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Despite the Storm, it was Sunny Skies at the Salute to Israel Concert
MAY Grand Siyum Celebrates 74 Student Siyumim
Allison Josephs’ Initiative Makes all Jews Feel at Home
A Place for Every Jew
Nine Tips for a Healthy Summer
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Local Schools March Proudly in the Celebrate Israel Parade
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Dr. Simai:
THE BATTLE OF THE BOTTLE
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MAARIS AYINCan I Buy Coffee in a Non-Kosher Store? And Other Questions
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Dear Readers,
I recently heard a poignant story that was said over by Rabbi BenZion Kirsch. Sever-al years ago, Rabbi Kirsch was in a mall in Long Island when an older, non-religious Jew came over to him. The man, who was a Holocaust survivor, started talking about pre-war Europe and mentioned that he had learned by the Satmar Rebbe in Europe. In fact, he said, several years after the war, the Rebbe reached out to him and tried to get him to return to Yiddishkeit.
The man related that the Rebbe sum-moned him to Williamsburg several years after the Rebbe arrived in the U.S. and of-fered to give him a sum of money to start a local business in Williamsburg and to be-come frum. Some of the man’s friends had similar meetings with the Rebbe and, after accepting the arrangement, became reli-gious. But, despite the Rebbe’s efforts, this man refused. He told the Rebbe that he was not interested in the deal.
Upon realizing that he would not be able to sway this man to return to Yiddishkeit, the Rebbe switched tactics and tried to see if he could convince him to keep any part of the Torah.
He took out a pen and paper and, as if he was negotiating a business deal, proceed-ed to go through a list of individual mitzvos
with the man. “Will you be willing to put on tefillin every day?” “Will you be able to refrain from eating chometz on Pesach?” “Will you eat matzah on Pesach?” “Can you commit to not eat meat and milk together?”
The Rebbe wrote down on the paper each and every mitzvah that the man com-mitted to observe.
“Until today,” the man told Rabbi Kirsch, “I keep every mitzvah that I com-mitted to in that meeting with the Satmar Rebbe.”
I found the story to be extremely pow-erful. The Satmar Rebbe was not known as someone to pick and choose command-ments. Torah is sacrosanct. He was a zeal-ous protector of Torah and mitzvos. But he knew that this man would not be able to lead a religious life after the War. Even so, a few key mitzvos—even one mitzvah—brings so much to this world. Yes, the man may not lead a religious life, but the value of him keeping “his” mitzvos wholeheartedly is so cherished and so important.
I was reminded of this story when I read this week’s feature story. We lead busy lives and many of us don’t always fo-cus on the mitzvos we keep daily. We do so much by rote. Heading to shul in the morning, saying a bracha before we eat, keeping kosher—it’s part of our daily lives. But there’s a deep value and reward in ev-
erything we do. Allison Josephs, founder of Jew in the
City, set out to make life more meaningful for those keeping and not yet keeping a To-rah way of life. She found that there are so many people who are religious and yet have so many questions about Judaism. There is so much richness to our mesorah and our mitzvos, and she endeavors to share them with her audience in a humorous, compre-hensible manner.
Next week, the Five Towns will be home to a Shabbaton for her new initiative, Project Makom. In this program, Allison works with those who are searching for a different way of life. Some of them come from Chassidic backgrounds but are no lon-ger Chassidish. But that doesn’t mean that their connection to Yiddishkeit should be severed. Being a shomer Torah u’mitzvos comes in all forms and Allison is working to show them the vibrancy of a life full of Torah that may look a little different from how they were raised.
Reading about Allison and her projects gave me a renewed appreciation for our way of life. Perhaps the summer is a good time to focus on certain things that we take for granted and infuse an added energy into our routine.Wishing you a wonderful week,Shoshana
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8 Letters to the EditorDear Editor,
This week, you featured an article on phone addiction. It was a nice article—but hey, I don’t suffer from a too-close relationship with my phone, right? Well, at least I thought I was pretty healthy, un-til I had to wait in a doctor’s office this week. After I signed in with the recep-tionist, I sat on a chair and had to almost sit on my hands to force myself not to look at my phone. For the first few min-utes I was OK, but then, as my mind be-gan to wander, I was about to take out my phone. No! I stopped myself. I took out a piece of paper. I wrote a list. I opened a magazine. I stared at the walls. Final-ly, after twenty minutes of waiting for the doctor, I was called in. And I passed. I did not look at my phone the whole time I was waiting.
I was truly very proud of myself, and I hope to exercise the same self-control at other times. Do you think you can too?A Reader
Dear Editor,Your writer, Rafi Sackville, is won-
derful. I truly enjoy his outlook on Is-raeli society; it is entirely different from the typical articles one reads. I especially enjoy how he is unabashed to write about the little specks of discomfort or “un-
comfortableness” that one may encoun-ter while living in Israel. Those little specks are part of the experience living there and they make the other, wonderful parts of living in Israel even sweeter.
I look forward to reading more of Ra-fi’s articles in your publication.Sincerely, Gitty Weisner
Dear Editor,As many of us who were there know
or heard, the [Salute to Israel] concert was interrupted halfway through, due to thunderstorms. The park was full to capacity only 2 hours after the concert began and the police had already started closing the gates to the concert area. Ac-cording to a policeman that I asked, the area of the concert was filled to capacity, not even allowing the last of the Parade marchers to enter. This occurred a half hour before the rain actually started com-ing down in force.
Having made it into the concert area earlier to meet my friend Renanah, I can attest to the amazing enthusiasm of the crowd and the positive energy that we all experienced on behalf of Israel.
I feel we need to look at the bright side of things. Even though we were all very disappointed to have to leave the
concert at the height of its glory due to the thunderstorm, and I felt sad not only for myself and my family but also for the organizers Dr. Joseph and Karen Frag-er, Dr. Paul and Drora Brody as well as Tzvika Bornstein who produced it, and all the others who put in tremendous ko-chos, efforts, not to mention resources and funding, I felt for those who flew in specifically to participate in the concert and for those who didn’t get a chance to perform or to speak. I truly hope that the organizers will come through with a raincheck so that we can finish this con-cert at a future date. We don’t want to feel gypped out in any way…hint hint…
Personally, I felt that the spirit of the concert was like a seed being watered. Everyone knows that it takes a while to see the actual growth and fruit of the seed. First it needs to be watered and then nurtured with sun and rain. Finally after being patient and being diligent and conscientious, we see the fruits of our labor. Hazorim b’dima b’rena yikzoru. Those who plant with tears will reap with Joy.
So I am watering the seed and pre-senting to you the words of wisdom from America’s finest. Here are some of for-mer Governor Mike Huckabee’s points.
The hand of the Al-mighty has pre-served and protected Israel and has given the land to the Jews after 2,000 years of being scattered across the earth.
Boundaries of Israel are not given by the United Nations but by an Al-mighty G-d. These boundaries, he states, can be affirmed by man but not reshaped by man.
In an interview with Arutz7 Mr. Huckabee openly rejects a Two State Solution. He says openly, “So if there is a two state solution, the Palestinian State
must be outside the boundaries of the Na-tion of Israel.”
He calls a Two State Solution, with two governments sharing the same real estate and streets, as irrational and un-workable. He said it’s time to call quits to playing this pretentious game.Sincerely, Robin Ticker
Dear Editor,I was heartened to read the story of
Amazia Fensterheim, a brave soldier who has not let his injuries get him down. When I read of Amazia’s courage, I re-alized that he truly represents the Jewish People. Although we have been beaten and sometimes have faced tragedy and destruction, we have banded together and given encouragement to each other to face the difficulties ahead. And once we worked together, we were able to be-come stronger and rise above all odds.
Amazia is right: we are stronger when we are united. And hopefully we can continue to become closer and clos-er to each other so that every simcha we share will bring excitement and joy for one another. Imagine how much hap-piness we will experience if we see our friends’ joys as truly our own!Respectfully,Yoni L.
Readers Poll
FIFA is in the news this week.
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92% No
8% Yes
Correction: In our interview with Brent Delman, The Cheese Guy, we mistakenly paired the wrong wines with the cheeses he mentioned. The correct pairings should be goat cheese with a white Zinfandel and spicy, hard cheeses with Cabernet. We regret the error.
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GlobalU.S. Slams the Gauntlet on World Soccer Corruption
In her first major act as head of the Justice Department, U.S. Attorney Gen-eral Loretta Lynch issued a 164 page in-dictment against seven officials of world soccer’s governing body, FIFA, resulting in a spectacular pre-dawn raid on a five-star hotel in Switzerland where FIFA officials were assembled. The United States will ask the Swiss government to extradite the seven FIFA executives, who would face as much as 20 years in pris-on. Further arrests are expected.
The charges, which include rack-eteering, wire fraud, and money laun-dering, stem from what U.S. officials describe as a decades’ old culture of cor-ruption and bribery. Many of the bribes were either laundered through U.S. fi-nancial institutions, affected the business of U.S. entities or were negotiated on U.S. soil. The indictment details a $10 million payment to induce one execu-tive to vote for the 2010 World Cup to be hosted in South Africa.
There are also allegations that bribes were paid to help Sepp Blatter secure the FIFA presidency in 2011. Ironical-ly, Sepp Blatter, 79, was reelected as FIFA president two days after the arrests. When asked by a reporter at a news conference whether he authorized the payment allegedly relating to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, he said: “Definitely, that’s not me.” He further downplayed the arrests and questioned the timing of U.S. prosecutors, saying his organization “could have been con-tacted at another time” rather than just before its congress assembled. “I am not going to use the word coincidence but I do have a small question mark,” Blatter added regarding the timing of the raid.
On Tuesday, Blatter announced that he will be resigning as president of FIFA.
Aside for the U.S. indictment, there is an ongoing Swiss criminal investiga-tion into the decision to award the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 World Cup to Qatar— countries with spotty hu-man rights records.
In fact, Blatter believes that the in-dictment stems from the governing body’s decision to award Russia and Qa-tar the next two World Cup tournaments. “If two other countries had emerged from the envelope, I think we would not have these problems today,” Blatter said. “But we can’t go back in time. We are not prophets. We can’t say what would have happened.”
Predictably, Russian President Vlad-imir Putin joined the fray and blasted the arrests. “This is another blatant attempt [by the United States] to extend its juris-diction to other states,” Mr. Putin said. “Those officials are not U.S. citizens. If something happened, it was not in the U.S. and it’s nothing to do with them.” Despite Putin’s effort at playing defense attorney, if U.S. laws were broken by FIFA officials while they were in the U.S., as alleged, then the U.S. has the right to arrest those officials internation-ally and seek to have them extradited to the U.S., which is what they are doing.
One of the officials arrested, Jack Warner, the former vice president of FIFA, suggested that America’s cor-ruption clampdown was motivated by their desire to host the World Cup. To illustrate his point, he whipped out an article from the American media, titled “FIFA Frantically Announces 2015 Sum-mer World Cup in United States.” The only problem is that the article was pub-lished by satirical news website, the On-ion. But he certainly gets an A for effort.
Belgian Officer’s Anti-Semitic Rant
“The word Jew itself is dirty. If I were in Israel, frankly, I would do to the Jews what they do with the Palestin-ians — slaughter each and every one of them.” These were the words of a junior police officer in Belgium, Mohamed N., who is now facing dismissal after post-ing this on Facebook on Friday.
The officer was using the pseudonym Bebeto Gladiateur and he was asked to tone down his comments by others in a debate on the social media site.
Molenbeek Mayor Françoise Schep-mans responded to the news of Mo-hamed’s rant, “If this is true, this gen-tleman will see the door. There is no question about it. The guardians of the peace assume a role of mediation in the community. They are the image of com-munal authority. His words shocked me…I cannot tolerate such an attitude of a communal agent.”
Belgian reports indicated that the of-
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“There are two things particularly questionable about this case,” said Joël Rubinfeld, president of the Belgian League against Anti-Semitism (LBCA). “Firstly, [there is] the fact that a ‘guard-ian of the peace’ would publicly speak something that is so antithetical to the
values he is supposed to embody, pro-mote and defend. Secondly, there is the anti-Semitic speech that I am concerned expresses itself increasingly uninhibit-edly in certain circles.”
Rubinfeld has warned in the past that rising anti-Semitism is spurring a Jewish exodus from Belgium. Last year, a terrorist opened fire at the Brussels Jewish Museum, murdering four people.
Russia and U.S. Military Tangle
Russian military aircraft were scram-bled to head off a U.S. warship that was acting “aggressively” in the Black Sea, state news agency RIA reported on Sat-urday, but the Pentagon has denied any unusual behavior.
RIA quoted an anonymous source in Russia’s armed forces in Crimea as saying that the guided missile destroyer USS Ross was moving along the edge of Russia’s territorial waters and heading in their direction. “The crew of the ship acted provocatively and aggressively, which concerned the operators of moni-toring stations and ships of the Black Sea Fleet,” RIA quoted the source as saying.
“Su-24 attack aircraft demonstrated to the American crew readiness to harsh-ly prevent a violation of the frontier and to defend the interests of the country.”
But Pentagon spokeswoman Eileen Lainez said the USS Ross was “well within international waters at all times, performing routine operations.” “The U.S. Navy operates routinely in the Black Sea, in accordance with inter-national law,” Lainez said, noting the Ross’s deployment to the Black Sea had been publicly announced.
Earlier this month, both Britain and Sweden said that they had scrambled fighters to intercept Russian bombers near their territory.
The United States said last month that it was filing a complaint to Russia over a Russian fighter’s “sloppy” and unsafe interception of a U.S. reconnais-sance plane in international aerospace over the Baltic Sea.
Beijing Bans Indoor Smoking
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On Monday, public smoking was offi-cially banned in Beijing, China’s capi-tal. Smoking bans have already exist-ed, but tougher regulations, enforced by thousands of inspectors, now ban lighting up in restaurants, offices and on public transport in Beijing.
On the first day of the ban, a hotpot restaurant in Beijing became the first venue to receive an official warning. Inspectors found cigarette butts inside the restaurant, which had also failed to promote a smoking complaint hotline.
Smoking in China is almost a na-tional pastime; the country consumes a third of the world’s cigarettes. More than half of Chinese men smoke; wom-en, in contrast, are rarely seen smoking. A common greeting among men is to offer a cigarette—the more expensive, the better. A carton of cigarettes is a popular gift.
Anti-tobacco campaigners say many smokers are simply unaware of the health risks of their habit. They accuse the authorities of being addicted to the tax revenues generated by cigarette sales and not warning smokers about the dangers.
But now there are signs the govern-ment has changed its mind. In the past,
China’s leaders such as Chairman Mao and his successor Deng Xiaoping were rarely seen without a cigarette in hand. But the current President Xi Jinping has bucked the trend: he’s quit. And he’s also banned officials from smoking in public in order to set an example.
Under the legislation that went into effect this week, those who flout the law in Beijing will be fined 200 yuan ($32) and businesses that turn a blind eye could be fined up to 10,000 yuan. Repeat offenders will be named and shamed on a government website, ac-cording to the Reuters news agency. The new law also cracks down on to-bacco advertising across the city.
The World Health Organization has welcomed the new tougher regulations. “When implemented, this new law will permanently bring clean air to all of Beijing’s indoor public places – in do-ing so, protecting Beijing’s more than 20 million residents from the deadly ef-fects of exposure to toxic second-hand smoke,” said its representative in China, Dr. Bernhard Schwartlander.
Others don’t agree. Smoking is so engrained, they say, that regulations will be difficult to enforce. Yang Gonghuan, former vice director of China’s center
for disease control, said, “It is unrealis-tic to absolutely abolish ‘indoor smok-ing’ since too many people smoke.”
Only time will tell.
Putin Critic Mysteriously Ill
Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian opposition figure who is an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin, was rushed to a Moscow hospital last week after sud-denly falling ill. Kara-Murza, 33, was a close political ally of Boris Nemtsov, who was gunned down near the Krem-lin earlier this year two days before he
was supposed to lead an opposition rally against the Russian president.
Kara-Murza’s wife, who says that her husband lost consciousness and had exhibited “symptoms of poisoning,” is seeking his evacuation to Europe or Is-rael for treatment and toxicology tests. However, doctors at the Moscow hos-pital have refused to transport him be-cause they say his condition won’t allow it.
Kara-Murza serves as a coordinator for Open Russia, a nongovernmental or-ganization founded by former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin who spent over a decade in prison in Russia and now lives in Switzerland. He fell ill one day after the group released a doc-umentary film accusing the government of Russia’s republic of Chechnya of cor-ruption and human rights abuses under the region’s strongman leader, Kremlin ally Ramzan Kadyrov.
If Kara-Murza was poisoned, this would not be the first such case of a Pu-tin critic meeting such a fate. In 2006, a noted Putin critic, Alexander Litvinen-ko, suddenly became ill after he fled to Britain. He died three weeks later, becoming the first confirmed victim of
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lethal polonium-210-induced acute ra-diation syndrome. While he was dying, Litvinenko penned an essay titled, “Why I Believe Putin Wanted Me Dead,” in which he declared, “You have shown yourself to be as barbaric and ruthless as your most hostile critics have claimed. You have shown yourself to have no respect for life, liberty or any civilized value. You have shown yourself to be unworthy of your office, to be unworthy of the trust of civilized men and women. You may succeed in silencing one man but the howl of protest from around the world will reverberate, Mr. Putin, in your ears for the rest of your life.”
A word to the wise: if you are a Pu-tin critic, when he sends you a birthday cake, don’t eat it.
N. Korea Looking for Tourists
Last summer, as the spread of the Eb-ola virus was all the rage, North Korea banned all foreigners from entering its country in attempt to maintain immuni-ty from the deadly disease. But now the country is ready to show off its “socialist fairyland” to tourists. If your dream va-cation is a heavy dose of socialist propa-ganda and leader worship, book the next outgoing flight to North Korea.
The focus on tourism is the bless-ing of Kim Jong Un himself and offi-cials have set high goals in their effort to please their beloved leader. Last year, about 100,000 tourists came to North Korea, mostly from neighboring China. Kim Sang Hak, a senior economist at the influential Academy of Social Sciences, said the North hopes that by around 2017 there will be 10 times as many tourists and that the number will hit 2 million by 2020.
“About 80 percent of the tourists who come are from neighboring coun-tries,” state tourism official Kim Yong Il pointed out. “It’s normal to develop tour-
ism within your region, so our country is not exceptional in that way. But we are also expanding to European countries as well.”
Some popular attractions include a new, high-tech shooting range where visitors can hunt animated tigers with la-ser guns. There is also a new equestrian center, a huge water park, and revamped “fun fairs” replete with roller coasters, fast-food stands and a 5-D theater. Af-ter a year of construction, Pyongyang’s new international airport terminal may be open as early as next month. Officials have also been focusing on developing the area around Mount Kumgang and Wonsan, a port city on the east coast. A luxury ski resort was recently opened just outside of Wonsan and a number of new restaurants have sprung up along the city’s beachfront area, which is popular with tourists and locals alike for swim-ming, clambakes and outdoor barbeques.
Pyongyang’s interest in attracting tourists may sound inconsistent with a country that is preoccupied with shel-tering itself from the outside world. But tourism is potentially a very lucrative source of revenue. Many experts see this as an attempt by North Korea to re-claim its image and counter stereotypes of a starving, backward and relentlessly bleak country.
“Tourism can produce a lot of profit relative to the investment required, so that’s why our country is putting priori-ty on it,” Kim Sang Hak said in a recent interview in Pyongyang, adding that the country boasts scenic mountains, isolat-ed beaches and an expansive collection of monuments and museums.
“Many people in foreign countries think in a wrong way about our country,” Kim said, brushing aside criticisms of its human rights record, lack of freedoms and problems with hunger in the coun-tryside. “Though the economic sanctions of the U.S. imperialists are increasing, we are developing our economy. So I think many people are curious about our country.”
Keep in mind that for safety reasons the State Department strongly advises U.S. citizens not to travel to North Ko-rea.
Tourists should expect to be con-
stantly and closely monitored and should expect severe consequences for breaking the laws of the land. But if you do end up in North Korea, expect to see a fun show all for you, including model hospi-tals, schools and farms, along with well-staged events intended to impress and promote the socialist government. There will be minimal opportunities to interact with average people or observe their re-al-life daily lifestyle.
400 Missing after Cruise Ship Disaster in China
As a storm raged on Monday night, a cruise ship from Nanjing heading to the southwestern city of Chongqing in Chi-na capsized with 458 people onboard. Sadly, as of Tuesday morning, at least five people were confirmed dead, with at least 400 people still missing. Hope, though, was still alive as divers pulled at least three living people from inside the capsized cruise ship on the Yangtze River.
Many of those on the ship were el-derly. Some of the survivors swam ashore, but others were rescued more than 12 hours after the ship went down, after search teams climbed aboard the upside-down hull and heard people calling out from within. Rescuers used hammers to tap on the hull of the boat, listening for a response as a sign of life.
The overturned ship had drifted about 3 kilometers downstream before coming to rest close to the river shore, where choppy waters made the rescue difficult. The Yangtze is the world’s third-longest river and sometimes floods during the summer monsoon sea-son. 6 inches of rain had fallen in the region over the past 24 hours and winds reached 80 mph during the accident.
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IsraelRecord-Setting Magic
It was a magic trick for the ages: 1,576 children, one card trick and one brilliant magician.
On Monday, Israeli magician Is-rael Cagliostro set a Guinness World Record for the largest magic lesson by teaching a group of 1,576 fifth and sixth graders from Haifa a card trick.
Cagliostro was aiming to break an existing record set by Scottish magi-cian Kevin McMahon in 2012. But re-cord breaking aside, the real magic came in the peace he was aiming to promote. “Haifa Magic for Peace” brought to-
gether students from all cultures across Haifa for a day of fun and interaction. It was organized by the Haifa Munici-pality and Beit HaGefen, a Jewish-Arab cultural center.
“It was really interesting, and the fact that it was magic for peace made it all the more special. I believe that peace is in our hands and working together as one I really felt that it was within reach,” said Shira, 10, from the Hofit school in Haifa.
Although Shira spoke figurative-ly, peace was literally in the children’s hands, as they each held a special deck of eight cards. Each card had printed on it a word representing a concept with which a peace process could begin: honor, togetherness, dialogue, listen-ing, hope, tolerance, consideration, and brotherhood.
The trick that Cagliostro taught the massive group involved each “magi-cian” having someone else choose from the deck the card they thought had the most important word for moving toward peace. The person put the card back in the deck without the magician looking at it. Then the magician put a small wooden wand inside the holes that were punched out at the top of the cards. Af-
ter a special spell was cast, the card that the person had chosen mysteriously rose up out of the deck.
“Teaching a trick like this is really complicated with so many people,” Ca-gliostro pointed out.
“It’s not every day that you get to break a Guinness World Record. It was a really hard thing to do, to get so many people together from so many schools to work as one and break the record,” agreed 11-year-old Hadar.
Cagliostro wasn’t just breaking the world record, he was actually reclaim-ing it. According to the magician, he set the record for the largest magic lesson in August 2012 with 644 students. Just two months later, Kevin McMahon broke it with 1,063 students.
“The record is important to me,” said Cagliostro. “I’m an Israeli and I’m a fighter. I was going to get it back.”
Turkey Marries 2,000 Palestinian Couples
It was a mass wedding celebration sponsored by Turkey’s Religious Af-fairs Presidency and the Turkish Inter-national Cooperation and Development Agency, also known as TIKA. Two thousand Palestinian couples celebrated their nuptials at a mass ceremony in Ga-za’s Yarmouk sports stadium on Sunday in front of Hamas leader Ismail Hani-yeh. It was the largest-ever such event in the area.
“Turkey is very pleased to stand by you on this day with its government and its public,” TIKA program coordinator for Palestine Bulent Korkmaz said in a speech at the ceremony, adding that the date on which it took place — the fifth anniversary of the Mavi Marmara flo-tilla affair — was evidence of Turkey’s support for the Palestinians.
Video from the event showed thou-sands of men dancing and wearing scarves with the word Palestine written in English. Onlookers waved Turkish flags and posters with Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan Erdogan’s face.Haniyeh thanked Erdogan and the
Turkish government and people for their support. He also said that Turkey had promised $4 million in assistance to the newlywed couples, together with 20 buildings that would contain 340 housing units for Gazans who lost their homes during Operation Protective Edge.
Hamas Plans to Kidnap More Soldiers
One of the best ways to ensure the release of terrorists from Israeli pris-ons is to kidnap more Israeli soldiers, Hamas said on Sunday.
Writing on his Twitter account, Abu Obaideh, spokesman for the terror group, said that Hamas terrorists not in prison “are obligated to do everything to ensure the freedom of prisoners.” He said that he was thus sending a message of support to imprisoned terrorists, urg-ing them not to lose hope and that the day of their release would come soon.
Abu Obaideh made the comments in the wake of an interview given by arch-terrorist Abdullah Barghou-ti, who is serving 67 life terms in an Israeli prison for the deaths of 66 Israe-lis. Barghouti was directly involved in many of the worst terror attacks of the Second Intifada, including the Sbarro pizza bombing in August 2001.
Barghouti gave the interview via a cellphone that was smuggled into his cell. The phone was apparently de-livered by another prisoner who had brought it into the prison. In the inter-view with Hamas-run A-Rai Radio, Barghouti called on terrorists to increase their activity against Israel.
Ironically, as Barghouti was giv-ing the interview, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked presented a law to the government’s Ministerial Law Com-mittee to ban the use and possession of cellular phones by security prisoners. Prisoners are able to bring a phone into a top security facility because of the in-conclusive nature of current laws on the matter. While officially prison wardens have the right to ban phones, security prisoners have often brought demands for phone use to the High Court, which has sometimes agreed that they ought to be given phones for “humanitarian rea-sons.” To prevent illicit phone use, the Prisons Service operates “dampening” equipment, which aims to prevent pris-oners from making or receiving calls. But the technology is not foolproof, as
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Under Shaked’s new proposal, which was authored in conjunction with the Prisons Service, all prisoners—Arab and Israeli—who are convicted of secu-rity crimes or murders will be banned from using cellphones.
8,000 Israelis Die from Smoking-Related Illnesses
Newly released figures on tobacco use and smoking trends in Israel show numbers that are getting better but are still far from great. The good news is that smoking is on the decline overall. However, 8,000 people died in 2014 from smoking-related illnesses — 700 of them from secondhand smoke.
19.8 percent of Israelis aged 21 and over classified themselves as smokers in 2014, compared to 23.1% in 2013, according to a report by Health Min-istry. More men (27.3%) smoke than women (12.6%), the report said. The rates are slightly lower than figures for the European Union, where the smok-ing rate averaged 28.5% for men and 17.7% for women. Over half of male smokers reported consuming 10-20 cigarettes a day, while 40% of women said they smoked less than 10 ciga-rettes per day.
Israeli households spent over NIS 8.2 billion ($2.12 billion) on the pur-chase of tobacco-related products and cigarettes in 2014, far more than com-parative amounts spent for basic food staples and necessities. To put the num-bers into some perspective, consumer
spending on all milk products in 2014 stood at NIS 7.5 billion ($1.94 bil-lion). NIS 1 billion ($259 million) was spent on yellow cheese, baby diapers sales stood at NIS 600 million ($155 million), and breakfast cereal sales amounted to NIS 619 million ($160 million). Smoking-related injuries also put an annual NIS 1.7 billion ($440 million) strain on the medical system, experts said — while indirect costs to the economy such as loss in productiv-ity and work disability were estimated at some NIS 1.9 billion ($491 million).
On a more positive note, 26,818 applicants registered to quit smoking in 2014 at rehabilitation clinics across Israel — with over 40% remaining tobacco-free a year after attending a workshop.
Turkey: Israel is Biggest Threat
A survey that was recently con-ducted in Turkey found that nearly 50 percent of Turkish citizens see Israel as the country’s biggest security threat, followed by the United States and then Syria. The poll, which was answered by 1,000 respondents, was conducted by Istanbul’s Kadir Has University.
Asked which country they think poses the biggest threat to Turkey, 42.6 percent of participants chose Israel, while 35.5% said the U.S. Just 22.1%
named Syria, which shares a border with Turkey and has been ravaged by a four year civil war, as the biggest threat to their country. Turkey has in the past fired at Syrian positions across the bor-der after wayward shells from the civ-il war landed in its territory. A similar poll in 2013 found 41% saw the United States as Turkey’s biggest threat, while 37.1% named Israel.
Asked about the Islamic State group, which has carved out large swaths of Iraq and Syria for its self-de-clared caliphate, 85% said they consid-ered the jihadist organization a terrorist group and 65.4% saw it as a threat to Turkey. Twenty-four percent said ISIS was not a threat to Turkey and 10.1% were undecided.
Israel and Turkey have been at odds ever since the 2010 Mavi Marmara in-cident. In the ensuing melee, after the Israeli soldiers were attacked with iron bars and wooden bats, troops opened fire and nine Turkish activists were killed; 10 Israeli soldiers were injured. The incident triggered a crisis in rela-tions between Israel and Turkey, which were already strained since Israel’s military campaign in Gaza in 2008-2009. Israel issued a formal apology to Turkey in March 2013 but disagree-ments persist over Ankara’s demand that Israel pay damages to families of the deceased and to the wounded.
Ties between the two countries have yet to recover, with Turkish offi-cials often unleashing scathing rebukes of Israel. In January Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu accused his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanya-hu, of killing Palestinian children and radicalizing the Muslim world.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is known for his angry out-bursts at the Jewish state, declaring in July 2014 that Israel had “surpassed Hitler in barbarism.” Turkey under his rule has been a consistent supporter of Hamas, the terror group that rules Gaza.
Iran: Israeli Arms in Saudi Embassy
An Iranian news agency is reporting that a number of Israeli-manufactured weapons were discovered in the Saudi embassy in Sana’a. The report, which was not independently verified, did not identify specific weapons the Saudis are supposedly using in Yemen that would have been supplied by Israel. Saudi Ara-
bia purchases the bulk of its military arms from the United States.
Houthi forces claim to have over-run the embassy after driving 40 guards from the premises in retaliation for the Saudi-led assault on the Houthis. The report also claimed that documents un-covered from the embassy revealed U.S. plans to build a naval base at Yemen’s Perim Island at the entrance to the Bab al-Mandeb strait of the Red Sea between Yemen and Djibouti, which the report falsely attributed to Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia ordered its Sana’a embassy closed in February as fighting intensified in the capital between Iran-backed Houthi rebels and forces loyal to President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi. The Houthis have received material support from Iran since 2009, according to a UN report released in May.
Law Proposes Longer Sentence for Rock Throwers
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked re-introduced a draft law this week that would extend the maximum sentence for stone throwers in Israel to 20 years behind bars. The law also seeks to al-leviate the burden on the state to prove “intent to harm” during prosecution. The legislation is the first major move by the new justice minister seeking to put a measure back on track that was ap-proved by the cabinet last year but failed to become law.
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Currently, convicted stone throwers generally receive only up to two years’ jail time.
That gap, explained a written draft from Shaked’s office, demonstrated a need for new legislative action because current sentences do not properly reflect the actual severity of the crime. The new legislation would introduce a harsh-er punishment for people who throw stones at moving vehicles or police offi-cers in the line of duty, lengthening the sentence of people convicted for this of-fense. The bill would create two tiers of offense, in which the lower one, when clear intent to harm cannot be proven, would be punished with a shorter length of jail time, while more severe crimes would trigger the maximum sentence.
Rock throwing by Palestinians pro-testing settler activity is a frequent oc-currence on West Bank roads, as well as in East Jerusalem, and in some parts of Israel proper during protests. While the attacks usually cause damage and mi-nor injuries, there have been a number of cases of fatalities and serious injuries from rocks being thrown. “The goal of this legislative amendment is to help deal with the phenomenon of stone-throwing at moving vehicles, whether they belong to civilians or law enforcement, which has become common over the last sev-eral years and resulted in roughly 1,000 indictments being filed,” an introduc-tion to the draft stated.
The proposal last year was pushed forward by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and came amid an uptick in attacks in East Jerusalem and the West Bank as tensions rose over the status of the Temple Mount. “Israel is taking vigorous action against terrorists and those who throw stones, firebombs and fireworks,” Netanyahu said ahead of a ministerial vote on the matter. “We will also pass stronger legislation on the is-sue. All of this is in order to restore qui-et and security throughout Jerusalem.”
U.S. Looks to Buy Cooperation on Iran Deal
Both Israeli and American officials are predicting an increase in U.S. aid to Israel in compensation for a possi-ble nuclear deal with Iran. The current package, worth $3 billion a year, ex-pires in 2017. A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said negotia-tors were close to a new deal that would bring annual payouts to $3.6 billion to
$3.7 billion on average. Asked if the ex-pected hike in defense grants to Israel was linked to Washington’s recent deal-ings with Iran and the Gulf Arab states, the U.S. official surmised, “Could be.”
An Israeli official, who also declined to be named, put the expected aid at be-tween $3.5 billion and $4 billion. “They [the United States] are trying to douse the fires after our flare-up about the Iran deal,” the official added, referring to disagreements in negotiating Tehran’s disputed nuclear program. Iran and the international community announced the contours of a nuclear deal in April, set-ting June 30 as the target date for a com-prehensive nuclear agreement.
Responding to reports that an in-creased defense aid package was in the works, Prime Minister Benjamin Net-anyahu confirmed there were such dis-cussions with the Americans but said he would keep campaigning against Iran. “There is no trade-off requiring I agree to this [nuclear] deal with Iran. The deal is bad and we will continue to
oppose it,” Netanyahu said. The previous U.S. administration
signed a 10-year deal with Israel in 2007 giving it $3 billion, most of which must be spent on American military products. Washington has earmarked hundreds of millions more dollars for Israeli missile defenses.
Israel’s worries about the emerg-ing deal with Iran have been echoed by Gulf Arab leaders, whom U.S. President Barack Obama hosted on May 14 and sought to reassure with offers of boosted defense. Such aid to Gulf Arabs has of-ten ushered in increases in aid to Israel.
Embassy Hosts Garage Sale
Looking for a new refrigerator, printer, or American flag? Head out this weekend to the U.S. Embassy in Israel to fill all your household needs. For the
first time in its history, the U.S. Embas-sy in Israel has decided to place thou-sands of its second-hand items on sale – direct to the public.
Part of the massive collection avail-able online includes used furniture from the homes of Ambassador Dan Shapiro and other American officials and dele-gates, as well as the embassy compound. Among the goods placed on the auction block are a number of living room sets, dining room sets, cabinets, dressers, beds, and mattresses.
The U.S. embassy is also looking to off-load a scooter, a Subaru, and a long line of electrical appliances like refrigerators, dishwashers, microwaves, washing machines, ovens, generators, vacuums, air conditioning units, and a variety of office supplies and equip-ment.
The items all have one thing in com-mon: They are property of the United States government. According to Amer-ican law, all embassies must offer sec-ond-hand equipment for sale after it has been worn out or replaced. Until now, the American embassy has tended to sell mostly to vendors who would take a commission and offer the goods to the public. This time, the embassy decided to sell directly to the Israeli public and allow it to place bids online for a range of goods. It has even posted a catalog with photographs of everything on sale.
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NationalRepublican Field Continues to Grow as Hillary Gets a Challenger
The field of Republicans seeking their party’s nomination in 2016 con-tinues to grow as three more candidates
jumped into the presidential race last week.
In an address to supporters in New Hampshire, former three-term New York Governor George Pataki, 69, joined the race. He made it clear that his argument for relevancy among the crowded Republican field will be based on his political and legislative accom-plishments as governor of New York. “After 12 years of my conservative pol-icies, we replaced dependency with op-
portunity, resignation with hope, mere existence with dreams, a welfare check with a paycheck. I know we can do the same thing for the United States,” he charged.
Conventional wisdom is that Pata-ki, who is a social liberal, will not gain much traction in a field which features several “red meat” conservative Re-publicans. But, despite his lanky figure and seemingly non-dramatic personali-ty, Pataki pulled off a historic political
upset in 1994 when as a freshman state senator in his first statewide contest, he defeated the iconic Democrat incum-bent Mario Cuomo in the 1994 New York governor’s race.
Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, 57, also joined the crowded stage last week. Santorum, who mount-ed a surprisingly strong run in 2012 car-rying 11 states, is a strong social con-servative who is hoping to broaden his appeal to attract blue collar voters. He launched his campaign from a factory in the blue collar town of Cabot, Penn-sylvania. Santorum held aloft a piece of coal while telling his family’s story and that of others in western Pennsylvania’s coal country. He said that not only “big government” but also “big business” had demolished the American middle class.
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Perhaps feeling left out, South Car-olina Senator Lindsey Graham also an-nounced that he is running in the Repub-lican primaries. Graham, who has never been married, was flanked onstage by his sister and her family. He announced his run in his childhood town, where he lived with and cared for his younger sis-ter after his parents died at a young age. “Those of you who’ve known me a long time know I had some ups and downs as a young man,” he related. “I lost my parents, and had to struggle financially and emotionally … There are a lot of so-
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called ‘self-made’ people in this world. I’m not one of them. My family, friends, neighbors and my faith picked me up when I was down, believed in me when I had doubts. You made me the man I am today.”
Graham, 59, who is a national secu-rity hawk with a long history of speak-ing out on global threats, is staking his run on his foreign policy credentials. “I’ve got one simple message,” he de-clared in front of 1,500 supporters, “I have more experience with our national security than any other candidate in this race.” Amid resounding cheers, he add-ed, “That includes you, Hillary!”
Graham did not shy away from his position that America left Iraq too early and that the only way to defeat radical Islam will be with American boots on the ground. “Simply put, radical Islam is running wild,” he said. “They have more safe havens, more money, more weapons and more capability to strike our homeland than any time since 9/11. They are large, they are rich, and they’re entrenched.” He promised that as pres-ident he’d “make them small, poor and on the run.” Acknowledging Ameri-cans’ weariness, he noted, “I’m afraid some Americans have grown tired of
fighting them. I have bad news to share with you — the radical Islamists are not tired of fighting you.”
Despite the jockeying for position taking place on the Republican side, perhaps the biggest primary news took place on the Democrat side—or the “Hillary side”—as former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley launched his candidacy for the Democrat nomina-tion last Saturday.
O’Malley, who is seen as Hillary’s only formidable opponent, indicated that his campaign will pack a serious punch. He quipped, “Recently, the CEO of Goldman Sachs let his employees know that he’d be just fine with either Bush or Clinton. I bet he would.” He added, “Well, I’ve got news for the bul-lies of Wall Street: The presidency is not a crown to be passed back and forth by you between two royal families. It is a sacred trust to be earned from the peo-ple of the United States and exercised on behalf of the people of the United States.”
Hillary Clinton greeted O’Malley’s announcement with a tweet, saying, “Welcome to the race, Gov. O’Malley. Looking forward to discussing strong families and communities.”
Although Hillary may not feel very threatened by O’Malley’s candidacy at this point—according to a recent Quin-nipiac poll, he is polling at 1%—he is known as a good politician. In fact, a noted politician predicted in 2002 that O’Malley would “be the president someday.”
Which politician made that predic-tion? Bill Clinton.
Biden’s Son Dies at 46
Beau Biden, son of Vice Presi-dent Joe Biden, died of brain cancer over the weekend at the age of 46.
Although the Bidens had been pri-vate about Beau’s medical condition, it is known that he had been battling an
illness for several years. In 2010, he suf-fered a mild stroke. In 2013, he had brain surgery and underwent chemotherapy, after which he was given a clean bill of health. Sadly, this spring, however, Beau suffered a recurrence and immedi-ately sought aggressive treatment at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center out-side Washington. His family was with him when he died.
The Bidens have known much trage-dy in their lives. In 1972, several weeks after Joe Biden won Delaware’s U.S. Senate elections, his wife and daughter, Naomi, were killed in a tragic car crash. Beau and his brother, Hunter, who were also in the car, survived but were seri-ously injured. Joe Biden, who was 30 at the time, considered resigning before even taking office so that he could take care of his two sons but was convinced to take the seat. Biden was sworn into office at tBeau’s hospital bedside at the time.
Beau, who served a year-long tour in Iraq as a member of the Delaware Army National Guard, served as attorney gen-eral in Delaware for eight years. He was courted by Democrats to run in a special election to fill his father’s senate seat in 2010 and to run for the seat in the 2014
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elections, but on both occasions he de-clined to run.
A grief-stricken Vice President Joe Biden spoke about his son’s profession-al accomplishments but added that more than his professional accomplishments, Beau measured himself as a husband, fa-ther, son and brother. “His absolute hon-or made him a role model for our family. Beau embodied my father’s saying that a parent knows success when his child turns out better than he did.” He added, “In the words of the Biden family: Beau Biden was, quite simply, the finest man any of us have ever known.”
TSA: A Major Failure?
As much as the Transportation Se-curity Administration spends their time rifling through your suitcases, they may not be really doing their jobs. Accord-ing to ABC News, in a series of trials the Department of Homeland Security was able to smuggle fake explosives, weapons and other contraband past air-port screeners in major cities across the country.
Officials briefed on the Homeland Security Inspector General’s investiga-tion told the station that the TSA failed 67 out of 70 tests conducted by the department’s Red Teams – undercov-er passengers tasked with identifying weaknesses in the screening. During the tests, DHS agents each tried to bring a banned item past TSA screeners. They succeeded 95 percent of the time.
The TSA has said that Red Team agents are “super terrorists” who “push the boundaries of our people, process-es and technology” but the test results were disconcerting, to say the least. Ac-cording to ABC, in one test an under-cover agent was stopped after setting off an alarm at a magnetometer, but TSA screeners failed to detect a fake explo-sive device that was taped to his back during a follow-up pat down. This inci-dent took place recently.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson was apparently so frustrated by the findings he sought a detailed briefing on them last week at TSA headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, according to sources. U.S. officials insisted changes
have already been made at airports to address vulnerabilities identified by the latest tests.
“Red Team testing of the aviation security network has been part of TSA’s mission advancement for 13 years,” a DHS spokesman said. “The numbers in these reports never look good out of context, but they are a critical element in the continual evolution of our avia-tion security.”
The administration still touts its ded-ication to safety and security. In a weekly report published May 29, TSA officials said they found 45 firearms and contin-ue to discover inert grenades and other weapons “on a weekly basis.” Many of the guns found were in carry-on luggage and had rounds in the chamber.
In 2014, the TSA confiscated 2,212 firearms at 224 airports after screening 653 million passengers.
Black and Jewish Heroes Finally Receive Medal of Honor
It’s nearly 100 years, but two World War I Army heroes—one Jewish and one black—will finally receive their Medals of Honor that they had been de-nied because of discrimination.
Sgt. William Shemin repeatedly dodged gunfire to pull wounded com-rades to safety during three days of bloody battle. And Pvt. Henry Johnson rescued a wounded comrade from his all-black regiment while single-handed-ly fighting off a surprise German attack.
President Barack Obama posthu-mously bestowed the nation’s highest military honor on both men for their ac-tions in 1918 during a White House cer-emony on Tuesday. The award comes after tireless efforts by advocates for the two men led Congress to pass an exemption from Medal of Honor rules specifying that heroic actions have to have taken place within five years to be considered.
Shemin’s daughter, Elsie Shem-in-Roth of suburban St. Louis, worked for years to gather documents in sup-port of the bid for her father and plans
to accept the award from Obama on his behalf. In the early 2000s, she learned of a law that reviewed cases of Jews who may have been denied medals they earned in World War II and fought for passage of a law to provide similar re-view for Jewish World War I veterans.
“This was anti-Semitism, no ques-tion about it,” Shemin-Roth, who is in her 80s, said in an interview in Decem-ber when Congress passed the exemp-tion for her father, who died in 1973. “Now a wrong has been made right and all is forgiven.”
Johnson supporters pushed for the Medal of Honor for decades — with New York Sen. Chuck Schumer taking up the case and initially being rebuffed for lack of documentation. His staff picked up the case again years later when a trove of military records became available online, including a communi-que from Gen. John Pershing describing his brave acts after coming under attack by at least 12 German soldiers while on night sentry duty on May 15, 1918.
Johnson, a Virginia native who worked as a train station porter in Al-bany, enlisted in the 369th, a New York National Guard unit based in Manhattan. The “Harlem Hellfighters,” as the unit became known, served under French command because U.S. armed forces were segregated at the time. He died a destitute alcoholic at the age of 32.
Shemin was 19 when his platoon was involved in a bloody fight. “Ser-geant Shemin left the cover of his pla-toon’s trench and crossed open space, repeatedly exposing himself to heavy machine gun and rifle fire to rescue the wounded,” the White House announce-ment said.
The young sergeant took shrapnel but survived. He led the platoon out of harm’s way for the next three days, un-til a German bullet pierced his helmet and lodged behind his left ear. Shemin was hospitalized for three months and was left partly deaf. Shrapnel wounds eventually left him barely able to walk, although he earned a degree from Syr-acuse University and started a nursery business in the Bronx.
Pentagon Chief Vows to Investigate Anthrax Mishap
Live anthrax samples from the Ar-my’s Dugway Proving Ground in Utah were mistakenly sent to 24 laboratories last week, including ones in Australia
and South Korea.U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter
said on Sunday that he is committed to figuring out who was responsible for the mistaken shipments since eleven of them went to eleven U.S. states. Carter vowed to hold those responsible “ac-countable” for the mistake.
Calling the shipments an “unfortu-nate incident,” Carter said the Pentagon will make “sure that any public health consequences of this are avoided” and that this type of error doesn’t happen again. He said he is working closely with the U.S. Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention to address the prob-lem.
CDC spokesman Jason McDonald said four people at labs in Delaware, Texas and Wisconsin were recommend-ed to take antibiotics as a precaution, although they are not sick. About two dozen people were being treated for possible exposure at Osan Air Base in South Korea.
Many questions are being asked re-garding Dugway’s procedures to ensure that anthrax samples were made fully inert before shipping them to labs. Dep-uty U.S. Defense Secretary Bob Work has ordered a comprehensive review of laboratory procedures associated with inactivating anthrax. Dugway, in a desolate stretch of the Utah desert, has been testing chemical weapons since it opened in 1942.
Workplace Discrimination Verdict
On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that retailer Abercrombie & Fitch may have violated workplace dis-crimination law when it turned down a Muslim job applicant because she wore a hijab, even though her religious be-liefs never came up in the interview.
Samantha Elauf, the job seeker at the center of the case, applied for a sales po-sition at the store in Oklahoma in 2008.
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Despite her high marks in the interview, Elauf didn’t land the job because her headscarf ran afoul of Abercrombie’s employee “look policy,” which bars hats and promotes the retailer’s preppy brand. Elauf sued with the help of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Civil rights law requires that em-ployers accommodate workers’ reli-gious beliefs in the workplace, and forbids them from firing or not hir-ing someone because of those beliefs. But Abercrombie argued that it couldn’t have known to make such an accommo-dation because Elauf, who was 17 at the time, never requested one.
That argument, though, didn’t hit home for the majority of the justices. They said that whether or not Aber-crombie had firm knowledge of Elauf’s need for an accommodation was not relevant – only whether her headscarf was a “motivating factor” in their deci-sion not to hire her. (In Elauf’s case, an Abercrombie manager had correctly as-sumed that Elauf was Muslim, and that she would regularly wear the hijab on the job.)
“Motive and knowledge are separate concepts,” Justice Antonin Scalia wrote for the majority. “[A]n employer who acts with the motive of avoiding accom-modation may violate [the law] even if he has no more than an unsubstantiated suspicion that accommodation would be needed.”
The ruling sends Elauf’s case back to the lower court for further consider-ation. Justice Clarence Thomas was the lone dissent, penning an opinion that partially concurred with the majority.
In a statement, Abercrombie noted that the Supreme Court ruling did not find that the company discriminated against Elauf, only that Elauf can pur-sue her claim in court. The company said it is considering its next steps in the case, and that it is committed to “an open-minded and tolerant workplace environment.”
Justice Samuel Alito, a member of the court’s conservative wing, signaled his leaning on the case during oral ar-guments in February, when he raised a hypothetical situation that, by his own admission, sounded “like a joke.”
“So the first is a Sikh man wearing a turban. The second is a Hasidic man wearing a hat. The third is a Muslim woman wearing a niqab. The fourth is a Catholic nun in a habit,” Alito said. “Now, do you think ... that those people have to say, ‘We just want to tell you, we’re dressed this way for a religious reason. We’re not just trying to make a fashion statement’?”
Alito said there were ways for an employer to address the issue without directly asking a job applicant about his or her religion. In the hypothetical case of someone who appears to be Middle Eastern and who wears a long beard, he asked, “Why can’t the employers just simply say, ‘We have a “look policy” that doesn’t permit beards. Can you comply with that policy?’”
Abercrombie has been sued at least two other times over headscarves – once by an applicant who, like Elauf, said she was denied a job because of hers, and once by an employee who lost her job after being ordered to remove hers. Ab-ercrombie settled both of those cases and then changed its policy to allow for headscarves, though it continued to de-fend its actions in the Elauf case.
Former Speaker of the House Arrested
The adage, “Some fall early, some fall late, but they all fall some time,” once again proves to be true about Wash-ington politicians as former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert was indicted last week on federal charges including making false statements to the FBI. But what makes this case strange is that the indictment is not related to the Illinois Republican’s time as Speaker of the House, a post he left in 2007, rather it involves events which are seemingly unrelated to politics.
This rather bizarre indictment arises from Hastert withdrawing $952,000 in cash from the bank between 2010 until 2014 in order to make secret payments to an undisclosed subject, listed in the indictment as “Individual A.” That in itself is not illegal, but the way Hastert withdrew the money, in multiple incre-ments of less than $10,000, is an ob-
scure crime called “structuring.” Structuring is a crime because banks
are required to report to the govern-ment any time an individual withdraws $10,000 or more in cash from a bank (as there is an assumption that an individual who deals with large amounts of cash may be engaged in nefarious behavior). The act of taking out a lesser amount of cash simply to prevent the bank from re-porting your withdrawal is the crime of structuring.
When Hastert was questioned by the FBI about his structuring, he lied to them about why he was taking out so much money from the bank. Although one is not obligated to talk to the FBI, if one does agree to talk to them and lies to them—as Hastert did— that is a crime.
Before becoming a member of Con-gress, Hastert was a high school teacher and wrestling coach in Yorkville, Illi-nois, from 1965 to 1981. It is believed that the underlying misconduct which led to his payments of hush money took place in Hastert’s capacity as a teacher.
Hastert’s arrest is shocking consid-ering the fact that his ascent was based on his clean image. He took over as Speaker of the House in 1999 after Rep. Newt Gingrich resigned under pressure.
He retained that post until the Demo-crats won the House in 2007 and was the longest-serving Republican speaker in American history.
Kerry’s Biking Accident Ends Scheduled Trip
While on a four-nation trip this week, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry crashed his bike as he bicycled through Geneva. Kerry suffered a frac-ture to his right femur and had to be transported to Geneva’s main medical center. Ultimately, he was sent back to the United States for treatment.
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Kerry has been spotted riding his bike around many foreign countries as he journeys on an international confer-ence to combat Islamic State group. He often takes along his own bike on his trips, and he was riding his own bike when he hit the curb. Kerry had been in Geneva for six hours of meetings with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Saturday as the sides now work to seal a comprehensive ac-cord by June 30.
Due to his injury Kerry was forced to cancel the rest of his planned four-na-tion trip. He had been scheduled to stop in Madrid for meetings with Spain’s king and prime minister before spend-ing two days in Paris for an international gathering to combat Islamic State. Ker-ry returned back to U.S. soil to Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital for fur-ther treatment with the doctor who pre-viously operated on his hip, U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby said.
“The secretary is stable and nev-er lost consciousness, his injury is not life-threatening and he is expected to make a full recovery,” Kirby said in a statement.
U.S. Citizen Released from Egyptian Prison
Mohamed Soltan, an Egyp-tian-American who has been jailed in Egypt for almost two years, was re-leased this week after being on a hun-ger strike for over a year in protest against his detention in Egypt. Soltan, 27, was arrested in September 2013 and charged with being part of the now-out-lawed Muslim Brotherhood group. Sol-tan had been working as an assistant and translator for the United States and international news organizations during the protests, but prosecutors ac-cused him of participating in a plan to overthrow the country’s military rulers.
He was sentenced to life in prison on terrorism-related charges. His father is a prominent member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
As part of the condition of his re-lease, Soltan had to renounce his Egyp-tian citizenship.
Soltan, who went to high school in Detroit, graduated from Ohio State University and campaigned for Presi-dent Obama in 2007, arrived at Dull-es International Airport on Saturday night in a wheelchair and was greeted with tears, hugs and calls of “welcome home.”
Who Owns our Nation’s Oldest Shul?
Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, is the nation’s oldest synagogue, but its existence is current-ly being threatened, its congregants claim. The congregation that formally owns the synagogue accused the New-port congregation of lawlessness for agreeing to sell a pair of bells valued at more than $7 million.
This week, the case will be tried in U.S. District Court in order to deter-mine who should control the institu-tion. Lawyers are planning to use more than 1,000 exhibits dating as early on as 1773 to make their cases.
Dedicated and established in 1763, the Touro Synagogue has become a landmark; it is a National Historic Site. It stands majestically atop a hill in Newport, a charming seaside town with cobblestone streets lined with Colonial homes. Three former U.S. presidents visited the shul: George Washington, Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Ken-nedy.
In the 1790s, as Jews left the city, the synagogue closed temporarily and its contents were transferred to the nation’s oldest Jewish congregation in New York, Congregation Shearith Israel, established in 1654. In the late 1800s, Jews re-established themselves in Newport and began using the syna-gogue again. Congregation Shearith Is-rael sent the items back, including two pairs of rimonim, bells placed on the handles of a Torah scroll. They were made by Myer Myers, among the pre-mier silversmiths of the Colonial era.
Sometime in the early 1900s, a law-suit determined that the congregation that worships in Touro, Congregation Jeshuat Israel, will be in control by signing a lease in 1903 to rent Touro from Congregation Shearith Israel for $1 per year. The Newport congregation acknowledges in its lawsuit that the New York congregation owns Touro, but argues it holds it in trust for the Newport congregation’s benefit. It now wants them removed as a trustee. It also states that it fully owns the rimonim. The Newport congregation, though, says it decided to sell them reluctant-ly, and only because the congregation, which has around 100 families, needs the money. Although tens of thousands of visitors visit the shul each year, it claims that it barely has the money to pay for its expenses after attempting but failing to raise donations. The sale offer was from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston who offered $7.4 mil-lion for the bells in 2011; the offer had to be rejected for now amid the owner-ship dispute.
“Jeshuat Israel is just one unfore-seen expense away from financial di-saster,” its lawyers wrote in a pretrial filing.
The Newport congregation says that before the New York congregation “came out of the woodwork” to claim it owned the bells, it had abandoned Tou-ro. It says the last time the New York congregation provided any financial help was likely in 1983, when it gave $100. Before that, it says, the last time was the 1960s.
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“Shearith Israel wants future gen-erations of worshippers to be able to experience these historic treasures and the fullness of Touro Synagogue’s rich history,” its lawyers wrote.
The trial is expected to last two weeks, but the judge will issue a deci-sion later. The state of Rhode Island, which intervened in the case, will weigh in with the judge after the trial concludes.
May was Baltimore’s Deadliest Month in 40 Years
It’s been 40 years since Baltimore has seen such violence. As the month of May concluded on Sunday, three more men lost their lives in shootings, making it 43 who were killed in the month of May in the city.
The record number surpassed the 42 homicides the city saw in August 1990 and left Mayor Stephanie Raw-lings-Blake defending police and her administration.
Speaking at a morning ceremony to honor McKenzie Elliott, a 3-year-old killed by a stray bullet in August, Rawlings-Blake said it’s time to stop finger-pointing and assigning blame for the recent violence. The killing of African-Americans in Baltimore has to stop, she said, noting that 189 of the 208 killed last year were black men. For the city to improve, all homicides need to drop, she added. “We have to do bet-ter,” the mayor said. “We have to want more.”
In the month since Freddie Gray’s death and the ensuing riots, there has been a severe uptick in homicides which has been attributed to police being fear-ful to do their jobs due to anti-police
rage on the street and the fear of being prosecuted for their actions.
After Gray’s death, Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby charged the six officers involved on charges which included murder. She justified the charges by declaring that she heeded the calls of “no justice, no peace.”
Law enforcement experts say police cannot be proactive if they believe poli-ticians and prosecutors are treating them unfairly.
“The criminals are taking advantage of the situation in Baltimore since the unrest,” said Lt. Gene Ryan, President of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3, which represents officers in Baltimore. “Criminals feel empowered now. There is no respect. Police are under siege in every quarter. They are more afraid of going to jail for doing their jobs proper-ly than they are of getting shot on duty.”
“I’m afraid to go outside,” said An-toinette Perrine, whose brother was shot and killed shot down three weeks ago on a basketball court near her home in West Baltimore. Ever since, she has barricad-ed her door and added metal slabs inside her windows to deflect gunfire. “It’s so bad, people are afraid to let their kids outside,” Perrine said. “People wake up with shots through their windows. Po-lice used to sit on every corner, on the top of the block. These days? They’re nowhere.”
Although many in Baltimore are calling for the police to resume policing the street, the police say that they’re be-ing surrounded by mobs when they ar-rive to crime locations and that they fear taking action.
National Spelling Bee Ends in Tie
For the second year in a row, the Scripps National Spelling Bee ended in a tie last week as a 14-year-old from Chesterfield, Missouri, and a 13-year-old from Olathe, Kansas, were crowned champions. Until last year, the World Series of spellers hadn’t seen a tied win in more than five decades. This year’s spelling bee also made history as it is
the first time that the sibling of a previ-ous champion won.
More than 11 million spellers partic-ipated in regional bees to yield the 283 who began this year’s national bee. The two winners beat out the other eight fi-nalists. By the 11th round, when there were only two players standing, the championship word list was exhaust-ed and both players were crowned as champions. The words in the last round included “thamakau,” “hippocrepi-form,” “scherenschnitte,” “sprachge-fühl,” “pipsissewa,” and “pyrrhuloxia.”
Perhaps the two winners got into spelling when they learned to spell their own names—the 14-year-old’s name is Gokul Venkatachalam; the 13-year-old is Vanya Shivashankar. Go figure.
That’s Odd
China: Park First, Buy Car Later
We know they do things different-ly in China, but now they seem to have gotten their car priorities mixed up. Re-cently Deputy Mayor Zhang Yankun announced that next year residents of
Beijing will have to show proof of ac-cess to a parking spot before they can purchase a vehicle. Seems like they’re putting the cart before the horse, so to speak. The plan is being implemented in the hopes of addressing the city’s ex-treme parking shortage in an area facing soaring levels of car ownership.
It’s not the first time the city of 11.5 million residents has tried to tackle its driving and congestion problem. Since 2011, Beijing has been awarding driv-ing licenses via a lottery system. Even so, the city was home to nearly 5.6 mil-lion at the end of last year, with the total number of parking spots to be estimated at just 2.9 million. Where are they park-ing all those cars? In Chinese takeout containers?
According to Bloomberg Business-week, “Motorists often park illegally on side roads, or in residential compounds, blocking traffic and causing heated dis-putes.” Sounds like a classic example of road rage.
Understandably, when supply is so limited and demand is so high, prices have skyrocketed. Underground resi-dential spaces in Beijing were going for the equivalent of $160,000 last year.
Will the new initiative help in solv-ing the car crush in such a crowded city? Well, some point out, requiring a parking space even before a vehicle pur-chase builds an extra layer of cost into the equation, limiting access to some.
It seems that Beijing has someplace to look to for help. There’s precedent for this policy in not-too-faraway Tokyo. Asian-policy scholar Paul Barter of the National University of Singapore has argued that Tokyo’s plan created a ro-bust market for parking and obviated the “parking minimum” standards that lead American developers to create too many spaces.
The plan is not without its critics. One skeptic recently wrote online: “You
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already need an apartment before you can get a wife. Soon you’ll need a cem-etery plot before you can die.” There are those who point out that the high cost of spaces needed before even con-sidering to purchase a car will price out those in the lower-income bracket.
Regardless of price, I wouldn’t give up my car, not for all the tea in China.
How Old is too Old to Run the Marathon?
So, you’ve always wanted to run in a marathon, but you feel like you are too old, right? Well, if you are less than 92 years old, Harriette Thompson of Charlotte, North Carolina, proves that you can still do it.
At the age of 92, Ms. Thompson, who is a cancer survivor, completed the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon in San Diego last week in 7 hours, 24 minutes, 36 seconds. This is not the first race she’s run. This was the seventh marathon that Thompson completed.
Thompson, who is a classical-ly trained pianist, says she mentally plays old piano pieces she had per-formed to help her get through the 26 miles, 385 yards. After being mobbed by well-wishers at the finish line, she quipped, “I’m fine, they’re really pam-pering me here.”
It’s a shame I’m not a classically trained pianist—maybe I’d be able to run the marathon if I was.
Apple Computer Discarded as Junk Sells for $200K
Sometimes the junk in your attic isn’t really junk, especially if it is a first-generation desktop computer built by Apple co-founders Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne in 1976. One such computer, which was one of only about 200 first-generation desktop computers that the trio built and called
Apple I, was discovered inside a box of electronics that a widow recently dropped off at a recycling company in Milpitas, CA, after her husband passed away.
Although the recycling company’s policy is to split proceeds 50-50 with the donor, when the woman dropped off the box of electronics she refused to leave her name or take a receipt. “She said, ‘I want to get rid of this stuff and clean up my garage,’” company Vice President Victor Gichun recalls. “I said, ‘Do you need a tax receipt?’ and she said, ‘No, I don’t need anything.’”
Perhaps she’d reconsider if she’d realize what she dropped off.
The recycling company sold the Apple I this month for $200,000 to a private collection. The company is now looking for the woman so that they can give her the 50 percent share of the proceeds which she is entitled to. “To prove who she is,” Gichun said, “I just need to look at her.”
And then you wonder why your fa-ther-in-law refuses to clean out the at-tic. Do you know what those double cassette boom boxes could be worth?
Famed Physicist Sells His Nobel
Famed physicist Leon Lederman sold his 1988 Nobel Prize gold medal for $765,002 at auction in Los Angeles this week in anticipation of mounting medi-cal bills following a diagnosis of demen-tia for the Nobel-winning physicist.
Lederman, 92, won a share of the physics prize for his role in the discov-ery of the muon neutrino — but he’s arguably best-known for his 1993 book about the search for the Higgs particle, called “The G-d Particle.”
After winning the prize, Lederman parlayed his Nobel Prize and enthusi-asm for physics to spread his love for science in all kinds of venues, even set-ting up a makeshift table on sidewalks in New York and Chicago so passersby could ask the Nobel laureate a question.
Dr. Lederman’s wife, Ellen, orga-nized the sale of the medal saying that her husband has enjoyed owning the Nobel Prize medal for many years “but feels it is time for someone else who shares his love of science to treasure his medal. He hopes this sale raises the awareness of the importance of phys-ics.”
The pricey $765,002 is the fourth most expensive resale of a Nobel Prize gold medal out of a total of ten such gold medals that have been auctioned off.
My Nobel Prize for poetry is not for sale, as my mother always told me, “Don’t sell your Nobel.”
The Crying Contest
Your baby can’t stop crying? You should have sent him (or her) to Tokyo for the weekend. More than 100 babies faced off in the sumo ring on Saturday in an annual contest pitting crying tod-dlers against each other in a Japanese tradition believed to bring infants good health.
The “crying sumo” event, held at Tokyo’s Sensoji Temple in the histor-ic Asakusa district, saw hulking sumo wrestlers attempt to make 120 babies bawl on command to the delight of par-ents and onlookers. This is not a new fad. They have been making babies cry for years. The ceremony dates back some 400 years and is held at shrines and temples nationwide. The rules vary from region to region – in some ver-sions the babies are raced against each
other to see who will cry first, while in others the first crier is the loser.
In the Asakusa event, which has it-self been running since 1991, pairs of toddlers were brought into the sumo ring, where real sumo wrestlers held them and shook them gently as a refer-ee shouted, “Cry! Cry!”
The winner was judged to be the in-fant who cried the quickest and loudest.
Some burst out screaming with lit-tle prompting, but others required judg-es enter the ring wearing a devil mask, drawing laughter from the audience.
And the prize goes to: the biggest crybaby. Waaah!
Losing Locks of LoveThe City of Light is getting lighter.
This week, Paris city officials started to remove padlocks symbolically fastened to one of the French capital’s main bridges by married couples.
It’s a tradition that’s been held for many years—close to one million cou-ples have fastened a “love lock” to the bridge before throwing the key into the River Seine below. But so many expres-sions of happiness can become heavy and part of the bridge’s railings have collapsed under the weight last year. That’s understandable since the locks weigh over 45 tons.
On Monday workers endeavored to shear off the metal padlocks from the side of the Pont des Arts, the first iron bridge built in France in 1804. To en-sure that no more locks are added, the railings will be replaced with transpar-ent panels later this year.
“It’s the end of the padlocks,” said Bruno Julliard, Paris deputy mayor. “They spoil the aesthetics of the bridge, are structurally bad for it and can cause accidents.”
Apparently he didn’t appreciate the tradition. Well, good “lock” to him.
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God’s Credit Nightmare
God has settled his debts—although they didn’t make it easy.
A Brighton Beach man named God Gazarov has settled his federal lawsuit against credit-repor ting giant Equifax after the company fin ally agreed to enter his unusual mo niker into its da-tabase. The credit agency refused to recognize his given first name and so he was branded as having no credit history, making it impossible for him to secure basic loans for his jewelry business.
But finally the credit agency—after a year o f haggling— gave into Gaza-rov’s re quests. He now boasts a 820 credit score.
God is named after his grandfather and expl ains that his name is not un-common in his native land. “This was my grandfather’s name,” he said. “I was named af ter him. I’m sort of like God Jr.”
And now God has good credit. Thank G-d for that.
2 Apples for a Dog
If you don’t have an Apple Watch, don’t feel too bad. It’s for the dogs.
The 27-year-old son of China’s rich-est man caused quite a stir in Shang-hai after posting photos of his dog wear-ing two gold Apple Watches with the caption, “I have new watches! I’m sup-posed to have four watches since I have four long legs. But that seems too un-couth so I kept it down to two, which totally fits my status. Do you have one?”
The photos were uploaded to Chi-nese social media site Weibo, where Wang Sicong maintains a page dedicat-
ed to his dog. The posts have received more than 6,000 comments so far – many of which weren’t too happy for the lucky dog.
Apple’s gold watches retail for be-tween $10,000 and $17,000 per watch depending on specifications and cur-
rently have a 3 to 4 week wait time. So why not buy some for man’s best friend?
Wang Sicong is the son of Wang Jianlin who runs the real estate devel-opment company Dalian Wanda and is worth approximately $34 billion.
This isn’t the first time the young-er Wang has caused an uproar. On May 1 he posted a photo of the same Husky with a Fendi bag around his neck with the caption, “My daddy said I am a sled
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dog and count as part of the workforce. He got me this bag as a gift for Labor Day.” The dog reportedly lives a lavish lifestyle. According to Chinese news agencies, he only drinks Fiji water and is walked with Hermes leashes.
Wonder if Wang has any real friends—you know, the kind that walk on only two legs.
The Giant Gumbo Gratuity
The gumbo must have been great.This customer favors gumbo and
beer at Blue 44 and he generally tips well. But last week after he and a friend
ate fried chicken, gumbo and a cold one, he left a $2,000 tip on a $93 bill. The giant tip went unnoticed until a few hours later, when the bartender, Laura Dally, noticed that the tip was divided on the receipt—$1,000 for chef James Turner and $500 for the owner and $500 for herself.
“Thank you for the gumbo!” the
note read.“I was in utter shock,” Laura recalls.
“I was completely speechless. I had to do a double take.”
She went to her boss and said, “We need to talk” and showed him the re-ceipt.
The gumbo-phile lives in the area and frequents the bar a few times a month. He is partial to the restaurant’s gumbo, chicken and andouille sausage base with a dark roux.
Recently, the chef e-mailed the pa-tron, asking him for advanced notice on the next time he would be in the restau-rant so he could make the gumbo he liked. The customer responded to say he would be in Monday.
The chef made the gumbo. On Mon-day, the man came in with a friend and jokingly was chanting, “Gumbo, gum-bo, gumbo.”
They ordered the Monday night special — a three-course meal of salad, fried chicken and dessert — with gum-bo interspersed throughout. The gumbo must’ve been good.
When the patron asked for some to go, Laura went into the back and talk-ed to the chef, who sent out two quarts — on the house — as a “thank you” for coming in.
The customer left his own generous thank you to the three. I’m sure he ate his gumbo with gusto.
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This past Monday evening, Mesiv-ta Ateres Yaakov celebrated its annual Grand Siyum, rec-ognizing 47 talmi-dim who completed 74 masechtos of Shas or sedarim of Mishnayos over the course of the school year.
More than 150 parents, grandpar-ents and relatives were in attendance to celebrate this achievement togeth-er with the mesay-mim and their rab-beim. Upon arrival,
a digital journal displayed messages from parents and rabbeim to the me-
saymim, as well as pictures of the mesaymim learn-ing throughout the year.
M e n a h e l Rabbi Mordechai Yaffe opened the evening com-menting on the tremendous pride the Mesivta has in these talmi-dim. He added that the Torah that the talmidim in the Mesivta
learn is Toras emes and Toras chaim. Unlike any other discipline, it incul-cates a way of life into the person learning.
Rabbi Yaffe then introduced Se-nior Avi Terebe-lo to give divrei Torah. Avi, who was mesayem Mesechta Kiddu-shin that evening, explained how one is able to be ma-kir tov to Hashem and, in turn, to his Rabbeim and par-ents. Following Avi’s d’var Torah, Senior Yoel Weiz-berg completed Masechta Kiddu-shin with those in attendance.
It is notewor-thy that both Yoel and Avi finished eight mesechtos this z’man! Yoel was then joined by the other mesaymim, who recited the hadran together. Forty seven talmidim completed seventy four mesechtos of Shas or sedarim of Mishnayos. A huge communal accomplishment!
The guest speaker for the event was
Rabbi Yaakov Feitman, Rav of Kehil-las Bais Yehuda Tzvi. Rabbi Feitman spoke about the need to derive chizuk, regardless of the madreiga on which a person is. He lauded the rabbeim of the
Mesivta for their incredible mesir-as nefesh for their talmidim, and told the talmidim that the best way to be makir tov to their Rabbeim is to continue grow-ing in their limud Torah and avodas Hashem.
The Mesivta thanks Student Activities Coordi-nator Rabbi Tsvi Greenfield for organizing and promoting this initiative. Rab-
bi Greenfield commented, “Although the Mesivta facilitated additional, non-formal learning, this was really a student-motivated campaign. We were just so impressed and excited about the amount of learning accomplished this z’man, we felt compelled to celebrate this achievement with our talmidim and their families.”
The Mesivta also recognized the presence of Mr. Gary Schall, Super-intendent of District 15 and Rabbi Yaffe’s Wednesday morning chavrusa.
Gifts were distributed to each of the mesaymim, including a $200 check to each boy who completed mesechta Kiddushin, the mesechta the yeshiva was learning this year.
The evening closed with leibidik dancing in joyous celebration of Torah.
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Rabbi Yaffe embracing and thanking Rabbi Yaakov Feitman
Senior Yoel Weizberg leading the mesaymim with the hadran
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Around The CommunityRabbi Tzvi Flaum’s Seventh Annual Breakfast on behalf of the Yeshiva Shaarei Tzion Torah Studies Network was held at Congregation Shaaray Tefila in Lawrence this week. During the event Rabbi Flaum dedicated the Women’s Division of his program in memory of his eishes chayal a”h. It will be called Rebbetzin Rochel Miriam Flaum Torah Seminary for Women. The guest speaker was Rabbi Doniel Lander, Rosh Hayeshiva of Yeshiva Ohr Hachaim. The program was very well attended and extremely powerful for all those who came.
PHOTO CREDIT: IVAN H NORMAN Rabbi Yaakov Reisman, Mara D’asra Agudath Israel of Long Island, Rabbi Tzvi Flaum and Rabbi Doniel Lander
Vatranus is the art of giving in and letting go. R’ Chaim Kanievsky explains that between spouses each spouse should try to give in to the other one and make the other happy, except if it comes to the point of going against halacha. From the standpoint of a wife, a woman is told to honor her husband and to view him like a king; hence there is ample basis for her to give into his wishes. For a husband he is advised to give into his wife and be mevater, and not only that, but that it’s worthwhile for him in general to listen to what his wife has to say and take her advice to heart.
It says in the Gemara that a person should always try to be like those who are pursued rather than like those who are the chasers. There is no bird more pursued than the tur and the yona and these two birds are the ones that are approved to go on the altar in the Bais Hamikdash. This shows us that someone who accustoms himself to being mevater (who is likened to the one being pursued) saves himself from hatred, fights, and all pain, as symbolized by the altar of peace.
We think that we lessen our value by giving in, but the truth is just the oppo-site. We are told that for those who go against their general nature, Hashem changes the normal rules for of nature on their behalf, and just as they went against their own internal nature, Hash-em suspends the normal laws of justice and thus forgives their sins. A wise per-son would choose the path of vatranus. Let us choose the path of wisdom in our marriage, and follow the advice of R’ Chaim to always be the one to give in and appease our spouse.
May we merit the tremendous ben-efits that vatranus brings to the lives of those that practice it.
Five Towns Marriage Initiative pro-vides educational programs, workshops and referrals to top marriage thera-pists. FTMI will help offset counseling costs when necessary and also runs an anonymous shalom bayis hotline for the entire community Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 9:30-11p.m. For the hotline or more information, call 516-430-5280 or email [email protected].
Five Towns Marriage Initiative The Art of Giving In
On Thursday, May 28, Rabbi Moishe Dovid Lebovits gave a speech hosted by CHAZAQ before the Queens community on FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) in kashrut.
Rabbi Lebovits is the Rabbini-cal Administrator for KOF-K and the complier and author of “Halachically Speaking,” a monthly publication re-viewing contemporary and practical halacha. He is also a contributor to The Jewish Home Magazine.
The speech, held at Cong. Beit Eliyahu in Fresh Meadows, dealt with relevant topics like the kashrus of ice cream trucks and 7/11 Slurpees, mouth-wash and toothpaste, Pas Yisrael and Pas Paltar, Cholov Yisrael and Chol0v Stam, bugs hiding in vegetables, sharp foods left out overnight, hard cheese and soft drinks.
The speech was followed by a long
question and answer session for the many inquiries from the community and another informal Q&A session af-ter Maariv.
Rabbi Moishe Dovid Lebovits Speaks in Queens
BYQ’s eighth grade Machanay-im team and Morah Chaviva Pfeiffer, the team’s coach, were invited to Torah Academy for Girls, TAG, for a Machan-ayim competition. For BYQ, the game is a culminating event of the BYQ Eighth Grade Leagues program that was created by Mrs. Bergman to create team building skills. Mrs. Bergman explained to the girls how “each of us plays a different role in life. Hashem wants us to play our own part as well as we are able, and then the whole community and Klal Yisroel reap the benefits.”
This year the game was played at TAG, who warmly welcomed the BYQ girls. BYQ’s entire eighth grade traveled to TAG to watch the game and cheer on their classmates. TAG’s eighth grade waited graciously in the bleachers as BYQ arrived. The game was a spirited
event for both schools’ teams and grades! In a dramatic display of talent, ac-
quired skills, teamwork and self-dis-cipline, all of the girls on both teams showed tremendous skill, drive and good sportsmanship. The BYQ eighth grade Machanayim team defeated Torah Acad-emy for Girls’ hard-working team. The competition was thrilling to watch, and the entire eighth grade did a superb job cheering on the team.
Morah Pfeiffer, BYQ’s coach, told the girls, “TEAM stands for Together Everyone Accomplishes More. If each girl focuses on playing her own position to the best of her ability, the team as a whole will succeed.” Congratulations to all the girls of both schools for displaying the values and middos tovos of true Bais Yaakov girls!
Bais Yaakov of Queens and Torah Academy for Girls Meet and Compete with Spirit of a Bais Yaakov
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Last Wednesday night, the DRS Hockey Program held its annual “Green vs. White Game,” pitting the freshman and senior Wildcats against the junior and sophomores. The game is an an-nual event in DRS and is used to raise money for Chai Lifeline. Chai Life-line’s mission has been to restore the light of childhood to children who have been diagnosed with life-threatening or lifelong illness. After a member of the DRS Hockey Team was diagnosed with
cancer several years ago, Coach Larry Gross took it upon himself to create a fundraising event for Chai Lifeline ev-ery year centered around an exciting, and fun hockey game. This year, the team members raised $15,000, bringing the total of Green vs. White Game con-tributions to over $136,000!
Before the game, Rabbi Kaminetsky addressed the team members, applaud-ing the tremendous chessed that they performed, as well as paying tribute
to Coaches Larry Gross, Rabbi Steven Genachowski, and Rabbi Josh Elsant, who always ensure that the players on the team value sportsmanship and “playing like a mensch” over winning. Coach Larry Gross thanked the players for their tremendous efforts through-out the season and specifically for their efforts in raising money for this most unique and special event. Larry then turned his attention to the seniors, urg-ing them to take the passion and spirit
they used during the hockey season and imbue it into every area of their lives. Larry and the Varsity Captains present-ed the $15,000 check to Chai Lifeline at the event. Following the game, the Greenhouse hosted its alumni hockey all-stars in its second alumni hockey game.
We are so proud of all of our players and hope to see much continued success from them both on and off the court!
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Midreshet Shalhevet is pleased to announce the Class of 2015 valedictori-an and salutatorian and commends them for their hard work, dedication, and aca-demic achievements.
Valedictorian: Devora Chait Devora, a Far Rockaway native, is
a bright, motivated, and responsible young lady who has suc-ceeded ac-a d e m i c a l l y during her four years at Shal-hevet. Devo-ra achieved Dean’s list all four years and received the NMSQT Let-ter of Com-mendation as well as the AP Scholar with Honors award. Devora is a member of the College Bowl team, the Math Team, and the play and is co-cap-tain of the Mock Trial team. Devora is also a crucial part of the Poetry Slam team as she has won numerous High School Yeshiva Slams. She volunteers her time at Kulanu. Devora will be at-tending Midreshet Lindenbaum next
year before continuing on to Macaulay Queens College.
Salutatorian: Daniella AzoseDaniella hails from West Hempstead
and is an ambitious and dedicated stu-dent. Daniella has been on Dean’s List four years straight and is a member of the Arista National Honors Society. She
won the 2015 West Hemp-stead Commu-nity Service award and the Friend-ship Circle Achievement Award nu-merous times. Daniella is an AP Scholar and was se-lected as the 2015 Torah
Letzion Scholar. She was also a finalist in the 2015 Morris J and Betty Kaplan Foundation Essay Contest. Daniella is co-captain of the Mock Trial team and the captain of the College Bowl team. She is also on the Math team and the play. Daniella was accepted as a Dean Scholar to Stern and will be attending Midreshet Moriah next year.
Midreshet Shalhevet Awards of Distinction
Valedictorian Devora Chait Salutatorian Daniella Azose
This past week, the eighth graders of Yeshiva Har Torah attended their annual Washington, D.C. trip, visiting the White House and other important sites. The trip is a closing to a fantastic eighth grade year and a wonderful eight years at Yeshiva Har Torah! The seventh grade also attended their annual trip to Philadelphia, touring the important sites and his-toric locations of downtown Philadelphia. These trips help foster the great sense of community and bonding with staff that has always been paramount at Yeshiva Har Torah.
No one thought last year’s end of the year program at the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls could be topped, but this year’s event surpassed all expec-tations! The expansive grounds of the school on Thursday, May 28 were filled with rides, inflatables, tie-dying, an ice cream truck and bubbles everywhere! Faculty and staff members brought their children to share in the fun and every-one had a terrific time before the advent of finals and Regents exams.
Special thanks to Rabbi Yosef Za-kutinsky, Director of Student Activities, Mrs. Yafa Storch, Mrs. Chaya Davis and Ms. Jordana Bienenfeld for organizing the day; and the SKA Parent Council, including co-presidents Mrs. Chani Aryeh and Mrs. Sharon Lipsky, Anon-
ymous, Rabbi and Mrs. Shimon Laufer, Dr. Josh and Dr. Gila Jedwab, and Mr. and Mrs. Avram Weissman for sponsor-ing this wonderful extravaganza!
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By Hindie M. Klein, PsyDIt’s been several weeks since the
initial launch of OHEL’S ground-breaking new film, Rising from Di-vorce. The response has been phe-nomenal.
Our original aim of producing this film was to provide increased com-munity awareness of the impact of divorce on children. Our goal was to better educate both divorced parents and the wider community about the specific roles that rabbonim, commu-nity leaders, educators, family and friends of divorcees and concerned community members can play to help ensure that parents of divorce and children of divorce can thrive.
We initially presented the film in three communities: Brooklyn, Te-aneck and Woodmere. At each com-munity event, hundreds attended each screening which was importantly fol-lowed by a panel discussion that in-cluded OHEL’S David Mandel, Dr. Hindie M. Klein and Dr. Norman Blumenthal, as well as international-ly recognized psychiatrist Dr. Mark Banschick and noted educator Mrs. Rochel Chafetz. A number of commu-nity rabbonim participated including Rabbi Moshe Tuvia Lieff, Rabbi Eli Mansour, Rabbi Steven Pruzansky and Rabbi Hershel Billet.
There has been outstanding feed-back with each community event. And while the communities may be diverse and geographically far apart, the chal-lenges and concerns are all the same.
Divorced men and women con-veyed that they finally felt that their
pain and frustration was validated. Educators, family, friends, relatives, grandparents felt better informed and more empowered to help and many rallied around after the film to ask private questions and to comment on how the film had affected them.
Many noted that the film drove home many well-known facts and concepts, but were presented from a variety of different perspectives: from divorcees, from adult children of di-vorce, from community leaders, from rabbis and from educators. The film served as a community-wide call to arms—a wake-up call for all members of our community.
Naturally, OHEL did receive some constructive criticism – which is al-ways welcome, not least because it further drives the necessary discourse of divorce. A number of participants felt that the screenings could have been better followed by small-groups of discussions focused on different ar-eas of concern.
In the days and weeks that have ensued, OHEL has been inundated with emails and phone calls from in-dividuals from around the country; in-deed, from around the world.
The film has also been recently screened at the Torah Umesorah annu-al convention.
Community leaders and rabbis are requesting that we bring this film to their shul, to their community, so that their community members may bene-fit from the screening and panel dis-cussion. As such, OHEL is planning for a number of additional screenings
in the tri-state area, Los Angeles, Chi-cago, Boca Raton, Baltimore, Toron-to, amongst other communities.
So as a member of your communi-ty, what can you do?
Perhaps one good way to respond to this question is to quote a poignant and dramatic comment from the film. Rivky, a divorced woman with one daughter, stated that she has been liv-ing on her block for 15 years and has never received an invitation for Shab-bos lunch. 15 years. She also noted that it’s not easy to just pick up the phone and invite oneself for a Shab-bos meal. Men and women need to be invited.
It is important to be mindful and sensitive towards divorced parents and children of divorce. Too often there is stigma—what did they do to bring on their divorce? Think of a man or woman who has been widowed or a child who has been orphaned. We don’t judge them; rather, we feel com-passion. Divorced parents and chil-dren of divorce require the same sen-sitivity and consideration. This might include help with babysitting or just reaching out to say hi and leaving a warm and supportive message.
At one of our screenings, a di-vorced man in the audience asked how he should respond to someone who comes up and asks why he got di-vorced. Frankly, this is not anyone’s concern. One might say something neutral like, “It just didn’t work out and I’d rather not talk about it.”
They may mean well, but they of course do not need to know.
What they do need to know is how they can be of help. This is the par-adigm shift that we are looking to achieve—not why someone has cho-sen to get divorced but how we can help them during this trying time.
Become a good listener. When you ask a parent or a child of divorce how they are doing, stop and really listen to what they have to say. Don’t judge or make assumptions. Just lis-ten. And don’t discuss what you have heard with others afterwards. This is private and sensitive information and if they consider you as someone safe to vent to or confide in, cherish the confidence. If you are having a hard time processing what you hear and need guidance on how to best un-derstand what you have heard, and be helpful, discuss it with someone you
trust, or contact a professional who can guide you and who will treat the information you share with them with utmost discretion.
Become educated. Whether you are family, friend, neighbor, rabbi, ed-ucator, or community leader, use your vantage point to expand your aware-ness on this very important topic. Use your influence to create innovative ideas that will help divorced parents and most notably, the children. Chil-dren should never be caught in the middle of a divorce and should never suffer because their parents have cho-sen to end their marriage.
After one screening, one woman wrote us to say that in the past she has often spoken negatively about her ex-husband in front of her children. At her friend’s urging, she had agreed to come to the screening of the film, which had a significant and dramatic impact on her. She has resolved to “turn over a new leaf” and become more sensitive and mindful of how she speaks to the children about their father.
At OHEL, our goals are way be-yond the scope of this film. We see the film as a catalyst to belated com-munity-wide discourse and an expan-sion of necessary services and pro-grams in the community.
We have organized sections for parents, children, educators, rabbis, friends, family and community. We are also providing support groups for Magnificent Moms, Devoted Dads, and the Amazing Children.
One final note by an 11-year-old who wanted to send a message to the community and who responded to our question on our website. He notes that since his parents got divorced, the rabbi from his shul comes to pick him up every Friday night, and a neighbor comes to take him to shul every Shab-bos morning… “And on Purim we go to the Sister to Sister Seuda, where they are very nice and send gifts and gift cards to our family.”
This is a wonderful example of the goals that we would like to achieve in the community, and what we hope this film will inspire.
For trailer and more information, please visit ohelfamily.org/rising-fromdivorce.
Rising From Divorce: The Aftermath of Community-Wide Screenings
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Another amazing year of Mish-mar at HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School has come to an end. Each week, more than 70 students from third through sixth grade voluntarily stayed in school for an extra hour of Torah learning! The students studied Mishnayot, the mean-ing of mitzvoth, and the laws of lashon harah.
To celebrate their year of learning, the students were treated to a delicious year-end BBQ Mishmar Dinner which included divrei Torah from students in each Mishmar class. The students
also enjoyed a magic show by Ben Cohen. They especially loved it when the magician poured juice down Rabbi Sokol’s shoe!
We thank the Mishmar teachers Rabbi Merrill, Rabbi Hoffman, Rabbi Sokol, Morah Aliza and Morah Tawil for teaching and inspiring their class-es each week. We also thank the PTA for their generous sponsorship of the evening and the year-round Mishmar snacks. Additional thanks to Bentzy Gadon, Meir Boker, Mrs. Ciment and Mrs. Goldberg for assisting in the bar-becue.
HANC Mishmar Celebration Dinner
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By Chaim Gold“Es shmekt der geulah – It has the
aroma of the geulah!” exclaimed the venerated senior Rosh Yeshiva, HaGaon HaRav Aharon Leib Shteinman, shlita, upon seeing and perusing Dirshu’s new edition of the Sefer Chofetz Chaim with its Biurim and Musafim. The new sam-ple edition of Sefer Chofetz Chaim pro-vides a running explanation of the sefer as well as an extensive and comprehen-sive Biurim and Musafim commentary. The sefer was released this past Rosh Chodesh Iyar in conjunction with the second machzor of Dirshu’s Daf HaY-omi B’Halacha program wherein it em-barked on learning Sefer Chofetz Chaim in its mussar component.
In fact, leading members of Dirshu’s hanhalah were highly impressed with the results of the Daf HaYomi B’Hala-cha’s recent second test in the present machzor. Rabbi Shlomo Rozenstein, Dirshu’s director of Public Affairs, re-lated, “Usually, with the start of a new machzor there is a tremendous increase in enrollment as the hischadshus of starting the Mishnah Berurah attracts large crowds. Additionally, the halachos of Birchos Hashachar featured on the first test are halachos with which many are familiar and thus great numbers at the first test were to be expected. How-ever, with the advent of the complex and less familiar halachos of tzitzis, we re-alized that we might see a tapering off from the astronomical numbers of some 30,000 test takers that we experienced during the first test. We were wrong! The colossal numbers remained steady even in the second test. The fact that the material was more difficult and less familiar did not deter lomdei Dirshu,” Rav Rozenstein said. “This attests to the deep inroads and bond that Dirshu has forged with the communities com-prising the entire cross-section of Torah observant Jewry,” Rabbi Rozenstein concluded.
The Vital Mussar ComponentOne of the lesser known areas of the
Daf HaYomi B’Halacha program is the mussar component. In addition to learn-ing a page of Sefer Mishnah Berurah with the Dirshu Mishnah Berurah’s Bi-urim U’musafim, lomdei Daf HaYomi B’Halacha also learn a daily quota of mussar from the sefarim of the Chofetz Chaim. This past Rosh Chodesh Iyar the program embarked on the Sefer Chofetz Chaim on hilchos lashon hara. The new Dirshu edition of the Sefer Chofetz Chaim is a groundbreaking creation that brings hundreds of citations from the other poskim as well as piskei halacha and words of gedolei haposkim and baa-lei mussar that shed light on the sefarim of the Chofetz Chaim.
It was upon perusing this new groundbreaking work that caused the Rosh Yeshiva HaGaon HaRav Aharon Leib Shteinman to say, “Es shmekt der geulah.” The Chofetz Chaim himself writes in his introduction that one of rea-sons Moshiach has not yet arrived is be-cause we have not yet managed to rectify the colossal sin of lashon hara. Inherent in Rav Shteinman’s words was the fact that the comprehensive learning of these halachos with the aids present in this edi-tion of the Chofetz Chaim can help bring the geulah closer.
During the visit to Rav Shteinman led by Dirshu’s Nasi, Rav Dovid Hof-stedter, and other senior members of Dirshu’s hanhalah, Rav Shteinman was told that there are citations in the Biurim U’Musafim from things that he himself had said. Rav Shteinman asked if they could cite one example and they pointed to where the Chofetz Chaim writes that a person who speaks lashon hara trans-gresses the prohibition of chillul Hash-em because lashon hara does not afford physical pleasure and thus people should not lust after it. The fact that people do desire to speak and hear lashon hara, therefore constitutes a chillul Hash-
em. Rav Shteinman, in his sefer E’eleh b’Tamar, explains that he heard from the Chazon Ish that based on this explana-tion of the Chofetz Chaim it is clear that the Chofetz Chaim himself did not derive pleasure from speaking lashon hara even though others do. Rav Shteinman also cited from the Mashgiach of Mir and Ponovezh, the great tzaddik, HaGaon HaRav Chatzkel Levenstein, zt”l, who essentially said that lashon hara is not a taavah, but once a person immerses him-self in it and talks lashon hara without inhibition, he develops a taavah for it. A smile lit up Rav Shteiman’s countenance upon hearing those important citations from his own shmuessen.
HaGaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein, Shlita: The Sin Still Has Not Been
RectifiedRav Hofstedter and the hanhalah
also went to the home of HaGaon HaR-av Gershon Edelstein, shlita, senior Rosh Yeshiva at the Ponovezh Yeshiva where they presented him with the sefer. Rav Edelstein was similarly visibly im-pressed with the sefer and remarked that when the Chofetz Chaim wrote and pub-lished his Sefer Chofetz Chaim his inten-tion was to try repairing the tremendous breach in this vital area of Yiddishkeit that had become so neglected. Although the Chofetz Chaim created a tremendous awareness with his sefer, to our great distress to this very day the sin has still not been rectified as it should. Perhaps the publishing of this sefer will lead to additional rectification of the aveirah of lashon hara and the terrible spiritual toll that it has on the collective body of Klal Yisrael, Rav Edelstein concluded.
During his visit to Eretz Yisrael, Rav Hofstedter, in addition to his visits to numerous Gedolei Yisrael to present them with the new Dirshu edition of the Chofetz Chaim, gave a number of addresses. Notable among them was a powerful address to the talmidim of the
Gerer Yeshiva, Nezer HaTorah in the city of Rishon L’Tzion. The drashah was giv-en in the presence of the Gerrer Rebbe, shlita.
As the Daf HaYomi B’Halacha pro-ceeds with learning hilchos tzitzis and then hilchos tefillin there is tremendous momentum building with more and more kehillos embarking on the serious learn-ing of daily halacha. In fact, in his ad-dress to his Chassidim on Motzoei Shavu-os, the Belzer Rebbe, shlita, stressed the importance of daily limud halacha.
Now is the Time to Finally Learn Hilchos Tefillin!
Rabbi Aharon Gobioff, Dirshu’s North American Director, related, “Many lomdei halacha who have learned the first chelek of Mishnah Berurah in the past would skip the complex and difficult halachos of tefillin. Now, with Dirshu inching towards the end of hilchos tzitizis and the beginning of hilchos tefillin, it is the opportune time to finally learn the halachos of tefillin and take advantage of the koach harabbim and the many shi-urim currently available.”
One Dirshu participant related, “I used to learn halacha quite often, but I always skipped the halachos of tzitzis and tefillin because they were not so easy to understand. Now that I am in the framework of a Dirshu program, howev-er, I boruch Hashem am on the way to completing hilchos tzitzis and soon I will embark on hilchos tefillin! It is such a zechus to be part of this program! There are so many halachos that I thought I knew before but now I realize how little I really knew. I am thrilled to be able to be mikayem these vital halachos in the most l’chatchiladige way!”
To join Daf HaYomi B’Halacha and bring daily halacha into your life, please call, 1888-5-Dirshu or e-mail, [email protected].
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It was a week filled with informative and inspirational speech-es, special minyanim and shiurim, and cul-minated with an All-Night-Learn-A-Thon and Vasikin minyan to remember!
Rambam Mesivta’s Fourth Annual Tefillah Week kicked off with the entire school daven-ing together in the main minyan followed by a special guest speaker, Mr. Lou Cohen. Mr. Cohen shared with the talmidim his story of his return to Judaism and the role tefillah played and plays in his life. He shared that “davening should be the most important thing in your life,” and that “davening allows me to be disciplined in every aspect of my life. When I speak to other people I am mature and polite be-cause I have already spoken with Hash-em.” His words, along with other uplift-ing and educational ideas about tefillah from Rav Kook, Rabbi Steven Burg, Rav Wolbe and more were displayed on the walls of the Shul and the backs of chairs to create an immersive tefillah-centered and focused environment.
Tefillah Week also featured school-wide Mincha minyanim featuring Rabbi Friedman, Rabbi Haar, Rabbi Eliach, and Rabbi Ziskind. From Monday to Thurs-day, before Mincha began, the noted ed-ucators shared wide-ranging ideas and approaches to davening to set the proper tone for that particular day’s Mincha and beyond.
In keeping with Tefillah Week’s mot-to of “Rerouting the Routine,” Shacharis minyanim on Tuesday and Wednesday were held in classrooms featuring indi-vidual shiurim and their Rebbeim. With between 15-20 students per minyan and a change of scenery, talmidim shared how a simple thing—a change of location—can impact one’s prayers. “I feel like I mattered more in the small minyan,” mentioned one talmid, while another said, “Mixing it up a little bit really al-lowed me to approach davening as more than a daily chore.”
In keeping with a message from last year’s Tefillah Week, “Daven for the guy sitting next to you,” on Wednesday, Rab-bi Friedman led “Pekel Day,” where the talmidim anonymously shared some of the pekels, or burdens they are carrying around. Rabbi Friedman urged every-
one to enhance their davening because “even though you might be okay,” it was clear from Pekel Day that “the guy sit-ting next to you may be dealing with an illness, a sick relative, financial issues at home, and other difficult issues.” It was stressed that davening with a minyan allows for one to be sensitive to others and is an admission that “you are part of something bigger.”
Another guest speaker, Mr. Nachum Lemkos, father of Dalia Lamkus who was murdered by terrorists earlier this year, also shared words of chizuk with the boys and expressed his recognition that prayer is the cornerstone of Yiddish-keit and a connection to Hashem and Klal Yisrael.
The finale of Tefillah Week was an All-Night-Learn-A-Thon featuring shi-urim from Rabbi Friedman, Rabbi Rabbi Werblowsky, and Rabbi Haar. At mid-night, Rabbi Singer and freshman Natan Alon led the boys in a kumzitz which gave everyone renewed energy to keep the learning going. Following the kumzitz, Aaron Friedman delivered Dunkin Do-nuts, coffee, and hot cocoa, sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Goldman l’zecher nish-mas Elana bas Raizel. From that point on there was continuous open learning as well as some sports in the gym. The Chesed Committee ran a Foul Shooting Contest to raise funds for IDF Soldiers and freshman Jacob Srulovich was the big winner, going 10-10 from the line in the second round and averaging 90% free throw shooting overall!
As the sun rose, it was palpable to the 60 talmidim who learned together, played together, and now prayed together that they were bonded in something that would last more than the night, and in-deed were committed to a renewed desire to improve their tefillot beyond Tefillah Week.
Rambam’s Fourth Annual Tefillah Week Inspires
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For over 40 years, Bikur Cholim of Queens (BCQ) has met the myriad needs of its local cholim. As long as the need for Bikur Cholim grows, our vision grows.
We are looking to drive patients both ways to and from their medical appointments and to provide meals for the families at home while a loved one is in the hospital. This will require cooks and bakers to help Bikur Cho-lim constantly stock a freezer so that we can provide meals on a minute’s notice. High School Chessed girls are needed to do homework with patients’ siblings. BCQ has a medical referral program for the overwhelmed patients which will help navigate them better. We need volunteers to sleep overnight in the hospital to alleviate the parents and provide them with the opportunity to spend the night with their family at home. Bikur Cholim’s vision cannot be done without the involvement and ded-ication of each and every one of you!
True to its original mission, today Bikur Cholim continues to meet the ev-er-growing needs in the Queens com-munity.
BCQ operates a room in New York Hospital of Queens that is fully stocked with meals, drinks, and snacks for visi-tors and loved ones. They send weekly visitors to Jewish patients. Each yom tov, they deliver flowers, reading ma-terial, and good cheer to people who must spend yom tov in the hospital away from their families.
Volunteer drivers take patients to doctors’ appointments in all five bor-oughs, at all hours of the day. Dedi-cated Bikur Cholim volunteers cook nutritious, diet specific meals for cho-lim recovering at home as well as meals for parents who have a sick child in the hospital.
Bikur Cholim of Queens lends out medical equipment such as wheelchairs and stairlifts to those in need.
Most recently, Bikur Cholim of
Queens has started a voucher program for expectant mothers. They have part-nered with a car service that employs non-Jewish drivers to meet the needs of expectant mothers who require transportation to the hospital on Shab-bos and yom tov. The drivers will be instructed about all religious require-ments and no money will have to be provided. Only the voucher needs to be handed to the driver.
Unfortunately, the needs of cholim and their families only continue to in-crease. In order to continue its most important work, Bikur Cholim needs many more volunteers—men and wom-en. They are looking for people in high school and older to volunteer. They are in urgent need of drivers, especially in the late afternoon and early evening while most mothers are busy with their children. In between classes you can do a tremendous mitzvah. More volunteers are needed to make hospital visits on a weekly or biweekly basis.
BCQ is hosting an event to create awareness in the Queens communi-ty. Please join the Bikur Cholim of Queens this Sunday, June 7 from 4:00-7:00pm for a Ladies Zumba Event fea-turing Shimi 2 Zumba at the Yeshiva of Central Queens gym, 147-37 70th Road in Kew Gardens Hills. The cost for the event is $25 for girls until 12 years old and $36 for 12 and older. This is the cost as long as you pre-register on www. bikurcholimqueens.org. You only need to register and can pay at the door. There will be a $40 fee at the door. Parking will be available in the YCQ parking lot.
Please join us this Sunday and show your support to a very important and much needed organization in our very own home. Let us ALL come together and unite to help our fellow brothers and sisters in their time of need. To-gether, WE can make a difference.
Bikur Cholim of Queens Ladies’ Zumba Event
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Yeshiva Har Torah
The Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School for Boys
The three HALB principals at the Parade – HALB Elementary Principal, Rabbi Dovid Plotkin; SKA Head of School, Mrs. Helen Spirn; DRS Menahel, Rabbi Yisroel Kaminetsky.
Midreshet Shalhevet
On the One Israel Fund Float
Marching Proudly at the Celebrate Israel Parade
Toddlers pack a mini-Tel Aviv beach at IAC Celebrate Israel New York
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L to R: Rabbi Gedaliah Oppen, High School Judaic Studies Principal, Ms. Naomi Lippman, High School General Studies Principal, Dr. Adam J. Lish, Vice President of Education
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Hebrew Academy of Nassau County
Toddlers pack a mini-Tel Aviv beach at IAC Celebrate Israel New York
Marching Proudly at the Celebrate Israel Parade
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Rain or Shine: Support for Israel Strong in Central Park Israel Day Concert
PHOTO CREDITS: MAXINE DOVERE AND BARRY BROWN PHOTOGRAPHY
Gov. Mike Huckabee, Republican Presidential contender, delivered a stirring speech for Israel that literally opened the heavens, minutes before a torrential downpour. (L-R) Musical Producer Zvika Bornstein; longtime Concert Organizers Karen and Dr. Joseph Frager; Ken Abramowitz, Chairman American Friends of Likud; Gov. Huckabee, holding Israeli Flag with Dr. Paul Brody, Concert Chairperson, together with his wife Drora; media coordinator Odeleya Jacobs, and activist Dr. Alan Berger. Behind them is Concert Emcee Nachum Segal.
By Maxine DovereIn 1993 , Dr. Joseph R . F rag-
er was among the initiators of a n e v e n t t h a t h a s b e c o m e a b loved post-salute to Israel Parade tradi-tion. The Israel Day Concert in Central Park, sponsored by the Israel Concert-in-the-Park Committee, in associa-tion with Young Israel Chovevei Zion, and the National Council of Young Is-rael, was once again organized by Dr. Joe and Karen Frager, with Dr. Paul and Drora Brody serving as Chairpersons for the tenth consecutive year. The con-cert was founded by the late Carl Frey-er z”l and his wife Sylvia at the re-
quest of the Chief Rabbi of Efrat, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin.
The annual event began as the Cel-ebrate Israel Parade drew to a close. It was held at Central Park’s Summer-stage, at the Rumsey Playfield, this past Sunday, May 31. Nachum Segal served as the emcee, Zvika Bornstein as the musical producer, Shloime Dachs as the musical director, and Odeleya Jacobs as the media coordinator.
A rostrum of classic and contem-porary Israeli, American, French and English performers included Gad El-baz, LIPA, Alex Clare, Tal Vaknin, accompanied by pianist extraor-
dinaire Shlomi Aharoni, Shloime Dachs, Mati Shriki, Avraham Rosen-blum and his band consisting of Ruby Harris, Izzy Kieffer, Heshy R and Sam Ramras, and Shloime Dachs Or-chestra & Singers presented a rich musical program. Israel Alliel and Steve Lucas, both from France, Chaim Kiss, Born Kids, and the Broad-way Youth Ensemble were also fea-tured. Jerry Markovitz and Israel Alliel both rendered unique, moving presenta-tions of the Hatikva and Star Spangled
Banner, respectively. Young Chazzan Aryeh Pollack delivered a heartfelt “Avinu sh’baShamayim.”
The Israel Day Concert—The Con-cert With A Message offers significant-ly more than music. 2015 was no ex-ception. This year’s Concert was dedicated to the memory of Gilad Shaar, Naftali Fraenkel, and Eyal Yifrach Hy”d and all those the world-over who died al Kiddush Hashem.
Ambassador John Bolton, a leading authority on the Iranian nuclear threat (2nd from right) is flanked by activists, from L-R: Jeff Wiesenfeld of the Jewish Rapid Response Team; Dr. Joseph Frager, Dr. Paul Brody, and Ken Abramowitz.
Torrential rains dampened the SummerStage in Central Park, but not the spirit of the performers and organizers of the 22nd Annual 22nd Israel Day Concert. Rain forced more than 10,000 celebrants to evacuate Rumsey Playfield prematurely, but several entertain-ers and those who produced a magnificent event for Israel remained. (L-R) Shlomi Cohen; National Council Young Israel President Farley Weiss; Israeli pianist extraordinaire Shlomi Aharoni; Israeli superstar Gad Elbaz; Dr. Paul Brody, and Israeli mega-talent Tal Vaknin holding the Israeli flag, Israeli singing star Mati Shriki, and Dr. Joseph Frager.
Alex Clare, singing superstar from England, entertained the remaining loyal enthusiastic crowd, at Central Park’s SummerStage, which had been filled to capacity before torrential downpours. Many danced with Israeli flags oblivious to the rain.
Gov. Mike Huckabee, Republican contender for the U.S. presidency, shows that he is multi-talented, as he plays guitar at concert. He is flanked by Shloime Dachs, musical director at right, and (L-R) Zvika Bornstein, Dr. Joseph Frager, and Dr. Paul Brody.
(L-R) Ken Abramowitz, Chairman, American Friends of Likud; Dr. Joseph Frager, Concert Organizer; and Dr. Paul Brody, Concert Chairperson, who have accompanied Gov. Huckabee (2nd from right) several times in Israel, greet him upon arriving in NYC to the Israel Day Concert in Central Park, where he was the Keynote Speaker.
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The threat of rain and an occasional shower could not deter the students, fac-ulty, and parents of Shulamith School for Girls from turning out on Fifth Avenue to Celebrate Israel on Sunday! The theme of the parade this year was Imagine, and our school theme was Shulamith Imag-ines Peace in Israel.
Parent volunteer Mrs. Adina Gold-stein dedicated her time to organizing many aspects of the parade, including the ordering of t-shirts, banners, and white dove-shaped balloons. Our beautiful
salmon colored t-shirts were designed by eighth grader Hana Adler, who created a stylized dove holding an olive branch in its mouth. Eighth graders Adina Lev, Eliana Hirsch, and Meira Saffra proudly carried the Shulamith banner and were flanked on either side by flag bearers
Michal Ginsburg and Ella Kurtz. The opening banner of the parade was held by the G.O. Presidents, Sela Pollak and Rachelli Wasser, and by Vice Presidents, Tamar Davies and Eliana Eichler. The banner featured the word IMAGINE in giant letters superimposed above the word PEACE which was repeated in the background. Directly behind the open-ing banner were Hana Adler, Natalie Barbanel, Rebecca Boczko, Riva Char-nowitz, Tamar Herschberg, Abby Lieber, Eliana Millstone, Zoe Poznanski, Avigail
Sassoon, and Nava Yastrab, proudly hold-ing aloft Israeli flags.
At the back of the Shulamith contingent, eighth graders Tova Krupka and Shayna Eisenberg were posi-tioned on either side of the closing banner, carrying Shulamith flags. The closing banner was carried by last year’s G.O. Vice Presidents, Sari Dubin and Zahava Graff, and
by yearbook editors, Channa Gelbtuch and Ilana Katz. The banner featured a beautiful image of a dove and our heart-felt tefillah: Sha’alu shalom Yerushalay-im, yishlayu ohavayich! May Hakadosh Baruch Hu bring peace to Jerusalem and to all of Israel!
Shulamith Imagines Peace in Israel
L to R: Amy Beirag, Chief Administrative Officer, David Mandel, Chief Executive Officer, Senator Chuck Schumer, and Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder
Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder joined with Senator Chuck Schumer and thousands who marched and lined 5th Avenue to celebrate Israel.
Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder and Senator Chuck Schumer stopped to pay tribute and thank the amazing team at OHEL.
New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer with his wife, Elyse, and their two children marching along 5th Avenue
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Students of Stella K. Abraham (SKA) High School for Girls were treated to ten workshops presented by Mrs. Chanie Delman, LCSW, Clinical Director at Madraigos, coaching them to develop healthy mindsets and skills in responding to two different sets of challenges facing today’s teenagers. Each nighth grade class received workshops on social me-dia/internet safety, while workshops on body image issues were presented to each tenth grade class. In view of Madraigos’ greater goal of improving and maintain-ing good mental health among the teen-age population, it was natural that the SKA High School invited Mrs. Delman of Madraigos to deliver a presentation on these topics.
Teenagers are becoming more and more connected through technology. Ap-proximately 75% of all American teens have a profile on a social networking site and many of them visit social networking sites every day, some of them multiple times each day. While there are some distinct benefits to the easy availability of being connected, there are also many disadvantages and risks associated with this activity. Because of teenagers’ high impulsivity level, teens are more prone to post thoughts, stories and/or pictures before giving a chance to consider the potential consequences and negative re-percussions on them. Undesirable con-sequences can range from developing de-pendence on social media/internet and/or cellphones, embarassment arising from poor choice of words or photos shared, to becoming ensnared in the nefarious designs of cyber-criminals and predators perusing popular social networking sites.
After advising the students of the risks and potential pitfalls of engaging with social media and internet, Mrs. Delman provided the ninth graders with guidance on appropriate safety measures to take when engaging social media/internet. Included in this, were instructions never to give out personal information, photos or physical location to people/users they were not familiar with. Students were re-minded that once the information leaves one’s private domain, it becomes totally and permanently public within seconds; shared information or photographs can never be retrieved. Lastly, students were strongly urged never to meet in person with anyone that they “met” on social media/internet.
Teenage girls in particular are more likely than the general population to have an unhealthy body image, often wishing that they could change their body size or shape to match an idealized body image based on messages from the media, ad-vertisers, social media and pressure ap-plied by family and peers. People with a negative body image continually com-pare their bodies to others they view as the “popular crowd,” feel shame, anxiety and self-consciousness about their bod-ies, and may have a distorted perception of their shape and size. The impact of such negative body images on a teen-ager’s mental and physical health runs deep, leading to low self-esteem, depres-sion and eating disorders. Mrs. Delman helped the tenth graders understand the importance of challenging these self-de-feating thoughts by understanding that they are often a product of unhealthy messages preaching the preeminence
of looking “pretty” and being thin over all other personal attributes that have far greater relevance for bettering soci-ety. Mrs. Delman showed the students a teen-savvy slide presentation which depicted some of the sources of these unhealthy messages. These include pres-sure applied by family and friends who harangue or tease the teenager about her appearance, insisting that she will not be successful or happy unless she “measures up” to an impossible “gold standard.” Being continuously bombarded by these messages can cause a teenager to buy into the notion that “If I looked like her (i.e., a model or actress, etc.), I, too, would be loved by the world,” or “I will enjoy more happiness and fulfillment in life.”
The students were taught to view themselves using healthier barometers of one’s worth such as friendliness, abil-ity to love, loyalty, inner wisdom and creativity. This presentation triggered intense discussion among the students, some of whom maintained that they had positive body images which helped them adjust to life’s vicissitudes, while other students expressed an interest on working to improve their body images. It is evi-dent that Madraigos’ work with the high school students has the potential to have long-lasting positive effects on their body image, self-esteem and associated mental health.
The social media/internet safety workshop and body image workshop are just two examples of the suite of services offered through Madraigos’ School-Based Services Program. In this pro-gram, Madraigos’ team of professionals and social work interns assist local ye-shivas and high school staff in meeting the social and emotional needs of their students.
Additional services that Madrai-gos provides include the after-school “Lounge” program, year-round events, in-school programs, as well as parent and community education. For teenagers struggling with substance abuse, Madrai-gos provides a myriad of life-saving clinical intervention services that ensure that the young adults and their families receive caring and comprehensive sup-port and guidance during their most dif-ficult times. The mission of Madraigos is clear: To provide all of its members with the necessary tools and skills to empow-er them to live a healthy and productive lifestyle and become the leaders of to-morrow.
To arrange a workshop in your school, please contact Chanie Delman, LCSW, Clinical Director at Madraigos, (516)371-3250 ext. 2 or email [email protected].
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Madraigos Teen Workshops Teach Healthy Life Choices
At this week’s Learn & Live Program, R’ Asher Shteirman came back for part II of Shatnez, “The Really, Really Bad Mix.” He told stories and showed articles of clothing involved in the stories of where shatnez was found. He also passed around materials for the boys to see shatnez and explained how powerful the mitzvah of shatnez is. Towards the end of the presentation, he called on boys to look through a microscope and see slides of linen and describe what they saw. The boys really got a very hands-on to the important mitzvah of shatnez.
NYC Comptroller Scott M. Stringer at Met Council Breakfast
New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer spoke at the annual Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty Annual Leg-islative breakfast on Sunday.
“I join with many other in wishing the Met Council good luck and success with its new leadership team. With more than 300,000 Jewish New Yorkers living in poor or near-poor homes, Met Council’s mission is more important than ever. It
would be hard to imagine our City with-out your good works—and your compas-sion,” Stringer said.
Comptroller Stringer is seen here at the Met Council breakfast with Alan Schoor, president and CEO of the Met Council.
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Gavriel Sassoon reciting Kaddish at the siyum in memory of his children
Two months after losing seven chil-dren in the fire that destroyed his home, Reb Gavriel Sassoon recited Kaddish at a siyum held in their memory at Yeshiva Darchei Torah. The siyum was on Seder Moed, whose Mishnayos were learned collectively by the talmidim of YDT’s Middle School l’ilui nishmas the seven
children. Elazar Frischman, a YDT talmid and
camp friend of Dovid Sassoon, gave brief words of remembrance, and Yirmi Gerstel led the siyum. After the siyum, Reb Gavriel Sassoon offered words of chizuk in honor of Shavuos, focusing on the importance of building a relation-
ship with Hashem, as well as with our fellow Jews, as prerequisites for Kabbo-las HaTorah.
After Shavuos, Reb Gavriel returned to the Yeshiva, addressing Mesivta Chaim Shlomo and the eighth grade/Mechina with a powerful shmuess wherein he urged the talmidim to live
lives of Kiddush Hashem.Reb Gavriel then visited the Yeshi-
va’s world-renowned Weiss Vocational Center.
Recordings are available by email-ing [email protected] or calling 718.868.2300 ext. 312
Gavriel Sassoon, Living Emunah, Inspires Yeshiva Darchei Torah
Gavriel Sassoon with Rav Yaakov Bender, Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshiva Darchei TorahGavriel Sassoon speaking at Mesivta Chaim Shlomo
Nassau County Alternate Deputy Presiding Officer Howard Kopel is let-ting residents know that the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) has announced that mid-day, off-peak lane closures have started between Burnside Avenue and Rocka-way Turnpike from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday. A single travel lane will remain open at all times. Ac-cording to the NYSDOT, these lane clo-sures are necessary to perform drainage improvement and repave this section of NY 878.
“These repairs are long overdue, but just the beginning of what needs to be
done on NY 878,” said Legislator Ko-pel. “I will continue to advocate for the changes and improvements that we re-ally need.”
Highway 878 faces continual and intolerable congestion, which poses a safety risk for the hundreds of thousands of residents who would need to use it as an evacuation route. Legislator Kopel has worked in a bipartisan fashion to try and resolve the many issues facing motorists who use Highway 878, meet-ing with Senator Charles Schumer and Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder to work towards a resolution.
Roadwork to Begin on NY 878
Moshe Katz and Tuvia Kleinkaufman, Yeshiva Ketana Zichron Chaim U’Bina’s 2015 Chess Champions. Their championship chess match ended in a stalemate.
This past Sunday, Shevach High School students and their moth-ers enjoyed an annual brunch with a thought-provoking shiur, culminating the end of another academic school year. It took place at the Young Isra-el of Hillcrest to a standing-room-on-ly crowd. Additional tables had to be added to accommodate the overflow attendees.
Rebetzin Hirtz welcomed the moth-ers and daughters with a lesson learned from the past week‘s haftorah. She quoted Rav Shimon Schwab z”l who taught that the father of the nazir Shim-shon was told by the angel that he must conduct himself as a nazir if his son is to be a nazir. This is because the main chinuch tool is modeling behavior we would like to see in our children.
Rebetzin Miriam Krohn addressed the crowd about developing coping skills in ourselves and in our children. Life sometimes necessitates the ability to go to “Plan B.” To meet challenges, both temporary and permanent, one has to view things as technical, not emo-tional. One has to stop blaming oneself
or others for that matter. And we have to be realistic about what to expect in different situations. “Life happens,” said Mrs. Krohn, “and when things are challenging it is not sabotage or per-sonal. Our ability to cope and be resil-ient will determine the outcome.”
Both mothers and daughters left feeling empowered and confident in their new approach to the day-to-day difficulties that often arise. Mrs. Krohn ended with encouragement that what we deal with in life is what is meant for us. The Hebrew word emunah and aim (mother) share the same two letter root as emes and neeman, which mean constant and everlasting. Our emunah in Hashem and the knowledge that He takes care of us and guides us through life gives us the strength to cope and withstand all of life’s events. Her bra-cha to all was that these difficulties should be small and temporary and we should be able to cope with them in a positive manner.
Inspiration and Connection at Shevach’s Annual Mother-Daughter Brunch
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On June 11, FD NOW, a nonprof-it supporting research to drive bet-ter treatment and cures for Familial Dysautonomia (FD), a life-threat-ening autonomic disease, will hold their 13th annual dinner. In less than 15 years, the organization, with the help of Dr. Berish Rubin and Dr. Sylvia Anderson from The Labora-tory for Familial Dysautonomia at Fordham University, has been able to conduct life-changing research, drastically improving the quality of life and life expectancy of those liv-ing with FD.
“About a decade ago, the life ex-pectancy of someone with FD was teen years to young adulthood,” says Ann Slaw, president and founder of FD NOW and parent of a child with FD. “With new treatments and re-search funding by FD NOW, life-ex-pectancy is longer, and perhaps more important, quality of life is much better!”
FD is only found in Ashkenazi Jews and is inherited the same way as Tay-Sachs. People with FD have an impaired autonomic nervous system, which makes each breath, swallow and heartbeat undepend-able and erratic. They are prone to wild swings in blood pressure and to life-threatening autonomic crisis. It also impairs part of the sensory ner-vous system that controls pain and temperature, often allowing broken bones, burns and frostbite to go un-detected.
After discovering the gene muta-tion in 2001 at their laboratory, Drs. Rubin and Anderson have been able to find treatments that help reverse effects of the gene mutation allowing individuals with FD to lead healthi-er and happier lives. Breakthroughs since 2001 include:
• Discovering that FD is caused by mutations to the IKBKAP gene, which is why individuals with FD make insufficient amounts of the protein called IKAP. This discovery made carrier testing and prenatal screening possible.
• Finding that tocotrienols in-crease IKAP protein levels in cells of people with FD. Tocotrienols be-came the first treatment developed for FD that addressed the underlying
genetic defect on a molecular level. After a few months of tocotrienol ingestion, patients experienced sig-nificant improvement in autonomic stability.
• In 2005, Drs. Rubin and Ander-son observed a monoamine oxidase deficiency in individuals with FD and was the first time hypertensive crisis triggers were identified. Their research found that a tyramine-free diet in conjunction with limiting pro-tein intake may eliminate the occur-rence of hypertensive crises.
• In collaboration with the Ford-ham lab, a child with FD taking tocotrienol and EGCG-containing green tea extract (GTE) underwent surgery at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. While in the past sur-gery and anesthesia have resulted in life-threatening autonomic instabili-ty and sometimes death, this patient exhibited no autonomic instability.
“It’s truly amazing how much has been accomplished in such a short period of time,” notes Ann. “A lot of the mysteries of FD have been uncovered however, there is still a lot more that needs to be done.”
Each year, FD NOW raises be-tween $200,000-$300,000 with $80,000-$90,000 coming from the annual dinner and other funds com-ing from other fundraising events, grants and donor appeals. It takes about $200,000 just to run the FD lab in Fordham. More funds are need-ed to continue to advance the great work that is already being done.
“The outcomes speak for them-selves,” says Ann. “The research done through the organization by Drs. Rubin and Anderson has been changing the lives of individuals with FD and impacting those who love and care for those individuals in an unprecedented manner. We need to continue to push towards more treatments and cures for these indi-viduals.”
The dinner will be held on Thurs-day, June 11 at the Sephardic Tem-ple, 775 Branch Boulevard in Cedar-hurst, NY, at 6pm.
FD NOW Celebrates 13th Annual Dinner and Over a Decade of Treatment Breakthroughs
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COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Mrs. Carole TabinAssociate Principal
Ms. Tziporah ZuckerAssistant Principal
Rabbi Shlomo AdelmanMenahel/Principal
Rabbi Avraham IsmachDirector of Israel Guidance
Mrs. Linda NathanAsst. Director of Israel Guidance
Hebrew Academy of Nassau CountyBrookdale High School
Hats Off to the
Class of 2015!on their acceptances to the following
Yeshivot, Seminaries, and Universities
YESHIVOT & SEMINARIES
Ms. Karen SheffDirector of College Guidance
Mrs. Marisa GelbAsst. Director of College Guidance
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Members of Rambam Mesivta’s prestigious Masmidim Extra Learning Program boarded a coach bus on Sun-day for two days of learning, go-kart-ing, and sports at scenic Camp Kaylie. Upon arrival, the Masmidim were treat-ed to delicious snacks and started play-ing Frisbee, basketball, hockey, and football. Softballs were being tossed
around, football games broke out and before the trip was over, spirited games of Touch-Rugby and BBK (Basketball/Baseball/Kickball) were in earnest.
Following his Tefillah Week kumzitz which was apparently a warm-up, Na-tan Alon, going solo or ALONe, led the midnight kumzitz held in a gazebo by the lake. The sounds of the Masmidim
singing and dancing under the stars filled the mountainside!
The highlight of the trip, besides the go-karts, was definitely the learn-ing featuring shiurim from Rabbi Haar and Rabbi Ziskind. Another highlight was that the Masmidim were honored to share the camp with members of Otsar who piggybacked onto the Mas-midim trip so they could have their an-nual getaway. When Mr. Goldman was approached by Otsar to “share” the trip in terms of the facilities, he immediate-ly invited them to share in Rambam’s minyanim, learning, dining and in full. He noted, “Watching one of the Ram-bam guys have hagbah with one of the Otsar individuals doing gelilah was a beautiful sight. It was clear from the way the Masmidim interacted with the Otsar group that their learning is not just an exercise in intellectual stimula-tion, but something that is instilling in them the values to share their learning and make others feel comfortable.”
It was a wonderful and meaningful year of learning and the program which grew so much this year is already look-
ing to grow and expand next year. With the help of the dedicated rebbeim who run the program, and the zealous Ram-bam students who show up to learn, there is confidence that the Masmidim Program will be back bigger and better in 5776!
Masmidim Trip to Camp Kaylie Celebrates a Year of Learning
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The Rockaway Nassau Safety Pa-trol (“RNSP”) held its third annual Bike Etching event this past Sunday, May 31 in conjunction with the Annual Yeshiva Darchei Torah Bike-a-Thon. Etching consists of engraving a serial number on bikes, scooters, strollers, etc. The serial number is then filed with the NYPD and RNSP and can help return a recovered stolen bike to its rightful owner. The event was a raving success with hun-dreds of bikes etched and registered in the RNSP/NYPD database. In addition to the bikes registered in the previous years’ events, our database now boasts over 2,000 bikes, constituting a large proportion of the bikes in circulation in our area which are now traceable to their owners.
In addition to getting their bikes etched, children of all ages enjoyed a day of fun and activities which featured a wall climbing center generously provid-ed and operated by NYPD Community Affairs Chief Joan Jaffe and her crew led by Lt. Ruiz, as well as plenty of give-aways. Yeshiva Darchei Torah set up a bike repair station where children were able to get small repairs done and tires inflated. New York Life Insurance Com-pany representatives provided children and their parents with safety tools, and the FDNY set up a booth and offered fire safety awareness materials and give-aways. Klein’s Ice Cream graciously donated countless boxes of popsicles which RNSP volunteers distributed to all bike-a-thon participants. Each bike etch-ing registrant received a reflective safety vest and a bag full of goodies, courtesy of Brach’s Supermarket.
The RNSP thanks its community partners and sponsors for their generos-ity which made this event possible. Our sponsors included: Brach’s Supermarket, Klein’s Ice Cream Co., Cosmati Stones, MoldPro, Lazer Marble, Devori’s Sa-lon and Carlos & Gabby’s. The RNSP also thanks South Shore Bikes, La Toys, Fitwise 4 Kids, Oh! Nuts, Hapina, and
Qcumbers for donating raffle prizes to enhance the event further.
The RNSP also expresses a great deal of gratitude to our member Mayer Schwartz for leading the effort in coor-dinating this event, the 101st Precinct Commanding Officer D.I. Justin Lenz, NYPD Community Affairs Officers Kevin Campbell, Maurice Roper and Matthew Beigay, the FDNY, Flatbush Shomrim Safety Patrol and Akiva Klein for providing the Mobile Command Cen-ter, Queens South Borough Chief David Barrere and our long-time friend and partner Mr. Aviv Stein of Dynamic Pro-ductions.
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The RNSP was founded over three years ago to assist the Rockaway and Nassau community members in any way possible, to help combat crime in the Rockaway community, and to improve the quality of life of its inhabitants. The
RNSP plays an essential role in protecting our community as it provides invaluable services and acts as the eyes and ears of our local police departments. The RNSP is composed of a team of well-trained volunteers dedicated to protecting their community and responding to cases of searches and rescues of runaway teens and young missing persons, teenagers at risk, domestic violence, and people with mental or physical disabilities. In ad-dition, the RNSP runs programs for the youth in the Rockaway community such as bike etching, anti-drug campaigns, and events geared towards children to bring awareness of criminal and terrorist threat. The RNSP has established close relationships and keeps in constant con-tacts with agencies and organizations such as the police departments, Hatzalah, Office of Emergency Management, JC-CRC, District Attorney’s Office, FEMA, Social Services, as well as many other community-based charitable organiza-tions. The RNSP is composed of the fol-
lowing four divisions:The Night Patrol volunteers patrol in
marked cars from 9PM–12AM (To vol-unteer to patrol in a marked car once a month, please send an email with your name, phone number, and address to [email protected].)
The RNSP Tech Team retrieves and reviews video footage to hand over to detective squads to assist in crime reso-lution.
The Security Alerts Division dissem-inates pertinent safety alerts and tips to the community through emails, Twitter and Facebook. (To sign up for the Secu-rity Alerts, please send an email to [email protected] and enter the phrase “Sign me up” in the Subject field.)
The RNSP Rapid Response Team volunteers are on call 24/7 to patrol the streets and respond to calls.
The 24-Hour RNSP Hotline is 917- 727-7306.
RNSP Hosts its Third Annual Bike Etching Event
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Yeshiva Darchei Torah’s Bike-a-Thon draws record crowd, funds for scholarships
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The second grade in Yeshiva Ketana Zichron Chaim U’Bina of Queens cele-brated Author’s Day on Tuesday, May 5. Mrs. Gruza’s students had written ABC books over several months and were proud to share their creations with par-ents and other students. The books were mini-dictionaries that were intended to explain lots of information in a particu-lar category. By finding words that began with each letter of the alphabet, students were able to come up with 26 different types of animals, musical instruments, cooking items or medical or health-relat-ed words. The writing process was long and arduous but remarkably fulfilling.
The boys began the process by using dictionaries to help find and/or define their 26 vocabulary words. They wrote definitions, used the words in sentences and then added a whimsical bit of infor-mation to complete the “story” of each word. The second graders then spent several weeks on editing, illustrating and writing an “About the Author” page.
During their Author’s Day celebra-tion, besides reading from their infor-mative books, the boys showed off their clever dioramas and dressed in uniforms that related to their books. At the par-ty, the boys—as well as the parents and teachers—could not stop beaming.
ABC Authors at Yeshiva Ketana Zichron Chaim U’Bina
Rabbi Akiva Oppen of Oppen Scrolls came to give the three year old children at HAFTR a lesson on how a mezuzah and the klaf is made. He brought samples of the parchment paper it is written on and he showed the children the special quill that he uses. The students learned the significance of a mezuzah and placing it on doors in our homes, schools and places of work.
Rabbi Yaakov Bender, Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshiva Darchei Torah, has announced the appointment of Rab-bi Moshe (Michael) Leff as principal of general studies for the Yeshiva’s Mid-dle School.
Rabbi Leff is currently a success-ful rebbi in the Ye-shiva Darchei Torah Elementary School, where he has been teaching since 2005. For the last two years he has also served as an assis-tant principal at its Middle School. Be-fore joining Yeshiva Darchei Torah, he taught at the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach.
In a letter to the Middle School parents, Rabbi Bender described Rab-bi Leff as “a distinguished talmid cho-chom and compassionate mechanech who focuses on the unique needs of each individual student in his care.”
A native of Far Rockaway, Rabbi Leff studied at HILI, HAFTR, Yeshi-vat Hakotel and, from 1987 to 1994, Ner Israel in Baltimore, where he was a close talmid of Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Kulefsky, zt”l, and where he received semicha. He holds a master’s degree from Yeshiva University’s Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration.
“I see it as my mandate to continue and build on the phenomenal success of the Yeshiva’s general studies program,” says Rabbi Leff, “and to empower each
student to not only absorb information and accumulate knowledge but to inter-nalize the education he receives here and apply it to his life.”
Rabbi Leff suc-ceeds Dr. Yitzchak Goldberg, who has been principal of the Middle School for the last eight years and educational director of the Rabenstein Learn-ing Center for two years prior to that. He has been appointed as associate principal at YDE High School, a yeshiva in Brooklyn, New York.
In his letter, Rab-bi Bender wrote of Dr. Goldberg: “He has made an indelible and immeasur-able impact on the lives of hundreds of talmidim, their families and Yeshiva Darchei Torah as a whole. He will be missed.
“The importance of having a rig-orous general studies program in a contemporary yeshiva cannot be over-stated, and Yeshiva Darchei Torah’s program is the envy of the chinuch world. In filling the role of principal of general studies, I sought an individual who will not only maintain the Middle School’s track record of success, but build on it as well.
“I am confident that Rabbi Leff will prove to be a tremendous asset to our team as well as the leader and educa-tor that the Middle School’s teachers, parents, and, most of all, its talmidim, truly deserve.”
New Principal at Yeshiva Darchei Torah
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Last week, Bais Yaakov of Queens hosted quite a celebration! The entire third grade invited their parents to share their daughters’ progress as writ-ers, allowing them a unique opportu-nity into the writing process at BYQ. Upon entering the school, the digital screen displayed pictures of every stu-
dent working on her writing. Students were at their desks writing or research-ing, sharing their pieces of writing with their peers, or conferencing with
their teacher. As the guests entered their daugh-
ters’ classroom, they were greeted by their daughter and invited to work on making a beautiful bookmark as a keepsake. The girls ushered their par-ents to small groupings of parents and students. They sat together and lis-
tened to each of the group’s girls read a piece of writing she chose to share. Some of the types of writing includ-ed biographies, poetry, personal narratives, and fairy tales. Their portfolios were filled with their writing, offering a glimpse as to
how highly regarded writing is to the general studies curriculum. “The val-idation of each girl’s ideas, opinions, wishes and perspectives of her world
should be respected, valued and appre-ciated,” said Mrs. Bergman, the gener-al studies principal who designed the curriculum.
Following the groups’ read aloud, the girls, bursting with pride, led their guests to the 4th floor computer labs and shared their hyper-studio proj-ect with their guests. The project was a culmination of research that was displayed creatively, thanks to their teachers, Mrs. Evelyn Avni, Miss Tzi-porah Halberstam, Mrs. Baila Kramer, Mrs. Shira Silber, and Mrs. Malkie Merrill, the computer teacher. “Each girl’s project reflects the in depth, in-dependent learning our educational team of classroom and specialty teach-ers encourage, model and nurture for our girls to be able to accomplish,” Mrs. Reisbaum, general studies assis-tant principal, said.
Of course, every celebration in-cludes refreshments, and so all of the girls and their guests met in the BYQ lunchroom. The room, thanks to Mrs. Finkey Levine, was transformed into
a fun and festive party. Upon enter-ing the room, everyone was welcomed with a bright, smile-making sign con-gratulating the third grade authors. Balloons were weighted with books on colorful covered tables in the center of the room.
The four corners had huge displays with mounted pictures of each student, again, busy in the writing process. There were multiple video monitors showing pictures of the girls, too. Each class had their own delicious and magnificent cake to share with guests. Fresh fruit and drinks completed the mouthwatering refreshments.
Rabbi Mordechai Gewirtz, dean, Mrs. Sarah Bergman and Mrs. Karen Reisbaum circulated throughout the room, personally congratulating the girls and teachers for a most successful year, and shepping nachas with par-ents. Their pride in the girls’ accom-plishments was truly heartwarming, making everyone feel like a special part of the warm and loving Bais Yaa-kov family.
Bais Yaakov of Queens Third Grade Authors Celebrate Author’s Day
Staff members from U.S. Repre-sentative Kathleen Rice’s office will hold mobile office hours this week in Cedarhurst to offer help to constituents with issues related to Superstorm Sandy. Rice’s staff will be joined by attorneys, interns and case managers from the Tou-ro Law Center Disaster Relief Clinic, who will provide Sandy survivors with free legal assistance and information about the newly released claims review process for homeowners whose claims
were denied or underpaid. The mobile office will be available in Cedarhurst on Sunday, June 7 at the Kulanu Fair in Cedarhurst Park between the hours of 12:30-3:30pm.
During the week of June 15, Rice’s staff will hold mobile office hours to help constituents with issues related to healthcare and Medicare, and the fol-lowing week will hold mobile office hours focused on issues affecting veter-ans and their families.
Rep. Rice to Hold Mobile Office Hours in Cedarhurst
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The Sherry Garber Pre-school has long been a champion of healthy habits, leading the way in its healthy snack pol-icy and in its monthly Healthy Habits assemblies. But recently Morah Yehu-dis Oppen, Pre-school Director, took the concept to a new level. With subsidi-zation from OHEL, the BBY pre-school held an exciting week-long health fair, from May 18-21. Deputized by Morah Yehudis to spearhead this project, Mrs. Amy Snow, pre-school secretary par ex-cellence, ran the show.
Each of the eleven pre-school class-es prepared a song/dance presentation on their assigned health topic which was then videoed by Mrs. Snow. Each class also worked on a tri-fold presentation board related to their topic, with 100% student participation. At their designat-ed time each class was ushered into the
Health Fair and was shown the video of all the class presentations. (Of course, each class found their own segment to be the most entertaining!) Then Mrs. Snow showed the children around to the tri-fold boards and did some interesting experiments and hands-on activities with them.
The pre-schoolers saw firsthand how soda can stain an eggshell and how vigorous brushing can lighten that stain. By extrapolation they now understand the benefits of brushing their teeth. (Nobody wanted their teeth to look as brown as that soda-stained eggshell!)
The girls also had the opportunity to fill a brightly colored Velcro dinner plate with appropriate choices from all the food groups, to answer the question, “What are you eating for a healthy din-ner tonight?”
When Mrs. Snow put germs (a.k.a. black pepper) on her finger, the children saw a demonstration of how germs can stick to a finger and how soap repels the germs in a bowl of water.
A bike safety quiz ended in each girl receiving her very own, individual-
ized “bike and scooter” license! As a health fair give-away, each
little pre-schooler was handed a bag in which lay a water bottle, tooth saver necklace, first aid kit, and sunglasses, among other gifts.
The health fair generated a loud buzz of excitement in the preschool. To add to the fun, Fitwize, a local fitness operation which caters to children, ran a 45 minute session for each class during which balance and coordination were emphasized and practiced. The Fitwize representative established an upbeat, encouraging atmosphere in which she urged the children to race and stretch and bend and twist and run and reach and M-O-V-E!
The Health Fair, like many BBY initiatives, taught important lessons in a happy and positive way. Teachers were thrilled with their students’ partic-ipation. Parents were thrilled with the information that their children learned. And the children were just thrilled!
At Yeshiva Darchei Torah’s Middle School Debate, Moderated By Michael Fragin
BBY Sherry Garber Preschool Leading the Way in Healthy Habits
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The koach of Torah is such that you can fill a room with people from all walks of life, diversified in both background and education, yet they are connected via the study of Torah. Torah is our life blood. It is what has sustained the Jewish People throughout the nearly two millen-nia of exile and persecution. On Shavuos the Flatbush community witnessed the power of Torah to transform and uplift close to eighty secular and less-affiliated Jews. The Brooklyn Jewish Xperience Beis HaMedrash (BJX) was filled to ca-pacity Shavuos night with Torah classes taught until 4:45am.
You were able to feel a special kind of anticipation in the air. Many of the college students who came to BJX on Shavuos remained awake all night learning. Their Torah learning was truly unique. Many of them had never before learned Torah and for most of them they were keeping a yom tov they never be-fore heard of. “I knew about Passover and Yom Kippur. But who ever heard of this holiday when you stay up all night learning?” reflected Bret. This sentiment was shared by many of the students.
All of this changed when Rav Yitz-chok Fingerer and his brother Rabbi Moshe invited them to participate in an all-night learnathon. A large group of college students and young profession-als joined Rabbi and Mrs. Moshe Fin-gerer for a tasty Shavous dinner at BJX
where they were introduced to the con-cept of bridging the holiness of Shabbos together with the holiness of yom tov. Many witnessed their first kiddush and havdalah. As soon as the delicious meal concluded, tables were folded and the Beis Medrash was quickly arranged for all night learning with a series of classes each hour, commencing at 11pm.
Rav Yitzchok Fingerer, the Rav of BJX Beis Medrash, began with a dy-namic Torah discussion on relationships. Everyone laughed as he humorously introduced them to pesukim from Chu-mash and explained the Torah’s perspec-tive with practical examples. He quoted numerous Torah sources and left the captive audience thirsty to learn more. After the shiur, everyone took a break for yummy desserts and enjoyed a beau-tiful Viennese table with both pareve and dairy cheesecakes, ice creams, flavored ice coffees and an assortment of pastries. Rabbi Moshe Fingerer, executive direc-tor of BJX, than captivated the audience with a shiur on Har Sinai as it relates to us today. He took everyone on an ex-citing journey back to Mount Sinai and astutely elucidated how each mitzvah is an opportunity to achieve closeness with Hashem. He concluded his lively and empowering shiur with a story about the famed Ger Tzedek Onkelos, illustrating how everyone can reach great heights irrespective of background or education.
Mr. Yisroel Gross was the next presenter. He movingly shared two incredibly mo-tivating stories of near death experienc-es. Everyone was deeply inspired by his stories, insights and Torah lessons.
“To see so many people at 2am in the morning was amazing. I was very inspired. It was a real zechus for me to speak before so many different people from such different backgrounds. BJX is doing an amazing job bringing in the crowds,” said Mr. Gross.
The next exciting set of shiurim were given by Rabbi Yosef Ben Chaviv, be-loved scholar in residence at BJX. His in-triguing topics were “Freedom of Speech & Judaism” and “Modern Psychology in the Torah.” Students love Rabbi Ben-chaviv’s brilliance and joie de vivre. The classes concluded with a lively Ask the Rabbi session in which many fascinating questions were answered.
Mike, a secular and non-practicing college student, said, “This holiday ex-perience was amazing. Everyone was very welcoming, intelligent and kind. The food and desserts were top notch. However, the learning was actually my favorite part. The ideas presented by various speakers really spoke to me and made complete sense.”
All shiurim were dedicated as a zechus for a refuah sheleimah for Ester bas Roiza, the 3 year old niece of de-voted BJX chairman, Mr. Moshe Call-
er. While the stimulating shiurim were taking place inside the Beis Midrash, the regular BJX mispallim learned in the lobby of the Beis Hamedrash in usual chavrusah style.
The week prior to Shavous, Hagaon Rav Shmuel Kaminetsky, shlita, visited the BJX Beis Midrash. Rav Shmuel said, “I am very inspired by this organization. They are mekarev krovim and rechokim. Their hatzlacha is remarkable. Whatever they accomplish is an accomplishment for life and for generations. It’s a great mitzvah to help them.”
May Hashem grant BJX the ability to continue their avodas hakodesh and to-gether with all of Klal Yisroel merit the coming of Moshiach Tzidkeinu.
Secular Jews Learn Torah All Night
Rav Shmuel Kamenetzky shlita and Rabbi Fingerer
What a winter it has been, record amounts of snow and cold temperatures all around the tristate area, but you would never know it by looking at the Ignite High School Basketball League. Eight teams of cross educational teens banded together to break down all the barriers be-tween them to show what’s most import-ant to them—learning Torah and having fun! The boys came together once a week at 7pm at Torah Ohr Hebrew Academy in Great Neck for a unique shiur and dinner on Tuesday nights. They program was ran by Rabbi Eden Markowitz and Rabbi Doni Cohen who both taught classes and ran the league. Rabbi Avraham Kohan, the rav of Torah Ohr, taught one of the classes as well. The boys tremendously enjoyed the rabbis’ timeless life lessons as well as their relaxed and open teach-ing style. The dinner was also amazing!
These teens from both Yeshiva Day Schools and Great Neck North High School came together to show comrad-
ery in their community one basket at a time, with local establishments from the community supporting them not only morally but financially, as well.
The games were played at the beau-tiful Great Neck North gym and towards the end of the season at Yeshivat Har To-
rah. After the 20 game season, team Shi-raz took the championship with Brandon Khanyan named MVP of the game.They managed to defeat team Colbeh and Cap-tain Eli Shayestehpour, who had gone 17-1 in the regular season. Team Great Neck Glatt claimed the tier two cham-
pionship. Teams Everfresh, Colbeh, Nu-Clear, Bistro Burger, Allurez and Rabani - Housh Development eagerly wait for another shot at next year’s champion-ship.
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They were all there, the “who’s who” of Lakewood: Senator Robert W. Singer, Mayor Isaac Akerman, Assem-blyman David Rible and Committee-man Meir Lichtenstein.
Gathered together to commemorate the launch of the brand new BFG Lake-wood division, the environment was filled with eager anticipation. The well-appointed office, modern and sleek in design, ambitious and rife with expec-tation, was teeming with BFG associates and personnel. Once again BFG dom-inates the forefront of innovation, the face of change.
Known as the learning center of the world, Lakewood has seen a dearth of job opportunities. With BFG’s Lake-wood opening however, its widely opened doors invite countless of oppor-tunities, not only as jobs, but as a whole for a community that needs more pro-fessional businessmen to help manage
its district. Abraham Ekstein, CEO of BFG, ad-
dressed the assembled with his poignant opening remarks. ”BFG manages close to a billion dollars in assets. We have to-day, secured in potential life insurance benefits, 17.8 billion dollars in benefits for our community,” he says. Seventeen billion dollars!
Senator Singer spoke next, clearly animated and passionate about BFG. “I purchased my very first life insurance right after my first child was born,” he stated. With a background in finance he has an extra dose of appreciation for the work BFG does.
“I know all about BFG, I have heard of the work they do, the success they op-erate on, before I was even called down to this event,” he said. “Know, dear as-sociates, that every person you protect is a gift you are giving that can’t be mon-etized or appreciated enough,” Senator
Singer proclaimed, “I couldn’t think of a more deserving place to receive this gift as the wonderful Lakewood com-munity!” he concluded heartily.
Particularly delighted are the current Lakewood BFG associates. One such associate, Avrohom B. Edelman, took the stand. Eloquently, he addressed the crowd.
“Last week I attended a BFG con-ference in San Diego. One day, during our short stay, we went to visit MCRD, the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, the largest marine recruiting center of the United States. Arriving there, I asked the Commander, ‘Why here, in San Diego, on prime real estate, located right at the city’s harbor and airport, did you set up a Marine Corps Recruitment base?’
“The Commander explained how the coast of San Diego is the southern most tip of the Pacific in the United States and has the crucial resource of
‘surge capability’ – the capability of quickly training large amounts of re-cruits if necessary. In addition, San Di-ego’s strategic location as the southern most tip in the country makes the harbor a vital necessity in time of war when marines need to be shipped off quickly and efficiently.”
“When I heard that,” Avrohom B. Edelman finishes, “I knew why I was so excited for the new Lakewood office! Lakewood needs the ‘surge capability’ to meet the demanding needs of a grow-ing community. It’s integral to have the resources right here, where we can be ready to train and sign up the recruits that are necessary to fill the needs of this community. And of course, chas v’sho-lom should tragedy strike, the commu-nity needs the protection of a superpow-er’s army – BFG.”
BFG Lakewood Division Opens
Rav Binyomin Eisenberger, the rav of Khal Heichal Hatefillah in Boro Park, was the guest speaker at a special mesibah held at Mesivta Chaim Shlo-mo. At left, Rav Yaakov Bender, Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshiva Darchei Torah.
Rav Binyomin Eisenberger Speaks at Yeshiva Darchei Torah
Rav Dov Keilson, mashgiach ruchani of Mesivta Chaim Shlomo, introducing Rav Eisenberger
At the Weiss Vocational Center, L-R: Rav Moshe Lubart, instructor; Rav Shimon Dachs, director; Aron Solomon, co-chairman of Yeshiva Darchei Torah’s Board of Directors; and Rav Eisenberger.
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Lights! Camera! Sheitel?That’s right. For Allison Josephs, appearing
regularly in publicized video sessions is all in a day’s work. Allison is the founder and director of Jew in the City, an initiative to “break down stereotypes about religious Jews and offer a humorous, meaning-ful outlook into Orthodox Judaism,” according to its website. Utilizing the far-reaching fingers of social media as well as conducting various seminars on the
subject, Allison strives to address and hopefully dis-pel many of the world’s negative perceptions of reli-gious Jews. What sets Allison’s operation apart from so many other pro-Orthodoxy organizations lies in the proactive approach with which she seeks to educate the general public on this matter, as well as her un-abashed honesty in answering the questions asked.
Where did this ambition stem from? Allison ex-plains that it was her own life experience that motivat-ed her to seek the truth about Orthodox Judaism. “My background is that I was this proud, secular Jewish kid… I had everything in my life that was supposed to make me good and happy,” Allison begins. All of that changed in an instant. “When I was eight, a girl in the grade above me was murdered by her father,” she says. “This out-of-the-blue, really intense tragedy just shook everything up for me.” All of a sudden Al-lison’s previously unthreatened world of security and privilege dissolved into frightening uncertainty. The concept of death and possible harm became very real concepts, and this ending of a life raised many ques-tions in Allison’s mind regarding how to live her own. She began to question her purpose on this earth and turned to the people nearest to her for answers: her parents. Convinced they would not disappoint her,
Allison was dismayed to discover that, when faced with these fundamental life questions, all her parents could muster was a blank stare. The scene repeated itself when questioning more and more people in “her world,” with not one person able to provide a satisfac-tory response. “I had no idea that within my own reli-gion there was talk about the meaning of life,” Allison recalls. “Judaism was limited to doctors, lawyers and gefilte fish.”
In high school, Allison attended an after-school Hebrew program. She was sent there to “meet a nice Jewish boy” to date and eventu-ally marry, not necessarily to learn Torah per se. “We were eating bacon but we had to marry a Jew,” Allison laughs. But once she was there she connected with an Orthodox teacher who she describes as being a “nice, normal guy,” a picture inconsistent with the fanatical im-
age she had conjured of Observant Jews. His sense of spirituality and purpose exceeded her own, which motivated Allison to explore more of what Judaism had to offer.
Although Allison had been accus-tomed to seeing re-ligious Jews around her hometown in New Jersey, dis-tinctions between sects were not apparent to her. Chassidim, the Modern Orthodox or those in the ye-shiva world were all one in Alli-son’s mind. The people around her shared these a s s u m p t i o n s , including the propensity to label the actions of extrem-ists as the mentality of the mainstream. When it be-came known to friends of Allison’s that she was in-
terested in becoming more observant, they fervently tried to dissuade her, insisting that she would be sub-jugated, forced to have ten kids, and become a fanatic, among other things. “None of my educated family and friends,” says Allison, “had any idea about all the nor-mal Orthodox Jews walking around who don’t make the news, who don’t get stereotyped in movies and TV shows.”
Years later, after having turned toward the path of Orthodox Judaism and involving herself with vari-ous Jewish outreach organizations, Allison had a
new idea through which to share the beauty of her dis-covery with those yet uninformed. “About nine years ago I had this ‘aha’ moment to start Jew in the City,” Allison relates. “I felt like why are the vast majority of Jews completely ignorant of how deep and rich their own heritage is?” Allison was propelled into action after answering the Craigslist ad of a journalist from Spain who had come to Brooklyn where she encoun-tered more religious Jews than ever in her life. She was reaching out for an interview with any such Jews,
and Allison was happy to oblige. In the three hours that followed, the journalist pro-ceeded to list all her preconceived stereotypes about Orthodox Jews while Allison, a living example proving otherwise, explained them away. Years before, while at Partners in Torah, Allison interviewed 3,000 Birthright alumni about their percep-
tions of religious Jews. The meeting with the journalist crystallized a realization that there
A P lace for Every JewAllison Josephs’ Initiative Makes all Jews Feel at HomeBY RENA ZINGMOND GRAY
“Judaism was limited to doctors, lawyers and gefilte f ish.”
Allison addressing the audience of JAKE TV
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many within and outside our community.At about this time came the advent of social media
– a powerful tool, as Allison soon discovered. “You-Tube was one of the first big ones,” she says, “and I saw that through the screen, you could…almost recre-ate having a coffee with someone or sitting next to someone on a plane.” The computer could simulate intimacy with a worldwide audience like never before. Allison and her growing team set out to maximize their effectiveness by way of other popular network-ing sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and Buzzfeed.
A large part of the information covered in Alli-son’s articles and videos is the explanation of mitz-vos. “As I made my journey I needed to understand why Shabbos, why tzinius, why kosher,” Allison says. She provides responses from her own knowledge base coupled with the rabbinical guidance of members of her staff, namely Rabbi Jack Abramowitz, Torah Con-tent Editor for the OU.
Although the initial goal had been to positively rebrand Orthodoxy in the eyes of the non-Orthodox and non-Jewish world, Allison and her team drew in-terest from a group they didn’t expect – the Orthodox themselves.
“That was about the most shocking thing to discov-er,” Allison admits. She explains that most questions from the Orthodox audience came from two camps:
individuals seeking more meaning in their religious observance or those who were surprised to learn that a gratifying career path and a solid Torah way of life were not contradictions. In response to the latter Al-lison created the Orthodox Jewish All Star Awards, an annual list highlighting ten of the most successful Or-thodox men and women in the career world. Previous inductees include Saul Blinkoff, animator and direc-tor at Disney, and Joyce Azria, daughter of Max Mara of BCBG. Nomi-nations are currently open for the All Star list’s fourth year.
“A few years ago this whole new d e m o g r a p h i c
opened up that I liter-ally never knew was there and needed us,” Allison continues. After giving a talk in Monsey one evening, she was ap-proached by a frum cou-ple who told her they used to be ultra-Chassidish. They were seeking an al-ternative yet still Observant lifestyle to their Chassidish roots but were clueless as
to which direction to take and whom to follow. This encounter sparked Allison’s research into the matter, leading her to a surprising number of similarly identi-fying individuals and an inverse amount of appropri-ate programs. Understandably so – the topic could be seen by many as sensitive and controversial, and besides, where would funding come from? If not for the fact that Allison had started an or-ganization from very little once before, she might have balked at the prospect of doing so a second time. Once again, the urgency commanded by her newfound audience had her hooked. “It’s not for us to fin-ish,” Allison said to herself, “it’s for us to start.”
Not entirely sure of any particular game plan, Allison used Facebook to publicize her desire to aid this popu-lation and made the call for others to join. She was an-swered by 200 people from all over the world who offered to host Shabbos meals, learn one-on-one, and advocate for children of these families to be accepted
into schools. Two women in particular, Mindy Schaper and Gavriella Lerner, want-ed to do more and offered to help spearhead the ef-fort. Sympathizing with the cause due to their own per-sonal life journeys, the pair were a perfect choice to lead this initiative. Soon enough Project Makom was born.
Project Makom defines itself as an “initiative to help former and questioning Charedi Jews find their place in Orthodox Judaism.” The program aims to introduce former Chassidim to alternative religious ways of life as opposed to leaving Judaism complete-ly. Leaving a Chassidish way of life does not mean that one has to leave Orthodox Judaism. Participants are paired with Orthodox families as hands-
on examples of such frum lifestyles as well as for any aid in their journeys. In the last year, Mindy and Gavri-ella have screened over 100 of those 200 volunteers for mentorship positions and several people have al-ready been matched up.
Last summer, Al-lison ran what she calls an “unofficial”
Shabbaton in Airmont, NY, after discovering a small, formerly Chas-sidish community there. Allison and her husband, a lawyer, spoke to its members over the course of Shabbos about open-
ing their minds to the existence of other viable venues through which to follow a Torah path. “We gave over the idea,” Allison says, “that instead of defining your-self by what you used to be, learn about what else is out there so that you can connect yourself to some-
thing vibrant, something
that’s worth being a part of in a positive way.” Project Makom’s first official Shabbaton is scheduled for the weekend of June 12-13 in the Five Towns.
In addition to the obvious emphasis that will be placed on the spiritual side of things, event coordina-tors Shoshie Manella and Chani Waxler are making a special effort to ensure that the physical presentation is equally tasteful – and heimish. Chani, a member of Gerrer Chassidus herself, insisted that they would need to serve cholent three times throughout the week-end. Shoshie was able to offer her large network of friends as host families for the participants.
As far as programming, a panel of men and women who used to identify as Chassidish will speak to the group about the transition they made from past prac-tices to current Orthodox lifestyles and community. A centrist Orthodox rabbi will be speaking on the topic of historical and source-based explanations of how in-tegrating and interacting with the world can be a valid and kosher enterprise. A yoetzet halacha will give a class on the halachic process and detail the differences between chumra, halacha and minhag. The seminars will also focus on positive ways to relate to Hashem, the first of its kind for many in the expected audience.
The Shabbaton will also feature Rabbi Moshe Weinberger from Aish Kodesh who will share his story of moving toward a Chassidish lifestyle from a more modern one, contrasting Chassidus with what Chassidish culture has now become in some instances. Participants should know that it’s not all or nothing; moving in a different direction of observance would not necessarily mean dropping all former family tradi-tions. “We could show people that there could be some aspects of their heritage that they could hold with them while still being integrated and open-minded,” says Allison. Accommodations and meals will be hosted in Cedarhurst with shalosh seudos at Aish Kodesh.
Allison is pleased with and grateful for the success of her unique enterprise. As frightening as it has been to boldly embark on such a sensitive venture, Allison feels her obligation outweighed her fears. “There’s just nothing else I can do,” Allison says. “I want to change people’s perspective on Orthodox Jews.”
“Instead of defining yourself by what you used to be, learn about what else is out there so that you can connect yourself to something vibrant.”
Allison with the 2014 Orthodox Jewish All Stars Gala last December in NYC
Project Makom Shabbaton-Jew in the City Event Coordinators,
Shoshie Manela and Chanie Waxler with Allison
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Every child should be able to realize their dreams.
The 13th Annual FD NOW Dinner - A David Z. Herman MemorialJune 11, 2015 • The Sephardic Temple, 775 Branch Blvd., Cedarhurst
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For their anniversary, Bill decides to take his aunt and uncle to a classic kosher delicatessen in Brooklyn.
“I’ll have the kreplach,” says Bill to the waiter. “The kreplach are from last night,” explains the waiter.
“Better you should order something freshly made – like stuffed peppers.”
“Alright, let it be stuffed peppers,” says Bill. The waiter turns to Aunt Sue. “And you?” “Please bring the pot roast.” “Look, lady, the pot roast is strictly for cheap people.
You want somethin’ special, try the flanken.” “Alright then, so bring the flanken,” she says. Uncle Abe studies the menu carefully, then says, “Wait-
er, I can’t make up my mind. What do you suggest?” “Suggest!” cries the waiter. “On a busy night like this
who has time for suggestions?”
You Gotta be Kidding!Four students,
Sara, Leah, Tova and Rachel, took
a Chumash test, and were guessing their grades.
Sara says: “If I get an A, so does Leah.”
Leah says: “If I get an A, so does Tova.”
Tova says: “If I get an A, so does Rachel.”They all guessed correctly, but in fact, only two of
them got an A. Who are they?
See answer on next page
Riddle!
Know Your Spelling Bee Words?
1. Cytopoiesis 2. Cocozelle 3. Zygoneure 4. Nixtamal 5. Bruxellois 6. Scherenschnitte 7. Nunatak 8. Bouquetière 9. Scytale 10. Hippocrepiform
A. Shaped like a horseshoeB. The art of cutting paper into decorative designsC. Production of cells D. A native or resident of Brussels, BelgiumE. Limed kernels of corn that are ready to be ground into masaF. A hill or mountain completely surrounded by glacial iceG. A connecting neuron H. A method of cipher writingI. Garnished with vegetables J. A variety of zucchini
The following are some of the words that the champions of the 2015 National Spelling Bee, Vanya Shivashankar (age 13) and Gokul Venkatachalam (age 14), spelled correctly. Match the words with their meaning:
ANSWERS: 1-C; 2-J; 3-G; 4-E; 5-D; 6-B; 7- F; 8- I; 9- H; 10- A
WISDOM KEY: If you got even one right you are a super genius. Everyone else—you’re normal!
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ANSWER TO RIDDLE: Tova and Rachel each got an A. (If Sara got an A, then all four students got an A, which contradicts the fact that only two got an A. If Leah got an A, then so did Tova and Rachel, which also can’t be true.)
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Read Between the Buns:Happy Hamburger Facts
The following are some of the words that the champions of the 2015 National Spelling Bee, Vanya Shivashankar (age 13) and Gokul Venkatachalam (age 14), spelled correctly. Match the words with their meaning:
Stare at the stairs and watch it change in front of your eyes
Brain Teaser
• MayisNationalHamburgermonth(buttheCFCommissionerobserves it in June as well).
• Americanseatnearly50billionburgersayear.That’sthreeburgers a week for every single person in the United States.
• Burgersaccountfor40percentofallsandwiches sold. Take that club sandwich.
• AccordingtoMcDonald’s,thechainsells75burgers every single second of every minute of every hour of every single day.
• TheLibraryofCongresscreditsLouisLassenof Louis Lunch sandwich shop in New Haven, CT, as the creator of the hamburger as we know it.
• TheHamburgerHallofFameislocatedinSeymour,Wisconsin.
• 60%ofsandwichessoldgloballyareactuallyburgers.
• In2000,KimJongIlofNorthKoreasaidthathecreatedthe“hamburger.”
• PETAonceofferedthetownofHamburg,NY,$15,000tochangetheir name to Veggieburg.
•Thelargestburgerever,accordingtotheGuinnessBookofWorld Records, was 777 pounds and was cooked at
California’s Alameda Country Fair on July 4, 2011. The custom grill that was used to cook it was
over 72,000 pounds and took the creators 35 hours to make. The burger was estimated to have approximately 1.2 million calories, which is enough calories to fulfill one person’s standard 2,000 calorie diet for 22 months.
•TheHeartAttackGrillinNevadaservesburgers under the names of single, double,
triple, and quadruple bypass burgers. The Quadruple Bypass weighs in at an amazing 8,000
calories.
• ElvisPresleywasknowntobequiteparticularabouthisburgersand would constantly add ingredients to his burgers such as bananas, peanut butter, syrup, and egg. Elvis insisted that the inside of the buns be burnt black to a crisp.
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Without warning, disaster strikes the people of Israel on their journey to the Land
of Israel. Moshe boldly proclaimed that “we are traveling now on the way to the land of our destination.” The tribes have been numbered and counted, assigned flags and positions of march, and they are accompanied on their journey by the Tabernacle of G-d placed in their midst. Everything is seemingly poised for their successful entry into the Land of Israel.
But one of the traits of human nature is the penchant for dismissing the good that we enjoy and the blessings that we have. Instead we long for and complain loudly about what we believe we don’t have. The search for perfection in hu-man life is equivalent to drinking salt-water in an attempt to slake one’s thirst.
So we read in the parsha how the fa-ther-in-law of Moshe abandons the Jew-ish people in the desert to return home to Midian where, according to Rashi, he is convinced that he will be able to
convert a pagan society into believing in one G-d. His absence is harmful to the Jewish people encamped in the desert and as is apparent from the later narratives in the Bible, his conversion attempts were in the main unsuccessful.
Though blessed with daily food – manna from heaven – the Jewish people complain about their diet; they express their ingratitude and demand meat and other foods. They were tired of having to eat directly from G-d’s hand, so to speak. All of their grousing and com-plaining only serves to bring plague,
depression and disaster on them.The prophet Jeremiah, in essence,
states that human complaints are not really justified in the eyes of Heaven, so to speak. The Talmud puts it pithily: “Is it not sufficient for you that you are alive and functioning?” But we often take life for granted and are under-ap-preciative of this most basic and gener-ous of all gifts.
It is within the nature of humans to pursue wealth at the expense of health, power and notoriety at the expense of family and harmony, and temporal plea-
sures at the expense of eternal values and reward. The story of the desert il-lustrates for us how a section of the Jewish people valued a meat meal over entry into the Land of Israel. There will always be a refrain repeated in the des-ert, that it is better for us to return to Egypt than to meet the challenges that will be placed before us in establishing a Jewish national state in the Land of Israel.
This type of attitude is unfortunately not lacking in the current Jewish world. And no matter how wealthy and suc-cessful the Jewish state is now and will be in the future, there will always be a longing for more, better and different. And this longing breeds the insidious feeling of dissatisfaction with what blessings one already possesses. The parsha comes to teach us this basic les-son of human nature, of how we must be aware of it in order to overcome and truly reach our proper goals in life.
Shabbat shalom.
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Parshas Behaloscha
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This is the workmanship of the me-norah, hammered out of gold, from it base to its flower, it is hammered out; according to the vision that Hashem showed Moshe, so did he make the me-norah. — Bamidbar 8:4
Moshe Rabbeinu was charged with the construction of the Mishkan, the dwelling place
of Hashem in this world. While the com-ponents of the structure are physically complex, the kavanos — the specific intentions required during the process of building it — are even more intricate.
The most complicated of all of the vessels was the menorah. Its design was so elaborate that even after Hash-em taught Moshe how it was to be built, Moshe still didn’t understand its unique nature and was unable to form it. There-fore, Hashem showed Moshe an image of a menorah made of fire so that Moshe could actually see the finished form and imitate it.
Yet Rashi tells us that when it came time for the construction of the meno-rah, Moshe still could not fathom its structure and was unable to fabricate it. Hashem said, “Throw the clump of gold into the fire, and it will form by itself.” This is how the menorah was created — on its own.
This Rashi is perplexing. Since the menorah was so intricate that Moshe could not understand its inner nature and how to form it, then why did Hashem bother to show him the image of the me-norah in fire? Hashem knew that Moshe wasn’t going to be able to create the me-norah himself. He knew that in the end it would have to come about by Moshe’s throwing the clump of gold into the fire. If so, why did Hashem show Moshe the image of the menorah so that he should understand how it was to be formed? Clearly, creating the menorah was be-yond human capacity. Why did Moshe need to have a clear image of what it was to look like?
Bitachon and HishtadlusThe answer to this question is pred-
icated on understanding the balance between Hashem’s involvement in the running of the world and man’s obliga-tion to put in his effort — the balance
between bitachon and hishtadlus. One of the basic facts of life is that
Hashem runs this world. While it may appear that man is in charge, Hashem orchestrates every activity on the plan-et. As we say in the first Ani Maamin: “Hashem did, does and will do all ac-tions.”
The question is: what is man’s part?
If Hashem determines all outcomes, how is man supposed to act? What is his role?
The Chovos Ha’Levovos teaches us that we are obligated to act b’derech hat-evah – in the ways of the world. In other words, we are obligated to go through the motions as if the results are depen-dent upon us, knowing all the while that the outcome is completely out of our hands.
We work for a living, knowing that the amount of money we are to make
has been set on Rosh Hashana. We go to doctors when we are sick, even though we know that our health is determined solely by Hashem. We are obligated to go to great lengths to protect ourselves even though we know that whether we live or die has been predetermined. We put in our effort, knowing all the while that it is Hashem’s world and that He alone determines the outcome.
When we accomplish something, the results are credited to us even though we are fully aware that Hashem was the One Who did it all. We merely went through the motions. We use Hashem’s system,
and are credited with having done it. If I feed my family, I am considered their supporter. If I give tzedakah, it is consid-ered that I gave my own money and I am credited with having saved a poor man from starvation. In Hashem’s system, we are credited with the outcome.
Using Hashem’s SystemThis seems to be the answer to the
question on Rashi. Hashem wanted the menorah to be constructed by man. However, even the greatest of men couldn’t comprehend how to make it. So his hishtadlus was to do all that he could and then rely on Hashem for the rest. Moshe would put the gold into the fire, and the menorah would form on its own. Moshe used the system that Hash-em created to bring forth the menorah.
However, for the creation of the me-norah to be credited to man, Moshe had to at least have a vision of what it was
that he was creating. Once he had that concept in mind, throwing the clump of gold into the fire was considered as if he made the menorah himself. It was then considered as if he used Hashem’s system to bring about this result. If Moshe didn’t have a clear vision of what it was that he was creating, then in no sense could it be considered something he made — it would have been the fire that made it. Once he knew what it was that he was setting out to make, he then harnessed a force that Hashem created to bring about that result. In this case, the force was the fire bringing about the
menorah.This concept has great relevance to
us in a number of ways. The first is that in all of our involvement in this world, we need to have a clear plan of action, a “business plan” that according to the ways of the world makes sense. With that in hand, we set off on a path with a vision of its fulfillment, all the while knowing that the outcome is completely in the hands of Hashem.
Nevertheless, there are many situa-tions in which we reach a point where there is no clear path to follow. Whether it be deciding from two almost identi-cal career choices, determining which medical “expert” to listen to, or deciding which school to enroll our children in, we are obligated to be responsible, use our best judgment, and determine ac-cording to the ways of the world what is the best approach. Once we have reached that point, we “throw our clump of gold into the fire.” We rely on Hash-em to bring about the results that He has predetermined to be the best for us.
However, this Rashi seems to be showing us that when it comes to a dvar mitzvah, the rules change some-what. There will be times when a per-son sets out to accomplish something for the tzibbur, whether it be starting a Yeshiva, giving a shiur, or beginning a chessed project, and he sees no clear path to follow. Either the odds against it are too great, or the mountain is too high to climb, and he can’t see how to make this happen. If this were a mun-dane project, it could be that he wouldn’t be allowed to move forward. However, if this is a holy project, then the rules of engagement change a bit. Provided that he has a clear image of what it is that he is setting out to accomplish and he has an image of the finished product, he may be permitted to step forward and allow Hashem to bring things about. He has to throw his lump of gold into the fire, relying on Hashem to bring his efforts into fruition.
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Concrete Lessons
Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz
The Observant Jew
We all want that eternal legacy; we all want to be remembered.
On a recent visit to Teaneck, NJ, I noticed something un-usual on the sidewalk. Many
of the squares had a small oval stamped on them. Some had years on them, and some had the name of a construction firm. I’m not really sure why they did it, but I’m guessing it was to memorial-ize the work that was done in construct-ing the sidewalk initially and pouring the cement so well.
That’s not the first time I’d seen markings in cement, just the first time I’d seen it so professionally done. Of-ten, when there is wet cement, people will scratch their name or initials in it. I have done it myself. It’s an alluring idea not because we want to vandalize anything but because we like the idea of the long-term impact we’ll have. In fifty years from now, my initials might still be here on the sidewalk! Sure, the person seeing them might not know what the initials stand for, but they’ll know that someone was here before and he changed the world at least a little bit.
This longing for a legacy, for a per-manent place in this world, is natural. We still have a feeling that we should live forever, like Adam HaRishon was supposed to do. It’s in our DNA, so even if we can’t actually last forever, we try to find some way of continuing our existence.
As I looked at the sidewalks and contemplated their meaning in the deeper range of human emotion, I real-ized that there’s something much lon-
ger-lasting than cement. There’s a way we can make a concrete difference in the world, effectively leaving our “Kil-
roy was Here” mark on all we touch.Instead of writing our names in
cement, we can make an indelible im-
pression on the people whose lives we touch. If we have an impact on some-one so that our fingerprints are apparent in their character, then they become our virtual star on the Walk of Fame.
We all have people we remember from our younger years, who taught us something we never forgot. We re-
member people who hurt us or made us feel bad. We have memories and the residual effects of the way other people
scratched their initials in our lives, and those people live on in us.
The hope, of course, is that the mes-sage left behind will not only be indel-ible, but positive. No one wants to be the reason for someone grew up feeling frustrated with Judaism, yet there are many people who were just that person for youngsters who’ve grown up feel-ing disenfranchised.
How many people raised their chil-dren with negativity echoing in those pure innocent ears? Would they be surprised to see the mark they left on those children who grow up speaking badly of others? Shouldn’t they have known that young minds are more im-pressionable and longer-lasting than a slab of wet cement?
Of course, there are people who set the right example for their children and everyone they meet. There are people about whom stories are told years lat-er, relating their sensitivity, warmth, or
understanding. These people weren’t trying to make a legacy any more than the people who make a negative impres-sion. In fact, they might not have real-ized they were making an impression at all. But they were.
We all do. All the time. When we interact with someone, we’re making a mark on their minds and hearts and though they might not remember it, it could still affect how they think or act. They might not realize they’ve been im-pacted but it doesn’t change the fact that they were.
We all want that eternal legacy; we all want to be remembered. That’s great, and it’s what we should be do-ing. The hard part is realizing that it’s not as simple as scratching our initials in wet cement. Sometimes the cement is too dry, and we can’t impress people the way we’d like. Sometimes the sign is on the wrong spot, so when we think we’re treading safely on solid ground, we’re actually making a mess of what had previously been smooth and trying to settle.
It’s not clear that we’ll be able to make our mark at a given moment or avoid leaving an impact at anoth-er. That’s why it’s so important to be consistent in our behavior, constantly aware of the potential of long-lasting effects on others, and cognizant of the fact that like it or not, what we do at any time may leave a lasting impression on the world.
That’s what a person learned from a sidewalk; can you imagine what people can learn from a person?
Jonathan Gewirtz is an inspirational writer and speaker whose work has appeared in publications around the world. You can find him at www.facebook.com/RabbiGewirtz and follow him on Twitter @RabbiJGewirtz. He also operates JewishSpeechWriter.com, where you can order a custom-made speech for your next special occasion.
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This week’s parsha sheds light on the damaging impact of pining for “luxuries” as a pretense for
complaint and grievance.The people were as if in mourning
over themselves (lit: complainers), and it was evil in the ears of the L-rd. The L-rd heard and His anger flared, and a fire from the L-rd burned among them, consuming the extremes of the camp…But the multitude among them began to have strong cravings. Then even the children of Israel once again began to cry, and they said, “Who will feed us meat? We remem-ber the fish that we ate in Egypt free of charge, the cucumbers, the watermelons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. But now, our bodies are dried out, for there is nothing at all; we have nothing but manna to look at.” (Bamidbar 11:1, 4-6)
According to Rabbi Samson Rapha-el Hirsch, these two instances of com-plaint emanated from a fundamental deficit in their spiritual perfection, a nar-row-minded failure to see the positive aspects of Hashem’s miraculous provi-sions. To them, G-d’s “blessings” were stifling and limiting, restricting their ability to enjoy life as others did.
The people...looked on themselves as already dead and mourned over their very selves. The cloud of glory over them and the Ark of His Covenant with them only made them feel cut off from the rest of the world and its requirements for liv-ing. The whole unique connection with G-d which they received in its place…offered them no compensation…had not yet become to them a fuller, happier life; they felt themselves buried alive and mourned over themselves. (Commen-tary to verse 1)
The sad part of this “complaint fest” was that every targeted item either took place or was left out for a reason.
They said, “Woe is to us! How wea-ry we have become on this journey! For three days we have not rested from the fatigue of walking… [Hashem said,] I meant it for your own good—that you
should be able to enter the Land imme-diately. [Rashi to verse 1, quoting Mid-rash Aggadah]
R’ Shimon says: “Why did the man-na change into everything except these [vegetables]? Because they are harmful for nursing mothers.” (Rashi to verse 5)
There is nothing wrong with a per-son pursuing personal comforts if it gives him the opportunity to do his job more effectively or relax after a long day in the office. However, pleasure pur-suits that are designed to find a pretext of fault (“They were seeking a pretext
to turn away from the Omnipresent.” – Rashi to verse 1 and verse 4), whether in Hashem, a family member, a school, et al, or are driven by an underlying sense of needing to keep up with the Goldbergs are certainly neither productive nor ful-filling.
In a similar vein, we must be careful
whenever we offer “constructive feed-back” that we are truly doing just that, and not presenting well couched (or perhaps not so subtle) complaints be-cause we feel that our needs are not be-ing properly addressed or that the target of our ire has taken us a bit out of our personal comfort zone. In this way we can begin to emulate the caring rebuk-ing style of our Maker, who uses mussar solely for the purpose of nurturing us along the path of perfection.
G-d interacts with us in infinite num-bers of ways, but in general He does so lovingly, firmly, or by a combination of the two. For even when He’s exacting in His expectations of us it’s still-and-all done with loving intentions… G-d does indeed chastise us at times, but with our own well-being in mind, and with the in-sight and deep love one would expect of a caring, worldly-wise parent, certainly without malice or vengeance. (Ramchal, Da’as Tevunos, 4:2)
Rabbi Naphtali Hoff is an executive coach and president of Impactful Coaching and Consulting (ImpactfulCoaching.com). He can be reached at 212.470.6139 or at [email protected].
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Now that June is here and school is almost out, most of us are looking forward to a wonderful, relaxing summer season. Barbecues, swimming, beaches and watermelon galore…the summer is filled with some of the most wonderful memories. It’s a great time to spend time with family and friends and de-
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The halachos of maaris ayin arise quite frequently. For example, one may go into a
kosher supermarket and see “kosher shrimp” with excellent hashgachas. It has become very common today for people to consume surimi prod-ucts. Real shrimp is obviously not kosher. Therefore, is there a problem of maaris ayin since people may see one eating this product? Can one use pareve creamer with coffee? Is there a need to place the bottle next to the coffee? There is a restaurant which recently began making cheeseburgers using pareve cheese. Is there a concern of maaris ayin while eating this, since people see that one is eating them? Can one walk into a non-kosher restaurant to use the bathroom? Is one allowed to walk into a non-kosher restaurant to meet with clients? Is there a concern of maaris ayin with a mashgiach walking into a non-kosher restaurant in order to do reverse certification? (Reverse certification is when a company gives a hechsher on a restaurant, etc. and the owner has a different store which is non-kosher. The mashgiach goes into the non-kosher store to make sure no non-kosher is going out with the kashrus label on the product.)
What is Maaris Ayin? Some poskim say that if one is do-
ing a permitted act but it appears that it is forbidden then there is maaris ayin. Others say if one does something many times which may be forbidden and now one is doing it in the permitted manner, then there is maaris ayin.
Harav Moshe Feinstein zt”l says that maaris ayin means “someone thinks that I violated something, and he thinks that someone inappropriate-ly ate something non-kosher. Howev-er, it does not include doing something permitted that people may mistakenly think is forbidden due to the fact that they do not know the halacha.”
What is Cheshad? Some say cheshad is something
that a person does and it could be trans-lated into either permitted or forbidden.
In PrivateWhen something is not allowed
because of maaris ayin, then it is not permitted in one’s room either (chadrei chadurim – privately). Some say this is only something which is perceived as an issur d’oraisa, and not something which is perceived as an issur d’rab-banan.
Eating Imitation FoodSurimi is a Japanese word which
refers to a food product typically made from white fleshed fish that has been pulverized to a paste and has a rubbery consistency when cooked. Surimi is used to imitate crab legs, lobster, and shrimp.
The Gemara in Chulin says that
Yalta, the wife of Rav Nachmun, said that for every non-kosher food, there exists a counterpart which is kosher. In response to this, her husband or-dered that one of the foods be heated for her. The reason why Hashem did this is to give Klal Yisroel reward for watching the mitzvahs.
Rashi says one should not say, “I do not have a desire to eat pork.” In-stead one should say, “I want it but I do not eat it because Hashem said I cannot eat it.”
Based on the above, one would be able to eat kosher products which are meant to serve as a replica of the real non-kosher food, such as surimi. Some are not so happy with the fact that it says “shrimp” on the bag, but the cus-tom of many is to be lenient with this.
Milk from Almonds The Rama says one who drinks
milk made from almonds (pareve) in the same meal as animal meat should place some of the almonds next to him so there will be no concern of maaris ayin. Some say one should do so even when eating chicken.
However, if this is not possible, one may still eat the meat (or chicken) and pareve milk together. Some say the whole concern of maaris ayin in this regard is by a big seuda, but if one is eating these foods at home there is no need to place the almonds on the table.
Pareve Creamer The custom is that using pareve
milk is permitted for a number of rea-
sons. Eating chicken with almond milk was not part of the gezeirah. Therefore we should not be adding concerns of maaris ayin which are not mentioned
in the Gemara. F u r t h e r m o r e , pareve milk is so common that no one would think one is us-ing real milk for a coffee while eating a fleshig meal. There is no need to place the bottle of creamer on the table in order to let people know
that the milk used is pareve.
Pareve Ice Cream One is permitted to eat pareve ice
cream after a meat meal without plac-ing the package on the table. Similarly, one is permitted to put margarine on meat or butter on a soy burger since it is known to all that there exists pareve meat, etc. In the company of people who do not know that there are such pareve products one should let them know what he is eating in order for
them not to think he is doing incor-rectly. One who wishes to drink pareve milk (which is not known to people) with meat should place the container on the table.
A Kosher CheeseburgerThere is a store on the Upper West
Side of Manhattan which recently start-ed making a kosher cheeseburger by using pareve cheese. Is there a maaris ayin issue by eating this burger? (We will not discuss whether eating this is permitted hashkafically.) Harav Yis-roel Belsky shlita said to avoid issues of maris ayin, the restaurant menu and receipts (for phone orders) must have on them the statement: “Cheeseburger made with pareve cheese.”
Walking into a Non-Kosher Restaurant
The opinion of Harav Moshe Fein-stein zt”l is that it is forbidden to en-ter a non-kosher restaurant because of maaris ayin. However, one who is fam-ished and has nowhere else to eat (in place of tzaar and loss) is allowed to walk into a non-kosher restaurant and eat any kosher food which they may serve (coffee, etc.). The reason why entering is permitted is because one who suffers a great loss may override a rabbinic prohibition to remove his suffering.
Based on the above, one who does not have a different place in which to use the bathroom other than a non-ko-sher restaurant may enter the non-ko-sher restaurant to use their bathroom.
Others are lenient with walking into a non-kosher restaurant to use the bath-room even if there is another bathroom available.
Attending a Meeting If one’s boss asks him to meet a
client in a non-kosher restaurant, one is permitted to do so if he will other-wise lose his job. However, if his job is not in jeopardy if he does not go to the non-kosher restaurant, then he should not go. In any case, one who finds him-self in this situation should discuss it with a rav.
Entering a Cafeteria If a company cafeteria sells all
Rabbi Moishe Dovid Lebovits
Halachically Speaking
Maaris Ayin
Can one walk into a non-kosher restaurant to use the bathroom?
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types of items, including a few which happen to be certified as kosher, then one may buy food from the cafeteria and eat at the tables. This is because it is well-known that cafeterias sell both kosher and non-kosher items and that people eat all types of food there.
Reverse CertificationIt is permitted for a mashgiach to
enter a non-kosher establishment for reverse certification. Since it is a re-quirement for the hashgacha organiza-tion, it is permitted since maaris ayin is permitted in the place of a loss.
Walking into a Coffee Shop The question arises if there is a con-
cern of maaris ayin with walking into a coffee shop which sells kosher and non-kosher to buy a coffee. L’maaseh, since a coffee shop sells kosher items (coffee) as well as non-kosher, there is no maaris ayin concern. This is com-mon when walking into a store at a rest stop. Walking into a store which sells only non-kosher would be a problem. Those who are makpid to only drink cholov yisroel, should be careful not to drink from an opened cholov yisroel bottle at a rest stop unless you see the person in the store opening it since you cannot verify that cholov yisroel milk
is in there.
OTHER CASES OF MAARIS AYINEntering a Reform Temple
The opinion of Harav Moshe Fein-stein zt”l is that one is not permitted to enter a Reform temple at the time of davening to daven in a room which is designated for Orthodox prayer. One who sees him may think that a frum person davened there or someone may learn from this and say “davening in a Reform temple is permitted.”
Going in a Car after Candle Lighting
It is very common for a man to drive to shul (a short distance) after his wife has lit candles. This is permitted and not considered maaris ayin, since it is well known that a man can do melacha until eighteen minutes after his wife has lit candles. Even if a few people might think he did something wrong, it is not maaris ayin since those who think he did something wrong do not know the halacha.
Non-Leather Shoes on Yom Kippur Some say non-leather shoes that
look exactly like leather shoes may not be worn on Yom Kippur because of maaris ayin.
Eating Human Blood
One is not al-lowed to eat human blood which sepa-rated from the body because of maaris ayin, however, blood which is still in one’s mouth (i.e. from brushing teeth) can be swal-lowed, but if it is not in the mouth it is not permitted because of maaris ayin. People may think it is blood from an animal, etc. which is forbidden m’d’oriaisa to eat.
According to some opinions, if one sucks a bloody wound and spits out the blood there is no concern.
Blood which is in one’s mouth but came onto a piece of bread is forbid-den to be eaten unless one removes the blood from the bread.
In ConclusionWe have discussed the halachos of
maris ayin and how people may per-ceive one’s actions. The Gemara in Yoma says that one should act in a way
that people will say “fortunate is his fa-ther and rebbe who taught him Torah.” One should do things which will be a kiddush Hashem and people will say with admiration, “He is a frum Jew.”
Rabbi Moishe Dovid Lebovits is a for-mer chaver kollel of Yeshiva Torah Vodaath and a musmach of Harav Yisroel Belsky shlita. Rabbi Lebovits currently works as the Rabbinical Administrator for the KOF-K Kosher Supervision.
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Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.
Dr. Deb
Mindfulness, Hypnosis and Depression
One must only breathe deeply and focus on one’s breath.
Finally, I got all the technology to work when I recorded my Food For Thought lecture on Tuesday.
So, iy”H you should be able to find my talk on Beating Depression: Therapy and Torah on Torah Anytime.
A key part of the therapy portion of the talk centered around the fasci-nating work of Dr. Richard Davidson who is a neuroscientist working on un-derstanding how emotions work in the brain. (He’s at the Center for Affective Research at the University of Wiscon-sin-Madison.) The tool of choice is the simple – but difficult – trick of breath-ing while not getting sidetracked by random thoughts. This is called mind-fulness meditation.
I thought I would use this opportu-nity to explain the related phenomena of meditation and hypnosis because they are such powerful tools in the cure of PTSD, depression, anxiety, and oth-er negative states.
And I am saying the word “cure” because Davidson’s research – as well as that of hundreds of other people studying the effects of mindfulness – indicates that not only do people self-report that their negative symp-toms are gone after proper use of this tool, but fMRI studies show exactly that in their brains. (To get your feet wet, you can listen to the Torah Any-time talk. Then you can go to David-son’s website, browse there, see his film Free The Mind about war veter-ans’ experience with this tool, or buy his book, The Emotional Life of the Brain.)
Let me begin by going over some of the myths of mindfulness.
Myth 1: It is religiousAlthough the current sweep of this
practice through America started with Eastern religions, it is not necessary to make a mental connection with religion in order to do it or to benefit from it. Therapists use it because the research shows the beneficial effects. That said, it can be used religiously and Dovid HaMelech certainly did just that. He refers in Tehillim to “meditating” and the word of choice for it is hegeh. This is clearly a spiritual word and refers to
a deep connection with Hashem. Rav Aryeh Kaplan’s books explain the his-tory and practice of Jewish meditation and he wrote them for 20th century peo-ple in need of knowing that Torah Ju-daism has that option.
In order to simply practice mindful-ness, one must only breathe deeply and
focus on one’s breath to begin with. There is no need to chant anything or to say or do anything religious.
Myth 2: It is emptyheadedThis would be correct if we were to
simply focus on breathing, but remem-ber, the word describing this meditation is “mindFUL-ness.” It is not “mind-emp-tiness.” After a person is able to sim-ply focus on his breath and not allow ran-dom thoughts to domi-nate think-ing during the practice, there is a next – and decisive – step.
In that step, a person actually tunes in to what is on his mind or in his heart. The key is how you do this tuning in. You tune in from the cognitive part of your brain rather than the emotional part. That means that because you have mastered the ability to notice random thoughts but always come back to your breath, so too, you notice these thoughts with particular interest, but you do not let them dominate your mind. To illustrate this, the movie of the research on this process showed two different groups being taught to master these two skills (deep, relaxed breathing along with noticing thoughts
while remaining calm and not allowing the thoughts to de-rail you from com-ing back to the breathing all the time). One was a group of pre-schoolers con-sisting of some children with emotion-al difficulties. The other was a group of war veterans who suffered from PTSD.
The film followed one child very
closely as well as two of the vets. The child had been removed at birth from his mother and by 20 months of age had had five different foster placements. As we meet him, he is crying because he is afraid to take an elevator. The vets had their own tragic stories and in one case, his wife divorced him because, as she
said, he was not the same person when he returned from the war zone as she had married.
We see scenes of the children and again, of the vets, doing the breath-ing. In one scene, they are laying on
the floor and you can imagine many thoughts going through their minds, but, unlike the experience in PTSD in which the thoughts are scary because the person feels as though he is re-liv-ing the experiences, a buffer is created by the breathing and letting go pro-cess. In this way, as one of the vets described, “It was just something that happened; I wasn’t connected to it.”
So, on the one hand, there is an emotional distance created by the mindfulness exercise, and on the other, the person is nevertheless very aware, very conscious, of the thought that is passing. This conscious awareness is why the practice is called mindful-
ness, but the emotional buffer is creat-ed because the pre-frontal cortex (the thinking part of the brain) has become involved through this practice, and the pre-frontal cortex seems to calm down the emotional experience.
Hypnosis, which I did not talk about in my presentation, may work the same way in the brain. Through using one’s imagination in combination with deep breathing and relaxing, a person can also gain enough emotional distance from experiences to no longer be both-ered by them. In hypnosis, generally, a therapist walks a person through some imagined scenario, although self-hyp-nosis is also possible.
Myth 3: In hypnosis, the therapist takes control of your mind
This is absolutely impossible. No one can control your mind. If, for ex-ample, a person doesn’t like the imagi-nary scene that the therapist is creating, that person can simply say so. No one is so far “out” that they are compelled to stay with something that doesn’t feel right. That said, a good therapist will discuss the plan carefully with the person beforehand so as to avoid the problem.
It seems to me that everyone should learn the skill of breathing to relax and in fact, there is a free app, Breathe2re-lax, that I recommend. If this process is done correctly, then over time it can be a powerful antidote to depression. At the end of the movie, the little boy went in the elevator, happily, and the vets reported they felt alive once more.
Dr. Deb Hirschhorn, a Marriage & Fami-ly Therapist and best-selling author of The Healing Is Mutual: Marriage Empower-ment Tools to Rebuild Trust and Respect—Together, is proud to announce that readers of The Jewish Home will receive a $50 dis-count on every visit to her Woodmere of-fice. Attend the Food For Thought lectures at Traditions Restaurant in Lawrence on Tuesdays at 12:30 PM. (There is a lovely optional lunch menu for $12 cash.) Any questions, call 646-54-DRDEB or check out her website at http://drdeb.com. All stories in Dr. Deb’s articles are fabricated.
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David Elazar Simai, MD
Health & Fitness
He will get used to drinking his milk before I brush his teeth and not after.
The Battle of the Bottle
Dear Parents,Today I would like to share with you one of the toughest
battles in raising young toddlers: “The Battle of The Bottle.” As I mentioned in a previous article entitled “Too Much
Milk,” we grew up seeing advertisements that portrayed milk as a very nutritious element in our daily diet. That preconceived notion motivates many of us to literally push milk down our kids’ throats. When our kids refuse to drink milk, some of us panic or feel that we have to come up with an original, creative undertaking to convince the young prince in our house to consume the calcium-rich drink.
The truth is that milk is healthy. When compared with soy and almond milk substitutes, milk contains more carbs, protein and fat which help our toddlers grow big and strong. The problem is that diets that are too rich in dairy are detrimental to our children’s health. Excessive milk intake causes constipation, iron deficiency anemia, weakness and can adversely affect our kids’ intellectual development.
Strikingly, kids who drink 4-5 bottles of milk a day are notoriously picky eaters. The anemia they develop suppresses their appetites and depresses their caregivers (There is a puddle
in room #1 at my office that was formed over the years from all those crying parents.)
My recommendation is that after their first birthday, children should drink a maximum of 16 oz. of whole milk per day. This
amount can be lowered if the child eats other dairy products such as cheese and yogurt.
Often, during well checkups, parents voice their concern regard-ing their child’s refusal to drink milk. I respond with a big smile and
just ask one question: does your child have a good appetite? Without exception, the answer is always – yes, he is a fantastic eater! He could devour three chicken legs in 10 minutes and have a few side dishes as well. Apparently, the lack of dairy oversupply helps these children develop appetites that are superior to others.
The additional, unique challenge that milk possesses is a wide-spread issue named “bottle decay.” Due to all the facts I described above, parents feel that there is no better way for their loved ones to fall asleep than with—you guessed it—a bottle of milk!
It turns out that by the time our kids are a year old they have a few budding teeth, and those teeth can be severely harmed by the residue of cow’s milk, mother’s milk or juice. What happens after your child falls asleep is pretty simple. Lactose, which is the sug-ary part of the milk, coats the surface of our teeth. Bacteria uses this sugar as fuel for growth and in turn produces harmful acids that decay the teeth. This causes a well-defined disease named: “Baby
Bottle Tooth Decay.” Cow’s milk is not the only culprit in this disease. Mother’s
milk, formula and juice will yield the same rotten teeth. And when I say rotten I mean rotten. As I frequently show parents at my of-fice, feel free to enter the words bottle decay on Google and click “images.” What you will see is a wide array of decaying teeth on unfortunate kids. They are all caused by lack of proper hygiene.
I also feel that the main cause of this easily preventable disease is twofold. First, parents feel that their children will not fall asleep without their pre-bedtime milk. The second is the notion that the chil-
dren will literally dehydrate if their bottles are removed.
My new approach to these feelings is to ask the parents: Do you feel that you have a normal child? If so, normal children adapt to minor changes in their life within a few days. True, there are children with hor-rible diseases who cannot adapt to change, but these are very rare cases, and in these situations the kids have profound neurological or swallowing disorders.
So in order to win the battle of the bottle, you first have to tell yourselves: my child is normal. He will adapt and drink from a cup. He will get used to drinking his milk before I brush his teeth and not after. He will survive even if he drinks a little less for a few days. And if your child does drink a little less for a few days, offer him some water-rich fruits and vegetables (melon, cantaloupe, water-melon or cherries).
I have yet to admit any child to the hospital or see any dehydrat-ed children when they were weaned from their bottle. The battle is yours to wean, and your child’s teeth will win a chance to have a bright, shiny future.
Wishing you and your children many years of shiny smiles,David Elazar Simai, MD
Dr. David Simai is a Board Certified Pediatrician from the Five Towns. He is a full time attending in his own private practice since 2007 in Cedarhurst, New York. In addition, he is an Attending Physician at LIJ-Cohen Children’s Hospital, North-Shore Manhasset University Hospital and South Nassau Communities Hospital. He can be contacted for consultation at 516 374-2228 or via email at [email protected].
NOTE: name, gender, geographical area and other identifying informa-tion were deliberately altered in this article in order to protect the patient’s privacy. This article is not intended to help diagnose or treat any specific dis-ease. Always consult your personal physician before diagnosing or treating yourself or your child for any of the above mentioned illnesses.
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A lawyer from Africa wants to marry Malia Obama in exchange for goats, sheep, and cows. In response, President Obama said, “Don’t be ridiculous. My daughter isn’t marrying a lawyer.” – Conan O’Brien
WARNING: Drinking beverages with added sugar(s) contributes to obesity, diabetes and tooth decay. This is a message from the City and County of San Francisco.- The warning that San Francisco lawmakers are proposing to be mandatory on all soda and sugary soda advertisements
People don’t remember, but when I came into office, the United States in world opinion ranked below China and just barely above Russia, and today once again, the United States is the most respected country on earth… It was on that basis we were able to end two wars while still focusing on the very real threat of terrorism and try to work with our partners in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s the reason why we are moving in the direction to normalize relations with Cuba and the nuclear deal that we are trying to negotiate with Iran. - President Obama at a recent town hall meeting
For the second year in a row, the Scripps National Spelling Bee ended in a tie with two winners. Or as each of their parents put it to their kids, “I told you that you shouldn’t have gone outside to play that one time.”- Jimmy Fallon
Recently, the CEO of Goldman Sachs let his employees know that he’d be just fine with either Bush or Clinton. I bet he would. Well, I’ve got news for the bullies of Wall Street: The presidency is not a crown to be passed back and forth by you between two royal families. It is a sacred trust to be earned from the people of the United States and exercised on behalf of the people of the United States.- Former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, announcing that he is running for the 2016 Democratic nomination
I worked out about 10 times. I would love to come back two months from now. I know I could reach home plate with a decent curveball. I’m not kidding. I’m almost 93, but I feel like I’m 51, 49, right in there.- 92-year-old Tony Gianunzio, who threw out the first pitch in Wrigley Field 70 years after giving up a promising pitching career to go fight in WWII, vowing that the ball will reach the plate without bouncing next time
I’ve got one simple message. I have more experience with our national security than any other candidate in this race. That includes you, Hillary!- Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) announcing that he is seeking the 2016 Republican nomination
No. - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is running against Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary, when asked on CNBC whether a top tax rate of 90% would be too high
Palaces have been built for you, planes bought, Mercedes cars purchased... golden seats have been bought, that’s how you use the toilet.- Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of the Turkish opposition, criticizing Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan for his lavish spending, which includes recently building a $600 million palace
I invite him to please come and take a tour... I wonder if he will be able to find such a golden toilet seat in any of these washrooms. If he finds it, I will resign from the presidency.- President Erdogan responding to the criticism
I don’t know. Maybe we were not skeptical enough. – Now retired Bob Schieffer, during his last broadcast ever of Face the Nation, “courageously” acknowledging that the media gave President Obama an easy ride during his 2008 campaign and failed to do their job, which is to be skeptical of all candidates
Today is the first official day of the 2015 hurricane season. And this is amazing — the New York Knicks have already been eliminated. – Seth Myers
I want to get rid of this stuff and clean up my garage. – What a woman told a recycling company when she dropped off a box of electronics, which she didn’t realize included a vintage Apple I computer worth $200,000
I’m fine, they’re really pampering me here.- Harriette Thompson of Charlotte, North Carolina, 92, when she was mobbed by well-wishers after completing the San Diego Marathon last week
During a speech in Iowa this weekend, Bernie Sanders criticized the billionaire class and said they “can’t have it all.” Billionaires would’ve responded but they were busy this weekend literally having it all.- Jimmy Fallon
Israel is the root cause of economic, political and cultural problems facing Muslim nations in recent decades.- Conclusion reached by a gathering of Muslim clerics in Beirut, Lebanon, last week
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They don’t understand the game. They don’t understand the process. There’s a process. And then they… complain because we don’t have a plan. - Philadelphia Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro, Jr. responding to fan outrage upon hearing that he may trade their star players
I may not be the youngest candidate in this race, but I have one big advantage: I’ve been coloring my hair for years. So you’re not going to see me turn white in the White House.- Hillary Clinton
The procedure at The Daily Item is for the person editing letters to review the content for offensive language and ad hominem attacks. Publication is, however, a signal that the opinion is not one we would readily suppress, which can accurately be interpreted as an endorsement of acceptability — much to our chagrin in this instance.- Part of an editorial apology printed in a Pennsylvania newspaper after it printed a letter to the editor calling for President Obama’s execution
Some of them I think secretly want there to be an attack on the United States so they can blame it on me. – Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) suggesting that those who oppose his opposition to the Patriot Act want there to be a terrorist attack so that they can blame him for it
It is simply unbelievable that a person whose way of operating is so famously and chronically sketchy can be chosen as president. [Hillary’s] policy judgments throughout her career will come under question. She is good at politics in terms of how she perceives the game and generally makes decisions within it—good enough to be an almost certain presidential nominee. Yet she is charmless on the stump and seems always to be hiding something in interviews. In speeches she continues to do strange things, such as speaking with a Southern accent this week in South Carolina.- Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
It is important to say that this land is ours—all of it is ours. We didn’t come here to apologize for this.- Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely telling Israeli officials that they should reference the Torah in presenting the historical rights of the Jewish people to the entire land of Israel
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No getting around it— filling up your gas tank at certain stations in Detroit can be hazardous to your health… I’d probably be very aware of my surroundings.- Detroit Police Chief James Craig at a news conference after a man was shot while pumping gas at night
In Michigan, the world’s oldest person recently turned 116. When the president called to congratulate her, she said, “Tell McKinley I’m busy.” – Conan O’Brien
You’re gonna be really mad at me when I put mine in.- What amateur golfer Janet Blundy joked to her amateur golfer husband, Tony, right after he hit a hole-in-one. Her next shot was a hole in one. (The odds of this feat, which was witnessed by independent witnesses, taking place is 26,000,000 to 1)
Officials from the soccer organization, FIFA, which decides which cities get to host the World Cup, are accused of accepting bribes when making their decision. Of course the toughest part for the soccer officials was taking bribes without using their hands. – Jimmy Fallon
Criminals feel empowered now. There is no respect. Police are under siege in every quarter. They are more afraid of going to jail for doing their jobs properly than they are of getting shot on duty. - Baltimore City police union President, Lt. Gene Ryan, explaining why the police are standing down as crime skyrockets in the city
It’s another clear attempt by the USA to spread its jurisdiction to other states… The U.S. prosecutor, as our media report, has already said that those FIFA officials have committed a crime. As if the prosecutor didn’t know about the principle of the presumption of innocence. - Russian President Vladimir Putin criticizing the U.S. indictment of high level World Soccer officials.
There’s massive corruption, a massive scandal, in international soccer. The first clue was when a soccer team scored a suspiciously high three goals in one game. – Conan O’Brien
I have new watches! I’m supposed to have four watches since I have four long legs. But that seems too tuhao [rich and vulgar] so I kept it down to two, which totally fits my status. Do you have one?- Caption of a photo placed on a Chinese social media site by a Chinese mogul who purchased two gold Apple Watches for his dog, valued at $24,000
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Restaurant Review
You deserve a better burger.Boeuf & Bun co-owner and executive chef
Tzemach Woolstone is redefining the kosher burger. A native of Sydney, Australia, Woolstone is no stranger to the wave of gentrification that is rapidly changing the once unfrequented side of Eastern Parkway. Not-ing that innovative kosher restaurants like Basil Pizza & Wine Bar proved highly successful in the lively neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Wool-stone seized the opportunity to introduce a new casual but trendy dining experience to the area.
Boeuf & Bun is an artisanal burger lab that offers a select, eclectic variety of gourmet hamburgers made from the finest quality kosher ingredients. The idea for such a cool, hip place stemmed from Woolstone’s own imagination and his desire to have a place that he and his friends would love to frequent and hang out: a comfortable, welcoming, and lively “burger joint.” No novice in the kitchen, Woolstone himself carefully crafted all the recipes for his burgers and snacks (appe-tizers/sides) to ensure a quality, awesome culinary ex-perience. Unlike many other places where you would go to enjoy a juicy hamburger, all the menu items at Boeuf & Bun are prepared in-house, daily. All the beef used to prepare their succulent hamburgers is specially selected and ground fresh throughout the day to create the perfect burger. So much thought and care has been put into the menu, that even the buns have been spe-cially designed to complement their burgers. From the food itself to the decor, ambiance, and service, Boeuf & Bun is the ultimate casual dining experience.
Boeuf & Bun’s menu boasts an original take on the classic favorite: with options like the ‘Bahh Bahh’ lamb burger, ‘Down South’ BBQ pulled beef burger, ‘New Yorker’ navel pastrami burger, and my favor-ite: ‘Morning Scramble’ burger, topped with fried
egg, beef bacon, sautéed mushrooms, and crispy po-tato sticks. For those who are looking to watch their waistline, all burgers are available as a “Boeuf and no Bun” salad option, which comes with your choice of dressings.
In addition to their burgers, Boeuf & Bun’s snack menu offers a variety of awesome appetizers/sides to start off or accompany your burger—including their lightly crisp and juicy BBQ smothered chicken wings, southern fried pickles, beer battered onion rings, hand cut truffle fries, and their mouthwatering pulled beef puffy tacos. And for dessert: deconstructed peanut butter s’mores and decadent fried Oreos.
The ambiance of Boeuf & Bun is artistically ac-cented with brick and wood paneled walls, mason-jar light fixtures, and eye-popping royal blue seats—wel-coming you to relax and step out of the reality of the busy Kingston Avenue. Signs of gentrification as an urban craft are ever-present, whether through their Mason jar beverage glasses (which impresses a south-ern guy, like myself) or crafted spiced popcorn at ev-ery table—it’s a dining experience you will not find at many other kosher establishments. But, as we know, it’s the food that counts most, and it’s their food that will impress the most.
Recommended order: B&B Wings, Pulled Beef Puffy Tacos, Morning Scramble Burger, and Southern Fried Pickles.
Boeuf & Bun is under the Vaad HaKashrus of Crown Heights and is located at 271 Kingston Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, 11213. (718) 221-8900.
Alex Idov is a kosher food writer and food blogger at theko-sherologist.com. Find him on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram.
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Summer…Fun?
Mindi Werblowsky Saketkhou, LMSW
Madraigos
A summer without any schedule for a teenager is a recipe for disaster.
Shavuos is over. And with the last yom tov of the year behind us, the final countdown to summer va-
cation has begun. “Summer fun.” Camp, swimming, sun, parks, ball … everything you imagine when you think of summer. And at the root of the excitement of sum-mer is vacation. No school for 10 weeks. Summer is a time for children to stay up later and sleep longer in the morning. For families to spend quality time together on vacation or in the evenings without homework and studying. And for teen-agers there is plenty of time to hang out with their friends.
Yes, all in all, summer seems to be hands down the best time of the year. But is it? Is the lack of schedule and the exces-sive free time really something positive? At a recent “Lounge Night” in Madrai-gos I was discussing with the girls what contributes the most to their daily stress. One of the older teens responded that not having a daily schedule stresses her out. She explained that she feels stressed and depressed when she reflects back on all the time she has wasted and all the min-utes she spent on her phone and watching television. Yet when we discussed sum-mer plans, most of the girls admitted that they have no plans for the summer.
For various reasons, fewer children are attending camp. And fewer teenag-ers elect to go to sleepaway camp even when given the option. Many of them have extremely long and difficult school days and do not want to spend their sum-mer trapped in another schedule. This is a feeling I understand and empathize with. However, a majority of these teenagers do not seek employment (even part time) and are looking forward to 10 weeks with absolutely nothing to do. Many boys do not attend minyan or learn during the summer and many girls spend their time on the beach or getting into trouble on the internet. As a social worker involved with teens on a daily basis, I would like to make the argument that a summer without any schedule for a teenager is a recipe for disaster. The National Insti-tute of Mental Health (NIMH) published a study stating that the human brain is not fully developed until the early twen-ties. Therefore, the study concluded that adolescents are most at risk for making hazardous choices. The NIMH reported that mortality and crime rates as well as substance and alcohol abuse are highest
among adolescents. Over the years I have heard many
people express annoyance at the fact that the Three Weeks/Nine Days and Tisha B’Av are during the summer. Everyone has to plan their vacation around these weeks, swimming stops and during the relaxed, carefree time of the year one of
the two most serious fast days is upon us. There is no music, no shopping—nothing that is fun about summer can take place during this time. But there are no acci-dents in this world and Hashem did not miscalculate when He decreed that Tisha B’Av would fall out during this season. I once heard it said that it is specifically because it is the summer that Hashem made Tisha B’Av at this time, as a re-minder that in Judaism there is no such thing as 10 weeks “off.” We are always on and we always have a schedule. We have set times for daven-ing, we have specific clothing we always have to wear, we have Shabbos every week, and most importantly we have an awareness of Hashem and what He wants from us 24/7, all year long.
Everyone is entitled to relax and take a break. Even yeshivas have a period of bein hazmanim in the summer. But what does our break look like? Are our lives meant to be completely hefker for 10 weeks? This past Pesach I heard of many tragedies within a very short period of time. Children who became very sick, people who passed away suddenly, and couples who lost babies. I remarked on the vast number of tragedies to my sister in wonderment of what message we were supposed to be taking from this. She re-sponded that Rav Aharon Leib Steinman, shlita, the leading gadol in Eretz Yisrael,
had commented that for the entire bein hazmanim he is on edge and does not re-lax until yeshiva starts again. Rav Stein-man stated that during bein hazmanim there is less Torah learning and therefore, less protection for Am Yisrael.
This really made an impression on me and it was something I shared with
my husband and many of my friends. We all count down and look forward to vacation. But the gedolei Yisroel cringe when vacation comes and wait with bat-ed breath until all Jewish people return to their schedules. It seems it is not just teen-agers who are in trouble when their lives
are hefker. We all are. This is one of the main rea-sons for the founding of Madraigos’ GNO Sum-mer Program. Each month of the sum-mer Madrai-gos runs a separate boys
and girls evening summer camp for teen-agers who are home for the summer and are available in the evenings. The pro-gram is filled with supper, activities and fun geared towards teenagers.
As summer approaches I encourage everyone to spend time with their families and take the time they need to re-charge their batteries. Summer is an amazing time filled with opportunities to spend time with your children and to encourage creative outlets that perhaps there is no time for during the year. But I am also cautioning that we not allow our teenag-ers to spend ten weeks wasting their time. When teenagers have nothing to do, they often end up doing nothing that we want them to do. Whether they are in camp or not, it is important to arrange some sort of structure for teenagers and to have set rules and curfews in place.
I recently read a story about Rav El-
yashiv zt”l. A close talmid of his came to visit with a question and Rav Elyashiv asked him to return the following week if the question was not urgent. Rav El-yashiv explained that three days earlier he had received a visitor from America with an urgent question that required his attention. Rav Elyashiv stated that the discussion had lasted an extra half an hour into his daily schedule of learning. For the last three days, since meeting with that visitor, Rav Elyashiv had been searching for an extra half an hour in his day to make up for that lost time of learn-ing. As of yet, he had not been able to find one.
Although we are not on this level, there is a message to be taken from this. We need to understand and appreciate the value of time. Ten weeks spent do-ing nothing is an incredibly long amount of time that we will never get back. Rav Zev Leff in his book Festivals of Life states that Tisha B’Av is the beginning of the Yom Kippur process. We may be off from school but we are not off from life. As Jews our eyes should always be on the future and where our lives are head-ed. Unfortunately, those with nothing to do often head in the wrong direction. Let us use this enjoyable season to spend quality time with our families and as al-ways, ensuring that our families spend their time qualitatively.
Wishing everyone an enjoyable and productive summer.
For information about GNO Madrai-gos Girls Night Out Summer Camp, please call Tobi Goldfeder, Head Coun-selor, (516)371-3250 ext. 8 or email [email protected].
For information about GNO Madrai-gos Guys Night Out Summer Camp, please contact Eli Press, Head Coun-selor at (516)371-3250 ext. 9 or email [email protected].
Mindi Werblowsky Saketkhou, LMSW, is the Girl Lounge Director at Madraigos. Madrai-gos, a 501c-3 not-for-profit organization, offers a wide array of innovative services and programs geared towards helping teens and young adults overcome life’s everyday challenges one step at a time Our goal is to provide all of our members with the neces-sary tools and skills to empower them to live a healthy lifestyle and become the leaders of tomorrow.
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Quick. What is the one thing you must absolutely never, ever do when you’re trying
to persuade people to part with their money?
Lie. I don’t mean a regular sales pitch
where you embellish the good and gloss over the bad. I mean bold, bad, in-your-face lying. Like a salesman telling a customer that the used car he’s looking at is in perfect condition and has never been in an accident. Or running an old fashioned “bait and switch” scam.
I usually don’t click on web banner ads. But a while back I saw one that re-ally piqued my interest. It offered info on five “healthy” foods to avoid if you want to lose weight. Pretty straight-forward right? I mean, how could they possibly mess that up? I knew that I would have to face some kind of sales pitch, but weight loss is something I’m interested in. I thought I would be able to take whatever they threw at me in or-der to get the promised information.
Boy was I wrong. The first “healthy” food should
have been a giveaway that I was in for a strange, otherworldly experience. The huckster-du-jour tried to say that canned chicken noodle soup is consid-
ered healthy. I dunno. Maybe it is, made by Jewish grandmothers.
Then he started talking about high fructose corn syrup. Huh? Everyone knows that’s not healthy!
Ahh. It’s used in healthy-ish prod-ucts like energy bars and Special-K ce-real. Now I get it.
Anyway, the subject abruptly took a
left turn even further into WonderLand as Doctor Somebody (who was quick to point out his credentials as a chiroprac-tic “doctor” and certified whatever) pro-ceeded to (repeatedly) talk about his clinic, his physique (with photos) and his unique discoveries and philosophies for weight loss. Apparently it all has something to do with female hunter gatherers in the 1950s and natural genet-ics and the liver. Or some combination of those things. It was all a little vague.
But did you know that your liver is supposed to burn fat? And if you only buy some of this dude’s magic cleansing potion, then your liver will start doing what it was meant to do. Operators are standing by!
But wait, there’s more. You can still eat what you like! Yes! His star pupil, who he shows before-and-af-ter photos of, kept right on eating cream cheese ice cream while losing oodles of weight.
Whaaaaat?Dr. Liver spends much of the piece
railing against “those other guys” who get rich selling du-bious weight loss products, only to offer one of his own.
“Of course,” he says, “but mine works!”
It’s standard infomercial clap-trap repackaged for the web. The difference is that, on the web, I think
there’s a much lower tolerance for this kind of snake oil sale. People are used to much more immediate stimulation and involvement. And they have little patience for unkept promises. If they clicked on a banner promising a reward (i.e. information) there’s only a certain amount of time you can tease people and hold them off without providing it.
In my opinion, this ad far, far ex-ceeds that limit.
Which reminds me – I never did learn what the other three “healthy”
foods are that I should avoid. After a couple of minutes of watching this spiel I couldn’t stand it anymore so I closed the browser window.
Oh well. Now my liver will never become the “fat burning machine” of my dreams.
Tips for Doc Liver:• Don’t insult people’s intelligence.
You need to do a much better job of sep-arating yourself from the rest of “them.” (-.e. those other greedy, lying weight
loss product guys)• Don’t promise a reward (info) and
lead people down a primrose path that turns into a trip in a yellow submarine.
You wanna’ pitch your prod-uct? Fine. Don’t lure me in with fake come-ons. Major turn-off.
• You can’t batter people into submission (i.e. a sale). Well I can’t. Maybe you can. I’d be fascinated to know what kind of sales numbers your mind-numbing video is racking up. Maybe viewers are so confused and disori-ented after they watch that they don’t know what they’re doing and they hit the “order” button in their stupor.
In fact I’d think the whole thing was a gag except that, you know, it wasn’t.
And I’ll never look at chicken noodle soup the same way again.
Danny Kay is marketing and advertising professional as well as a writer, designer and photographer with over 25 years of experience. He’s worked with businesses and organizations of all sizes, up to For-tune 500. He can be reached through his website, www.dannykaydesign.com, or at [email protected].
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Almost every war since the end of
the Middle Ages (ap-proximately the year 1500) was fought for political, expansion-ary or imperialistic reasons. Religious backgrounds didn’t matter and for Jews this meant that some Jewish soldiers could be fighting for the other side. A story from WWI has it that four German soldiers saw that during a lull in the fighting six Russians appeared to be looking for a quiet place. They approached and re-alized that they were all Jewish. After davening mincha together, everyone returned to their respective trenches.
During the American Civil War, a total of 10,000 Jews fought for both sides with two-thirds fighting for the Union. At least seven made it to the rank of general for the Union army with many other of-ficers serving in vital roles.
North Carolin-ian Alfred Mordecai came from a frum family and was ac-cepted into the Mil-
itary Academy at West Point when he was just 18. He became a career officer and served during the Mexican-Amer-ican War. By the time the Civil War broke out in 1861 he was the command-er of the Washington Arsenal but had a
tough decision to make. Since he was from the South he resigned his commis-sion as a major after being declined a post away from the battle. It would be too much for him to fight on either side even though he was offered a position in the Confederate Army.
His son, Alfred Mordecai Jr., grad-uated from West Point in 1861 and was about to begin a storied army career. Born in Philadelphia, his loyalties were wholly with the North. Within a month of graduating from the academy on June 24, he had served in the defense of Washing-ton, D.C. and fought in the First Battle of Bull Run. Like his father he became an ordnance officer (ordnance is muni-tions, cannon or as someone explained it to me anything that goes boom!). He was involved in several engagements and was promoted for gallant-ry in action after the siege of Fort Wagner in South Carolina. At the end of the war, Alfred Mordecai Jr. was promoted to lieutenant colonel and was sent to be an ordnance instruc-tor at West Point. Only after the fighting had ended was he promoted to the rank of brigadier general.
Baltimore native Phineas Horow-itz joined the navy during the Mexi-can-American War in 1847. Two years earlier he had graduated from Universi-ty of Maryland Med-ical School and upon entering the navy he was given the posi-tion of assistant sur-geon. Until 1865, for the duration of the war, he served as the assistant to the Chief of Bureau of Medi-cine and Surgery and was the surgeon gen-eral of the navy. After the passing of his pre-decessor, Horowitz was appointed chief and served in that po-sition for four years.
Many of the Jewish soldiers that joined the Union were Eastern Euro-pean immigrants looking to escape anti-Semitism. Leopold Blumenberg was born in Prussia and served with the Prussians during a war in 1848. He was bitter when he was given a medal because he was Jewish. In 1954 he de-cided to come to America and settled in Baltimore. Seven years later at the out-break of war he organized the 5th Mary-land Regiment and was given the rank
of major. Maryland was a border state that stayed with the Union but there was a large group of people called Secessionists who wanted Maryland to join the South. Blu-menberg was an aboli-tionist and was almost killed by a mob in Baltimore at the start of the war. During the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day on U.S. soil, he was se-verely wounded in the thigh by a sharpshoot-
er at a place called Bloody Lane. For his bravery, Blumenberg was brevetted brigadier general but his fighting career was over. Appointed by President Lin-coln as provost marshal in Maryland, he still remained in the army before he was given full general status. (A brevet commission is in name only. The pay and authority don’t necessarily reflect the title.)
Another Jewish soldier to answer the call to pick up arms for his country was New York law-yer Leopold New-man. He joined other lawyers in forming the 31st New York Regiment and was commissioned a lieu-tenant. The regiment fought in many bat-tles including Antie-tam, and Newman was at all of them leading his men. In 1863 he was lieu-tenant colonel when he was home on va-
Forgotten HeroesAvi Heiligman
Fighting for the Union
Alfred Mordecai
Edward Selig Salomon
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cation with just one week left before his enlistment was over. He returned to the front to fight with General Sedgwick at the Battle of Fredericksburg. On the or-ders from Sedgwick and with the regi-ment’s banner in one hand and a sword in the other, he charged up Maryse Heights. His regiment was the first to reach the Confederate line but Newman was mortally wounded in the foot. Pres-ident Lincoln arrived at his bedside as he was dying and made him a brigadier general. Newman was buried in Brook-lyn with full military honors.
Edward Selig Salomon was a Ger-man immigrant who had moved to Chicago to practice law. In 1861 he joined 24th Illinois Regiment as a first lieutenant but soon re-signed because of dis-agreements with his commanding officer. A year later he joined the 82nd Illinois Infan-try Regiment which comprised of immi-grant volunteers’ in-kling about 100 Jews. During the Battle of Gettysburg, Salomon had two horses shot out from under him and took command of the regiment when the commander was wounded. He led the
regiment during the Atlanta Campaign in 1864 and was brevetted brigadier general before the war ended in April 1965. In 1870, President U.S. Grant ap-pointed Salomon as governor over the Washington Territory.
Two other Salomons became gener-als in the Union Army (I can’t verify the fact but I think they were cousins of Ed-ward S. Salomon). The brothers, Fred-erick, Edward, Herman and Charles, were also born in Prussia and settled in Wisconsin. Edward became governor of the state in 1862. Herman served as a sergeant with the engineers. Charles was a colonel in 5th Missouri Volunteer Regiment and took over the 9th Wiscon-sin Volunteer Infantry Regiment when
his brother Frederick was promoted. After the war, Charles was nominated by President Andrew Johnson for the position of brevet brigadier general. Con-gress confirmed the ap-pointment.
Frederick Salomon moved to St. Louis right before the war and entered the 5th Mis-souri as a captain. After three months he was appointed colonel of
the 9th Wisconsin and joined the Indian
Expedition into Indian lands in Okla-homa. In June 1862 he was promoted brigadier general and at the end of the war was brevetted major general. He fought in the West-ern Theater and commanded the forces in Helena, Arkansas. Un-der Salomon the outnumbered Union troops defeated the Con-federates and the important city on the Mississippi River was saved.
Hungarian-born Major Gen-eral Frederick Knefler was in-volved in battles during all four years of the bloody war. Joining the Union Army at the start of the war, he was commissioned as a first lieutenant with the 11th Indiana Infantry Regi-ment. Before the war he worked with Lew Wallace while practicing law and so during the war when Wallace was tasked with raising five regiments in Indiana Knefler was his chief assistant. Knefler quickly rose in rank following a series of battlefield promotions for bravery. Two months before the war ended he was brevetted brigadier gen-eral after his regiment stopped the Con-federates during the Battle of Nashville. Several times his soldiers praised him for his command style.
These Jewish officers were among the estimated thousands that served in the Union forces during the War Be-
tween the States. Many other Jewish soldiers, sailors and marines faced an-
ti-Semitism in a country that was strug-gling to give all people their freedom. In many cases, promotions, commands and medals weren’t always given to Jewish servicemen; therefore, a lot of their stories have been lost to history. However, for the stories that have sur-vived, the past century and half tell the tale of true American forgotten heroes.
In a couple of weeks we will focus on the men who served the Confederacy during the Civil War.
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].
Hilt of Blumenberg’s sword
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Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS
Life Coach
Are There Benefits to the Israel Day Parade?
When you set out for the Israel Day Parade, you just know you are going to get a ton of exercise!
I know this is an event that has some controversy surrounding it, though, I must admit, I’m never certain what it
is. Is it a problem with the parade or Israel or something else? Anyway, I just love it when Jews get together and it’s not about a meal. And add exercise to it and now that’s a real winner.
And trust me: when you set out for the Isra-el Day Parade, you just know you are going to get a ton of exercise!
Either you are the kid, schlepping from the bus longing for a coveted early “step off spot.” Then marching your two miles up 5th Avenue while look-ing desperately to find your parents and siblings that you could have feasted your eyes on all morn-ing, just an hour ago. And then dragging yourself right back to the bus that you feel you just came off of minutes ago.
Alternatively, you are the adult, driv-
ing into New York and looking high and low for a parking spot. Followed up by running like the wind from 1st Avenue where you had to park to try to get to the parade in time to wave enthusiastically and smile with great joy at the very same child you just got upset with for not tak-
ing a drink, or sweater , or something along with him or her. After that you are weaving up and down the streets to find a spot to stand to watch them go by. And a second af-ter they do pass by, you are counter-weaving back uptown as fast and sweaty as you can to meet up with them. Because they want a ride home with you in-stead of getting back on
that hot, squishy bus! But the exercise is not over yet. Now
you are walking back to 1st Avenue to get the car. But first you must find a restau-rant that will let you—and at least 50 other people wearing bright turquoise
or sunshine yellow tee shirts with some funky acronym for a Jewish day school written on it—use their bathroom. Defi-nitely not an easy feat to find one. So that keeps you circling the area for a while longer. At last, you are about to get to the car, but first someone must get a drink and bite to eat. Now ensues another hunt, by foot, for a place with something ko-sher for you to ingest.
So by the time you do get to your car, you’ve put in a few good miles at least. Now that’s a good day’s work out.
And on top of that you’ve had a nice achdut experience. You’ve seen some of your childhood buddies you haven’t seen in ages. True, you’ve seen some neighbors you could have seen in Gour-met Glatt, Seasons or Brach’s and saved yourself the grueling trip to Manhattan. But could you have seen that kid of yours, safely out of arguing distance, actually behind a barrier and therefore allowing you just pure nachas and nothing more? No “make your bed!” No “put the dish-es in the sink” and “No, I’m not driving you to the mall.” Just a real sense of pride
that that that’s your kid—and that we are all part of the Jewish nation. And best of all, you get to burn off calories rather than putting them on—which is almost a foregone conclusion at most other Jewish events or holidays!
So here are some lessons I’ve learned: Always parade through life, be proud to be a Jew, and have an awesome week each week!
Rivki Rosenwald is a certified relation-ship counselor, and career and life coach. She can be contacted at 917-705-2004 or [email protected]
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Allan J. Rolnick, CPA
Your Money
Top 10 Taxing Words That (Sort Of) Rhyme With “Tax”
Late-night talk show host David Letterman has delighted audi-ences with his wry, subversive
sense of humor for an impressive 33 years. But last week he bid us farewell. We’ll remember him for his Stump the Band bits, his Stupid Pet Tricks, and — most of all — his Top 10 lists. So here, in Dave’s honor (from the Home Office in Wahoo, Nebraska), we present The Top 10 Taxing Words That (Sort Of) Rhyme With “Tax.” Drumroll, please!
10. Cadillacs: Americans love to drive. Why else would we invent in-terstate highways, suburbs, and traffic jams? (So many traffic jams.) Good thing our friends at the IRS are happy to help you roll in style, with a choice of deducting “actual expenses” or 57.5 cents/per mile.
9. Cracks: Our bridges and high-ways are riddled with cracks.
So the High-way Trust Fund collects a tax.
But the cracks are spreading too fast for that tax.
And Congress refuses to face those facts.
(Some folks think Congress is stuffed full of hacks.
Maybe it’s time to give them the ax?)
8. Anthrax: If you find life-threat-ening poison powder in your mail, you’ll want to call 911, pronto. But don’t worry about that pesky hospital bill. You can use a Section 105 Medical Expense Reimbursement Plan to write off all your medical costs as a business
expense! 7. Goldman Sachs: America’s most
hated company has paid literally bil-lions in fines since 2008. But they still managed to squeak out $8.48 billion in profit last year. And they paid 31.4% of that haul in taxes. So we’re guessing at least the folks at the IRS still love them.
6. Craps: Not technically a rhyme, but close enough. While gambling win-nings are taxable as “other income” on Form 1040, you can deduct gambling
losses up to your total winnings, on Schedule A. Beyond that point, however, the tax still acts on your fat stacks.
5. Cracker Jacks: Can-dy-covered popcorn and peanut treats with a prize in every box. Bonus fun fact — some histori-ans consider them America’s first junk food! But whether that’s true or not, you can’t buy them in most states without paying sales tax.
4. Whacks: Tony Soprano and his colleagues hire professional killers to resolve business disputes “out of court” — because it’s faster than filing a law-suit and generally cheaper than hiring a lawyer. Good news: code section 162(a) lets business owners deduct “ordinary and necessary” professional fees. Bad
news: the Su-preme Court says no deductions are allowed for ex-penses that violate public policy. Sor-ry, Tony — looks like if you wan-na whack Paulie Walnuts, it’s gotta be on your own dime.
3. Saks: Saks Fifth Avenue stores have been outfitting fash-ionable men and women since
Horace Saks and Andrew Gimbel opened their first location in 1924. Looking good can definitely help ad-vance your career, of course. But does that mean you can write off the dress you wear to impress? Sorry, but no . . . Uniforms and work clothes are deduct-ible only if they’re not suitable for or-
dinary streetwear. Maybe if we got a deduction, it wouldn’t hurt so much to pay retail!
2. Yaks: Foodies are constant-ly foraging for the newest food fads. (You don’t think anyone really likes quinoa or kale, do you?) Maybe it’s time for our ranchers to look towards the Himalayas. Tibetans have used yaks for centuries for meat, milk, fi-ber, and fuel (don’t ask). In parts of the region, they even race the poor beasts. Best of all, yaks domesticated over here should qualify for generous dairy subsidies!
And the number one taxing word that sort of rhymes with tax: “Relax!” We’re here for you. There’s nothing funny about paying more than you have to — that’s why you need a plan to pay less. Start now and see how many
words you can think of that rhyme with “savings”!
Allan J Rolnick is a CPA who has been in practice for over 30 yea rs in Queens, NY. He welcomes your comments and can be reached at 718-896-8715 or at [email protected].
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PAN ROASTED CHICKENWITH THYME APRICOT SAUCEby Chef Eric Acklowitz, Brooklyn Steak Co. (Brooklyn, NY)
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FOR THE CHICKEN:Ingredients4 pieces French cut chicken, skin on 4 pieces boneless chicken legs, skin on2 TBS canola oil½ tsp kosher salt¼ tsp black pepper1 sprig thyme1 sprig rosemary2 cloves garlic, peeled
DirectionsUsing a heavy bottom skillet, heat over medium high heat. Add the oil
to coat the bottom of the pan. Season the chicken with salt and pepper and place skin side down into the skillet.
Cook the chicken until the skin is light golden brown. Add the garlic and herb sprigs to the pan and place into a 375° oven for 8 to 12 min-utes until the chicken cooks through and an internal temperature of 165° is reached.
FOR THE SAUCE:Ingredients2 tsp chopped shallot¼ cup dry white wine¾ cup chicken stock½ tsp chopped thyme1 TBS canola oil3-4 pieces dried apricots, diced smallSmall pinch of saffron2 TBS pastrami, small dice
DirectionsPlace the pastrami and shallots in a pan with the canola oil. Cook until
lightly browned over medium heat. Add the wine and reduce by half, then add the thyme, chicken stock, saffron, and apricots to the pan, reduce by half again; season with salt and pepper. Spoon over chicken and serve.
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Sunday, October 18, 20158:30 am - 4:15 pm
Young Israel of Hillcrest169-07 Jewel Ave, Flushing NY 11365
.6 ASHA CEUs, 6 NBCOT PDUs, 7.2 NYPTA CEUs, 6 NJBPTE CEUsCourse meets NYC DOH requirements for Early Childhood Training
Course submitted for 6.0 CE Hours for licensed social workers, pending approval by the NYSED’s State Board for Social Work.
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Naomi Nachman, the owner of The Aussie Gourmet, caters weekly and Shabbat/ Yom Tov meals for families and individuals within The Five Towns and neighboring communities, with a specialty in Pesach catering. Naomi is a contributing editor to this paper and also produces and hosts her own weekly radio show on the Nachum Segal Network stream called “A Table for Two with Naomi Nachman.” Naomi gives cooking presentations for organizations and private groups throughout the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan area. In addition, Naomi has been a guest host on the QVC TV network and has been featured in cookbooks, magazines as well as other media covering topics related to cuisine preparation and personal chefs. To obtain additional recipes, join The Aussie Gourmet on Facebook or visit Naomi’s blog. Naomi can be reached through her website,www.theaussiegourmet.com or at (516) 295-9669.
In The KitchenNaomi Nachman
Salad NicoiseIngredients1 head Boston lettuce¼ lb. haricots vert*,
blanched 2 minutes and shocked1 pound fresh tuna, seared with salt
and pepper and thinly sliced or 2 cans 6oz tuna in oil
½ cup nicoise olives6 anchovies2 perfectly boiled eggs, shocked,
peeled and cut in quarters3 tomatoes, quarteredShallot dressing (see below)1 bunch radishes, thinly sliced
PreparationWash lettuce and spin dry. Don’t tear. To serve: Line a bowl with lettuce, top with beans,
tuna, olives and anchovies. Arrange egg and tomato wedges around bowl. Drizzle with shallot dressing and top with sliced radishes.
*Haricot vert is indeed French for green beans. Haricot meaning beans and vert meaning green. French green beans are longer and thinner than most American varieties. They are also more tender and have a more complex flavor.
Shallot DressingIngredients3 tablespoons white wine vinegar1 tablespoons Dijon mustard1 small shallot1 tablespoon chopped fresh tarragon
or 1 teaspoon dried tarragon¾ cup olive oilSalt and pepper to taste
PreparationPlace all ingredients, except olive oil, in a food
processor and process until smooth. With the machine still running, slowly pour oil in
a slow and steady stream to incorporate into the dress-ing. Re-season with salt and pepper to taste.
The Perfect Boiled EggIt’s always hard to know when eggs are perfect-
ly cooked. A perfectly cooked egg has no green film around the yolk. This method below can help guide you to make a “pretty” quartered egg for your nicoise salad.
Ingredients 4 large eggs
PreparationPlace eggs in a saucepan and cover by 1-inch with
cold water. Bring to a boil, and when a boil is reached, immediately remove saucepan from heat and cover. Let sit for 9 minutes.
Remove eggs to an ice bath and cool for at least 2 minutes (for a warm egg), and up to 15 minutes (for a cool, easier-to-peel egg).
Shalosh SeudosThe question has been raised: why do many
people call the third meal of Shabbat “Shalosh Seudos” – which really means “three meals” in Hebrew – rather than “Seudat Shilishit” – which means the third meal and would be more fitting. Rabbi Yeshaya Siff of the Young Israel of Manhattan once explained that when we eat our first meal on Friday night, we are usually ravenous. The next day, when we eat lunch – the second meal of Shabbat – we are also ex-tremely hungry. However, on a short Shabbat, when we are required to eat the third meal of Shabbat within a few hours of finishing lunch, in most cases we wouldn’t be hungry at all. Yet we force ourselves to consume a third meal. By doing so, we are showing that all three meals had been eaten in honor of the Shabbat and not simply because we were trying to assuage our physical needs. Thus, our partaking of “Sha-losh Seudos” (particularly on short winter af-ternoons) is the clear confirmation by us that our intent was to dedicate all three meals to honor the Shabbat.
On the other hand, during the long summer Shabbat afternoons, we have a chance to have a restful nap, learn or attend a shiur, read a book, and play with our children or grandchil-dren – all in one day! But once all have rest-ed, learned, read and played, the entire family wants to eat Shalosh Seudos.
People are always asking me what I serve Shabbat afternoons. We would like to eat some-thing a little healthier, lighter and more sophis-ticated, and given that it is a mitzvah to eat this meal (whether hungry or not!), I try to make this meal as extra special as I can.
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SPECIAL ED TEACHERS AND ASSISTANTSWe have openings for 2015-16. Limudei Kodesh for young girls class AM, H.S. 12th grade English
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To meet our הנהלה, request an application or to learn more about this great דרך החינוך, Call: 917-510-6831 or Email: [email protected]
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STAYING IN THE CITY THIS SUMMER-YOU CAN STILL...
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