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Pray for our boys 5 Towns and Rock shuls join organized tehilim recitals to bid for Hashem’s aid By Malka Eisenberg Shuls from the Five Towns and Far Rockaway called on members to pray and adopt additional good deeds in a spiritual effort to help ďŹ nd and free three Israeli boys kidnapped by terrorists last week. Two 16-year-old students of Yeshivat Mekor Chaim in Kfar Etzion joined a 19 year old student of Yeshivat Shavei Hevron at a recognized hitchhiking spot on the road by Elon Shvut in Judea Thursday night at about 10 pm. Bus rides are infrequent in the area and residents and students often get rides from passing cars driven by Jewish residents of the many towns in the Gush area and beyond. On Long Island and in New York, inboxes were ooded with desperate emails calling on recipients to say cer-

tain chapters of tehillim (psalms) and to resolve to study Torah for the captives and undertake to increase the doing of good deeds. Rabbi Moshe Weinberg led Congregation Aish Kodesh in saying two perakei tehillim before Musaf on Shabbat. A prayer rally was held Sunday night at the Chofetz Chaim Torah Center of Rabbi Aryeh Ginzberg in Cedarhurst. The Young Israel of Woodmere held a communal prayer rally Monday night at 10 pm that included many neighborhood shuls and schools. At Kneseth Israel — the White Shul in Far Rockaway — Rabbi Eytan Feiner held a kenes tehilim at mincha on Monday, and then spoke to the men and women gathered there. He Continued on page 11

By Malka Eisenberg He had a secure life — a wonderful wife, two beautiful daughters, a great career, nice house — until the great disrupter hit: a cancer diagnosis. West Hempstead lawyer and now survivor of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) Howard Bressler is determined to use his experiences ďŹ ghting cancer to help others. Since the beginning of his treatment, he has counseled other cancer patients; now he is seeking to increase his ďŹ eld of inuence. He has written a book, intertwining his experiences with advice and guidance on the path from diagnosis to cure and life after. As much as cancer is a life-changing experience, there is life after cancer. The book, “The Layman’s Guide to Surviving Cancer: From Diagnosis Through TreatContinued on page 11

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For Israel, new prez, new tone By Alex Traiman, JNS.org As a well-respected parliamentarian who has served as the government’s Minister of Communications and the speaker of the Knesset, Israeli presidentelect MK Reuven “Rubyâ€? Rivlin has the expected proďŹ le for his position. But when he takes the reins in July, Rivlin’s strong nationalistic ideology and low-key international presence will provide an immediate contrast to outgoing President Shimon Peres. “He won’t have the international stature of Shimon Peres, who was a former prime minister, defense minister, and foreign minister,â€? said pollster Mitchell Barak, director of Keevoon Research and a former spokesperson for Peres in the OfďŹ ce of the President. Barak told JNS.org that there is a “stark contrastâ€?

between Peres and Rivlin. Peres, at age 90, continues to be a vocal supporter of a two-state solution, and was an architect of the now-defunct Oslo peace process—a role for which he was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize along with former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat in the early ’90s. The 74-year-old Rivlin, on the other hand, is an opponent of a two-state solution and a promoter of what he calls “a greater Israelâ€? between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, in which Palestinians would be granted full and equal rights. Rivlin opposed Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from Gaza in 2005. The post of president carries signiďŹ cant weight in Israel, even though most of the president’s functions Continued on page 14

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e came to America, unknown and without a job, fleeing the Nazi tyranny in Europe. He was highly educated, deeply religious and heir to a spiritual legacy that was within his lifetime to redefine religious outKOSHER reach to great heights. BOOKWORM On July 1, we shall commemorate the 20th anniversary of the passing of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of blessed memory, the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe. In observance of this date, we recently witnessed the publication of three biographies of varying quality that sought to Alan Jay Gerber relate to us the greatness of the Rebbe. The first, “My Rebbe,” by the great scholar, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, combines a broad biography melded into an autobiography of a deeply personal tribute and heartfelt observations and opinions regarding the Rebbe’s place in Jewish history. The second, “Rebbe,” by Joseph Telushkin, is styled as a popular biography, written in a brisk manner casting the Rebbe in a rather popular personality mold, and is an easy read. The third, “Turning Judaism Outward,” by Rabbi Chaim Miller, is the most intense in tone and content. Rabbi Miller wrote this after many years of translating and publishing the Rebbe’s commentaries on the Chumash in the famed Gutnick Edition, an experience that shows in the content and flavor of this work.

While all of these works deal with the Rebbe’s long life and career, I am devoting this week’s essay to one little known facet of his life, an episode that occupied all but two of his first years in America. This episode reflects the Rebbe’s eclectic secular educational and religious background that surely serves as an apt educational model for future students to emulate. In a recently published tribute in Jewish Action magazine, Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb said of the Rebbe: “We live in an age of specialization. … It is the rare leader in whom we recognize a wide range of diverse achievements.” Consider carefully the words you have just read, and remember them as you read a chapter in the Rebbe’s life history that was never experienced by any other Chasidic Rebbe. All three biographies noted this within the context of his life’s journey. This essay seeks to single this out for special treatment. The Rebbe’s educational background transcended the spiritual to include secular studies including, in detail, electrical engineering. This discipline was to become most useful when the Rebbe landed upon these blessed shores. Telushkin, in his work, makes note of the following: “1942: The future rebbe starts work at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, utilizing the engineering skills he acquired in France. Although he almost never speaks about details from his personal life, at a 1957 yechidus with Yaakov Hardof, an electrical engineer, the Rebbe starts reminiscing about his earlier work experience: ‘When I came to

this country, I wanted to contribute to the war effort...and I was a supervisor at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.’ “When Hardof asked him what sort of work he supervised, the Rebbe explained that many of the liberty cargo ships constructed by the U.S. Navy were produced at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and all required electricians to wire them for lighting and electrical controls. The Rebbe told Hardof that his job was to take the ship’s blueprints and to make sure that all the wiring was done according to their specifications. The Rebbe clearly took pride in the work he had done: ‘I at least did my share for the war effort of the United States, which

gave me shelter,’ he told Hardof.” This Navy episode is further expanded upon by Miller in his work: “At least until around 1944, he worked as an electrical engineer at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, returning to his office in 770 at 3:30 p.m. To compensate for his absence at the Navy Yard on the Sabbath, Ramash [the Rebbe] was required to attend on Sundays, where he would sit working alone in a vast, rat-infested hall in the Electrical Building. During the week, Ramash worked with 300 other white-shirted electrical engineers, who sat at drafting tables, working on wiring diagrams for the USS Missouri and Idaho.” It was this very same ship, the Missouri, upon which the surrender of Japan took place at war’s end in the Pacific, in Tokyo Bay. Miller continues, citing an interview of Milton Fechter who “remembered how the bearded Ramash was not afraid to stand out. ‘Boy, I’ve got to give this guy credit,’ Fechter recalled thinking to himself. ‘He sat there so serene as if he is sitting among his chevre.’ “Over a half century later, Fechter still remembered that ‘Schneerson’ excelled in mathematics more than most of the other engineers, and had been able to decipher the advanced, three-volume French textbook Cours d’Analyse Mathematique, by Edouard Goursat.” This saga further reinforces our long held high regard for the Rebbe. Most “legends” concerning charismatic leaders usually leave us with impressions that can, at times, cause us to doubt their veracity. However, this unique episode surely serves both for us, and the Rebbe’s legacy, lasting honor and distinction. He was truly the talented and gifted spiritual leader that we needed for his time. Columnist@TheJewishStar.com

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By Leba Sonneberg The author is a resident of North Woodmere. My father was reticent about telling me anything regarding his family that perished in the Holocaust. I knew that my grandparents were born and married in Poland and that they moved to Berlin — where my father and his younger brother were born — because of Poland’s anti-Semitism and pogroms. After much prodding, my father, Isidor Stern (Yisroel Yitchak) z�l, told me that after the war a man contacted him and related to him the yahrtzeits of his parents and brother and the circumstances of their demise. My grandfather, Nachum Stern z�l, who owned the Berlin apartment building in which he lived and had other business concerns as well, did not feel threatened by the rise of Hitler and Nazism, but my father, at age 17, was very concerned. After being slapped across the face by a Nazi in public, my father decided that since he was unable to secure entrance to Palestine, he would immigrate to America where he had aunts, uncles and cousins. His parents did not object but would not allow him to take his younger brother just bar mitzvahed that year, 1937. After Kristallnacht, my grandparents and uncle were expelled from Berlin and sent back to their Polish town of origin. A copy of their expulsion papers were provided to me recently by an archivist at the Holocaust Museum in Washington. My father was resourceful and enterprising, making his way to the United States and becoming a successful businessman manufacturing zippers. In 1943, he rented a room in Boro Park in the house where my maternal grandparents lived and relentlessly courted my mother, Goldie Aronson z�l. They married in March 1944 and my father was drafted into the Army two weeks later. In many of the letters that he wrote to my mother during his stint in the Army, he asked her to contact

various agencies to ascertain information about his parents and brother with whom he had lost contact shortly after Kristallnacht. When my older sister Sharon was born in October 1945, my father still had no word about what happened to his family. By the time I was born in August 1948, he had gotten word. I was named Leba Feige after my grandmother, who was from the town of Wisnitz. My younger brother, born in 1951, was named Nachum Naftali af/HIW *UDQGPRWKHU /HED )HLJH 6WHUQ ZLWK ,VLGRU <LVUDHO ter my grandfather from <LW]FKRN LQ %HUOLQ 5LJKW /HYD ZLWK IDWKHU ,VLGRU Mszana Dolna, 30 miles prior to the war and the step by step detesouth of Cracow. he circumstances of the murder of my rioration of the quality of life of his family grandparents as told to me by my fa- members and of all the Jews from the late ther were that on Aug. 19, 1942, 6 Elul, 1930s until the end of the war. When I read they were marched from the village square in a description of how the Jews living in Polish Mszana Dolna to a nearby wooded area where towns absorbed the Jews who were expelled they were shot and thrown into a mass grave from Germany, speciďŹ cally Berlin, my intertogether with all of the town’s other Jews. est piqued and I felt as though I was reading Only the young men were spared and sent to the story of my grandparents’ journey. The book describes how on Aug. 13, 1942, a labor camp. My uncle Naftali Stern zâ€?l was among the “young men.â€? He reportedly died the Jews of Dukla, a ghetto where the Jews of typhus on Dec. 25, 1942, 17 Tevet, at age of the surrounding towns including Rymanov 18. Although I was curious for more informa- were concentrated, were marched into the tion about my grandparents and uncle, real- woods and shot at the edge of a pit into which izing the great pain that this topic caused my the bodies fell. The author’s parents were father, I did not pursue further discussion. I among them. He was a strong young lad and have only one photograph of my grandpar- was spared to work in a labor camp. After the ents with my uncle and one photograph of my war, the author returned to the town of Dukla grandmother holding my father as an infant. where there stands a matzava (grave marker) on the site of that massacre. As that murderMy father passed away in November 2006. During a visit to the Holocaust Museum ous action chronicled in the book took place a in Lower Manhattan, I purchased “A Voice in mere six days before the Mszana Dolna masthe Chorus,â€? a book by Abraham Zuckerman sacre, it started me thinking about the posthat described a young man’s life in Cracow sibility that there might be a demarcation at

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the site of my grandparents’ murder. I started searching online for additional information about my grandparents and the town Mszana Dolna and learned that the Nazi responsible for Jewish affairs in Mszana Dolna — and who in fact orchestrated the massacre — was Heinrich Hamann, described as particularly cruel and brutal. He escaped to Argentina after the war where he lived in comfort until 1960 when while working as a waiter in a restaurant he shot a customer over a conict regarding the tip. He was then outed as a former Nazi and returned to Germany where he was tried, convicted of many heinous war crimes including but not limited to the murder of the Jews of Mszana Dolna, and sentenced to life in prison. He died in prison. Then upon further research on a Jewish genealogy website, I encountered individuals from around the world who had searched the same town. I emailed all of them and many responded that they, too, had relatives in the mass grave in Mszana Dolna. One correspondent sent me a list of 1,029 names, the census of all the Jews in Mszana Dolna as of June 1942. The names of my grandparents and uncle appear on the list — number 654 Stern, Natan 27-12-1880; number 655 Stern, Leibe Feige 24-11-1883, and number 656 Stern, Naftali 25-10-1924. Next to my uncle’s name there was a check as there were next to all of the young males who were spared on Aug. 19, 1942, the day that the Nazis massacred 881 Jews in Mszana Dolna. I discovered photos of a matzava at the site of the massacre and learned how “The Listâ€? was held by a Polish man from the town who subsequently gave it to a survivor, Jacob Weissberger, when he returned to Mszana Dolna after the war. What I still didn’t know were the particular circumstances regarding the death of my uncle and where he died. Continued next week

Met KOs anti-Israel opera HD insurance. The title’s sanJNS.org itizing of murder is, howNew York’s Metropolitan ever, also consistent with Opera has canceled an HD the opera’s anti-Jewish transmission of the anti-Israel tone. Instead of properly opera “The Death of Klinghofcharacterizing the Palferâ€? following widespread outestinian hijackers of the reach efforts that began with a cruise ship as permanent letter from a media watchdog prisoners of their own organization, but eight live rage originating from performances of the opera will cultural indoctrination, proceed as scheduled this fall. [composer John Adams As reported in The Jewand librettist Alice Goodish Star on June 6, the opera, man] impart idealism to about the 1985 hijacking of them.â€? the Achille Lauro cruise ship Kaplan’s letter sparked and Palestinian terrorists’ murder of one of its Jewish 0HWURSROLWDQ 2SHUD DW /LQFROQ &HQWHU Wikimedia Commons a broader Jewish community campaign against the passengers, has been heavily criticized for its sanitization of Pales- opera. In an open letter to Met Gen- Met’s simulcast and live showings of tinian terrorism and invoking of anti- eral Manager Peter Gelb that was the opera. The Met then announced published by JNS.org, Kaplan wrote Tuesday that it would pull the simulSemitic canards. Klinghoffer’s daughters, Lisa and that the HD transmission would give cast, but not the eight live perforIlsa, have written regarding the op- “wide international distribution to mances from Oct. 20 to Nov. 15, citera for The New York Times, “We are what is, at its heart, an anti-Jewish ing discussions on the issue between Gelb and Anti-Defamation League outraged at the exploitation of our slander.â€? “The choice of the title, ‘The National Director Abraham Foxman. parents and the cold-blooded mur“I’m convinced that the opera der of our father as the centerpiece Death of Klinghoffer’ and not ‘The of a production that appears to us to Murder of Klinghoffer,’ signals the is not anti-Semitic,â€? Gelb said in a work’s moral evasion and misrepre- statement. “But I’ve also become be anti-Semitic.â€? Myron Kaplan, an opera expert sentation,â€? he wrote. “In a sense, it convinced that there is genuine and a senior research analyst for the is consistent with the PLO’s (Pales- concern in the international Jewish Committee for Accuracy in Middle tine Liberation Organization) initial community that the live transmisEast Reporting in America (CAM- comments on the murder, that ei- sion of ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ ERA), was the ďŹ rst commentator to ther Klinghoffer had died of natu- would be inappropriate at this time publicly criticize the Met’s planned ral causes or his wife pushed him of rising anti-Semitism, particularly Nov. 15 simulcast of the anti-Israel overboard to be able to claim life in Europe.â€?

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Israel rearrests 51 freed in Gilad swap JNS.org Fifty-one prisoners released in the 2011 deal that secured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit’s freedom were re-arrested Wednesday among a group of more than 65 Palestinians detained by Israel Defense Forces in their search for three Jewish teens believed to have been abducted by Hamas, the IDF said. Israel freed 1,027 Palestinian prisoners in the exchange for Shalit. Lt. Col. Peter Lerner of the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said that a total of 240 Pales-

tinians have been arrested in Judea and Samaria amid a crackdown on Hamas since the June 12 kidnapping. Israel’s Civil Administration also raided nine Hamas-linked institutions in Hebron, Ramallah, Bethlehem, Tulkarem, and Nablus. “We have been saying this since the start of the operation and we are saying it again today: The two channels—arrests of terror operatives and the gathering of information about the kidnapped Israelis—will converge into one,� Lerner said.

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Absolute power versus positive inuence that the basis of their debate has absolutely no place in the Jewish dialogue. Why was Korach’s challenge to Moshe’s and Aaron’s leadership so great as to warrant such a severe response? Interestingly, in what might have been equally perceived as a challenge to Moshe and Aaron’s leadership, in Be’ha’alotcha, Moshe’s (and G-d’s) reaction seems very different. In response to Moshe’s struggle with the people’s complaining and rebellious nature, G-d tells Moshe to gather seventy elders who will then be given (via Moshe) the gift of prophecy. Lots are drawn and six from each tribe (of the 12 aside from Levi) are chosen, leaving two extra prophets. These two prophets (Eldad and Meidad) do not join the seventy elders convened by Moshe, remaining instead in the camp and prophesying nonetheless. And this seems to have been perceived by Joshua (and possibly Moshe’s son Gershom) as a threat of insurrection against Moshe’s leadership. Yet Moshe does not seem at all perturbed, suggesting it would be wonderful if the entire Jewish people would prophesy. And apparently (given that He has allowed the spirit of prophecy to rest on them) G-d agrees! Why the difference in these two cases? Rav Yonatan Saks, former Chief Rabbi of the U.K., suggests in an article that these two cases exhibit two entirely different issues at hand. The story of Eldad and Meidad is about inuence, whereas the story of Korach is about power. Inuence is our desire to make a difference in the world; when I am interested in inuencing, it’s not about me, it’s about being a vehicle to make the world better for others. Power, on the other hand, is all about me,

that’s why power cannot be shared without being diffused. If one shares power one also loses power. Inuence,Rabbi Sacks suggests, increases when it is shared. If we are really interested in inuencing others, then the more we share the more of an inuence we can have. In the army, of a necessity, there was a power structure, part of whose aim was control and the success of any and every mission. As such, there can be only one commander, and sharing command is never a good idea. A ship can only have one captain. At Yeshivat Orayta, on the other hand, as an example, our interest is all about sharing the way we look at the world and inuencing our students’ ability to make a difference in the world. As such, the more teachers and educators can share in this role, the more everyone gains. More teachers means more, not less inuence. And therein lays the rub. Judaism has never been about power, and while sometimes, especially in the context of a Jewish state, there is a need for power structures (such as Kings, when there can be only one) we have always been about inuence, born of a mission to be a light and to share with the world an ethical model that can make everyone’s world a better place to be. We are not interested in ruling the world and never have been; we just want to be a beacon of light to inuence the entire world to see and build towards a better future. Our enemies however, particularly in the world of fanatical Islamic fundamentalism, are all about power. They want Islam to rule the world (after which they intend to rule all Muslims), and there is no room for anyone else. If you are a Shiite, the Sunni Muslim is your en-

No peace pact is negotiated until one side won and the other side lost.

emy and visa-versa and there is no room for Christians in the Muslim world. The greatest enemy of this power based approach is Judaism, with its belief that a small group can change the world. This is as in Hitler’s Mein Kampf; he could never forgive the Jews for introducing to the world the idea of an objective morality that was antithetical to his “might makes rightâ€? approach to the rise of the Germanic Aryan race. So this week, there is no room for compromise; Korach, who was interested in power, for power’s sake, must be swallowed up in the earth and completely removed from the dialogue, before the world can move on. ur enemies who kidnap our 16-year-old boys, murder our infants with a sniper’s rie and blow up our elderly and children while they sit for ice cream in a pizza store, are not about inuence. They want power, absolute power. No two state solution would ever satisfy them. Hamas will not sit with us because they are ďŹ ghting a war, and there can be no peace until one side wins the war, and the other side surrenders. We may think we have won our wars, but as long as our enemies believe they were only battles, we are not ready for peace. In modern times, no peace agreement has ever been successfully negotiated until one side won and the other side lost the conict. They know we are ďŹ ghting a war; we need to be sure we do what is necessary to win it. And the terrorists who kidnap our children? None of the children, Arab or Jewish or anyone else, will be safe until we ďŹ gure out how to swallow them up in the earth for good, just like Korach. May G-d hear our prayers, and may we soon witness the safe return of these three boys, and may we soon experience a world where nation will no longer lift up sword against nation and there will be no more war. Columnist@TheJewishStar

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his has been a difďŹ cult week. Three of our sons, Yaakov, Gilad and Eyal have been missing since Thursday night and despite the best efforts of the Israeli army, the police, the intelligence community, and rescue units, we seem no nearer to learning their whereabouts. The only thing that seems clear is that they Rabbi Binny were kidnapped by a terFreedman rorist group, and one can only imagine the circumstances that they are, be’ezrat Hashem, alive and being held captive. So many questions are on everyone’s minds: Why do they hate us so? What avenue best to pursue? Is peace even possible with enemies who would kidnap 16 year old boys? This week we read the portion of Korach whose central theme seems to be rebellion, even insurrection. But the theme of conict with Moshe and Aaron’s leadership has been with us for the past few weeks. Beginning with the Jews who complained about missing their meat delicacies in the desert (Be’ha’alotcha), continuing with the spies’ determination not to enter the land in the sin of the spies (Shlach last week) and on to the conicts in this week’s portion Korach, one senses a progression of challenges. And yet, this week, something is different. The response to Korach and his close followers’ insurrection is not exile as in last week’s response to the sin of the spies, nor plague or delayed consequence. This week, Korach and his followers are completely swallowed up by the earth, suggesting

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ozhnitzer Maggid was known to be a pursuer of peace. It happened that a terrible fight broke out amongst the Jews living in a city close to Kozhnitz, which caused some kind of “breakaway” in the community. The Maggid gathered the leaders of the rabble-rousers, the hotheads of one of the Rabbi Avi Billet fighting groups, and told them the following: “There are three cardinal sins in the Torah – such as idolatry, murder. The Torah spells out the devastating punishments for these sins. But there is never a warning in the Torah to separate ourselves from those who commit these terrible sins. “Only one time do we find a warning in the Torah to, ‘Separate from this group of people,’ and that is specifically when it comes to the story of Korach and his congregation. “All they wanted to do, as Onkelos translates, is to make a fight, to stoke the coals of machlokes. “People who want to foment machlokes (fights) in the community – from them we are warned and obligated to separate.” In this past week, since the kidnapping of three teenagers in Israel, we have seen a unity in the Jewish community that has surpassed any reasons we may otherwise have for disagreeing with one another. This is a beautiful thing. What is sad, however, is that it takes PARSHA OF THE WEEK

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such a troubling episode to unify the Jewish people. This has happened before. In more recent history, the captivity of Gilad Shalit, the kidnapping of Nachshon Wachsman, and a hundred years ago, through the blood libel tales surrounding the personalities of Mendel Beilis and Leo Frank. While the Jewish people as a whole may understand God differently and view Torah and/ or observance differently from one another, Jewish Peoplehood is one thing that we cannot afford to break apart on account of fights. The OU’s recent Jewish Action magazine had a number of articles responding to the Pew Research Center’s recent survey of Jewish Americans. One of the themes raised by a number of the contributors is that the Orthodox community – while it has a remarkably high in-marriage and retention rate – hasn’t done enough for Jews of other denominations. The synagogue is too intimidating and not inviting enough to those who are not “in the know.” The “kiruv world” has its merits, as it reaches, in some cases, the unaffiliated and the marginally affiliated. But the rest of us have a lot of work to do to spread positive feelings about our faith and our peoplehood, as well as about Torah and inclusivity. Rabbi Efrem Goldberg quoted Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein who wrote in Tradition of Spring 1982, ”Can anyone responsibly state that it is better for a marginal Jew in Dallas or in Dubuque to lose his religious identity altogether, rather than drive to his temple?” The Kozhnitzer Maggid would explain that

it is better to have peace that is not for-the-sakeof heaven (a cold peace) than a machlokes-lshem-shamayim (a fight for the sake of heaven – i.e. for the honor of G-d). If people would just extend a hand of unity and peace, the Maggid would explain, the hands would join together and reach the Heavenly Throne. Let us fight against the appeal of the Korachs who will fight tooth and nail for every detail of what they stand for in order to disenfranchise Jews who view things differently. By all means we need to know what we stand for and we must have standards and lines we don’t cross. But we must also have lines we do cross and barriers that need not be so high, so that we can engage with our Jewish brothers and sisters in a manner that promotes peace in our ranks, not just in troubling times or in times of challenge, but when things are going well, too. We wish, hope, and most importantly pray for a positive outcome from the evil kidnapping which took place in Israel. May G-d bless the IDF, the incredible families that are experiencing what no family should ever have to endure, and of course the boys themselves – Gilad, Eyal and Naftali, that the IDF should meet with success and the families should be reunited in safety and peace. And may the nation of the Jewish people find the strength to be united as one at all times as we learn the ultimate lesson from Korach. Fighting divides a people, and Peace unites a people. Amen. Columnist@TheJewishStar.com

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Hillary Clinton goes anti-Israel in ‘Hard Choices’ F

ormer Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should be happy the news of the Bergdahl release and the ISIS terrorist march on Baghdad overshadowed her gaffe-filled “Hard Choices” book tour. Beginning with her interview with Diane Sawyer where she spoke about being broke and looked foolish answering questions about Benghazi, to her tense exchange about gay marriage to Jeff Dunetz NPR, the content of Ms. Clinton’s book as well as her interviews were panned by pundits and columnists on the left as well as the right. Some of the big left-leaning names bashing the Clinton effort include MSNBC’s Chuck Todd, John Heilemann of Bloomberg, and David Ignatius of the Washington Post among others. Not mentioned in the criticism are the sections within “Hard Choices” where Clinton makes comments about Israel that may concern people who support the Jewish State.

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For example: On page 302: “When we left the city and visited Jericho, in the West Bank, I got my first glimpse of life under occupation for Palestinians, who were denied the dignity and self-determination that Americans take for granted.” It’s interesting that when Chris Christie called Judea and Samaria “occupied,” supporters of Israel forced him to apologize. It’s OK however, when Hillary Clinton says it. Additionally, nowhere does Ms. Clinton mention the fact that during her husband’s presidency Yasser Arafat turned down a deal that would have given him about 98 percent of what he wanted (at least that’s what Bill Clinton said). On page 308: “There has been nearly a decade of terror, arising from the second intifada, which started in September 2000. About a thousand Israelis were killed and eight thousand wounded in terrorist attacks from September 2000 to February 2005. Three times as many Palestinians were killed and thousands more were injured in the same period.” Like many whose political leanings are anti-Israel, Hillary Clinton draws a false equivalency between the terrorist attacks on Israel and Israel’s attempts to defend herself. To follow her ridiculous logic, the U.S. should be chastised because more al Qaeda terrorists died in the War on Terror, than Americans were killed on

9/11/01. The second intifada was a horrible period of Palestinian terrorism against Israeli civilians, bus loads of children blown up, pizza places bombed, even a hotel where families were celebrating the Passover Seder in peace. There is no equivalence between the attacks and Israel’s attempts at self-defense. On page 312: “Because of higher birth rates among Palestinians and lower birth rates among Israelis, we were approaching the day when Palestinians would make up a majority of the combined population of Israel and the Palestinian territories, and most of those Palestinians would be relegated to second-class citizenship and unable to vote.” This comment is similar to what John Kerry said two months ago, that Israel was moving toward becoming an apartheid state. Israel’s deputy defense minister Danny Danon answered Kerry’s remark in a statement, which applies equally to what Hillary, says in her book: “To suggest that the Jewish people would ever establish an apartheid regime was particularly hurtful. Equally hurtful was the implied double standard. Although the administration has from time to time chided the Palestinians for ‘unhelpful’ steps, those comments have not come close to the pointed criticism that has

been leveled at our government. This policy of sharing the blame for the collapse of the peace talks, which from the outset was deemed by most independent experts as a long-shot attempt at best, has created the illusion of parity between the two sides. The secretary’s comments make it seem that Israel’s decisions to issue housing tenders, or to exhaustively debate whether to release convicted murders who would have very likely received the death penalty in U.S. courts, were just as damaging to the peace process as the ‘unity’ pact that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has now signed with Hamas, a virulently antiSemitic terrorist organization.” What Kerry and Clinton ignores, Danon explains, is beyond the fact that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East, it is the only pluralistic society in the region: “All citizens of Israel, including the more than 20 percent of the population who are nonJews, enjoy the same democratic freedoms as well as full human and civil rights. Minorities in Israel participate in our vigorous democracy, are elected to parliament, have served as ministers and preside at all levels of our judicial system, including the Supreme Court. Even the Palestinians of Judea and Samaria enjoy full autonomy via the Palestinian Authority.” Continued on page 14

Why Kurds are a beacon of hope in the Middle East D

uring the war in Iraq, when I was still living in London and coordinating news coverage of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein for various international media organizations, I was in regular contact with a brave Iraqi Kurdish journalist named Ayub Nuri. When Ayub and I finally met in person, several years later in New York, we spent a couple of hours Ben Cohen, JNS talking about the region generally, and specifically about whether Israel had a natural ally in the Kurds. So it was with some pleasure, in the midst of a horrible news week for the Middle East, that I came across an interview with Ayub in which he said the following: “Kurds are deeply sympathetic to Israel and an independent Kurdistan will be beneficial to Israel. It will create a balance of power. Right now, Israel is one country against many. But with an independent Kurdish state, first of all Israel will have a genuine friend in the region for the first time, and second, Kurdistan will be like a buffer zone

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in the face of Turkey, Iran and Iraq.” Think about the meaning of those words, “a genuine friend.” In this context, it means a country in the region that not only respects Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, but also actively seeks to strengthen their mutual bonds. A country whose population is overwhelmingly Muslim but secular in political orientation, and one where the anti-Semitism that dominates elsewhere in the Islamic world is strikingly absent. Kurdistan actually is what many Jews mistakenly supposed Turkey to be: a Muslim-majority state with no ideological or theological objections to the idea of Jewish national self-determination. Unlike the Palestinians, whose objections to Israel’s very existence have stymied repeated attempts to create a Palestinian state, the 30 million Kurds have never enjoyed similar international backing in their quest for independence. Instead, they have been repressed and even exterminated by the regimes in the countries in which they are concentrated: Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. But thanks to the U.S.-led victory over Saddam—a Hitler-like figure for the Kurds, who remember his genocidal war against them in the mid-1980s, including the 1988 murder of around 5,000 mostly women and children during a chemical weapons attack on the town of Halabja—the Kurds were able to consolidate a Kurdistan Regional Government

(KRG) in the north of the country. Over the last decade, talk of Kurdistan splitting from Iraq has continually surfaced. Many Jews, moved by the shared experience of our two peoples’ genocide, and sympathetic to the fact that the Kurds, like us, have been the victims of Arab chauvinism in both its nationalist and Islamist forms, have rightly supported such a move on moral grounds. Yet we shouldn’t forget that this is one situation in which, happily, moral considerations fit neatly with strategic ones. As of this moment, the Kurds have little reason to hold back from declaring independence, as they have done in the recent past. For as long as the U.S. was seriously engaged in Iraq, and helping to guarantee de facto Kurdish control of the oil-rich north, the KRG was wise not to upset the delicate balance by making a move that would have caused a major headache for American relations with Turkey and other neighbors. Now, almost three years after President Barack Obama withdrew American troops from Iraq, the Kurds are rightly skeptical that Washington will assist them in confronting the predators around their territories. More and more, the Middle East looks like a failed region, rather than a collection of failed states. The disintegration of Syria has caused the disintegration of Iraq and could eventually consume Lebanon as well. The obvious win-

ners are jihadi groups like ISIS—the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, one of the most brutal Islamist terrorist organizations we have encountered to date—and the Iranian regime, which has exploited the general meltdown to boost the Assad regime in Damascus and the Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon and Syria (and whose murky relations with the jihadis are closer than many people understand). Meanwhile, the Americans are stoking the sense that nothing short of a repeat of 9/11—in other words, another terror spectacular on American soil—will reverse their determination to wash their hands of this wretched region. All those Obama Democrats who complain so loudly about anti-Muslim prejudice in the West apparently have little to say when it comes to the Islamist violence that has created 800,000 Muslim refugees in Iraq this year alone, as well as snuffing out the lives of thousands of other innocent Muslims. Unless the blame for atrocities can be pinned upon the U.S. or Israel, they are simply not interested. Iraq is heading for an appalling civil war, and a large part of the blame for that lies with the Obama administration, which was so determined not to hand George W. Bush any kind of triumph that it abandoned the major battlefield and political gains, paid for with the lives of American troops, achieved during the Continued on page 14

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condemned the kidnappings and call for the boys to be released safe and sound to their families. It is time to protect the Jews and stop defending those who want Jews dead. Arab terrorist prisoners can get college degrees in Israeli jail, get salaries from the PA, and can use their cell phones to organize attacks. Arabs attack Jews on Har HaZeitim, at the Kotel and on Har Habayit and the PA continues their incitement in the media, in the schools. An Arab Knesset member praised the kidnapping, and in Gaza they celebrated the kidnappings. We must continue our unity, keep davening, keep doing mitzvot, and continue to connect with our fellow Jews. We are one people and we must pray for these boys’ safe return. We must continue to hope and pray for Gilad Shaar, Naftali Frenkel and Eyal Yifrach: Gilad Michoel ben Bat Galim, Yaakov Naftali ben Rachel Devorah and Eyal ben Iris Teshura. NCSY, the OU, Bnei Akiva and the RCA have joined to form a Virtual Vigil for 24 hour continuous learning, prayer and mitzvot for teens and adults worldwide. Sign up at: ncsy.org/bring-back-boys Below are links to three you tube videos. One is a video of the members of Knesset, religious and not yet religious, praying together for the boys. Another is a video of the three sets of parents who met and spoke with the media. And a third video is a prayer rally at the Kotel. http://bit.ly/UMVx5H http://bit.ly/1lEr92D http://bit.ly/UMWLOw Bring our boys home.

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CONGRATULATION GRADUATES! • THE JEWISH STAR SALUTES OUR HIGH SCHOOL ALLSTARS

Shalhevet’s Val and Sal Valedictorian Yocheved Gourarie of Brooklyn will be taking a gap year next year before continuing on to Macaulay Honors at Brooklyn College. She has received the AP scholar with honors award as well as being on Dean’s list every semester; received an award from New York State for her grades; was on the math team and contributed to the newspaper all four years; was a member of the choir &KD\D :HUWPDQ 9DOHGLFWRULDQ

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club and was choir head this year as well as being editor of the school newsletter. Salutatorian Malka Marmer of Brooklyn is going to MMY next year and then to Stern College. She was on the Dean’s list for the past four years; was senior class president, choir head (along with Yocheved), and yearbook bio editor; was on the college bowl team, math team, Committee for Israel Action club, NCSY JUMP team, and was G.O. Treasurer in 11th grade. Malka is also a competitive ďŹ gure skater and has won numerous ďŹ gure skating metals and trophies. She was awarded a city citation for raising money for Rachel’s Children Reclamation Foundation and an Actualist award from the Rachel’s Children Reclamation Foundation.

North Shore North Shore Hebrew Academy Valedictorian Emma Oberstein of Great Neck will major in Chemistry at Dartmouth University. Her activities at NSHA included: National Honor Society President; Debate Team Captain; Traveling Math Team Captain; Simons Summer Research Fellow; Yearbook Sports and Clubs Editor; Model United Nations Team Captain; HOBY World Leadership Congress Ambassador; National Merit Commended Scholar; AP Scholar; National English, Social Studies, and Spanish Honor Societies, and NYS Science and Math Honor Societies.

Valedictorian Chaya Wertman spent the summer after 11th grade as an intern in the Einstein School of Medicine researching autism and longevity. After 10th grade, she took a course at Stony Brook on manipulating DNA. She was assistant to Director of SKA’s annual Production; Captain of the Science Olympiad Team; Editor in Chief of the Literary Journal; SKA Biotechnology Team Project Group Coordinator; a winner of Tanach and Midot awards; is a school leader who impresses with modesty and poise; a member of Torah Bowl, Math Team and Debate Team; an SKA Admissions Ambassador to incoming Freshmen; participates in E2K Math and Science enrichment, is on the Modesty Awareness Committee and a contributor to SKAppenings, SKA’s online publication; has coordinated a rotating group of students to visit weekly with developmentally disabled residents of two local group homes; is an Ohel mentor to a young girl; a weekly shadow for a youngster at Kulanu; a certiďŹ ed lifeguard; has worked on the waterfront at Camp Kaylie. Chaya will be attending Michlala in Jerusalem, Israel next year and then the S. Daniel Abraham Honors program at Stern College and is interested in pursuing a career in medicine, particularly genetics.

Valedictorian Rebecca Kellner was Editor in Chief of the SKA Newspaper, The Looking Glass, which won a Columbia Scholastic Press Association Silver Medal; spent three weeks at University of Pennsylvania’s Summer Academy in Applied Science and Technology and participated in Barnard College’s pre-college summer program studying architecture; founded a monthly online Art Journal, The SKA Sketchbook; collaborating with members of the SKA Art Academy; initiated a schoolwide Women in Technology Club; was a Head of the First Place National NCSY Jewish Leadership Mentoring Program (JUMP) Team; was chosen to participate in The Jewish Week’s Israel Advocacy Write On for Israel program and has been an active member of NORPAC; participated in an NCSY outreach trip to engage unafďŹ liated young Jewish women in Berlin; is a member of the Science Olympiad Team, SKA Art Academy and Math team, Model Congress, Debate Team and SKA annual Production; has volunteered with Kulanu and traveled to Israel with Yad b’Yad, assisting group members with developmental disabilities. She will be attending Midreshet Mevaseret Yerushalyim in Jerusalem next year and then pursuing a career in engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.

Salutatorian Raizy Joseph was Production Manager, Editor of the weekly Parsha Press and one of the heads of the First Place National JUMP Team; she helped plan, organize and implement a schoolwide day of learning in memory of the victims of Sandy Hook and then a day of fun for boys from the local Ohel/Bais Ezra group home; was very involved in both MACS and BLACout to help develop the spiritual growth of her peers through the promotion of modesty and the Jewish laws of reciting blessings, respectively; was a Kulanu volunteer for children with special needs and a participant on Yad b’Yad, traveling throughout Israel with adults who have developmental disabilities. She will be attending Shaalavim in Jerusalem next year and then the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program at Stern College. Keter Shem Tov Awardee Aviva Sadigh, SKA’s peer-voted Keter Shem Tov Awardee, is a two time winner of the Middot Award for her outstanding character; was an SKA Production Choir Head; contributor to the Yom Tov Press; tutor to young students and a member of MACS, which promotes modesty awareness. Aviva will be attending Shaalavim in Jersusalem next year and then Queens College.

HALB’S DRS Valedictorian Yitzie Scheinman is respected by his peers and the DRS staff for his hard work, intelligence and dedication. He is a National Merit Scholarship Finalist and the winner of a silver medal in the Science Olympiad. As a member of the National Honor Society Achdut Chapter, and an honoree at DRS’s Nedivei Lev Service Society Induction Ceremony, Yitzie epitomizes the balance of strong academics, ethical behavior and leadership that the honor society represents. Yitzie serves as Captain of the Debate, Varsity College Bowl, Science Olympiad, and Varsity Softball Team; is a member of the Mock Trial and Tennis Teams and Editor-inChief of the school’s weekly Torah publication; has led the announcer team on DRS’s live broadcast of various sports games. Yitzie is rarely just a participant, he usually rises to become a leader. Yitzie will be attending Yeshivat Shaalvim next year, followed by the Yeshiva University Honors Program. Salutatorian Moshe Lonner is wellknown for his exceptional character. He uses his own work ethic and success to help others who struggle academically. By handing out his class notes he encourages and motivates other students to do better. Moshe is captain of the Torah Bowl and Science Olympiad Teams; in charge of DRS’ Kulanu Mishmar program at DRS; is often asked to speak at DRS events and gatherings; is member of the National Honor Society Achdut Chapter, and an honoree at DRS’s Nedivei Lev Service Society Induction Ceremony. As a ďŹ nalist in

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derstood. He tutors younger students in Gemarah while serving as a true role model for them in his zeal and excitement for learning. Moshe participated in the Jerusalem Science Contest in Nuclear Science; ďŹ nished fourth in Yeshiva University’s National Bekiut program; wrote weekly articles for the DRS Torah publication. Moshe’s academic record is outstanding and his commitment to his family and community is steadfast. He responds to challenges with a sense of purpose and he tackles obstacles with a strategic plan and much forethought. Above all, Moshe has been a pillar in the DRS Beit Medrash for his four years at Yeshiva, attending and leading night seder every night of the week. Moshe will be attending Yeshivat Kerem B’yavneh next year, and then Yeshiva University in the Honors Program.

Rambam Mesivta HS Rambam Mesivta in Lawrence announces the following honors: Valedictorian (left): Tzadok Zachariah Hartman of Lawrence plans to study Actuarial Science at Baruch Macaulay. He won Horatio Algers Scholarship, Top Regents Scholarship and is a National Merit Finalist, an AP Scholar. He did research at Stony Brook Garcia Research Center and is the captain of both the Chess and Math teams. Salutatorian (center) Jacob Eiferman of W. Hempstead plans on going

to Migdal Hatorah in Israel for a year and then going to Queens College. He was at the Garcia Research Center at Stony Brook University for a summer. Salutatorian (right) Hillel Lerner of W. Hempstead plans on studying at Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel for a year then pre-med at Queens College. He was at the Garcia Research Center at Stony Brook University for a summer, was awarded a Regents Scholarship and founded the Rambam Mesivta Human Rights Committee.

HANC’s top 4 The Hebrew Academy of Nassau County is proud to announce the selection of the 2014 Valedictorian and Salutatorians. To best represent everything that HANC has to offer academically and religiously, we award one student with the Valedictorian title and three students with the Salutatorian title. The Salutatorians represent the most accomplished students in secular studies as well as Judaic Studies (represented by one male and one female). The HANC community is incredibly proud of these talented students and will be honored to call them alumni. Valedictorian Sarah Taber stands out from the crowd as bright, diligent, and incredibly hardworking. She is well-respected by her peers and the faculty alike, and she has been an amazing part of the HANC community. Academically, Sarah is nothing short of a superstar. Sarah is an AP Scholar, a member and Co-President of National Honor Society, and a four year Honor Roll student. Every teacher at HANC sings Sarah’s praises, and many have said that she is one of the most hard-working young women that they have ever encountered. Outside of the classroom, Sarah is just as committed. She shows her athletic prowess as captain of our volleyball team. She pursues her academic interests through her involvement in College Bowl and Garcia independent science research. Most importantly, many of Sarah’s activities show that she has a kind and charitable soul. Sarah spent the summer of 2013 volunteering at Mercy Medical Center, giving over one hundred hours of service to start pursuing her passion for medicine. She is the chairperson of the Peer Tutoring society, generously offering her time to help peers who are struggling academically. She visits the elderly in nursing homes with HANC’s Jewish Elderly organization. She participates in our high school’s policy club and Israel Action committee to promote awareness about issues facing our world today. Finally, she volunteers every week with Friendship Club, an organi-

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zation where young people spend time with individuals with special needs. She is a young woman who seeks out activities and pursuits that give her purpose. Next year, Sarah will attend Sha’alvim for Women, and upon her return, will attend St. John’s University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences to pursue an accelerated degree in the Physician’s Assistant program. Salutatorian Ariel Golshan is incredibly bright, highly analytical, and mature well beyond his years. He is the perfect balance of serious student and relatable, kind young man, which has made him a wonderful addition to HANC. Academically, Ariel shows a true and deep commitment. He is an AP Scholar with Honor and a member of National Honor Society, in addition to being a four year Honor Roll student. More important than any grade or title, Ariel is a true academic. He is hungry for knowledge and is constantly looking to understand what he learns in a deeper and more meaningful way. Ariel also tries to get involved in strong academic pursuits outside the classroom. He is a Co-Captain of the Mathletes, a member of the College Bowl Team, and an active member of HANC’s Peer Tutoring So-

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ciety. He is also a recipient of the prestigious Rensselaer Medal Award. Next year, Ariel will be attending The Cooper Union, where he will pursue a degree in Chemical Engineering. Salutatorian Inbar Boker is a bright and insightful young woman, and is probably one of the most voracious readers to have walked the halls of HANC High School. By her estimates, it is not uncommon for her to read three books in any given week. This insatiable thirst for knowledge does not stop within the pages of a book. Academically, Inbar is not afraid of a challenge or working hard. If anything, she prefers it that way. Because of her exceptional work ethic, Inbar was inducted into the National Honor Society in tenth grade and remains a member in good standing. Additionally, she has been named to the Honor Roll every year in both general and Judaic studies. How she has maintained such standards while reading those three books a week, one can only guess. Inbar’s extracurricular activities are just as varied as her book choices. She is the Captain of the Torah Bowl Team, a member of the College Bowl Team, a Peer Tutor, an actress in the Drama Society, a contributing writer for the HANC Jewish Newsletter, and a

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volunteer with the Jewish Poor. Next year, Inbar will be attending the Stern College Honors Program. Salutatorian Jared Djourabchi is a smart young man with a strong commitment to both his Judaic and secular studies. He is a member of the National Honor Society and an Honor Roll student, proving his all-around ability, but Jared has a special passion for Judaic studies. Even outside the classroom, Jared can be spotted reading his siddur and immersing himself in Jewish learning. For these reasons, he was given HANC’s Rav Avraham Yitchak Kook Passion for Education Award. Though Jared is strong in his faith and his studies, he is also a fun-loving and playful young man who can always bring a smile to one’s face. Jared’s list of extracurricular activities shows that he is a young man with many talents. He is the Chairperson of HANC’s Jewish Elderly organization, a member of the College Bowl Team, a singer in the boys’ Chorus, a member of the Volleyball Team, and a contributing writer for the HANC Jewish Newsletter. Next year, Jared will attend Yeshivat Torat Shraga, and upon his return, will attend Queens College to pursue a degree in Creative Writing.

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Valedictorian Miriam Shana Friedman of Cedarhurst plans to study Chemical Engineering at Princeton University. Miriam was Captain of Debate Team; Captain of Science Institute; Captain of Traveling Math Team; Editor of The Tattler (school newspaper); Community Service: Friendship Circle, tutoring; submitted projects to Intel, Siemens and LISEF. Awards: National Honor Society, President; Principals’ Honor Roll; Spanish National Honor Society; Hebrew National Honor Society; chosen to speak before the Knesset in Israel; Community Service Honor Society; George Eastman Young Leaders Award; Long Island Science Congress - highest research award for research; high school

science fair -high honors. Saluatorian Samantha Lish of Woodmere plans to major in Neurobiology at Barnard College Samantha was Captain of Mock Trial, President of Science and Engineering Institute, President of Art Institute, Debate Team, Drama Society, Tennis Team. Awards: National Honor Society; Principals’ Honor Roll; Community Service Honor Society; National Art Honor Society; Spanish National Honor Society; Hebrew National Honor Society; Long Island Science Congress Commendation; Citation from Nassau County Legislator for Medical Clowning Troupe; N.Y.S. Art Teachers Association Legislative student art exhibition.

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Queens’ Meng a fresh pro-Jewish Congress voice By Dmitriy Shapiro, JNS.org Washington Jewish Week She may not be flashy, a firebrand speechmaker, or even very well known outside of her Queens congressional district, but despite her brief legislative career, freshman Rep. Grace Meng has become one of Congress’s most steadfast supporters of Israel and Jewish issues. Along the way she has endeared herself to colleagues and supporters on both sides of the aisle and the Jewish community in her district. Meng, 38, represents New York’s 6th District, covering the largely immigrant communities of Central Queens, Forest Hills and Flushing. According to data from the Berman Jewish Databank, the district ranks ninth in the country in both population and percentage of Jewish residents. The largest population in her district is Asian-American and Meng sees herself as a bridge between the very different cultures she represents. “I think that among Grace Meng’s greatest distinctions is her honesty. She is very direct and very, very sincere,” says Michael Miller, executive vice president and chief executive officer of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, who has known Meng since her time in the New York State Assembly. Much of the legislation she sponsors or supports appears to reflect Jewish interests. On May 28, Meng spoke on the floor of the House of Representatives in favor of the Protect Cemeteries Act, which will amend the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to include vandalizing and desecrating cemeteries in countries around the world as a consideration used by the United States in determining whether a nation is violating rights to freedom of religion. Meng was the bill’s sponsor. She said that the act will serve as a tool for the U.S. to oppose violations of religious freedom that occur in countries in which the Jewish population was wiped out during the 20th

and passed legislation to make houses of worship eligible for federal disaster relief funding after Hurricane Sandy. All are actions that would be applauded by many in the Jewish community. In a phone conversation with JNS.org, Meng said that she feels a connection to the Jewish community, having grown up in multicultural Queens. “Obviously, I’m not [Jewish] but I represent a district that has a large Jewish constituency,” she said. “I think honestly, 5HS 0HQJ DGGUHVV D UDOO\ 7KRPDV $OWIDWKHU *RRG YLD :LNL&RPPRQV growing up as a kid in New York, issues that are century, leaving their ancestral remains which important to members of serve as targets for anti-Semitic vandals, or in the Jewish community—especially now that municipalities looking to develop on sanctified I’m in Congress—I think they’re very important ground. Among the key supporters of the bill to Americans.” was the Orthodox organization Agudath Israel She was born in Queens to Taiwanese imof America. migrants, whom she says instilled in her at During her House speech, Meng thanked an early age] the value of community service a New York Institute of Technology physics and faith. Though Meng is a Democrat with a professor as an inspiration for the legislation. liberal voting record, she feels that she has no Bernard Fryshman has been working to protect trouble being accepted by the large haredi popand preserve Jewish cemeteries for 30 years ulation in her district, recently being a guest at and was delighted the bill passed. Agudath Israel of America’s annual gala. Since she came to Congress in 2013, Meng “I grew up in a religious household, my famhas worked on issues related to the State De- ily is Christian,” said Meng. “My grandma... has partment’s denial of tourist visas to young Is- always tried to instill religious values in our upraelis. She voted for and sent a letter to Senate bringing. My job is to listen and see how I can Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Mi- best address the needs of constituents living in nority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to take my district.” up legislation to tighten sanctions on Iran’s enMeng attended the prestigious Stuyvesant ergy and financial sectors. She led an effort to High School and completed her undergraduate lobby the European Union to designate Hezbol- work at the University of Michigan. Wanting to lah as a terrorist organization. She sponsored move closer to her home for a law degree, she

attended the Cardozo Law School, part of the Jewish-run Yeshiva University. She was elected to the New York State Assembly in 2009. The next year she visited Israel the first time. That experience, along with a return visit last year as part of a congressional delegation, solidified her views on Israel, she said. Stand against ignorance Meng won her congressional seat in 2012 after beating Republican Daniel Halloran 68 to 31 percent. But in her heavily Democratic district, the primaries were the real battle. Meng beat three other candidates by a 53 percent majority. Inaugurated in January, she is the first Asian American to be elected to Congress to represent New York City. Upon taking office, Meng successfully sought a seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Middle East and North Africa subcommittee, where she works on many Israel-related issues. Meng views Iran’s potential to develop a nuclear bomb as a critical issue for the security of Israel and the U.S. and has pushed for sanctions against Iran. Michael Schmidt, New York regional director for the American Jewish Committee (AJC), who has worked with Meng on Iran and other issues, called her a “strong ally.” “I think this is not exclusively a Jewish issues,” he said. “Obviously the fact that the Iranians have threatened to completely destroy and decimate Israel means that Israel has a special place in terms of concerns. But this is an issue beyond just Israel. It’s about Western values and democracy and how we operate— and I think she recognizes that.” Meng has also taken a taken a tough stance against the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement popping up at college campuses throughout the U.S. Meng is up for reelection this fall.

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Cancer’s minefield… Continued from page 1 ment and Beyond” (Langdon Street Press), has been lauded by doctors and patients, one oncologist calling it a “bible” for cancer patients. It deals primarily with the cancer fighting and healing process, how to talk to friends and family, how to choose doctors, how to navigate hospital stays and treatments, nutrition, maintaining a sense of humor, and the inevitability of change after becoming a survivor. The book also deals with the possibility of death and how to prepare for that as well. Bressler told The Jewish Star that, since his diagnosis in August 2000, he had the idea for the book in his head but “got busy with life” after completing his treatment. “To encourage and inspire other patients,” he penned the book as a “simple, easy to understand roadmap to get you from point A to point Z, a vehicle to get a patient to survivorship,” he said. He began writing the book two years ago and presented it to oncologists for review of terminology and descriptions. He said that revisiting and reliving his cancer is “never difficult for me,” noting that for patients it is either “cathartic or they don’t want to talk about it.” “For me, the process of speaking about it and helping other patients is a catharsis and continues to be a healing process, emotionally and spiritually for me,” he said. “When you are a religious person, you feel that things happen to you for a reason. I went through leukemia and [was] changed by it and I can now help others.” Bressler was born in Brooklyn, lived in Queens and raised in Massapequa. His family grew in observance, ultimately starting the Young Israel of Massapequa in their home. He went to Solomon Schechter and HANC, studied for a year in BMT in Israel, then went to Yeshiva University and Cardoza Law School. He met his wife Ceci at Stern and they have been married since 1991. Their two daughters, graduates of HANC, now attend Central, Yeshiva University’s HS for Girls. The Bresslers have been in West Hempstead for 19 years and daven at Congregation Anshei Shalom.

In August of 2000, Bressler hadn’t been feeling well and a blood test confirmed low white cell counts and other tests reconfirmed that as well as low platelet counts. A bone marrow biopsy pinpointed a diagnosis of APL. Being that this left him with no clotting ability and no protection against infection, he was in immediate danger and began treatment. He spent a month in the hospital and followed with 10 months of treatment. Thirteen years later, Bressler is, thank G-d, fine and now only needs his annual physical to check his health. “With leukemia, unless a person is symptomatic, there is no point in getting checked by an oncologist; either you have it or you don’t,” he explained. The experience of going through cancer was, in a sense, “freeing for me,” he said. “Part of the death-defying experience is that I fear other things less; when you don’t fear failure in work or sports, it makes you better at them. You learn what you need to be afraid of and what don’t need to be afraid of.” “I don’t take things for granted,” he added. “I continue to enjoy regular things more than I used to — taking a walk, seeing the kids pass milestones.” Bressler said he has a heightened awareness of the difficulties of others and seeks to help them get through them. “I feel very strongly that it’s almost an insult, when you are given a second chance, not to do something with your life with the bonus time, to show gratitude and appreciation, especially when a lot of people we meet don’t get a second chance. We owe it to family members and ourselves to extend ourselves beyond ourselves.” It becomes clear what is most important — that health, safety and the happiness of family and friends are primary, and that house, car and trips and everything else are secondary. “My job is still important to me, but it’s placed in the right order. To see what is truly important in life is a great gift for me.” The book is available through Bressler’s blog, WeCanSurviveCancer.com, and booksellers..

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chinum (purposeless hatred) destroyed Bayit Shaini (the second Temple)” Unity must “occupy center stage,” along with mercy and good deeds, rachmanus and gemilas chasadim, he said. “We have to genuinely care for them, davening, crying, losing sleep over them. We have to nurture this unity without any calculations, get rid of the senseless hatred.” Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, founder of Yeshivat Mekor Chaim, called the kidnapping “shocking, painful and frightening” and noted his gratitude for the IDF and calling on Jews to “add more holiness and learn more Torah. If we can, each of us should take upon ourselves something additional, no matter how small, especially and explicitly devoted for the sake and well-being of the missing boys.” He also called for reciting Psalms 142 and 143. When saying psalms and studying Torah keep in mind: Naftali Frankel (Yaakov Naftali ben Rachel Devorah), Gilad Shaar (Gilad Michael ben Bat Galim) and Eyal Yifrach (Eyal ben Iris Teshura). Naftali Frankel, 16, has dual U.S. and Israeli citizenship. His mother, Rachel Frankel, who lives in Nof Ayalon near Modiin, spoke to her son through the media on Sunday, telling Naftali that “Mom and Dad love you to no end, and Israel will bring you back.” She thanked everyone for their prayers and the Israeli forces, officials and media for their efforts to find the boys. The other parents spoke to their sons through the media with similar messages.

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Continued from page 1 spoke of Moshe Rabbeinu who the Torah first describes as a boy and then as Moshe, that the change in what “defines him” was when “his emotions fused with his brothers” and he saved the Jew being beaten by the Egyptian. “Had he not sacrificed and saved that one Jew he never would have been Moshe Rabbeinu,” cried out Rabbi Feiner. “When one Jew needs your help you stop what you’re doing and help. If a non-Jew is attacking one of your brethren, take out a siddur, a tehilim and give your all, your mesirus nefesh (self-sacrifice) as if this is your only son! If one, then al achas kama vkama (even more so) three! Show Hashem we are one. Take a picture of these boys, stare at their faces, the tza’ar (suffering) they and their families are going through. Rabbi Feiner quoted Naftali’s mother, “We know the Jews are tearing the Heavens with their prayers.” “Hashem wants us to change, this tragedy to three bachurai yeshiva (yeshiva students) is a wakeup call,” he continued. “They are your children, your brothers. Don’t waste time, Hakadosh Baruch Hu (G-d), bring them home safe and sound. Pour our hearts out to Avinu Bashamiyim (our Father in Heaven). Please bring them home tonight!” Rabbi Feiner later told The Jewish Star, “We do not have neviim (prophets) in our time, we don’t know why this is happening. We are seeing that it’s bringing us together, we care for every Jew regardless of background and how they dress. Achdus (unity). Sinas

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Store wars: Here’s the hot scoop! I

don’t often ask my husband Jerry to shop for me. When I go shopping, I buy items that we actually need. Jerry, on the other hand, buys whatever is on sale, whether we need it or not. At, ďŹ rst, since he just WHO’S IN THE moved from Teaneck to KITCHEN Woodmere, I ďŹ gured maybe they didn’t have sales as often in New Jersey, so he was used to stocking up. When he would come home with eight jars of pasta sauce, ďŹ ve containers of orange juice and six boxes of cereal, I would explain that within a week it would be on sale again in one of the Judy Joszef three big supermarkets in the Five Towns. Either i didn’t make myself clear or he just loved shopping and storing up for a famine. Then each time we would visit his mom, aâ€?h, I noticed her pantry was packed with enough food for a family of 10, although she lived alone. She explained that when coffee was on sale, she would buy as many jars as she could carry. (I inherited the Nescafe Classic, all 15 jars; if I appear a little hyper at times, you’ll know why.) The same for cereal, orange juice, etc. When I came across an item I knew she didn’t eat, she would say, “It was such a great price, how could I leave it there?â€? Inevitably, that particular item would

end up in our car when we left. The apple didn’t fall far from the tree, and talking about apples there were never less than 20 pounds of apples in her refrigerator. And tomatoes — don’t get me started on tomatoes. Normally, it’s the women who like to browse and shop, and the men who are on a mission. They walk into a store, ďŹ nd their targeted item and they’re out. I once read somewhere, that when it comes to shopping, women are from Nordstrom’s and men are from Sears, but Jerry doesn’t ďŹ t the mold. His inner primordial instincts are activated whenever he enters a store or online shopping site. He transforms into a Neanderthal man, hunting for game on the Serengeti. Anything edible or wearable at a good price catches his eye. Needless to say, it isn’t often that I ask him to pick anything up for me. Last time was the 6th day of Pesach. I was sure I had enough matzoh for the last two days, but just in case I asked him to pick up an extra pound for me. He came back with ďŹ ve pounds. But of course he did — it was on sale. Why? Because no one wanted it, except for Jerry. If anyone even hints that they like something, it’s a sure bet Jerry brings home a year’s supply. Jordana mentioned that she liked mango orange juice; two months later we were drowning in it. Next up were mini chocolate bars. He would buy multiple family size bags at a time. He could easily go through one at a sitting. The next time he brought home half a dozen such bags I hid three under the sink thinking I was clever. One day, when my daughter and I were in

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the kitchen, and I was looking for the chocolates, she told me to check under the sink. I said “Nah, there are no more left. I checked the other day; I probably put the last bag in the snack drawer for Jerry.â€? She replied, “I was in the kitchen when he came home yesterday; Jerry put them under the sink because he knew they would end up there anyway.â€? Hmmm, I taught him well, he outsmarted me! You might want to try breaking up those chocolate crunch bars into your ice cream. Jerry is addicted to it! Ice cream? Can’t decide which avor? No worries, there are always at least four avors in our freezer. And if it’s on sale there might be six avors. Actually right now we have eight containers so this week, I will be sharing an ice cream recipe. Hope you enjoy!

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1 1/2 quarts vanilla ice cream (I think vanilla works best, but you can choose another avor if you prefer) 4 1/2 cups of crushed sugar coated Corn Flakes 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon 4 eggs beaten 1 cup all purpose our 8 cups canola oil for frying (Most will not be absorbed, but don’t weigh yourselves for a few days in either case.)

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mately 4 ounces each, and make them as evenly rounded as you can. Place them on a pan and freeze at least 2 hours so they are frozen solid. Add the cinnamon to the crushed corn ake crumbs. Roll the frozen ice cream balls in the our (this will give the balls more body). Roll the balls in the egg mixture and then in the corn ake crumbs till evenly coated. Again, place the ice cream balls on the pan and freeze for 3-4 hours. Pour the oil into a deep fryer or saucepan. Make sure temperature reaches 365 degrees. Place one ball at a time into a basket (I use the ones that are expandable, same as for steaming veggies) Fry each ball for 12-16 seconds, until lightly golden. Drain immediately on paper towels and serve. This is a dessert that is best served right after it’s made. judy.soiree@gmail.com

Bibi, Blair, Prosor rip global kidnap silence By Israel Hayom to JNS.org Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Jerusalem on Tuesday with Middle East Quartet representative Tony Blair. At the start of the meeting, Netanyahu said, “The brutal abduction of three Israeli teenagers shows the true face of Hamas.� “[Hamas] is not only committed to murdering Israelis, it’s committed to kidnapping children,� Netanyahu continued. “And I think the international community has to condemn Hamas for its terrorist activities and I think it has to support Israel’s right of self-defense and I think it also must call on [Palestinian Authority] President [Mahmoud] Abbas to end his pact with Hamas. Anybody who supports peace must tell the Palestinian Authority that they cannot build a government that is backed by the kidnappers of children and the murderers of innocents.� Blair expressed “outrage� about the kidnapping and said that Israeli-Palestinian peace could only be achieved once all Palestinian political factions committed to nonviolence and accepted the twostate solution. Hamas has “a very clear choice to make,� Blair said. “There cannot be a choice that has political engagement on the one hand, and violence on the other. And the only way this is ever going to work is if all violence stops—the terrorism, the kidnappings, the killings,� he said. Meanwhile, Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Ron Prosor on Tuesday called out

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the international community for its silence in the days following the June 12 kidnapping. “It has been ďŹ ve days since our boys went missing,â€? Prosor said. “I ask the international community—where are you? Where are you?â€? After ďŹ ve days of silence, European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton condemned the kidnapping Tuesday.

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Continued from page 1 are largely ceremonial. The role is similar to that of a monarch in many of the world’s parliamentary democracies. In addition to welcoming world leaders and high-proďŹ le guests to the country, the president’s most noteworthy function is to ofďŹ cially charge a party leader to form a governing coalition—essentially selecting the prime minister. Yet, even this function is largely ceremonial, as election results and the willingness of smaller parties to join a leader’s government are the primary factors determining which leader can successfully form a ruling coalition. Peres, however, often used the post of president to advance his political agenda, as a super-ambassador of the state of Israel. He often spoke with world leaders about the prospects for a peace agreement, and recently met Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the Vatican for a joint prayer session with Pope Francis. “Rivlin promised that we would not make partisan, political announcements,â€? said Professor Gideon Rahat, a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. “So he might be very helpful, not for external politics, rather for internal politics.â€? In an address to the Knesset immediately following his election victory on June 10, Rivlin stated his intention to represent “all the citizens of Israel: Jews, Arabs, Druze, rich, poor, religious, and less religious.â€? The Likud party member added that in his new post, he will no longer adhere to partisan politics, but rather will serve as “a man of all the people.â€? In his ďŹ rst ofďŹ cial interview since the election, Rivlin told the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth that as president he would not lobby “in favor or against an agreement with the Palestinians.â€? He said that “if the Israeli government will inform me that there is an agreement, and if the Knesset will approve it, as head of state I will do everything possible to make sure it is implemented.â€? “Ruby Rivlin is a very strong supporter of ‘greater Israel,’ but at the same time he has demonstrated his commitment to democracy.

He is kind of a nationalist liberal, and a true democrat, which is a very rare kind these days. He is probably the last one,â€? Rahat said. According to Rahat, it is Rivlin’s longstanding commitment to Israel and the democratic process that helped him win the election, garnering strong support from opposition party members—including Arab Knesset members— as well as support from his own Likud party. “He was probably the best candidate because he was demonstrating his abilities to be independent and to be loyal to an institution when he was speaker of the Knesset,â€? said Rahat. Israeli columnist Gideon Allon reported that Arab Knesset Member Ahmed Tibi said regarding Rivlin’s election, “The president of the country has a secondary role in political matters. Peres is closer to me in his political stances, but he did not bring the peace process closer. By comparison, Rivlin ďŹ ghts with all his might against racist legislation and for equality and strengthening the status of the Arab Knesset members, and he has paid a political price for that. When Rivlin believes in something, he is prepared to go all the way for it. Besides, there is good chemistry between us.â€? “The advantage is that Rivlin is respected by both the political left and political right,â€? Barak said. “The right likes him because he’s an oldtime [Zionist pioneer Ze’ev] Jabotinsky guy, and he’s hard right on a lot of political issues, including a Palestinian state,â€? added Barak. “The reason the left likes him is because he respects democracy and he upholds democracy. He protects minorities and protects the rule of law.â€? “He’s a regular guy,â€? Barak said. “He has a great sense of humor. He has a personality. People that meet him warm to him. He has relationships with a lot of leaders and legislators from around the world. He’s led delegations to foreign parliaments. ‌ Politicians on all sides of the political spectrum can say, ‘That’s a man that deserves to be speaker of the Knesset, and that’s a man who deserves to be president.’â€?

Clinton goes anti-Israel‌ Continued from page 6 “This stands in stark contrast to the rest of the Middle East, where Christian minorities are persecuted and women and homosexuals routinely oppressed. This includes, of course, Hamas-controlled Gaza.â€? On page 317, Clinton says, “The sticking point would be Jerusalem. East Jerusalem had been captured along with the West Bank in 1967, and Palestinians dreamed of one day establishing the capital of their future state there.â€? Hillary’s statement is totally biased. Notice she doesn’t mention any validity to Israel’s claim to Jerusalem. Israel didn’t capture Jerusalem, Jordan did. Jews were the majority of the Jerusalem population from 1844 through the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 when Jordan kicked them out. In fact, Muslims were the third largest religion in the city until about 1890. The Palestinian’s didn’t want East Jerusalem as their capital until after 1967, and their reason is based on that they refuse to recog-

nize any Jewish claim of a historical heritage to Jerusalem or any other part of the holy land. This despite the fact that there is even a Koranic passage which indicates that Jerusalem is not so holy to Muslims, and is passed on to the Jews (Koran, Sura 2:145, “The Cowâ€?). The 13th-century Arab biographer and geographer Yakut noted: “Mecca is holy to Muslims, and Jerusalem to the Jews.â€? In all probability, Hillary Clinton is running for president. She will campaign on the basis that she is a friend of Israel, just as Barack Obama did in 2008. The truth is as Secretary of State she was the architect of the policy of the most antiIsrael president since the rebirth of Israel in 1948. It was a policy that reected views she has held her entire life, with the exception of the nine-year period where she ran for and held the ofďŹ ce of U.S. Senator from New York State when she relied on Jewish voters. Her lifetime of views about Israel is repeated in her book “Hard Choices.â€? Columnist@TheJewishStar.com

Why Kurds are a beacon‌ Continued from page 6 “surgeâ€? of 2007-08. The results are truly frightening. Terrorist violence has, according to State Department ďŹ gures, increased by nearly half over the last year. Up to 20,000 foreign jihadis are traveling back and forth from the region; one such was Mehdi Nemmouche, the French citizen accused of carrying out last month’s terrorist atrocity at the Jewish museum in Brussels, who fought with the jihadis in Syria and was arrested carrying a ag with the ISIS symbol in his pocket. Negotiations with Iran over its

nuclear program are collapsing, again fueling speculation about an Israeli pre-emptive strike on Tehran’s key nuclear facilities. Most Americans know deep down that the Middle East will interrupt our foreign policy slumber sooner or later. That’s why, more than ever before, we need to be bolstering the only peoples in the region we can truly trust: the Israelis, who have created a model liberal democracy in one of the most reactionary regions on earth, and the Kurds, whose modest wish to join the family of democratic nations is one we should actively be seeking to grant.

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