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Sukkos-ready A second-grade student at Yeshiva Darchei Torah in Far Rockaway holds the Arba Minim set brought in by his rebbi, just a few days before the advent of Sukkos, which begins Sunday night.

Analysis by Ron Kampeas, JTA Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump did not shake hands, and then they did. The Republican nominee called his rival the devil and said he would jail her. Clinton said that three minutes of a 2005 video in which Trump bragged about committing what constitutes sexual assault “represents exactly who he is.” He said it was “locker room talk” and — pressed hard by a moderator — said he did not commit the acts that he claimed in the video.

Those “highlights” from the debate are strewn throughout social media and were making headlines on Monday. But sown throughout Sunday evening’s presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, already dubbed the most intensely negative in modern history, were notes of substance and tone. Jewish and pro-Israel readers may want to heed a number of them.

Donald Trump mentioned Iran, often.

Trump slammed the Iran nuclear deal three times, emphatically, as had his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, in his debate last week with the Democratic vice presidential candidate, Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia.

The deal has become the Trump campaign’s exhibit A in depicting the Obama administration as a foreign policy failure.

On Sunday night, Trump called it “the dumbest deal perhaps I’ve ever seen in the history of deal-making” and again said it converted Iran within three years from a weak nation to a powerful one.

It’s a notable transition: throughout the Republican

•Trump says he won’t challenge Assad and his Iranaian allies •Clinton distances herself from Obama on Syrian ‘red line’

primaries, Trump said the agreement was a bad one, but was coy about whether he would rescind it, saying he would first consult experts once he was in office. It wasn’t a foreign policy priority like renegotiating trade deals or walling off Mexico.

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ay close attention to all the words through which I warn you today, so that you will be able to instruct your children to keep all the words of this Torah carefully” (32:46).

In preparation for my Shabbos Shuva drasha, I came across a fascinating article by Aharon Hersh Fried entitled, “Is There a Disconnect be-

to cram into an overwhelmingly long day and cannot adequately focus on middos. They bring in anti-bullying programs, but the bullying still goes on. What gives any child the right to misSee Teachers on page 10

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tween Torah Learning and Torah Living? And If So, How Can We Connect Them? A Focus on Middos” (published by Hakirah: The Flatbush Journal of Jewish Law and Thought).

With that as background, Moshe’s statement about being able to instruct children is actually profound. We tend to focus on our own connection to Judaism, and leave our children’s connection to their rebbeim and morahs. But Moshe does not say here, “Leave your children’s education in others’ hands.” He says it is YOUR job.

Now I’m going to be a bit blunt, but there is no time like right after Yom Kippur to face some hard truths.

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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — As a new immigrant with little savings and no guaranteed income, Mikhail Davidov had no hope of getting a mortgage to buy the $900,000 house in Queens that he now calls home.

Luckily for Davidov, a 42-year-old hairdresser who immigrated to New York six years ago from Uzbekistan, he never needed a mortgage.

Instead, he borrowed the money, interest free, from his extended family of Bukharian Jews — a tight-knit community whose members have excelled both in making money and preserving their traditions even after most of them left their ancestral homelands in Central Asia.

“Banks are for Ashkenazim,” Davidov said, referencing European Jews, during a visit to his native city of Samarkand last month.

“When I’m established and done paying back my family members who are already established in Israel and the States, I’ll lend money to a relative. It’s how we succeed.”

Davidov’s story is typical of the tradition of mutual assistance that experts of Bukharian Jewry say is key to the community’s remarkable success in business and maintaining their unique customs and lineages long after most Bukharian Jews left their homelands in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan following the Soviet Union’s collapse.

By the 1990s, the vast majority of approximately 100,000 Bukharian Jews had left Cen-

tral Asia, where they have lived at least since the 15th century, for Israel, the United States, Austria and Moscow. Today, only 3,000 of them remain in Central Asia.

Concentrated mostly in the three Uzbekistani cities of Tashkent, Samarkand and Bukhara, Central Asia’s Bukharian Jewry is a graying community with hope neither of replenishing their numbers nor the social status they enjoyed up until the previous century. At one time they dominated the region’s textile and dye industry, according to Giora Pozailov, a historian at Israel’s Bar- Ilan University specializing in Bukharian Jewry.

Bukhara once was a major stop along the Silk Road, which in ancient times connected Europe with Asia. Now the southern desert city has so few Jews that its two synagogues almost never open simultaneously to ensure at least one has a minyan.

Even so, Shabbat prayers stretch on for hours as a handful of congregants wait for suburbanites and late risers to arrive on foot.

Draped in prayer shawls, the men practice their deep, guttural singing of scripture as they sit in pews in the main synagogue’s yard — a cooler alternative to the stuffy interior, which can reach 104 degrees in summer.

The women used to sit apart from the men in the synagogues, on an elevated balcony, but have since moved downstairs with the men because climbing the stairs became too difficult for elderly congregants. The only growing Jewish institution in Bukhara is the community’s walled-off cemetery.

A Bukharian Jewish woman presenting her cooking at a community event in Kiryat Gat, Israel, in 2014.

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of ornaments hanging on the their walls that include china vessels, portraits of community sages and, somewhat depressingly, an array of nonfunctioning clocks.

Whereas time seems to be running out for the Bukharian Jews of Central Asia, their communities have produced for themselves a new and extraordinary lease on life in Russia and the West.

Despite arriving with meager funds to competitive societies where Jewish communities are fast assimilating, Bukharian Jews have See Bucharians on page 30

“This community has no future here,” says Shirin Yakubov, a 33-year-old mother of three.

Yakubov is one of the few young members of Bukhara’s Jewish community of 150.

Her three siblings all live in Israel, where she and her husband, Arsen, plan to immigrate as soon as his elderly parents also agree to leave.

Meanwhile, their children attend a Jewish school where only a few of some 200 students are Jews.

Both synagogues feature pictures from the 1997 visit to Bukhara of Hillary Clinton when she was first lady, part of an eclectic display

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By Alex Traiman, JNS.org JERUSALEM — A newly approved plan to build 98 homes in the Shiloh Valley in northern Samaria has renewed longstanding tensions between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu.

Both the State Department and the White House have issued statements strongly condemning the plan, continuing a pattern of condemnations whenever Israel announces the construction of homes in territories captured from Jordan during the 1967 Six Day War. In this case, the homes would replace residences on the hilltop of Amona, a few miles south of the Shiloh valley. Forty Amona homes are slated by Israel’s Supreme Court for demolition before the end of the year.

Netanyahu reportedly told Secretary of State John Kerry by phone that the plans do not create a new settlement as the White House and the State Department allege, according to several Israeli news reports.

“From Israel’s perspective, the Netanyahu government is trying to resolve a problem [while] it is under pressure to dismantle what, according to Israeli law, is an illegal settlement, and it is trying to find a solution for those people in another settlement,” said Professor Jonathan Rynhold, a senior lecturer at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University and senior research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies.

Many within Israel’s ruling coalition are against the demolition in Amona, site of a violent clash between police and protesters during a previous demolition of nine homes in 2006.

“The Netanyahu government is stuck between the White House and his right-wing coalition partners,” Rynhold told JNS.org.

View of an outpost near Shiloh, outside of Jerusalem.

State Department spokesman Mark Toner said that the plan “contradicts previous public statements by the government of Israel that it had no intention of creating new settlements. And this settlement’s location deep in the West Bank, far closer to Jordan than Israel, would link a string of outposts that effectively divide the West Bank and make the possibility of a viable Palestinian state more remote.”

White House Spokesman Josh Earnest then called into question the health of the friendship between the two strategic allies.

“We had public assurances from the Israeli government that contradict this new announcement. So when you talk about how friends treat each other, this is also a source

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of concern,” Earnest said.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry shot back with a statement claiming, “The 98 housing units approved in Shiloh do not constitute a ‘new settlement.’ This housing will be built on state land in the existing settlement of Shiloh and will not change its municipal boundary or geographic footprint.”

The statement continued, “The real obstacle to peace is not the settlements — a final status issue that can and must be resolved in negotiations between the parties — but the persistent Palestinian rejection of a Jewish state in any boundaries.”

On Thursday, Israel’s Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben-Dahan confirmed on Israel’s Kol Chai radio that Netanyahu told Obama

that no new settlements would be established throughout the duration of a newlysigned $38 billion military aid package to Israel, but claimed that the buildings would not constitute a new settlement.

In a strongly worded rebuttal to the White House and the State Department, Ben-Dahan said, the pledge “does not make Israel a hostage of the United States.”

According to Oded Revivi, chief foreign envoy of the Council of Judea and Samaria (YESHA), “there should be no contention about building within the municipal boundaries of the existing community of Shiloh.

The Jewish connection to ancient Shiloh goes back thousands of years. It was the first capital of the ancient Jewish Kingdom of Israel and site of the Holy Tabernacle for 369 years.”

“No other nation has more of a legal, biblical or historical right to Shiloh,” Revivi told JNS.org.

Yet the White House, as well as members of Israel’s opposition disagree. Left-wing Israeli governments had offered the land to the Palestinians during previous negotiation attempts.

Gilad Grossman, a spokesman for the nongovernmental organization Yesh Din, which filed the legal claim in Israel’s Supreme Court against the houses in Amona, insisted that houses would constitute a new settlement.

“Our position is that all settlements and outposts are illegal,” Grossman told JNS.org.

According to Revivi, the longtime mayor of Efrat, one of Israel’s largest settlements, “Our communities were built on strong moral and legal ground, and the law isn’t as simple as suggested by the State Department.”

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After elections, will Obama betray Israel at UN? Commentary by Morton A. Klein President, Zionist Organization of America WikiLeaks recently exposed an email written by former White House official Stuart Eisenstadt that discussed the Obama administration’s deteriorating relationship with Israel and warned, “There is a distinct possibility that the Administration may seek a new U.N. Security Council resolution embodying the two-state, with [pre-] 1967 lines and agreed land swaps, and some vague statements about Jerusalem.”

Is President Barack Obama intending to abandon the decades of bipartisan U.S. policy of vetoing anti-Israel U.N. Security Council resolutions? Specifically, is Obama preparing to permit the U.N. Security Council to pass a resolution supporting or recognizing a Palestinian Arab state, and declaring Jewish communities built within illegal?

The signs are numerous. Obama is laying the groundwork to rationalize, and make palatable and understandable that he may take unprecedented unilateral actions against Israel. Consider this: On Oct. 5, Obama’s State Department “strongly condemned” Israel for approving plans to build 98 apartments within the existing Jewish community of Shiloh in Samaria, for Jews who will be forcibly evicted from their homes in Amona.

The existing Jewish community in Shiloh, which was established in 1979, has 3,500 existing residents. The State Department falsely claimed that Israel was approving a “significant new West Bank settlement,” and that this undermined a twostate solution, and “called into question Israel’s commitment to achieving a negotiated peace.”

The State Department’s condemnation also stated, “with regard to the U.N. Security Council and any action at the U.N., our position hasn’t changed. We’re always concerned, frankly, about one-sided resolutions or other actions that could be taken within the U.N., and we’re always going to oppose those kinds of resolutions that we believe delegitimize … Israel and undermine its security.

“But we’re going to carefully consider our future engagement, if and when we reach that point, and determine how to most effectively pursue and advance the objective that we all, at least claim to share, which is that of achieving a negotiated

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President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu during Obama’s visit to Jerusalem in 2013.

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two-state solution.” [emphasis added].

Despite being prefaced with a line about the U.S. position being unchanged, the State Department’s “reconsideration” statement, on top of the unusually harsh language of condemnation for a mere announcement of program of residential construction in an existing Jewish community, is more than a hint of the course President Obama may take.

Shockingly, the same day, the Obama administration questioned whether Israel is a “friend.” White House spokesman Josh Ernest reiterated the State Department’s unfounded criticism of Israel, wrongly stating Oct. 5 that, “we did receive public assurances from Israel that contradict this announcement, I guess when we’re talking about how good friends treat one another, that’s a source of serious concern as well.”

The media promptly provided further evidence of Obama’s intentions to overturn longstanding U.S. policy. The same “echo chamber” method that Obama aide Ben Rhodes boasted of using to promote the Iran deal — using the media to promote the administration’s agenda — was in full swing. A New York Times article that day quoted former Obama Administra-

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tion peace negotiator, Martin Indyk, saying, “At a certain point … the Administration may well decide that there needs to be consequences for what it now sees as an effort to close off the two-state solution.”

The next day, a New York Times editorial, “At the Boiling Point With Israel,” parroted the State Department’s false accusations against Israel, calling for Obama to “lead the Security Council to put its authority behind a resolution to support a two-state solution.”

During his Sept. 30 speech eulogizing Shimon Peres, Obama falsely implied that Israel is “enslaving” Palestinian Arabs.

He quoted the left-wing Peres as saying, “The Jewish people weren’t born to rule another people” and “we are against slaves and masters.” Obama also called Israeli’s founding “flawed.”

Later the same day, after the White House official transcript of Obama’s eulogy listed “Jerusalem, Israel” as the speech and burial location, the White House crossed out the word “Israel.”

On Sept. 9, Obama’s State Department wrongly criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s valid and accurate explanation that the Palestinian Arab leadership’s repeated demand for a state with “no Jews” constituted “ethnic cleansing.”

In sum, there are good reasons to believe the ground is being prepared for a major change of U.S. policy, and major U.S. betrayal of Israel at the U.N., perhaps after the November elections.

Obama’s refusal to veto a potential U.N. resolution unilaterally establishing or laying out borders or other parameters for a Palestinian Arab state would sabotage any chance of IsraeliPalestinian negotiations and peace.

As former President Lyndon Johnson wisely said, “We are not the ones to say where other nations should draw lines between them that will assure each the greatest security. . . . [L] ines must be agreed to by the neighbors involved.”

The U.S. Congress can and should play a decisive role here.

It can pass legislation mandating a cutoff of U.S. funding for the U.N. and the Palestinian Authority if the Obama administration permits a Palestinian state resolution to pass in the Security Council. This could stop a devastating U.N. resolution, which would endanger the only tiny Jewish state in the world, and its eight million inhabitants.

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Wanted: A Superman who ‘confronts his Jewish roots’

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By Gabe Friedman, JTA The Jewish history of Superman is well known. Jewish writer Jerry Siegel — who cocreated the iconic comic book character with Jewish illustrator Joe Shuster — once said he conceived of Superman after reading about the “slaughter of helpless, oppressed Jews” in Nazi Europe.

The character’s original name from his home planet of Krypton is Kal-El, which sounds very Hebrew (the Hebrew suffix “El,” which comes at the end of many biblical names, like Rachel or Daniel, is an ancient word for G-d). And in one of the earliest Superman comics, the Man of Steel fulfills a very Jewish fantasy: He captures both Hitler and Stalin and brings them to the League of Nations, where they are tried for war crimes.

More recent iterations of the Superman franchise haven’t alluded to these and other Jewish roots, but famed comic book writer Frank Miller wants to change that.

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such influential series as “Sin City,” “300” and “The Dark Knight Returns,” told Inverse at New York’s Comic-Con on Friday that Superman needs to “confront his Jewish roots again.”

“He has a history in World War II, and I’d like to put him there again,” Miller said, alluding to Siegel’s origin story. “Superman needs to confront his Jewish roots, and I’d like to write that. I’d like to have him face a death camp.”

Miller is often credited with introducing the darker style and tone typical of most modern superhero narratives. His popular work on “The Dark Knight” — his characterization of Batman as a conflicted, haunted crime fighter — is typical of his bringing adult themes to the world of comic books.

Miller has created stories around Superman, but without the depth he says he brought to Batman. If Miller decides to focus on a Superman narrative, it seems like it could be full of Jewish history.

U.S. rips attack that killed 2 JERUSALEM (JTA) — The State Department condemned “in the strongest possible terms” a terrorist attack in Jerusalem that left two people dead.

“There is absolutely no justification for the taking of innocent lives. We also condemn the statements glorifying this reprehensible and cowardly attack.”

The statement came hours after the Pal-

estinian assailant shot and killed at least one person at the Ammunition Hill light rail station in northern Jerusalem, and then continued his shooting spree as police pursued him. Officers ultimately shot and killed the assailant.

The United Nations Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov also condemned the attack.

63 olim arrive from Ethiopia JERUSALEM (JTA) — Sixty-three immigrants from Ethiopia made their long-awaited arrival in Israel.

The newcomers, the first from the African nation in three years, were surrounded by family members from the Ethiopian-Israeli community after they touched down at Ben Gurion International Airport on Sunday night.

Some 9,000 Ethiopians who claim Jewish descent, or Falash Mura, remain in the African country awaiting their opportunity to come to Israel. About 100 new Ethiopian immigrants are expected to arrive each month.

In 2013, Israel’s Interior Ministry approved the immigration of the remaining Falash Mura,

and the Knesset last November unanimously approved a plan to bring them over following a public campaign launched by the nation’s Ethiopian community and volunteer organizations. But the plan did not deal with the finances, which include the long-term costs of acclimating the immigrants. An agreement to find money in the budget for the aliyah of the Falash Mura was signed in April.

The Falash Mura claim links to descendants of Jews who converted to Christianity generations ago but now seek to return to Judaism. The Interior Ministry accepts them as immigrants under the Law of Return, which is less restrictive than halacha.

No Syria analogy: Shoah survivor KAZAN, Russia (JTA) — A prominent Israeli Holocaust survivor from Poland who lived through World War II as a refugee in Russia spoke out about what he called “demagogues who falsely compare persecuted Jews to migrants from Syria.”

Natan Rom, 87, is among the best-known survivors of the group of refugees known as the Tehran Children.

“The Muslim migrants arriving to Europe are for the most part not refugees but

job seekers who belong to what is de facto an invasion,” Rom, nee Norbert Kurtzman, told JTA after the Russia premiere of the film “The Children of Tehran” in the city of Kazan during its Limmud FSU conference of Jewish learning.

“The attempts to pass off the new arrivals, people who in many cases participated in a murderous civil war, as refugees and then to liken their experiences to what Holocaust survivors had to endure is false,” said Rom.

(JNS) — A rabbi who was severely beaten at a Ukrainian train station has been airlifted to Israel where he remains in serious but stable condition.

Rabbi Mendel Deitsch, a longtime Chabad emissary in France and more recently Israel, was attacked at the central train station in the Ukrainian city of Zhitomir early Friday.

Chabad said the attack was apparently carried out by a “group of drunks” and was motived by theft and not anti-Semitism.

“It should be noted that this is an unusual case that does not in any way reflect on the community in Ukraine,” said Rabbi Shlomo Wilhelm, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Zhitomir.

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Iran and Syria… Teachers…

Continued from page 1 Now the deal has become a front-and-center issue, and while Trump still is not specific on whether he would scrap the agreement altogether or attempt to renegotiate it, it is nearing the top of his to-do list.

Hillary Clinton mentioned Iran, in passing.

Clinton’s main foreign policy thrust was to remind viewers of Trump’s coziness with Russian President Vladimir Putin and present herself as a tougher alternative. She mentioned the Iran deal as a means of showing that she is capable of cooperating with Russia, while confronting it as well.

“It’s how we got the sanctions on Iran that put a lid on the Iranian nuclear program without firing a single shot,” she said of her role as secretary of state in getting a reluctant Russia on board with the sanctions regime.

The Democrat’s notation was not the seven robust mentions her running mate gave the deal in last week’s debate. Kaine, who is close to J Street, a left-wing group critical of Israeli policies and that backed the deal, was instrumental in shepherding the agreement through Congress.

Clinton instead has emphasized her role in setting up the sanctions regime and has also sought to present herself as more of a hawk than President Obama. The latest dump of hacked Clinton-related emails includes one from an adviser, Stuart Eizenstat, counseling just such a distancing on the Iran deal last year.

“Hillary cannot oppose the agreement given her position as the president’s secretary of state and should urge its approval by Congress,” Eizenstat said in an email to Clinton’s top foreign policy adviser, Jake Sullivan. “But she can and should point out concerns with it. … More broadly, she should appear more muscular in her approach than the president’s.”

Did Trump just hand Syria to Iran?

Trump delivered a rambling and at times inchoate response when a moderator asked him what he would do to stop the carnage in Syria.

One clear takeaway: He does not want to confront the regime of Bashar Assad, which is principally responsible for the nearly 500,000 lives lost in the civil war that has ravaged the country since 2011. Instead, he said, the United States should solely be focused on hitting the Islamic State terrorist group. Trump said, as he has in the past, that Russia should be a partner in that enterprise. He also said he outright disagreed with Pence, his running mate, who last week said the United States should hit Assad’s military if Russia continues to slam civilians with airstrikes.

More alarmingly for Israel, Trump appeared to say that Syria is otherwise a lost cause and should be left to Assad and his allies, Russia and Iran.

“I think you have to knock out ISIS,” he said.

“Right now, Syria is fighting ISIS. We have people that want to fight both at the same time. But Syria is no longer Syria. Syria is Russia and it’s Iran.”

Israel sees few good outcomes in the Syrian war. One of the worst, though, is leaving Iran, its deadliest regional enemy, indefinitely in place on its northern border.

The Syria exchange provided a notable mo-

ment for Clinton as well. Not only did she robustly differentiate herself from Obama, counseling a no-fly zone and increasing arms and training for some rebels, the sole moment she interrupted Trump (he interrupted her 18 times, according to Vox) was when he charged that she was with Obama when he violated his “line in the sand” pledge to use the military to hit Assad should his regime use chemical weapons. Assad crossed that line and Obama blinked in 2013.

Clinton pointed out that she was no longer secretary of state in 2013. “I was gone,” she said.

“I hate to interrupt you, but at some point we needed to do some fact checking.”

Ears were perked up. Was Donald whistling?

Trump, whose mentor was Roy Cohn, a counsel to the red-baiting Wisconsin Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s, has exhibited a McCarthy-like penchant for guilt by association.

Many of the associations he cited Sunday evening were Jewish. Among them: Sidney Blumenthal, Clinton’s longtime friend, whom Trump (again) falsely blamed for having “started” the so-called birther rumor that Obama was born in Kenya — a rumor that Trump more than anyone else perpetuated (one mention); Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Democratic National Committee chairwoman forced out when hacked emails revealed her antipathy toward Clinton’s primaries rival, Bernie Sanders (two mentions); financier, philanthropist and Democratic Party donor George Soros, cited by Trump as, like him, a rich guy who takes advantage of tax loopholes (two mentions), and Goldman Sachs, the Jewish-founded bank that paid Clinton top dollar for her speeches (one mention).

Was Trump’s following among anti-Semites within the alt-right paying attention? Jewish Twitter sure was and, like the notorious Star of David tweet and the Pepe the Frog meme, Trump may have been passing along names and themes that mean more to the alt-right than he is aware of or is willing to acknowledge.

On the other hand, Trump did not start the false rumor about Blumenthal and the Kenya birth; Wasserman Schultz was indeed DNC chairwoman, and her “victim,” in Trump’s narrative, Sanders, also is Jewish; Trump mentioned the non-Jewish billionaire Warren Buffett, another Clinton backer, when he brought up Soros, and while Goldman Sachs is only one of a number of banks that hosted Clinton, the most salient leaks in the recent batch of hacked emails were from her appearance at an event hosted by Lloyd Blankfein, the bank’s CEO. The moderators asked Clinton about her comment last month at a fundraiser that half of Trump’s followers were “deplorables” motivated by race hatred, among other factors.

“My argument is not with his supporters,” she said. “It’s with him and with the hateful and divisive campaign that he has run, and the inciting of violence at his rallies, and the very brutal kinds of comments about not just women, but all Americans, all kinds of Americans. And what he has said about African-Americans and Latinos, about Muslims, about POWs, about immigrants, about people with disabilities, he’s never apologized for.”

Trump countered that “she has tremendous hate in her heart.”

Continued from page 1 treat another child, to make fun of a child who isn’t as quick, who looks a little funny or talks a little weird, who has a disability of some kind? Do our children not recognize that the child in question is a human being, created in the image of G-d, who is loved by his or her family?

Of course our children (hopefully) have a different attitude when then go to a HASC or YACHAD program; they understand that these kids (or adults) are “different.” But in a mainstream school, the idea that “if you can’t take the pressure (from other kids) get lost and stay there” cannot fly.

Teachers are imperfect humans with lots of kids in their classes. When children disrespect the humanity of the teacher, make fun of the teacher, or say or do things knowing that the teacher cannot do anything about it, this is a moral failing in their upbringing. remember saying as a child at the end of school years, “no more pencils no more books, no more teachers dirty looks” and “no more chimmesh no more mishnayis, no more rebbes with longeh payis.”

I was just repeating what other kids said.

But the idea that these chants would even make it around our schools shows a simple disregard for people, and for the concept of learning in general.

I find it odd that any of us look at vacation days as “vacation from Judaism” days. Boys leave their tefillin in school (what do they do Sunday if there’s no school?). I know one father who bought his son a second pair of tefillin — one to leave in school, and one to have at home for when school was off. It’s a solution, but it also removes responsibility from the child.

A few parting thoughts.

First, the Seforno, which we’ll have to unfortunately reject. He says that you have to instruct your children “at the end of your life as you write in your will to your children all of these things, that they should observe to guard their souls, lest they become corrupt.”

As we all know, if we wait until the end of our lives to instruct our children, by that time they may be too far away or completely lost.

More poignantly, Midrash Tanaim suggests Moshe is saying, “Just as I give you credit for

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vided Shabbat meals to local residents, makeshift shelters for students, and offered use of a Chabad House generator for those who needed power for medical equipment.

The Jewish Federations of North America started a nationwide emergency relief campaign.

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is helping hundreds of hurricane victims in Haiti by providing hygiene kits,

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Bi-partisan bill would sharpen eye on Europe anti-Semitism WASHINGTON (JNS) — A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation last week that seeks to bolster the U.S. government’s monitoring on anti-Semitic incidents in Europe and how European governments are combating the issue.

New York Democratic Repsentatives Nita Lowey, Eliot Engel and Steve Israel joined Florida Democrat Ted Deutch and Republicans Chris Smith (R-NJ), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Kay Granger (R-Texas) and Peter Roskam (R-IL).

Jewish groups rush aid to Matthew victims Jewish organizations across the United States dispatched aid to victims of Hurricane Matthew, which left at least 17 people dead in the southeastern U.S. and killed hundreds in the Caribbean.

Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries in communities in North Carolina and Florida prepared disaster plans as soon as evacuations were ordered on Thursday and Friday ahead of the storm.

Over the weekend, Chabad volunteers pro-

following the Torah following my example, you should be complimentary to your children for following the Torah after your example.”

Alshikh says, “This is in your nature, and it is for your benefit.”

Explaining Moshe’s thought process, he says that “Moshe wanted to give merits to the Israelites by giving them the chance to teach their children.”

“Every Jewish person’s soul is naturally inclined to connect with G-d and His Torah, and as long as that connection remains the person can truly live,” Alshikh continues (in a loose translation). “After telling the song of Haazinu to the people, much of which is negative and deflating visions of the future, Moshe felt the people needed a pick-me-up. So he spoke to them using a tone of love. Beginning with an image of rain falling, which causes grass to grow, then dew which helps the grass sustain itself without the rain, this is what the Torah is supposed to be for a person. Rain needs to be pounded in — the Torah needs to be pushed through the blood of the child, sometimes with real struggle — so that the grass can grow. Once the grass grows, the child can sustain himself with the tools that have sent it in the proper path and direction.” hat this means, simply, is that, considering the emphasis we put on commandments between Man and G-d and between men, there are conversations we should be having with our children on a regular basis. Here are some topics: •Why it’s wrong to steal •Why being racist is a vile character trait •How we have to treat ALL people with respect, even if they’re different from us, and especially if they’re our siblings or parents •To greet everyone with a kind word and smiling countenance •To stand for the elderly under every circumstance •How to have empathy for others •How to stand up for the mistreated.

Make your own list. It is our job — not to be pawned off to anyone. And the way we do all of this is by modeling by example and practicing what we preach.

Contact Rabbi Avi Billet: Columnist@TheJewishStar.com

water purification tablets and dispatched its veteran disaster relief experts and emergency field medics to help with emergency care.

“As the death toll in Haiti continues to rise, our efforts to aid the hardest-hit communities are vital as needs like shelter, food, water, medicine and medical services have dramatically increased,” said Mandie Winston, director of JDC’s International Development Program.

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The bill, which builds on previous legislation passed in 2015 that called for greater U.S. cooperation with Europe on anti-Semitism, asks for the “continued and enhanced reporting on antiSemitic incidents in Europe, safety and security of European Jewish Communities, and the efforts of the United States to partner with European entities to combat anti-Semitism.”

“It’s shocking that in the 21st century, antiSemitism is gaining strength across Europe,” the taskforce co-chairs said in a statement. “From taunts and threats on the street, to violent attacks in schools and synagogues, to governments amplifying anti-Semitic voices and messages, such as leaders in Hungary giving a prestigious state award to anti-Semitic writer Zsolt Bayer, many European Jews are being forced to reconsider whether there is still a future for them in their countries.

“This is unacceptable, and we will continue to call on leaders across Europe to speak out against this growing problem, strengthen partnerships with Jewish communities to help them develop safety standards, and foster cultures that respect diversity and inclusion of all minority groups, including Jews.”

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Touro opens new dental school Touro College has inaugurated its new college of dental medicine, the state’s first new dental school in nearly half a century.

“Touro College of Dental Medicine at New York Medical College will fill a void in dental education and improve access to oral health care, particularly in underserved rural and urban communities throughout the region,” said Alan Kadish, M.D., president

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STAR SCHOOLS Shulamith visits farm in Queens First graders of the Shulamith School for Girls in Cedarhurst traveled to Green Meadows Farm in Queens where they enjoyed a hay ride, rode the ponies, milked the cows and fed the goats. Each girl also picked a pumpkin to take home.

The girls were chaperoned by their teachers, Mrs. Judy Greenfield and Mrs. Masha Hoffman, and by parents Mrs. Hirsch, Mrs. Hirth, Mrs. Romer, and Mrs. Taub.

In Touro’s Simulation Lab, three of the inaugural class’ 111 students (from left): Alaina Edelmuth of Chicago, Malka Stahler of Lawrence, and Leora Rosenwald of Manhattan and Lawrence.

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of Touro College and University System.

Opening on Touro’s NYMC campus in Westchester, the dental college “introduces another institution that benefits from and contributes to the collaborative and synergistic community of students on the campus,” said Edward C. Halperin, M.D., M.A., NYMC chancellor and CEO and Touro College and University System provost for Biomedical Affairs.

The school’s 100,000 square feet includes innovative equipment, a 112-seat simulation lab, 132-chair clinic facility divided into eight clinical practice units, a pediatric dentistry clinic, an oral and maxillofacial surgery clinic, multiple student workrooms, two 120-seat auditoriums, a library, exercise facility, and foot student lounge.

DRS merit honors

To prepare its students for an ever-changing landscape, Great Neck’s Silverstein Hebrew Academy has implemented several forward-thinking initiatives including: A coding course; utilization of ScootPad, online learning platform; and parent participation in SHA technology through ParentLocker.

The DRS Yeshiva High School for Boys in Woodmere extends a mazel tov to seniors Dovi Schlossberg and Chaim Alper on their being recognized as National Merit Scholarship Commendees, and to Evan Goldstein on his recognition as a National Merit Scholarship semi-finalist.

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With the Yomim Tovim approaching, students of the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls in Hewlett Bay Park spent a day doing acts of chesed all over the New York area. Each class played a different role at one of several venues. This picture is from a poster promoting the students’ chesed actiities.

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Ninth and tenth graders at the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County in Uniondale participated in the school’s annual Pre-Rosh Hashana Chesed Day. Girls traveled to Brooklyn to assist at the Masbia Soup Kitchen in Flatbush; boys went to Staten Island to assist in a cleanup of the Hebrew Free Burial Society Cemetery at Silver Lake, clearing leaves, twigs and other debris from the cemetery grounds.

Boys who are Kohanim were unable to participate in the cemetery cleanup and instead accompanied Rabbi Nafi Orlofsky (also a Kohain) to the Five Towns JCC to assist in the Holocaust Survivors Program.

They helped serve lunch to the senior citizens and exercised and schmoozed with them.

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It’s a sukkah by the sea at HALB

HANC girls code HALB’s Sukkah was filled with song as children enjoyed a Kumsitz and nosh by the ocean, the sounds of music accompanied by crashing waves.Rebbeim and morot danced with their talmidim and talmidot and Mr. Altabe described the Sukkah’s importance and why we spend time outdoors – even if it is chilly outside.

Sixth graders at HANC’s Samuel and Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School in West Hempstead are preparing for the future by learning how to code.

Here, two girls are learning to build a robot with Legos that has a sensor attached to it. The students tested their creations on the floor of the Science Lab.

More space for tefilla at Darchei’s middle school

By Benzion Kaplan The talmidim, rabbeim and menahalim of Yeshiva Darchei Torah’s Middle School rejoiced as they moved into their newly-expanded shul.

With music and dancing, they carried the Sifrei Torah back from the Diamond Beis Medrash (where the Middle School had been davening temporarily) to the Kaufman Ezras Nashim, which is now more than double the size of the original room and features a beautiful hard floor and large windows that provide abundant natural light.

Rav Yaakov Bender (left), Rosh HaYeshiva; and Rav Dovid Frischman, menahel of the Middle School; addressed the talmidim. Later, Mr. and Mrs. Uri Kaufman, parents in the yeshiva and the dedicators of the Ezras Nashim, visited the new space. Mr. Kaufman (right) spoke passionately about his parentsin-law, Rabbi and Mrs. Aaron Schreiber, in whose memory the Ezras Nashim was dedicated. He mentioned that his late father-in-law was a distinguished talmid chacham as well as a law professor, and that Maran Rav Elya Svei zt”l, the Rosh Yeshiva of Philadelphia, used to stand up for him out of respect.

The expansion of the shul was necessitated by the continued growth in student enrollment at the Far Rockaway school.

Blind man’s story at YCQ

DRS Magen David winners

Last year’s DRS Varsity Basketball team finished with an unprecedented 33-0 record, winning the Yeshiva League, Saracheck, Scott Satran, and Magen David tournaments. This year the team began by winning the Magen David Invitational Pre-Season tournament, extending the streak to 36-0.

By Moishe Rechester Grade 8 students at Yeshiva of Central Queens were privileged on Oct. 5, with a visit from a former YCQ student, Rabbi Lavi Greenspan. He described what led to his blindness at the age of 26, the struggles he went through, and what he has accomplished during his journey.

After graduating from YCQ, Rabbi Greenspan continued his education at Yeshivah of Flatbush, Yeshiva University and eventually at Fordham Law School.

Shortly after he started law school, he began experienced some health problems which led him to a diagnosis of Cushing’s Disease and the finding of a benign tumor right below his brain requiring two surgeries to remove it.

The first was a nine-hour open-head surgery and the second, a six-hour operation through his nose. He says, “I owe tremendous gratitude to Ha’Kadosh Baruchu that they were successful.” After recovery, he returned to law school.

A few months later, his doctor found a cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) leak requiring an-

other operation. Though his doctor said it was successful, that was not the case; yet again he headed to the hospital for another operation.

During one summer, he underwent four operations, and though he had some vision issues, the doctors said his vision would not be 20/20, but it would be restored over time and thankfully he was able to see just fine.

Several months later Rabbi Greenspan found another problem as a result of the surgeries and See Blind man on page 30

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Shortcuts for a spectacular Sukkot holiday meal

By Shannon Sarna, JTA By the time Sukkot arrives, we are three weeks into nonstop Jewish holiday mode.

Some people might be a little tired of cooking, and I don’t blame them one bit.

But Sukkot is probably my favorite holiday of the season to cook for. I love sitting outdoors in the brisk autumn air enjoying harvest-inspired dishes with friends and family.

Even so, I understand how slaving away in the kitchen can get tiresome — especially when there are so many dishes to wash.

That’s when it’s time to employ cooking shortcuts. Tricks like store-bought puff pastry, frozen veggies and one-pot dishes will save you time on Sukkot without sacrificing a stitch of flavor.

Spiced Squash and Lamb Bourekas

Yield: 10 to 12 servings Bourekas are an easy appetizer to throw together using store-bought puff pastry. If you don’t like ground lamb, substitute ground beef. You can also make a vegetarian version by using tofu or feta cheese with the squash.

Ingredients: 2 sheets store-bought puff pastry, left to thaw at room temperature for around 30 minutes 1/2 pound ground lamb 2 cups cooked pureed or mashed butter-

nut squash (can also use sweet potato or frozen butternut squash) 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 small onion 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin 1/2 teaspoon ground coriander 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon Pinch red pepper flakes 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 egg beaten for glaze Sesame seeds, nigella seeds or poppy seeds (optional) Directions: Heat olive oil in a sauté pan over medium heat. Sauté onion until translucent. Add spices to pan and cook until toasted, around 1 minute. Add ground lamb and cook until no longer pink, breaking up into small pieces with a wooden spoon as you cook. Remove from heat and allow to cool slightly.

Combine butternut squash and lamb mixture in a medium bowl. Preheat oven to 375 F. Roll out each sheet of puff pastry. Cut each sheet into 9 even squares.

Using a rolling pin, roll out each square slightly. Scoop 1 heaping tablespoon of the lamb/squash mixture into the corner of each square. Fold puff pastry over filling, forming a triangle.

Using the tines of a fork, crimp the edges. Repeat with second sheet of puff pastry.

Brush each boureka with beaten egg. Top with sesame seeds, nigella seeds or poppy seeds, if desired.

Bake 18-22 minutes, until golden on top.

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Yield: 4 to 6 servings This one-pot wonder can be made one to two days ahead of time and reheated for guests. If you don’t like sweet potato, you can substitute carrots, butternut squash or even pumpkin. For more spice, add spicy paprika or red pepper flakes. Because the chicken and veggies are all cooked in the same pot, the rice is super flavorful and will feed a crowd.

Roasted carrots with tahini, mint and pistachios

By Shannon Sarna, JTA

There’s something about carrots at the farmers market that I find utterly addictive. I can’t pass by without buying them, especially when they still have their beautiful green stems. They just get me every time.

Which is why I love when I come up with a recipe to use these beauties. And this Roasted Carrots with Tahini, Mint and Pistachios recipe is as addictive as those beautiful carrots.

If you love tahini, you will love this recipe. There is a sweet and savory component: The carrots get sweet from roasting, while the tahini adds a nutty richness. Brightened with fresh mint and crunchy pistachios, it’s as beautiful as it is delicious.

Oh, and it’s incredibly simple to throw together. Serve it with some simple salmon on a weeknight, or with fancier entrees for guests on Shabbat or the holidays.

Roasted Carrots With Tahini, Mint And Pistachios Ingredients: 2 pounds whole carrots, peeled 2 tablespoons olive oil 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin 1/2 teaspoon ground coriander salt and pepper

1/3 cup tahini (or more) 2 tablespoons fresh mint leaves 2 tablespoons unsalted pistachios, chopped fine Directions: Preheat oven to 400 F. Place carrots on a baking sheet. Drizzle with olive oil, cumin, coriander, salt and pepper. Mix to coat evenly. Cook for 25-35 minutes, until slightly browned and crispy on tips.

Remove from oven. Drizzle with tahini, fresh mint and chopped pistachios.

Note: If not serving right away, wait to drizzle with tahini, mint and pistachios until serving.

Shannon Sarna is editor of TheNosher.com, where this piece was originally published.

Apples and Pears Streusel Crumble

Ingredients: 6–8 chicken thighs, skin left on 1 tablespoon paprika 1 teaspoon dried oregano 1 teaspoon dried thyme 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon pepper 1-2 tablespoons olive oil 1 sweet potato, peeled and diced 1 large onion 2 celery ribs, diced 3 garlic cloves, minced 3 cups white or brown rice 2 1/2 cups vegetable or chicken stock 2 cups water 8-10 ounces mixed frozen vegetables Directions: Combine paprika, oregano, thyme, salt and pepper. Rub spice mixture onto the skin and underside of each chicken thigh.

Heat olive oil over medium high heat in a large pot or Dutch oven. Sear chicken, skin side down, for 5 minutes, until chicken has browned slightly. Remove chicken from pan.

Add another tablespoon of olive oil. Sauté sweet potato 2 minutes, stirring continuously. Add onion and celery and cook another 5 minutes, stirring and scraping brown bits off bottom of pan. Add garlic and cook another 2 minutes.

Add rice to pan and stir with veggies and oil to coat. Add stock and water and bring to a boil. Add 1/4 teaspoon salt.

Place chicken back into pan. Cover pot and reduce heat to low. Cook 25 minutes, then add frozen veggies to pot. Cook another 5-7 minutes, until rice is cooked and all liquid has evaporated. Fluff rice and serve.

Yield: 6 to 8 servings This crumble is delicious all year, but it’s especially tasty when apples and pears are in season. By adding dried cherries, you get a pop of color and bright tartness.

The addictive crumble topping is perfect whether you make it pareve or dairy.

Ingredients: For the fruit: 4 medium apples, peeled and diced 3 pears, peeled and diced 1/3 cup dried cherries (can also substitute dried cranberries or raisins) 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 1/4 cup sugar 1 tablespoon flour 1 teaspoon cinnamon Pinch salt For the streusel: 1/4 cup sugar 1/3 cup brown sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon vanilla 1/2 cup (1 stick) margarine or unsalted butter, melted 1 1/3 cups all-purpose unbleached flour Directions: Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease an 8-by-8inch square pan.

Place apples and pears in a large bowl.

Add cherries, lemon juice, sugar and flour.

Mix well and set aside.

In another medium bowl, combine the white sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt and vanilla. Stir in the melted butter and then flour. Mix until resembles coarse crumbs that stick together slightly.

Pour fruit mixture into prepared pan.

Crumble streusel topping all over the fruit in an even layer.

Bake 45-50 minutes, until topping is golden brown. Can be made 1 or 2 days ahead of time. Serve warm if desired.

Arugula sweet potato salad

By Amy Stopnick, JTA This is a perfect salad to eat for lunch on a weekday or as a first course for a brunch or even during a holiday.

It’s especially nice when served plated individually and topped with the sweet potatoes and cashews. (If you don’t have sweet potatoes you can replace them with sautéed red peppers.)

Arugula Sweet Potato Salad Ingredients For the salad: 2 cups cubed and roasted sweet potatoes 2 Belgian endives, cleaned and sliced thinly 6 cups baby arugula, cleaned 1⁄3 cup dried cranberries ½ cup cooked quinoa ½ cup chopped roasted cashews For the dressing: ¼ cup red wine vinegar ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil 1 tsp sugar salt and pepper to taste Directions In a large mixing bowl, combine all the salad ingredients except cashews.

In a small jar or bowl, combine all the

dressing ingredients.

Pour dressing over salad and toss well.

Add cashews and serve.

This recipe, published by TheNosher.com, is excerpted with permission from Kosher Taste.

Judy Joszef who’s in the kitchen

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ukkot is related to the way the Jewish people lived while wandering in the desert for 40 years, building tents called sukkot that sheltered them. In their wildest dreams, I don’t think they could have imagined what would have evolved from those simple tents. In my wildest dreams as a kid, I couldn’t have imagined the sukkot that are around today.

Living on 48th Street in Boro Park, my dad, with my brother helping, assembled our sukkah. My dad purchased the lumber from a lumberyard and my grandfather supplied beautiful cloth from his curtain and fabric store on the Lower East Side. Living on the third floor of a private house and having a large porch facing the front of the street, it was the perfect setting.

My dad was very handy, so our sukkah’s frame was sturdy and looked very professional. The heavy, beautiful brocade fabric made it one of a kind. The schach seemed like hundreds of bamboo poles, each one put on individually. There were no mats in those days.

Decorations were handmade.

I still remember the ones made of colorful paper strips taped together as rings and made into a long chain (come on, you all know what I’m talking about). We were so proud of those when they were finished. They were long enough to string from one side of the sukkah to the other. How proud we all were when our handiwork was up for all to see — that is until

it rained and they got soggy, started to unglue, and eventually ended up falling off in pieces.

Fast forward to the present. Sukkahs are now prefabricated and come as big or small as your heart desires. They’re made of a variety of materials, shapes, sizes and colors. Plastic grapes, small feathery birds, shiny metallic hanging decorations, and ears of corn are long gone. Today we can choose from either silk or live “flower balls” — a bargain starting at $50 each. Stores on the avenue are filled with decorations and the lines are out the door.

For those not creative, or short on time, you can have a decorator come in and decorate your entire sukkah. Walls can be draped with any material you like and decorations know no limit. That lone light bulb in the middle of sukkah can now be replaced with chandeliers that are modern or traditional.

Gone are the small folding tables, replaced by heavy-duty 5 x 12 foot banquet-sized tables (I’m guilty of that one).

When I married Jerry and three kids became seven, with three of them married, my 10 x 12 sukkah was not going to work. My mother-in-law generously treated us to a 12 x 20 sukkah. Jerry warned me that he wasn’t handy. I’d take “not very handy,” but we’re talking downright, absolutely bumbling and clueless when pertaining to technological, mechanical or anything practical. Except of course changing the air conditioner filters — he was so proud when he mastered that one!

When the sukkah arrived, he said my boys would have to put it together. The first — and last — one he assembled took all day and when he walked around it to admire his accomplishment he was puzzled as to why all the writing on the walls was on the outside and not the inside. It’s not easy to build a suk-

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Though times have changed, it’s still a favorite yom tov of most people, especially the kids. Let’s not forget those sukkah hops. When my son, Daniel, was eight, he came home with two huge Gourmet Glatt bags filled with snacks.

“Who gave you those bags?” I asked. “I took the bags from home and just dumped the plates with snacks into them. Cool, huh?” he replied. To this day there is a rule at the Young Israel of Woodmere sukkah hops: NO BAGS ALLOWED, JUST WHAT YOU CAN EAT IN THE SUKKAH. Sorry kids.

Whether you’re home for sukkot, at relatives, or slumming it in a five star hotel in Israel, have a chag sameach!

Here is a wonderful and creative appetizer you can serve in your sukkah. My friend Smadar Meer recently gave it to me. I loved it, and I’m sure you will, as well.

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“We had many meetings with like-minded organizations the results of which will bear fruit in the coming months,” said Dovi Maisel, senior vice president of international operations of United Hatzalah.

“We hope that via these meetings United Hatzalah and United Rescue together with our partnering organizations will be at the forefront of innovative, technological, lifesaving solutions at the operational and community levels.”

The exposure that the two sister organizations received due to the expo was first-rate.

“The conference allowed us to not only teach others about the techniques we de-

veloped in responding to mass casualty incidents (MCIs) and terror attacks, but it also allowed all of the organizations there to learn from one another, to share ideas and to generate new and innovative solutions for the challenges faced by all EMS responders across the world,” Maisel added.

“The level of experience that we have in Israel in dealing with terror attacks and MCIs is unfortunately very extensive, and that makes us unique. We used the conference as an opportunity to share the knowledge and expertise that we have accumulated with others in the hopes that should they ever need it, they will be better equipped to handle these types of situations.”

Shai Jaskoll, director of international operations for United Rescue, said after the event that “it was amazing to share ideas with EMS leaders from across the globe.”

“The idea of how we implement the CBEC (Community based emergency caregiver)

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The effect that his dream is having on the worldwide community is getting stronger and is saving lives.”

Maisel and Jaskoll gave lectures about Israeli innovations in the field of EMS at the conference. The topic of the lectures was “The Paradigm Shift in EMS and Creating the Community’s Role in Emergency Response and Disaster Preparedness.”

Jaskoll said that the audience received the lectures with open arms and was truly excited by the idea of community involvement in life-saving.“The message was that people don’t have to rely only on traditional “topdown” methods of emergency response. The

idea of enhancing community involvement and increasing cooperation with existing emergency response infrastructure will have a direct impact on quality of life, health and community resiliency.”

In reflecting on the messages of the conference Jaskoll added that “I gained a new understanding about how it really doesn’t make a difference what country or state people come from.

“Over 45 countries were represented at the conference and everyone here has a desire to help others. People are people, the desire to help save lives, to improve the quality of life, and improve response times is international.

“Our innovation is to set about improving response times by enabling the community to work more closely with EMS personnel and take responsibility for saving lives. Helping spread Eli Beer’s life-saving vision around the globe is humbling and exciting.”

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as anti-Zionism.

The State Department provides excellent guidance on how to determine when criticism of Israel becomes anti-Semitism. Demonizing Israel by comparing it to Nazi Germany and denying Israel’s right to exist are examples of contemporary anti-Semitism, according to the U.S. government guidelines. University leaders should be using the government’s definition to help students — and especially SJP, which denies that anti-Zionism is antiSemitism — understand that anti-Semitism is more than a swastika or an ethnic slur, and that every form of Jew-hatred is hurtful and dangerous.

Northeastern’s president took such steps.

After the ZOA letter alerting him to the harassment and intimidation that Jewish students were facing both in and out of the classroom, he made it crystal clear at his State of the University address before an audience of thousands that there would be “zero tolerance for anti-Semitism” on his campus. In addition, faculty were reminded in writing that students must be able to express their views without fear of reprisal.

Similarly, after the ZOA filed a Title VI action against Brooklyn College challenging how it responded when Jewish students were unjustifiably ejected by an SJP member from a 2013 anti-Israel event, the college president repaired some of the damage. She issued a public statement to the community, apologizing to the Jewish students by name, and acknowledging and explaining the wrongdoing by college employees and the SJP member, whom she also named.

Teaching about anti-Semitism Third, universities should have mandatory educational programs about anti-Semitism, using the State Department’s definition as guidance. These should not be just for students. Administrators, faculty and staff also need to appreciate what anti-Semitism is today and that on campus, it typically includes vicious attacks on Israel.

Finally, universities must investigate where student groups are getting their outside support and funding. In April, former U.S. Treasury Department terrorism analyst Jonathan Schanzer testified at a congressional briefing and documented that at least seven leaders and supporters of American Muslims for Palestine were officials of American “charities” that were implicated in funneling money to the U.S.-designated terrorist group Hamas. Schanzer described American Muslims for Palestine as “arguably the most important sponsor and organizer for SJP,” providing its chapters’ speakers, training and printed materials, including a so-called “Apartheid Wall” display that is the centerpiece of many SJP protests. It goes without saying that student groups must not have ties to terrorism.

CUNY’s investigative report confirmed numerous anti-Semitic incidents and SJP’s responsibility for many of them. It acknowledged that Jewish students feel threatened and are even afraid to identify openly as Jewish. Yet it made no recommendations, suggested no consequences and held no one accountable.

Let’s hope that CUNY’s recently appointed working group on these issues, and leaders at other universities, incorporate at least these four steps, which will help make them a safer and more tolerant place to learn.

Morton A. Klein is national president of the Zionist Organization of America. Susan B. Tuchman is the director of the ZOA’s Center for Law and Justice.

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The report confirmed that anti-Semitism is a serious problem at CUNY, causing Jewish students to feel threatened and unsafe. But it disappointingly failed to recommend how to address the problem.

Four steps are crucial — not only at CUNY, but also at the many other universities where Jewish students are being targeted.

In fact, remedial steps are required under federal law. With bipartisan congressional support, the ZOA led a successful six-year battle to ensure that Jewish students would be protected from anti-Semitic harassment and intimidation under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. Title VI requires federally funded schools to provide Jewish students with a learning environment that is both physically and emotionally safe.

Making and enforcing rules First, that means administrators must enforce their own rules of conduct and hold violators accountable. They don’t hesitate to do so when other groups are targeted, even when the wrongdoing is limited to hateful and offensive speech.

For example, at the University of Oklahoma, after members of a fraternity were caught on video chanting the “N word” and referring to lynching, the university president immediately expelled two fraternity leaders, disciplined over 20 other students and shut down the fraternity.

At Yale, after fraternity members chanted “No means yes!” and added a further vulgarity, the fraternity was suspended for five years and individual students were punished for violating university rules against harassment, intimidation and “imperiling the integrity and values of the University community.”

CUNY has similar rules which affirm students’ right to advocate their pro-Israel views without fear of physical or verbal abuse from others who disagree, and that prohibit “any action or situation which recklessly or intentionally endangers mental or physical health.” The actions attributed to SJP in the report show that SJP violated these rules.

At the SJP-organized rally at Hunter College, for instance, protesters chanted “Jews out of CUNY” and “Death to Jews.” In recent years Jewish students at Brooklyn College have been harassed and threatened for disagreeing with SJP’s Israel-bashing views and for even refusing an SJP flier. CUNY’s SJP chapter should be suspended for its conduct, or at least be placed on supervised probation, in the same way that Northeastern University’s SJP chapter was after the ZOA alerted the president to anti-Semitism on his campus.

Condemning anti-Semitism Second, university leaders must clearly and forcefully condemn anti-Semitism whenever it occurs on campus, and they must condemn the perpetrators by name and shame them as a disgrace to the university community. That includes anti-Semitism expressed

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By Ben Sales, JTA Living in the Jewish mecca of Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Laurie Phillips was loath to uproot her family when her rent shot up two years ago. But in looking for housing around the city, Phillips was drawn to Harlem, both for its diverse culture and its spacious apartments.

Phillips now lives with her husband, stepson and dog in a brownstone building with a backyard near Marcus Garvey Park, in the heart of the city’s historically African-American quarter. She is one of a growing number of Jews moving to a neighborhood that a century ago boasted one of the largest Jewish communities in New York, perhaps even the world.

According to “The Jews of Harlem,” a soon-to-be-published book by Jeffrey Gurock, central Harlem’s Jewish population increased ninefold between 1990 and 2011 — from 300 to 2,700. As of 2011, Gurock wrote, Jews made up about 20 percent of central Harlem’s approximately 13,000 white residents and have launched a handful of Jewish initiatives, from independent prayer groups to an Israeli cafe. The neighborhood also boasts a Chabad center, which was founded nearly a decade ago, and a Hebrew-language charter school that opened in 2013.

“The return of Jews to Harlem is part of the gentrification of the city, in the same sense that young Jews have moved to new neighborhoods all over the city,” said Gurock, a professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University. “You walk 125th Street in the evening, you have all these cafes, bars and restaurants. Harlem is a little behind [in terms of gentrification], but growing immensely.”

According to Gurock, Harlem’s prior Jew-

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ish community included well-to-do Jews living in relatively large homes, as well as poorer families who were squeezed out of the Lower East Side. But after World War I, many Jews moved to newly constructed neighborhoods across the city, while AfricanAmericans, barred by racist policies, stayed in Harlem. At its peak in 1917, Harlem’s Jewish community numbered 175,000, a figure that plummeted over the next 60 years.

Today, some Harlem Jews depict their community as a growing hodgepodge of young families with varying beliefs and affiliations. Steven I. Weiss, whose family lived in the Manhattan Jewish neighborhoods of Washington Heights and the Lower East Side

before moving to Harlem in 2013, says the local Jewish community’s makeup is as if “you randomly chose Jewish families from the rest of New York and placed them here.”

“The lines get blurred,” he said. “It’s to a degree what you see in smaller towns, where people just get along with each other because they can’t choose their friends based on having a complete overlap of ideological and religious and cultural viewpoints.”

JCC Harlem plans to collaborate and provide space for local Jewish groups, but doesn’t want to take space from Harlem’s African-American community. To that end, JCC’s staff has embarked on a listening tour of sorts to hear how the center can work with

its black neighbors, and plans to encourage Jewish volunteers to work with community groups.

One store owner who hopes to benefit from the JCC is Alvin Lee Smalls, an AfricanAmerican man who has been baking cinnamon-nut rugelach since the 1960s and owns a small shop down the street from the JCC advertising “rugelach by a brother.” Smalls hopes the JCC will bring more customers, but worries that continued gentrification will push longtime black residents out of Harlem.

“What can we do?” he said. “It’s bad for all the people that were living around here that can’t afford the rent here, but for business it’s good.”

Smalls says gentrification hasn’t created strife between Harlem’s blacks and Jews. Another Harlem restaurateur, Sivan Baron, says if anything, she feels interracial relations are improving. Baron, an Israeli, is the proprietor of Silvana, an Israeli cafe (not kosher) near the JCC, and also owns a local French restaurant as well as a music venue.

Sitting in her bright cafe surrounded by the artisanal goods — like shoulder bags or scarves — she sells from around the world, Baron says she encountered some hostility when she first moved to Harlem. But now, many locals are used to the neighborhood’s changing demographics.

“I got all kinds of remarks — ‘Go back to where you came from’,” she recalled. “Today we’re open to everyone, and I have a lot of black American neighbors, and they come here to Silvana.”

But though her businesses are successful, Baron herself will soon be leaving the neighborhood. With prices rising, she and her husband are moving to a house in the Bronx.

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Worrisome future of MidEast religious minorities Ben Cohen Viewpoint

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ou have to wonder if the barbarians fighting under the flag of the Islamic State still believe that 72 virgins will be waiting for them in paradise once they become “martyrs.”

I say this not because the leaders and foot soldiers of ISIS have suddenly woken up to the possibility that this belief is based, according to several scholars, on a mistranslation of the relevant verse of the Qu’ran, but because they have already had a taste of that paradise here on earth, as a result of their campaign of genocide against the Yazidi religious minority in Iraq and Syria. One aspect of this horrific slaughter has been the kidnapping of thousands of Yazidi women and girls to serve as sexual slaves to these savages.

A recent report from the U.N. Human Rights Council — a body that spends most of its time condemning Israel for alleged human rights violations — sheds some light on both the scale and the nature of the genocide, which was ignored by the international community for far too long. The campaign against the Yazidis was launched by ISIS in August 2014, when its forces began an assault on the Yazidi villages in Sinjar, a district in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh. At least 5,000 Yazidis were killed during the genocide, while 3,200 women and children remain in ISIS captivity. About 70,000, estimated to make up 15 percent of the overall

Yazidi population, are reported to have fled Iraq. he stories related by the U.N. report will be depressingly familiar to anyone who has studied genocide over the last century. Men and boys are either executed or forcibly converted, while women and girls exist solely for the use and pleasure of ISIS terrorists. The manner of the persecution is gruesome. “After we were captured, ISIS forced us to watch them beheading some of our Yazidi men,” said one 16-year-old girl.

“They made the men kneel in a line in the street, with their hands tied behind their backs. The ISIS fighters took knives and cut their throats.”

Despite this reign of terror, the Yazidis have not been destroyed as a distinctive group. Before the ISIS attacks began, around 700,000 Yazidis are said to have lived in Iraq, the largest single concentration of the religion’s followers. Kurdish in terms of their ethnicity, the Yazidi faith is described by scholars as syncretic, which means it combines elements of other religions, including Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity and Islam. Based on that, it’s worth noting that ISIS isn’t the only Islamist group that regards the Yazidis as infidels. The theology of more

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mainstream Islamist groups, like the Muslim Brotherhood, assigns them a similar status.

Presently, the main focus for the Yazidis is the rescue of their women and girls from the clutches of ISIS. Often this is done through ransom payments, involving middlemen who collect huge sums from their families — one recently reunited family paid $34,000 for their two daughters — which are then paid to ISIS. What this illustrates is the need for greater physical security for the Yazidis, as well as for other religious minorities in the region, if and when ISIS is defeated. Without that concrete measure, continued religious and ethnic conflict in the Middle East will target vulnerable minorities.

For that reason, the decision of the Iraqi parliament on Oct. 4 to reject Yazidi and Assyrian Christian appeals for separate provinces should spark concern.

“The Iraqi people reject any decision that partitions the Nineveh province. The people of the city determine the destiny of their city in the post-Islamic State (IS) stage,” said Ahmed alJabra, a Sunni member of parliament, justifying the vote. Conveniently, for the Sunni Arab population, the vote also means that Yazidis and other minorities, who have been dispos-

Jews were only able to say ‘never again’ once we secured the means to prevent further persecution, in the form of the state of Israel. other religious minorities deserve no less.

sessed from the region, will be reluctant to come back. Viyan Dakhil, a Yazidi member of the Iraqi parliament, has already said that Yazidis will be wary of returning to the Nineveh province without significant changes in its administration.

It was Dakhil who first alerted the world to the slaughter of the Yazidis in 2014, when her emotional plea to the world to save her people went viral on the internet. In a speech earlier this year at the U.N. in Geneva, arranged by the dedicated staff of the U.N. Watch nongovernmental organization, Dakhil declared, “The international community has to support us, to call upon the U.N. Security Council to recognize what is happening to us as genocide, and to refer our case to the International Criminal Court.” And there are signs that process is in motion, with both the U.S. and British governments formally acknowledging that the Yazidis have experienced a genocide in the legal sense of the term.

What is worrying is that measures to protect the Yazidis from future brutalities have been set back by the Iraqi parliament decision. As Jews from Middle Eastern countries know only too well, being a minority in the midst of profound instability in Arab and Muslim societies is not a fate anyone would want. The only way to protect yourself is by exercising some significant degree of selfdetermination, including the right of selfdefense, secured by international guarantee.

After all, we Jews were only able to say “Never again” once we secured the means to prevent further persecution, in the form of the state of Israel. The other religious minorities of the Middle East deserve no less.

Ben Cohen, senior editor of TheTower.org

Two states, too quick: Why it’s a rush to danger stephen M. Flatow

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alestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas suffered chest pains last week and was rushed to a hospital in Ramallah. The episode was a reminder of the dangers and risks Israel will face if it heeds demands for

the quick creation of a Palestinian state.

In recent weeks, the S. Daniel Abraham Center has been sponsoring full-page ads in the New York Times calling for a Palestinian state. The Obama administration issued an overheated condemnation of Israel for approving the construction of a handful of houses for Jews, because that construction might interfere with the emergence of a Palestinian state. And there have been reports that the United Nations, perhaps with the support of President Obama, will soon issue

a new Palestinian statehood resolution.

Abbas is 81-years-old. His recent heart episode illustrated the fragility of his health.

And, at his age, if it’s not his heart, it will soon be something else. One of these days, and it won’t be long, he will no longer be physically able to govern the Palestinian Authority.

So, let’s imagine for a moment if Israel were to listen to Obama, the U.N. and S. Daniel Abraham and permit the creation of a fully sovereign Palestinian state. And then imagine if, shortly after signing a statehood

agreement with Israel, Abbas is incapacitated. What would follow?

There are, I think, two possibilities.

The most likely scenario is that the terror group Hamas would take over. It has the troops and weapons needed for a coup. They already defeated Abbas’s Fatah forces and took over Gaza nine years ago. And Hamas has widespread support among ordinary Palestinians, judging from the results of the few elections that Abbas permitted over the years.

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econds, then minutes. The boat overturned in the murky waters of the Yarkon River, trapping the woman who had been energetically rowing moments before. Even the air bubbles had ceased. A small crowd of onlookers gathered along the banks, watching and pointing, yet none seemed willing to brave the waters and attempt to rescue the woman whose life was in danger. It was not a raging river, nor were the waters particularly deep, nor wide; rather, it was well known that the waters were highly polluted and no one seemed willing to risk the potential illness that might result from entering the waters, even to save a life.

Finally, nearly four minutes after the woman had capsized, Avi Toibin, a 62-yearold passerby, realizing the stakes and, ignoring the danger, jumped in. He managed to wrest the woman’s now limp body from beneath the unforgiving waters, allowing for her evacuation to a nearby hospital where, for three days, it was unclear whether she would live or die.

Since that day in 2009, Yasmin Feingold, the 24-year-old Olympic kayaking champion, made a miraculous recovery, going on to win the national crew championship in 2010 and regain her title in the single Sculls in 2012.

She eventually met her savior, who was subsequently awarded the president’s decoration for his selfless bravery.

blame for every travail that befalls seemingly good people? Is anyone who suffers meant to be perceived as evil? This difficult question (if G-d is just, why do good people suffer?) has challenged us since the birth of Judaism itself. When Abraham confronts G-d over the imminent destruction of S’dom, suggesting there may be innocents in S’dom, he says: “Will the Judge of the world not do justice?”

(Bereishit 18:25) The Talmud (Berachot 7a) has no less than Moshe himself posing this question when asking G-d to see His glory, and notes that G-d’s response is that no man can see Him and live, suggesting that as mere mortals we cannot understand Hashem’s ways and that this difficult question will forever elude us. Indeed, it is no accident that the verse in this week’s portion (32:4), which considers this question, describes G-d as the Rock — impenetrable, inscrutable and beyond our capacity to fathom.

On the one hand, it makes sense that human beings cannot presume to understand the ways of G-d who is the source of all reality. Were G-d not the source of all that happens in this world, we would be left with a world that is random and with no meaning and we would be engaged in a Darwinian struggle to survive, Shakespeare’s world of “no rhyme nor reason, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

Conversely, there are those who suggest that if everything comes from G-d, then ev-

Let us consider how the world will be a better place for our being here.

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erything is good — we just have difficulty seeing some things as good, with G-d simply hiding our ability to see it as such (and therefore we have to step aside and let G-d run the world). But this leaves us with the question of what value there is in simply trusting that a child dying a painful death is somehow a good we cannot see as good; what, really, is the value of that way of thinking? here is another way to approach this question, however, and that is not to step away, but rather to step forward.

Each of us has the opportunity to contribute to making a better world, and everything that we encounter affords us an opportunity to do just that.

It is not our job to understand why an innocent kayaker suddenly has her life turned upside down —but it is our challenge, if we happen to find ourselves standing on the riverbank, to decide whether we will jump in and change the world, or remain a bystander as the world passes by.

We can be inspired by the Yasmin Feingolds of the world, whose indomitable spirit refuses to step aside in the face of the challenges life presents, stepping forward instead to the world of a life worth living.

As we prepare to enter the Sukkah, and re-enter the world G-d created, let’s not allow ourselves to stagnate and take for granted the life we are living. Instead, let us consider how the world will be a better place for our being here — each one of us, every day.

Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem.

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This week, immediately after Yom Kippur and as a prelude to the festival of Sukkot, we will read the portion also known as the song, of Ha’azinu. And we will encounter one of the most challenging questions in the human experience.

“HaTzur tamim poalo’ ki kol deracahv mishpat; Kel emunah ve’ein avel, tzadik ve’yashar hu.” (“The Rock [G-d] is perfect; all of his ways are just; a faithful G-d who does no wrong; righteous and moral is He.”) (Devarim 32:4) G-d it seems, is perfect, and everything that flows from Him is true and just.

And yet, we often encounter a world that does not seem anywhere near perfect, much less just.

Many suggest that G-d’s world is just, but that our challenge is to decide what we will do with it.

And yet… qually challenging, Moshe notes that the people will one day grow fat and complacent, they will stop appreciating how blessed they are and even forget the source of all their blessings attributing their accomplishments to themselves, and subsequently drifting away from their faith. (ibid.

32:15-18) This will result in great suffering for the Jewish people who, distant from their true selves will have only themselves to blame.

It would seem, then, that when trouble appears, we should search within our own actions for the cause. Seriously? Are we to

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n a newly released sequel to the Torah teachings of Rabbi Herbert Bomzer, zt”l, a volume titled “Keter Harachzav,” by his grandson, Aryeh Sklar, we learn of Rabbi Bomzer’s special relationship to the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, zt”l.

Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, a leader of Merkos L’inyanei Chinuch, writes in Sklar’s volume: “I bore witness to a remarkable relationship that grew between Rabbi Bomzer and the Rebbe.

He was inspired by the Rebbe’s vast scholarship in all areas of Torah and by the Rebbe’s love for the Jewish people, particularly for those trapped behind the Iron Curtain. In addition to lending his halachic expertise where needed, Rabbi Bomzer journeyed on a clandestine mission to the former Soviet Union where he was guided by the Rebbe. In the spiritual wastelands of the Soviet Union, Rabbi Bomzer strengthened Jewish education and undertook many daring initiatives spanning the gamut of Jewish life behind the Iron Curtain.

“As a representative of the Rabbinical Council of America, Rabbi Bomzer catered

to the halachic needs of Soviet Jewry in the areas of kashrus, mikva’os, kidushin and gittin; as a representative of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, he met with Refusniks struggling under the fist of the Soviet empire; as a representative of Ezras Achim Lubavitch, guided by the Rebbe and his agents for Jewish continuity in the Soviet Union, he was granted access to and provided guidance, resources and vital assistance to the vast network of underground yeshivos, chadarim, and the bustling underground Jewish life behind the Iron Curtain.

“I vividly recall the Rebbe’s response to Rabbi Bomzer upon his return. The Rebbe wrote that amongst all the clandestine missions to the former Soviet Union, Rabbi Bomzer’s journey was the most successful and fruitful. Indeed, his warmth and wisdom left a profound impact on the despairing Soviet Jews; the seeds that Rabbi Bomzer planted then continue to blossom to this very day.”

This awesome recollection resonates with me given my own personal involvement in the cause for the ultimate liberation of our Jewish brothers and sisters from the wretched rule of Communism and International Socialism in Europe. But with the help extended at great personal risk by people such as Rabbi Herbert Bomzer, our efforts would have surely come to naught.

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his coming Shabbat we read the Torah portion of Ha’azinu, traditionally read before the festival of Sukkot. In Rabbi Bomzer’s essay on this parsha, this year the exact day of the 21st yahrtzeit of my dear father, Max Gerber, the rabbi devotes his attention to the reading of the Yizkor prayer that was said on Yom Kippur, and will be recited again next Monday on the festival of Shemini Atzeret.

It is to this prayer ritual that I wish to devote the balance of this week’s essay.

I present following teaching by Rabbi Bomzer in sacred memory of my dear father, z”l.

“Why do people with parents walk out at Yizkor? Most say to avoid making them sad on Yom Tov when they see their own parents saying Yizkor and crying, it interrupts the joy of Yom Tov. Rav Moshe Feinstein, zt”l, in his introduction to his novella on Tractate Bava Kama, says: ‘Concerning the minhag to exit the shul when Yizkor is being said, there are many reasons.’

“Rav Moshe adds his own: ‘It is prohibited to say a memorial prayer if there is a bridegroom in the shul. Why? Because it is his Yom Tov and the entire congregation found there is included in that Yom Tov. How could they say a memorial prayer, which would be painful, at the moment, which calls for joy

of a fellow Jew? We must celebrate with him! Even if there are thousands of people in that shul, we do not say tachanun or maleh’.”

Rabbi Bomzer adds to this teaching the following observation: “So how can we say Yizkor on a day which is a festival for all Jews? Rav Moshe explains that the pain one feels in memorializing a beloved brings oneg (joy) to that person who remembers his parents and relatives.

But this ‘joy’ is only felt by the mourner who remembers. However, the person in shul who sees the pain of his fellow Jew, who must remember the dead; that brings no oneg to the observer. So he/she should go out at that time.’”

This is a hard teaching, one that has to be parsed carefully, with feeling for the mix of emotions that are at play here. Such were the complexities of life that Rabbi Bomzer addressed his career in the many years in the rabbinate to a career to which we look back to through the words of this sage, as presented so sensitively by his grandson in this precious work.

Contact Alan Jay Gerber: Columnist@TheJewishStar.com

The festival of Sukkot has arrived, a time of joy Rabbi avi billet Parsha of the week

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he Torah commands us twice to rejoice on Sukkot. For Shavuot it only says to rejoice one time. For Pesach “joy” is not mentioned at all (it’s difficult to rejoice when you’re thinking about the chametz you might still have in your house).

“V’samachta b’chagekha — v’hayita’ akh sa’me’ach” (you shall rejoice, and be only happy) (Devarim 16:14-15).

Only happy! Does that mean you can’t be sad at all? Does that mean you can’t have any not-so-happy thoughts or feelings? How does a person do that?

Rabbi Nachman of Braslav introduced the idea which became a popular song — most of us probably know the song better than we know how to live up to its teaching — Mitzvah Gedolah Lihyot B’simcha Tamid (it’s a great mitzvah to be joyous always).

Rabbi Nachman acknowledges that it is human nature to be more easily depressed than overjoyed, and that life has its ways of doing that to a person. “For all ailments come only from sadness and depression,” he writes. “Therefore we must rejoice with all that we can, even with words of nonsense.”

This could mean to tell jokes, to talk about nothing, to act silly. Whatever it takes to help you be happy, that’s what you need to do.

The Talmud (Taanit 8a) says, “Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Levi says, ‘(if you are happy (or accepting) of the trials life gives you, you bring salvation to the world’!”

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ife is a test. Sometimes there are ups and sometimes there are downs.

The Mishnah in Avot (4:1) says, “Who is wealthy? The one who is happy with his portion.” In other words, non-physical wealth is determined by the state of your heart. If you are at peace with the situation life puts you in, you are “wealthy.”

The Torah tells us in the middle of the tokhacha of Ki Tavo, one of the reasons why the curses come upon us is “when you had plenty of everything, you would not serve G-d your Lord with happiness and a glad heart.” When times were good, the Torah is saying, we needed to serve G-d with pure joy. We need to remember to thank G-d for the good things in our lives: “Thank you, G-d. Thank you for all the good in my life. Thank you for the friends and the love in my life, for the joy I experience from being alive, the joy I experience from serving You, the joy I get out of being a Jew, the joy I get out of doing for others, the joy I get from learning Torah, the joy I get from living Shabbos. the joy I get from celebrating that we have the Torah, the joy I get from having a relationship with You!” On these verses in Devarim, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch says, “the joy of your blessedness comes not from your source of income, or your sources of entertainment, but from the Lord your G-d Who bestows this bountiful blessing on you from the place of His Torah and through the means of His Teaching, if you dwell in His tent faithfully.”

It was King David who wrote in Psalm 122,

“I rejoiced with those who said, ‘Let us go to the House of G-d’.” David himself provided an example of how a person can completely rejoice — letting go of all inhibition — in the service of G-d. Samuel II chapter 6 describes how he danced in front of the Ark as it was brought to Ir David, Jerusalem, in anticipation of the building of the Temple. This is how we begin to experience true joy.

Twice a day, for close to two months now, synagogue-goers have been saying “L’David Hashem Ori.” “One request I ask of G-d,” L’David reads. “Let me dwell in the House of G-d all the days of my life.

To gaze upon the pleasant ways of G-d and to meditate in His sanctuary.”

If you had one request to make of G-d, what would it be? Why would King David write this as his sole request? Maybe King David did not have a mortgage and tuition bills.

Only one thing mattered to King David — the joy he could get out of life. And he knew that all real joy emanates from the House of G-d, where we seed our relationship with Him. It there there that we can let go of every inhibition, where we can sing and dance and rejoice in our lives dedicated to the service of G-d.

When everything else goes, we still have G-d. That is something for which we all can be truly joyous.

A version of this column first appeared in The Jewish Star in 2009.

Contact Rabbi Avi Billet: Columnist@TheJewishStar.com

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B’klyn DA Thompson, 50 Bukharians…

Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson, 50, died of cancer last weekend just days after announcing he was turning over the operation of his office to an assistant while he underwent treatment.

“Ken was a dedicated public servant who embodied the highest principles of the law, and his grand presence will be sorely

missed,” said Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Ezra Friedlander, CEO of The Friedlander Group, who hosted Thompson in the Liska Sukkah in October 2014 (pictured), recalled Thompson’s “passion and determination” when discussing the Conviction Review Unit he established in the DA’s office “which was lauded as national model to help innocent individuals who were wrongfully convicted.”

“That staunch focus on integrity even where there was no CSI silver bullet, set Thompson apart as a national figure,” said Brandon Garrett, a University of Virginia School of Law professor and author of “Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong.”

Thompson succeeded DA Charles Hynes in January 2014.

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Continued from page 15 required yet another operation. After recovering, he began radiation treatment to remove what was left of his previous tumor. He hoped this would be the last of his hospitalizations.

However, while visiting family, he began to have minor accidents as a result of his vision. The opthomologist said he should not be concerned, then he lost the vision in his left eye.

With the support of his family, he began hyperbaric chamber treatment to maintain what was left of his vision. While in treatment he was running a high fever, he wanted to leave but his nurse persuaded him to stay and be monitored.

“I owe tremendous gratitude to Ha’Kadosh Baruchu that the nurse did not listen to me,” Rabbi Greenspan said. He had contracted meningitis, went through another operation, and around Chanukah time, eventually lost his sight completely. “That Chanukah was probably the most difficult Chanukah of my life.”

Despite the trials he had been through, he never gave up.

He was in the middle of law school and with the help of his sister, a lawyer and others, he completed his studies. Then came time for the bar exam. Just prior to the exam, his community in Hillcrest got over 30 volunteer Jewish lawyers to study with him. Not only did he overcome his obstacles to pass the Bar exam, he also received smicha from Yeshiva University.

Rabbi Greenspan continues to inspire students and others through retelling how he overcame obstacles to reach his goals.

“He is inspirational and inspiring,” said Sam Verstandig, a YCQ eighth grade student, “he taught us very valuable life lessons.”

Another eighth grader, Aaron Poulad, said, “It was inspiring how even though he was blind, he said Baruch Hashem about everything. He has so much emunah.”

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Continued from page 26 So Hamas, which openly advocates the annihilation of Israel and the genocide of Israel’s 6.4 million Jews, would be in control of a full-fledged state with borders straddling Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. he new Hamas regime could bring in tanks and planes, not to mention missiles from North Korea and “volunteers” from Iran. A lone Hamas terrorist with a shoulder-fired rocket would be within striking distance of planes taking off from Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport.

Perhaps after he brought down a plane or two, the U.N. would pass a resolution expressing concern about “the escalation of Israeli-Palestinian violence.”

The other scenario would involve some non-Hamas official from the PA succeeding Abbas. Now, if Abbas had spent the past 23 years since the signing of the Oslo Accords educating the Palestinian public to embrace peace, perhaps there would be a chance of a peace-minded leader emerging to succeed him.

But instead, PA schools became antiIsrael indoctrinating centers, PA summer camps were used for teenage military training, and the official PA news media saturated Palestinian society with glorification of terrorists as “heroes” and “martyrs.” PA cartoonists drew images of Jews that rivaled those of the worst anti-Semites through the ages. Then-Senator Hillary Clinton called the PA’s anti-Jewish education “child abuse.”

Considering the ideas and values that the Abbas regime has propagated for 23 years, what is more likely: that his successor will be moderate, reasonable, and devoted to coexistence with Israel, or that his successor will be extreme, violent, and dedicated to destruction of the Jewish state?

One can understand why the Obama administration, the S. Daniel Abraham Center, and J Street have in effect adopted “Quick, give him a state!” as their motto.

If Abbas doesn’t get a state right away, he may not be around to get it at all. And then Israelis (and American Jews) would see, once and for all, how foolhardy it would be to put Israel’s fate in the hands of unstable Palestinian dictators.

Stephen M. Flatow, an attorney in New Jersey, is the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995.

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Lev Leviev (center) writing in a Torah scroll with Rabbi Eliyahu Yaakov, right, and Israel’s then- defense minister- Moshe Yaalon, in Jerusalem on March 23, 2014.

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Continued from page 4 managed to rebuild congregations that stand out in their level of prosperity, robustness and cohesiveness, according to Pozailov.

Among the best-known and most successful Bukharian Jews is billionaire diamond magnate Lev Leviev, an Israeli philanthropist who has spent millions of dollars in donations to institutions that experts on Bukharian Jews say keep the community from falling apart outside its homeland.

Leviev is funding predominantly Bukharian schools, such as the Ohr Avner Jewish School in Elmhurst, Queens, which opened in 2002 and “where young members of the community can meet spouses and study about their heritage,” Pozailov said. Thanks to donations from Leviev and others, the community in the United States has several newspapers, including the weekly Russian-language Bukharian Times. The Queens community even has a museum, an amenity that the remnant community in Uzbekistan lacks.

In Vienna, where hundreds of Bukharian Jews settled in the 1970s, members of the community now dominate the kosher food and catering business. And in Israel, their outsize stake in the country’s $6 billion diamond industry, among other sectors, has turned them into the quintessential Zionist success story.

Living on the Silk Road “has exposed Bukharian Jews to international skills, principles of trade, different cultures and perspectives that mean that, today, business runs in their blood,” Pozailov said.

Zeev Levin, the head of the Hebrew University’s Central Asian Research Unit, takes such assertions with a grain of salt, citing the lack of scientific research on Bukharian Jews’ levels of income and their alleged immunity to assimilation. Others cite the experience of similar ethnic “niche” groups whose economic success depends on mutual support, not cultural inheritance or genetic advantages.

Yet there is little doubt that compared to other Jewish communities, Bukharian Jews have done a good job in preserving their heritage.

In communities as far-flung as Australia, young Bukharian Jews are taught the community’s distinct customs and history, like the controversial 18th-century exchange of the Persian prayer style for the Sephardic one.

Bukharian Jews are originally thought to have

arrived in the region as exiles from Persia and perhaps, according to community lore, as Israelites expelled from the Holy Land.

This emphasis on preserving Bukharian culture and language (many community members speak Bukhori, a dialect of the TajikPersian language) has created an environment conducive to preserving intimate traditions, according to Pozailov.

One such custom involves the exchange of personal greetings between couples on Passover. They serve one another the first of four cups of wine drunk during the Passover seder and present their wishes for one another.

The Queens Bukharian museum, located at the Leviev-funded yeshiva in Queens, includes traditional garb such as the jumah – a gold-threaded, colorful plaid kimono-like robe worn by men on major Jewish holidays.

While significant, Leviev’s help is “but one of several factors that make Bukharian Jews a unique community, which has managed to re-create itself and prosper in conditions that broke most other Jewish communities,” Pozailov said.

Nestled among predominantly Muslim populations that even Joseph Stalin did not want to alienate unnecessarily, Bukharian Jews suffered less of the anti-religious and anti-Semitic persecution that befell their European coreligionists living in the former Soviet Union, he noted.

Before that, the social isolation of Jews under the region’s Muslim rulers -- they imposed special taxes for Jews, forbade them to ride horses and made them wear a patch on their clothes -- cemented Bukharian identity by the middle of the 19th century, when czarist Russia took over the area and freed its Jews. The takeover ushered in a golden age for Bukharian Jews, when capitalists like the Vadyaev brothers reached a near monopoly of the cotton industry before they were dispossessed of their fortunes following the Bolsheviks’ rise to power.

To Elyahu Ludayev, a Samarkand-born dentist and amateur historian from Tel Aviv, this unique history is responsible for making Bukharian Jews “one of the few non-haredi Jewish communities that is not at risk from assimilation,” he said.

But, Ludayev added, “it’s more complicated in Israel, where unfortunately you can’t really prevent your child from marrying a nonBukharian Jew.”

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