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By Alex Costello, Herald Newspapers New York’s top elected officials visited Israel last week to stand in solidarity with the Jewish state in its conflict with Hamas.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo was accompanied by Senate Majority Co-Leaders Dean Skelos and Jeffery Klein and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on the 26-hour trip that was paid for with campaign funds, not taxpayer money. The leaders flew com-

mercially, on El Al. “I was absolutely overwhelmed when we got on the plane by the amount of support, and the people that were traveling to Israel that were aware of our mission,” Skelos, who represents the South Shore, told the Herald Newspapers on his return.

“A number of my constituents were on the plane.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu briefed the group on the attacks by Hamas and Israel’s re-

sponse. “It was going great, then he said, ‘I have to leave now because I have a phone call coming in with President Obama in 14 minutes,’” Skelos recounted.

New York has a population of 1.7 million Jews — the largest population outside Israel. On the trip, Skelos said, he met many people from New York who were supportive of the legislative leaders, and even ran into a few people from his district.

The group had lunch in Jerusalem at a New York-style pizzeria called Big Apple Pizza, where they dined with some fellow New Yorkers.

“One of the boys that was at the table with us, he was from West Hempstead, and he was studying Hebrew there for two months,” Skelos said. “A lot of New Yorkers and Long Islanders were there on vacation or visiting family while we were there.”

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LI flyover backs Israel

By Malka Eisenberg A Long Island flight club will fly Israel’s colors this Sunday.

At 10 am, 13 planes associated with the Israeli New York Flight Club, plan to take off from Republic Airport in Farmingdale and fly along Long Island’s South Shore, over Brooklyn beaches, along Manhattan’s West Side, and on to New Jersey.

A laminated American and Israeli flag will be affixed to each of the single engine four-seaters with blue and white flags taped to the underside of both wings, enabling people on the ground to see the flags as the

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Racing 5 Towners display love for IDF Beginning from the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway (HAFTR) field on Central Avenue in Lawrence, 55 participants headed to Washington Avenue to Broadway up to Frost Lane and back down Central Avenue in a 1K race on August 14 to raise money for the Friends of Israel Defense Forces.

Approximately $1,650 was pledged to support the FIDF, the Friends of the Israel Defense

Forces, an organization that offers a range of programs that address the educational, social, economic, recreational, spiritual, and cultural needs of the soldiers as well as the families of soldiers fallen in defense of Israel. FIDF was established in 1981 by Holocaust survivors and is headquartered in New York.

Zachary Grossman crossed the finish line first with a time of 2:26. Michael Polishuk placed second and Josh Shmuel and Kevin Kehni were

tied for third. Daniel, Zar, 10, was the first child to finish; his time was 4:10. Kim Keller, Grossman’s girlfriend, was the first women to finish with a time of 4:30. “It was a great opportunity to support a fantastic cause,” Grossman said.

Event coordinator Temmi Kramer said she appreciated the efforts of all the participants, the auxiliary police who provided security and sponsors: HAFTR, Gourmet Glatt and Warren Levi Martial Arts & Fitness.

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By Malka Eisenberg “It seems like the right thing to do, especially now,� said Natasha Kaplan-Marans, of Lawrence, smiling beside her parents and sister as she prepared to embark from JFK on her enlistment to the IDF last week.

When it comes to moving to Israel, people ask why, and these olim with Five Towns connections all had a ready answer, steeped in family histories, education and the age-old connection of Jews to the land. “I want to bring a part of my family to Israel — me,� said Natasha. She was a student at HAFTR elementary and Central High School and spent a post-high school year at Midreshet Amit in Israel.

Natasha’s Israeli roots run deep. Her great-grandfather was born in Jerusalem’s Yemin Moshe neighborhood in 1899 and ed — as “Palestinian refugeesâ€? — to the U.S. in the 1920s, in the wake of Arab terror attacks, and an uncle made aliyah 30 years ago, her father Hillel said. Hillel recalled his grandfather’s impeccable Hebrew, and said his grandfather worked as a rabbi, shochet and baal koreh before returning to Israel after retiring in 1968. “I wish Israel was geographically nearer,â€? said mom Shirley on Natasha’s move. “The transition for our family without her present will be difďŹ cult.â€? ••• Joining Beth Berman and her husband David in making aliyah on last week’s Nefesh B’Nefesh ight were their three teenage children, a married daughter and the daughter’s husband and baby, and David’s 93-year-old mother Lillian (Shaina Leah) Berman. Three other children are already in Israel, and one stayed behind to complete her studies at Stern College.

The family’s Israeli roots go back to Lillian’s mother, who was born in Israel and whose mother’s father was Rabbi Shimon Tzvi Hurwitz, a famous kabbalist in Jerusalem, head of the Shaar HaShamayim Yeshiva, David said. ••• Sporting matching blue and white T-shirts emblazoned with “Aliyah is my Protective Edge,â€? the Maryles family of North Woodmere made their way onto the plane. They disembarked proudly, posing for pictures,

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with father Rabbi Bini Maryles kissing the pavement at the landing strip near the old terminal at Ben Gurion Airport.

Now Executive Director of Shaalvim in Israel, Rabbi Maryles taught in the Yeshivah of Flatbush, Ramaz, Rambam and SKA, and was director of synagogue services at the Orthodox Union where he started Nach Yomi (and his voice is still one of the magidei shiur of the site); he later worked with Young Israel. “My husband always wanted to go,� said

mom Naomi, a lawyer. “This year he said now or never.� She said that this was an optimum time, with their oldest Avigayil,12, in eighth grade transitioning to high school. The other children are JJ, 10, Orly, 8, and Azi, 5. “I’ve been planning forever,� laughed Rabbi Maryles. “I inquired over the years; it became a serious conversation this year, the timing, the feel. The kids would get too old (to leave), factors come into play, employment, housing.

The kids are ready; it’s just a matter of deciding to go.�

Naomi took out blue and white cookies from Gourmet Glatt to eat as they collected their bags. They will be renting an apartment in the town of Chashmonaim.

The ongoing Operation Protective Edge “made it more emotional and powerful, we never for a minute considered not going. People for generations didn’t have the chance to be here, now we can and with Nefesh B’Nefesh it makes it easier,� he said.

He cited the recent reading of Veetchanan as “very powerful� and recalled his own bar mitzvah in Israel when his father spoke of being there “on the shoulders of those who wanted to be here and didn’t get the chance.�

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Visiting heroes of IDF at Tel Hashomer Hospital

By Malka Eisenberg They quietly and matter-of-factly describe the ďŹ erce battles that led to their injuries, but their eyes relive the events and the pain at the injuries and deaths of their fellow soldiers, their brothers. Yet they are determined in what they have to do, wanting to recover and return to their duties, although some, due to injuries, will not.

During a ceaseďŹ re in Protective Shield, the battle with Hamas in Gaza, The Jewish Star accompanied a small group of American expatriate rabbis and one current American rabbi to visit wounded IDF soldiers at Tel Hashomer Hospital in Ramat Gan, Israel.

Most of the soldiers are deep within the healing process; some were injured severely and those who see them now are astonished at their miraculous recoveries.

The visitors came to thank these young men who willingly walked into the line of ďŹ re to destroy the mechanisms, the tunnels, whose sole purpose was to terrorize and kill Jews in farms, homes and kindergartens and to kidnap and hold hostage.

After weeks of rockets pummeling Israe-

li cities and towns and terrorists emerging from tunnels to kill, Israel had no choice and launched a counter attack to attempt to stop the incessant bombing and dastardly threat of underground invasions.

During the torrent of rockets from Gaza, when Israel launched a ground invasion to locate and destroy the terror tunnels and missile launchers and counter air strikes with targeted ďŹ re, many Israelis and visitors came to show their appreciation to the soldiers. By last week, the ood had turned to a trickle.

Daniel (Mush) Meyer, executive director of the International Young Israel Movement’s Israel region visited along with Emanuel Feldman, rabbi emeritus of Congregation Beth Jacob in Atlanta and author of “Tales out of Shul,� now of Jerusalem; Rabbi David Mescheloff and wife Adina, formerly of Chicago, now of Moshav Chemed; Rabbi Reuven Tradburks, formerly of Toronto, now director of the Rabbinical Council of America’s Israel region; and Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, of Congregation Bnei Yeshurun in Teaneck, New Jersey (and a musmach of Yeshiva Bnei Torah of

Far Rockaway).

The rabbis listened to the soldiers’ stories and took their Hebrew names; they said a Mi Shebairach (blessing for healing) for each soldier, with everyone else in the room responding, “Amen.�

One soldier lost his leg under the knee in a rocket attack; he calmly described the intense burning pain, a medic’s placing of the tourniquet and, as he patted the bandaged stump, that he will receive and then walk with a prosthesis.

Another noted that the medications he was taking suppressed his appetite and he lost 11 kilo so far. When he was told of the love and support of the New York Jewish community, his eyes widened and moistened, surprised that a visitor would choose to spend a day in Israel in a hospital.

Another described a booby trapped house in Gaza at the mouth of a tunnel, the device triggered by terrorists, the site engulfed in ames.

There were soldiers with shrapnel; a soldier without ďŹ ngers, one with a stapled skull, with skin grafts, their bodies speckled with shrapnel wounds. Family members

maintain a vigil at each soldier’s bedside.

Meyer and the rabbis handed out letters of gratitude and support to the soldiers from a pile of a thousand, written by supporters of the IDF worldwide on the Young Israel website. One letter was from Tammy Friedman of Woodmere.

One soldier said that he saw G-d’s hand, miracles, that he was showered with shrapnel in an attack but the area where his tzitzit and his friend’s tzitzit were were free of shrapnel. He said a bullet pierced a soldier’s helmet, from one side to the other in the space over his head, but didn’t graze him.

As the group turned to leave, two soldiers lined up in their wheelchairs, maneuvering down the hall, demonstrating wheelies, balancing, tilting the wheel chairs up on their back wheels.

Names of some of the soldiers visited: Amit Shachar ben Orli; Gal ben Leeza; Ohad ben Rut Esther; David ben Ronit; Ofer ben Anna; Bar ben Rozit; Ron ben Sarah; Shani Mati ben Deganit; Meir ben Chana; Amos ben Sigal, and an injured civilian, Solomon ben Chana.

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Need to win war and change enemies’ education ammo in our guns, with no radio, but all that was just a distant thought in the back of my mind as we were clearly gaining on this boy as we entered deeper into the back alleys of this Ramallah camp.

Finally we appeared to have him cornered as he ran into a door in a courtyard and threw it shut behind him, seconds before we arrived and began banging on the now locked door. A second later, Shmuel, the reserve soldier who was with me, let out a yell as the sound of a cinderblock exploding a foot behind us filled the air. As we turned around, we saw another huge cinderblock flying through the air from four or five stories up, and I realized we had fallen into a well-planned trap.

We were at one corner of a rather large courtyard, surrounded by five story buildings on all sides, with the only exit diagonally across this wide-open space. And as we looked up, we saw two masked men on the rooftop above us; one had another huge cinderblock held high above his head, with only the upper part of his torso visible, and the other was picking up another block, both next to two large piles of additional cinderblocks — and we had no way out. The look of sheer terror on Shmuel’s face is ingrained in my mind to this day.

Fortunately, the driver had automatically called in the incident, and our deputy battalion commander who arrived on the scene (based on the gunfire he heard) found us in

time to avoid serious consequences, but the memory of that experience is still with me.

And one of the questions that later gave me much food for thought, was how I felt about that ten-year-old boy, who in retrospect was clearly part of a well-organized plan to kill me.

Unfortunately, this is a story that repeats itself pretty much daily. Much has been said and written about the use by Hamas and Hezbollah of children as human shields, but the ethical dilemma does not change much, even when such children are used as combatants on the field of battle. Can a seven-yearold boy in Lebanon really be held accountable when he is trained from age four to fire an RPG at oncoming tanks? As a Commander, you have to choose between your men in the sites of an anti-tank missile, and the prospect of killing an innocent (??) seven-year-old boy? And if this boy is indeed innocent (it’s hard to blame a seven year old boy) then who is responsible? here is a fascinating and yet challenging mitzvah in this week’s portion Re’eh, which may seem to our modern ears a little extreme: “You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations worshipped. … You shall burn their altars. … You shall destroy their name from that place.” (Deuteronomy 12;2-3) Why was all this necessary? Interestingly, Maimonides points out that this mitzvah only applies in the land of Israel, and pos-

While we should never stop dreaming of the world as it could be, we should also be careful not to stop seeing the world as it still is.

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sibly only when the Jewish people are ruling in the land of Israel. So it cannot merely be about destroying all foreign forms of idolatrous worship; there is no mitzvah to destroy Stonehenge, the Pyramids, or the ancient temples of the Aztecs.

Rather, this was part of the Torah’s recipe for creating a healthy society, based on an objective moral ethic, which could be a model for the Nations, as to how the world could be. It would seem that as long as the houses of idol worship stand, the Jewish people will not have rid themselves of those pagan sacrifices involving murder, child sacrifice, and licentious amoral sexual practices. (It should be noted that none of this applies today without a Jewish high court or Sanhedrin, alongside a king and prophet all of whom act as a Divinely based balance of power and moral objectivity.)

Perhaps the Torah is suggesting just how critical the influence of our environment can be. Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers) enjoins us to beware of evil neighbors, no matter who we may be and even if we have nothing to do with such neighbors; the impact of such an environmental influence cannot be underestimated.

All of which brings us back to that Arab boy throwing rocks at civilians in passing cars. Make no mistake about it: with all the current discussions of rockets and missiles and armed terrorists targeting innocent civilians, a rock is a weapon, and it can kill just as easily as a missile, especially when hurled at a passing vehicle travelling at speeds of 60 miles per hour. But how can we hold a child accountable, when he is brought up in a society that preaches violence and emulates terrorists who strap themselves with explosive Continued on page 14

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can still see the terrified look on his face as we both realized, in the same moment, that we had been set up.

We were in the midst of a month-long stint of IDF army reserve duty in Ramallah, during the first intifada, where daily stone FROM THE HEART throwing and Molotov OF JERUSALEM cocktails had become the norm. We were into the second week of our tour and the frustration had already begun to set in, particularly on this stretch of road alongside El Bireh, a “refugee camp” on the outskirts of Ramallah.

Every day, while on jeep patrol, we could get calls that rocks had Rabbi Binny been thrown by Arab Freedman youths at Israeli cars driving along the road, but by the time we got there, all we would find were the rocks strewn on the road, often along with shattered glass, and the perpetrators long gone. Until this particular afternoon: We happened to be only a few hundred yards down the road when the call came over the radio and as we came around a curve in the road, a young boy, probably no more than ten or eleven years old, was throwing a stone at a passing vehicle. So without a thought, as the jeep screeched to a halt, two of us jumped out, to give chase, while the driver stayed behind with the vehicle.

We were in such a hurry to finally catch one of these kids, that I had not even grabbed my web pouching with extra ammo and first aid. We were both running with only the

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planes fly overhead. Some planes will have the words “We love Israel” and a Star of David taped to the underside of the planes as well. About 50 people, pilots and passengers, will participate in the flyover.

“It bothers me so much to see the negative media about Israel,” said Robert Keleti, club founder and a Federal Aviation Administration gold seal flight instructor. “I want to show to the world that many pilots in the United States know the truth and are supporters [of] Israel to fight against terrorism.”

Keleti said the planes will pass over Long Beach and Coney Island from 11:30 am to noon, returning around 2 pm to fly over the Rockaways and Long Beach.

Natan Hoffmann, a flight student at the club and its event coordinator, noted that in part the flyover is a response to a recent flight of a plane sporting a sign with a swastika.

“What the gentiles do the Jewish people do better,” he said laughing, noting that it was a “slap in the face.” That had been one plane — this will be 13 planes in a row.

Sunday’s “immense and impressive flyover [will] show the world the need to support Israel and what it stands for,” said Hoffman.

The club has about 50 members who are student pilots from Israel studying to obtain U.S. licensing, American pilots, and aviation enthusiasts. They meet once every two months to discuss aviation safety and to hear lectures from El Al pilots.

Hoffmann said that he was interested in flying “since I was born. My parents recall me watching planes” as a very young child and always reading books about airplanes. Now 23, Hoffmann recalled his first flight with his fifth grade rebbe at Yeshiva Darchei Torah, Rabbi Yaakov Krantz who had a pilot’s license.

“I was thrilled with euphoria,” he said. “It was unbelievable. Once I tasted the sky I always wanted to go back.” He attended Mesivta Ateres Yaakov for high school, davens at Anshei Chesed

The visitors were taken out into the countryside to see one of the installations of Israel’s Iron Dome, the missile defense system with which the Israeli Defense Forces have shot down incoming Hamas rockets, that can reach most of the country from launching points in Gaza.

“What’s interesting about this defense system is that, within a couple of seconds, the people manning the computer when a missile is launched have to make a determination as to whether they’re going to send one of these anti-missile devices, because they cost $30,000 apiece,” Skelos explained. “So the computer will tell them that this missile is going to land in a corn field. If it’s on target to hit an area with citizens, then they’ll release the anti-missile device.”

Accompanied by Shimon Peres, the former Israeli prime minister and past-president, the delegation explored one of the tunnels that cross under the Israel-Gaza border that Hamas built to launch terror attacks to kill and kidnap Israelis.

“They were sophisticated,” Skelos said of the tunnels. “They had electricity. Most of them were big enough that you could just walk through. My perception was, when I heard about tunnels, that you’d be crawling around on the ground to get in.”

The trip was eye-opening, he added, because he was able to see what was happening firsthand.

“A lot of people in this country think it’s indiscriminate bombing, but it’s not,” he said.

“We listened to a communication that was going on with a hospital. The woman at the hospital was saying the place was clear. Ultimately, they found out she was lying. Hamas wanted the hospital bombed.

“And [the Israelis] showed missiles being launched from different locations, like hospitals and schools. You actually saw them being launched. It’s not like it’s normal war. [Hamas is] using civilians as shields.”

Though Israel was under attack, Skelos said he never feared for his safety (although back at home, his wife, Gail, did, he said). The visitors had military guards with them while they toured

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Hoffmann began flying lessons in June 2010 and has logged 250 flight hours so far. His goal is to complete 1,500 flight hours and pass the written, oral and practical tests necessary to earn an airline transport pilots license (ATP). He hopes to get a job as a flight instructor to be able to complete the hours needed over the course of four years. He noted that Keleti has been a teacher for 35 years and El Al pilots come to train with the flight club to fly Cessnas in the U.S. Keleti, who was born in Hungary and moved with his family to Israel when he was two, founded the club in 1999 when he moved to New York.

He served in the Israeli Air Force, earned a degree in Special Education and taught in Israel, France and Denmark but continued working as a flight instructor as well. He said that he has many former students who are employed as captains in airlines worldwide. Over the last two years he said that he received an award from AOPA (Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association) and was recognized by them as the top flight instructor in the U.S. They began planning this event two weeks ago, Keleti said. He noted that he has extensive experience flying in formation; they fly in formation over New York City every year on Israel Independence Day, “and land in a nice airport next to a big lake and make a barbecue.”

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Now that they are back, Skelos said, the state will continue supporting Israel, and make sure people understand that Hamas is perpetrating acts of violence, against which Israel is defending itself.

“I think the media has overemphasized pictures of some of the destruction that’s occurred in Gaza, but they haven’t shown what Hamas is doing,” he said. “The missiles that are being launched, the fact that those three young students were brutally murdered, the constant attempts to inflict harm and the need to figure out different ways to do it.

“I’m firmly convinced that Israel is not looking for war,” he added. “But just like our country would defend us if we were attacked, they have the right to defend themselves from the missiles and terrorism of Hamas.”

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trolling through Jerusalemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s historic Yemin Moshe quarter on a pleasant August morning, my ears caught a ringing, melodic sound emanating from within the walls of the Old City, perhaps half a mile from where I stood. This being a Sunday, the sound I heard was the chiming of church bells, welcoming Christian worshippers to morning services.

Normally, there is Ben Cohen, JNS something joyous about the sound of those bells, particularly in a city that contains the key holy sites of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. But on this day, I felt a profound sadness upon hearing them. For Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, is one of the few places in the Middle East whereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;despite what malicious anti-Zionist propagandists will tell youâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Christians can practice their faith freely.

In the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, about one dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drive from here, only a minuscule handful of terriďŹ ed Christians remain, the vast majority having been driven out by the savage terrorists of the Islamic State jihadist group.

The ethnic cleansing of Mosulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Christians was accompanied by the destruction of numerous holy sites, including an 1,800-year-old church and the tomb of the prophet Jonah. As Mosulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Patriarch Louis Sako mournfully observed at the end of July, â&#x20AC;&#x153;For the ďŹ rst time in the history of Iraq, Mosul is now empty of Christians.â&#x20AC;? On any Sunday morning in that beleaguered city, you will no longer hear the sound of church bells.

The Islamic Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s onslaught has raged for several months now. Having spread from Syria into Iraq, the terrorist organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aim is to set up an Islamic caliphate in all the territories it conquers. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a mistake to believe that the national borders that we in the West recognize as sacrosanct are in any way respected by these modern day barbarians. As far as the Islamic State is concerned, there is certainly no place called Israel, and no place called Kurdistan, but there is also no Syria, no Iraq, no Lebanon, no Jordan. All these states are regarded as a contiguous territory where Islamic sharia lawâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as interpreted by a group of criminals, rapists, and torturersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;will remain eternally supreme.

Unless, of course, we in the West wake up to the threat and understand that the only way to roll back the Islamic State is to pulverize it

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without mercy, killing as many of its ďŹ ghters as we can, and seizing back some of the critical locations now under their control, such as the Mosul dam, which supplies water and electricity to northern Iraq.

There are, thankfully, signs that this process is now underway. After months of ignoring a worsening situation, despite the persistent pleas of our Kurdish alliesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;along with Israel, the best, most loyal, and most reliable friends the United States has in the Middle Eastâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the Obama administration is now gingerly offering sorely needed military and logistical support.

Important European allies, like France and Britain, are following suit, sending weapons and advisors to assist the Kurdish soldiers, the peshmerga, who are the ďŹ rst line of defense against the Islamic State. Backed by U.S. air strikes, the peshmerga now appear poised to take back the Mosul dam.

There was a horrendous irony in the fact that while much bien-pensant opinion in the West was bemoaning a fake â&#x20AC;&#x153;genocideâ&#x20AC;? in Gaza, a real one was taking place with ferocious rapidity in Iraq, beginning with the Christians and then extending to the Yazidis, an ancient faith of some 500,000 people who are ethnically Kurdish. And had it not been for the astonishing courage of a female Iraqi parliamentarian, Vian Dakhil of the Kurdistan

Democratic Party, the world may well have remained stuck in its myopia.

Earlier this month, Dakhil took to the ďŹ&#x201A;oor of the Iraqi parliament, delivering an impassioned speech on behalf of her people that ended with her breaking down and sobbing. Many of those who watched the speech were also in tears as she choked out those desperate, ďŹ nal words; as I listened to Dakhil, my ďŹ rst thoughts were of the Polish resistance ďŹ ghter Jan Karski and the Jewish Bund international representative Szmuel Zygielbojm, both of whom attempted to alert the Allied powers to the Holocaust befalling Jews under Nazi occupation.

Then, a few days later, when I learned that Dakhil had been injured in a helicopter crash while delivering aid to Yazidis trapped on Mount Sinjar, my heart sank even more.

Thankfully, however, Dakhil is alive, and continuing to raise her voice against this grotesque genocide.

The horrors of northern Iraq have compelled the Obama administration to both quell its isolationist instincts and to delay the muchvaunted policy â&#x20AC;&#x153;pivotâ&#x20AC;? from the Middle East to East Asia. However much we try, the Middle East will not let us go. And yet we still have no grand strategy for the region, no sense of how we want it to evolve, no doctrine to bring staContinued on page 14

The evil is back, but it never left J

ust as World War I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t prove to be â&#x20AC;&#x153;the war to end all wars,â&#x20AC;? the 20th century didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t turn out to be when the nearly unimaginable brutality and indescribable evil represented

by German dictator Adolf Hitlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nazi regime was deďŹ nitively laid to rest.

The evil is back. Bigtime.

This time itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the form of the militant Islamic State of Iraq and Joe Gandelman Syria (ISIS), which is battling to take over Syria and Iraq and has already blurred the two countriesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; boundaries.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leaving trails of bodies â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and horrors â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in its path. If it were a movie, you could title early 21st century â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Evil Strikes Back.â&#x20AC;?

The images of this Sunni group that even Al Qaeda reportedly found too brutal are coming fast and furious. Only this isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Hollywood, but a nightmarish reality faced by those in Syria or Iraq whose lives cross with a group seeking to take over the Middle East and some say, beyond by imposing an ultra-conservative caliphate.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a case of bloody ends justifying warped, theological means. According to The Daily

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Mail, a 21-page letter found at Osama bin Ladenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s compound after his killing urged the cutting of all ties with ISIS because its ultra-brutality could damage Al Qaedaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reputation. And Al Qaeda didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exactly enjoy the reputation of a group that played Patty Cake with inďŹ dels.

Populations that cross paths with Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s self-declared Islamic State must convert to Islam and pay tribute â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or else. The Internet brims with grim examples of or-elses: photos and videos, many hyped via social media by ISIS to create fear and recruit.

They show mass execution shootings of Iraqi security forces, graphic beheadings, and rows of victimsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; heads on sticks. One shows ďŹ ghters walking bound prisoners over to the waterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s edge, making them kneel, then shooting them in the back of the head and pushing them quickly into the water. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unďŹ&#x201A;inching assembly-linemass-murder that would make Hitler proud.

According to Reuters, an Iraqi government ofďŹ cial reported that ISIS killed 500 Yazidis, including women and children who were buried alive. ISIS is also systematically destroying Iraqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cultural and religious artifacts.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll never forget how stunned my late father Richard Gandelman was in the weeks following 9/11. He and other members of The Greatest Generation thought the kind of evil Hitler represented was eradicated when America won the war. Shortly after 9/11, I sat with him and other family members at Carmineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tuscan

Grill in New Haven and when 9/11 came up he seemed doubly anguished. I sensed he had felt that his grandkids wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to grow up in this kind of world -- and now it was clear that The Evil had not vanished but merely resurfaced elsewhere under a different name.

You get the feeling that the extent of ISISâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; threat â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including in the long-term to Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s national security â&#x20AC;&#x201D; isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fully grasped by policy makers or the American public. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A militarized Islamic State made secure and permanent by dismembering Syria and Iraq is a far worse danger to the world order than Russiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annexation of Crimea,â&#x20AC;? wrote The Moderate Voiceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Foreign Columnist Brij Khindaria. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It will alter power equations in the entire region stretching from Lebanon to India and West China. It could inspire creation of similar Islamic States in Libya and Afghanistan, which are teetering on the edge of chaos.â&#x20AC;?

He warns: â&#x20AC;&#x153;It will also trigger a ďŹ erce rivalry between IS and the remnants of al-Qaeda.â&#x20AC;Ś Both may undertake spectacular acts of terrorism against Americans and Europeans to seek leadership of Muslim extremists ďŹ ghting against the Westâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;decadentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; inďŹ&#x201A;uence and moderate Muslims in the Arab world.â&#x20AC;?

Can Americans take this seriously enough?

Khindaria and others point out that President Barack Obama still seems to view ISIS as a regional problem.

From all indications, ISIS is d-e-a-d serious.

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By Dmitriy Shapiro, JNS.org Washington Jewish Week Prospective candidates are testing the waters for possible presidential bids in 2016—primarily candidates considering running in the currently wide-open Republican race. Thus when Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky), one of the most visible potential contenders in 2016, said that he had never proposed to cut foreign aid to Israel, many in the pro-Israel community took notice.

“I’ve never said oh my goodness! Let’s target aid to Israel … I said you know what, to get to an ultimate goal maybe we should start by eliminating aid to countries that hate us, countries that burn our flag. I’ve been very up front to acknowledge that Israel isn’t one of the countries. Israel is our friend. I have never had a bill that had Israel’s name in it to eliminate aid to Israel,” Paul told an audience at the Campbellsville Chamber of Commerce in Kentucky Monday, reported the local news channel WBKO. Paul also defended his previous record on funding to Israel to Yahoo News political reporter Chris Moody on Aug. 4.

“We’ve never had a legislative proposal to do that … Israel has always been a strong ally of ours and I appreciate that. I voted just this week to give money — more money — to the Iron Dome, so don’t mischaracterize my position on Israel,” he added.

“I think he has, in his own words, a new appreciation of the true security needs of Israel and I don’t think there’s any issue about him voting against any specific military aid to Israel,” said Texas businessman and Republican activist Fred Zeidman, who has met with Paul to discuss his stance on Israel, among other important campaign issues.

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But critics such as Moody have pointed out that Paul’s proposal in his first year as senator in 2011 to balance the U.S. federal budget did call for a cut to foreign aid entirely. Though the proposal did not specifically “target” Israel, it did not also exclude the country from this cut to aid.

The other claim by Paul and his staff that he had voted in favor of emergency funding of $225 million for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system does ignore the fact that senators often pass legislation without resorting to the time-consuming roll call vote.

Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) had

asked if there are any objections to passing the bill, and Paul merely did not object.

“I have a lot of sympathy and respect for Israel as a democratic nation, as a fountain of peace and a fountain of democracy within the Middle East,” Paul told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in a Jan. 2011 interview. “But at the same time, I don’t think funding both sides of the arms race, particularly when we have to borrow the money from China to send it to someone else. We just can’t do it anymore. The debt is all-consuming and it threatens our well-being as a country.”

Paul made a similar argument to ABC’s Jonathan Karl. “I support Israel. I want to be known as a friend of Israel, but not with money you don’t have,” he said.

The newest statement from Paul’s office said that “in 2011, Sen. Paul proposed a budget resolution that did not include certain foreign assistance programs in an effort to balance the budget in five years” but that “subsequent budget proposals made by Sen. Paul have included up to $5 billion for foreign assistance to account for U.S.-Israel security interests.”

Recently the National Journal reported that Paul has also been courting prominent Jewish conservatives in an effort to distance himself from the rhetoric of his father, former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), who had railed against U.S. involvement in the Middle East and against the Israeli lobby.

Israel “wasn’t an issue that he had focused on before,” Zeidman said. However, the younger Paul did visit Israel in January 2013. “I [don’t] think now that he has spent a lot more time trying to understand that issue, we’ll have a problem with regard to Israel,” Zeidman said.

in $180G JNF theft

A Westbury woman has pleaded guilty to stealing the identity of a Suffolk County resident in order to cash thousands of dollars in checks stolen from the Rockville Centrebased Jewish National Fund (JNF), District Attorney Kathleen Rice said on Wednesday.

The woman is expected to receive two consecutive sentences of nine months in jail, a civil judgment of $180,577.48 to the JNF, and $400 in reparations to the identity theft victim, Rice said.

In February, the woman opened several business bank accounts in the names of JNF vendors so she could cash checks stolen from the charity by using the stolen identity of a Suffolk County resident, Rice said.

The case came to the attention of police when the defendant attempted to make a withdrawal after depositing a check stolen from the JNF in the amount of $71,239.24.

The investigation did not find any relationship between the identity theft victim and the charity, Rice said.

The woman was arrested in April by the Nassau County Police Department Crimes Against Property Squad, with assistance from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Rockville Centre Police Department. Assistant DA Diane Peress, chief of DA Rice’s Economic Crimes Bureau, and ADA Whitney Matthews are prosecuting the case. The woman is represented by Linda Lebovitz of the Nassau County Legal Aid Society.

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THE JEWISH STAR August 22, 2014 • 26 AV 5774

Rand Paul changes course on Israel Guilty plea

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By Maayan Jaffe, JNS.org “The goal is to make education accessible Devorah Katz believes that Jewish educaand inspiring,” says Katz, whose background tion should excite and inspire.

With this philosophy, Katz launched Chal- is in curriculum writing. Katz oversees lahCrumbs.com — a site that originally was the curriculum for the Global Day of Jewa resource for mothers but also won the favor ish Learning initiative of renowned scholar Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinof early childhood educators saltz. She has also taught across Israel and the United extensively in the classroom, States. working with children rangLast April, Katz added a ing in age from preschool to new component to her webhigh school. site: vibrant and modern Katz, who lives near Jecoloring pages related to the rusalem, until now has weekly Torah portion (parsha) not fundraised for Challah that is read in synagogue. The Crumbs or any of its free Jewproduct was launched followish learning products. But ing a successful Kickstarter because she needs to work campaign — Katz fundraised closely with a paid graphic $6,000 in 12 days, surpassing designer, she says the colorher goal. ing pages need a budget. She The parsha sheets, as Katz describes the rest of the task calls them, “reflect our values … and encourage teachable &KDOODK&UXPEV FRP FUHDWRU 'H as “a labor of love,” and says her household reflects that moments,” she says.

YRUDK .DW] passion. Her husband is also While there are many other Jewish-themed coloring sheets on the an educator. His focus is hands-on Torah market, Katz says that few of them recognize learning, including the creation of a mobile women in positive ways. She also notes that planetarium and a matzah factory.

Gila Brill and Aliza Sokol have been usmany of the so-called coloring pages are detailed images that are too difficult for kids to ing Katz’s learning products since they first became available. Brill says she prints the design.

Many of the sheets on Katz’s site contain parsha pages each week and colors them hertext integrated into the design in Hebrew self. She then hangs them on the wall of her and English. The verses or questions serve 14-month-old’s bedroom, and uses them to as discussion starters—in the classroom or tell her stories and decorate her room. Brill

describes the pages as “different, engaging, and fun.”

Sokol, meanwhile, has also found a practical classroom use for Challah Crumbs — and most recently the new coloring pages — in her role as a camp educator. She publishes the pages in her camp’s weekly newsletter, and asks students to color them in and then find the place in the parsha the individual sheet references.

“The sheets are a springboard to talk about main themes in the parsha,” says Sokol. “[Challah Crumbs] is everything you need in one adorable website.”

Each week for the next year, Katz plans to release another sheet in conjunction with that week’s reading. She says some Torah portions — such as Tazriah and Metzorah, which deal with physical ailments resulting from spiritual causes — are more challenging to make into coloring pages than others, but she is confident of being able to get the job done.

“In one year,” says Katz, “our dream will be realized and we will have a full set of par-

sha coloring pages.”

To download the latest parsha coloring page, visit www.challahcrumbs.com

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home, but also of a rich literary culture, that, like Yiddish itself, combined Jewish motifs and content with European form.

Classics of Yiddish literature include the works of Sholem Aleichem (the pen name of Sholem Rabinowitz, 1859-1916), whose stories on the protagonist Tevye the Dairyman are known to a general audience as the basis for the musical â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fiddler on the Roof,â&#x20AC;? and Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991), who became the only Yiddish writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Many students come to class with preconceived notions about Yiddish, such as itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a real language, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a dialect, it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have grammar, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a language of jokes and curses,â&#x20AC;? says Legutko. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a full-ďŹ&#x201A;edged language, and I place a lot of emphasis on grammar in my teaching, so the students are often surprised that they have to learn grammatical rules and concepts that are entirely foreign to English-speakers, such as dative and accusative cases; or to memorize lists of irregular past participle forms of verbs.â&#x20AC;?

Another challenge students encounter, says Legutko, is that the language taught in academia is standard Yiddish, the so-called klal shprakh (an equivalent of Received Pronunciation, or Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s English in Great Britain), which was created by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research prior to World War II and is a variety that almost none of the Yiddish speakers hailing from Europe use. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The students trying to communicate in Yiddish with the native speakers, often en-

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counter some sort of resistance such as, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;No, this is not how you say it,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; which may be discouraging,â&#x20AC;? Legutko says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But the nakhes of Yiddish is greater than these challenges.â&#x20AC;?

Born and raised in KrakĂłw, Poland, Legutko didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know she was Jewish until she was 23. By then, she was already deeply submerged in Jewish culture and history, working as an English-speaking tour guide to Kazimierz, the former Jewish quarter of KrakĂłw and a town which boasts more than 700 years of Jewish history. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was fascinated with Jewish traditions and religion, loved reading Singer, and only then found out about my Jewish roots.â&#x20AC;Ś Talk about genetic memory. I started learning Yiddish in order to read Singer in the

By Robert Gluck, JNS.org For those who try to get in better touch with their Ashkenazi Jewish heritage by studying Yiddish at the college level, there are challengesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but those can be outweighed by the nakhes (pride or pleasure) of rediscovering the nearly lost language. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The most exciting thing about learning Yiddish is that it opens the door to the fascinating world of Yiddish culture that has ďŹ&#x201A;ourished for over a thousand years and awaits explorers, researchers, translators and educators,â&#x20AC;? says Agi Legutko, director of the Yiddish language program in the department of Germanic languages at Columbia University in New York.

Such colleges as Columbia, the University of Maryland, and New York University (NYU), have Yiddish programs. The language was spoken by about 13 million people before the devastation of the Holocaust.

Yiddishâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s origins date back to the 11th century, when Jews settled in German-speaking lands. They came to speak a language that fused elements from German dialects with Hebrew-inďŹ&#x201A;uenced Aramaic and Romance languages. With the eastward migration of Jews during the Middle Ages, Yiddish was transplanted onto Slavic soil, adding Slavic to the mix of languages that shaped the structure and form of Yiddish.

For centuries, Yiddish deďŹ ned Jewish existence in central and eastern Europe, and also in New World countries where Jews immigrated. It was the language not only of the

original, but also as a way of going back to my roots,â&#x20AC;? Legutko says.

Unlike Legutko, Gennady Estraikh, the Rauch Associate Professor of Yiddish Studies at NYU, grew up speaking Yiddish. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I grew up in a Yiddish-speaking family in Ukraine, worked as managing editor of the Moscow Yiddish literary monthly Sovetish Heymland, and my Oxford doctoral dissertation was on Yiddish,â&#x20AC;? Estraikh tells JNS. org. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I teach almost exclusively graduate students. I try to equip them for their research.â&#x20AC;?

Adi Mahalel, a Yiddish instructor at The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland, did not grow up with Yiddish, but studied the language as an undergraduate at the University of Haifa and at Columbia completed his PhD on the Yiddish/Hebrew writer Il Peretz.

Originally, Mahalel studied Yiddish because he wanted to read authors Aleichem and Singer in the language, but he said that his quest turned into more than that. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I got interested in all aspects of Yiddish culture,â&#x20AC;? Mahalel says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I teach Yiddish, one of the highlights is that it is very ďŹ&#x201A;uid. It absorbed many inďŹ&#x201A;uences over the centuries. In the past, it was the language of the home. In the present, it is the language of certain Jewish groups. Saying it is only the language of the home is an immigrant mentality. Yiddish is the language of the whole Jewish national identity it was created around.â&#x20AC;?

There are many opportunities to practice Yiddish online, notes Legutko, such as courses offered by learnyiddishlive.com or the Yiddish Book Center. Columbia is now also preparing an online database of Yiddish learning opportunities.

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Nearly lost Yiddish newly popular among students

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Filling a beggarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s purse On the night that Jerry arrived home from camp, and he was eating downstairs, Jerry realized there was no ketchup. His dad offered to get it as he wanted to get something else as well. When he walked into the kitchen, there was Jerryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s friend with his hand in Jerryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s momâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pocketbook taking out money. Suddenly it clicked. For months Jerryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mom had been missing cash, very often. She didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t remember spending that much money, but she thought she was forgetting. Now it all made sense. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really the TV shows he was after. He said he wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say anything to Jerry or the others, but he wanted the boy to tell his parents and to have them call him. But they never called. Finally he called them and the boy always answered. Eventually he spoke to them and of course they couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford to pay them back and Jerryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dad was ok with that, he just wanted the young boy to understand that this was not appropriate behavior.

After hearing the story, I asked if at anytime his mom thought someone was stealing from her and he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Never, she shared everything they had, and only wished that the young boy had asked them for help. They would have been glad to assist him.â&#x20AC;? I then asked Jerry why he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think it was odd that a 14 year old boy would be treating him to all that, and he said, in true Jerry fashion, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought he was a great friend.â&#x20AC;? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the difference between Jerry and me. I would have immediately been skeptical.

Five years later, when Jerry went to Israel for the ďŹ rst time, his mom gave him â&#x20AC;&#x153;sheleach mitzvah geltâ&#x20AC;? to give to poor people.

There was quite a large amount of dollar bills. Jerry asked ďŹ&#x201A;abbergasted, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Where am I going to ďŹ nd beggars in Israel to give this money to?â&#x20AC;?

Right off the plane he went to the Kotel.

He began asking out loud, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Where can I ďŹ nd poor people to give Mitzvah gelt to?â&#x20AC;?

Suddenly, in what looked like the Frumma Sarah cemetery scene in Fiddler on the Roof, Jerry was accosted by a rapidly expanding throng of beggars, all clamoring for the money that Jerry had in his hands.

Within moments the huge stack of bills was gone and the crowd was still not satisďŹ ed, prompting him to share a substantial part of the spending money his parents gave him for the summer. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t so hard after all to ďŹ nd beggars in Jerusalem.

Talking of beggars, here is a creative side dish recipe called a Beggarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Purse.

Beggarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s purse ďŹ lled with potatoes Ingredients: CrĂŞpes 4 eggs 1 cup all-purpose ďŹ&#x201A;our 1/2 cup milk 1/2 cup water 1/2 teaspoon salt 3 Tbs melted butter 8 large Idaho or golden potatoes, peeled, boiled and mashed.

2 large onions, chopped ďŹ nely and sautĂŠed till they are golden brown and soft.

3 cubes crushed garlic (I use Dorot brand) Salt and pepper to taste.

Add the garlic to the sautĂŠed onions when they are almost ready. Mix well and add to the mashed potatoes along with salt and pepper.

Ribbons 2 bunches of scallions; just the long green parts will be used. Place in microwave for 15 seconds; you just want to make them limp so they are pliable.

Preparation

Beat eggs with ďŹ&#x201A;our, milk, water and salt and melted butter. Cover the bowl and let the batter sit at room temperature for 1 hour.

To prepare crĂŞpes, spray an 8-inch nonstick pan with Pam. Then pour a ladleful of batter, swirl around to coat the bottom of pan, and then pour remaining batter in pan back into bowl of batter.

Cook crĂŞpe until golden brown, then ďŹ&#x201A;ip and cook second side for about 30 seconds.

As crĂŞpes are ready, stack on plate with wax paper between each crepe.

Assembly Place a crepe nicer side faced down touching the plate and place a scoop of the potato mixture in the center. Pull up the sides and tie a scallion around the neck of the purse using the photo as a guide. Place in oven on 200F long enough just to heat through before serving.

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his coming Shabbat heralds the upcoming High Holiday season with the ritual of the blessing of the dates for Rosh Chodesh Elul, to be observed on Tuesday and KOSHER Wednesday, Aug. 26 BOOKWORM and 27. The following reading suggestions are made to help enhance the spiritual aspects of the new month.

This year witnessed the publication of a long awaited work by Rabbi Shimshon David Pincus, of blessed memory, entitled, “Moadei Hashanah: The month of Elul Alan Jay Gerber and Rosh Hashanah” (Feldheim, 2014). This work consists of some of the finest essays and teachings in English translation by Rabbi Pincus. Below is but a sample of some of his work that should tempt you to explore his work further, in preparation of the upcoming holiday season.

From an essay entitled, “Establishing a New Relationship with Hashem,” Rabbi Pincus teaches us the following: “The zodiacal sign for the month of Elul is ‘besulah,’ ‘the maiden,’ known as Virgo in English [from Latin]. The Ramban explains that this fact signifies Hashem’s love for Kenesses Yisrael.

“It seems to bear another meaning as well. We know that a sinner is likened to a wife who was unfaithful to her husband. And the halachah states that a wife who commits adultery is forbidden to her husband. If so, how can Klal Yisrael return in teshuvah to Hashem, after they betrayed Him? “The power of teshuvah creates a reality in which Hashem calls out to the Jewish People:

‘ Return, O maiden of Yisrael!’ Hashem calls the Jewish people a ‘maiden,’ i.e., a girl. It is as if they never sinned at all.”

Rabbi Pincus goes on to develop this on the value that repentance represents to us during the month of Elul, and of the value that it has for all of us by instilling within us all, the need to take these concepts more seriously as we approach this most holy of seasons.

In reading through these teachings, we come to better appreciate the value of Rabbi Pincus’ teachings as they come to be applied to our day-to-day lives year round, and of the value that will most certainly be applied by all both spiritually, and practically. Consider, further, the following: “If we want to travel to a certain town, we need to look while we are still at the beginning of our journey for the road sign pointing us in the right direction. Thus we need to look in the beginning of Elul for the sign that shows us the way to the goal. What is the first sign we encounter, which shows up already on Rosh Chodesh Elul? ‘Ani ledodi — vedodi li.’ — to be close with Hashem, and make Him a part of our lives.”

Further study concerning the month of Elul can be found in Rabbi Simon Jacobson’s classic, “60 Days: A Spiritual Guide to the High Holidays,” wherein he teaches us the

following from the Shaloh: “The mazal [sign] of the month of Menachem Av is the aryeh (lion) [Leo], an acronym for Elul, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Hoshanah Rabba — four milestones in this time period, all built from the pain and destruction of Av. This parallels Moshe’s efforts to rebuild our relationship [with Hashem] after the sin of the Golden Calf.”

Rabbi Jacobson further teaches us the following lesson in practical halachah for Elul: “Some of the special Elul practices begin on this day [Rosh Chodesh]: Psalm 27 is recited at the end of the morning and afternoon prayers.....based on the Midrash which associates the ‘Light’ of David and the ‘light’ of all humans with Rosh Hashana when, by the light of the soul, G-d searches out the deepest recesses of the human being.”

“Although the daily sounding of the shofar officially begins on the second day of Rosh

FOR FURTHER STUDY Rabbi Zev Reichman has recently composed a very interesting work entitled, “Flames of Faith” based upon the teachings of Rav Moshe Wolfson. Published by Kodesh Press, this work deserves your attention as an apt preparation for learning for the upcoming holidays. The mussar contained in these pages covers the whole range of chassidic hashkafah as it applies to the basic beliefs of our faith. To give but just a hint, please note the opening words to this volume’s introduction: “This is a book of Chasidus not Kabbalah.

Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan explained the difference: ‘The earlier Kabbalah tried to bring man into heaven. The main idea of Chasidus was to bring heaven into man’.”

I leave it to you, my dear readers, to take it from there. There is a whole lot of wisdom to be learned from these wise words. More, iy”H, will be written by me concerning this work in the coming weeks.

Columnist@TheJewishStar.com

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he instructions given to the generation entering the land of Canaan are clear: “Do away with all the places where the nations whom you are driving out worship PARSHA OF their gods, [whether THE WEEK they are,] on the high mountains, on the hills, or under any luxuriant tree. You must tear down their altars, break up their sacred pillars, burn their Asherah trees, and chop down the statues of their gods, obliterating their names from that place.”

This follows a Rabbi Avi Billet theme in the Torah to eradicate paganism and idolatry in order to advance monotheism.

In modern times, such a guiding principle would be viewed as extremely radical, and as a stain on the morality of those bringing about the destruction. At a minimum it is politically incorrect. Shrines and places of worship, regardless of purpose, are generally viewed as “untouchables.” Particularly on a world stage, the removal of a single brick, even from an abandoned house of worship, is at times a call for activists to stage a protest.

But the concept of eradicating all these places of worship to advance monotheism in “the place that G-d has chosen” (a phrase

that repeats several times in Chapter 12) is a fundamental tenet of the Jewish faith. That place, as we all know, is what even the Arabs call “The Temple Mount” as it is unquestionably the place where King Solomon built the first Temple (destroyed by Babylonians), and where the second Temple was built in the time of Ezra and beautified in the time of Herod (destroyed later by the Romans).

Were the Romans living today, I think they would have been hammered by world media for destroying a centuries old edifice that had been the central Temple of the Jewish faith.

If this location were so significant, why is it referred to in the Torah by way of hints? Why doesn’t the Torah say, “It is Har HaMoriah?”

Maimonides explains (Guide 3:45) three reasons for the identification of the spot remaining hidden in the text. Firstly, if the nations of the world only knew how special that place was, they would all want it. The fights and killings that would take place to gain control of the land would be outrageous. Secondly, if the Canaanites knew that the plan included the Israelite nation reclaiming the Land that had been promised to their ancestors and establishing a religious center in that place, they would have destroyed and defiled the space using whatever methods were at their

disposal. Thirdly, if the tribes knew the location, they’d all fight over which tribe would inherit that area. It was, therefore, better for them to settle the land first, and then have the place be revealed, as it eventually was to King David.

There is a debate amongst medieval scholars as to whether the religion of Islam is considered by Judaism to be a form of idolatry.

Maimonides’ view, that it is not idolatry, is the pervading opinion, though obviously there are those who disagree.

The building that currently stands on the heart of the Temple Mount has been there for over 1300 years. What the motivation behind building it was (as it is a shrine and not a house of worship – though during the Crusades period it was used as a church) may have been a combination of being inspired by other houses of worship, as well as an effort to compete with other houses of worship (Wikipedia), and, perhaps, a fulfillment of what Maimonides later described as the motivation for wanting that spot: the understanding that its unique qualities make it a special place to connect with G-d.

That the Jews did not rebuild the Temple first came from a combination of being oppressed, continually beaten back by the Romans, not being in a position of strength to

The world will come to know that the House of G-d, on that space, is the place to be.

arrange for it to happen, and not having the right kind of leader, perhaps even with a prophetic or divinely inspired demeanor to serve as a guide for such an endeavor. Even absent such an effort, Maimonides’ second explanation being fulfilled may be the reason why the Jerusalem gate closest to the Temple Mount is called Dung Gate (Shaar Ha’Ashpot).

In the modern, liberal world in which the State of Israel exists, there will not be a change in real estate or a rebuilding on the Temple Mount, absent some miraculous event that will change the world, such as a Messianic era.

In peace, and with our hearts, minds, and bodies ready to jump at a moment’s word, we await such a time that we can adequately fulfill, once again, the instruction of Devarim Chapter 12. We look forward to the day when the world will fulfill the prophesy of Isaiah 2:2-3, and the world will come to know that the House of G-d, on that space, is the place to be.

“And it shall be at the end of the days, that the mountain of the L-rd’s house shall be firmly established at the top of the mountains, and it shall be raised above the hills, and all the nations shall stream to it. And many peoples shall go, and they shall say, ‘Come, let us go up to the L-rd’s mount, to the house of the G-d of Jacob, and let Him teach us of His ways, and we will go in His paths,’ for out of Zion shall the Torah come forth, and the word of the L-rd from Jerusalem.”

Amen.

Columnist@TheJewishStar.com

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Elul readings to prepare for teshuva

Chodesh Elul — announcing the opening of the gates of compassion — it is customary to practice sounding the shofar on the first day of Rosh Chodesh, introducing the Elul atmosphere of soul searching and repentance.”

Further on, Rabbi Jacobson points out to us that the month of Elul is entitled, “chodesh hacheshbon,” a month of accounting of our spiritual selves which serves as the basic theme leading us up to the new year.

“What will happen to each one of us on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur has a great deal to do with how we prepare for these great days.... Any faith in G-d has to include faith in hope and faith in transformation — faith that we will be forgiven for past mistakes and faith that we can change.”

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Babies raced to safety as rockets target Israel

By Anav Silverman Tazpit News Agency Hamas renewed its rain of rockets over Israel on Tuesday night, striking throughout southern Israel, with one directly hitting a home in Ashkelon and another slamming into a shopping mall.

Also on Wednesday, the armed Abdul Qader Husseini Brigades of the Fatah movement, to which the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas belongs, claimed responsibility for two rocket attacks on Ashkelon.

Following the rocket salvo, Ashkelon’s Barzilai Medical Center on Wednesday had its premature babies and newborns transferred to sheltered areas underground and in a special delivery room in a concrete bomb shelter.

“We’ve transferred 14 premature newborns and 30 newborns as well as five mothers who just had caesarean sections, to more protected areas in the hospital,” the Medical Director of Barzilai Medical Center, Dr. Chezi Levy told Tazpit News Agency.

“We are trained for these kinds of war situations and we’re waiting to see what develops following the renewed rocket attacks,” Levy told Tazpit. “This is not the first time that the hospital has had to undergo security precautions but we definitely hope it will be the last.”

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Barzilai Medical Center has 300 doctors, 700 nurses and 532 patients according to the center’s spokeswoman, Ayelet Kedar.

Two weeks ago, on Aug. 7, when the Egyptian-brokered ceasefire went into effect, the Ministry of Health and the Home Front Command announced that Barzilai Medical Center would return to full normal activity, setting new dates for all patients whose ap-

pointments were postponed during the Protective Edge Operation.

In other news, the Israel Home Front Command issued new security instructions on Tuesday night for southern Israelis, forbidding the gathering of over 300 people in communities within seven kilometers of the Gaza Strip. Gatherings of 500 people within 40 kilometers of Gaza have also been can-

celled. Other security measures include the closing of beaches and urban markets in the south as well, while public bomb shelters were reopened in communities located 50 miles from the Gaza Strip.

Local authorities in central Israel also ordered the opening of public bomb shelters a few hours after Hamas violated the ceasefire on Tuesday, with rocket attacks on Beersheba. The mayors of Rishon LeZion, Rehovot, Ramat Gan and Tel Aviv ordered the opening of public bomb shelters on Tuesday night, when minutes later a heavy salvo of rocket fire from Gaza began.

Hamas’s Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades fired rockets at central Israel and claimed that it fired the Iranian Fajr 5 missiles at central Israel and the M-75 missile at Jerusalem on Tuesday night, where sirens were heard shortly before midnight. Eight rockets targeted Tel Aviv on Tuesday night and a strike from a rocket was found in the Beit Shemesh area.

The Iron Dome intercepted at least five rockets heading for residential areas throughout the night and several more during Wednesday including one over Kiryat Malachi and over the Hof Ashkelon region.

Hamas breached the Egyptian-brokered truce on Tuesday afternoon, seven hours before it was supposed to end, firing a salvo of rockets at Be’er Sheva and southern Israel.

Guardian blocks Dershowitz ad on Hamas tactics

By Alina Dain Sharon, JNS.org The British newspaper The Guardian rejected an advertorial piece penned by famed Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz. In the ad, Dershowitz refutes statements by many media outlets that all of the Gaza Strip is densely populated, a claim that has been used to justify the use of human shields

by Hamas in the terrorist group’s recent conflict with Israel.

“The British media is divided,” Dershowitz said in an interview. “But The Guardian, which holds itself out to be a purveyor of diverse truth, clearly reflects a bias against Israel on its editorial pages, as well as in its presentation of the news. Now that bias has spread to the advertising pages.”

The advertisement was based on an older editorial written by Dershowitz for the Gatestone Institute and was sponsored by the Wechsler Family Foundation, confirmed a New York City-based agency that specializes in overseas advertisement placements.

Dershowitz told JNS.org that newspapers “have a right to decide which ads to accept and reject,” but questioned The Guardian’s decision not to run his advertorial.

“My column was factually sound and not a personal attack on anybody. It simply laid out the geographic facts of the Gaza Strip and its implications,” he said.

“Dershowitz was presenting a new point of view in this article,” explained Harry Wechsler of the Wechsler Family Foundation. “Hamas was not forced into shooting their rockets from pads located in urban areas, thereby leading to unavoidable civilian deaths.... Though not large, Gaza had ample space that was not densely populated...empty spaces where rockets could have been stored and shot from. The U.N. could easily have developed temporary quarters in these same spaces for the sheltering of civilian refugees, far away from the sites of battle.”

The editorial board of The Guardian, which screens political or issues-based ads, “turned us down and refused to take our ad,” according to Wechsler.

A spokesperson for the newspaper said, “The Guardian reserves the right to reject any advertisement.”

The Guardian’s refusal of the ad echoes the refusal of The Times of London to run an advertisement featuring Holocaust survi-

vor Elie Wiesel, who also spoke out against Hamas’s use of human shields. The Guardian accepted the Wiesel advertisement, as did The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and others.

After running the Wiesel ad, The Guardian received 140 complaints They issued a statement that its acceptance of the ad “does not equate to support or endorsement for the views expressed in that advertisement.”

According to Adam Levick—managing editor of CiF Watch, an affiliate of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA)—The Guardian’s history of publishing content reflecting Israel’s view was already limited before it turned down the ad. The Guardian has occasionally published pro-Israel op-eds, including some

by Dershowitz, but those instances are rare.

“There was recently a Guardian editorial condemning anti-Semitism,” but for the most part “their coverage, the sensational headlines which suggest that Israel intentionally kills Palestinian civilians in the most sensational and vitriolic manner… actually incites anti-Semitism in the Diaspora,” Levick said.

“I’d say that over 90 to 95 percent of the cov-

erage, both in terms of the op-eds that they published and the straight news stories that they published, are critical of Israel or are slanted in a way that is negative of Israel.”

Particularly notable, Levick added, is The Guardian’s nearly complete silence regarding the use of human shields by Hamas.

Over the first two weeks of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge, Levick went through nearly 20 articles by the newspaper’s Jerusalem correspondent Peter Beaumont, finding little mention of the term “human shield.”

“The Guardian rarely shows photographs of Hamas fighters firing from densely populated areas. They continue to perpetuate the myth that all of Gaza is densely populated.

They continue to perpetrate the myth that the vast majority of people killed in this war have been children and women, when the fact is the vast majority of people killed have been males of terrorist age,” Dershowitz said.

It is important for Americans and British readers to know that the worst kind of distortion is “distortion by omission, where the media refuses to print the truth or opposing points of view, and the rejection of this ad is a manifestation of that,” added Dershowitz.

Kosher Komedy raises cash for Chabad terror project A quartet of comics raised $1,500 to benefit the Chabad Terror Victims Project, during a Kosher Komedy show at Sunny Atlantic Beach Club’s Boardwalk Café in Atlantic Beach on Aug. 13. The comedians — Jonathan Randall, Howard Newman, Mike Fine and Brian Scott McFadden — are veterans of “The Late Show with David Letterman,” “Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,” ABC, Fox and Comedy Central. Proceeds will support more than 300 Chabad Houses in Israel which provide financial, emotional, spiritual and practical assistance to victims of war and terrorism in the Jewish state. The event was organized by Woodmere resident Kenny Gluck.

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Continued from page 4 belts designed to butcher women and children in nursery schools and pizzerias? Until we destroy such norms, and forcibly remove them from our society, how can we ever hope for peaceful solutions to the war that has plagued us for the past century and beyond?

How can we expect to ďŹ nd Arabs who will represent a more peaceful ideal, as long as children are taught hatred and violence in schools and summer camps and are literally weaned on the motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s milk of terrorism?

It seems all of todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s military solutions and suggestions are dealing with symptoms of the problem, without attacking the root cause; hatred and violence come from education, and until we change the education of their children we will never ďŹ nd true peace with their children.

General Douglas MacArthur understood this well, as did the Allied forces ďŹ ghting against tyranny and the dictatorships of evil in World War Two. In 1945 the Allied forces would accept no less than unconditional sur-

render to end the war, and when MacArthur was stationed post war in Japan, he did not leave until he completely dismantled Hirohitoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Monarchial dictatorship, replaced the educational system with an education for children based on western democratic values (which still serves Japan well nearly seventy years later) and witnessed a peaceful transfer of power in a democratic Japanese election.

There will be no peaceful long-lasting solution in Gaza as long as schoolchildren there on ďŹ eld trips are visiting town squares named after baby murderers and classrooms are ďŹ lled with hate.

Perhaps one day it will be time to establish a Middle East based on love and peace, but sometimes before we can make peace, someone needs to win the war, and introduce a system of education that will prepare us for such peace. This weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s portion begins with the command to see (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Reâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ehâ&#x20AC;?), and while we should never stop dreaming of the world as we dream it could be, we should also be careful not to stop seeing the world as it still is.

No grand strategyâ&#x20AC;Ś Continued from page 6 bility to its suffering peoples. Do we want to preserve Iraqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s integrity as a state? We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know. Do we want to encourage Kurdish independence? We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know. How far are we prepared to go to prevent the cruciďŹ xions, beheadings, and enslavement of women that have become the hallmarks of the Islamic State? We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know. If we are bombing the Islamic State in Iraq, albeit cautiously, then why are we allowing the atrocities in Syria, carried out by both the Islamic State and by the Iranian-backed Assad regime, to continue? No one, apparently, has an answer.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve heard it said many times that one of the reasons President Barack Obama doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like foreign intervention is that he believes political change can only come from the people whom intervention is intended to ben-

eďŹ t. Obama is not alone; the great British political philosopher, John Stuart Mill, argued much the same against the background of the Crimean War of the late 1850s.

Very well, thenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;let us reframe the concept of intervention in defense of human rights so that the liberators themselves are those would otherwise be liberated by outsiders.

Within these parameters, we would not send in troops. But we can provide air support, military training, and weapons, and the expertise to create and sustain post-war democratic institutions by working with politicians like Vian Dakhil.

Such a strategy will mean staying in the Middle East a while longer. It will also mean, when we are ďŹ nally able take a back seat, that we will have left this region a much healthier and happier place than when we found it.

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Long Island supporters of UJA-Federationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good work ďŹ&#x201A;ocked to the NYCB Theatre at Westbury last week for the 24th annual Summerfest Concert. The climax of the event, which drew a sold-out crowd of 1,800, was a concert by Grammy Award winning artist John Legend. Todd Richman of Old Westbury received the organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Robert S. Boas

Award for his philanthropic and community leadership.

Among those participating at the event were Aaron Rosenfeld, Joshua Wanderer and Irwin Gershon, driving forces behind Tov Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Yachad, a UJA-Federation Orthodox initiative. The Orthodox communities and UJA-Federation â&#x20AC;&#x153;share the same core values,â&#x20AC;? Gershon told The Jewish Star.

Wendy and Steven Shenfeld, Elizabeth Kase and Craig Johnson, and Dena and Ron Kosinksi were this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Summerfest chairs. Joyce and Philip Sharfstein were the New Leadership Campaign chairs. Jeffrey Gould, Scott Jaffee and Scott Smith â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all past recipients of the Robert S. Boas Award â&#x20AC;&#x201D; were the Corporate chairs.

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