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A few weeks ago, as I was driving along Central Avenue, I had the following thought: when I was growing up, I looked forward to Chanukah for weeks and couldnt wait for those eight days and nights. Now that Im an adult, I look forward to Chanukah because it is a special time. But I also see it as a time of boundless excitement and happiness for my children which also makes it something even more special to me. I thought to myself: did my parents feel the same way? When I was six-years-old, I was immersed in the spirit of joy of Chanu-kah and I thought that the whole house was transformed once the candles were lit and the Chanukah parties started. Were my par-ents not as enveloped in that energy as my six-year-old mind envisioned?

I am sure every household is the same: we all get caught up in the excitement each in their own way. There is a certain pride in driving down the street at night and seeing the windows of dozens of homes em-blazoned with the glowing lights of the me-norah. I love driving down streets that are not primarily Jewish and seeing the flicker-ing glow in the lone Jewish home on that road. We may be few, but our small candles can shine brighter than all the neon lights that garishly light up the streets during this time.

Chanukah also invokes another similar type of emotion within me. Its a feeling of warmth that is formed when families and

friends get together over Chanukah. Were not obligated to spend time together on Chanukah theres no mitzvah to share a sukkah or tell the story of yetzias Mitzray-im or even give mishloach manos but we come together because we know that our simcha means including our family and friends. Our happiness is so much more be-cause our night is shared with them.

My children started their Chanukah preparations weeks ago. Last week, we baked Chanukah cookies that mysteriously disappeared a few days later. And they have been coloring Chanukah signs for days. Both sides of the front door are almost com-pletely filled and we still have a few more days to go. No worries, theyll start on the walls soon enough.

Speaking about Chanukah pictures, make sure to take part in our Chanukah Give-away. We want to see how our TJH readers celebrate Chanukah. Send us your photos with you, your family or your friends and well send you a cool Chanukah treat: $10 at Berrylicious! Make sure to take those pho-tos fast only 30 people will get to enjoy the ice cream. See the Centerfold for more details.

As Chanukah quickly approaches, I look forward to spending it with my family and friends. And, of course, a few jelly dough-nuts will be the icing on the cake!Wishing you a lichtige Chanukah,Shoshana

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Dear Editor,We need to tell our elected offi-

cials and have massive rally in Wash-ington the time for action is now!

The situation in Israel appears intolerable and we need to do some-thing. Of course we must say Tehillim, learn more Torah and pray continu-ally for our fellow Jews in Israel. On top of that we must powerfully pres-sure our elected officials. It is an out-rage that U.S. tax dollars are going to the Palestinian Authority which has for many years been encouraging ter-rorist attacks against Israel. The en-tire premise of allowing the PLO back into the West Bank, or as we know it, Judea and Samariah, was that sup-posedly this terrorist group has sud-denly turned peaceful and is willing to live alongside the Jewish state of Israel. Sure enough, in the first years of this sham of a peace process, there were many suicide Palestinian terror attacks on buses, restaurants and all over Israel.

After Palestinian elections Hamas was overwhelmingly voted into pow-er. They seized control in Gaza but President Abbas has control in Judea and Samariah. Through Palestinian TV and radio and other media there are constant praises of those who murder Israeli men, women and children for many years including naming streets after them and calling terrorists spilled blood that of holy martyrs.

At the UN, the Palestinian Au-thority calls for resolutions declaring all Jewish holy sites in the Holy Land to be Muslim while some Jewish holy sites are torched and vandalized by them as well. There are continual calls for the freeing of all Palestinian prisoners including the many mur-derers of civilians. And for many days now Palestinians of all genders and ages, living and breathing constant indoctrination to murder Jews, are stabbing and running over Jews of all ages, and the Palestinian Authority is at best low key and at worst praising these actions. They have repeatedly rejected every peace offer for a Pal-estinian state by Israel because they want all the land to themselves and all Jews out. The Palestinian Author-ity even pays stipends to terrorists families and jailed terrorists from U.S. tax payer money!

We need mass rallies, as when 100,000 rallied in Washington, D.C., during President Bushs term, and pressure our elected officials to pub-licly rebuke the Palestinian Terror-ist Authority and threaten to greatly cut funding unless they start acting like they really are peace partners. In the meantime it is very clear that no Jewish holy sites can be trusted under Palestinian control and no Jews can be safe in close proximity to Palestinian controlled areas. This

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Chanukah is coming!

Do you give your children one large gift or a few small gifts on Chanukah?

22% One Large

78% A Few Small

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 8

COMMUNITY

Readers Poll 8

Community Happenings 42

NEWS

Global 13

National 32

Odd-but-True Stories 40

ISRAEL

Israel News 21

My Israel Home: A People that Dwells Alone by Gedaliah Borvick 88

PEOPLE

Colonel Mordechai Frizis: The Highest Ranking Jewish Officer in the Greek Army by Avi Heiligman 128

PARSHA

Rabbi Wein 80

The Shmuz 82

JEWISH THOUGHT

Cheerleaders by Eytan Kobre 84

Topsy-Turvy Too by Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz 86

CHANUKAH

Kislev: United Colors of the Rainbow byRebbetzin Tziporah Heller S4

All or Nothing by Rabbi YY Rubinstein S6

Halacha: Olives, Olive Oil, and Chanukah S8

Bobker on Chanukah by Joe Bobker S12

Light Unto Your Menorah by Brendy J. Siev 90

JEWISH HISTORY

The Infamous Case of the Get of Cleves, Part III by Rabbi Pini Dunner 94

HEALTH & FITNESS

Why Bad Things Happen to Good PeopleMaybe by Deb Hirschhorn, PhD 108

Nutrition Myths Busted by Aliza Beer, MS RD 112

FOOD & LEISURE

Fried De-Lights by Jamie Geller S3

Lets Have a Chanukah Party! by Blimy Wassertheil S10

The Aussie Gourmet: Potato Kugel Latke S15

TJH Speaks with Leah Schapira and Victoria Dwek, Authors of Everyday Secret Restaurant Recipes 98

LIFESTYLES

Dating Dialogue, Moderated by Jennifer Mann, LMSW 104

Be a Learner so You Can be an Earner by Rabbi Mordechai Kruger 130

Your Money 140

Are You a Pretzel? by Rivki Rosenwald, Esq., CLC 142

HUMOR

Centerfold 78

Rockys Rant: My Laundromat Hates Me! 132

Uncle Moishy Fun Page 134

POLITICAL CROSSFIRE

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The Syrian Immigration Cul-De-Sac by Charles Krauthammer 126

In Iowa, Down the Stretch They Come by Michael Gerson 127

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means absolutely no divided Jeru-salem, for one. If they show they are jihadist savages then thats what has to be done. I hope the world is united, for the worlds sake, in no longer tol-erating jihadist terrorist behavior in France, America, England, Spain, Ni-geria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and, of course, Israel.

Speeches are not enough. We need to contact our organizations and representatives now. We must send a powerful message to Obama and Kerry that we will not be silent! And with our strong solidarity and prayers we shall prevail as we have for centu-ry after century and all our enemies shall perish as they always have. Utsu aitsa vsufar dabru davar vlo yakum ki imanu Kail Let them seek coun-

sel but it will be foiled! Let them say things but they shall not be! For G-d is with Us! Ben SmallBrooklyn, NY

Dear Editor,As most readers, Im sure already

know that an elderly man was killed on the 878 last Friday night while re-turning from shul. This is the third fatality that I know of on the 878, especially near the intersections of Central and Broadway, it is a dan-gerous road. Street lights oftentimes are out, the traffic lights are not syn-chronized well and cars drive too fast, among other problems. I urge everyone reading this letter to con-tact your local politicians and pres-sure them to do something about this problem. Be prepared, though. Your local politician will give you the whole speech about how its a state road yada, yada, yada...and he would do something about it if he could but it is out of his jurisdiction. Just know that that speech is an insult to your intelligence and it means that the pol-itician you are talking to thinks you are a fool. Why? Because whenever they are running for elections they so proudly say, Even on issues which I

dont have jurisdiction, I know who to call...You see, I am an advocate for this community. But now when you ask them for help, they will tell you, Oh, so sorry, its a state road, call the governor. (Sure, you have his cell number?) Your response should be, No, YOU take care of it. If its a state road, YOU call down the people from the state to take care of this problem.

Dont let the politicians wheth-er its a mayor, an assemblyman, a councilman, or legislator get away with taking you for a fool. If they dont promise to do something about it, tell them that you will tell everyone you know not to vote for them the next time they come around boast-ing how they are an advocate for the community.

The 878 can be fixed and it must be fixed now. Lives are too precious to be lost because local politicians are too lazy to do anything about it. Sincerely, D. R.

Dear Editor,This in response to Matt Stern

who suggested that colleges teach their students the rules of etiquette. Sadly, Mr. Stern, your suggestion is definitely not going to come to fru-ition and I will tell you why. Eti-quette is no longer something that is valued in todays society. It has been replaced by those in the me genera-tion who believe everything revolves around them and their ideals. Stu-dents sit in class glued to their phones and chatting online. No longer are people holding the door for others; instead, they are chatting incessantly or checking their Facebook status as they walk along or pay for their items at the cashier.

Etiquette, Mr. Stern, is an uphill battle. The only way to conquer the lack of social mores is to be brought up in a home where proper behavior is modelled and valued. Call it eti-quette, call it courtesy, call it mid-dos. Whatever you call it, dont think youll be getting it on the street. A home with strong values is the only thing that can instill strong values into todays generation. Sincerely, Karen Strong

Dear Editor, In response to the recent tragedy

of the murder of Ezra Schwartz Hyd, HANC High School students instan-taneously began to think of initiatives to honor and remember Ezra. On Monday morning, our principal, Rab-bi Adelman, announced that HANC

would be sending a van full of stu-dents on Tuesday to pay a shiva call to the Schwartz family. However, as interest in this mitzvah exceeded the seats in the van, it was arranged that an additional car of students be sent.

Throughout the entire four hour drive there, our hearts were focused on the family and the Sharon commu-nity. When we finally arrived at the Schwartz residence, we were amazed by the amount of people there from all over the world. Seeing the Jewish community join together to mourn over the loss of Ezra was truly inspir-ing.

As we walked up to their house, we noticed about thirty people standing in front of their door, many had teary eyes, others were standing quietly and respectfully. These thirty peo-ple comprised the long line of people waiting to enter the crowded house. Though not everyone was dressed for the autumn chill of Sharon, no one ut-tered a word of discomfort because in those moments our sole purpose was to be there for Ezra.

After waiting outside for about fifteen minutes, we were given per-mission to enter the house. Walking through the door, we were instant-ly captivated by the pictures of Ezra and his family displayed throughout the entire house. We then met Ruth Schwartz, Ezras mother, and pre-sented her with the letters of sup-port that HANC students wrote to the Schwartz family. Both of Ezras parents were very grateful for these letters. As we went around and in-troduced ourselves to Ari Schwartz, Ezras father, he asked us if we are planning on spending a year in Isra-el. When many of us answered yes, Mr. Schwartz told us not to be afraid and to have a great year, just as Ezra had been doing. It was so incredible to hear these words of chizuk from a father who lost a son to terrorism.

Saying the pasuk of HaMakom Yenachem filled our hearts with pain and our eyes with tears. However, the concentration of his parents on each individual reciting the pasuk instilled within us the sense that our presence was sincerely appreciated by the fam-ily.

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Kim Jong-Un: A Little Too Much Off the Top

For anyone who thought that the rumors of how strange North Ko-rean dictator Kim Jong-Un is were exaggerated, his newest orders will put those thoughts to rest. In March 2014, the young dictator ordered all of his citizens to have his Dear Leader haircut. Now his hairdo has taken on a whole new level of strange and he is still insisting that all males copy his look or face se-rious consequences.

Photographs show that Kim has had his eyebrows plucked down to fine little lines and has grown out his hair that sits on a shaved sides and back. Authorities have issued new grooming orders to all citizens, mandating that men keep their do under two centimeters (0.78 inch-es), and that women keep their hair bobbed. But it isnt just short that the authorities are going for. They want a copy of the dictators haircut exactly.

Kims newly evolved haircut is being called the ambitious style in North Korea, according to national papers. And for those who resist the new guidelines? University student monitors are walking around with scissors and cutting off the hair of offenders, revealed a source.

Barber shops in Pyongyang are being stampeded by crowds of peo-ple rushing to get their dictators haircut, and many are now becom-ing barbers because the profession is viewed as lucrative.

While this all sounds a little silly, it should be noted that a UN report in February 2014 revealed

Nazi-like abuses of human rights in North Korea, and in 2013 Kim re-portedly gave his top officials copies of Adolf Hitlers Mein Kampf.

Does Saudi Arabia Consider ISIS Friend or Foe?

Saudi Arabia seems to be en-tangled in the rapid rise of the Is-lamic State. Critics claim that the Gulf kingdom, one of the Wests most important allies in the region, is not really using its full power in the fight against the Islamic State. Some even suggest that Saudi Ara-bia is run by a similar ultraconser-vative brand of Islam dubbed Wah-habism, a sect that is strikingly similar to ISIS.

Several episodes that occurred in Saudi Arabia recently that were labelled human rights scandals (including cases of public flog-gings, beheadings and crucifix-ions) have further added fuel to that criticism. In the aftermath of the Islamic States attacks in Paris, Algerian writer Kamel Daoud ver-balized what many were suspect-ing with a powerful article for the New York Times. Daesh [ISIS] has a mother: the invasion of Iraq, Daoud explained, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State. But it also has a father: Saudi Arabia and its religious-industrial com-plex.

Of course, Saudi officials have vehemently denied the insinuations and have attempted to deflect and counter the argument. On paper, the Islamic State and Saudi Arabia are clearly opposed to each other, with the extremist organization be-lieving that the Saudi state is run by apostates. Militants from the Is-lamic State have carried out at least four bombings on Saudi mosques in the past year.

Very recently, the Saudi state began to join in more directly with the fight against the Islamic State,


with considerable amounts of funds and resources going to projects de-signed to counter terrorism and ex-tremism. I think the Saudis view themselves as being at the forefront of the global effort to combat ter-rorism, Fahad Nazer, a former po-litical analyst at the Saudi Embassy in Washington and a senior political analyst at JTG, said.

The Saudi Arabia forces, the

most capable in the region, have been involved in the military fight against the Islamic State since last year, joining the U.S.-led coalition against the group in September and before that working with the Unit-ed States to train rebels. But now, some analysts believe that the ini-tial military involvement is fading.

Beyond the release of a photo purportedly showing F-15 pilots

who flew the initial strike missions in Syria, the Saudis have said noth-ing about their role in the U.S.-led coalition, Jeremy Binnie, Middle East editor at IHS Janes Defense Weekly, pointed out.

Disagreements between the Gulf states over the plan of action may well have been a factor in this withdrawal. However, its also like-ly that the Saudi-led proxy war in

Yemen against Iran-backed forces may well be diverting its attention.

Additionally, in Europe and the United States there has been a wave of criticism against Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states for their ap-parent refusal to take in significant numbers of refugees. Last Decem-ber, Amnesty International accused these states of offering zero reset-tlement places to Syrian refugees. However, Saudi Arabia claimed sev-eral months later that it opened its doors to a whopping 2.5 million or so Syrian refugees. It has also made significant donations to the U.N. refugee agency, it said, totaling at least $90 million in 2015.

Although some have said that the Saudi kingdom has been fund-ing ISIS, many doubt that claim. Lori Plotkin Boghardt of the Wash-ington Institute concluded last year that there was no credible evidence that the Saudi government is financially supporting ISIS. However Boghardt did note that there appeared to have been signif-icant numbers of donations to the group from private Saudi citizens, despite the Saudi states attempts to block these fundraising efforts. Arab Gulf donors as a whole of which Saudis are believed to be the most charitable have funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to Syria in recent years, including to ISIS and other groups, Boghardt noted.

Perhaps the most alarming Sau-di-ISIS connection is the number of Saudi citizens who have traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State. Sup-posedly, at least 2,500 Saudis have traveled to Syria to fight for the Islamic State, making the country one of the main sources of foreign recruits for the terror organization.

Ghost Ships Wash Ashore in Japan

There have been at least 12 in-cidents in recent weeks of wrecked fishing boats washing ashore in


Japan. The boats have been car-rying macabre cargo: decomposed corpses. Many are speculating that the boats strayed far from North Korea in an effort to boost their fishing catch and then suf-fered a fatal outcome.

There has been no mention from secretive North Korea of any

missing boats, but its leader, Kim Jong Un, has put a high priority on fishing as a way of earning foreign currency and providing a sustain-able food source that is not reliant on harvests and weather.

The Japanese coast guard and police reported 12 incidents of wrecked wooden boats, including

some that were in pieces, on the countrys shores and waters since October, containing 22 dead bod-ies, including five skulls.

Japanese authorities declined to comment on the origins of the boats or the possible identities of the dead, but a handwritten sign identified one boat as belonging

to unit 325 of the North Korean army, according to footage from Japans NHK Television. Tattered cloth was found aboard the ves-sel that appeared to come from the North Korean flag, the video showed.

Defectors and experts say fish-ing boats under the command of the Korean Peoples Army may have succumbed under pressure from Kim to catch more fish, drift-ing off course and ill-equipped for rough seas.

TV images of some of the boats showed relatively large but other-wise primitive-looking motorized craft and the coast guard said they did not have GPS navigation systems. Those aboard could have died of starvation and exposure to the cold after getting lost. Al-though Japans Meteorological Agency said there was not unusu-ally bad weather in the Sea of Ja-pan this November, the waters are rougher at this time of year due to the onset of cold, northwesterly winds.

October through February is also prime season for squid, sand-fish and king crab off the east coast of the Korean peninsula, and it is not unusual that there would be high numbers of boats at sea, said Kim Do-hoon, a professor of fish-eries science at Bukyong National University in Busan.

Kim Jong Un has been pro-moting the fisheries, which could explain why there are more fish-ing boats going out, he said. But North Korean boats perform real-ly poorly, with bad engines, risk-ing lives to go far to catch more. Sometimes they drift and fisher-men starve to death, he said.

Over the years, North Kore-an boats seeking the rich fishing grounds of the Sea of Japan have washed ashore in Japan as well as on the deserted beaches of the Russian Far East. North Koreans looking to defect, on the other hand, typically flee by land into China, or, less often, via coastal waters to neighboring South Ko-rea.

Fishing is a vital industry in a country where millions cannot find enough to eat. North Koreas 1.2 million-strong army is heavily engaged in food production, in-cluding fishing.

Some of the boats belong to Korean Peoples Army fishery sta-tions, possibly operating to catch

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Russia Plans Turkish Revenge

The list of retaliations Russia is planning against Turkey for down-ing one of its warplanes is growing. The government has been ordered to work out a system of response measures to this act of aggression in the economic and humanitarian spheres, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told a cabinet meeting. He said under Russian law the broad punitive steps could include halting joint economic projects, re-stricting financial and trade trans-actions, and changing customs duties. Measures could also target the tourism and transport sectors, labor markets and humanitarian contacts, Medvedev said.

The Russian leader proposed introducing limits or bans on the economic activities of Turkish eco-nomic structures working in Rus-sia, a limitation of the supply of products, including food products, and on the work and provision of services by Turkish companies and other restrictive measures, Medvedev said. Economy minister Alexei Ulyukayev did not rule out that the measures could hit two major projects with Turkey the planned Turk Stream gas pipeline and the Akkuyu nuclear power plant in a move that looked set to rattle cages in Ankara.

Energy-poor Turkey relies on Russia for over half of its natural gas imports and the two sides had agreed to build the pipeline under the Black Sea. Moscow has also

started building Turkeys first nu-clear power station in the south of the country. Tensions have soared between Moscow and Ankara fol-lowing the downing of the Russian jet on the Syrian border last week.

Moscow has already warned its nationals against visiting Turkey and stepped up controls of Turkish agricultural imports. Those two moves represent a major blow to the Turkish economy; until now Turkey was a favorite for Russian tourists, and Russias large popu-lation makes it a lucrative market for agricultural exports. Some 4% of Russias total food imports come from Turkey.

In terms of filling the void, Is-raeli tourism providers have al-ready begun selling the Jewish state as an alternative attraction for Russians seeking a break in the sun and say deals are in the works. Israels tourism ministry has stepped up its game as well, investing $2.6 million in efforts to woo the Russian market.

Anti-Semitic Comments Land Comic Behind Bars

French comedian Dieudonne has been sentenced by a Belgian court to two months in jail for in-citement to hatred over alleged racist and anti-Semitic comments he made during a show in Belgium. Dieudonne MBala MBala, who has faced similar court cases in France, was also fined 9,000 euros, said Eric Lemmens, a lawyer for Bel-giums Jewish organizations.

The judgment says that all the accusations against Dieudonne were established both incite-ment to hatred and hate speech but also Holocaust denial relating to a show in Liege in 2012, Lemmens reported. For me this is more than satisfying, this is a major victory, he said.

This is not the first ruling against the comedian. Earlier this month the European Court of Hu-man Rights ruled against Dieudon-ne in a separate case, deciding that freedom of speech did not protect racist and anti-Semitic perfor-mances. Dieudonne was protest-ing a fine he received from a French court in 2009 for inviting a Holo-caust-denier on stage. He was fined 10,000 euros for what that court referred to as racist insults.

In March, a French court also handed Dieudonne a two months suspended sentence and fined him heavily for anti-Semitic remarks after he caused an uproar by sug-gesting he sympathized with the attacks against satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish su-permarket in Paris. French courts have hauled him up over a string of comments which opponents say are bluntly racist while supporters champion his right to free speech.

Most Saudi Executions in Two Decades

Fifty-five people are to be exe-cuted for terrorism in Saudi Ara-bia. The sentencing appears to be a warning to would-be jihadists at a time of militant attacks on the kingdom. The terrorist crimes that they are convicted of commit-ting have killed more than 100 ci-vilians and 71 security personnel, according to Saudi news reports.

Some of those facing execution were affiliated with al-Qaeda. Oth-ers are from Awamiya, a largely Shiite town in the oil-producing Eastern Province where the gov-ernment has suppressed demon-strations for equal rights. Awami-ya residents responded to the news by closing off roads leading into the city with burning debris. The charges against the Awamiya res-idents include sedition, attacks on security officials and interference in neighboring Bahrain, which

has also experienced unrest since 2011. The alleged al-Qaeda mil-itants stand accused of attempts to overthrow the government and carrying out attacks using small weapons, explosives and surface-to-air missiles.

Saudi Arabia has already exe-cuted over 150 people this year more than any in the past two de-cades, mostly by public beheading. The Saudi monarchy has in recent years sentenced to death dozens of people convicted of taking part in al-Qaeda attacks in Saudi Arabia from 2003-06 and again in 2009.

Islamic State sympathizers have killed dozens in Saudi Ara-bia over the past 12 months with a string of mosque bombings and shootings aimed at members of the Shiite Muslim minority as well as security officers and West-ern expatriates. Saudi police have detained hundreds of the groups suspected sympathizers and have joined an international coalition carrying out airstrikes against it in Syria.

Saudi courts have also put to death this year seven Shiite men convicted of sedition, for tak-ing part in pro-democracy pro-tests and attacks on police during demonstrations over discrimina-tion from 2011-13. Two of those men were minors at the time of the protests. Sentencing them to death and publicly displaying their bodies prompted an international outcry.

Iran Closer than Ever to a Nuclear Bomb

A senior Iranian official has been quoted as saying that Iran is closer than ever to a nucle-ar bomb and that completing it would be easier than putting in a contact lens. The claim by Hassan Karimpour, an adviser to Irans Quds Force commander Qassem


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Finishing a nuclear bomb would be easy to do, as soon as the spiritual ban on nuclear weapons were lifted, Karimpour also said. The Iranian regime has repeatedly vowed that it is not seeking a nuclear weapon, and spiritual leader Ali Khamenei has issued fatwas forbidding nuclear weapons. According to Iranian news, Karimpour also said Iran has 14 missile depots, buried be-tween 30 and 500 meters under-ground, equipped with automatic launchers, and that any country that dared to attack Iran would be riddled with large numbers of mis-siles fired from these depots.

Israel, along with other coun-tries, believe Iran has been pur-suing a rogue nuclear weapons program. The U.S.-led P5+1 world powers signed a deal with Iran in July intended to curb the program in exchange for sanctions relief. At the time, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the deal as a historic mistake that would pave Irans path to the bomb and challenged Barack Obamas handling of the issue in a speech to Congress in March.

A former Iranian president re-portedly admitted last month that the countrys nuclear program was started with the intent of building a nuclear weapon. The reported comments by Hashemi Rafsanjani to the state-run IRNA news agen-cy marked the first time a top Ira-nian official had said the country sought a nuclear weapon.

Last week, the head of the UNs nuclear watchdog said he could not guarantee that everything Iran is doing is peaceful, even as Tehran ostensibly takes steps to reduce its nuclear activities under the July deal.

China Closes Factories Due to Intense Smog

On Tuesday, China suffered heavy smog once again. This time it was nearly 24 times safe levels, and in response the government demanded that thousands of fac-tories cease operations and close.

A thick grey haze shrouded Beijing, with the concentration of PM 2.5, harmful microscopic particles that penetrate deep into the lungs, climbing as high as 598 micrograms per cubic meter. The reading, given by the U.S. em-bassy, dwarfs the maximum rec-ommended by the World Health Organization, which is just 25 mi-crograms per cubic meter.

Authorities in Beijing ordered the closure of 2,100 highly pollut-ing businesses, the state-run Chi-na Daily said. Citizens were urged to remain indoors. Over 30 flights were cancelled from Beijing and Shanghai, many to highly polluted Shaanxi province, a key coal pro-ducer.

The environmental troubles came after Chinese President Xi Jinping took the stage at crucial international talks aiming to lim-it dangerous climate change. He vowed action on greenhouse emissions, repeating existing pledges and telling the summit that poor nations should not have to sacrifice economic growth.

The smog problem is worse in the winter time when demand for heating rises. Most emissions come from burning coal.

China is estimated to have re-leased between nine and 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide in 2013, nearly twice as much as the United States and around two and a half times the European Union. Beijing pledged last year that carbon diox-ide output would peak by around 2030 suggesting at least anoth-er decade of growing emissions.

Social media users in China were skeptical about the possi-bilities of a clean-up, with many circulating a picture of a Beijing newspaper front page from 1999. It cited officials as proclaiming: We absolutely will not let big pollution enter the new century. Yet more than 15 years later the headlines still deal with heavy pollution.

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Israels Central District Court has sentenced a Swedish national that was recruited by Hezbollah to 18 months in prison for spy-ing for Hezbollah. In a plea bar-gain reached with the state, Leb-anon-born Hassan Khalil Hizran, 55, had charges of direct contact with a terrorist group and active involvement in terror activities dropped. He was found guilty of passing information to a foreign agent.

Hizrans indictment said he was recruited by the Lebanese terror group in 2009 while on a trip to Lebanon with his family. He re-turned to Lebanon in 2011 and 2013 for meetings with Hezbollah leaders. Shin Bet security agency said he was tasked with recruiting Israelis to the terror group, with an emphasis on those with ties to Jews, or access to army personnel, the defense establishment, or gov-ernment officials. Shin Bet said he was also ordered to gather infor-mation about army bases and IDF targets and convey information to Hezbollah about Ben Gurion Air-port security.

A statement released by the court attributed the relatively low prison time to Hizrans communi-cation with Hezbollah as reserved and modest and carried out with low motivation. When he tried to put an end to the meetings, he was put under a huge amount of pressure. He was threatened that he would not be able to return to Sweden where he lived and told his Lebanese family would be pun-ished, the statement said. In addi-tion, he did not provide [Hezbollah] all the information he was required

to and therefore minimized the se-curity damage.

Hizran was arrested in July upon landing at Israels Ben Guri-on Airport. Following his arrest, he was indicted for handing over information to the terror group, having contact with a foreign agent, and accepting funds from Hezbollah.

IDF Renews Search for MIA Comrade

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turned. He was never seen again. Now, special Navy teams have re-cently renewed the search for the Artillery Corps soldier, this time at large water reservoirs in the Golan Heights.

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Guy Hevers family was in-formed of the renewed search ef-fort. As part of the latest search efforts, divers from the IDFs Un-derwater Missions Unit are search-ing through three water reservoirs: El-Sheikh, Had Nes and Katzrin. The IDF is also looking through aerial photographs, both current ones and from the late 90s, to en-sure there are no other water res-ervoirs left from the time Hever disappeared.

In addition to Hever, there are four other missing IDF soldiers, but

the efforts to find them are more fo-cused on intelligence and diploma-cy: IAF navigator Ron Arad, and three soldiers who went missing after the Battle of Sultan Yacoub in Lebanon on June 12, 1982: Zech-ariah Baumel, Tzvi Feldman, and Yehuda Katz.

Could Ice Cream Make you Lose Weight?

A new study out of the Weizmann Institute is trying to figure out why some dieters lose weight while oth-ers do not. According to Professor Eran Segal and Dr. Eran Elinav, in-dividuals respond to different food in their own way, depending on their gut bacteria.

The study followed 800 people for a week and continuously mon-itored their blood sugar levels. It

turns out that the foods most likely to make peoples blood sugar spike diverge widely. For instance, many peoples blood sugar rose sharply after consuming a sugary dessert, but others experienced a blood sug-ar surge after white bread but not after consuming food with glucose. One participant even saw a sharp rise after eating tomatoes, which she had been consuming under the mistaken impression that they were good for her.

Segal decided to focus on blood sugar in the study because its a very relevant parameter for weight management and fat storage, and of course diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, even cancer.

When your blood sugar levels spike, your body secretes insulin that signals the cells to uptake the added sugar and convert it to fat in your cells. Many of us have felt tired after a particularly rich meal, and perhaps noticed our waistline expanding the next day, but the truth is, says Segal, most people cant tell when their blood sugar goes too high. Thats why diabetes is known as the silent disease. Even when they become diabetic, some people wont notice it necessari-

ly. When its really bad, symptoms start to emerge. But 40 percent of adults worldwide are pre-diabetic which is a treatable condition and many dont even know it.

On a very basic level, the break-through of Segal and Elinavs study is that if a food has a low glycemic load for the population average, it might not be low for you personal-ly. We had striking findings as to how individualized the respons-es are. For instance, when Segal monitored his own blood sugar, he discovered that dark chocolate and ice cream did not cause much of a spike, but sushi sent his blood sugar through the roof. One partic-ipants blood sugar responded to bananas but not to cookies with the same number of calories, while an-other persons blood sugar did the opposite.

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remain in Volozhin.

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him with this beautifu

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Rabbi Chaim

Soloveitchik

The esrog box

from different angles

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My Tzitzis Saved My Life

A recent victim of a terror stab-bing attack is thanking his tzitzis for saving his life. Yair Ben-Ez-ra, who was seriously wounded in Raanana last month, has sent a moving thank you letter to Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein. My name is Yair Ben-Ezra, he wrote to the presi-dent of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, which has raised thousands of dollars to help Israeli victims of terror. On Oc-tober 13, 2015, I was attacked and stabbed five times all over my body by a terrorist from eastern Jeru-salem who came at me while I was waiting at the bus stop.

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Klingberg was for years the deputy head of the top-secret Is-raeli Institute for Biological Re-search (IIBR) in Nes Ziona and afterwards was head of the Depart-ment of Epidemiology there until 1978. In 1969, Klingberg joined the Sackler Faculty of Medicine of Tel Aviv University and was Professor

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Israel Opens Office in UAE

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An Israeli mission to the UNs International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), which is based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) capital, will open by the end of the month. The office will focus on working with the UN agency to find sources of renewable energy. Arab news outlets have reported that Is-

rael voted specifically to host the IRENA office in Abu Dhabi in-stead of the initial locale chosen for the office, in Germany in the hope of boosting Israel-UAE relations.

Israel has invested a lot of en-ergy over the past decade to draw closer to certain countries. While most of the cooperation between Israel and the Gulf states is in the fields of intelligence and security away from public view, the opening of the representative office in UAE is an exceptional public step of dip-lomatic rapport between the two countries.

Laughter, Family, and Exercise Got Prisoner Through

Alan Gross, the American Jew-ish contractor who served five years in a Cuban jail, says exercise, family and humor kept him going through his half-decade ordeal. I had to do three things in order to survive three things every day, he said. I thought about my fam-ily that survived the Holocaust. I exercised religiously every day and I found something every day to laugh at.

Gross was contracted by the U.S. Agency for International De-velopment to deliver electronics to Jewish groups when he was arrest-ed in Havana in December 2009. Initially accused of espionage, he was tried in 2011 and sentenced to 15 years for committing acts against the independence and ter-ritorial integrity of Cuba.

Gross says for the first two weeks of his captivity he was sure that America would arrange for his release. He never dreamed that his suffering would be dragged out over five long years. The U.S. gov-ernment has always insisted Gross was not an intelligence agent but a development worker trying to con-nect Cuban communities to the


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Gross returned to the United States in December last year after he was released as part of a his-toric warming of ties between the former Cold War foes. Upon his re-lease, Gross credited the advocacy by his wife of 44 years, Judy Gross, and his lawyer, Scott Gilbert, for getting him out of prison, and thanked his own Jewish communi-ty for their support. It was crucial to my survival knowing that I was not forgotten, he said.

PA Unhappy With Kerry

News outlets often report Is-raels disappointment with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. For a change, media reports are now indicating that Palestinian officials expressed deep disappointment with the results of John Kerrys recent visit to the region. Pales-tinians are saying little was done to push forward efforts to resume peace negotiations for a two-state solution during Kerrys meetings in Israel.

According to officials, the Pal-estinians were expecting Kerry to bring news of a series of Israe-li gestures that would ultimately pave the way for the resumption of diplomatic talks between the two sides. Kerry arrived back in the U.S. after holding meetings with Prime Minister Benjamin Net-anyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas a day earlier; officials said there were no breakthroughs in his bid to calm raging tensions.

Palestinian officials said that according to understandings be-tween Abbas and Kerry, the sec-retary was expected to raise the possibility with Netanyahu of re-newing peace negotiations on the basis of a two-state solution along the pre-1967 lines. But Netanyahu

took a hardline stance during his meeting with Kerry in Jerusalem, saying Israel would not make any gestures to the Palestinians so long as the wave of violent terror attacks that began in September contin-ued, a senior Israeli official said.

The prime minister also report-edly called for the U.S. to recog-nize building in large settlement blocs and said there would not be a construction freeze. Netanyahu blamed the terror upsurge on re-ligious incitement supported by the PA and spread on social me-dia. Israels position infuriates the Palestinians, officials in Ramallah said, since they claimed the Israeli government is aware that responsi-bility for the wave of terror attacks does not lie with the PA, especially since they say the stabbing attacks are carried out by lone wolf Pal-estinian teenagers.

Bibi and Abbas Bump Into Each Other in Paris

An unplanned meeting took place between Prime Minister Ben-jamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Ab-bas this week at the Paris climate change conference. During the photoshoot of more than 150 world leaders who attended the summit, only the New Zealand prime min-ister stood between the two lead-ers. After the official pictures were taken, the two shook hands for the first time since 2010.

Its important for the world to see that were ready to talk, Net-anyahu said later, stressing, howev-er, that the handshake was merely an act of protocol since they hap-pened to be standing close to each other. On the other hand, we have no illusions about Abu Mazen [Ab-bas]. Incitement plays a central role in terrorism and Abu Mazen must stop his incitement. The prime minister has accused Abbas of in-citing against Israel and lying about ostensible Israeli plans to change


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Netanyahu also spoke with U.S. President Barack Obama and Sec-retary of State John Kerry for about 10 minutes at the summit, as well as with German Chancellor Ange-

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peace in the Middle East was an issue of interest to the entire inter-national community and also to all Europeans, a spokesperson said. The Prime Ministers Office, how-ever, denied that Netanyahu and Mogherini spoke.

World leaders opened an his-toric summit in the French capital saying the hope of all of humani-ty was resting on their shoulders as they sought a deal to avert what they call a climate catastrophe. The heads of more than 150 na-tions kicked off 12 days of talks in search of an elusive pact that would indirectly restructure the world economy, weaning it off fossil fuels that stoke global warming. It was the largest single-day gathering of heads of state or government in his-tory, the United Nations said.

IDF Pushing Counseling for Trauma Exposure

The IDF and the Border Police have set up a system of support for personnel who have been through traumatic situations such as ter-ror attacks. A mental health offi-cer now joins the commander out in the field for every terror attack, contacts the soldiers, and visits the wounded at the hospital. As part of the lessons learned from Operation Protective Edge, all new recruits for combat positions, starting in August, have been trained to pro-vide initial treatment on the scene to any mental and emotional reac-tions of their comrades in arms.

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