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PAGE 50IRAQ IN FLAMESAn Age-Old Conflict Intensifies
Yeshiva Darchei Torah Students Win Prestigious Science Competition
Yeshiva of Far Rockaway Celebrates its Annual Siyum
Madraigos Annual Breakfast Highlights its Vital Work for the Community
Golfing for Chesed at OHEL’s Omni Golf Classic
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PRAYER AND HOPE FOR THE THREE CAPTURED TEENS
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The Jean Fischman chabad cenTer oF The Five Towns presenTs:
Commemorating the 20th Yartzeit of
the LubavitCher rebbe rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson Ob"M
Tuesday, June 24, 2014 8:15 PM
The Jean Fischman chabad center of the Five Towns
74 maple ave., cedarhurst
For more information contact Chabad516-295-2478
www.Chabad5towns.com
ReflecTing on 20 yeaRs of
TiMeless leadeRshiP
rabbi ChaiM MiLLerauthor of turning JudaiSM OutwardSa new biography of the rebbe
rabbi chaim miller best known as the complier of the popular five-volume Gutnick chumash
and other popular works, has recently written a complete biography of the rebbe. chronicling his entire life in vivid detail from 1902 until 1994 and beyond. early reviews of the book, entitling Turning Judaism outward, have been very encouraging.
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Dear Readers,On Friday morning, when word spread that three yeshiva boys were taken captive by
Hamas in Israel, every person who heard the news shuddered over the tragedy. We all know the burning hatred Hamas has for our people, and we hope that Hashem will bring home the three boys safely and quickly.
On Sunday evening, my six year old son asked me to wake him when my husband came home from Maariv, but I forgot. In the morning, he showed his displeasure, and when I asked him what was so important, he told that he wanted to say Tehillim for the missing teenagers. He then urged my husband to write the names of the three boys on a paper for his rebbe, so that they can all say Tehillim for the boys’ recovery as a class.
My husband pointed out that his rebbe surely has the names of the boys, but my son in-sisted: this was his way of showing his care and concern for them. This was his way of doing something to aid in their return.
His words and insistence taught me a powerful lesson: we all must take action. We cannot don uniforms and ammunition and storm into Hebron searching for Naphtali,
Gil-Ad and Eyal. But we can storm the Heavens and beg Hashem for their freedom. We can join together and show Hashem how united we are in our tefillos for our brothers. We can learn a little more, show a little more patience, and be more careful with the mitzvos we do daily.
There is something that each of us can and should be doing to help bring Naphtali, Gil-Ad and Eyal back to their families and back to their people who love them and miss them.
May Hashem bring these wonderful boys back home quickly, safely and completely, and may we share in good news together as a klal.
Wishing you a wonderful week,Shoshana
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Dear Editor,I love reading your news section; I
find it interesting and concise and defi-nitely entertaining. This week, while reading the news, I was struck by the irony of the juxtaposition of two news stories. The first story highlighted the fact that the majority of children in America are unfit—a whopping 58%! The next story spoke about the craziness of state fairs—with unbelievable food-stuffs being offered.
I can’t imagine that it’s easy to stay healthy and fit when one is exposed to and encouraged to eat deep-fried Nutel-la and cream puffs while staring at but-ter sculptures. Joey Fish
Dear Editor,As many of your readers are aware,
loud music can have a permanent, dam-aging effect on hearing. The hairs of the inner ear that conduct sound are delicate, and once flattened by extreme noise, they do not regenerate. There are many reasons why, despite this aware-ness, babies and young children contin-ue to be brought to weddings. Babysit-ters are hard to come by, nursing babies
need to be near their mothers, etc. Valid reasons, yet the danger is real. After seeing yet another mother at a wedding holding her baby, we decided to start a gemach. We will be lending out noise cancelling headphones for babies—in-fants to 2 years old. Freshly purchased, these Baby Banz headphones are avail-able now for this wedding season. The gemach has two locations. Please call/text Miriam 917-545-3065 (Flatbush) or Rivky 718-309-3218 (Far Rockaway)Rivky Moseson
Dear Editor,When I heard the news of the three
missing boys in Eretz Yisroel, my heart fell and I was saddened. These three boys are someone’s children. They held them when they were crying, they fed them when they were hungry, they cud-dled them when they were sad. They laughed with them and taught them the sweetness of Torah, and spent time with them, discussing their friends, their thoughts, their joys.
When davening for Yaakov Nafta-li ben Rachel Devorah, Gilad Michael ben Bat Galim, and Eyal ben Iris Tesura keep in mind that they are someone’s
sweet children. Pray for their safe re-covery with the same fervent tefillos as their parents. We are all connected—we are all one—and when one is pained, we are all pained as well.
I hope that when Hashem sees how united we are, He will grant these boys their freedom and they should be re-turned to their families safe and un-harmed.Sandra Levi
Dear Editor,I am not an engineer or a student
of traffic patterns, but there must be a way to fix the 878 faster than a huge construction project. The plan that was highlighted in your paper this week seems extremely convoluted and te-dious. I am sure that someone who is familiar with traffic lights and traffic can propose a short term solution to help us alleviate the crazy traffic that bombards our community every single day. It’s not a normal thing to sit in traffic at 4pm on an average weekday just to get to the light by KAS Carpets. Something must be done. And fast. Chaim S. Weiss
Dear Editor,I was duly impressed to see your
feature on gifts for teachers. As a teach-er for many years, I often tell people that what’s most important after a wonderful year of teaching my students is the note of appreciation I receive from grateful parents highlighting their gratitude for how I helped their children grow and excel throughout the year. Interestingly, many times, the gifts or notes I receive are from parents whose children were well behaved and easy to reach during the year. The parents of those who caused the most problems sometimes don’t even acknowledge all the hard work and sleepless nights that I had over their child.
One of the most wonderful gifts I can receive is a note written to the prin-cipal of my school highlighting what their child liked about my class. I al-ways appreciate being noticed, especial-ly by my boss.
Many thanks for reminding your readers to show their appreciation for their hardworking teachers.
Wishing everyone a restful summer!G. H. Forest Hills, NY
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GlobalISIS Leader Was wU.S. Prisoner
The Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS) is a group so brutal that al Qae-da has disavowed it. Their new leader, it has been discovered, was once held prisoner by the United States.
The U.S. let him go from a detention camp in Iraq in 2009 and as he left, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi allegedly had some disturbing words for his captors: “I’ll
see you guys in New York.” Apparently, al-Baghdadi was a low-profile prisoner until that moment.
“He was a bad dude,” recalled Army Col. Kenneth King, speaking to a jour-nalist, “but he wasn’t the worst of the worst.” King was the commanding offi-cer of Camp Bucca where al-Baghdadi was held, and when he heard al-Bagh-dadi’s words back in 2009, he said he figured the man was saying he knew his captivity had essentially been a joke. “Like, ‘This is no big thing, I’ll see you on the block,’” King recalled, add-ing that al-Baghdadi knew many of his captors at Camp Bucca were from New York.
Now, the forces of ISIS (also known as ISIL, the Islamic State of Syria and the Levant) have seized large patches of northern Syria and Iraq and seem poised to assault Baghdad. King says he was surprised when he found out that al-Baghdadi was heading the jihad-ist group. “I’m not surprised that it was someone who spent time in Bucca but I’m a little surprised it was him,” King said, explaining that al-Baghdadi had kept his head down while a prisoner.
The new fundamentalist leader has
kept an extremely low profile, avoiding the public video appearances that oth-er Islamic extremist leaders have been fond of making and leaving interna-tional media with very few pictures of himself.
King said the fact that al-Baghda-di was released is a source of personal frustration. “We spent how many mis-sions and how many soldiers were put at risk when we caught this guy and we just released him,” he pointed out.
Taliban Cuts off Voters’ Fingers
The Taliban believes in strict pun-ishment—an eye for an eye, a vote for a finger.
Over the weekend, eleven elderly Afghan men had their index fingers cut off by Taliban insurgents as punishment for voting in Saturday’s presidential runoff elections.
“They asked us why we voted then they took us to their base. They held us and threatened to cut off our fingers. There was no point resisting so they
went right ahead and chopped my finger off with an axe. Then they let us go,” one of the men recovering in the hospi-tal told the BBC.
“We participated in the election and cast our votes to choose our president,” recalled another one of the elderly man from his hospital room. “We were kid-napped and our fingers were chopped off.”
Voters in Afghanistan dip their index fingers in semi-permanent ink, a policy meant to prevent election fraud. In this case, it made them easy targets for the fanatic Taliban, a group that called for a boycott of Saturday’s vote.
Noor Mohammed Noor of the In-dependent Election Commission con-firmed to the BBC that insurgents had
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“Like millions of their countrymen and women, these ordinary Afghans were exercising their fundamental right to determine the future path of their country through voting and not through violence and intimidation. By their vote, they already defeated those who pro-mote terror and violence,” Jan Kubis, the U.N. special representative, told the Associated Press.
Despite the trauma, the men are relieved to have escaped with their lives. Others were not so lucky, as Interior Minister Mohammad Umar Daudzai said that nearly 50 people were killed nationwide in election-related at-tacks.
Despite the Taliban threats against voting, Afghans lined up Saturday to cast their votes in the presidential runoff between two candidates, both of whom have promised to improve ties with the West and sign a long-delayed security agreement with the U.S. that would al-low some 10,000 U.S. troops to remain in Afghanistan for two more years for the purposes of counterterrorism and training Afghan security forces.
Thailand’s Lese Majeste Laws Extend to the
Internet
“The King shall be enthroned in a position of revered worship and shall not be violated. No person shall expose the King to any sort of accusation or ac-tion.” - Thai Constitution, Section 8
Thailand has very strict “lese majes-te” laws that forbid speaking ill of the king, the queen, or the heir-apparent. Those unfortunate enough to be found guilty of such a crime can be sentenced to anywhere between three to fifteen years in prison.
The king and queen are viewed as symbols of Thai national identity: their
portraits adorn almost every home and office building, their birthdays are na-tional holidays, and people voluntarily wear yellow on Monday to honor the day of the week when the king was born.
Thailand’s military has a division dedicated to protecting the monarchy by “cyber patrolling” and identifying critics of the king online. The junta has cracked down on any opposition includ-ing the overthrow of an elected govern-ment. Any perceived slurs against the royals caught by online surveillance op-erations are punished.
“Lese majeste is our priority,” Po-lice Major General Phisit Pao-in, head of the Technology Crime Suppression Division, admitted.
Twenty police officials were recent-ly sent to reinforce Phisit’s cyber-patrol team of 15 civil servants, who trawl the Internet for royal insults. “Since the coup, we were asked to intensify our surveillance and to focus on threats to national security,” said Phisit.
Anyone convicted of insulting King Bhumibol Adulyadei, the queen, or their heir faces up to 15 years in prison for each count.
Phisit said his team attempts to talk to suspects to “change their attitude,” but “headstrong” campaigners face charges.
Since the coup, Thailand has blocked access to more than 200 Internet pages deemed a “threat to national security” including the website of Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper after it posted a video about the crown prince.
Phisit’s cyber-patrols are not alone in their efforts to wipe out any criticism of the monarchy –about 20 ultra-royalist groups are helping to monitor the Inter-net. They include “The Garbage Collec-tion Organization” led by a director of a Bangkok hospital whose goal is to hunt down offenders viewed as “trash.”
China Executes 13 for Terrorist Attacks
On Monday, China executed 13 peo-ple over terrorism and violent crimes in
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the far western region of Xinjiang, in-cluding three men accused of perpetrat-ing an attack that left at least 34 peo-ple dead. The executions took place on the same day that a Xinjiang court sentenced three other people to death for planning a deadly car ramming at Beijing’s Tiananmen Gate last year that killed five people. The government has been waging a harsh crackdown after a series of deadly attacks blamed on Muslim separatists in the Xinjiang re-gion.
The official Xinhua News Agency said the 13 executed people were con-victed of crimes such as organizing, leading and participating in terrorism groups, arson, murder, burglary, and il-legal manufacturing, storage and trans-porting of explosives.
The government says it faces grave terrorist threats from people seeking in-dependence for Xinjiang, home to the Muslim Uighur ethnic minority, and has vowed severe punishments.
Among those executed, three men organized an assault that killed 24 peo-ple last June in the town of Lukqun. The attack targeted the local police station, a SWAT team, a government
office building and the living quarters for officials and their families, a hous-ing construction site, a business admin-istration office, as well as a hair salon and a hotel. At the time, police killed 10 of the attackers.
Beijing says unrest among Uighurs is caused by extremist groups with ties to Islamic terror groups abroad, but has provided little direct evidence. But Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the Ger-man-based group World Uyghur Con-gress, said Beijing has unjustly labeled disgruntled Uighurs as terrorists. “Chi-na’s policy has caused extreme acts, and it is the only fight Uighur people in desperation are willing to wage with their lives,” Dilxat Raxit said, trying to explain their acts of terror. He also said that speedy trials deny defendants their right to justice.
Death sentences in China are au-tomatically forwarded to the Supreme People’s Court for appeal but are rarely overturned. While official figures are not released, China is believed to exe-cute more prisoners than the rest of the world combined.
Pakistan’s First Female Police Chief
Syeda Ghazala is the first woman to run a police station in Pakistan. She joined the force about 20 years ago and now runs headquarters in Pakistan’s biggest city and supervises about 100 police officers—all men.
Ghazala was promoted as part of local efforts to increase the number of women in the police force and in posi-tions of authority. Shortly after Ghaza-la was appointed, a second female was assigned to lead another police station. These appointments represent a cru-cial step in the women’s empowerment movement in a nation where women
have traditionally not worked outside the home.
“The mindset of people is changing gradually, and now they [have] started to consider women in leading roles. My husband opposed my decision to join the police force 20 years ago,” said the 44-year-old mother of four. However, by now her husband has come around to the idea and encouraged her to accept this new position. “It was a big chal-lenge. I was a little bit hesitant to accept it,” Ghazala admitted.
Ghazala runs the station in Clifton, a high-class area home to the wealthy. It has a population of about 18 mil-lion. As chief, she deals with all types of crimes—ranging from petty theft to terrorism.
Senior police officer Abdul Khaliq Sheikh said he hopes Ghazala’s appoint-ment leads to more women joining the force. “Our society accepts only stereo-type roles for women. There is a percep-tion that women are suitable only for particular professions like teaching,” he said.
The police force is currently training the first batch of female commandos,
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Iraqi Rebels Post Photos of their Killings
The country of Iraq is burning and
killings there are rampant. Islamic mili-tants captured two major cities last week and then brazenly posted graphic photos that show its fighters massacring dozens of hapless, captured Iraqi soldiers.
The pictures on the militant website showed masked fighters of the ISIS—the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria—loading captives onto flatbed trucks before forc-ing them to lie face-down in a shallow ditch with their arms tied behind their
backs. The final images show the bodies of the captives soaked in blood after be-ing shot.
The captions for the photos say the killings were to avenge the killing of an ISIS commander, Abdul-Rahman al-Bei-lawy, whose death was reported by both the government and ISIS shortly before the al Qaeda splinter group’s lightning offensive, which has plunged Iraq into its bloodiest crisis since the withdrawal
of U.S. troops in 2011. “This is the fate that awaits the Shiites sent by Nouri to fight the Sunnis,” one caption read, ap-parently referring to Iraq’s Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki.
The grisly images could further sharpen sectarian tensions as hundreds of Shiites heed a call from their most revered spiritual leader to take up arms against the Sunni militants who have swept across the north. ISIS has vowed to take the battle to Baghdad and cit-ies further south housing revered Shi-ite shrines. (See TJH’s cover story this week to learn more about the conflict.)
The government bolstered defens-es around Baghdad Sunday, a day after hundreds of Shiite men paraded through the streets with arms in response to a call by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani for Iraqis to defend their country. ISIS has vowed to attack Baghdad but its advance to the south seems to have stalled in re-cent days. Thousands of Shiites have also volunteered to join the fight against the ISIS, also in response to al-Sistani’s call.
Despite the added security, a string of explosions killed at least 15 people and wounded more than 30 in the city, police and hospital officials said. One car bomb went off in the city center, killing 10 and wounding 21. After nightfall, another explosion hit the area, killing two and wounding five. The third went off near a falafel shop in the city’s sprawling Sadr City district, killing three and wounding seven.
Armed police, including SWAT teams, were seen over the weekend man-ning checkpoints in Baghdad, search-ing vehicles and checking drivers’ documents. Security was particularly tightened on the northern and western approaches of the city, the likely targets of any advance by ISIS fighters on the capital. The city looked gloomy on Sun-day, with thin traffic and few shoppers in commercial areas.
The crisis in Iraq has prompted the United States to order an aircraft carrier into the Persian Gulf. It also laid out spe-cific ways for Iraq to show it is forging the national unity necessary to gain as-
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sistance in its fight against the ISIS and other militants. On Monday, President Obama ordered 275 troops to Iraq to pro-tect the U.S. Embassy there.
China Cements its Stake on Island
China has begun building a school on a remote island in the South China Sea. This school is intended to provide edu-cation for children of military personnel and other people involved in the island. But the school is more than just a place of education. It is solidifying China’s hold on the small island.
China established the settlement of Sansha — which Beijing designates a “city” and has a permanent population of
1,443 — on tiny Yongxing Island to ad-minister hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of water where it hopes to strengthen its control over potentially oil-rich islands that are also claimed by other Asian nations. Understandably, the settlement has not been welcomed by other nations. Vietnam, the Philippines and the United States criticized Beijing for establishing Sansha, saying it risked escalating regional tensions.
The island, also known as Woody Island, is around 350 kilometers (220 miles) south of China’s southernmost province and is part of the Paracel chain, which is also claimed by Vietnam.
Tensions in the area have escalated since China last month placed an oil rig in waters about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the Paracel Islands, leading to on-going sea confrontations between Chi-nese and Vietnamese vessels.
Construction of the school is expect-ed to be complete in 18 months. There are currently about 40 school-aged chil-dren on Yongxing Island, some of whom have been staying with grandparents in far-off hometowns in order to attend school.
When China created Sansha in July 2012, the outpost had a post office, bank,
supermarket, hospital and a population of about 1,000. Now it also has an air-port, hotel, library, five main roads, cell-phone coverage, and a 24-hour satellite TV station. It also has its own supply ship that brings in food, water, construc-tion materials and people.
Terrorists Kill Kenyan Christians
Dozens of extremists attacked a Kenyan coastal town, killing anyone who couldn’t answer questions about Is-
lam and those who didn’t know the So-mali language. At least 48 people were killed during this raid and two hotels were set on fire.
The assault in Mpeketoni began on Sunday night as residents watched World Cup matches on TV; it lasted through the early morning hours of Monday. Unfortunately, Kenya’s secu-rity forces did little to intervene.
Authorities blamed al-Shabab, So-malia’s al Qaeda-linked terror group, who have vowed to carry out terror attacks to avenge the Kenyan military presence in Somalia for the attack. The violence bore resemblance to last year’s attack at Nairobi Westgate Mall. Sim-ilarly, attackers gave life-or-death reli-gious tests, a witness said, killing those who were not Muslim.
The Interior Ministry said that at about 8 p.m. on Sunday, two minivans entered the town. Militants disembarked and began shooting.
“They came to our house at around 8 p.m. and asked us in Swahili wheth-er we were Muslims. My husband told them we were Christians and they shot him in the head and chest,” Anne Gathi-gi recalled emotionally.
Another resident, John Waweru, said
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his two brothers were killed because the attackers did not like that they did not speak Somali.
“My brothers, who stayed next door to me, were killed as I watched. I was peeping from my window and I clear-ly heard them speak to my brothers in Somali and it seemed since my broth-ers did not meet their expectations, they sprayed them with bullets and moved on,” said Waweru.
Mpeketoni is about 20 miles (30 ki-lometers) southwest of the tourist center of Lamu. Any tourism in Mpeketoni is mostly local, with few foreigners visit-ing the area. The town is 60 miles (100 kilometers) from the Somali border and 360 miles (600 kilometers) from the capital, Nairobi.
Russia Cuts off Ukraine’s Gas Supply
As Ukraine failed to meet a payment deadline, Russia cut off its gas supplies this week.
Amid all the chaos in eastern Ukraine, negotiators attempted to reach a deal on gas prices but were unable to reach an agreement. The decision won’t affect the gas flow right away but it will disrupt the long-term energy supply to the region if the issue is not resolved soon.
In December, Gazprom offered the previous president, Viktor Yanukovych, a discounted price of $268.50 per thou-sand cubic meters after he backed out of an economic and political agreement with the EU under pressure from Mos-cow.
That price was cancelled on April 1 and raised to $485 per thousand cubic meters. Russia has now offered $385, the price that Ukraine was paying until December, but Kiev insisted on a low-er price. Gazprom has tolerated the late payments up until now, but now says Ukraine owes a total of $4.458 billion for gas from last year and this year.
The deadline was made clear: Rus-sia wanted a payment of $1.95 billion
for past-due bills by 9 a.m. Kiev time on Monday. When the deadline passed without payment, the gas supply was cut off.
Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupri-yanov said that moving forward Ukraine will need to pay in advance for any fu-ture deliveries. “Gazprom supplies to Ukraine only the amount that has been paid for, and the amount that has been paid for is zero,” Kupriyanov said on Monday morning.
The pipeline to Ukraine also car-ries gas meant for other parts of Europe; that supply will continue as planned, Kupriyanov said. However, the respon-sibility that the gas reaches European customers is Ukraine’s. The European Commission has been notified of “a possible disruption in the gas transit” in case Ukraine decides to siphon off the gas. Analyst Tim Ash at Standard Bank PLC said that Ukraine could technical-ly get away with using the gas since it is all intermingled. This could result in a shortage in pipelines to Europe that could delay the storing of gas ahead of the winter heating season when demand is higher. “So the message is that this is unlikely to bring a short-term hit to gas supply in Europe, but it will build up problems for the winter unless a deal is reached quickly,” Ash wrote in an email.
The gas conflict is part of a wider dispute over whether Ukraine aligns itself with Russia or with the European Union.
Un’s Unimpressed
Exalted Leader Kim Jong Un has come out criticizing his country’s weather service. The North Korean dictator is rarely heard saying anything negative about his government so he must have been stuck somewhere with-out an umbrella to evoke the comments. North Korea suffers from regular nat-ural disasters, which couldn’t help the forecasters’ standings in Jong Un’s eyes.
Kim critiqued the science used in weather observations and called for the use of modern equipment during an in-spection of the hydro-meteorological
service. “There are many incorrect fore-casts as the meteorological observation has not been put on a modern and sci-entific basis,” Kim said, commanding the agency to “fundamentally” improve its work and equipment. Accurate fore-casts are needed to protect the “lives and properties” of people from disasters caused by “abnormal climatic phenom-enon,” he said.
Calling the weather service “very important work directly affecting the overall economic affairs,” Kim also un-derscored the need to “modernize me-teorological observation equipment at a high level.”
Undated pictures released of the visit show Kim giving “field guidance” inside the weather service in the capital, with some of his audience standing at-tentively with their arms by their sides.
North Korea has suffered regular, chronic food shortages under the ruling Kim dynasty, with the situation exacer-bated by floods, droughts and misman-agement. During a famine in the mid- to late-1990s, hundreds of thousands died. In May of this year, state media report-ed that North Korea was hit by its worst spring drought in more than three de-
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Shabbat meals, set the Guinness World Record for “largest Shabbat dinner.”
In Tel Aviv, 2,226 people gathered for an inspirational and uplifting Shabbat meal. An official representative of Guin-ness World Records was at the event and certified that the dinner had set the all-time record.
The venue was held at a large atrium at the Tel Aviv Port. About 800 bottles of wine, 80 bottles of vodka, 50 bottles of whiskey, 2,000 challah rolls, 1,800 piec-es of chicken, 1,000 pieces of beef, and 250 vegetarian meals were purchased for the seudah.
The meal was led by Chabad shlu-chim and was dedicated in memory of the Lubavitch Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai, former Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren, and former Israeli Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau attended the event.
“The jubilation in the room when Guinness World Records announced the official results was palpable,” White City Shabbat co-director Deborah Danan said. “We are witnessing the transition of Tel Aviv as being the new capital for Jews
– not just for those with professional im-petuses but also for those who want to see the revival in Jewish life continue.”
Wonder how long it took for all of them to wash.
Palestinians Celebrate Kidnapping
As Jewish people worldwide wor-ried and agonized over the three kid-napped Israeli teenagers, Palestinians were celebrating.
Palestinian moms, dads, grandpar-ents, teenagers and children all took to the streets with sweets in hand and joined in on the festivities. In the mean-time, Israel Defense Forces troops en-gaged in a massive manhunt to locate the three captives.
Naftali Frenkel, 16, Gilad Shaar, 16, and Eyal Yifrach, 19, disappeared on Thursday night while traveling home for the weekend from their yeshivas.
At Bir Zeit University near Ramal-lah, students affiliated with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction of the PLO handed out sweets at the campus entrance to cele-brate the kidnapping. Interestingly, the school they attend, Bir Zeit Universi-ty, describes itself as an institution that “provides students with the opportunity to realize their academic aspirations and encourages them to be productive citi-zens and active members of their com-munity.”
On Saturday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there is “no doubt” the boys’ disappear-ance was an abduction. “Our boys were kidnapped by a terrorist organization. There is no doubt about that,” Netanya-hu said.
Troops arrested dozens of Hamas activists overnight, including members of the Palestinian Legislative Council. As of Monday, over 150 Hamas mem-bers were arrested.
Scholar: Mickey Mouse is Part of Zionist Plot
Mickey Mouse, Big Bird, and Elmo are recognized as friendly TV charac-ters who help children learn and laugh. Occasionally, a blogger or theorist will write a thesis implying that children’s shows have a deeper, darker meaning but this latest conspiracy theory is sim-ply absurd.
Nabil Hammad, a Saudi Arabian scholar, claims that Jewish Zionism is
the driving force behind Sesame Street, Tom & Jerry, and Mickey Mouse with the goal of destroying moral values.
“A normal child, who has been watching TV from the age of two, has been assaulted by all kinds of films,” Hammad said in a May 15 interview on Iqraa TV, provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
“It is not only the future generations of the Islamic world that are destroyed — the moral values of humanity are de-stroyed,” Hammad preached.
Hammad, a former director of the Saudi channel, referred to the Sesame Street character Oscar the Grouch, say-ing he is a despicable character who should not serve as a role model for children.
“Another example is the character of Cookie Monster. He eats like a slob,” he said.
“All the global film companies — note that I say ‘all’ not ‘most’ — all the global film companies are owned by Jews,” he explained.
“Why did they produce Mickey Mouse?” Hammad reasoned. “Why did they focus on a mouse? There is a plan to destroy human thought and all of humanity…Mickey Mouse, the ro-dent, became a hero and a superstar. The destruction of human morality is an old Zionist-Jewish scheme.”
The Saudi scholar continued on to name many prominent Western figures who are part of this conspiracy: Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Ni-etzsche, Émile Durkheim and Jean-Paul Sartre.
“They were all Zionist Jews,” Ham-mad said, then corrected himself. “Ex-cept for Nietzsche, who was a Christian Zionist.”
Who knew Donald Duck was a po-litical figure?
NationalAmerica Captures First
Benghazi SuspectOn Tuesday, it was revealed that
U.S. Special Operations forces captured a terrorist leader in Libya on Sunday, the first suspect arrested over the Septem-ber 11, 2012 Benghazi attack, in which the U.S. ambassador to Libya was mur-dered along with three other Americans.
Ahmed Abu Khattala, a “senior
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leader” of the terrorist organization An-sar al-Sharia in Benghazi, was captured by special ops forces in a joint operation with the FBI that was planned for sever-al months. Khattala was long thought to be one of the ringleaders of the deadly attack in which U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were brutally massacred. He had open-ly granted media interviews since the 2012 attack, but until now had evaded capture.
“He didn’t know what hit him,” one source told Fox News. According to officials, there was no firefight; a small Special Forces team and one FBI agent took part in the mission.
The Washington Post released the story on Tuesday, after the White House requested the paper delay publica-tion for one day over security concerns.
According to officials, Khattala is in American custody “in a secure loca-tion outside Libya,” and is “en route” to the United States. Charges were filed against Khattala and over 12 others in connection to the attack, although no others have been arrested yet.
“To be clear: this was a unilateral U.S. operation,” said one American of-ficial when asked if Libya had approved the operation. “It should come as no sur-prise to the Libyan government that we would take advantage of an opportunity to bring Abu Khatalla to face justice.”
One U.S. official called the Sunday capture “a reminder that when the Unit-ed States says it’s going to hold some-one accountable and he will face justice, this is what we mean.”
U.S. President Barack Obama’s ad-ministration has faced heavy criticism over the Benghazi attack, particularly when then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took responsibility for the fail-ings around the attack. Susan Rice, Obama’s National Security Adviser, re-cently said she has no regrets for calling the attack a “spontaneous response” to an anti-Islam video. Evidence suggests that the attack was preplanned.
Middle Class Continues to Suffer
Manufacturing in the U.S. contin-ues to decline as companies outsource, leaving thousands of employees jobless. American factory towns are left dev-astated and scrambling for ways to re-build. Subsequently, as factory workers get laid off, the gap between the rich and everyone else continues to widen.
“A loss of manufacturing has con-tributed to the decline of the middle class,” said Howard Wial, an economist with the Brookings Institution and the University of Illinois at Chicago. “Peo-ple who are displaced from high-paying manufacturing jobs spend a long time unemployed, and when they take other jobs, those jobs generally pay substan-tially less.”
Between 2001 and 2011, nearly 6 million manufacturing jobs were lost.
In Pennsylvania alone in those years 258,000 middle-income factory jobs were lost. At the same time, Pennsylva-nia added jobs at the lower end of the wage spectrum — in health care and so-cial services — and at the highest end, in sectors like management and finance.
This issue primarily affects the mid-dle class; lower-wage jobs at fast food restaurants and domestic help are still hiring those in the lower income brack-et and higher-paying jobs that require higher education don’t seem to be suf-fering as much either.
Nationally, manufacturing declines accounted for 40 percent of the increase in joblessness from 2000-2011, accord-ing to labor economist Erik Hurst.
Spending for EducationAccording to a recent release from
the U.S. Census Bureau, total spending on public elementary and secondary ed-ucation fell nationwide for the third con-secutive year. A total of $10,608 was spent per student, although the cost to educate a child in the United States var-
ied across state lines. New York State spent the most: $19,552 per student.
Michael Leachman, director of state fiscal research at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, explained that spending can be driven by a range of factors, including state size, labor costs, and geography, noting that rural schools can often incur higher transportation costs.
Another huge factor that affects statewide school spending is household earnings. The states that spent the most per student also had some of the wealth-iest households. Median household in-come in all of the top 10 spending states
was higher than the U.S. median.The states that spend the most are:10. Maryland9. Delaware8. Rhode Island 7. Massachusetts6. Wyoming5. Vermont4. Connecticut3. New Jersey 2. Alaska1. New York
Wonder how much it would cost New York State to educate all the chil-dren in private schools as well.
Starbucks to Pay Big Bucks for Employees’
Education Baristas at America’s favorite cof-
fee spot will be brewing more than just espresso. It seems that they’ll be able to get their education for not a “latte” money.
This week, Starbucks Corp. an-
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nounced plans to give back to their hard-working employees. U.S. employ-ees who work at least 20 hours a week in their cafes will be able to get their online degree through Arizona State Universi-ty heavily subsidized. Employees at the Starbucks corporate offices and roasting plants will be eligible as well.
The coffee giant will provide tuition reimbursement and financial aid to em-ployees who enroll in the school’s on-line bachelor’s degree program. They will be able to select their area of inter-est from 40 subjects, ranging from retail management to electrical engineering.
The company is hoping that this incentive will attract more committed, hard-working, and bright employees, and they will save money on hiring and
training costs. Employees who take part in the new
program won’t be obligated to stay on at the company. “We do not require or ex-pect our partners who join this program to stay with us after they graduate,” said Cliff Burrows, Starbucks group president for the U.S., Americas and tea brand Teavana. “We hope they’ll stay with us and grow their careers, but they are free to go onto the next stage of their careers and lives.”
Arizona State University President Michael Crow estimates the program will attract 15,000 to 20,000 Starbucks employees a year. In order to accommo-date the expected enrollment, the school has hired 50 new teachers, enrollment counselors, and academic advisers.
Normally, annual tuition for ASU’s online degree program ranges from $3,000 to $10,000. Starbucks estimates that employees receiving the assistance will pay less than half their tuition costs.
Starbucks employs 135,000 part-time and full-time employees in the U.S. About 25% of Starbucks’ U.S. employ-ees have bachelor’s degrees, and ac-cording to estimates, about 70% are ei-ther current or aspiring college students.
The Seattle-based coffee giant de-clined to estimate how much it expects to pay for the program, but they are call-ing this new benefit the most significant benefit they have started to offer since the company introduced health-care coverage and stock options more than two decades ago. Each of those pro-grams cost the company more than $200 million last year.
Until now, Starbucks has provided tuition reimbursement of about $1,000 a year for eligible employees. Starbucks says that since 2011, employees have saved more than $6.5 million in educa-tion benefits through the program.
Money’s Got the Money
Think Derek Jeter’s salary of $17 million last year was a lot? That’s pea-nuts—and Cracker Jacks—compared to what other athletes earn.
On Tuesday, Forbes announced its list of the highest-paid athletes in the world. Turns out, Floyd “Money” May-weather is worth lots and lots of pea-nuts. The professional boxer earned $105 million over the past 12 months.
But what’s even crazier about his salary is that it took Mayweather just over an hour to earn all that dough. “Money” spent only 72 minutes in the ring this season.
Mayweather, 37, is a professional boxer and is currently undefeated as a professional. He is a five-division world champion, having won ten world titles and the lineal championship in four dif-ferent weight classes. This is the second time in three years that Mayweather earned the highest paid athlete distinc-tion.
Less you think “Money” is humble about his boatloads of cash, the athlete is known to flaunt his wealth via social media, posting photos and videos of himself buying expensive cars, flying in private jets and surrounding himself with piles of cash.
Soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo was the second highest earning athlete in 2014 with an income of $80 mil-lion, followed by LeBron James ($72.3
million), Lionel Messi ($64.7 mil-lion), Kobe Bryant ($61.5 million), Tiger Woods ($61.2 million), Roger Federer ($56.2 million), Phil Mickelson ($53.2 million), Rafael Nadal ($44.5 million) and Matt Ryan ($43.8 million).
Better start working on my boxing stance.
Americans Heart Clinton
Which president over the past 25 years is most admired by Americans?
Well, my fellow Americans, it seems that former President Bill Clinton was Americans’ top pick in a recent poll. 42% of 1,031 voters chose “Bubba” as their most favored president in recent years.
Current President Barack Obama came in at second place, although he only garnered 18 percent of votes. His poll ratings are at an all-time low.
Former President George W. Bush placed third, at 17 percent, and his fa-ther, former President George H.W. Bush, who parachuted out of a plane last week to celebrate his 90th birthday, came in at fourth place with 16 percent of the respondents.
Former President Ronald Reagan was not included in the survey. His last day in office was on January 20, 1989.
Although the poll showed an enor-mous favoring towards Clinton, the fact that only over a thousand people were surveyed and many respected presidents in recent years—including Reagan and John F. Kennedy—were not included makes the survey just a little too narrow for many.
Thousands Sneaking into the U.S.
The number of children and teens entering America illegally is increasing. And border patrolmen say there is not too much they can do about it. Even if the minors are known members of Mex-ican gangs, a lot of them still cannot le-gally be turned away.
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Many who are crossing the border believe that once they reach U.S. soil, they won’t be turned back. They are coached to claim fear from gang vio-lence or to beg asylum.
“It’s something they’re all saying and it’s obvious that it is well-rehearsed and it is a consistent story,” said Albert Spratte, a Border Patrol agent and union
representative with the National Border Patrol Council’s Local 3307 in the Rio Grande Valley sector. “We can’t even get them to answer their name before they tell us the gangs were the reason they fled their country.”
Chris Cabrera, vice president of the National Border Patrol Council Local 3307 in the Rio Grande Valley, said that confirmed gang members in Mexico are coming into the country to be reunited with their families. “If he’s a confirmed gang member in his own country, why are we letting him in here? … I’ve heard people come in and say, ‘You’re going to let me go, just like you let my mother go, just like you let my sister go. You’re going to let me go as well, and the gov-ernment’s going to take care of us.’”
He said that the only way to solve the problem was to implement harsher restrictions on who can be allowed to cross. “Until we start mandatory deten-tions, mandatory removals, I don’t think anything is going to change. As a matter of fact, I think it’s going to get worse,” he said.
Other Border Patrol officials say that officers must treat minors with gang-af-filiated tattoos the same as anybody else
wishing to cross the border. “It’s upset-ting that a lot of them are 16 or 17 years old and a lot of them are not going to face deportation,” said Art Del Cueto, president of the National Border Patrol Council Local 2544 in Tucson, AZ.
The Rio Grande Valley location has nine stations. The largest facility is in McAllen, TX, with a capacity of 275 people. Its agents see between 700 and 1,500 people daily.
You’re a Grand Old Flag
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American flag on June 14, 1777. The motion read: “Resolved that the flag of the thirteen United States be 13 stripes alternate red and white: that the union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, repre-senting a new constellation.” The Con-stitution was written 10 years after that and ratified in 1789.
Historians are still debating Betsy Ross’s role in designing the first flag, but she recounted that she was asked to sew the flag by her fellow churchgoer, George Washington. Ross had also done some seamstress work for the first pres-ident. Here’s what the historic marker in front of her house says: “Credited with making the first stars and stripes flag, Ross was a successful upholsterer. She produced flags for the government for over 50 years. As a skilled artisan, Ross represents the many women who supported their families during the Rev-olution and early Republic.”
A vexillologist is a flag expert. It’s a relatively new word, coming into use in 1959. According to the North Amer-ican Vexillological Association, there are currently no degrees offered on the subject.
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Our Star Spangled Banner was first flown in a military campaign over the shores of Tripoli. The Marines were involved in military actions against the Barbary pirates there and after they
hit the shore, they raised the Stars and Stripes. After the Battle of Derne in 1805, the flag was raised on foreign soil for the first time after a battle.
The largest American flag out there is so big you can’t fly it. The “Super-flag,” conceived by the late Thomas Demski, measures 505 by 225 feet and weighs 3,000 pounds. It takes 600 peo-
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New York City is home to many
famous millionaires. In fact, it is home to the most millionaires than any other U.S. city.
Recently, Kipling ran a report ranking cities according to the highest concentration of millionaires. This list doesn’t simply focus on the number of millionaire households but rather the percentage of households.
Only about 5% of the country, or 6.1 million households, qualify as true millionaires—“true” in the sense that they have liquid, investable assets of $1 million or more, excluding real estate, employer-sponsored retirement plans, and business partnerships.
Research firm Phoenix Marketing International identifies where these millionaires live in an annual survey of wealthy residents in 942 urban areas.
The top ten cities with the highest percentage of millionaire households is:10. San Francisco, CA Concentration of millionaires: 7.6% 9. Trenton, NJ Concentration of millionaires: 7.6%8. Honolulu, HI Concentration of millionaires: 8.0%7. Oxnard, CA Concentration of millionaires: 8.0%6. San Jose, CA Concentration of millionaires: 8.1%5. Easton, MD Concentration of millionaires: 8.3%4. Stamford, CT Concentration of millionaires: 8.5% 3. Lexington Park, MD Concentration of millionaires: 8.8%2. Washington, D.C. Concentration of millionaires: 8.8% 1. Los Alamos, NM Concentration of millionaires: 12.4%
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New Yorkers are ready to pay it for-ward now that the @hiddencash social media scavenger hunt has taken over Central Park in Manhattan and Prospect Park in Brooklyn. The organizers of the game, who stashed envelopes contain-ing cash and other prizes around the parks, describe it as a “social experience for good” and urge the lucky finders to use their loot for something charitable.
Over 2,000 people took to the parks to search for hidden treasure. “I saw it on Twitter and I said I got to get over there and see if I can find some money,” said Malik Chenault, 39, of the Bronx, who was hunting in Central Park. “It’d be nice to get some free money; I could use it to buy some toys for my kids.” Said Terrell Sides of Jamaica, Queens, “I’m busting my back because I need this money for college. I don’t care if I find 20 cents or $20, I’ll take it!”
More than 557,000 people follow @hiddencash on Twitter, which plans to start similar hunts in Chicago, Mexico and Europe. The account posts clues and hints of the whereabouts of the green-filled envelopes. The game was started in San Francisco by real estate mogul Jason Buzi last month.
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Bush 41 Flies the High Skies
Happy 90th birthday Bush 41! In what has become the norm for the for-
mer president on his birthday, George H. W. Bush celebrated the big 9-0 in “high” style by taking a tandem parachute jump off a helicopter near his Maine vacation home. The former statesman, who suf-fers from Parkinson’s disease, does not have the ability to use his legs and per-formed the jump while strapped to a for-mer member of the U.S. Army parachute team. Ever the patriot, Bush touched down in a red, white and blue parachute.
Bush posted on Twitter that day, “It’s a wonderful day in Maine – in fact, nice enough for a parachute jump.”
This is not the first time the former occupant of the Oval Office flew the high skies. Five years ago, after a jump in honor of his 85th birthday, the former president promised to mark his 90th also with a skydive. In case you think this is something that Bush Sr. started doing only in his senior years, think again. All in all, Bush has jumped from a plane eight times, the first being over the Pa-cific Ocean, when his plane was shot down in World War II.
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Brazilian taxi cab driver Adil-son Luiz da Cruz was ready to yell “Goooaaaalll!!” when he discovered a bag of 40 World Cup game tickets lying in the back of his car after his late shift in Sao Paulo. The bag was apparently left there by two very drunk Mexican scalpers da Cruz drove around that eve-ning. “When I got home, I opened the back door of the taxi and found a bag with 40 [World Cup game] tickets in-side it,” he explained. “Sometimes these things fall into the hands of people who don’t worry about their items and that makes it more likely for them to lose it.”
But then the driver’s conscience got the better of him and he decided to take the high road and contact the tick-ets’ rightful owners. He drove back to the Nuevo Sao Paulo Hotel, where he dropped off his inebriated customers, and returned the highly coveted tickets.
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You Can’t Beat the Real Thing
In 1985, Coke replaced cane sugar, the main ingredient in its close to 100 year old recipe, with a cheap and not too natural substitute: high fructose corn syrup. But for those in the know, one can still get a taste of the real “real thing” just south of the border, in neighboring Mexico. So how do the two versions of the refreshing drink differ exactly?
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Roaches are her Friends A woman in China must have been
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Yuan Meixia raises her cockroaches in her home in the Linbian Village and harbors special feelings for them. “These are all my children, my babies,” she says.
After watching a China Central Tele-vision program last year about people who raise the insect, Yuan, a pharmacy employee, was inspired to bring up her own. The bugs are used in Chinese folk medicine as a cure for various forms of cancer. Researchers at Anhui Medical University have written, “The Palmet-to bug and its extracts can protect liver functions when [the natural protein Con-canavalin A] caused acute immunity he-patic injury among mice.”
Yuan says, “I saw people raise this kind of cockroach in Anhui,” she said. “They said it can be food and also can be medicine…So I took tens of thousands of yuan to learn [how to breed them] for a week and spent more than 10,000 yuan ($1,600) to buy 20 kg (44 lbs) of live cockroaches.”
In her home, she keeps the roaches contained in zippered silk nets and seals any possible hole in the house with thick cement. Temperature is maintained by a gas stove in the winter months and by sprinkling water on the walls in the spring. At night, the adults are fed fruit and rice bran, and the babies are given glucose.
After drowning her beloved pets in vats of water and drying them in the sun, Yuan is able to sell them for close to $65 per pound. She harvests them every two months.
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The Paper PapaJenna Yang’s father was a dedicat-
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So Jenna gave up her job and had a life-size cardboard likeness of her father made. She then booked a one-way ticket to Iceland to explore the country with her dad. (She didn’t have to buy him a seat as well?!) “Even though he is not here in the flesh, I knew he was with us in spir-it,” Jenna said.
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It’s always best to be overdressed, even if you are just a paper figure.
The Japanese Crossroads of the World
If you thought Kikar Shabbat was crazy, try crossing the Scramble Cross-ing in Shibuya, Tokyo. It is the world’s busiest intersection. With each stoplight change, more than 2,500 pedestrians cross the X-shaped crossway during peak hours. It is situated in front of the Hachiko train exit and a statue of a dog, Hachiko, stands in between the station and the crosswalk. The heavy traffic and advertising there has led to it being com-pared to Times Square. Tokyo-based ar-chitecture professor Julian Worrall has said Shibuya Crossing is “a great exam-ple of what Tokyo does best when it’s not trying.”
How do you say major traffic in Jap-anese?
More Bang for Your Bitcoin
Have so many bitcoins you don’t know what to do with them? Well, here are some businesses that accept bitcoins in lieu of the old, green stuff.
Education is priceless. King’s Col-lege, a liberal arts college in New York City, announced it will now be accepting bitcoins for tuition and expenses. King’s charges $15,950 a semester for 12 to 18 credits. Start counting.
Don’t like being American? You can also become a citizen of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis (a tiny island) with a $400,000 investment. The Citizen-ship-by-Investment Program has been running since 1984 but only began ac-cepting bitcoins recently via Passports For Bitcoin.
If you are a fan of cable TV shows, you can use your bitcoins to watch your favorite cooking shows. Dish Network announced that it will begin accepting the digital coins through payment pro-cessor Coinbase starting in September to pay for your satellite TV. Coinbase will instantly convert the bitcoins into cash, eliminating the risk of price fluc-tuations to Dish. “We don’t know what the demand will be, exactly,” Bernie Han, Dish’s chief operating officer, said. “It might be tiny. It might be bigger than tiny. It’s probably growing.”
Hungry? Domino’s Pizza now ac-cepts bitcoin as payment when you order through the website Pizza For Coins.
I’m waiting for the day when I don’t have to worry about quarters and can pay my meters with bitcoins. Now that’s a great way to outsmart Central Avenue’s meter maids!
Grave Robber DaughterOn May 11, under the dark, night sky,
Melanie Lynch opened the gates to the cemetery and dug up her father’s grave. She destroyed the concrete vault and metal casket in her search for the “real will.”
After desecrating his tomb, Melanie reached her father’s cold, dead body, only to find him clutching a pack of cig-arettes—there was no “real will” to be found.
Edward Nash was a prominent New Hampshire businessman who died of a heart attack in 2004 at the age of 68. He started a successful heavy equipment business in 1979, still run by his family.
“You hear of grave robbing 100, 150 years ago,” Jenkins and Newman Funer-al Home Director Michael Pearson said. “You don’t think of it in 2014.”
Eddie Nash has been reburied at a cost of several thousand dollars. Nash’s imposing black granite headstone reads: “King of the used equipment world.”
Hope he gets better use of his grave this time.
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Who are we? Our G-d given DNA dic-tates who we are and how we are to look. How tall, small, blue eyes or brown, and all the rest. But, in truth, we are much more than just our physical form. We are Hashem’s chosen people. And we are all connected through the mesorah that was handed down from Moshe Rabbeinu at Har Sinai. Then comes the very signif-icant others who are closer to the past generations: the great-grandparents, the grandparents, and the parents who hand down family traditions of an extra-spe-cial love and warmth that only they are endowed with. And only they can share with their offspring. It is their magnifi-cent legacy and then suddenly it becomes ours. They planted the seeds within us for the next generations to nurture and grow.
For the past thirty years, Ellen M. Basch Productions has been retained by Shulamith School for Girls for her exper-tise in writing, directing and producing children’s musical plays and productions.
This year’s production, “Generations Past Present Future,” was put on by Shu-
lamith School for Girls Lower Division, 3rd grade, in Woodmere on Wednesday, June 11. The event was a dream and orig-inal work of Mrs. Ellen Basch. It became a reality under the administration of Mrs. Joyce Yarmak, founding principal of Shulamith School for Girls. After seeing the remarkable results in previous years of E.M. Basch Productions, Mrs. Yarmak knew “Generations” would be a great opportunity for personal growth and maturity for each of her students during this incredible experience. Mrs. Yarmak prides herself on offering the highest cal-iber in teaching and programming for her
student body.Through “Generations,” the girls
learned about their link to their past while exploring and investigating how they are connected to their ancestors m’dor l’dor. They acquired a better understanding of the shalshelet which links their present and future generations to come.
Under the exceptional care and di-rection of Mrs. Ellen Basch, the girls en-hanced and deepened their reading and speaking skills, poise and self-esteem, creative expression, self-confidence, memorization and timing, coordination and performance skills. These traits will stay with these precious children throughout their lives.
All through the school year, the halls were buzzing with the exciting sounds of “Generations.” The girls perfected each line and song. Then came the historical interviews with their beloved elder fami-ly members, which were captured on vid-eo for family posterity and for the grand video presentation. Under the project management and creativity of Mrs. Pen-ina Popack, the families were collecting and emailing many family photographs to be displayed on four custom grand banners, the likes of which have never been seen in any venue and exceeding the expectations of all who came to see the show.
It is impossible to capture the thrill-ing moment when 46 young happy girls, all dressed in black, uniformly filed in and took their places center stage. The extra special touch on the little princess-es were the magnificent original gold and silver headdress by Chava Popack of Ana + Ava.
To quote audience members:“This production, every aspect, every
stage, was beyond belief. I have never seen a production for third graders with such exactness and poise of each girl. Thank you does not suffice!”
“Again, we cannot thank you enough for the immense amount of effort and creativity that went into the creation of
last night’s extraordinary event. It was a night for the ages, both literally and fig-uratively. Your attention to every minute detail was clearly reflected in what was a most memorable and meaningful event.”
“Thank you all for an incredible pro-duction last night. Our daughter had the best time preparing and participating. It was absolutely amazing. It was obvious how much hard work and dedication went into it. The girls really learned so much and had the best time doing it and we the parents had the best time watch-ing it.”
The evening was an emotional ride for all in attendance. The actresses brought down the house with their rendi-tions and choir choreography of “Daddy Dear,” “My Yiddeshe Mama,” English & Yiddish versions, and the finale which put everyone on “Top of The World.” The girls were accompanied on key-board by Yehudit Markowits. Immedi-ately following the cantata, the audience was treated to the premier showing of the family interviews and photos. The entire evening emotions in the room were pal-pable with most wiping away joyful tears which turned into broad smiles and even laughter.
At the conclusion of the video, fami-lies gathered around their printed photos on the grand banners while profession-al photographers snapped pictures to capture the impactful and unforgettable event.
The actresses who adorned the “Generations” stage this evening were the awesome: Yali Altmark, Rosie Ash, Shira Ashville, Talia Bennett, Meira Berkowitz, Yonina Boshnack, Aliza Coronel, Noy Edery, Penina Feldman, Sara Feldman, Emma Fox, Hannah Gan-chrow, Miri Gelbtuch, Hannah Gewirtz, Atara Ginsburg, Yakira Goldberg, Atara Grushko, Ayala Herskowitz, Arbel Ifer-gan, Dalia Jacobs, Mimi Jacobson, Leora Kahn, Rachel Levine, Avigayil Man-del, Ayelet Mandel, Michal Moskowitz, Tamar Pilevsky, Shayna Popack, Ela-na Racheli Reichman, Sheera Rockoff, Arielle Rosman, Bayla Rothschild, Eli-ana Sacknovitz, Ilana Schneider, Dahlia Sokol, Leah Solomon, Elisheva Spirgel, Yael Szlafrok, Shana Weinberg, Shosha-na Yarmish, Lauren Zalisky, Melissa Za-lisky, Ora Zeitlin, Avigail Zelmanovitz, Aliza Zilberberg, Hannah Zucker.
And so, it was a time of honoring, gratitude, memories, and love forever in our minds and hearts.
Generations: Who Are We?Shulamith School for Girls Point of View
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The word “stalemate” originates from the game of chess. A stalemate occurs when the position of the pieces is such that a player cannot move any piece except the king and cannot move the king without putting it in check.
The word stalemate is used as a meta-phor “for a conflict that has reached an impasse and resolution seems difficult or impossible.”
In marriage there are times when a couple finds themselves in a stalemate.
Most often this is experienced when a couple is in middle of an argument or when the two partners have very strong conflicting opinions on how to handle a situation. While chess is just a game, marriage is very real, and being in a po-
sition of stalemate is often very uncom-fortable for a couple.
It is worthwhile to note that in chess when a game is a stalemate it ends in a draw and no one wins. However, in real life, it’s an opportunity for a cou-ple to utilize all the conflict resolution “tools” that they have gained over time and through life experience and has the potential to end in a “win situation.”.
One common mistake that both partners can make when involved in a stalemate is waiting for the other per-son to go first. It’s normal, especially when feeling hurt, to want the other side to “go first” and apologize or of-fer to compromise. However, it’s im-portant to realize that if you and your spouse are at odds, chances are you both are hurting. It is important at times like this to gather your inner reserves of strength and make the first move. Go-ing first is hard, but staying “stuck” in a stalemate is harder.
Often a person can encourage them-self to take the first step by reminding themself that taking the first step is not an admission of guilt or an acceptance of blame, rather it’s a sign of strength and an indication of how much you value your marriage. It’s also worth-while to remember that a first step can even be a baby step; it just has to be something that “breaks” the stalemate and moves it towards resolution. Very often couples that deal with conflict ef-fectively come out stronger and closer with a richer relationship.
Next time you find yourself at a “stalemate” with your spouse, don’t stay “stuck”; take the first step and start moving the issue from an argument to a resolution. May Hashem grant us the strength and wisdom to take the first step towards shalom in any conflict with our spouse. May we be zocheh to be able to work out all our conflicts with our spouse and to build a bayis ne’eman b’Yisroel.
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].
Turning a Stalemate into a Winning Situation
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Bnos Malka spent a glorious week celebrating yearlong accomplishments for their kindergarten and pre-1A class-es with special graduation exercises. Teachers and parents “kvelled” over the precious children as they shared many of things they learned throughout the year presented in beautiful, lively perfor-mances.
Of course, the highlight of the week was the 8th grade graduation held to a-filled-to-capacity audience at the Young Israel of Hillcrest. The school, which has grown steadily over the past few years, said their goodbyes to their largest grad-uating class to date. Rabbi Weichsel-baum, the school’s menahel, remarked, “Graduations are always bittersweet. We have a chance to reflect with the students and their parents on the many wonder-ful years spent in school. They entered
as adorable little children and leave to-day, accomplished and confident young women.” Mrs. Shuly Zuckerman, the middle school assistant principal, wished the parents continued nachas as the grad-uates embark on their high school careers at Manhattan, Shevach, SKA, Shalhevet, Ohr Chana, D’rav Meir, and TAG.
Bnos Malka Academy Graduation Week
(PHOTO CREDITS: YAAKOV KATZ STUDIO)
Rabbi Mordechai Becher speaks for Chazaq on Sunday night, June 8, at Congregation Ahavas Yisroel in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens.
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It’s 11:30 PM on a dark street in Lawrence. You are driving along when suddenly your car starts beeping that you are out of gas. What to do? Call Chaverim of course!
Chaverim is a volunteer-staffed or-ganization that provides assistance to motorists in the Five Towns and Far Rockaway area who have flat tires, need boosts, locked their keys in the car or home, or have run out of gas. Chaverim has over 50 members to ensure that the average response time to calls is 5 min-utes, and the organization gets an aver-age of 250 calls a month.
Chaverim is excited to announce that it is expanding its operations and reach! Chaverim recently hired an adminis-trative assistant, Mrs. Shira Kreitman, to assist with marketing and efficiency. Currently a rising senior studying at Ye-shiva University’s Syms School of Busi-ness, Mrs. Kreitman is majoring in In-
formation Systems and Marketing, and she is particularly excited about using social media to widen Chaverim’s reach. Chaverim has already seen an increase of interest in its Facebook and Twitter pages, and anticipates more buzz and excitement as the word gets out. Friend Chaverim on Facebook at Chaverim 5T, and follow Chaverim on Twitter at @Chaverim5T to stay tuned for informa-tion about community giveaways and community events!
Chaverim cares about the commu-nity and looks forward to hearing from you. There are a variety of ways to contact Chaverim. For a service call, call the helpline at 718-337-1800. Visit www.chaverim5t.org for more informa-tion about Chaverim of the Five Towns and Far Rockaway.
For specific inquiries, comments, or to volunteer for Chaverim, email [email protected] or call 516-331-1460.
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Everyone loves ice cream, especial-ly when it’s in a crunchy, scrumptious, dripping-with-goodness, fun Klein’s cone. There is just something cool and soothing about unwrapping a Klein’s cone filed with yum-miness; it transports you to a happy place, filled with joyful memories and posi-tive thoughts.
Over half a centu-ry ago, Klein’s intro-duced their first ice cream cone; it was a simple, crispy cone filled with delicious vanilla ice cream. In the 1980’s they rein-vented their cones; it was something revolutionary, seeming-ly ordinary, yet extraordinarily crafted with a unique blend of chocolate, nutty perfection, known as nutty cones.
The innovative team of Klein’s sci-entists are constantly at work, decade after decade, improving flavors and textures as well as inventing new ones to appeal to the palates of all people at all times. After all, the very reason Klein’s ice cream has earned a reputa-
tion as being the absolute best in kosher ice cream is their never-ending pursuit of perfection and their total dedication to the kosher consumers’ needs and wants.
The latest ice-cream cone line pro-duced – or shall we say, reinvented – by Klein’s is available in a deliciously formulat-ed Cookies ‘n Cream dairy cone and a total-ly awesome Vanilla/Chocolate parve cone. Moreover, the cones are now nut-free so they can be enjoyed by children (and adults) who are unable to en-
joy Klein’s nutty varieties. No matter if you just finished a
hearty summer BBQ, if it’s time for a midnight snack or any other time, early or late, there is always a perfect Klein’s ice cream cone waiting to brighten your day the way only Klein’s ice cream can.
As always, if you want the best, you want Klein’s. Find it in the freezer sec-tion of your local kosher supermarket or grocery today!
Klein’s Innovative Ice Cream Team Reinvents the Cone – Again!
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This past Sunday was a very exciting day for the boys in Yeshivat Kol Yaa-kov. Their Rebbe, Rebbe Yitzi Kohn, organized a special baseball game in honor of their siyum on the Lamed Tet Melachot of Shabbos. The boys were
very excited to meet their fathers in the park for the annual siyum and play a special game of baseball, fathers ver-sus sons. The boys won 18-4, what a surprise! Everyone enjoyed a fun-filled game and had a breakfast of bagels and
cream cheese in the park. The most special part of the entire
day was the singing of “Acheinu” that could be heard ringing through the park. We said a few perakim of Tehillim to-gether for the three boys in Eretz Yisroel
who are missing and we hoped in zchus of our Tehillim and siyum they will be found safely soon.
This was a wonderful way to end a super year of learning, achdus, and fun!
Yeshivat Kol Yaakov Father-Son Baseball Game to Celebrate Siyum on Lamed Tet Melachot
A record number of students in fourth, fifth and sixth grades at HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding El-ementary School participated in this year’s Math Olympiad under the leader-ship of Mrs. Karen Spitalnik.
The students participated in five practice sessions and five contests throughout the year. The following eight students had scores that earned them a patch from Math Olympiad, a national organization: Leah Frankel,
Adam Speiser, Yael Horowitz, Gaby Lovy, Elan Moskowitz, Eitan Auerbach, Moshe Wieder and Josh Brafman. Josh-Brafman not only had the top score in sixth grade, he was also the school’s overall winner. Moshe Wieder was the top scorer in fifth grade and Eli Radin-sky was the top scorer in fourth grade.
To honor the students for all their hard work, the students were treated to a celebratory breakfast. We are so proud of all our Math Olympians!
HANC’s Math Olympiad
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Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls – Class of 2014
Mazel tov to the SKA Class of 2014 honorees!
Valedictorian: Chaya Wertman
Chaya Wertman spent the summer after 11th grade as an intern in the Einstein School of Medicine researching autism and longevity. The summer after 10th grade, she took a course at Stony Brook University on manipulat-ing DNA. She was the assistant to the Director of SKA’s annual Production, Captain of the Science Olympiad Team, Editor in Chief of the Literary Journal, and was the SKA Biotechnology Team Project Group Coordinator. Chaya is a winner of the Tanach (Bible) Award and the Midot Award for her fine character; she is a school leader who impresses with her modesty and poise. Chaya is a member of the Torah Bowl Team, Math Team, Debate Team, is an SKA Admissions Ambassador to incoming freshmen, participates in E2K Math and Science enrichment, is on the Modesty Awareness Committee and a contributor to SKAppenings, SKA’s online publi-cation. She has coordinated a rotating group of her fellow students to visit weekly with developmentally disabled residents of two local group homes. She is an Ohel mentor to a young girl and a weekly shadow for a youngster at Kulanu. A certified lifeguard, she has worked on the waterfront at Camp Kay-lie. Chaya will be attending Michlala in Jerusalem, Israel, next year and then the S. Daniel Abraham Honors program at Stern College and is interested in pur-
suing a career in medicine, particularly genetics.
Valedictorian: Rebecca Kellner
Rebecca Kellner was Editor in Chief of the SKA Newspaper, The Looking Glass, which won a Columbia Scholas-tic Press Association Silver Medal. She spent three weeks at the University of Pennsylvania’s Summer Academy in Applied Science and Technology pro-gram and participated in Barnard Col-lege’s pre-college summer program studying architecture. Rebecca founded a monthly online Art Journal, The SKA Sketchbook, collaborating with mem-bers of the SKA Art Academy. She also initiated a school-wide Women in Tech-nology Club. Rebecca was a Head of the First Place National NCSY Jewish Leadership Mentoring Program (JUMP) Team. She was chosen to participate in The Jewish Week’s Israel Advocacy Write On for Israel program and has been an active member of NORPAC. Rebecca participated in an NCSY out-reach trip in Berlin to engage young unaffiliated Jewish women there. She is a member of both the Science Olym-
piad Team and the SKA Art Academy, as well as the Math team, Model Con-gress, Debate Team and the SKA an-nual Production. She has volunteered with Kulanu and traveled to Israel with Yad b’Yad, assisting group members who have developmental disabilities. Rebecca will be attending Midreshet Mevaseret Yerushalayim in Jerusalem, Israel, next year and then pursuing a ca-reer in engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
Salutatorian: Raizy Joseph
Raizy Joseph was Production Man-ager, Editor of the weekly Parsha Press, and one of the heads of the First Place National JUMP Team. She helped plan, organize and implement a school-wide day of learning in memory of the vic-tims of Sandy Hook and then a day of
fun for boys from the local Ohel/Bais Ezra group home. Raizy was very involved in both MACS and BLACout to help develop the spiritual growth of her peers through the promotion of modes-ty and the Jewish laws of reciting blessings, respec-tively. She was a Kulanu volunteer for children with special needs and a partici-pant on Yad b’Yad, traveling
throughout Israel with adults who have developmental disabilities. She will be attending Shaalavim in Jerusalem, Is-rael, next year and then the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program at Stern Col-lege.
Keter Shem Tov Awardee: Aviva Sadigh
Aviva Sadigh, SKA’s peer-voted Keter Shem Tov Awardee, is a two time winner of the Middot Award for her out-standing character. She was an SKA Production Choir Head, a contributor to the Yom Tov Press, a tutor to young students and a member of MACS, a stu-dent organization dedicated to promot-ing modesty awareness. Aviva will be attending Shaalavim in Jerusalem next year and then Queens College.
Raizy Joseph, SalutatorianChaya Wertman, Valedictorian Rebecca Kellner, ValedictorianAviva Sadigh, Keter Shem Tov Awardee
Jews across Israel and the world are consumed with worry and fear for the lives of Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaar and Naftali Frenkel, the three boys kid-napped by terrorists in Gush Etzion last week. Since then, the Israel Defense Forces and intelligence establishment has left no stone unturned in their efforts to locate the teens and, with G-d’s help, return them to their parents unharmed.
But the staff and teens of New York NCSY, based in the Five Towns, felt they needed to do more.
They understood that since its incep-
tion, the Jewish nation, when faced with crisis, has grabbed hold of “the tools of their ancestors,” and appealed to G-d through Torah, tefillah, and ma’asim tovim.
To that end, New York NCSY spear-headed an effort to bring together NCSY regions throughout the country, the Or-thodox Union’s Department of Commu-nity Engagement and Synagogue Ser-vices, and in partnership with Bnei Akiva and the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA), to launch a “Virtual Vigil” – an around-the-clock schedule of learning,
prayer, and mitzvot, performed by teens and adults from around the world.
Within 24 hours of launching, over 650 people from around the world had signed up to give of their time in creating this Virtual Vigil of kedusha on behalf of these precious teens.
It is the hope of all involved that through these earnest efforts in the merit of Gilad Michoel ben Bat Galim, Yaakov Naftali ben Rachel Devorah and Eyal ben Iris Teshura, Hashem will see fit to bring them home safely and quickly.
Individuals interested in participat-
ing can go to http://ncsy.org/bring-back-boys/ and fill out a simple form to select a day and a 30-minute slot, and identify what activity they are committing to for that time. You can also view a calendar of taken and available times at http://ncsy.org/bring-back-boys/calendar-times/.
While it is our deepest desire that this campaign will become unnecessary even as it is launched, it is also our intent to continue this project non-stop until our boys are brought home.
New York NCSY and Partners Launch “Virtual Vigil” of Torah Study and Prayer for the Safe Return of Missing Yeshiva Students in Israel
Bayswater Eruv AlertPlease be advised that the Bayswa-
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Street. Please make sure your chil-dren are well aware of this as well. A detailed map of the eruv is being drawn up and will be sent out to the community in the coming weeks.
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Yael Torczyner is a West Hempstead resident and attends Shulamith School for Girls. She is deeply devoted to her community and serves as a group leader at the Young Israel of West Hempstead’s ECC minyan, as well as an umpire in the West Hemp-stead shuls ‘little league.
Yael enjoys spending time working on art and was the Layout Editor for the yearbook. Yael has also been accepted to the Art Academy at SKA, which she will
be attending in the fall.During her time in Shu-
lamith School for Girls, Yael has acquired many accolades including winning third place in the Inter-Yeshiva HALB Science Fair in 2014.Yael has also had the highest individ-ual score in Math Olympiad for three years in a row. In addition, she was also on the
Shulamith Torah Bowl team this year. Yael feels honored to have been named Salutatorian for the Shulamith School for Girls Class of 2014.
Shulamith Lauds Yael Torczyner as Salutatorian
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Shlomo Grumet, Shmuel (Sammy) Silverman, Daniel Neuman, and Zacharia Devor
This past Sunday, Yeshiva of Far Rockaway celebrated our annual siyum where our talmidim completed Mesechta Gittin.
The City of Long Beach, New York, will kick-off its 2014 Annual Summer Concert Series on the Boardwalk with the music of Simply Tsfat, Chassidic musicians from the Breslev community in Tsfat, Israel. A town located in the northern Galilee, Tsfat is famous for its mountain air and Jewish mysticism.
The concert is being presented in conjunction with the Young Israel of Long Beach. The concert will take place on the Boardwalk and Long Beach Boulevard on Sunday night, July 6th, 2014 at 7:00 PM. This event will serves as a welcome to the many families who come to Long Beach to enjoy their sum-mer vacations. It is the just one on the many activities and special events being planned at the Young Israel this summer.
Simply Tsfat fuses together heaven and earth through music. Stories, per-sonal anecdotes and Chassidic teachings are interwoven with powerful lyrics and
enchanting music inherited from an au-thentic tradition handed down from the time of Rebbe Nachman. Acoustic guitarist/vocalist Elyahu Reiter, violin-ist Yehonason Lipshutz, and classical guitarist Yonatan Tzarum join forces to present an evening of Breslev Chassid-ic music, storytelling and teachings of Rebbe Nachman.
After receiving degrees from Tufts and Stanford Universities, Reiter moved to Israel to delve deeper into the Torah. Also a university graduate, Lip-shutz moved to Tsfat with his family two weeks before the Gulf war. Israeli-born Tzarum learned classical flamenco gui-tar from his father.
Simply Tsfat conveys a deep love of chassidic life and its music. Their style is warm and intimate, drawing listeners into the air of Tsfat and a living Chas-sidic tradition.
Simply Tsfat Performs on the Long Beach Boardwalk on July 6
Naomi Nachman, TJH’s food col-umnist, will be hosting her radio show, “Table For Two,” on the Nachum Se-gal Network next Friday, June 27th from 9am-1030am live from Gourmet Glatt. Guest will be Elan Kornblum from Great Kosher Restaurant Maga-zine, Food Bloggers Melinda Strauss
from Kitchen-Tested.com and Chanie Apfelbaum from BusyInBrooklyn.com as well as Jay Buchsbaum from Royal Wines. The show is sponsored by Abe-les and Heymann Hot Dogs and hosted by Gourmet Glatt. Come by for cooking demos, giveaways and wine tastings.
Naomi Nachman to Host Radio Show Live in Gourmet Glatt
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At the final week of the Learn & Live Program, boys learned how to make their very own pair of tzitzis
The beautiful home of Channah and David Bugayer was the filled Sunday morning, June 15th, with friends and supporters of Madraigos for the An-
nual Five Towns Breakfast. With the theme of the morning – One Goal, One Community, One Step At A Time – the community banded together for teens and young adults who are serviced by Madraigos throughout the year.
In the powerful style befitting his reputation, RavMoshe Weinberger, Rav of Congregation Aish Kodesh, shared words of chizuk and inspiration. He
stressed the importance of having a place in the community for young people to turn to for unconditional acceptance, guidance and support. Rabbi Weinberg-er praised Madraigos for its efforts in meeting these needs and he gave the or-ganization a bracha for even greater si-yata dishmaya and continued hatzlacha.
Rabbi Dov Silver, Founder and Exec-utive V.P. of Madraigos, extended warm words of praise and appreciation to Mr. and Mrs. Bugayer for their gracious hos-pitality in making this year’s event en-joyable, meaningful, and successful in every way. Rabbi Silver remarked that “the existence and growth of Madraigos is a result of sincere, committed friends like the Bugayers.” He added, “I am
touched by their gen-uine sensitivity to the special needs of our teens and young adults and I am deeply hum-bled by their warmth and dedication.”
To the credit of Mr. and Mrs. Bugayer and the devoted members of the event commit-tee, Madraigos was introduced to many new friends, from both the Five Towns and surrounding communities. “It was my goal to spread awareness and raise funds for Madraigos, a dynamic organi-zation,” said Mr. Bugayer. “My support
and enthusiasm for its work is predicated not only on its unbelievable growth and development as an organization, but on its remarkable success in achieving its unique mission.”
“We are thrilled with the wonderful
Rabbi Dov Silver, Rabbi Josh Zern, David Bugayer, Rabbi Moshe Weinberger
Madraigos Annual Breakfast Highlights its Vital Work for the Community
Channah Bugayer with Malkie Scharf, past Madraigos Breakfast hostess
Rabbi Moshe Weinberger and Rabbi Dov Silver
Rabbi Dov Silver, David Bugayer, Rabbi Josh Zern
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Call us: (516) 569-2662 • Fax: (516) 569-8376 • 137 Spruce Street, Cedarhurst, NY 11516 [email protected] We reserve the right to limit quantities. No rain
checks. Not responsible for typographical errors./gourmetglatt
Snapple Iced Tea All Flavors - 12 Pack/16 oz
$699. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Domino Sugar 4 lb Bag
$179. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Hubert’s Lemonade Assorted - 16 oz
10/$10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ronzoni Pasta Spaghetti, Elbows, Ziti, Rotini,Rigatoni, Ziti Rigati - 16 oz
89¢. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Hershey’s, Reese’s, York, Almond Joy Pieces 10 oz
$199
Tree Ripe Orange Juice
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Axelrod Yogurts
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Extra Large Eggs
Green Giant CornNiblets, Mexicorn, Shoepeg - 11oz 3/$4.................................................
Darrel Lea Licorice7 oz 2/$4.................................................
Gourmet Glatt Cranberries7 oz $149
.................................................
Bertolli Olive OilExtra Virgin, Extra Lite, Classico51 oz $1399
.................................................
Stacy’s Pita Chips8 oz $199
Wesson OilCanola, Corn, Vegetable,Best Blend - 48 oz
.................................................
Pam Cooking Spray5 oz/6 oz $299
.................................................
Diet Snapple Singles-to-Go6 Sticks/.68 oz
99¢
.................................................
Gefen Solid White Tunain Water6 oz
3/$5.................................................
17 oz Honey Nut Cheerios16 oz Golden Grahams $399
Arizona Teas & PunchSlim Cans - 11.5 oz 2/$1.................................................
Gefen Roasted ChestnutsMulti-Pack - 5 pack/6.15 oz $249
.................................................
B&G Hot Pepper Rings16 oz $199
.................................................
Unger’s Cholent Mix orBarley16 oz
.................................................
Nabisco Ritz CrackersAssorted - 8 oz - 13 oz 2/$5
Campo Di Oliva Extra Virgin Olive Oil1 liter
.................................................
Bush Vegetarian BakedBeans28 oz $199.................................................
Mondo Fruit Squeezers6 pack
99¢
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Domino SugarDark or Light Brown, 10X Confectioners 1 lb
99¢
.................................................
Tradition Cup-A-SoupExcept Fat-Free - 12 Pack $699
SSips Iced TeaAssorted - 59 oz 2/$3
.......................................Lactaid Milk64 oz
$399
Philadelphia CreamCheeseAssorted - 8 oz Cups 2/$5.......................................Golden TasteHorseradish14 oz $299
Fresh & HealthyCottage Cheese16 oz $349
.......................................Friendship SourCream16 oz 2/$3
Jin + Ja
Assorted - 59 oz
All Flavors - 6 oz
Dozen
2/$5
2/$1
2/$3
Ba-Tampte Pickles& Sauerkraut32 oz $299
.......................................Sabra HummusAll Varieties - 10 oz 3/$7
Haagen DazsIce CreamAssorted - 14 oz $349
.......................................Kineret Onion Rings20 oz
$299
Fresh & FrozenGe£lte Fish 20 oz $399
.......................................Green Giant ExtraSweet Corn12 pieces $399
Bird’s Eye ButternutSquash12 oz $199
.......................................Dr. PraegerCalifornia Burgers11 oz $299
Kineret ChocolateChip Cookie Dough24 oz $499
.......................................Eggo ChocolateChip Wa¥es12 oz $299
McCain French Fries
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mendelsohn’s Pizza
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kosheri£c Pizza Cones
Assorted - 20 oz - 32 oz
Original Only - 36 oz
14.6 oz
2/$5
$799
$499
$399 $599
79¢Cholent Mix Barley$129
by the case only
New Items This Week!deliciously powerful &
naturally invigorating!NATURE’S BAKERY
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Square CutFrench Roast$799 lb.
ChickenCutlets$399 lb.
Southern Peaches
99¢ lb.
Red & Green Grapes
Portabella Mushrooms
1st Cut Brisket. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Corned BeefDeckel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Boneless FilletSteakFamily Pack
Cucumber AvocadoRoll
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Spicy SalmonRoll
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Giant VegetableRoll
AlaskaRoll
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .VolcanoRoll
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Black DragonRoll
Golden DeliciousApples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Del MontePineapple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
CaliforniaHoneydew
Neck & SkirtBeefPatties12 Pack
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .FrozenDuckMissing Wing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Poland Spring Water 24 Pack - 16.9 oz
$499. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Taster’s Choice Instant Co§ee House Blend Only - 12 oz
$999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4/$5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Miller’s American Cheese White or Yellow - 12 oz
$299. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Edy’s Ice Cream 48 oz
$299
CelloCarrots1 LB Bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
StemTomatoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
HaasAvocado
RomaineLettuceHead
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
GreenAsparagus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SpanishOnions
FreshBroccoli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
JerseyKirbies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
PersianCucumbers
Wraps & Salad Combo6 varieties to Choose From!
Chicken Fingers withDipping Sauce1 lb
Swedish Meatballs
Apple Noodle Kugel
Salmon Chowder Dairy Cream SoupsCream of Mushroom or Broccoli Spicy Mommy’s Style Eggplant
Roasted Potatoes
Vodka Sauce
Parve SoupsSplit Pea, Mushroom Barley,French Onion
Spray Roses
Spring Mixed Bouquet
Cheese BlintzesAll varieties - 4 Pack
Greek Feta Cheese Salad
Aliza Beer Nutritional Meals24 VARIETIES! SPECIAL OF THE WEEK:Veal Sliders with Zucchini & Mushrooms and Brown Rice
Large MarbleRing Cake
Russian HealthBread
Hot DogBunsPackage of 8
Super Family Pack
We carry onlypremium qualityUSA beef - tender,juicy & delicious!
$999 lb.
$649 lb.
$829 lb.
Breastof Veal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .TenderChuckStew. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SeasonedRibSteaks
$729 lb.
$699 lb.
$1099 lb.
$499 lb.
$549 lb.
2/$5$199 lb.
great for the grill!
2/$5
99¢ lb.
$299ea.
$199lb.
3/$1
$119ea.
99¢ ea.
$299lb.
2/$4
79¢ lb.
$159 lb.
$699
$999
$799lb.
$399lb.
new!chocolate cheese$799
$699
$999
$999ea.
$899ea.
$649ea.$599ea.
check out our new soups & pasta sauces! FREE GRILLING TUESDAY!
$699ea. $149ea. $149ea.
Bunch
Gorgeous Peonies
Table Arrangements
Bunch$999
$999& Up
$1999& Up
$3499& Up
great gift!
Oven Baked Eggplant Parmesan
Fancy Sour Pickles
Pre-Packaged
At the Counter
At the Counter
Pre-Packaged
Pre-Packaged
$249ea.
$499lb.
$299ea.
$549ea.
$249ea.
new!
order your shabbos platters early!
$450
$495
$550
$595
$995
$1095
59¢ lb.
Coke, Diet Coke, Fresca, Sprite, Dr. Pepper, Seagram’s, Fanta, Fuze, Minute Maid
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Call us: (516) 569-2662 • Fax: (516) 569-8376 • 137 Spruce Street, Cedarhurst, NY 11516 [email protected] We reserve the right to limit quantities. No rain
checks. Not responsible for typographical errors./gourmetglatt
Snapple Iced Tea All Flavors - 12 Pack/16 oz
$699. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Domino Sugar 4 lb Bag
$179. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Hubert’s Lemonade Assorted - 16 oz
10/$10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ronzoni Pasta Spaghetti, Elbows, Ziti, Rotini,Rigatoni, Ziti Rigati - 16 oz
89¢. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Hershey’s, Reese’s, York, Almond Joy Pieces 10 oz
$199
Tree Ripe Orange Juice
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Axelrod Yogurts
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Extra Large Eggs
Green Giant CornNiblets, Mexicorn, Shoepeg - 11oz 3/$4.................................................
Darrel Lea Licorice7 oz 2/$4.................................................
Gourmet Glatt Cranberries7 oz $149
.................................................
Bertolli Olive OilExtra Virgin, Extra Lite, Classico51 oz $1399
.................................................
Stacy’s Pita Chips8 oz $199
Wesson OilCanola, Corn, Vegetable,Best Blend - 48 oz
.................................................
Pam Cooking Spray5 oz/6 oz $299
.................................................
Diet Snapple Singles-to-Go6 Sticks/.68 oz
99¢
.................................................
Gefen Solid White Tunain Water6 oz
3/$5.................................................
17 oz Honey Nut Cheerios16 oz Golden Grahams $399
Arizona Teas & PunchSlim Cans - 11.5 oz 2/$1.................................................
Gefen Roasted ChestnutsMulti-Pack - 5 pack/6.15 oz $249
.................................................
B&G Hot Pepper Rings16 oz $199
.................................................
Unger’s Cholent Mix orBarley16 oz
.................................................
Nabisco Ritz CrackersAssorted - 8 oz - 13 oz 2/$5
Campo Di Oliva Extra Virgin Olive Oil1 liter
.................................................
Bush Vegetarian BakedBeans28 oz $199.................................................
Mondo Fruit Squeezers6 pack
99¢
.................................................
Domino SugarDark or Light Brown, 10X Confectioners 1 lb
99¢
.................................................
Tradition Cup-A-SoupExcept Fat-Free - 12 Pack $699
SSips Iced TeaAssorted - 59 oz 2/$3
.......................................Lactaid Milk64 oz
$399
Philadelphia CreamCheeseAssorted - 8 oz Cups 2/$5.......................................Golden TasteHorseradish14 oz $299
Fresh & HealthyCottage Cheese16 oz $349
.......................................Friendship SourCream16 oz 2/$3
Jin + Ja
Assorted - 59 oz
All Flavors - 6 oz
Dozen
2/$5
2/$1
2/$3
Ba-Tampte Pickles& Sauerkraut32 oz $299
.......................................Sabra HummusAll Varieties - 10 oz 3/$7
Haagen DazsIce CreamAssorted - 14 oz $349
.......................................Kineret Onion Rings20 oz
$299
Fresh & FrozenGe£lte Fish 20 oz $399
.......................................Green Giant ExtraSweet Corn12 pieces $399
Bird’s Eye ButternutSquash12 oz $199
.......................................Dr. PraegerCalifornia Burgers11 oz $299
Kineret ChocolateChip Cookie Dough24 oz $499
.......................................Eggo ChocolateChip Wa¥es12 oz $299
McCain French Fries
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mendelsohn’s Pizza
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kosheri£c Pizza Cones
Assorted - 20 oz - 32 oz
Original Only - 36 oz
14.6 oz
2/$5
$799
$499
$399 $599
79¢Cholent Mix Barley$129
by the case only
New Items This Week!deliciously powerful &
naturally invigorating!NATURE’S BAKERY
FIG BARS
RADZ CANDY DISPENSER
NEW ITEM!
/
Square CutFrench Roast$799 lb.
ChickenCutlets$399 lb.
Southern Peaches
99¢ lb.
Red & Green Grapes
Portabella Mushrooms
1st Cut Brisket. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Corned BeefDeckel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Boneless FilletSteakFamily Pack
Cucumber AvocadoRoll
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Spicy SalmonRoll
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Giant VegetableRoll
AlaskaRoll
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .VolcanoRoll
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Black DragonRoll
Golden DeliciousApples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Del MontePineapple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
CaliforniaHoneydew
Neck & SkirtBeefPatties12 Pack
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .FrozenDuckMissing Wing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Poland Spring Water 24 Pack - 16.9 oz
$499. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Taster’s Choice Instant Co§ee House Blend Only - 12 oz
$999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4/$5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Miller’s American Cheese White or Yellow - 12 oz
$299. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Edy’s Ice Cream 48 oz
$299
CelloCarrots1 LB Bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
StemTomatoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
HaasAvocado
RomaineLettuceHead
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
GreenAsparagus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SpanishOnions
FreshBroccoli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
JerseyKirbies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
PersianCucumbers
Wraps & Salad Combo6 varieties to Choose From!
Chicken Fingers withDipping Sauce1 lb
Swedish Meatballs
Apple Noodle Kugel
Salmon Chowder Dairy Cream SoupsCream of Mushroom or Broccoli Spicy Mommy’s Style Eggplant
Roasted Potatoes
Vodka Sauce
Parve SoupsSplit Pea, Mushroom Barley,French Onion
Spray Roses
Spring Mixed Bouquet
Cheese BlintzesAll varieties - 4 Pack
Greek Feta Cheese Salad
Aliza Beer Nutritional Meals24 VARIETIES! SPECIAL OF THE WEEK:Veal Sliders with Zucchini & Mushrooms and Brown Rice
Large MarbleRing Cake
Russian HealthBread
Hot DogBunsPackage of 8
Super Family Pack
We carry onlypremium qualityUSA beef - tender,juicy & delicious!
$999 lb.
$649 lb.
$829 lb.
Breastof Veal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .TenderChuckStew. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SeasonedRibSteaks
$729 lb.
$699 lb.
$1099 lb.
$499 lb.
$549 lb.
2/$5$199 lb.
great for the grill!
2/$5
99¢ lb.
$299ea.
$199lb.
3/$1
$119ea.
99¢ ea.
$299lb.
2/$4
79¢ lb.
$159 lb.
$699
$999
$799lb.
$399lb.
new!chocolate cheese$799
$699
$999
$999ea.
$899ea.
$649ea.$599ea.
check out our new soups & pasta sauces! FREE GRILLING TUESDAY!
$699ea. $149ea. $149ea.
Bunch
Gorgeous Peonies
Table Arrangements
Bunch$999
$999& Up
$1999& Up
$3499& Up
great gift!
Oven Baked Eggplant Parmesan
Fancy Sour Pickles
Pre-Packaged
At the Counter
At the Counter
Pre-Packaged
Pre-Packaged
$249ea.
$499lb.
$299ea.
$549ea.
$249ea.
new!
order your shabbos platters early!
$450
$495
$550
$595
$995
$1095
59¢ lb.
Coke, Diet Coke, Fresca, Sprite, Dr. Pepper, Seagram’s, Fanta, Fuze, Minute Maid
2 liter
ready to grill or broil!
Egg & Potato Kugel
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To culminate a full year of learning, TAG’s pre-1A students celebrated their graduation from the Ganger Early Child-hood Division by presenting a beautiful and meaningful performance for parents and grandparents. From the moment that all six classes entered the spacious new TAG gym in their floral headpiec-es and clad in an array of colorful shirts emblazoned with their theme, Turn On-The Power, they enthralled the audience of adoring fans. Song after song, along with synchronized hand and feet mo-tions, the girls transmitted their uplift-ing message of the power of tefilah, the power of achdus and the power of recog-nizing that Hashem is truly part of their lives. Each talmida received a beautiful Tehillim with her name engraved on the cover as a memento of this auspicious occasion. The girls all know and un-derstand several kapitluch of Tehillim which they recited with great feeling. Thanks to the many parents and grand-parents who sponsored the purchase of
the sifrei Tehillim.A tremendous amount of
time and effort goes into the production. TAG would like to thank Mrs. Karen Daitch-man, who produced and directed the choral portion of the performance, along with Mrs. Sima Gefen, who teaches the girls dance and movement throughout the year and who is such an in-tegral part of our preschool. Special thanks to Mrs. Tzip-py Rhodes who provided the beautiful banner and to TAG’s Director of Opera-tions, Mr. Yaakov Berger, and his crew for their as-sistance in handling all the technical as-pects of this special event.
The Ganger Early Childhood Di-vision of TAG is under the capable di-rection of Mrs. Miriam Tikotzky who deserves recognition for all that she
does for the talmidos the entire year. Likewise, her amazing, efficient right hand assistant, Mrs. Susie Goldfeder, helps make everything run smoothly. Of course, it is our own amazing Pre-1A moros and assistants who deserve praise
for a job well done throughout the year and for properly preparing their talmidos to enter the big world of first grade on the second floor of the building.
Mazel tov to all the Pre-1A talmidos and their families.
The Ganger Early Childhood Division of Torah Academy for Girls Presents a Celebration of Inspiration
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Mesivta Ateres Yaakov’s gradua-tion class of 2018 had their first official MAY activity last Thursday evening. At the annual Freshmen Orientation Dinner, the incoming freshman met each other, their rebbeim, and the han-halah of the yeshiva, and had their first taste of the tremendous achdus and ca-maraderie enjoyed by their more senior schoolmates.
Rabbi Mordechai Yaffe, menahel, opened the program explaining the difference between elementary school and high school and the expectations of Mesivta bochurim. He reminded the boys that regardless of which one of the 13 different elementary schools they represented, they were now Mesivta Ateres Yaakov talmidim.
Students also heard from gener-al studies principal, Rabbi Sam Ru-dansky, who gave an overview of the general studies department, from Rab-bi Yossi Bennett, assistant menahel/
principal, who discussed the myriad extracurricular activities available at the Mesivta and the Mesivta’s focus on college readiness, and from Rabbi Yehuda Horowitz, mashgiach ruchani, who addressed the primacy of limud haTorah at the Mesivta and the focus on growth in Torah and Yiras Shomay-im. Representatives of the Mesivta Stu-dent Government were in attendance and, as well, addressed the incoming talmidim.
Rabbi Yaffe remarked, “We be-lieve that it is healthy for the incom-ing freshman class to get together to meet each other now, before the new year starts with all of its hectic new experiences. In this way, they become accustomed from the outset to the fact that MAY talmidim are one cohesive unit. The orientation dinner was a great start and I was exceedingly impressed with the great middos of our entering students. I expect that this cohort will
distinguish themselves in our yeshiva, and be sources of pride to their families and Klal Yisra-el.”
As a component to this inaugural event for the class of 2018, Rab-bi Tsvi Greenfield, the Mesivta’s new Director of Student Activities, directed a team-build-ing activity to engender camaraderie among the new class. Boys were arbitrarily split up into groups and given a bag of random items with which they were tasked to build one of the keilim of the Bais HaMikdash. The creativity soared, the competition mounted, and new friend-ships were built. The menorah, shul-chan and the mizbeiach were just some of the projects that were completed
within the 10 minute timeline. Winners will receive free breakfast the first two days of Yeshiva next z’man.
Concluding the program, pictures were taken of each student with the Menahel as they received their summer assignments in both leimudei kodesh and leimudei chol and wished each oth-er a good summer.
MAY Class of 2018 Orientation Dinner
What’s a morning without a tradi-tional box of Taanug cereal? For de-cades, Jewish families the world over have enjoyed the popular bowls of crispy cereals every morning. Heaps of family memories were created while crunching away on the favored morning fare.
But breakfast—and lunch and snack—now go further than the stan-dard bowl of cereal and milk. Taa-nug is thrilled to introduce their latest great product: Cereal Bars. The cereals you’ve always loved are now available in individually wrapped bars, packed six in a box. They’re tasty, they’re conve-nient, and they have the traditional Taa-
nug flavor you grew up on.Taanug Cereal Bars are the ideal
solution for those who are always in a hurry. You get the energy and fiber you need in a neat and delicious bar. Choose between the three excellent flavors—Cranberry Date, Nutty, and Apple Cin-namon—and enjoy the great crunch as a quick meal or snack.
When you’re rubbing your bleary eyes in the morning and rushing to leave the house on time, grab a bar or two on your way out. Breakfast is not some-thing you could afford to skip. Get the boost of energy you need to start your day right. You’ll be grateful you did.
Taanug Presents: Cereal with a Twist
The 140+ golfers who came to show support for OHEL at their 10th Annual Golf Classic could not have asked for a better day. The sun was shining, and the sold out crowd arrived at the beautiful Fresh Meadow Country Club ready to play a great day of golf, enjoy delicious food, and have the chance to win incred-ible raffle prizes, all while benefitting the children and families of OHEL.
A special thank you goes to Jerry
Weissman of Omni Managed Health for being the OHEL Omni Golf Spon-sor. Jerry has been a longtime friend and supporter of OHEL and has participated in countless golf events in Long Island and Florida to benefit OHEL’s children.
Special recognition goes to both Jen-ny and Michael Rosenberg from Hawke and Co. for sponsoring golf vests for every player in honor of the 10th anni-versary, as well as Marc Herskowitz
of Infinity Land Services who sponsored Ray-Ban sunglasses for every player.
Thanks to Ben Englander, Izzy Kaufman, Jonathan Marks, Jeffrey Schwartz, and Michelle Sulzberger, OHEL’s Golf Chairs who all brought friends and sponsors to the Golf Clas-sic. A special thank you as well to all of them for ten strong years and counting as Committee Chairpersons.
Congratulations to the winning four-some, which was comprised of Jason Cury, Yakov Horowitz, Jimmy Hynes and Ric Weinstein. Congratulations to the second place foursome, which was comprised of Scott Sulzberger, Matt Nullet, Harry Nullet, and Michael Sch-reiber.
During the dinner, guests were treated to a special appearance by OHEL foster parents Shoshana and Yossi Cohan, who
shared with the audience their journey through OHEL’s foster care program, which ultimately led to the finalization of the adoption of their baby boy a few months ago. His bris actually took place the very next day. They encouraged all to help OHEL’s foster care program and sponsor a child.
For more information about OHEL and their many services which you can benefit from, please contact OHEL today at 1-800-603-OHEL, or visit www.ohel-family.org.
Since 1969, OHEL Children’s Home and Family Services has served as a de-pendable haven of individual and fam-ily support, helping people of all ages effectively manage disability, surmount everyday challenges, heal from trauma, and manage with strength and dignity during times of crises.
OHEL Omni Golf Classic 201410 Years and Going Strong!
Rabbi Heshy Billet of the Young Israel of Woodmere, with OHEL Golf Chairs Jeffrey Schwartz, Jonathan Marks, Michelle Sulzberger, Izzy Kaufman, and Ben Englander, with Robert Katz, OHEL’s Chief Development Officer
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On Sunday, June 22, Yeshiva Gedolah of the Five Towns will be hosting its 12th Annual Breakfast, recognizing some of its dearest friends. David Aidelson will be receiving the Kesser Torah Award, Dani Lilker will be awarded the Yedid Hatorah Award, and Meir Resnick will be recognized with the Amud Hatorah Award. After years of hospitality from the Young Israel of Woodmere, which had graciously hosted the breakfast for over a decade, the Yeshiva takes addi-tional pride in establishing its new home as the location for this event.
Arriving on the heels of the emotion-al festivities surrounding the Chanukas Habayis just a few short months ago, the breakfast will provide a momentary pause to consider what the Yeshiva’s powerful influence means to our com-munity. The spiritual peaks attained on a Shavuos night, learning b’chavrusa in the expansive beis medrash or at a Yo-mim Noraim tefillah, punctuated by the Kol Tefillah of the Roshei Yeshiva, can only be achieved due to the consistent, unwavering support the community has invested in its yeshiva and the yeshiva-leit have reciprocated to the community.
When Yeshiva Gedolah opened the doors of its humble beis medrash to less than 20 bochurim over 12 years ago, the objectives of its chashuve Roshei Yeshiva, Rav Yitzchak Knobel, shlita, and Rav Moshe Zev Katzenstein, shlita, were rather grand. Plant an institution which can serve as an example of To-rah, yiras shamayim and midos tovos to take root in the heart of the Five Towns community. And, as the community has flourished around it, the Yeshiva has blossomed into a model of for the entire olam haTorah to admire.
But the story is not complete. Indeed, the Yeshiva continues to grow and ex-
pand its role in the lives of the bochurim, kollel yungermen and Baal Habatim who choose to seek spiritual nourish-ment from it. This critical ongoing re-sponsibility the Yeshiva fulfills requires the continued time and investment from the community. It is in that spirit that the Yeshiva requests your presence in recognizing its special honorees at this upcoming event.
Kesser Shem TovDavid Aidelson is a shining example
of what it means to be a partner in Torah. Over the years, he has taken full advan-tage of the opportunities a local yeshiva affords by finding time in his busy profes-sional and communal schedule to learn at nights in the Yeshiva, where he spends many hours learning with his chavrusa, Rabbi Shalom Yaakov Jakubowitz. In addition to his learning, he has served as a president of Congregation Aish Kodesh and sits on the boards of Yeshi-va Ketana of Long Island, Madraigos and the Advisory Board of the Yeshiva Gedolah of the Five Towns.
David grew up in Woodmere and attended HAFTR high School. He re-ceived a BA degree from Yeshiva Uni-versity in Political Science and then received a Law Degree from NYU. He started working at Davis Polk & Ward-well, and has been an attorney with JP-Morgan Chase since 1998, where he is the Global Head of the Equities Practice Group.
His wife, Debbie, grew up in Queens, attended Stern College, where she re-ceived her Bachelor’s degree in Math-ematics. She is currently working as an actuary at AIG. She has served as the president of the Aish Kodesh Sisterhood.
The tradition of Torah has been passed down for generations from both
David’s and Debbie’s parents. David’s father, who was a survivor of the Holo-caust, was a rabbi in North Woodmere for many years, and Debbie’s father was a rabbi on Long Island. They inspired them to continue in the derech of Torah and mitzvos.
They are blessed, bli ayin hara, with a beautiful family, and have a daughter who is married and lives in Beitar in Is-rael, with one grandchild.
Amud HatorahMeir Resnick and his wife Devorah
are members of Congregation Bais Me-drash of Cedarhurst (the Shteibel) where Meir learns daily at Rabbi Dovid Spei-gel, shlita’s, daf yomi shiur. When not serving as General Manager of Auto Salvage Alliance, Meir is strongly com-mitted to the Yeshiva Gedolah where he actively learns with his chavrusa, Rabbi Shalom Yaakov Jakubowitz. There, he works diligently to bring the limud and ahavas haTorah, found within the Yeshi-va, home with him daily.
Blessed with a strong kesher with Rebbetzin Katzenstein, Devorah has become a force of chizuk and enthusi-asm to kallahs and many other worthy causes. Together, Devorah and Meir are both devoted to serving the community. Most importantly, the Resnicks are rais-ing their children, Dina, Kayla, Simcha, Zevi and Aharon, with the strong Torah values and a kesher to the Yeshiva fami-ly that they hold dear.
Yedid HatorahDani Lilker is a native of Woodmere
with family roots in the community for over thirty years. After learning in Eretz Yisroel, he received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Yeshiva University and later a Master’s degree in real estate
finance from NYU’s Shack Institute of Real Estate. Dani is a Senior Analyst for Jones Lang LaSalle, a global real estate service company.
In his heart, however, Dani has never left the walls of the Yeshiva. You will find him at various shiurim given throughout the week or learning in the beis medrash with his daily chavrusa. He is always ready to help the Yeshiva, whether it is setting up the Kiddush on Shabbos or helping with the Yeshiva’s move to the new building. Dani feels very fortunate to learn Torah in an environment filled with kedusha and ahavas haTorah that is to be found within the confines of the Yeshiva Gedolah.
Dani could not maintain such a de-manding schedule without the support of his wife, Ahuva. She is personally in-volved in Jewish education and chesed in the community serving as a Speech Pathologist for students at the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rock-away. Of paramount importance is the Lilkers’ desire to raise their children in the Torah tradition that has been passed down from their parents and grandpar-ents. Dani’s parents, specifically his fa-ther Bruce Lilker, have been instrumen-tal over the years in the establishment of the Yeshiva in the community. Most re-cently, Bruce’s engineering firm helped the Yeshiva erect its beautiful new edi-fice.
It is our hope to greet you personally at the upcoming breakfast on June 22nd at 9:15 so we can collectively show our ap-preciation for the efforts of the Yeshiva and the Roshei Yeshiva for implanting this makom Torah in our lives and ad-miration for the accomplishments of this special slate of honorees.
Yeshiva Gedolah of the Five Towns’ Annual Breakfast
Yeshiva Darchei Torah’s eighth grade rafted down the Lehigh River in the Poconos on their graduation trip
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Gan Chamesh, Chabad’s Early Childhood Center, celebrated gradua-tion with a fun-filled and meaningful Builders’ Graduation Parade. The pa-rade incorporated two concepts that
were staples of the Gan Chamesh cur-riculum this year. The implementation of Gan Chamesh’s S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathe-matics) program has introduced a focus
on engineering that is a large component of the children’s block play. Using hollow blocks, the students have mas-tered concepts in engineering and math as they built, bal-anced, planned, measured and conceptualized magnificent structures throughout the year. The children’s block play en-abled them to understand an-other more esoteric concept that was stressed throughout the year – the concept of building the future Beis Ha-mikdash one brick at a time. The children understand that
each mitzvah they do is like a virtual brick that they are adding to the Beis Hamikdash.
The Builders’ Graduation Parade incorporated the components of the S.T.E.M. program while celebrating the mitzvos the children do and the roles those mitzvos play in the building of the future Beis Hamikdash. The parade cen-tered around a magnificent model of the Beis Hamikdash. The model was sur-rounded by the hollow blocks that were so instrumental to the S.T.E.M. program this year. The children marched to the music of Gary Wallin, attired in Gan Chamesh shirts and yellow construction hats. Each child held a block onto which their favorite mitzvah had been printed. As the children marched around the Beis Hamikdash, they stacked their blocks on the hollow blocks surrounding the Beis Hamikdash. The little architects really
understood the concept of the mitzvos they do paving the way for the construc-tion of the future Beis Hamikdash
Despite the wet weather, the Grad-uation Parade was a huge success. We thank the families and friends that came to celebrate with us, the local Police De-partment, the Auxiliary Police Depart-ment, the Village of Cedarhurst, Gary Wallin, Binyamin Wallin, Tzvi Adler and Hana Adler for all their hard work. A huge mazel tov to all of the little grad-uates!
Gan Chamesh’s Early Childhood Center is under the auspices of Chabad of the Five Towns, headed by Rabbi Zal-man and Chani 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 Culminates the Year with an Exciting Builders’ Graduation Parade
On Thursday evening, May 22, three HANC students were awarded the West Hempstead Community Scholarship. The scholarship, which was estab-lished in 1970, is open to stu-dents of the West Hempstead and Island Park communities. The West Hempstead Communi-ty Scholarship Fund is adminis-tered by a Board of Trustees and overseen by local residents who seek to promote the education of students in their community.
After a very selective appli-cation and interview process, seniors Ariel Golshan, Bassy Kimelfeld and
Alex Sachs were selected to receive three out of the six scholarships award-ed. Presenting the awards to our stu-
dents at a beautiful awards dinner at Pompei Restaurant in West Hempstead were HANC Judaic studies faculty
members, Rabbi Eliyahu Alp-ert and Rabbi Joshua Goller, and Director of College Guid-ance, Ms. Karen Sheff.
The program began with opening remarks from Mr. Thomas Kemnizer, president of the WHCSF, followed by an invocation given by Rabbi Goller, who also serves as the assistant rabbi at the Young Is-rael of West Hempstead. Also in attendance were principal Rabbi Shlomo Adelman and assistant principal Ms. Tzipo-
rah Zucker, as well as many dignitaries from the West Hempstead community.
HANC Students Awarded West Hempstead Community Scholarship
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The eighth grade of Yeshiva Darchei Torah won first place at the SET3 (SET-cubed) science competition, a yearlong, advanced contest which was sponsored by the Center for Initiatives in Jew-ish Education. The other participating schools were SAR Academy, HAFTR, Yeshivat Noam, Solomon Schechter of Queens, Yeshiva of Central Queens, Hil-lel Yeshiva and Yeshiva Toras Chaim of South Shore. This was the second time
in three years that Yeshiva Darchei Torah has won this competition.
The SET3 project focuses on the ap-plication of engineering principles to a real-life situation. The project included experimentation, writing complex lab reports, PowerPoint presentations and prototype development. This year’s chal-lenge was to create a retractable cargo transport system connecting two moun-tains which would not interfere with
flights taking off from a nearby airport and flying through the valley between the mountains. The Yeshiva Darchei Torah students built a model, presented the details of the project in a PowerPoint presentation, explained the experiments they performed, reported their findings in an organized and lucid fashion – uti-lizing graphs and diagrams – and gained a tremendous amount of knowledge about engineering and teamwork.
A big yasher koach is due to the students’ coach, Dr. Don Engelberg, a physics instructor in Mesivta Chaim Shlomo, and to the students on the team: Dovid Appelbaum, Daniel Pinchos Fox, Yehoshua Keilson, Eliezer Lowinger, Simcha Mann and Yosef Schulhof. Their commitment and dedication was evident throughout the process and their presen-tation on the day of the competition was nothing less than magnificent.
Yeshiva Darchei Torah Wins Prestigious Science Competition
L-R: Dr. Don Engelberg, Dovid Applebaum, Daniel Pinchos Fox, Simcha Mann, Yehoshua Keilson, Yosef Schulhof and Rabbi Dr. Yitzchak Goldberg. Not pictured: Eliezer Lowinger. Visible at right: the project under construction.
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Yeshiva Darchei Torah’s winning science team: Left to right: Dovid Appelbaum, Yosef Schulhof, Yehoshua Keilson, Joel Javitt of the Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education (CIJE), the sponsor of the competition; Dr. Don
Engelberg, project coach; Daniel Pinchos Fox and Eliezer Lowinger. Not pictured: Simcha Mann.
Ramat Givat Zev Approved for Immediate ConstructionGood news: the upscale Ramat Givat
Zeev neighborhood just north of Jerusa-lem has been approved for immediate construction, after efforts were made by the members of the Jewish Home party and MK Rabbi Meir Porush. The efforts were spearheaded by MK Ayelet Shaked. The neighborhood will consist of 380 housing units for the Orthodox commu-nity, of which 200 units are designated for new olim from the United States, and 180 units are for Orthodox Israeli fam-ilies.
The Ramat Givat Zeev neighborhood is located on private land and is being successfully marketed by Chish Nofei Israel, owned by Chanoch Kass. As part of construction approvals issued recently in the Jerusalem envelope area, the de-velopers wanted to make sure that this neighborhood was included.
The developers, as well as represen-tatives from the residents abroad and in Israel, held a meeting with MK Ayelet Shaked and demanded that she work to ensure that no delay in the construction would ensue. Ms. Shaked was very at-tentive and promised to do whatever she could on the issue.
Indeed, she convened the members of her party, Ministers Naftali Bennett and Uri Ariel, as well as Mrs. Orit Struk,
and they decided to send an urgent ap-peal to Prime Minister Benjamin Ne-tanyahu. The representatives asked to make sure, among other things, that there would be no delay in the construction of Ramat Givat Zeev, being that it is private property, where construction cannot be held up, and that the buyers are Orthodox American families waiting for the hous-es to be able to make aliyah. “Imagine what a fuss it would make in the world if it would become known that American olim are being held up from coming to Israel and living in their new homes be-
cause the Israeli government is trying to delay the construction.”
The prime minister was convinced by these claims and instructed that the issue be removed from the agenda and that the construction of 1,500 units in the Jerusa-lem envelope area, including Beitar Illit and other cities, continue unimpeded.
The developers, headed by Chanoch Kass, the CEO and owner of Chish No-fei Israel, warmly thanked Ms. Shaked, Ministers Ariel and Bennett, and Mrs. Struck for their efforts to resolve the is-sue rapidly by removing the freeze on
this neighborhood.Ramat Givat Zeev is the flagship
project of Chish Nofei Israel, a lead-er in the real estate market with a solid record of creating housing solutions for the religious community in Israel. The neighborhood offers a range of residen-tial options: there are some 150 private homes, and around 250 spacious, luxu-rious apartments. The neighborhood has generated a lot of interest both in Ameri-ca and in Israel as the perfect solution for new olim and their families.
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In the entire biblical narrative of the sojourn of the Jewish people in the desert of Sinai, the tribe of Levi is not
mentioned as being a participant in any of the rebellions and mutinies of the Jew-ish people against G-d and Moshe. The tribe of Levi stood firm in its faith and loyalty during the disaster of the Golden Calf and rallied to the side of Moshe to stem that tide of idolatry.
In the complaints mounted against Moshe and G-d about water and food, the tribe of Levi is not to be found. The tribe of Levi did not participate in the mission of the spies and explorers of the Land of Israel and there is opinion that it was not included in the decree that that genera-tion would die in the desert and never see the Land of Israel. Yet this seeming-ly impeccable record is tarnished by the events described in this week’s parsha.
Here, apparently, the tribe of Levi, through Korach and his supporters, are the leaders of a very serious rebellion against the authority of Moshe. Moshe
himself is a Levite and when he criticiz-es the behavior of the tribe of Levi – “Is it not enough for you to be the chosen servants of the L-rd in your Levite sta-
tus that you must insist that you will also be the priestly class of Israel?!” he certainly does so with heavy heart and great bitterness. In effect he is demand-ing to know what happened to turn the holy tribe of Levi into a rebellious group whose punishment would be their being swallowed up by the earth.
One of my favorite truisms in life is that one is never to underestimate the
power of ego. The Great War of 1914-18 was in a great measure caused and driv-en by the egotistical whims of some of the main monarchs of Europe who were
then in power. The Talmud records for us that the evil but potentially great King of Israel, Yeravam ben Nvat, was offered by G-d, so to speak, to stroll in Paradise alongside King David and G-d Himself, again, so to speak.
The Talmud tells us that Yeravam refused the offer because King David would have preference of place over him on that walk in Heaven. The message
and moral that the Talmud means to con-vey with this story is how dangerous and tragic an inflated ego can be to one’s self and, if one is in a position of leadership and authority, it may affect others as well.
Korach and the tribe of Levi fall victim to their inflated egos. Their sense of self is now far from reality and responsibility. One cannot be without ego and self-pride. Yet these attributes must be tempered by perspective, logic and a sense of loyalty and obedience to the word of G-d. That, in my opinion. is the basic lesson of this week’s parsha.
Moshe’s overriding sense of modesty diminishes the drive of his own ego and he is able to say, “Would that all of G-d’s congregation could join me as prophets.” Korach, consumed by his un-justly inflated ego, destroys himself and many others in his quest for positions that do not belong to him nor is he wor-thy of having.
Shabbat shalom.
Torah ThoughtRabbi Berel Wein
Parshas Korach
ONE CANNOT BE WITHOUT EGO AND SELF-PRIDE YET THESE ATTRIBUTES MUST BE TEMPERED
BY PERSPECTIVE, LOGIC AND A SENSE OF LOYALTY AND OBEDIENCE TO THE WORD OF G-D.
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We’ve probably all seen little toddlers playing with keys. They could be real, jinglym
metal keys, or large, clackety, plastic keys, but they seem to like keys. As they grow up, some children still like keys. Often, boys of a certain age, per-haps ten or eleven years old, look at keys as a sign of greatness.
Whether it’s power, importance, control, responsibility, or trust, some kids love to walk around with bunches of keys, often clipped onto their belts, and they have a key for everything from their house from their bike to the suit-case they used last summer when they went to visit Zaydie. They feel very connected to their keys and the keys are a piece of their identities.
I never realized just how much a part of our culture this was until a Cha-sidic fellow from Israel who was visiting to collect money asked me, “Are you very important?” See-ing that I was tak-en aback by this unusual question, he clarified in his halting, limited English, “You have much keys.”
My initial reaction was to respond that I didn’t have many keys at all! I have my house key and a car key on my ring, plus a few supermarket loyalty cards. Did I really have “much” keys? I assured him I wasn’t really important, gave him a donation, and that was that. Awkward situation avoided.
This event has remained with me, in my memory, as if it just happened. Perhaps he was looking for a larger do-nation and wanted to get on my good side by mentioning that as I took my keys out of my pocket to open my door, I looked like an important fellow. Per-sonally, I felt the whole idea of having keys making you important was a ridic-ulous and preposterous one.
On a deeper level, though, it’s abso-lutely correct. What does a key symbol-ize? It declares that the holder of it is trustworthy enough to guard something that is so precious it needs to be locked away. The more keys one has, the more places he is trusted. If a person is so trusted, he must be important to the people who rely on him to keep their valuable items safe.
Forget the aspect of having physi-
cal keys. I recall some kids who would pick up keys from the street or add mul-tiple copies of the same key just to have more keys on their ring. But we all have been entrusted with keys by G-d, and that’s what we need to think about.
The Gemara in Taanis 2a-b relates that there are three keys that Hashem
does not give to human beings for long or at the same time. Those are the keys to bearing children, rain, and reviving the dead. Though certain prophets had some of these “keys” at specific times,
none were en-trusted with all of them all the time. However, when they were given these keys, they were to use them wisely, properly, and for the good of Mankind.
You may not be able to revive the dead (though get-
ting your kids up for school some days may seem like it,) but you can revive someone’s spirit by offering her a smile and a kind word. Maybe saying, “It’s so nice to see you again!” to a fellow who looks lonely qualifies as your techiyas ha’maisim.
You may not control the rain, which
is linked to parnassa, but you can try to help someone who needs a job. May-be you can write résumés and can give them some pointers, or simply have them in mind in your prayers.
There are other keys, too, with which we have been entrusted. These are the talents, abilities, and gifts that Hashem has bestowed upon us to be used for a purpose. We are not given greatness for personal gain, but to fulfill the Torah and mitzvos and be a produc-tive member of society.
The fellow was right. I have “much” keys. I am important because only I can use the keys entrusted to me. This is the same importance that each of us has.
We’ve each been given keys, and doors and locks to which they go, in order to fulfill some mission in G-d’s Creation.
You are important, and you, too, have “much” keys. So go out and see just how many doors you can open when you use the gifts Hashem has giv-en you.
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On Thursday evening, three teenagers dis-appeared on their way home from yeshi-va. They were hitchhiking, or tremping,
at a hitchhiking stop in Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem, when they fell into terrorists’ hands.
The capture of Naphtali Frenkel, 16, Gil-Ad Shaer, 16, and Eyal Yifrach, 19, has thrown the Jewish State into a state of dread and hopeful-ness as the army is scrambling to locate and free the boys and Jews worldwide are praying fer-vently for their safety and release.
Naphtali is a dual Israeli-American citizen from Nof Ayalon near Modi’in, Gil-Ad is from the settlement of Talmon, and Eyal is from Elad near Petah Tikva. Naphtali’s grandparents moved to Israel from the Flatbush neighborhood in Brooklyn in 1956. He was born and raised in Israel and visited the United States many times since his youth.
HAMAS’ ROLEOn Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Ne-
tanyahu announced that Israel knew “for a fact” that Hamas was behind the kidnappings. Even so, he stated that he holds the Palestinian Au-thority responsible for their capture, citing the marriage between Hamas and Fatah earlier this month in the Palestinian government. “Israel warned the international community about the dangers of endorsing the Fatah-Hamas unity pact,” Mr. Netanyahu said. “The dangers of that pact should now be abundantly clear to all.”
“This [pact] will not advance peace; it will advance terror,” he thundered.
But even though Israel is positive about who is behind the attack, as of this writing, the boys are still in terrorists’ hands. Since Thurs-day evening, at least 150 Palestinians have been arrested, including many Hamas leaders, and thousands of troops have been sent to the area to search for the teens. On Monday, Israel vowed to deal a crushing blow to Hamas’ infrastructure in the West Bank. The prime minister reiterated that Israel is doing all that is possible to locate
the boys, even though the public may not see the immediate results of the IDF’s intense military operation. “We must be prepared that this will take time,” he told the nation.
He also warned the world that the State will not stand by when its citizens are targeted, and he threatened anyone who attempts to harm Is-raeli citizens.
On Monday, Netanyahu said he held Pales-tinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas re-sponsible for the kidnapping as well as Hamas. In a rare telephone conversation, the Israeli leader said that he expects assistance from Ab-bas in getting back Naphtali Frenkel, Gil-Ad Shaer and Eyal Yifrach. In the conversation, he pointed out that the Hamas-Fatah pact is bad for Israel, bad for the Palestinians, and bad for the region.
The exchange came as Abbas issued his first condemnation of the kidnapping, days after it took place, and in doing so, condemned Israeli military action over the past few days. But the
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Hamas kidnappers come from PA-con-trolled territories and found refuge there after the attacks. Clearly, the PA is har-boring terrorists and preventing the cap-tives from returning home.
“This incident reveals the nature of the terrorism we are fighting,” Netan-yahu pointed out. “Terrorists kidnap in-nocent Israeli children, while we treat in our hospitals sick Palestinian children. That is the difference between our hu-manitarian policies and the murderous terrorism that attacks us.”
On Sunday, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon echoed Netanyahu’s sentiment. “The same Palestinian Authority that some like to call ‘moderate’ forged a treaty with Hamas, a terror group that in its very essence proclaims the need to kill Jews. It is on their shoulders that the responsibility for the kidnapping of the youths rests. We shall make the leaders of Hamas pay, and they will pay when we decide the time has come to collect the debt. This will be the fate of anyone who tries to injure Israeli citizens,” Ya’alon said.
In an effort to force Hamas’ hands, Israel is considering “expelling senior Hamas members from the Judea-Samaria to the Gaza Strip as well as destroying their homes,” Walla news site said, quoting unnamed senior sources. A senior official quoted by Haaretz said the justice min-istry had on Sunday looked into the legalities of expelling Hamas members to Gaza. Israel was also weighing sanctions against Hamas prison-ers in Israel jails, the paper reported.
“We will know how to exact a very heavy price from the leaders of Hamas wherever and whenever we find it appropriate and from whom-ever ponders the notion of harming the citizens of Israel or disrupting their lives,” Ya’alon said on Sunday evening.
PALESTINIANS CELEBRATEAfter news of the kidnapping reached Pal-
estinians, many broke out in celebration. In the past, terrorist acts like kidnappings by Hamas have garnered support for the terrorist organiza-tion by Palestinians. But in Hebron, residents are subjected to a curfew by the Israelis, and one hopes that this will curtail their support for Hamas. Will they still see them as heroes or will they see them as those who are impeding their road to livelihood is the question. An extended curfew can mean economic disaster for some residents. Israelis are hoping that the latter will be true.
Even though Netanyahu has declared that Hamas is behind the kidnapping, Hamas leaders have stated that they have no information about the attack. Additionally, the kidnappers have not asked to trade prisoners for the captives—they have not approached anyone—in Israel or in the PA—to negotiate their release. Even Egypt, long considered a negotiator between the Israelis and Hamas, has not heard word. A lack of commu-nication makes it unsettling for the Israeli public who at least want to hear that the three boys are alive.
THURSDAY NIGHTIt is believed that Naphtali Frenkel,
Gil-Ad Shaer, and Eyal Yifrach were kid-napped around 10:25 on Thursday night. Just a few minutes later, one of the boys managed to make a phone call to police and whispered, “We have been kidnapped!” before the call ended abruptly. But the po-lice thought the call was a prank and the IDF was only notified hours later when one of the students’ parents called police after he lost contact with his son.
The army and Shin Bet were called in by police at 4am on Friday, after police launched a minor investigation of their
own. Precious time was lost in searching for the
captives, but police said that they receive many false reports of kidnappings on a daily basis. Additionally, the officer who took the call was referred to by a Channel 2 report as “a young, inexperienced” policeman.
TREMPINGTremping, or hitchhiking, in Israel is gener-
ally a more convenient and cheaper way to travel the land. It has long been a phenomenon in Is-rael, points out Professor Gad Yair, a sociologist at Hebrew University. “Hitchhiking represented the concept that all of Israel is unified,” said Yair, “that everyone tremps, that we’re one big kib-butz, that we’re in this together.”
Up to until the First Intifada in 1987, hitch-hiking was considered acceptable across all spec-trums. But then, after a spate of abductions, in-cluding the kidnapping of Nachshon Wachsman hy”d by Hamas militants wearing yarmulkas and playing Chassidic music, the IDF forbade sol-diers from hitchhiking and launched a public ser-vice campaign against tremping. The army even sends out undercover military police units to pick up hitchhiking soldiers, sending them to military jail for violating the order.
But those who tremp regularly say that they only go into cars of those who they either know or those driven by strangers of a certain type: the men wear large, knit yarmulkas and the women cover their hair with scarves and hats. Even the cars have a certain look: they are often banged up with yellow Israeli license plates.
Even though those who hitchhike are ex-tremely careful, there are risks involved, as dem-onstrated by the kidnapping on Thursday eve-ning.
KEEPING STRONG On Monday, Iris and Ori Yifrach, the parents
of Eyal Yifrach, emotionally reached out to their son via the Israeli media. “Our Eyali, we love you,” Iris cried. “The Jewish People is praying for you – look at the beauty of the Jewish people. Hug Gil-Ad and Naphtali tightly. You are strong for them and for all of us. Our heart is torn, bro-ken, but with this the heart believes, believes that you [all] will return home in peace, healthy and whole.”
Eyal Yifrach, 19, Naphtali Frenkel, 16,and Gil-Ad Shaer, 16
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She also addressed the Israeli public and the outpouring of support that has been sent to the families of the abducted boys. “Our Jewish People, we love you, from all the heart, we feel your warmheartedness to the bottom of our hearts and it passes to our children. This is what gives us strength, in the merit of your prayers, our Jewish people, all of us are strong.”
Ori, Eyal’s father, also spoke with emu-nah, “We believe this great unity of the people strengthens Eyal, Gil-Ad and Naphtali,” he said. “These forces reach the children and in this merit they will be strong and steadfast. We are believ-ers and the children of believers, we believe that everything that G-d does, He does for the good.”
On Sunday, Bat-Galim, the mother of Gil-Ad, also spoke to the media and, like the parents of Eyal, thanked the public for its support and the security services for their efforts aimed at finding the boys.
“We are going through difficult times. I want to embrace the Jewish people an embrace of grati-tude, an embrace of thanks, an embrace of prayer,” said Bat-Galim. “You are giving us strength and resolve in these days, and we are transmitting all this positive energy to our Gil-Ad. Gil-Ad is strong as are his two friends.”
“We are optimistic, with G-d’s help, He will see the combined effort of the prayers and soli-darity, and we will embrace Naphtali, Eyal, and Gil-ad here,” Racheli Frenkel, Naphtali’s mother, said outside her Nof Ayalon home on Sunday af-ternoon.
“Naphtali, Mom and Dad and your siblings love you to no end. Know that Israel is turning the world upside down to bring you home,” she implored.
PRAYING TOGETHERAfter news of the kidnapping reaching the
public, Jews worldwide opened their Tehillims and gathered together to pray for the safety and release of the three boys.
On Sunday, over 30,000 Jews gathered at the Kotel to join together and pray for their freedom. Eyal’s brother, Asaf, led the crowd in prayer, sob-bing as he read from Tehillim.
“The entire nation came to the Western Wall tonight, as one person with one heart, united in prayer for the safety of the hostages; may they soon return to their families and their nation,” Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau said.
Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, the founder of the Mekor Haim high school yeshiva in Kfar
Etzion where two of the boys studied, also led prayers and held special study sessions for the boys’ release. “In a time and place that had seemed to us quiet and serene, we have been thrown into an event that we can do nothing to resolve,” he said.
“All we have left now is to turn to our Father in Heaven and plead,” Steinsaltz begged. “What we can do, and this has been the Jewish way from time immemorial, is to add more holiness and learn more Torah,” he added.
Hundreds more gathered in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square to gather in prayer on Sunday evening. “At this difficult hour we must unite and strength-en the families, and hope that through our prayers along with other prayers that take place across the country, we will open the gates of Heaven and our boys shall return home,” a pamphlet distributed by the organizers read.
Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai and the city’s chief rabbi, Yisrael Meir Lau, took part in the gathering, along with Yehuda Wachsman, the fa-ther of IDF soldier Nachshon Wachsman hy”d, who was kidnapped and murdered by Palestinians in 1994, and Noam Shalit, father of Gilad Shalit, who was held by Hamas in Gaza for years until he was released in 2011.
On Sunday, Bat-Gilam Shaar, Gil-Ad’s moth-er, told the Jewish nation: “We are sending all this positive energy to our Gil-Ad. Gil-Ad is strong, and I’m sure Naphtali and Eyal are strong as well. I want to ask the people of Israel, keep praying together! Continue to empower our children. With the help of G-d, with this unity, we will succeed.”
May it be G-d’s will that we very soon see the safe recovery of Yaakov Naftali ben Rachel Devorah, Gilad Michael ben Bat Galim, and Eyal ben Iris Tesura. Please continue to keep them in your hearts and tefillos.
At the Atzeres for the recovery of our brothers at the Kotel
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What is trauma? Yes, you’re right, it is being in a city that is being bombed; it is being
in a terrible car accident; it is being attacked in a war zone or on the street. But the definition of trauma doesn’t stop there.
Trauma is also a lower-level as-sault on the person over a period of time. That is, “mere” words, hurtful words, repeated often, can be trau-matic. Let’s take a case in point: A child grows up in a family in which a parent is chronically depressed. The child knows nothing of diagnoses and doesn’t realize there is something dif-ferent or wrong with his parent. But that parent has a negative view of life: Nothing will go well. The parent can’t see a future, certainly not a positive future. This parent is not bad, not evil. This parent may have gone through the War or had other problems in life that caused this dim outlook. How will that affect the child?
If the parent has often said things like, “It will never work,” or “Those children don’t like you,” or “Don’t take any risks,” or “The relationship with my sister Sorah, your aunt, will never be fixed,” and so forth, slowly, insidiously, this message of the bleak-ness of life will creep into the child’s soul.
Now imagine going up a level. The parent says, “You will never succeed – you’re a failure,” “It’s no wonder those children don’t like you,” “See what you’ve done now from the stupid risks you take?” and “Your aunt Sorah deserves everything that’s happened to her.” We have stepped over a line into the world of abuse.
And for many people on the re-ceiving end, that can be traumatic.
Why is that? Several conditions have to operate for trauma to occur:
1. A person perceives the event(s) as an assault on themselves.
In each of the above statements, the listener is being attacked. Even the one about Aunt Sorah is an attack in the context of the type of communica-tion this parent is giving to the child. When taken with “You’re a failure” and “It’s no wonder those children don’t like you,” the child perceives that there must have been something
wrong with Aunt Sorah just like there is something wrong with him. What’s more, given how much I screw up, the child thinks, I, too, will deserve every bad thing that will happen to me just like Aunt Sorah deserves it.
2. As a result of being chronical-ly attacked, the person is in a con-stant state of watchfulness and fear.
There is a physiological compo-nent to this. When threatened, our autonomic nervous system takes over and produces the stress hormone, cor-tisol; it raises blood pressure, increas-es heart rate; forces blood away from extremities and into the large muscles; it also cuts off blood flow to the cor-tex where we think logically. All of this, you’ve heard before, is called the flight, fight, or freeze response. Over time, there is wear and tear on the body and mind from being put into this constant state of preparing to pro-tect oneself from attack.
3. There is no outside source of challenge or support.
I once read the incredible story of a young girl who was abused at home but miraculously did not suffer severe emotional damage from it because ev-ery summer she was sent to her grand-parents for two weeks. There, she was treated with respect and kindness and she learned that what she was experi-encing at home was just plain wrong.
It’s having that alternative perspec-tive of reality that restores our sense of what is normal and right. Without it, a person is subject to being sucked into the irrational and harmful way of thinking provided by an abuser.
Now, let’s take this a step further. Here is a traumatized man, let’s call him Paul, who has been told the sort of things above. He gets married and brings his view of the bleakness of life and his own limitations with him into his marriage. How will he and his new wife, let’s call her Marcie, navigate
the ups and downs of their relation-ship?
The first time they discuss his job and the “issues” there, Paul may feel as though Marcie is rubbing into him that he can’t or won’t succeed. This may not be at all what was in her mind but that is his immediate reaction. And he will be convinced that she “really”
thinks this way. He is so sure of it be-cause that is embedded in his heart and soul from childhood. It “must” be how she really feels.
Not only that, but the pain Paul feels will be so much greater than if Marcie had “only” suggested that he didn’t cut it in the job world. The re-cent blow (that Marcie didn’t actual-ly give him but he perceived or be-lieved to be given) lies on top of the unhealed wounds from his childhood. For this reason, his reaction may be much greater than one would expect. He might withdraw into a protective shell; he might lash out at Marcie; he might make snide remarks; he might sink into a depression.
What is Marcie to do about this? More importantly, perhaps, what should Paul do?
Let me answer by way of a story. Many years ago when my oldest was in high school, she was baking this weird Shavuous cake. I say weird be-cause the pan of cake sat in the oven inside a larger pan of hot water. When the time came to take it out of the oven, I was concerned that she might burn herself so I took it out. But I was busy doing whatever and my mind was preoccupied. I was in a rush and instead of taking out first the cake pan and then the water pan, I reached for both.
As you can imagine I spilled the water on myself, on my foot, to be specific. The skin came off: It was a bad burn. I was in a lot of pain for a while. It formed a bubble and my hus-
band thought I might be getting an infection. I was. He ran through the night with cold compresses and I saw the doctor the next day. Eventually, with antibiotics, it started to heal.
Things were going along really well and I eventually was able to go without the bandages. My foot actual-ly looked normal. I was quite pleased. About three weeks after the accident, we were invited to a friend’s wedding. During the Israeli dancing, a woman with high heels stepped on my foot. Normally, it would be a slight “ouch” and we’re done. But instead, my foot started bleeding. The skin was still too thin. I always wondered why this odd thing happened to me until I started retelling the story to my clients. Then the real meaning of thin skin made so much sense.
With this in mind, here are my sug-gestions:
First, both Paul and Marcie have to recognize that the overreaction is the result of the unhealed earlier wounds. This is big and not necessarily easy for Marcie to understand. After all, his behavior wasn’t easy to take.
Second, Paul needs to learn how to calm himself using deep breathing and/or mindfulness techniques and other self-help exercises so as to try to react rather than overreact. He will need help with that.
Third, it will be important for Paul first to engage in therapy specifically for trauma and then the therapist, who must also be skilled in couples coun-seling, should bring Marcie in so as to repair the relationship.
Dr. Deb Hirschhorn, a Marriage & Fam-ily Therapist and best-selling author of The Healing Is Mutual: Marriage Em-powerment Tools to Rebuild Trust and Respect—Together, is proud to announce that readers of The Jewish Home will re-ceive a $50 discount on every visit to her Woodmere office. Listen to her new show called “Kids and Parents” on Chazaq Ra-dio live from 3-4 on Thursdays. Attend the Food For Thought lectures at Cravingz Cafe, 410 Central Ave, Cedarhurst, on Wednesdays at 10 AM. Any questions, call 646-54-DRDEB or check out her website at http://drdeb.com.
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Marriage and Trauma
HURTFUL WORDS, REPEATED OFTEN, CAN BE TRAUMATIC.
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British- By acknowledging that their team stinks, but don’t we all know that’s not polite to say? Just be calm and carry on.
French- By waving white flags and a few bottles of wine.
Italians- What’s the difference to you how I watch the game, wise guy? Ya think ya smart? Have a slice of pizza!
Russians- By drinking Stolichnaya vodka and reminiscing about the Golden Age when Mother Russia dominated soccer. (What? It never happened? Sure it did, look in any Russian history book.)
Canadians- By declaring that even though their team stinks, Canadians are great at hockey… “ey?”
North Koreans- By chanting for roly poly Kim Jung Un to enter the game and score 55 goals, because he is the best soccer player who ever lived.
Chinese- By playing for their prayers to succeed.
Egyptians- By stampeding and killing 100 people if their team loses and 250 people if their team wins.
South Africans- By popping their eardrums by blowing on Vuvuzelas for 6 hours straight (but no worries—they have the best sign language interpreters!).
Israelis- They don’t watch the game – they coach the game from the front seats of their taxi cabs. Mah zeh lecha?
Kenyans- By hosting White House parties. (Just had to throw that in for all of you Birthers out there.)
Cubans- By sitting in front of the newest 21st century invention—black and white TVs.
Americans- By gathering all their friends for a massive party with mad chicken wings, burgers and whole wheat wraps stuffed with grilled chicken, mayo and avocados (for the guy who is “on a diet”). Once they are done eat-ing, they fall into the couch and fall asleep…before the game even starts.
Ali ben-Ibrahim was a salt dealer in old Baghdad. Every day he went from his home just outside the city to the market with two huge sacks of salt tied to the back of his donkey. His donkey was a small, evil-smelling brute called Roxanna. It was, however, not lacking in the brains department.
One hot day, as they passed along the banks of the Tigris, the don-key broke free from Ali and plunged into the cool water. When the irate salt seller finally persuaded the beast to leave the river, it imme-diately noticed that much of the salt had dissolved and its load was therefore considerably lighter. After that, no matter how hard Ali tried, he could not prevent the donkey from diving into the river and ruining its load of salt. But when it came to lateral thinking, Ali himself was no slouch. One day, he loaded up the donkey as usual and, as usual, the animal plunged into the river. Then it learned its lesson and never tried that trick again.
What had Ali done?Answer on next page
Riddle!As they are standing outside of the soccer stadium in Brazil, Jimbo
says to Bubba, “I wish I’d brought the piano to the stadium.”
Bubba asks, “Why would you bring a piano to a football game?”
Jimbo answers, “Be-cause I left my tick-ets on it at home.”
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WORLD CUP TRIVIA1. Brazilian soccer player Ronaldo de Assis Moreira was the FIFA World Player of the Year 2004 and 2005 after scoring how many goals in one game?
a. 3b. 7c. 12d. 23
2. What happens when during a game a player is given a “red card?”
a. He must go to the penalty box for 5 minutes
b. He is not allowed to touch the ball on the inbounds pass
c. He is ejected from the game d. He gets free dinner at a local restaurant
. 3 How many players per team are on the field at one time per team?
a. 5b. 8c. 11d. 15
4. If a player is fouled in the 18-yard box surrounding the opponent’s goal, what happens?
a. He is awarded a penalty kickb. His team gets to inbound the ball with-
in the opponent’s 18 yard box
c. There is a 5 minute power play, which means two players from the other team must sit on the bench
d. His team is automatically given a point
5. How many minutes is an official professional soccer game?
a. 45b. 60c. 75d. 90
6. Which country has won the most World Cups to date?
a. Mexicob. Brazilc. Venezuelad. Italy
7. Martinho Eduardo Orige of Brazil holds the World Record for which of the following?
a. Being the only player to win the World Cup three times
b. Being the only player to not give up a goal in an entire sea-son
c. Scoring 13 goals in one gamed. Juggling a soccer ball for
19.5 hours
Answers1. D- At the age of 13, Moreira scored all
23 goals in a 23-0 victory against another local football team, propelling him to soccer fame.
2. C- A red card means an ejection. When a player is ejected, his team must play a man down. Yellow cards are a caution when a player fouls too much. If a player gets two yellow cards in a game, he is ejected. A few things lead to a straight red card, including tackles from behind.
3. C4. A- If a player is fouled in the 18-yard
box surrounding the opponent’s goal, he is awarded a penalty kick. It’s a player-versus-goalkeeper scenario where the referee places the ball on the penalty spot.
5. D -There are no timeouts in soccer. The clock runs continuously through two 45-minute halves. (There is a 15-minute
halftime.) However, an official keeps track of time when the ball is not played (for an injury, goal, etc.) and extra time can be added to the end of each half. Usually, extra time is somewhere between 3 and 5 minutes, though it can be shorter or longer.
6. B- Brazil won five World Cups, followed by Italy, which won four World Cups.
7. D- Martinho Eduardo Orige juggled a regulation soccer ball for 19.5 hours non-stop with his feet, legs and head without the ball ever touching the ground.
SCORECARD6-7 correct: You are a World Cup cham-
pion! 3-5 correct: You are good enough to be
the 12th man on the soccer team.0-2 correct: Vvuuuuuzzzzvuuuzzzzz—I
told you that all that blowing on your Vuvuz-elas would burn your brain cells
Can you guess which one of these people is the only one who never played in the NHL?
Did You Know?• Some people credit the Chinese with
the invention of soccer. The game of Tsu-Chu, or “kick ball,” originated during the Tsin Dynasty (255-206BC). Soldiers would kick a leather ball into a net strung between two poles.
• For many years, players used pig bladders wrapped in leather as soccer balls.
• King Edward III banned soccer in England in 1365
owing to the growing incidents of violence
and military indul-
gence in the sport. In 1424, King James I of Scotland also proclaimed in the Parliament— “Na man play at
the Fute-ball” (No man shall play football).
• Cristiano Ronaldo is the highest paid soccer player in the world. He earned $73 million in salary, bonuses and endorsement income in 2013.
• Soccer is only called soccer in the United States and Canada. Ev-erywhere else in the world it’s called football.
• Soccer players run more than other athletes during a game. On average, a player can run 7 miles depending on position, with some players running as much as 9.5 miles.
• It’s the most popular sport in the world.
• The highest scoring official soccer game was 149-0 in Madagascar in 2002; it was a form of protest.
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Butterflies and summertime are similar in many ways. With the air warm and fresh, we all marvel
at the majestic beauty as the gracious butterfly spreads its wings and shows off its magnificent colors. According to the Academy of Natural Sciences, a chrysalis or pupa is a butterfly in the transformation process in which cater-pillars turn into butterflies. It is during this time period that a caterpillar goes through most of its life changes. In fact, every major component of a cater-pillar’s physiology is re-defined. In all caterpillars, this happens inside a pro-tective shell known as a cocoon. The cocoon is actually created by the cat-erpillar before this transition takes place in order to protect itself from the upcoming developmental chang-es. Scientists have shown us that this structure and security is paramount to the success of a caterpillar’s pro-ductive transitional period.
As parents, we all face similar struggles in creating the correct bal-ance of providing an enjoyable sum-mer experience for our children while maintaining appropriate structure for them. Summer vacation is a transi-tional period for all developing chil-dren. This unique period of time has been long discussed as an opportunity for extreme developmental success or
failure. For many, there is no formal schooling and family schedules change significantly. Oftentimes, this leads to
a certain freedom that can develop into unforeseen risks. While it is extreme-ly important for young adults to enjoy vacation, it is equally as critical for basic structure to be maintained. Ad-olescents especially, much like cater-pillars, go through major change. The internal chaos that exists due to the many physical, psychological, and emotional adjustments can be ex-tremely overwhelming. Added uncertainty or lack of structure leads to an even greater level of fear. Children, and in partic-ular teens, are not equipped to deal with fear appropriately and therefore usually respond in un-healthy ways.
There is another component that should be addressed as well. That is to ensure that this structure is implement-ed without any rigidity. As mentioned earlier, the caterpillar itself creates its own cocoon. The reason for this is simply because they are aware of the necessity to stay protected throughout this developmental process. The hu-man condition works in similar ways. Children of all ages naturally look to their parents and caretakers for pro-tection. Children actually depend on parents to create this safety net by the implementation of certain boundaries. Their subconscious is very aware that they are lacking the skills and experi-ence to create a strong enough protec-tion. It is very scary for a child to be in control. When a child senses that no one is protecting them, i.e. establishing structure and boundaries, they attempt to re-establish this safety net by acting out in unhealthy ways.
The goal, therefore, is to carefully
construct an environment in which a child internalizes the message that they are being protected. This can be done
in several ways, but what is often rec-ommended is to actually collaborate with your child and work together in this process. Share with your children that the goal is to keep them protected
while
empow-ering them with the importance of feel-ing safe during the summer transition-al period. Discuss and plan activities, trips, projects, etc. that also support a definite summer schedule and struc-ture.
Recently at Madraigos, we’ve re-ceived many phone calls from con-cerned parents regarding how to fa-cilitate appropriate structure. “My son will be working part time and has been complaining that he will be bored” or “My daughter is a camp counselor during the day but would like to hang out at night.” These are important questions that need to be addressed carefully. While every individual sit-uation differs, there is one constant theme that is essential and helpful to keep in mind. Whatever can be done
to increase the day-to-day structure is paramount to an internalized feeling of safety. Bruce D. Perry, PhD explains that emotional safety is created by pre-dictability, and predictability is creat-ed by consistency. The reality is that school is finished for the year and the general schedule might be shifting. It is important to efficiently establish a consistent summer schedule to ensure our child has a safe and healthy transi-tional period. By providing a fun, yet safe “cocoon-like” environment, your child will benefit immensely.
To further address this issue, for the third consecutive year, we will offer summer programming. Madrai-gos will conduct concurrent programs in the evenings for boys and a separate GNO (Girls Night Out) for girls in the
community. There is much beauty in a healthy butterfly and this can
only take place in the protection of a strong cocoon. Perhaps Dr. Theo Compernolle MD, PhD said it the best, “You cannot actually force a caterpillar to change into a butterfly, you can only create the right en-
vironment; it will transform by itself.”
For more information about our summer programs or to request an application, please contact Moshe Yachnes for the Boys program at 516-371-3250 ext. 107 or Eliana Kadish at (516) 776-6793 or [email protected] for the GNO/Girls program. To learn more about Madraigos’ pro-grams and services, please see www.madraigos.org.
Moshe A. Yachnes, LMSW, is the clinical director at Madraigos, a not-for-profit or-ganization that offers a wide array of in-novative services and programs geared towards helping teens and young adults overcome life’s everyday challenges one step at a time. Its goal is to provide all of its members with the necessary tools and skills to empower them to live a healthy lifestyle and become the leaders of tomorrow.
EMOTIONAL SAFETY IS CREATED BY PREDICTABILITY, AND PREDICTABILITY IS CREATED BY CONSISTENCY.
MadraigosMoshe A. Yachnes, LMSW
A Butterfly’s CocoonA Discussion on Maintaining Structure During the Summer
Kids Bored at Home?
Have Fun in the Kitchen with Esther
Ottensoser!
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I am not sure who coined the term, but it has definitely become a cliché. Some people view the term as a pejo-
rative, others see it just as a label. Peo-ple talk about young adolescent boys and girls from our circles going off to yeshiva/seminary (usually in Eretz Yis-roel) and “flipping out,” becoming “like totally religious and stuff.” In fact, “Flipping Out” is the title of a book, as well as the topic of a song, which subtly mocks the whole concept.
My point is not to discuss why it happens, who it happens to, whether it’s a good thing, whether it’s “brainwash-ing,” or whatever other debates have been raised about it. I wanted to men-tion a different idea.
Recently, I was talking to a teenage friend who – although is a great guy and has many wonderful qualities – is lacking in his maturity and religiosity. While we were conversing he quipped that there was no doubt that he was
going to go to Israel when he finished high school and would “flip out.” But it was his next comment that bothered me: “Then I’ll become all shtark and I won’t play ball or make jokes or hang around with anyone.”
I said to him that I didn’t understand why that was true. Who said that “flip-ping out” (as the ter-minology has become for one who begins to take his avodas Hashem more seri-ously) entails losing your personality and never playing ball? Why can’t a young man who has a lively personality and wonderful sense of hu-mor begin to daven with more intensity, learn with more gusto, wear his tzitzis out, alter his mode of dress, and still
maintain his sense of humor and great personality, albeit within the realm of halacha?
Actually, I don’t see any reason why becoming more seri-ous about one’s avo-das Hashem has to be synonymous with losing one’s person-ality.
I have had the opportunity to meet some of the greatest Torah leaders on oc-casion such as Rabbi Henoch Leibowitz zt’l, Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetsky shlita and Rabbi Reuven Feinstein shlita. All three of these great
Torah luminaries have a keen and pleas-ant sense of humor that helps all those who seek their counsel feel comfort-able and welcomed. People are often
overwhelmed that these great men are so “grounded” and so familiar with the contemporary world and its challeng-es. That familiarity and understanding does not belie their greatness, but is an important component of their ability to be of the foremost leaders in the Torah world.
Being a servant of G-d surely entails a certain seriousness and maturity. But it does not preclude having a sense of humor and an embracing personality. In fact, it is a wonderful thing to help other people laugh in a healthy manner.
To sum it up, I guess we can say that a person can “flip out” and still be tuned in!
Rabbi Dani Staum, LMSW, is the Rabbi of Kehillat New Hempstead, and Guidance Counselor/Rebbe at Yeshiva Bais Hachi-nuch & Ashar in Monsey, NY. He is the au-thor of Stam Torah and can be reached at [email protected]. His website is www.stamtorah.info.
Rabbi's Musings [& Amusings]Rabbi Dani Staum
Flipping Out Should be Fun
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The ISISWhat exactly is ISIS and what is
their stated goal in the Syria-Iraq re-gion? ISIS, the acronym for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, is a Sunni group that controls hundreds of square miles stretching across the border between the two countries from Syria’s Mediterra-nean coast to south of Baghdad. It is an offshoot of al Qaeda in Iraq, which after the killing of its leader, Abu Musab al Zarqawi, by U.S. forces in 2006, was left fragmented and forced to abandon its goal of creating a sectarian civil war there. It was only after the recent with-drawal of U.S. forces in Iraq that Iraqi officials began warning of a resurgence of a “third generation of al Qaeda” in the country. Only two years ago, U.S. Major General Jeffrey Buchanan pro-phetically warned, “If the Iraqi security forces are not able to put pressure on them, they could regenerate.” This new group acted under the name the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI). Syria would be add-ed later. The group was able to attract
support by convincing Sunnis in Iraq that new Prime Minister Shiite Nuri al Maliki excluded Sunnis from power and withheld resources from them.
ISIS’s stated goal is to reestablish an Islamic caliphate across the Iraqi and Syrian region. In the areas that have come under its control, it has imposed Sharia law, forcing women to appear in public only in a niqab, or full veil, ban-ning music and imposing brutal justice. It focuses on disciplined tactical opera-tions in its attacks. Its operations in one area are many times a means to distract opposing security forces away from its main target. In raiding the city of Samarra, it used bulldozers to remove U.S. placed barriers. Analysts believe Iraq’s oil infrastructure is a future target of the Islamist group.
Age-Old ConflictThe conflict between the Sunnis and
the Shia began 1,400 years ago, when the Prophet Mohammad died and the groups differed as to who should suc-
ceed Mohammad. Nowadays, each group disagrees in its interpretation of the Koran—to the extent that some Sunnis don’t even see Shiites as proper Muslims. It is not known precisely how many of the world’s 1.6 billion Mus-lims are Shiites. In general, the Shiites are a minority, making up between 10 percent and 15 percent of the Muslim population — certainly fewer than 250 million, all told. But in certain coun-tries, such as Iran, Iraq and southern Lebanon, the Shiites are the majority.
Despite being the majority in Iraq, the country was ruled by the Sunnis up until 2003, when the United States in-vaded and overthrew Saddam Hussein. After the fall of Hussein’s government, Shiites took power. But instead of building bridges with the Sunnis, new Prime Minister al Maliki burned them.
Now, rebels from Syria, members of the Sunni ISIS, are pouring into Iraq. Essentially, national lines are blurred, as the conflict has aligned those who share a religious outlook in different countries.
Ironically, Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, a man who was painted as a villain in the media, can be counted on now to provide support for Iraq at this time against the rebels. Additionally, Iran, a country America repeatedly sees as its enemy, is also coming to Iraq’s aid in this time of crisis. On Monday, officials said that commander of Tehran’s elite Quds Force is helping Iraq’s military and Shiite militias gear up to fight the Sunni insurgents advancing across the country. And America, despite its past
relationship with Iran, signaled a new willingness to work with them to help the Iraqi government stave off the insur-gency. It seems that the saying, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend,” holds true in these circumstances.
The Reason for the Recent ViolenceRecent unrest in Syria and a weak
central government in Iraq have created a perfect storm for ISIS to strike. Just last year, the group began capturing cit-ies and towns throughout eastern and northern Syria—which is in the midst of a drawn out civil war—and began to aggressively take control of west-ern Iraq, vanquishing the major city of Fallujah in January this year. After the Syrian conquests, the group added “al Sham,” or Syria, to the end of its name.
Iraq’s security forces, which are still young and overwhelmingly weak in comparison to ISIS fighters, have been unable to fend off any advancement made by Islamists. Iraqi Prime Minis-ter al Maliki is being forced to appeal abroad for help in defending the coun-
try as his army is becoming the victim of mass execution-style killings. Ironi-cally, it was al Maliki himself who, in 2011, pushed out U.S. forces stationed in Iraq, presumably because of pressure from the Iranian government. Now, however, his country’s 340 U.S.-sup-plied tanks and helicopters have proven no advantage in the fighting against the militants.
The ineptitude of the Iraqi army is due in no small part to al Maliki’s own politics. The prime minister has long
Cover Story
Iraq in FlamesAn Age-Old Conflict Intensifies
BY NACHUM SOROKA
A fter living through a decade-long operation in Iraq that ended with
no definitive outcome and with U.S. forces still in Afghanistan,
a very jaded American public does not seem to be interested in head-
ing back into an altercation with Islamic extremists in the Middle East
once again. And so, the recent conflagration of Jihadist violence by the
ISIS wing of al Qaeda in the Iraqi cities of Mosul and Fallujah and the
collapse of the Iraqi army there has not come as welcome news to the
Obama administration and the American people. The president has stat-
ed unequivocally that he would not send troops back into the war-torn
country, but has asked his national security team “to prepare a range of
other options that could help support Iraq’s security forces,” saying he
would be “reviewing those options in the days ahead.”
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend” holds true in these circumstances.
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The ISISWhat exactly is ISIS and what is
their stated goal in the Syria-Iraq re-gion? ISIS, the acronym for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, is a Sunni group that controls hundreds of square miles stretching across the border between the two countries from Syria’s Mediterra-nean coast to south of Baghdad. It is an offshoot of al Qaeda in Iraq, which after the killing of its leader, Abu Musab al Zarqawi, by U.S. forces in 2006, was left fragmented and forced to abandon its goal of creating a sectarian civil war there. It was only after the recent with-drawal of U.S. forces in Iraq that Iraqi officials began warning of a resurgence of a “third generation of al Qaeda” in the country. Only two years ago, U.S. Major General Jeffrey Buchanan pro-phetically warned, “If the Iraqi security forces are not able to put pressure on them, they could regenerate.” This new group acted under the name the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI). Syria would be add-ed later. The group was able to attract
support by convincing Sunnis in Iraq that new Prime Minister Shiite Nuri al Maliki excluded Sunnis from power and withheld resources from them.
ISIS’s stated goal is to reestablish an Islamic caliphate across the Iraqi and Syrian region. In the areas that have come under its control, it has imposed Sharia law, forcing women to appear in public only in a niqab, or full veil, ban-ning music and imposing brutal justice. It focuses on disciplined tactical opera-tions in its attacks. Its operations in one area are many times a means to distract opposing security forces away from its main target. In raiding the city of Samarra, it used bulldozers to remove U.S. placed barriers. Analysts believe Iraq’s oil infrastructure is a future target of the Islamist group.
Age-Old ConflictThe conflict between the Sunnis and
the Shia began 1,400 years ago, when the Prophet Mohammad died and the groups differed as to who should suc-
ceed Mohammad. Nowadays, each group disagrees in its interpretation of the Koran—to the extent that some Sunnis don’t even see Shiites as proper Muslims. It is not known precisely how many of the world’s 1.6 billion Mus-lims are Shiites. In general, the Shiites are a minority, making up between 10 percent and 15 percent of the Muslim population — certainly fewer than 250 million, all told. But in certain coun-tries, such as Iran, Iraq and southern Lebanon, the Shiites are the majority.
Despite being the majority in Iraq, the country was ruled by the Sunnis up until 2003, when the United States in-vaded and overthrew Saddam Hussein. After the fall of Hussein’s government, Shiites took power. But instead of building bridges with the Sunnis, new Prime Minister al Maliki burned them.
Now, rebels from Syria, members of the Sunni ISIS, are pouring into Iraq. Essentially, national lines are blurred, as the conflict has aligned those who share a religious outlook in different countries.
Ironically, Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, a man who was painted as a villain in the media, can be counted on now to provide support for Iraq at this time against the rebels. Additionally, Iran, a country America repeatedly sees as its enemy, is also coming to Iraq’s aid in this time of crisis. On Monday, officials said that commander of Tehran’s elite Quds Force is helping Iraq’s military and Shiite militias gear up to fight the Sunni insurgents advancing across the country. And America, despite its past
relationship with Iran, signaled a new willingness to work with them to help the Iraqi government stave off the insur-gency. It seems that the saying, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend,” holds true in these circumstances.
The Reason for the Recent ViolenceRecent unrest in Syria and a weak
central government in Iraq have created a perfect storm for ISIS to strike. Just last year, the group began capturing cit-ies and towns throughout eastern and northern Syria—which is in the midst of a drawn out civil war—and began to aggressively take control of west-ern Iraq, vanquishing the major city of Fallujah in January this year. After the Syrian conquests, the group added “al Sham,” or Syria, to the end of its name.
Iraq’s security forces, which are still young and overwhelmingly weak in comparison to ISIS fighters, have been unable to fend off any advancement made by Islamists. Iraqi Prime Minis-ter al Maliki is being forced to appeal abroad for help in defending the coun-
try as his army is becoming the victim of mass execution-style killings. Ironi-cally, it was al Maliki himself who, in 2011, pushed out U.S. forces stationed in Iraq, presumably because of pressure from the Iranian government. Now, however, his country’s 340 U.S.-sup-plied tanks and helicopters have proven no advantage in the fighting against the militants.
The ineptitude of the Iraqi army is due in no small part to al Maliki’s own politics. The prime minister has long
Cover Story
Iraq in FlamesAn Age-Old Conflict Intensifies
BY NACHUM SOROKA
A fter living through a decade-long operation in Iraq that ended with
no definitive outcome and with U.S. forces still in Afghanistan,
a very jaded American public does not seem to be interested in head-
ing back into an altercation with Islamic extremists in the Middle East
once again. And so, the recent conflagration of Jihadist violence by the
ISIS wing of al Qaeda in the Iraqi cities of Mosul and Fallujah and the
collapse of the Iraqi army there has not come as welcome news to the
Obama administration and the American people. The president has stat-
ed unequivocally that he would not send troops back into the war-torn
country, but has asked his national security team “to prepare a range of
other options that could help support Iraq’s security forces,” saying he
would be “reviewing those options in the days ahead.”
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend” holds true in these circumstances.
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been accused of using the state secu-rity apparatus for political reasons and repression of his personal foes. Offi-cer ranks have been awarded based on cronyism, not competency, and Sunnis in the military feel no allegiance to the State.
To be sure, it may be argued that
if Iraq is indeed carved up into Sunni extremists’ hands, the blame will fall squarely on the shoulders of Prime Minister al Maliki. Since his appoint-ment as the head of the State, the prime minister has pursued a wildly sectar-ian agenda, purging the government of Sunni leaders and even refusing to strike any agreements between his Shia-led government and the country’s Sunni minority. Al Maliki has been quick to answer political protest with military re-pression; in late 2012, he cracked down on protests in the Huwija section of the country with strong military force, gun-ning down 44 sit-in Sunni protesters. It comes as no surprise, then, that many Sunni members of the military are quick to abandon their posts and join ISIS fighters when ISIS invades an Iraqi city. ISIS spokesman Abu Mohammed Al-Adnani openly mocked al Maliki as an underwear salesman who had lost Iraq for the Shia. “You lost a historic opportunity for your people to control Iraq,” he said, “and the Shi’ites will al-ways curse you for as long as they live.”
America’s ResponsePresident Obama has been quick
to lay down his position that the U.S. will not be sending any troops into Iraq but he has not ruled out other military options, including airstrikes that al Ma-liki has been requesting from the U.S. American gains in Iraq have been hard won and the product of many years of operations in the country, and America is not ready to give them away too eas-
ily. “We have enormous interests there, and obviously our troops and the Amer-ican people and the American taxpayers made huge investments and sacrifices in order to give Iraqis the opportunity to chart a better course, a better destiny,” Obama said. Yet the president refuses to recognize the situation in Iraq as one
that requires urgent American attention. Obama, still smarting from the
ouster of the United States from Iraq a few years ago, has not let the op-portunity to admonish al Maliki and
his government for their failed politics and mishandling of the infant state that was given to them by the U.S. go by. “Over the past decade, American troops have made extraordinary sacrifices to give Iraqis an opportunity to claim their own future. Unfortunately, Iraqi lead-ers have been unable to overcome, too often, the mistrust and sectarian differ-ences that have long been simmering there. And that’s created vulnerabilities within the Iraqi government, as well as their security forces,” Obama said. The
president stressed that without reforms to the sectarian character of the al Maliki government, Iraq will ultimately fall. “This should be a wake-up call,” the president admonished. “In the ab-sence of this type of po-litical effort, short-term military action — includ-ing any assistance we might provide — won’t
succeed.”Critics of the presi-
dent have been swift to argue that it was Obama’s policies themselves that created this recent wave of violence. House In-telligence Committee Chairman Mike Roberts blames the Obama ad-ministration’s reluctance to arm moder-ate rebels in Syria for the successes of ISIS in the region. He said America’s “indecision” in Syria allowed militants to “get financed, be trained” and be-come “about as dangerous a recipe as you can put together.”
Senator Lindsey Graham told CNN that it was Obama’s decision to fully exit Iraq without even a small U.S.
presence that created a niche for the re-cent chaos. “The Obama administration wanted to say, ‘I ended the war in Iraq, I’m going to end the war in Afghani-stan,’” he said on CNN’s State of the Union. “This was as predictable as the sun rising in the East. I blame President Obama mightily for a hands-off policy when it comes to Iraq.” Mitt Romney concurred, telling NBC, “What has happened in Iraq and what we’re see-ing with ISIS is a good deal predictable for the failure of Obama to react. Bad things happen as a result of inaction and consequences have obviously been very severe.” In fact, the U.S. was supposed to keep a small force of 5,000 soldiers stationed in the country, but refused to when al Maliki was unwilling to grant them immunity and protection from be-ing prosecuted by Iraqi courts. Some argue that Obama’s offer of forces was not enough to make it worth al Maliki’s while.
Republicans in Congress have taken a strong line in opposition of the presi-
dent’s insistence of U.S. troops stay-ing put outside Iraq and his cautious deliberation regarding airstrikes there. House Homeland Security Committee Chair Michael McCaul holds that ISIS is not merely a regional threat in the Middle East; it is a national security is-sue for the United States that is as large as al Qaeda. “I talked to [former U.S. Iraqi] Ambassador Crocker and he said that this is the greatest threat, national security threat, since 9/11. Al Qaeda owns more territory, more resources. And what’s happening in Iraq right now is really chaotic,” McCaul said. “When you look at the terrorist training ground operations in Syria and Iraq, I believe it is one of the biggest threats.”
On Monday, Obama announced that he will be sending 275 troops into Iraq to provide support and security for U.S. personnel and the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. The president added that the troops are equipped for combat and will remain in Iraq until the security situa-tion becomes such that they are no lon-ger needed. Even so, many Americans are hoping that that will be the extent of America’s involvement in the Iraqi conflict.
What’s Next?What indeed would the Iraq region
look like in the event of an ISIS con-quest over the al Maliki government? Najim Jabouri, a former Saddam Hus-sein general-turned U.S. ally, believes, “Iraq will be three states: Shia in the south, Sunni in the west, and Kurdish in the north.” ISIS remains focused on erasing any geographical differ-ences between what is now Iraq and Syria. The overarching national iden-tity would prefer to be Shia. The Kurds, too, are eager to seize this opportunity to establish a national Kurdish area. The Kurds view Kirkuk as their Jeru-salem and it is now under their control after the Iraqi security forces left.
In any case, the country is in flames and it’s hard to say when and if the fires will die down. Eleven years after the United States toppled Saddam Hussein, the country is in worse shape than ever. Was it all for naught? Only time—and a great deal of war and diplomacy—will tell.
Sunnis welcome members of the ISIS in Iraq
Rebels spill over from Syria
ISIS militants have no qualms about killing their Shiite enemies
ISIS’s stated goal is to reestablish an Islamic caliphate across the Iraqi and Syrian region.
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82 Health & FitnessDevorah Gerber Schmeltz
I have an adorable four year old son who is very “sensory” in nature. Over the years I have learned how to
handle some situations and how to avoid sensory meltdowns. He never qualified for services so I have adapted by talking to therapists and reading up as much as I can on sensory processing disorders. My question to you is as follows: with the beautiful spring weather we are fi-nally having, I like bringing my son out-side to the park. But he does not enjoy it all. He clings to me the entire time. If I place him on the bridge or slide, he screams. He won’t go near the swing area so I re-ally have not had a chance yet to try him on the baby swings. What can I do to help him overcome these fears? I cannot imagine what sets him off. I think there is much he can benefit from at the playground. Please help!
The Therapist Responds:I really feel the frustration in your
letter and your eagerness to tackle this issue. You don’t provide enough infor-mation to adequately piece together what is occurring and what the precipitating factors are. But I can provide you with a peek into what the playground looks like to a child who is sensory overresponsive. Sensory overresponsivity is when one responds too quickly and adversely to sensory stimulation that you and I would filter and process without any difficulty. In the playground example you provided, a sensory overresponsive child may be responding as follows:
1. Bridge - The shakiness of the bridge can be uncomfortable and the small holes on its surface can feel inse-cure. Children with overrepsonsive ves-tibular (movement) systems crave stable and predictable movement patterns, such as even surfaces and rocking motions.
2. Slides – There can be a variety of triggers on a slide, such as an uncomfort-able surface (hot, sticky, wet, etc.). Also, the child may fear tipping sideways and falling off the slide or feeling not in con-trol on his/her descent.
3. Swing – Watching other kids swing can trigger motion sickness in some chil-
dren. Such a child might be reluctant to approach the swing.
In general, the atmosphere at a play-ground can be described as animated, fun, and carefree. But a child with sen-sory overresponsive challenges would describe the atmosphere as chaotic and noisy. What we see as playground equip-ment they see as monstrosities. What we see as a tunnel to crawl through they fear a black hole.
Here are some ideas to help the over-responsive child:
1. Storytime - While at home in familiar territory, read
some child-friendly and cheerful books
to your son about the playground.
2. Timing - Make every attempt to visit
the playground during low traf-
fic and quiet times, such as early morning.
3. Distraction - Bring what I call comfort distractions on your first few visits to re-acclimate him to the playground, for example: bubbles, a favorite snack or book. If you sense a meltdown may occur, have the comfort distraction ready and available.
4. Explore - Have your child explore the equipment at his own pace. If he does not initiate, model for him and invite him to explore with you even if this means you are holding his hand.
5. Photos - Take pictures of your smil-ing little boy at the playground and place the photos in an album or on your fridge. He will love seeing himself! Praise him for being brave and remind him of the fun time he had at the park.
I am confident that by the end of the summer your son will enjoy the park and won’t want to leave. Enjoy your summer and the great outdoors!
Devorah (Gerber) Schmeltz, MS OTR/L is a 2003 alumnus of Downstate Medical Center’s OT Program. She worked as a senior occu-pational therapist at United Cerebral Palsy’s Brooklyn Children’s Program for 9 years. Currently, Devorah runs a private practice, Bumble & Tumble Occupational Therapy P.C in Far Rockaway. Your questions and com-ments are welcome. She can be reached at [email protected] or 917-971-5327.
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As the Holocaust was ravaging Eu-rope, many Jews sought a way to help their fellow brethren. One
dressed up as a Nazi officer and went on the streets of Budapest, Hungary, handing out passports to get fellow Jews out of the country. Many others joined armies that were fighting convention-al battles. The toughest of these men escaped Nazi-held Europe before the war and were burning with revenge. So many Jews in Palestine (it wasn’t called Israel until 1948) wanted to join the British Army that the Jewish Bri-gade was formed and special units were created for the best of these men. Israel Carmi was one of these soldiers and af-ter the war became the most feared Nazi hunter in Europe.
Israel Carmi was born Israel Wein-man in Danzig which was a semi-auton-omous state in the 1920s. In 1934, at the age of 17, he immigrated to then-Pal-estine and joined a kibbutz. As an ad-venturous youth he was recruited into the Haganah in 1936 and entered the Palestine Police Force and faced Arab uprisings. Two years later, he joined the elite Special Night Squad formed by non-Jewish British General Orde Win-gate to deal with the Arab revolt and was given a medal for his contributions to the unit. When he married in 1939, Carmi told his wife that he would set-tle down and not take up arms but that all changed with the issue of the White Papers and he joined a unit dedicated to preventing the Brits from stopping the Haganah.
Before the creation of the Jew-ish Brigade, some Jews from Pales-tine were allowed to enter the British Army and Carmi became a sergeant in a unit nicknamed the Buffs. In reality, he joined the Brits with orders from the Haganah to “requisition” arms for other purposes. He was part of the Palestine Regiment and took part of the pitched battle against the Germans in Benghazi. Carmi was so upset when his command-er ripped down an Israeli flag and put up a British one instead that he led a mutiny. The Palestine Regiment was a mix of Jews and Arabs fighting for the British and soon so many Jews wanted to volunteer that the Jewish Brigade was formed.
After joining the Jewish Brigade in 1944, Carmi began to act on behalf of his Haganah superiors. They were inter-
ested in what the Nazis were doing, and Carmi helped smuggle two operatives in British uniforms to determine the truth about the gas chambers. An incident in which Carmi and his unit attacked Nazi POWs led to the order for them to stay in Italy and not to enter Germany. After the war ended, Carmi entered Germany and began the quest to rid the world of Nazis.
Carmi learned that his family that stayed in Europe was wiped out, and when he entered Mauthausen Concen-
tration Camp, he knew that he was a position to do something. Countries and armies are subjected to rules and regu-lation, therefore Nazi hunters acted on their own accord to mete out punish-ment. Carmi started a group called the TTG Bridage, Tilhas Tizig Gesheften, to hunt Nazis, their collaborators and help the Haganah in any way possible. Hand-picked members of the Jewish Brigade comprised this group and they began operations in the summer of 1945.
The group got started when Carmi heard of a Gestapo officer who bullied and stole from Jews in Italy. He select-ed a group of men and, dressed in Brit-ish uniforms, raided the house of the of-ficer. After finding a hoard of treasures stolen from Jewish families, a huge list of SS and Gestapo officers was also dis-covered. Carmi gave some of those on the list to an intelligence unit but kept the list of the notorious Nazis for him-self. With the help of the Jewish Bri-gade and Haganah, he went to Germany armed with information to track down these murderers.
With orders coming from Tel Aviv, the unit did their work silently under the code name Operation Judgment.
Carmi recalled about his work: “When we arrived at the home of our suspect we would put on [British] Mili-tary Police helmets with the white band and police armlets. Then we would en-ter the home and take the suspect with us, saying that we wanted him for in-terrogation. Usually they came without a struggle. Once in the car we told the prisoner who we were and why we took him. Some admitted guilt. Others kept silent. We did the job.”
Most of the squads that entered the
houses had lost their entire families to the Nazis and British-born members guarded the entrances and provided lo-gistical support. They did what they had to do and as one member put it, they were a “very unorthodox outfit.” They deposed of an unknown number of Na-zis in this fashion, and the British Army turned a blind eye their activities.
In addition to the Nazi hunting, TTG also trained thousands of refugees in
warfare and sent them to the Holy Land with arms stolen from the Brits. The British Eighth Army knew what was go-ing on and still chose not to stop them for a variety of reasons, mostly based on humanitarian ideologies. For example, the group went into a DP camp and sent two truckloads of orphaned children onto ships headed for Palestine. Soon those two truckloads became a doz-en and Palestine became a destination even though the British government as a whole hated the idea and did what they could to stop the immigration.
Many long months of hard work eventually paid off and soon Carmi and the TTG went back to Israel. In 1947, the British announced that they were leaving Israel, and the Jews began to prepare for the inevitable war with their very unfriendly Arab neighbors. The arms smuggled out of Europe proved vital in the early days of the IDF and many of people who were sent by the TTG to Israel joined the Israeli Army. Carmi became an officer in the army and served with distinction. He had served his country and fellow Jews with brav-ery and brought to justice many people who otherwise would have gotten away with their crimes. Nazi hunting was no pretty business but it needed to be done. Early hunters like the TTG and Carmi will be remembered and celebrated for their service.
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].
Forgotten HeroesAvi HeiligmanIsrael Carmi
Valiant Fighter and Nazi Hunter
Members of the TTG
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The bags are all packed and the kids are off to camp! How do they sup-plement their meals with healthy foods?
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Children should turn to their stash of healthy nutritious snacks and drinks in between their camp meals.
• The camp canteen can present a formidable obstacle to our goal of a healthy summer. Train your children to buy the ices or sorbet rather than the ice cream offered. Greasy fried foods, such as French fries, should be avoided! Fruits, vegetables, and salads will always be great alternatives to the fattening deep-fried foods at the canteen.
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Camp is a place where children make new friends, experience amazing things, and have a lot of fun. It is important, how-ever, to make sure to continue a healthy lifestyle in camp by eating right. The aforementioned advice should be taken to heart. It is completely tenable to have an enjoyable, nutritious summer without a drastic lifestyle change or a restricted diet. While food choices and portion siz-es are extremely important, make sure
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By eating right and exercising, our
children can come off the buses after the memorable sum-mer feeling great and looking healthier. Have a great summer!
Aliza Beer is a registered dietician with a Master’s degree in nutrition. She has a private practice in Cedarhurst, NY. Patients’ success has been featured on the Dr. Oz Show. Aliza’s new line of pre-pared, healthy meals-to-go are available at Gourmet Glatt. Aliza can be reached at [email protected].
Health & FitnessAliza Beer, MS, RD
Summer Food: Camp Survival Guide
A bowl of Special K or Puffins is a perfect way for children to start the day in camp
Children should eat lots of salad at camp during lunch
Make sure to pack cases of water for camp
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BUT DO WE REMEMBER ITS ALSO IMPORTANT TO MAKE SURE WE PUT OUR SPOUSES AND FAMILY WELL-BEING FIRST?
We all know to spend all the time it takes to clean our homes for the holiday
Because a happy couple means a happy family and a better community!
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SNOW CONESYou Will Need:CupcakesSmall Styrofoam cupsFrostingRed, white and blue colored sugarSmall plastic spoons
How to Do It: Take the Styrofoam cup and place a cup-cake inside. Frost the top of the cupcake and then sprinkle the colored sugar to resemble a snow cone. Insert plastic spoon for the per-fect finishing touch.
ICE CREAM POPSYou Will Need:BrowniesPopsicle sticksIcingSprinkles, nut crunch….Rectangle cookie cutter (optional)
How to Do It: Cut brownies into rectangles. Insert pop-
sicle sticks into one of the short sides of the brownie. Using the icing and sprinkles, deco-rate the brownies to resemble your favorite ice cream pop.
Let harden before serving.
LEMONADEYou Will Need:CupcakesDecorative cupcake holdersLemon creamRock candyLemon slice candyPretty straws cut into thirds
How to Do It:Insert cupcake into decorative cupcake
holder. Ice the cupcake using the lemon cream. Top with rock candy, candied lemon slice, and decorative straw.
Little can match the excitement of the first weeks of sum-mer. Long, endless days with no school, lots of water fun, and doz-ens (and dozens) of freeze pops. What better way to celebrate summer than with delicious “ices,” “ice cream,” and “lemonade”
that won’t leave your floor a sticky mess! These three fun ideas are perfect for those days between school and camp or long, hot, sticky Sundays with nowhere to go. It’s also a fabulous day camp activity – it's a “frozen” treat that will actually make it home!
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P istachio Pesto SalmonIngredients1/8 cup Ossie’s pesto sauce (available at Gourmet Glatt)1/8 cup mayonnaise1 cup shelled salted pistachios, crushed ½ cup brown sugar2 tablespoons fresh lemon2 pounds salmon fillet (one whole side of a salmon)
PreparationMix the pesto and mayonnaise together in a small bowl.Place the salmon on a large baking sheet lined with parchment paper.Spread the pesto mixture over the fish and set aside.In a food processor, crush the nuts until they are coarsely ground but not too
fine; then add the brown sugar and lemon. It should look like wet sand.Pat nut mixture on top of salmon and bake for 25 minutes at 350°.
Baked Zucchini ChipsThis recipe can also be made gluten-free by using Jeff Nathan’s non-gluten
panko.Adapted from Southern Living Magazine
Ingredients½ cup panko ¼ cup loosely packed fresh basil leaves¼ tsp kosher salt¼ cup finely grated Parmesan cheese½ lb zucchini, cut into 1/4-inch-thick rounds1TBS olive oilVegetable cooking spray
PreparationPreheat oven to 450°.
Process first 3 ingredients in a food processor 10 to 15 seconds or until finely ground. Stir together breadcrumb mixture and cheese in a medium bowl.
Toss zucchini rounds with oil. Dredge zucchini, 1 round at time, in breadcrumb mixture, pressing gently to adhere. Place rounds in a single layer in a jelly-roll pan coated with cooking spray. Bake 30 minutes or until browned and crisp. Serve hot and immediately.
Creamy Frozen Fruit PopsAlso makes a great fun breakfast. You can also use your favorite fruit. I toss in a
mango or pineapple too.
Ingredients1 ¼ cups frozen raspber-
ries1 ¼ cups sliced fresh
strawberries¼ cup honey1 TBS fresh lemon juice1/8 tsp table salt1 (7-oz.) container low-
fat plain Greek yogurt2 TBS milk
PreparationProcess fruits, honey, lemon juice, and salt in a food processor until smooth.
Stir together yogurt and milk. Fold yogurt mixture into fruit mixture. Pour into 10 (2-oz.) pop molds. Top with lids; insert craft sticks, leaving 1 ½ to 2 inches stick-ing out of pop. Freeze 4 hours or until sticks are solidly anchored and pops are completely frozen.
Note: If you don’t have pop molds, you can freeze them in paper cups.
In the Kitchen
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.
Naomi Nachman
Easy Summer Dinners Now that summer is almost in full swing, I am looking to make light,
healthy, delicious dinners. I came across an article last week from a
magazine that I subscribe to called Southern Living. It’s a great maga-
zine, with real Southern charm. It features tips on hospitality and cook-
ing, and always has some interesting tidbits regarding Southern culture.
Recently, they featured two recipes that I wanted to try: Baked Zuc-
chini Chips and Frozen Fruit Pops. These encapsulated my idea of
healthy, light dinners. My kids are always freezing the fresh fruit that
I buy and making smoothies out of them. I thought Frozen Pops was a
great twist on that snack and also makes a great breakfast idea, too.
Here is a great dinner menu for a weeknight supper that is also fes-
tive. Who doesn’t want to eat chips for dinner?
Note: Serve with a bottle of Baron Herzog Orange Muscat for a
wonderful integration of tastes.
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Compiled by Nate Davis
Notable Quotes
“Say What?”The campaign manager who helped unseat House Majority Leader Eric Cantor last night is a 23-year-old man who interviewed for a job at Panera Bread last month. Said Cantor, “Is that position still available?”- Seth Myers
A man in Virginia Beach has started protesting road conditions while dressed as Spiderman on his days off. Something tells me he has a lot of days off. – Seth Myers
It’s a wonderful day in Maine – in fact, nice enough for a parachute jump. - Tweet by George H. W. Bush on his 90th birthday. He later went skydiving.
The doctor said Obama passed his physical. That’s the first thing he’s passed in the second term. - David Letterman
Politics is so unpredictable. Whoever runs has to recognize that the American political system is probably the most difficult—even brutal—in the world. - Hillary Clinton on CBS’s “Sunday Morning”
Before coming to the White House, I struggled as a working parent with a traveling, busy husband to figure out how to feed my kids healthy, and I didn’t get it right. I thought to myself, if a Princeton and Harvard-educated professional woman doesn’t know how to adequately feed her kids, then what are other parents going through who don’t have access to the information I have?- Michelle Obama, in an interview with MSN.com
George H.W. Bush turned 90 today and he celebrated by jumping out of a plane. Isn’t that cool? So if you include Obama, there were two presidents in freefall today. - Conan O’Brien
Why would you say something is a miracle in a bottle? I’m concerned that you are melding medical advice, news and entertainment in a way that harms consumers. - Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) to Dr. Mehmet Oz at a Congressional hearing about controversial weight-loss products
My job is to be a cheerleader for the audience when they don’t think they have hope. I have things I think work for people. I want them to try them so that they feel better.- Dr. Oz in response
Tonight we’re joined by the newly crowned Stanley Cup champion, the Los Angeles Kings. And they brought the Stanley Cup with them. You know, it’s easy to forget that these tough, gritty, heavily bearded guys are playing for what is essentially an oversized piece of dinnerware. – Jimmy Kimmel
I’ll see you guys in New York.- ISIS leader Bakr al-Baghdadi to U.S. troops upon being released from a detention camp in 2009
The World Cup is underway. A lot of World Cup soccer players have been faking injuries to draw a penalty from the other team. Meanwhile, a lot of Americans have been faking following the World Cup. - Conan O’Brien
Alex Trebek has broken a world record for game-show hosts, after hosting 6,829 shows in his career. When asked how he’s made it through so many shows, Trebek said, “What is Scotch?” - Jimmy Fallon
President Obama’s daughter, Sasha, turned 13 years old today. That means that now he has two teenage girls. But thanks to Congress, he’s used to people ignoring him. – Jimmy Fallon
A Whole Foods store in New York will start offering customers cocktails while they shop. It’s part of Whole Foods’ new slogan: “You’d have to be drunk to pay these prices.” - Conan O’Brien
The World Cup action is going crazy. Mexico won the match against Cameroon. Thousands of Mexicans are dancing and going crazy in the Mexican city of Los Angeles. - Craig Ferguson
I think, frankly, we’ve all been through a cold and bitter winter and the bear has cabin fever. His cabin is a little bit bigger and harder to escape than most.- Senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett explaining why President Obama has been on so many golf trips lately
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President Obama surprised tourists by walking to a Starbucks near the White House. Even more surprising, he traded five Taliban members for a grande soy latte. – Seth Myers
None of these candidates- The choice that got the most votes (30%) in Nevada’s seven candidate Democratic primary
Hypothetically? You bet.- Governor Chris Christie when asked by Jimmy Fallon if he could beat Hillary Clinton in a presidential race
Over the weekend, Starbucks announced a new program that will pay employees to take online classes at Arizona State. Said Starbucks’ employees, “We already went there. That’s why we work at Starbucks.”- Seth Myers
2015 champs- The words confident Detroit Lions fan, David Morian, tattooed on himself, alongside the a Lions insignia and the Lombardi Trophy
I was thinking about this prisoner swap. I kind of wish that President Obama would have thought this through a little bit more. Instead of sending five Taliban MVPs over there, he could have just traded one Eric Cantor. - Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham several days before Eric Cantor was defeated in a Republican primary
If he can’t take a joke about a prisoner swap, he has no sense of humor. That’s why he lost probably.- Ibid., after being criticized by Cantor in the aftermath of his defeat
“[T]he IRS has determined that Ms. Lerner’s computer crashed in mid-2011. … The data stored on her computer’s hard drive was determined at the time to be “unrecoverable” by IT professionals.- IRS letter last week to the Congressional committee investigating the IRS’s targeting of Tea Party groups, in response to a request for emails
You’ve never heard of a computer crashing before?- White House press secretary when asked if it is suspicious that key IRS emails went missing
All the global film companies — note that I say “all” not “most” — all the global film companies are owned by Jews. Why did they produce Mickey Mouse? Why did they focus on a mouse? There is a plan to destroy human thought and all of humanity…Mickey Mouse, the rodent, became a hero and a superstar. The destruction of human morality is an old Zionist-Jewish scheme. - Nabil Hammad, a Saudi Arabian scholar, in a TV interview
A Tea Party candidate won Virginia’s Republican primary, mostly on his anti-immigration stance. His first plan is to change the state’s slogan from “Virginia is for lovers” to “Virginia is for lovers who habla ingles.” –Conan O’Brien
It’s Friday the 13th and it’s a full moon. There won’t be another full moon on Friday the 13th until the year 2049. By then it’ll be a national holiday, declared by President Honey Boo Boo. – Craig Ferguson
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was defeated in the primary election. He spent $5 million on his primary campaign. Ladies and gentlemen, what is wrong with this country when you can no longer buy an election? – David Letterman
A guy in New York is selling the world’s largest video game collection, which includes 11,000 games. He doesn’t really want to sell it, but he needs some way to pay for the divorce.- Jimmy Fallon
Donald Sterling has reversed his decision to sell the Clippers to Steve Ballmer, the former CEO of Microsoft. If Sterling gets his way, the deal will fall through and Ballmer won’t be able to buy the team. When asked about it, Ballmer said, “That’s OK. I’m used to things freezing and then crashing.”- Conan O’Brien
The World Cup starts today, which means you’re all about to find out which of your friends lived in Europe for a year. – Seth Myers
If the last two gaffe-prone weeks have reminded us of anything about Hillary, it’s that she’s a mediocre politician at best. Her shortcomings are significant: she can be stiff and wooden in public; she lacks the aura of a natural politician; she’s not a great public speaker, and she can come across as politically flat-footed and tone deaf – as she did with her “dead broke” response to a rather benign question about relating to the financial challenges of the average voter. People still seem to believe that the Clinton name is synonymous with political skill, but that assumption is only half-true: If Hillary possessed even half of Bill’s political talent and acumen, she wouldn’t have lost to Barack Obama in 2008. – Tom Bevan on RealClearPolitics.com
While trying to get re-elected, Eric Cantor spent $168,000 on steakhouses. Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie said, “That’s all?”- David Letterman
It’s basketball. I understand it’s the media and the sport is the greatest sport in the world. I love it. It’s done so many great things for me, but it’s just basketball. – LeBron James, after the Heat went down 3 games to 1 in the finals, which they ultimately lost
Scientists have created a mutant version of the deadly 1918 Spanish flu virus in an effort to better understand how pandemics start. I’m not a scientist, but this is how pandemics start. – Seth Myers
This idea that “let’s fire everybody, let’s pull everybody’s bonus away,” that’s a bunch of [garbage].- Acting Veterans Affairs Secretary Sloan Gibson at a town hall meeting angrily rejecting the idea that bonus money paid to VA officials should be used instead to fund a veterans’ suicide prevention
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Estate ProceduresI recently lost a loved
one and want to take care of their estate. Is there is simplified way to do so?
The Attorney Responds: When a person passes away leav-
ing assets in their own name, their heirs generally have to go through probate or an administration proceeding to trans-fer those assets. Sometimes, however, the value of the assets is so small that it is not cost effective to bring these proceedings. In those cases, New York allows the heirs to bring a “small estate” or “voluntary administration” proceed-ing, regardless of whether the decedent left a will or not.
Which Assets?Under Article 13 of the SCPA, small
estate petitions can only be opened to administer personal property such as bank accounts. Consequently, if the decedent owned real property in his own name, a small estate will not allow his heirs to take control of the proper-ty, and a full administration or probate must be brought. It is important to note that jointly owned property, for ex-ample a marital home with a spouse, passes by operation of law and does not need to go through administration. Likewise, assets which the decedent owned in joint accounts or with bene-ficiary designations for others pass out-side of the Surrogate Court and do not require court intervention.
How Small is Small?Estates consisting of no more than
$30,000 in personal assets can be ad-ministered by a voluntary administrator. This limit does not include the exempt property that the law gives to the dece-dent’s spouse or children under 21. For estates larger than $30,000, either the will has to be probated or the estate has to be administered, and the estate will not qualify as a small estate. If during the course of the voluntary adminis-tration, the voluntary administrator discovers that the estate is larger than $30,000, he has to notify the court and petition to become the executor or ad-ministrator of the estate.
Who Can Petition?If the decedent left a will, the named
executor in the will has priority to serve. If the decedent died intestate (without
a will), priority goes to the surviving spouse, then the children, then the par-ents.
ProceduresTo be appointed a voluntary admin-
istrator, the petitioner must file an “Affi-davit in Relation to Settlement of Estate Under Article 13, SCPA” along with a death certificate in the Surrogate’s Court of county in which the decedent lived. The affidavit should list the specific as-sets with corresponding values which need to be administered. If the values are unknown, the court will allow the voluntary administrator permission to obtain that information and submit an amended affidavit at a later date with the accurate information. The petitioner must also bring in stamped envelope(s) addressed to the distributees (heirs) of the decedent which the court will use to send notices to those parties. A payment of $1.00 is also due upon filing the af-fidavit.
After the court processes and ap-proves the affidavit, they issue a certifi-cate for each asset listed in the affidavit, which the voluntary administrator can use to collect the assets. The court also instructs the voluntary administrator to open an estate account into which the assets can be deposited and used to pay bills and expenses. An EIN num-ber must be obtained from the IRS for the estate account. Funeral and legal bills incurred by the estate are first bills which are paid. After 7 months, and the payment or settlement of all debts of the estate, the remaining assets are distrib-uted to the distributees.
No column is a substitute for compe-tent legal advice. Any additional or dif-ferent facts could change or affect any legal analysis. Please consult with your legal professional of choice regarding any legal question you may have.
Roman Aminov, Esq. is an estate lawyer concentrating in estate planning, elder law, Medicaid planning and probate. For a free consultation, contact him at (347)766-2685 or at www.AminovLaw.com.
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Kehillas Bnai Hayeshivos of North WoodmereRabbi Shmuel Witkin
Cordially Invites You To A BreakfastMachon Basya Rochel Simcha Hall
137 Lawrence Ave, Lawrence, NY 11559
June 22nd at 9:45 am
Rabbi Yaakov BenderSpecial Guest Speaker
If you would like to make a donation, please contact us at [email protected]
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100 My Israel HomeGedaliah Borvick
The German Colony is an exciting and upscale Jerusalem neighbor-hood. It is famous for its main
thoroughfare Emek Refaim, which is one of the city’s most popular streets, bustling with activity and boasting ca-fes, restaurants and trendy boutiques.
The German Colony is centrally located, bounded by the old train sta-tion to the north, the Greek Colony to the south, Derech Beit Lechem to the east, and Old Katamon to the west. It is walking distance to the city center and a short walk to the Old City.
The German Colony was estab-lished in 1872 by members of the Temple Society, a German Protestant sect of the Lutheran Church. The Tem-plers purchased a large tract of land situated in Refaim Valley southwest of the Old City – which at the time housed almost all of the city’s popu-lation – and built a colony similar to
villages in Germany. The community was comprised of one- and two-story farmhouses with green shutters, red tile roofs and fenced-in gardens, using local Jerusalem stone instead of the traditional wood and brick materials.
The German Templers lived in the neighborhood until the middle of World War II, and in 1943 the British government deported the Templers as enemy aliens and Nazi sympathizers. In 1948, the German Colony became home to new olim and quickly became a prominent community due to its prime location coupled with its attrac-tive homes and lush greenery.
The neighborhood received a big development boost in 1892 when the city’s main railroad station was con-structed next to what is now Liberty Park (Gan Hapa’amon). The railroad station was used for over a hundred years until it finally closed in 1998,
at which point the city’s main train station was relocated to Malcha, near the well-known Malcha Mall. Recently, the old train sta-tion was given a new lease on life when it was renovated and renamed “First Station.” It has become a hub of cultural and recreational ac-tivities, as well as the home of countless fine restau-rants.
After the State of Israel was estab-lished, the neighborhood was renamed Rambam in memory of the preemi-nent philos-opher and scholar Mai-monides, but – as was the case with a number of J e r u s a l e m n e i g h b o r -hoods such as Baka, whose official name is Geulim, and Katamon, whose offi-cial name is Gonen – the new Hebrew name Ram-bam was nev-er accepted by the public. Today, the neighbor-hood is called “Hamoshava HaGer-manit” or “Hamoshava” for short.
In order to preserve the German Colony’s charm, in 1973 the neigh-borhood was declared a historical site. This landmark designation limited the ability to destroy the older buildings, and as a result, many of the original homes have been restored, which has helped retain the community’s unique character.
Due to its proximity to numer-ous cultural and religious institutions and holy sites, the German Colony has become a magnet for Jews from
all over the world – es-pecially En-glish-speak-ing families – who desire a sense of c o m m u n i -ty and also want to take advantage of the myriad cultural, re-ligious and social oppor-tunities in the vicinity. The neighborhood is comprised of people of all ages, in-cluding lots of young families, but
seniors in particular appreciate the German Colony’s flat terrain, which stands out in a city that is comprised of many hills.
Gedaliah Borvick is the founder of My Israel Home (www.myisraelhome.com), a real estate agency focused on helping peo-ple from abroad buy and sell homes in Is-rael. To sign up for his monthly market up-dates, contact him 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
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 mens/womens/individual membership• 1 pass for any half summer mens/womens/individual membership.Passes will be issued at the time of registration. If you did not receive your passes, they will be left for you at the pool.
FOOD: No food or drink is allowed in the pool or pool area at any time.
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 givenout at a �rst come �rst serve basis.
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First Session:June 22– July 20Second Session:July 20 – August 24Pool closed: July 15, July 28-August 5 (9 days)
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POOL LIGHTSFOR EVENING
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102From My Private Art Collection
Rebbetzin Naomi N. Herzberg
Easy Fabric Painting Instructions and Tips:
* All fabrics should be pre-washed before applying the paint.
* Fabrics containing a loose weave will absorb the paint better.
* Test the paint on a small piece of sample fabric when using new fabric before actually starting with the painting.
* Please note that colors do appear differ-ently on some fabrics.
* Always insert cardboard between the front and back of the item before painting as the paint might absorb into the underneath layer.
* To prevent fabric from sticking to the surface while painting, cover
the surface with either wax paper or plastic or cardboard.
* Fabrics will get stiff
in the areas where you will be applying the
acrylic fabric paints.
*When iron-ing, always use a setting marked for
a synthetic fabric which requires a low heat setting.
*Always iron on the reverse side of the fabric or else use a cloth to cover the design and then press with the iron on top of the cloth.
*Acrylic paints takes about two hours maximum to dry.
*The amount of dry-ing time varies depending on the type of fabric you will be using.
*Wait at the least four days before washing the fabric item.
*The best method to use is hand washing the item inside out.
* Hang to dry. DO NOT place in the dryer.
* Never use hot water.* Presoaking is a waste of time.* When cleaning the item in a wash-
ing machine, always use warm water.* Always use a permanent press
cycle which is also known as a gentle cycle.
* For best results, clean hand-paint-ed items at a reputable dry cleaner.
* Acrylic fabric paints can be dilut-ed with some water in order to thin the paints.
* Once a layer of paint is dry, you can paint over the color with anoth-er color.
* The lighter in weight the fabric is, the faster it will take for the paint to dry.
* If you want the colors to run into each other to achieve a watercolor ef-fect, then wet the fabric slight-ly before applying the paint.
* When painting on leather or vinyl, keep in mind that in time the paint may start to peel off as the fabric hardens
with time.* A trick that will
help the paint adhere to a leather or vinyl fabric involves first preparing the surface to be painted by spreading rub-bing alcohol onto the surface and then letting it dry before painting.
* You can also use fine sandpaper to rough up the leather slightly. This step will help the paint adhere to the surface.
* Clean leather and vinyl surfaces by simply wiping the fabric with a soft cloth and warm water.
* Fabric paints come in bottles, tubes and pens.
* Multiple paints can be combined to create one unique design.
For best results, try to paint on items or fabrics which are made out of 50% cotton and 50% polyester.
To be continued…
Rebbetzin Naomi N. Herzberg is a profession-al art educator, artist and de-
signer. Among her known art-work is a floral
sculpture present-ed to Tipper Gore, Blair House, Wash-
ington, D.C. Pres-ently she is the Di-rector of Operations
at Shulamith School for Girls. Please feel
free to email [email protected] with questions and suggestions for future columns.
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104 Your MoneyAllan J. Rolnick, CPA
Honey or Vinegar?
Back when you were a kid, your mom said you’d catch
more flies with honey than with vinegar. (We’re not sure why she thought you’d want to catch flies — she couldn’t have wanted them in her house in the first place.) Appar-ently, though, Andrew Calcione’s mom never gave him that advice. Or maybe he just didn’t lis-ten. Either way, that failure to com-municate wound up costing him big time.
Last year, the IRS was auditing Calcione — a former tax preparer from Rhode Island — for 2008, 2009, and 2010. The IRS argued he owed an additional $330,000 in tax. But time was running out on the audit. (They generally can’t assess tax more than three years after the return’s due date or the actual filing date, whichever is later.) So they asked Calcione and his ex-wife Patricia to sign a “Consent to Extend Time to Assess Tax” form.
You’re probably asking yourself why on Earth anyone would ever do that. But tax professionals will often tell you to sign so you’ll have more time to defend yourself. If you don’t sign, they’ll just go ahead and hit you with the extra tax and you’ll wind up even deeper in the hole.
Calcione signed the consent, but his ex-wife did not. Three months later, the auditor left a voicemail fol-lowing up. Three days after that, Cal-cione called back — and instead of betting “honey,” he doubled down on “vinegar.” That vinegar took the form of a profanity-laced tirade with Cal-cione threatening to show up at the agent’s house and torture him. Then tie him to a chair, gag him, and kill his wife (in front of him). Then kill his daughter.
Calcione called back later the same day to say “disregard my pre-vious voicemail.” (Ya think?) But by then it was too late. The agent had called the police. Unfortunately for Calcione, threatening to assault and murder an IRS agent (or member of his family) is a felony, punishable by up to 10 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.
Give Calcione credit for creativ-ity. At first, he said he left the threat to toy with his own daughter — and gosh, just dialed the wrong number. Then he said he meant it for his ex-wife. (Family dinners at the Calci-one house must have been a hoot!) Finally, he claimed he was talking to himself and “accidentally” dialed the agent. All perfectly honest mistakes, right?
But District Court Judge William E. Smith wasn’t buying any of it. Last month, he found Calcione guilty on two counts. Now he’s looking at 20 years surrounded by people us-ing similar off-color language when he’s sentenced on September 11. “This Office will continue to protect and seek justice for government of-ficials simply trying to do their jobs on behalf of the people of the United States,” said the prosecutor. “Suffice it to say that we will be seeking the toughest, appropriate sentence in this case.”
Oh, and Calcione still owes the tax.
We know that you would never be foolish enough to threaten an IRS agent. But we also know you don’t want to pay a penny more than you have to. That’s why we focus on giv-ing you a plan to pay less. And that’s why everything we recommend is court-tested and IRS-approved — so you’ll never have to choose between honey and vinegar!
Allan J Rolnick is a CPA who has been in practice for over 30 years in Queens, NY. He welcomes your comments and can be reached at 718-896-8715 or at [email protected].
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