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WILL THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION NEGOTIATE A SAFE DEAL WITH IRAN? By Scott Feltman
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Dear Readers,It’s cliché, but it all went by so fast. My
daughter’s last day of school was today; one son’s last day was yesterday; the other one ends tomorrow. Where did the time fly? When I was in school we looked forward to June with anticipation. We knew that it would just be a few days of school and then summer would saunter in with camp and bungalow colonies and lazy days. I wonder if my mother had the same reaction then as I do now: it’s here already?
Truthfully, I too am looking forward to the summer. To me it means a more re-laxed schedule—no homework, later bed-times with later wakeups, simple suppers, and family trips. Every year I make myself a mental list of all the things I’d like to ac-complish during those long days. And every year I’m happy if I am able to cross off half of the things on my agenda. Summer isn’t meant to be a time for cramming tasks into the day. It’s a time for enjoyment, for relax-ation, and for recharging.
Some things, though, require us to take action. Our feature story this week is about the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement against Israel. It’s a noisy move-ment—not much has been accomplished in terms of the actual boycotting or divesting funds from the Jewish state. But a lot has been accomplished in turning the media and
the public against the state of Israel. The Palestinians are the oppressed minority, and the Israelis are the powerful many who have been crushing them for years, they say. And although it sounds ludicrous to us who know much about the Middle East, for many who don’t understand or know about Isra-el’s history and what’s going on now, those allegations ring true. You know, if you say something enough times, people are bound to believe you. And if you have thousands of people chanting the same thing over and over and louder and louder, people will lis-ten and they will eventually start to believe as well.
A recent study came out that showed that German children who grew up under the Nazi regime still harbor anti-Semitic views because of the vitriol that was im-pressed upon them during Hitler’s rule. The children were the most impressionable, but I am sure that every German who was grow-ing up during the Nazi era still has tendency towards anti-Semitism. The hatred was so pervasive, it was hard to actually think or feel something different.
Anti-Israel sentiment on college cam-puses is rampant and it is inescapable. I was recently speaking with someone who point-ed out that non-religious Jews in universities nowadays are more reluctant to head to Isra-el than in years’ past. Why? Because they
are regularly hearing about the wicked Israe-lis who hurt, crush and oppress the Palestin-ian minority. Why would they want to head there and be part of a land that is so evil?
Two years ago, I was shocked to hear that Brooklyn College was hosting a BDS event. Of course there was controversy in allowing the event to go on, but freedom of speech prevailed and Omar Barghouti, a founding committee member of the Pales-tinian Campaign for the Academic and Cul-tural Boycott of Israel, was able to speak and spout his venom towards the Jewish state. I know that students on college campuses hate Israel; after all, aren’t universities the hotbed of liberalism? But I went to Brooklyn Col-lege, located just a few blocks from my par-ents’ home in a large frum community, and although there were many people from dif-ferent cultures there, I felt safe. I didn’t feel the anti-Israel sentiment. But apparently it was there and still is there and those who hate Israel won’t be quiet. They demand at-tention and they demand recognition. They will not be ignored.
It is our responsibility to stand up for Israel. We need to be bold in our defense of the country we love and we need to tell those who hate us that we will not endure their hatred in silence.Wishing you a wonderful week,Shoshana
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Letters to the EditorDear Editor,
I disagree with “Rand the Reck-less” (Political Crossfire --- June 11).
Kentucky Senator and presidential candidate Rand Paul provides an alter-native for those who cherish individual civil and economic liberties. Libertar-ian Republicans who support Paul be-lieve that what adults consume, inhale, read or view in the privacy of their own home or private social club isn’t the concern of government. Individ-ual economic and civil liberties pros-per best when government stays out of their lives and the marketplace.
They would give a real voice to the majority of Americans who advo-cate returning to limited government accompanied by a minimal amount of confiscatory taxation to support only essential service along with Pay as Go budgeting; means testing for all government assistance pro-grams; abolishment of all member item pork barrel spending, balanced budgets; actual surpluses and down payments to reduce long term debt. Voting for Libertarian Republicans such as Rand Paul sends Washington a real message for change in the status quo! Sincerely,Larry Penner
Dear Editor,I found your editorial on the recent
Supreme Court ruling on the status of Jerusalem to be extremely compelling. I agree with you: despite the ruling that according to the United States Jerusa-
lem is not the capital of Israel, we know where the capital of Israel truly lies. We don’t need Mr. Obama’s stamp to con-firm what has been true for thousands of years: Yerushalayim is the center of our Holy Land and forever it will be.Sharona Gross
Dear Editor,I started reading Mr. Rocky Zweig’s
article last week but then I lost my train of thought. It seems that it got derailed somewhere and when I finally found it, the train had left the station.
All funniness aside, I tend to lose my marbles—and my blocks and Legos, too—just like you but I have years to go before the AARP sends me any fan mail.
Do you have any advice for a for-getful whippersnapper?Sincerely,Forgetful in the Five Towns
Dear Editor,A recent letter that I penned con-
cerning kedushas Eretz Yisrael has been utterly misconstrued as anti-Israel, and as a result I perforce must clarify my position on this issue. I am wholly a supporter of the State of Israel, and the innumerable chasadim practiced by the government, and the security provided by the IDF and law enforcement should in no circumstances be mitigated; to the contrary—the State of Israel is one of the few remarkable democracies that is truly the quintessential medina shel chessed. Nor should this viewpoint be
misperceived, however, as an endorse-ment for all or most of the politicians in government. I am opposed to many of the politicians and government bureau-crats of the Israeli government, since they do not share our values; does this position constitute as anti-Israel? In the same vein, I do not support many of the politicians in the U.S. govern-ment; does this position constitute as anti-American? There are certainly many government officials, spanning the myriads of political parties, whose credentials are hallmarked by honesty, a genuine affinity for the State of Israel and Israeli Jewry, and I unequivocally support them.
I am particularly perturbed, though, by the fact that perpetuating kedushas Eretz Yisrael has become a progres-sively encumbering task given the in-fluence of sordid ideologies such as secularism and materialism. Our en-tire existence is predicated on talmud Torah and shemiras haMitzvos, and we must concentrate our physical and mental capacities on them to expunge from society these menacing forces. Thus, the government should be—and has been for many decades—the agen-
cy for which we elect politicians whose political and economic persuasions are empirically coherent, and who candidly and earnestly respect Jewish ideals—which countless have done in the past, present and will hopefully continue to do in the future.Sincerely,Rafi Metz
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Global Top Terror Militant Killed
Algerian veteran militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a major figure in the North African and Sahel Islamist insurgen-cies, has reportedly been killed in a U.S. airstrike inside Libya. If confirmed, the death of Belmokhtar, who was respon-sible for orchestrating the 2013 attack on Algeria’s In Amenas gas field and dubbed “Uncatchable” by French forc-es, would be a major strike against al Qaeda-tied operations in the region.
Since the fall of Muammar Gadda-fi in 2011 and Libya’s slide into chaos and fighting between two rival govern-ments, the North African state has seen the rise of Islamist militant groups who are taking advantage of the turmoil. Some are allied with al Qaeda’s lead-ership, others have local loyalties and some have recently declared allegiance with Islamic State, which has been gaining ground.
Belmokhtar has been reported killed several times, including in 2013 when he was believed to have been killed in Mali. He has earned a reputation as one of the most elusive jihadi leaders in the region. Libyan officials gave no fur-ther details about the area of the strike, but before the U.S. statement, Libyan military sources said that an airstrike had been carried in Ajdabiya city near Benghazi, killing seven members of the Ansar al Sharia militant group.
Belmokhtar, a one-eyed veteran of Afghanistan and Algeria’s own 1990s Islamist war, was long a major figure in Saharan smuggling, hostage-taking, arms trafficking and insurgencies.
Sudanese President Evades Arrest in South Africa
On Monday, Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir flew out of
Pretoria through the sunny winter skies. His plane spirited him away from a looming arrest warrant and raises ques-tions about South Africa’s respect for international law and its own courts.
In allowing Bashir to flee, the South African government was contravening its own High Court, which issued an or-der on Sunday barring his departure. On Monday, the court went further, issuing a warrant for Bashir’s arrest on charges of genocide and crimes against humani-ty. But by then, he was in the air, on his way home after attending an African Union summit in Johannesburg.
Bashir was indicted by the Interna-tional Criminal Court in 2009 and 2010. He is accused of war crimes in the Dar-fur conflict, in which 300,000 people died.
The chief judge of South Africa’s High Court, Dunstan Mlambo, said South African authorities had violated the constitution by letting Bashir go and demanded an explanation from govern-ment lawyer William Mokhari. Initially Mokhari insisted that Bashir had not left the country; later it was confirmed that he did.
With Bashir’s escape, South Africa’s reputation as a nation supportive of in-ternational justice and human rights has been shattered. Questions were raised about the government’s respect for in-ternational law and the courts.
“South Africa was one of the coun-tries that was considered to be very much for international justice,” said Ot-tilia Maunganidze of the Pretoria-based Institute for Security Studies. “This just flies in the face of what we had been led to believe. It also speaks [to] South Afri-ca’s aspirations in the U.N., in terms of whether it can be regarded as consistent in its actions, or whether it is a country that can be trusted, when push comes to shove.”
South Africa previously warned that it would arrest Bashir if he visited the country. But before the African Union summit, it declared that all leaders at-tending the meeting were being granted legal immunity.
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12 The Week In Newswas a major setback for the International Criminal Court, which appeared to have lost one of its most important backers in Africa. As a member state, South Africa was obliged to arrest the Sudanese lead-er. But South Africa’s governing African National Congress, which has a proud history of fighting for human rights and freeing the nation from apartheid, said in a statement on Sunday that the ICC was “no longer useful for the purposes which it was intended.”
In a sign of how sharply South Af-rica’s position has changed, the govern-ment information service tweeted on Monday that “no kangaroo court shall ever disturb our political, government and human rights order.” The tweet, though, was swiftly deleted.
The ICC has not been able to arrest Bashir in the six years since he was first indicted because it relies on member states to carry out its arrest warrants. Bashir has visited Chad, Ethiopia, Ken-ya and Djibouti in the past. He had to depart Nigeria sooner than planned in 2013 after a local human rights group took action to force his arrest. In 2012, the African Union moved its summit to Ethiopia, after Malawi’s government blocked his attendance.
N. Korean Soldier Defects to the South
A North Korean soldier decided he had had enough of being mistreated and defected this week to South Korea. Mil-itary officials have said that the official reason the 19-year-old soldier gave for his defection was the habitual beatings he was subjected to. The soldier crossed the frontier in Hwacheon, northeast of Seoul, the South’s defense ministry said.
The defection sparked a tense stand-off between North and South Korean border guards across the four kilome-ter-wide and 248 kilometer-long de-militarized zone (DMZ), but there was no conflict. The man identified himself as a private, the lowest rank among the North’s enlistees.
Hundreds of North Koreans flee their isolated homeland each year but it is rare for defectors to cross the land bor-der, marked by barbed wire and guarded by tens of thousands of troops on both sides. Despite its name, the DMZ sep-arating the two Koreas, which remain technically at war, is one of the world’s most heavily militarized frontiers, bris-tling with watchtowers and landmines. Most North Koreans who flee repression and poverty at home cross the porous frontier with China first before travel-ling through a Southeast Asian nation and eventually arriving in South Korea.
In 2012, a North Korean soldier walked unchecked through rows of elec-trified fencing and surveillance camer-as, prompting Seoul to sack three field commanders for a security lapse. In Au-gust last year, two North Koreans swam across the Yellow Sea border to a South Korean frontline island. So far about 28,000 North Koreans have resettled in the South since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War, mostly after the great fam-ine in the 1990s.
The number of escapees has de-creased sharply since current North Ko-rean leader Kim Jong-Un took power following the death of his father in late 2011. Under Kim, the isolated state has tightened border security, while Chi-na has launched a crackdown on North Korean escapees on its side of the bor-der. China – the North’s sole major ally – typically considers them illegal eco-nomic migrants and repatriates them despite criticisms from human rights groups. Many face severe punishment including, rights monitors say, torture and a term in a prison camp once they are sent back to the North.
Countries with Worst Worker’s Rights
Fortunately for us, in the United States workers are protected with a set of rights to ensure that their superiors treat them properly. However, before the labor movement, workers were
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subjected to unsafe conditions, unfair agreements, and harassment. In some countries, workers still face many hard-ships in the workplace and even within the U.S. improvements still need to be made.
This year’s Global Rights Index ranks countries according to their work-ers’ rights policies. The Gulf States and North Africa workers are among the world’s worst treated employees. Inter-estingly, workers in Europe didn’t fare too well. European workers endured the sharpest decline in their workplace stan-dards in the past 12 months due to the brutal austerity measures across the EU.
The International Trade Union Con-federation released the annual ranking illustrating a widespread decline in standards across the board. The only countries that did not have a decline in workers’ rights were Austria, Finland, Netherlands, Norway and Uruguay.
The world’s worst performers in worker’s rights for 2015 are (in alpha-betical order):
BelarusChinaColombiaEgypt GuatemalaPakistanQatarSaudi ArabiaSwazilandUnited Arab Emirates
Hong Kong Riots and Arrests
At least one of the nine people ar-rested in Hong Kong this week for making explosives claims to belong to a “radical group.” The arrests come days ahead of a vote on a controversial political reform package. Police would not name the group or specify motives but said that maps of central districts of Hong Kong had been found and warned anyone taking part in public gatherings
to stay away from “violent protesters.”A series of rallies have taken take
place before the vote in Hong Kong’s legislature on a divisive roadmap for the city’s electoral system. Chinese media said those arrested were activists from pro-democracy “localist” groups, which have come into the spotlight in recent months. Such groups are frustrated with the lack of progress on electoral reform and have argued that Hong Kong should distance itself from Beijing to forge its own political future.
The reform bill to be voted on lays out a proposal for choosing the city’s next leader by public vote for the first time in 2017. But it sticks to a rul-ing from Beijing which stipulates that candidates must be vetted by a loyalist committee. That ruling sparked mass rallies and roadblocks towards the end of last year, with campaigners dismiss-ing it as “fake democracy.” Pro-democ-racy legislators are vowing to block the proposal.
Magna Carta Turns 800
This week marked the 800th an-niversary of the signing of the Magna Carta. Britain’s Queen Elizabeth led the celebrations, remembering one of the world’s most significant historical docu-ments which is credited with paving the way for modern freedoms and human rights.
On June 15, 1215, England’s King John agreed to the demands of his re-bellious barons and accepted the Magna Carta, Latin for “Great Charter,” which for the first time placed the monarch un-der the rule of law.
In the centuries since, it has taken on huge global significance, becoming the basis for the U.S. Bill of Rights, the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Three of its 63 clauses still re-main on Britain’s statute book.
“What happened [...] eight centuries ago is as relevant today as it was then. And that relevance extends far beyond Britain,” British Prime Minister David Cameron said. He said the document had changed the world, inspiring people from the founding fathers of the United States and Indian independence leader
Mahatma Gandhi to Nelson Mandela in South Africa. “Its remaining copies may be faded, but its principles shine as brightly as ever,” Cameron told those at the ceremony which was attended by other royals and global figures including U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
The Magna Carta came into being during a period of great political up-heaval in England with conflict between King John, his nobles and the English church. It was essentially a peace deal to address the problems of the day and was annulled by the pope shortly afterwards. But updated versions, which included two original clauses regarded as pivot-al in establishing the rule of law, were re-released regularly by or on behalf of succeeding monarchs.
Four original copies of the doc-ument still exist. At the ceremony, a new art installation was unveiled and the American Bar Association’s Magna Carta Memorial, which was erected at the site in 1957, was re-dedicated. U.S. Attorney General Lynch said the charter was a bedrock to free societies globally; Cameron also used the anniversary as a political opportunity to underpin his plan to overhaul human rights laws.
Study: Anti-Semitic Sentiments had Life-Long Effects on German Children
According to a study published on Monday, anti-Semitic propaganda had a life-long effect on German chil-dren schooled during the Nazi period, leaving them far more likely to harbor negative views of Jews than those born earlier and later. People are more im-
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pressionable when they’re young, as the findings indicate that attempts to influ-ence public attitudes are most effective when they target young people, partic-ularly if the message confirms existing beliefs, the authors said.
Researchers from the United States and Switzerland examined surveys conducted in 1996 and 2006 that asked respondents about a range of issues, including their opinions of Jews. The polls, known as the German General So-cial Survey, reflected the views of 5,300 people from 264 towns and cities across Germany, allowing the researchers to examine differences according to age, gender and location.
By focusing on those respondents who consistently expressed negative views of Jews in a number of questions, the researchers found that those born in the 1930s held the most extreme an-ti-Semitic opinions — even fifty years after the end of Nazi rule.
“It’s not just that Nazi schooling worked, that if you subject people to a totalitarian regime during their forma-tive years it will influence the way their mind works,” said Hans-Joachim Voth of the University of Zurich, one of the study’s authors. “The striking thing is
that it doesn’t go away afterward.”The group showed differences de-
pending on whether they came from an area where anti-Semitism was strong before the rise of Hitler and his minions. “The extent to which Nazi schooling worked depended crucially on whether the overall environment where children grew up was already a bit anti-Semitic,” said Voth. “It tells you that indoctrina-tion can work, it can last to a surprising extent, but the way it works has to be compatible to something people already believe.”
Benjamin Ortmeyer, who heads a research center on Nazi education at Frankfurt’s Goethe University, said the study’s conclusions were “absolutely plausible.”
“The significance of this kind of pro-paganda hasn’t really been exposed,” said Ortmeyer, who wasn’t involved in the study. “Compared to the brutal deeds of the Nazi mass murderers this area of crimes, the brainwashing, was largely ignored.”
One reason, he said, is the difficulty of getting older Germans to talk about their experiences of the Nazi period. While Jews who survived the Holocaust vividly recount the abuse they suffered
in school and at the hands of fellow pupils, non-Jewish Germans mostly de-scribe their school years as peaceful and fun.
Ortmeyer said Nazi educators wove anti-Semitic propaganda into every school subject and extra-curricular ac-tivity, even giving students “projects” that included scouring church records for the names of Jewish families that had recently converted to Christianity. These were later used to draw up lists of Jews for deportation to concentration camps, making students unwitting ac-complices in the Holocaust.
Which Athletes Make the Big Bucks?
I should have practiced my left hook or jump-shot a bit more. Forbes has re-leased their list of the highest paid ath-letes in the world, and, for the second straight year, boxer Floyd Mayweath-er Jr. has earned the top spot. In 2015, Mayweather astoundingly earned just $13 million less than the next three ath-letes combined.
Mayweather made more than $200 million from his historic fight against Manny Pacquiao. Thanks to the fight generating nearly $600 million worth of revenue, Pacquiao actually comes in at second, albeit a distant second, on the list. He was the 11th highest-paid athlete in 2014.
Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, and Roger Federer finished 3rd, 4th, and 5th respectively in the rankings that in-clude both earnings and endorsements. This means that not a single player from the three major sports in the United States – football, basketball, and base-ball – cracked the top 5.
LeBron James is the highest-paid basketball player at 6th, trailing Federer by just $2.2 million. Ben Roethlisberger is the highest-paid football player, com-ing in at 11. And Jon Lester is the high-est paid baseball player at 19.
For the sixth straight year, tennis star Maria Sharapova ($29.7 million) ranks as the highest-paid female athlete, fin-ishing 26th overall.
Here’s the top 20 highest paid ath-letes worldwide:
1. Floyd Mayweather Jr. (boxing): $300 million2. Manny Pacquiao (boxing): $160 million3. Cristiano Ronaldo (soccer): $79.6 million4. Lionel Messi (soccer): $73.8 million5. Roger Federer (tennis): $67 million6. LeBron James (basketball): $64.8 million7. Kevin Durant (basketball): $54.1 million8. Phil Mickelson (golf): $50.8 million9. Tiger Woods (golf): $50.6 million10. Kobe Bryant (basketball): $49.5 million11. Ben Roethlisberger (football): $48.9 million12. Rory McIlroy (golf): $48.3 million13. Novak Djokovic (tennis): $48.2 million14. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (soccer): $39.1 million15. Lewis Hamilton (racing): $39 million16. Ndamukong Suh (football): $38.6 million17. Fernando Alonso (racing): $35.5 million18. Gareth Bale (soccer): $35 million19. Jon Lester (baseball): $34.1 million20. Derrick Rose (basketball): $33.9 million
Spain Passes Law of Return
In another swing in the long history of Spanish Jewry, Spain’s lower house has given final approval to a law offering citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews. Under the law, applicants need not travel to Spain, as proposed in previous amendments that did not pass, but must hire a Spanish notary and pass tests on the Spanish language and history.
Applicants can study for the tests and take them at the facilities of the Cervantes Institute, a government enti-ty that offers courses on Spanish culture
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and its language in over 20 countries, including Israel. “The procedure for acquiring Spanish nationality regulated in this law will be electronic,” the law reads. “The request will be in Spanish and will be overseen by the General Di-rectorate of Registrars and Notaries.”
In addition, candidates will need to apply to the Federation of Jewish Com-munities of Spain, or FCJE, which will vet applications along with government officials, the amendment states. The law comes into effect in October and expires after three years, though it may be extended another year if deemed nec-essary. “Today, we write a happy page of reunion, agreement, dialog and hope that enriches us as people and which makes Spanish Jews feel proud to be be-hind the door that our country is open-ing,” FCJE President Isaac Querub Caro wrote.
The law is the result of a govern-ment decision in 2012 that described offering citizenship to Sephardic Jews as compensation for their ancestors’ ex-pulsion from Spain in the 15th and 16th centuries by the Spanish royal house and church during the Spanish Inqui-sition. Portugal passed a similar law,
which went into effect earlier this year. It is open ended and does not require proven knowledge of Portuguese.
Leon Amiras, chairman of the As-sociation of Olim from Latin America, Spain and Portugal, said the Spanish law was cumbersome and too restrictive compared to the Portuguese one and called on Spain to follow the example of its western neighbor in applying the law.
Ahead of the vote, the law also was criticized by opposition lawmakers from the United Left and Basque Na-tional Party who argued that it discrim-inates against non-Jews who were ex-pelled during the Inquisition, including Muslims. Some historians have disput-ed that comparison, citing the presence of Muslims in Spain as occupiers who were driven out of Spain back to their lands of origin.
Anti-Semites Hide as Anti-Israel in Germany
A recent report published by the German government has found that last year there was a 1,000% rise in an-
ti-Israel crimes and violent assaults in the country. Also noted was a 25% rise in anti-Semitic crimes. “Anti-Semitic attacks” include physical assaults on Jews, as well as vandalistic attacks on synagogues and Jewish cemeteries, in addition to incitement at protests.
Elias Paz, the emissary for Bnei Aki-va and the Jewish Agency in Germany, explains that German anti-Semites have found a way to cover their hatred of Jews in an increasingly internationally acceptable camouflage of antagonism against Israel. “They know that they risk losing their jobs for anti-Semitic statements, so they speak in anti-Israeli
terms,” he reports. “You meet Germans who speak with you about the conflict with the Palestinians and then you re-alize that they don’t really understand what’s happening in the Middle East, but it’s more politically correct to speak against Israel.”
Paz posits that the Israelis living in Berlin are deluding themselves into thinking things will be okay. “They’re hanging onto the thought that this is anti-Israeli and not anti-Semitism. But there’s no way of knowing what it will develop into,” he warned.
Bnei Akiva delegates in Germa-ny provide services for the small Jew-ish communities. Paz explained that they “work with children and youth. There are a lot of communities of Jews who Germany absorbed from the Soviet Union and offered good conditions to, with a goal of reviving the communi-ties that became extinct after the Holo-caust.”
“But the Germans divided them into dozens of small communities, they ar-rived without an understanding of Juda-ism and they deal with many difficulties like obtaining kosher food; we help them,” Paz added.
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IsraelProtective Edge Report Released
Before the U.N. releases its own report on the war in Gaza, the Israeli government has published a 275 page report on the events surrounding Oper-ation Protective Edge. Officials say the report has been in the making ever since the war ended in late August 2014. It places the blame for the war’s casualties squarely on Hamas and armed factions operating in the Strip.
While Israel has previously pub-lished much of the information and
many of the arguments provided in the report, it also contains some new data. For instance, it presents for the first time the army’s analysis of the war’s casual-ties. According to the IDF’s account, 44 percent of the 2,125 Palestinians killed in Gaza were “militants,” and 36% were “uninvolved civilians.” Some 20% of victims have yet to be identified.
The report highlights Israel’s ef-forts to protect Israeli civilians and its ceasefire offers, while accusing Hamas, which rules the Strip, of deliberately tar-geting Israeli civilians and embedding its military capabilities in civilian areas. The report also highlights the efforts of the Israeli army to warn Gazans of im-minent airstrikes. It was compiled by officials in the Foreign Ministry, Justice Ministry, IDF Military Advocate Gener-al and National Security Council in an attempt to fight off harsh criticism likely to be leveled at Israel by the UN Human Rights Council.
“Israel is a law abiding nation that respects all international legal stan-dards,” Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely said. “I apologize for the cli-ché, but Israel’s army is the most moral army in the world.” In all its military operations, the IDF adhered and contin-
ues to adhere to international law, she asserted. “There is no more moral army in the world than the IDF and no coun-try investigates [itself] in a more trans-parent manner than the State of Israel,” she said.
The Israeli army is also unique in that it sends legal advisers into the bat-tlefield together with combat soldiers to ascertain that they act in accordance with international law, the deputy for-eign minister said. “The most important thing that is coming out is the fact that Israel wants to expose the truth. Israel is not ashamed of the facts,” Hotovely concluded.
The report also attempts to show how Hamas and Gaza’s other armed factions intentionally violated the laws of armed conflict and committed war crimes and crimes against humanity. “Hamas and other terrorist organizations prolonged the hostilities and repeatedly rejected ceasefires or accepted and then violat-ed them,” the report states. “Had Hamas accepted the initial Egyptian-brokered ceasefire that the Arab League endorsed and Israel accepted on July 15 — which featured the same terms as the ceasefire offer to which Hamas ultimately ad-hered to on August 26 — approximate-ly 90 percent of the casualties incurred during the 2014 Gaza Conflict could have been avoided,” it pointed out.
2,100 Gazans and 70 Israelis were killed during the operation, which lasted from July 7 to August 26, 2014. Israel’s Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center tracked all Palestin-ian casualties and believes that half of them were Hamas or Palestinian Islamic jihad operatives.
Google Exec: Israel Great Place to Invest
Google billionaire Eric Schmidt took a tour of Israel this week. One of his stops was at the Weizmann Institute, where he gave a speech to hundreds of students and researchers. “Israel is booming in terms of entrepreneurship because you have a culture that allows you to challenge authority and question everything. You don’t follow the rules,”
Schmidt proclaimed. Schmidt was accompanied on his
visit to the Weizmann Institute by Yossi Matias, vice-president for engineering and chief executive for R&D of Google Israel. He also brought along executives from the investment fund he heads, In-novation Endeavors, one of the most ac-tive funds in Israel in recent years. “The impact Israelis are having on science and technology is immense, so that’s why I’m here and why I’m investing here,” the Google chief said.
In the modern world, Schmidt noted, for an economy to grow, there is a need for innovation and the establishment of new companies. “For this to happen, a country must invest in several areas – education, high-speed Internet connec-tions, an open immigration policy that allows leading minds to move between countries, and also an environment that encourages entrepreneurship,” he said.
Schmidt urged the students and researchers to think big. “You have to make big bets. If you’re building something, try to solve problems for the entire world,” he said, citing some of the developments Google is currently work-ing on, such as such as contact lenses that can detect blood glucose levels to help people who suffer from diabetes, and autonomous cars without drivers.
Schmidt also addressed the question of how to preserve privacy and security in a world of free-flowing information. “Technically, you can protect your in-formation by using different types of en-cryption,” he said, adding to the amuse-ment of his audience: “Would you like a tip for surfing the Internet securely and privately? Use Chrome.”
One of the leaders of the global technology industry, Schmidt, 60, joined Google as its CEO in 2001 at the request of founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. He served in the position until 2011, turning the once-small search engine company into the technology and in-ternet giant it is today. In 2011, he was replaced by Page and named executive chairman. He is said to be worth some $9 billion.
Universities Slip Lower in School Rankings
Israel’s universities have been slip-ping from their once-high places on in-ternational rankings. Times Higher Edu-cation has announced their list of Asia’s University Rankings and three of the four Israeli universities have diminished
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in their standings. Tel Aviv University was rated the top Israeli university com-ing in at 22nd on the list of Asian na-tions, down three spots from last year’s 19th place.
Continuing its slide in world rank-ings, Jerusalem’s Hebrew University dropped down to 25th place from 18th place in 2014 — losing its title as the top higher education institution in the Middle East, a title that now went to
Turkey’s Middle East Technical Univer-sity. The Technion, or Israel Institute of Technology, was ranked 31st place in 2015, down from 26th place last year.
Bar-Ilan University re-entered the rankings in 2015 at 75th place, having missed out on the continent’s rankings in previous years. “It is cause for con-cern that Israel keeps losing ground in this list,” Phil Baty, editor of the UK-based Times Higher Education Rank-
ings said. “Although Bar-Ilan Universi-ty has re-entered the table after missing out last year, and Israel’s other represen-tatives remain in the top 50, their posi-tions have weakened,” Baty pointed out.
While praising Tel Aviv Univer-sity’s top spot, Baty said that overall, Israeli institutions urgently need to make changes. “There is a risk that the country will continue to lose out to its wealthier Asian rivals unless it increases
university investment — and soon.” The University of Tokyo, the National Uni-versity of Singapore, and the University of Hong Kong top the list as Asia’s best institutions.
Other than Israel, the Middle East was represented by universities from Iran, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Tur-key. The magazine’s university rankings are based on a number of criteria, in-cluding quality of teaching, the amount of research done at institutions, the number of times that research is cited in academic or scientific journals, and the innovations developed as a result of work done at the schools.
Iran Hacks Israeli Targets
It has come to light that Iranian hackers working under the auspices of the regime in Tehran have compromised computers of Israeli security companies and academics. According to ClearSky, an Israeli cyber-security firm, the hack-ers were trying to steal sensitive data. The report says the cyber-attack started in July 2014 and is still ongoing.
ClearSky believes that an Iranian cyber group known as the Ajax Security Team, operating with the support of the regime in Tehran, is behind the attack. “Several characteristics of the attacks have led us to the conclusion that an Iranian threat actor is the likely culprit. We assume—though do not have direct evidence—that it is being supported by the Iranian regime, or performed by the regime itself,” the report says.
The hackers, ClearSky says, em-ployed numerous methods to break into the computers of the victims. They posed, for example, as journalists and sent targets an email that included a re-
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quest for an interview; attached to the email was a file with a hidden virus, which would infect the victim’s com-puter as soon as the file was download-ed. The hackers were then able to access emails accounts, take control of com-puters, and steal information stored in them. Other methods involved breach-ing trusted websites to set up fake pag-es, multi-stage malware, spear phishing emails, and phone calls to the target.
ClearSky identified attacks on 40 Israeli targets, including employees at security companies, high-ranking Israel Defense Forces reservists, and also ac-ademics involved research on the Mid-dle East and Iran at universities around the country. ClearSky doesn’t name the security companies that were compro-mised, but notes that the attacks were successful in most instances.
Former Amb: Obama Damaged Relationship with Israel
In an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal on Monday, former Am-bassador Michael Oren hit hard against the president of the United States, say-ing that President Obama deliberately damaged the relationship between the United States and Israel.
When reporters asked about the state of U.S.-Israeli relations during his time as the Israeli envoy, Michael Oren says he gave the standard response of, “No-body has a monopoly on making mis-takes.” But on Monday, he wrote, “Only one leader made them deliberately.”
Upon entering office, “Obama pro-moted an agenda of championing the Palestinian cause and achieving a nu-clear accord with Iran,” Michael Oren wrote in his op-ed. Those policies would have put him at odds with any Is-raeli leader. But Obama also abandoned what Oren said were the principles of the country’s relationship, including “no daylight” and “no surprises.”
For the first principle, Oren cited a 2009 speech by Obama to American Jewish leaders in which the president
said, “When there is no daylight, Israel just sits on the sidelines and that erodes our credibility with the Arabs.”
Oren responded in the op-ed, saying that statement ignored Israel’s with-drawal from Gaza in 2005 and previ-ous offers of statehood, encompassing nearly the entire West Bank and half of Jerusalem, that the Palestinians rejected.
On the “no surprises” front, Israel was caught off-guard by not receiving an advance copy of Obama’s May 2009 speech in Cairo in which the president declared that there should be a freeze on settlements and asked that Israel accept a two-state solution.
“Israeli leaders typically received advance copies of major American pol-icy statements on the Middle East and could submit their comments. But Mr. Obama delivered his Cairo speech, with its unprecedented support for the Pales-tinians and its recognition of Iran’s right to nuclear power, without consulting Is-rael,” Oren pointed out.
When Israel learned that the U.S. was negotiating “with its deadliest en-emy” — Iran — over its nuclear pro-gram, he wrote, the daylight “could not have been more blinding.”
Oren, who is now a member of the Knesset, recently wrote a memoir on his experiences as Israel’s ambassador.
NationalMost American Jews Support Iran Deal with Increased Inspections
A poll released by J Street has found that many American Jews support a fi-nal agreement with Iran that increases inspections in exchange for sanctions relief. The poll, which was conducted among 1,000 people who identify as Jewish, found that 59 percent of those polled say they would support such a deal. The numbers are similar to a CNN poll conducted in April among the gen-eral U.S. population which found that 53% of American adults supported such a deal.
When provided further details about a final agreement, Jewish support grows further. A striking 78% of American Jews would back an agreement that imposes intrusive inspections of Iran and caps its enrichment of uranium at a level far below what is necessary to make a nuclear weapon in exchange for phased relief from U.S. and internation-al sanctions. The question was part of a
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larger poll of American Jewish attitudes on U.S. policy in the Middle East, just weeks ahead of the June 30 deadline for negotiations between the P5+1 member states and Iran.
Orthodox Jews — approximately 10% of the U.S. Jewish population and 10% of those polled — were the only group that did not support the frame-work for an agreement with Iran, with 47% supportive of the terms.
Although 66% of respondents said they were well-informed or somewhat informed about the negotiations, only 6% consider Iran one of the top two priorities on which they believe Presi-dent Obama and Congress should focus. In the list of 11 issues suggested, Iran placed last while the economy (45%) and ISIS (29%) were the top priorities. Israel ranked 9th, with 7% citing it as one of the top two issues the govern-ment should focus on.
Pollster Jim Gerstein, who conduct-ed the poll for J Street, noted that the demographics of the poll, which was conducted last week, are closely aligned with the demographic breakdown of the American Jewish community described in the landmark 2013 Pew survey of American Jewry.
NAACP Leader Steps Down
Who is Rachel Dolezal? Rachel Dolezal, 37, is president of
the Spokane chapter of the NAACP, works as a part-time professor of the Africana Studies Program at Eastern Washington University, and was named “one of the Inland Northwest’s most prominent civil rights activists,” ac-cording to the Spokesman-Review. She is chairwoman of the city’s Office of Police Ombudsman Commission, and identified herself as white, black and American Indian on her application. She also has published numerous blogs about being black in America. She is a woman who has built her career around being black in a culture that’s still af-fected by lingering racism.
But her race has recently come under
question when her parents revealed that she has been falsely presenting herself as a black woman for years. Dolezal was born a white female of European descent. In photos of her childhood, Dolezal appears blond, freckled, and fair skinned. She has since crimped her hair and her skin is noticeably darker.
“It’s very sad that Rachel has not just been herself,” her mother, Ruthanne Dolezal, told the Spokesman-Review, revealing that Rachel began to “disguise herself” as a black woman in 2006 or 2007 after the family adopted four Afri-can-American children. “Her effective-ness in the causes of the African-Amer-ican community would have been so much more viable and she would have been more effective if she had just been honest with everybody.”
Her father, Lawrence Dolezal, said his daughter was a part of a “racial rec-onciliation community” while at Bel-haven University. She then applied to Howard University, a predominantly African-American institution, to study art, submitting “exclusively African American portraiture.” The school “took her for a black woman” and she received a full scholarship. At How-ard, she “assimilated into that culture
so strongly that that’s where she trans-ferred her identity.”
Lawrence Dolezal related that he and his wife are estranged from their daughter because she “doesn’t want us visible in the Spokane area in her circle because we’re Caucasian.”
KXLY’s Jeff Humphrey quizzed Ra-chel Dolezal on the issue of her back-ground earlier this year. He confronted her with a photo of herself standing next to an older African-American man who she claimed was her father in promo-tions ahead of an NAACP ribbon-cut-ting ceremony.
“Are you African-American?” Humphrey asked.
“I don’t understand the question,” she responded. “I did tell you that, yes, that’s my dad and he wasn’t able to come in January.”
When Humphrey asked her if her parents are white, she removed her mi-crophone and walked away.
Dolezal has also reported nine al-leged hate crimes to the police in the past 10 years that she says were com-mitted against her because of her race.
Rachel Dolezal responded to her parents’ claims while speaking to the Spokesman-Review, saying, “We’re all
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from the African continent.” She said the story surfaced merely because of a legal dispute. Apparently, she alleged abuse within the family and obtained custody of her 21-year-old adopted brother, Izaiah, who is black, according to The Washington Post. He lives with her in Spokane and Dolezal claims he is her son.
The NAACP released a statement in response to the controversy on Friday:
“For 106 years, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has held a long and proud tradition of receiving support from people of all faiths, races, colors and creeds. NAACP Spokane Washington Branch President Rachel Dolezal is enduring a legal issue with her family, and we respect her pri-vacy in this matter. One’s racial identity is not a qualifying criteria or disquali-fying standard for NAACP leadership.
The NAACP Alaska-Oregon-Washing-ton State Conference stands behind Ms. Dolezal’s advocacy record. In every corner of this country, the NAACP re-mains committed to securing political, educational, and economic justice for all people, and we encourage Americans of all stripes to become members and serve as leaders in our organization.”
On Monday, Dolezal resigned her post as the president of the Spokane,
Washington, chapter of the National As-sociation for the Advancement of Col-ored People, saying she didn’t want her story to distract anyone from the group’s mission.
On Tuesday, in her first interview with the media since questions of her race arose, Dolezal responded to Matt Lauer’s question on the Today show, “Are you an African-American wom-an?” with the words “I identify as black.”
“At some point, I [knew I] would need to address the complexity of my identity,” she admitted. According to Dolezal, she began to see herself as black when she was as young as five-years-old. “I was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon,” she said. “That was how I was portraying myself.”
In response to her changing ap-pearance, Dolezal told Mr. Lauer, “I also don’t, as some of the critics have said, put on blackface as a performance. This is not some freak, Birth of a Na-tion mockery blackface performance. This is on a very real, connected level — I have actually had to go there with the experience, not just with the visible representation, but with the experience.”
Obama Takes on Trans-Fats
The Obama administration is taking on trans-fat, ordering food companies to phase them out over the next three years, calling them a threat to public health.
The move will remove artificial trans-fats from the food supply almost entirely. Consumers aren’t likely to no-tice much of a difference in their favor-ite foods, but the administration says the move will reduce coronary heart disease and prevent thousands of fatal heart at-tacks every year. Scientists say there are no health benefits to the fats, which are used in processing food and in restaurants, usually to improve texture, shelf life or flavor. They can raise levels of “bad” cholesterol and lower “good” cholesterol, increasing the risk of heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States.
The fats are created when hydrogen is added to vegetable oil to make it more solid, which is why they are often called partially hydrogenated oils.
Once a staple of the American diet — think shortening and microwave popcorn — most artificial trans-fats are already gone. The FDA says that be-tween 2003 and 2012, consumer trans-fat consumption decreased an estimated
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78 percent as food companies have used other kinds of oils to replace them.
Despite the strides in making foods healthier, there are still some foods hiding trans-fats including pie crusts, biscuits, microwave popcorn, coffee creamers, frozen pizza, refrigerated dough, vegetable shortenings and mar-garines.
To phase the fats out, the FDA made a preliminary determination in 2013 that trans-fats no longer fall in the agency’s “generally recognized as safe” catego-ry, which covers thousands of additives that manufacturers can add to foods without FDA review. The agency made that decision final Tuesday, giving food companies the three years to phase them out.
Some companies, though, will be looking for allowances. The Grocery Manufacturers Association, the main trade group for the food industry, is working with companies on a petition that would formally ask the FDA if it can say there is a “reasonable certainty of no harm” from some specific uses of the fats.
Iowa Does Away with Straw Poll
The Iowa presidential straw poll has traditionally been the jumping point for the presidential primary season. But not anymore. The Iowa Republican Party voted unanimously last week to cancel the state’s presidential straw poll.
The poll’s significance had waned in recent years. In 2011, then-Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) won but went on to place sixth in the state’s caucuses and ultimately drop out of the race. Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty also
committed significant sums of money in hopes of winning the straw poll but dropped out of the race after finishing in disappointing third place. And a num-ber of candidates running for president this time around – including Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee – declared they would not spend precious resources to compete in the event.
The straw poll’s demise comes at perhaps the worst time for the party. In the past, it has served as a way to nat-urally winnow the pool of presidential contenders. As many as 15 Republicans may run for president this cycle – per-haps the GOP’s deepest bench in histo-ry – practically guaranteeing a long and bruising race that may prove disadvan-tageous to the party’s eventual nominee once the general election begins.
Need a Job? Head Here
Unemployment rates have been de-clining consistently since 2010, when unemployment was at its peak at 9.6% during the recession; for 2014, the un-employment rate was 6.2%.
However, there are some specific states that are still struggling to recover from the recession. In order to identify the best (and worst) states in which to be unemployed, 24/7 Wall St. ranked each state based on four indicators: the annual unemployment rate, the unem-ployment insurance recipient rate, the weekly benefit amount as a percentage of the state’s weekly wages (known as the replacement rate), and the one-year job growth rate.
A state’s unemployment rate is one of the most reliable indicators of a labor market’s health and how challenging it can be to find work. In all of the ten best states, the rate was lower than the aver-age and in the ten worst states the rate was higher than the national average.
Of course the variation of the gener-osity of a state’s unemployment insur-ance (UI) system affects the health of the job market. On one hand, states need to tax employers to ensure unemployment insurance funds are adequately funded to assist unemployed residents. On the other hand, some argue that the high
taxes on employers prevents potential investment that could create more jobs.
So which states are the best places to be unemployed? North Dakota took the top spot. 40% of the unemployed receive benefits (tied for 16th place) with an unemployment rate of 2.8% (the low-est in the nation). Hawaii came in sec-ond. The Aloha State has an unemploy-ment rate of just 4.4% (tied for ninth lowest in the nation) and 44% of those unemployed receive benefits, with 52% of their average weekly wages covered, the highest in the nation. Utah, Minne-sota and Iowa rounded out the top five.
On the other hand, unemployed workers don’t do too well in these five states, the worst states in the nation to be unemployed: Mississippi has an unem-ployment rate of 7.8% (tied for highest in the nation) and only 32% of the un-employed receive benefits (tied for the 12th lowest). Alabama came next with a 6.8% unemployment rate and only 31% of the unemployed receive benefits. Louisiana, Arizona and Virginia round-ed out the bottom five.
Prison Employee Charged with Assisting Escape
Joyce Mitchell, 51, of Dickson Center has been arrested for providing “material support” to two prisoners who escaped last week. The convicted mur-derers, Richard Matt and David Sweat, broke out of an upstate prison thanks to Mitchell’s assistance. Mitchell, who worked in the prison’s tailor shop, was charged with promoting prison contra-band in the 1st degree – a felony – and criminal facilitation in the 4th degree – a misdemeanor.
“Our interviews with Joyce Mitchell have been fruitful and productive,” said Major Charles Guess of the New York State Police. “We’re satisfied and we would not have charged her today if we were not satisfied with the productivi-ty of those interviews.” Mitchell could face a maximum of 8 years in prison. She has been suspended without pay
from her job at Clinton Correctional Fa-cility, the State Department of Correc-tion said.
“This is one large piece of the puzzle in our quest to find these two escaped murderers,” Guess said. Authorities are still interviewing civilian personnel and certified staff members at Clinton Cor-rectional Facility. Police also said there have been no confirmed sightings of the escaped inmates and no conclusive evi-dence that either of the convicted killers left the area.
More details have been coming to light, though. It has been learned that the plan was to kill Mitchell’s husband after the escape. The two prisoners have been manipulating Mitchell since 2013, when they met, and she provided them with various tools, including hacksaw blades, chisels, a punch and a screw-driver bit. After their escape, Mitchell was supposed to pick them up near a manhole where they’d emerge from a network of tunnels and then drive them to a predetermined location seven hours away. Mitchell, though, never showed and said that she got cold feet.
“We have a message for David Sweat and Richard Matt,” Guess said. “We’re coming for you and we will not stop until you are caught.” Despite this assertion, on Monday, ten days into the search, some close to the investigation admitted that the trail seemed to have gone cold.
Closure in Shocking Biker Assault Case
Judge Maxwell Wiley has found de-tective Wojciech Braszczok, 34, guilty of second-degree assault, criminal mis-chief, coercion and riot over the Sep-tember 29, 2013 incident in Manhattan that shocked New Yorkers. The NYPD detective had beaten a banker in front of his wife and toddler in broad daylight in what started as a case of road rage.
New York police promptly suspend-ed the detective pending termination. Braszczok, who was off-duty at the time, was acquitted on two more serious assault charges. Also charged was Rob-ert Sims, 36, who was convicted of at-tempted gang assault, attempted assault
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in the first degree, assault in the second degree, coercion, criminal possession of a weapon and riot.
The two men will be sentenced on August 5 and 6. Braszczok faces a max-imum sentence of seven years, and Sims between five and 15 years. Nine other bikers involved in the episode have al-ready been convicted of second-degree assault for their roles in the attack.
Alexian Lien, 33, the driver of a lux-ury Range Rover, was brutally assaulted after a gang of motorcyclists chased him down following a brief confrontation with one of the bikers.
To get away, Lien ran over and in-jured one of the motorcyclists. His wife, Rosalyn Ng, and two-year-old daughter were in the car at the time. Ng said her husband acted because they faced “a life-threatening situation” from “a mob of reckless and violent motorcyclists.” When the bikers caught up with Lien’s SUV, one of them smashed the driver’s window with his helmet until the glass shattered, allowing other defendants to strike Lien through the broken window. He was then beaten unconscious. Lien was admitted to the hospital following the attack. A video of the attack circu-lated and Americans around the country reacted with shock to the horrific attack.
Does your Birth Month Affect Your Health?
Does your birthday predict your medical future?
Mary Boland, a PhD student at Co-lumbia University Medical Center, was investigating old studies relating the time of year a person is born to the odds of developing asthma. Based on that research, Boland launched a new study published this week in the Journal of the
American Medical Informatics Associa-tion: Does your birth month affect your health outcomes later in life?
“It turns out that if a newborn is exposed to high levels of dust mites in their first few months of life that they have higher incidence of a certain type of asthma later,” says Nicholas Ta-tonetti, PhD, an assistant professor of biomedical informatics at Columbia University Medical Center and Colum-bia’s Data Science Institute. “This kind of study has been done quite a bit in a one-off fashion, studying this disease or that disease. … We were curious if we could recapitulate some of those early findings.”
The researchers used data on 1.7 mil-lion patients treated at New York-Pres-byterian Hospital/Columbia Universi-ty Medical Center between 1985 and 2013. The goal was to see if there were any spikes in specific diseases at certain times of year.
Overall, May babies seem to have the lowest disease risk and babies born in October have the highest. In fact, the scientists found 55 diseases that cor-related with the season of a person’s birth, and also uncovered 16 entire-ly new correlations — including nine types of heart disease.
“The most striking was a trend we found that those born in late winter or early spring were more likely to have
heart disease,” Tatonetti related. “And we didn’t find just one type of heart dis-ease associated with birth month, but we actually found several.”
The data collected noted that the average life span for those born in each birth month in the first half of the year tends to be shorter. People born in March have the highest risk of atrial fibrillation, congestive heart failure and mitral valve disorder, and the scientists suggest that 1 in 40 cases is related to a seasonal variable. The scientists sug-gest this may have something to do with fluctuating levels of vitamin D. Since heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, this could help doctors hone in on early prevention strategies.
Logically, month-related disease risks must be determined by changing environmental and circumstantial fac-tors. For example, the researchers found that asthma risk for New York patients peaked with July and October births. A previous study conducted in Den-mark found that risk was heightened for people born in the months of May and August — when the country’s sunlight levels are most similar to New York’s.
Despite these findings, a person’s lifestyle is much more significant when it comes to developing diseases. “The risk we found that can be attributed to birth month is on par with what you would find from genetic analyses,” Ta-tonetti explains. “Lifestyle, diet, and exercise are still stronger factors when considering your health.”
Jeb Throws his Hat into the Ring
There’s another famous name in the run for presidency. Jeb Bush, 62, for-mer governor of Florida, officially an-nounced his candidacy for presidency in Miami on Monday. Prior to Monday’s big announcement, Bush was last seen in Europe where he talked tough against Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
The newest Bush is attempting to create his own image and move out of the shadow of his father and his older brother, who both served as the presi-dent of the U.S. “I am my own man,” Jeb declared earlier this year.
“Jeb is different than George, and Jeb is who he is,” Jeb said on his trip to Europe last week. “I don’t have to disassociate myself from my family — I love them. But I know that for me to be successful, I’m going to have to show my heart and tell my story.”
Jeb Bush’s central slogan — the “Right to Rise” — is a continuation of a common thread that ties him to his father and brother. George W. Bush’s “compassionate conservatism” became a defining hallmark of his presidency.
Bush’s closest political adviser, Sally Bradshaw, related that “for [Jeb] public service is about more than fixing problems — he has a heart for people who have been left behind and truly wants to help them rise up and reach their potential.
“He’ll take his case everywhere and to everyone. Not just to certain kinds of people or to those who agree with him. He will do it without flinching,” Brad-shaw said. “He’ll do it because leading is about something bigger than any po-litical party or any one group. It’s about bringing people together and recaptur-ing the promise of a great nation. And he’s going to work his tail off because he has to earn every vote.”
It’s interesting to note that his name, Jeb, is not short for Jebediah. It’s ac-tually an acronym of his formal name: John Ellis Bush. He was named after two uncles. Although he’s not Hispan-ic, Bush is married to Columba Garnica Gallo, who he met in a student-exchange program in Mexico. They lived in Ven-ezuela during the early years of their marriage and Bush is fluent in Spanish. They have three children.
Rapidly Shrinking U.S. Cities
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Population: 200,887 Loss over the past year: 1.5 percent
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That’s OddThe Signature Janitor
He’s the most popular guy at school. Meet Steve Weidner, a custodian at Alan Shepard Elementary School in Bour-bonnais, Illinois.
Last week, 104 second graders lined up after lunch to have “Mr. Steve” au-tograph their yearbooks. 200 children from other classes queued up as well.
“I get along great with the kids,” Weidner related. “They are really great. We joke around a bunch and they’re able to talk to me and stuff like that.”
The father of four has been part of the janitorial staff at Shepard for 15 years now.
“I walked through the playground to get through the building and they saw me and started running,” he said. “You get one, you get all of them. Once they got a line I sat down,” and then proceed-ed to affix his John Hancock to the year-books.
The district posted a photo of a long line of second graders patiently waiting for Mr. Steve’s yearbook signatures on their Facebook page on Wednesday, June 3. “Shepard Custodian Steve ‘Mr. Steve’ Weidner has reached Rock Star status as he autographs yearbooks for his ‘fans!’” the caption read. The snapshot was uploaded to Reddit on June 5 where it has racked up over three million views.
“The students count on Mr. Steve to be there when they need him,” principal Shirley Padera said. “They are comfort-able asking for his help.
“He [Mr. Steve] has good relation-ships with the students,” she added. “Many of our children remain in the building for 5 years because our grade levels are kindergarten through 4th grade. They have many opportunities to interact with Mr. Steve.”
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Sure beats emptying trash cans.
Wrong Game, Right Price
It’s a matter of luck—or at least a lit-tle bit of luck—and Christian Pham first thought his luck ran out. The 40-year-old from St. Paul, Minnesota, is a pro-fessional poker player and intended to play no-limit Texas Hold ‘Em. But as luck would have it, he signed up for the so-called no-limit deuce-to-seven draw
lowball at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. The cost? A $1,500 buy-in.
But there was no turning back. “It’s a totally different game. Different mind-set. Different strategies,” Shawn Harris, Pham’s dealer at the final table, related.
Essentially, the goal is to have the lowest poker hand, no straights or flush-es, and if a player ends up with a pair, it’s better if it’s a pair of twos. Players can also draw cards.
The event was just one of 68, all offering a chance at a golden bracelet prize, happening in Las Vegas at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino throughout the 51-day World Series of Poker that started on May 27 and culminates with the closely watched Main Event.
Pham said he didn’t realize his mis-take until he was dealt five cards instead of the usual two. He panicked, then ob-served, leaning on helpful players who advised him what beat what.
“At first you suspect an act, but if it was, it was very good,” said Chris Meck-lin who was sitting next to Pham when the game’s newbie realized he had made a mistake. He didn’t know it would be a fortuitous one. It quickly became clear that Pham was a professional player—although not really professional at this
particular game. When he won a hand with the best set of cards one can get in the game — a two, three, four, five and seven —Pham seemed confused that he happened to be holding the most desired combination of cards.
Pham said the guidance from his fel-low players at the table helped, and he studied up the night in between. In the end, he said it was his tournament acu-men for when and how much to bet and manage his chips that got him to the top.
On Friday, he was $81,314 richer and held up his gold bracelet, the tour-nament’s version of a Super Bowl ring, and stood on stage as tournament orga-nizers and players stood for the playing of Vietnam’s national anthem. Every winner of the tournament’s 68 events gets to hear his or her anthem of choice.
He is living the American dream. Pham moved 15 years ago from Viet-nam to Minnesota, where he delivered newspapers. He played his first cash poker game in 2008 and later won sec-ond place in a local tournament along with several thousand dollars.
He didn’t think of poker as a way to make a living, though, and gave it up until 2012. Then he won a $200 sat-ellite tournament in 2014 that sent him
to Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker’s circuit main event where he won the gold ring and $214,332.
“After that, I thought this game might be very good to me,” he said.
And that’s no bluff.
The Cleanin’ ‘n’ Cookin’ Crook
Looking for someone to cook and clean for you? This thief is perfect for you.
Patrick Lynn Waits, 45, was arrested after he walked into an unlocked home, stole car keys, and then was found wip-ing down a countertop and baking a po-tato.
A woman in the New Mexico home awoke to find the burglar in her kitchen. Waits was cleaning and cooking. “She asked him what he was doing there, and he told her he was making a potato,” ac-cording to a police report.
He really likes to clean, though. When told to leave, Waits left the home and then started raking leaves in the
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Unsurprisingly, police found Waits stumbling and slurring his words when they arrived.
He’s the dream burglar: He cooks, he cleans, he even waits around for the police.
Professor Lego
University of Cambridge is not play-ing games. The school has announced that it will hire a professor of LEGO to work as part of its Faculty of Education. The role is expected to begin in Octo-ber 2015 and includes directing the new Research Centre on Play in Education, Development and Learning—the real building blocks of life.
Who would fit the bill? Interested candidates don’t necessarily need de-
grees in plastic brick architecture, al-though it can’t hurt. The university is looking for someone “whose work falls within the general field of the title of the office.” Hmmm. Very specific indeed.
The professorship was established after the university received a £4 million donation from the LEGO Foundation. The foundation, which owns a quarter of the LEGO Group, focuses on “chal-lenging the status quo by re-defining play and re-imagining learning.”
According to Cambridge University Reporter, £1.5 million of that donation will fund the Research Centre, while the remaining £2.5 million will go toward funding the Professorship. The goal will be to study the role of play in education.
Looking for a job that involves lots of little blocks that can produce im-mense pain when stepped on? Better hurry. My seven-year-old son is very interested in applying.
The GlamicureYou know things are getting out of
hand when it costs more to get a man-icure than to buy a car. Image Luxury Nail Lounge in Newport Beach is offer-ing a new nail menu that will have fin-gers pointing. These nail services start at $500 and go up to $25,000. What are they giving you at that price? Dia-monds? Well, yeah.
It seems that some of their wealthier customers have too much cash, er, have
been requesting these services. “We talked with them about all the things they would want together,” Tony Nguy-en, general manager of Images Luxury Nail Lounge, said. “I can’t tell you their names, but there are women in Newport and Irvine that want to really splurge once in a while.” We hope it’s only once in a while.
In fact, since they opened last year, the salon has had manis with diamonds on the menu, priced at between $500 and $600 for a full set, and people have been getting them. The only downside? “Diamonds can only be applied to acryl-ics,” Nguyen says. Oh, that’s too bad.
So what can you get on this new mani menu? Our fingers are itching to know. For between $500 and $2,500, you can get the “Haute Couture Man-icure,” which includes luxurious bells and whistles (mineral bath, massage, polish), plus nail art using up to 20 di-amonds. Oh, and you get a facial, too.
Willing to spend between $2,500 and $10,000? Choose the “Gold Rush
Manicure” and you’ll get everything in the previous manicure, but done in a private room. Plus, they’ll use Mod-els Own Gold Rush polish (the salon partnered with the polish brand to have one of only two bottles of this lacquer, priced at over $100K thanks to the di-amond-encrusted bottle) and 24-karat flakes of gold in your nail art. Enjoy lash extensions and free champagne.
Want to go even bigger? For be-tween $10,000 and $25,000, you can get real fancy with the “Glitz & Glam-icure”: They’ll close the entire salon for your treatment, which includes every-thing mentioned above, plus a personal jeweler on hand to help you choose the best diamonds for your nail art and hair and makeup services.
With prices like these, I would run—not walk—to get my manicure. Don’t want these incredible deals to slip through my fingers.
Newlyweds at 100
You’re never too old to get married.This week, George Kirby, 103, and
Doreen Luckie, 91, tied the knot in the British seaside town of Eastbourne. The sprightly couple was all smiles as their family joined in the celebration. Togeth-er, they have seven kids, 15 grandchil-dren and seven great-grandchildren.
It was back in February when the centenarian popped the question to his sweetheart. “I didn’t get down on one knee because I don’t think I would have been able to get back up,” the young-at-heart groom quipped.
Kirby is a former boxer and spent the wedding in a wheelchair because of injuries due to a fall. His beautiful, young bride wore a blue and white floral gown and helped push her new husband in his gleaming chair.
Kirby and Luckie replace French couple Francois Fernandez and Made-leine Francineau, who had a combined age of 191 years as the world’s oldest newlyweds.
May they live long, healthy lives—wait, they already have—together.
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Mazel tov to the 86 graduates of the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls. The school’s 19th Annual Com-mencement Exercises took place on Sunday, June 14, on HALB’s Wood-mere Campus. Valedictorian Yiela Saperstein, Salutatorian Paulette Tawil and Keter Shem Tov Awardee Devorah Meisels addressed administrators, facul-ty, family members and friends.
Mrs. Helen Spirn, Head of School, delivered a stirring message to the grad-uates, fondly reminiscing about the four years of the graduates’ high school experience and marking the date next year for the reunion in Israel. Diplomas were presented by Dr. Tzipora Meier, principal grades 11-12, Mrs. Elishe-va Kaminetsky, Director of Religious Guidance, and Mr. Lance Hirt, president
of HALB. Gifts to the graduates were given by SKA Parent Council Co-Chair-persons Mrs. Mindy Aryeh and Mrs. Sharon Lipsky.
Our thanks also go to Ms. Raizi Chechik, principal grades 9-10, Rab-bi Yosef Zakutinsky, Director of Stu-dent Services, Rabbi Dr. Jeff Rothman, Principal Academy Initiatives and Ad-vanced Learning, Mr. Ken Zitter, Board
of Governors, Mr. Richard Hagler, Ex-ecutive Director of HALB, Mrs. Sharon Frieling, SKA Liaison to the Board, Mrs. Sandra Pomerantz, associate prin-cipal, Mrs. Deena Kobre, assistant prin-cipal, Rabbi Plotkin, HALB Elementary principal, and Mr. Chaim Hollander, Di-rector of Operations.
SKA Graduation 2015
By Rabbi Menachem BornsteinRecently, some of the seventh grade
classes of Yeshiva Darchei Torah were given a unique opportunity to visit a one-of-a-kind Holocaust museum, the Kleinman Family Holocaust Education Center, located in its temporary home in Brooklyn. The goal of the museum is to allow visitors to develop an understand-ing of the Holocaust. Its exhibits center on the Orthodox experience during the War, the mesiras nefesh of individuals who mounted rescue efforts during and even after the War, and the rescue of or-phaned children from convents during this tragic period in our history.
The boys were split into two groups, with half of the boys viewing the Mike Tress Exhibit, while the other boys par-ticipated in an interactive session on the subject of a survivor’s history.
The boys were led on a tour of the Mike Tress exhibit by the museum’s di-rector, Rabbi Sholom Friedmann. Mike (Elimelech Gavriel) Tress was the leader of the Agudath Israel Organization and led many attempts at rescuing people trapped in Europe during the Holocaust and subsequently to rescue survivors from convents and Displaced Persons camps. The boys were able to view ac-tual items that were used by Mike Tress that were donated to the museum by his family. They huddled over his briefcase, noting that some of the actual files still
peeking out contained names of those he rescued. They moved on to see rep-licas of actual telegrams that were sent during and after the war, trying to see what they were able to do to assist those caught under the Nazis’ rule. They ob-served a telegram sent to Europe, in which the sender was trying to locate the whereabouts of Rav Elchanan Was-serman zt”l, not knowing he had been murdered by the Lithuanians in 1941. The boys gazed in somber silence at a small suitcase and challah cover, whose owner, a young girl, along with most of her family, was not able to be rescued. They observed the faces of children or-phaned of one or both parents who were rescued by the Agudah and sent to live with relatives in the United States. Rab-bi Friedmann even told over his own family’s sad story, and it was evident that the boys were moved by it.
The other group went to another room where they heard a narrative about a girl who had been only slightly old-er than themselves. Together with her family, she was able to escape from the clutches of the Nazi’ and flee to Shang-hai, China.
The name of the girl was Yehudis Cohn. Soon after Kristallnacht, she and her family were fortunate enough to get visas and escape from Berlin. They ended up in Shanghai, where the fami-ly tried to resume normal activity. She
joined the Bais Yaakov, at first attending as a student and later hoping to become a teacher. Yehudis Cohn met and mar-ried an Auschwitz survivor, and she and her family moved to Los Angeles, Cali-fornia. After she died in 2008, her fam-ily donated her papers to the Kleinman Family Holocaust Education Center.
The boys learned about Yehudis Cohn Goldbart’s story and were able to view a reproduction of her identification card and her report card, as well as oth-er documents. They saw a brief video describing her life and what she went through both during and after the War, as well as some of her accomplishments in California many years later. The
boys were even shown a tiny Tefillin Shel Rosh which had been smuggled by someone from a ghetto into a concentra-tion camp under his arm. The boys then had a lively discussion with the guide, Mr. Yossie Kleinman, the Center’s Di-rector of Special Projects and a YDT parent, about the true meaning of mesir-as nefesh.
Utilizing items such as Yehudis Goldbart’s identification card, the tefil-lin, or even looking at a concentration camp uniform can help form a bond between the boys and victims as well as survivors of the horrors of the Holo-caust.
A Unique Experience at A Unique Holocaust Museum
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Cahal Little Sister Project
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This year, CAHAL’s grade 7-8 class in Torah Academy for Girls embarked on a wonderful year-long project that broadened their horizons and connected them to another community. The girls were matched up with a 3rd grade Little Sister class in the kiruv school Shalshe-les in Brooklyn. Each student received a Little Sister pen pal and stayed in touch with her during the year by sending letters and prizes. For Purim, the girls decorated and sent elaborate shaloch manos and even videoed a funny Purim play to share the spirit of Purim with their little sisters. The project culminat-ed when grade 7-8 in TAG invited their Little Sister class to attend their He-brew Book Fair on June 10th. The fair showcased each student’s original Hebrew children’s book, which she had written and il-lustrated.
Excitement ran high as the students
from grade 7-8 waited for their Little Sisters to arrive. At long last, their bus pulled up and the 3rd grad-ers entered the TAG classroom. Each TAG Big Sister introduced herself, brought her sister to her seat, and read the story she wrote to her Little Sister. It was beau-tiful to watch the shy little 3rd graders slowly open up to their Big Sisters as they listened to the book being read to
them and chatted about what they had in common. Cupcakes and drinks were served to each pen pal pair. Immedi-ately following the book reading, the girls decorated canvas bags with their little sisters and several pairs even ex-changed bags with each other or auto-graphed their sister’s bag. The event ended with the 3rd graders presenting gifts to their Big Sisters and both sides promised to keep writing over the sum-mer. As TAG’s grade 7-8 class walked their Little Sister class down to the front door, there was a genuine sense of
camaraderie and friendship between the classes. They took pictures together and waved good-bye as their Little Sisters left TAG.
Overall, the Hebrew Book Fair was a smashing success as it served as a ve-hicle to connect the two classes togeth-er and celebrated the publishing of the students’ Hebrew books. Although the official school year is over, the lessons of unity, patience, selflessness and sen-sitivity learned from this pen pal proj-ect will stay with TAG’s grade 7-8 for a long time.
With great anticipation, the Sulitza Kehilla in Far Rockaway is preparing for the grand upcoming Hachnasas Sefer To-rah which will be held i’yH on Sunday, June 28th at the home of the Sulitza Reb-be, shlit’a, 610 Beach 9th Street, which is in reality a welcoming second home enveloped in warmth and devotion in which every Kehilla member feels com-fortable to build a special kesher with the Rebbe shlit’a.
The Sefer Torah has been written l'iluy nishmas the renowned and unfor-gettable Sulitza Rebbe zt’l whose yahrt-zeit is the Sunday of the Sefer Torah pro-cession.
The vivid memory of the Rebbe zt’l, his warm and loving smile to every Yid, his tender and caring heart to the whole
community, and his absolute ahavas Yis-roel to all of the Klal Yisroel is embed-ded in every single Sulitza Kehilla mem-ber. The impact of the Rebbe’s mesiras nefesh for Torah and Yiddishkeit and his Yiras Shamayim is engraved in the hearts and minds of all. It is therefore no won-der that almost every member in the Su-litza Kehilla came forth with their warm support in writing this Sefer Torah, li’iluy nishmaso, especially since the proceeds are being used to publish the abundant chiddushei Torah that the Rebbe zt’l has written in his lifetime.
May the zchus of the great mitzvah of ksivas Sefer Torah be a zchus for the neshama of the Sulitza Rebbe zt’l and he should be a meilitz yosher for all.
The previous Sulitz Rebbe zt’l with his son, the current Sulitz Rebbe sh’lita
Sulitza Kehilla Hachnasas Sefer Torah
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Gan Chamesh, Chabad’s Early Childhood Center, culminated the year with a grand and meaningful Graduation Parade along Maple Avenue. Nothing is more precious to Hashem than the pure prayers of children. Tefillah is a big fo-cus of each child’s day in Gan Chamesh and it was chosen as the theme for the parade. The young students have in-ternalized the concept of saying “thank you” to Hashem during Modeh Ani. They have also mastered the meaning of a bakasha as they ask Hashem to please rebuild the Beis Hamikdash speedily in our days.
The tefillah-based Graduation Pa-rade centered around a magnificent model of the Kotel, replete with faux Je-
rusalem stone, greenery growing from between the stones and kvitlach in the nooks and crannies of the Kotel. The children marched to the music of Mr. Gary Wallin of The Gary Wallin Orches-tra, who played songs with the words of our beautiful tefillos. Each child held a note that contained his/her own personal prayer to Hashem. The prayers ranged from messages thanking Hashem for a specific toy or food to bakashos for re-coveries for loved ones or the speedy rebuilding of the Beis Hamikdash. It was an incredible sight to see the chil-dren approach the Kotel, kiss it, touch it and place their own personal prayer upon its’ stones. Afterwards, they all joined together in singing L’shana haba
b ’ Ye r u s h a l a y -im. Each child also held their own unique Gan Chamesh siddur in hand as they marched. The siddur represent-ed a monumental project under-taken by the Gan Chamesh teach-ers and staff. It contained all the tefillos said in Gan Chamesh on
a daily basis and incorporated pictures of each Gan Chamesh child dramatizing the tefillos. The siddur will hopefully be used daily by the children and will serve as a reminder to the students of the special connection they have to Hashem through tefillah.
The Graduation Parade was a huge success. We thank the families and friends who came to celebrate with us, the local Police Department, the Auxil-iary Police Department, the Village of Cedarhurst, Mr. Gary Wallin for his mu-sical accompaniment, and Elki Adler for all her hard work. Thank you to Mr.
Cesar Gutierrez for all his assistance in constructing the magnificent Kotel dis-play. Thank you as well to all the spon-sors of the Gan Chamesh siddur. A huge Mazel Tov to all of the graduates!
Gan Chamesh’s Early Childhood Center is under the auspices of Chabad of the Five Towns, headed by Rabbi Zal-man and Chanie Wolowik. If you would like any information on Gan Chamesh, Chabad’s Early Childhood Center, please contact Susy Adler or Suzanne Wallin, the program directors, at (516) 295-2479.
Gan Chamesh Ends the Year with an Exciting Tefillah Graduation Parade
Remembering at Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island
Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island re-cently hosted a meaningful and moving school-wide Memory Day with the fo-cus on the importance of memory and belonging. The students’ thoughtful and creative work covered the walls as they participated in projects relating to family, memory, and community. At
this event, the Junior High School stu-dents heard three eighth grade student speakers, Yosef Silver, Shamuel Sham-ilzadeh and Yosef Sasson do a won-derful job as they presented powerful speeches written based on their inter-views with Holocaust survivors.
They also had the honor of hearing
a meaningful and moving presentation by Mr. Simon Felder. His ability to share Holocaust experiences through the prism of a Torah Jew inspired our students greatly, while at the same time giving them a glimpse of the realities of those harrowing days. His stories of bitachon, deep belief, and the power
of Tehilim and tefilla gave the students realistic life lessons for which they can aspire to attain. They left with a very special lens through which to view this painful part of Jewish history. Our reb-beim, teachers, parents and students were inspired as well and grateful to be a part of the audience.
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By Rabbi Gedaliah Oppen, HAFTR HS Principal of Judaic Studies
Monday morning: I began my work-day presenting a three and a half hour workshop on Mastering Classroom Management and on the topic of Clari-ty of Instruction to our dedicated Juda-ic Studies faculty. From there, I raced directly to meeting with our wonderful seniors, taking a graduation photo with each one (one of my favorite activities of the school year). As my feet and body were feeling somewhat fatigued and as I was looking forward to finally sitting down, my cellphone vibrated with the reminder “siyum (completion of Tal-mudic tractates) in fifteen minutes.” So, I jumped into my car and drove to the home of the Lent family who were graciously hosting our junior boys with their Rebbe, Rabbi Boruch Fogel, for a beautiful barbeque siyum on Mesechet Megilla. Upon arriving and seeing the excitement on the faces of my talmidim
(more for the siyum than the barbecue) and watching them enthusiastically take ownership of the just-completed mesechta, I started to feel rejuvenat-ed and reenergized. Just then my phone once again and announced yet another reminder, this time to join Rabbi Ari Chait and his sophomore talmidim for their siyum on Masechet Makkot which was being held at Traditions. As I entered the restaurant, I was overcome by emotion as I saw so many parents who had left work early sitting with their chil-dren and celebrating this momentous occasion as many rebbeim were present, with one of the rebbeim, Rabbi Moshe Hubner, unwilling to miss the event, connected by phone.
At both siyumim Rabbi Fogel and Rabbi Chait addressed the students and complimented them on their commit-ment and devotion to Torah. Despite
the demands of all the APs, SATs, and ACTs, these talmidim still commit-ted themselves to intense learning and completing a mesechta, and their rab-beim noted how much chizuk and in-spiration they themselves had received from the talmidim. Rabbi Lewis Wie-nerkur, one of the rebbeim who joined the siyum, happily informed me that that very morning his senior students had completed Masechet Makkot and would be making the siyum at gradu-ation. At that point I felt so elevated and floating with nachat, that when I finally arrived home, and my dear wife asked me if I would like to sit and relax after such a long day, I responded, “Re-lax? I am so overwhelmed with simcha and joy, that I feel like I’m restarting my day.” And I proceeded to share with her my exceptional day growing stron-ger and stronger. It is moments like these, (which b”H my colleagues and I experience daily) which infuse within
us the inspiration we need to continue in being mechanech our talmidim and talmidot.
The Gemara in Masechet Shabbat 118b relates that when Abbye would see students completing a mesechta, he would be so hap-py that he would celebrate with a party. The Yam Shel Shlomo (Baba Kama in between sev-enth and eighth perek) cites that as the source of the custom that when completing a mesechta one gives shevach v’hodaya, praise and thanks to Hashem Yitborach and to publicize this great joy by making a seuda (meal).
I share Abbye’s pride, joy and appreciation of my precious students, I too would like to ex-
press my shevach v’hodaya to Hashem Yitborach for the privilege and nach-at which I am able to enjoy daily as I watch my students at HAFTR High School grow and mature in Torah and avodat Hashem. Within the last two weeks, I was zoche to participate in four siyumim prepared by our outstand-ing rebbeim and exceptional students. One at Senior Dinner, two this Monday, and one at graduation, as well as during the year on Purim by two junior stu-dents and be”H one more siyum com-ing up this week by a freshman student.
As we recite in the “Hadran,” “Hashem just as You helped me com-plete this mesechta, so may You help me begin and complete many more mesechtot.”
The end is just the beginning…and may we all, rebbeim, teachers, parents and students, be zoche to participate in many more such beautiful and invigo-rating beginnings.
The End is Just the Beginning
At HALB’s Names Not Numbers Program Held Last Week
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Following a successful DineNMeet/YUConnects event last year that culmi-nated in two marriages, DineNMeet re-turned to Woodmere last Shabbos with 90 guests. Young Israel of Woodmere, which is active in promoting singles’ events and initiatives, partnered with YUConnects and DineNMeet to make the Shabbos uniquely productive and
comfortable for all participants. “I nev-er attended any organized event before,” e-mailed one attendee afterward. “I was impressed, with the high quality of the people, my super-sweet hosts and how well it was structured. So glad I came!”
The concept is simple and success-ful. On Friday night after Maariv, the guests dispersed across ten hosts’ homes
for delicious meals. Equally divided be-tween men and women, approximately eight guests were placed in each home based on compatibility and commonal-ities. Conversation took off and many meals lasted well past midnight.
Shabbos day, participants came to-gether at 2:30 pm in the shul’s social hall. Following words of welcome by
Rabbi Dr. Aaron Glatt, the guests were able to all meet each other by a rotation system of fun and fast board games and enjoyed some delicious desserts. Again, the schmoozing went on for hours even as janitors were setting up for the shul’s shalosh seudos! The DineNMeet group reconnected at a lovely local home for their own gala shalosh seudos where the conversation picked up right where it left off. Many local matchmakers and facil-itators assisted throughout by mingling and getting to know the participants. An entertaining trivia game allowed the guests yet another meeting opportunity by having them form their own teams to solve the answers. Rabbi Shalom Axelrod offered a short insight from the parsha. Then, following a beautiful mu-sical havdalah by Rabbi Eliyahu Wolf, accompanied by Rabbi Noam Weinberg and Mr. Adam Kaufman on guitars, the guests left spiritually uplifted and happy to have made so many new connections.
Following the event, the DNM/YUC staff received over 165 requests of inter-est from the men and women attendees! Surveys are still coming in, and the re-sults are consistent: it was a success. Seven dates have already been arranged in the three days since the event and a team of top-notch matchmakers from DineNMeet and YUConnects are bus-ily—and happily—following up on all other requests.
DineNMeet plans exclusive, elegant events for targeted groups of Jewish sin-gles based on age, hashkafah, and other factors. Each event focuses on different niche, ensuring maximum compatibility and success amongst participants. Five shidduchim have already been made di-rectly from the events in the past year and a half alone.
YUConnects is open to the entire Jewish community and is a self-funded non-profit organization offering a “one-stop dating resource.” By conducting interactive workshops and hosting ed-ucational forums and unique social ac-tivities, it is changing the current dating scene. YUConnects’ many events and friendly professional matchmakers have, to date, enabled 412 people to meet their spouses.
For more information about these programs, email [email protected] or [email protected]. To join the Young Israel of Woodmere’s email list and find out about periodic up-coming singles events, please email [email protected].
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Shacharit Breakfast/Keynote - Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski - We Have Torah and Mitzvos. What About Yiras Shamayim?
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Rabbi Meir Goldwicht
The Sweet and Easy Way to Successfully
Raise Chidlren
Dr. David Pelcovitz
Understanding How Digital Technology Impacts on Social
and Cognitive Development:
Implications for Parents and Educators
Mrs. Elisheva Kaminetsky
The Imperfect Pursuit of Perfection
Rabbi Yamin Goldsmith
What Does Not Happen in the Year in
Israel
Rabbi Gedaliah Oppen
Are We Listening? Do We Hear the Silent
Voices of Our Children?
Rabbi Yehuda Kelemer
The Super-Bright, Super Quiet Student
(Usually Sitting in the Back Row): Why Do Our Yeshivas Ignore
Him?
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Rabbi Dr. Edward Reichman
Teaching Medical Halacha from Grade
School Through College: The Ideal Way
to Unite Limudei Kodesh and Chol
Rebbetzin Lisa Septimus
R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Find Out What It Means To Teens
Mrs. Debbie Greenblatt
Educating for Middos: Creating a Vessel
for Chinuch
Rav Moshe Chaim Sosevsky
Educating Towards Ethical Sensitivity
Rabbi Yisrael Kaminetsky
Transmitting the Joy of Judaism to our Children
Rabbi Eytan Feiner
TBA 11:10
Rabbi Isaac Rice
Teaching integrity: Preventing the Next
High-Profile Chillul Hashem
Rabbi David Fohrman
"Making Torah Come Alive: 5 Tools For
Learning With Your Children"
Rebbetzin Sori Teitelbaum
Are 'Written' Tests the Only Way to Assess?
Rebbetzin Aviva Feiner
TBA
Rabbi Yotav Eliach
Teaching Religious Zionism in Yeshiva
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Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum
Our Kids, Post-Israel:
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Dr. Ari Bergmann
Photoshopping Yiddishkeit: Does the
End Justify the Means?
Rabbi Dr. Jay Goldmintz
Helping our Kids Find Meaning in Tefillah
Rebbetzin Shani Taragin
Eliyahu and Elisha: The Art of Mentorship
Rabbi David Katz
"Functional Illiteracy and 'Edu-tainment-' Balancing substance
and excitement in our classrooms"
Rabbi Noam Weinberg
Healthy Rebellion: When is it Okay Not to Be Concerned About
Your Teenager’s Behavior?
Rabbi Shmuel Marcus
Personality Perfection as a
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Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin
Buy Low, Sell High: Financial Principles as a Strategy for Inspired
Jewish Education
Rabbi Shay Shachter
Teaching By Example
Dr. Beth Raskin
“So THAT’S what it feels like to have a
disability!”: Sensitivity training 101
Rabbi Reuven Taragin
Educating Through Love
Mrs. C. B. Neugroschel
Balancing Love and Law When Educating
Our Children and Students
Rabbi Moshe Weinberger A Modern
Model of Chinuch: The Derech of the
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This week was the last week of the Learn & Live Program for this year. The boys experienced the
mitzvah of bikur cholim when Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow spoke about the mitzvah with some special stories.
They received containers and stickers sponsored by Seasons and they wrote refuah shelaima and well
wishes for the cholim. Then came the best part—the boys filled the containers with four different types of candies and chocolates, which were also sponsored
by Seasons. Thank you to Bikur Cholim, Achiezer and Seasons. What a great, sweet way to end off a
wonderful year of learning!
R’ Shimshon Pincus explains that the best way to understand how our re-lationship should be with Hashem is to look at marriage as an example. All the books of the Torah are holy but the book of Shir Hashirim is referred to as the Holy of Holies. This is because it uses a marriage and the longing of one spouse to another as the basis for understand-ing how our relationship with Hasehm ought to be.
The same way a couple can always feel connected and close with each oth-er, even while each partner is busy with his or her own activities throughout the day, so too, we are meant to feel con-nected to Hashem as we go about our affairs. When a couple speaks to each other, nobody needs to know what tran-spires between them, and it would be out of place for somebody to try to join their conversation. In the exact same fashion, when we speak to Hashem, it’s nobody’s business what we daven for and ask for in our prayers. Davening represents our own private conversa-tion with Hashem that’s just between us and our Creator. This is why we say the
Shemonah Esrei in silence, in a whisper, because this unique prayer represents a quiet and private conversation.
The ability to understand how mar-riage can help us better cultivate and understand our relationship with Hash-em is much greater by someone who is married. Once a person understands how close he can feel to his spouse, he can begin to fathom how close of a re-lationship he can build with his Creator. By working on creating a close and har-monious marriage, we can reap the ad-ditional great benefit of understanding how our connection with Hashem can and should be.
Five Towns Marriage Initiative pro-vides educational programs, workshops and referrals to top marriage thera-pists. FTMI will help offset counseling costs when necessary and also runs an anonymous shalom bayis hotline for the entire community Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 9:30-11p.m. For the hotline or more information, call 516-430-5280 or email [email protected].
Five Towns Marriage Initiative Connecting with our Spouse, Connecting with our Creator
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The Hebrew Academy of Long Beach’s second grade recently held a read-a-thon to raise money for the Gift of Life Foundation. Under the guidance of their teacher, Mrs. Annie Goldstoff, they raised over $2,100. Each of the children received a trophy and a medal to celebrate their reading and presentation.
Traditionally, a celebration marks a beginning or an end. We celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, and gradua-tions. But the Early Childhood Divi-sion of TAG adds special meaning to the word celebration, as it celebrates the completion of pre-school with a gradu-ation and the beginning of elementary school in September. As its very name connotes, their graduation is a Cele-bration of Inspiration in many ways. This year was no exception. Howev-er, this event took on added meaning as it marked the culmination of twenty years of devoted service to our young-est talmidos by its dedicated director, Mrs. Miriam Tikotzky. Rabbi Meyer Weitman expressed his hakaras hatov in his opening remarks and a sterling silver tray was presented to Mrs. Tikot-zky by her dynamic devoted secretary, Mrs. Susie Goldfeder. The inscription to her, which read, “In twenty years you raised a generation of bnos Yisroel with compassion, devotion and expertise, with everlasting gratitude,” summed up everyone’s recognition of the important role Mrs. Tikotzky played in the growth of our pre-school.
In her own remarks, Mrs. Tikotzky expressed her gratitude to Rabbi Mey-er Weitman and his late father, Rabbi Moshe z”l for giving her the privilege of working in TAG. She thanked her amazing staff of teacher and assistants, Mrs. Goldfeder, and many others who work behind the scenes to make things happen at TAG. She remarked that the parents were celebrating a bar mitzvah with TAG this year. She explained that in 2002 when the intifada in Eretz Yis-roel was wreaking havoc on the lives of our brethren, she and her staff were trying to find a way to connect their young charges to the situation. It was at that time that the teachers began re-
citing Tehillim each day with their stu-dents. Before long, many of the classes knew these perakim by heart and these perakim of Tehillim became an integral part of the celebration experience. Each year, the girls receive a Tehillim thanks to the generosity of sponsors. We would like to thank this year’s sponsors: Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Adler, the Berman & Jacob families, Assemblyman Phil & Esther Goldfeder, Rabbi & Mrs. Kagan, Yakov & Rachel Lowinger, the Mendlowitz & Wiener familes, Mr. & Mrs. Ahron Richman, the Schechter family, Mr. & Mrs. Akiva Silver, Mr. & Mrs. Elchonon
Spira, Dr. & Mrs. Shlomo Taitelbaum and Nechama & Shlomo Zidele.
As the talmidos of TAG’s Pre-1A marched into the gym, arrayed in their colorful shirts with the message of Turn on the Power, the parents, grandparents and guests greeted them with enthusi-asm. Song after song, complete with hand motions, the youngsters demon-strated their joy and pride in being a bas Yisroel. Two of the songs, composed by Mrs. Tikotzky, reflected the TAP pro-gram, which reinforces tznius in dress, action, and speech. Special thanks to Morah Karen Daitchman and Morah
Sima Gefen who keep our girls on their toes and with songs on their lips. The classes beautifully recited their Tehil-lim and expressed the words of Dovid Hamelech with deep feeling.
Mazel Tov to all the parents as well as a special mazel tov to our precious talmidos. May your beautiful sefer Tehillim be a constant source of en-couragement and joy for many years to come. May you continue to be a source of true Yiddishe nachas for your parents, your school and most of all for the Ribo-no Shel Olam.
Much to Celebrate at TAG
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For Shabbos Parshas Beha’alos-cha (June 6), the talmidim of grades 9, 10 and 11 of Yeshiva Darchei Torah’s Mesivta Chaim Shlomo traveled to the Yeshiva’s summer camp near Wood-bourne, New York, for an inspiring and invigorating Shabbos together with their rabbeim. With ample sports and swim-ming on Friday, a Shabbos full of divrei Torah, zemiros and camaraderie, and a late-night festive Melava Malka, the weekend was physically and spiritually uplifting.
The activities began even before the trip did, as the eleven classes sat down to learn on Friday morning be-fore boarding the buses for a shiur on a special sugya that had been selected for that Shabbos: the topic of Talmud Torah in Maseches Bava Basra. The shiur was given by Rav Yitzchok Epstein, a tenth grade rebbi.
Upon arrival in the Catskills, the boys’ first stop was at Camp Agudah in Ferndale. There they made ample use of the sports fields and facilities and ate lunch. They then continued to Camp
Oraysah outside Woodbourne.Before Shabbos they learned togeth-
er for an hour. Kabbolas Shabbos was led by 11th grade talmidim who gathered around the bimah and helped their fel-low bachurim usher in the Shabbos with great joy and feeling. Before Maariv, Rav Yaakov Bender, the Rosh HaYeshi-va, delivered divrei pesicha.
At the delicious seudah in the din-ing room, the boys reveled in a rarified atmosphere of song and kedusha. Ari Tendler, an alumnus of the Yeshiva cur-rently learning at Beth Medrash Gov-oha, led the zemiros. The seudah was followed by a strong seder limud.
Later, at the Oneg Shabbos in the beis medrash, the bachurim were priv-ileged to hear divrei Torah from Rav Matis Pincus, an eleventh grade rebbi, who drew on the Torah of his late, leg-endary brother, Rav Shimshon Pincus, zt”l. Bachurim from the 11th grade also delivered divrei Torah: Shlomo Karmeli and Ezra Kessner.
On Shabbos morning, Rav Yitz-chok Hauer, a ninth grade rebbi, and a
bachur, Chisky Bloom, spoke before Mussaf. After davening and kiddush, the bachurim sat down for a seder limud as they prepared for a shiur from Rav Shloime Eisen, an eleventh grade rebbi who expounded on the sugya of Talmud Torah. At the Shabbos Day seudah, the menahel, Rav Zevi Trenk, and bachur Mutty Ehrenfeld delivered divrei Torah.
On Shabbos afternoon, the ba-churim were treated to a unique Ques-tion and Answer session with all the rabbeim that covered a variety of topics. This format gave the bachurim an even deeper appreciation for the values of the Torah and of becoming a ben Torah in action and outlook.
After Shalosh Seudos, which was infused with neginah once again, Rav Menachem Feifer, an eleventh grade rebbi, delivered divrei hisorirus. Moshe Greenblatt also spoke.
After Havdalah, the bachurim went to two bowling alleys – one in Liberty and the other in Kiamesha Lake, which
had been rented out by the Yeshiva. They then returned to Camp Oraysah for swimming and basketball.
At a post-midnight Melava Mal-ka, the assembled were privileged to hear divrei chizuk from Rav Elya Ber Wachtfogel, the rosh yeshiva of South Fallsburg, who spoke about developing chavivus haTorah through chazarah. With music and dancing – and dazzling juggling by bachurim Aaron Feivelson and Yossi Hecht – the bachurim and rabbeim capped an elevated and uplift-ing Shabbos by rejoicing in the Torah which they are privileged to learn and to live by.
Much credit is due to Rav Zevi Trenk, Rav Avrohom Nusbaum and Rav Moshe Bender who planned and execut-ed the entire weekend with attention to detail and ensured that the bachurim, rabbeim and families would come away with an experience that will positively affect them for a long time to come.
Mesivta Chaim Shlomo Spends an Uplifting Shabbos Upstate
A view inside Camp Oraysah
Rav Elya Ber Wachtfogel, rosh yeshiva of South Fallsburg, spoke at the melave malka at Mesivta Chaim Shlomo’s Shabbos Upstate. At right: Rav Yaakov Bender, Rosh HaYeshiva of Darchei Torah
This year, the girls in TAG elementary school took part in a positive social skills curriculum called Heart 2 Heart, developed by Dovi Tomaszewski. Part of the curriculum focuses on spreading acts of kindness. This fourth grade class held a pickle sale to raise money to purchase pajamas to donate to children inpatients at LIJ Cohens Medical Center. A special thank you to the wonderful principals, Mrs. Feldman and Morah Levin, devoted morahs, Mrs. Gulkowitz and Morah Scharf, and to the mothers who drove the girls, and helped make the sale possible Ronit Schwartz, Aliza Fuchs, Gitty Lowinger, Faigy Hertz, Chayala Eberstark, Miriam Lieber, and Annette Hartman.
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Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky was named one of City and State’s 40 Under 40 Rising Stars
When the news broke that one of the victims of the Amtrak train crash this May was Naval Academy student Justin Zemser, a young Jewish man from Rock-away Beach, N.Y., Rav Yaakov Bender decided to do something.
The Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshiva Darchei Torah, located three and a half miles away at the eastern end of the Rockaway Peninsula, had never come in
contact with Justin or his parents. One a f t e r n o o n , at the staff mincha in the Yeshiva’s conference room, Rab-bi Bender asked all of the men pres-ent to com-
mit to learn Seder Moed in time for the shloshim, the conclusion of the 30-day mourning period. They agreed. It was a quiet yet meaningful act to bring merit to the neshama of a young man they had never met, an only child to his parents.
30 days later, they gathered around the table once again, this time with many more staff members looking on – and Justin’s father, Howard Zemser, and oth-er relatives and close friends. Howard said the Kaddish and was followed by Chazzan Chaim Gershon Schindler, who recited the Kel Molei Rachamim.
Howard Zemser then spoke, shar-ing some memories of his son. “He was a great teacher,” Mr. Zemser recalled.
“Always positive. People from the Naval Academy are still sending person-alized letters about what Justin did for them.” He also mentioned that his son “went to shul every Friday night, he visited Israel and he loved Isra-el” and would have trav-eled there again had he had the chance.
Mr. Zemser conclud-ed by quoting his wife: “‘He was wonderful.’”
The next to speak was Tzvi Rubin-feld, a Lakewood, N.J., resident who
developed a relationship with Justin by learning Torah on the telephone over the course of several months as part of Oorah’s TorahMates project. “We started from Bereishis and concluded with [the verses that describe the seventh day,] Shabbos. He was very touched by the message of Shabbos, which [we studied]
on May 3rd, just 10 days before the trag-edy, and talked about accepting [aspects of] Shabbos in the future… He was a les-son in growth – humble, respectful...he would have been a tremendous asset to the Jewish community.”
Rabbi Boruch Ber Bender, the pres-ident of the Achiezer Community Re-source Center, got to know the Zemsers in the hours after the tragedy and played a critical role in ensuring that Justin’s body would be treated with the dignity demanded by Jewish law. He commend-ed the Zemsers for their “strength, perse-verance and faith in the face of unspeak-able tragedy.”
The final speaker was Rabbi Ey-tan Feiner, the rabbi of Congregation Kneseth Israel, the White Shul. “To glean the most consequential lesson [from Justin’s life of 20 years],” assert-ed Rabbi Feiner, “is [to realize] that he was an exemplary individual who put all his kochos hanefesh (innate abilities) into every single thing that he did. He always
took it to the max.” Quoting a verse from Job, ‘Man was created for toil,’ Rabbi Feiner stated that Justin personified this ideal, investing all of his energies and single-minded focus into every endeav-or. Rabbi Feiner urged everyone present to follow Justin Zemser’s shining exam-ple.
The siyum ended, yet many people lingered in the room – to reminisce about Justin, to make a bracha in his memo-ry, and to reflect on the enduring lessons from the life of this young member of the Jewish people, one who was being remembered and honored long after the rest of the world had ceased talking about the tragic day of his passing.
May the soul of Yaakov Ephraim ben Chaim Shmuel have a continuous ascent in Heaven, and may his family find true consolation.
A recording of this event is avail-able from the Yeshiva. Email [email protected].
Mishnayos for a Midshipman Yeshiva Darchei Torah Staff Holds Siyum for Justin Zemser a”h
Tzvi Rubinfeld, Justin Zemser’s telephone chavrusa
Howard Zemser, father of Justin Zemser a”h. Back-ground: Chazan Chaim Gershon Schindler
Rabbi Eytan Feiner speaking. Also visible, L-R: Howard Zemser, Rabbi Yaakov Bender, and Rabbi Boruch Ber Bender
L-R: LIPA, activist Dr. Paul Brody, Avrohom Fried, Chazzanim Joseph Malovany of the Fifth Avenue Synagogue and Yanky Lemmer of Lincoln Square Synagogue at the Yiddish Soul KulturfestNYC at the SummerStage in Central Park celebrating the 100th anniversary of the American Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene.
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Yeshiva Bais Hatalmud held their 42nd Annual Far Rockaway & Five Towns Testimonial Breakfast at the home of Rabbi & Mrs. Moshe Leifer in Lawrence. Rabbi Malkiel Kotler, Rosh Hayeshiva, Beth Medrash Govoha, was the guest speaker.
Councilman Anthony J. Santino and Councilman Bruce Blakeman held a joint Hempstead Town Safety & Security Meeting with the Nassau County Police Department on Monday evening for the Five Towns community at the Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library. Cedarhurst Mayor Ben Weinstock also joined them. Nassau County Police Department Inspector John Berry and members of his staff were in attendance to listen to neighbors’ thoughts and concerns about issues pertaining to the safety and security of our neighborhood and property here in the Five Towns.
Five Towns Marriage Initiative (FTMI) is proud to host its upcoming program entitled “Resolving Fami-ly Financial Challenges, Investing in Marital Bonds” hosted at Young Israel of Wavecrest & Bayswater, 2716 Healy Avenue, Far Rockaway, NY, in associ-ation with Mesila on Sunday, June 21st (4th of Tammuz 5775), beginning at 9:30am.
This exciting, innovative program is designed to address the challenges couples face from the extraordinary financial burdens of our time, opening with keynote speeches from both Dr. David Pelcovitz, noted author, educa-tor and Chair in Psychology and Jew-ish Education at the Graduate school of Yeshiva University, and Morris Smith, former manager of Fidelity Magellan Fund and Member of Mesila Interna-tional Advisory Board.
The keynote sessions are scheduled to begin at 9:30am followed by focused workshops beginning at 10:30am. Workshop leaders include David Mark, LS, LMSW, New York’s only frum certified Gottman therapist, local Five Towns resident and practitioner and ex-perienced and successful shalom bayis workshop leader. We will also be privi-leged to hear workshops from R. Nech-emia Pansky, Mesila family counselor, on the topic of “Budgeting Made Easy” and from R. Shulem Abramcyk, noted educator and Mesila Lakewood Branch head on “Educating our Children with Healthy Attitudes to Money.” The workshops will be followed by a glob-al Q&A session for the entire group, with a targeted program completion at
12:30pm.FTMI is proud to be able to provide
babysitting on-site throughout the du-ration of the event for those families in need and light refreshments will be available at the event. The program is designed to help teach tools to enable those attending to better manage, plan and grow with their current resources and to learn to rise to financial chal-lenges working together with their spouse.
Mesila is an international orga-nization dedicated to promoting the financial health of Jewish families, businesses, and communities through education and counseling. For more information, go to www.mesila.org or write to [email protected].
Five Towns Marriage Initiative (FTMI) is a local, grassroots organi-zation dedicated to promoting marital harmony and wellness. FTMI helps couples strive toward a balanced, stress-free and happy family life by providing education, tools and resourc-es to encourage couples to work togeth-er to find solutions to live together hap-pily and in ever increasing closeness. FTMI serves to enable individuals and couples to truly accomplish their ulti-mate purpose in this world with their spouse and family as a pivotal and in-dispensible means to achieving all they possibly can in this world.
FTMI produces a weekly Shalom Bayis Newsletter that it distributes throughout the local Five Towns/Far Rockaway community that brings to-gether divrei Torah and the weekly parsha, middos articles and stories wo-
ven together to help bring forth aspects of integrating shalom bayis into our daily lives. We provide a daily dial up shalom bayis inspiration line with 2-5 minute divrei Torah on timely topics including the parsha and topics again relating to shalom bayis. We host a 3x/week Shalom Bayis Hotline to address basic issues and act as a referral source to therapists in the area.
FTMI works closely with local therapists to offer reduced rates and attempts to offer financial assistance where needed to enable those unable to afford intervention the services they require. FTMI also continues to host community-wide programming in at-tempt to educate, inform and encourage
couples and families to lead happier lives, with reduced stress and a stron-ger focus on Torah ideals.
FTMI does not limit its services to just the local community but attempts to assist anyone in the area, regional-ly, nationally and even internationally in any and every way we possibly can. We attempt to defray most of the costs for our programming in an attempt to make these more accessible to the en-tire community. Individuals or com-panies interested in sponsoring our programming, newsletters, inspiration line, hotline and anonymous sponsor-ship of couples can call us at 516-430-5280 or email us at [email protected].
Resolving Family Financial Challenges, Investing in Marital Bonds
Unfortunately, the internet is full of vicious anti-Israel, anti-Semitic propa-ganda from groups such as Electronic Intifada. It has become increasingly im-portant for all of us to fight back against this and to make sure that the public learns the truth.
On 10 a.m. on Sunday morning June 28, the Zionist Organization of Ameri-ca (ZOA) Long Island-Queens Chapter and the Great Neck Synagogue Men’s Club are co-sponsoring a free event with a panel and discussion on “Fighting For Israel on the Internet.” The event will take place at Great Neck Synagogue, 26 Old Mill Road, Great Neck, NY 11023.
The event will feature effective pro-Israel Internet activists who will
share their experiences and advice and answer audience questions. The panel will include ZOA Director of Social Me-dia Devorah Yarmush; Israel Advocacy Calendar founder Bob Sidi, Esq.; Inter-net activist Gary Emmanuel; JCCWatch.com founder Richard Allen, who has a huge Twitter & email following; Top-copy pro-Israel email founder Dan Friedman, who has a huge following; and one additional surprise guest.
The public is invited to bring ideas and questions and learn more about how to help the pro-Israel cause on-line. A light breakfast will be avail-able. Please RSVP to [email protected] or [email protected].
Fighting for Israel on the Internet
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Faculty members at the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls had the opportunity on Monday, June 15 to re-visit the “Flipped Classroom” with an interactive workshop given by Mr. Aaron Sams of the Flipped Learning Network.
Mr. Sams, a high school chemistry teacher, together with Jonathan Berg-mann, realized that all students struggle with the same things and sought to find ways to make class time more efficient and a richer learning experience. The Flipped Classroom, written by Mr. Sams and Mr. Bergmann, considers approach-es to leveraging technology with face-to-face education; the core idea is to “flip” the common instructional method. With teacher-created videos and interactive lessons, material that is usually covered in class is now reviewed beforehand at home. What used to be homework is
now done in the classroom and allows more student support on a one-to-one basis. How the videos are integrated into the learning makes all the difference.
In the very informative morning ses-sion, Mr. Sams discussed what is the role of a classroom teacher and the brick and mortar school in light of today’s use of smartphones and google searches. With students watching short online material at home with guided notes, class time can be enhanced, planting seeds of curiosity and preparing students to work on prob-lem solving. The videos can also be used for review, a resource much appreciated by students.
The Flipped Classroom workshop demonstrated to the faculty of SKA that new applications are not about the tech-nology alone but actually improve learn-ing in the classroom.
Flipping the Classroom at SKA
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Kevin Leifer of Flushing and Sandy Nissel-Horowitz of Holliswood partici-pated in the 24th annual America’s Most Beautiful Bike Ride in Lake Tahoe with Team Lifeline on June 7th, 2015. Team Lifeline raises money for Chai Lifeline, the international children’s health sup-port network.
Team Lifeline offers individuals the opportunity to reach a personal goal, while helping make a seriously ill child smile. Participants train for several weeks to prepare for the marathon or bike ride, and crossing that finish line is incredibly rewarding. Running or biking for a cause brings that reward to a whole new level. Each individual participant is making a difference in the life of a sick child and their family.
Leifer and Nissel-Howoritz have both been biking with Team Lifeline for five years. Leifer has raised a total of $36,000 for Chai Lifeline through this
bike ride. “It is an amazingly scenic ride… But what is more amazing is Chai Lifeline and everyone associated it: the kids who, despite their life-threatening or debilitating illnesses, show such un-believable strength and good cheer and all of the counselors and other volunteers who are totally devoted to the children and to their families.” Said Leifer, “They are all such inspirations to me and it is my honor to support Chai Lifeline in the small way that I do.”
Nissel-Horowitz has raised $45,000 in her five bike rides and two runs with Team Lifeline. “I keep coming back year after year not only because the ride is spectacular, but because the cause is. I am fortunate that I have the ability to participate in this ride to help those who can’t due to illness or other physical con-straints… I am honored to be able to play a small part in enabling Chai Lifeline to continue providing opportunities to all
children in need of them.”Chai Lifeline’s mission is to bring joy
to children with cancer and other termi-nal illnesses. Chai Lifeline’s multitude of programs were created to alleviate the emotional, social, and financial challeng-es facing families living with pediatric illness. Chai Lifeline provides fun and support to these children, their parents, and their siblings.
Team Lifeline participates in four amazing races each year, including the Miami Marathon, Las Vegas Marathon, NYC Marathon and Lake Tahoe Bike Ride. If you would like to learn more about Team Lifeline, visit us at www.teamlifeline.org. Register today and help us make a difference.
Queens Residents Participate in 100 Mile Bike Ride in Lake Tahoe with Team Lifeline
For some students, the end of a se-nior year in high school is a time to cel-ebrate – to finally be finished with high school. For seniors at DRS, the end of the year carries a bittersweet feeling. It is a time to reflect on an amazing four year journey through the DRS experi-ence.
This past weekend was an emotional one for the Class of 2015. Last Tuesday through Thursday, the seniors drove to Virginia Beach for their Senior Trip. Sure, Busch Gardens Amusement Park, bowling, kayaking, and bike riding were fun, but a highlight of the trip ev-ery year is the senior kumzitz that takes place on the second night of the trip. Throughout the kumzitz, led by Mena-hel Rabbi Yisroel Kaminetsky, students share some of their feelings and memo-
ries of their four years in DRS. On Thursday night, seniors gath-
ered together at the White Shul for the annual Senior Dinner. During the first half of the night, the students had din-ner, and shared their most inspirational moments of high school, followed by a “Four Years of Memories” slideshow. After dinner, the students were joined by their parents, at which point Rab-bi Kaminetsky and the rest of the ad-ministration spoke about each student, highlighting each of their successes, achievements, character, and mid-dot. The night ended with lively danc-ing and celebration. The “senior-bond-ing” didn’t end as a grade-wide Friday night tisch and shalosh seudos was held over Shabbos.
DRS Senior Dinner
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The Agudas Achim Community Mikva was recently launched in a cel-ebration that took place on June 10 at noon on the grounds of Congregation Agudas Achim, which hosts the facili-ty. The occasion drew over a hundred women from Lawrence, Far Rockaway,
and Cedarhurst, who came to celebrate the opening of the Ohel Sarah Faige Mikvah, in memory of Mrs. Frida Ra-benstein, a”h, several of whose fami-ly members were in attendance. The featured speaker for the event was Mrs. Reena Marton, teacher and kallah
instructor in Lakewood and daughter-in-law of Dr. Freddie and Lori Marton of Lawrence, whose inspiring words illuminated with deep insight the signif-icance of the mitzvah.
Mrs. Frida Rabenstein was born in Czechoslovakia, and as a teenager
spent a year in labor and concentra-tion camps, all the while taking care of her younger sister. After her eventual immigration to this country, she built a beautiful Torah family with her hus-band, as well as a plastics business. Her faith in Hashem was an extraordi-nary role model for her daughters who are now grandmothers and involved in our community. Members of the Ra-benstein family were presented with hydrangea plants to symbolize the re-silience and beauty of Mrs. Rabenstein herself. Rebbitzen Faigie Horowitz of the congregation explained that just as hydrangeas bloom in various col-ors, depending on the pH level of the soil, so too Jewish women carry the mesorah and gevurah of their mothers while infusing their plantings with their own individuality. She cited the exam-ple of her own mother, the Novomin-sker Rebbetzin, Rebbetzin Yehudis Per-low, a”h, who was a kallah teacher in 1960’s Chicago, as the inspiration for her involvement in the mikva project.
Taking place on a glorious Wednes-day early afternoon, the women who came were shown the landscaping, discreet outdoor lighting, shrubbery, and placement of the entry. The design team of Mimi Fragin and Shevi Jaco-bowitz of Lawrence drew accolades for their rich and contemporary yet elegant design. Mr. Evan Genachk, popular community builder and askan, execut-ed their design with his usual high stan-dards and commitment.
The mikva will be open for use on Friday evenings and the yomim tovim, and will open on Gimmel Tammuz, the yahtrzeit of the late Novominsker Reb-betzin.
For more information on the Agu-das Achim Community Mikva of Law-rence, please call 516-239-1541.
Agudas Achim Community Mikva Launched in Lawrence
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Dirshu’s popular Daf HaYomi B’Hala-cha program has recently embarked on hilchos tefillin. The ripple effect world-wide is astounding. Not only are tens of thousands the world over already learning the laws of tefillin but in addition, interest in Daf HaYomi B’Halacha is spreading to locales that those in the main Jewish cen-ters would call exotic.
For example, in Panama City, Pana-ma, an entire group of people recently be-gan to learn Daf HaYomi B’Halacha and take tests. The interest in Panama is part of a surge in Dirshu participants through-out the whole of South America. Indeed, the Daf HaYomi B’Halacha siyum before Pesach in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was an extremely successful event.
From Panama to BudapestInterestingly, the Panama communi-
ty’s interest in Daf HaYomi B’Halacha was indirectly piqued through Mexico. In Mexico, the Daf HaYomi B’Halacha program is run by Rabbi Moshe Peretz, an individual who is extremely enthusi-astic about the program. It seems that his excitement is such that it is contagious and was thus transmitted to his brother who lives in Panama City. Rabbi Peretz’s brother shared the program with several counterparts in the city and that is how the Daf HaYomi B’Halacha chaburah of
Panama City was born. Just as touching is the report of a new
group of Dirshu Mishnah Berurah learn-ers in Budapest, Hungary. Budapest – the capital of Hungary which the Nazis tried unsuccessfully to rid of its Jews – is un-dergoing a spiritual rejuvenation. Part of that rejuvenation is the recent interest shown by local community members in the Dirshu Daf HaYomi B’Halacha pro-gram.
If the above two locales are not “far out” enough, Dirshu’s coordinator for Aus-tralia, Rabbi Yumi Rosenbaum, recently reported on amazing participation in the program. The participation has reached the point that the Daf HaYomi B’Hala-cha of Australia has recently published its own halacha newsletter highlighting fas-cinating halachic queries that have arisen in the course of the month’s learning.
Currently, Dirshu features three Daf HaYomi B’Halacha shiurim in Austra-lia—at the Adass Shul, at Kollel Beth Ha-Talmud and at Heichal HaTorah. There are also many individuals learning the material on their own.
Whether you are in the tri-state area or in other, more exotic locations such as Panama, Budapest, or Australia, one thing remains constant: limud haTorah the Dirshu way.
Daf HaYomi B’Halacha Begins Hilchos Tefillin in All Corners of the World
B’Lev Ari End-of-the-Year Barbecue
At the conclusion of the seventh year of the B’lev Ari program, participants enjoyed the annual end-of-the-year bar-becue that took place on Sunday at Sh’or Yoshuv. Gifts were given to volunteers Aroni Slansky, Binyamin Menashe and Ezra Alyeshmerni. All three young men have been with the program for several years and are leaving to Eretz Yisroel to learn in the Mirrer Yeshiva and Yeshiva Netiv.
Participants in the program during the
year include developmentally disabled men from various group homes (HASC, OHEL, and HCS) and private homes. At the program they enjoy learning with chavrusos, contests on Rosh Chodesh and chagim with prizes awarded, singing and dancing with live music, pizza and basketball.
Looking forward to embarking on a new year with the first program being held on September 6, 2015.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 8 West to East in BinyaminWe start with a tour of the amazing town of Talmon with the parents of Gilad Shaer Hy”d. Jeeping in the hills of the Maccabean Revolt, including Givat HaYekevim and its underground antiquities. Ulpanat Dolev for at-risk girls hosts us for lunch, then to Neve Tzuf and their newly opened Taggart Fort. End our day at Domaine Ventura in Ofra for a wine tasting straight from France.
TUESDAY, JULY 14Emek DotanWith special IDF escort we will enter the area where the Brothers sold Joseph and Israel left 10 years ago during the ‘Disengagement’. After our tour we will lunch overlooking the Dotan Valley at Maoz Tzvi, meet the modern shepherds and artists and hear from a founding member of Mevo Dotan. End our day at Katzir and peek at what may be Choreshet HaGoyim of the Prophet Deborah’s nemesis Sisera. Today meets the Tanach on this amazing unique day.
SUNDAY, JULY 19 Jerusalem From Every AngleBegin at Nebi Samuel with its 3,000+ history. Then via Beit Hanina to Tel El Ful, possibly our first (monarchy) capital. Over to Mt. Scopus and the Mount of Olives ridge and views, with a dairy lunch at Kidmat Zion. Then Ramat Rachel where a First Temple era palace was found. A great informative day with Jerusalem, as always, at its heart.
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The YCQ SET³ engineering program students completed their project for competition according to the guidelines set by the Center for Initiatives in Jew-ish Education (CIJE). Students learned about mechanical energy and mechan-ical advantage and incorporated this knowledge by designing and building a working model that will move and store packages for emergency use and storage in areas struck by natural disaster. They presented their project at the competition at Yeshivat Noam in Paramus, NJ, where they competed against about a dozen other yeshivot teams from NY, NJ and CT. The students created an amazing, well thought-out project, showing both a working knowledge of what they learned and the ability to acclimate the informa-tion into a real-life design documented in
a PowerPoint presentation that was ad-mired by the judges and coaches of all the other schools.
The grades 1-5 students participat-ed in the YCQ annual Writing Festival where each student had the opportunity
to share their year’s writing accomplish-ments in literacy with family and friends. They then culminated their yearlong study of yediot klaliot with the annual Torah Bee. One by one, students from each class came up and answered ques-tions. The competition was exciting for all students and clearly showed the stu-dents’ understanding of the learned ma-terial.
In the junior high school, the grade 6 girls celebrated their becoming bnot mitzvah with a chagigah. Each student did research and wrote beautiful essays about their namesakes, as well as raised money for a girls’ orphanage in Israel. The girls performed for their guests and received a gift of the “Women’s Siddur,” along with a framed copy of her name-sake essay.
The entire junior high school com-pleted Mishna Masechet Megillah. Hannah Shedlo, Lauren Weitz, Hillel Golubtchik, and Yonah Rocheeld did a magnificent job making the final siyum.
Administration, staff and faculty could not be more proud of the academic accomplishments and spiritual growth of the YCQ students this year.
Around The Community
A Glance at the Week at YCQ
The 2015 SET3 YCQ Team
Some of the participants at the Torah Bee
PHOTO CREDIT: IVAN H NORMAN
At the Yeshiva Far Rockaway Annual Siyum this week, Mayer Haller, Zev Moeller, Zvi Dov Obermeister, Emmanuel Yushuvayev, Shai Silverstein, Yerachmiel Sittner, Meir Salamon, Chaim Feller, Tzachi Slansky, Netanel David and Aron Mushayev celebrated their siyumim. The Noviminsker Rebbe was the guest speaker at the event. Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Yechiel Yitzchok Perr is seen speaking as well.
Picture dad swinging in his hammock with a cold drink in hand.
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This past Thursday night, YLX: the YID Learning Experience held their fi-nal program of the year. On late Thurs-day nights throughout the year Bais Me-drash Heichal Dovid hosts a late-night high school learning program where young men can come for some great food and learn particularly interesting and stimulating Torah material with sea-soned chavrusos – all in YLX’s signa-ture laid-back style.
For the final YLX, they held their “YLX Grand Finale Celebration,” cel-ebrating the end of another successful year. At the celebration, Leiby Co-hen, Mendel Ivri and Ariel Dan were recognized for their commitment. Two years ago they attended the first ever YLX event and then kept up as stellar participants through “Summer YLX” and throughout this year. Moshe Ara-kanchi, who distinguished himself with his sincerity and commitment, was also recognized. All of them seniors, they plan to attend yeshivos in Eretz Yisroel next year. As a parting gift, each was presented with a Pirkei Avos.
After that presentation, Rabbi YY Rubinstein addressed the crowd. He held them spellbound with a litany of stories and divrei Torah all masterfully woven together to ultimately encourage the audience to unleash the unique and powerful capabilities buried within each and every one of them. After the pro-gram many lingered finding it hard to end such a wonderful year of YLX.
Rabbi YY Rubinstein Enchants Crowd at YLX Grand Finale Celebration
Rabbi YY Rubinstein addressing the crowd
Dovi Rosenberg and Ari Hagler enjoy a light moment
Leiby Cohen, Ariel Dan and Mendel Ivri pose after receiving their parting gift. L to R: Leiby Cohen, Ariel Dan, Rabbi Elchonon Kuritsky, Rabbi Aryeh Dachs, and Mendel Ivri
Over the past few weeks Mesivta Ateres Yaakov has experienced a re-freshing vote of confidence in the chi-nuch it provides in very challenging times. It began with a visit from the Technology Awareness Group (T.A.G.) whose presenter cautioned the students on internet safety and responsibility. The lecture was followed up by an of-fer to the talmidim to have their inter-net capable devices fitted with a proper filter.
In an overwhelming response, the vast majority of the students volun-teered to have their phones and other devices protected.
The positive peer pressure was in-credible as the seniors encouraged the younger bachurim to safeguard them-selves. Rabbi Tsvi Greenfrield, Student Activities Coordinator, summed it up: “The success was way beyond our ex-pectations, and I give enormous credit to our talmidim. It’s amazing how cog-nizant the boys are about the dangers internet exposure and their desire to protect themselves.”
In honor of the incredible response to this campaign the Mesivta sponsored an Erev Shavuos tisch celebrating this achievement.
Seniors Avi Shwartzblatt and Yaa-kov Puderbeutel, as well as junior Yos-si Malek, shared divrei chizuk focusing on the connection between this event and Kabalas HaTorah. They highlight-ed the warm and caring relationship be-tween Rabbeim and talmidim, and how
much their trust in the guidance of their Rabbeim encouraged them to take this issue seriously.
Three T.A.G. technicians worked an entire day installing filters but had to return for a second day to accom-modate the huge level of participation from the MAY students. That second day was also crucial because it gave the hesitant outlier students an oppor-tunity to get positive feedback from those who had filters installed the pri-or week and encouraged many more to join their ranks.
The Mesivta expresses its deep ap-preciation to the hardworking staff of T.A.G. who displayed their expertise and flexibility so graciously.
MAY Talmidim Overwhelmingly Embrace Internet Filtering
Three Mesivta Chaim Shlomo students, Shimon Garrel, Michoel Rabinowitz and Raphael Meiri, were honored to be the recipients of this year’s NYS Scholarship for Academic Excellence, which are awarded to the top high school students in academics, interpersonal character and general excellence. L-R: Rabbi Menachem Gold, co-principal of Mesivta Chaim Shlomo, Shimon Garrel, Michoel Rabinowitz and Raphael Meiri.
Rabbi Nechemia Gottlieb - Technology Awareness Group
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This year, the highest awardees in Mesivta Ateres Yaakov’s graduating class exemplify the values and virtues of the Mesivta. Although varying from year to year, this year the Mesivta has chosen to recognize two distinct vale-dictorians, one in Limudei Kodesh and one in General Studies, an overall salu-tatorian and the Rav Yaakov Kaminetz-ky Academic Excellence and Middos Award recipient.
Davi Levene Valedictorian - Limudei Kodesh
A resident of Baltimore, MD (no, he does not commute—he boards), Davi is motivated and self-disciplined, outgoing and astute, and a mainstay of daily classes and shiurim. Dependable and accountable, trustworthy and re-sponsible, Davi arranged and ran two highly successful blood drives; yet an-other significant accomplishment from an accomplished individual. Davi was among the talmidim who completed Masechtas Kiddushin this year. Cap-tain of the Torah Bowl team, he was always well-prepared and displayed
all around intelligence, integrity, and maturity. Davi is graduating from the Mesivta with a perfect 100 GPA in Limudei Kodesh.
Dani Feit Valedictorian - General Studies
A resident of Cedarhurst, Dani is bright, talented, a great leader and an exemplary student. He has shown his tremendous leadership skills repeated-ly throughout high school, whether it
be by leading the Mock Trial team to the finals for the second time in school history, in his role as Arista President, uniting the yeshiva in raising money for the orphans in Har Nof, or push-ing the MAY Eagles football team to the championship three years in a row, taking home the MVP award along the way. Even with his hectic schedule, Dani completed Masechtos Megil-lah and Makos over the course of the school year. His dedication, tenacity, and amiability are especially visible in the multitude of friendships he has accumulated throughout high-school. Dani is a sought-after tutor for younger students and provides review courses for finals and regents. Dani is grad-uating from the Mesivta with a 99.26 General Studies GPA. He received full scholarships from both Macaulay Honors College at Queens College and from the Yeshiva University Schotten-stein Honors Program.
Yosef Samson
SalutatorianA resident of Cedarhurst, Yosef
is gentle, polite, and soft-spoken, yet straight to the point and blunt. Yosef has imprinted an indelible mark on Mesivta Ateres Yaakov as one who does not take shortcuts or cut corners, illustrated by his perfect school and Shacharis attendance. He has a stellar track-record for being Ma’avir Sedra on time has completed all of Nevi’im and Kesuvim, a major project under-taken and followed through without any fanfare or unnecessary publicity. This year, Yosef was masayem Ma-sechtos Kiddushin, Megillah and Mi-dos. However, his greatest moments have been his superior performance as the undisputed star of the Torah Bowl competition where Yosef has assumed legendary status. Gifted with the un-canny ability to intuit questions and to
formulate correct responses before the questions are fully asked, Yosef has been an exhilarating source of wonder. Yosef is graduating from the Mesivta with an overall GPA of 99.23.
Yoel Weizberg
The Rav Yaakov Kaminetzky Aca-demic Excellence and Midos Award
A resident of Woodmere, Yoel is the embodiment of passionate and sin-cerity and is an endeared and beloved individual. Always there to speak with, learn with, or seek advice from, Yoel al-ways has a smile on his face. He makes an absolute effort to show the proper respect to everyone, no matter the cir-cumstances. Yoel served diligently as the Gabbai Rishon for the Mesivta throughout the year and was, as well, the editor of the acclaimed weekly Torah publication, Ateres HaShavua. Anyone who knows Yoel well, under-stands that he is in love with learning Torah and that it is the Torah life that he lives that gives him his positivity. Somehow, Yoel manages to keep his own seder and the sedarim of everyone else in the grade without sacrificing the quality or quantity of his learning. Yoel is concluding high school having completed eight different masechtos this year alone, bringing his grand total of completed masechtos to 15!
MAY Awards of Distinction
Yosef Samson, SalutatorianDavi Levene, Valedictorian - Limudei Kodesh
Yoel Weizberg, The Rav Yaakov Kaminetzky Academic Excellence and Midos Award
Dani Feit, Valedictorian - General Studies
This year the summer solstice will be on June 21. The sun will reach its greatest height in the sky for the Northern Hemisphere at 12:38 P.M.
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Town of Hempstead Senior Coun-cilman Anthony J. Santino and Coun-cilman Bruce Blakeman brought the Hempstead Mobile Town Hall into Ce-darhurst this Sunday to offer neighbors an array of municipal government ser-vices. Mayor Ben Weinstock was also on hand to help Cedarhurst and other Five Towns neighbors navigate con-cerns that fell within either the town or village’s jurisdiction.
The one-stop-shop allowed Coun-cilmen Santino and Blakeman, as well
as Town Clerk Nasrin Ahmad, to meet one-on-one with residents. Town pass-port and Child ID services, in addition to the Animal Shelter, were offered.
The town elected officials met one-on-one with several neighbors who sought to discuss matters with their town officials, discussing a variety of topics including the town’s Tax Cut budget which levies less money in tax-es than last year, its top-notch Triple A bond rating and services offered to the community – from parks to marinas.
(L to R) Avi Fertig, Senior Councilman Anthony J. Santino, Town Clerk Nasrin Ahmad, Moshe & Amy Weiss & family, Councilman Bruce Blakeman and Cedarhurst Mayor Ben Weinstock
Town Passport Day in Cedarhurst
Every woman eagerly awaits the beau-tiful time after the birth of her baby, when time stands still and nurturing and bond-ing ensue. But what if that bonding time is interrupted by anxiety or panic attacks? Or worse, what if the mother can’t bond with her child at all? The professionals at SPARKS address these issues, healing women with PMS, PMDD, and full- blown Postpartum Psychosis. Dedicated to their acronym, Serving Pre- and postnatal wom-en with Awareness, Relief, Knowledge and Support, they educate communities with awareness events, host a Confidential Crisis Hotline, hailing calls from all direc-tions, offer Doctor Referrals, and more
A few weeks ago, a husband called our helpline in tears. His wife had just given birth to beautiful twins a few weeks earli-er, but she was in such an agonized mental state that she wanted to take her newborn babies and drown them. SPARKS was able to arrange immediate psychiatric interven-tion for the mom, thus preventing a disas-ter. We also provided hot meals and coun-seling for their family.
This is one of the many calls we receive every week. Whether the case is mild or se-vere, we are always ready to offer help and support for moms in need. Our goal is to keep moms at home and out of the hospi-tal so they can continue to function as the mainstay of their family. PPD and Perinatal Disorders are completely curable illnesses as long as proper treatment is sought and given.
More than one in eight new mothers is afflicted with Postpartum Depression (PPD). Regrettably, societal-caused shame often leads to the woman’s dismissal of severe symptoms, many times resulting in tragic or fatal consequences. The confu-sion, chaos, and heartbreak in the immedi-ate family can even lead to the disintegra-tion of marriages and families. In response to these alarming statistics, SPARKS has fully equipped herself with the following philosophy and services to combat Post-partum Depression:
1. SPARKS values each woman’s uniqueness and need for privacy. Every sit-uation is approached with the utmost sensi-tivity and expertise.
2. We are committed to providing all our women and their spouses with the care they need and deserve. SPARKS is in con-tact with a vast network of licensed Psychi-atrists and Social Workers specializing in the perinatal woman. Additionally, numer-ous Doctors, Nutritionists, and alternative practitioners have joined SPARKS’ team of dedicated professionals to bring a continu-um of care at affordable fees. We even have a team of Husband Advisors to council the
men regarding their wives’ care.3. SPARKS supports every individual’s
right to receive complete information and actively participate in all health care deci-sions. Our practice guidelines provide for medical consultation, collaboration and re-ferrals, and linkages with health and human services.
4. SPARKS’ Confidential Crisis Help-line, at 718-2-SPARKS (277-2757), is op-erated by full-time professionally trained counselors, ready to guide and counsel those in distress. Sparks has a husbands’ advisory line to educate and mentor the husbands.
5. Numerous community members, many of whom have overcome the chal-lenges of PPD themselves, are now trained as Volunteer Mentors, their wealth of knowledge available to all.
6. Support Groups for mothers, expect-ant mothers and parenting classes provide immediate relief and support to mothers and their families in need.
7. In select situations, SPARKS pro-vides nightly meals for families who can-not manage due to the mother’s diagnosis.
8. In the future, SPARKS hopes to offer pre- marriage educational classes to men and women, believing awareness is the most effective tool in preventing a PPD crisis.
9. An educational CD/DVD, focusing on the topic of Postpartum Depression, is currently available for the public. It fea-tures lectures of world renowned psychia-trist, Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski, as well as Rebbetzin Malkie Schick, a seasoned PPD survivor. Those suffering from PPD, husbands included, are sure to gain invalu-able information and support from this en-lightening and informative compilation.
10. We have a 24 hour audio library up-dated frequently with different presenters, giving visitors the most up-to-date clinical and social information on perinatal mood disorders and bonding with children.
11. Finally, SPARKS offers a Bonding Program to assure that mothers are bond-ing with their babies appropriately. We host Mommy & Me Infant Massage events all over the tristate area to teach mothers how to strengthen the infant-parent attach-ment. We use methods such as a private questionnaire for the mother to fill out as early detection for perinatal disorders. Our new bonding dedicated helpline has a crisis counselor specifically for Bonding.
12. Our new website will be launched in August 2015 with new additional online services.
SPARKS can be contacted at 718-2-SPARKS (277-2757) or at [email protected]. www.sparkscenter.org.
SPARKS: Helping and Healing Pre- and Postnatal Women
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In honor of Father’s Day, four couples had home improvements done to their homes. Avi had not recently had a new bathroom put in. Sarah had not yet done her
kitchen, but perhaps would update it next. Brian, who is married to Mira, had not had new windows put in. Laura delighted in showing photographs of her new conservatory.
Neither Charles nor David had a new kitchen. Julie had not had new windows. Avi, who also had not had windows, is not married to Laura and Charles is not married to Sarah. Who is married to whom and what work had they recently undertaken, assuming
that each couple had one improvement and no two couples had the same improvement?See answer on next page
Riddle!
Nine Ways Fatherhood is
Different Than a Hundred Years Ago
In 1913, if a father put a roof over his family’s head, he was a success. Today, it takes a roof, deck, pool, and 4-car garage. And that’s just the vacation home.
In 1913, a father waited for the doctor to tell him when the baby arrived. Today, a father must wear a smock, know how to breathe, and make sure the memory card still has room in the video camera.
In 1913, fathers passed on clothing to their sons. Today, kids wouldn’t touch Dad’s clothes even if it meant freezing halfway to death.
In 1913, fathers shook their children gently and whispered, “Wake up, it’s time for school.” Today, kids shake their fathers violently at 4 a.m., shouting, “Wake up, it’s time for hockey practice.”
In 1913, a father came home from work to find his wife and children at the supper table. Today, a father comes home to a note: “Jack’s at baseball, Sarah’s at gymnastics, I’m at the gym, pizza in fridge.”
In 1913, fathers and sons would have heart-to-heart conversations while fishing in a stream. Today, fathers pluck the headphones off their sons’ ears and shout, “WHEN YOU HAVE A MINUTE…”
In 1913, if a father had breakfast in bed, it was eggs, cheese, hash-browns and muffins. Today, it’s Special K, soy milk, dry toast and a lecture on cholesterol.
In 1913, “a good day at the market” meant father brought home feed for the horses. Today, “a good day at the market” means Dad got in early on an IPO.
In 1913, when fathers entered the room, children rose to attention. Today, kids glance up and grunt, “Dad, you’re blocking my view.”
ONE WAY FATHERHOOD IS THE SAME AS
IT WAS A HUNDRED YEARS AGO
In 1913, fathers told their children, “When I was a kid we weren’t spoiled like you guys today.” Today, fathers tell their children, “When I was a kid we weren’t spoiled like you guys today.”
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ANSWER TO RIDDLE: Avi is married to Julie and they had a new kitchen put in; Brian is married to Mira and they had a new bathroom installed.Charles is married to Laura and they had a new conservatory added; David is married to Sarah and they had new windows put in.
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A grade school teacher was asking students what their fathers did for a living. “Tim, you be first,” she said. “What does your father do all day?”
Tim stood up and proudly said, “He’s a doctor.”“That’s wonderful. How about you, Amy?”Amy shyly stood up, scuffed her feet and said, “My father is a mailman.”“Thank you, Amy,” said the teacher. “What about your father, Billy?”Billy proudly stood up and announced, “My father murders people, steals from them, and
drives very fast.”The teacher was aghast and promptly changed the subject. Right after class she immedi-
ately called Billy’s father and asked if there might be some explanation.Billy’s father said, “I’m actually an attorney. But how can I explain a thing like that to a seven-
year-old?”
You Gotta be Kidding!
Gosh, he really has his father’s eyes!
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Countering the BDS Movement by Being Bold, Decisive and StrongBY BRENDY J. SIEV
An acronym, a movement, a vision of an op-pressed minority. A story of the helpless un-derdog whose land and resources have been
stolen. A crusade to ruin the oppressor, to shun and demonize him.
A goal: to obliterate the Jewish State through shrewd public relations maneuvering.
This is the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, a campaign that paints the Pales-tinians as the suffering few, repressed and ravaged by the imperialists, the Jews. While the asserted goal is to force Israel to “cave” to Middle East peace by hurting the country’s economy, in reality, the goal is to destroy Israel in its entirety.
How it All StartedSince the second Intifada in 2000 and
the Durban Conference in 2001, various campaigns have risen promoting a policy of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel. The campaigns are homegrown in the Middle East and spearheaded by Palestinian organizations.
In starting the BDS movement, Palestin-ian groups sought to emulate the anti-apart-heid campaigns directed against the South African government in the 1980s. The BDS supporters claim that the Israeli-Palestinian divide is another form of black-white apart-heid.
According to the ADL, the BDS cam-paign grew legs only after July 2004 when the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and Palestinian civil society organizations issued a statement de-crying Israel and calling on the international com-munity “to impose broad boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against Israel similar to those
applied to South Africa in the apartheid era.” The BDS activists further wanted to apply pressure on international governments “to impose embargoes and sanctions against Israel.”
With that, the campaign was endorsed by pro-Palestinian organizations out of Israel, gaining trac-tion, and becoming a hallmark of the anti-Israel movement.
The Goal of BDSThe BDS campaign urges various forms of
“non-violent punitive measures” against Israel until
it “complies with the precepts of international law” by:
1. “Ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantling the Wall;
2. Recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full
equality; and3. Respecting, protecting and promoting
the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN Resolution 194.”
The BDS movement campaigns for divestment of university, municipal, church, union, and other investment portfolios and pension funds from com-panies that do business with Israel. Key to the cam-paign is the BDS rejection of a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. BDS activists fur-ther ban Israeli products, professionals, academics,
academic institutions, and artistic perfor-mances, even those performed abroad.
While some involved in BDS believe that divestment will force Israel to change its policies, in reality the BDS campaign is largely driven to, according to the ADL, “demonize and delegitimize Israel.”
Further, the ADL states, “It is clear that the majority of BDS supporters reject a two-state solution and deny the Jewish right to self-determination and statehood in favor of supporting the right of return for Palestinian refugees and their descendants.”
The BDS’s official platform emphasizes a “right of return” for Palestinian refugees and their descendants so that Jews would become the minority in Israel. BDS, thus, is a thinly-disguised, bomb-free campaign to end the Jewish State.
Ahmed Moor, a Palestinian-American author and campaigner for BDS, wrote, “BDS is not another step on the way to the final showdown; BDS is The Final Showdown. This belief grows di-rectly from the conviction that nothing resembling the “two-state solution” will ever come into being. Ending the occupation doesn’t mean anything if it
Boycotting a branch of Israeli chocolatier Max Brenner in Melbourne, Australia, in 2012
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113doesn’t mean upending the Jewish state itself.”New York Times columnist Roger Cohen, who
is often critical of Israeli policy, pointed out that the BDS movement’s goal is “the end of Israel as a Jewish state. This is the hidden agenda of BDS, its unacceptable subterfuge: beguile, disguise and suffocate.”
We spoke with Evan Bernstein, New York regional director of the ADL. “BDS campaigns are initiated by various groups and individuals throughout the U.S.,” he pointed out.
As far as fundraising, “There is no single funding source; some groups raise money by organizing their own fundraising events and conferences. Others raise funds through online appeals and donations,” Bernstein said. “There are also groups like American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), which has helped fund and coordinate the activities of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), the group responsible for initiating many BDS campaigns on U.S. college campuses.”
“Campus groups are also able to appeal to their student government bodies to gain funding for their events and activities,” he added.
According to experts at the StandWithUs con-ference, a gathering of pro-Israel activists, some funding for the BDS movement on college cam-puses can be linked to taxpayer funds. Bestsell-ing author Edwin Black argues that “many of these SJP [Students for Justice in Palestine] chapters work hard to become recognized as student orga-
nizations” which allows for a certain amount of the student budget to be allocated to them as a result. “And when you’re talking about university budget, you’re talking about taxpayer money.” Many of the
pro-BDS events on campuses are organized by a central body, with several key BDS figures speak-ing and organizing the events.
Practical Failure, PR SuccessExcept for some minor gains with British trade
unions, BDS activists have largely failed, especial-ly in the United States. Activists cannot get institu-
tions to divest from Israel or do business with Is-raeli companies. When, in late 2013, the American Studies Association voted to boycott Israeli univer-sities, more than 200 university administrators con-
demned the boycott. In fact, they reiterated that their institutions will not boycott Israel.
But their fight is not in vain. The BDS campaigns do however win on a public rela-tions front. They make people pay attention to their anti-Israel message and influence others to perceive the Intifada as a form of apartheid with a repressed, uprooted, and homeless minority tortured by powerful, wealthy, Jewish imperialists.
Nowhere is this more apparent than on college campuses.
College CampusesIn 2011, BDS activity was reported at
few colleges and universities. At that time, BDS did not lead to university divestment.
Fast forward four years. While univer-sities still have not divested from Israeli companies, the number of divestment reso-lutions introduced on campuses is on a rapid
rise. Eight colleges considered resolutions in the 2012–2013 academic year, according to the Anti-Defamation League. In the 2013-2014 academic year, it was up to 15. And five of those passed.
The British student union, the National Union of Students, the United Kingdom’s umbrella stu-dent organization for 600 universities that represent 7 million students, recently voted to join the BDS
As early as August 1922, the Fifth Palestine-Arab Congress declared a boycott against Jews and called on all Arabs to refuse to sell them land and
boycott Jewish businesses. This boycott was extended to all Jewish goods in 1929. The Congress also opposed Jewish immigration to Palestine and
called for a repudiation of the Balfour Declaration.
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114movement over “Israel’s violations of Palestinian human rights.” (Interestingly, they rejected a mo-tion to condemn the Islamic State, because “con-demnation of ISIS appears to have become a justifi-cation for war and blatant Islamophobia.”)
How are BDS campaigns on campus so success-ful? “Groups responsible for initiating BDS cam-paigns on campus bring attention to their cause by engaging in a variety of activity, including coali-tion-building with minority student groups,” Bern-stein of the ADL related.
Aside from drawing sympathy from other mi-norities, “Proponents of BDS sponsor anti-Israel speakers, hold protests and engage in more targeted confrontational tactics such as posting mock evic-tion notices on resident halls and shouting down pro-Israel speakers.” These in-your-face tactics are supplemented with other activities. “In some cases, student groups hold weeklong events such as Israeli Apartheid Week, intended to demonize and dele-gitimize that State of Israel.”
As Abraham Foxman of the ADL writes, “The BDS movement, the effort to support boycott, di-
vestment and sanctions against Israel, is sinister and malicious and is having a negative effect on Jewish students on some campuses and on the wider Jew-ish community.”
BDS supporters have not successfully divested funding, but they have divested human rights lan-guage. Suddenly, the Palestinian cause is a 21st-century human rights cause. Though no universities have actually adopted BDS, 29 student organiza-tions have voted to determine whether they support it.
Foxman claims, “All of this has a deleterious impact on Jewish students. The last thing many of them expected or desired was to spend their under-graduate days under attack or having to defend the one Jewish state — or even their own Judaism.”
Campus Maccabees: The Latest in the Anti-BDS Campus Move-
mentAnti-BDS activists have taken several ap-
proaches to counter the noisy campus BDS move-ment. They have educated Jewish students about issues, prepared them to deal with what they will encounter on campus, and spoken with university presidents and administrators about how the BDS movement impacts Jewish campus life and stu-dents. However, this is not enough.
Currently, at least 33 states have formal trade, research, and development relationships with Is-
raeli universities. Foxman urges that we grow this number—that all 50 states and more academic institutions should work with Israeli businesses and researchers. We should bring Is-raeli artists to campus. And we should reward those who resist the BDS movement.
Furthermore, campuses should have homegrown campaigns that draw on the college culture and are led by students to communicate with stu-dents. The true motives behind the BDS movement must be announced and denounced.
Last week, a weekend closed-door summit in Las Vegas, dubbed the Campus Maccabees Summit, was organized by gambling king and po-litical kingmaker Sheldon Adelson, Democrat Hol-lywood bigwig Haim Saban, and Adam Milstein, a wealthy Israeli-American real estate mogul. The meeting took place in one of Adelson’s hotel, the
Venetian, and only allowed a single media repre-sentative from Israel Hayom access to the events.
Only those willing to pledge at least a million dollars over the next two years to stop the BDS campus movement were invited. Twenty donors took part; the overall goal of the Campus Macca-bees is to raise $50 million. While they would not actually disclose how much was pledged, tens of millions were raised to stop the BDS movement.
While liberal Zionist groups were not invited, other more right wing groups, including the ZOA (Zionist Organization of America) and campus or-ganizations, presented their suggestions for com-bating anti-Israel movements on campus. These ideas were vetted and pitched for funding from the group.
Shmuley Boteach was one of the presenters at the conference. In an Op-Ed printed in the Jerusa-lem Post, he writes, “In the age of BDS, every Jew-ish student has now been forced to ‘Choose Jew-ish.’ The BDS assault to destroy Israel and make it a pariah state has raised the stakes and drawn the battle lines more clearly than ever before. Sitting on the fence is, today, no longer an option.”
He urged students on campuses, “Don’t be afraid of being controversial. Drop the argument that if you stand up for Israel you’ll alienate left-leaning Jewish students who might not stop by for chicken soup on a Friday night.” He continued, “To the contrary. Courage is courageous. They will
be inspired by your example and will follow your lead.”
“It’s time for the Jewish community to embrace its own BDS, being Bold, Decisive and Strong in the defense of the Jewish state,” he charged.
Last week’s summit is critical. It will infuse fresh ideas and funds into stopping a new cam-paign parading old anti-Israel ideas as true.
What You Can DoThe ADL suggests that, in speaking with those
who are pro-BDS, we need talking points. Here are some things that we need to emphasize:
• The BDS movement is “a hostile tactic that rests on a fundamental rejection of Israel’s right to exist or defend itself.” The movement is not about peace. If anything, growth of Israeli companies helps Israelis and Palestinians come closer to peace by bettering the region’s economy. If we really want peace, we need to encourage that which connects people rather than that which fosters breaking things apart.
• While BDS activists reject even a two-state solution, Israel is committed to peace.
• Israel has been willing to negotiate and help with Palestinian infrastructure, despite Palestinian violence and movements such as BDS.
• Israelis are not out to segregate or hurt Arabs. They want security; this is not about imperialism.
• Israel is the only stable democracy in the Middle East. They have a free press, political parties, religious freedom—the fundamentals of democratic living. No other country in the Middle East can say this. While Israel is open to criticism—all democracies are—the BDS campaigns “which single out Israel for pariah status are unfair and disproportionate.”
On the home front, “buy Israel.” When BDS groups push for boycotting Israeli products, we need to talk with our wallets, by buying products made in Israel.
And we cannot shy from educating ourselves and the next generation walking onto college cam-puses. They are the on-the-ground peers and fel-low students who can influence the college com-munity to know the truth. In the words of Shmuley Boteach, be “Bold, Decisive and Strong in the de-fense of the Jewish state.”
BDS, thus, is a thinly-disguised, bomb-free campaign to end the Jewish State.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew recently took the podium at a Jerusalem Post confer-
ence in New York to defend President Obama’s plans for a nuclear agree-ment with Iran. He told the crowd that President Obama would reinstate sanctions on Iran if the regime failed to live up to its commitments under the agreement currently being nego-tiated. Then, in a room full of people who care passionately about the safety and security of the United States and our closest ally in the Middle East, Is-rael, the highest-ranking Jewish offi-cial in the history of the United States was booed loudly.
Lew’s treatment at that conference was unfortunate no doubt, but the re-action of those in the room speaks vol-umes about the gravity of the threats posed by the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United States. And it speaks vol-umes about how frightening it would be if the president were to agree upon a deal that fails to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. As in Isra-el, much of the American public is on edge waiting for the actual text of the deal to emerge.
Time and time again, President Obama and his administration officials have made scripted promises asserting that they are not interested in agreeing to a “bad deal” with Iran’s ayatollahs. However, these hollow vows seem to ignore Iran’s clandestine nuclear activities and turn a blind eye to its hegemonic regional power-grabs and radical, expansionist ideology bent on using terror to support its aims.
The Iranian terrorist network spans the globe and is fundamentally rooted in anti-Western, anti-American, and anti-Israel values. If the White House signs a deal that does not completely dismantle Iran’s nuclear capacity, then America, Israel and their western al-lies will be placed in harm’s way.
It is precisely this serious concern that drove conference participants to heckle Treasury Secretary Lew last week. When Lew made claims that the Obama Administration is commit-ted to protecting Israel, his statements
seemed to lack credibility. The only way for President Obama to regain trust from many pro-Israel support-ers is to sign America’s name onto a “good deal.”
The benchmarks for reaching a
good deal would not only require the complete dismantlement of Iran’s nu-clear infrastructure, but would also mandate transparent inspections of Iranian nuclear sites anytime and anywhere; provide full exposure of Iran’s past military nuclear work; di-rectly link the incremental lifting of
sanctions to Iran’s compliance with the agreement; and completely eradi-cate Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapons capability, without an expira-tion date.
The passage of the Iran Nuclear Review Act means Congress has thir-ty days to review the details of what-ever deal emerges from the ongoing negotiations in Switzerland. Congress will then have the opportunity to vote to block the agreement. If President Obama agrees to a deal that does not
meet the criteria laid out above, then it will be incumbent upon Congress to reject it. Such an agreement would provide Iran’s leaders with a host of benefits, but it would do nothing to en-hance the safety of the United States
or any of our allies, including Israel.Here in New York, Senators
Schumer and Gillibrand have ex-pressed support for an agreement that actually prevents Iran’s terrorist re-gime from acquiring the most deadly weapons known to mankind. I fully expect that they would vote to block
any deal that falls short of that aim, and I encourage the pro-Israel com-munity to contact their local represen-tatives to urge them to use their vote wisely to safeguard our security and block any proposed shortcomings.
When President Obama began his first term in office, he announced that his administration would pursue direct engagement with Iran. His foreign policy strategy, it seems, was based upon the premise that Iranian behav-ior could be moderated through a se-
quence of measures, once considered immune to compromise. Since then, despite no evidence that this strategy is working, the White House has con-tinued to pursue a deal with the mul-lahs in Tehran.
Over the course of Obama’s pres-idential tenure, Iran has not improved its behavior. Tehran’s sponsorship of terrorism has grown, its human rights violations have reached previously unseen heights of abhorrence, and its destabilizing regional impact has worsened – all while Iran’s diplomats employ a strategy of charming intran-sigence at the negotiating table.
So last week when Treasury Sec-retary Lew told supporters of Israel at the Jerusalem Post conference that President Obama would preserve his authority to re-impose economic sanc-tions, despite opposition from coun-tries such as Russia and China, the response was disbelief.
Based upon Iran’s track record of deceit and its unwavering commitment to obtain nuclear capacity, no one can expect the extremist regime to fulfill its end of the bargain. And the White House has still not revealed sufficient details about how it proposes to verify Iranian violations under an agreement, let alone how it would seek to re-im-pose a broken sanctions regime.
Lew assured conference attend-ees, “Make no mistake – we are not operating under an assumption that Iran will act in good faith.” If the Obama administration openly admits that Iran cannot be trusted, then any deal reached that fails to meet serious conditions concerning dismantlement, verification and inspections cannot be trusted either.
Scott M. Feltman is the executive vice president of One Israel Fund, a four-star rated charity by Charity Navigator and the premier agency dedicated to support-ing the security, welfare, development and economic growth of the Jewish people liv-ing in Judea, Samaria, the Jordan Valley as well as the reemerging communities of Gush Katif evacuees.
Scott Feltman
OpEd
These hollow vows seem to ignore Iran’s clandestine nuclear activities and turn a blind eye to its hegemonic regional power-grabs and radical, expansionist ideology bent on using terror to support its aims.
Will the Obama Administration Negotiate a Safe Deal with Iran?
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In last week’s parsha Rashi com-mented that when the Jewish peo-ple stated that they wanted to return
to Egypt rather than proceeding to the Land of Israel they thereby intimated that they wanted to replace Moshe as their leader and crown a new king over them.
In this week’s parsha, that ear-lier murmur of dissatisfaction with Moshe and his leadership becomes a full-throated shout. Korach pounces on the opportunity to attempt to replace Moshe, who has been weakened by the debacle of the spies and the resultant decree of death on the Jewish people of that generation. Korach undoubted-ly harbored such ambitions for himself and his family for a long period of time.
He was disappointed and frustrated by not being appointed to the priesthood of Israel when Aharon and his sons were so chosen. He deemed himself to be the equal of Moshe and Aharon in every way and waits for what he will deem to be the proper moment to assert his claim.
In his mind, the proper moment is the one when Moshe appears to be most vulnerable. Moshe’s popularity with the people is at a low ebb after the disas-trous occurrences that most recently oc-curred to the Jewish people in the desert
of Sinai. Korach senses an opportunity to topple Moshe and has great ambi-tions for himself to be the replacement leader for the Jewish people.
It could very well have been that if there were an election held at that mo-ment to choose the leader of the Jewish people, Moshe would be hard-pressed to win the favor of the majority of the voters. Yet, as the parsha makes abun-dantly clear, the L-rd is not necessarily
democratically inclined and strongly supports Moshe against His competitors and enemies.
One of the facets of human nature is that it always is looking for new leader-ship and new personalities to rule over
them. To a great effect, the day after winning an election, the victor becomes a lame duck. While campaigning for of-fice, promising everything to everybody and demanding a new vision and polit-ical and social change, the candidate is seen as being dynamic, charismatic and a person of vision.
Since it is the nature of human be-ings is to be eternally dissatisfied, the present is never sufficient to make us
happy. It is always the future and the promises made to us by others regard-ing that future that holds our interest and initially even our loyalty. Korach effectively capitalizes on this all too common human trait. He finds a ready ear amongst sections of the Jewish peo-ple in his attempt to discredit Moshe and Aharon and promotes himself to become the leader of the Jewish people.
Moshe realizes the falseness of Kor-ach’s claims and the hypocrisy of his superficial piety and apparent public interest. But Moshe is also aware that no public debate with Korach and his supporters will sway them and prevent the open split within the Jewish people that they wish to promulgate.
Moshe has no recourse but to leave the matter to the judgment of Heaven, no matter what consequences may fol-low. There are many lessons in this sto-ry for us as well, if we look at ourselves and our society and leadership honest-ly and ignore the often-false visions of change for the sake of change itself.
Shabbat shalom.
It is always the future and the promises made to us by others regarding that future that holds our interest and initially even our loyalty.
Rabbi Berel Wein
Torah Thought
Parshas Korach
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“Korach, the son Yizhar, son of Ka-has, son of Levi, separated himself with Dathan and Aviram, the sons of Eliav, and On of Peleth, the offspring of Reu-vain.” — Bamidbar 16:1
Korach’s RebellionThe parsha opens up with Korach
gathering together 250 men of stature and mounting a rebellion against Moshe and Hashem.
Rashi explains that Korach’s mo-tivation was jealousy; he felt that he should have been appointed to the po-sition of Nasi of his shevet, and was seeking revenge. Even though Moshe Rabbeinu was commanded by Hashem to appoint Elizaphan Ben Uziel to that position, Korach felt that Moshe made this decision on his own, and he set out to depose him. He would prove that Moshe was saying things in the name of Hashem that Hashem never told him to say.
To prove his point, Korach gathered 250 leaders of the Jewish people and gave each one a tallis made completely out of techeiles. (A tallis requires only one strand of the tzitzis to be dyed the purple/blue color of techeiles.)
Korach brought this group in front of Moshe and asked, “If someone has as a garment made completely of techeiles, is he obligated to put tzitzis on it?”
Moshe answered, “He is obligated.” “Does that make sense?” Korach
demanded. “A garment that is made completely of wool requires only one strand of techeiles, and yet you say that a garment made completely of techeiles
needs additional techeiles. It is impos-sible!”
The entire group began laughing at Moshe, and with this Korach launched his revolt.
It seems clear from the Medrash that Korach’s strategy was to ask a question so powerful that Moshe wouldn’t be able to answer it. This would prove that
what he said couldn’t be from Hashem. The difficulty with this Rashi is: what is so potent about the question that Korach asked? It might well be that a garment made of plain wool requires tzitzis with one strand of techeiles, and that a gar-ment made completely of techeiles still requires tzitzis with a strand of techeiles in it. The question doesn’t seem particu-larly plaguing.
Furthermore, if Korach wanted to ask questions, there are far more dif-ficult questions that he could have asked. The Medrash tells us that Shlo-mo Ha’Melech couldn’t understand the system of the parah adumah. The pur-pose of the parah adumah is to purify the person sprinkled with its ashes. Why should the Kohain who sprinkles the ashes become impure by doing it? If it is an act that purifies, how can it make
the one doing the act impure? This is an enigma. Surely if Korach were looking to find an unanswerable question to dis-prove Moshe, he could have asked this or many other difficult questions. What was so unanswerable about the techeiles question that it caused 250 Torah schol-ars to laugh at Moshe’s answer?
The answer is based on understand-
ing how bias blinds the mind of man.
Questions Have Answers; Answers Have No Answers
Rav Chaim Volozhin was once ap-proached by a student who had left the yeshiva. This was at a time when the Enlightenment was in full swing, and many young, impressionable yeshiva students were struck by the lure of mod-ern studies’ promise to fulfill all of man-kind’s needs. The Torah’s ways were seen as archaic and outdated; science alone could provide the answers to all that ailed the world.
This student, after having been out-side the yeshiva for a while, wanted to return. “I want to come back,” he told Rav Chaim, “but I have many ques-tions.”
Rav Chaim asked him, “Did these questions come to you when you were in yeshiva or after you left?”
The boy innocently asked, “What difference does it make? These are questions that I have.”
Rav Chaim responded, “If these questions troubled you before you left yeshiva, they are questions, and for questions I have answers. However, if these questions only began troubling after you left yeshiva, then they aren’t questions; they are answers. For an-swers, I have no answers.”
Rav Chaim was explaining a ba-sic principle in man: that bias greatly affects our ability to understand. If a person has a prejudice against a way of thinking, then he isn’t open-minded
and he becomes incapable of hearing the truth, no matter how clear and no matter how obvious – he just isn’t listening. To allow for free will, Hashem gave man this uncanny ability to shut his mind down, to ignore all proofs and all logic and to blindly follow his desires. When a man has made up his mind and doesn’t want to hear the truth, there is nothing that can prove him wrong. His mind is shut.
This seems to be the answer to un-derstanding Korach’s question. Korach wasn’t approaching Moshe to seek the truth; his sole intention was to mock and discredit Moshe. With that mindset, the strength of the question and whether there was an answer to it didn’t matter. There was no question, only scorn and derision in the guise of a question. It was a question that had no answer be-cause it wasn’t a question – it was an answer.
This concept has great relevance in our lives. There will be times when we are perplexed by situations that we don’t understand. We don’t know which way to turn, and the answers that we seek aren’t forthcoming. It may well be that we can’t find the answer, but sometimes when the answer eludes us, it’s not be-cause the answer isn’t there, but because we aren’t listening. Sometimes the an-swer may be right there, but we aren’t open to it, and so we can’t hear it. It’s not that there aren’t answers; it is that we aren’t asking questions.
Hashem created man with a heart of truth, and if a person puts aside his bias and opens his mind, he is capable of hearing the answer. The key to the process is to ask himself one pointed question: what is the truth? Forget my self-interest; forget the consequences; what is the right path? What does Hash-em want me to do? If a person follows this process, his inner sense will guide him past the darkness and he will be able to find the truth.
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Parshas KorachQuestions Have Answers – Answers Don’t Have Answers
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The Shmuz
When a man has made up his mind and doesn’t want to hear the truth, there is nothing that can prove him wrong.
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I’ll Start My Diet…Today
Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz
The Observant Jew
I once heard someone say that in America we have more food than any other country and more diets to
keep us from eating it. We are always trying to change our habits but it’s not as easy as it sounds. The registrar in my Yeshiva had a sign on his wall. It said, “The best way to break a bad hab-it: Drop it!” If only it were that simple.
Mark Twain, the humorist and au-thor, was a big fan of smoking cigars. He put habits in perspective when he said, “Quitting smoking is easy. I’ve done it hundreds of times!” My point, exactly. I mean, take me for example, I’ve struggled with my weight for years, but I managed to lose 150 pounds. Yup, the same 3 pounds – fifty differ-ent times. You see, no matter what we know logically, putting things into prac-tice is a lot harder. One helpful thing to realize though, is that time should not be on our side.
A friend told me that when he was a kid, and his parents wanted him to go to sleep, they would tell him, “Tomorrow is another day.” He hated that! “Can’t you see I’m in the middle of building the most humongously gigantic tower of blocks that has ever graced the face of the earth and if I don’t finish now the gravitational forces will suck it into the ground and I’ll lose the opportunity to win a Nobel Prize in Plaything Con-struction?!” He wouldn’t answer that out loud, of course, so he’d go to bed, with perhaps an audible, “Oh, man!” But he promised himself he’d never tell his kids, “Tomorrow is another day.”
So why did he tell me this story? Of course, it was because he realized that he had just told his kids, “Tomorrow is another day.” This may be good for parenting, but it is a stumbling block for self-improvement. You see, when we feel that there’s always tomorrow, that’s when we decide to change: tomorrow.
The problem with that is that tomor-row never arrives. It always remains a day away (at least that’s what my friend Annie says) and never transforms into today. That’s why those changes rarely work. I’d like to share an experience I had with all of you, and perhaps it can help us to find ways to break not only the tomorrow, tomorrow cycle, but some bad habits along with it.
I am generally a prompt person. I know that when you say you’ll meet someone some-where at a cer-tain time, not being there is a lie. It’s also quite frustrating. I remember once being invited to a simcha taking place on a winter Motzai Shabbos when my kids were very little. It was called for 8pm, and the hostess said, “But don’t arrive after 9:30.” We never intended to. We got there shortly after 8 o’clock and got quite a surprise. Not only were no other guests there, neither were the hosts, or even the caterer! He arrived while we were trying to figure out whether we’d gotten the wrong address or whether aliens had abducted the en-tire party.
We went to a pizza shop, returning around 9:30, and lo and behold, the par-ty was where we’d expected it to be at 8:00. The surprised (but unapologetic) hostess said, “Well, everyone knows that when you call it for 8:00 you don’t come before 9:30 or 10:00!” We didn’t know that.
The point I was trying make as I sur-reptitiously inserted this common cour-tesy lesson on punctuality and honesty is that I do try to be on time. Most often I’m successful, but there is one particu-lar challenge I have in this arena.
Now, please don’t judge me, be-cause everyone has their challenges, and if you keep quiet I won’t mention your habit of sticking your finger in the peanut butter jar when nobody is around. My problem is getting to shul on time. It has been for years.
I know the importance of daven-ing with a minyan and I go to shul regularly, but sometimes it seems that things conspire to make me late in the mornings. I could be on my way out the door and suddenly my wife needs something or one of the kids calls, “Daaaadddddyyyyy!” I pause for just a moment but by the time I get to shul I barely have time to get my tallis and
tefillin on before Borchu.Recently, I arrived promptly at 7:12
for a 7:00 min-yan. I said to myself, “After [event] I’m go-ing to start being more on time.” Then I stopped myself. Why then? Why not today? I got back in my car and drove to a nearby shul with a 7:20 minyan. By not
waiting until “tomorrow,” I was able to make the change happen.
I had time to put on my tallis and te-fillin calmly and thoughtfully say all the parts of prayer I might otherwise have
had to skip. It was an amazing feel-ing. Since then, I’ve been doing better on my punctuality for prayer, and it all started with the realization that there’s no time like the present.
Jonathan Gewirtz is an inspirational writer and speaker whose work has appeared in publications around the world. You can find him at www.facebook.com/RabbiGewirtz and follow him on Twitter @RabbiJGewirtz. He also operates JewishSpeechWriter.com, where you can order a custom-made speech for your next special occasion.
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As the summer approaches, we will discuss many halachos which frequently arise during
the summer months. The Satmer Reb-be zt”l used to say one who goes to the country should remember that although one may be leaving his home, one cannot leave Hashem.
Preparing for DaveningOne should prepare himself properly
before davening to Hashem. Therefore, one who has played ball, etc. must make sure to wash up and change his clothing before davening so that it does not look like one just came out of the gym to daven to Hashem which is not kavod for davening. Additionally, one should not daven with his shirt un-tucked (hanging out of his pants).
“The Mezonos Roll”When traveling in the summer months
it is very common for one to want to buy mezonos rolls to avoid washing. Howev-er, as will be explained below, these rolls are not mezonos.
The Shulchan Aruch says, (based on the opinion of the Rambam), if dough is kneaded with honey, milk or fruit juice, and the fruit juice is recognizable in the bread, the bracha on the bread is mezo-nos. The Rama disagrees, and says such bread is still called “bread” (and the era-cha is hamotzei) unless there is a lot of fruit juice or spices, in which case the bracha would be mezonos. The Mishnah Berurah, as well as many other poskim, maintain that the fruit juice, etc. has to be most of the mixture, and one has to actually taste it in the bread in order for the bracha to be a mezonos. Others say that although it does not have to be most of the mixture, it needs to be a lot.
There is an opinion (that of the Da’as Torah) who maintains that if a mixture has mostly fruit juice then one does not need to taste it in the mixture. Howev-er, all other poskim disagree and one should not rely on this. Furthermore, the Da’as Torah is only going according to the opinion of the Shulchan Aruch and not the Rama. Moreover the Da’as To-rah explicitly states that his chiddush ap-plies only to specific kinds of juice none of which are currently used in baking. Thus one who uses the Da’as Torah as the source for his leniency in mezonos bread is actually following only one part of that opinion while arbitrarily rejecting the other.
Some claim that the aforementioned reasoning can be extended to mezonos rolls causing their bracha to be a me-zonos. However such reasoning is fal-lacious and causes thousands of people on a daily basis not to wash and bench properly since the taste of most items with fruit juice is not significantly differ-ent than that of regular bread. Addition-ally, people eat the roll in order to have the same experience as eating regular bread. It is strange to say that it can be called cake and one can avoid washing by eating this mezonos bread, especial-ly since one is being kovea seuda on it.
Even Sefardim who follow the opinion of the Mechaber should wash and bench in this situation since one cannot tell the difference between this bread and other breads.
Additionally, most apple juice is made from concentrate which does not have the same status as complete fruit juice, since water is added to reconstitute the juice. Accordingly, the rolls from a bakery that use apple juice from concen-trate are mostly made with water and one would be required to wash and bench ac-cording to everyone.
In conclusion, the practice of giv-ing out mezonos rolls on airplanes and at simchas is misleading and improper. “Mezonos rolls” are an oxymoron, since mezonos and rolls cannot co-exist. This is even if it says on the wrapper that the bracha is mezonos.
Fortunate are those hechsherim which do not allow bakeries to make me-zonos rolls. Many people think that a me-zonos roll is a loophole to avoid washing one’s hands and benching. However, in reality this is not the din and one must wash and bench. Many poskim say that such rolls should only be eaten during a meal where one has washed on regular bread.
BrachosSince the following foods are often
offered for sale in summer camps, we will review the proper brachos one should re-cite before eating them. Regular knishes – regular knishes which have a thick po-tato filling surrounded by a thin covering of dough require two brachos (mezonos and hadama). However, Mom’s knishes which have a much thinner potato filling and are completely surrounded by a thick covering require only a mezonos. Soft pretzels- If a soft pretzel tastes like bread it requires a hamotzei even though it con-
tains mostly fruit juice. Only if the pret-zel tastes like cake is the proper bracha mezonos. However, this kind we have not been successful in locating.
Eating Ices/Ice CreamThere is a big discussion in the
poskim whether to consider ices a liquid or a food item. The difference is that a shiur of liquid must be consumed quickly in order to make a bracha achrona (with-in about a minute), and if it is a food item one may take up to three-four minutes (according to some poskim). L’maaseh, one should avoid the uncertainty by eat-ing ices quickly and then recite a bracha achrona, or he should eat a different food which is also obligated in a bracha ach-rona and have the ices in mind. Ice cream has the din of a food item rather than a liquid. However, one who licks the ice cream does not recite a bracha achrona since the correct shiur was not eaten in the proper amount of time.
Wearing Sunglasses in a Place that Has No Eiruv
The Chai Adom is of the opinion that it is forbidden to walk outside on Shab-bos with regular corrective glasses in a place that does not have a eiruv. The reason is because the glasses might fall off and one will come to carry them in reshus harabim. Today this is not the case since glasses are made to fit around the ear and are not susceptible to falling off. Accordingly, one may wear regular corrective glasses on Shabbos even in a place that has no eiruv.
One who wears sunglasses because the sun hurts his eyes may also wear them on Shabbos, even in a place which has no eiruv. One who wishes to wear sunglasses for other reasons (style, etc.) may wear clip-on sunglasses which are attached to regular glasses. Other types of sunglasses should not be worn outside without consulting one’s Rav.
Photo Chromic LensesGlasses with photo chromic lenses
that change colors when exposed to the
sun may be worn on Shabbos and there is no problem of tzoveah (coloring).
Walking with a Jacket over One’s Shoulders on Shabbos
Since wearing a jacket over one’s shoulders is not the derech to wear a jacket, one may not walk outside in such a manner on Shabbos in a place that does not have an eiruv. Additionally, there is the possibility that the wind will blow the jacket off his shoulders and he will come to carry the jacket in reshus harabim. Al-though others are lenient in this regard, one should follow the first view stated.
One may not walk outside with a gar-ment wrapped around his waist in a place that does not have an eiruv.
Rolled up Sleeves on ShabbosThere is a basis to permit wearing a
shirt with the sleeves rolled up in a place that does not have an eiruv. A person who is rolling up his sleeves because he is not interested in wearing a long sleeve shirt may not walk outside with his sleeves rolled up on Shabbos because the sleeve is regarded by him as a burden and not part of the garment. However, one who would not wear a short sleeve shirt for reasons of modesty or the like and rolls up the sleeves because he feels it is more proper to wear it that way may walk out-side like that on Shabbos.
Muktzah A Bathing Suit - A bathing suit is not
muktzah since it can be worn even though one is not going to use it for swimming. Flippers - Are a kli sh’melachtu l’issur and may only be moved if one needs them or their place. Goggles and snor-kels are also kli sh’melachtu l’issur. Golashes - are a kli sh’malchtu l’heter. Sunglasses - are not muktzah. The rea-son is because even according to those who prohibit wearing them in a place that has no eiruv agree that they can be worn while indoors. Fly swatters are a kli sh’melachtu l’issur. Fans - A fan that is operating is a kli sh’melachtu l’issur according to many poskim. One is per-mitted to move the mechanical lever on a fan which controls whether or not the fan oscillates, and there is no a problem of maveir on Shabbos since no electrical current is being switched on or off. One should make sure when moving the fan not to pull out the plug afterwards. One may turn the fan in any direction so that it will blow on him. Some say one who is too cold may turn the fan away. Sandbox
Rabbi Moishe Dovid Lebovits
Halachically Speaking
Summer Halachos
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Playing Ball on Shabbos There is a discussion in the poskim
whether a ball is muktzah. Many poskim say since today balls are made to be played with they are not muktzah. The Yerushalmi says that a town was de-stroyed because of ball playing. The commentaries say it was referring to ball playing on Shabbos. Additionally, play-ing ball takes away from the time that a person is supposed to be learning Torah, as the Yerushalmi says, “Shabbos and yom tov were given to us to learn To-rah.” It has become widespread to play all types of ball games on Shabbos espe-cially in camps and bungalow colonies. However, doing so is only permitted for young children. Boys over bar mitzvah and girls over bas mitzvah should not play ball on Shabbos. Even one who will not be spending his time learning should not play ball on Shabbos. The Kaf Ha’chaim says anyone who fears Hash-em will not waste his precious time with ball playing. Some poskim permit young children to play Ping Pong on Shabbos. Those who do play ball on Shabbos must be careful not to play in an area where the ball can roll out of the eiruv into a reshus harabim.
Asking a Goy to Turn On the Air Conditioning
Since today many people are accus-tomed to air conditioning; one who is very hot on Shabbos may ask a goy to turn on the air conditioning. The reason for this is because doing so involves two shevusim (amira l’nuchri and turning on electricity) in a case of tzaar. One who is too cold may ask a goy to turn off the air conditioning. Horav Moshe Feinstein zt”l did not allow the use of a timer to make an air conditioner or other electric devices turn on during Shabbos, although he did permit using a timer to turn on lighting. However, it has become cus-tomary to set a timer before Shabbos to make his air conditioner turn on during Shabbos.
Water Cooler / Fountain on Shabbos One may use a water cooler or water
fountain (even when it is plugged in) on Shabbos if he is lenient in regard to open-ing a refrigerator on Shabbos (even if the motor is off). The same would apply to changing the water bottle on top of a wa-ter cooler on Shabbos.
Tevilas Keilim Below is a short list of items that one
tends to use more often in the summer and how they apply to tevilas keilim.
• The grates of a Disposable Grill which are made from hard metal should be toiveled without a bracha.
• Can openers do not require tevila.• Tongs should be toiveled without a
bracha.• Aluminum pans which are thrown
out after use do not require tevila. Although some say one should toivel aluminum pans without a bracha, it is not the minhag to do so. One who wants to use an aluminum pan more than once does not need to toivel it because the Yid is the one who is making the pan into a permanent utensil. Others say one should toivel it without a bracha.
• Potato Peelers – Potato peelers should be toiveled, without a bracha.
Tzaar Baalei Chaim – Paining Animals
During the summer, insects often make their way into homes and bunga-lows where they can be very annoying. Many poskim say there is no issur to kill insects or flies (during the week) which are bother-some to a person. One is permitted to hang up sticky paper on the wall, or to use an electric fly killer. On Shabbos one is permitted to put in-sect repellent on his hands before going outside on Shabbos to avoid being in-jured by insects.
One should teach his children not to pain animals. This comes up in the sum-mer when children play near ponds, etc. or with insects and small animals.
Buying From a Jewish Store vs. a Non-Jew
There is a mitzvah for a person to help support his fellow Jew. Included in this inyun is buying from a Jewish-owned store instead of a non-Jewish-owned one. If the Jew charges 1/6 more for his prod-ucts then there is no obligation to buy at the Jewish store over the non-Jew. How-ever, if there is only a small difference in price then there is a mitzvah to buy from the Jew. Some say even if the non-Jew’s prices are a lot cheaper one should still buy from the Jew.
This inyun is very common in the summer where there are small Jewish stores competing with big non-Jewish owned stores such as Wal-Mart®. Since Wal-Mart® is much cheaper on products one may buy at their store. One should try to buy a few products at the Jewish store as well if the store owner is counting on the money he makes over the summer to be his parnassa for the whole year.
Copyright Issues During the summer months it is very
common to listen to more music than usu-al while walking, driving, or doing any other activities. Therefore, it is proper to discuss what is and what is not permitted to copy as far as music CDs and tapes are concerned. One should not say that copying is permitted. That which many people justify copying by saying “every-one does it” is not an excuse for stealing from music producers and artists. Many people are accustomed to copying mu-sic from a friend’s iPod®. This is 100% stealing and against halacha. Every CD that is copied steals at least five dollars from the producers. If all the money lost on the CDs that are copied would be added up the producers, etc. are losing a lot of parnassa, despite their investing a lot of time and money to create some-thing that the public is interested in. One wonders why some people who are very stringent to keep every custom even
when it may have lit-tle backing in halacha are so lenient with this halacha which is based on the posuk in the To-rah of “Lo signov.”
A CD or tape which is no longer sold in stores and is not pos-sible to buy may be copied from a friend. However, one must make sure that the item is really not available for purchase. Many old tapes are still being sold
online (by the original producer or some-one who bought the rights to them). One who owns a CD or tape and is scared it may get lost is permitted to copy it. One who had a CD or tape which broke may make a copy of it from a friend. One who owns a CD or tape may make a copy of it for personal use. For example, he may make a copy for his car, since it can be assumed that one would not buy another copy of the CD or tape for his car, so no loss is being caused by the copying. A
CD or tape may be copied for all the peo-ple in one’s house, as long as they actu-ally live at home. However, once a child gets married a copy may not be made for that child. It is permitted to copy a song off the radio since the quality is not as good as it would be if one were to buy the CD or tape. Music that is offered on the internet may not be copied since it is only put there for one to listen to. Some producers maintain that the forty-five second clips that are offered on the inter-net may be copied. Copying a CD or tape is forbidden even if one would never buy the CD or tape.
Car Safety Based on the posuk “V’nishmartem
m’od l’nafshoseichem,” one is required to drive safely. Before the summer, when one tends to drive a lot more than during the year, it is a good time to review this halacha.
Some say going much faster than the speed limit is included in the afore-mentioned issur. Since one who speaks on a telephone while driving is putting himself in grave danger, doing so is also included in this issur. One who has a speaker phone or Bluetooth headset, etc. may talk on his cellphone. One should not have his inside light on during the night since it is bothersome for drivers who are passing by. Any time one is in a car whether as a driver or a passenger he has an obligation to wear a seatbelt at all times. One should also insist that his passengers wear seatbelts. Those who wear seatbelts are three times more likely to survive a car crash than those who are not wearing them. One should make sure that he is awake and alert before driving, and if not one should sleep before going on the road.
Rabbi Moishe Dovid Lebovits is a for-mer chaver kollel of Yeshiva Torah Vodaath and a musmach of Harav Yisroel Belsky shlita. Rabbi Lebovits currently works as the Rabbinical Administrator for the KOF-K Kosher Supervision.
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FATHER’S DAY in the Backyard
9 Gifts That Will Make Dad’s Oasis That Much More Enjoyable
Dad does it all, from tending to the garden (by paying for the gardener) to changing the outdoor light bulbs (after they have been out for three months). Now he just wants to lay smack in the center of the yard and stare up at the stars (“Son, that right there is the Big Dipper”). What better way to do that than on a relaxing and sturdy hammock?
Hammocks range in price from $35 to $35,000! If you get one in the $100 price range, dad would do just fine on his horizontal excursion.
LICENSE to CHILL
BEVERAGE at HIS FINGERTIPS[To be read in a deep and deliberate voice]: Your dad is the most interesting man in the world. He can catch a shark with his bare hands. He can run a mile in under three minutes. He can lift 500 pounds of steel while brushing his teeth. And, when he drinks non-alcoholic beverages, he drinks non-alcoholic Dos Equis. He loves cracking one open when he’s lounging in the backyard and taking a break from his life of unbridled accomplishments. But what should he do when he is thirsty? [Not to be read in a deep and deliberate voice]: “Yaakov, please get me a glass of water and ice from inside? Please? I’ll take you to Seasons Express later if you do?” [Return to deep voice]: No, no, no. He flings his arm to the right, cracks open his outdoor mini-fridge and like the alchemist that he is, he grabs the exact drink he desires (of course, that’s assuming he remembered to stock the fridge beforehand, which is a long shot).
If a mini fridge is out of your price range (they run for about $1,000), how about a funky cooler that has Bluetooth speakers and even a blender attached? You can get that for about $180.
Mom may take care of it all – shopping, doctors’ appointments, laundry, homework, what school and camp the kids go to, bedtime, making breakfast, lunch and dinner, cooking for Shabbos and making yom tov. But there is one thing she is totally unqualified for and can’t even have an opinion about: barbequing. That is Dad’s expertise, Dad believes. He is the perfect BBQ-er. He can hold court with his friends and keep them mesmerized (he thinks) as he talks about the perfect way to make that 24 ouncer sizzle just right. Now, he can take things to the next level and delve into the mystical world of smoked meats.
Outdoor smokers come in all shapes, sizes and price ranges. A word of caution, though: Consult with Dad before buying it because who knows more about this stuff than him, of course.
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Dad waits all year for the weather to turn nice so that he can sit outside and devour Kafka. Along comes a little mosquito and his whole equilibrium is thrown off. How about getting him an enclosed gazebo? He will once again be comfortable enough to ponder things such as “what is the true meaning of self-determination” because the mosquitoes no longer have control over this homosapien who is 50,000 times larger than it.
You can get a nice enclosed gazebo in the $300 price range. And say goodbye to the fly swatter.
“How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man...”
OK, Dad didn’t write that song but he’s not a bad songwriter, given a little inspiration and put in the right environment. Wrong environment: living room couch with half eaten pizza between the cushions and a three-year-old jumping on his back. Right environment: in the backyard sitting with his guitar in front of a shimmering fire.
Fire pits range in price from $40 to several hundred dollars.
Dad is so cool. He looks great in a cowboy hat. (He once put one on for a picture when the family was at a Western-themed amusement park gift shop.) He can ride a horse and navigate the wild. (He once went horseback riding with your mother when they were in Colorado for a bar mitzvah ... it was a guided tour.) All he is missing is a holster. No, not for his gun – for his water bottle. Instead of sweating it out while manning the grill, Dad can pull his Poland Spring 16 ounce from his waist, in a flash. You can even have the leather drink holster monogrammed. Maybe write something like “#1 Coolest Dad,” but that’s for you to decide.
Holsters start for as low as $5. You can get one with a monogram for approximately $30.
PACKING in the HEAT
LIFE on the NINTH HOLE
Dad may spend his nine-to-five as an accountant, but he is a PGA golfer at heart. Yes, his golf bag has been collecting dust in the basement for three years and his irons have found a new identity as backscratchers, but that’s because his application to Augusta is going slower than he expected. So, how about building him a little something in your very own backyard?
Backyard putting greens range in price from $30 to several hundred thousand dollars, if that’s in your budget.
HOLY SMOKES
CLEAN as a WHISTLE
Dad sees the deck as a great place to host fancy cocktail parties; the kids see it as another place to lay down their chalk (turf battles know no limits). Dad sees the 8-foot white fence as a classy alternative to the view of the neighbor’s collapsed brick garage; the kids see it as a great target for their mud balls. Now, everyone can have it their way—the kids can enjoy, and when Dad wants to, he can pull out his compact pressure washer and within minutes the place will be ready for that cocktail party.
You can get one for as cheap as $100, so color away!
FIRE on the MOUNTAIN
Dad is done with GMOs and pesti-cides and is going organic. He’s decid-ed to dedicate a third of the backyard to his vegetable garden. But despite all of his talk about making the best jalapeno peppers, things haven’t worked out that great. With three wilted tomatoes, this patch of land is quickly turning into a shrine of gar-dening ineptitude. Give Dad the ulti-mate vegetable garden guidance by purchasing any number of very good gardening software programs. These programs will help Dad design, layout and plan a vegetable garden and will include step-by-step tutorials.
Average price $25—but look how much money you’ll save by growing your own veggies!
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Dad waits all year for the weather to turn nice so that he can sit outside and devour Kafka. Along comes a little mosquito and his whole equilibrium is thrown off. How about getting him an enclosed gazebo? He will once again be comfortable enough to ponder things such as “what is the true meaning of self-determination” because the mosquitoes no longer have control over this homosapien who is 50,000 times larger than it.
You can get a nice enclosed gazebo in the $300 price range. And say goodbye to the fly swatter.
“How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man...”
OK, Dad didn’t write that song but he’s not a bad songwriter, given a little inspiration and put in the right environment. Wrong environment: living room couch with half eaten pizza between the cushions and a three-year-old jumping on his back. Right environment: in the backyard sitting with his guitar in front of a shimmering fire.
Fire pits range in price from $40 to several hundred dollars.
Dad is so cool. He looks great in a cowboy hat. (He once put one on for a picture when the family was at a Western-themed amusement park gift shop.) He can ride a horse and navigate the wild. (He once went horseback riding with your mother when they were in Colorado for a bar mitzvah ... it was a guided tour.) All he is missing is a holster. No, not for his gun – for his water bottle. Instead of sweating it out while manning the grill, Dad can pull his Poland Spring 16 ounce from his waist, in a flash. You can even have the leather drink holster monogrammed. Maybe write something like “#1 Coolest Dad,” but that’s for you to decide.
Holsters start for as low as $5. You can get one with a monogram for approximately $30.
PACKING in the HEAT
LIFE on the NINTH HOLE
Dad may spend his nine-to-five as an accountant, but he is a PGA golfer at heart. Yes, his golf bag has been collecting dust in the basement for three years and his irons have found a new identity as backscratchers, but that’s because his application to Augusta is going slower than he expected. So, how about building him a little something in your very own backyard?
Backyard putting greens range in price from $30 to several hundred thousand dollars, if that’s in your budget.
HOLY SMOKES
CLEAN as a WHISTLE
Dad sees the deck as a great place to host fancy cocktail parties; the kids see it as another place to lay down their chalk (turf battles know no limits). Dad sees the 8-foot white fence as a classy alternative to the view of the neighbor’s collapsed brick garage; the kids see it as a great target for their mud balls. Now, everyone can have it their way—the kids can enjoy, and when Dad wants to, he can pull out his compact pressure washer and within minutes the place will be ready for that cocktail party.
You can get one for as cheap as $100, so color away!
FIRE on the MOUNTAIN
Dad is done with GMOs and pesti-cides and is going organic. He’s decid-ed to dedicate a third of the backyard to his vegetable garden. But despite all of his talk about making the best jalapeno peppers, things haven’t worked out that great. With three wilted tomatoes, this patch of land is quickly turning into a shrine of gar-dening ineptitude. Give Dad the ulti-mate vegetable garden guidance by purchasing any number of very good gardening software programs. These programs will help Dad design, layout and plan a vegetable garden and will include step-by-step tutorials.
Average price $25—but look how much money you’ll save by growing your own veggies!
JALAPENO PEPPER HEAVEN
NO MORE BZZZZ…BZZZZZ
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Did you ever look around in amazement at people around you who have achieved ex-
traordinary things, yet don’t appear to be all that extraordinary? These are people who have greatly succeeded in business, in politics, in the arts, in sports, or in some other space, but in many respects seem pretty much on par with you (or even inferior to you) in terms of their core abilities and talents. How is it, you wonder, that they “made it” in such a ro-bust manner while you continue to mid-dle along in relative obscurity, earning a pedestrian income and feeling somewhat unfulfilled?
Perhaps, you tell yourself, these in-dividuals do possess special qualities that you are unaware of and were able to leverage them to achieve success. May-be they benefitted from favorable timing, connections, family wealth, or other ad-vantages that helped propel them onto a higher plateau.
Those are the easy answers. Others succeeded more than you because of their superior tools and/or their good for-tune. And sometimes they are the correct ones.
However, this can’t be the full expla-nation. We are all aware of many “rags to riches” stories, accounts of individ-uals who began their lives and careers with much larger decks stacked against them than we did, yet still managed to do great things. Even if you were to ar-gue that these people are rare exceptions, the “one in a million” who defy the cruel odds of life, their successes remind us that greater attainment is possible if we learn to approach things correctly.
It’s also a copout. There will always be people out there who are smarter, more talented, and more fortuitous, than you. Especially nowadays, when inter-national talent can be easily identified and accessed, we cannot even rely on our “home field advantage” in order to advance. If you wish to occupy a differ-ent plane within your respective occupa-tional or career space, you have to focus more on what you can do in order to get there.
Of course, there is no clear, straight-forward path to success, but there are some steps that can help to clear the straightest pathway to your personal success.
1. Believe in yourself – It is extremely difficult to get anywhere if you don’t believe deeply in yourself and
your abilities. Sometimes, you can use an injection of positivity and support from others to get you started. But at some point you have to be able to sustain your efforts with a profound sense of capacity, especially when you start to experience inevitable setbacks.
2. Align objectives with abilities – Obviously, we are not all good at everything and belief alone won’t open most doors. That’s why it’s important
to take the time to think about what you are really good at or can become very
good at. This includes assessing your existing skills and knowledge as well as your ability to learn new and master new things. It also includes your passion, which is the engine that will ultimately drive your process forward. Seek to align your abilities (current and projected) with your goals so that you can likelier achieve what you want.
3. Learn, learn and learn some more – Do as much research as possible about your goals and how best to achieve them. Speak to others who have gone down that path previously to learn from their experiences, mistakes and triumphs. Read related articles. Attend courses and seminars. Seek out apprenticeships for low-risk, on-the-job experience. All of these can help you build efficacy, shorten your learning curve, and strengthen your inner resolve and confidence.
4. Set goals – Effort without a clear plan is likely to not produce the desired outcome. Take the time (alone or, better yet, with a coach or colleague)
to set clear, actionable goals with clear deadlines and deliverables. This will help you focus your time and energies and motivate you to stay the course.
5. Take measured risks – Every new endeavor carries some degree of risk. This is particularly true when you seek to rise from good (or not-so-good) to great. So many people never pursue their dreams because they are unwilling to upset their existing apple carts and
stretch a bit beyond their comfort zones. Of course, all risk taking should be measured and responsible in nature.
6. Work hard – There is no substitute for hard work. It sounds so simple, but this frequently gets overlooked. So often we observe successful people and focus on the here and now while losing sight of the many years of labor and toil that it took for them to break through. Once you identify your goal, be willing to put in the requisite time and effort to make your dreams a reality.
7. Learn how to get unstuck – A primary obstacle to growth and success is our propensity to get stuck. Something happens that prevents us from moving
forward and we fail to figure out how to get past it and come to accept it as fact. Think of ways around the problem so that you can maintain your progress.
8. Take rejection standing up – Just because someone says no doesn’t mean that you’re incapable or that your idea is flawed. Sure, there may be some things that you need to tighten up. It would also be a good idea to get as much information as you can as to why your application or proposal was rejected. Still, countless success stories began with multiple rejections and setbacks at the outset.
9. Refine your people skills – This is perhaps the most important quality in the list. Belief, self-efficacy, and perseverance are hugely important qualities in a person’s success, but they can all be undermined by poor or even average interpersonal skills. Despite our increased use of technology, our ability to interact with and gain the support and trust of others remains critical. Learn how to speak so that others will listen. At the end, all things being equal, people will hire or select those who they like and relate best to. Consider it the human side of doing business. And that side isn’t going anywhere fast.
Rabbi Naphtali Hoff is an executive coach and president of Impactful Coaching and Consulting (ImpactfulCoaching.com). He can be reached at 212.470.6139 or at [email protected].
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Housing Reform and its Impact on Overseas Buyers
Gedaliah Borvick
My Israel Home
According to the approved proposal, the purchase tax for overseas buyers and investors will be raised to 8% on the first NIS 1 million and 10% above that amount.
Real estate prices in Israel have nearly doubled since 2007, and over the past decade,
soaring housing costs have been a hot-ly debated political issue. New Min-ister of Finance Moshe Kahlon’s first promise has been to overhaul the real estate industry and stabilize real estate prices. Kahlon comes into this new po-sition with significant political clout, based on his success – while serving as the Minister of Communications – in breaking the telecom industry cartel and boosting competition, thus causing prices of cellular services to decrease significantly.
BackgroundThere are numerous reasons why
housing prices have risen so dramati-cally. One cause is the long bureaucrat-ic process of developing new proper-ties. A recent report by the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies found that the average time to complete a new resi-dential project is thirteen years – elev-en to clear bureaucratic hurdles and two for construction. In comparison, the maximum time it takes to obtain a building permit in most European Union countries is three months.
Another reason why housing pric-es have risen is due to the Israel Lands Authority’s (Minhal) historically slow pace of selling government land for de-velopment. This was deliberately done to create strong demand, causing land
sale prices to rise and, in turn, increase the country’s sales revenue. The high land prices paid by developers is ulti-mately borne by the apartment buyers.
Another challenge has been the lack of manpower in the construction industry, causing delays to occur and labor costs to rise.
Supply-Side ReformLast week, Finance Minister
Kahlon unveiled his multi-tiered plan to reform the real estate industry. The plan included many “supply side” solutions to increase the number of new housing units entering the market, including aggressively rezoning land to residential usage, converting offices to residential units, creating a new ur-ban renewal authority to streamline the process for upgrading existing older buildings, and addressing the shortage of manpower by implementing train-ing programs for Israeli workers and bringing in more foreign workers.
Demand-Side ReformKahlon also addressed the “demand
side” of the equation by raising taxes on investment properties, thereby mak-
ing them a less attractive investment. An “investment property” is defined as a property purchased by either an Israeli who already owns a primary residence or a foreign buyer who owns a home overseas. By re-ducing investor demand, the government hopes to limit price increases, thereby helping young families to have afford-able housing opportuni-ties.
According to the approved proposal, the purchase tax for over-seas buyers and inves-tors will be raised to 8% on the first NIS 1 million and 10% above that amount. Compared to the current acquisition tax rates, these new rates will add at least 3% to the pur-chaser’s tax bill.
StatusOn June 14, 2015, the cabinet unan-
imously approved increasing the pur-chase tax for investment, and the Min-istry of Finance plans to pass this law by the end of the month. These reforms are expected to easily be approved, as it has backing from Netanyahu’s cab-inet and the opposition – comprised primarily of the left-leaning Knesset factions – who also want these reforms implemented as it dovetails with their liberal agendas.
DetractorsNot everyone agrees with the tax
increases. Many of the apartments pur-chased for investment are providing housing for the rental market, in which demand for rental units greatly out-strips supply. By restricting real estate investments, the government will fur-ther tighten the rental market, causing rents to increase.
ConclusionOver the years, the Israeli gov-
ernment has taken numerous steps to reduce housing demand by imposing new mortgage restrictions and by in-creasing acquisition taxes for both overseas buyers and Israelis who own multiple homes. These initiatives were met with failure because they did not address the most pressing issue of in-creasing supply in our housing-starved country. Unless the “supply side” pro-
grams are implemented quickly and aggressively, raising the acquisition tax on purchases will not cause prices to decline, due to the relative scarcity of available housing.
Therefore, we believe that the best long-term approach to stabilizing housing prices is for the government to (1) make more land available for de-velopment, and (2) design and imple-ment a plan to streamline the planning and approval process in order to quick-ly develop new housing units.
Gedaliah Borvick is the founder of My Isra-el Home (www.myisraelhome.com), a real estate agency focused on helping people from abroad buy and sell homes in Israel. To sign up for his monthly market updates, contact him at [email protected].
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Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.
Dr. Deb
Another Reason Not to Speak Lashon Hara
It is as if the old incident happened to us all over again and the old memory is now new and fresh. Ouch.
Research has come up with some-thing fascinating: because learn-ing is based on repetition, the
more we repeat something, the more in-grained it becomes. Well – you’re going to tell me – this is nothing new, Dr. Deb!
But look at this: Maybe it explains why the woman who spent the hour tell-ing her therapist all the bad things about her husband came home more depressed than when she went in. And maybe that is why she had a whole bunch of trouble being dan le chaf zchus (judging him fa-vorably) to him later that day.
So what should she have done? Surely, she should be able to relate to her therapist what troubles her. It seems she is stuck: Either she tells the bad and feels badly or she doesn’t and feels even worse than that.
The answer is that for sure she needs to explain the problem. There is no way around it. In fact, her therapist must have a clear idea of all the nuances and pos-sibilities going on in her life in order to be of help. But at some point, a decision must be made: What proportion of men-tal energy should be spent on the prob-lem and what proportion on the solution?
Because if a person goes to therapy for 30 years – and yes, here in New York this is common, although when I lived in Florida, I had only heard of it in old Woody Allen movies – and spends the time reflecting on old pain, then, accord-ing to the latest research, what is actually being implanted in the brain is additional layers of new pain for the same old thing.
Here’s how the marvelous brain that our loving G-d gave us works. When an old memory is elicited with all its emo-tional components, that old memory is in a state of chemical flux. The emotional components are subject to change for six hours. If we dwell on the pain that is evoked and do nothing else with that pain, then six hours later, protein synthe-sis takes place with the old-new memo-ry reinstated. It is as if the old incident happened to us all over again and the old memory is now new and fresh. Ouch.
On the other hand, research shows that during that six-hour window in which the emotions of a memory are “labile” (in flux, subject to change), if a competing, positive emotion is the focus of attention, then when the memory re-consolidates, it has a different tone.
I will prove to you that this has al-ready happened in your own life: There are memories of yours that have changed their emotional tone with the “retelling” (to yourself) due to changes in your own circumstances.
Here is one that commonly occurs to people. Mr. and Mrs. Silverman, still in love, go on a vacation. At the time, they comment on how wonderful it is and when they return home, they tell all their friends and family what a lovely time they had. Fifteen years later, some ter-rible things have happened between Mr. and Mrs. Silverman. Perhaps there was verbal abuse, perhaps addictions, per-haps neglect. And lo and behold, one of them says, “That vacation was not really so great. I remember think-ing what a yucky time I was hav-ing!”
What hap-pened? The emo-tional tone of the present moment – which, indeed is yucky – colors the old memory. Since the emo-tions are active and felt during the recall of the old mem-ory, it “colors” it. Literally, the protein synthesis changes the emotional tone of the memory.
The opposite can happen as well. We can have new experiences that are fabulous and the emotional components of those will affect memories that have any association at all with the new ex-periences. An example from your child’s education: He says he hates a certain subject, can’t stand the teacher, won’t do the homework. A new school year rolls around and he gets a teacher who cares, prepares, and presents the material in an interesting and loving way. Suddenly, he
loves the subject! The very subject itself, something one would think is purely a matter of “taste,” changes its emotional tone in your son’s eyes. It goes from bad to good. (B”H!)
So we have here three possibilities with old memories. One is that the emo-tional tone is reinforced by simply bring-ing it up again and again without much influence by external circumstances. Another is that the emotional tone goes from good to bad, and the third is that it can go from bad to good. And all of this is because of present emotions that color the old memory. And this literally happens; it’s not figurative. There is a six hour window for protein synthesis
during which the emotional tone of a mem-ory is subject to change.
Now, we get back to the per-son in therapy for 30 years. She was victimized as a child and has terrible memo-ries of that. Ev-ery time some-thing painful happens to her, it
triggers the old memories. This, in turn, convinces her of how bad life is: It was bad then and it is bad now. Her therapist is stuck with her in those bad feelings. After all, she can’t deny the actual evil of what happened to her. How can she make them good?
The answer is that she must focus on what is good in her life – and there is much. She has wonderful children, a considerate husband, fresh air and sun-shine, Shabbos zemiros, and her brain works very well at her job where she gets applause frequently. The problem is not what actually happened, but that she is spending way too much of her men-
tal energy thinking about it. Every time she does that, she reconsolidates the aw-fulness of the old memory. Instead, she should let it die a natural death.
Think about it: Why did HaKakosh Baruch Hu give us the ability to forget? Why did He in His wisdom create this amazing six-hour thing? (This research is less than ten years old!) Because He wants us to learn from our negative ex-periences – and then move on. If our pur-pose here on Earth is to learn, grow and make the world a little better place, then we do need all kinds of experiences in order for that to happen. But we must ap-ply them in a positive, constructive way.
Deep focus on the good in our lives is the answer to that.
So what does all this have to do with lashon hara? Well, the Three Weeks will soon be upon us, and as you know, the horrors of Tisha B’Av are a result of our lashon hara. Therefore, I was thinking about lashon hara and it occurred to me that every time we tell over again a gripe we had with someone, we are reinforcing the pain of that gripe!
Think about it: In doing the loshon hara, we are causing ourselves pain. Well, we knew that from the Torah. It says that the speaker himself is hurt (as well as the person about whom he was speaking and the listener, too) by lashon hara. But I am taking a fresh look at this and saying, Why? Why is the speaker hurt? On a spiritual level, he is hurting his neshama by doing something wrong.
On a biological level, it is because he is reconsolidating the old, painful memo-ry once again; he is re-traumatizing him-self. That’s another reason not to speak lashon hara.
Dr. Deb Hirschhorn, a Marriage & Fami-ly Therapist and best-selling author of The Healing Is Mutual: Marriage Empowerment Tools to Rebuild Trust and Respect—To-gether, is proud to announce that readers of The Jewish Home will receive a $50 dis-count on every visit to her Woodmere office. Attend the Food For Thought lectures at Traditions Restaurant in Lawrence on Tues-days at 12:30 PM. (There is a lovely option-al lunch menu for $12 cash.) Any questions, call 646-54-DRDEB or check out her web-site at http://drdeb.com. All stories in Dr. Deb’s articles are fabricated. See Dr. Deb on TorahAnytime.com.
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David Elazar Simai, MD
Health & Fitness
Fever is our friend, it helps us fight infections.
Dear Parents,Every once in a while a relative or
a close friend approaches me and says, “You should be careful, you are giving away personal secrets to your competi-tors.” To this I usually reply, “I do not have competitors; I have colleagues.”
The Five Towns and Far Rockaway residents are blessed with fantastic, ded-icated pediatricians who contribute so much to the community. Much of what I write about is basic medical knowledge, but if there are any “secrets” in these ar-ticles, I feel that it would be my merit to share it and help both my colleagues and the precious patients they treat.
Today, I would like to share with you a secret tool that I have been utiliz-ing in the past few years in diagnosing infectious diseases. About a year ago, I shared this information with one of my colleagues and recently he came and thanked me for the advice.
Did your child ever spike a high fever? Did you ever feel that terror/panic set in you when
the thermometer kept on creeping higher and higher? A recent study surveyed par-ents and physicians and found that over 50% of parents felt that fever could be deadly. A minority of physicians echoed that sentiment as well.
Truth be told, fever alone (under 106 degrees) is not deadly. Fever is brought on by our immune system during a fight with a virus or bacteria. A sharp rise in fever could cause a febrile seizure, but these seizures are usually very short and very rarely cause any permanent damage. Undoubtedly, a fever signals an infection, and some infections could
be deadly. A temperature above 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit is considered a fe-ver. A high fever is a temperature above 104.0 degrees Fahrenheit.
When I encounter patients with fe-vers, I look for certain clues in order to direct myself to the right diagnosis. One of the pieces of the puzzle is fever, and the temperature measured, but that alone is not enough to make a diagnosis. The age of the patient is a critical factor, as
young infants have a weak immune sys-tem and fever under 6 weeks is taken more seriously in that period. Patients who have high fever and a runny nose are in a better class than patients with a high fever and no congestion.
The secret weapon I use in diagnos-ing certain patients is a test called Viral Respiratory Panel or VRP. This test is performed on a sample taken from the patient’s nasal secretions. It tests for about 20 common viral illnesses. The test takes between 6 and 24 hours to perform, but unlike a Complete Blood Count (CBC), it gives a definitive diag-nosis and leaves very little doubt.
Here is a case where the VRP helped guide me to the right diagnosis:
A few years ago, I was asked to check a patient of one of my colleagues while he was on
vacation. He was a 7-year-old boy with fever of 103 degrees, sore throat and mild congestion. On exam, he appeared
febrile and somewhat weak, in some discomfort. His mother was nervous because this child was hospitalized with a pneumonia a year earlier that start-ed off “just like this.” On examination, I felt that he had an upper respiratory viral infection with a sore throat and a harsh, wet cough. His strep test and flu test were negative. In order to help calm his mother, I offered to draw his blood to see if he requires antibiotics for a
possible start of a pneumonia. She was happy and thankful that I performed the tests. On the way out I added the VRP test as well.
The next day, I received a phone call from his mother. The fever had spiked above 105 overnight and the cough per-sisted. A glance at his bloodwork had me more concerned as his CBC clearly pointed to a “bacterial picture”. In fact, the white blood cell count was in the pneumonia range. I discussed the results with the mother and offered to give the boy an injection of antibiotics and send him for a chest x-ray to rule out a pneu-monia. At the office the boy appeared tired and febrile and his cough was im-pressive. His mother was trying to keep him well hydrated. I proceeded to give him the antibiotic injection and arranged for the mother to get an expedited ap-pointment for an x-ray.
A few seconds after the mother left the office, a fax came in from the lab-oratory. The VRP results were positive for the adenovirus. Happily, I called the mother and saved her son from some unnecessary radiation. With the help of G-d, all he needed was Tylenol, Motrin and fluids. Within a few days he was back to himself.
It turns out that adenovirus infections cause changes in the CBC that give the appearance of a bacterial infection. The adenovirus also causes a sore, red throat with some pus on the tonsils. The illness ends with a pink eye towards the end of the illness.
Viral illnesses could sometimes be precursors to more dangerous bacterial infections, but knowing that a patient has an identifiable viral illness helps us look out for other danger signs and provides some comfort level to both parents and
physicians alike.Having shared this secret, let me
give you a warning: the test is very costly! Many private insurances often charge a laboratory deductible which can reach $1,000 for this test. Your physician must use a diagnosis code that justifies the test. Some insurances do not cover the test at all. Also, if a patient is healthy (without significant medical history) and the symptoms are mild, I usually do not obsess with identifying a common cold. Not every febrile cold needs a costly test to confirm the virus!
Another deficiency in the VRP pan-el is that the roseola virus is not a part of the testing panel. G-d willing, I will write an article about the notorious rose-ola virus in a future article.
So please remember the take home messages: fever is our friend, it helps us fight infections. The Viral Respiratory Panel can help us identify a specific vi-rus that is the cause of the illness. Lastly, do not view your competitors as ene-mies; view them as colleagues sharing a common, precious goal.
Wishing you a cool and healthy summer,
David Elazar Simai, M.D.
Dr. David Simai is a Board Certified Pedia-trician from the Five Towns. He is a full time attending in his own private practice since 2007 in Cedarhurst, New York. In addition, he is an Attending Physician at LIJ-Cohen Children’s Hospital, North-Shore Manhasset University Hospital and South Nassau Com-munities Hospital. He can be contacted for consultation at 516 374-2228 or via email at [email protected].
NOTE: name, gender, geographical area and other identifying information were de-liberately altered in this article in order to protect the patient’s privacy. This article is not intended to help diagnose or treat any specific disease. Always consult your per-sonal physician before diagnosing or treating yourself or your child for any of the above mentioned illnesses.
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Notable Quotes
Last night the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Golden State Warriors in overtime to tie the NBA Finals at one game apiece. LeBron James said it was a huge win, and he couldn’t have done it without the ball. – Jimmy Fallon
I identify as black. As a 5-year-old child I was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of peach crayon [with] black curly hair, you know, yeah. That was how I was portraying myself.- Embattled NAACP activist Rachel Dolezal, who was forced to resign as president of the Spokane (WA) NAACP after it was disclosed that she is a white woman posing as an African-American
I officially today announce that I identify as skinny. From this day going forward, I am skinny. - Talk show host Rush Limbaugh mocking “transracial” activist Rachel Dolezal
Jeb is different from George. Jeb is who he is and his life story is different. - Jeb Bush during an interview on CNN arguing that he should not be defined by the rest of his family
Maybe American Pharoah? - Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr when asked if he could think of a better athlete right now than LeBron James
I feel confident because I’m the best player in the world. It’s that simple. - LeBron James, after his team went down 3-2 in the Finals, explaining why he believed his team could still win the NBA Finals
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I am a seventh generation Jerusalemite, and even though I was born nine years before the State of Israel was established, I was born in Jerusalem, and I am Israeli.- Israeli President Reuven Rivlin upon welcoming Chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey to Israel one day after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that being born in Jerusalem does not mean one is Israeli for the purpose of American passports
They’re all heavy sleepers. - Quip from New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on why inmates at a state prison at Dannemora say they did not hear two convicted murderers use power tools to escape
They had a little bit of the comedian in them, but I plan on giving them back that note. - Ibid, discussing the “have a nice day” note that the escapees left behind
It was very courageous and brave, if not crazy as well, to open fire on the police headquarters...- CNN anchor Fredricka Whitfield, after a gunman opened fire on Dallas Police Headquarters
During a recent speech, Mike Huckabee said he is the only person who has fought the Clinton political machine and won. “You sure about that?” said President Barack Obama. – Jimmy Fallon
Yesterday in Iowa just four supporters showed up to eat lunch with Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum. It’s always a bad sign when your entire voter base can fit in a deli booth. – Conan O’Brien
Pizza Hut announced it will be unveiling a pizza whose crust is stuffed with hot dogs...There’s no better proof that our country is back than when they’re jamming hot dogs into the crust of pizza. That’s a sign that we as a country cannot be defeated. – Conan O’Brien
We just passed an open weapons law in this state. We’re setting the stage for a terrorist attack in this country and the group’s not going to be ISIS—it’s going to be US-IS. Us against these injustice law officers and people continuing to allow racism to go into this city.- Rev. Ronald Wright while leading a protest against police in McKinney, Texas, after a video surfaced of a white police officer being rough with an African-American teenager
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Many lawmakers on Capitol Hill wore seersucker suits to work yesterday in honor of National Seersucker Day. In a related story, ISIS is still a huge problem, you guys. – Jimmy Fallon
If I had another life, I’d keep my company private; life is tough when you IPO.- Alibaba CEO Jack Ma, who made more than $20 billion in one day when his company went public in September 2014, speaking at the New York Economic Club
Hillary Clinton has joined Instagram. Meanwhile, her Democratic opponent Bernie Sanders joined telegram. – Seth Myers
Yahoo! announced last week that after eight years of operation it’s shutting down Yahoo! Maps. Also announced this week — there’s something called Yahoo! Maps. – Jimmy Fallon
Yesterday Palestinian President Abbas called for the labeling and boycotting of Israeli products. This is definitely not the language of peace. I say that to the foreign minister of a free proud and independent Poland, on whose soil the defamation of the Jewish people happened when the Nazis controlled Europe. The attacks on the Jews were always preceded by the slander of the Jews. What was done to the Jewish people then is being done to the Jewish state now. We won’t accommodate that. In those days we could do nothing. - Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu during a meeting with Polish Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna
Jeb Bush is taking his presidential campaign on a tour of Europe. He’s telling Europeans, “I like you guys because you’re comfortable having the same family in charge for centuries.”- Conan O’Brien
I will be the greatest jobs president that G-d ever created. I tell you that. – Donald Trump announcing that he is seeking the 2016 Republican nomination
Remember, Obamacare really kicks in in ‘16. 2016. Obama’s gonna be out playing golf. He might even be on one of my courses. I would invite him, I actually would say it. I have the best courses in the world so I’d say, you know, what if he wants to? I have one right next to the White House. Right on the Potomac. If he’d like to play, that’s fine. In fact, I’d love him to leave early and play.- Ibid, while discussing the future of Obamacare
I will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons. And we won’t be using a man like Secretary Kerry that has absolutely no concept of negotiation, who’s making a horrible and laughable deal, who’s just being tapped along as they make weapons right now and then goes into a bicycle race at 72-years-old and falls and breaks his leg. I won’t be doing that. And I promise, I will never be in a bicycle race — that I can tell you. – Ibid
A new study says that chimpanzees occasionally drink too much fermented palm sap, which causes them to act drunk. Researchers could tell the chimps were drunk when one of them suggested karaoke. – Jimmy Fallon
In California, a 99-year-old grandmother has fulfilled her dream of graduating college. The tough part now is that she has to go to job interviews where they ask her, “Where do you see yourself in five years?” – Conan O’Brien
In a recent interview, Vladimir Putin said that despite any conflicts, the West has no need to be afraid of Russia—although keep in mind that Putin said that as he was petting a tank. – Jimmy Fallon
I’m a free person and I’m fighting for freedom. The last thing I’m going to do is go into hiding. - Pamela Geller, on 1010 WINS, after an ISIS sympathizer disclosed her home address on Twitter and urged followers to go there and kill her
When you see her on a stage or when she come into a room full of people, she’s smiling with her mouth, but her eyes are saying, “Where’s my latte?” It just doesn’t suggest that she believes everything she’s saying.- Mitt Romney on MSNBC, discussing Hillary Clinton
A federal court has ruled that the U.S. Postal Service must reduce its stamp prices. The change in stamp prices is expected to affect as many as seven Americans.- Conan O’Brien
Over the weekend, Hillary Clinton supported raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour. She said every American should be able to afford to attend one of her speeches. – Conan O’Brien
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Charles Krauthammer
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Political Crossfire
The Republican nominating race is a mess: a strong field, but with
10 declared candidates and a half-dozen more to come, we need a bouncer to keep order.
I’ve given myself the job. Rope lines separate the four categories.
(A) Top tier:1. Jeb Bush. Solid, no sizzle. Sizzle
may be in less demand than eight years ago, but his inability to separate from the pack, his recent campaign shakeup and his four-day stumble over Megyn Kel-ly’s “knowing what we know now” Iraq question have given even his supporters
pause. Nonetheless, a bulging war chest, a fine gubernatorial record and a wide knowledge of domestic issues guarantee top-tier staying power.
Chances: 25 percent.2. Scott Walker. Maintains a signifi-
cant lead in Iowa and it’s more than just a Wisconsinite’s favorite-son advantage. He’s got a solid governing record, has raised respectable money and has gone almost errorless for more than a month. One caveat: His major wobble on im-migration threatens his straight-shooter persona.
Chances: 25 percent.3. Marco Rubio. Good launch, steady
follow-up. With his fluency in foreign affairs, has benefited the most from Pres-ident Obama’s imploding foreign policy. Polls well, but with seven or so within the margin of error, the important ques-tion is less “Who do you support?” than “Who could you support?” (measuring general acceptability). Rubio leads all with 74 percent. The New York Times’ comical attempts to nail him on driving (four citations in 18 years – “Arrest that man!”) and financial profligacy (a small family fishing boat characterized as a “luxury speedboat”) only confirm how much the Democrats fear his prospects.
Chances: 35 percent.(B) Polls well, but can’t win.4. Rand Paul. Fought a principled, if
hyperbolic, fight on metadata collection and privacy rights, but his ambivalent national-security posture alienates many in the GOP base. Consistently ranks among the leaders in the polls and is the most successful libertarian ever, but lib-ertarianism is still far from becoming a governing or majority persuasion. High floor, low ceiling.
5. Ben Carson. Ditto. Broadly pop-ular, but major rookie problems. His national finance chairman, deputy cam-paign manager and general counsel have all resigned within the past month. And while Obama showed that rookies can win, we haven’t elected a nonpolitician since 1952 – and that guy won World War II.
(C) Second tier, with a chance to jump.
6. Ted Cruz. Candidate on the cusp. Has the best chance to join the leaders. Only 16 percent “would never vote for.” His claimed $40 million raised (cam-paign plus super PACs) suggests a seri-ous presence throughout the early con-tests at least.
Chances: 5 percent.7. John Kasich. My personal long-
shot wild card. Jack Kemp on steroids, a bleeding-heart conservative, articulate and voluble, but somewhat less disci-plined than Kemp. Which can be a prob-lem. It’s entertaining when he says, “I’m
not going to have Bush money; Wells Fargo doesn’t have Bush money,” but not when implying that if your policies don’t match his on the Kasich compassion in-dex, you have no heart.
Chances: 3 percent.8. Carly Fiorina. Has proved strong
and steady on the campaign trail. The question is: Can you reach enough of Iowa and New Hampshire with just a car and a clipboard? To jump, she needs to get into the debates. But to get into the debates, she needs to jump (to the top 10 in the polls). Catch-22.
Chances: 2 percent.(D) Second tier, in need of a miracle.9. Rick Perry. Energetic launch.
Spoke well, looked good. He’s learned that you don’t run for president right after back surgery and that you need an answer to “Why are you running?” His 2011 statement that his wife said to him “get out of your comfort zone” (as gover-nor) was the worst since Teddy Kennedy had none at all in 1979. After four years of studying and prepping, Perry looks ready. Achilles’ heel: After his 2011 “oops” moment, he is on 24-hour gaffe watch.
10. Chris Christie. Damaged by Bridgegate, boxed out (ideologically) by Bush. Shows guts in openly advocating entitlement reform. It’s a gamble because that’s what voters say they want, but rare-ly vote for.
11. Mike Huckabee. A dead-set-against-entitlement-reform populist. Major social conservative ap-peal, but given the leftward ratcheting of the nation’s cultural center, it may be less of an asset, even in the GOP primaries, than in 2008.
I’ve done no justice to Lindsey Gra-ham, Bobby Jindal and Rick Santorum, all eminently likable and highly quali-fied, but yet to make their move. If they do, The Racing Form will be there.
(c) 2015, The Washington Post Writ-ers Group
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A common misconception about the Confederacy during the C i v i l
War was that all the soldiers and politicians were Southern pro-slav-ery Christians. In reality, many soldiers from a variety of nation-alities and reli-gions served under General Robert E. Lee. These in-cluded men of Eastern Europe-an backgrounds, Irish, Hispanics, Chinese in the Louisiana infantry, and yes, thousands of African-Ameri-cans. Not all of the men were pro-slav-ery either, as most historians will tell you that the war wasn’t about slavery—it was about state’s rights and secession
from the Union. Fighting for this cause were about three thousand Jews who were welcomed by Lee into his army.
There are some disputes as to the actual number of Jewish Confederates as the estimates are as high as 10,000. However, the most widely accepted number is 3,000 but we may never know for sure as the record keeping for the
Civil War didn’t include the soldiers’ religion or even listed all of the men in a
particular unit. The largest communi-ties in the U.S. at the time were in Charleston, South Carolina, and in Louisiana.
The Virginia Military Institute has been called the West Point of South. Before the Civil War no Jew-ish cadet had at-tended the school but that changed in 1862. Moses Ezekiel from Rich-mond, Virginia, entered the Class of 1866. By that
time the war was over but that didn’t mean that he didn’t see any fighting.
The Army of the Potomac under General U.S. Grant wanted to press the Confederates into surrendering during the spring of 1864. A Union force was sent into the Shenandoah Valley, Vir-ginia. The Confederates were desperate to get rid of the Union in Virginia and sent 4,000 men to fight in the Battle of New Castle. Among these soldiers were cadets from the Virginia Military Academy who marched the 80 miles to the battlefield. Ezekiel took part in this battle and was wounded. After he recovered, Ezekiel took part in the de-fense of Richmond before the Confed-erates surrendered in 1865. He graduat-ed the academy a year later and moved to Europe. Ezekiel became a world fa-mous sculptor and sculpted a statue for six cadet classmates who were killed at the Battle of New Castle.
Prussian immigrant Major Adolph Proskauer was one of the highest-ranking Jewish
Confederates of the war and was not-ed for bravery on the battlefield. A res-ident of Mobile, Alabama, he enlisted in an independent rifle company before joining the 12th Alabama Infantry Regi-ment as a corporal. Many of the men in
the regiment came from Eastern Europe or were tough dockworkers and moun-tain men. This rough and tumble regi-ment was always short on rations but that hardly slowed them down.
Soon Proskauer received a commis-sion and replaced an outgoing major. His men looked up to him, and he worked hard to gain their trust. (As a side fact, he was regarded as the best dressed man in the regiment. This was tough as the Confederate Army uniforms were in short supply and most men wore homemade clothing.) The 12th Alabama Infantry fought in many battles includ-ing at Antietam and Gettysburg. At Antietam, the bloodiest day in Ameri-can history, Proskauer was wounded in the abdomen at a place called Bloody Lane. After recuperating, he returned to the regiment in time for the Battle of Fredericksburg and the Confederate’s
second foray into the North. During the Gettysburg campaign they fought at a place called Oak Ridge, northeast of the city, and suffered heavy casualties due to the commanding general’s poor lead-ership. The regiment made their way to Gettysburg in time for the fight on Culp’s Hill on the last day of the battle. Proskauer led them on gallant but vain charges up the hill and had to retreat when the main Confederate advance was halted during Pickett’s Charge. The regiment saw heavy fighting during the last two years of the war and Proskauer received his third wound of the war at the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse on May 8, 1864. That was the end of the war for him as the surgeon patched him up for a bullet that entered by his ear and exited by his neck.
Another officer wrote about him, “I
Forgotten HeroesAvi Heiligman
Fighting for the Confederacy
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can see him now as he nobly carried himself at Gettysburg, standing coolly and calmly with a cigar in his mouth at the head of the 12th Alabama amid a perfect rain of bullets, shot and shell. He was the personification of intrepid gallantry and imperturbable courage.”
The most famous Jewish Confed-erate wasn’t a soldier but a pol-itician. Judah P. Benjamin was
born in what are now the Virgin Islands, then occupied by the British during the Napoleonic Wars, and his family was descendants of Sephardic Jews that left during the Spanish Inquisition. Two years after he was born, Judah’s fam-ily moved to North Carolina to seek better fortunes. He attended Yale and became a lawyer, then a senator from Louisiana. When the war broke out, Benjamin resigned his post because Louisiana had seceded from the Union. He headed to New Orleans and was given the post of attorney general of the Confederate States of America by President Jefferson Davis. That posi-tion wasn’t that important because the Confederates had yet to set up a court system. Benjamin was a vital member of Davis’s cabinet and gave useful ad-
vice on how to finance the South. Soon he was made war secretary but wasn’t popular among some the generals. He then became the secretary of state for the remainder of the war. When the Confederate two dollar bill came out, Judah Benjamin became the only Jew to have his face on American currency.
Another Jewish officer at the Bat-tle of Gettysburg was South Carolinian Raphael J. Moses. As a major in the Confederate Army, he was commissary officer for General James Longstreet and a confidant of General Lee. His job was to feed and supply Longstreet’s corps and he did it without looting and pillaging the locals. Lee called him “the best commissary officer of like rank in the Confederate service.” His son, Al-bert Moses Luria, was the first Confed-erate Jew killed in battle after attempt-ing to throw a live artillery shell out of the trenches. He saved many lives with his actions but paid the ultimate price. Interestingly, his cousin, Joshua Lazarus Moses, was the last Confed-erate Jew killed during the war during the defense of Mobile, Alabama, on the day Lee surrendered. Moses’ two other sons served with distinction during the war. After the war he was elected to the House of Representatives for Georgia and served as Chair of the Judiciary
Committee.Simon Baruch emigrated from Prus-
sia when he was only fifteen and moved to South Carolina. He went to medical school and joined the 3rd South Carolina Battalion as a phy-sician. During the Battle of Gettys-burg, he was one of three surgeons to stay behind to care for wounded soldiers. Union troops captured him—the second time during the war he became a POW—but freed him soon after. Towards the end of the war he became surgeon general of the Confederacy. After the war, Baruch continued prac-ticing medicine and was an advocate for sanitation and hygiene. (During the Civil War, many soldiers contracted diseases because doctors didn’t know that germs were spread with dirty hands bandages and tools.)
These are just some of the men who served the Confederates during the Civil War. Many others also have interesting stories to tell including all Jewish companies that fought together
for the length of the war. Today, most of the Southern Jewish communities are gone but the sacrifices they made for the South are still evident. Sadly, there were no medals for bravery in battle
and many Jewish soldiers weren’t pro-moted due to anti-Semitism. Some of their stories are forgotten because no one wrote them down but these are he-roes whose sacrifices, albeit for a losing cause, won’t be forgotten.
Avi Heiligman is a weekly contributor to The Jewish Home. He welcomes your comments and suggestions for future columns and can be reached at [email protected].
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Restaurant ReviewAlex Idov
Lively Mediterranean music sets a relaxing tone and serenades the soul as you sit on the bleached board-
walk-floored lounge of The Surf Room, Long Beach’s new premier kosher restaurant. Located inside the Long Beach Hotel, The Surf Room is a hidden gem of fresh and flavor-ful kosher culinary classics of North African and Southern European influence. A light ocean breeze whispers through the windows, causing the decorative seashell wind chimes to dance calmly and lyrically, adding to the serene seaside background that complements the extraordinary modern Mediterranean food
The Surf Room opened in September of 2014 and has since been amazing customers with the culinary creations of continental chef, Chef Lazairo—including their 16 oz. prime rib, pan-seared veal chops, grilled baby lamb chops, whole baked bronzino, baby mahi mahi, and a variety of beef and chicken kebabs. They even boast a refreshing and original cocktail menu with exciting drinks like the blood orange mimosa, cucumber-gin martini, and strawberry and basil amore. Apple cobbler with parve vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce, chocolate soufflé, vanilla bean “cheese-cake,” and a cake-pop trio are among the decadent options to end the meal on an extraordinary sweet note. All of their exquisite dishes are prepared from the freshest, locally sourced ingredients and are prepared in-house daily lending to a gastronomic experience you will be sure to remember.
My meal began with two outstanding appetizers: the lamb meatballs and one of the best spring rolls I have ever enjoyed on my culinary adventures. The meatballs are perfectly spiced with a delicate blend of exotic North African spices, with flavors reminiscent of Algerian kefta (and somewhat of falafel) and are perfectly balanced with a drizzle of mild, refreshing creamy cucumber mint sauce. The flavors meld beautifully to create a grand start to this
meal. I can’t even describe how delicious the spring roll was—stuffed with chicken, avocado, and cilantro, fried to a light, golden crisp, and drizzled with date syrup and saf-fron aioli; so simple but utter, pure deliciousness. The Surf Salad was a pleasantly refreshing palate-teaser, with light tones of lime and a hint of shaved coconut. I recommend following this up with the lamb chops or rotisserie lamb kebabs, which are rubbed with fresh herbs and skewered and roasted with colorful peppers and onions. I am a pat-sy for presentation and really appreciated the lamb being de-skewered onto a plate of lush, fresh greens—right in front of my own eyes. Of course, it’s the taste that mat-ters most—and that impressed most. The kebabs are packed with subtle, but flavorful Mediterranean tones, creating a burst of awesome flavor. The meat is succulent and juicy on the inside and lightly crisp on the outside and simply melts in your mouth. My meal finished off with a decadent dark chocolate dome cake served with parve vanilla ice cream and a sweet berry compote.
The Surf Room offers a full dinner menu, as well as a lounge menu and prix fixe options available throughout the week. Be sure and visit during an exciting summer week-end, when you can enjoy surfing competitions and more just across the street.
The Surf Room is under the Vaad of South Shore (Rab-bi Chaim Wakslak). Located at 405 East Broadway, Long Beach, NY. (516)544-4755.
Alex Idov, the Kosherologist, is a food blogger who runs the blog “Kosherology” and is a contributing food columnist for numerous Jewish publications across the U.S. He is currently attending Ken-nesaw State University near Atlanta, Georgia, for his bachelor’s degree in Culinary Sustainability and Hospitality. Visit his website at www.thekosherologist.com.
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Naomi Nachman, the owner of The Aussie Gourmet, caters weekly and Shabbat/Yom Tov meals for families and individuals within The Five Towns and neighboring communities, with a specialty in Pesach catering. Naomi is a contributing editor to this paper and also produces and hosts her own weekly radio show on the Nachum Segal Network stream called “A Table for Two with Naomi Nachman.” Naomi gives cooking presentations for organizations and private groups throughout the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan area. In addition, Naomi has been a guest host on the QVC TV network and has been featured in cookbooks, magazines as well as other media covering topics related to cuisine preparation and personal chefs. To obtain ad-ditional recipes, join The Aussie Gourmet on Facebook or visit Naomi’s blog. Naomi can be reached through her website, www.theaussiegourmet.com, or at (516) 295-9669.
In The KitchenNaomi Nachman
Pulled brisket can be braised in advance – allow total 5 hours for cooking and prep time. While your brisket cooks, prepare the fritters and jicama slaw. Left over brisket will also be delicious in a sandwich with some left over jicama slaw.
Yield: 10 appetizers
PULLED BRISKET TOPPINGNote: brisket will yield lots of extra topping and
can be used for future use. Place in a zip lock bag and freeze.
Ingredients1 (3-4 pound) second-cut brisket2 tablespoons Pereg BBQ spice mix 1 cup BBQ sauce (I prefer Sweet Baby Ray’s)1 cup red wine
DirectionsPreheat oven to 325 degrees.Liberally season the brisket with the spice mix on
both sides, rubbing to coat evenly. Place in brisket in roasting pan.
Pour BBQ sauce over the top of the meat; then add the wine.
Cover the pan very tightly with foil and bake for 4 hours. To prevent meat from drying out, check to make sure there is some liquid left in the pan after three hours of cooking time. If the meat is dry, add a little more water or wine to the pan.
After four hours, remove meat from oven; cool for half hour. Drain the meat from the liquid and use a fork or your fingers to shred the brisket apart. Set pulled brisket aside.
CORN FRITTERSIngredients1½ cups corn flour*1½ teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper 4 tablespoons margarine1 cup almond milk 1 tablespoon honey 2 cups fresh or frozen corn kernels 2 egg yolks 3 egg whitesCanola oil for frying
DirectionsWhisk together the corn flour, baking powder, salt
and cayenne pepper in a large bowl; set aside. In a small saucepan, heat the margarine, almond
milk and honey over medium heat until the margarine is melted and mixture is well blended. Remove from heat; cool mixture slightly. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and stir in the milk mixture, 2 egg yolks, and corn.
In a separate, clean, dry bowl, use an electric mixer to beat egg whites until they are stiff and hold their shape. Gently fold them into the corn mixture until completely incorporated.
Heat a large non-stick skillet or griddle over me-dium-high heat. Add 1-2 tablespoons oil, swirling to coat pan. When hot, spoon batter (about ¼ cup mea-sure per fritter) in mounds onto the skillet, spacing at least 1 inch apart – make as many in each batch as will comfortably fit in the pan. Cook the corn cakes until browned on the bottom, then flip the corn cakes with a spatula and cook on the other side until light-
ly browned - about 1 minute per side. Transfer corn cakes to a platter; repeat with remaining batter.
*Note: Corn flour is not the same as cornmeal; it is very finely ground corn. I use Bob’s Red Mill brand, which can be found online or locally at Gourmet Glatt.
JICAMA SLAWIngredients1 large jicama, peeled and cut into large chunks ½ small head purple cabbage1 small jalapeno, seeds and ribs removed ½ bunch cilantro or parsley leaves
DirectionsDressingJuice of 3 limes1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1 teaspoon sugar ½ teaspoon chili powder3 tablespoons olive oil
DirectionsIn a food processor, shred the jicama, cabbage, and
jalapeno.Place the shredded vegetables into a medium bowl;
set aside. In separate small bowl, whisk together all dressing
ingredients until well blended. Pour dressing over the vegetables at least 1 hour before serving. Toss to blend and coat with dressing.
AssemblyPlace a warm corn fritter on an appetizer plate.
Place a heaping spoonful of warmed brisket on the frit-ter, then top with the jicama slaw, mounding to build some height on the appetizer. Repeat with remaining ingredients. Garnish each plate with thin slice of lime.
I am constantly striving to develop new recipes for appetizers for my family and guests, as well as
for my catering business. In addition to being tasty, I want the dishes to look scrumptious as well
– since, as the expression goes, “you eat with your eyes”. The combination of the corn with the pulled
beef and jicama result in a terrific marriage of flavors, as well as also being “pretty”. Even though
three separate recipes are required to create this dish, it is totally worth the effort.
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80 Great Kosher FoodElan Kornblum
MINI LAMB & BEEF SLIDERS WITH SHREDDED BEEF TINGAby Chef Nir Weinblut, La Gondola (Los Angeles, CA)
This recipe was reprinted from the 2015 Edition of Great Kosher Restaurants Magazine.Elan Kornblum, a.k.a. “The Restaurant Guy,” is the publisher of Great Kosher Restaurants International Magazine and its accompanying web-
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SHREDDED BEEF TINGAIngredients3-4 lbs. of fatty brisket (second cut is the best for this dish)1 tsp kosher salt1 tsp freshly ground black pepper 3 TBS canola oil2 red onions, cut into thick slices ½ inch2 carrots, cut into ¼ 3 ribs celery, cut to ¼ 1 TBS fresh garlic2 cups red wine1 tsp onion powder1 tsp fresh thyme5 cups veal stock3 TBS tomato paste
DirectionsIf the brisket is too large, cut the brisket into two even size pieces. Rub the
brisket with salt and pepper, onion powder, fresh garlic and thyme. Heat oil in a large skillet and sear the meat on both sides over medium heat.
Place the vegetables on the bottom of a roasting pan, large enough to hold the brisket, liquids and vegetables. Remove the seared brisket and place over the vegetables. Pour the wine over the meat. Add 3 cups veal stock and also pour into the roasting pan.
Cover the pan and place it in the preheated oven at 350°F. Cook for about 3 ½ -4 hours. Once meat is tender, remove from the roasting pan and pull brisket apart with a fork or your hands. Take the liquid and vegetables from the roasting pan and pour into a large blender or food processor. Puree until fine.
With the remaining two cups of veal stock, dilute the tomato paste and add to the pureed liquid. Heat a large skillet; pour the combined liquid and the pulled beef. Bring to a boil and reduce to a low heat for about 45 minutes. If you like to thicken sauce, you can add some of the roux, if not, you are ready to eat.
LAMB & BEEF SLIDERSIngredients1 lb. ground beef1 lb. ground lamb1 TBS chopped fresh Italian parsley 1 tsp chopped fresh dill 4 tsp chopped garlic1 tsp salt1 tsp white pepper1 ½ tsp cumin
DirectionsCombine all ingredients in a cold mixing bowl until they are properly mixed
together. Form the mixture into 12 even portions about ½ inch thick. Place on a sheet pan and place in the fridge for about 1 hour. Cook them on a pre-heated BBQ or grill. I recommend to grill them medium.
MINI SLIDER BUNSIngredients1 cup warm water2 TBS margarine 1 TBS melted margarine1 large egg3 ½ cups unbleached all-purpose flour¼ cup sugar1 ¼ tsp salt1 TBS instant yeast1 TBS poppy or sesame seeds
DirectionsPour water, sugar and yeast first into a mixer, mix, and pour the rest of the
ingredients. Knead the dough until it is soft and smooth. Make sure the dough does not stick to the side of the mixing bowl. Remove the dough from the mixer, cover and let it rise for 1 to 2 hours, or until it’s nearly doubled in size. If it is in a warm area in the kitchen, it will need less time. Gently deflate the dough, and divide it into 24 even pieces. Shape each piece into a round ball. Place the buns on a lightly greased or parchment-lined baking sheet, flatten the buns with your hand or another pan so they are flat. Cover the buns, and let rise for another 45-60 minutes. You will notice how they have puffed up again.
Brush the buns with the melted margarine and sprinkle with poppy seeds or sesame. Bake the buns in a preheated 375°F oven for 12-16 min-utes until golden. Remove them from the oven and let them cool. Once cooled, you are ready to slice them up and stuff with our pulled beef.
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To make an appointment please call/text 516-712-7735
VIOLIN LESSON- IN YOUR HOME5 Town area
Beginners to advanced Call Eric 516 359 3801
Kosher” Yoga & Licensed Massage Therapy
Peaceful Presence Studio436 Central Avenue, Cedarhurst
Separate men/womenGroup/private sessions, Martial Arts...
Gift Cards Availablewww.peacefulpresence.com 516-371-3715
Keep Calm and Get Organized!Organizer. home. closet. playroom. kitchen.
garage. Call today to get started- Special Low Rates -
Call Miriam 347-684-0338
Photos 4 your SimchaProfessional Photography and Video
We love what we do and it shows in our work! Competitively priced!
Check out our website & specials.www.photos4yoursimcha.com
or call Yaakov 718-868-1800
Struggling with Shalom Bayis?The Shalom Bayis Hotline 732-523-1112
Caring rabbanim answering your questions for free.
So far very positive results BS’D!
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE
LAWRENCE: Gracious & Spacious 9BR, 4.5 Bath CH Colonial, Lg Eik, Banquet Sized Formal DR & Formal LR, Den, Full Finished Basement, Set On 1/2 Acre,
Prime Location...$1.199M - Call Carol Braunstein (516) 295-3000
www.pugatch.com
NORTH WOODMERE Largest split made 5 BR 2 1/2 Bath. Walk to all Renovated throughout. 2 car Garage with built in work station. New AC, paint & rugs. Tons of
room and storage, finished basement with AC. Custom fire place. Move in condition 799k
(917) 749-8266 owner
WOODMERE: 2 Family House In Prime Location, 5BR, 3 Full
Baths, Den, Hardwood Floors Throughout, New Roof & More, Near All, SD#14…$625K -
Call Carol Braunstein (516) 295-3000 www.pugatch.com
NORTH WOODMERE: Price Reduced!!! Spacious & Bright 4BR Brook-field Split, 3 Full Baths, Eik, Formal DR, Lower
Level Den W/Brick Mantle & Fplc, Lg Bedrooms All On One Floor, SD#15…$659K
Call Carol Braunstein (516) 295-3000 www.pugatch.com
*CONDO FOR SALE: WOODMERE: CEDAR GLEN – Sunny & Updated
3BR, 2.5 Bath Townhouse, LR, Formal DR, Eik, High Ceilings, Full Basement, CAC, Deck, IG-Pool
& Tennis Court...$379K Call Carol Braunstein (516) 295-3000
www.pugatch.com
NORTH WOODMERE SD #15Large 3,752 SF High Ranch on a quiet Cul-de-Sac. 5+ BR, 3 baths, renovated kitchen, windows, c/a/c, roof, & more. 2 car garage. 799K
Open House 6/21 11-2PM464 Golf Court 516 841-6482
WOODMERE: Lovely 4BR Exp-Ranch on O/S Property, Eik, LR,
FDR, Den, Many Updates…$499K Call Carol Braunstein (516) 295-3000
www.pugatch.com
WOODMERE$699,000. RE Taxes with Basic Star = $11,987
Walk Numerous Shuls. Step into the splendor of this captivating 5 bedroom, 4 full bath jewel.
All redone, inside and outside. Upgraded, Updated, Upsized and Awaiting your
Indulgence. SS, Granite, EIK. Perfect for the Discerning Homeowner.
Call or text today for private showing, C. Slansky, Broker: 516-655-3636
FSBO WOODMERE Beautiful 4BR, 2.5Bath, colonial, move-in ready. EIK, LR, DR, Den, basement. Best block, SD15, low-taxes, NOflood-zone, walk to Cedarhurst/
Woodmere Shuls, LIRR. $799k. 516-724-1175
COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE
INVESTMENT PROPERTY FOR SALEINWOOD Commercial mixed use building + Lot. Private parking, corner property, high traffic area 1st floor offices, 2nd floor: 2 Apts. Asking 849k.
Call 212-470-3856 Yochi @ WinZone Re
CEDARHURST: 500-3000 +/- SF Professional Office Space
Available in the Heart Of Cedarhurst, For LeaseCall for More Details - (516) 295-3000
CEDARHURST: 1,000 +/- SF Retail Store in Heart of Cedarhurst,
For Lease $2,500/Mo...Call Lori for More Details - (516) 295-3000
EAST ROCKAWAY:
5,000 +/- SF Warehouse W/Offices & Parking, 12’ Ceilings, OH Door, For Lease...
Call Alan for More Details - (516) 295-3000
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LAWRENCE: 6,000 +/- SF Retail Store On Central Ave, Rare
Opportunity, Won’t Last!!! For Lease... Call Ian for More Details - (516) 295-3000
OCEANSIDE: 1,500 +/- SF Retail Store On Long Beach Rd,
Great Location, For Lease... Call Randy For More Details - (516) 295-3000
WOODMERE: Follow The Leader To Woodmere, Now Is The
Time To Act!!! No Metered Parking, Various Spaces Available, For Sale/Lease... Call For More
Details -(516) 295-3000
REAL ESTATE FOR RENT2 & 3 bedroom. Newly renovated,
Washer and dryer hook up Granite countertopsOn Seagirt Avenue
More info call or text 917-602-2914
4 BEDROOM, 3 BATHROOM SINGLE FAMILY CONDO
$2,500 / monthNewly renovated, newly refinished hardwood floors throughout entire house, living room,
dining room, large eat in kitchen with pantry, lots of windows, new porcelain flooring, laundry room with washer / dryer, garage, backyard with
space for sukkah, access to communal pool, Central Air/heat, parking space, Near Darchei and beach. Call / txt 323-314-8773 or email
FAR ROCKAWAYNear BBY (top location) 2 bedroom apartmentIdeal for a couple or 2-3 Shomer Shabbos girlsSpecial Discounts for Kollel or Yeshiva students
Please call 516 225 [email protected]
WOODMERE: APT IN HOUSETotally Renovated 2BR, 1.5 Bath Apt, Use of
Basement, Great Rental,SD#14...$2,500/mo Call Carol Braunstein (516) 295-3000
www.pugatch.com
FAR ROCKAWAYNear BBY (top location)2 bedroom on 2nd floor
Ideal for a couple or 2-3 Shomer Shabbos girlsPlease call 516 225 4558
Email: [email protected]
INWOOD 2 Bedroom Apt. for rent
Sheridan blvd /Solomon Av. with private parking. Call for info 212-470-3856
Yochi @ WinZone Realty
INWOOD Newly built home in Inwood for rent beginning August 1st. Frum neighbors, 1 block from LIRR, 4 bedrooms, 3 full baths, fully kosher kitchen (2 sinks, 2 dishwashers), living room, dining room, family room, nice backyard. call 917-975-1800
for more information.
Cedarhurst Apartment Share Available for Frum Female
2 bedroom apartment in lovely area, 2nd floor of house. Shomer Shabbat, kosher &
pet friendly. $800 monthly + security Please call: (917) 330-5470
HELP WANTED
Male General Studies 6th Grade Teacher for Sept. ‘15. M-Th afternoons
5 Towns area boys’ schoolEmail [email protected]
QUEENS YESHIVA SEEKS WARM, ENTHUSIASTIC TEACHERS FOR ELEMENTARY GRADES.
Mon-Thurs. 1:30-4:30. 718-969-1000 ext 105 or 917-742-8909 or
Bais Yaakov in Far Rockaway seeking preschool and elementary teachers and
assistant teachers for the coming school year Please send resume to [email protected]
COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE
MILKY FORST PROPERTIES INC. 420 Central Ave., Cedarhurst NY 11516
Avrohom "Avi" Sobel Licensed Real Estate Salesperson
Office: 516.239.0306 Cell: 347.524.6530
Email: [email protected] milkyforstproperties.com
Milky Forst ProPerties inc.
420 central ave., cedarhurst, ny 11516
Avrohom “Avi” SobelLicensed Real Estate Salesperson
Office: 516.239.0306Cell: 347.524.6530
Email: [email protected]
REAL ESTATE FOR RENT
4 Houses. Brnd New Construction. 4 rs. 5BR, 3 full bths + 2 half bths. EIK, LR/DR, den area off kit. Lndry on 2nd r. Full bsmnt w/ half bath. 4th oorhas prvte brs and bth. Prvte drvwy. Call Chaya Moller for a showing. 516-506-3347$625K
Charming, updated home on oversized lot. Granite EIK, SS appl,hrdwd rs, n. bsmnt w/ wine cellar. Lrg shop/office permitted on premises. Many possibilities. Call Sherri 516-297-7995$545K
Young, legal, 2 family semi-detached, 3 over 4 bdrms. 5 full bths.1st r is a duplex w/ a huge eat in kitchen w/ radiant heat. Large mstr bdrm with bath. W/D hookup in both apts. Call Sherri 516-297-7995 $699K
APARTMENT RENTALSFAR ROCKAWAY
COMING SOON!NEW! Residential Office on
Central Avenue across from Seasons!Looking to hire agents for
our NEW office!
Plainview Ave.
Far Rockaway
322 Felter Ave., Hewlett
OPEN HOUSE 6/21 12PM-2PM
HELP WANTED HELP WANTED
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Physical Therapist Assistants (PTA’s) & Occupational Therapists Assistants (COTA’s)
For 200+ bed Nursing Home in QueensMust have Hospital or Nursing Home
experiencePlease email resume to [email protected]
NURSING SECRETARY FULL TIMEFor 200+ bed Nursing Home in Queens.
Must have prior Hospital or Nursing Home as well as bookkeeping experience
Please email resume to [email protected]
5Towns Boys Elementary School seeking TEACHERS AND
MIDDLE SCHOOL ELA TEACHERCompetitive pay and excellent working
environmentSend resume to [email protected].
NURSING SECRETARY FULL TIMEFor 200+ bed Nursing Home in Queens.
Must have prior Hospital or Nursing Home as well as Bookkeeping experience.
Please email resume to [email protected]
Growing Sephardic Brooklyn Girls Elementary School
Seeks for the upcoming school year:• A dynamic and creative grade 5 Limudei
Kodesh Morah For an Ivrit b’Ivrit class• General Studies teachers who are Certified for
Pre-1A, Grades 2 and 5• Minimum 2 years experience required
• Excellent Salary, BenefitsEmail resume: [email protected]
Professional Shaitel Macher in Far Rockaway looking for part time / full time help.
Please call or text 347 409 6907
Seeking a warm, capable Preschool Teacher for Preschool in Port Washington (near
Great Neck) Good pay, beautiful facility and atmosphere. Please email your resume
GENERAL STUDIES JH MATH AND MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHERS FOR SEPT. ‘15.
M-Th afternoons. 5 Towns area boys’ schoolEmail [email protected]
Due to demand, The Ganger Early Childhood Center of Torah Academy for Girls is seeking a
warm, experienced Pre-School Teacher for its newly opened nursery class for the
September 2015 school term. Please fax resume to 718-868-4612
or email [email protected].
LOOKING FOR A REGISTERED NURSE to work part time (3 hrs/wk) with adults who
have developmental disabilities. Strong health assessment skills needed. Current NYS RN license
and a minimum of 2 years of post graduate hospital experience required
Contact OHEL Bais Ezra 718-686-3102 or email resume to [email protected] to apply.
FULL TIME RESIDENCE MANAGER to work in a residence with men with
developmental disabilities. Responsibilities include supervising all aspects of client
care, programming, staffing, and facilities management. Bachelor’s and experience working
in this field required.Contact OHEL Bais Ezra 718-686-3102 or email your resume to [email protected] to apply
CATAPULT LEARNINGTeachers for Title I in Boro Park and
Williamsburg Chassidic boys schools*College/Yeshiva Degree Required
*Strong desire to help children learn*Excellent organizational skills
*Small group instruction*Competitive salaryEmail resume: [email protected]
Fax# (718) 381-3493
MISC.Discounted tickets to Six Flags Great Adventure Theme Park And Safari
Valid for any operating day for only $40Contact Yehoshua @ 917- 923-0011
Looking for donation of car or minivan in good running condition.
Tax exempt receipt available for full market value. Please call 347-342-8196
YNM/5towns Sheital Gemach is in desperate need of wig donations.
Anyone who has wigs/falls they no longer need- There are many women who you can
make very happy. Tizku l’mitzvos! Please contact 347-408-8354 for details.
TJH ClassifiedsHELP WANTEDHELP WANTED
DUE TO EXPANSION, TORAH ACADEMY FOR GIRLS IN FAR ROCKAWAY IS SEEKING TO FILL THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS.Pre-School: Qualified, experienced teacher for newly opened nursery class. Assistant positions also availableElementary: Limudei Kodesh- qualified, experienced morosElementary: General Studies- qualified, experienced teachers for first and fifth gradeJunior High: Limudei Kodesh- qualified, experienced moros, grades 6-8Junior High: General Studies- 6th grades all subjects, 7th grade math and Language Arts. Please fax resume to 718-868-4612 or email [email protected]
HELP WANTED
Very Spacious Exp-Split, 5 Flrs Of Living Space, 4BR, 3.5BA, Eik, Bsmt...$599K
Lovely 3BR, 2.5BA Split On O/S Ppty, Eik, Den, Low Taxes, SD#15…$645K
www.pugatch.com
Carol Braunstein Call or Text (516) 592-2206 [email protected]
Move Right In!!! Lovely Ranch In SD#14, 3BR, 2BA, Eik, FDR, Fin Bsmt…$518K
LOOKING TO BUY OR SELL? CALL ME TODAY! ! !
(516) 2 9 5 - 3 0 0 0
950 Broadway
Woodmere, NY 11598
BARRY PUGATCH
If You Are Interested In Buying, Selling Or Leasing Call The Local Commercial EXPERTS 516-295-3000
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Lovely Colonial, 4BR All On One Flr, 2.5BA, Fin Bsmt, Lox Taxes...$749K
CALL ME FOR A FREE MARKET ANALYSIS FOR
YOUR HOME!!!
C om me rc ia l Pro per ty FOR SAL E
3,300 +/- SF Building1 Story Office/RetailRight Off Atlantic Ave Mins To JFK & More
Many Upgrades Fantastic Location Mun ic ipa l Park ing Call Ian For Details!!!
HELP WANTED
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Allan J. Rolnick, CPA
Your Money
Who Won Most at Roland Garros?
For two weeks every spring, the tennis world focuses its atten-tion on Roland Garros, the Pari-
sian center that hosts the French Open. This year, fans yawned as the dominant Serena Williams cruised to her 20th career major title in the 2015 French Open, defeating the 13th-ranked Czech Lucie Safarova. On the men’s side, fans saw an actual contest, as the Swiss Stan Wawrinka used his devastating backhand to take his sec-ond major in four sets, up-setting top-ranked Novak Djokovic and denying him a career Grand Slam.
Both winners claimed €1.8 million, or about $2 million, in prize money. But does that mean they actually take home that much? Certainly not. You may have heard about this thing called “taxes” that eat into our bounty. So let’s take a look at what happens to those purses to see who really comes out ahead.
Playing professional tennis isn’t like signing a contract with a baseball or football team and collecting a guar-anteed salary. It’s more like running a small business whose “product” is winning tournaments. James Ward, currently ranked #101 in the world, put it well last year when he told Interna-tional Business Times, “It’s difficult . . . You’re paying your own expenses, your coach’s, you’re paying for your food, your hotel, your travel — for two people. And if you lose in the first round you’re getting $300, minus tax. It’s embarrassing. You’ve just got to win matches.”
James is exaggerating a little bit — first round losers at the French Open get €27,000 in addition to their walk of shame. And in Williams’s case, her coach is also her friend, which brings down the cost of her entourage a bit. But still, if you want to get rich play-ing tennis, you’ve got to be very, very good. The real money, as with so many sports, is in the endorsements.
France takes the first slice at French Open winnings, and it’s a big one. France’s top tax rate is 45%, which is actually down, from 75% just two years ago. It’s high enough that in-ternational athletes grumble about it
publicly. In fact, last year Serena told Rolling Stone magazine, “Seventy-five percent doesn’t seem legal. Nobody does anything because the government pays you to be broke. So why work?”
Then Williams comes home, and the IRS serves up a maximum rate of 39.6%, plus a Medicare tax of 3.8% on top of that. At least her home state of Florida doesn’t impose an income tax.
As for Wawrinka, who ranks fourth
in the world after this week’s win, he wins the Tax Bracket Open. He pays a maximum federal income tax of just 11.5% on income over SFr700,000. (That’s Swiss francs, for those of you keeping score at home — 700,000 Swiss francs equals about $658,000.) His home canton of Vaud (similar to a state government in Switzerland) and his hometown of St. Barthélemy lob more taxes at him. Total tax burdens in Switzerland can reach 40% depending on where you live. Even so, Wawrin-ka squeaks out ahead of Williams. (He may not “love” paying them, but at least he gets to pay a bit less.)
When it comes to tennis, how hard you hit the ball is important. But it also matters where you hit it, too. It works the same way with taxes. How much you make is key. But how you make it and even where you make it are im-portant, too. Serena Williams and Stan Wawrinka both have tennis coaches to help them win more tournaments. And they have tax coaches to help keep as much of what they win as possible. So don’t risk double-faulting against the IRS. Start planning now!
Allan J Rolnick is a CPA who has been in practice for over 30 yea rs in Queens, NY. He welcomes your com-ments and can be reached at 718-896-8715 or at [email protected].
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Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS
Life Coach
Someone Stole My Brain
Did your computer ever just shut down? Did your phone ever just not open? It’s kind of like your
car running out of gas in the middle of a six-lane highway. You’re stuck, and overwhelmed, and ready to crash!
We are all so loaded with in-formation. Yet we can easily lose access to it. And then…aaaahh—just the thought of it!
My friend told me her son just retired at age 25. Sounds young, huh? Most people that age are still looking for their first job. So, did he hit it rich you wonder?! The answer: he was a computer technician! Now you may think it’s horrible to see people in den-tal pain or in therapy coping with a life
crisis. Well, he said experiencing people in the intensity and trauma mode they went into when their computer somehow failed was so stressful he needed to re-group and start again. Can you relate to that?! Most people can. Everything is in that little box or a littler one.
Want to see my kids – where’s my phone?
Want to see my bank account – where’s my phone?
Want to see the weather outside – where’s my phone?
No one even thinks to just look outside anymore. And trust me that’s a surefire method to assess the weather.
We are so tied into our phones and computers. We’d
sooner leave our kid at home with some-one we just met than entrust our phone to them. Kids are resilient, made to last; phones break in a minute.
Without access, I can’t cook any-more; my recipes are in there. I can’t call anyone; my numbers are in there. I can’t go anywhere; my access to directions is in there. I can’t think anymore; my brain is in there!
We used to know where we were go-ing, what highway led to what highway. Now we follow blindly. If we wind up in a ditch, a dead end, or China, well, we just google “activities to do in a ditch, dead end or China.” What else can we do? We are not in control anymore. It’s not our fault we didn’t make it to the wedding. Google took me here, so this must be where I’m supposed to be! Wow, if we could just have that kind of faith in G-d!
We didn’t use to know as much. That’s true. Science, technology, medi-cine ... we are light years ahead. But turn off access and we are cavemen. We are storing everything instead of internaliz-ing it. We need to let more go in and stay in our heads rather than in our in-struments, otherwise we are all reduced to assistants and office managers for our appliances. In other words, light years ahead ... till there is a blackout, then we
are all in too much dark!So what’s the antidote? Put some
pictures in an album! Listen to the route you are taking, maybe even look at a map! You can even try to write a letter, rather than a text or email before you lose that skill!
Progress is not a bad thing unless it makes you regress. Expand, don’t just replace. Be multifaceted. That way our brains will still feel useful. And we may not get as down when our stuff goes down! Hey, who knows? Maybe my friend’s son may even be willing to go back to work.
My husband says soon our cars will be controlled by robotics. When they go down we will all be stuck in the mid-dle of nowhere without the ability to get anywhere and clueless as to where we are. So, just a thought, it might be worthwhile to still have some manual skills and a working mind to apply them.
Rivki Rosenwald is a certified relationship counselor and career and life coach. She can be contacted at 917-705-2004 or at [email protected]
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STAYING IN THE CITY THIS SUMMER-YOU CAN STILL...
AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE ROCKAWAY PENINSULAPOOL
COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE ROCKAWAY PENINSULA257 Beach 17th Street • Far Rockaway, New York 11691 • (718) 868-2300 ext 386
MEMBERSHIP: Families only will be allowed to sign up for membership. This includes all immediate unmarried family members only (no son-in-laws or grandchildren, cousins or other assorted relatives.) If you have a guest that you would like to use the pool, please use a pool pass.
FREE PASSES: • 5 passes for any full summer family membership.• 2 passes for any half summer family membership.• 2 passes for full summer individual membership• 1 pass for any half summer individual membership.Passes will be issued at the time of registration.
SUPERVISION: Once pool hours are over there will be no supervision. Please make sure to pick your children up on time
FOOD: No food or drink is allowed in the pool or pool area at any time.
BATHING CAPS- All women and girls are required to wear bathing caps. Bathing caps will be available for purchase at the pool.
WEATHER: In the event of a rainstorm, lightening or other weather related matter; the management reserves the right to close the pool for safety reasons. Any person or persons, who do not cooperate, will be asked to leave the pool premises. We will not refund for any weather related matter.
LOUNGE CHAIRS: There are a limited amount of lounge chairs available for deck use. Membership does not entitle you to a lounge chair. Please be advised that the chairs are given
REFUNDS: There are no Refunds.
First Session:June 21– July 16Second Session:July 27 – August 19Pool closed: July 7, July 16-26 (9 days)
INDIVIDUAL RATESFULL SUMMER: $175HALF SUMMER: $95
DAILY RATE Per Person
WEEKDAY: $10 • SUNDAY/HOLIDAY: $20
FAMILY RATEFULL SUMMER: $395HALF SUMMER: $295
POOL HOURS MENWOMENSUNDAY & HOLIDAYS*:MONDAY-THURSDAY:FRIDAY**:
9:45 AM-1:15 PM6:45 PM-8:15 PM ——
1:30 PM-5:00 PM4:20 PM-6:30 PM3:00 PM-5:30 PM
*6/21 Women 8:45am-11:30am Men 11:45am-2:30pm; Sundays include 6/21, 6/28, 7/12, 8/2, 8/9, 8/16**Friday, 7/3 Women 9:45am-1:15pm, Men 1:30pm-5:00pm
POOL LIGHTSFOR EVENING
SWIMMING
Includes Men & Women
ALL RULES WILL BE STRICTLY ENFORCED.
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