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Long Beach woman cheers 113th

By Alexandra Spychalsky Goldie Steinberg, a longtime resident of the Grandell Rehabilitation & Nursing Center in Long Beach, turned 113 last week, and the Grandell staff held a party so she could celebrate with her friends and family.

Steinberg is officially the 14th-oldest person in the world and ninth-oldest in the country, born on Oct. 30, 1900 in Kishinev, Romania, known today as Chisinau, Moldova.

One of eight children, she immigrated

to the United States in 1923, after her uncle offered her and her sister the opportunity. She and her husband, Phillip Steinberg, who died in 1967, lived in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and she remained in the same apartment for 72 years.

She worked as a seamstress, and the dress she wore to her birthday party was one she had sewed years earlier, said Moishe Heller, corporate administrator at Grandell. Steinberg has a son, a daughter, four grandchildren and seven greatgrandchildren. She moved to Grandell in

2004 to be closer to her daughter, Anne Teicher, who lives in Hewlett.

Heller said the amazing thing about Steinberg isn’t just her age, but how active she is. He said she still tells stories and remembers many details of her life.

And she is very strong-willed, Heller said.

Steinberg loves to crochet, read the newspaper and root for the Yankees.

Heller said that she always puts others before herself. Steinberg once told him that when a person dies, the only thing Continued on page 15

By Malka Eisenberg His chances of survival were slim. But now almost ďŹ ve years after severe wounds from Operation Cast Lead, Aharon Karov triumphantly crossed the ďŹ nish line at the New York City Marathon this past Sunday, helping to raise $50,000 for an organization that helped him and other victims of terror and their families.

Aharon Karov was commander of a paratroop brigade and responded to return to duty for Operation Cast Lead in 2009 the day after his wedding. The house the soldiers entered in Gaza was booby trapped and blew up, collapsing on him, embedding more than 500 pieces of shrapnel in his body and severely damaging his brain and face, affecting his motor skills and speech.

Dr. Steven Jackson, a top $KDURQ .DURY ¿QLVKHV UDFH neurologist at Rabin Hospital was called in. The country and Jewish communities world wide were called upon to pray for Karov. After a 12 hour operation, Jackson comforted Aharon’s wife, saying that he would be the mohel at their son’s brit. Three weeks later, Continued on page 12

75 years after Kindertransport, Far Rock’s Belle remembers

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in the build-up of anti-Jewish economic, social and political sanctions and persecutions instituted by the Nazis beginning in 1933.

During that night more than 90 Jews were killed, 30,000 taken to concentration camps, more than 1,000 synagogues were burned and 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or vandalized, their glass fronts and windows shattered, giving this pogrom the name “the night of broken glass.�

Silverstein’s parents came from Poland but she and her brother, anthropologist Dr. Simon Messing, grew up in the “vibrant Jewish communityâ€? of Frankfurt. She attended the Samson Raphael Hirsch School there. “It was the ďŹ rst school in the world that had a secular and Hebrew educationâ€? for boys and girls, she said, in a slight Scottish accent. “It was the model of all modern yeshivot, founded in 1925. It was fantastic.â€?

Recalling that period, she said that her parents sheltered her, but she was aware of the tightening noose around the Jewish com-

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munity: doctors were banned from practicing, shechitah was not allowed, men had to add the name â&#x20AC;&#x153;Israelâ&#x20AC;? and women â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sarahâ&#x20AC;? to their identity cards, professors lost their jobs.

Silverstein headed to school on the morning of November 10 and met her English teacher. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Go home! Go home!â&#x20AC;? she recalled her saying. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Teachers in Germany donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t speak to their students. So when she spoke to me I knew something was wrong. I smelled smoke; our shul was burning. I saw a Jewish woman being dragged, windows smashed.â&#x20AC;?

Silverstein and her mother went to her fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business, wholesale menswear textiles on the second ďŹ&#x201A;oor of a building. They called the police who did nothing but stand and Continued on page 12

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By Malka Eisenberg It was a chink in the ironclad Nazi killing machine, a narrow glint of light in the suffocating darkness.

On Nov. 15, 1938, ďŹ ve days after Kristallnacht, British Jewish and Quaker leaders mobilized to enlist the British government to permit the temporary entry of Jewish children ďŹ&#x201A;eeing the Nazis. For nine months, until the declaration of World War II on Sept. 1, 1939, 10,000 mostly Jewish children from Europe were transported to the United Kingdom, with the last group of children arriving May 14, 1940.

Mrs. Belle Silverstein (nee Messing), a long time resident of Far Rockaway and one of the Kindertransport children, will introduce a ďŹ lm, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Into the Arms of Strangers,â&#x20AC;? about this endeavor this Saturday night, Nov. 9, at the Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst. This commemorates the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the pogrom that triggered the Kindertransport.

Kristallnacht, Nov. 9 and 10, 1938 was the ďŹ rst explosion of death and destruction

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he ďŹ rst Pirates of the Caribbean ďŹ lm spent a few moments discussing the â&#x20AC;&#x153;honestyâ&#x20AC;? of pirates. The lead character cheats in a duel and is thus accused, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You cheated!â&#x20AC;? He responds, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pirate!â&#x20AC;? as if to say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t follow conventional rules.â&#x20AC;?

One of the more memorable moments PARSHA OF is when the female proTHE WEEK tagonist demands, in exchange for a precious medallion, that the pirates who are currently attacking Port Royal â&#x20AC;&#x153;leave and never come back.â&#x20AC;?

When they agree, they begin to set sail with her on board, leading her to exclaim, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wait! You have to take me to shore.â&#x20AC;? And she Rabbi Avi Billet is told, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Your return to shore was not part of our negotiations nor our agreement so I must do nothingâ&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;?

The way of the sneaky and tricky is to make deals using vague language and to deny responsibility for any wrongdoing, when the honest person gets burned.

Consider Lavanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approach to Yaakov when Yaakov seeks to marry Rachel. Yaakov tells Lavan, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I will work for you for seven years [to marry] Rachel your younger daughter.â&#x20AC;? (29:18). Lavanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s response is, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better for me to give her to you than to another man, so stay with me.â&#x20AC;?

He never said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;After seven years of working, I promise you will marry Rachel.â&#x20AC;? And

so, sure enough, after seven years, Lavan gives Leah to Yaakov.

When Yaakov asks why heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been tricked, Lavan explains, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the way it is done in our place â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to give the younger one before the older one [is married]. Finish the seven day (celebration), and we will give you the other daughter in exchange for the work youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll do for seven more years.â&#x20AC;?

The terms â&#x20AC;&#x153;our placeâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;we will giveâ&#x20AC;? are striking â&#x20AC;&#x201C; almost funny when you know whom weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re dealing with.

Rachel is Lavanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter, and yet he pins all the rules on whether she may marry on everyone elseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s consent. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The peopleâ&#x20AC;? wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t allow such a wedding. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The peopleâ&#x20AC;? will give Rachel away.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not Lavanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fault. His hands are tied.

Ramban claims this is the way of Lavan â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to deny all responsibility. He is honest. He is pure. He keeps his word. He meant what he said and he said what he meant. 100 percent.

We live in a world in which there are very few people who fulďŹ ll and keep what was once called a â&#x20AC;&#x153;gentlemanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agreement.â&#x20AC;?

If two honest people make a deal, in which they both know exactly what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking about, and they shake on it, they both have to keep their respective ends of the deal.

Nowadays, however, contract writers ďŹ ll up pages and pages of legal jargon to make sure that every â&#x20AC;&#x153;iâ&#x20AC;? is dotted, every â&#x20AC;&#x153;tâ&#x20AC;? crossed, and there are no loopholes in the language that can be misunderstood or misinterpreted.

And of course, they want to cover themselves from legal action. How many people really read all the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Terms of agreementâ&#x20AC;? when signing up for something on a website, or all the ďŹ ne print in contracts?

Most people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the time or donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand all the language.

And the same is true for politicians â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t read bills before they sign them.

The Lavan story teaches us that there are people who may smile and may come across as â&#x20AC;&#x153;nice guysâ&#x20AC;? who will stab you in the back and tell you theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re giving you a massage. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll say things that sound nice.

But when judgment day comes, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be able to say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I never promised. And even if it sounded like I was promising â&#x20AC;&#x201D; I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.

And besides, you should know that my promise is meaningless.â&#x20AC;?

Like Lavan, they deny responsibility, they blame everyone else for the havoc they wreak and the misery they cause â&#x20AC;&#x201D; whether to individuals, groups, or an entire nation.

No one likes to admit having been wrong.

Few people keep what was once called a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;gentlemanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agreement.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; If two honest people make a deal, and know what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking about, and they shake on it, they both have to keep their ends of the deal.

Most people want to be liked and respected and admired.

But if a person uses the same tactics as Lavan, whether a family member, a co-worker, a boss, or a President, we now understand the type.

A wholesome person is honest, keeps his or her word, doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pull the wool over othersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; eyes.

And when a person deliberately lies over and over, and ultimately denies responsibility, or tries to spin reality to ďŹ t an agenda, it is the responsibility of all honest people to call him on it and affect the kind of change that is best for everyone.

Rabbi Avi Billet, formerly of Woodmere, is a rabbi and mohel based in Florida.

MK Naftali Bennett at YI of Woodmere Knesset Member Naftali Bennett will be visiting the Young Israel of Woodmere, 859 Peninsula Blvd., on Saturday night, Nov. 16 at 7:15 pm.

Bennett is head of the Bayit Yehudi (religious Zionist-Jewish Home) political party. He is also Minister of the Economy, Minister of Religious Services, Minister of Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs, and a Member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

Bennett will address current issues and Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future. He will present a talk on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not by the Sword Alone â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Security and Economy in a Changing Middle East.â&#x20AC;?

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hen I was in Officer’s course, we had a Battalion Commander named Eyal, who made an indelible impression on me. A kibbutznik from the Golan, he was rather short, of slight build, not exactly the image of the mighty war hero. But he was one of those men who had been there; he was a veteran of the Yom Kippur war, and during the first week of the course he told us a story that came with a challenge.

He was stationed along the Suez Canal when the war broke out, and was part of FROM THE HEART a company of BritishOF JERUSALEM made Centurion tanks caught in the catastrophic Egyptian advance deep into the Sinai. At that point he was still a tank driver with the rank of private first class, so his position was in the driver’s compartment.

In order for the turret to rotate, the driver sits in a compartment Rabbi Binny separate from the rest Freedman of the crew, at the front of the tank. Since most enemy fire is aimed at this area of the tank, the driver’s compartment is heavily armored.

The Centurion tank’s driver compartment was designed with two heavily armored hatch-doors that close down on top of the driver’s compartment for maximum protection. Unfortunately, this made it impossible for the driver to open the doors on his own from inside the tank; they were too heavy.

So, as a matter of practice, when maneuvers were done, one of the other crewmembers would jump down on top of the hatch and help lift the hatch doors, so the driver could exit the tank.

Of course, this could be somewhat problematic for a tank crew under fire who needed to exit the tank in a hurry.

On the fourth day of the war, Eyal’s tank was hit by enemy fire and burst into flames. Trapped in the driver’s compartment, which was rapidly filling with smoke, he called out to his tank crew to no avail; injured or dead, they could not help him. He had no doubts that at any moment the fire would spread to the enormous fourteen hundred liter gas tanks, and he would die in the huge fireball that would result.

In desperation, he managed to squirm around in the tiny compartment so that his back was on the driver’s stool, and, placing his legs against the heavy steel hatch doors above his head, he pushed with all the strength he had left, and succeeded in throwing wide open the hatch doors. Clambering out of the burning tank, he managed to get about ten feet from the tank when it exploded throwing him in the air on top of a nearby

sand dune.

A few more seconds, and he would have been watching the rest of the war with the angels.

After the war, he tried on numerous occasions to repeat this superhuman feat, but though with more sleep, and better fed, was never again able to successfully throw open those doors from inside the tank.

So, a week into our Officer’s training, he issued what became known as Etgar Eyal (the Eyal challenge): any one of us who would succeed in repeating his wartime feat, would be rewarded with a weekend pass. To a soldier in the grueling, depressing world of Officer’s training, this was like a pot of gold. On any given Friday morning, you could see dozens of cadets down by the Centurion tanks trying to do the same thing, I myself tried a number of times; not one of us ever succeeded.

At the end of the course, just before we were to receive our bars, he told us the point of the whole exercise: “Your success will be less about what you know how to do, than about how strong your determination is to get it done; Wars are won not by strength and strategy alone, but mostly by will.”

If you know something just has to be, then no obstacle, no matter how great, will stand in your way; and, if we do our bit, ultimately Hashem will always be there, our silent partner, ready to effect the impossible.

This week’s portion, Vayetze, is all about the power of will, and the meaning of determination.

Yaakov, forced to flee before the wrath of his brother Esav, is not just running from his past, he is very clearly heading towards his future.And when he leaves Be’er Sheva, he has a rather unique metaphysical experience.

“And he dreamed, and behold there was a ladder standing (firmly) in the ground, with its top reaching up to the heavens, and behold, angels of G-d are going up and down it (the ladder).” (28:12) nd Yaakov’s dream continues, and G-d is standing over him, and calls to him:

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“I am Hashem, the G-d of your father Abraham, and the G-d of Yitzchak.” (28:13) And Hashem promises Yaakov that the land on which he is laying will one day be his, and his descendants’, forever, and that He (Hashem) will be with him and watch over him.

This must be an amazing moment in Yaakov’s life. Alone, in the wilderness, running from home to an uncertain future, G-d comes to him in a dream, and promises Yaakov that He will be watching over him. There is no better travel insurance plan in the world!

One would expect Yaakov to be full of thanksgiving and gratitude; after all, if G-d says ‘I’ve got you covered’ then you’re done; no more worries, somehow you know it will all work out.

Which is what makes what follows so strange.

Firstly, Yaakov awakens from his slumber and exclaims: “Behold! G-d is in this Continued on page 10

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Iran’s nuclear program: We only have ourselves to blame

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ne of the most irritating aspects of the international efforts to deal with Iran’s nuclear program lies in the unrealistic expectations that negotiations create, even among those—like the American Jewish advocacy groups who met VIEWPOINT with the White House Oct. 29 to discuss the nuclear issue—who have every reason to be cynical.

From Nov. 7-8, members of the socalled P5+1, which comprises the five members of the U.N. Security Council along with Germany, will meet with representaBen Cohen, JNS tives of the Iranian regime in Geneva. These talks follow from preliminary discussions whose content has not been revealed, yet we are assured that they were “very intensive and very important” (Catherine Ashton, EU Foreign Policy Chief), and that the Iranians brought with them a proposal “with a level of seriousness and substance that we had not seen before” (Jay Carney, White House spokesman).

Hence, the sense we are getting is that one of the most intractable problems facing the Middle East is on the cusp of being resolved.

That’s why I’m going to break ranks by issuing a spoiler alert. These talks aren’t going to lead to a deal. Instead, they will function as they have always done, by allowing the Iranians to buy time, safe in the knowledge that the other options we are told are always on the table—from tighter sanctions to pre-emptive military action—are on the backburner for now.

There are three main reasons behind my assertion.

Firstly, the P5+1 cannot for a moment pretend to represent an international consensus.

On the inside, you have the Russians and the Chinese, who have consistently backed Iran during the nuclear dispute of the last decade.

And on the outside, you have Israel and the conservative Arab states, whose trust in the Obama Administration when it comes to Iran is close to evaporating, and who thus may well reject any agreement framework.

Secondly, all the attention paid to the apparently constructive atmosphere at the preliminary discussions, along with the public relations offensive unleashed by Iran’s new president, Hasan Rouhani, cannot camouflage some very basic facts. For example, if Rouhani really does want to reach a deal, how come he won’t he explain why Iran’s nuclear program was, from the beginning, a clandestine enterprise? The answer is simple: he is faithfully parroting the mullahs line that Iran’s intentions were always peaceful, that the regime never intended to build nuclear weapons, and that anyone who thinks otherwise has fallen victim to an Israeli plot that seeks, in Rouhani’s own words, “to divert international attention not only from its own clandestine and dangerous nuclear weapons program, but also from its destabilizing and inhuman policies and practices in Palestine and the Middle East.”

“The delicacy of diplomacy,”

Photo by Nathan Moskowitz.

Obama and signature legislation needs some healthcare

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t’s been an awful week for the President and his signature legislation. Between revelations that, back in 2009, the administration discussed whether Obama should make his “you can keep your health care, period” promise, leaked memos of warnings about the introduction of the Obamacare website, and attacks Jeff Dunetz on a cancer victim who complained about losing her plan, the administration seems to be out of touch with the public.

On Saturday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the President’s political and policy advisers debated whether the “you can keep your plan” claim was a promise that could be kept. They considered having the President add some nuance in media interviews, but decided that it would lessen the power of the President’s Obamacare sell. “’You try to talk about health care in broad, intelligible points that cut through, and you inevitably lose some accuracy when you do that,’ the former official said....that... ‘if you like your plan, you can probably keep it’ isn’t a salable point.”

CBS News presented a leaked memo that warned about Obamacare before its introduction. David Cutler, who worked on the 2008 campaign and acted as a health care consultant for the administration during the development of Obamacare, wrote to Director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers in May 2010: “I do not believe the relevant members of the administration understand the President’s vision or have the capability to carry it out.”

Cutler added that there was no one person in charge, and no one who had any experience in complex business start-ups. He also worried that technology and policy coordination would fail.

“You need to have people who have an understanding of the political process, people who understand how to work within an administration and people who understand how to start and build a business, and unfortunately, they just didn’t get all of those people together.”

CBS reported that the White House rejected this along with most other advice it received from outside the President’s circle of appointed bureaucrats and senior White House health care advisers.

On Sunday, the Wall Street Journal published a piece by Edie Littlefield Sundby, a woman with Stage 4 cancer, who lamented that Obamacare was leaving her with a “Hobson’s choice” regarding her cancer treatment; either pay a lot more or lose the doctors who have been keeping her alive: “My grievance is not political; all my energies are directed to enjoying life and staying alive, and I have no time for politics. For almost seven years I have fought and survived stage 4 gallbladder cancer, with a five-year survival rate of less than 2% after diagnosis. I am a determined fighter and extremely lucky. But this luck may have just run out: My affordable, lifesaving medical insurance POLITICS TO GO

policy has been canceled effective Dec. 31.

“My choice is to get coverage through the government health exchange and lose access to my cancer doctors, or pay much more for insurance outside the exchange (the quotes average 40% to 50% more) for the privilege of starting over with an unfamiliar insurance company and impaired benefits.”

Early Monday morning, Think Progress, a site funded in part by George Soros and owned by the Center for American Progress whose Chair was Obama’s transition head Jon Podesta, countered with the “real” reason why she lost her insurance: “United Healthcare dropped her coverage because they’ve struggled to compete in California’s individual health care market for years and didn’t want to pay for sicker patients like Sundby. The company, which only had 8,000 individual policyholders in California out of the two million who participate in the market, announced (along with a second insurer, Aetna) that it would be pulling out of the individual market in May.” In the same piece, Think Progress added: “And then there is the company’s own justification for leaving. ‘The company’s plans reflect its concern that the first wave of newly insured customers under the law may be the costliest,’ UHC Chief Executive Officer Stephen Helmsley told investors last October. ‘UnitedHealth will watch and see how the exchanges evolve and expects the first enrollees will have ‘a pent-up appetite’ for medical care. We are approaching them with some degree of caution because of that.’”

The Think Progress post is misleading.

United Health Care didn’t leave only because of problems in the market place. The company left the individual marketplace in California because they were having problems and Obamacare pushed them over the edge, a significant difference.

Despite the post’s unfair and misleading attack on a cancer patient, the President’s adviser Dan Pfeiffer publicized it via twitter.

Monday evening President Obama gave a speech to his ongoing campaign organization, Organizing for Action. He talked about the failed Obamacare rollout and his “you can keep your insurance, period!” lie.

At first he seemed to lie about his lie saying: “What we said was you could keep it if it hasn’t changed since the law was passed.”

That might be what’s in the law, but it’s not what he said. That was the first time he added the caveat.

Later, he seemed to justify the lie using the progressive meme that we are all too dumb to decide what is best for ourselves and need the government to protect us.

“If we had allowed these old plans [to continue]… then we would have broken an even more important promise — making sure that Americans gain access to health care that doesn’t leave them one illness away from financial ruin, So the bottom line is, is that we are making the insurance market better for everybody.”

It is a truism in politics that it’s not the mistake that hurts you it’s the cover-up. This would have been done weeks ago if Obama admitted his mistake and apologized. But the President’s desperate attempts to cover-up is hurting his credibility with the American people and that cannot be good for the country.

Cutler said there was no one person in charge, and no one who had any experience in complex busines start-ups.

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have been a concern for those fighting the Japanese in the Pacific Theater, that one simple letter could have meant the difference between life and death for Jewish GIs serving in the European Theater. After all, the Nazis were on a maniacal campaign to murder all Jews.

As such, Jewish American soldiers had good reason to fear being taken prisoner by Nazi forces.”

Our boys according to the author were left with four options: 1. Have no letter of religious ID stamped on their dog-tags; 2. Make the “H” stamped on their dog-tags illegible; 3. Discard their dog-tags completely prior to being taken captive; 4. Have a letter signifying a different religious preference stamped on their dog tags.

The author continues to detail the various legal, practical as well as halachic options that were considered in the application of the above. Among the halachic citations and authorities cited by the author were,

Shulchan Aruch / Yoreh De’ah 157:2, the Rema, and related commentaries, and Rabbi Ephraim Oshry’s classic She’eilot u Teshuvot mi-Ma’amakim and its English version “Responsa from the Holocaust.”

Of particular interest is the author’s treatment of this unique question answered by Rabbi Oshry: “May a Jewish Man Write the letters R.C. [Roman Catholic] In His Passport?”

The answer to this query takes up the bulk of this essay with added explanation, analysis and interpretation by Rabbi Males.

In addition, an interesting citation is included citing the classic, “Hidden in Thunder” [Mossad HaRav Kook, 2007] by Dr. Esther Farbstein who goes into great detail in explaining why some Holocaust era rabbis allowed Jews to falsely claim to be Christians to save their lives.

This little known chapter of Holocaust and American Jewish History should serve to better inform all of us, Americans of all faiths, of the fragility of human freedom and of the preciousness of the value of constitutionally based governance that we all

While being identified as Jews may not have been a concern for those fighting the Japanese in the Pacific Theater, that one simple letter could have meant the difference between life and death for Jewish GIs serving in Europe.

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I would like to conclude this essay with a hearty thank you to the Hakirah journal for the public service that they performed in presenting to us this scholarship and to its editor, Heshy Zelcer, himself a resident of the FiveTowns and a congregant at the Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst.

And, finally, in the spirit of Veterans’ Day, may I personally recognize the service rendered by Heshy’s son Mark, who served with the U.S. Armed Forces in Iraq in 20092010.To him, and to all the millions of other heroic veterans, we salute them for keeping vigil on behalf of our freedom at great personal peril.

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With the annual observance of Veterans Day this coming Monday, my column this week will be devoted to a review of a very special essay that appeared in a very special high quality halacha journal, Hakirah, entitled, “Jewish GIs and Their Dog-Tags”

by Rabbi Akiva Males of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

The focus of my preKOSHER sentment will deal with BOOKWORM a brief review of the history of the dog tag and of the danger this item represented for our Jewish GIs during World War Two. According to Rabbi Males, dog tags came into use among our soldiers after 1906 providing, among other things, the name, serial number, blood type, and a single Alan Jay Gerber letter code denoting the serviceman’s religious affiliation, in the Jews’ case, the letter “H.” During World War Two, a problem, previously never encountered by our GIs, arose and is detailed by Rabbi Miles as follows: “During World War Two, approximately 550,000 self-identified Jews served in the U.S. Armed Forces. As per U.S. military regulations, each of those Jewish soldiers / sailors / airmen would have been issued dog-tags with the letter ‘H’ stamped on them.

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Shalhevet girls having a bowl At 10 a.m. on Monday, Rosh Chodesh Kislev, all of the Shalhevet students were sitting diligently in class when G.O. president Bracha Gold announced excitedly over the loudspeaker that all the girls should board the buses waiting for them outside. The excitement built up as the girls tried to guess what the surprise trip was.

The buses made their way towards Woodmere Lanes. Smiles and laughter filled the bowling alley as the girls were having a great time knocking down pins — a few even winning a free game of bowling by beating the Rocky Road challenge.

After bowling, the Shalhevet students enjoyed lunch on Central Avenue at their favorite places. It was a great start to a fabulous month ahead!

Touro prez at Rambam Dr. Alan Kadish, the President and CEO of Touro College and University System, and Dr. Moshe Sokol, Dean of Landers College for Men, met with the educational arm of Rambam Mesivta.

Dr. Kadish emphasized Touro’s commitment to accommodate the needs and the lifestyle of the Torah community., and about the university’s many innovative programs incorporating technology, “virtual dissections” in the medical school to enable Kohanim to attend.

Dr. Sokol spoke about a Landers initiative called “Center for Jewish Law and the Professions,” which offers those pursuing degrees in business, psychology, medicine, law and dentistry with special guidance in the Halachic issues that will confront them in their professions.

Rosh Mesivta, Rabbi Zev Meir Friedman, noted the importance of “opportunities for Bnei Torah in a setting and a framework where learning Torah and Shmiras HaMitzvos is of paramount importance.” Rabbi Yotav Eliach, Rambam’s Principal, said that Touro’s upcoming BAMD program “would definitely interest many of our talmidim who want to pursue a career in medicine”’ After meeting with Rambam administrators, Dr. Kadish and Dean Sokol had lunch with the senior class and met with Rabbi Haar and Rabbi Ziskind, who teach seniors. Mr. Hillel Goldman, Rambam’s Assistant Principal, discussed various initiatives and joint programs to enable Rambam talmidim to experience firsthand all that Landers College has to offer.

N. Shore Hebrew students win environmental prize The North Shore Hebrew Academy High School’s Pond Squad, assembled

by Science Department chairman Gerard Wykes, studied factors that reduce the volume of ponds on Long Island.

A video documenting their efforts in using the school’s own pond as a lab, won first place out of 58 entries in the GLOBE program’s international environmental video contest.

GLOBE connects a network of students, teachers and scientists from around the world to better understand, sustain and improve Earth’s environment at local, regional and global scales. The video was viewed and used internationally by webconnected classrooms during GLOBE’s annual virtual conference, before it was awarded first place.

Concurrent with its Environmental

HANC students at AIPAC hone Israel advocacy tools Several students from HANC’s high school last week joined 400 other students from across the country and attended the three-day AIPAC Schusterman High School Summit in Washington, DC. The conference educated the students on Israel’s situation and helped develop their political advocacy skills.

Representing HANC were Robyn Awendstern, Victoria Kalmanowitz, Eliana Kaufman, David Sroka, and Judah Wolkenfeld, who traveled with AP History teacher Mrs. Laura Eisner, The Summit included speakers such as Matt Nosanchuck, White House liaison on

Jewish affairs and IDF Sgt. Benjamin Anthony, from Our Soldiers Speak. The students also interacted with Israel activists from college campuses across the country, including our HANC alumna, Marissa Young (’11) from Columbia University.

The trip culminated with a trip to Capitol Hill to lobby the office of Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy on the issues discussed during the conference.

HANC’s students report that they are eager to implement their activism and ideas back at school. This is one of many opportunities that HANC High School affords its students in leadership and in Israel advocacy.

Science Program, North Shore HAHS has been a participating GLOBE school for six years. The high school’s En. Sci. students routinely measure atmospheric and hydrologic variables and enter them into GLOBE’s enormous database for analysis and interpretation. To date, more than 23 million measurements have been contributed to GLOBE by participants such as North Shore, creating meaningful, standardized, global research-quality data sets that can be used in support of student and professional scientific research.

Since 1995, over 58,000 trained teachers and 1.5 million students in 112 countries have participated in GLOBE. North Shore Hebrew Academy HS is proud to be part of this important effort.

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e were heading out to a wedding dear friends were making and I wanted to leave enough time to get there since we always get lost somehow or stuck in horrendous traffic. I hadn’t eaten all day and was looking forward to the shmorg. Lucky for me there was no traffic and we got off the highway in record time. Only problem was, the road we were supposed to merge onto was noWHO’S IN THE where in sight. Jerry KITCHEN assured me it must be up ahead.“ “Ahead where?” I asked. We had already passed towns I had only heard of when listening to the LIRR announcements.

We stopped at gas stations, convenience stores, anything that was open. I even tried to ask “Siri” on my Judy Joszef iphone. “Siri, I’m lost, how do I get to Jericho Turnpike in Westbury?”

She responded “Ok, I am checking on directions to Geronimo Road in Westchester.”

Thanks Siri, if I wanted to end up there, I would have asked my husband. So there we were, on Swamp Road, starving, frustrated and me vowing to find my GPS as soon as we returned home that night. I love Jerry, and although he’s brilliant, getting lost is just a way of life for him. His career in becoming

helplessly lost started when he was about six.

He was at the Pineview with his parents and five-year-old brother for a Rambam Shabbat weekend. He was playing with his brother and another friend after lunch. Jerry thought it was a good idea to trek into the forest for an adventure. He assured his brother and friend that they wouldn’t get lost since he always watched Davey Crockett and he thought of himself as “king of the wild frontier” just as Davey was on TV. And trek into the forest they did.

At first it was exciting, but after a while, his brother and friend started to get tired and hungry and were afraid they would never find their way out. Again Jerry told them not to worry, Davey would never cry and neither should they. Jerry led the group as they trudged on looking for any signs out of the forest.

Just then Jerry noticed a clearing and saw cows coming toward them. The boys panicked. Jerry saw some tractors and told the boys to climb on top of them. All he had to do was wait till the farmer arrived. But instead of the farmer, a car pulled up on the road and the Fire Chief emerged.

“Are you the boys from the hotel?” he asked. “Yes,” they answered. “ Do you know that you have the whole county looking for you? Your parents and relatives are very worried. Hop off the tractor and into the car, and I’ll drive you back.”

“We can’t — it’s Shabbos,” Davey Crockett replied.

The chief of the Fire Department explained that it was six miles back to the hotel and they had no choice. As the car neared the hotel the road was lined with fire department

personnel, police and state troopers and a helicopter overhead as well as all the guests in the hotel. Some were cheering, some were crying and then there was his Tante Rochel.

“Your mother is going to kill you,” she said.

Jerry had a feeling she was right.

He knew so much about Davey Crockett but had no idea how Crockett would handle his mom. To this day, his mom recalls the fear she felt that day. I tell her these days Jerry is still getting lost, but so far we’ve never needed a police escort yet.

Talking about getting lost, I just found my mom’s recipe for the best southern fried chicken. It was in a box of books that I had never unpacked when I moved into my house 20 years ago.

I can still remember the way it tasted all those years ago when my mom prepared it.

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Continued from page 3 place, and I did not know!” (v. 16) One wonders: Yaakov didn’t know G-d was everywhere before G-d personally assured him he was coming with him?

And then, even stranger, Yaakov proceeds to make a pact with G-d: “And Yaakov swore an oath saying: ‘If G-d will be with me and watch over me on this journey, and He will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear, and I will return in peace to the house of my father, then Hashem will be for me a G-d (Elokim).”(28:22-21) What exactly is Yaakov saying here?

Hashem has already promised to protect and watch over Yaakov, and now Yaakov is making deals? Worse, Yaakov is saying Hashem will only be his G-d if He watches over him, and gives him food and clothing?

Perhaps Yaakov understood that achieving his goals was not just about heading in the right direction, but also about whether we have the means with which to get there.

Yaakov is all alone, having just pretended to become Esau to gain the blessings. He is told by his mother to pretend he is Esau, and his father Yitzchak doesn’t know who he is.

So, as we read last week, maybe Yaakov is struggling a bit with whom he is. And all he really wants is to become a vehicle for revealing Hashem in this world.

And this is, perhaps, what “Bread to eat and clothing to wear” is all about.

Bread represents the sum total of all that we do in this world.

But there are two types of bread: there is bread from the earth; the bread we labor over and produce, as our part of our partnership with G-d. And then there is bread from Heaven (represented in the Torah by the

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Manna) that Hashem gives us, which allows us to do all that we are meant to do in this world.

And this, too, is the meaning of Beged, or the clothing Hashem gives us.

When Yitzchak wants to determine whether the son before him, awaiting his blessing, is Yaakov or Esav, he smells his clothing (27:27). The Beged clothes and protects man from the elements and allows him to achieve his goals. Clothing is generally associated with a person’s identity: different uniforms and modes of clothing allow us to assume much about who a person is, and what he or she is trying to accomplish on this earth. And even Yitzchak, apparently near blindness, still accesses Yaakov’s clothing as a means of determining who he is.

Perhaps Yaakov, having received Hashem’s presence on his journey, recognizes that this world is a partnership. And in his search to reach his potential, he asks only to be blessed with the vehicles to do this.

Yaakov, precisely at the darkest moment of his life, when G-d seems most distant, experiences G-d.

Perhaps this is the secret of that tank driver, trapped in his burning tank. Nothing stands in the way of a person’s will. If you know something just has to be, then no obstacle, no matter how great, will stand in your way; and, if we do our bit, ultimately Hashem will always be there, our silent partner, ready to effect the impossible, and accomplish the undoable, right alongside us.

It is Yaakov’s will that fuels the accomplishment of his dreams.

Shabbat Shalom, from Jerusalem.

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in Jewish education.

Five years ago, Railean decided to open a youth club, Haverim, as part of the Jewish Cultural Center. The club draws 700 young people each year to the Jewish community.

Railean’s most important personal goal is to attract as many Jewish teens as possible to life inside the Jewish community. His secondary objective is to give them the chance to be a part of the traditions and culture of the Jewish people.

“After all, the Soviet years took that away from our parents and grandparents. The most important part for me is to, by talking to them, let them know that our future and the future of our community is in our hands,” he explains.

Of the 15,000 Jews currently living in Chisinau, the capital of the Republic of Moldova, only about 8,000 are affiliated. “A lot of people are still afraid to admit they are Jews,” Railean says. “To this day, we still find Jewish descendants who are afraid to talk about their Jewish heritage.”

Another problem in Moldova is anti-Semitism, with swastikas drawn on walls, Jewish gravestones being broken, and vandals dismantling the communal menorah installed each year for Hanukkah.

“There are still parts of the Soviet life left here,” says Railean.

The Haverim club offers leadership and volunteer programs, and workshops and seminars, to help young people gain Jewish

knowledge. They can study Hebrew, learn about the Jewish culture of Moldova, and participate in debate clubs. Youths also join together for Jewish holidays and for Shabbat, and they are encouraged to develop and lead their own communal projects.

“A lot of teens start and conduct programs for the elderly, visit socially vulnerable families with children, help them out with homework, meet on Shabbat together,” Railean says.

Some of the most successful Haverim programs have been family camps and retreats.

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By Michele Alperin, JNS.org In a complex journey that can start as simply as children asking their parents what their family name means, younger Jews in the Former Soviet Union (FSU) are discovering the sometimes long-held secret of their religious background—a discovery that often initiates a search for Jewish identity.

Typically, this reawakening happens among teens, says Ofer Glanz, the FSU regional director for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). Glanz recalls a Jewish educational coordinator in Kiev asking her parents about the very strange dinner she and her parents would have with her grandparents every April. Although they usually shushed her and told her that it was something babushka and dedushka (grandma and grandpa) wanted, she later found out it was a Passover seder.

Another JDC staffer brought a recipe from home to a cooking class and was asked what kind of food it was. “Her mother told her that her grandmother used to cook this kind of dish in the shtetl, before the war,” Glanz says.

A network of informal educational organizations has been developing to meet the needs of these newly interested FSU Jews.

The network includes JDC’s Jewish community centers, youth organizations, and family camps; Limmud FSU; and others. To support the educators and volunteers behind this Jewish identity revival, JDC held an informal education conference in Lvov, Ukraine, from Oct. 13-17. Sessions focused on networking, knowledge sharing, skills buildup, and the exchange of best practices in Jewish informal education as well as religious practices, spirituality, and issues like assimilation. Two of the days were devoted to study tours of Jewish areas in the region, with follow-up sessions related to potential programming.

“Education is a tool to address one of the key issues in the FSU, both for younger and older people—Jewish identity,” Glanz says.

“People in the FSU were deprived of anything having to do with Jewish identity for more than 70 years, until the breakdown of the Soviet Union.”

In contrast to the U.S. and Israel, where Jewish identity is passed from parent to child, in the FSU it often goes in the other direction, according to Glanz.

“Usually young people bring home Jewish identity. Young people understanding they are Jews want to understand better what it means and to reconnect to the Jewish people,” he says.

For conference participant Kolea Railean, director of the youth department of the Jewish Cultural Center in Kishinev, the first intuition that he was Jewish came when his dad told him that the doughnuts his grandmother used to make were for Hanukkah. After her death, Jewish life “began to drain out of our family,” he writes in an email to JNS.org.

But Railean, who was always interested in cooking, carefully studied his grandmother’s handwritten Jewish recipes—for latkes, sufganiot (jelly donuts), and “other national dishes of Jewish cuisine” (like forshmak, which is Jewish herring)—and sometimes he and his dad would try to cook her recipes together.

When Railean got older, his father sent him and his sister to a Jewish school, and he was also part of Sunday youth programs at the Jewish Cultural Center.

“I began to attend a variety of programs, seminars, courses, and one day I realized that without my community I cannot imagine my future life,” he says.

Essentially self-educated Jewishly, Railean has also studied at seminars organized by JDC and has traveled with the Jewish Cultural Center to New York, where he got to observe modern techniques and technologies

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Heller said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone here treats her like their own grandmother.â&#x20AC;?

Last year, Steinbergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birthday was interrupted by Hurricane Sandy.

All of Grandellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s residents were forced to evacuate. The facility is a block away from the ocean, and Steinberg was unable to return for a month. When she returned after Thanksgiving, the staff threw her a belated birthday, but Heller said Steinberg was a bit rundown after all of the commotion of Sandy. But this year, she got her party, and she was in high spirits, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like the energizer bunny,â&#x20AC;?

Heller said.

Continued from page 1 watch as the stormtroopers came, â&#x20AC;&#x153;turning everything over, smashed the windows and threw huge bales of cloth out the windows. All Jewish shopkeepers had to replace the glass at their own expense.â&#x20AC;? School stopped after Kristallnacht, she said; Jewish children couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go anywhere.

Her brother went into hiding and was able to secure a visa, entering the Liverpool yeshiva, and then the U.S. in 1940. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anyone who had someone in another country tried to get out,â&#x20AC;? she said.

She met the criteria for the Kindertransport and was sent to Glasgow, Scotland, staying with a Jewish family there. She said that when she left her parents she was â&#x20AC;&#x153;numb, so frightened, totally numb, until we crossed the border, then all of the children relaxed.

Everyone thought that they would certainly see their parents again. I have to applaud my parents for going through the travail of letting me go into the unknown, not knowing if they would ever see me again.â&#x20AC;?

Half of the children were taken in by foster families; others were on farms, in hostels or group homes throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Older ones entered the labor force; some joined the army to ďŹ ght against the Nazis. Four of them are Nobel prize winners. Most of the children never saw their parents again.

She said that her time there

Belle Silverstein of Far Rockaway was â&#x20AC;&#x153;bittersweet,â&#x20AC;? that some of the children went on to university, some were in hostels, some were â&#x20AC;&#x153;not funded and ended up on the streets. I was torn from my family.

What did I miss most? Love. Someone who really cared for me and that is the most poignant message to impart to parents: go home and kiss your children.â&#x20AC;? But, she said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;This saved my life.â&#x20AC;?

Silverstein was one of the lucky ones. She stayed in Glasgow for six years and then six months by a cousin in London and worked for Agudah there. Her parents managed to evade the authorities and wandered through Europe. The family was reunited in New York in 1947. Silverstein met her husband Benjamin and married in 1948.

While still in Europe, she learned to â&#x20AC;&#x153;cut, stitch and sewâ&#x20AC;? and got a sewing machine as a bat mitzvah present. In the U.S. she worked as

a clothing buyer for stores and then later wrote for Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wear Market Report, a trade publication, for 29 years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With the exception of my children I never talked about the kindertransport. Because of my accent they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know I was from Germany. I wanted to be totally American.â&#x20AC;?

She began talking about her experiences after the movie came out in 2000, in TAG, SKA, HAFTR High School and Lawrence High School. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s amazing how many children donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know anything about this,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;American children take everything for granted, how important it is to overcome troubles.

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Rabbi Shaul Rappeport was introduced to the Lido Beach Congregation Friday evening amid the warmth and excitement of a buzzing record crowd.

Born in Perth, Australia, and with smicha awarded in Israel by way of yeshivot in South Africa, Rabbi Rappeport comes to Lido after three years in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

Lido Beach President Alex Berkovitch, who chaired the Shabbat event, voiced gratitude to Hashem for helping his community find such a wonderful successor to the retired Rabbi (now Emeritus) Daniel Mehlman.

Rebbetzin Michal Rappeport introduced her husband, her innate warmth charming the crowd. But achron chaviv (last is the best), the real stars were the smiling and ever-scurrying children Eliezer, Sara and Shaina.

Rabbi Rappeport plans to promote Lido community as a hidden gem, calling it an “idea town for both younger families and empty-nesters.”

“Of course the shul has minyanim and shiurim and

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Shul in Lido Beach welcomes its new rabbi, Shaul Rappeport we have an eruv,” he said, but also “yeshivot, parks, boardwalk and beaches, libraries, year-round pools, ice skating, kosher butcher, bakeries, and a 50 minute comfortable commute.

“We’re 15 minutes from major hospitals, three campuses with free courses for seniors, a full-service JCC, and you can live in anything from a rental to a mansion.”

Lido Beach’s tech-savy new rabbi said that he will be tweeting as @30somethingrav and will regularly post on YouTube.

Lido Vice President Zev Nathan noted that retired Rabbi Mehlman led the shul for 37 years and that under Rabbi Rappeport’s leadership, the congregation’s future is in excellent hands. ___________________________________________ NEW FAMILY IN TOWN: Lido Beach Congregation Rabbi Shaul Rappeport, Rebbetzin Michal Rappeport, and their children (left to right) Shaina, Sara and Eliezer.

90-year-old Hillel considers its campus future

Students who are part of Hillel in Moscow.

By Alina Dain Sharon, JNS.org When recent rabbinical school graduate Rabbi Benjamin Frankel began a part-time clerical position in 1923 working with students at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, little could he have imagined that within less than a century, the small Jewish student program would balloon into a national and international organization with a presence at 550 colleges and universities.

Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life is celebrating its 90th anniversary in November, the organization confirmed. Under its first full-time national director, Abram L. Sachar, Hillel grew from a primarily religious organization to a center of cultural Jewish

learning at a time when Judaism was viewed with suspicion in academia, and when the existence of Jewish students on American college campuses was relatively new.

“In this dynamic and global environment, our young people will go off and pursue careers and opportunities all over the world, but the one time and place when we have the greatest critical mass of the future of the Jewish people is during the college years,” Hillel CEO Eric Fingerhut, who assumed the position this summer, told JNS.org.

In the late 1980s, Hillel underwent another transformation under the directorship of Richard M. Joel, who led the effort to “recognize the growth of Jewish life on campus

Foreman’s comeback began in Brooklyn gym

By Maxine Dovere, JNS.org Gleason’s Gym has been an integral part of Jewish boxer Yuri Foreman’s life for more than a decade. It is the place where he trained and prepared for his championship bouts, where he met his wife, where he celebrated his wedding, and where he returned to heal after a career-threatening injury.

“Yuri is probably one of the best fighters and nicest individuals I’ve met. He is on a positive road. I hope he regains his world title and becomes a rabbi in a very short time,” Bruce Silverglade, owner of the famed gym in Brooklyn’s once grimy and now trendy DUMBO neighborhood, tells JNS.org.

Silverglade’s comments reflect the multifaceted life of one of the world’s most famous Jewish pugilists, who won the first 29 fights of his professional boxing career and was super welterweight champion of the world until losing to Miguel Cotto in June 2010.

An Israeli amateur champion at age 19, Foreman “decided he wanted to become a world champion and came to New York entirely by himself,” Silverglade recalls.

“He came to Gleason’s to realize his dreams,” says the gym’s owner. “Then, he got involved with religion. His studies for the rabbinate are quite an inspiration.”

In 2010, the Belarus-born Foreman was on the ticket of the first fight scheduled at the new Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. The Saturday night fight against Cotto began later than usual because Foreman, the champion, observes Shabbat and could not travel

until an hour after sunset.

The fighters and their entourages at the “weigh-in” the day before that fight teased and challenged each other, and welcomed the usual cadre of New York sports reporters, photographers, and boxing aficionados.

The Spanish press was there to support Cotto, the Puerto Rican favorite, and so were representatives of the Jewish media to cover Foreman. A boxing match is certainly an unusual venue for most of the latter.

The fight was stopped in the ninth round. Foreman lost his title by a TKO (technical knockout) and suffered a significant knee injury that has dramatically impacted his boxing career. His knee problem stems from a childhood bike accident. Never properly treated, the knee gave out in the sixth round of the fight against Cotto. Despite his defeat, Foreman gained the respect of even Cotto’s fans. They cheered the injured boxer as he left the ring.

Soon after the surgery that followed, Foreman, still on crutches. returned to Gleason’s Gym even though his workouts had to be limited. Throughout his recovery, he continued his rabbinical studies at the IYYUN Center for Jewish Spirituality in Brooklyn’s Boerum Hill.

His teacher, Rabbi DovBer Pinson, has characterized him as “a very good student.”

Just months after his loss to Cotto

in 2010, Foreman’s wife, Leyla Leidecker, an amateur boxer and former model who helped train Hilary Swank for the movie “Million Dollar Baby”, gave birth to his first child, a son named Lev Micah. The couple now has two sons.

Photo by Adam Ritter via Wikimedia Commons

and to greatly expand together with some extraordinary Jewish philanthropists the footprint of Hillel, to build the physical infasctructure of Hillel, and to enable to reach the campuses where a large percentage of our Jewish students are,” Fingerhut said.

In 2002, Hillel partnered with the Jewish Agency for Israel to create its Center for Israel Affairs. Among its Israel-related activities, Hillel organized events, brought experts to speak on campuses, and trained students in Israel advocacy. Hillel also became involved with Taglit-Birthright Israel, bringing more than 10,000 Jewish students to Israel in the first three years of the program alone.

Via the Jewish Agency, Hillel also began to invite young Israelis to spend one or two years working at local campus Hillels in leadership roles. Today, 58 Jewish Agency Israel Fellows to Hillel serve 67 North American campuses, according to Hillel.

“It’s really hard for people to embrace governments or ideology, and yet to embrace a specific person who has a real narrative… makes it much more difficult to demonize Israel if you’ve actually met an Israeli and you see them as a human being,” Wayne Firestone, Fingerhut’s predecessor said.

Hillel’s work to connect American Jewish students with Israel has not come without controversy, often relating to the questions surrounding the group’s “big tent” policy.

Hillel’s official guidelines state that the group will not “partner with, house or host organizations, groups or speakers that delegitimize, demonize or apply a double standard to Israel.” But a student campaign, Open Hillel, was recently founded by students who feel excluded from Hillel because they believe their critical views about Israel are not accepted.

Others have raised concerns about the need for Hillel to enforce its official guidelines on Israel amid anti-Israel activity on some campuses.

“Contrary to some reports that anti-Israel activity is all but non-existent, there are real problems on many campuses, with groups and speakers—and sometimes faculty members—spreading falsehoods about Israel,” Aviva Slomich, director of student programming for the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, told JNS.org in July.

“For that reason the role of Hillel leaders in educating and protecting impressionable students is essential.”

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Young Israel of Oceanside presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;An Israeli Story of Overcoming Adversity.â&#x20AC;? Cheryl Mandel, mother of Lt. Daniel Mandel zâ&#x20AC;?l, tells of her sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death in battle in 2003 just before Pesach.

Danielâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s charismatic personality lives on as his life and death continue to inďŹ&#x201A;uence and inspire communities around the globe. Event sponsored by OneFamilyTogether.org. 7:45 pm. 150 Waukena Avenue, Oceanside,

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Youngsters engage in a variety of activities at the newly expanded Warren Levi Martial Arts & Fitness, facing the parking plaza outside Gourmet Glatt, between Spruce Street and Washington Avenue, where the Cedarhurst Business Improvement District held a ribbon cutting event last Sunday. Warren Levi, in the Five Towns for 10 years, opened its new center last summer.

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Drasha, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yakov & Esau: How to teach a story of deception to your children,â&#x20AC;? 11 am. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Jewish Voldemort? Acher: The Rabbi Who Would Not be Named,â&#x20AC;? 4 pm. 390 Broadway, Lawrence.

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Discussion of our Matriarchs continues with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rachel and Leah: Two Sisters, Two Wives, One Husband,â&#x20AC;? led by Michal Horowitz. JCC of the Greater Five Towns, 207 Grove Ave., Cedarhurst. 11:30 amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;12:30 pm. $15. Contact, Rachayle Deutsch at (516)569-6733 ext. 222.

Featuring vendors, rafďŹ&#x201A;es and delicious food, one year after Hurricane Sandyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wrath. 6:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 9:30 pm. Young Israel of Long Beach, 120 Long Beach Blvd. Ilana Austin, 516-897-3025.

Israeli hero runs NYC Marathon for terror victimsâ&#x20AC;Ś Continued from page 1 Karov was able to leave the hospital to a rehabilitation center.

Dr. Jackson performed other surgeries for Karov as did other physicians. Now, almost ďŹ ve years later, Karov has regained all his abilities, is a student at Ariel University and he and his wife Tzvia have a daughter and a son. And Dr. Jackson was the mohel.

Yitzchaka Jackson, Dr. Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife, met Karov six months ago and said that he was â&#x20AC;&#x153;very unhappyâ&#x20AC;? at the time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My husband saved his life, and has an intense connection with Aharon.â&#x20AC;? Yitzchaka noted that Aharon said that he was dissatisďŹ ed with himself that the â&#x20AC;&#x153;way he was, was not good enough. He was walking and talking and back to normal but he was very heavy and out of shape.â&#x20AC;? She said that she is â&#x20AC;&#x153;a runnerâ&#x20AC;? and asked him to join her; it took a while for him to agree. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It took a lot out of me,â&#x20AC;? she said. She told him she was going to the NYC Marathon and asked if he would join her. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re nuts,â&#x20AC;? he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re nuts and I have a brain injury so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m nuts, too.â&#x20AC;?

They trained, she said, on condition that they run for a good cause. They ran for OneFamily, an organization that assists victims of terror and their families; they helped Aharon and his family.

Yitzchaka doubts that Karov would run anymore marathons but she hopes he will continue running. Mrs. Jackson, a lawyer,

a nurse working in the intensive care unit of a hospital, a mother and a student at Tel Aviv University said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am going back to my life.â&#x20AC;? She said she was responsible for Aharon the last few months, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now I need to rest.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We took care of his wife and both families, providing hot meals, ďŹ nancial assistance, through the whole ordeal,â&#x20AC;? explained Michelle Napell, executive director of OneFamily. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lifelong, as long as they need us and whatever they need. Even ďŹ ve or ten years after, we are always there for them, like family.

Very often if there is another terror attack, when prisoners are released, PTSD sets in, there are triggers, they may be crying all day, canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t function or work. If they need help with bar or bat mitzvah preparations, a wedding, they call and Aharon Karov, left, with Dr. Steven Jackson, Karovâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surgeon, and say â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;can you help us,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what we do.â&#x20AC;? Mrs. Yitzchaka Jackson who trained Karov for the NYC Marathon.

OneFamily was launched in the wake of the Sharro restaurant terror attack in 2001 organization, to help terror victims and their that killed 15 and injured 130 men, women families in their daily needs.

Aharon Karov spoke with The Jewish Star and children. Michal Belzberg was preparin Hebrew after the marathon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was exing for her bat mitzvah when she heard of the bombing and canceled her party, donat- cellent, difďŹ cult and good. It was very cold, ing what would have been spent to assist the with strong winds in the face on the bridges, victims and encouraging friends and family but it was an incredible experience. I could to donate any gifts intended for her as well. never have thought that it would be so full of Realizing that this was not enough to aid the people cheering us on the entire way, urging many terror victims in Israel, the Belzbergs us to go on, to continue forward. We trained founded OneFamily, a volunteer, non-proďŹ t well. It was a tremendous effort. I knew I had

to get to this place and I did. My muscles feel sore; you feel the effort. I worked hard and prepared and knew I could do it. Not everyone can do this.â&#x20AC;?

Aharon has three brothers and three sisters, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m the sandwich,â&#x20AC;? he said. He lives with his wife and two children in Ariel and is studying Management and Human Resources at Ariel University. He is currently working for PanimElPanim, with the army, presenting talks and discussions with ofďŹ cers and soldiers on values and ethics.

Asked how he was able to leave his wife after their wedding he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was an ofďŹ cer responsible for the soldiers. It was clear that I would go with them into battle.â&#x20AC;?

He started running because, he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was fat.â&#x20AC;? And he ran for OneFamily because â&#x20AC;&#x153;I felt an obligation. They came and helped me in everything, and my parents and my wife, doing everything for me. I wanted to do something for them. They were with me all the time. They do what they can.â&#x20AC;?

He wanted to stress, above all, two things; that he drew his immense willpower to go on from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hakadosh Baruch Hu, Hakoach shel Hakodosh Baruch Huâ&#x20AC;? from G-d. And he wanted to stress that if the nation of Israel is united always they can withstand and overcome everything. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The nation of Israel has to be united always, not only in battle, but always.â&#x20AC;?

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