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Crisis unites 5 Towns

By Malka Eisenberg A dais of rabbis from across the Orthodox spectrum faced a full house in Far Rockaway’s White Shul (Congregation Kneseth Israel) for a community-wide Kinnus Chizuk (unifying and strengthening assembly) as the Fast of 17 Tamuz drew to a close on Tuesday.

The kinnus was called to pray to support Israel from rocket attacks from Gaza and in the escalating war with Hamas, and in memory of the three boys killed, Naftali Frankel, Gilad Shaar and Eyal Yifach, Hy”d. Participants were also asked to pray for the recovery of a local boy, Nosson

Zvi ben Sara Rivka Kashtiya, who was hospitalized last Sunday.

Each speaker invoked the broad display of unity by Jews throughout the world in the 18 days following the kidnapping of the missing boys.

Rabbi Feiner questioned why the Continued on page 13

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LIRR strike won’t stop daf yomi

By Malka Eisenberg With the threat of a Long Island Rail Road strike as early as Sunday, the Five Towns followers of the two daf yomi shiurim (Talmud page-a-day class) on the Far Rockaway line are sorting out their study options.

Elizer Cohen, a long time maggid shiur (lecturer) and student on the daf yomi LIRR circuit, pointed out that there are plenty of alternative shiurim in the Five Towns and Manhattan, and suggested that the mobile shiurim will continue as alternate transit options materialize.

He said that many riders will skip the commute altogether, using technology to work remotely.

Three maggiday shiur — Cohen, Sholom Fried and Yossi Klein — al- Daf yomi shiur in session on the LIRR. ternate on the 7:50 am out of Far Rockaway, with 15 to 25 riders participating. The 8:10 am, with five to 12 learners, is taught mainly by Rabbi Menachem Adler, who works for the OU Kashrus division, and, one day a week, Cohen. The class is held in the front of the last car.

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Rabbi Gedaliah Oppen, Judaic Studies principal at the Hebrew Academy of Five Towns and Rockaway, visited soldiers on the borders in Israel this week, expressing thanks by giving them freshly baked goods and cold drinks, on a Hakaroat Hatov (gratitude) mission to the Israel Defense Forces,

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of Hurricane Sandy. It initially provided temporary ferry service between the Rockaways and Manhattan, while subway service on that route was suspended due to Hurricane Sandy.

One of the daf yomi shiurim normally held on two LIRR trains out of Far Rockaway might relocate to one of the Seastreak runs, The Jewish Star has learned.

“I think we would be instantly very, very busy — probably at capacity level,” Seastreak President Jim Barker said of a possible strike. “And it would be up to EDC whether they would like to bring more vessels on the run, or someone else, like the MTA. There has Continued on page 13

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By Anthony Rifilato, Nassau Herald A variety of mass transit alternatives were taking shape this week, as Long Island braced for a possible shutdown of the Long Island Rail Road on Sunday.

“The city will be a mess,” said Zach Grunther, a volunteer firefighter with the Point Lookout-Lido Beach Fire Department. “I take the train five days a week. If the MTA goes on strike, it will make it much harder to get to work. I can’t afford to miss any days from work and it’s kind of impossible to drive into Queens everyday to take the subway. Thousands of people will be driving to Queens and there will be no parking.”

Rockaway activist Joe Hartigan suggested a somewhat exotic alterative. He is encouraging residents from the Five Towns and nearby communities to take advantage of the Seastreak ferry service in Rockaway, which takes approximately 50 minutes to lower Manhattan.

“This is the most convenient route to lower Manhattan,” said Hartigan, a retired FDNY lieutenant who has advocated for the ferry service for more than a decade. “This is the best kept secret.”

The Seastreak ferry, which departs from Beach 108th Street and Beach Channel Drive, was launched in 2012 as a partnership between the New York City Economic Development Corporation in the aftermath

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By Malka Eisenberg A leisurely summertime stroll on the Atlantic Beach boardwalk is being used to raise funds to support Israeli soldiers.

On Thursday, July 31, more than 100 men, women and children will lace up their sneakers for the second annual walkathon for A Package From Home (APFH), an organization that collects, packs and distributes care packages for Israeli soldiers.

APFH gathers travel size toiletries — including toothpaste and stick deodorant, undershirts, socks, underwear and candy (they note that many soldiers like M&Ms). Four handwritten notes — often written as part of chesed projects — are included in Hebrew, English, Russian and Amharic. They are packed in Rabbi Berel Wein’s shul in Jerusalem and the army sends trucks to collect them and distributes them within two days to soldiers on duty in the field. Business travelers and tour groups often bring a duffel bag with the necessities to Israel; an APFH representative picks up the bag from the airport.

This project, launched at the start of the second intifada in 2000, has delivered more than 250,000 packages to date. The walkathon’s chief organizer, Helen Fuchs of Woodsburgh, got involved during a trip to Israel eight years ago.

The walkathon, at the Sunny Atlantic Beach Club, is taking place on a Thursday when the club is relatively quiet. Registra-

tion will be inside the country club building, parking is free and bathroom facilities are available. Fuchs recommends registering in advance but participants can also register on the morning of the walkathon before 9:30 am.

The walk along the Atlantic Beach boardwalk, a distance Fuchs estimates at “about 3K,” starts promptly at 10 am lasts about 45 minutes, followed by a mini brunch with coffee, juice and light food, she said. A donation box for needed and recommended items will be set up.

Last year, two former chayalim bodedim (Lone Soldiers) spoke about what it is like to be a lone soldier. Fuchs said the soldiers recounted how receiving the packages from “perfect strangers” gave them chizuk (moral support).

Shira Gilor, APFH’s project manager in Israel, told The Jewish Star that in recent weeks, they have been sending boxes of socks, underwear and T-shirts “every other day” to the soldiers “who haven’t been able to get back to their base so they can change into clean clothes.” She said that since the beginning of the expanded conflict in Israel, “more than 2,000 soldiers have been provided with clean clothing and more than 800 have received full packages.”

Asked what people in our area can do to help, Gilor noted, “We need funding to cover all the requests for packages that we are get-

Israeli soldiers holding up packages of undershirts they received from A Package From Home.

ting daily. Tell your friends and family. Write letters of support and encouragement for us to add to the packages.”

Letters are important, she said because, “besides the physical needs, we like to also take care of the spiritual needs and the letters help raise the morale of the soldiers, knowing that people around the world are thinking of them and willing to take the time

to sit and write them a letter.”

“The soldiers thank us all the time,” said Gilor, “and I wish there was a way to deliver their gratitude and thanks to all the people who are supporting our work and helping us help the soldiers. It makes a big difference to them.”

For registration, email helensfuchs@aol. com.

Office shares rise opposite Cedarhurst station

By Vanessa Parker, Nassau Herald The idea for creating office spaces suitable for individuals and small businesses came to Matt Probkevitz back in 2002, when he was working as a real estate broker for CB Richard Ellis.

With only a few dollars in his bank account and his wife expecting a baby at the

time, Probkevitz said that he needed an office space for one: himself.

“I just needed one private office to work in,” he said. “I said to myself, ‘If I needed one, there must be others who do, too.’”

That’s when Equishares was created.

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development firm focusing on office rental properties tailored for the small business owner.

“I think about my properties as being like a virtual water cooler,” he said.

“In the old days, people would gather there, around the water cooler, to connect with each other. Because we put our tenants first, people want to gather in one of our properties to work.”

For about $800 a month, one rental office space in an Equishares property also includes utilities, a stocked kitchenette shared among all the offices, Internet, property surveillance, cleaning, and 24-hour, seven-day-aweek access to offices.

“We are all about the individual, as a company,” Probkevitz said. “The Internet has really changed the way people work. These offices are turnkey positions. For about $800 a month, a person or company could be up and running quickly.”

The only challenge to operating the turnkey operation, Probkevitz said, is the maintenance cost. “The way my properties are set up, it’s basically a hotel for offices,” he said.

“We’re not just renting out an office space to someone. We maintain each and every office we rent.”

Also with this type of rental situation, there is turnover. This means that tenants can opt out from renting office space, should

their business needs change. “They can opt out with 90-day notice,” Probkevitz said. “It is short-term leasing. Because of the turnover, my work is very labor intensive.”

Probkevitz’s latest project at 499 Chestnut Street in Cedarhurst, directly across the street from the LIRR station, is expected to be finished by October this year.

“I call it the jewel of the Five Towns,” he said. “It’s the oldest building in the village. It was an old movie theatre. We have tenants already who are interested in an office space there.”

Scott Santana, the managing director of Andrews Property Services in Cedarhurst, was the manager of the Cedarhurst Center, Probkevitz’s first property. “He really specializes in creating executive offices, especially for someone looking for a small office locally to rent,” he said. “It’s taken off pretty big in Cedarhurst. Small businesses benefit, too.”

Cedarhurst-based lawyer Amy Mosery said she had gone to see a nutritionist in another Probkevitz property, 91 Carman Ave. in Cedarhurst, when she was “blown away” by the decor.

“The design content and vibe in the space is like a South Beach, Miami hotel,” she said.

“The office I rent is very convenient for me. I live in the Five Towns, in Woodsburgh, and it’s very easy to access my office. When I saw the property, I was hooked.”

Swastika flyover irks beachgoers on Saturday

By Michael Ganci, Nassau Herald Beachgoers were surprised last Saturday as a banner featuring a swastika flew over beaches along the South Shore and in Brooklyn.

The banner featured a math equation, with a swastika plus a peace symbol equaling a heart, and referred people to a website for more information.

The website states that the word swastika comes from the Sanskrit svastika. Su means “well” and asti means “to be,” so swastika means “to be well,” the site asserts.

Visitors to the beaches didn’t completely agree.

“We were at Jones Beach and all of a sudden I heard my daughter say, ‘is that a swastika?’ ” Barbara Price said.

“It flew over several times. That should not have been allowed.”

Regarding the positive meanings attached to the symbol before it was used by Hitler, Jill Froeder Monaghan said, “I don’t think it will ever be looked at the same. They should let it go and put their money into something more meaningful.”

Not everyone opposed the swastika display.

“I see no issue in trying to right a wrong and educate people as to its true meaning, which is peace—a daunting task at best,” Gary Rogers said. “It does not offend me. Some cultures may still use it for its true meaning.”

Nassau Herald photo by Patricia McKay captures the swastika banner flying above Jones Beach.

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peaceful stretch of road on a quiet summer’s night; a young couple with a four month old baby in an infant seat is driving home; nothing out if the ordinary.

Except that they were driving up from Beer Sheva. As an IDF officer in the Paratrooper reserves, our son-in-law Eliel might be called up From the heArt at any moment. And oF jeruSAlem it seemed prudent forMaayan, our daughter, in the midst of her medical school finals, not to have to negotiate the air raid sirens alone. As such, they were driving up from Beer Sheva with our grandson Amitai to stay with us.

And then there were the three teenagers standing alongside the road. A five-minute drive from the Green line and Beit Shemesh, our daughter, sitting rabbi Binny in the front passenger seat, Freedman saw them first. In unison, they lifted their arms and threw their rocks, baseball style, smashing the windshield in front of Maayan and exploding the passenger window next to the baby. By some miracle, noone was hurt, but it would be another 10 to 15 minutes of driving, with the back seat passenger picking glass off the baby, before they could stop in a safe place and be sure.

It is one thing to see violence on the news, and even in the form of missiles aimed at our cities and towns. It is quite another to have such violence directed at your person, and especially at your fourmonth-old baby. Maayan served as an officer in the IDF’s elite 8200 unit, and has experienced her share of intense pressure; it takes a lot to rattle her. But when the full implication of what might have been hit her, she was quite shaken. Emotions of gratitude and helplessness, fear and sadness mixed with joy of being blessed and, yes, anger.

What kind of human beings throw rocks at cars

with four-month-old babies? It would be only natural for such experiences as we are having here in Israel to kindle a deep sense of anger and a desire for revenge. After all, if they shoot missiles indiscriminately at our children, maybe we should just shoot our missiles indiscriminately at theirs? And yet, nothing could be further from the Jewish response we are seeing. (In fact one of the leaders of a well know youth movement here in Israel has been taken to task for his Facebook post calling for revenge against those who murdered the three kidnapped teenagers whose bodies were found last week.)

Is revenge sometimes appropriate?

I still remember how challenging the beginning of the (first) intifada was, back in 1987-88. Arabs were rioting all over the country, and the IDF needed to develop effective strategies to quell and deter the violence, while protecting civilian lives, even the lives of the rioters throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails. It took nearly seven years to stem the tide of the intifada with an estimated 600 Arab civilians killed in the process.

It is worth noting that the intifada started in Egyptian territory as well, in the southern Gaza city of Rafiach. But the Egyptians had a very different response. One armored personnel carrier drove into the rioting crowds with live ammunition and killed 30 or so rioters, and that was the end of the Egyptian intifada. o who was right? Are we completely mistaken? Should we be paying attention to those who are suggesting we meet fire with fire and bomb them all back to the Stone Age? This week, in the portion of Matot comes a very rare moment in Jewish history: we are called upon to take revenge against the Midianites.

G-d tells us, “Nekom nikmat B’nei Yisrael me’et haMidyanim” (Take vengeance for the children of Israel against the Midianites “ (Numbers 31:2).

It is understandable that the Jewish people might need to do battle against the Midianites

who had just sent their daughters, even their princesses, to entice the Jewish men into an orgy of idolatry. But why the need for revenge?

There is actually a specific injunction (Leviticus 19) against taking revenge: “Lo tikom ve’lo Titor” (“Thou shalt neither take revenge nor bear a grudge” (Vayikra 19:18 ).

Maimonides elaborates (Hilchot Deot 7:7) on revenge, calling it “an excessively evil trait,” and explaining it as a refusal to render a service or favor for another that they would not do for you the day before, from which one might extrapolate harming, hurting or damaging someone in response to the damage, hurt or harm they previously caused you.

If the Midianites wanted to destroy us, then we should destroy them. And so perhaps if Hamas wants to destroy us, we should destroy them.

Except for this: When Moshe repeats the command he has been given, he changes one word: “latet nikmat Hashem be’Midyan” (“to inflict the vengeance of G-d against the Midianites” (Numbers 31:3). So is this the vengeance of G-d or the Jewish people?

Onkelos actually translates the vengeance of G-d as the revenge of the People of G-d, and Rashi explains that he who stands against the Jewish people is taking a stand against G-d Himself.

But the Torah is implying that there is a difference between our vengeance and G-d’s, which makes a lot of sense.

Maimonides concludes his laws of character traits (Hilchot Deot) with the prohibition against taking revenge. He begins Hilchot Deot with the dangers of anger and arrogance. These are the bookends of character development according to Maimonides. Anger is all about expectations; we get angry because we think we deserve better, and that is a form of arrogance; it’s all about me.

When we realize it’s not about us, it’s about something much bigger than us, it becomes more

Our daughter saw them first. They threw their rocks, smashing her windshield.

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difficult to get angry. And revenge is very much related to anger.

When something happens to us, it’s because Hashem wanted that to happen to us, and we have to do our best to make sense of it, or at last learn from it (though often we will never understand it).

Thus there is no place for anger, only for action.

Nikmat Hashem by definition does not involve anger at all. We are acting because the honor of something much greater than ourselves demands it, but not because we have expectations and feel hurt. We are standing up for what is right and true. remember in many instances in the Israeli army how difficult it was during war, when we were sometimes forced to fight, to avoid anger. Anger was a great way to get up the hill, or through the door behind which the terrorist enemy lay waiting. But then, when the dust settled, you were left with all that anger.

Far better to be filled with purpose, and a sense of mission, and the belief that we do what we do because we have to, and are even privileged to be a part of something so much greater than ourselves.

When men such as Ahmadinejad (former Iranian president) or Khomeini, Bin Laden, or Nasrallah, Khaled Mashal or Ismail Haniyeh publicly declare that Israel, the state of the Jews, should be wiped out, everyone with a strand of decency should be prepared to make war on such statements because, as human beings, we are responsible to stand up for truth, justice and righteousness. But taking out every last terrorist who would fire missiles at babies in highchairs and the elderly in their hospital beds should not be done in anger; it should be done with determination, while cool heads prevail.

And this is nikmat Hashem. If the Torah tells us we must fight evil, then war with such evil is actually a step towards helping build a more G-dfilled world.

Make no mistake about it — we are at war, and have been for a long time. But while we fight our enemies on the physical battlefield, we must also take care not to allow them to cause us to fall in the battlefield of our hearts and minds.

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Parshat Matot / To not lose a man

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fter the battle with Midian, the Torah tells us that the generals and captains, who were officers over the army’s divisions, approached Moshe. They said to him, “We have taken a census of the warriors under our command and not a single man has been lost!” (31:48-49) The Battle of Midian is one of the more horPArshA of rific battles described in the Week the Torah, at least as far as casualties and what the Children of Israel were tasked to do. Isn’t it incredible, then, that after a long and arduous battle, there are no casualties on the Israelite side?

Of course, the literal translation is not the only perspective on what it means to not lose a soldier. Rashbam says no one died in a plague.

There are two ways to rabbi Avi Billet look at such a statement.

It may be referring to a plague that G-d wrought – in other words, no one died of a sin. The other possibility is that in the history of wars, until World War II and the advent of modern medicine, it was always the case that more soldiers died of illness than on the battlefield. If no one died from illness, that was also an amazing miracle.

Chazal taught homiletically that “we didn’t lose a man” means “to sin” (Shabbat 64a), that no soldier fell to depravity and committed a moral error that makes the rest of us look bad. [Fascinatingly, the Baal Haturim notes – based on Yebamot 61a – that this Hebrew phrase has the same numerical value (gematria) as “La’aveirot” – “to sins” (718)].

The Gemara asks, if that was the case, why did the soldiers feel a need to bring a sin offering? To atone for their souls, because they had thoughts to commit sins, though they did not act upon them.

The Alshikh couched this idea as two battles – the physical battle in the trenches, and the spiritual

battle which one has in one’s heart.

Rabbi Yochanan Luria (Meshivat Nefesh) examined the story and concluded that much of what happens to the general populace, or to the regular soldiers, is dependant upon the behavior of the leadership. In their particular case, since the princes at their time were model citizens, it became a merit for Israel – even if the soldiers plundered for themselves (in 31:53).

The Meshekh Chokhma adds that, in a sense, this was an admission of wrongdoing in the Baal Peor incident that concluded Parshat Balak and ran into Parshat Pinchas.

The leaders are saying now, “We were able to see that when we effectively lead our men, we can prevent them from falling into moral depravity. Had we only been good leaders when the daughters of Moab came along, we could have prevented the plague that took the lives of 24,000.”

In a roundabout way, the Kli Yakar suggests that, “We didn’t lose a man” is a follow up to the instructions of 31:17-18 of whom to kill in the war.

The point of the removal of much of the civilian population was to avoid suspicion that the Israelite soldiers had ulterior motives in battle, beyond enacting the revenge that G-d had commanded them to conduct at the beginning of the chapter (31:2).

[Read it inside – on 31:17 – to understand his comments in full.]

Were we living in a different time, I would probably focus on the second teaching of the Alshikh for the final lesson here, that we wage a battle with our yetzer hara (Evil Inclination) on a regular basis, and we must be able to overcome.

But these times are far from normal. And the State of Israel is facing an existential threat. The international community will surely yell, and call

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for a cease fire, and for Israel to exercise restraint, and only to utilize proportional response. But this is not how a war is won. Unless Hamas and its infrastructure (its people and its machinery/ technology) are eradicated, it is only a matter of time before they rebuild and do this all again.

Rav Luria talked about leadership, and the Kli Yakar focused on soldiers being above suspicion.

Which leads me to two concluding thoughts.

Israeli leadership emphasizes over and over that there is no fight with the civilian population of Gaza. But, as Bibi Netanyahu also noted, “We use missiles to protect our civilians. They use their civilians to protect their missiles.” There will unfortunately be civilian casualties because their own leadership tells them to be human shields.

If you haven’t read the letter written by Givati Commander Ofer Winter on his thoughts about being the Brigade that will rid the world of Hamas, you haven’t seen what Jewish leadership is all about. Google it, find it, read it, and be proud that we are part of Am Yisrael. And of what a true Jewish leader is.

Finally, that Israel’s soldiers should be above suspicion. I believe with a complete heart that Israel’s soldiers will do their duty and will not fall to the depraved state of committing moral sins. War is war and war is horrible. But the soldiers are duty bound to protect Israel and its citizens, and not to engage in any horrific acts against the civilian population – whether women or children (except in defense of their own lives).

We certainly pray that Israel “not lose a man” – not in battle, not in sin, and not psychologically, and not from disease. And that G-d should watch over and protect them, from every trouble, woe and injury, so they may all return safely home, to live out lives telling the story of how they saved the State of Israel, ridding it of a terrorist organization, with honor, dignity and through sanctifying G-d’s Name.

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Abbas, Auschwitz, and the Palestinian strategy I

t was often remarked that the late Palestine Liberation Organization leader, Yasser Arafat, would sound moderate when speaking in English and utterly intransigent when speaking in Arabic.

Much of the same could be said about his successor, Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority.

In an exclusive op-ed for Haaretz—published to coincide with the IsBen Cohen, JnS raeli newspaper’s oneday conference on peace in Tel Aviv that was rudely interrupted by a barrage of rockets from Gaza—Abbas sounded rather statesmanlike. “As the president of the Palestinian people I am totally committed to the vision of a two-state solution, normalization and peace with our neighbor—Israel,” Abbas wrote.

Such statements are music to the ears of the White House. In his own Haaretz op-ed, President Barack Obama stated admiringly that in Abbas, “Israel has a counterpart committed to a two-state solution and security cooperation with Israel.” Obama could not, however, bring himself to say something positive about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The vision of Abbas as a moderate is, how-

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ever, sorely compromised when one looks at his other statements. Speaking to other senior members of the Palestinian leadership about the murder of the Palestinian teenager, Mohammad Abu Khudair, Abbas rhetorically asked, “Shall we recall Auschwitz?” Later on, Abbas accused Israel, on the second day of its Operation Protective Edge to counter Palestinian terrorism in Gaza, of carrying out a “genocide” against the Palestinians.

Is Abbas simply seeking to offend Jewish and Israeli sensibilities, or is there a strategy behind these appalling claims? I would argue that it’s the latter.

As brutal as the killing of Abu Khudair was, to invoke in the same sentence Auschwitz, a death camp run by the Nazi Reich with efficiency and savagery in equal amounts, is morally obscene. Around 2 million people, the vast majority of them Jews, were exterminated at Auschwitz. Many were children flung into the gas chambers. Few things compare with this horror, and certainly not the murder of one individual by a gang of freelance thugs.

Yet Abbas proudly makes this comparison— and for good measure throws in the genocide accusation as well. Genocide is a crime that involves the systematic attempt to wipe out an entire group. Since the Second World War, we’ve witnessed genocide in places like Cambodia, Rwanda and the Darfur region of Sudan. If one looks carefully enough, one can find examples of genocides happening right now— for example, against the Muslim Rohingya mi-

nority in Burma. Nothing the Palestinians are experiencing at the hands of the Israel Defense Forces remotely approaches the legal definition of what constitutes a genocide.

But to Abbas, that doesn’t matter, because he knows there is a sympathetic audience in the West and across the Muslim world that’s already predisposed to the belief that Israel’s aim is to wipe out the Palestinians, in much the same way that the Nazis wiped out 6 million Jews. In Europe alone, a staggering 40 percent of respondents to a 2011 poll organized by Germany’s Ebert Foundation agreed with the statement that Israel is “conducting a war of extermination against the Palestinians.”

Indeed, the naked theft by Palestinian leaders of the most monstrous slaughter in Jewish history passes virtually unnoticed, never mind being condemned. Twenty-four hours after Abbas made these comments, not a single mainstream outlet—not The New York Times, not the BBC, not CNN—had reported them, likely because they don’t regard such analogies as scandalous.

At the same time, Palestinian apologists eagerly lap them up, while ignoring the fact that, as Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri proudly confessed, Gazan civilians are being encouraged to become human shields against Israeli bombs. For their own leaders, it seems, dead Palestinians are good news: their corpses stoke up world anger against Israel and provide television images to buttress the accusation that Nazi Germany has been reincarnated in the form of the Jewish state.

All of which makes great political sense to Abbas. Many Palestinians understand that Israel is not going to be defeated militarily. They also understand that a third intifada could well peter out in the manner of the first two. Still, as the Palestinian commentator Rami Khouri argued in Beirut’s Daily Star newspaper, there is another strategy: a coordinated campaign of civil disobedience, advocacy of boycotts and sanctions akin, Khouri says, “to the anti-apartheid strategy against racist South Africa,” and the pursuit of a unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state in U.N. bodies and institutions.

For this to succeed, the Palestinians have to maintain their position in the Western conscience as the world’s most downtrodden nation. And what better way to do that than by referencing two of the West’s bêtes noires—the Nazi Reich and the apartheid regime?

Israel is often accused of creating facts on the ground. Actually, the Palestinians are creating facts in our minds, revising and distorting history to fit their political goals. You have to admit that it’s smart: at the same time they warn Israelis that “death will reach you from north to south”—a quote not from Hamas, incidentally, but from the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade of Abbas’s own Fatah movement—they depict themselves as victims of a genocide.

Are we smart enough to respond effectively?

Ben Cohen is Shillman Analyst for JNS.org.

He recently published a book, “Some Of My Best Friends: A Journey Through Twenty-First Century Antisemitism.”

Big lies you are hearing about U.S. border crisis

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rogressive talking heads and liberal columnists claim that a bill that passed the Senate guarantees action to secure the border.

Sometimes they add that President Obama has deported more illegal aliens than any president in history. Those claims POLITICS TO GO are lies. There are no guarantees of border security in the Senate bill, only political promises; every president beginning with Gerald Ford deported illegal immigrants at a faster rate than Barack Obama.

The Senate bill passed last year supposedly doubles the number of border agents and completes the border Jeff Dunetz fence voted for/funded

by Congress during the Bush administration.

However, there is no guarantee those actions will be taken because the amnesty elements of the bill will be enacted whether those actions are taken or not. The bill contains a provision

giving the head of Homeland Security discretion to nix the border protection elements of the bill.

Other provisions allow the Homeland Security Secretary to validate that certain triggers were met.

When Senate Republicans tried to put real border security guarantees in the bill, the Democrats, led by New York Senator Chuck Schumer, refused to allow them.

In other words, once the legislation is enacted, President Obama will decide whether the border is secured and what to do about it. The last time Obama was given authority to enact a border security bill (The Secure Fence Act) it was basically ignored.

The Secure Fence Act was introduced on Sep. 13, 2006 by Rep. Peter King (R-NY) and passed both houses of Congress on a bi-partisan basis.

The goal of the Secure Fence Act of 2006 was to help secure America’s borders to decrease illegal entry, drug trafficking, and security threats by building 700 miles (1,100 km) of double-layered fencing along the Mexico-United States border.

Additionally, the law authorized more vehicle barriers, checkpoints, and lighting as well as authorizing the Department of Homeland Security to increase the use of advanced technology such as cameras, satellites, and unmanned aerial ve-

hicles to reinforce infrastructure at the border.

So far, according to the Department of Homeland Security, just 36.3 miles of double-layered fencing was built, mostly during the Bush administration. The President claims that the fence was built and he is not lying (sort of). The majority of the fencing erected has been made from vehicle barriers with single-layer pedestrian fencing, the kind of barriers that are designed to stop vehicles rather than people. The design specifications vary, depending on geography and climate characteristics, but according to the Customs and Border Patrol website, those include “post on rail” steel set in concrete; steel picketstyle fence set in concrete; vehicle bollards similar to those found around federal buildings, Normandy vehicle fence consisting of steel beams, and concrete jersey walls with steel mesh.

Barack Obama has ignored what Congress intended. The vehicle barriers erected at the border can be easily hopped over by a small child or even a non-athletic adult with a bum leg and bad shoulder (like me). Which explains the reluctance to believe in the efficacy of the border security provision of the Senate bill. If Obama won’t build the fence already funded by Congress, why would the House Republicans believe any of the border security elements in the Senate bill?

Some Latino groups unfairly call President Obama the “deporter-in-chief.” While the President doesn’t deserve that recognition, it is one he brought about himself. President Obama achieved the title of “deporter-in-chief” by playing with the numbers.

The official DHS definition of removal is “the compulsory and confirmed movement of an inadmissible or deportable alien out of the United States based on an order of removal.” They define returns as, “the confirmed movement of an inadmissible or deportable alien out of the United States not based on an order of removal.

Most of the voluntary returns are of Mexican nationals who have been apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol and are returned to Mexico.” The primary difference between the two categories is that ICE processes removals, but they don’t process returns.

Before Obama’s tenure, when “deportation” numbers were reported, they were talking about removals. Obama changed all that.

In August 2012, Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX), then Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, explained that Obama was adding returns to the removal totals: “Since 2011, the Obama administration has Continued on page 13

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In October, he led a group of discharged Israeli soldiers 9/11 that he deals with, but he knows me and treats me like on a tour of the World Trade Center site for a program called one man who was dealt a terrible hand.”

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By Malka Eisenberg “Someone with Tourette is just like anyone else. The disability doesn’t make a person who he or she is. A lot of people look at others and see a disabled or handicapped person. But that’s wrong, they’re just like anyone else. We all have issues and that’s what makes us normal.”

Woodmere resident Gabe Cymbalista, 27, is more than Tourette although it is a part of his life and he is writing a book about it.

“Tourette Syndrome is a developmental neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by multiple motor and vocal tics beginning in childhood,” explained Dr. Nora Chan, Director of the Movement Disorders Program in the Department of Neuroscience at Winthrop-University Hospital. “Tics wax and wane and may fluctuate in frequency and intensity. Fortunately, most tics diminish in early adulthood, but up to onethird of patients continue with bothersome symptoms and functional impairment.”

Gabe went to local yeshivot for his early years but manifestations of Tourette began in first grade; he was diagnosed in second grade. He would make uncontrollable noises, at times screaming so loud, he recalled, that by third grade his classmates would yell, “Stop it, you can stop it, it’s annoying!”

“My best friend Ben and the teacher stood up for me,” said Gabe. By fifth grade it took the form of motor tics; he would lie on the floor and kick and punch the desks. “I couldn’t help it,” he said. He attended a special needs school from middle school through high school, where they were more understanding of his needs but “socially it was not great,” he said.

He attended and completed Nassau Community College where he honed his writing skills. He is now a student at Queens College, studying film and business. He developed an ebay based business that started as a hobby, buying and selling movie memorabilia. “I love movies, I study them: I want to work in film.” Gabe plays piano well; he had lessons for 15 years. The concentration necessary to perform and draw music from the instrument tamps down his tics, although he begins by executing a series of repetitive motions, moving his left hand over his right arm and clearing his throat repeatedly, but once his fingers move over the keys the gestures abate.

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Gabe Cymbalista finds concentration needed to play piano helps tamp down tics associated with Tourette syndrome. Malka Eisenberg

for six years and a counselor for six years, and has maintained ties to Jewish studies.

Gabe’s doctor since his diagnosis, Dr. Ruth Brunn is a psychopharmacologist, now in Riverhead, formerly an associate professor at NYU and Cornell. She cites U.S. World Cup Soccer team goalie Tim Howard, diagnosed with Tourette in sixth grade, as a success story.

Dr. Brunn said it involves “uncontrolled movements and vocalizations, sounds, words, phrases, repeated over and over.

It generally peaks in adolescence and decreases in adulthood.

Some have a lifelong disorder; Gabe is one of them.”

She said he can control himself in public “pretty well” but “lets it out” at home since restraining the tics is a “great strain.” She attributes the disorder to an “imbalance of dopamine neurotransmitter in the brain, the opposite of Parkinson’s disease characterized by stiffness and the inability to move.”

The National Institutes of Health states that 200,000 Americans have the most severe form of the disease but that one in 100 have a milder form with motor or vocal tics.

“He is proud of who he is,” said one of Gabe’s friends, Chaim Feierman of Far Rockaway. “I have had friends and kids that I worked with that had the same syndrome but it sidelined them. He embraces his ‘disability’ and instead makes it his personality. He is social, accepts his surroundings and makes life his.

“Gabe also has realized the hardships that he goes through and doesn’t put that down but rather uses it to help others.”

Gabe said he would like to meet more people with Tourette, he would like to know how they cope; he has some friends who have it. He is uncomfortable when people stare at him in the synagogue, school or on the street, and is not comfortable telling them that he has Tourette, but will if they are near him or approach him and ask. “Either people don’t know what it is or don’t care; they don’t bother to ask or understand.” Gabe’s mom has mild Tourette, his father does not, nor does his sister, age 23.

“There is still much ignorance,” said Gabe. “I want people to not judge at first sight, to be more accepting of people.

Don’t stare, give others the benefit of the doubt.”

His advice to those afflicted with Tourette: “Find your niche, an escape, music, working out. Everyone who has done better with Tourette can find something, an outlet to let things go. Don’t give up on life. The theme of the book is always have hope.”

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Labels make and unmake the man

M

y husband Jerry came home from minyan yesterday morning and said his friend Steve Kollander asked if he had any polo collared shirts that weren’t black. Jerry replied, “I also have blue.” We both laughed as we recalled the time about a two years ago when Jerry’s mom pulled him aside and Who’s in the told him she had somekitchen thing very important to discuss with him.

“You look terrible,” she said.

“You don’t dress like a gentleman. Throw away all the orange, red and bright green shirts. I don’t care if they were a good buy, they are ‘narish’ looking, and not for you.”

Jerry asked if this Judy Joszef was really important to her, and when she responded it was, we put the shirts in a bag to donate and Jerry went to the Polo outlet and bought 15 short-sleeved collared (golf) shirts in blue and black for casual days at work during the summer. He also bought a dozen button-down long-sleeved dress shirts in white.

All complete with the horse Polo logo.

It reminded Jerry of his camp days, when his mom went to the Lower East Side and bought two dozen collared short sleeve shirts all the same green color with the “penguin” logo. They went well with the dozen khaki business casual slacks and dark colored walking shorts, the kind that butterfly catchers wear, which went well with the black socks that he wore with his non-basketball Keds.

Never mind that short gym shorts, T-shirts, white ankle socks and Chuck Taylor All Star

Converse (the original) were in style then.

His mom made it clear to him and his brother Seme that she wanted them to look like “balabatish young men,” or as their friends would describe, complete nerds.

So here it is, 47 years later, and he’s still getting chastised by his friends for what he’s wearing.

Since this Sunday is visiting day, I thought I’d write a bit about summer in my day as compared to today.

Can you imagine if the kids of today were to spend one day, as we did all those summers ago? Ok kids, picture this; your typical day would involve spending time in front of the TV. You can only watch the channel that has the old time shows: The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Gilligan’s Island and my favorite, Charlie’s Angels. Who didn’t want to be a stunning detective with a perfect figure in fabulous clothes and gorgeous blond hair? I certainly did!!

Next on the list is...you get to eat whatever you want. No organic chips, vegan pastries, free range eggs, or quinoa. Fruits and veggies have pesticides, rice is white and drinks are sugary and have red dye in it. Oh, and plenty of sugar, no Splenda, or agave.

You can play outside all day long. If you’re thirsty, drink from the hose. You hot? You can go to the local Y and swim in the pool till your hair turns a shade lighter due to the amount of chlorine in it (even though you girls are wearing those attractive rubber bathing caps).

You like arts and crafts? You’re in luck! You can create things, from “things” you find in the house. No trips to Michael’s or art supply stores. And no Googling it either. Be creative.

Try putting on plays. I used to make my friends put on plays with me all the time. Ask Fay, Lynn, Lisa and Henny. We put on plays, whether they liked to or not. Come on girls, admit it, it was fun and it’s not like I was able

away, be nice if you see a kid or two in an outfit that isn’t the height of fashion. And if one of them is wearing a penguin logo shirt, think of Jerry.

Here is a fun, easy to make snack that goes well at a brunch, poolside lunch or as a decoration on a lox platter.

Black Olive Penguins

to upload it to YouTube or post it to Facebook. Kids today should try it sometimes; no themes, no rules just use your imagination!

For those of you in sleep away camp, imagine visiting day (this Sunday for most of you), the way I would have experienced it. No matter what time visiting day started, if a parent came a bit early they were let on campus. Today, I like to think of visiting day as the running of the Jews. Simulating the California gold rush (Miner 49’ers.) Everyone is forbidden to step past a certain imaginary line — trust me, I tried; the punishment was not pretty. As soon as the clock strikes 11:00 AM it begins. Grown men, women and grandparents, arms laden with snacks, drinks and gifts all running down the road or cramming onto buses to see the kids they haven’t seen in three whole weeks. Did we bring enough snacks? Drinks? All the stuff that we told our kids to cut down on during the year we are now basically making sure they are having three times a day. Ahhhhhh … memories.

So whether your kids or grandchildren are home this summer, in a day camp or at sleep

Ingredients 18 extra large pitted black olives, drained 18 small pitted black olives, drained 8 ounces cream cheese (bar) room temperature and softened 16 thin slices of the fat end of a peeled carrot Green long ends of the scallions microwaved for ten seconds to soften them 18 pieces of red pickled peppers cut thin Toothpicks Directions Cut a small triangular wedge out of each carrot slice.Use a skewer or toothpick to push the narrow end of a carrot triangle through the wide hole of each small olive until it pokes out the narrow pitted hole. Make a lengthwise slice halfway into each large olive.

Gently hold the olive open and push as much cream cheese into the opening as you can, filling the olive. Use your finger to smooth the cream cheese so it’s flush with the olive.

Place a filled olive, large hole side down, on a carrot round, lining up the white of the cream cheese with the wedge cut from the carrot round. Use a toothpick pushed down through the center to hold the “chest” of the penguin to the “feet.” Push one head, “beak” side lined up with the “chest” and “feet” down onto the toothpicks.

Decorate you penguins with a scallion scarf, red pepper scarf or leave as is.

Use the photo as your guide.

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Large letters superimposed on the scene ask, “How would they react?”

That image and many others like it have been distributed by an Israeli student initiative called “Israel Under Fire,” which now boasts more than 57,000 followers on its Facebook page.

While rocket attacks continue from Gaza after Palestinian terrorists’ rejection of a cease-fire brokered by Egypt and accepted by Israel, more than 400 student volunteers are working together from a computer room at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC) college and graduate school to present the world with Israel’s position on the ongoing conflict with Hamas.

“We really believe that today the real war takes place on the Internet,” Israel Zari, the student union spokesman at IDC, told JNS. org.

The first Israel Under Fire student operation at IDC was held during Israel’s November 2012 conflict with Hamas, which saw the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) conduct Operation Pillar of Defense in Gaza. The student initiative was reopened as soon as the IDF launched its current operation, Protective Edge. This time the campaign has its own website, Israelunderfire.com, where the students accumulate all of their information via text, videos, and memes.

Despite their initiative being a private one, Israel Under Fire’s students work in conjunction with guidelines and rules from the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit.

“This is the largest private [media] operations room in Israel,” Zari said. “Our goal is… to present a unified front.”

The students work around the clock in groups. Each group is dedicated to a different skill, such as graphic design and research. There are also many international students who translate the content into various languages.

Given the current situation, the students are currently focusing on promoting the mes-

An image posted by Israel Under Fire

sage that Israel “would welcome a cease-fire” and would like “to finish the military operation,” Zari said.

They also want to show that Israel froze its weapons and strikes, “but on the side of Hamas this did not happen, despite all the mediation efforts,” he said.

The students’ posts have included images of the warnings that the IDF sends to Gaza citizens before airstrikes and examples of Israel’s humanitarian efforts, in order to show to the world that Israel’s goal is not to hurt citizens.

On the other side of the media war, Palestinian groups and activists are promoting the opposite perspective. According to Itamar Marcus, director of Palestinian Media Watch, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is not personally supporting Hamas rocket attacks on Israel, but Fatah — the movement he heads — is spreading a violent anti-Israel message on Facebook.

In a Tuesday post on the official Fatah Facebook page, “a poster claiming to be from the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military

wing of Fatah, called for renewing suicide terror attacks against Israel,” Marcus said.

The post stated, “Today Palestine is waiting for its men… our promise of the [Al-Aqsa Martyrs] Brigades is to cause the enemy to tremble, who only understands the language of blood, bullets, explosive belts and Martyrdom seeking [suicide] actions… We call to perform Martyrdom-seeking actions [suicide attacks].”

Earlier in July, Fatah announced in a Facebook post that Hamas, Fatah, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad are “brothers-in-arms,” united by “one God, one homeland, one enemy, one goal,” through an image showing three fighters from the three organizations’ military wings.

Additionally, in a recent video produced by Fatah’s military wing the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and posted on Facebook, Abbas’s movement warns the Israeli government and the Israeli people, “Death will reach you from the south to the north. Flee our country and you won’t die.

The KN-103 rocket is on its way toward you.”

“As is its standard policy, the Palestinian Authority is sending different messages through different mediums,” Marcus told JNS. org. “Abbas’s Fatah is using its social media to say things that would bring outrage from the international community, if they were said by the Palestinian Authority directly.”

Meanwhile, independent Palestinian activists are continuing to wage their own battles on social media.

For instance, the Facebook page “Stand Up for Palestine” uses “Israel is a war criminal” as its tagline and posts memes such as an image of screaming children being threatened by a knife, with the headline “Gaza Holocaust.”

At IDC, some of the students are specifically responsible for monitoring and expos-

ing false information distributed by pro-Palestinian activists.

Zari points to just one example of many, a video that gained popularity on the Internet with “a horrible picture of a woman with an exploded head” and an accusation by a Palestinian activist that the IDF is murdering innocent people. In their research, the students realized that the photo is actually taken from a Hollywood movie.

“It shows how they’re using false information just to influence public opinion,” Zari said, describing how pro-Palestinian activists can rely “on people’s ignorance” to persuade Web surfers.

When the students first launched the media operation during Operation Pillar of Defense, they worked hard to build a reputation for the initiative in Israeli society, primarily via word of mouth exposure and coverage by Israeli news outlets.

Now that the media operation is taking place for the second time, “there’s a lot more public faith in what we’re doing,” and many people actually forward materials to the group for broader dissemination, Zari said.

Although the students initially intended to open the media operation only during violent escalations in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and IDF operations, there are discussions on trying to maintain the operation over the long run. Israel really needs to promote its message with publicity “because it is being presented many times in a very problematic way in media outlets,” said Zari.

The success of the student initiative is also being closely measured through website analytics on the number of visitors, their frequency, and where they are coming from.

“We see there’s growth [in Web traffic] from all over the world,” Zari said. For instance, there was a recent 400-percent growth in visitors entering the website from Russia, leading to a decision to add more Russian-language content.

The students also see a growth in volunteers for and media coverage of their cause, which Zari said “proves to us the website is doing its job and the operation is fulfilling its goals.”

Call it ‘Premature Palestinian Empathy Syndrome’

By Eric Rozenman, JNS.org A Washington Post foreign affairs blogger, Ishaan Tharoor, listed the names, ages, and places of death of the 83 Palestinian Arabs killed in the first three days of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (“These are the names of 21 children killed in Gaza,” July 10, 2014), with the children identified by boldface type.

Tharoor noted that Israel said it was trying to minimize civilian casualties, but nevertheless, “civilians are dying.”

In a quick check of the first 24 names, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America’s (CAMERA) Israel office found that one through three were Hamas members. Numbers five through 12 were individuals who rushed into a house previously evacuated after an Israeli warning. (In violation of the laws of war, Hamas uses Gazans as “human shields.”)

Number 17 was a member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, like Hamas a U.S.-designated international terrorist organization. The fatalities listed 18 through 22 were family members of his. And number 24 apparently was another terrorist, affiliation not confirmed.

Much news media coverage of the first week of Protective Edge fixated on “disproportionate” casualties—166 Palestinian Arabs killed, more than 1,000 wounded in 1,300 Israeli airstrikes; no Israelis killed, more than

160 wounded, some seriously, in southern Israel alone after approximately 800 Palestinian rocket attacks. Such lopsided statistics—especially when illustrated with video or photographs of Gaza’s wounded and grieving—appear unfair, evidence of Israeli aggression.

But reporting appearances without context is not journalism. The ratio of Palestinian dead to Israeli airstrikes was 1.25 in 10. That—plus a CAMERA analysis of an Al-Jazeera television report indicating that Palestinian fatalities were disproportionately males of combat age (“Reporting of Casualties in Gaza,” July 14)—suggested that, as with Operation Cast Lead in December 2008 to January 2009 and Operation Pillar of Defense in November 2012, Israel was taking care to minimize noncombatant casualties.

Yes, “civilians are dying in Gaza.” But given Israel’s dropping of warning leaflets, preattack phone calls and text messages urging evacuation, and calling off strikes when civilians (especially children) plainly are present (“IAF Pilot calls off strike on Gaza target after spotting children nearby,” Ynet News, July 13), a “disproportionately” smaller number of civilians than otherwise would have died might be expected.

In any case, in war, proportionality deals with the minimum amount of force necessary to achieve a legitimate military objec-

tive. Given the objective—defeat of the Confederacy, overthrow of Nazi Germany and its Axis partners—the minimum legitimate force may be have a huge disparity and include, for example, the hundreds of thousands of Japanese killed by U.S. bombing before the atomic destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It has nothing to do with equivalent or “balanced” casualty rates.

In 2009, the Sinhalese Buddhist majority government of Sri Lanka crushed the rebels of the Tamil Hindu minority—the pioneer suicide bombers of the Tamil Tigers. Government forces ended 31 murderous years of insurrection and terrorism, failed offensives and peace talks by killing tens of thousands of people, gunmen and non-combatants.

Government loses, though significant, were proportionately much smaller.

The U.N. Human Rights Council has called for an investigation of war crimes allegedly committed by both sides. The Sri Lanka government condemned such charges as biased.

Regardless, this possible disproportion was not too newsworthy, judging by relatively sparse coverage.

Israel invests billions on warning systems, shelters, and missile defense for its own people, issues warnings to Palestinian Arabs, and uses precision munitions. The Hamas rulers of Gaza have let symbiotic NGOs (non-government or-

ganizations) spend hundreds of millions of U.S. and European foreign aid to entrench indirectly their theocratic rule. Subsidies from Iran, Qatar, and elsewhere in the Middle East have gone not to improving life in the Strip or even warning systems and bomb shelters but for anti-Israeli, anti-Jewish incitement, weapons, and underground fortifications.

For real disproportion, look to the more than 150,000 Syrians murdered, mostly civilians, and millions more made refugees in a civil war in which all sides target noncombatants. Look to Iraq, where people, again mostly non-combatants, die by the hundreds per week in similar intra-Arab, inter-Muslim slaughter. Or look to Israel, where—unlike any other U.N. member state—the vast majority of its population, 5 million people, now must live within range of a 15-to-90-second dash to a bomb shelter.

Superficial media reports focusing on “disproportionate” Palestinian casualties seem to assume that Israelis are equal in culpability to those attacking them. These reports imagine that the Palestinian public—despite its leaders’ repeated rejections of “two-state solutions” in exchange for peace—is an innocent bystander, and somehow the most newsworthy victim in the Middle East.

Eric Rozenman is the Washington director of CAMERA.

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Continued from page 1 boys, who, it was later discovered, were murdered within the hour that they were kidnapped by terrorists, were not found for 18 days.

“The Abishter wanted our tefillos.” he cried out, and said that some rabbis conjectured that “klal yisrael had to daven and come together for 18 days because of the missile crisis” that followed, that we needed to be protected.

Rabbi Raphael Pelcovitz, rabbi emeritus of the White Shul, read psalm 73.

Rabbi Steven Weil, senior managing director of the Orthodox Union, recounted, as we begin the period of bayn hametzarim, the three weeks culminating in the ninth of Av that commemorates the destruction of the Temples, that one third of Ashkenazic Jewry was destroyed during the crusades and noted that all tragedy and destruction stems from the destruction of the Bait Hamikdash. He said that it is not the physical destruction of the building that we mourn but our separation from G-d.

“The purpose of a taanit (fast day) [is to]

Five rabbis at Tuesday’s White Shul Kinnus, from left: Boruch Ber Bender, president Achiezer Community Resource Center; Shay Schechter, assistant to the rabbi, White Shul; Rami Brachyahu, Rav of Talmon and the Shaar Family; Eytan Feiner, rav of the White Shul; and Steven Weil, senior managing director, Orthodox Union.

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Strike won’t stop daf…

Continued from page 1 Some options will be to attend shiurim in the community, some given by the maggiday shiur in the morning.

“I give a 7:20 am shiur at Chabad and I am willing to do an 8 or 8:15 pm at Shaarei (Tefilah), Agudah of Long Island, or Shor Yoshuv” with a good location with “plenty of parking,” Cohen said.

He pointed out that many B&H employees participate and B&H is considering hiring buses for the duration of the strike. “We may give the shiur on the bus,” he said. “We can try the A train and see how that works out.”

He said that Rabbi Adler “is looking into the possibility of giving the shiur on the ferry from Beach 108th Street.”

The commuter daf is held Mondays through Fridays, following the daf yomi schedule, so the learners have to do the Saturday and Sunday pages on their own or with a different shiur. Legal holidays also put a crimp in their schedule since their train heads to Atlantic Terminal instead of Penn Station, requiring a transfer at Jamaica (opting to continue to Atlantic Ave. and take the subway to Manhattan from there, since transferring at Jamaica does not assure them of a spot to teach and learn).

The concept of daf yomi originated with Rabbi Meir Shapiro, introduced at the First World Congress of the Agudath Israel in 1923.

It continues today with thousands of Jews

learning the same two-sided page of Talmud all over the world. It enables Jews to learn all of the Talmud over a period of seven years and forges unity, where someone can join a daf yomi shiur anywhere in the world and literally be on the same page.

Cohen noted that many join the LIRR daf because it’s convenient and they wouldn’t learn the daf normally. Some guests join in, others listen in. Sometimes Cohen takes the train just to give the shiur and turns around to catch the train back. Rabbi Pesach Lerner used to do the same “many times.” The shiur begins at Woodmere and lasts about 40 minutes. “The railroad helps and gives us more time if we need it,” laughed Cohen, hinting at the occasional transit delay.

They are currently in their fourth cycle of the Talmud and just completed Taanis with a celebratory siyum (completion celebration).

Cohen said they always invite the non-Jews who are nearby as well as the LIRR staff to the siyum.

Cohen was once stopped on the street by a non-Jew who asked if he is the one who gives the “shiur on the train.” The man said that he comes and listens to the class when he gets on at Jamaica. Cohen noted that the man works in the jewelry business and knew a little Hebrew.

One conductor always asks what they are up to.

Said Cohen, “Torah will go on, either way.”

Rockaway ferry…

Continued from page 1 been no talk about that just yet, but there has been some discussion internally about other ports that could be used, such as Glen Cove.

At the end of the day, these things can ultimately be settled, but in any case, we would be available to help people get to work.”

The MTA said that while it is providing free ferry service in Glen Cove, there are currently no plans to expand the service in Rockaway.

Seastreak would operate a ferry, Barker said, from Glen Cove to East 34th Street in midtown, with three westbound runs in the morning and three eastbound at night. They would be able to carry 1,000 customers and trips would take 40 minutes. However, parking at Glen Cove is very limited, and the MTA recommends that passengers carpool or arrange

for drop-off and pickup.

Seastreak currently operates two vessels out of Rockaway — for $3.50 each way — with multiple runs in the morning and evening to lower Manhattan and midtown. Seastreak averages about 1,800 commuters per day round-trip, Barker said, and the larger boats can hold up to 500 people. Free parking is available in a lot across Beach Channel Drive, Barker said, with approximately 300 to 400 spots and additional parking in the street, although Barker recommends arriving early.

“First of all, there is no traffic on the ocean, and you get a beautiful relaxing ride to the city for $3.50,” Barker said. “There is a direct service without any traffic headaches and it’s a beautiful way to go to work.”

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do teshuva (repentence) like never before,” citing the current threat to “our precious tiny homeland.”

Rabbi Hershel Billet of the Young Israel of Woodmere, after reciting Psalm 121, noted that a commander of a Givati brigade wrote a letter in Hebrew citing their determination to fight those who curse the G-d of Israel. He wrote “Shma Yisrael Hashem Elokaynu Hashem Echad” and stressed the need to be unified and that Hashem will fight with them against their enemies.

Rabbi Kenneth Hain of Congregation Beth Sholom recited Psalm 130 and Rabbi Yaakov Feitman of Kehillas Bais Yehudah Tzvi read psalm 142.

Rabbi Yaakov Bender, rosh hayeshiva of Yeshiva Darchei Torah, noted the difficult situation in Israel, and recounted the midrash of the sapphire brick under G-d’s feet to remind Him of the suffering of the Jews in Egypt asking why does Hashem need a brick.

Rabbi Bender recounted the Entebbe hijacking and the Black September hijacking in

Big border crisis lies…

Continued from page 6 included in its year-end deportation statistics the numbers from a Border Patrol program that returns illegal immigrants to Mexico right after they cross the border. It is dishonest to count illegal immigrants apprehended by the Border Patrol along the border as ICE removals. And these ‘removals’ from the Border Patrol program do not subject the illegal immigrant to any penalties or bars for returning to the U.S. This means a single illegal immigrant can show up at the border and be removed numerous times in a single year — and counted each time as a removal. When the numbers from this Border Patrol program are removed from this year’s deportation data, it shows that removals are actually down nearly 20 percent from 2009. Another 40,000 removals are also included in the final deportation count but it is unclear where these removals came from.”

President Obama agreed that he fudged the numbers. In an October 2011 roundtable with reporters from the Spanish media, President Obama said, “The statistics are actually a little deceptive because what we’ve been doing is, with the stronger border enforcement, we’ve been apprehending folks at the borders and sending them back. That is counted as a deportation, even though they may have only been held for a day or 48 hours, sent back – that’s counted

as a deportation.”

Jessica Vaughn, a writer at the Center for Immigration Studies, provided the real numbers for Obama’s first term in December 2013.

The numbers examined were the Avg. Annual Deportation, as there are differences in the years served in the White House. Vaughn reported, “Because the Obama administration has blurred the lines of which agencies can take credit for deportations, the only fair way to assess their performance is to count all deportations done by all the DHS agencies. These are reported every year in the DHS Yearbook of Immigration Statistics in Table 39, which shows the number of ‘removals’ and ‘returns’ by all immigration enforcement agencies going back to 1927.”

The actual “deporter-in-chief” was Bill Clinton; in fact the last president who deported at a slower rate than Obama was Richard Nixon.

Instead of telling the truth, the mainstream media is simply protecting the President. And President Obama doesn’t really want a comprehensive immigration plan; he wants an issue, which he can use to bash the opposition. If he really wanted an immigration plan there would be provisions in the Senate immigration bill with hard-fast triggers judged by people outside our border, just as the bill Congress passed requires.

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Jordan, and called for a stop to “petty arguing and fighting” within the Jewish community.

We must care for each other and “walk out of here retaining achdus (unity),” he said.

Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, executive vice president of Agudath Israel of America, observed the “masses of people getting together tonight” and noted that individuals can call out to Hashem during Elul, but when Am Yisrael is united and comes together, then we can call Hashem anytime.

He theorized that maybe Hashem brings tzaros (suffering) to unite us and He wants to hear us daven. He ended with the hope that the three weeks will cure the sinat chinum (baseless hatred) among us and bring the rebuilding of the Bait Hamikdash.

Rabbi Shay Schachter, who wrote and put on the Internet a remarkable letter recounting his experience as a shaliach (messenger) of the White Shul to the three families sitting shiva and his experiences in Talmon, lauded the chinuch of the Rav of Talmon as bringing together the members of Talmon in the throes of the tragedy of Gil-Ad’s kidnapping and murder.

Then Rabbi Rami Brachyahu, the rav of Talmon and the Shaar family, said in Hebrew that leaders are chosen for their missions before birth, citing Moshe Rabbeinu and Yirmiyahu, and that neither wanted to be chosen.

He noted that Gil-ad would clarify the spelling of his name to his teachers as Gil-(joy) -ad(always). He recounted the murder of Nachshon Wachsman, how as with the three boys, so many prayed and yet we lost him as well, that they were chosen by G-d.

The unity in Talmon was an amazing experience, and all of the nation of Israel felt that those boys were ours, yeshiva students from the territories, studied in Gush Etzion and hitchhiked-everyone felt it was their story, he said. Rabbi Brachyahu urged all of Israel to remove the barriers that divide them, and with a good eye and a good heart we will thus renew the nation.

The shul davened the mincha service for fast days and concluded with maariv. The program ended with a dairy buffet to break the fast and Rabbi Brachyahu noted that the community of Talmon, Sephardim and Ashkenazim, prayed together last Shabbat in a display of achdut. Nochi Krohn sang and Rabbis Feiner and Schachter greeted the people, thanking them for coming.

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