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Library Ambassador honorees (from left) Jamie and Rachel Stahler, and Alan and Helene Gerber. Alan Gerber is The Jewish Star’s long-running Kosher Bookworm columnist.

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5 Towns toasts treasured Jewish children’s library The Levi Yitzchak Family Center marked its seventh anniversary with a fund-raising award breakfast on Sunday. It also would have been the 18th birthday of Levi Yitzchak Wolowik, for whom the center is named.

“It’s a resource for our town, a place on Central Avenue where you can bring your children and they can do something good and educational,” said MC Ben Brafman, who urged Five Towners to contribute generously.

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Event at CitiField views health care with halachic eye By Ed Weintrob “Kibbud av va em is not just showing respect for the The venue — and the parent, but maintaining the crowds — keep getting bigger. self-respect of the parent … Five Towns-based Achiezer because when a parent gets moved its annual Jewish Health[help] from their own chilcare Conference and Expo to dren, who they gave their CitiField last Sunday, drawing life for, who they brought particpiants from throughout up … it’s a different type of the metropolitican area for an kibbud and respect than if a event that featured 20 panel stranger does it.” discussions and more than 60 If a parent is placed in an exhibitors. Rabbis Yaakov Bender (top) and In a discussion on the “chal- Tzvi Flaum discussed eldercare extended care facility, children must be diligent in selenges of eldercare and halach- challenges and halacha. lecting it and then be regular ca,” Rabbis Yaakov Bender and visitors — both to see to the Tzvi Flaum touched on such parent’s needs and to insure questions as why we’re charmed that the staff knows the famby babies but not so much by old ily cares, the rabbis agreed. people (Hashem gave children A DNR should never a certain charm, otherwise we be causually signed, Rabbi might not so readily take care Flaum cautioned, pointing of them), should we take our out that it is not a health care infirm parents into our homes proxy. “A standing DNR is not (yes), and should we sign DNR something that you give,” he (do not resuscitate) orders that said, cautioning that doing so our parents’ hospital or nursing sends a message to medical home can keep on file (no). “There’s no question they should be brought staff that you don’t care about the patient. Another prominent rabbi, Dovid Cohen, to you in your house,” Rabbi Flaum said. “This is your golden opportunity to show them the ha- participated in a discussion on the “challenges karat hatov (appreciation) you have for all the of special needs and halacha” that was modyears of love and compassion and mesiras nefesh erated by Achiezer’s founder and president, Rabbi Boruch Ber Bender. (self-sacrifice) they showed to you.”

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Amazon to hypercharge the ‘start-up nation’ These offerings are far above Israel’s average wage, even in the Jewish state’s booming high-tech field. Top programmers in Israel can already earn about $11,370 per month, which is more than four times the average Israeli salary, while the average Israeli high-tech employee earns around $5,940. The pressure created by Amazon’s activity underscores a challenge identified in the recently released annual report of the Israel Innovation Authority. The report notes that while Israel leads the world in R&D and venture capital investments as a percentage of gross domestic product, the country is in danger of losing its status as one of the world’s top high-tech innovators if the shortage of skilled employees in the field is not addressed. But Guy Hilton, general manager of Start-Up Nation Central, said he sees “good progress” on this front. “All the stakeholders are moving in the right direction,” he said, “but more needs to be done to include sectors of the population not present in the tech industry in any significant numbers: the haredim, Israeli Arabs, people in peripheral towns and women in general.” The Innovation Authority reached the same conclusion in its report, and outlined a plan to boost Israel’s current total of 270,000 high-tech employees to more than half a million, by further integrating underrepresented sectors of Israeli society into the field.

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WASHINGTON — Jewish sailors aboard the Navy aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford now have a Torah scroll to use during their six- to eight-month stints at sea. The umbrella body for Jewish chaplains, the JWB Jewish Chaplains Council, dedicated the scroll on Wednesday aboard the ship in Norfolk, Virginia. It was dedicated to the memory Sgt. Jacob Kamaras, a veteran of the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. On hand for the ceremony were his son, Philip Kamaras, a Brooklyn lawyer, and his namesake grandson, Jacob Kamaras, a journalist and publicist in Houston. The Kamaras family paid for the $36,000 scroll as part of the chaplains’ council Torah for Our Troops campaign, which equips chaplains with travel-size Torah scrolls. The scroll, slightly smaller than those used in most synagogues, is designed for use in the shipboard chapel. “My dad was a blue-collar worker who was drafted at age 34 before landing in Europe to

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By Adam Abrams, JNS When the online retail giant Amazon recently entered Israel’s high-tech ecosystem, it was far from business as usual in the “start-up nation.” As the conglomerate began attracting top Israeli programmers with aggressive hiring tactics and unusually high salary offerings, industry experts initiated calls for the Jewish state to expand its pool of highly skilled technology talent. With the opening of Amazon’s new research and development (R&D) center in Tel Aviv in October, the company joined more than 300 other foreign firms—including Facebook, Microsoft, Intel, Google, IBM and Apple—that have set up shop in Israel. After inking deals in July valued at NIS 37 million ($10.5 million) per year to lease upscale office space in Tel Aviv, Amazon embarked on a massive local hiring spree. In doing so, the company placed unprecedented pressure on Israel’s domestic technology firms to retain their most talented programmers and engineers, highlighting the challenge of sustaining the highly skilled workforce that is the lifeblood of Israeli innovation. In its bid to acquire the best and brightest, Amazon has reportedly offered prospective Israeli hires salaries as high as $28,180 per month, and is typically offering salaries of around $16,900 per month with additional bonuses.

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Bibi electrifies Africa on third visit in 18 months By Sean Savage, JNS Decades after a massive diplomatic campaign by former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir to build relations with sub-Saharan Africa, current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has embarked on his own efforts to unite Israel with one of the world’s fastest-growing regions. On Nov. 28, Netanyahu traveled to the Kenyan capital of Nairobi to attend the festivities surrounding the inauguration of President Uhuru Kenyatta. The one-day trip, though shorter than the Israeli leader’s historic four-state East Africa tour in July 2016 as well as his West Africa trip in June 2017, proved to be arguably just as productive, as Netanyahu announced the opening of a new embassy in Rwanda and met with leaders from nearly a dozen African nations. “We are opening a new embassy in the Rwandan capital Kigali as part of Israel’s expanding presence in Africa and the deepening of cooperation between Israel and the countries of Africa,” Netanyahu said after he met with Rwandan President Paul Kagame in Nairobi. The leaders discussed the possibility of opening a direct air link between Israel and Rwanda, Netanyahu’s office stated. Dr. Moshe Terdiman, director of the Research of the Islam and Muslims in Africa (RIMA) think tank, said the relationship with Rwanda is strategically important for Israel as the Jewish state seeks to build greater support in sub-Saharan Africa in order to counter bias from Arab nations in international forums. Additionally, Rwanda is helping Israel address the issue of illegal African migrants. “Many Israeli businesses and NGOs are active in the country, and just in recent days the Israeli government made a deal with Rwanda to pay $5,000 for each asylum-seeker living in Israel that [Rwanda] would accept, and it agreed to accept 10,000 asylum seekers,” Terdiman told JNS. Rwanda and Israel established diplomatic

to further promote relations with sub-Saharan Africa. “Despite the fact that Netanyahu skipped the inauguration ceremony itself due to security reasons, he took advantage of the event in order to have a set of meetings with other African heads of state and delegations who attended the event,” he said. Terdiman added, “It should be mentioned that Togo was supposed to host an AfricanIsraeli summit this fall, but it was cancelled. Therefore, Netanyahu seized the opportunity to further promote relations with African countries.” At the lunch event, Netanyahu delivered an address to leaders from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Rwanda, Togo, Botswana, Namibia, Ethiopia and Nigeria. “This is my third visit to Africa in 18 months, and my second visit here in Kenya,” Netanyahu said. “We believe in the future of Africa. We love Africa and I would like very much not only to cooperate on an individual basis with each of your countries…but also with the African Union.” Netanyahu mentioned a recent initiative by Israel to join the Power Africa project, an international program led by the U.S. that seeks to create 60 million new electricity connections for African households and businesses by 2020. “We would like to work with you and with every one of your countries to electrify Africa,” said Netanyahu. “We believe in Africa. So for every, every one of your initiatives, there will be an initiative on our part to seize the future, to make life better and safer for your people.” Israel’s humanitarian work in Africa also extends to water resources, agriculture, cyber security and health care, Netanyahu noted. “We believe that we can better lives for people everywhere, but first in Africa,” he said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Rwandan President Paul Kagame in Nairobi, Kenya, on Nov. 28. Haim Zach/GPO

ties soon after the country gained independence in 1962, but the African nation cut off ties with Israel in the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, when most African countries, under Arab pressure, severed ties with the Jewish state. Yet ties were re-established in 1994, when Kagame rose to power. Kagame, a former lead commander of the rebel Tutsi force that put an end to the Rwandan genocide, has been attempting to modernize his country and aims to boost relations with Israel in areas such as technology, agriculture, energy and security. “Rwanda is open for business,” Kagame said during a two-day visit to Israel in July. “We look forward to welcoming private sector delegations from Israel even more frequently in the future.”

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Europe’s Jewish hospice offers dignity to survivors By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA AMSTERDAM — Henny Goudeketting, a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor, who was sterilized in Nazi medical experiments at Auschwitz, has neither children nor other relatives to care for her. Now, after multiple infections and recurrent falls, she’s readying to say goodbye. “It’s kind of strange,” Goudeketting told JTA. “I know I have no future and I’m ready to die, but I’m still afraid of actually dying.” “My biggest sorrow is not being able to have children,” said Goudeketting, an Amsterdam native who returned to that city at 23 after surviving Auschwitz. She worked for decades as a seamstress. Last month she was admitted to Immanuel, a small but upscale eight-room facility for the terminally ill. It is Europe’s only Jewish hospice, according to Tel Aviv University’s Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry. While such facilities are common in the U.S. — the National Institute for Jewish Hospice, which was established in 1985 in New York, lists no fewer than 225 accredited Jewish hospice programs — they remain rare on the continent. Funded through private donations, as well as patient fees and some subsidies, the hospice was built by the Dutch Jewish community for survivors like Goudeketting to receive top endof-life care. “I’m not sure whether this is real, the luxurious treatment I’m getting here,” she said. “I’ve never experienced anything like this in my whole life.” The Netherlands, which last year was No. 1 on Europe’s index of public health systems, has 146 hospices nationwide with an average guest satisfaction rating of 9.1 out of 10. Immanuel is the only hospice in Europe for guests like Goudeketting who keep kosher, although there are other hospitals with palliative programs that offer kosher food.

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It’s also the only hospice where the staff and volunteers “already know the special issues connected to caring for the generation of Holocaust survivors,” said Sasja Martel, the institution’s founding director. That’s crucial, she said, “because at the last stage of life, it’s often too late to start explaining” what those special issues are. A case in point: At Immanuel, the staff encourages guests to resist the urge “to finish their plates,” Martel said, and only eat when they are hungry. “Traumatized by the Holocaust, survivors and their children tend to associate eating with staying alive,” she explained. “And that’s true, but at the terminal stage eating can hasten death.” Rabbinical or other spiritual counseling is available to guests, as is counseling on accept-

ing death, mostly by volunteers. That’s an issue for many survivors who are conditioned to “fight death at all costs,” Martel said. The hospice, which has an annual budget of approximately $500,000, is subtly adorned with Jewish symbols ranging from mezuzahs, menorahs and, atop one piece of furniture in the main hall, a small pile of stones of the kind that Jews place on cemetery headstones. But even though they are understated, the symbols can have a profound effect on some guests. “The significance of little things is amplified near the end,” Martel said. “Many guests feel a need to touch their identity, reconnect with it, even if only through the symbols. Or the typical Ashkenazi Jewish chicken soup we serve, that they remember from their grandmother, or the white tablecloth on Shabbat and the candle

lighting. Or just a Jewish joke.” Staff are trained to accommodate the special needs of survivors like Goudeketting, who have no family, added Martel. “We need to be conscious that for many of our guests we are all that they have, which is not necessarily the case in other hospices,” she said. There are other sensitivity issues. For example, the hospice decided not to hire a nurse who had a German accent, Martel said last week at a symposium on hospice care in Judaism in honor of Immanuel’s 10th anniversary. One former patient, Bram Koopmans, said in a filmed interview before his death in 2010 that the hospice was his first contact with a Jewish community institution since staying at an orphanage for child Holocaust survivors in the 1940s. On his deathbed, Koopmans said that after decades of avoiding his Jewish identity, staying at Immanuel made him remember the Jewish blessing over bread, which he was taught at the orphanage. Holding back tears, Koopmans recited the blessing during the interview while holding one hand over his head. “It’s been waiting in me for years and years,” he said. “It’s as though I never left.” Koopmans asked volunteers at Immanuel to go to his home and fetch a kippah and menorah that he had hidden away, Martel recalled. He also asked a rabbi to give him a bar mitzvah at the hospice. Koopmans had a Jewish burial, which he didn’t plan to do when he first arrived at Immanuel. One thing not offered at Immanuel is assisted suicide, which is readily available in the Netherlands for the terminally ill. The country’s parliament is now debating a controversial draft bill that would allow even healthy people to receive assisted suicide. But ending one’s life is “diametrically opposed to the Jewish values that sanctify life,” said Martel.

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We support a two-state solution,” the statement continued. “We believe that it is important for American Jews to hear the views of Palestinians.” Hirsch, the former executive director of the Association of Reform Zionists of America, told JTA: “We do not want to host people who have anti-Israel, anti-Zionist views. I don’t know what the current or future relationship of the store is to the book. We didn’t want to get into the business of telling the bookstore what books to carry.” Bashi, however, called the synagogue’s opposition to the book,

and its initial criticism of Book Culture, “mob-like behavior.” “I’m an Upper West Side mother myself, and I find it dismaying that a religious institution can force businesses in that manner,” she said. Bashi rejects the idea that the word “intifada” refers primarily to terror attacks. She told JTA that she sees intifada as referring to a broader cultural and nonviolent Palestinian resistance to Israel’s occupation. Western media, she said, tend to emphasize Palestinian violence while not covering peaceful protest. “Of course, absolutely, violence is wrong,” Bashi said.

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By Ben Sales, JTA When Chris Doeblin agreed to buy 100 copies of a children’s book to help an author friend, he didn’t expect to become enmeshed in a controversy over international relations and free speech. But that’s what happened after Doeblin, co-owner of Book Culture, a chain of independent bookstores on the Upper West Side, purchased and held a reading of “P is for Palestine,” which came out last month. Written by Golbarg Bashi, an Iranian-born author who has held Persian-language readings of children’s books at Book Culture for three years, it is subtitled, “A Palestine ABC Book.” The bookstore chain also donated $650 to a crowdfunding campaign for the book. But that angered another Book Culture partner: the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue. Book Culture was set to provide books and toys for a book fair at the large Reform congregation on West 68th Street. But after discovering the bookstore’s work with Bashi, the synagogue threatened to pull out, charging that the book — especially a page on “intifada” — glorifies violence against Israelis. In the end, the synagogue withdrew the threat, but not before putting an independent bookstore chain in the unusual position of having to make a string of statements on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — including supporting Israel’s right to exist and opposing the boycott movement against it. “So many people were incensed and took offense and were hurt by this book’s publication,” Doeblin told JTA. “I can honestly say I’m sorry. As we try and reach out to people, we have to do it with enough respect so that we don’t hurt and cause these violent reactions.” This is just the latest episode of controversy that has surrounded “P is for Palestine” since it was published on Nov. 11. The picture book dedicates pages to each letter of the alphabet, along with a corresponding word — “A is for Arabic,” for example. The main reason for the conflict wasn’t the book’s title or concept — rather it was the two-page spread featuring the letter I, which states “I is for Intifada, Intifada is Arabic for rising up for what is right, if you are a kid or a grownup!” The accompanying illustration shows a father and child waving peace signs next to barbed wire. The Reform synagogue, along with plenty of other critics, charged that the book obscured the violent nature of the two Palestinian intifadas, or uprisings, which occurred over a span of years in the late 1980s and again in the early 2000s. More than 1,000 Israelis died in attacks perpetrated by Palestinian terror groups that targeted civilians. Thousands of Palestinians died in clashes with Israeli security forces. “Of particular concern to me is the glorification of the Palestinian intifada — a cruel, murderous and terroristic campaign that purposely targeted innocent Israelis, including children, in restaurants, buses, hospitals, schools and shopping malls,” Ammiel Hirsch, the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue’s senior spiritiual leader, said in a statement. “The intifada was not a ‘rising up for what is right.’ It was a mass descent into immorality.” Last month, a 28,000-member Facebook group for mothers on the Upper East Side was wracked by vitriolic debate over the book. The dust-up between the synagogue and Book Culture began on Nov. 21, when Hirsch put out a statement demanding Book Culture “publicly rescind their support of ‘P Is for Palestine,’ a book by Golbarg Bashi that glorifies the Palestinian intifada — or Stephen Wise will cancel its upcoming book fair featuring Book Culture.” Since then, the synagogue and bookstore have come to an agreement: Book Culture’s owners have publicly repudiated Bashi’s views but will keep selling her book. Hirsch told JTA that the synagogue is happy to partner with Book Culture as long as the bookstore chain makes clear that it does not oppose Israel. The book fair will proceed as planned. The sides collectively issued a statement last week in which the Book Culture’s owners regretted that they “did not fully appreciate the political or communal ramifications of the children’s book.” They also stated their support for Israel’s right to exist and their opposition to terrorism and to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, or BDS, against Israel. The synagogue did not demand that the store pull the book from its shelves. “We are fierce believers in the right of free expression,” a statement signed by the synagogue clergy said. “Bookstores have a critical role to play in free societies, and in particular, in our increasingly polarized country. If Book Culture wants to carry and promote Dr. Bashi’s book, it is for them to decide.” “This is also not about Palestinian national culture or rights.

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By Josefin Dolsten, JTA Nazis came for Rose Holm’s family in the afternoon. By the evening, the 16-year-old was lying among corpses in the underground bunker where she and her family had been hiding. “I was between those dead ones, and I didn’t know if I’m alive or I’m dead,” Holm, now 92, recalled. Among those shot and killed were Holm’s parents, brother and one of her sisters, as well as some 85 other Jews hiding in the bunker outside Parczew, a town in the eastern part of Poland. Only one family member other than Holm survived: a sister who had left the bunker with her husband and young daughter before the Nazis came. That unimaginable incident would go on to motivate Holm to fight back against the Nazis. A few months later, she met a childhood friend who recruited her to join a group of Jewish partisans. Members of the fighting unit, which was under the command of Chiel Grynszpan, lived in the forest by day and fought the Nazis at night. “I was thinking ‘I have to take revenge, whatever’s going to be, I don’t care’,” Holm told JTA at her Upper East Side apartment. “I never [used to] think I’m going to be alive, and that’s the way I survived with the partisans.” Holm is among a shrinking group of living partisans. “Each year there are fewer Jewish partisans who are able to share their experiences,” Sheri Pearl Rosenblum, director of development and outreach for the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation, told JTA. On its website, the group features the testimonies of Jewish partisans, including Holm and her late husband, Joe. It collected testimonies from 51 Jewish partisans from 2002 to 2015; only 16 are still alive. Holm was one of just five women in her unit, which started with 25 people but grew to around 250 by the end of World War II. Partisan fighter units were reluctant to have women and children as members, but the friend who recruited her — her future husband — told the other fighters that the two were a package deal. As part of the unit, Holm and the other women carried supplies and helped detonate hand grenades. The group focused on destroying bridges and roads that Nazis were using. “A train used to come, so we used to throw the hand grenades,” she recounted. “The hand grenades were very scary because if you pulled the ring [incorrectly], it could kill you.” Partisans would sleep in the forest with little to no protection from the elements. “The first winter was a very, very bad winter. We used to sleep in the woods under the snow,” Holm said. They would make do with whatever food they got from non-Jewish Poles, who had been threatened that they would be killed if they did not aid the fighters. “For survival you do everything, you don’t think you’re a human being,” she said. Sometimes the partisans would get a pig to grill in the forest. “The first time was very hard, but when you’re hungry you don’t ask questions,” Holm, whose religious family had observed Jewish dietary laws. Many times she came close to dying. In one incident, Holm entered the house of a nonJewish Pole to get food and supplies. A German soldier discovered her and she ran, holding on to a sweater the Pole had given her. Later she found bullet holes dotting the side of the sweater, where the soldier had shot at her and narrowly missed.

Rose Holm at her apartment holding a photo of her late husband, Joe, on Oct. 31. Josefin Dolsten

During her time as a partisan, Holm didn’t think about life after the war. “I didn’t think I was going to be alive,” she said. She became close with the friend who recruited her, and the two went on to marry shortly after the war surrounded by the friends they made as partisans. In 1945, the couple moved to a displaced persons camp in Germany before leaving for New York in 1949, where she found a job in a dressmaking factory and he in a cardboard box factory. Joe Holm later opened his own butcher shop before the couple founded a factory producing women’s sweaters about 10 years after moving to the United States. They had two children. Joe died in 2009. Today, Holm lives in their home surrounded by photos of her husband, children, four grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren. Holm once would not speak about wartime experiences; talking about them makes her sad. In 2013, however, she told her story in a video for the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation. The group honored Holm and her husband at galas in 2010 and 2011. Earlier this year her son, Steven, emceed a foundation event honoring surviving partisans and their descendants. There’s also another emotion that comes with telling her story: incredulousness that she went through what she did and survived. “My whole life, I’m just laying sometimes in bed and thinking ‘is this true?’” she said. “I was thinking that I was reading [the story in] a book, that it’s not from my life.”

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Continued from page 10 Perhaps. If Mueller establishes that the Trump transition team was intent on undercutting steps Obama had taken to protect American interests, the lying would become more consequential, even if the underlying act is not illegal. So isn’t it a wrap? Mueller’s got Flynn’s guilty plea, right? Mueller has other game in mind, and Flynn apparently is cooperating. In his plea, Flynn said “a very senior member of the presidential transition team directed Flynn to contact officials from foreign governments, including Russia, to learn where each government stood on the [U.N. Security Council] resolution and to influence those governments to delay the vote and defeat the resolution.” That “very senior member,” Bloomberg News reported over the weekend — and other media have confirmed — is Kushner. (Flynn’s subsequent appeal to Russia not to retaliate for Obama’s sanctions was reportedly at the behest of another transition official, K.T. McFarland.) So that’s Kushner’s role. What about Israel? On the same day that Flynn was asking Kislyak to stop the resolution, Dec. 22, 2016, Trump put out a statement saying the Security Council resolution “should be defeated.” Israeli officials at the time said they had asked Trump to make the statement. “We did reach out to the president-elect and are deeply appreciative that he weighed in, which was not a simple thing to do,” one told CNN. All of this was aboveboard — Trump’s transition team at the time said it had notified the Obama White House that Trump would make the statement, and the Israeli official told CNN it had warned the Obama team that it was turning to Trump for help. Mueller will want to know if Kushner, who pressed Flynn to make the call to the Russians, was taking directions from Israel. But all this is taking place in the open. Why did Flynn lie about it a month later? A statement from Trump is a wish and not much more. If Flynn, in his conversation with Kislyak, offered a quid pro quo, and with Kushner’s blessing, it could be seen as a deal — an active effort to undermine Obama administration policy. Is Kushner in trouble? What that deal would involve would deeply interest Mueller, partly if it involves benefits that would not merely accrue to Trump’s presidency, but to Kushner’s personal fortune. Writing for Bloomberg News, Timothy O’Brien, a Trump biographer, said Kushner’s interests with Russia and Israel may extend well beyond his father-in-law’s foreign policy considerations. Kushner’s family is in debt because of its ownership of a Manhattan office tower, and Mueller is intrigued about a meeting Kushner took with a banker during the transition. (Kushner has said he met with the banker because of his close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and for no other reason.) In his real estate dealings, Kushner has also partnered with one of Israel’s wealthiest families. There’s more: Kushner reportedly pressed his father-in-law to sack then-FBI Director James Comey in May. Comey was investigating the very events that have entangled Flynn — and, we now know, Kushner. Kushner also has spoken to congressional committees and with Mueller’s investigators. Whether Flynn’s revelations of the conversations with Kislyak came up — and whether Kushner was truthful about what he knew — we don’t know. So we’re back to the Logan Act. Have the Democrats noticed? You bet. “This shows a Trump associate negotiating with the Russians against U.S. policy and interests before Donald Trump took office, and after it was announced that Russia had interfered in our election,” Bloomberg quoted Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., as saying. “That’s a stunning revelation and could be a violation of the Logan Act, which forbids unauthorized U.S. citizens from negotiating with a foreign power.”

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t’s the season of eating. From Thanksgiving until Jan. 2, it is all about parties and celebrations and great food. From that golden turkey and all the sides — pecan pies and more — we go right into latkes and brisket and soofganiyot. It is fun and delicious — and I am glad it only lasts about a month. This season is also all about gifts. When our kids were little, we tried to downplay the gift-giving during Chanukah by making one night a night for giving homemade gift “checks.” Each family member gave every other family member a “check” for something that the giver thought the receiver would like. My kids did the dishes, made the beds, made dinner, and cleaned their rooms without reminders. I used to give each child an afternoon of uninterrupted alone time to go to a movie or shop or even go to a sporting goods store to buy the latest roller blades (a gift from grandparents). It became a family favorite and one we still do it every so often. Still, a lot of the joy of Chanukah is, for many, about gift-giving and latkes and soof-

ganiyot and family get-togethers and more. I love to bring little gifts to friends at this time of year, and I always try to make sure it is something from my kitchen. It can be cookies or brownies, but I like to make more unusual things that may not be so highly caloric. I start in the summer and seek out interesting bottles at crafts fairs and online. I use these for all kinds of gifts from oils to syrups and more. The beautiful, usually inexpensive, bottles are unique and add interest and personalization to their content. One year I even decorated the bottles myself and then suddenly found myself with almost no time to make anything with which to fill my artistic creations! Bring some joy to your friends with homemade treats. Yes, you can go buy a gift, but sometimes a gift from the kitchen is the best gift of all (and don’t limit yourself to brownies!). Garlic and Herb Infused Dipping oil (pareve) 4 cups extra virgin olive oil 2 cups high heat safflower oil or coldpressed canola oil 2 Tbsp. dried basil 2 Tbsp. dried parsley 2 tsp. thyme 2 tsp. dried oregano 2 to 4 Tbsp. finely minced garlic 12 to 18 small whole garlic cloves 6 (8 ounce) glass jars A funnel 2 to 4 Rosemary sprigs Wash 2 to 4 (8 to 12 ounce) decorative bottles with very hot water and let drain upside down until thoroughly dried. Divide the basil, parsley, thyme, and oregano evenly between the bottles. Place 1

tablespoon of minced garlic in each bottle. Add several whole garlic cloves to each bottle. Pour 2/3 cups olive oil in each bottle using the funnel. Add 1/3 cup safflower oil to each bottle. Add some rosemary sprigs or thyme sprigs. Cover tightly and shake gently. Add more oil to fill the bottle and close with the stopper provided. Label and wrap. Give this gift immediately and refrigerate after opening. Use within 2 to 3 weeks. Makes 2 to 4 pretty gift bottles. Maple Cranberry Syrup This is great for pancakes and even for a chicken glaze. Put in a pretty glass maso-type jar. Will keep for about 10 days in the fridge. 2 cups pure maple syrup Grade B 1-2/3 cup cranberries, stems removed (measure generously) 1/4 cup sugar 1/4 cup dark brown sugar 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract Place all ingredients in a large, heavy saucepan. Bring to a boil and reduce heat to a strong simmer. Simmer for about 15 minutes, partially covered. Berries will pop, so stir carefully. Let cool. Pour into pretty glass jars and refrigerate. Makes about 4 cups or 2- 4 gifts. Candied Ginger (Parve) The hardest part of this recipe is peeling the ginger. Slice carefully with a small, sharp paring knife. Candied ginger is great in cookies, in a cup of tea and in all kinds of baked goods. It is even good to chew on when one has a minor digestive upset. This is easy and keeps well. 1 pound fresh ginger with thick fingers 5 cups water 1 pound sugar, more or less Peel the ginger and slice into 1/8-inch

slices. Place in a large, heavy saucepan. Add the water and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 35 to 40 minutes, until the ginger is softened. Reserve 1/4 cup of the water and drain the ginger. Weigh the ginger and add the same amount of sugar and the reserved water back into the pan. Cook until the sugar looks dry, all the water is absorbed and the sugar starts to recrystallize, about 20 minutes. Stir almost constantly. Place on a cooling rack over a rimmed baking sheet lined with foil and separate the pieces. Place in pretty glass jars. Makes about 1 pound or 4 gifts. Candied ginger is great for baking or placed in hot tea. Homemade Pure Vanilla Extract (Pareve) You can buy vanilla beans on-line in bulk. Beanilla.com and bostonvanillabeans.com are two good sources. This may be too late to give fully steeped for Hanukkah, but is still a great hostess gift. Just print out directions to shake once a day to give with the gift. 14 to 20 vanilla beans 3 cups vodka or bourbon 2 (12 ounce) decorative glass jars with thin necks and tight fitting tops Wash the jars in very hot water and let drain upside down until dry. Take each vanilla bean and make a slit all the way down the center of the bean. Open gently with the tip of the knife. If the beans are too long, cut them in half. Place 7 to 10 in each jar, fill with vodka, cover and shake for about 20 seconds. Set in a cool, dark place. Shake each day for about 20 seconds until the liquid is dark mahogany color, about 6-8 weeks. Remove the vanilla beans or leave them. The flavor will continue to deepen. Makes 2 lovely gifts any baker will love.

Here’s a Chanukah menu with a lighter touch By Megan Wolf, JTA The holidays are a wonderful time to share meals with friends and family — but must they be heavy and calorie filled? For Chanukah, this simple and tasty Asian-inspired menu uses oil per the holiday tradition, but it’s low in calories and rich in flavors, colors and textures. My bet is, your guests won’t even know the difference between regular fried rice and your version of this special cauliflower fried rice. Cauliflower, by the way, is an excellent stand-in for many popular carbohydrates — potatoes (mashed cauliflower), rice (as prepared here) and pizza crust (you’ll never believe how delicious cauliflower pizza is). Gochujang is a thick Korean sauce, similar to a spicy barbecue sauce. It’s wonderful on chicken, vegetables or here with meaty fish. It’s also lovely stirred into rice (or cauliflower rice!) dishes to add an extra bite. It’s easily purchased at many Korean restaurants, Asian specialty markets or traditional grocery

stores. Your guests will love to celebrate with you without worrying about derailing their healthy eating habits. Want a little decadence? A little chocolate gelt never hurt anyone and would be a perfect way to round out this spicy and savory menu. CAULIFLOWER RICE Ingredients: 1 tablespoon olive oil 2 cloves garlic, peeled and minced 1 teaspoon minced ginger 1 onion, sliced 1 head cauliflower, cleaned and stems removed 1 cup chopped broccoli 1 cup shredded carrots 1 cup peas 1 egg 1 tablespoon sesame oil 2 tablespoon soy sauce Sesame seeds Pickled radish (I always purchase at a lo-

cal Korean restaurant – they are easy to make, but even easier to buy.) Directions: 1. In a food processor or blender, pulse cauliflower florets to resemble rice. Do this in

batches and set aside. 2. In a large nonstick skillet, heat olive oil and cook garlic, ginger and onions until soft and fragrant. 3. Add cauliflower, broccoli and carrots, stir and continue to cook until soft. Add water 2 tablespoons at a time if needed (this will help to steam the vegetables). 4. Add peas, then stir to combine. Make a well in the center of the vegetable mixture and scramble in the egg. 5. Add sesame oil and soy sauce. Stir to combine and season to taste. 6. Top with sesame seeds and sliced pickled radish. 7. Serve immediately. SPICY SEARED SALMON Ingredients: 2 tablespoons olive oil 4 salmon filets See Chanukah menu on page 15

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OU’s Zula aids at-risk kids in J’salem By Michele Chabin, for the OU JERUSALEM — Hadas was just 11 when her mother began to suffer from postpartum depression so severe it rendered her incapable of caring for herself or her children. Her father and an older sibling moved out, leaving Hadas to care for her mother. “My mother didn’t raise me. I raised her,” said Hadas, now 18. “When I was 16, I couldn’t take it anymore and left home. I moved in with my grandmother, and I didn’t care about school.” After a blowup with her grandmother and nowhere else to go, Hadas ran to the Pearl and Harold Jacobs Zula Outreach Center, a magnet in Jerusalem for at-risk youth from religious families. “I’d heard about the Zula from friends,” Hadas said, seated on one of the center’s many sofas as several teens in an adjoining room jammed with professional musicians. “This is the place that saved my life. It’s like a family. The people here give me strength. I wait all week to come here.” Hadas, who asked that her last name not be published, is one of some 4,000 young people aged 14 to 24 who regularly visit the Zula center in this city’s downtown to socialize and receive support from staff social workers, a psychologist, an educational director and musicians who double as counselors. Launched by the Orthodox Union in 2001, the center is located in a sprawling basement on Jaffa Road, a major thoroughfare just minutes from Jerusalem’s bustling bar scene. But unlike the dozens of bars and nearby alleyways, which at night attract thousands of teens and young adults in search of alcohol and drugs — including many religious Israelis and Americans on gap-year yeshiva programs — the Zula is an alcohol- and drug-free zone meant to offer positive succor to the youths. On the evenings that it’s open — Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday nights — the center is filled with hundreds of young people seeking companionship, live music and emotional sup-

At night, the Zula Center is often packed with teens making music and clustered around a candle-filled table that serves as a sort of indoor bonfire. These teens’ faces have been blurred to protect their identity. O.U. Israel

port. The Zula offers classes in art, art therapy, creative writing and music, as well as a study hall. In addition to the O.U., the center receives some funding from the Jewish Agency for Israel, the Israeli Education Ministry, private donors and the Jerusalem municipality. Rabbi Avi Berman, executive director of O.U. Israel, said the Zula is the “only drop-in center” directed at Modern Orthodox teens that is open and staffed during hours the bars are open. Teens hear about the Zula through word of mouth and say they are drawn to the center because its staffers encourage but don’t pressure them to open up about their lives and problems. The atmosphere is laid-back. Zula is Hebrew for “chill out.” Most of the youths are from Hebrew-speaking Israeli families in Jerusalem, the West Bank and beyond, but about one-quarter of them come from English-speaking families. That in-

cludes gap-year students whose parents back in America have no idea their sons or daughters are spending much of their time in Israel not studying in yeshiva or seminary but “getting wasted on the streets of Jerusalem,” Berman said. Many of the teens who come to the Zula have gone “off the derech” or are questioning their religious lifestyle. Others maintain an Orthodox lifestyle but are struggling with anything from university qualifying exams to sexuality. Berman said O.U. Israel decided to open the Zula after its staffers realized there are many teens from religious backgrounds who are struggling and need “some guidance and love.” They chose the Jaffa Road location “because that’s where everyone is hanging out.” Unfortunately, Berman said, many troubled teens find it easier to obtain illegal substances than seek help. “What we give is unconditional love to every

male and female who walks in — and some are as young as 11 or 12 years old,” he said. The O.U. is well-equipped to help, Berman said, thanks to decades of experience working with youths. So much experience, in fact, that the Zula’s staff trains high school educators and Education Ministry officials on how to create a Zula-like environment in schools, where kids can sit with an adviser and seek help but not be judged. On a recent Thursday night, the Zula was packed with teens and young adults making music, immersed in art or creative writing, or just hanging out. Others clustered just outside the Zula, within easy earshot of the music blaring from the bars. Many lounged on sofas or rugs in the center’s main room, where dozens of candles created a warm glow. Yona, whose family immigrated to Israel from California 10 years ago, said he comes every week because he wants to stay out of trouble. Before friends told him about the Zula, he would go out to drink and smoke joints around the corner. “If the Zula didn’t exist, I’d probably still be doing what I was doing before,” Yona said. At 1:30 am, after everyone but staffers had left, Gavriel — once a troubled teen himself — told his story. Now 28, Gavriel left his West Bank home at 15 after being traumatized by the government’s destruction of the Gush Katif settlement bloc during Israel’s 2005 withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. “I wanted to get away from people,” he recalled. “I was smoking, drinking and had no direction. I became a shepherd. But then I got to the Zula and it was the one place where I could be exactly who I am. I felt people loved me as I was.” After spending countless hours with the Zula’s counselors, Gavriel said, he felt empowered enough to finish high school and serve in the army. Now married and a father, he’s also a Zula counselor. Gavriel said he feels joyful every time he comes to the Zula. “The feeling I had as a kid coming here is how I feel as a counselor,” he said. “It’s not about being a role model. It’s about being here for the kids.”

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HANC shabbaton in Monsey At their all-inclusive Monsey shabbaton over Shabbat Toldot, HANC sophomore boys heared from the Rabbi Yaakov Twersky of Milwaukee, who spoke with and blessed each boy individually.

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Rambam marks U.N. vote Students from Rambam Mesivta, well-known for pro-Israel and anti-BDS activism, participated in the Queens Museum’s celebration of the 70th anniversary of the General Assembly vote that formally authorized Israel’s creation. Pictured participants: Itai Eliach, Zev Granik, Eliyahu Levy, Yitzy Lisker, Yidi Reiss, Benjie Wiener, and Doniel Fodiman, accompanied by Principal Rabbi Eliach.

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Third grade HAFTR students sung at a pre-Chanukah celebration at Rock Hall Museum. They performed a repertoire of Chanukah songs that delighted spectators.

First grade boys at Yeshiva of South Shore reached an important milestone when they received their first siddurim. Smiles were in abundance as each boy was presented with an engraved siddur by Rabbi Herzberg, menahel ha yeshiva; and Rabbi Robinson, associate menahel.

At SKA, ‘sisters’ and an award

SKA Shoah journal wins gold (left): The Columbia Scholastic Press Association presented a Gold Medal to editors of the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls “Holocaust Journal,” produced by last year’s freshmen. “The magnitude of this catastrophic event in Jewish history transcends the meaning of words and defies understanding,” read the CSPA commendation. “The Holocaust Journal that the students at SKA created vividly preserves so many personal stories of relatives who survived and those who did not. “The works recount the resistance which was mounted in so many ways. The verbal

and visual works capture the emotions, the legacy, the fight for survival and the indelible memory of the Holocaust. The Journal is a completely unique endeavor and one which makes an impression on every reader.” Sisters ‘big’ and ‘little’ at SKA (right): An early effect through which SKA works to ensure that each student is be comfortable during her high school years is the annual Big Sister/Little Sister event. Every ninth grader is paired with an eleventh grader who can help them further transition into high school, answer questions, be an extra friendly face.

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More than selling Joseph, sin was ignoring his pain Rabbi binny FReedman the heart of jerusalem

any years ago, at a melaveh malka in Har Nof in the Bostoner Beis Medrash, I heard a wonderful story from Rav Levi Yitzchak Horowitz, the Bostoner Rebbe. It seems that after Reb Yissachar, the Rebbe of Nickelsburg, passed away Reb Shmelke (Rav Shmuel Horowitz, the Bostoner rebbe’s ancestor, who was to become one of the great leaders of world Jewry) was appointed to be the new rebbe. When he was shown his new home, which had been the home of Reb Yissachar, he seemed distracted, finally explaining: “There is a most remarkable smell in this house! It must be from an amazing mitzvah that was done here!” But no one seemed to be able to come up with a story of Reb Yissachar that would justify to Reb Shmelke such a wonderful smell. One day as Reb Shmelke was walking in town, a non-Jewish woman approached him and said she had heard he was looking for an especially good deed that Reb Yissachar had done. Though she was not sure it was what he was looking for, she shared with him the following story. She had been employed as a maid in the home of Reb Yissachar. Her first day of work was the eve of Pesach and soon after she arrived the rebbe and his wife and their adult children were all out doing errands to prepare for the festival, and she was left at home to watch over the little children and babies. A short while later, the children awoke and started to cry and she realized they were hungry but could not find anything she could give them to eat. Searching through the house, she recounted, “I finally found a box full of some large round crackers, so I gave them to the children to eat.” Reb Shmelke immediately understood that she was referring to the hand-baked shmurah matzoth which had been meticulously watched over and

prepared, from the time the wheat was harvested in the field through the painstaking kneading and baking process, and that they had been hidden in a cupboard to ensure that no water would come into contact with them which might render them unusable. Such matzoth are the pride of any seder and the rebbe’s matzoth must have been quite expensive; he had probably baked and supervised their preparation himself. Later that morning everyone returned and began preparing for the festival, setting the table, heating the food, laying out the haggadot, preparing the seder plate and setting aside the wine for the seder that evening. After dressing for the festival, with the holiday about to begin, the rebbe sent his oldest children to retrieve the box of matzoth to lay them on the Seder plate. But the matzoth were nowhere to be found. Panicking, the entire family stopped what they were doing and began desperately hunting for the matzoth, to no avail. After a time, seeing their distress, the maid realized what they were looking for, and what she had done. “Gathering up my courage” she explained, “I approached the rebbe and explained what I had done, unknowingly feeding the prized crackers to the children. There was a moment of silence as everyone took in what had just happened. I was sure I was about to lose my job which I desperately needed. And then the rabbi smiled an enormous smile, and thanked me for taking such good care of their children. And without a trace of anger or even a hint of being annoyed promptly turned to his wife and asked her to get some regular matzos while he went off to shul.” And Reb Shmelke smiled, understanding immediately why that house had been blessed with such a sweet aroma.

mpathy: Wikipedia defines it as “the ability to sense other people’s emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling.” I would add that empathy includes actually caring about those feelings, even enough to change one’s own behavior as a result. Hidden in this week’s parsha Vayashev, in the challenging and painful story of the sale of Joseph, is a powerful lesson on this topic. One of the most tragic characters in the Bible is Reuven, firstborn son of Yaakov, who never quite lives up to all he might have been. Indeed, it is Reuven whom the Torah tells us actually tried to save Joseph from being sold but then inexplicably disappears in the middle of the story. The Torah tells us that after the brothers conspire to kill Joseph (Bereishit 37:20) and subsequently throw him in a pit and sell him as a slave (24-28), “Reuven returned to the pit, and behold Yosef was not in the pit, and he [Reuven] tore his clothes [in agony]. And he returned to his brothers and said: “HaYeled Einenu’ Va’Ani, Anah Ani Bah?” (“The boy is gone! And I, where will I come?”) (29-30). When we were introduced to Joseph at the beginning of this story (37:2) he is described as a 17-year-old na’ar, a lad. Yet here (37:30) Reuven calls him a yeled, a boy. Perhaps Reuven is not seeing Yosef as a young man coming of age, but rather as a boy whose mother passed away (see 35:19) and needs his help. After all, Reuven is the bechor, the first born who should be responsible for his younger brothers. Indeed, it is Reuven who convinces the brothers to abandon their plan to kill Joseph and suggests instead that they throw him in a pit: “And Re’uven heard, and saved him (Joseph)

Only when we see the pain of others will we be partners in creating a better world.

from their hands, and said: ‘Let us not kill him.’ And Re’uven said to them, do not spill blood! Throw him in this pit … but lay no hand on him, intending to rescue him from their hand, and return him to their father” (37:21-22). So why did he not rescue him? What went wrong? How different Jewish history would have been if Reuven had succeeded in rescuing Joseph from being sold as a slave! Why would he leave in the middle of the story and not realize by the time he returned it might be too late? here is a fascinating moment of candor between the brothers in next week’s parsha, Miketz, which sheds light on this question: Twenty years after Joseph disappeared, there is a terrible famine and the brothers are forced to journey to Egypt for food. Knowing that they sold Joseph as a slave to Egypt, how did the brothers felt about venturing there? Things quickly go from bad to worse. They are accused by the viceroy (whom they seem not to recognize as Joseph) of being spies, their brother Shimon is taken captive, and they are told they will not be allowed back to buy food unless they return with their Benjamin, something they understand might kill their father Yaakov. Amidst of all this, they say to each other, “but we are guilty for our brother when we saw his distress when he beseeched us, and we did not listen, therefore has this calamity befallen us” (42:21). “And Reuven responded to them saying, ‘Did I not tell you not to sin against the boy, and you did not listen! And now his blood his being demanded!” (42:21). There is something “off” with this dialogue. The brothers do not say they regret selling him! It just says that they regret not empathizing with his distress. Don’t they realize they have done a terrible thing in selling their brother? here are two ways to approach this obvious question. One might say the brothers felt they were right get rid of Joseph, much like Yishmael was sent away in favor of Yitzchak (21:9-14) and Yaakov was blessed in lieu of Esau (27:29) to rule over him. As such they had See Joseph on page 23

Observing yichud is key to avoiding indiscretions Rabbi avi billet Parsha of the week

t seems that every week another famous personality is outed as a predator or abuser, and publicly fired and condemned. Most of these cases involve a man using his position of power to get away with behavior that is (to put it lightly) objectionable. In last week’s parsha, we read of Shechem, prince of a city, who used his power to take advantage of Dinah, daughter of Yaakov. Justice was meted out fairly quickly through the sword of her brothers, but her life was ruined as a result. This week, in Vayashev, we read of a woman in a position of power who sought to take advantage of a young man. Potiphar, wife of Yosef’s master, worked diligently to seduce Yosef. 39:10 indicates how she approached him day after day, and how he refused to “lay next to her, to be with her.” Many midrashim note a comparison between this and another tale of a forward woman, who was much more modest in her proposal and certainly not in a position to abuse power. The man in that other situation,

despite being placed in an uncomfortable situation, was a true gentleman. That was the Ruth/Boaz story, when she came to his granary in the middle of the night, as he slept on the floor, and she uncovered his feet and lay down next to him. When he awoke and found a woman laying at his feet, the conversation went like this: “Who are you?” “I am Ruth, your handmaid, and you shall spread your wing over your handmaid, for you are a near kinsman.” And he said, “May you be blessed of the L-rd, my daughter; your latest act of kindness is greater than the first, not to follow the young men, whether poor or rich. And now, my daughter, do not be afraid. All that you say I will do for you, for the entire gate of my people know that you are a woman of valor” (Ruth 3:9-11). Boaz said, “Don’t worry, I’ll take care of everything you asked,” but instead he says, “Do not be afraid,” indicating an effort to put her at ease so that she would not need to worry about her safety. Potiphar’s wife did nothing of the sort. Why she wanted Yosef may relate to his personal beauty, her disgust for her

husband, or her husband’s personal preferences (and therefore inattentiveness towards her). abbenu Bachaye noted that when Yosef was promoted in Potiphar’s house he felt that he was on top of the world. This drew the master’s wife to Yosef even more, because he was not a lowly servant. On the other hand, I wonder how ancient societies viewed the master or mistress of the house having their way with the help. It is no secret that the third president of the United States was involved in this fashion with his own slaves. Was it expected, therefore, that Yosef was to be submissive and an easy conquest for her, and the fact that he had a mind of his own was insulting to her? There is no question who truly had the power over the other. She was the master’s wife, and he was the servant. So her advances were no different than the kind we read of in the newspapers today. The simplest summary of what was going on is in the Midrash Sechel Tov, who writes that Yosef “did not listen to her” to commit the act, “to lay next to her,” even to simply lay on the same bed (some commentaries suggest

With open doors, suspicion can be cast aside and temptation undermined.

“with clothes on”), or “to be with her” in violation of the rules of seclusion, where the two of them are alone together in the same room (hereafter “yichud”), even with nothing official going on (Ibn Ezra says “to talk with her”). It is this last one which is the key to all ails of our society’s indiscretions. Malbim, Seforno, Rashbam and others mention yichud as something Yosef refused to give in on, and when he found himself alone in the house with her — a reality he did not foresee — he ran out of the house! When the vice president was harangued by the media for essentially saying he avoids seclusion with any woman who is not his wife, I recall shaking my head thinking, he is aware of the laws of yichud, and a “liberal” society is killing him for exercising common sense. Avoiding seclusion, and therefore the remotest possibility of indiscretion, is what should be promoted and embraced by our society. It means lots of open doors, or at the very least, being in rooms with windows or video cameras, so suspicion can be cast aside and temptation undermined by either the fear of being caught, or the embarrassment of being seen doing something inappropriate. I once heard Rabbi Mordechai Willig suggest avoiding yichud with the Internet as well. May that suggestion also be taken under advisement. Amen.

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his year I have the honor to bring to your attention a unique anthology of essays related to Chanukah published by the OUPress. This work, titled “The Light That Unites: A Chanukah Companion. Blessings, Teachings, and Tales,” brings together works of such esteemed sages and masters as Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, zt’’l; Rav Avraham Isaac Kook, zt’’l; the Lubavitcher Rebbe, zt’’l; and Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, zt”l. Its eight chapters, reflecting the eight days of Chanukah, are further segmented into 36 subsections, one for each of the 36 candles that are lit over the holiday. I call this book a kol bo because it includes just about everything that you would need for this festival’s observance: the full blessings and songs which accompany the candle lighting rituals, and detailed commentary into the customs unique to this festival. Each day of Chanukah is represented with a teaching keyed to the lighting that evening, together with learned insights and commentary. Also, this work contains additional prayers and Psalms to further enhance the holiday’s spiritual nature. The author, Rabbi Aharon Goldscheider, was ordained by Yeshiva University. His previous holiday-themed work, a Pesach haggadah, “The Night That Unites,” was published to great acclaim in 2015. What follows is the text of the book’s preface, written by the distinguished scholar and commentator Rabbi Menachem Dov Genack, general editor of the OUPress.

he mitzvah of kindling the Chanukah candles is formulated in an odd manner in the Gemara (Shabbat 21b). The basic mitzvah is stated as “ner ish u’beito,” one candle is kindled for the entire household each night of Chanukah. The performance of the mitzvah is thus expressed as the obligation of the household, rather than in the customary form of an individual obligation. One could ask why the Gemara formulated the mitzvah as a household obligation rather than an individual obligation. The answer is that our Sages wanted to emphasize a fundamental aspect of the Chanukah holiday — that, at its core, it celebrates the sanctity of the Jewish home and the Jewish family. They wanted to stress the importance of the Jewish household, and to teach us that Chanukah was not only about the battle to defend the Beit Hamikdash but also a battle to defend the Jewish family. There is an external Beit Hamikdash, but there is also an internal Beit Hamikdash, the Jewish home. As the Torah tells us, when the Almighty pronounced His commandment for the Jewish people to construct the Mishkan, the tabernacle in the desert, He said, “Let them make Me a Mikdash, and I will dwell among them.” The Shechina, G-d’s presence, dwells among the Jewish people in their homes, and each Jewish home is imbued with the qualities of the Beit Hamikdash. While the Greeks defiled the external Beit Hamikdash with pagan worship, they also viciously sought to desecrate the internal Beit Hamikdash, the Jewish family. Maimonides, in recounting the historical background that led up to Chanukah, states (Hilkhot Chanukah 3:1), “the Greek authorities imposed evil decrees on the Jews, and prohibited their religion, and did not permit them to study Torah or perform mitzvot, and took hold of their wealth and their daughters, and entered the Beit Hamikdash and defiled it.”

Maimonides’ reference to the Greeks’ taking hold of the Jewish daughters is an allusion to the infamous practice that a bride was first subjected to rape by the governing official before being permitted to unite with her husband. The Greeks, perceiving the significance of the Jewish home and realizing that as long as its sanctity was intact they could never defeat the Jews, waged war against the Jewish home as vigorously as they tried to vanquish the Beit Hamikdash. Chanukah celebrates the Jewish victory in both theaters of that war. Indeed, the Jewish family and the Jewish home have been viewed by our tradition as a microcosm of the Beit Hamikdash. Just as the Beit Hamikdash served as the beacon of Torah and Jewish identity on the national level, the Jewish home has served, on a more intimate level, as the bulwark of Torah values and means of transmitting the mesorah, our tradition, from generation to generation.

Living our lives to serve Hashem Rabbi david etengoff

ur parasha, Vayashev, begins with the pasuk: “Jacob dwelt in the land of his father’s sojourning, in the land of Canaan” (Bereishit 37:1). At first glance, it appears to be redundant, since two chapters earlier, the Torah presented a number of pasukim that clearly indicate that Jacob was, indeed, “in the land of his father’s sojourning, in the land of Canaan.” One of the meta-principles of classic Torah exegesis is the singular import of every letter, word and pasuk. Therefore, each verse is deemed vitally necessary — even when its significance initially eludes us. As such, it is incumbent upon us to ask, “Why does the Torah tell us once again: ‘Jacob dwelt in the land of his father’s sojourning, in the land of Canaan’?” As in many matters of this nature, Rashi offers deep insights into “the story behind the story.” In one of his midrashically-based comments on the second verse of our parasha, he refers to the word “dwelt” from our verse, and helps us understand its inclusion in the Torah: “It is further expounded upon [as follows]: ‘Dwelt.’ When Jacob sought to dwell in tranquility, the troubles of Joseph sprang upon him. The righteous seek to dwell in tranquility. Said the Holy One, blessed be He, ‘What is prepared for the righteous in the world to come [great reward] is not sufficient for them! They seek [as well] to dwell in tranquility in this world’.” Rabbi Eliyahu Mizrachi, the Mizrachi, reminds us in his explication of Rashi’s gloss that there were other desperate scenarios that Jacob faced prior to Joseph’s tragic sale by his brothers: his wrenching time with Laban, the trials and tribulations of his physical journey from Haran,

his visceral fear of Laban and Esau, his abject consternation for Dinah following Schechem’s outrageous act, and his depth-level trepidation that the nations surrounding the town of Shechem would launch an attack against his family in retribution for Simeon and Levi’s sacking of the town and the murder of its male inhabitants. Beyond a doubt, rather than finding the tranquility he sought, Jacob encountered trial after trial. Rabbi Moses Sofer, the Chatam Sofer, asks a very straightforward question regarding Rashi’s comment: “Is it not the case that the Holy One is good and seeks to bring about good (tov u’mativ) [to His creations]? If so, why would He be so strongly opposed (literally, “hate”) to righteous individuals benefitting from both worlds [this world and the world to come]?” While the Chatam Sofer offers a variety of responses to his question, I believe his son, Rabbi Abraham Samuel Benjamin Sofer, the Katav Sofer, provides one of the best approaches. He begins by noting that Rashi changed the text of Midrash Rabbah, Bereshit 64:1. Therein, it was Satan and not Hashem, as in Rashi’s text, who declares: “What is prepared for the righteous in the world to come [great reward] is not sufficient for them! They seek [as well] to dwell in tranquility in this world!” In addition, the Katav Sofer emphasizes that the midrash, unlike Rashi’s version, includes two references to dwelling in tranquility: “When the righteous dwell in tranquility (sh’yoshvim b’shalvah), and seek to continue to dwell in serenity (u’mevakshim leishav b’shalvah) in this world (b’olam hazeh).” he Katav Sofer now asks two questions regarding the original text of the midrash: “What is the difference between the terms ‘sh’yoshvim b’shalvah’ and ‘u’mevakshim leishav b’shalvah,’ and why is the obvious phrase, ‘b’olam

hazeh,’ used. After all, where else could it be?” He suggests that the reason why tzadikim desire to live in peace and harmony is to avoid the misery associated with poverty. Additionally: “This is in order [to give them the freedom to live life in a normal fashion] so that they will not be prevented from preparing themselves for life in the World to Come. As our Sages stated in Pirkei Avot: ‘If there is no flour [sufficient food,] there can be no Torah’ (3:17). This concept is found, as well, in the words of King David, peace be upon him, who said: ‘May only goodness and kindness pursue me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the L-rd forever more’.” (Tehillim 23:6)” Seeking this level of parnasah is totally acceptable and exemplifies the idea of “dwelling in tranquility.” According to the Katav Sofer, however, if tzadikim have achieved this status and then u’mevakshim leishav b’shalvah (seek even greater pleasures in this world), there is a serious problem, for the pursuit of mere self-gratification leads one “to legitimately fear that as a result of the bounty that a tzadik has received he will, G-d forbid, [ultimately] reject Hashem.” As the Torah testifies: “And Jeshurun (the Jewish people) became fat (rich) and rebelled; you grew fat, thick and rotund; [Israel] forsook the G-d Who made them, and spurned the [Mighty] Rock of their salvation.” (Devarim 32:15) At this juncture, the Katav Sofer recapitulates his thoughts and, in so doing, explicates the inherent meaning of the original Midrashic text: “In sum: ‘When the righteous dwell in tranquility and seek to continue to dwell in serenity in this world (b’olam hazeh),’ for the purpose of this world (olam hazeh), rather than to perfect their souls in the World to Come, then the Satan will, indeed, come and criticize them by proclaiming: ‘What is

our Sages proclaimed: ‘Who is rich? one who is satisfied with his lot.’

ur Sages clearly perceived the critical role played by the Jewish home and its innate similarity to the Beit Hamikdash. They saw, for example, that the homes of the Matriarchs and Patriarchs partook of the same qualities as the Beit Hamikdash. Rashi, in his commentary on Chumash (Bereishit 24:67), quotes the Midrash that the tent of Sarah our Matriarch was endowed with three wondrous qualities: the Shabbat candles miraculously remained lit from one Shabbat to the next; the challah she prepared expanded far out of proportion to the ingredients she used; and clouds of glory continuously hovered over the tent. These wondrous qualities of Sarah’s tent, the home she shared with Abraham our forefather, mirrored the sanctity of the Mishkan, the tabernacle in the desert that was the forerunner of the Beit Hamikdash: the flames of the Menorah remained lit continuously; the lechem hapanim — the loaves of show bread used in the service — stayed warm long after they would been expected to cool; and the Divine Presence, in the form of a protective cloud, constantly rested above. The identity of the Jewish home with the Beit Hamikdash is the reason our Sages insisted on expressing the mitzvah lighting the Chanukah candles in its basic, most elemental form of observance — ner ish u’beito — as a household obligation. We must always remember the dimension of Chanukah which celebrates the victory of the Jewish home, its sanctity, unity, and everlasting vitality. OU Press is proud to present “The Light That Unites.” Rabbi Goldscheider has assembled an outstanding collection of material that will surely enhance the nightly experience of lighting Chanukah candles, and “The Light That Unites” will thereby further strengthen and enrich the Jewish home, a central theme of the Chanukah celebration. prepared for the righteous in the world to come is not sufficient for them! Therefore, they desire to dwell in tranquility in this world for the wrong reasons! Instead of preparing themselves for the World to Come, they pursue hedonistic pleasures in this world — solely for the sake of this world’.” In sum, if tzadikim pursue hedonistic goals in this world, they will be unable to sufficiently focus their energies on perfecting their spiritual being. he Katav Sofer’s words are clearly focused upon tzadikim. I believe, however, that they are deeply relevant for us all. King Solomon declared: “Whoever loves silver will not be sated with silver” (Kohelet 5:9). Our Sages followed his lead and proclaimed: “Who is rich? One who is satisfied with his lot. As is stated: ‘If you eat of the toil of your hands, fortunate are you, and good is it to you’ — ‘fortunate are you’ in this world, ‘and good is it to you’ in the World to Come.” (Pirkei Avot 4:1) With Hashem’s great kindness, may we be zocheh to live lives that reflect the wisdom of King Solomon and the powerful insight of our Sages, so that we, too, may live in tranquility in this world as dedicated servants of the Almighty. V’chane yihi ratzon.

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Gutting the Taylor Force Act stephen M. Flatow

he Taylor Force Act started out as a powerful and long-overdue tool for pressuring the Palestinian Authority (PA) to stop paying terrorists. But the legislation has been diluted, weakened and compromised in so many ways that it is now a pale shadow of its former self. The Taylor Force Act has been gutted. Known in the Senate as S. 1697, the Taylor Force Act is named after a young Vanderbilt University student—and U.S. Army veteran—who was murdered by a Palestinian Arab knife-wielding terrorist in Jaffa in 2016. The lead Senate sponsor is Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) initiated the House of Representatives version, H.R. 1164. The idea behind the bill was to reduce U.S. aid to the Palestinians in proportion to the amount that the PA pays to terrorists. Thanks to the good work of Israeli Brig. Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser and the Jerusalem Cen-

ter for Public Affairs, we know that the PA has a precise and sophisticated system of providing financial incentives to murderers of Jews. An Arab who is imprisoned for attacking (but not killing) Jews receives a monthly salary of $400 from the PA. The amount goes up according to the length of the terrorist’s prison sentence. An Arab who succeeds in killing a Jew receives a monthly salary of $3,400. The financial rewards don’t stop there. After he completes his sentence, a terrorist receives a minimum additional grant of $1,500. The size of the grant increases according to the length of his sentence. A murderer receives $25,000. Their families are rewarded, too. The family of an unmarried terrorist who is killed receives $100 monthly. The widow of a terrorist receives $250 each month, for life. Stopping such payments is obviously a necessity. And the U.S. has the leverage to stop them— the hundreds of millions of dollars that America provides to the Palestinians each year. The original Taylor Force Act would have linked the two. But as the bill began working its way through the legislative process in recent months, the appeasers jumped in. There are officials in the State Department

and certain congressional offices who are deeply pro-Palestinian. They started pushing for all sorts of exceptions and loopholes. Unfortunately, some congressional staffers and Jewish leaders who support the bill got weak in the knees. They decided they had to accept compromises in order to get more votes for the bill. So they added language saying that U.S. funding for various Palestinian health and sanitation programs would not be affected. Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, warned that such exemptions would “basically gut the bill” and render the legislation “useless” because it would leave too few areas of funding for the U.S. to exercise leverage. He was right. nd it got worse. Next they added a one-year delay before the provisions of the bill go into effect. That gives the PA a year in which to come up with a phony new arrangement by which the payments are given to terrorists from some “private” group instead of the PA itself. Then they stipulated that the money which is withheld must be put into a “Palestinian Authority Accountability Fund,” which can then be given to the Palestinians if the State Department certifies that the PA is taking steps against terrorism.

Rise of campus anti-intellectuals DaviD Brog

ike bad poker players, history’s crooks and liars have an obvious tell. Since they’re trying to deceive you, they’re desperate to keep you on their ideological reservation. Start heading for the door and they will show their bad factual hand in their frenzy to stop you. Whether it’s a communist leader in the Kremlin or a cult leader in his compound, this tell is always the same. Today, the desperate effort to suppress objective inquiry is most prevalent on

Correction: Former Angel shul was founded in 1654 In a cover story on Nov. 24 (Angel in Lido: ‘Spanish’ rav at beach shul), The Jewish Star incorrectly stated the age of the Spanish and Portuguese Synaoguge in Manhattan, where the Lido Beach Synaoguge’s interim rabbi, Marc Angel, previously served. The Spanish and Portuguese shul is 363 years old, founded in 1654.

our college campuses. The new anti-intellectuals typically target conservative and religious ideas. And as is so often the case with such extremists, many of them are obsessed with Jews. In November, activists at New York University (NYU) proudly launched an effort to block their fellow students from traveling to Israel to learn the facts of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and other student groups announced that they would boycott a fact-finding trip to Israel called the NYU Israel Experience. These groups ominously warned that any student who violated their ban and joined the trip would be suspected of a “conflict of interest” upon their return to campus. This isn’t the first time that the JVP thought police have tried to boycott a trip to Israel. They’ve invested great energy in a failed effort to convince Jewish students to decline Birthright trips to Israel. Among their complaints about these Jewish heritage trips is that “Birthright trips never expose Jewish participants to Palestinian life or perspectives.” While this is a most arbitrary travel condition, the NYU Israel Experience actually meets it—the trip does expose its participants to Palestinian life and perspectives. So how does JVP justify a boycott in this instance? Blinded to their own hypocrisy, they assert, “We refuse to go on a trip that includes a visit to illegally occupied land.”

Damned if you don’t. Damned if you do. Let’s be clear, JVP doesn’t care what trip par-ticipants see or do. JVP activists will oppose any visit to Israel they don’t control. And they will try to shut down any conversation about Israel that they don’t dominate. Indeed, JVP, SJP and their allies demonstrate their obsessive need for control not only abroad, but right here at home. They don’t want students to hear from campus speakers who don’t share their extreme views. That’s why they have so often sought to disrupt speeches by pro-Israel figures. And that’s why they’ve so often sought to intimidate students from showing up in the first place. he contrast is enlightening. When is the last time that pro-Israel groups have presumed to order others not to travel to the Palestinian Authority or any Arab country for that matter? Far from banning such visits, many trips sponsored by pro-Israel groups—like the NYU Israel Experience—include visits with both Israeli Arabs and Palestinians. When is the last time that any serious proIsrael group tried to shout down a speaker with whom it disagrees? In my experience, the most “aggressive” pro-Israel students simply try to engage such individuals in dialogue and ask them tough questions. The goal isn’t to shut down debate, but to actually have a debate. JVP put this traditional tolerance to the ul-

We all know that for the past 24 years, the State Department has repeatedly “certified” that the PA was keeping its obligations in the Oslo Accords—even though that certification was a total lie. No matter how blatantly the PA violated the accords, the State Department always found some excuse to declare it to be “in compliance,” so that U.S. money would keep flowing. There is every reason to believe that the State Department will do so again. Sometimes, in politics, you have to compromise. I get that and have done it myself when advancing other terror victim legislation. Sometimes a flawed bill is better than no bill at all. But not always. Sometimes a bill is so deeply flawed that it is actually worse than no bill—because it will prevent any other action from being taken on the issue. This is one such bill. If the Taylor Force Act passes in its current form, there will be no further congressional action on the issue for the foreseeable future. And we will be stuck with legislation that pretends to address the issue of paying terrorists, but really does nothing of the sort. That would deal a grievous blow to the memory of Taylor Force and the many other American victims of Palestinian terrorism. Attorney Stephen M. Flatow, a vice president of the Religious Zionists of America, is the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in an Iraniansponsored Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995.

timate test in April when it had Rasmeah Odeh address the group’s National Member Meeting in Chicago. Odeh was a member of a terrorist group called the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. She was convicted of bombing a Jerusalem supermarket in 1969 and killing two students, Leon Kanner and Eddie Joffe. When she immigrated to the U.S., she failed to disclose her murder conviction and has since pled guilty to immigration fraud. Jewish groups did not disrupt Odeh or shout her down. Instead, they held a peaceful vigil to honor the memory of Odeh’s slain victims. It’s just too rich. A group called Jewish Voice for Peace rejects dialogue and debate among students. Instead, the organization honors a woman convicted of murdering students. The analogy to George Orwell’s “1984” is too powerful to resist. For JVP, SJP and their fellow travelers, war is indeed peace. Most students don’t know much about Israel and the Palestinians. While they’re at college, they should take some time to learn. But they must be wise consumers of information. They should seek out opportunities like the NYU Israel Experience to investigate the facts for themselves. They should run fast and far from JVP, SJP and anyone else who wants to shut down the very free inquiry that’s supposed to characterize their college experience. David Brog, executive director of the Maccabee Task Force, is author of “Reclaiming Israel’s History: Roots, Rights, and the Struggle for Peace” (Regnery 2017). Maccabee Task Force made a donation in support of the NYU Israel Experience.

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he check really is in the mail this time. Presidents Clinton, Bush #43, and even Obama gave lip service to moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, but President Trump is the first president to put the process in motion. During a White House briefing Tuesday evening attended by this reporter, senior government officials confirmed that President Trump would announce on Wednesday (Dec. 6) that the United States will finally recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the state of Israel. He will also direct the State Department to begin the process of moving the American embassy from Tel Aviv To Jerusalem. The president plans to emphasize that his rationale for the decision is to recognize the reality on the ground as opposed to the ambiguity of U.S. policy since 1948. Jerusalem has been the seat of the Israeli government for the 69 years since its creation; it houses Israel’s Supreme Court, Knesset, and Prime Minister. The process of moving the embassy can take a few years. First a proper site must be found, followed by three to four years of design and building. The Jerusalem Embassy Act Of 1995 requires the U.S Embassy to move to Jerusalem by May 31, 1999. Every six months thereafter the president is required to sign a waiver until a Jerusalem embassy opens its doors. Therefore, President Trump will sign and continue to sign the wavier. Failure to do so would result in massive cuts in State Department funding, including such things as security for embassies. n recent days President Trump spoke to key players in Congress and on the international stage, and while some U.S. international partners may be objecting publicly, many of the reporters at the briefing understood that some partners — Saudi Arabia for example — may be saying something different in private. The senior government officials said that not one leader Trump spoke to said that they would walk away from peace talks because of his planned announcement. The officials also indicated that the ongoing peace talks have made some progress, but that they would not disclose details so as not to scuttle that progress. The officials said the president would stress

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that the recognition of Jerusalem and the move of the embassy would not change the rest of the American policy regarding Jerusalem, including: •Jerusalem’s borders will be determined by a negotiation between Israel and the Palestinians. •There must be no change to the status quo of the holy sites, including the Temple Mount. •The U.S. supports Israel and the Palestinians in their quest for a two-state solution, and final borders of each state should be set through negotiation between the parties. President Trump’s actions recognize the facts on the ground while leaving room for the Palestinians to try and get what they want in Jerusalem via negotiations. alestinian factions announced three days of rage from Wednesday to Friday in protest of the expected announcement. And there will likely be other protests. The officials explained that in anticipation, the U.S. has already beefed up security at embassies in the region and elsewhere. On Tuesday afternoon, the American Consulate in Jerusalem issued this warning: “With widespread calls for demonstrations beginning Dec. 6 in Jerusalem and the West Bank, U.S. government employees and their family members are not permitted until further notice to conduct personal travel in Jerusalem’s Old City and in the West Bank, to include Bethlehem and Jericho. Official travel by U.S. government employees in Jerusalem’s Old City and in the West Bank is permitted only to conduct essential travel and with additional security measures. U.S. citizens should avoid areas where crowds have gathered and where there is increased police and/or military presence. We recommend that U.S. citizens take into consideration these restrictions and the additional guidance contained in the Department of State’s travel warning for Israel, the West Bank and Gaza when making decisions regarding their travel.” COMMENTARY he change in policy regarding Jerusalem is encouraging. After almost seven decades President Trump is recognizing Jerusalem as the capital city of Israel, duplicating the announcement Russia made this past April. It is, however, only a first step. The move of the embassy is still only a promise. I have always described a candidate’s promise to move the US embassy to Jerusalem as the political equivalent of telling a bill collector that the check is in the mail. With the president’s announcement, we can finally believe that the check indeed is in the mail. But we will have to wait a few years to see if the check clears — that is, if the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem opens for business.

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Thursday December 7

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Joseph... Continued from page 18 no remorse over selling him; they only felt bad about how much pain it caused him. But there is another way to look at it, as the Rashbam suggests: Reuven never intended to sell Joseph, he simply suggested they throw him into a pit as opposed to killing him (37:21-22). After all, with the brothers so angry, the smartest thing to do was to buy some time so everyone could cool down. Only when the brothers saw an Ishmaelite caravan approaching does Reuven realize (once hearing Yehuda’s suggestion to sell Joseph to the Ishmaelites) that time was running out. So he makes his excuses and goes back to the pit (it makes sense that the brothers would not eat lunch right next to the pit where Joseph was likely crying and begging) only to discover the boy is gone! A passing caravan of Midianites (37:28) had passed by in the meantime and they

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strating the sensitivity he and the brothers were missing, which was what led to the tragic story of Joseph’s being sold in the first place. It is worth noting that Yehuda, in his finest hour (30, 31), again refers to Joseph in the original story as having been a na’ar, a lad. Yet Reuven, when castigating the brothers in Egypt, again refers to him as a yeled, a boy (42:21). Perhaps this was part of the problem — Reuven sees Joseph as a boy and does not feel the need to take his feelings into account; Reuven seems to be all about Reuven. Indeed when exclaiming in despair (37:29–30), “The boy is gone,” his reaction is: “Va’ani, anah ani bah? (“As for me, where will I come?”). Reb Shmelke of Nickelsburg was sensitive enough to see the non-Jewish maid standing before him, and not the box of matzoth that was gone. In order for the family of Yaakov to become the nation of Israel, we needed to learn that it’s not all about us, and that only when we see the pain of others as greater than ourselves will we be ready to be partners in creating a better world. Shabbat shalom from Jerusalem.

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had taken Joseph, ultimately selling him to the Egyptians! (For a wonderful treatment of the possibility that the brothers never actually sold Joseph though they had conspired to do so, see Rav Menachem Leibtag’s informative article on the topic: “Who really sold Yosef?” at bit.ly/2kmf6DT) f course, this begs the question: If in fact the brothers had not actually sold Joseph, then what was their great sin? Judaism does not hold a person accountable for what he wants to do. There is no transgression in wanting to eat a cheeseburger, only in actually eating one. Perhaps then the real transgression here was not that they sold Joseph, but that they were indifferent to his pain, as they finally realize so many years later: “But we are guilty for our brother when we saw his distress when he beseeched us, and we did not listen, therefore has this calamity befallen us.” (42:21) Indeed, the brothers will only finally reunite as the family of Israel when Yehuda steps forward (44:33) and offers himself as a slave in place of his younger brother Benjamin, demon-

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