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Red line falls as NBC jokes about Shoah

HANC High Schoolers prepared challah as part of the school’s Shabbos Project participation.

See story on page 9. Pictured, from left: Rebecca Linder, Rebecca Cohen, and Sarah Levian.

Time to make the challah

By Celia Weintrob The 2017 Challah Bake Long Island Style accomplished a second goal on Wednesday evening, Nov. 1. Yes, dough was made and braided, challah samples were tasted, recipes were shared, and education about the mitzvah of taking (and baking) challah was imparted among 1,350 participants at the Sands Atlantic Beach.

But this year, observant and non-observant Jewish girls and women broke down barriers and stereotypes about one another, in a way not fully experienced previously.

While showing a table how to braid a six-strand challah, event volunteer Nechama Schechter struck up a conversation with an attendee who identified as a Conservative See Challah on page 4

By The Jewish Star With history being rewritten to spin the Holocaust as just another bad day, and as political differences with the government of Israel provide anti-Semites with cover to spread the vilest of Jew-hating canards, comedian Larry David crossed yet another red line on motzei Shabbat, inserting sexually-charged Holocaust humor into his opening monologue on NBC’s hugely popular “Saturday Night Live.”

“I’ve always been obsessed with women, and I’ve often wondered if I’d grown up in Poland when Hitler came to power and was sent to a concentration camp, would I be checking women out in the camp?

I think I would,” he said.

The SNL in-studio audience appeared to greet David’s “jokes” with some usease, and the Jewish creator and star of the HBO comedy “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and co-creator of “Seinfeld” was rapidly slammed across the internet.

While SNL was still on the air on Saturday night, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt wrote on Twitter that David “managed to be offensive, insenstive and unfunny all at the same time. Quite a fear.”

On Monday, the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County said in a statement: “Memorializing the millions of victims of the Holocaust and cherishing the remaining survivors of this most terrible period in human history are sacred responsibilities. Sadly, there are those who would make light of what these men, women and 1.5 milSee Red line on page 5

Larry David, who did Shoah comedy on SNL, at the Tribecca Film Festimval in 2009. David Shankbone

HSers find laughs in Shoah

This display greeted participants in Challah Bake Long Island Style on Nov. 1. The Jewish Star / Celia Weintrob

A school district in Pennsylvania is investigating social media posts from students on a senior class trip that mocked exhibits at the U.S. Holocaust Museum.

Most of the students from the Forest Hills School District visiting the Washington museum on Nov. 1 were respectful, the class president, Gabe Singer, told the Associated Press. But he said some others reportedly made disrespectful statements next to a photo of a pile of shoes taken from prisoners at a Nazi concentration camp that

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Those students “made a mockery of what they saw,” Singer told AP. In a public letter, he apologized on behalf of his classmates and called their actions “unacceptable,” according to AP. Singer said he hoped the students who come after his class will still be able to visit the museum.

Forest Hills School District Superintendent Edwin Bowser told AP that school officials are looking into the students’ conduct.

4 Jewish things you need to know about Catalonia

By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA After simmering for decades, national aspirations in the region of Catalonia in northeast Spain have plunged that country into a major crisis with far-reaching international implications.

As Europe nervously studies this potential test case for separatist projects across the continent, developments in Catalonia are dividing Spaniards — including Jews. And because of Israel’s approach to it, the crisis is also underlining the Jewish state’s growing willingness to diverge with other Western countries on key foreign policy issues.

Here are four takeaways from the unfolding crisis in Catalonia.

Catalonia has a (relatively) large Jewish community.

With approximately 15,000 members, the Jewish community of Barcelona matches that of Madrid in size and prominence.

Spain has a total of about 45,000 Jews, with the third not in the two major cities spread out across the country’s other 15 semiautonomous regions.

In Barcelona, the issue of independence is divisive in general and in Jewish circles, leading the Jewish community there to adhere to a policy of neutrality. “It’s a matter of ‘shalom bayit’,” community president Victor Sorenssen told JTA. The umbrella of Jewish communities of Spain, of which Barcelona is a member, abandoned a policy of neutrality when it came out in support of a unified Spain.

Catalonia was a major hub of Jewish settlement before the Inquisition of 1492. A Jewish presence in Catalonia was first documented in 890 C.E. That’s more than a century before Jews were documented for the first time in Britain. But it is widely believed that Catalonia saw some of the very first Jewish settlers in Spain, who came there after the Romans destroyed the Second Temple in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago.

The town of Gerona, situated 50 miles north of Barcelona, was the undisputed capital of Jewish life in Catalonia and a hub of Jewish Sephardic learning. Moses ben Nahman, the 13th-century Jewish philosopher known as Nachmanides, was born and raised there.

Israel is on the fence.

Israel is among a handful of Western nations that have remained silent on the dispute. Madrid received public support against Barcelona from the European Union, the United States, Canada, Japan and Mexico, among other international players.

Independence supporters gather outside the Palau Catalan Regional Government Building in Barcelona.

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This divergence is part of a policy of nonalignment under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has remained neutral also on the Ukraine-Russia conflict, the civil war in Syria and on the vote in Britain to leave the European Union — all issues on which other Western countries have taken clear-cut positions.

Nonalignment gives Israel an ace up its sleeve. Spain is a generous financier of some organizations that are deemed anti-Israel and of others that are merely highly critical of Netanyahu’s policies in the conflict with the Palestinians. As long as Netanyahu remains noncommittal on Catalonia, he may leverage Israel’s position on the issue to influence Spanish policies on Israel.

Spain supports Palestine – but not unconditionally.

In the wake of the Catalan crisis, some supporters of Israel suggested that Spain is in no position to credibly object to Catalan unilateralism because of its own inconsistencies on this issue abroad — for example, when its federal congress unanimously voted in 2014 for a motion favoring Palestinian statehood.

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Or as Washington Examiner columnist Michael Rubin put it in an op-ed from last week, “Spain gets what it deserves on Catalonia’s separatism.”

Catalonia supports Israel — up to a point.

Jewish and pro-Israel supporters of Catalan independence sometimes suggest that Israel is more popular in the region than elsewhere in Spain. Opponents underscore Spain’s own overtures toward Israel and partnership with it, including a recent judicial fight against anti-Semitism and discriminatory boycotts of Israel.

But neither argument is clear cut, according to Yigal Palmor, a former senior spokesman of the Israeli Foreign Ministry who has served in Spain.

Catalans have traditionally been more “open to Europe” than the rest of Spain, he said. Arguably, this European affinity has inoculated some Catalans to the medieval anti-Semitism that persists to this day in some parts of the country. In the country’s north, for example, some people say “kill a Jew” in toasting at traditional feasts.

“These phenomena disappeared in Europe but not in Spain, which has not had a large Jewish presence since the expulsion,” Palmor said.

But Catalans were less isolated from the rest of the continent than other regions in Spain, which spent much of the 20th century under the isolationist dictatorship of Francisco Franco.

This, and the Catalan longtime national aspirations, created an affinity to Zionism and Judaism in Catalonia, Palmor said, “where there traditionally has been a lot of respect for the kibbutz movement, the revival of the Hebrew language and Zionism generally across the political spectrum.”

But in the 1990s, he added, the Catalan left wing grew closer to its “anti-globalist, Third World-oriented” counterparts in Madrid, introducing the campaign to boycott Israel in a big way to Catalonia, Palmor said. At least five of the approximately 50 Spanish municipalities that declared their support for the boycott of Israel are in Catalonia.

Last year, a leader of a left-wing Catalan political party called a leader of the Jewish community, who is not Israeli and has no foreign nationality, “a foreign agent.” And earlier this year, the mayor of Barcelona ignored protests by Jewish groups over the hosting in her city of a Palestinian terrorist, Leila Khaled.

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Challah Bake LI… Continued from page 1 Jew. Schechter, who is Orthodox, fielded questions from her tablemate about the practical ways an Orthodox lifestyle works for a family of six children where both parents work and Shabbat is observed. Trust and the seeds of friendship grew as the conversation progressed.

“It was a great opportunity to learn about each other,” Schechter commented.

“The ladies at my table became comfortable asking me questions about how Orthodox people manage everyday things.”

For example, the idea that Schechter’s neighbors would take her kids into their homes right off the school bus if she was not home, without phone calls or a prior arrangement, was a foreign notion.

Some at the table brought up the feeling of being judged by the Orthodox residents in their towns. “It was wonderful for us to be able to talk about it and to dispel those ideas. At the end of the conversation, my new friend actually said to me, ‘you’ve restored my faith in humanity’!”

Adina Fishlewitz, who has planned and coordinated the four LI Challah Bakes, heard this kind of warmth and sharing throughout the night at many tables, and said walls of religious stereotypes were broken down.

“Yes, it’s true that we live different kinds of lives, but this experience gave a glimpse into the opportunities a more observant Jewish lifestyle can offer,” she said.

“The relationships and support in the Orthodox community, those not living it cannot believe it exists.

“Today’s society is so disconnected, and everyone feels like it’s normal to live that way. This year, the Shabbat Project’s theme was ‘Islands of Time,’ the idea of carving out special times in your day and week to think, be grateful, regenerate, and appreciate human relationships.

Jews who keep Shabbos make time to connect with their families and neighbors and support them. Perhaps those who don’t may embrace it.”

The high school girls were a big part of creating the atmosphere.

“They were incredible, dancing and pulling everyone in to join the dancing, and exchanging phone numbers with their tablemates,” Chani Wolowik said.

Fishlewitz said that this year’s event was, without question, the best yet.

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Barbara Held, Nechama Schechter, Esther Tusk, and table captain Miri Ostreicher, with Barbara’s daughters and granddaughter.

From left: Henya Storch of Woodmere helps greet arriving women; Slovie Wolff, daughter of Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis, delivers introductory remarks; and Elizabeth Kurtz, food blogger and cookbook author, led the dough mixing.

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“But the idea that there is something ‘Jewish’ about the wave of sex scandals has been the stuff of neo-Nazi websites (and the rare Jewish ‘think’ piece), not the mainstream discussion. Well, not anymore. Thanks, Lar!” Among Twitter posts that resonated with many were these: “Nothing about the holocaust will ever be funny” and “#LarryDavid I know of a few million people who think your holocaust joke on @nbcsnl was tasteless. That will NEVER be anything 2 joke about.”

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Continued from page 1 lion children went through and we condemn the offensive so-called ‘jokes’ about the Holocaust…

“Words cannot convey how insensitive and hurtful his comments were and we invite Mr. David to visit our Center to re-educate himself and to meet with survivors of the Holocaust to help him understand the anguish he has caused.”

The Center of Organizations of Holocaust Survivors in Israel in a statement described David’s monologue “at best as bad taste, at worst as sickening and disgusting.”

The group, which represents Holocaust survivors in Israel, condemned David’s monologue and called on him to apologize.

“One can wonder why and how the latest scandals on sex harassment in Hollywood and elsewhere (of which he accused most of the predators to be Jewish) brought to his mind Poland, Hitler and the Holocaust. Should we remind Larry David that Jewish women were humiliated, molested, disfigured and often raped in concentration camps?” the group said in its statement.

David’s seven-minute monologue also referred to the Harvey Weinstein scandal.

In considering how to find a date in a concentration camp, David said that “he problem is, there are no good opening lines in a concentration camp.” He then suggested one: “‘How’s it going? They treatin’ you okay? You know, if we ever get out of here, I’d love to take you out for some latkes. You like latkes?’”

David concluded: “What? What’d I say? Is it me, or is it the whole thing? It’s because I’m bald isn’t it?”

The Washington Post reported there was no outpouring of calls to boycott SNL over the episode.

On Arutz Sheva, IDF veteran Ron Jager wrote: “As I viewed his monologue over and over, it seemed to resonate with a message that should be entitled, ‘Why it’s time for Jews to get over the Holocaust’. … I am surprised that he didn’t conclude his monolgoue with ‘The Shoah must go on’.”

“Injecting humor and comedy about the Holocaust on a nationally syndicated comedy/satirical show seems to subliminally suggest to viewers that the Holocaust is unnecessarily singled out as if it’s more special that other historical events,” Jager wrote. “As far as Holocaust jokesters are concerned … they seem genuinely puzzled as to why Holocaust jokes elicit what they would consider an overreaction. Why, they ask, should joking about an historical event or questioning the propriety of David’s jokes … even be considered a lapse in judgement or an affront to the many Holocaust survivors still with us.”

“Those who publicly joke about the Holocaust should be reminded of what the Holocaust was really all about.”

JTA writer Andrew Silow-Carroll suggested that the Holocaust “joke” “wasn’t even his edgiest Jewish joke of the night. That would be the one about Harvey Weinstein in which noted a ‘very, very disturbing pattern’ among high-profile figures being accused of sexual harassment and assault: ‘Many of them are Jews’.”

“And I have three words to say to that: Oy vey iz meer,” David said. “I don’t like it when Jews are in the news for notorious reasons.

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Hotovely: World won’t dictate Israel’s policies

By Rafael Medoff, JNS Israeli policy should not be guided by fear of international criticism, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely said over the weekend as she launched a speaking tour of the U.S. Hotovely spoke at the Kemp Mill Synagogue, an Orthodox shul in Silver Spring, Maryland, and discussed her remarks in a subsequent interview with JNS. Hotovely said the notion that Israel is isolated and must change its policies in order to gain international acceptance is “a myth.” She pointed out that while just 33 countries voted in favor of Jewish statehood at the United Nations in 1947, Israel today enjoys diplomatic and trade relations with 160 countries— “pretty much every country in the world except the ones that want to destroy us,” as she put it.

She suggested that many countries’ criticism of Israel is little more than lip service.

“They go through the motions of criticizing Israel, but then they do a tremendous amount of trade with us,” she told JNS. Hotovely recalled that during her first year in her current post, she met with more than 200 representatives of foreign governments, including some “that are not always thought of as being so friendly to Israel.”

At the same time, Hotovely noted, Israel throughout its history has sometimes “had no choice but to take actions that the world didn’t like.” She recalled that in 1949, when the U.N. was demanding that Jerusalem be internationalized, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion responded by moving Israel’s government buildings from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

“The world didn’t like it then, and they still don’t like it, but Jerusalem is the capital of the

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely at Israel’s Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem.

Jewish state and the Jewish people, and it will be forever,” Hotovely said.

She also pointed to a number of actions that were crucial to Israel’s national security,

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The first “Go Beyond,” event will take place in New York City. Titled “Beyond the Start Up Nation,” it will be osted by Daniel Atar, KKL-JNF world chairman, speakers will include Noa Yaar, director of Strategic Partnerships for Israel Initiative 2020 (ii2020); Hanan Brand, co-founder of Cornerstone Venture Partners and Founder and Chairman of Made in Jerusalem; and Michael Kalantarov, co-founder and COO at Visual Estate, and the Community Relations Manager at Tech7 in Be’er Sheva.

“Throughout the years, the Zionist movement has encouraged and supported making aliyah to Israel, settlement in Israel, agriculture and development of the land,” Atar said.

“Our shared goal is to bring 500,000 new residents to the Galilee and one million new residents to the Negev.”

“It is an incredible privilege to be part of the ongoing development of Israel’s Northern and Southern regions as well as Jerusalem,” said Rabbi Yehoshua Fass, co-founder and executive director of Nefesh B’Nefesh.

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even though most of the international community opposed them—including the preemptive strike that enabled Israel to win the 1967 Six-Day War, the rescue of the Entebbe

hostages in 1976 and the bombing of Iraq’s nuclear reactor in 1981.

In each of those instances, Israel’s action was met with strong criticism from around the world.

“In fact, the United States not only condemned the bombing of the Iraqi nuclear facility, but even strongly considered imposing sanctions on Israel for violating Iraqi airspace,” Hotovely said. “But during the Gulf War of 1990, the U.S. was very glad that Saddam Hussein did not have nuclear weapons.”

“Israel’s policies cannot be guided by fear of international criticism,” she said. “At the end of the day, our survival is more important than world opinion.”

Sarah Stern, president of the Endowment for Middle East Truth, which hosted Hotovely’s visit, said the deputy foreign minister presented “a thoughtful and reasoned explanation of Israel’s position in the world, a message that has been resonating with her audiences throughout her trip to the United States.”

Hotovely, 38, speaks fluent English, thanks in part to a year she spent in Atlanta as an emissary of the Bnei Akiva religious Zionist youth movement. She is widely regarded as one of Israel’s rising political stars and is frequently mentioned as a possible successor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

When she was named deputy foreign minister in 2015, Hotovely became the de facto foreign minister, because Netanyahu declined to appoint a foreign minister. The prime minister has held that portfolio himself, and has offered it to the opposition’s Zionist Union alliance if it were to join his governing coalition.

But to date, the Zionist Union has preferred to remain in the opposition.

Princeton Chabad hosts Hotovely after Hillel chapter cancels speech A speech at Princeton University by Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely went on as planned on Monday, even after it was canceled by the campus Hillel, the program’s original sponsor.

The talk was canceled due to objections by the campus chapter of the Alliance of Jewish Progressives, which claimed her hawkish views violated Hillel’s own guidelines on speakers who discredit Israel. Princeton Chabad stepped in and agreed to host the event.

The Alliance accused Princeton’s Center for Jewish Life of violating its official policy on Israel-related events, which says in part that the organization will not sponsor groups or speakers that “as a matter of policy or practice foster an atmosphere of incivility, intend to harm Israel, or promote racism or hatred of any kind.”

The Alliance charged that Hotovely has “repeatedly” made racist statements, including disregarding Palestinian claims to the land and support for settlements. It also noted that Hillel had previously turned away left-wing speakers and called for “an equitable vetting process” for those speaking about Israel.

In a letter sent Monday to Hotovely via the Israeli Consulate in New York, Rabbi Julie Roth, the Hillel executive director, wrote: “The Center for Jewish Life at Princeton decided to postpone the program with Member of Knesset Tzipi Hotovely until we can properly vet the program through our Israel Advisory Committee. We are fortunate that our colleagues at

Chabad agreed to host the program today as originally scheduled and we are encouraging our students who are interested to attend. We regret the last-minute change and apologize to Ms. Hotovely for the inconvenience. We look forward to a continued robust and healthy debate around Israel in our community.”

Hotovely criticized Hillel’s decision, writing to Roth in response: “By canceling this lecture, you are infringing on the fundamental academic freedom of the students. You are denying the basic freedom of students to hear different points of view, to question, challenge and think for themselves.

“Furthermore, by agreeing to the demands of radical voices, you are silencing the voice of Israeli democracy.”

Critics of the Center for Jewish Life’s decision to cancel the Hotovely speech charged that the Hillel caved in to pressure from the left.

“This is a problem for the American Jewish community first and foremost, and this is American Jews participating in this assault on their own civil rights,” said Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick. “They are doing it by scapegoating Israeli conservatives and Israel in general.”

Hotovely spoke Sunday at Columbia University and was scheduled to speak at New York University on Tuesday night as part of her U.S. campus tour to help students to counter the anti-Israel BDS movement growing in American universities. —JTA

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HANC schools celebrate the Shabbos Project ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

HANC High School pulsated with excitement as it celebrated the year’s first chagiga and embraced the Shabbos Project.

The day began with divrei Torah from Board Chair Jeffrey Lichtman who discussed the sanctity of Shabbos and honored Rebbitzen Goldie Fendel in whose memory this year’s Shabbos Project was dedicated.

HIGH SCHOOL The activities included music by Dovid Klaver and Pinny Schachter, dancing, a tisch led by Rabbi Yisroel Weingot, a boys’ chorus debut, chulent cook-off, and a challah bake sponsored in memory of Tziporah

bat Gittle V’Yaakov Ziv. HANC HS thanks Rabbi Daniel Mezei, director of student life, and his team, Rabbi Aharon Friedler, Rav Yitz, and Ms. Nomi Bensoussan, for organizing the program.

Bottom left photo (from left): Mrs. Adina Waldman, Rachel Eliav, Michali Betesh, Miss Nomi Bensoussan, Michelle Kreinik and Mara Hamada.

From left: Mrs. Gottesman, Mrs. Liz Pazornick (development director), and Mrs. Lichtman.

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By Yaira Goldress and Abigail Mottahedeh HANC Middle School had the opportunity to join a very meaningful initiative, called the Shabbat Project.

All last week, leading up to the Shabbos of Lech Lecha, we had many special programs each day.

The seventh and eighth grade girls had a wonderful time baking challah, with world-renowned kosher chef, Naomi Ross. The students learned the beauty and meaning of baking challah. The gym was set up beautifully, with all the supplies needed to make our delicious challah.

First, Ross demonstrated how to make challah. She explained to us what each ingredient represented relating to the Jewish people. The girls were not only able to make the dough themselves but also have a detailed demo on braiding the challahs they made.

The Jewish people first became obligated from the mitzvah of hafrashat challah when they entered the land of Israel. After the challah rose, one girl from each group said hafrashat challah out loud and all the girls answered with a strong “Amen.”

Afterwards, Ross demonstrated how to make a six-braided challah and the girls each braided two challot for their Shabbat table. The entire program was truly a special and meaningful experience for everyone and it would not have been possible without the extensive planning from Rabbi Hecht and Morah Hakimian.

We had the privilege to listen to Mrs. Gottesman and her inspiring words about the amazing Rebbetzin Fendel. She talked about Rebbetzin Fendel’s love for our illustrious yeshiva, HANC. She explained what a true friend is and how lucky she was to have Rebbetzin Fendel as her true

friend.

While the girls were baking challah the boys had a cholent cookoff.

The seventh graders made their cholent with Rabbi Harris, while the eighth graders made theirs with Rabbi Olshan. They let the cholent cook and on Friday, the next day, the whole middle school came together and got to try our very own seventh and eighth grade boys cholent.

As we were eating cholent we got to watch videos created by the students about what shabbos meant to them and their favorite part of shabbos. We also got to hear a wonderful story about Shabbat from our very own and illustrious Rabbi Hecht.

Along with the cholent, videos, story, and challah bake we got to have a meaningful kumzitz where everyone sang songs and got to enjoy the spiritual ruach before Shabbat.

HANC’s Samuel and Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School was alive with the sound of zemirot, as students prepared for the Third Annual Gila Reinstein Shabbos Project.

Kindergarten students decorated Lucite trays on which they could place their Shabbat candles. The students in first grade baked chocolate cake as a tasty erev Shabbat treat.

Second graders focused on the conclusion of Shabbat by making beautiful Havdalah sets to enhance their families’ Havdalah ceremonies.

Third and fourth grade students learned wonderful zemirot and after spending the week perfecting their singing, they participated in a spirited zemirot sing-off. Mazal tov to Rabbi Mordechai Harris and his energetic fourth grade boys, who were chosen as the winners.

The hallways were filled with enticing Shabbat scents as fifth and sixth graders participated in a kugel cook-off won by Rabbi Gary Hoffman’s sixth grade boys. Students in kindergarten through second grade danced and sang to Shabbat songs.

On Wednesday evening, the audi-

torium was filled with mothers, grandmothers and girls who came to prepare challah for Shabbat, led by Rebbetzin Katie Lichter of the Great Neck Synagogue. She explained the importance of challah and how its ingredients symbolize all of the things that make our lives special. She taught them how to braid the dough and bake the challot to perfection. Sixth grade girls and the faculty members prepared over 200 pounds of dough before this event.

Following the challah baking, the entire HANC community came together to sing and dance to the music of Rabbi Mordechai Shapiro. The ruach and excitement on the faces of the children and their parents and siblings was amazing.

The week of Shabbat activities was dedicated in the memory of Gila Reinstein, a strong supporter of HANC as a parent and someone who worked tirelessly to assist the PTA in enhancing the education and extra-curricular experiences of all the students. Since she loved Shabbat so much, HANC has dedicated this Shabbos Project in her memory for the past three years.

May her memory be a blessing.

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Midreshet Shalhevet and SKA girls lobby in DC

From Midreshet Shalhevet to the Capitol, from left: Sarah Spielman of Queens, Sarah Austin of Long Beach, Aviva Marmer of Brooklyn, Nava Yastrab of Woodmere.

By Nava Yastrab, MSH ‘19 The Schusterman AIPAC High School Summit took place in Washington last week.

Midreshet Shalhevet seniors Aviva Marmer and Sarah Austin, and juniors Sarah Spielman and Nava Yastrab were accompanied by faculty adviser Coach Ilona Diamond.

They spent three days learning about Israel’s relationship with the U.S. and how Israel needs people to stand up for it. They were given tools on how to stand against issues such as Hezbollah, Iran, and BDS and heard stories from peers and advisers about why they’re passionate about Israel and why it’s important to stand up against hate.

They lobbied at the office of Rep. Kath-

leen Rice where they spoke about these issues accompanied by other schools and programs.

The summit taught these MSH students about Israel and how to defend our Jewish state.

“I felt like I was really informed about the American-Israel Relationship and I learned a lot that I hadn’t known before,” said Spielman. Diamond said, “It was rewarding to watch how my students enjoyed and learned so much from this experience.” Austin remarked that “lobbying Congress was such a unique experience and I’m so thankful AIPAC gave me this experience and tools that I can use later in life.”

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Pictured at AIPAC’s summit, from left: Mrs. Tamar Bindiger, Shifra Cohen, Aliyah Tanami and Jaclyn Korman.

Advocating for the State of Israel is a high priority for the students of the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls. Throughout the school year, SKA’s Israel Action Committee raises funds for organizations assisting Israeli soldiers and other charities, invites exceptional speakers including IDF veterans, and runs student leadership training sessions so that SKA students can become effective advocates for Israel.

Accompanied by faculty member Mrs. Tamar Bindiger, SKA students Shifra Cohen, Jaclyn Korman and Aliyah Tanami attended AIPAC’s

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Schusterman’s Advocacy Institute High School Summit in Washington on Sunday, Oct. 29 through Tuesday, Oct. 31.

With 400 students from around the country, Shifra, Jaclyn and Aliyah attended training sessions on lobbying, Israel and the media, and other important topics relevant to U.S.-Israel relations.

Attending the summit was a wonderful opportunity for the SKA students to become even more educated about the challenges of BDS and the importance of advocating for Israel on and beyond their school campus.

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Yair Pomburg raps during a performance of the Shalva Band at the North Shore Hebrew Academy in Great Neck.

Ben Sales

tapped Ben Shushan to form a band.

Shalva Band members range from their late teens to mid-20s; some have been practicing together since they were 6. They say they love making music — but also perform just to prove they can.

“Every individual with or without disability has some capabilities, and it’s critical to focus on those if you want a person to have any meaning and fulfillment,” said Kalman Samuels, a cofounder of Shalva. “These band members were chosen because they showed musical ability.”

Ben Shushan spent a year teaching the kids music — they began with basic melodies and rhythms — before the band was ready to begin performing in Israel. A professional musician himself, he said directing the band comes with unique challenges: For example, it took Pomburg two years to get his first drum beat down. Now, however, Ben Shushan calls him “one of the best drummers I know.”

On the international tour, the band is traveling with a support staff of more than one person per band member, including a musical therapist who also backs up as a flautist.

Ben Shushan said the key to success is sensitive time management. “You want to know their abilities, but you need to know

when to stop, to say it’s too hard,” he said. “It takes sensitivity to their feelings. If you see someone is having a hard time, you need to strengthen him.”

But the overwhelming impression of the Shalva Band while on the road is that it is a hardworking group of musicians hoping for their big break.

Following their concert at the North Shore Hebrew Academy, the band members load their instruments in the back of a van and pile in, bantering or putting on headphones and tuning out. As Ben Shushan debriefs them en route to their next gig, he sounds less like a teacher and more like a manager pushing his musicians just a little harder: He chides the lead singers for paying too little attention to rhythm. He tells the group to focus less on the crowd and more on the music. He warns them not to wear out their voices.

“I know it feels like I’m drilling into you,” he said, sighing. “But you’re at a level now where you can take it.”

The band performs more than 50 times a year around Israel, but is not yet profitable. Samuels estimates that Shalva invests $120,000 in the band a year. This two-week trip alone will cost upwards of $60,000. World Center for Jewish Education, an organization that works with schools to improve their Jewish studies curricula, helped organize the trip and connected the band to the schools where it performed.

Ahead of the trip — which began Oct. 25 and includes stops in Montreal, Toronto, New York, New Jersey and Mexico City — the band practiced for up to eight hours a day. Ben Shushan hopes eventually to put out an album and get the group on the radio. The band has several videos on YouTube.

Despite their commitment, for some of the band members, music is just a hobby. Pomburg, for example, works at a soap factory and waits tables at Cafe Shalva, the organization’s in-house coffee shop.

“I love to do the rhythm on the drum,” he said. “I get excited. I’m very happy to perform. I do my job well.”

Still, others have enjoyed moments in the spotlight so much that they hope to go pro. Samteh, who joined the Shalva Band five years ago, has performed with leading Israeli musicians and traveled abroad several times to sing. At first, Samteh said, she found it difficult to share the stage. But now she can’t imagine doing it alone.

“To sing with other people, you have to learn to listen,” she said. “In the beginning it was hard, but now it’s really successful.

Now I don’t know how I would sing without them.”

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By Ben Sales, JTA Middle schoolers at the North Shore Hebrew Academy in Great Neck went wild when Dina Samteh hit her high notes, jumping out of their seats, cheering and clapping.

Samteh, 20, is blind, so she can’t see their conga line-style dancing. But she can hear and feel it.

Next to her, Yair Pomburg, 26, throws his entire body into beating the bongo drums, then steps forward and raps, in Hebrew, to the Israeli peace song, “Od Yavo Shalom Aleinu.”

Over the course of a 75-minute concert last week, the seven members of the Shalva Band play everything from the Disney hit “Let It Go” to Matisyahu’s “One Day” to Adele’s “Someone Like You.” In many ways, this Israel band staged a typical, high-energy Jewish music concert for teenagers, and the crowd is feeling it from start to finish. The singers belt out Israeli songs, religious songs and a smattering of pop before concluding with “Hatikvah,” the Israeli national anthem. By the middle of the set, the kids are out of their seats and crowding the floor.

What makes the Jerusalem-based Shalva Band unique is that its members are people with disabilities — Pomburg, for example, has Down syndrome. Others have Williams syndrome and cerebral palsy.

“People said, ‘Wow, you sing so beautifully’,” said Samteh, recalling the first time she sang in public. “It really excited me that people were coming and saying something good about me. I felt that finally I found something good about myself, aside from being blind.”

“Since I began singing, I had a dream of being on stage and singing all the time and making people happy.”

Samteh and her bandmates appear to have met that goal. The Shalva Band is on its first international tour, with more than a dozen stops at day schools and fundraisers in the United States, Canada and Mexico. After a week back in Israel, it’s on to the United Kingdom and Russia.

The band was founded 12 years ago by Shai Ben Shushan, a drummer who had sustained a head injury in special forces combat. He had to live six months with his mouth surgically shut, after which he re-learned to speak and eat.

The experience of disability led Ben Shushan to volunteer with Shalva, an Israeli organization that provides a range of services to people with disabilities, including therapy, arts programs, job training and advocacy work. At that time, its directors had noticed several kids with standout musical talent and

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HAFTR hosts Model Cong.

Tournament State Senator Todd Kaminsky and his assistant, Mimi Goldman, helped to judge the Ann Neill Memorial Model Congress Tournament last Wednesday at HAFTR. More than 50 student from five schools — HAFTR, DRS, Ezra Academy, Yeshivah of Flatbush, and SAR — competed.

Students wrote bills prior to the tournament

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The tournament winners included: 1st Place: Elliott Ottensosser (HAFTR) 2nd Place: Jacob Barry (DRS), Eli Aghajani (Ezra), Benjy Gottesman (HAFTR) 3rd Place: Miriam Kopyto (HAFTR) Finalists: Zack Goldberg (DRS), Yonatan Shiller (DRS), Michael Oved (Flatbush), Robert Adler (Flatbush), Eytan Libkind (HAFTR), Ben Klestzick (SAR) Pictured from left: Ilana Sacolick, Jordana Mastour, Rachel Bondarsky, Racheli Gottesman, Naomi Lippman, state Senator Todd Kaminsky, Alex Libkind, Eytan Libkind, Ruben Maron, Arieh Chaikin, Elliot Ottensoser, David Lederer, and Matthew Morse.

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listened to special songs and created a threedimensional project in her memory.

CAHAL, the local yeshiva-based and sponsored community program for children with learning challenges, now in its 26th year, provides smaller, more individualized classes in the local yeshivas catering to each child’s unique learning style. All of the students attend mainstream activities daily, including lunch, recess, specials, assemblies, trips and more. When ready, the children attend mainstream academic classes as well, with support from CAHAL to ensure success.

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Rabbi Feivish Rotbard’s second grade class in Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island spent the past two weeks on parshiot Lech Lecha and Vayeira. The small class broke up into two groups to allow for more individualized attention.

Through various Chumash games, the boys learned about the trials and triumps of Avraham and Sarah. Rabbi Rotbard and Rabbi Moshe Salhanick’s unique style of teaching proved to be educational and a lot of fun for the boys.

The first and second grade girls’ class in the Torah Academy for Girls learned about Rachel Imeinu in honor of her yarhrzeit. They

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Practical, medicinal, tasty: The art of chicken soup Joni Schockett

soup to help your families through the latest “bug” or simply for a delicious meal on a cold, dark, night.

Chicken Bone Broth (Meat)

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M

aimonides said, “No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.” That makes a lot of sense, especially given what we know about food today. Over-processed foods are bad; foods in their natural states are better. Michael Pollan, author of many books on food, said, “Eat food. Not a lot. Mostly plants.” More good advice. Plants have properties that are healing and healthful, but other foods also have healing properties, and one has been a staple of Jewish Shabbat and holiday meals for many centuries.

In the 12th century, Maimonides, a renowned physician, wrote about the treatment of asthma and the foods someone with that illness should and should not eat. He advised chicken soup for someone with asthma or other breathing difficulties. The soup should be made from “rue, beets and chicken, with or without beans.”

Maimonides also said that broth made from a hen could “neutralize the body’s constitution,” whatever that meant.

Maimonides tapped into the healing powers of soup long before modern medical research confirmed the medicinal power of “Jewish penicillin.” While any hot soup will help someone with a cold feel better, chicken soup will loosen secretions and soothe sore throats. Recent research has shown that the broth has some antiinflammatory properties which may make you feel better.

But soup was not used just for medicinal purposes. Centuries ago, chicken soup became a common food in the shtetels where Jews lived. The broth could feed a crowd and offer nutrition for those without teeth, babies and elders and, of course, those who were ill. It was also a thrifty dish — the meat was eaten at one meal and the bones and remaining bits of flesh were cooked in water with vegetables, potatoes, beans and herbs for hour after hour, resulting in a delicious additional meal of hearty soup. The long cooking resulted in what is now called “bone broth,” a new craze among health food aficionados.

It seems that Maimonides was on to something back in the 12th century!

No matter what soup you make, the advent of winter is bound to bring on colds and coughs It’s time to get out the soup pot and make some

bit and then I use doubled food prep gloves to squeeze any solids over the pot before discarding. Discard all solids (My family loves to eat the carrots). Strain the soup through a cheesecloth lined, fine strainer into quart-sized containers.

Cover tightly and freeze. Or place into a larger container and refrigerate if using within 2 to 5 days. Makes 8 to 10 quarts.

Chicken and Garlic Soup (Meat)

the garlic and mix constantly until smooth and well blended. Slowly add a ladle of the chicken broth and whisk until smooth and thick. Add more broth until the mixture is the smooth consistency of heavy cream. Whisk the mixture back into the soup and let simmer.

Cut or shred the cooled chicken and add back to the soup. Heat until the chicken is heated through. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste.

Sprinkle with fresh parsley and serve. Serves 8+.

Creamy Leek and Potato Soup with Shallots and Chives (Dairy) This is the first step to my Three-Day Chicken Soup Recipe. I make this broth often and freeze it in single quart containers for up to 6 months.

4 pounds chicken frames 2 pounds chicken wings and gizzards 2 to 4 dark colored onions, ends trimmed, loose skins removed, the rest left on for golden color 3 to 4 ribs of celery, cut into inch-long pieces 1 pound carrots, peeled and cut into inchlong pieces 2 to 3 parsnips, peeled and cut into inch-long pieces 2 leeks, white and light green only, trimmed and washed, cut into 3-inch pieces 1/2 to 1 tsp. peppercorns, to taste OPTIONAL: 1 small bunch dill and/or parsley, bound together with kitchen twine NOTE: You can add salt, but I prefer to salt the broth when I use it in a recipe.

NOTE: You can skip the roasting step if you want. The taste is a bit different, but I often skip the roasting part when feeling a bit pressed for time.

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Place the chicken frames, wings and gizzards on a foillined, rimmed baking sheet. Roast in the oven for about 30-45 minutes, until golden, but not burned in any places. It is better that the chicken be lighter than burned.

Place the cooked chicken, and the rest of the ingredients in a 12-qt. stockpot and cover with at least 2 gallons of water. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to a strong simmer, and cook for 1 hour, skimming off any foam as needed. Reduce heat to a steady, but lower, simmer and cook, mostly covered, for 12-15 hours, adding more water if needed. For overnight cooking, make sure the soup is simmering for temperature safety.

Turn off heat and let cool. Using a slotted spoon, remove solids to a bowl, draining as much liquid as possible. I let the soup cool a

This is very garlicky — or not. You can use less of the fresh garlic if you like. The garlic cooked in the soup is milder.

5 to 6 quarts water 4 whole boneless & skinless chicken breasts PLUS 4 boneless, skinless, chicken thighs (OR use a whole cut up chicken/pullet) 15 to 25 cloves peeled garlic 6 to 8 carrots, thinly sliced 6 to 8 stalks celery, thinly sliced 2 large whole onions, peeled 10 additional cloves garlic, minced 1/4 cup canola oil 3 tbsp. unbleached flour Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste 4 tbsp. chopped fresh parsley Place the water in a 10 to 12 quart soup pot.

Place the garlic cloves in a mesh herb bag or in cheesecloth and tie tightly. Add to the pot along with the chicken, carrots, celery, and onions.

Bring to a boil, and then reduce heat to a simmer. Partially cover and simmer for 3-5 hours.

Remove the chicken and let cool. Skim any excess fat from the broth and discard or refrigerate for another time. Uncover the pot and let the soup simmer for about 30 minutes to reduce by about 1/4. Remove the whole onions and discard or chop to put back into the soup. Remove the bag with garlic cloves and let cool. Pour into a bowl and mash well to create a smooth puree.

Set aside.

Heat a small frying pan over low heat and add the canola oil. Add the fresh, minced garlic and sauté until lightly golden. Add the mashed garlic and mix to blend. Sprinkle the flour on

This is an easy, lower- fat or decadent, creamy, version of potato soup that uses shallots for fuller flavor.

4 to 6 leeks, white and light green parts only, thinly sliced and washed thoroughly 1/4 to 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil 1/2 to 1 stick butter 2 to 3 medium onions, diced 6 to 10 shallots, diced 3 pounds white potatoes, peeled, cut into half- inch cubes 2 quarts vegetable broth 3 cups whole milk, or half-and-half salt and white pepper to taste 4 tbsp. finely minced fresh chives OPTIONAL: 4-6 tbsp. white wine or sherry Sour cream or plain, Greek yogurt, to taste Cut up the leeks and place in a large bowl of cold water. Swish to remove any sand. Drain completely. Set aside. Heat a large soup pot and add the oil and butter. Sauté the onions, shallots and leeks until they begin to soften and turn very lightly golden. Add the vegetable broth and the potatoes and simmer, partially covered, until the potatoes are very soft.

Use an immersion blender and process the soup until it is thick and creamy, adding the milk or half and half as you process the soup.

Add seasonings and wine, if desired, and heat until just barely simmering. Taste and adjust seasonings as needed. Garnish with minced chives. Serves 8+.

Israeli-inspired avocado toast, served 3 ways

By Shannon Sarna, Nosher via JTA Avocado toast has been “trendy” for several years throughout the U.S. In fact, avocados have been so trendy, an entire avocado restaurant opened earlier this year in Brooklyn.

And people are putting avocados in everything lately: brownies, salad dressing, even ice cream. After all, avocados are healthy, full of good fat, delicious and satisfying.

I also love avocados, but I am a purist about eating them — sliced or smashed simply with just a few seasonings with some chips, or on the side of a dish like my vegetarian Mexican lasagna. These Israeli-inspired toasts are a little trendy, healthful and super fun — plus they use some classic Israeli flavors like tahini and harissa.

If you don’t like soft- or hard-boiled eggs,

you can also top your toast with a fried egg. Mix and match your combinations. These are satisfying and perfect for a busy home since they require minimal cooking. I would serve one of these for a hearty breakfast or light lunch.

Ingredients: Fresh sourdough or whole grain bread 2 ripe avocados 1 to 2 eggs harissa feta cheese juice and zest of one lemon 1 to 2 fresh radishes fresh parsley and cilantro 1/3 cup chickpeas (shells removed) tahini salt and pepper to taste dried cumin

Directions: To make the chickpea smashed toast: Combine 1/2 avocado with 1/3 cup canned chickpeas, shelled removed. If you didn’t remove all the shells, they will naturally come off as you smash the chickpeas and avocado together. Add pinch of salt and 1/4 teaspoon cumin. Toast bread lightly.

Spread chickpea-avocado mixture evenly on top of toast. Drizzle with tahini to your taste, a pinch of sea salt and fresh parsley.

To make the harissa and egg toast: Smash 1/2 avocado with a pinch of salt and 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice. Toast bread lightly.

Spread smashed avocado evenly on top of toast. Drizzle or spread around 2 teaspoons prepared harissa on top.Top with slices of soft- or hard-boiled egg, or a single fried egg, a pinch of sea salt and fresh parsley.

To make the feta and radish toast: Smash 1/2 avocado with pinch of salt and 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice. Toast bread lightly.

Spread smashed avocado evenly on bread.

Top with thin slices of radishes, feta cheese to your taste and 1/2 teaspoon fresh lemon zest.

Shannon Sarna is the editor of The Nosher.

Judy Joszef who’s in the kitchen

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eriously, how is possible that it’s almost Thanksgiving. Wasn’t it just Sukkot, didn’t we just put away our sukkah?

Oh, wait, no, we didn’t.

My husband Jerry and his son Elliot did manage to take our sukkah apart, roll up the canvas and bring it inside. The poles, wood beams and schach were left outside for another day. Well, it rained for the next two days, and each of the four schach mats were soaking wet. They had to be unrolled and dried out then rolled again and put away.

But, of course it never got done, not even close. I can’t really blame Jerry, being that the day after Sukkot was a Sunday, which meant his beloved Giants were playing, or what they call playing.

Jerry had a plan. He would head for the gym, come home and take down the sukkah, and then watch the game at night. As usual, morning turned into afternoon as Jerry puttered around the house successfully doing nothing for hours. Jerry is great at doing nothing and can spend hours happily doing nothing, the less the better.

He managed to finish doing nothing at around 3 pm when he headed to the gym.

According to Jerry, working out at the gym is almost as great as doing nothing. When he got home, he showered, ate dinner and decided it was too late to start taking apart the sukkah as he had to get ready to watch the game wearing his Mark Bavaro Giant’s

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Which brings me back to, I can’t believe it’s already almost Thanksgiving and the schach and wooden beams are still out in my backyard! And talking about Thanksgiving, here’s a great recipe that goes well with turkey.

Mini Honey Butternut Squash Stuffed with Red Quinoa, Sugar Slivered Almonds and Dried Cranberries Ingredients: 5 Mini Honey Butternut Squash (Gourmet Glatt) 1 cup organic red quinoa (Trader Joe’s) 1 tsp canola oil (optional) 1/6 cup craisins 4 tablespoons sugar

1/4 tsp salt 4 Tbs honey roasted sliced almonds Instructions : Preheat oven to 350F Wash squash and slice each in half.

Scoop out seeds and place on a baking sheet sprayed with Pam. Bake for approximately 40 minutes or until tender.

While squash is in the oven, prepare Quinoa according to directions, and add the cranberries as well. I also add 1 tsp canola oil, but it’s optional. Be sure not to overlook. Once quinoa is cooked add the sugar, salt and slivered almonds. Spoon the quinoa mixture into the circular cavity of the squash.

Can be served immediately or made a day in advance.

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uniform. Bavaro’s nickname was Rambo and Jerry used to love watching him play. The game was starting at 8:30 pm and for once in a very long time, he didn’t have to tape the game, he could watch it live.

If the game was on at a time he wasn’t home to watch it, he would tape the game and watch it in its entirety when he got home. Problem is, he had to make sure that no one told him the score. We’d be at a wedding, someone would come over to say hello, Jerry welcomes him by shouting, “Don’t tell me the score, I’m taping the game!” Usually, the person just wants to say hello.

My favorite scenario is when we’re walking in the street and we’re about to pass a bunch of people that neither of us know. As we’re nearing them, Jerry anxiously insists that we cross the street. “Are you worried about those kids?” I ask. “I’m not just worried,” he responds. “I’m really, really concerned about these kids as they might be talking about the game and I’ll find out the score.”

Then there’s the issue of me knowing the final score, which is usually disastrous, as the Giants specialize this year in getting pummeled. Knowing that Jerry is going to spend three hours watching the game, there’s a part of me that wants to scream, “Please, Jerry, don’t sit through the whole game, it’s not going to be pretty.” But of course I make believe that I don’t actually know the score and I don’t say anything. I’m usually in the other room, and every now and then I hear a cheer, which I know ten minutes later will be followed by a jeer. Then the inevitable sigh, followed by “Can this get any worse?” “Yes, Jerry,” I whisper to myself,” it’s going to get much worse!”

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By Josefin Dolsten, JTA On a typical Shabbat in Teaneck, streets are blocked off outside of major synagogues. Uniformed off-duty police officers, paid by the shuls for the morning, stand near a cruiser parked nearby or direct traffic on the main street.

Volunteers, walkie-talkie earpieces disappearing beneath their lapels, stand at strategic points outside the synagogues keeping an eye on foot traffic. A few may have swept through the synagogue before services checking for suspicious objects.

The volunteers are among the over 4,000 in New York — including Brooklyn and Long Island — New Jersey, Washington DC, Maryland, Pennsylvania and California who have been trained by Community Security Service, or CSS, to keep synagogues, day schools and other Jewish institutions safe.

The group is trying to be the gold standard for synagogue self-defense — a goal that became even more relevant following Sunday’s massacre at a Texas church that left at least 26 people dead. Police say a 26-year-old man, Devin Patrick Kelley, opened fire with a military-style assault weapon before being shot himself by a neighbor and dying of his wounds.

“If the Jewish community is supposed to be an example for the rest of the world, then in the times we are living in, we should show other communities how to organize and how to help law enforcement help us,” Jason Friedman, Community Security Service’s executive director, told JTA on Monday.

CSS focuses on training community members to spot suspicious behavior and thus avert potential attacks.

“Our primary focus is to get volunteers from synagogues training in situational awareness and basic security theory, so this would mean how to conduct security at their synagogue, where to stand, what to look for, how to communicate,” Friedman said.

Volunteers take a basic course that lasts a few evenings.

Then they can take additional courses in more advanced topics. CSS also provides basic training in self-defense.

CSS was founded in 2007 by David Dabscheck, now CEO of the consulting agency GIANT Innovation, and Adam Sager, an Israeli army veteran who now heads the security company Canary. They recruited Friedman, a U.S. Navy officer who has served in Afghanistan, as their first volunteer. Last year, Friedman became the first executive director of CSS, a nonprofit that

CSS volunteers learn techniques to spot suspicious people in order to thwart potential attacks.

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runs on donations and foundation support.

Friedman says a “boots-on-the-ground” approach to security has been underutilized by Jewish organizations.

“I believe that the members of the Jewish community have not been engaged enough when it comes to Jewish security,” he said, “and without their participation, security initiatives are not sustainable.”

Friedman says Jewish organizations face multiple types of threats, including from far-right nationalists and neo-Nazis, radical Islamists and far-left anti-Israel activists. Some synagogues have reported shooting incidents, like the synagogue in Evansville, Indiana, that reported a bullet hole in a Hebrew school classroom window in March. And then there are less spectacular threats, like unwelcome intruders or disruptive guests. Deena Seelenfreund, regional manager for CSS in New Jersey, said CSS-trained volunteers have helped prevent minor security incidents locally.

Events such as the shooting in Texas show the need for CSS volunteers, she said.

“People say we’re out in the middle of nowhere, we’re suburban, nothing is really going to happen, but we do this for the 1 percent chance that something is going to happen,” Seelenfreund said.

At Congregation Keter Torah, the Orthodox shul in Teaneck where Seelenfreund is a member, team members stand outside to serve as a deterrent against possible attack. Off-duty volunteers are also present inside the sanctuary.

“It’s the fine balance between being hospitable and greeting people and also being careful and discerning,” she said. And it is a positive experience not only for the 55 members who serve on the security team, but the congregation as a whole.

“The entire shul is more alert and [situationally] aware, and we will have non-security team members, just regular congregants, alerting the team to suspicious individuals or vehicles that they see on their way to shul,” Seelenfreund said.

At Ramath Orah, an Orthodox synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, some members initially were against CSSstyle security measures. “There were people who would push back and say ‘Why is there security out front? This isn’t Israel, this isn’t Europe,’” recalled Samuel Block, a co-manager of the synagogue’s security team. Synagogues in Europe often have armed security, including military personnel.

Block said security team members are there to ensure safety, not keep people out.

“We always tell our volunteers and the people that are coming, we’re not there as bouncers, we’re there to make sure that people are coming for the right reasons, and we ask people not to be offended if someone starts talking to you,” Block said.

Adam Hirsch, head of the security team at Congregation Bnai Yeshurun, another Orthodox synagogue in Teaneck, said volunteers there take a similar approach.

“We’re not checking membership cards, we’re not checking every person. We’re looking at people who look out of line, or don’t belong or are acting suspiciously,” Hirsch said.

Hirsch said his synagogue has benefited from receiving training by a larger organization.

“You’re not coming up with it out of the blue,” he said. “It’s actually following methodology that is consistent and is proven effective.”

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If everything can change, what really counts?

Rabbi binny FReedman the heart of jerusalem

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ternity. What does it mean? Does anything really last forever?

Many years ago, in the pre-dawn darkness on an empty Jerusalem road, I discovered just how fleeting life can be. After a very late night studying with my students after a prolonged trip overseas, as I was headed home for what I thought would be a peaceful Shabbat and a chance to reconnect with my wife and kids, I fell asleep at the wheel. I was awakened when my tiny Peugeot 104 wrapped itself around an electric pole.

The impact was so powerful that my wife would later describe the steering wheel as completely bent by the force of my body crashing into it. The steel pen in my shirt pocket was bent in half.

While I did not know this at the time, I had broken almost all my ribs, and my spleen had been ruptured. All I knew was that in all the pain I was experiencing I could not move my arms or legs, so I was convinced I had been paralyzed. I had bitten down and cut open my tongue (which would later require almost 40 stitches) and was bleeding profusely. (What do they always do in the movies when they want you to know one of the characters, say, in a gun battle, is going to die? They have blood running out of his mouth!

The character sees the blood and gets it: he is dying. So I was absolutely sure I was dying.)

The irony was not lost on me: after all of my experiences in Lebanon and in the army, it was a careless driving accident that was going to be the end of me.

It is impossible to describe the intense wave of sadness that washed over me: Who would

walk our eldest daughter Maayan, then aged five, to her wedding chuppah? Would Yonatan, then aged two, even remember me at his Bar Mitzvah? Who would come to the door and tell my wife the news; how would she manage?

What little had I even accomplished in my life?

At age 31, had I left the world much different than when I found it?

Eventually, someone found me, the ambulance came and after two days in the ICU (along with my father-in-law’s intervention which saved my life) Hashem gave me a second chance to get it right. hat, in the end, really matters in this world?

This week’s parsha, Chayei Sarah, finds Avraham contemplating this as he prepares to bury his beloved wife Sarah.

The Torah devotes an inordinate amount of time to Avraham’s attempts to bury his wife; up until this point in the Torah, people simply died. When Noach died (Bereishit 9:29), it was concisely reported that he was 950 years.

The commentaries note that Avraham uses a fascinating turn of phrase in his negotiations with the Hittites to secure a burial site: “Ger ve’Toshav anochi imachem” (literally, “I am a stranger and an inhabitant amongst you”). Why does Avraham describe himself in such paradoxical terms? Is he a stranger, or is he a resident?

Rav Shlomo Riskin notes that we find this exact phrase in the parsha of Behar when the Torah tells us that in the jubilee (50th or yovel) year, the land must return to its original owners: “And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine, for you are strangers and settlers with me” “Ki Gerim ve’ ve’Toshavim atem imadi” (Vayikra 25:23).

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The Torah is challenging us to consider what really lasts in this world: what do we really own?

The first chapter of tractate Baba Metzia deals with cases involving conflicts of ownership. Shnayim Ochzin considers with two individuals both claiming a garment and the Talmud delineates a variety of cases with a similar theme. The midrash elaborates on one of these cases: “Zeh omer shel avotai, ve’zeh omer shel avotai.”

Two individuals are arguing over the ownership of a parcel of land. Each claims to have inherited the property, but neither can prove ownership — they have no witnesses, no contract, and not even a provable status of possession. So they ask the local rabbi to resolve their dispute.

The rabbi, after hearing both sides, responds: “I have heard both of your arguments neither of which is stronger than the other, so let’s ask the land!” Whereupon he bends over cupping his hand to his ear as it were, trying to “hear” what the land has to say.

One imagines the two litigants looking at each other wondering whether they have come to the wrong rabbi who must be certifiable. But the rabbi straightens up, looks at the litigants and declares: “The land says it’s not yours, and it’s not yours; you’re it’s!” (“Ki me’afar atah ve’el afar tashuv”) — “for you are from the dust and you will return to the dust” (Bereishit 3: 19). In other words, we don’t really own anything in this world; if anything, the world owns us. close reading of the verses in our parsha indicate that the Hittites don’t really take Avraham’s desire for a burial plot seriously.

After all, who is Avraham? An old man with one son who is not even married and a crazy system

We don’t really own anything in this world; if anything, the world owns us.

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of belief that no one in the world has bought into. They offer to give him the land for free, perhaps recognizing that eventually they can eventually reclaim it for own purposes, once Avraham, already an old man, is gone.

But much as the Torah is reminding us that in the jubilee year property and ownership is not what lasts, Avraham is making a point here —we are only temporary dwellers on this earth and are merely strangers and travelers passing through. Eternity is about the things we accomplish that can never be undone — the kindnesses we do, and the meaningful life messages we leave behind for our children and those we loved to carry on. In short, all that Sarah came to represent. In that way, we are inhabitants; we make an impression that lasts eternally. Hence we bury our dead in the ground, because the earth cannot be destroyed. (Indeed, in Jewish law if a person safeguards an item he is guarding by burying it in the earth he will not be liable for its destruction.)

One of the great challenges in life, as we struggle with the distractions of the physical all around us, is to remember that money, power, and all the “things” we accumulate, are not what bring us happiness. Really lasts is the good that we do, and the people we touch.

The burial plot Avraham acquires is actually the first time a Jew actually owns a portion of the land of Israel. In the diaspora, despite the growing acceptance of Jews, we would do well to ask ourselves: are we really toshavim, fullfledged citizens accepted as equals, or are today’s “Hittites” reminding us that we are really gerim, strangers?

Perhaps there is only one place a Jew can truly be at home, and that’s what makes Israel such a powerful and meaningful place for Jews.

It is the same home where, 4,000 years ago, the first Jew made a statement challenging us all to consider what really matters in this world.

Shabbat shalom from Jerusalem

Yitzchak & Rivka in Chaya Sarah: Growing to love Rabbi avi billet Parsha of the week

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ake a careful look at Bereishit 24:67: “And Yitzchak brought Rivka to his mother’s tent. He took Rivka, she became his wife, and then he loved her, and then he was comforted over the loss of his mother.”

In modern parlance, we might say, “He dated her, he married her, and then he grew to love her.”

Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch points out the classic beauty of the ideal Jewish home.

“The more she lived as and grew into her role of being his wife, such did his love for her grow.” This, Rabbi Hirsch argues, is the fundamental ingredient to a successful Jewish marriage. (And, yes, it goes both ways!)

A Jewish home is not built on lustful thoughts and feelings; it is built upon common values and similar approaches to how to live the best Jewish life, sharing an overall gestalt that serves for a harmonious existence.

This intellectual and spiritual connection strengthens love, as the couple gives them-

selves the chance to get to know one another.

Rabbi Hirsch emphasizes the marked distinction between pre-marital “love” and the love which comes after the commitment to one another has taken complete effect. It is that commitment which becomes the fuel that drives a person to achieve and and ultimately to make the home a model of respect and caring behavior.

The wedding is not the pinnacle of love. It is the root which allows love to blossom.

This is the difference between the Western, romantic notion of love, and love as described in the Torah. he fact that Yitzchak, a 40-old man, is only comforted now, three years after his elderly mother’s death, indicates not only the tremendous connection and regard a man can have for his mother, but the tremendous role a wife can play in the life of her husband.

Quoting Onkelos, Ramban explains that the love Yitzchak felt for his wife began because of her righteousness and the straight-

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ness of her deeds — things he learned of as they were living together. Could this mean that he loved her because of the things she did? Absolutely.

The mishnah in Avot (5:16) describes two kinds of love: love which is dependent on something, and love which is dependent on nothing. If love is dependent on something, when that is lost, the love falls apart. The other kind of love never goes away.

The example the mishnah gives of love which can fall apart is Amnon and Tamar, two children of King David who had a disturbing, onesided relationship (Samuel II:13). The other kind of love is modeled by David and Yonatan, son of King Shaul. As best friends who shared a vision of how each other could shine, and how they could both become leaders of Israel, all they ever wanted for each other was the very best.

A husband and wife will often begin their marriage out of love of the first kind: egotistical, what he/she can do for me, to make my

the wedding is not the pinnacle of love. it is the root which allows love to blossom.

life better. This is normal. In the initial stages, love based on deeds is the healthiest type of love. How does one love others just because they are there? Love, in a sense, needs to be earned. A person has to work hard to love and to be loved, to do for someone else, to be worthy of being the recipient of someone else’s true (non-lustful) affection.

Love which comes out of infatuation, or a tingly feeling a person gets, is meaningless. It doesn’t take long for that tingly feeling to go away once the excitement becomes routine, unless the love continues to derive strength from other factors. The former and the latter sentiments can best be summarized in this distinction: the difference between “I love you because you are beautiful” and “You are beautiful because I love you.”

Yitzchak is the first person in the Torah who expresses love. And he does so with thought, with consideration, and most importantly, with time.

As two lovers grow together, and create a home in which they think alike, feel alike, believe alike and have common goals, their love will no longer be dependent upon anything.

Their love will last till eternity as they live out their lives as the best of friends.

This column by Rabbi Billet originally appeared in 2009.

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es, prayer is a bridge, a spiritual bridge that we take daily in our trip to G-d’s spiritual universe. And the bridge that we travel over is the siddur, the Jewish prayer book.

Recently, a new work was published by Mosaica Press entitled, “A Bridge Called Prayer,” authored by Rabbi Yehonason Alpren. Please consider the following words by Dr. Philip Birnbaum, the legendary siddur translator and commentator, written in 1949: “The siddur is the most popular book in Jewish life. No book so completely unites the dispersed people of Israel. If any single volume can tell us what it means to be a Jew, it is the siddur which embodies the visions and aspirations, the sorrows and joys of many generations. The whole gamut of Jewish history may be traversed in its pages; it is a mirror that reflects the development of the Jewish spirit throughout the ages.

“Interwoven into the texture of the prayers are passages from the Bible, the Mishnah, the Talmud and the Zohar. The poetic and philosophic creations of numerous known and unknown authors constitute a considerable part of the siddur. No other book so thoroughly expresses the creative genius of our people across the centuries.”

Birnbaum’s words are further enhanced by those of one of the greatest theologians of our faith, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, who, in “A Guide to Jewish Prayer” teaches us the following:

“No other Jewish book contains the entirety of Judaism. The siddur is like a garland, intertwining all the strands of Judaism and encompassing all fields of Jewish creativity in all their variegated forms. It includes sections that reflect the fundamentals of Jewish faith, and those relating to the field of religious law. … It contains sections of exalted poetry, and matters of ritual procedure. There are prayers that deal with the most intimate details of individual needs and problems, supplications reflecting the sorrows and aspirations of the nation, and prayers that touch upon the entire cosmos.”

With these precious sentiments as prologue let me share with you something about Rabbi Alpren.

He was born in Birmingham, England, in 1951, and remained at home until age 18 where he was a “classical English schoolboy” who attended a traditional English grammar school a stone’s throw from Shakespeare country — and even closer to the rugby field and cricket square!

He first visited Israel for a year in Yeshivat Kerem B’Yavneh, and then returned in Birmingham to complete a degree in business studies and finance, specializing in industrial law and labor relations. However, he was to take a turn that would redefine his life’s work, that being his enrollment in the famed Gateshead Yeshiva.

Rabbi Alpren guides his listeners with practical lessons and suggestions from Chazal, adapting and applying them into everyday life situations. He transforms Torah study into a delightful experience through inspirational insights and personal experience.

More information and recorded shiurim can be found at http://www.rabbialpren.com.

After his stint at Gatehead, he moved to

London and entered the legal profession.

After getting married in 1979 he moved to Jerusalem to learn at the Mirrer Yeshiva where he received semicha in 1996, and has been a member of the kollel of the Mirrer Yeshiva for the last 35 years. In 1990, the AlRabbi Alpern prens embarked on a career of teaching Torah, giving lectures, becoming a much sought after lecturer both in Israel, and worldwide.

In this writer’s opinion, Rabbi Alpren has the rare gift of making even the most complex Torah concepts come to life. His wit and wisdom, as well as his invoking a broad range of personal experiences, helps to transform Torah study into a delightful experience.

This talent is thus seen in the content and teachings in his recently released work, “A Bridge Called Prayer” in which he presents a practical view of what constitutes tefillah.

Please consider the following quote from the Novominsker Rebbe, Rav Yaakov Perlow, in briefly describing Rabbi Alpren’s teachings: “Rabbi Yehonason Alpren has written an inclusive and inspiring book on the meaning of prayer for the believing Jew. His analysis of the fundamental elements inherent in our communication with the Almighty should deepen one’s understanding of the power and purpose of our tefillos and serve as a bridge and uplifting in bringing man closer to his Creator.”

I leave it to you, my dear reader, to consider

these words by Rav Perlow and take them seriously. When taken together with the teachings of Birnbaum and Rav Steinsaltz, we have before us a cherished combination of learning that will further enhance our appreciation of our sacred liturgy for the rest of our lives.

FOR FURTHER STUDY Please consider a siddur whose commentary will give you an even greater appreciation of the liturgical texts.

“The Koren Mesorat Harav Siddur” (OU Press, 2011), contains a commentary based upon the teachings of HaRav Yosef Soloveitchik, zt’’l, with translation of the siddur by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.

This work was edited by Arnold Lustiger, together with senior editor Rabbi Gil Student, one of the most gifted interpreters of Jewish theology in the world today. The literary editor is Rabbi Simon Posner, one of the most skilled editors of Judaica works and a devoted follower of the Rav’s teachings.

Also, please take note of a new work, “The Eishes Chayil Candle Lighting Treasury” (ArtScroll, 2017) by Rabbi Dov Weller, a must present for your mother, wife, mother-in-law or granddaughter, and a perfect engagement gift for your future daughter-in-law.

Chayeh Sarah and the power of chesed Rabbi david etengoff

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ne of the major themes of our parasha, Chayeh Sarah, is Eliezer’s choice of a wife for Isaac from the daughters of Abraham’s birthplace: “And Abraham said to his servant [identified by tradition as Eliezer], the elder of his house, who ruled over all that was his: ‘Please place your hand under my thigh. And I will adjure you by the L-rd, the G-d of the heaven and the G-d of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose midst I dwell. But you shall go to my land and to my birthplace, and you shall take a wife for my son, for Isaac.’ … And the servant took ten camels of his master’s camels, and he went, and all the best of his master was in his hand; and he arose, and he went to Aram Naharaim, to the city of Nahor.”

(Bereishit 24:2-4, 10) Abraham gave Eliezer only one criterion for choosing the next matriarch of the Jewish people, namely, that she must not descend “from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose midst I dwell.” This is perplexing, since we would have expected him to give his loyal servant a detailed list of the qualities that Isaac’s spouse must possess. As such, how did Eliezer know which outstanding middah was necessary for Isaac’s future wife?

The Chasidic rebbe, Rav Chaim ben Solomon Tyrer zatzal, known as “the Be’er Mayim Chaim” after the name of his most famous work, suggests the following answer to our question.

He notes that everyone during Abraham’s time knew that he was the personification of chesed.

Indeed, Eliezer had witnessed countless examples of his master’s overwhelming care and concern for all those in need. Therefore, he fo-

cused upon this middah as the decisive element in his search for Isaac’s life partner: “Behold, our father Abraham was known to everyone as the first ba’al chesed (master of loving-kindness) in world history. Abraham, throughout his entire life and with all his strength, pursued opportunities wherein he could bring guests to his home in order to give them food and drink … as the verse states, ‘Now the L-rd appeared to him in the plains of Mamre, and he was sitting at the entrance of the tent when the day was hot.’ (18:1) [The correct interpretation of this verse is that] at first Abraham sent Eliezer to see if there were any potential guests traveling on their way — and he did not believe him when he stated there was no one to be found. Therefore, Abraham, himself, went to ascertain whether or not he might be able to find any [desert travelers]. (Commentary on Bereishit, Parashat Chayeh Sarah, 24:14) iven Abraham’s marked emphasis upon chesed, Eliezer knew full well that this was the singular middah that Isaac’s spouse needed to demonstrate if she was to enter into and become a leader of the covenantal community. Thus, Eliezer said, “O L-rd, the G-d of my master Abraham, please cause to happen to me today, and perform loving-kindness with my master, Abraham. Behold, I am standing by the water fountain, and the daughters of the people of the city are coming out to draw water. And it will be, [that] the maiden to whom I will say, ‘Lower your pitcher and I will drink’ and she will say, ‘Drink, and I will also water your camels, she is the one that You designated for Your servant, for Isaac,

and through her may I know that You have performed loving-kindness with my master.”

(24:12-14) The Be’er Mayim Chaim explicates this passage in the following manner: “[Given the unique import of chesed in Abraham’s family, Eliezer] wanted to test Rebecca as to whether or not she was a practitioner of loving-kindness, for only if this were to be the case would she be fitting to enter the house of Abraham.

Therefore, if he would say to her, ‘Please give me a little bit of water to drink,’ and she would respond, ‘Drink and I will also provide water for your camels,’ [more than that which was requested] then, You [Hashem], will have proven incontrovertibly that she has the ethical characteristic of lovingkindness within her.”

The Be’er Mayim Chaim concludes his penetrating analysis with a deep insight into the nature of genuine chesed: “The authentic sign of gemilut chasadim (lovingkindness) is that one runs after the unfortunate and dispirited [to help them], and if such an individual should come on their own — one goes beyond their immediate request [in order to truly provide for their needs].” As we have seen, Rebecca’s behavior with Eliezer and his camels projected this understanding of lovingkindness. As such, she was privileged to be one of the greatest leaders of the Jewish people.

David Hamelech declared in Sefer Tehillim: “The kindnesses of the L-rd I shall sing forever (chasdei Hashem olam ashirah); to generation after generation I shall make known Your faithfulness, with my mouth. For I said, ‘Forever will it be built with kindness (olam chesed yibaneh);

this was abraham’s, Sarah’s, isaac’s and Rebecca’s task — to build the world through kindness.

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as the heavens, with which You will establish Your faithfulness’.” (89:2-3) While the phrase “olam chesed yibaneh” may be translated as “forever will it be built in kindness,” one may accurately render it, as well, as “the world will be built through kindness,” since, depending upon the context, “olam” may be translated as either “forever” or “world.” In my estimation, this was precisely Abraham’s, Sarah’s, Isaac’s and Rebecca’s task — to build the world through kindness, so that, one day, we may witness the fulfillment of the Aleinu’s stirring phrase, “l’takane olam b’malchut Shakai” (“to improve the world through the kingship of the Almighty”).

With Hashem’s help may this time come soon and in our days. V’chane yihi ratzon.

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This isn’t a Democrat civil war, it’s a coup d’etat Jeff DuneTz politics to go

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ver the past week the contents of the new book “Hacks,” written by former interim DNC Chair Donna Brazile, has been in the headlines. Some commentators claimed Brazile’s tome is part of a Democratic Party civil war between the left and the extreme left, but they are wrong. “Hacks” represents a coup d’etat, an overthrow of the Clinton machine which has basically ruled the party since Bill Clinton became president in 1993. In 2012, when Obama was trailing in his re-election bid, he turned to former President Clinton for help, both in the campaign and in raising money.

Since her election loss, Hillary Clinton has been constantly trying to explain all the reasons she lost the election (my latest count is 30 excuses). Along with her blame game, at

times Clinton has hinted she might run again in 2020. By drawing the coverage, she’s been squeezing out other Democrats from receiving coverage.

Enter Donna Brazile.

If Hillary Clinton’s book is named, “What Happened,” Brazile’s book could have been titled “What Really Happened.” Brazile is a long-time Democratic Party operative who twice served as interim chairman of the party. She wouldn’t have written a book bashing Hillary Clinton, if she wasn’t trying to free the party from the grasp of the Clinton machine. he book is a perfect example of passive-aggressive.

One sentence describes how much she wanted Hillary to win, then she calls the campaign unethical or incompetent.

Brazile’s revelation gave weight to Bernie Sanders’ claim that he was cheated out of the

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nomination. Brazile describes how the party made a deal with the devil — an “unethical” deal that “compromised the party’s integrity” — and gave Hillary an unfair advantage over Sanders.

President Obama left the party $24 million in debt after the 2012 campaign and had been paying that off very slowly. Brazile claimed the DNC, the Hillary Victory Fund, and Hillary for America signed a secret agreement that said that in exchange for the Hillary campaign raising money to help make the party solvent, Hillary would control the party’s personnel, finances, strategy, and all the money raised. A candidate usually takes over the party once they win the nomination, but this occurred a year prior, which meant that party decisions made by the Clintons, helped the Clintons.

“Hacks” describes the incompetence of the

Politics is a cruel business.

When it’s time to retire there’s no gold watch.

Clinton effort.

As reported in the Washington Post: “Brazile paints a scathing portrait of Clinton as a wellintentioned, historic candidate whose campaign was badly mismanaged, took minority constituencies for granted and made blunders with ‘stiff’ and ‘stupid’ messages. The campaign was so lacking in passion for the candidate, she writes, that its New York headquarters felt like a sterile hospital ward where ‘someone had died’.”

Brazile also threw down the race card. Actually, she didn’t just throw it down, she tossed it with so much power it must have cracked the imaginary floor: “As one of her party’s most prominent black strategists, Brazile also recounts fiery disagreements with Clinton’s staffers — including a conference call in which she told three senior campaign officials, Charlie Baker, Marlon Marshall and Dennis Cheng, that she was being treated like a slave.” “ ‘I’m not Patsey the slave,‘ Brazile recalls telling them, a reference to the character played by Lupita Nyong’o in the film, ‘12 Years a Slave.’

‘Y’all keep whipping me and whipping me and See Dems on page 24

In Kurdistan, Iran’s war and America’s shame Ben Cohen Viewpoint

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rior to the referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan on Sept. 25, the leaders of Iran, Turkey and Iraq all foretold of the coming of a “second Israel” if Kurdish independence was the end result.

They meant it as an insult, but it’s really a compliment. Israel has sustained its democracy amid regional conditions that would make most Americans and Europeans balk at the thought of being in same position, and a sovereign Kurdistan would be an invaluable partner simply through sharing basic liberal norms—like freedom of expression, freedom of worship, full civil rights for all ethnic, national and sexual minorities—in a Middle East that is largely contemptuous of such trifles.

Yet even though almost 93 percent of voters in the Kurdish referendum opted for a sovereign Kurdistan, the end result has not been a “second Israel,” but a “second Iran.”

For the last fortnight, Iraqi Kurdistan has borne the brunt of an Iranian-backed military

offensive, involving Iraqi government forces and the Hashd al Shaabi paramilitary organization—an Iraqi equivalent of Lebanon’s Hezbollah and perhaps, as we may yet discover, a Shi’a equivalent of the Sunni Islamic State. These forces used American-supplied weapons and vehicles to threaten the Kurds into withdrawing from strategic positions around Kirkuk as well as other cities and towns, and didn’t hesitate to use them where the Kurds resisted.

Did the U.S. agree that its weapons could be used to crush our most loyal regional ally at the time that it supplied them? No, it didn’t, but nobody cares, because no one—not the Kurds, not the Turks led by the fiercely anti-Kurdish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and certainly not Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps general who coordinated the offensive in Kurdistan much as he has in the Syrian and Lebanese theaters—believes that the U.S. is going to do anything about it.

The Iranian sweep through Iraqi Kurdistan means that more than 50 percent of the territory

recently liberated from Islamic State by Kurdish Peshmerga fighters is now in the hands of the Iraqi central government and Hashd al Shaabi.

Kurdish President Masoud Barzani has stepped aside amid internal recriminations among the Kurds themselves, in part due to persistent rumors that a rival Kurdish group gave into Soleimani’s pressure.

(Some say they did so too easily, others say Soleimani told them plainly that the alternative was an all-out war.)

Credible reports of murder, looting and rape committed by Hashd al Shaabi fighters have emerged from the Yazidi and Christian communities, who were already battered, abused and enslaved by Islamic State.

Rather than implementing the results of the independence referendum, the Kurds have been press-ganged into “negotiations” with Baghdad; the Iraqi central government is demanding that the Kurds withdraw as far back as the 2003 border that separated them from the armed forces of Saddam Hussein, but this time without American and British air power to protect them.

Iranian and Turkish propaganda claim that the Kurds are Israel’s fifth column.

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he current plight of the Kurds is nothing other than a Western, and especially American, disgrace. Who can blame the Kurds if they conclude that the 2,000 fighters they lost in the battle against Islamic State were really just cannon fodder for a cynical, short-term American policy that only recognizes the Iranian threat when it’s politically convenient?

The warning signs were there already before the referendum, when the State Department reaffirmed its “one Iraq” policy—something that has been little more than a discredited brand for years now, and one which should rightly have been buried once it was clear that the Kurds, a century after being cheated out of independence

by Britain and France, decided that they’d had enough. For more than a decade, the Kurds have succumbed to American pleas to remain inside Iraq, despite their previous experience of genocide at the hands of Saddam’s Sunni Arab regime and the abiding sense that—as one Kurdish official told me this week—“the Iraqi Shi’a and the Iranians distrust us not just because we are Sunni Muslims and Kurdish nationals, but because they see us as Israelis.”

I don’t believe that was meant metaphorically. Iranian and Turkish propaganda has been clear from the beginning that the Kurds are IsraSee Kurds on page 24

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very year, as the yahrzeit of Yitzhak Rabin rolls around, subconsciously I feel some level of discomfort and tension. Like every other Israeli, remember that terrible day in 1995 all too well.

It was still Shabbat in New York when Rabin was assassinated. Due to being “unplugged” on Shabbat, I am sheltered from news. This Shabbat, though, I happened to have been staying with a child at a hospital on Shabbat, and the news spread fast. Between the nursing staff and the doorman in the building where I had a meal, everyone was talking about it.

After reconnecting with the news after Shabbat, I was shocked by some of the fringe rightwing’s reaction: halachic detachment, defining Rabin as a rodef, a “pursuer,” a legal term that can be misconstrued as justifying his murder. But that was a sideshow; everyone else — left and right, including people who had built their lives in Judea and Samaria, everyone was grieving and traumatized.

Long-simmering tensions lead up to this fateful and hateful moment of bloodshed. Israeli blood was flowing in the streets of the land; Palestinian violence was taking over the streets. The Oslo Accords of 1993 had been a terrible, bitter mistake, many felt. For an entire generation, the innocence of youth was punctured by painful terrorism, loss and fear.

Alongside these fears and thoughts of people who felt that Oslo was a historic mistake, there was a large part of the country that was singlemindedly in favor, come what may. The country might as well have had a partition in place, it was

so divided.

Then, just like that, just as the temperature was heating up too rapidly, with people fearing for their and their children’s lives — boom! With one shot, the atmosphere, the Oslo Accords, the nation, was permanently pierced. he anniversary of this horrendous tragic murder has become a very complex and somewhat alienating day. For the religious community, Rabin’s assassination coincides with the death of Rachel our matriarch. Without intentionally ignoring the day of Rabin’s murder, the community’s focus is on the tradition to pray at Rachel’s Tomb outside Bethlehem, to honor a day that has been dedicated to her before Rabin was even born.

Meanwhile, much has changed since that dark night in 1995. Clearly, a critical mass in the nation has moved past the Oslo Accords. People have been burnt too much; the risks are too terrifying and too great to keep repeating attempts for a dead-end, blood-yielding “peace.” Between the wars with Hezbollah, Hamas, the disengagement from Gaza, the knifings, the car rammings, the drive-by murders … so much has transpired since the original Oslo accords that sadly confirms the right-wing bias. Oslo was a mistake.

Perhaps there is sense of bitter vindication, one that inhibits a sense of stocktaking and reverent remembrance.

Contrast that with the left, which has over the years taken ownership of Rabin’s memorial with a one-dimensional kind of remembrance. Instead of memorializing Rabin and emphasizing his legacy, on some level it has turned it into a day of expressing, at best, hostility toward the right; at worst outright hate.

“We’ll fight terror like there’s no peace, and make peace like there’s no terror,” Rabin famously said. So much of Yitzhak Rabin the man is a compression of the modern State of Israel. The two are inseparable. Like all great leaders, Rabin had

they would never condone violence, let alone murder. It’s simple: murder is murder! What does it matter what Rabin felt or did? ven though many felt Rabin was personally responsible for the lost innocent lives that were increasing day by day due to his political choices, murder is never the path to resolution.

Somehow the entirety of the right wing community is painted as though it does not care about Rabin’s murder. Because of the intensity of feelings and opinion — and the high stakes involved — after the tragedy was perpetrated by a member of the right wing community it was easy to point fingers simplistically at the whole community, almost stripping it of the right to mourn Rabin.

Each community went to its own corner to cope with this unspeakable legacy of one Jew shedding the blood of another Jew. Twenty-two years later, however, we must move past that. We are all brothers; yet sadly, Rabin’s yahrzeit is becoming a day whose essence is one that reinforces the distance between us.

It’s been 22 years. A new generation has grown. We must find a way to honor and remember Yitzhak Rabin, prime minister of Israel, in a more inclusive way. We must find a more nuanced dialogue in raising the next generation. That would be an effort worth remembering Rabin by.

Today, the fissures seem to be getting deeper.

As someone who often stands in the lonely middle, I worry. The right uses the word “left” as if it is an insult (what can you do, he became a leftist), and the left uses the word “right” as though it is a synonym for insanity (what do you expect from them, they are on the right). Enough!

The right must be more reflective and the left must stop blaming an entire community.

Physically, one man murdered Rabin. Spiritually, it is all of us who are erasing Rabin’s true, more comprehensive legacy for the Jewish people.

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Chief of staff Yitzhak Rabin at a press conference GPO in Tel Aviv on June 7, 1967.

his share of successes and his share of failures.

Yet even after all these years, Rabin’s legacy has been narrowed to the end of his life and the cause of his death, using it as an opportunity to alienate a whole segment of the nation.

Although many felt Rabin was as wrong about Oslo as he was about the Altalena (the ship bearing arms for the desperate Israeli army in the War of Independence, which Rabin sunk in 1948), for the most part he had been a deeply respected political leader and war hero.

Meanwhile, because of his understated, humble naivete and quiet strength, alongside his remarkable military feats, many on the right carried a special affection for him.

There will always be a strongly outspoken community of people who feel that in the end Rabin sold Israel to the devil. But politics aside,

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Pols join 150 at pre-election Agudath breakfast

By Judith Dinowitz On the Tuesday before election day, more than 150 Jewish community advocates gathered with key local, city and state elected officials for Agudath Israel’s annual pre-election legislative gathering.

Attendees enjoyed a panel discussion featuring five members of the New York City Council that was moderated by Agudah’s Executive Vice President, Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel. The topic: “Challenges Facing the Jewish Community in New York City and the Role of Government.”

The councilmembers — Donovan Richards (Rockaways), Robert Cornegy, Jr. (Brooklyn), Mark Levine (Manhattan), Ydanis Rodrígez (Washington Heights, Inwood and Marble Hill), and Jumaane Williams (Brooklyn) — touched on security issues, affordable housing for large families, lunch programs that include kosher meal options, government support for nonpublic schools, and effectively working with the mayor, even when city officials and the mayor disagree.

Rodriguez, who hails from the Dominican Republican Republic, said that the Latino community, which makes up about 29 percent of the city’s population, shares the same interests as the Orthodox community. He said that we are “building bridges together.” Councilmember Williams said, “All communities want to have safe, affordable housing, safe streets, good schools, good food.”

“At the end of the day,” said Richards, “it’s about the health of New York City.”

Cornegy advocated for funding for the NYPD and anti-terrorism, cautioning about potential Federal cuts. He spoke glowingly of the Jewish community’s support afterjames a hate crime in his district, “The Jewish community joined with me and stood against that level of hate.”

Levine said that the council should “support non-pedagogical services like transportation and special education for nonpublic schools.”

Other speakers at the event included Public Advocate Letitia James, who was introduced

by Rabbi Yeruchim Silber, Agudah’s Director of New York Government Relations. She thanked Agudath Israel for its advocacy and its partnership with legislators.

Greetings were delivered by Acting Brooklyn District Attorney, Eric Gonzalez, who spoke about the warm relationship he enjoys with the Orthodox Jewish Community.

New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer and state Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman referenced the recent terror attack in Manhattan, saying that it was an attack on all of us, not just on one group. Stringer said, “The terrorist attack that happened the other day is a reminder that we are never quite safe and we have to make sure that we protect this town but we also have to respect the diversity of this city.”

“Tuesday’s despicable terrorist attack reminds us that those who hate diversity will view New York as a target because of our success at building a pluralistic society,” Schneiderman said, He warned of the emerging threats to the city, citing an almost 20 percent increase in hate crimes in major American cities this year. “Ideas that we thought were driven into the darkest corners of society are reemerging. I am proud of the role that the Jewish community has taken in protecting the rights of all, ” he said. He also mentioned the need to work on amending zoning that is used to restrict synagogues and eruvim.

Other elected officials in attendance included state Senator Liz Krueger; Assemblymembers Helene Weinstein and David Weprin; former Assemblymember Mark Weprin; and Councilmembers David Greenfield and Rory Lancman. Also attending were David Rosenthal, who is running for the late Michael Simanowitz’s Assembly seat, as well as David Lobl, special assistant to Governor Cuomo.

Alma Bank sponsored this year’s breakfast, held at Alliance Bernstein Global Wealth Management in Midtown. The Friedlander Group and its CEO, Ezra Friedlander, coordinated the event.

“The need to engage elected officials on issues of importance to our community has never been greater. Today’s breakfast was a significant achievement,” said Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel of Agudah.

Agudah’s Executive Vice President, Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel (left) moderated a panel discussion that featured five New York City councilmembers, from left: Robert Cornegy, Jr., Donovan Richards, Ydanis Rodrígez, Mark Levine, Juumane Williams.

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Among elected officials at Agudath’s reakfast, from left: NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer , state Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, NYC Public Advocate Letitia James, and Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez.

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Dems...

Continued from page 24 you never give me any money or any way to do my damn job. I am not going to be your whipping girl’!”

That claim had to hurt more than the others.

Hillary Clinton, indeed the entire Clinton machine, always claimed to be in touch with the needs of minorities. But Brazile is the most senior African-American in the Democratic Party and she is saying that team Hillary had a plantation mentality. razile’s other criticism included that the campaign’s strategists were too obsessed with research and never bothered to go into the field to ask voters what they really wanted. She added that the campaign acted as if Hillary had the election in the bag.

The Post article continued: “As she traveled the country, Brazile wrote, she detected an alarming lack of enthusiasm for Clinton. On black radio stations, few people defended the nominee.

In Hispanic neighborhoods, the only Clinton signs she saw were at the campaign field offices.

“But at headquarters in New York, the mood was one of ‘self-satisfaction and inevitability,’ and Brazile’s early reports of trouble were dismissed with ‘a condescending tone’.”

Keep in mind that one of the reasons Clinton lost was that the black and Hispanic communi-

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ties didn’t come out and vote for her.

Brazile has been a major Democratic Party operative since 1988, serving as field director for the Dukakis campaign, adviser to Bill Clinton’s two presidential campaigns and campaign manager for Al Gore, before becoming part of the party apparatus after the 2000 election.

The revelations in “Hacks” raises the question, why would someone who loyally served the party for three decades suddenly reveal the party’s dirty laundry in public? We are talking about a woman so loyal that she lost her CNN job for passing along possible debate questions to Hillary Clinton so she could be well prepared.

Politics is a cruel business. When it’s time to retire there’s no gold watch, no set of golf clubs and being told to go on your merry way. When someone in politics doesn’t realize it’s time to go, they are told publicly their day has passed.

That’s what is behind “Hacks.”

Just as she did by passing along the debate questions, or as she did in 1988 when she lost her job with the Dukakis campaign after telling reporters that George H. W. Bush needed to “fess up” about unsubstantiated rumors of an extramarital affair, Brazile is again taking personal heat to serve the interests of her party.

One year before the 2020 Democratic party presidential wannabes start emerging from the shadows, Brazile is leading a coup, making sure the Clinton machine is retired, that Hillary never tries a comeback, never again runs for president.

Freeing up the party for new blood.

Departing Councilman David Greenfield.

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Kurds…

Continued from page 24 el’s fifth column, that 250,000 Kurdish Jews will be resettled in an independent Kurdistan, and similar nonsense. Why should a Hashd al Shaabi fighter, taught to distrust all other sources of information, see it any way other than literally?

If the Kurds are Israelis, if the Israelis are Zionists and if it is firmly believed that—as Iran’s “Supreme Leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei put it this week—“The Divine promise guarantees definite victory … against the usurper Zionist regime,” then what will be the fate of the people in this region under the boot of Iran? A rump Kurdish authority surrounded by the intractable Turks, Iraqis and Iranians might turn out to be the best-case scenario.

The worst-case outcome is another round of genocide and ethnic cleansing, this time at the hands of Iran.

For all of President Donald Trump’s bluster about Iran, he chose appeasement when put to the test; thus the Kurds are plunged into crisis once more. Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin’s visit to Tehran suggests that the Russian-Iranian partnership in defending the Assad regime in Syria is now entering its next phase. Can it really be true, as the traditional saying has it, that the Kurds have no friends but the mountains?

Ben Cohen’s column is distributed by JNS.

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CAlendar of Events

Send your events to Calendar@TheJewishStar.com • Deadline noon Friday • Compiled by Zachary Schechter Thursday November 9

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

516-295-0950.

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

9:45 am. 8 Spruce St, Cedarhurst.

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

Kristallnacht Commemorative Event: Join the Red Shul in a night of commemoration for Kristallnacht with guest speaker Dr. Henry Abramson, dean of Touro College in Brooklyn.

7:30 pm. 395 Oakland Ave, Cedarhurst.

Sheefa Shiur: Women from the community are invited to a special shiur by Rabbi Noam Fix titled “Inspiration from the Holy Land.” $10. 8:30 pm.

894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere. 516-6-SHEEFA. Halacha Shiur: [Weekly] Join Rabbi Yoni Levin at Aish Kodesh for a halacha shiur. 9:30 pm.

894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere.

Friday November 10

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

The Jewish Star photos by Ed Weintrob

In Brooklyn, it’s cheesecake and politics on election eve Brooklyn Democratic leader Steve Cohn drew about 200 of the region’s political and civic elite to his annual pre-election breakfast at Junior’s restaurant last Friday.

Crowded into the famed cheesecake empo-

rium in the heart of Brooklyn’s super-hot Downtown, participants mingled and noshed, many enjoying a specially laid-out kosher spread.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo (top) and Mayor Bill deBlasio were among those who spoke.

Brooklyn Eagle Publisher Dozier Hasty (left) with former Borough President Howard Golden.

North Brooklyn Assemblyman Joseph Lentol with Rabbi Hershkovicz.

Steve Cohn is flanked by Major Bill deBlasio and Kings County Democrats chairman Frank Seddio.

Saturday November 11

Community Wide Tanach Shiur: Join the community for the 22nd season of the of the Priority-1 Community-Wide Tanach Shiur hosted at the YI of Lawrence-Cedarhurst, Rabbi Shaya Cohen will be learning Perek 24 & 25 of Tehillim.

7:30 pm. 8 Spruce St, Cedarhurst. 516-295-5700.

Rambam Open House: Rambam Mesivta invites prospective students and their parents to its open house. 8pm. 15 Frost Ln, Lawrence. PreRegister at www.rambam.org.

Sunday November 12

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

8 am. 8 Spruce St, Cedarhurst.

Learning Program: [Weekly] At Aish Kodesh led by Rav Moshe Weinberger following 8:15 Shacharis including 9 am breakfast and shiurim on subjects such as halacha, gemara and divrei chizuk. 894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere.

MTA Open House: MTA invites prospective students and their parents to its open house. 9 am. 2540 Amsterdam Ave, New York. Pre-Register at yuhsb.org/openhouse.

Gemara Shiur: [Weekly] Join Rabbi Moshe Sokoloff at the YI of Woodmere for a gemara shiu.r 9:15 am. 859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere.

516-295-0950.

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

10 am. 635 Central Ave, Cedarhurst.

Sheefa Shiur: Women from the community are invited to a special shiur by Rav Mordechai Burg. $10. 10:15 am. 894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere. 516-6-SHEEFA. Mesivta Sha’arei Pruzdor Open House: Mesivta Sha’arei Pruzdor invites prospective students and their parents to its open house. 1 pm.

121 Irving Place, Woodmere.

NCSY Annual Gala: NCSY invites you to their annual gala featuring a shiur, the Ben Zakkai 23rd annual honors society induction ceremony, a cocktail hour and honorees from the NCSY community. 4 pm. Sponsorships with included tickets beginning at $100. Cradle of Aviation Museum, Charles Lindbergh Blvd, Garden City.

Sheefa Shiur: Married women are invited to a special shiur by Mrs. Dina Shoonmaker. $10. 8:45 pm. 894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere.

516-6-SHEEFA.

Monday November 13

Women’s Shiur: [Weekly] Dr. Anette Labovitz’s women shiur will continue at Aish Kodesh.

10 am. 894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere.

Yeshiva Far Rockaway Open House: YFR invites prospective students and their parents to its open house. 7:30 pm. 802 Hicksville Rd, Far Rockaway. 718-327-7600.

Rambam Mini-Open House: Rambam Mesivta invites prospective students and their parents to a mini-open house. 8 pm. 15 Frost Ln, Lawrence. Pre-Register at www.rambam.org.

Seeing Things Clearly: [Weekly] Join Rabbi Shalom Yona Weis at Aish Kodesh for a shiur for women and high school girls titled “Seeing Things Clearly- Learning to View Our World and Our Lives Through Positive Lenses. 8:45 pm. 894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere.

Tuesday November 14

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

894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere.

Hanc Open House: Hanc Elementary School invites prospective students and their parents to its open house. 8 p. 600 Hempstead Ave, West Hempstead. 516-485-7786.

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

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

Halacha Shiur: [Weekly] Join Rabbi Moshe Sokoloff at the YI of Woodmere for a halacha shiur. 8:40 pm. 859 Peninsula Blvd, Woodmere.

516-295-0950.

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

9:15 pm. 859 Peninsula Blvd.. 516-295-0950.

Wednesday November15

Richner Communications Open House: Richner Communications, publisher of the Jewish Star and other newspapers will be holding an open house for those interesting in pursuing careers in journalism or a related field. Two sessions: 9am-12pm and 4pm-7pm. 2 Endo Blvd, Garden City. 516-569-4000 ext. 239.

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

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

8 pm. 894 Woodmere Pl, Woodmere.

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

Friday-Saturday November 17-18

Ideology of the IDF: YI of Hewlett kicks off its Fall Scholar-in-Residence Lecture Series with IDF speaker Rabbi Shalom Hammer. Rabbi Hammer will be speaking during dinner on Friday evening and after musaf on Shabbos morning. 1 Piermont Ave, Hewlett. To make a reservation for Friday dinner call 295-2282.

Sunday November 19

FAQs In Kashrut: CHAZAQ and Torah Ohr Hebrew Academy present a special lecture on kashrut given by Rabbi Moishe Dovid Lebovits. 8 pm. 575 Middle Neck Rd, Great Neck. 718-285-9132.

Monday November 20

Emunah Annual Tea: Esther Phillips chapter of Emunah annual membership tea at White Shul with guest speaker , Assemblymember Stacy Pheffer Amato 2 pm. Free admission. 728 Empire Blvd, Far Rockaway. 718-868-3853.

By Jeffrey Bessen, Herald Community News Many people have said that there is no instruction book on how to be a good parent, though many have tried to offer much-needed advice through books, articles, lectures, and counseling.

Woodmere-based Madraigos, which offers a variety of services and programs to help teenagers and young adults overcome life’s challenges, is doing its part, hosting a series of effective parenting events.

To initiate a dialogue with mothers and fathers on how to learn skills to be an effective parent, Madraigos drew more than 400 people to the ballroom of Congregation Beth Sholom in Lawrence on Oct. 30.

“Madraigos has been working with children, teenagers and young adults for close to 15 years,” said Eli Perlman, the group’s clinical director who served as the event’s emcee.

“Over this time, we have found that when children are struggling with various issues, the parents are an important key for the growth and well-being of the child.”

The program included presentations from Rabbi Zechariah Wallerstein, founder and director of Brooklyn-based Ohr Naava Women’s Torah Center, and Brad Reedy, Ph.D., an author and co-founder and clinical director of Evoke Therapy Programs that helps teens, young adults and families.

Rabbi Wallerstein noted that when parents are asked what the most important thing is that they could give to their children, most answer: love. He corrected that to time.

“Time is the most precious thing a human being has,” he said.

“Time is potential; time is life.”

Recounting a story about a young girl he was counseling who wanted to commit sui-

From left: Madraigos Clinical Director Eli Perlman, Rena Kutner, Rivki Rosenwald, Assistant Clinical Director Mindi Werblowsky, and Rabbi Zechariah Wallerstein.

cide, Rabbi Wallerstein said to her that she has, as a result of not caring about herself, potential to save a live. She could possibly run into the road and save a young boy who had escaped from his mother’s grasp.

“Until your time is over, you have potential,” he said.

“The hardest thing to give is time.”

Whether it is a newly married couple or parents with a child or children, he said that problems occur when people are not willing to give of their time. He spoke about adults being chained to their cellphones, and how the words associated with cyberspace sound like they are a trap: web, net, cell, enter, and

how there is no exit button, but there is one for escape.

“For kids to change, we have to change,” said Rabbi Wallerstein, adding that positive criticism provides children with a goal they could achieve. “Imagine the perception of a child when they see you on your phone,” he added, meaning there is no time for them.

Reedy also spoke about change and how it should be connected with love. The author of “The Journey of the Heroic Parent: Your Child’s Struggle and The Road Home,” said that the parents he works with have to ask themselves questions before there is a transformation in their parenting.

“Parent education doesn’t change the child, it changes the parent,” said Reedy, who was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis two years ago. “The greatest contact with children is to know them and see them.”

Rena Kutner and Ricki Rosenwald, the women who run Madraigos’s parenting group, were honored for their work.

A fourth parenting group is forming and sessions are scheduled to begin on Nov. 13.

To RSVP, contact Perlman at eperlman@ madraigos.org or 516-371-3250 ext. 111.

To learn more about Madraigos, visit madraigos.org.

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