg whites, room temperature was finally reversed, and justice had prevailed 1/2 cup sugar, divided 50 years later.

2 teaspoons vanilla In celebration of Jerry’s delayed victory, 1-1/4 cups well chilled heavy cream don’t you think he deserves a special cake?

To Make the Espresso Mousse: This one is adapted from savorthebest.com 10 oz. milk chocolate 5 extra-large egg yolks Chocolate Amaretto Espresso 1 packet unflavored kosher gelatin Mousse cake by Pat 2 tablespoons espresso powdered coffee Ingredients: 1/2 cup water For the Brownie Base Layer: 3 extra-large egg whites, room temperature 8 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped

Matzah ball and pho...

Continued from page 16 excess charred bits to prevent your broth from getting murky.

Cut your chicken into parts, separating the breasts, legs, wings and backbone. This will ensure that your chicken cooks evenly and that the breasts will not become dry or tough when simmered.

In a small skillet over medium heat, toast the cinnamon, anise and coriander until lightly browned and fragrant, about 2-3 minutes.

Be careful not to burn the spices. Add the onion, ginger and chicken to a large pot. Fill the pot with 5 quarts of water. Bring the water to a simmer; skim the impurities as they rise to the top.

After 20 minutes of simmering, or once they are cooked through, remove the chicken breasts and allow them to cool. Add the toasted spices, salt and sugar to the pot. Continue

to gently simmer the mixture for 1 hour.

Remove the remaining chicken parts and strain the liquid through a fine meshed sieve.

Bring the liquid back to a simmer for another 20-30 minutes, or until the liquid has reduced by about a quarter. This step will further deepen the broth’s flavor.

While the broth is simmering, shred the chicken meat and reserve for serving. Once reduced, turn off the heat and add the fish sauce or tamari to the broth. Taste, and add additional seasoning if desired.

To make the matzah balls: While the soup is simmering, in a large bowl whisk together the matzah meal, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Add the beaten egg and schmaltz/oil. Add the scallions. Mix everything together until just combined. Do not over-mix.

Refrigerate the mixture for at least 30 min-

utes, and up to a day.

Form the matzah ball mixture into evensized balls. You can determine the size based on your preference, but know that they will double when cooked. It makes it easier to form the matzah balls if you rub a little oil on your hands beforehand.

Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Lower to a simmer and gently drop the matzah balls into simmering water. Place the lid on the pot and continue to simmer for 30 minutes. Once cooked, matzah balls are best stored in their cooking liquid.

To serve the matzah ball pho: Add the shredded chicken, raw sliced onion and scallions to a bowl. Ladle hot broth into the bowl. Add the matzah balls to the soup.

Serve along with basil, bean sprouts, lime wedges, hoisin and hot sauces. Allow people to garnish and customize their pho to their liking.

Sonya Sanford is a chef, food stylist and writer. This article is from Kveller via JTA.

1/2 cup sugar, divided 2 teaspoons vanilla 1-1/4 cups well chilled heavy cream Garnishment: Chocolate curls (optional) Instructions: Preheat oven to 325°F Fit a piece of parchment paper to the bottom of a 9-inch springform pan that has 3-inch sides. Spray the with cooking oil.

To Make the Brownie Base Layer: In a large saucepan set over low heat, add the chocolate and butter, stirring constantly until they are melted. Remove the saucepan from the heat and add the sugar, instant espresso powder and salt, stir until well combined. Let cool slightly, then gradually stir in the beaten eggs and the vanilla extract. Add the flour and stir until blended.

Fold the cocoa nibs into the batter and pour into the prepared baking pan.

Bake the brownies in the center of the oven for 30-32 minutes, it should still be a little jiggly in the center but will firm up as it cools. Transfer to a cooling rack. Once cool, loosen the edges with a sharp knife.

To Make the Paper Cake Collar: Measure around the pan and cut a piece of parchment paper the length, plus a couple inches to overlap.

Fold the parchment paper to a double thickness that is 5-inches wide. Clean the pan ring and wipe it dry, spray the inside of the ring with cooking oil and place it on the serving plate, fitting it around the brownie layer with the paper collar between the pan side and the brownie, flush with the serving plate. Snap the ring latch closed. The brownie layer will serve as the bottom of the cake and you will not need the metal pan bottom. Set aside while preparing the amaretto mousse.

For the Amaretto Mousse Layer: Chop the chocolate into pieces and add to the top of a double boiler which is set over barely simmering water and allow to melt undisturbed.

Meanwhile, in a large mixing bowl beat the egg yolks until they are thick and pale, beat in the amaretto. Add the melted chocolate by spoonfuls, beating until the mixture is combined well.

Optional: For a very smooth textured mousse, pass the chocolate mixture through a fine mesh sieve, scraping the outside of the sieve, then proceed with the egg whites and whipped cream.

In another bowl beat the egg whites until they just hold soft peaks, beat in 1/4 cup of the sugar a little at a time and continue to beat the meringue until it holds stiff peaks. Beat in the vanilla. Stir one-third of the meringue into the chocolate mixture and fold in the remaining meringue.

In a chilled bowl beat 1-1/4 cups of the heavy cream until it holds soft peaks, beat in the remaining 1/4 cup of sugar and beat the cream until it holds stiff peaks. Fold the whipped cream into the chocolate mixture, gently incorporating it completely.

Pour the mousse into the prepared springform pan, directly on top of the brownie layer, smoothing the top. Drape a sheet of plastic wrap lightly over the cake and refrigerate until until firm. About 2 hours.

When preparing the espresso mousse layer, be sure to hydrate, (bloom) completely in the cold water before mixing it with the hot liquid.

Also, ensure that it is thoroughly dissolved in the hot liquid before proceeding with the recipe.

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Let’s consider what’s really important in life RabbI bInny FReedman the heart of jerusalem

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here is a powerful story I heard many years ago but never shared publicly, considering it too fantastic to possibly be true. But having recently read an accounting of it in Yitta Halberstam’s “Small Miracles of the Holocaust,” I had the opportunity to ask a Hungarian Auschwitz survivor who recalled that this story had made the rounds in Auschwitz.

In the fall of 1944, as Hungary’s last remaining Jews were being sent to the gas chambers, a commandant decided to dispatch every Jew under age 18. Normally youth in their later teens were sent to the labor battalions, receiving a reprieve from the gass chambers. On the last day of Sukkot, the festival of rejoicing, the SS officer took special pleasure in condemning 50 more young Jewish men, especially as they had thought that, given their age and relative good health, they would be sent to work rather than death.

As the doors were closed and the reality of their situation began to sink in, for some reason there was a delay in the gas and the hundreds of Jews trapped in the chambers stood waiting. By 1944 most of the Jews knew what was coming, and one could hear the silent sobs and painful mournful undertones as the Jews awaited their deaths.

Then one young yeshiva student sprang up and shouted: “Brothers! Today is Simchat Torah, when we are meant as Jews to rejoice in the Torah!

We have one last chance to celebrate the gift of Torah, let us celebrate Simchat Torah one last time!”

And with that he began to sing the wellknown words of a song sung in many communities on Simchat Torah: “Ashreinu, ma’tov chelkeinu, u’ma’ naim goraleinu” (“How happy are we, how good is our lot, and how pleasant is our fate”).

As they were singing and clapping the same commandant walked by and heard the joyous sounds emanating from the gas chamber. Confused, he ordered the doors opened and soon became enraged.

Pointing at one of the young yeshiva boys, he demanded an explanation, at which point one of the yeshiva boys responded: “We are rejoicing because leaving a world where Nazi beasts reign is cause for celebration! We are soon joining our loved ones in the world of truth and leaving your murderous world behind.”

The commandant was so infuriated at their joy that he ordered them taken out of the gas chamber, promising them an even sorse fate.

But “fate” had a different plan. A much higher ranking officer arrived the next morning with orders to procure a few hundred laborers for an important Nazi project. Happening upon this young group he had them all loaded on trucks bound for safer work; legend has it they all survived the war. ow did a group of boys in Auschwitz find the strength not just to survive, but to actually rejoice, in a gas chamber in Auschwitz?

This week we leave the Sukkah and enter

Simchat Torah, signifying the celebration of the completion of the year-long reading of the Torah. What is the connection?

Rav Moshe Feinstein, in his Darash Moshe, points out (quoting the Yotzer of the second day of Sukkot) that the mitzvah of the Sukkah is equivalent to all of the mitzvot in the Torah (“ke’neged kol hamitzvot shkulah”), which is somewhat puzzling. What are we meant to be Two of the most famous rabbis in Jewish history debate the nature of these booths we call Sukkot. According to the Talmud (Tractate Sukkah 11b), Rabbi Eliezer says the Sukkot represent the clouds of glory (the ananei kavod) which miraculously protected the Jews in the desert.

Rabbi Akiva, however, believes we are commemorating actual sukkot (booths) that the Jews dwelled in for 40 years in the desert, which protected them from the elements until they finally entered the land of Israel, their permanent home — a strange point of view to say the least.

What was so special about booths in the desert? Obviously, if a nomadic people are wandering the desert for 40 years they will build huts and booths much like the Bedouin still do today. So what is it we are celebrating?

Rav Moshe Feinstein in his Darash Moshe suggests that we think or at least often behave as though the world as we see it is reality and that the mitzvot and Torah Hashem gives us are the illusion. But in truth, this

It has been determined how much time we have here; the only question is whether we remember this every day.

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world, with its emphasis on materialism and the things we accrue, is the illusion and it is temporary, whereas Hashem, as represented by the clouds of Glory, is the true reality. If we truly understood this, we would live entirely different lives.

As an example, Rav Moshe says that sometimes financial experts will recommend that a particular stock is almost a guarantee and, as a result, a person will invest heavily only to discover that the experts were wrong.

Conversely, sometimes a person will throw money at an idea which makes no sense, or spend a fortune on lottery tickets, and become wealthy overnight. he Chofetz Chaim points out that all the earnings of a person are determined

by Hashem in advance, such that even though we certainly have to do our bit to be partners in the world, that actually has little to do with how much we will actually earn.

And if a person could really own this idea he would not be stressed with the fluctuations of the stock market.

Imagine a doctor tells a person he has six months to live: it is fair to assume such a person would reprioritize his life, and the endless email and social media, stock trading and board meetings, would seem much less important. Indeed for those six months, what had appeared to be a death sentence would actually be a life sentence as this person could rediscover the true gift of life.

We forget that we have all been seen by the “doctor,” and it has been determined how much time we have here; the only question is whether we remember this every day.

The clouds of glory, suggests Rav Moshe, represent the world and reality as it truly is, and the Sukkot, the actual huts rabbi Akiva refers to, are the world as we see it. We move See Sukkot on page 21

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Bereishit opens the door to a never-ending test RabbI avI bIllet Parsha of the week

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fter she finished reading Dara Horn’s novel “The World to Come,” my wife said to me, “The last chapter is amazing.” I am more of a non-fiction reader, but on her advice I read the last chapter. It’s filled with Dara Horn’s style of weaving Jewish titles, terms and quotes in her narrative, and is a joy to read. Especially if you “get” all the references.

In the chapter, two souls who already lived spend some time with a “not-yet,” a soul who is soon to be born, on a journey to the Tree of Life that is guarded by the sword described in Bereishit 3:24.

The male character wants the not-yet to eat from the tree so it will live forever, while the female character does not. She asks, “You actually, genuinely, want him to be born and never die?”

When the male character (the not-yet’s deceased grandfather) proceeds to scream at her saying, “WHY NOT? Why can’t he have what we didn’t have? Why should his children have to watch him die?” her response is,

“Because that’s what makes it matter.”

It’s a chilling scene, one imagines taking place in a heavy rainstorm, at a tottering bridge, before the world is about to end. The scene is very powerful and dramatic.

The Torah lists the concern that a person might eat from the Tree of Life and live forever as one of the reasons for the expulsion from the garden (3:22-23), but it does not say why living forever would be a problem.

In fact, Radak points out that original command of 2:16-17 included instructions that allowed people to partake of the Tree of Life: “You may eat from every tree except the Tree of Knowledge.”

Once they partook of the Tree of Knowledge, mortality was introduced — they were condemned to die one day. On account of this, they were expelled from the garden, lest they eat from the Tree of Life and extend their lives beyond their now-allotted years.

Radak feels that G-d could not command them “Do not eat the Tree of Life” because it had already been permitted to them. Furthermore, experience shows they did not do well with one commandment not to eat from a specific tree. Therefore they were taken out of the garden to avoid the problem altogether.

Ramban speaks in less cryptic terms when he says, “G-d wanted His decree to be fulfilled

with the death of man. Were he to eat from the Tree of Life, His decree would have been thwarted. Or he might even live forever.” The problem with the Tree of Life, therefore, was that it would take away the punishment the humans were meant to get for eating of the Tree of Knowledge. (Chizkuni) In the most spiritual of the answers I found, the Alshich looks at the practical side of living forever, and though he does not mention the cathartic stage we go through in death directly, he says “Were he to eat of the Tree of Life and live forever, he would never achieve a tikkun” or a correction for his mistake.

Rashi even describes how a person who lives forever will steer people after him, making himself into a god-like figure. t does not seem that immortality in and of itself is a bad thing. But for Man who was punished for partaking of the Tree of Knowledge, living forever would remove the punishment. For Man who needs to achieve atonement or to receive forgiveness for an error, death brings about such atonement and forgiveness. For Man to bring a correction to the soul, such a correction could only come about when the body no longer stands as interference to the soul.

Death also brings closure to a life lived – sometimes well-lived, sometimes long, some-

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times tragically short. Knowing of our own mortality, we set goals for the lives we live, and if we are lucky enough to apportion our time right and stay focused, we can spend a good portion of our lives trying to achieve our goals.

The knowledge that we have a finite amount of time makes our individual journeys on this earth matter, and makes our existence matter to those we touch in our lifetimes.

The mark of a life well-lived is being missed by those who survive us once we are gone. Were we to live forever, we would never be missed, and we would lose our relevance. We might even ask G-d to end our existence, as did many Biblical and Talmudical figures (Moshe, Eliyahu, Yonah, Choni Ha’Magel, to name a few, as well as the elders of Luz (Sotah 46b) May we merit to always live our lives noting the gift we have been given. May we also find the resilience to make the most of our lives so that when our time on earth comes to an end, we need not look back with any regrets.

As the female character says to the notyet born in “The World to Come,” “The test comes later.” And her male counterpart says, “Later. During every moment of every day of your life.”

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ne of the most charismatic young rabbis in education today is Rabbi Aryeh Cohen, the Mashgiach Ruchani at the DRS High School in Woodmere. Rabbi Cohen has assembled in book form (“From The Heart of a Lion,” Penina Press) a series of eloquent and timely essays themed to each parasha in Bereshis. The content of each chapter fully lives up to the rabbi’s reputation of combining his analytic learning style with anecdotes relating to life’s experiences.

In Noach, next week’s parasha, Rabbi Cohen relates a personal relationship to demonstrate respect for authority especially in terms of religious reverence and mentorship.

The rabbinical authority in this essay was HaRav Nosson Finkel, zt”l, rosh yeshiva of the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem, who was, in Rabbi Cohen’s words, the “foundation of my life as a Jew.” The relationship that Rabbi Cohen describes illustrates the author’s style and the greatness of his subject.

“From the time I began to attend his weekly Erev Shabbos shmooze in his house while I was

Rabbi Cohen connects this divine relationship with the numerous changes in culinary and dietetic habits and mandates that would, in the years ahead, reinforce a divinely guided society. hroughout this work, the human element is demonstrated as a major factor in the destiny of Biblical personalities who would serve as role models in service to G-d’s rule. This is the main contribution that Rabbi Cohen makes to Torah learning and teaching. He demonstrates to a world full of death and tears, fear and dread, how to smile and learn to be confident in the coming of a better day, with G-d’s help.

In words to this writer, Rabbi Cohen expands on his life’s work: “The book is a unique combination of an in-depth analytical essay on the weekly parasha coupled with an inspiring personal story.

The book is written in a way that all readers could comprehend, but is meant to be appreciated by the most well-versed of learners as well.

“The hope is that the sefer will not merely be used to learn from, but to be greatly inspired by. My personal mission in life is to try to inspire others to build a deeper relationship with Judaism and G-d. I deeply hope and believe this sefer will be a great tool in bringing inspiration to the masses. The synthesis of textual analysis with inspirational ideas

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based on books of machshava and mussar are enlightening, and the crowning personal story connected to each essay should leave a reader awakened. The truth, I believe, teaches that the heart and emotion of the Torah can be felt in every place and climb.

“D’varim hayotzim min halev nichnasim el halev, as the book’s title says it all: ‘Lev Aryeh — From The Heart of a Lion’.”

Thus is the name of this work, and such is its goal.

Alan Gerber is off this week. A version of this column appeared in 2014.

Shemini Atzeret and Hashem’s boundless love Rabbi david etengoff

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hile Shemini Atzeret occurs at the end of Succot, it is, as Midrash Bereshit Rabbah notes, a chag bifnei atzmo (festival in its own right) rather than a part of Succot. (100:7) This is clearly indicated in the Torah’s introduction to the unique sacrifice for this day, wherein the following formulation is found: “The eighth day shall be a restriction for you; you shall not do any laborious work.”

(Bamidbar 29:35). This verse stands in stark contrast to the preceding pasukim that refer to the Intermediate Days of Succot (Chol HaMoed) and, therefore, deploy the expression, “And on day,” indicating they are a continuation of the first day of the festival.

In Sefer Vayikra 23:36 and Sefer Bamidbar 29:35, the term, “the eighth day,” is coupled with the expression “atzeret.” Rashi, in his gloss on our verse from Vayikra, provides a famous and fascinating metaphoric explication of the term “atzeret” that is partially based upon Talmud Bavli, Succah 55b: “[What does ‘atzeret’ mean?] I [Hashem] will keep you back with Me [one more day]. This

is similar to the case of a king who invited his children to a banquet for a certain number of days. When the time arrived for them to take their leave he said: ‘My children, I beg of you, stay one more day with me; your departure is so difficult for me’.”

Rashi is homiletically teaching us a profound lesson: Hakadosh Baruch Hu passionately loves us. Moreover, like the earthly king, the King of Kings has just “spent” a number of days with us wherein we have dedicated ourselves to His service. We have rejoiced in our succot, and sung Hallel with our lulav and etrog. We have had beautiful festive meals and inspiring tefilot. Yet, our Creator wants more of us. He wants to rejoice with us one day more in order to strengthen the unique bond that exists between us. e do not have to wait, however, for the arrival of Shemini Atzeret to feel Hashem’s love surrounding us. If we are sensitive to the daily words of the tefilot, and carefully concentrate upon their sublime meaning, we can readily hear the message of G-d’s powerful devotion to us.

The first morning tefilah that we encounter that explicitly describes Hashem’s affection for us is that of the second bracha prior to the recitation of the Shema. It begins with the words “Ahavah rabbah,” and states: “With an abundant love have You loved

us, Hashem, our G-d.” It concludes with: “Blessed are You Hashem, Who chooses His people Israel with love.” Significantly, the text does not state “Who chose His people Israel with love,” which would have referred to an historical choice lost long ago in the distant sands of time. Instead, our Sages formulated the prayer in the present tense, i.e., Hashem continuously chooses us in love.

This illustrates the tremendous depth of care and concern our Creator has for us.

Two explicit statements of Hashem’s depth of connection to us are found in the Amidah. In the very first bracha we encounter the phrase “l’ma’an sh’mo b’ahavah” (“for His Name’s sake, with love”). In the blessing known as Re’tzeh,we find the phrase: “u’tefilatom b’ahavah tikabale b’ratzon” (“and their prayer accept with love and favor”). In sum, if we but listen to what we are saying in our prayers on a daily and ongoing basis, we will sense Hashem’s love enveloping us. Little wonder, then, that Megillat Shir HaShirim is the ultimate metaphor for the relationship that obtains between Hashem and the Jewish people.

Shemini Atzeret’s message of G-d’s love for us, as reflected, as well, in the words of our tefilot, is a crucial one indeed. It teaches us that we are not alone; for no matter how difficult our daily struggles may be, Hashem

This is a prayer for the rebuilding of the Beit HaMikdash, the holy Temple, yet the Beit ha’Mikdash is referred to here as a Sukkah, a strange term to say the least. A Sukkah, after all, is a temporary hut, which the Temple certainly was not. In fact if there was ever a structure in Judaism which was not meant to be temporary, it was the Temple!

Unless, of course, that is the whole point: the Beit HaMikdash was meant to be an environment where we could so feel Hashem’s

presence that we immediately understood what in life was important and what was temporary and a waste of time.

Sukkot challenges us to consider what things in life really last forever.

Perhaps those boys in that terrible place in Auschwitz got a glimpse of what was really important in life, and what really is eternal.

And from this understanding, we are ready to embrace and dance with the Torah and see its recipe for a joy-filled meaningful life as the reality and priority and not just a temporary opportunity to rejoice.

Wishing all a wonderful holiday and a chag sameach from Jerusalem.

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Continued from page 20 into our temporary huts to remember what our priorities should be, and what the world is really about.

This actually explains an interesting question: During the festival of Sukkoth we add a one line prayer to the blessings after a meal: “HaRachaman Hu’ Yakim Lanu Sukkat David Ha’Nofalet” (“May the merciful one raise up the fallen Sukkah of David”).

is ever our beloved soulmate who continually searches for us in order to bestow His love upon us. In a world that is so often frightening and alienating, this is a message that we continually need to hear.

May it be Hashem’s will that we will ever be deserving of His devotion and everlasting love. V’chane yihi ratzon.

Shabbat Shalom and Chag Sameach!

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still learning in Keren B’Yavneh, I immediately needed to stay close to the Rosh Yeshiva whenever possible,” writes Rabbi Cohen. “Eventually, I had the zechus to learn in the Mir for a zeman and further strengthen my kesher. I was constantly asking for advice and learning from the rosh yeshiva. It was a relationship that continued after leaving the Yeshiva. …

“The final time I was zoche to be in the rosh yeshiva’s presence was exactly one month before his petirah on the 11th of Tishre, 5772, the day after Yom Kippur, and the parting kiss is still felt. So much of who I am today is owed to the rosh yeshiva.”

This experience with Rav Finkel, of blessed memory, is reflected in the passion that permeates Rabbi Cohen’s teachings.

Consider the following: “Upon leaving the ark, Noach was seemingly not only overwhelmed by needing to rebuild the world from scratch, but was also doubtful as to how the new generation that would arise would reverse course from the previous and behave in a more dignified way. After living with a generation of wicked individuals which he was unable to influence over many years and attempts, his hope for the next generation of mankind was dimmed.”

G-d was to see this otherwise and guided Noach to serve as a partner with G-d in the spiritual reconstruction of the world.

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Why President Trump will decertify the Iran deal Jeff Dunetz politics to go

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hursday, Oct. 12, is a big day. Besides being Shemini Atzeret, multiple sources confirm that President Trump will deliver a speech outlining his policy on Iran. As part of that speech the president will announce that he will not certify the JCPOA (Iran nuke deal) — but he will not pull out of the deal either, leaving the future of the deal in the hands of Congress.

Trump’s decision will be based on his opinion that that the deal is not in the national security interests of the United States.

The Corker-Cardin bill passed because President Obama maneuvered around the Constitutional requirement for Senate approval of treaties by calling the JCPOA an “agreement,” requiring the president, at least every 90 days, to certify that: •Iran is fully implementing the agreement, •Iran has not committed a material breach of the agreement, •Iran has not taken any action that could significantly advance its nuclear weapons program, and

•suspension of sanctions against Iran is appropriate and proportionate to measures taken by Iran with respect to terminating its illicit nuclear program and vital to U.S. national security interests.

The president’s refusal to certify the deal will open a 60-day window for Congress to reimpose sanctions on Iran. If the sanctions are reimposed Iran will pull out and the deal will fall apart.

The beltway buzz is that the Trump administration will use the two-month window and the leverage built by the lack of certification to try and negotiate a fix of the deal’s worst flaws. Indeed, Reuters published unsubstantiated reports at the end of last week that Iran had signaled to France and Britain that it is willing to talk about its ballistic missile program.

The biggest reason for the president’s decision not to certify may be the IAEA’s recent announcement that has been unable to verify “Section T” of the agreement, which outlines “activities which could contribute to the design and development of a nuclear explosive device.”

Per the deal, those activities include: •Designing, developing, acquiring, or using computer models to simulate nuclear explosive devices.

•Designing, developing, fabricating, ac-

quiring, or using multi-point explosive detonation systems suitable for a nuclear explosive device, unless approved by the Joint Commission for non-nuclear purposes and subject to monitoring •Designing, developing, fabricating, acquiring, or using explosive diagnostic systems (streak cameras, framing cameras and flash x-ray cameras) suitable for the development of a nuclear explosive device, unless approved by the Joint Commission for non-nuclear purposes and subject to monitoring.

•Designing, developing, fabricating, acquiring, or using explosively driven neutron sources or specialized materials for explosively driven neutron sources.

•Designing, developing, fabricating, acquiring, or using explosive diagnostic systems (streak cameras, framing cameras and flash x-ray cameras) suitable for the development of a nuclear explosive device, unless approved by the Joint Commission for non-nuclear purposes and subject to monitoring.

•Designing, developing, fabricating, acquiring, or using explosively driven neutron sources or specialized materials for explosively driven neutron sources.

•Designing, developing, fabricating, acquiring, or using explosively driven neutron sources or specialized materials for explosively driven neutron sources.

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he reason that the items in “Section T” cannot be verified is something many of us already knew, but team Obama and Ben Rhodes lied about, that is, the Iranians won’t let the IAEA into military sites where the above work would be happening.

Even before the deal was done, the AP reported a side deal allows Iran to do its own inspections in the Parchin military base. Beyond Parchin Iran has said more than once the deal does not require them to allow inspectors into military facilities, making it functionally impossible to verify. The U.S. considers the deal unenforceable under that interpretation.

Beyond “Section T” and the military bases, there are other recent revelations which speak to the fact that the JCPOA is not the U.S.’s national security interest – it enables Iran to do too much, and doesn’t stop it from doing enough.

The examples below all occurred since the last time the JCPOA was certified in July: •Iran is exploiting sanctions relief to undermine American interests. Iran’s parliament voted unanimously to move $800 million into new military and terrorist spending, including on ballistic missiles, which they announced while chanting ‘Death to America’.

The rogue regime also exploited sanctions relief on their airline industry by using it to move troops into Syria to support Assad.

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Why are Jews left out of the Holocaust? rafael MeDoff

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he Canadian government has announced it will correct a memorial plaque at its new National Holocaust Monument, which spoke of the “millions of men, women and children during the Holocaust,” but neglected to mention Jews.

Unfortunately, Canadian Minister of Heritage Melanie Joly has compounded the original error, by announcing that the new plaque will acknowledge “the six million Jews, as well as the five million other victims, that were murdered during the Holocaust.”

There is, in fact, no historical basis for that “five million” figure. Yet it keeps cropping up, cited by people who apparently assume it’s

true just because a lot of other people keep saying it is.

After critics blasted the Trump administration for neglecting to mention Jews in its January 2017 statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, White House spokesperson Hope Hicks said the administration was trying to be “inclusive of all those who suffered.” She then provided a link to a Huffington Post UK article titled “The Holocaust’s Forgotten Victims: the 5 Million Non-Jewish People Killed by the Nazis.”

A busy White House spokesperson doesn’t have time to start researching Holocaust statistics. That’s understandable. Evidently she assumed a reputable news outlet would not run such an article without basic fact-checking.

Also understandable. But she was mistaken.

The author of the article was Louise Ridley, an assistant news editor at HuffPost UK who specializes in “media, social affairs and gender,” according to her tag line. Ridley de-

scribed some of the groups that were persecuted, in differing degrees, by the Nazis, such as gays, Roma (Gypsies), and the disabled.

Her list also included “communists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, trade unionists, and resistance fighters.” And she pointed out that the Nazis murdered several thousand priests. The Nazis also murdered millions of Polish civilians and Soviet prisoners of war. In fact, the total number of non-Jews killed by the Hitler regime far surpasses five million.

But none of that was part of the Holocaust.

The Germans murdered a lot of innocent people, for a variety of reasons. But the only ones who were targeted for complete annihilation, and whom the Nazis hunted down, in country after country, for the sole purpose of murdering them, were the Jews. The term “Holocaust” was coined to refer to that specific historical event.

Don’t blame Louise Ridley or Hope Hicks for the confusion. It was Simon Wiesenthal, the famed Nazi-hunter, who was first respon-

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Confronted many years ago by Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer, Wiesenthal said he invented the idea of “five million non-Jewish victims” because he thought it would help get non-Jews more interested in the Holocaust.

One can understand Wiesenthal’s concern. But he chose the wrong way to address it. he President’s Commission on the Holocaust, appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1978 and chaired by Elie Wiesel, specifically warned against “any attempt to dilute” the Jewish nature of the Holocaust “in the name of misguided universalism.”

But the Wiesenthal formulation appealed to White House aides who liked the idea of making the Holocaust more ecumenical, even at the price of historical accuracy. As a result, Carter’s October 1979 executive order establishing the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council— which then created the U.S. Holocaust MemoSee Shoah on page 24

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By Lisa A. Bloom y father had energy that was larger than life. He protected us and made his presence known when he was healthy, sick and now, even after he passed away this summer.

He loved G-d, his family and was a diehard Cleveland Indians fan. Last year we watched the World Series with my father every night. I hoped that Cleveland could win in his lifetime with all of us around him. I cried when they lost.

My father didn’t die suddenly; he was sick for nine years.

When he was diagnosed with corticobasal degeneration, or CBD, it felt like our worlds stopped. I try to understand why he was given such a long, dreadful illness.

The only thing that makes sense is that he subconsciously chose it. Not for him, because enduring this must have been torture, but for us. Every year the disease slowly progressed was another year we didn’t depend on him as much. My mother became independent. His three adult daughters finally became adults.

Now I look back and say, “Thank you, Abba.�

My father used to say, “How can people not believe in G-d? Look at Mother Nature around us.� As it happened, the week my father passed away, I was in picturesque Vermont with my family. I saw G-d in all the beautiful landscapes and in the solar eclipse that we saw glistening on Lake Champlain.

One night, my father visited me in my dream.

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My rabbi said to me, “This is his way of letting you know that his soul is full of life, even though the physical vessel he is trapped in is not.� Thank you, Abba.

However, in the dream I had in Vermont, my father was sick. A wave crashed into the house we were in, and he was knocked to the floor. I rushed over to him. I felt awful that I couldn’t help. He had a look of complete calmness in his eyes and told me it was all right.

This was part of the plan, he said, and how it is supposed to be.

This prompted me to ask, “Are you dead?� “Yes, I am,� he replied.

Despite his physical appearance in my dream, he seemed at peace. hree days later, I was taking a morning hike with my daughter when I got the call I dreaded. My father had entered the dying stage. We were by a quiet running stream when I found out. The last sight I saw before we left was this huge mountain with a blue sky between it and the clouds. He was communicating, I think, as I looked at the beauty, “This will be hard, but just keep believing in G-d.� Thank you, Abba.

My mother’s worst fear was being alone when my father passed. He knew that and would never do that to her. My younger sister was the first one there. She sat with him for nearly nine hours. At one point, my sister thought to herself, “I can’t be the only one

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During the final hours of shiva, a rabbi that I learned with in Israel walked in. My husband must have told him that my father passed. The rabbi told me that the soul is metaphysical and that there are parts of our soul that are already in the worlds above. Perhaps part of my soul was, in fact, with my father. Maybe we aren’t separated. This was the answer I needed.

Thank you, Abba. n the way home, my navigation kept redirecting me, and I kept ignoring it. I was out of gas and wanted to go home the way I knew. But no matter what I did, it kept taking me off the highway. I ended up on Ocean Parkway, which passes all the beaches on Long Island. I looked at the miles of ocean and the sun. I cried and said out loud, “Thank you, Abba.�

Oh, and those Cleveland Indians? The first night of shiva, a gust of wind blew through the windows. Along the windowsill, we placed pictures and my father’s earthly possessions.

When the wind blew, only two items knocked over: his Cleveland Indians button and his picture. Within the hour, my sister received two texts from different friends that the Indians won 12–0 that night.

The Tribe started their record-breaking 22game winning streak on the night my father passed away. On the night of the 20th win, I couldn’t find my fleece and the only jacket in sight was my father’s Indians jacket that I wore to minyan to say Kaddish. I came home and they won.

Thank you, Abba. We hear you loud and clear. Your energy is still larger than life.

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His breathing was rapid and his eyes wide open. My husband and I said the viddui (final blessing). My husband told my father that he should be proud of his girls and that he did well. My sister and I stayed on. We told my mother to go to sleep.

Alone with him, I told my father that he completed his mission here on earth to educate and enlighten people. He did that as a teacher and as a father. My sister returned, and we sat with him for a while longer and left. I came back to check on him a short time later, and then he physically left us.

Since he had prepared me for this, I calmly made the arrangements. Thank you, Abba. emailed my rabbi at 2 am to let him know. He later told me that he doesn’t usually dream, but that at 3 am he dreamt that a big wave crashed in his house and woke him up. Once he was awake, he checked his emails and saw mine. He emailed me back to provide me with much-needed comfort at 4 am. Thank you, Abba.

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Continued from page 4 of packaged snacks that I bring from Israel — Bamba and Bisli. If I get searched, they see it’s food but they don’t see the plants.”

As he spoke on the fast day, the synagogue was filled occasionally with the smell of roasting meat from a nearby restaurant serving the high-quality beef for which Kobe is known internationally.

The smuggler recalled being busted with a pack of kosher steaks, but was allowed to pass through anyway when he explained it was kosher food.

“There’s some leniency,” he said, “so even if I’m caught, hopefully they’ll just take my stuff away at worst instead of putting me in prison.”

Even so, “It’s not easy to get permits to bring stuff in,” confirmed David Kunin, the Conservative spiritual leader from Tokyo whose congregation, known as the Jewish Community of Japan, sometimes gets the four species via the Israeli Consulate. “There’s a ton of paperwork about it, especially with food.”

But the consulate sometimes does not deliver enough of the four species to his congregation. This year, Kunin’s community received the plants from the Chabad rabbi. The plants, which Rabbi Edery brings in using a rare permit, arrived in the nick of time for the holiday.

Kosher beef is a rare treat here, but chicken is in steady supply for observant Jews thanks to Rabbi Edery, who brings in shochtim, or ritual slaughterers. He shares the meat with the Conservative congregation.

Despite the challenges, belonging to a small but affluent Jewish community has its perks, said Kunin, a Canada-born father of one who

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four years ago came with his wife to take up the rabbinical position in Tokyo.

He misses being part of “a larger and more vibrant community,” he confessed, but finds “immense satisfaction” in guiding his own farflung parish. Plus, he gets to do it style.

Kunin’s congregation is based in a sparkling and tastefully decorated synagogue and community center — a multimillion-dollar structure with large windows and light colors situated in the heart of Tokyo, near the Shibuya station. Donated by a philanthropist who wished to remain anonymous, the building was completed in 2009 and features classrooms where the community’s elementary school-age children are taught Hebrew and Jewish subjects twice a week.

The community also has televisions with 60-inch screens and a kitchen with the amenities one usually sees at prestigious restaurants.

“A congregation of 110 families, having a building like this, employing a full-time rabbi and having a Jewish school — in most places this would be unheard of,” Kunin said.

this “middle-of-the-road” (decertifying but not pulling out) approach is the best option for America’s security, to have any chance to improve the horrid JCPOA that Barack Obama committed this country to, while at the same time allowing maintaining the support with our allies who backed the deal.

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Continued from page 22 rial Museum — referred to the Holocaust as “the systematic and State-sponsored extermination of six million Jews and some five million other peoples by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II.” Prof. Walter Reich, former executive director of the U.S. Holocaust Museum, has written: “And so the executive order … officially defined the Holocaust in a way that realized Wiesel’s great fear — that the Holocaust would be defined as an event in which 11 million people, six million Jews and 5 million non-Jews, had been killed, and that the crucial distinction between the planned and systematic extermination of all Jews on racial grounds, and the killing of civilian non-Jews on, say, political grounds — in response to resistance, or because of acts of collective reprisal or brutality — would be lost.”

Simon Wiesenthal picked a number of nonJewish victims that was high enough to seem substantial, but still a little less than the number of Jewish victims. He thought that formulation would still keep Jews as the primary focus.

Evidently he didn’t realize how easy it would be for someone—even an American or Canadian government official—to slide down the slippery slope from “a Holocaust of Jews and non-Jews,” to a Holocaust without Jews at all.

It’s just not that far from a Holocaust of everybody to a Holocaust of nobody in particular.

Dr. Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, and author or editor of 17 books about Jewish history and the Holocaust.

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YOSS’ 1st year without Rav Binyamin The Yeshiva of South Shore began its 61st year on Long Island without the physical presence of its late rosh ha yeshiva, HaRav Binyamin Kamenetzky, zt”l.

However, the Hewlett-based school knows that Rav Binyamin will continue to advocate on behalf of the yeshiva and its talmidim from his most prominent place in shmayim.

South Shore can already feel the impact of his zechus. There has been unprecedented growth in every division. This year’s graduating eighth grade is the largest in the history of the yeshiva.

In addition, a multitude of chinuch activities are taking place on a daily basis that are thematically attached to Rav Binyamin’s legacy. The Bachurei Chemed program, a society that the rosh ha yeshiva established, comprised of talmidim who exemplified middos tovos, yiras shamayim and derech eretz, is being rededicated in his memory. Bachurei Chemed will now receive the sobriquet Yedidei Hashem, based on Moshe’s blessing to the tribe of Binyamin, “L’Binyamin

HaRav Binyamin Kamenetzky, zt”l, with his talmidim.

amar yedid Hashem.”

During his last years, Rav Binyamin oversaw educational growth in every area of our yeshiva. Most recently, South Shore’s menahel mechina, Rabbi Zev Davidowitz, brought a Torah dynamism into the mechina and has endeared himself to talmidim, parents and rabbeim alike. As the mechina ex-

From left: Miriam Kopyto, Arieh Chaiken, Rafael Levin, and Benjamin Gottesman.

HAFTR students commended Four students at the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway have been named Commended Students in the 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program.

HAFTR Principal Naomi Lippman said the four are Arieh Chaiken, Benjamin Gottesman, Miriam Kopyto and Rafael Levin.

“The young men and women be-

ing named Commended Students have demonstrated outstanding potential for academic success,” commented a spokesperson for NMSC. Although they will not continue in the 2018 competition for National Merit Scholarship awards, Commended Students placed among the top 50,000 scorers of more than 1.6 million students.

Ice cream day at Shulamith Girls in the Lower Division of the Shulamith School, who completed summer homework, received an ice cream with sprinkles from Ezra’s.

The girls beamed with pride at their accomplishments as they devoured their tasty treats.

Second graders Michal Jakubowitz and Ayelet.

panded, the yeshiva appointed two experienced and dynamic rabbeim to join the division’s all-star lineup — Rabbi Noam Singer, a seasoned rebbe known for his warmth and deep care for every student (who joined as a sixth grade rebbi), and Rabbi Yoni Escovitz, a young enthusiastic and most creative educator (serving as a third seventh grade rebbi). The yeshiva anticipates that together with its exceptional team of rabbeim and general studies teachers, led by Daniel Winkler, they will raise the yeshiva to new heights.

To meet the growing educational and administrative and emotional needs of the talmidim, Rabbi Avraham Robinson joined Rabbi Chanina Herzberg, menahel ha yeshiva, as associate menahel of limudei kodesh for the Elementary School (grades 1–5).

In addition, the yeshiva welcomes Rabbi Yehuda Kamenetzky, MEd., NCC, a South Shore alumnus and a grandson of Rav Binyamin, who will serve as director of student services and guidance. Reb Yehuda, who authored “Brainstorm,” a best-selling book about his own triumph over life’s challenges, is a nationally certified counselor, with clinical experience in counseling in a school setting and educational programming.

He recently moved with his family from St. Louis, Missouri, where he trained at the prestigious LOGOS School in Olivette, one of only a handful of accredited schools in the Midwest that specialize in servicing troubled youth and in addressing the educational and emotional needs of all children.

Under the direction of Leah Girnun, education coordinator, YOSS has implemented an exciting program of differentiated instruction and student testing so the individual needs of every student can be met.

Mrs. Girnun has been working closely with all principals including Elana Fertig, Hollander ECC director, to ensure that the youngest talmidim get a strong start at the yeshiva.

“The entire administration is excited to add hanhala members who understand the warmth and depth of the ‘South Shore’ culture and are revered as superstar educators who truly understand the YOSS derech of chinuch instilled by my father,” said rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky.

YCQ student Tashlich at Flushing Meadows Fifth graders at the Yeshiva of Central Queens traveled to the lake at Flushing Meadows Park to participate in the mitzvah of Tashlich.

They were joined by their principal, Rabbi Mark Landsman; judaic studies assistant principal, Rabbi Michael Ribalt; and their rabbeim and morot.

Each student was asked to spend time reflecting on the past year, then given a piece of soluble paper to write down a middah that they would like to work on.

They then threw the paper into the lake, creating an image that

should continue to inspire them throughout the year to work towards their full potential.

The program was designed to instill an understanding that Hashem gives us a chance to do better and that we need to take that opportunity, but that we can’t just say it. To really make a change we must continue to work on our middot every day.

“I like that I have a chance to erase all the bad things and really commit to making changes,” said Nataniel Aranbaiev.

Photo by Maxine Lipshitz

Solomon library at Rambam

RA Francine Solomon Memorial Library has been dedicated at Rambam Mesivta by the Deutsch and Solomon families in memory of their mother.

Carolyn Deutsch, the daughter of Mrs. Solomon, is a president of the Rambam Women’s League and has two sons in the school — Eli, a senior, and Dovi, a freshman. Her oldest son, Jonathan, graduated from Rambam in 2015 and currently is director of technology at Midreshet Shalhevet High School for Girls, Rambam’s sister school.

Francine was a school librarian who was committed to the written

word and assisting young readers in finding books that would speak to them in that special way that only certain books can. Books in the new library are surrounded by a mural, created by Gila and Morgan Roslyn, that depicts ivy hugging the bookcase.

At the dedication ceremony, Carolyn Deutsch spoke about her mother’s life, and her son Eli read the dedication plaque that described Mrs. Solomon’s life as “one well-lived and well-read.”

Carolyn was joined by her husband and family, and her brother Jared led Shacharis for the Rambam Minyan.

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Timely Torah: [Weekly] Join Rabbi Ya’akov Trump, assistant rabbi of the Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhust, for a shiur on relevant Halachic and philosophical topics related to Parsha Moadim and contemporary issues. Coffee and pastries.

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

Sunday October 22

SKA Open House: SKA invites prospective students and their parents to its open house. 9 am. 291 Meadowview Ave, Hewlett. 516-3747195.

NSHA Open House: North Shore invites prospective students and their parents to its open house. 10 am. 400 North Service Rd, Great Neck.

516-487-2424.

Challenge Early Intervention course in respiratory phonatory issues in children with developmental issues. YI of Hillcrest. 8:30 am to 4 pm.

169-07 Jewel Ave, Hillcrest. 718-851-3300 x315.

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

9:15 pm. 859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere. 516295-0950.

Wednesday October 18

Parsha Shiur: [Weekly] Join Michal Horowitz at the YI of Woodmere for a special shiur on the parsha. 9:30 am. 859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere.

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

894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere.

Kulanu Simchat Beis Hashoava: Kulanu invites you to a Simachat Beit Hashoeva in their backyard Sukkah featuring fun, food and music.

3;15 pm. 620 Central Ave, Cedarhurst. RSVP by emailing dzeidel@torahLkulanu.org.

Halacha Shiur: [Weekly] Rabbi Moshe Sokoloff at YI of Woodmere halacha shiur. 8:40 pm.

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

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

CIMBY Far Rockaway 5K Run: Go the extra mile with the CIMBY Far Rockaway Boardwalk 5K run in support of Achiezer. Then join the runners for a finish line BBQ. 2 pm. 516-791-4444.

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

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

9:45 am. 8 Spruce St, Cedarhust.

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

894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere.

Jewish History: [Weekly] Join Rabbi Evan Hoffman at the YI of Woodmere for a talk on Jewish History. 8:15 pm. 859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere. 516-295-0950.

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Thursday October 19

HMTC Annual Tribute Dinner: Kulanu Join the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau Country for their 25th Annual Tribute Dinner. 21 Old Westbury Rd, Old Westbury. $450 per person. 6 pm. 516-571-8040 Special Education Legal Tool Box: Join Kulanu for a special presentation on special education law by Bonnie Spiro Schinagle, Esq. 6:30 pm. 620 Central Ave, Cedarhurst. RSVP by October 10th by calling 516-569-3083 x138.

Timely Tanach: [Weekly] Join Rabbi Ya’akov Trump of the Young Israel of Lawrence Cedarhurst for a shiur on Sefer Shoftim. 8 pm. 8 Spruce St, Cedarhust.

Chumash and Halacha Shiur: [Weekly] Shiur with Rabbi Yosef Richtman at Aish Kodesh.

8 pm. 894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere.

Shiur and Tehillim Group: [Weekly] Join the women of YI of Woodmere at the home of Devorah Schochet. 9:15 pm. 559 Saddle Ridge Rd.

Gala Dinner: Join the Chabad of Great Neck for their 26th annual Gala Dinner. 5 pm Cocktail, 7 pm dinner. 400 East Shore Road, Great Neck.

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Sunday October 29

Puah Symposium on Genetics: YI of Lawrence Cedarhurst hosts the Puah Symposium on Genetics. 9:30 am-2 pm. 8 Spruce Street. Registration required: 718-336-0603.

Shevach Open House: Shevach invites prospective students and their parents to its open house. 10 am. 75-09 Main DRS Open House: DRS invites prospective students and their parents to its open house. 1 pm. 700 Ibsen St, Woodmere. 516-295-7700.

From Beethoven to Broadway: Congregation Shaaray Shalom will be hosting a gala concert consisting of works by Grieg, Mozart, Chopin, Beethoven and more by Audrey Schneider and Arbie Orenstein. 2 pm. Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door. 711 Doogwood Ave, West Hempstead. To purchase tickets, call 516481-7448 or email shaarayfin@gmail.org.

Tuesday October 31

AMIT’s Greater Long Island Gala: AMIT will be honoring several Long Island residents for their longtime service to AMIT at this year’s Greater Long Island Gala. 6:30 pm. $100. 817 Broadway, NY. 516-551-1058.

Wednesday Nov 1

Long Island Challah Bake: Join the women of Long Beach a night of music, dancing and challah baking. 6:45 pm. $36. 1395 Beech Street. Purchase tickets at challahbakeli.com.

Sunday Nov 5

HANC Open House: HANC invites prospective students and their parents to its open house.

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