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By Yitzchak Carroll Lawrence resident Avi Feldman was just 6 when the Nazis wreaked havoc on his hometown of Kiev, Germany on the eve of Nov. 9, 1938. A little more than three-quarters of a century later, Feldman attended a Five Towns Community Commemoration of Kristallnacht, held Monday at Kehillas Bais Yehuda Tzvi in Cedarhurst. Kr istallnacht, “The Night of Broken Glass,â€? took place 76 years ago. Nearly 200 synagogues were destroyed, more than 8,000 Jewish shops were sacked and looted, and tens of thousands of Jews were removed to concentration camps from Germany and Austria. More than 90 Jews were killed. 'U 6KHOGRQ +HUVK DXWKRU It is considered the RI Âł2XU )UR]HQ 7HDUV ´ RQ beginning of the 0RQGD\ &KULVWLQD 'DO\ Holocaust. Alan Jay Gerber, the event’s chairman, opened the event with introductory remarks. Rabbi Yaakov Feitman, who was born in a displaced persons camp to Holocaust survivors, addressed the audience on the importance of commemorating the tragic event. “It is the deepest of our tragedies and we must not forget it,â€? Gerber said. David Klein read an emotional poem written by his mother about Holocaust remembrance. Guest speaker Dr. Sheldon Hersh, the author of “Our Frozen Tears,â€? a collection of stories from Holocaust survivors, noted the events leading up to Kristallnacht and the Holocaust, and how anti-Semitism continues. “We must realize how truly close they came Continued on page 5

BIDEN: U.S. ‘will never, ever abandon Israel’ JNS.org Amid a rough patch in U.S.-Israel relations, Vice President Joe Biden said disagreement and honest conversation are “what friends do.â€? “Like all close friends, we talk honestly with one another,â€? Biden said Monday at the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in National Harbor, Maryland. “We talk directly with one another. We disagree with one another. We love one another and we drive one another crazy. That’s what friends do. ‌ We are straight with one another, and we talk directly about a wide range of issues, including Iran.â€? Biden’s comments come in the aftermath of a report that a senior Obama administration ofďŹ cial called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “chickensh*t.â€? The revelation of the Netanyahu slur followed harsh U.S. criticism of newly announced Jewish construction in Jerusalem neighborhoods located beyond the 1949 armistice line. Israel and the U.S. are also at odds about what a ďŹ nal nuclear deal with Iran should look like ahead of a Nov. 24 9LFH 3UHVLGHQW -RH %LGHQ HPEUDFHV +RORFDXVW VXUYLYRU 1HVVH deadline for an agreement between *RGLQ GXULQJ 0RQGD\ÂśV VHVVLRQ RI WKH -HZLVK )HGHUDWLRQV RI Iran and the P5+1 powers. 1RUWK $PHULFD *HQHUDO $VVHPEO\ 3KRWR E\ 5RQ 6DFKV

By The Jewish Star Staff Rabbis Kenneth Hain of Congregation Beth Shalom in Lawrence and Hershel Billet of the Young Israel of Woodmere have posted a video challenging the Five Towns to send 1,000 participants to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference in Washington next March. Rabbi Hain told The Jewish Star that 1,000 participants may be a stretch, but it is possible. “We are very early on this, so we are just starting to build interest.� Rabbi Billet emphasized that AIPAC’s lobbying was essential to sustaining U.S. support for the Jewish state. See the video at TheJewishStar.com.

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Yet Biden said that America “will not let Iran acquire a nuclear weapon. Period.â€? “I can guarantee you one thing. We will not sign a bad deal. ‌ And I would not put my 42-year reputation on the line if I were not certain when I say we mean it,â€? he said. Biden said that protecting Israel is more than a moral obligation for the U.S., but “a security necessity.â€? “We will never, ever abandon Israel, out of our own self-interest,â€? he said. The vice president also urged Israel to take advantage of its current alignment with Arab neighbors like Egypt and Jordan on ďŹ ghting threats such as the rise of the Islamic State terror group. For the â€œďŹ rst time in the history of Israel,â€? the Jewish state and Arab nations have a “common and consistent concern about the same threats,â€? said Biden. At the same time, Biden said that Israel and the Palestinians “need to avoid incitement and demonstrate restraintâ€? and make progress towards peace. There is “a better pathâ€? and the U.S. is “not going to stop workingâ€? on that path, said Biden, referring to American efforts to bring about a two-state solution.

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or understood an actual page of Talmud. Fritsch’s book went through numerous printings, selling 75,000 copies by 1930. In “Mein Kampf,â€? Hitler wrote of the “Jew boy, diabolic joy in his face, [who] waits in ambush for the unsuspecting [German] girl whom he deďŹ les with his blood.â€? Not surprisingly, anti-Jewish sexual themes became a staple of the notorious Nazi newspaper Der Sturmer, edited by Julius Streicher. Allegations of Jews sexually assaulting German women frequently became headline news, boosting circulation through a salacious combination of antisemitism and sexual topics that were otherwise taboo. The Jewish attacks were not individual crimes but rather part of an international Jewish conspiracy to “racially deďŹ leâ€? Aryan womanhood, according to Streicher. Sexual contact with a Jew permanently “poisonedâ€? a German woman’s blood. “Racial deďŹ lement forces itself into the body,â€? until the woman’s body “gradually loses its own characteristicsâ€? and “the alien spiritâ€? gains control of her, he wrote. Eventually, the deďŹ led German woman turns into a kind of de-facto Jew.

Der Sturmer staff cartoonist Philipp Rupprecht, who signed his cartoons “Fips,â€? supplied a steady stream of sexually themed anti-Semitic caricatures. A huge, leering spider with a Jewish face reaches out to ensnare an innocent German maiden. A swarthy Jewish doctor menacingly approaches a sedated female German patient in her underclothing. A Jewish assailant lurks behind a German girl, his thoughts revealed to the reader: alcohol, dancing, sex. At ďŹ rst glance, the Palestinian Authority’s cartoon of the Israeli soldier preparing to rape a Muslim woman might seem to be cut from a different cloth. Here the woman symbolizes a mosque, and the cartoon appears at a time of genuine turmoil in Jerusalem. One should be careful about comparing contemporary individuals or events to those of the Nazi era. Hitler analogies have been overused and often produce more heat than light. Sometimes, however, the line dividing legitimate commentary from crude hate-mongering is crossed, and a look back at phenomena of earlier times can be sadly enlightening.

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By Rafael Medoff, JNS.org A leering, hook-nosed Jew, beginning to disrobe, prepares to pounce upon a helpless non-Jewish woman who cowers in fear on the ground before him. This disturbing image, so common in anti-Semitic propaganda in past centuries, this week made an appearance with a modern twist: the hook-nosed would-be rapist wore an Israeli army uniform, and his intended victim, a weeping Muslim woman, wore a headdress indicating that she represented the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. The cartoon, titled “Al-Aqsa is Being Raped,â€? would be outrageous even if it were the handiwork of some anonymous street corner scribbler. But it is a far more serious matter when it appears—as this one does—on the ofďŹ cial website of the Palestinian Authority’s National Security Forces, according to a report by Palestinian Media Watch. The stereotype of the Jew as sexual deďŹ ler reaches back to medieval times. The 13th-century ruler Alfonso X, of Castile, decreed capital punishment for any Jew who, “in great insolence and boldness,â€? had intimate relations with a Christian woman. With the invention of modern printing techniques and the advent of political cartooning in the late 18th century, sexually themed anti-Semitic cartoons began to appear. In “Solomon Enjoys Himself with Two Pretty Christian Girls,â€? 18th-century English caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson drew a beak-nosed Jew grasping bags of money while cavorting with two topless young women. “Moses in the Bullrushes,â€? by English cartoonist G. M. Woodward in 1799, portrayed a swarthy-looking Jew ravishing a woman in a thicket of tall reeds. Turn-of-the-century French cartoonist Henry Gerbault depicted an obese, sweaty Jew patronizing a non-Jewish prostitute and then shortchanging her on the payment. Similar themes surfaced in the writings of the early German advocates of racial anti-Semitism, who helped pave the way for the rise of Nazism. Theodor Fritsch’s “AntisemitenKatechismus,â€? ďŹ rst published in 1887, argued that Jews, because of their biological nature, caused “moral devastationâ€? among young German women. “The Jews’ low sensuous disposition and their lack of decency make them the most unscrupulous seducers,â€? Fritsch wrote. His fabricated quotes from the Talmud, allegedly authorizing Jews to sexually assault any gentile girl over the age of three, impressed readers who would never have seen

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ne of the greatest personal and political legacies in American history is certainly that of Abraham Lincoln. This is not the result of his image on the penny or the five dollar bill, nor from your driving through the Lincoln Tunnel; his legacy derives from his living a life that reflected his deepest passions for the basic foundational beliefs of this nation’s founding fathers as reflected in the opening words of our Declaration of Independence and the preamble of the United States Constitution. This week I wish to bring to your attention a new work about Lincoln, the latest among many recent works about him, “We Called Him Rabbi Abraham: A Documentary History” (Southern Illinois Press) by Gary Phillip Zola, executive director of the Jacob Marcus Rader Center of the American Jewish Archives. This work goes into great detail concerning Lincoln’s relationships, both directly and indirectly, with the American Jewish community of his time. In terms of his personal regard to the dignity of our faith, there is no lack of references to Lincoln’s high regard for our traditions and scripture. Next Wednesday, Nov. 19, marks the 151 anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, and in respect to this great event I choose to reference Dr. Zola’s scholarship as it concerns a famous phrase in that greatest of all prose written in the English language. On July 4, 1863, a morning Shabbat service was taking place in Philadelphia, 90

ing detail about the rabbi’s derasha: “What is genuinely intriguing about this document, beyond Morais’ characteristic eloquence, is the first sentence of the third paragraph, where the rabbi’s remarks, ‘I am not indifferent, my dear friends, to the event, which four score and seven years ago brought to this new world light and joy’.” This astonishing fact, while not unknown to historians is, for the first time to my knowledge, given prominence in a Jewish historical context, written and commented upon by a world-class historian. Dr. Zola further notes: “It is nevertheless fascinating to discover that Morais’ use of ‘Four score and seven years ago’ is arrestingly identical to the immortal words Lincoln employed as he began the Gettysburg Address on Nov. 19, 1863. Is it possible that Lincoln had read Morais’ sermon and made mental note of the rabbi’s biblical rhetoric? This question has no definitive answer.” We may never know for sure. One fact is for sure: The speech was immediately published the following Friday, July 10, in its en-

tirety in New York’s widely read The Jewish Messenger. It is a derasha that surely deserves your attention, too. This is all absolutely fascinating, and I hope that American history teachers in our community will bring up this historical fact and related details to their many students in the week ahead. )25 )857+(5 678'< One of our nation’s leading Lincoln scholars of our faith is Harold Holzer, senior vice president of the Metropolitan Museum. His latest work is an exceptionally well-written work on Lincoln’s relationship with the press entitled “Lincoln and the Power of the Press” (Simon and Schuster, 2014). Within this work there is a teaching by Reb Abe that could serve as a musser teaching to some of our political leadership today. It goes as follows: “Public sentiment is everything. — with public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed. Consequently, he who moulds public sentiment, goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions.’’ Holzer, in a wisdom that makes him one of my favorite historians today, shares with us his rejoinder: “It is time we took Lincoln at his word and examined his extraordinary focus on — and mastery of — political journalism as a way to earn and sustain voter support.” Based upon the results of last week’s legislative election, nationwide, there is a lot of learning to be done, starting at the White House. Also, please consider the following: Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu on July 5, 2013, wrote a related piece in the Jewish Press entitled, “What is the link between 17th of Tammuz, July 4th, and Lincoln?” that deals with the theme of this review. It, too, deserves your attention.

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miles from the just concluded Battle of Gettysburg. The rabbi leading the congregation, Mikve Yisrael, was the Italian-born scholar Sabato Morais. At the time of the sermon it was still not known who won the battle whose destiny it was to be a turning point of the Civil War. The rabbi’s somber tone and demeanor was to be reflected by this circumstance. Dr. Zola in his work presents the full text of Rabbi Morais’ sermon and details the following background: “Rabbi Morais was an outspoken supporter of Lincoln’s policies, and on Independence Day in 1863, the synagogue hosted members of the Union League of Philadelphia, a local patriotic social society established in 1862, whose purpose was to uphold the Constitution of the United States and support the president’s efforts to preserve the Union.” Rabbi Morais was scheduled to speak to this theme. Not yet knowing the battle’s outcome, the rabbi, as noted before, would take a somber stance in both tone and content, reflecting biblical themes and historical references. The fact that this date was also the 17th of Tammuz was not lost upon him, further adding to his somber tone. Now comes the clincher for this week’s review. Dr. Zola tells us the following amaz-

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Rabbi Aryeh Cohen, a local educator and spiritual guide at the Davis Renov Stahler (DRS) Yeshiva High School in Woodmere, relayed stories of inspiration and self-sacriďŹ ce from the Holocaust, and encouraged the audience to take inspiration from the martyrs of the tragic event. “We’re here to remember and make sure we never forget,â€? he said. “It’s not enough to never forget. It has to be on the surface of our hearts and minds.â€? Cantor Robert Vegh recited the Keil Malei Rachamim, a traditional prayer to commemorate the martyrs of the Holocaust, as the audience stood solemnly and reected on the calamity. “It has to be remembered so we do not

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of Operation Protective Edge (July 8-14) reported support for Israel among Americans remains strong. What has changed is that the gap between Republican supporters (73 percent) and Democratic supporters (44 percent) is wider than ever. Another motivation for the switch may be the president’s anti-Israel policies. The Jewish vote in presidential elections has seen three major shifts in the past 40 years. The ďŹ rst occurred during the reelection campaign of Jimmy Carter, the second Bush 41 race, and most recently Barack Obama’s reelection. Those three Presidents were the most anti-Israel in the modern history of the Jewish State. Carter received less than half the Jewish vote when he ran for reelection in 1980 (45 percent), Reagan received 39 percent and independent candidate John Anderson received about 15 percent. The elder Bush caused a downturn in the GOP Jewish vote which lasted until his son’s administration. During Bush 41’s tenure, relations with Israel got so bad Secretary of State James Baker was reported as saying “ F**k the Jews, they wont vote for us anyway.â€? In his failed reelection bid, Bush 41 generated only 11 percent of the Jewish vote (down from 35 percent in his ďŹ rst run). President Obama is the only one of the three anti-Israel presidents to have won reelection, but his policies have driven down his support from Jews. After earning 78 percent of the Jewish vote in 2008, Obama’s share fell to 69 percent — and now 66 percent in the 2014 midterm, which was largely seen as a referendum on Obama’s policies. bama’s second term has been more anti-Israel than his ďŹ rst, and based on recent signals it is sure to get worse (and that is no “chickensh*tâ€?). An example of the administration’s worsening attitude occurred two days after the election. At a Thursday evening event at the Carnegie Council, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey, the highest ranking military ofďŹ cial in the United States, said that Israel went to “extraordinary lengthsâ€? to limit civilian casualties in the recent war in Gaza and that the Pentagon had sent a team to see what lessons could be learned from the operation. “I actually do think that Israel went to extraordinary lengths to limit collateral damage and civilian casualties. In fact, about 3 months ago we asked [IDF Chief of Staff] Benny [Gantz] if we could send a lessons learned team — one of the things we do better than anybody I think is learn — and we sent a team of senior ofďŹ cers and non-commissioned ofďŹ cers over to work with the IDF to get the lessons from that particular operation in Gaza. To include the measures they took to prevent civilian casualties and what they did with tunneling, because Hamas had become very nearly a subterranean society. And so, that caused the IDF some signiďŹ cant challenges. But they did some extraordinary things to try to limit civilian casualties to include calling out, making it known that they were going to destroy a particular structure. Even developed some techniques, they call it roof knocking, to have something knock on the roof, they would display leaets to warn citizens and population to move away from where these tunnels.â€? The next day, Jen Psaki the spokesperson for the State Department, did what she could to shoot down General Dempsey. “It remains the broad view of the entire administration that they could have done more,â€? Psaki said during a press brieďŹ ng Friday when asked about the Dempsey comments. “And they should have taken more feasible precautions to prevent civilian casualties.â€? AP reporter Matt Lee pointed out that, according to Dempsey, Israel had lived up to the “high standardsâ€? to which the Obama administration holds Israel. Still, Psaki said, Israel’s

but I won’t because it’s not true. Certainly many GOP voters cast their ballots on that basis, but the polls make it clear that voters weren’t crazy about either party. Turnout was key to the election. As with most midterm elections, traditional Republican voting blocs showed up, while many traditional Democratic blocs stayed home. Except for the Jews. Exit polls show that while Jews represent only 2 percent of the population they were 3 percent of the voting electorate, meaning that Jews turned out in bigger numbers than other groups. Exit polls from the midterms indicate the GOP is increasing its support among Jewish voters. The polls report that 33 percent of Jewish voters backed Republican candidates while 66 percent went to the Democrats. In 2006 (the last midterm exit polls that sampled enough Jewish voters to be analyzed) only 12 percent of Jewish voters selected Republican candidates (with the low vote largely motivated by opposition to the Iraq war). Since 1982, the historical average for the GOP in mid-term elections among Jewish voters was 26%. The range has a low of 18 percent in 1982 and a high of 33 percent this year. In the last two presidential elections Jews went 22 percent (2008) and 30 percent (2012) to the Republican candidate. One reason for the increases in the past three elections is that Republicans are more supportive of Israel than Democrats (remember the “catcallsâ€? from those at the DNC in Charlotte when they tried to restore one of four pro-Israel provisions to the Democratic platform?). A Pew study conducted during the ďŹ rst week

THIS WEEK PAST: STAR FLASHBACK — Rambam’s activism was on display as students rallied to protest an anti-Semitic program on Egyptian TV. They chanted “Hitler would be proud,â€? in opposition to “A Horseman Without a Horse,â€? an adaptation of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.â€? — The annual breakfast of the Jewish Community Council of the Rockaway Peninsula (JCCRP) “was a resounding success.â€? — “Organ Donation: Gift or Halachic Obligation?â€? That’s the question posed by a front page headline. The subhead points out that there have been “only a handful of known Jewish doners in recent years.â€? — This week’s lead story reaches “out to the girl in the mirror,â€? reporting that “eating disorder awareness is growing within the Orthodox community.â€? — Following the suspension of operations by the Rubashkin family’s Agriprocessors plans in Postville, Iowa, local stores were “starting to feel the pinchâ€? at the supply of glatt kosher meat dwindled. A second front page report presents an election postmortem under this headline: “After election, a wary eye on new prez; Voters speak their minds about President-elect Obama.â€? — The activism of Rambam and Shalhevet students stays strong year to year. This week, on the 71st anniverary of Kristallnacht, they picketed outside the home of a Nazi war criminal. A German diplomat praised the students’ action. — A dramatic cover story is titled, “Fire, Ice and Air — How Simcha Shafran survived Siberia.â€? — After a ďŹ re at Gourmet Glatt in Cedarhurst, Seasons in Lawrence offered aid. — Once again, “Rambam students demand: Throw Nazi out!â€?

efforts were not enough. Despite the opinion of the general who should know, the most senior military ďŹ gure in the United States, Obama’s State Department says Israel could have done more. Notice they never say what more Israel could have done, because they don’t know — after all, the U.S. is sending its people to Israel to learn how they protected civilians. The truth is that Obama, Kerry and their team of Israel-haters simply want to demonize the Jewish State. The other truth is if the demonization continues, the Jewish vote may move a bit more toward the GOP, ďŹ ve to seven percent at the most. Despite the anti-Israel policies of this administration, the Democrats in Congress will continue to keep their heads in the sand. Not one of the supposedly pro-Israel Democrats including like local politicians such as Brooklyn’s Chuck Schumer, Long Island’s Steve Israel, and Manhattan’s Jerrold Nadler — has the guts to stand up and criticize Obama’s policies toward Israel. In Vayikra, G-d says, “You shall not stand idly by [the shedding of] your fellow’s blood. I am the L-rd.â€? In 2014 we see that Jewish voters are starting to creep away from an anti-Israel president and an anti-Israel party. But “pro-Israelâ€? Jewish politicians are ignoring what we were commanded in Vayikra; they continue to “stand idly by,â€? to protect their careers as the President of the United States continues do demonize the Jewish State.

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hile I’ve never been a big fan of celebrity interventions in politics, I will concede that, on occasion, a bigscreen actor or a rock star will achieve the kind of impact that mere mortals can only dream about. Case in point: Maureen Lipman, a muchloved British Jewish actress whom American audiences will recognize from her role in Roman Polanski’s 2002 film about the Holocaust, “The Pianist,” in which she played the mother of the film’s main protagonist, Wladyslaw Szpilman. Last week, Lipman wrote an article for Standpoint, a British political magazine, entitled “Labour has Lost Me.” (She’s referring to the current opposition party in a country where they spell ‘labor’ with a ‘u.’) In that piece, she did two things. First, she relayed one of the best Jewish jokes I’ve encountered in a long time, about a rabbi so overcome with the desire to try a steamed pig’s head that he ventures in secret to a distant restaurant famed for this dish, only to have a congregant walk in on him as he’s poised for his first bite. The rabbi exclaims, “Can you believe this farshtinkener place? You ask for an apple and this is how they serve it!” Second, so disillusioned is Lipman with the stance on Israel of current Labour leader Ed Miliband, who is also Jewish, that she will not, she wrote, vote for the Labour Party “for the first time in five generations.” “Just when the virulence against a country defending itself, against 4,000 rockets and 32 tunnels inside its borders, as it has every right to do under the Geneva Convention, had been swept aside by the real pestilence of the Islamic State, in steps Mr. Miliband to demand that the government recognize the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel,” Lipman thundered. She then told Miliband that his “timing sucked,” as he had turned on Israel when there were so

many more pressing problems in the world, from the genocidal Islamist rampage to the machinations of Russian President Vladimir Putin. In her final flourish, Lipman declared that she’d only vote Labour once the party was again led by “mensches.” (Oh yes, the pig joke — that followed an anecdote about Miliband eating a bacon sandwich shortly after meeting Lipman at a party in London, where he asked whether he might join her for a Shabbat dinner.) Clearly stung by the mauling he received from Lipman, Miliband has now demanded a “zero tolerance” approach to anti-Semitism, citing the vile anti-Semitic attacks on social media upon his parliamentary colleagues Luciana Berger and Louise Ellman as an immediate cause. He also decried the “violent assaults, the desecration and damage of Jewish property, anti-Semitic graffiti, hate-mail, and online abuse,” and revealed that some Jewish parents have told him they are scared for their children. All in all, it seems to have been much more personal for Miliband than for Prime Minister David Cameron, who issued an equally strong statement against anti-Semitism at the end of a summer stained by anti-Jewish violence. “I am deeply concerned by growing reports of anti-Semitism on our streets in Britain,” Cameron said. “Let me be clear, we must not tolerate this in our country. There can never be any excuse for anti-Semitism, and no disagreements on politics or policy should ever be allowed to justify racism, prejudice or extremism in any form.” eyond the specific personalities in this particular situation, the knotty question for the left — whether in the U.K., in America, in Europe, in South Africa, or elsewhere – is whether it can adequately address the issue of anti-Semitism without also examining how the obsession with the Palestinian cause among progressives has contributed to its growth. Certainly, Britain’s Labour Party is a pertinent example of how much the “Palestine” issue dominates discussion of wider foreign policy considerations. In his excellent book, “Blair, Labour and Palestine,” the British academic Toby Greene notes former Labour leader Tony Blair’s “refusal to criticize Is-

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raeli government policy” in the run-up to the Iraq war. “However,” Greene observes, “it is not clear that if Blair had been more critical of Israel, there would have been less of an opportunity for the far left to promote anti-Zionism,” which it duly did by aligning the slogan “Freedom for Palestine” alongside exhortations to oppose the war that toppled Saddam Hussein. While the far left miserably failed to turn the anti-war protests into an electorally successful political movement, it did succeed in exporting its anti-Zionist principles into much of the mainstream liberal left, which helps explain why one of the first acts of Sweden’s new left-wing government was to recognize Palestine as an independent state. If the left-wing Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo is correct when he gushes that “anti-Zionism is synonymous with leftist world politics,” then responsible voices on the left need to consider where that will take them. The fact is that, in the west, “Palestine” is now the primary cause of anti-Jewish violence and anti-Semitic sentiment. That is less shocking when you realize that incitement against Jews, demonization of Zionism, and terrorist violence against Israelis is what defines the present strategies of the main rival Palestinian groups, Fatah and Hamas. But it would take a left-wing leader with guts to declare that there is no place for these politics in our societies, that neither civic, nor social, nor racial equality are advanced by their presence here, that it is time for progressives to give their solidarity to the Yazidis of Iraq and the Rohingya of Burma, and not just the Palestinians. It would take guts to say that critics of Israeli policy need to dissociate themselves from anti-Zionist, eliminationist rhetoric if they want to be taken at face value. And it would take guts to defend Muslim minorities from bigotry and racism while, at the exact same time, urging their leaders to confront the anti-Semitism plaguing these same communities. Yet if there does turn out to be a leader on the left who is willing to say these things, then he or she is fully deserving of the title “mensch.” Ben Cohen is Shillman Analyst for JNS.org.

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s I prepare for an upcoming visit to Israel, I can’t help but feel a twinge of apprehension. How could it be otherwise? The recent vehicular terrorist attacks in Jerusalem inevitably make every visitor to the city wonder who will be the next victim. The seeming randomness of the attacks is particularly terrifying — exactly as the killers intend. Yet Israelis are going about their daily lives. Israelis don’t worry because they have no choice. Visitors worry because they do; they can and will soon return to their home countries, where standing on a street corner is not a life-endangering action. There is another difference. The average Israeli can’t do much about Palestinian terrorism, but the average American Jew can. Let us recognize that “car terrorists” do not simply appear out of nowhere. Abdel Rahman al-Shaludi, who carried out the Oct. 22 attack, had twice served time in prison for terrorist activities. His uncle, Mohiyedine Sharif, was a senior Palestinian terrorist who

was killed in an intra-Arab feud in 1998. Ibrahim al-Akari, who perpetrated the Nov. 5 attack, was the brother of Musa al-Akari, who was convicted in the kidnap-murder of an Israeli border policeman and was freed in the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange. Al-Shaludi and al-Akari are the products of a society in which murdering Jews — whether by bomb, knife, or automobile — is praised and rewarded. What influenced Abdel Rahman al-Shaludi and Ibrahim Akari to become “car terrorists”? One source was the Palestinian Authority’s leadership and social media. Exhibit A: Sultan al-Einen. He’s a senior adviser to Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas and a member of the Central Committee of Fatah, which is the largest faction of the PLO (the PA’s parent body) and is also chaired by Abbas. He’s not quite the Palestinian equivalent of Valerie Jarrett or (until recently) David Axelrod, but he’s up there. Palestinian Media Watch has compiled a long list of statements by Einen praising terrorists. But the one that attracted the most attention was his public praise, in May 2013, of a terrorist who stabbed to death an Israeli father of five. Einen said the killer was a “heroic fighter” and called for “blessings to the breast that nursed him.” In response, five members of Congress wrote to Abbas, de-

manding that he fire Einen. Abbas ignored the letter. After the car attack by al-Shaludi two weeks ago, Einen publicly hailed him as a “heroic martyr” and charged that Israel “murdered him in cold blood.” Fatah’s Facebook page is replete with cartoons extolling “car terrorism” and urging viewers to “Hit the gas at 199 [km/h] for Al-Aqsa.” Now is the time for American Jews to ask those five members of Congress to take action — not just another letter that Abbas will ignore, but the imposition of penalties that Abbas cannot ignore. Here’s one idea: from now on, deduct the cost of medical treatment for victims of Palestinian terrorism from the $500-million that the U.S. gives the Palestinian Authority each year. Make them pay for the damage they cause. There are many other ways in which American Jews, working closely with friends in Congress, can force Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority to stop praising and glorifying terrorists. That would be the first, important step in the process of changing the culture in Palestinian villages that is raising children to become “car terrorists.” Stephen M. Flatow is an attorney whose daughter Alisa was murdered in a 1995 bus bombing by the Palestinian terrorists.

By Sean Savage, JNS.org Iranian Supreme Leader the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is known for his anti-Zionist rhetoric, has issued perhaps his most detailed tirade to date in a Twitter post titled “9 key questions about the elimination of Israel.” “Why should & how can #Israel be eliminated? Ayatollah Khamenei’s answer to 9 key questions. #HandsOffAlAqsa,” read the introduction to Khamenei’s tweet, posted Saturday. The hashtag #HandsOffAlAqsa referred to the recent tensions between Arabs and Jews at the Temple Mount. As part of the tweet, Khamenei proposed a referendum that would serve as a means for the elimination of Israel. The first answer provided within Khamenei’s nine points accuses “the fake Zionist regime” of trying to achieve its goals via “infanticide, homicide, violence & iron,” with the only solution to these “Israeli crimes” being the “elimination of this regime.” The “practical & logical mechanism for this,” according to Khamenei, is through a “public and organized referendum” for all the “original people of Palestine including Muslims, Christians, and Jews,” excluding “the Jewish immigrants who have been persuaded into emigration to Palestine,” who “do not have the right to take part.” In addition to the referendum, the Iranian leader called for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza to fight against Israel, rejecting any U.N.-moderated negotiation. Earlier this year, Iran had announced that it was increasing its effort to arm Palestinians in the West Bank. “Arming the West Bank has started and weapons will be supplied to the people of this region,” said Iranian paramilitary network chief Mohammad Reza Naqdi, the Times of Israel reported. The timing of Khamenei’s tweet also comes as the P5+1 nations—the U.S., U.K., France, Russia, China, and Germany—are nearing a negotiated solution with Iran ahead of the Nov. 24 diplomatic deadline. On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cautioned world powers not to rush into a bad deal with Iran on its nuclear program. “[Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei is] publicly calling for the annihilation of Israel as he is negotiating a nuclear deal with the P5+1 countries,” Netanyahu said. “There is no moderation in Iran,” he added. “It is unrepentant, unreformed, it calls for Israel’s eradication, it promotes international terrorism, and as the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) report just said, it continues to deceive the international community about its nuclear weapons program. This terrorist regime in Iran must not be allowed to become a nuclear threshold power. I call on the P5+1 countries—don’t rush into a deal that would let Iran rush to the bomb.” Last week, the IAEA said that its investigation into the potential weaponization of Iran’s nuclear program has stalled due to the Islamic Republic’s refusal to cooperate with the probe. President Barack Obama, meanwhile, sent a letter to Khamenei in mid-October expressing the countries’ shared interest in the fight against Islamic State jihadists in Syria and Iraq.

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What are we praying for? What do we want, and why? RABBI BINNY FREEDMAN THE HEART OF JERUSALEM

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ou are snuggly under your blanket or in your sleeping bag when all that peace and serenity comes to an abrupt halt. Shouting and yelling, darkness turning into abrupt harsh light, sleeping bags and blankets thrown off and the bitter cold immediately pervading every aspect of your being. You have exactly seven minutes from the time the guard is told to wake everyone up, to be standing in rows in your uniform on the parade ground with boots laced and buttons closed, ready for anything, for a new day of hell. We were a few weeks into basic infantry training in the IDF, and of all the horrible, sadistic systems they employed to break us and build us, this was the one I hated the most. Going on as little as three or four hours’ sleep, after exhausting days full of running, marching, shouting and yelling, we would fall into an exhausted sleep in our tents, only to be roused in the pre-dawn freezing cold darkness to start all over again. Anyone caught trying to sleep in uniform would instantly lose their weekend pass, and the process of waking up, getting out of your sleeping bag in the freezing cold to get dressed and outside on time was so intensely depressing I still recall that feeling, so many years later. On this particular morning the sergeant had apparently unscrewed the light bulb in the tent so we had to do all this in the dark, which made it even worse. Years later I would understand, as an officer, the value of being able to wake and be ready for battle in a matter of moments, but at the time, it simply filled me with an intense depression unlike any I had ever experienced. And I still remember the feeling on that particular morning, standing on the parade ground shivering in the cold as our sadistic

sergeant eyed us all, and realizing with horror, I had forgotten my gun in the tent. A feeling of pure terror and depression gripped me; every soldier is told at the beginning of basic: your gun is like your wife; sleep with it shower with it, never leave it. I was in a lot of trouble. Never had I wanted anything as much as I wanted that sergeant to finish our roll call and dismiss us so I could get back into my tent and get my gun without being seen. By some miracle, I got away with it, but years later I still remember that moment, and it is intriguing to me to consider how something which seems so unimportant now could fill me with such intent focus of will as wanting to get back to my tent and get my gun. Indeed, I recall many a morning struggling with what it was that was driving me to go through such torture as those horrific early morning wake-ups, day after day, to get through army training which I was never obligated to do; after all, having been born in the U.S., I was never obligated to go to the army in the first place. Clearly, the secret to all our accomplishments in life is willpower. And hidden in this week’s portion, Chayei Sarah is a central piece of the Jewish system for acquiring and developing one’s will power. fter the death and burial of Sarah, Avraham sends his servant back to the household of his cousins in Mesopotamia to seek a wife for his son Yitzchak. Accomplishing his mission, the servant (whom Jewish tradition identifies as Eliezer) returns with Rivkah and they encounter Yitzchak in the field where he is engaged in what seems to be meditation in nature. Seeing him from afar, Rivkah literally falls from

her camel, and thus begins the next chapter in the history of the Jewish people. Yitzchak and Rivkah marry, and their son Yaakov will be the father of the tribes of Israel. But what exactly is this initial encounter between Yitzchak and Rivkah? People mistakenly assume that Rivkah is so overwhelmed by the sight of Yitzchak meditating in the field that she falls off her camel. But a careful look at the verse shows that she first asks who the meditative fellow is, and only when she is told this is Yitzchak who will be her husband, does she decide to fall off her camel. Perhaps falling off her camel, an act of submission and fealty, is part of her decision to marry into the way of life Yitzchak’s communion represents. What exactly is the nature of Yitzchak’s meditation? The Talmud in Berachot shares one opinion that our three forefathers established the three prayers by which we guide our day in Judaism. And here, Yitzchak establishes the afternoon mincha prayers, when he goes out into the field to meditate. But to understand this story, we first need to understand the nature of prayer, which in Judaism we call tefilah. Tefilah is actually not prayer; the word prayer is defined in dictionaries as “to entreat, or to beg,” hence the name for the praying mantis insect, which seems to be begging. This implies that in prayer we throw ourselves before the mercy of the judge in an attempt to change the verdict, and change the judge‘s mind or influence his or her thinking. But G-d does not change and we do not influence G-d; if anything, G-d influences us. When Yaakov is on his deathbed, Yosef, his long-lost son with whom he has been

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reunited at the end of his life, comes to see him. And Yaakov says (Genesis 48): “raoh’ fanecha’ lo pilalti,” which Rashi interprets to mean, “I never filled my heart with imagining or even dreaming I would ever see you again.” Yaakov could not imagine seeing Yosef again because he thought he was dead. Thus palel, the root of our word tefillah, is to wish for or want or dream. And le’hitpalel, the reflexive, the term we use for praying, is to struggle with what we want. What do we really want? Is what we want what we should want? In life, what you want is who you are. How often have we so wanted a child or someone we love to want something we want them to want; but you can’t give someone ratzon, or will, they have to develop that wanting themselves. Thus, the Amidah, the silent prayer we call the Shemoneh Esrei, contains a list of the things we as Jews and even as human beings could and should want: peace, that the sick be healed, that we be home, and that all people should prosper. We know very little about Yitzchak, and most often the Torah does not share with us what he is thinking and what he wants. What did Yitzchak want? When his brother Yishmael taunts him, Yitzchak is silent, and when Yishmael and Yishmael’s mother Hagar are forced out of the house by Yitzchak’s mother Sarah, he is silent. Most telling, when Yitzchak is bound on the altar by his father Avraham (save a brief question on the journey) he is silent. And when Avraham cries and mourns for Sarah, Yitzchak is again silent, and even absent. And now, when it is time for Yitzchak to find a wife, it is Avraham through his servant who goes out to find her, while Yitzchak remains at home! And yet, the beginning of Rivkah’s relationship with Yitzchak, is that she encounters him in the field. The verse describes this as “sichah” — “Va’yetzeh Yitzchak la’suach ba’sadeh” (Yitzcahk goes out to converse, in the field). So silent Yitzchak is actually in dialogue. Continued on page 22

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n Avraham’s relationship with the Almighty, their connection is described in different ways in the Torah. In the beginning of Lekh Lekha, He is “Hashem who appeared to him” (12:7). In the Covenant Between the Pieces (15:7) G-d describes Himself as the One Who “brought you out (hotzateekha) of Ur Kasdim.” Some of the commentaries note that the language of “who brought you out” is reminiscent of Shmot 20:2 when G-d describes taking the Israelites out of Egyptian bondage (hotzateekha) — both reference G-d’s saving the subject of the statement from a dangerous situation. At the Covenant of Circumcision, G-d referred to Himself using other names “Kel Shakkai” (17:1). After making his treaty with Avimelekh, Avraham refers to G-d as “the G-d of the world” (Kel olam). In our parsha, Avraham enjoins his servant first “with Hashem the G-d of the heavens and the G-d of earth” (24:3), and in response to the servant’s concerns that the maiden might not join him, Avraham says, “Hashem the G-d of the heavens, Who took

me out (l’ka’chani) of my father’s household and from the land of my birthplace, and Who spoke to me, and Who swore to me that ‘I will give this land to your descendants’,” is the One who will guarantee your success in this mission. It is amazing to see how Avraham views his relationship with G-d versus how G-d views the same relationship. Avraham has many superlatives for G-d, while G-d sees Himself as a savior and as having different names — one which means “Who has enough” as long as Avraham follows His ways (Shakkai, which is spelled with a dalet instead of the k’s used here). What I find fascinating is the difference between G-d’s “hotzateekha” (I brought you out/saved you) and Avraham’s “L’ka’chani” (who took me out of my father’s house). Are they really saying the same thing? Radak’s explanation of L’ka’chani is that “since I was taken from that home, G-d does not want me to return there.” The Toldos Yitzhak suggests that it is only “because G-d took me out of there that I need to return to

there to find a wife for Yitzchak. Had I remained there, obviously this task would have been much easier.” In other words, look at the repeating root word in the verse. “Since G-d l’ka’chani, you will go and v’lakachta (you will take) a wife for Yitzchak.” The main message we can glean from the difference in language is the one articulated by Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. G-d “took me,” and not “brought me out and saved me,” in order to make me into a vessel that could grasp and achieve G-d’s great purpose for humanity on earth. It would seem that G-d viewed Avraham’s relationship as one in which “I did for you, now you owe Me.” Avraham, on the other hand, aimed to understand the purpose of that mission. It wasn’t so much, “What do I owe G-d in return for the kindnesses He did for me?” as it was, “How can I understand G-d, and how can I make my relationship with Him become the primary focus of my life?” There are great teachers, mentors and parents who might look back at their role in helping a child and think, “I saved this young

Avraham knew he owed much to G-d. But he also knew that his own efforts contributed to his success.

person’s life” or “I gave this young person her first real chance” or “This young man owes everything to the assistance/training I gave him.” They need to understand that the other party may view that help or assistance differently. Some will look back at those early days and feel an eternal sense of gratitude; they may even be hampered from moving on because they may feel the gratitude they owe prevents them from branching out on their own. Others may look at the life skills they’ve been given as the tools which will help them achieve real independence, that “someone helped me get on my feet, and now I have to make the most of the gift of life that is mine to live. I have a mission to succeed, and I must take charge of my responsibility and shine in my own way, using my own unique talents, skills and abilities.” As Avraham’s many adventures had brought him to the point of wealth and relaxation, he knew he owed much to G-d. But he also knew that his own efforts were significant in his achieving the esteem which followed him in his later years. Both ingredients are important for a person to succeed. But as each individual lives his or her own life, that person must be honored to see that the perspective of “saved me” really means “gave me the opportunity to try to make the most of my life.”

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Shabbaton for DRS students builds relationships By Yitzchak Carroll Students received a dose of inspiration and a sense of pride in their religion while having a good time at the Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School’s Shabbaton at Hotel Somerset-Bridgewater on Nov. 7-8. “Our sophomores, juniors and seniors will have the opportunity to spend a ruach (spirit)-filled Shabbat together, experiencing creative learning and social opportunities,” said Student Activities Director Rabbi Eli Brazil about the Shabbaton. Students eagerly boarded the buses early Friday morning, and after dropping their belongings off at the hotel, headed to nearby Colonial Park for the Woodmere-based school’s flag football tournament, a yearly highlight of the Shabbaton. Following the tournament and lunch, students returned back to the hotel to check in and prepare for an inspirational Shabbat. The theme of this year’s Shabbaton was “focusing on Jewish pride,” and Alan Veingrad was the guest speaker. A former professional football player and member of the Super Bowl XXVII champion Dallas Cowboys. Veingrad rediscovered his Jewish roots while playing for the Green Bay Packers, when a local businessman invited him to services on Rosh Hashanah. Shortly afterwards, he retired from football and became a Torah-observant Jew. Veingrad inspired students with his story and exemplified the Shabbaton’s theme by discussing the pride he has from his Jewish identity. “My favorite part of the Shabbaton was the keynote speaker, Alan Veingrad, because he helped me appreciate how special my Jewish identity is,” said senior Eli Goldberg. “I really admire him.” Beautiful prayers kicked off Shabbat, followed by a festive meal. Students and their rabbis then sang together and shared words of Torah. Students heard from a panel of DRS rabbis tackling an array of questions posed by the audience regarding inspiration and Judaism.

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By Vanessa Parker, Nassau Herald Rambam Mesivta students and faculty honored military service people during the Lawrence school’s annual Veterans Day assembly this week. Retired Army paratrooper Candido Elejalba, a 67-year-old Bronx resident, was the keynote speaker on Tuesday. Every year, Rambam pays tribute to armed forces members serving overseas that liberated concentration camps or served in Korea, Vietnam or Afghanistan. In addition to honoring the veterans, the school also adopts an armed services unit. This year Rambam adopted Elejalba’s son Jonathan’s National Reserve army unit which is expected to be sent overseas soon. “We set aside Veterans Day every year to honor the people who make it possible for everyone to live as free Americans,” said Rabbi Yotav Eliach, the school’s principal. “Freedom is not free. There is a price for freedom in Israel. Sadly, less and less Americans realize that.” Elejalba became acquainted with the school while taking classes at Touro College when he saw a flyer about the program, then applied to work in Israel with the Israeli Defense Forces through Sar-El. “The war that the IDF is fighting against terrorists is my war, too,” he said. “Even though I’m retired, I will fight for Israel if that’s the case. We are at war with different groups, like ISIS and Hezbollah. They all have the same goals but they will not prevail.” In January, Elejalba met the Rambam students, Dovid Rosenzweig, Zachary Beer, and Shmuel Halbfinger, all 17-year-old seniors, along with a fourth student, Yitzie Milworn, who graduated with the class of 2014, all worked in Tel Aviv. They assisted in preparing bags and equipment for the soldiers, wore fatigues, and even got to practice shooting guns during the two-week program they paid for on their own. The boys greatly appreciated Elejalba’s

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Science is SKAappening at HALB HALB Science is a blast — especially when shared with HALB Lev Chana Early Childhood Center children by their SKA High School “big sisters.” This innovative and hands-on monthly science program, conceived and implemented last year by then junior Yiela Saperstein, is a remarkable opportunity for SKA seniors and juniors to interact with the school’s four year old nursery children, while teaching them fun science concepts. The SKA students, with the help of our teachers, guide our children through the steps of the

Scientific Method, encouraging them to think about what they are trying to do, make predictions as to what might happen, actually perform the experiment, and finally, analyze their results. The youngsters love feeling like real scientists as they pour and mix and shake, and learn new words to describe what they are doing and seeing. The children enjoy the time spent interacting with their SKA “big sisters,” and their “big sisters” feel the same way about them. The next Science is SKAppening session is scheduled for December.

Smart boards arrive at Lev Chana HALB Three of HALB Lev Chana Early Childhood Center 4-year-old Nursery teachers were thrilled when they

walked into their classrooms last week: There on their wall was the state-of-theart, interactive Smart Board they had been waiting for! On Wednesday afternoon, the head and assistant teachers from each of those classes, along with our Ivrit teacher, and co-directors, participated in a smart board training session. Faygie Ravitz, Technology Integration Specialist from the Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education, demonstrated, in this first of several planned workshops, a few of the many innovative and stimulating ways our teachers can utilize the Smart Boards to develop hands-on, thought-provoking lessons. The next day all three classes began using the

Smart Boards to conduct interactive, fun-filled lessons with their children, which included working on skills such as one-to-one correspondence as the children dragged vibrant colored leaves and acorns to trees and squirrels, and tracing the letter F after moving words beginning with F to a special box. “In just one day we already see how powerful and exciting using the Smart Board can be! It enhances lessons and concepts and adds a new dimension to the learning experience.” commented Lisa Zakutinsky, Co-Director of Lev Chana ECC. “We look forward to expanding its use in more classrooms over the course of the year,” added Felecie Akerman, Co-Director of Lev Chana ECC.

Elections at HANC HANC Students at HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School, in West Hempstead elected new G.O. Cabinet members Election festivities began with a sixth grade primary election in which students decided which of their classmates would stand in the HANC general election. After the primary results were in, the candidates spent the next few days campaigning throughout the school, “glad handing” and giving out stickers and lollipops. HANC 609 was adorned with colorful posters, in both English and Hebrew, and students wore stickers promoting their favorite candidates. On election day, students in the third through sixth grades listened to the candidates deliver their campaign speeches and then they voted. Congratulations to all the candidates and to the new slate of offices: Yoni Schneider (President), Emily Keehn (Vice President), Leah Frankel (Treasurer) and Yoni Bench (Secretary). The cabinet is comprised of Nili Kushner, Gaby Lovy, Mordechai Strauss and Noa Gruber. The G.O. faculty adviser is Mrs. Spitalnik. The G.O. is excited to get the school year underway and is launching their first fundraiser, challahs from Challywood, just in time for Thanksgiving.

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The ’60s and ’70s were oh so sweet. Like jello! JUDY JOSZEF WHO’S IN THE KITCHEN

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waisted pants. Why my Barbie, case, clothes and accessories she chose to throw out, I’m not sure. When reminiscing, I think of all the differences between my childhood and that of the kids today. We didn’t have nearly as much as kids today, but we had more freedom, and much more fun. Had we grown up now, our parents would have been accused of neglect. Back in the 1960’s and ’70s, our goal was to get as brown as our skin could. Sunblock or sunscreen was basically nonexistent. We wanted to double the rays, so we typically lathered on baby oil to get that deep-baked look. For the kids, SPF numbers hovered around 2, 4 and 8. The idea that you would spray an SPF of 50 or even 30 wasn’t even an option. How many of us wore seat belts in the ’60s?

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XM radio. Cousin Brucie on AM was as cool as it got. Air conditioning was opening the window. Although we had defoggers, my husband Jerry’s dad had no idea of their existence. Jerry and his brother were armed with dozens of towels on rainy and foggy days and would continually wipe down the front and back windows. This went on until one day a kid with American parents was in their car and made the outrageous claim that his dad’s car did the defogging automatically. The kid said it was on the panel on the dashboard. Jerry’s dad did some investigating and determined that the only button there which had no purpose was the “DEF” button. Need I say more? The towels were relegated to more conventional duties. Today there are safety warnings, manuals and laws protecting kids. Makes me wonder how we all survived. It seems as if new parents send their kids to school wrapped in bubble paper. We didn’t have helmets, knee pads or elbow pads. And trust me, getting hit in the head with a machanayim ball was no laughing matter. Neither was getting attacked by those solid metal sharp-edged kugalach (sort of like jax). To those of you who attended Shulamith elementary school in the late 60’s early 70’s, remember the Israeli gym teacher? We loved her, except, really, what was she thinking teaching us games with sawed off bamboo sticks? We had to throw them and hope we didn’t poke our partner’s eye out. To this day as I sit in my sukkah and look up I think of that game and wonder. Remember when playgrounds were fun? Sure, there was a pretty good chance you’d be scalded by a hot metal slide, or walk away with tetanus, but that’s what memories are made of. The ground underneath us was asphalt, not recycled rubber. When we flew off a seesaw or merry go round at full speed and hit the ground … good times. Also of note were those ladders that were barely connected to the sliding ponds and that seemed to reach the sky. Seriously, it seemed as if the air was thinner up there. But we loved being outside and running around. We would play outside all day … then again, they didn’t steal kids in those days. Of course surrounding your kid in a carcinogenic bubble isn’t a good idea but, hey that’s the world us 50-somethings lived in back then, and we’re here to talk about it. Our parents didn’t obsess over our safety, what we ate or how we played. I think most of us would agree we turned out just fine. Right? Talking of the 1960s and ’70s, remember when jello was the “in” dessert? Here’s a recipe that’s made with jello, but is much more fun than in the old days.

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advent of jet travel had on the hotel. “As things went on, people were asking for all the amenities with the hotel,” family matriarch Helen Kutsher, regarded the “First Lady of the Catskills,” says. “Do you have an indoor pool? Do you have a golf course?” callers would often ask before making a reservation, according to Helen. “They wanted everything. … I asked many people, ‘Do you play golf? Do you like swimming?’ ‘No,’ they’d answer, ‘but I like to know that you have it.’” Competition for Kutsher’s was intense, as luxury hotels proliferated around the country, offering deluxe packages with no discriminatory barriers to entry. Likewise, Caribbean cruises came into vogue. Even more alluring, the prospect of buying property in Florida, where aging patrons could live on what became known as “permanent vacation,” defined decades of exodus from the Catskills tradition. From the 1970s through the 1990s, diverging interests and a widening generation gap unraveled the close-knit traditions that Jewish families had established at their favorite Catskills resort. What exactly are these traditions? “Welcome to Kutsher’s” won’t leave you “hungry” for details. The documentary focuses on the Jewish home cooking that earned the region its “Borscht Belt” nickname. Viewers will enjoy learning about the unique personalities in the Kutsher family that contributed to the hotel’s family-oriented atmosphere. Dedicated employees recount the warm feelings they harbor for the owners. Rosenberg and Laskow admit that they arrived late to the Kutsher’s scene, making their first trip to the hotel in 2002. But thinning crowds and unrented rooms aside, there was still plenty of magic and the experience inspired them. “Ian learned to ice skate after an impromptu lesson with Celia Duffy, whom we would later feature in our documentary,” Laskow recounts. “We took the Seabreeze special cocktails out to the pool, attended a still-life art class, and enormously enjoyed our many meals.” Perhaps time was running out for this form of entertainment and the Catskills resort atmosphere, but it’s clear that this filmmaking duo taps into an essential aspect of Jewish American culture.

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NEW YORK (AP)— Broadway’s next Tevye will be Danny Burstein. Producers of the upcoming revival of “Fiddler on the Roof” said last Thursday that Tony Award nominee of such shows as “Golden Boy,” “Follies” and currently “Cabaret” will play the milkman struggling to maintain his beloved traditions. The Tony Award-winning musical about a Jewish milkman from the Ukrainian village of Anatevka is based on stories by Sholom Aleichem. It centers on Tevye, a poor Orthodox Jew with five rebellious daughters. The original production in 1964 starred Zero Mostel and had an almost eight-year run, offering the world such stunning songs as “Sunrise, Sunset,” “If I Were a Rich Man” and “Matchmaker, Matchmaker.” It features lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, music by Jerry Bock and a story by Joseph Stein. The new revival will be directed by Tony Award-nominee Bartlett Sher, who directed Burstein in the revivals of “Golden Boy” and “South Pacific.” The production will also feature choreography by Hofesh Shechter, based on original conceptions and choreography by Jerome Robbins.

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — An avowed white supremacist from Missouri who is accused in the fatal shooting of three people at two Kansas Jewish sites was expected in court Wednesday for a preliminary hearing to determine if there is enough evidence to take his case to trial. Frazier Glenn Miller, 74, of Aurora, Missouri, is charged with capital murder in the April 13 attacks outside the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and a Jewish retirement home in nearby Overland Park, Kansas. None of the victims was Jewish. Miller shouted “heil Hitler” at television cameras as he was arrested after the killings that shocked the city on the eve of Passover. Dr. William Lewis Corporon, 69, and his grandson Reat Griffin Underwood, 14, were at the community center for a singing contest audition, while 53-year-old Terri LaManno was visiting her mother at the retirement complex. Miller’s attorney, Ron Evans, said Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe had indicated he plans to seek the death penalty — something Howe has not publicly acknowledged. Miller, also known as Frazier Glenn Cross, is a Vietnam War veteran from southwest Missouri who founded the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in his native North Carolina and later the White Patriot Party. He was the target of a nationwide manhunt in 1987, when federal agents tracked him and three other men to a rural Missouri home stocked with hand grenades and automatic weapons. He was indicted on weapons charges and accused of plotting robberies and the assassination of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s founder. He served three years in federal prison.

ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — Maryland’s largest school district has voted to strip religious labels from holidays on next year’s school calendar. That includes Christian holidays like Easter and Christmas, and the Jewish holidays of Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah. The 7-1 decision by the county’s Board of Education on Tuesday comes after Muslim leaders in the community asked that equal recognition be given to the Muslim holy day of Eid al-Adha. School still will be closed for the Christian and Jewish holidays and students will get the same days off. School will remain open for the Muslim holiday. Muslim leaders say they’re not pleased with the result. They didn’t want religious labels removed from the other holidays, just for Muslim students to be treated equally and to have their own holiday recognized.

Anti-Defamation League picks new leader NEW YORK (AP) — The Anti-Defamation League has announced a replacement for its longtime national director who is leaving after almost a half century working for the Jewish nonprofit. The New York-based organization on Thursday said Jonathan Greenblatt will take the helm when 74-year-old Abraham Foxman steps down in July 2015. The ADL described Greenblatt as a social entrepreneur and business executive who served in the White House under President Barack Obama. They said Greenblatt has had a lifelong commitment to Jewish social causes and is the grandson of a Holocaust survivor who escaped from Nazi Germany. The ADL has 30 regional offices in the United States and one in Israel.

In US immigration case, Palestinian is guilty DETROIT (AP) — A federal jury on Monday found a Chicago activist guilty of immigration fraud for failing to disclose her conviction in a Jerusalem supermarket bombing that killed two people. Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, 67, was charged for not revealing she had been imprisoned by an Israeli military court for several bombings in 1969. She served 10 years before being released in a prisoner swap with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Odeh is associate director of Chicago’s Arab American Action Network. She is widely respected in Chicago for her work with immigrants, especially Arab women. The criminal case against Odeh angered pro-Palestinian activists who accused the U.S. government of trying to silence critics of Israel. Dozens of supporters traveled from Chicago to watch the trial. Many gathered outside the downtown courthouse and marched along a sidewalk to protest Odeh’s conviction and detention. Odeh and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Tukel clashed during her testimony last week when she insisted she didn’t believe the criminal history questions extended beyond the U.S.

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By Maayan Jaffe/JNS.org The “start-up nationâ€?—a nickname Israel earned due to its population’s knack for innovation—is increasingly exporting its culture of entrepreneurship to America. A 2012 Pew Research Center study showed that as many as 330,000 native-born Israelis were living in the United States, while other estimates peg the total current population of Israeli Americans—including the descendants of those born in Israel—at between 500,000 and 800,000. There are a number of reasons why an Israeli might decide to come to the U.S., but for those who are innovators, entrepreneurs, or businesspeople, the move is often based on necessity. The relatively small market of Israel, a country that is roughly the size of New Jersey, leaves Israeli companies thirsting for opportunities outside of the Holy Land. “Israel is great place to nurture new ideas. But when they want to scale up, they have to go to the U.S. or Europe,â€? Benjamin Soffer, head of the Technology Transfer OfďŹ ce at the Haifa-based Technion — Israel Institute of Technology, told JNS.org. Soffer explained that Israeli companies making the move to the U.S. usually “need to follow the moneyâ€? and go wherever their top investors are. Others, he said, think more about vertical market opportunities (in which vendors offer their goods and services to a group of customers with specialized needs) or the community and infrastructure that will be available for their families when they arrive in America. There are now a dozen Israeli American chambers of commerce around the U.S. to assist companies arriving here from the Jewish state, according to a list on the website of the Association of American-Israel Chambers of Commerce. These organizations try to make the Israeli companies’ landings softer, but also understand that recruiting Israeli thought leaders is beneďŹ cial for their U.S. states’ economies. “Israel is one of the world’s leaders in innovation and there is a competition to get them to your state,â€? said Vered Nohi-Becker, head of the Philadelphia Israel Chamber of Commerce. “We want them to come here to create good, innovative jobs here, and to help our economy grow. It is extremely lucrative for local companies to explore collaborations with Israeli companies.â€?

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“We need to market ourselves to attract those companies,â€? she told JNS.org. Ayal Vogel—vice president of business development for RADiow, a New Jersey-based Israeli company that creates secure communication networks for infrastructure such as transportation systems—said there are three major factors that inuence where Israelis decide to do business in the U.S., and none of them have to do with tax rates or even cost of living. They are the estimated vertical market, meaning the customer base; exibility of the location, meaning how close its proximity to an international airport with a direct ight to Israel; and the people—are there other Israelis living there, and will the Israeli entrepreneur’s family be happy while he or she focuses on developing the company? “We look to be away from home but at home,â€? said Vogel. “Your friends turn into family, so we look for well-established cities and towns that have Israeli people like us.â€? In the “beltwayâ€? area (Washington, DC, and Maryland), Barry Bogage heads the Maryland/Israel Development Center (MIDC), a partnership between the local Jewish federation, the state of Maryland, the Montgomery County Departments of Business and Economic Development, and the Israeli Ministry of Economy and Trade. MIDC

serves as “an energetic hub of people and activities engaged in promoting Maryland/ Israel trade and investment,â€? said Bogage. “It assists both Israeli and Maryland businesses and entrepreneurs in successfully accessing each other’s markets,â€? he told JNS.org. Bogage said Israeli companies will choose to set up shop in the beltway because of its close proximity to the U.S. government and its accessibility to defense and cyber-security contracts. He uses a network of preferred providers to assist Israeli companies in ďŹ nding investors and partners, but also all the service providers they would need to help their businesses come alive and sustain themselves. “Real estate, employee beneďŹ ts, accounting, bookkeeping, regulatory questions, taxes—with one phone call to us, we can set all of that up [for the Israeli companies],â€? Bogage said. Outgoing Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley (who could not run for re-election this month due to term limits and will be succeeded by Republican Larry Hogan) has taken many trade missions to Israel over the last two decades to recruit cyber-entrepreneurs to his state. Bogage said MIDC has helped 20 Israeli companies open ofďŹ ces in Maryland, and dozens more to establish development

and sales partners in the area. Yet Technion’s Soffer did not name Maryland or the DC area in his list of the top U.S. destinations for Israeli innovators. Instead, he cited Boston, California, and New York. A 2010 study released at the New England-Israel Business Council’s 2010 Life Sciences Summit at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., revealed the scope and impact of Israeli-related businesses on the Massachusetts economy—a striking $2.4 billion annually. The study also showed that nearly 100 companies in Massachusetts are founded by Israelis or offer products based on Israeli technology, and that Israeli industry has created 5,920 jobs in the state. Talia Cohen, executive director of the California Israel Chamber of Commerce, said some 300 Israeli companies are working in Silicon Valley and across the rest of the state. She thinks that one of the reasons Israelis have chosen the area is its high level of multiculturalism. Not only can they forge U.S. partnerships, but they can also connect with leaders and funders from across the globe. Additionally, there are fewer cultural roadblocks for Israelis in regions with diverse populations. Vogel said Israelis struggle to understand American culture or how enormous and complex the U.S. market really is, and that being in a place with others who have the same challenges can make the transition easier. On the ip side, Americans are not always accustomed to Israelis’ business style. Bogage said that Israelis’ “frankness and passionâ€? often shocks Americans. “Americans think it is an argument when really it’s just that for Israelis, there’s no equivocating, no beating around the bush,â€? he said. The attraction of innovation, however, usually wins out. The Philadelphia chamber’s Nohi-Becker said that while Israeli market penetration is rising in America, there is the simultaneously growing presence of U.S. research and development centers and venture capitalism in Israel. All the while, both Israeli and American innovators are looking to scope out the “next big thing.â€? “There’s a lot that’s thriving here [for Israeli companies in the U.S.],â€? said NohiBecker. Maayan Jaffe is senior writer/editor at Netsmat and a Kansas-based freelance writer. Reach her at maayanjaffe@icloud.com or follow her on Twitter @MaayanJaffe.

JCC’s 5 Towns food pantry helps when money’s tight By Jeffrey Bessen, Nassau Herald In May, needing help to supplement her earnings as a part-time school bus matron for a Nassau County transportation company, Joan R. of Rosedale, Queens, walked into the Rina Shkolnik Kosher Food Pantry on Central Avenue in Woodmere, which is sponsored by the JCC of the Greater Five Towns. “I’m struggling to pay bills. It’s hard and money is tight,â€? Joan said. “At ďŹ rst I didn’t want to go, because I was embarrassed to go.â€? She did go, and found pantry coordinator Renee Harris ready to help her. “She said, ‘Come on in, it’s OK,’ and she was real sweet and nice,â€? Joan said. Harris showed Joan what the food pantry had to offer. The following month, it was a little easier for her to visit the pantry and pick up the food she needed, Joan said. Typically she gets pasta, soup, cereal, challah and bagels. “It’s great,â€? she said. “It helps out a lot so I can get other things I need, such as medications and meats.â€? She buys medicine not only for herself, but for her dog, which

has been ill for the past few months, Joan said. Established in 2005, the food pantry began by helping 35 families, and it now works with nearly 300 families from the Five Towns and neighboring communities in Nassau and Queens. After the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, it served an additional 100 families, according to Stacey Feldman, the JCC’s director of development. Now, two years after the storm, 30 families from Lawrence, Far Rockaway and other communities are still in need. Rina Shkolnik retired as the JCC’s executive director in 2012, and the pantry was named for her that year. “We want people to know we exist,� Feldman said. “We are the largest kosher food pantry on Long Island.� The pantry is a joint initiative of the Jewish Community Center of the Greater Five Towns and UJA-Federation of New York, and is supported by the Five Towns Community Chest and the Inwood Charities Fund, run by the Inwood Country Club. Long Island Cares, Long Island Harvest and Trader Joe’s

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in Hewlett deliver food, assisted by private donations. There are also several community-based food drives. The pantry provides a social worker who discusses with clients which social services they may be eligible for, such as the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which provides beneďŹ ts and education to lower-income individuals and families. Mary S., a retired baker from Howard Beach, also used the pantry. For the past four months she has volunteered at the storefront on Central Avenue, putting food packages together and restocking the shelves. “I wanted to do something where I could give back and something to keep my mind active,â€? she said. “I feel if you get something for nothing, you should try to give back.â€? In addition to the food, the JCC, in conjunction with the Inwood Country Club, has collected children’s and adult’s coats and other children’s clothing for distribution on Sunday at the JCC in Cedarhurst. Preregistration is required. Call (516) 569-6733 to register.

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Iran’s threats are real: Bibi JNS.org Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s recent tweeting of a 9-point plan to destroy Israel is more than “mere words,â€? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the 2014 General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in a live video address on Tuesday. “These aren’t mere words‌ the regime of Iran’s wild rhetoric is also backed by murderous action,â€? Netanyahu said, citing Iran’s funding of the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah. “That’s apparently the Iranian regime’s idea of modernity—tweeting about the annihilation of Israel,â€? added Netanyahu. The international community’s goal “must not be merely to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons today, we must also prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons tomorrow,â€? the prime minister said. “This is how Iran acts without nuclear weapons,â€? he said. “Now imagine how Iran will act with a deal that leaves it as a threshold nuclear power.â€? Yet instead of “holding ďŹ rmâ€? in nuclear negotiations with Iran, which have a Nov. 24 deadline for an agreement, world powers are reportedly willing to leave the Iranian nuclear program “largely intactâ€? and rely on inspectors to prevent weaponization, Netanyahu said. He said that instead, the world must “recognize the limitations of our own intelligence-gathering capabilities,â€? given the previous failure of any country’s intelligence to discover Iran’s nuclear facilities at Natanz and Qom. Iran should also not be treated as an ally

Jerusalem‌ Continued from page 8 Yitzchak represents the ultimate passive personality, wanting only to receive, and if teďŹ llah is all about wanting, then perhaps Yitzchak is struggling with what he wants and, more critically, what he feels Hashem wants of him. Yitzchak is dialoguing with himself. av Kook suggests there are three questions teďŹ llah enjoins us to ask of ourselves every day: 1. What do we want? (And often what do we know we do not want.) 2. Why do we want it? (If I want to earn a lot of money, why is that important to me? Do I want it for the right reasons?) 3. Do I think Hashem wants me to want this? (Obviously, ďŹ guring out what Hashem wants of us is no simple task, although a recipe from Hashem, which we believe is the Torah, helps. But at the very least we need to be asking this question.) And this may be what Yitzchak is struggling with. Rav Kook suggests that one does not have a soul; one is a soul. And the essence of the soul is ratzon (wanting). What we want is the ultimate gift that Hashem gives us. Jewish tradition suggests Yitzchak is at least 37 years old, his mother has passed away, he is estranged from his brother, and all he wants is to know what it is Hashem wants of him. Rav Kook (in his Ein Ayah on Brachot) points out that the word used here for prayer, Sicha, which also means dialogue, is the same word, Siach, used in the creation story in Genesis for plants, perhaps because this aspect of teďŹ llah allows one to see G-d in nature and realize that everything has a purpose and is part of a larger plan. If even a simple leaf is part of Hashem’s Continued on page 23

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should also be working to calm tensions, has joined Hamas and radical Islamists in fanning the ames.â€? PA President Mahmoud Abbas publicly praised the Islamic Jihad terrorist who tried to kill Temple Mount activist Yehudah Glick and accused Jews of “contaminatingâ€? the Temple Mount, Netanyahu noted, adding that the Facebook page of Abbas’s Fatah party denies that the Jewish people have any connection to the Temple Mount or that there was ever a Jewish Temple to begin with. “These distortions and this incitement are so corrosive to the effort to reach a genuine peace,â€? Netanyahu said.

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By Ed Weintrob NATIONAL HARBOR, MD — Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks sounded a call to Jewish unity on Sunday, in a keynote address to the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly. He also urged Jewish communities to make better use of the Internet to facilitate that unity and to further Jewish learning and cultural enrichment. While globalization is new to most peoples, “it is the oldest of the old” to the Jewish people who were scattered around the world for 20 centuries yet remained as one, said the former chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. “How could it be that before Facebook, Twitter, Google, a global people was even possible,” especially since “Jews had none of the normal accompaniments of a nation — they didn’t live in the same land, they didn’t speak the same language, they weren’t part of the same culture,” he said. For example, “Rashi lived in Christian Europe, Rambam lived in Muslim Egypt,” Rabbi Sacks explained. “While the Jews of northern Europe were being massacred in the Crusades, the Jews in Spain were celebrating their golden age. In 1492, when Spanish Jewry was expelled, the Jews of Poland were enjoying their rare spring of tolerance.” The key, he said, is that “all Jews are responsible for one another” and thus “we are hyper connected.” Even disputes over the state of Israel — a land “which always united us [but] now

sometimes divides us” — is not a problem. “Disagreement is what it is to be a Jew,” he said. “Yesterday [in Parshat Vayera] we read how Avraham Avinu argued with the Almighty. So did Moses, so did Jeremiah, so did Job. On every page of the Talmud you find Rabbi X arguing with Rabbi Y.” Rabbi Sacks continued: “Elie Wiesel once said, G-d created human beings because he loves stories. I say G-d chose the jewish people because he loves a good argument. What we need is not agreement [but] the feeling that we are all connected to one another, that we are all responsible for one another.” He charged his listeners with finding ways to use the Internet to “bring us closer together instead of splitting us apart.” The Web “abolishes distances between us — it was made for a people that is tiny yet distributed throughout the world. “Let us decide, here and now, to take this great gift from heaven, courtesy of Sergey Brin and Mark Zuckerberg, and use it to make these connections between Jews across the world.” As an example, “let us create a universal free Jewish education by creating an open Jewish day school on the Internet,” he said. “Let us create an open Jewish university on the Web. Let us build a Jewish tent so that every Jew everywhere can enjoy the best Jewish minds, listen to the best Jewish stories and be inspired by the best Jewish music. Let us make the Jewish people whole again.” “Let us think of ways of doing things that nobody every did before,” he said.

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Jerusalem… Continued from page 22 plan for the tree it grows on, then obviously every human is part of a larger plan and destined for a great purpose, and this is true for peoples and nations as well. The battle between East and West, and between Judaism’s vision of peace and Islamic fundamentalism which dreams of conquest and domination, becomes sharper every day. More than ever, we as a people need to ask ourselves what we really want and why we

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