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Baby born by storm

By Karen C. Green

Photo courtesy of Weinstock family

Tamar and Allon Weinstock welcome new baby boy in the midst of Hurricane Sandy.

Pregnant women and new mothers often have that glow. Tamar Weinstock, of Long Island City, had that special glow. She also had a phosphorescent glow, provided by glow sticks. Tamar and husband Allon, son of Eileen and Benjamin Weinstock, Deputy Mayor of The Village of Cedarhurst, welcomed a beautiful baby boy at 10:40 p.m. on Monday at NYU hospital — in the dark.

The hospital, located on First Avenue and 34th street in Manhattan, lost power on Monday when the Con Ed generator blew due to the effects of Hurricane Sandy. Additionally, the hospital’s emergency generator sus-

tained water damage, creating steam rushing into the hospital. As a result, patients had to be transported to Mount Sinai hospital.

NYU hospital called in medical students to assist in the evacuation. Ambulances lined the streets adjacent to the hospital, ready to transport patients.

Secured to a medi sled device, Tamar and baby were taken by hand down the stairs by two residents, while light was provided by a flashlight held by the baby’s grandmother, Eileen. Mom and baby were transported to Mount Sinai hospital and released at midnight on October 30.

We wish the Weinstock mishpocha a hearty mazel tov!

Anatomy of a storm: ‘One for the books’

By Malka Eisenberg With the drumbeat of warnings echoing in our ears, The Jewish Star turned to Harvey Thurm, meteorologist, Woodmere resident, member of Congregation Aish Kodesh and Hurricane Program leader for the National Weather Service, Eastern Region. He works out of his office in Bohemia, Long Island, right across from Islip/MacArthur airport.

We consulted with him both before and after the storm.

Predictions: Before Sandy

Photo by Malka Eisenberg

Intersection of Peninsula Boulevard and Longacre Avenue, adjacent to the Young Israel of Woodmere becomes a river, necessitating National Guard assistance.

The Eastern region covered by Harvey Thurm is from south of Savannah, Georgia, up the coast through Maine and west to Ohio and West Virginia. That made the path of Hurricane Sandy “right in the middle of our area of responsibility,” he said.

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By Malka Eisenberg Stressing the importance of having Orthodox Jewish women in leadership roles, and noting that they “have the power to change things,” Likud Knesset member Tzipi Hotovely addressed all the students of Midreshet Shalhevet High School for Girls this past Friday in the shul there.

Speaking in English, the youngest Knesset member emphasized the importance of contributing to Israeli society, the importance of women in the growth of Israel, the need to strengthen Jewish Israeli ties to the Jewish religion and to the land of Israel.

Hotovely cited an explanation of the first sentence of Parshat Shlach by the Kli Yakar (Rav Shlomo Ephraim Ben Aaron Luntschitz, a Torah commentator from the 1500s), that Moshe should have sent women rather than men as spies “because women love the land more, women have a stronger connection to the land than men.”

“Women have the power to bring changes,” continued Hotovely. “By giving birth they bring new things to the world,” she said, noting that the “spirit of women in leadership” is needed. She said that there are currently 25 women MKs and that two babies were born during this Knesset session. “It’s a revolution,” she proclaimed, noting that women MKs used to be in their 50s before they entered politics, and that now they are young women.

After asking the students some questions, she said that she was “happy to hear that most visited Israel and that some want to live in Israel,” stressing that they “have to be involved.”

Responding to students’ questions, she noted that there is no clash between Orthodox life and politics and since there is no problem with men why should there be a problem with women in politics? She also pointed out that there are enough Orthodox

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Hotovely’s rise to politics is deeply rooted in strong family ties and a Zionist, religious and intellectual education. Her parents were from Georgia and she was raised in Rechovot. Hotovely is a product of the religious public school system and studied in Ulpanit Bnei Akiva and Midreshet Lindenbaum.

During her sherut leumi (national service), she was a shaliach (emissary) for the Jewish Agency in the United States, teaching in Jewish schools in Atlanta, Georgia. She also served in Bait HaRav Kook in Jerusalem, a museum that teaches the philosophy of Rav Avraham Yitchak HaCohen Kook.

Hotovely continued her education at Bar Ilan University in Jerusalem, earning a BA and MA in law and graduating with honors.

She passed the bar in 2003 and was active in a student organization, the World Union of Jewish Students, and was an editor of Bar Ilan’s Journal of Law. She is studying for her doctorate in law at Tel Aviv University.

During her studies in Bar Ilan, a television producer called Hotovely and begged her to fill the position of a young religious Zionist woman on a debate. Hotovely didn’t want to, but, “no one was willing to interview on the issue,” she said.

Those three minutes on the television show, Hotovely explained, “changed my life.”

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Continued from page 1 then it slowly winds down, said Thurm. “By the end of November it’s officially over. This is extremely late. I don’t remember one this strong affecting our area this late.

“This is going to be historical, coming in with a pressure close to rivaling the 1938 hurricane,” Thurm predicted in a phone interview the Monday before the storm. “That was the lowest pressure ever recorded on Long Island. This system is coming on a different path but the barometric pressure is similar, close to (that of) 1938.” He noted that we were discussing the storm before it happened. “As of now, it’s very similar, but the 1938 storm came up from the south to the north; this is coming from the southeast to the northwest, centering on the Jersey shore—’38 made landfall on central Long Island. (The 1938 storm created Shinnecock Bay).

Thurm explained that a hurricane is a Photos by Rebecca Green warm core system, with warm air at its center, noting that a winter storm has cold air A boat from Keystone Yacht Club crashed into this Woodsburgh home on Woodmere Boulevard South. at its center. He pointed out that Sandy was unusual, “a hurricane embedded in a larger nor’easter, a hybrid-type storm,” he said. els.” The meteorologist “knows the strength “You get two for the price of one—you’re get- and weakness of the models and they take the average of the best models using an enting your money’s worth.”

The hurricane formed “where they usual- semble approach,” explained Thurm. ly form this time of year,” he said, east of Nicaragua, south of Jamaica, in the northwest Post-mortem: After Sandy—“One for the Caribbean Sea. He said that it moved north, books” After almost 24 hours without electricity, killing people as it passed through Jamaica, and the prediction by the Long Island Power Haiti and east Cuba, and then moved across Authority (LIPA) of the outage the Bahamas. extending seven to ten days, pow“We saw this coming the end of er began to come on in parts of last week,” he emphasized. “The Woodmere and Cedarhurst. The computer models picked up a large Young Israel of Woodmere was event—this track is unique—we flooded, Beth Shalom had a gennever had it coming in southeast to erator, and Aish Kodesh, on the northwest—it’s extremely unusuhigh ground by the train tracks, al. This evening’s storm surge will was operational with three minyabe very damaging-at least along nim for Shacharit. But with most the coast. This evening is the main without electricity, the discomfort show.” He predicted flooding in of encroaching cold, darkness and Pennsylvania and New York State.

“The legacy of the system will be HARVEY THURM no phones continued.

“This storm tied the low presthis evening’s storm surge and sure record for the 1938 hurrihigh tide.”

The worst of the storm will be the “in- cane—946 millibars—28 inches of mercury,” undation” and the power outages caused by said Thurm. “Normal barometric pressure is trees falling on power lines because of their around 30 inches; it was two inches below roots weakened by rain and knocked over normal. How low the barometer gets is a by wind. He noted that a 70 mile per hour measure of how strong the storm is.”

He said the storm had migrated to Pittswind in a winter storm doesn’t knock down burgh, “a huge, big rainstorm. Everything as many trees as does a similar wind in the summer and fall because the leaves on the about the storm was meshuga (crazy). Maine was near 60 degrees today and there was eltrees act as a sail, catching the wind.

“Historically, the main loss of life is 90% evation based snow in the mountains of West from storm surge, from flooding,” stressed Virginia. We had record low pressure. It was (Above) Tree, downed power lines and car are casualties of storm on Wyckoff Thurm. “The sea level rises and inundates unique—it came from a direction that it nev- Place in Woodmere. (Below) Evergreen tree uprooted on Woodmere Boulevard the coast and people drown if they don’t get er comes in—from the east rather than the South in Woodsburgh. out of harms way. The wind is driving the south. The water gets pushed in and trapped ocean ahead of the hurricane towards the where New Jersey and Long Island meet. It land.” He said that New York’s coastline was just about the worst-case scenario. You forms a right angle with New Jersey and the couldn’t easily come up with a worse scenarwater “funnels” into New York Harbor and io. It’s just about as bad as it gets.” He said that 1938 was a stronger storm, but this one gets trapped by the land.

Thurm’s work usually involves administra- “came in from the east, had high tide, a full tion and program management of the 23 of- moon—it was lined up for a very bad storm fices in the region. But with the storm com- with no mitigating factors. Boruch Hashem, ing, it is “more hands on, more operational,” considering what happened, it could still involving coordinating the forecasts. They have been a lot worse.”

And for those who asked, Sandy was fegather the forecasts from the offices and all have access to the same computer models, male, noted Thurm. She was “One for the discuss their predictions and meld the infor- books.”

Harvey Thurm studied meteorology at mation into a unified coherent forecast. He City College of New York and graduated with noted that the forecasts are “very good,” and much improved over those in the past. The a Bachelor of Science in Meteorology. “As a computer models they use for forecasting child I was always very interested in weather. are based on current conditions, twice daily I am fortunate that I knew from a young age worldwide weather balloon launches and in- that I always wanted to do this. My parents formation from buoys. This information is didn’t think I would follow through but I did, “funneled into sophisticated computer mod- boruch Hashem (thank G-d).”

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Endorsements Scaturro, a strong voice in the 4th C.D. Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy,( Garden CityD) who is campaigning for reelection to her 9th term has had a compelling story. Her entry into elected office came on the heels of the tragic shooting of her husband and son; only her son survived. She has been a strong voice for gun control legislation and deserves accolades for her efforts in this regard. On foreign policy, the Mideast in particular, McCarthy shows no strength. Her support of Israel has been lackluster at best. She’s continually been late to the game in response to key issues.

Her challengers in this three-way race are Nassau County Legislator Francis Becker of Lynbrook and Frank Scaturro, an attorney in private practice from New Hyde Park. Becker, the Republican nominee, has been an active voice in local politics; he is a household name in Lynbrook. His abilities in politics are best utilized locally.

Frank Scaturro, a Republican running on the Conservative line, is the youngest of the trio and the only candidate in the race who has not held elected office.

By virtue of his legal education, and his experience as an aide to the late Senator Arlen Spector, Scaturro is the most qualified to hold office. He has an excellent command of issues. Without the support of his party leadership, Scaturro has shown the gumption to put up a good fight — a redeeming quality for a Congressman. This is an uphill battle for Scaturro, but we believe he will be the strongest voice for the Fourth C.D. The Jewish Star endorses Scaturro.

Sussman for Assembly it’s time for a change Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg (D-Long Beach) has been in office since 1989. During that time, he worked with his colleagues in Albany to pass many bills, sponsored legislation to create tougher drunkdriving laws such as Leandra’s Law, and been a strong advocate people with special needs. He’s delivered assistance to the district with the benefit of discretionary funds, much like a checkbook, that is readily available to one in elected office. Most notable is the law he helped pass which yielded an enormous benefit — to himself. Legislation he supported precludes most state employees from receiving salary

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and pension for the same job—but not Weisenberg and his colleagues in the legislature. While “double dipping” — collecting two paychecks for the same job—Weisenberg was absent for over 30% of the votes this past term. This ethically questionable maneuver deems Weisenberg unsuitable to hold public office and advocate for fiscal responsibility for his constituents.

It would have been prudent for the Democrats to choose and groom a successor following Weisenberg’s challenge by Josh Wanderer in the last election.

Dr. David Sussman (R) of Lawrence, a urologist, has served on the Lawrence school board for 18 years, from 1996 – 2000 as president. He is one of the few board members whose children attended the public schools. He battled discrimination in District 15 by being part of the effort to provide special education services to non-public school students in their own school environment—the first district to do so.

He has served on a school board that has streamlined the budget while maintaining (extracurricular) programs, so much so that over the last five years housing demand in the Five Towns has made a dramatic shift from District 14 to District 15. Sussman has earned a reputation for standing up for what’s right regardless of whether it’s popular. The Jewish Star endorses Sussman.

Reelect Skelos in the 9th Senatorial District It’s important for Long Island to have a voice in Albany to speak up for our unique needs. As current Senate majority leader, Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) has been an exceptional voice and advocate for his district and for the overall region. Skelos is running for his 15th term against Democratic challenger Thomas Feffer. Calling Feffer a “challenger,” however, is a bit of an overstatement. The 24-year-old intern for the Nassau County Democratic Committee has not campaigned at all and hasn’t been available to answer any questions. He’s clearly taking one for the team.

Skelos is obviously the right choice for the 9th District. During his tenure as majority leader, the state government has actually functioned, something that seemed an unobtainable dream just a few years ago.

Not only were the last two budgets passed on time — something that hadn’t happened for decades —they were passed early. Skelos helped to eliminate a $13 billion deficit without raising state taxes. The Jewish Star endorses Skelos.

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There are many domestic reasons to vote for Mitt Romney on election day, most of which have been covered on these pages over since he became the apparent GOP nominee.

There are also foreign policy issues, the one most relevant to the Jewish community is the future of Israel. Any Jew who believes in the State of Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish State and still votes for Barack Obama is committing Jew-i-cide.

Obama’s positions on Israel and terrorism during his first term will only worsen in a second, when he would not need support from Jewish donors and Jewish voters, or (as he told Russian President Medvedev) when he will have more flexibility.

Let’s take a look at Obama’s first term.

Obama is the reason there are no negotiations with the Palestinians.

While the Palestinian’s have never accepted Israeli settlements, halting of all settlement building has never been a precondition to talks. Israel had long ago agreed not to build new “settlements” in Judea and Samaria but would continue to add housing units to existing communities. They have never agreed to restrictions on building Jerusalem.

During the government of PM Ehud Barak (and the Bush Administration), there were direct talks and construction continued as above.

It was the Obama administration’s naiveté that made the settlements an issue. Hillary Clinton first demanded the freeze in 2009 and was quickly backed up by Obama. What the President and his advisers perceived as a minor concession, (a settlement freeze including no new housing units in existing communities) was, for Israel, a grave sacrifice. From the Israeli point of view, he was telling parents that their children could no longer live near them.

This was a major error by the Obama administration, and it was compounded by their inclusion of Jerusalem in the mix, and their constant public berating of the Jewish State. On top of all that was the revelation that his demand for a freeze of natural community growth broke a US/Israel agreement made during the Bush administration, an agreement confirmed by former Assistant Secretary of State Elliot Abrams.

Obama has said Israel is the Jewish State and has called on the Palestinians to recognize Israel but has never called on the Palestinians to recognize Israel as the Jewish state— never (the UN partition which created Israel called it a Jewish State).

The real issue is where the Palestinian refugees go. While the number of Palestinian refugees in 1949 was about 800,000, today the number is over 4 million. This group of refugees is the only example in history where the number has grown without a population shift (the UN counts the original refugees, their children, grandchildren, first cousin twice removed on their mother’s side, friends etc. as refugees) (The Jewish refugees from Arab countries, 900,000+ were absorbed by Israel and other countries).

One of the stated goals of the Palestinians is to flood Israel (within the green lines) with Palestinians. Being a democracy, Israel would be voted out of being Jewish.

The previous president, George Bush, said that any resettlement of

Palestinian refugees must take place in a future Palestinian State.

The 2008 Democratic Party platform agreed, saying that they should resolve the issue of Palestinian refugees by allowing them to settle there, rather than in Israel. This was removed from the 2012 platform by the President’s people along with the reference to Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, refusal to recognize Hamas as terrorists, and the need for changes to the 1949 Armistice lines. The only one added back was Jerusalem (and that was over the votes and boos of the convention attendees).

In August 2009, Prime Minister Netanyahu announced a ten-month settlement freeze. It was approved and implemented on November 25, 2009 and ran till September 25, 2010. Despite pressure from the United States, the Palestinians wasted the first 9+ months of the freeze and would not come to the negotiating table till September 2010, three weeks before the freeze ended. In October 2010, Netanyahu made a simple offer to the PA. Recognize Israel as the Jewish State, and we will extend the freeze. Netanyahu’s proposal met with swift rejection from senior Palestinian officials.

“The whole world holds Netanyahu responsible for what is happening in the region, after he chose to push ahead with the settlement project at the expense of an advance in the peace process. Settlement freeze is a commitment Netanyahu should respect,” Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, told Al Jazeera.

Yasser Abed Rabbo, a senior official of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, described the settlement issue as “an aggression on Palestinian rights and land.”

“What Israel calls itself is an Israeli matter that does not concern us. The two issues are not related,” he told Al Jazeera in reference to Netanyahu’s condition that Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

Nabil Abu Rudainah, the spokesman for Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, said a return to peace talks required a freeze on settlement building by Israel.

“The issue of the Jewishness of the state has nothing to do with the matter,” he told the Reuters news agency.

If Obama truly backed Israel as the Jewish State, he would have publicly endorsed this Israeli offer that would have rid the Palestinians of the Obama-created excuse not to negotiate.

Jerusalem, wrote historian Martin Gilbert, is not a ‘mere’ city. “It holds the central spiritual and physical place in the history of the Jews as a people.”

The Obama policy is different from that of the Bush administration.

The Bush administration recognized Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel, but delayed the moving of the embassy till the borders of Jerusalem were determined through negotiations.

Obama refuses to recognize any part of Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel.

During a press briefing at the end of July, Jay Carney refused to outline the President’s position on Jerusalem.

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Continued from page 2 galit, was impressed and asked her to join the left-leaning secular panel on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Moetzet Hachachamimâ&#x20AC;? (Council of the Wise), reprising her role as right-wing female voice.

She wrote a column for Maariv and, after consulting with her on various issues, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu recruited Hotovely to join the Likud list on the run-up to the 18th Knesset. She came in at the 18th slot.

She maintains a hectic schedule, rising at 6 am, davening Shacharit, meeting with journalists, and is in her office by about 8.

She tours Israel to keep in touch with all the Likud offices on Sundays and Thursdays, and meets with committees on Mondays Tuesdays and Wednesdays, often ending at midnight.

When asked regarding Migron, she said that she felt that it is â&#x20AC;&#x153;a small storyâ&#x20AC;? but that she felt that it should be allowed to remain.

Discussing the recent joining of Likud with Yisrael Beitainu she said that â&#x20AC;&#x153;most people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to repeat the mistakes of Oslo and the Pinuy, most are sympathetic to the Jewish communities in Yehuda and Shomron.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I got into politics to make a difference,â&#x20AC;? said Hotovely. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In 2005, the government of Israel committed, I think, a crime, the disengagement. They uprooted 8000 people from their homes, not for peace or an agreement but so that in Gaza there would not be a mixed population. It is a nightmare, with rockets on the head for the last seven years.

(Then PM) Sharon went against the democratic rules in the party and changed ideology to commit a crime.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The problem,â&#x20AC;? she continued, â&#x20AC;&#x153;is not understanding the relationship with the land of Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just real estate. The result is playing with peoplesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lives.â&#x20AC;? Noting that she is against a two-state solution, she said that the â&#x20AC;&#x153;big question is if the Jewish people feel connected to those areas or consider it â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;occupying.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? She said that they are not learning the history and halacha (Jewish law), citing the first Rashi in the Torah, â&#x20AC;&#x153;we need to know our connection.â&#x20AC;? She also quoted Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, that the Jews are and have to be a â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;light for the nations,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? promoting justice and values like Shabbat, Yovel, Shmittah--economic justice.â&#x20AC;? She stressed the need to interact with the secular in society, that 20% are Orthodox and that 80% of the population spans the gamut between religious and secular. Without connecting with the land, she said, they wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand its importance, and that as religious people, she stressed that it is important to build a society based on justice, as the neviim, prophets, called for.

Hotovely said that as students, they should get information from Israeli websites, that they should be informed and â&#x20AC;&#x153;know the facts.â&#x20AC;? She exhorted the girls to build their homes in Israel and asked them, â&#x20AC;&#x153;what is your contribution to the enterprise,â&#x20AC;? and invited the seniors to visit her at the Knesset when they are studying in Israel next year.

MK Tzipi Hotovely, center, with Rabbi Zev Friedman, and Mrs. Eisenman, principal.

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Parshat Vayerah

Binding Our Children The “Binding of Isaac” is a defining chapter in the story of the Jewish people. It inspires much of our liturgy (High Holidays, etc.). In some respects it represents what it means to sacrifice for one’s children. In some of the darker annals of Jewish history, some took it as the inspiration to literally sacrifice their children as Jews to avoid death or the loss of Jewish souls at the hands of others.

It is not for us to judge those who chose the latter path, but it is noteworthy that they viewed Avraham’s “sacrifice” as inspiration for such choices, even though Avraham did not ultimately harm his son.

“The Akedah” has inspired millions of hours of study and discussion, as well as Rabbi Avi Billet countless pages of analysis, feeding conversations that will continue forever.

It is hard to stomach the idea that G-d “tested” Avraham through a riddle. Rashi is quick to note that he was never told to slaughter his son. He was told “to raise” him.

Is the purpose of the test to see how far Avraham will go before being told to stop? Is it to see if Avraham unquestioningly does G-d’s will? Could Avraham have misunderstood what G-d wanted? Is it possible that G-d did not give him enough information, and he drew his own conclusions?

What took so long for an angel to stop him, calling his name twice to tell him “Don’t send your hand to the lad?” How did it even get that far, especially when just about every interpretation (following the line of “through Yitzchak you will be said to have offspring” – 21:12) understands that G-d never intended for Avraham to kill his son (Talmud Taanit 4a)?

The study of any Biblical subject as deep as the Akedah is incomplete without reading Abravanel’s commentary, simply because he is so thorough, organized, and comprehensive. Here he poses 25 questions, which he answers in his lengthy analysis. Some of his thoughts are summarized here as a conversation opener – not so much to understand what Avraham’s test was, but what the task was meant to teach father and son.

“None of Avraham’s ‘tests’ are introduced as tests. They were ‘tasks,’ and they were only derived to be ‘tests’ later. Borrowing money from a friend, for example, is a request that may indirectly test friendship.

“The ‘Lekh Lekha’ missive’s goal was to get Avraham to the Holy Land, to establish roots there, and to become a model (banner) to all. Avraham’s dedication in the Akedah strongly affirms his inspiring role.

“The Torah opens the segment saying, ‘After all these things (22:1) AND G-d [having] tested Avraham…’ – all of the preceding tales had been G-d testing Avraham. He has already passed with flying colors.”

“This ‘nisayon’ was not a ‘test’ for G-d to see if Avraham could pass muster. ‘Nisah’ is from the word ‘nes,’ as in “Raise up (‘nisah’) over us the light of Your countenance.” (Tehillim 4:7) Avraham’s doing G-d’s will is raised as a banner/flag for the nations to look to for inspiration. For us, it is a charge to serve G-d with all our heart and soul as did Avraham.

“Rav Yonah the Grammarian notes

the vague nature of the command issued “V’ha’a’layhu sham l’olah” – which could be understood as “raise him as an offering.”

“The “lamed” prefix in “l’olah” could also mean “in place of” – as if to say “he’ll be considered an olah offering [in place of one] even though he won’t actually ‘be’ an olah offering.”

“G-d purposely led Avraham to believe that He wanted Yitzchak to be an offering so that Avraham would dedicate his heart and soul to the task. Thus he literally binds

Yitzchak and full-heartedly reaches for the knife. The actions Avraham does before being stopped, are considered before G-d “as if” he has actually brought the sacrifice. This elevates Yitzchak spiritually – it confirms his uniqueness and readiness to be the sole “line” of Avraham that carries the promise of G-d.

“Therefore, G-d did not ‘change His mind,’ as it were, because He never commanded him to slaughter his son in the first place.

And Avraham did not make a mistake or misunderstand, for it was G-d Himself who was purposely vague.

Abravanel rejects a notion presented by the Ralbag (which must be read in context), that the entire episode of the Akedah is meant to be a “chinuch experience” of father teaching son important life lessons. But it is nonetheless most noteworthy that this tale contains the only interaction of Avraham and Yitzchak in the Torah, where father and son

relate to one another and converse. [Their conversation is worthy of its own analysis.]

G-d will never ask us straight up or vaguely to sacrifice our children. But for us to have any notion of success with them, we must be prepared to bring them along, to show them what we do, to engage them in conversation, and to bind them – in a sense – to our way of life. Abravanel suggests that Yitzchak did not struggle as his father bound him because he thought his father was demonstrating how an olah is prepared – almost like they were playing charades.

Maybe if we play charades with our children, they will have the best opportunity to learn from us, to understand why we do the things we do as Jews, as they become bound to the eternal chain that is the lifeblood of our people.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;In 1959 Shlomo Carlebach released his first album â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Haneshoma Loch [Songs of My Soul], -- which was an instant hit [selling 5,000 copies the first week] and completely revolutionized Jewish music. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The first record caused a musical furor both in the Jewish and non-Jewish worlds,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; recalls musicologist Velvel Pasternak, the foremost authority on contemporary Jewish music in the United States. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Rather than the Eastern European gestalt that had characterized Jewish music up until then and with which American Jewish youth couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t identify, Shlomo Carlebachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music was written in an American idiom. He seemed to cut completely with the past. His first record was arranged by Harry Belafonteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arranger, and appeared to bear the imprint of Alan Jay Gerber American folk music.

His genius was that the ordinary guy on the street could relate to his music and sing it with passion. Thus his music became the cornerstone of American Jewish music, known to every single Jewish bandleader in America, sung in Orthodox synagogues, Conservative havurot, Reform summer camps, and Chassidic shtiebels. He was a musical visionary, very advanced, and his influence on Jewish music has been immeasurable and everlasting.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

[Holy Brother, Jason Aronson, 1997, edited

by Yitta Halberstam Mandelbaum ].

This quote by Velvel Pasternak, of Cedarhurst and member of the Young Israel of Woodmere, just about sums it all up. The impression given here can be found upon the lips of just about every one whose has ever heard the voice, song and soul of the late, great Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, whose 18th yahrtzeit was commemorated this past Thursday.

Rowman & Littlefield, 2012] With this word from the Rebbe, these two young rabbis became the first two shelichim of the Chabad movement. While neither of them were to last for much longer in Chabad, the inspiration that they received from both the sixth and seventh Rebbes was to define their valued lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work in kiruv, for the rest of their lives.

Each in their own way was to have a spiritually immeasurable impact upon thousands of Jews, thus helping these otherwise lost souls from falling away from their birth religion.

Among the most lasting musical legacies of the Carlebach tradition was the mainstreaming of the niggun into the American Jewish musical tradition. In his recent book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Davening,â&#x20AC;?

Rabbi Schachter-Shalomi noted the following: â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you look at all the tunes Reb Shlomo

wrote, the words are prayer words. He tried to show people, through example: you think youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re singing, but youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really davening!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;He began on piano in those early years, singing subtle and beautiful things. His Mimkomcho, on his first album, Haneshoma Loch, is a truly lovely niggun. His Eshet Chayil â&#x20AC;Ś. I could go on and on. Later he picked up a guitar; he couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t shlep a piano with him, and keyboards were not yet widely available. He poured all the neshomeh of the old world into a simple tune and a few folk chords. Maybe that was why his niggunim captured so many: they spoke to the old world and the new. Shlomo was a remarkable bridgeâ&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;Ś.becoming the most famous exporter of niggunim from the Chassidic world.â&#x20AC;?

I conclude with two observations, first by

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Among, for me personally, the most memorable of legacies of Reb Shlomo was the following, quoting from Mandelbaumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eloquent biography of Reb Shlomo: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shlomo became the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;troubadour of the Soviet Jewry movementâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in 1965, when he was asked by Yaakov Birnbaum and Glenn Richter, leaders of SSSJ [Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry] to compose a song for the struggle. The result was the Carlebach classic Am Yisrael Chai, which became the anthem both for the Jews of Russia in particular, and the rallying cry for oppressed Jewish communities in general. It was played and sung at thousands of worldwide Jewish rallies and demonstrations held in the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;60s,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s, and even â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s, until the massive Soviet Jewish exodus was finally effected.â&#x20AC;?

No other Jewish singer in modern history has ever had such an impact upon the welfare and wellbeing of our people.

His spiritual impact is detailed in a recently published autobiography by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. In that era, Reb Zalman was a budding shaliach in the Chabad movement and Reb Shlomo was a student of Rav Aharon Kotler and a follower of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe. It was during a visit that the two made in 1949, on the 19th of Kislev when they met the Rebbe.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;My name and that of my friend Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach were suddenly called. Shlomo and I had known each other in Austria and later studied together at the Lubavitcher yeshiva. We approached the Rebbeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s table, and he warmly gave us a big Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;chayim and said the time was right for us to begin Jewish outreach on college campuses.â&#x20AC;? [My Life in Jewish Renewal, by Rabbi Zalman Schachter â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Shalomi,

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Reb Zalman and second from Elie Wiesel: â&#x20AC;&#x153;When Shlomo davened, you stopped thinking about yourself. Even if you didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know anything else, even if you knew next to nothing about Yiddishkeit, you would be thinking about G-d when Shlomo davened. He would lead, would lead people in a few niggunim and then tell a story in between; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why I called him the genius of virtuous reality, because he made you want to live like those righteous people in his stories.â&#x20AC;? [â&#x20AC;&#x153;Davening: A Guide to Meaningful Jewish Prayerâ&#x20AC;?, Jewish Lights, 2012] â&#x20AC;&#x153;He would suffer with those who suffered.

A lover of loving, he would never offend the person with whom he was speakingâ&#x20AC;Ś.I never once heard him speak ill of another, even of those who cared a little less for himâ&#x20AC;Ś.Traveling across the world in search of lost souls, he would sing of the love that everyone should have for his fellow man, for all creation, and naturally for the creator Himself.â&#x20AC;?

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him away. British soldiers acting on a tip, burst in the door as part of a midnight search of the apartment buildings in the area, and were about to leave the apartment when one of them noticed a manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shaving brush, which might have passed as her deceased husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, but for the fact that it was still wet from Avrahamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shave a few minutes earlier. A more aggressive search soon produced Avraham Stern, who was captured alive as attested to by witnesses, but was mysteriously shot and killed while trying to escape. He was shot twice in the back while supposedly trying to leap out a sixth story window, after the highranking officer in charge who arrived after Avrahamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capture first demanded that every-

one else present leave the roomâ&#x20AC;Ś.

I have always detested violence and believe it always to be the last resort, and am not at all sure I would have agreed with many of Avraham Sternâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decisions. Yet, to sit in that lonely room in Tel Aviv, reading the beautiful poetry and magnificent writings of this scholar-turned-warrior, one has to be in awe at the pure dedication and willingness to sacrifice everything for the love of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s people, and things greater than one self.

Just how important is the place we happen to be, and how much is where we are a statement about who we are? Avraham Stern preferred to live in hiding in a small room in a dingy Tel Aviv apartment, rather than es-

cape to the beautiful mountains of Switzerland, simply because this was the land that he loved; the place he had made his own.

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The small room wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t much to look at, with its old, tired-looking walls and cracked floor tiles. And yet, a man had died here in this room.

They had been looking for him for quite some time, scouring the country and waking entire neighborhoods every time rumor had it that he was somewhere in the vicinity.

To judge by the heavily armed troops that were smashing down FROM THE HEART doors in the middle of OF JERUSALEM the night, he must have had a fire to him, to inspire such a determined manhunt.

He had been afforded many opportunities to escape and find refuge overseas, in Europe or America, and even in England, yet he could not leave the dry sands and swamps of Palestine, the land he loved so much.

Rabbi Binny His name was AvraFreedman ham, and like his namesake four thousand years earlier, he was willing to pit himself against the entire world if need be, rather than give up on the beliefs he held so dear.

Those were dark times for the Jewish people; millions of Jews were being herded into the barbed wire camps and ghettos of Europe, and even those few who managed to escape the hell of the Holocaust had nowhere to go. For two thousand years the Jews had dreamed of returning home to Israel, the ancient land of their ancestors, now known as Palestine. But the British, who now ruled that part of the world, refused to let them in, invoking the infamous â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;white paperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; whose quota allowed only fifteen thousand Jews a year into Palestine, while millions clamored to be let in.

Avraham Stern was one of those individuals who finally decided enough was enough.

If G-d was not going to send the messiah to bring the Jewish people home, the Jews would have to do it on their own.

To be sure, there were many who disagreed with his violent methods and his absolute refusal to make peace with the British in Palestine, even while the British were fighting the Nazis across the seas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy,â&#x20AC;? he claimed, and nothing was more important than removing the British and establishing an independent Jewish State as a safe haven for the Jews of Europe.

And while you could disagree with his politics, and certainly his methods, you had to admire his burning love for the Jewish people and their land.

When Jews were denied entry into Palestine, and the refugee boats full of Jews who had escaped the camps and the ghettos were turned away and sent to internment camps (and more barbed wire) in Greece, he was one of the masterminds of the infamous â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;night of the bridgesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; when 14 bridges were blown up overnight, severely hampering British control of the borders.

Forced from hiding place to hiding place, he finally found refuge literally under the noses of the British, in a small roof-top apartment in Tel Aviv. The small room he slept in had a clothes-closet with a false back, which allowed him to squeeze in between the wall and the closet and hide whenever snooping eyes came to visit. The widow whose room he was renting believed in his cause and had successfully managed to pretend she was actually using the room whenever the British came by.

In the end, it was the little things that gave

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A dream worth pursuing

Having the time of her life

By Karen C. Green “I like to look at miles as if they have personalities, First 6 miles…starter, mile 13, half way, mile 18… reminds me of a previous tune-up race, mile 26… let’s go, let’s get this done. They are literally milestones, they are all trying to tell me something,” says Elizabeth (Lizzy) Luxenberg.

The 19-year-old Great Neck native, who is currently a student at NYU, is gearing up for her debut run in the New York City marathon on Sunday, November 4. Lizzy, who is running in support of Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, has raised over $8,000 for the cause. And she’s got the support of her parents, sister and the community at large.

What started in 8th grade as a fitness routine to get in shape has evolved over the years into a passion. Lizzy first got acclimated on a treadmill but became bored with the routine. “It was boring. I wanted to take on something specific, I wanted something to be my thing. I wanted my goal to be more than just a focus on the scale,” stressed Luxenberg.

“I wasn’t happy with my time, so with the help of my trainer Diana at Equinox fitness in Great Neck, I started making distance my goal.”

Luxenberg, who spent her post high school year at Midreshet Amit, ran two marathons while in Israel. “It took me four years to realize that it’s (running) not a lifestyle until you have something specific. I wanted to be a runner.” Luxenberg recently was the featured student at the Amit Dinner in the Five Towns, where she delivered a dvar Torah.

“In December 2011, I ran the Beit She’an half marathon up in Northern Israel and in 2012 I ran the Jerusalem half marathon. I spent two hours in the middle of the day and two hours after night seder training. I was ‘the’ American girl at the Body Line fitness gym in Gilo. My school was very supportive.”

Since returning from her year in Israel, Lizzy has tested her body through the rigors of a very extreme running regimen in preparation for her first full 26.2-mile marathon.

Her training has consisted of a daily 20 mile run through out Great Neck in the wee dark hours of the morning.

“I’d go to bed early in order to get up early, 3 a.m. I’d get out in the pitch-black darkness of the middle of the night, and undertake four loops of four miles. I consumed four bottles of water during the routine, strategically putting two bottles at the end zone.

I wore a reflective traffic vest to be safe while I ran along side the dark roads leading into Kingspoint and back. I even ran in different weather conditions to be prepared for anything.”

Lizzy’s routine wasn’t without setbacks.

She suffered a tear to her Achilles tendon and underwent surgery for it. She had to realistically modify her expectations as a result.

“Previously, I would have been happy with a completion time of four hours.” Now with the Achilles injury, which she treats with physical therapy and acupuncture, her goal is a more realistic 4 ½ hours.

Time is something of interest and relevance to Lizzy outside of running. A student at NYU’s Gallatin School of Independent

Study, Lizzy is concentrating on the study of the essence of time and is driven by the fact that so much is centered around time in Jewish life. “Live every moment. The past, present and future are all intertwined and interdependent,” noted Luxenberg.

Lizzy has developed a love of running.

With her recent injuries, she’s running on empty, but forges forward and works through the pain as she’s running for tzedakah. Sharyn Goldwyn, Director of the New York region of the American Committee for Shaare Zedek Medical Center said, “We are thrilled to have Lizzy run as part of the Shaare Zedek team. We appreciate all of her help and support for the new next generation children’s facility that is being completed in Jerusalem at Shaare Zedek. She has done a superlative job in getting sponsors to make our team a huge success. Lizzy is number one. “ With the support of her adoring parents, Randi and Arthur,(who was raised in Woodmere), sister Jacqui and friends, Lizzy is focused on the last 6.2 miles that she will be running for the first time. “For the last 6.2 miles, I will be thinking of my friends and family. I am compiling their audio messages that I can listen to for the last hour of the race and uploading it on my Ipod,” explained Luxenberg. She encourages anyone wanting to be included to go to Garageband, save to Itunes, and send it to her as an email.

Lizzy plans to see her Dad three times during the race. She’s confident that her father will be able to monitor her race and locate her using trackrunner.com. She looks forward to seeing her family and celebrating

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Obviously, this dialogue was not for G-d, but for Avraham. Hashem presents Avraham with the reality of the world, and Avraham has to struggle with it. This, in fact, is the essence of what tefillah (prayer) is all about.

In Judaism, prayer is all about our struggles. And this is precisely what Avraham is doing: he is struggling with the world as G-d has presented him with: how can I accept, says Avraham, a world where the righteous, and maybe even the innocent die along with the wicked?

Here we come to the essence of tefillah: Avraham is struggling with what Hashem really wants: of him, and the world in general.

And this is what Jewish prayer is all about: the struggle of my role in the world, and the attempt to come to terms with what G-d truly wants of me. But in the end, Avraham accepts Hashem’s will, and this may often be the hardest thing we can do in this world.

Perhaps this is why Avraham returns to the exact same place. Because the place is the same; it is only Avraham who has changed by accepting and seeing a different reality.

Maybe this is why tefillah experienced regularly in the same place is valuable: because if the place is the same, it forces me to consider whether I have changed. And if I am not changing every day then something is wrong.

Four thousand years ago a great man, the first Jew, taught us all that it was not who you were, but whether you could make a difference. And whether for a tragic man all alone in an apartment in Tel Aviv, or for any one of us every time we wake up in the morning and walk out the door, the desire and the struggle and every so often the gift of being able to make that difference is a gift worth cherishing and a dream worth pursuing.

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Continued from page 9 ing to the place where he had stood before Hashem.” (Bereishit 19:27) Why was it important for Avraham to return to the exact same place he had stood in on the previous day? Isn’t Hashem everywhere?

The Talmud (Tractate Berachot 6b) suggests that ‘standing’ here is a language implying tefillah (prayer), and that this verse teaches us that Avraham set a place for his prayers (“kava makom le’tefilato”).

Indeed, from this verse we learn that a person should always pray in a place set aside for prayer (the source for praying in a Synagogue) and many suggest that the need for a particular place goes beyond having a particular synagogue one calls one’s own, and requires a person to have a particular seat or spot.

Why does it make a difference where I pray? Isn’t why and how more important?

Furthermore, what does having a set place for prayer have to do with the story of S’dom?

Why does the imminent destruction of S’dom, the most wicked place on earth, raise the issue of a makom kavua, a set place for prayer in the first place?

A closer look at the unfolding saga of S’dom (Genesis 18: 20-33) reveals a rather strange dialogue between Hashem (G-d) and Avraham: G-d wants to destroy S’dom and actually seems to consult with Avraham, whereupon Avraham questions whether it is fair to destroy a city if there might be fifty righteous people in it. G-d acquiesces, and Avraham bargains with G-d to agree to save the city if there are even ten righteous people there, even though G-d already knows that there aren’t. So what was the point of the entire discussion?

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We have reached out to the Queens community and they been beyond gracious in launching a major effort of preparing homes

to accept our community residents for shabbos.

We are now offering that if anyone would like to be put up for this shabbos, they should call our hotline, and we have shabbos coordinators available who will make the connection and have you put up for shabbos.

We have been informed that the JEP organization has a shabbaton available this shabbos for a nominal fee. All those who would like to utilize such a service should call JEP at 516-369-5202 For all those who will be lacking food for shabbos, we will post plans tomorrow for distribution of prepared foods throughout the neighborhood.

We have been given a major update by the eruv staff. The Eruv will be DOWN this shabbos. Please factor this important information into your weekend plans.

We understand that there is still so much information that is unclear, and we will do our best to keep the information forthcoming.

We have also been in direct contact with the Department of Homeland Security and they are working closely with us in coordinating all safety issues. They will also compile all the necessary FEMA claim and recovery information available, and make it available to the community.

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newJewicide Continued from page 4 to move to Jerusalem. But Congress gave the executive branch an out: every six months the State Department/President can request and receive an automatic waiver, a waiver that President Bill Clinton issued to congress every six months as required.

President Bush continued the policy every six months, but in Bush’s case, he inserted into the legal jargon a sentence stating, “My Administration remains committed to beginning the process of moving our embassy to Jerusalem.” The phrase appeared in all 16 Bush waiver notifications. The Obama administration removed that phrase from their waiver requests.

All understand that it is unrealistic to expect the outcome of final status negotiations to be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949. Obama walked away from that big time last May when he called for Israel to begin negotiations by agreeing to return to the 1949 lines. At the time the Democrats said it was no change from previous policy—which is a lie.

Final borders of Israel and a Palestinian state were to be negotiated and not to be an Israeli concession before negotiation. It was Bush’s position and it was the way Bill Clinton handled negotiations. Obama’s position is a big change from previous administrations and it undercut Israel’s negotiation position.

Iran: There is a wide space between Israel and the Obama administration on the issue of Iran. During a recent interview, Long Island Congressman and Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Pete King, told me Obama’s failed foreign policy was hurting Israel and strengthening the will of her enemies.

The congressman added Israel doesn’t trust Obama on Iran. On one hand, Obama

says the U.S. will protect Israel should Iran get on the precipice of nuclear weapons; on the other, he ties Israel’s hands. King pointed out the issue of a nuclear Iran is one that should not only concern Israel, but the entire Western world.

He said: “We have had disagreements with Israel before, but they have always been on subjects such as settlements or boarders.

This is the first time in our history where an administration disagreed with Israel on an issue of basic survivability.”

Romney said: “Over the past three years, President Obama has instead chastened Israel. In his inaugural address to the United Nations, the President chastised Israel, but said little about the thousands of Hamas rockets raining into its skies. He’s publicly proposed that Israel adopt indefensible borders. He’s insulted its Prime Minister. And he’s been timid and weak in the face of the existential threat of a nuclear Iran.

These actions have emboldened Palestinian hard-liners who now are poised to form a unity government with terrorist Hamas and feel they can bypass Israel at the bargaining table. President Obama has immeasurably set back the prospect of peace in the Middle East.

As President, my policies will be very different. I will travel to Israel on my first foreign trip. I will reaffirm, as a vital national interest, Israel’s existence as a Jewish state.

I want the world to know that the bonds between Israel and the United States are unshakable. I want every country in the region that harbors aggressive designs against Israel to understand that their ambition is futile and that pursuing it will cost them dearly.

The choice for Jews on November 6th is also clear—you can vote for Mitt Romney, or you can commit Jew-i-cide.

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