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CONSEQUENCES OF A FRAGILE
CEASEFIRE
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Rav Shmuel Kamenetzky shlita Addresses Yeshiva of South Shore Staff at Professional Development Day
Ninth Annual Avigdor’s Helping Hand Labor Day Barbeque
HALB Summer Educational Institute: Mastering 21st Century Tools
Of Happiness and Fish in the Holy Land
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SUNNYSUNNYAM SHOWERS
Dear Readers,
As I write this, I am waiting for my son to come home from his first day of school. It’s funny how starting school is just as exciting for me as it for my children. Packing up his knapsack last night with his new school supplies, laying out his new clothes, slipping a special snack into his backpack...I couldn’t wait for him to enter the new school year fresh after a long summer break.
In America, with the start of the school, most of us are heading back to our routines of homework and bus stops. And in Israel, they too are trying to go back to their normal—a life without the wail of sirens and the whining of rockets.
Last week’s ceasefire gave Israelis a most welcome reprieve after 50 tumultuous days of fighting. But many are skeptical about the truce. This is not the first time they were told peace was here, only to have it shattered days or weeks later.
Who exactly won this most recent conflict? It’s hard to know, when there are hundreds of lives lost and mounds of rubble and destruction that need to be cleared and rebuilt. The seven weeks of fighting has certainly shaken the Israeli psyche as they always felt like they had to be on guard for the next, unexpected attack.
With the detection and destruction of Hamas’s terror tunnel network, Israel surely won in the conflict. But many in Israel are attacking Netanyahu’s strategy—why didn’t the IDF wipe out Hamas once and for all? While in Gaza, they should have decimated the terrorist organization whose basic premise is for Israel’s demise. As usual, nothing in Israel is simple. Although many Israelis approve of how Netanyahu led Israel during Operation Protective Edge, some say that Netanyahu’s days are numbered. After all, coalitions are generally tenuous and politicians in Israel are always watching and waiting, ready to topple and form new coalitions.
In Susan Schwamm’s article this week, she points that the PLO may actually have gained the most in the fighting. With Israel dealing Hamas a devastating blow and hoping to disarm the terrorist organization in the future, Abbas is left as the partner in peace with Israel. Indeed, in this region, your enemy’s enemy may just end up being your friend.
Wishing you a wonderful week,Shoshana
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Dear Editor,Did you miss President Obama’s
most recent fundraising stops last Fri-day in Westchester County? One was at the home of Camilo Patrigani, the chief executive of Greenwood Energy, a subsidiary of Libra. This was host-ed by George Logotheits, a shipping heir and chairman of the Libra Group, along with his wife, Nitzia Logothetis, who is founder of Selenti, a nonprof-it company which promotes mental health for women—at $32,400 per per-son.
The second was at the estate of Rob-ert and Carol Wolf. This was hosted by Robert Wolf, former chairman of UBS Americas, along with his wife, Carol Wolf, who manages special projects for the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Jus-tice and Human Rights—for $15,000 and more per couple.
How ironic that Obama visited at a time when 6.6% of New Yorkers are out of work (with another 7% who have just given up looking, resulting in a real unemployment rate of 13.6%). Is this the “change we can believe in”?
Obama continues to enjoy building up his “frequent flyer” mileage with his
dozens of political campaign fundrais-ing events. Each trip on Air Force One costs taxpayers a fortune for logistics and Secret Service protection. We are stuck with the tab for police and traffic support.
No previous president has spent so much time away from Washington to participate in a record number of fund-raising events than Obama.
“Do as I say, not as I do” applies to Obama and Congressional Demo-crats. Bash the wealthy with one hand, but get the big bucks with the other hand. Those in attendance includ-ed the usual 1% crowd along with Wall Street, lobbyists, trial lawyers, real es-tate developers, Hollywood celebrities, special interest groups, millionaires and the Pay for Play crowd. At those pric-es, the 99% working or middle class people were hard to come by, except in the kitchen or serving. I couldn’t af-ford the price of a ticket, but was will-ing to park limousines, check coats or bus tables. What is that tired old refrain about the Democratic Party being the friend of the working and middle class, while those nasty, greedy, old Republi-cans are the wealthy, big buck, fat cats?
Seems like Obama prefers hanging out with the 1%.
With all the current crises, includ-ing the spike in illegal border crossing, veterans not being treated, illegal IRS investigations, terrorist attacks on Isra-el along with civil wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria along with ISIS, one would think the president would spend more time at work. President Obama reminds me of the famous Mad Mag-azine character Alfred E. Newman. He was famous for saying “What, Me Worry?” with a big smile on his face. Sincerely,Larry Penner
Dear Editor,I wholeheartedly agree with Mr.
Tzvi Dear (OpEd, August 28, 2014). To ignore evil is to condone their vi-cious acts. When men, women and children are persecuted and killed by human devils and no one cries out, we are guilty for allowing this behavior to fester.
Everyone should read about what’s going on around the world. It’s not just in Iraq and in Syria. Acts of treachery are taking place all over. It is our duty to publicize the horrors so that we are
aware of who we should be fighting. Our president refuses to acknowl-
edge the horror. He refuses to give it the weight it deserves. He naively thinks that the terror will never come to our shores. Mr. Obama, I fervent-ly hope that that is true. But, we are a global community and it is our duty to try to stop these animals from slaugh-tering innocent souls in the name of their “Allah.”Jeffery PerkaKew Gardens Hills, NY
Dear Editor,Your article on back to school tips
made me nervous. Already the sum-mer is over and we have barely started with summer homework! Forget about preparing our kids for their school bed-times—school starts tomorrow and they’ve been going to sleep way late every night.
It’s going to be a rude awakening (ha, ha) for them once school begins, but I know that—as usual—we’ll get through this.
Thanks for your wise words—even though we didn’t get ourselves together to take them to heart.Charna H.
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GlobalUN to Investigate ISIS
War CrimesOn Monday, the U.N.’s top human
rights body overwhelmingly approved the Iraqi government’s request for an investigation into alleged crimes against
civilians committed by the Islamic State group in its rampage across northeastern Syria and parts of Iraq. The fact-finding mission will cost approximately $1.2 million.
Iraq’s request for the U.N. to inves-tigate abuses by the IS was included in a resolution that more broadly condemns the group’s severe tactics but also calls on Iraq’s government to protect human rights. Its aim is to provide the Gene-va-based council with a report and ev-idence next March that could shed fur-
ther light on Iraqi atrocities and be used as part of any international war crimes prosecution.
“We are facing a terrorist monster,” Iraq’s human rights minister, Moham-med Shia’ Al Sudani, said shortly before the vote.
He said his country needs the world’s support because the group “is not an Iraqi phenomenon, it is a transna-tional organization that is an imminent danger for all countries of the world.” He reiterated, “Their movement must
be curbed. Their assets should be frozen and confiscated. Their military capaci-ties must be destroyed.”
Diplomats convened after the U.S. launched a series of airstrikes to prevent the group from advancing on the Kurd-ish regional capital of Irbil and to help protect members of the Yazidi minority who were stranded in Iraq’s northwest.
In Geneva, U.N. officials expressed grave concern Monday at the reported atrocities in Iraq committed by both sides. Flavia Pansieri, the U.N. depu-ty high commissioner for human rights, said the militants’ widespread, system-atic persecution of ethnic and religious groups likely amounts to a crime against humanity. She said Iraqi government forces’ execution of detainees and its shelling of civilian areas may also amount to war crimes.
Fidel Castro: NATO is like the Nazis
On Monday, Fidel Castro, Cuba’s former president, lashed out at the Unit-ed States and Europe, accusing them of war-mongering.
In a column published in Cuban state media, the father of the island’s Communist revolution also attacked US Senator John McCain over United States policy in the Middle East, calling him “Israel’s most unconditional ally.”
“The world has seen no respite in re-cent years, particularly since the Euro-pean Economic Community, under the strict and unconditional leadership of the United States, decided the time had
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Rabbi Yaakov Feitman Bais Yehudah Tzvi S h u l r e p r e S e n tat i v e Saron Solomon // Yanky Muller Yaakov Gade // uri Dreifus
Rabbi Yitzchok Frankel Agudas Yisroel of the Five TownsS h u l r e p r e S e n tat i v eShlomo parnes
Rabbi Berish Friedman Kehilas Bais YisraelS h u l r e p r e S e n tat i v eheshy Berkowitz
Rabbi Aryeh Zev Ginzberg Chofetz Chaim Torah Center S h u l r e p r e S e n tat i v eDovid Breier
Rabbi Moshe Zev Katzenstein Rabbi Yitzchak KnobelYeshiva Gedolah of the Five TownsS h u l r e p r e S e n tat i v eeytan Feldman
Rabbi Simcha LefkowitzCongregation Anshei ChesedS h u l r e p r e S e n tat i v eDov hertz
Rabbi Zvi Ralbag Cong. Bais Ephraim YitzchokS h u l r e p r e S e n tat i v e SBerel Daskal // Steve landau
Rabbi Shaya Richmond Cong. Bais Tefilah of WoodmereS h u l r e p r e S e n tat i v e SJosh haft // Marvin Wertentheil Moshe Berkowitz
Rabbi Dov Silver Kehilas Ahavas YisraelS h u l r e p r e S e n tat i v e SDovid Kirschenbaum // ari Friedman
Rabbi Dovid Spiegel Cong. Bais Medrash of CedarhurstS h u l r e p r e S e n tat i v e Suri Schlachter // Shmulie Schechter
Rabbi Moshe Weinberger Congregation Aish KodeshS h u l r e p r e S e n tat i v e SYaakov lipschitz // tzuriel ross Sam Gross
Rabbi Naftoli Zvi Weitz Ishai YisraelS h u l r e p r e S e n tat i v e Snesanel Feit // Moshe Gordon
Rabbi Akiva WilligBeis Medrash of WoodmereS h u l r e p r e S e n tat i v eeli Sklar
Rabbi Shmuel Witkin Khal Bnei HayeshivosS h u l r e p r e S e n tat i v eMenachem ruvel
Rabbi Mordechai YaffeMesivta Ateres Yaakov S h u l r e p r e S e n tat i v eeliezer allman
Share in the fruits of their labor as we enjoy a fresh, succulent breakfast with Shmittah farmers from the Holy Land at the home of:
Shmulie & Tzipi SchechTer // 287 linwood Ave // 9:30 Am
watch what it takes to plant a field and then give it all up for hashem
HiStoRY of SHMittAH
VideoTales of guts &glory from farmers Baruch Adiri (l) & Avichai Koch (r)
pRoFiLeS in CouRAGe
liVeFirsthand report from our revered activist: rabbi Shmuel Bloom
StAte of SHMittAH
W hen a secular university student has an opportunity to spend some time in a yeshiva like Ohr Somayach he
often asks questions. He wants to know, among other things, how it can be determined that the Torah was truly given by the Almighty and not by a man?
One of the numerous responses is the mitz-vah of Shmittah. No human being would have the nerve to instruct an entire country to close up agricultural production for a year. The people would starve. Only a Ribbono Shel Olam can say, “Keep Shmittah and don’t worry. Ve’tzivisi es birchosi – I, the One who is in control will send My blessing and in the sixth year you will have enough food to last for you and your families and your animals for three years.”
If that is the case, then why are there so many advertisements to support the farmers? Why did the Gedolei Yisroel, starting with Rav Yehoshua Leib Diskin, the Ridvaz, the Chazon Ish and continuing on to the gedolim of our time, endorse so strongly the campaign to raise money for the farmers? Hakodosh Boruch Hu promised that he would take care of them.
Don’t we trust Him to keep His word?
This question has been responded to in many ways. The Meiras Ainoyim (the S’ma) on Choshen Mishpat (67:2) explains that the bracha promised by Hakodosh Boruch Hu is only granted when all the Jews are living in Eretz Yisroel and Shmittah is min HaTorah. At this time since many Rishonim believe that Shmittah is m’darabanan, the special bracha of “Ve’tzivisi” does not apply. Rav Binyomin Mendelson zt’l deduces from the words of the S’ma that he doesn’t mean that we don’t have a bracha. He just means that the tripling of produce in the sixth year doesn’t necessarily happen. As many farmers expressed to me, “Everyone feels the bracha. Some feel it in their bank accounts and others feel it with their health or their children. We have the bracha but it still is difficult to pay for your expenses when you have no income.”
The Chazon Ish (Shviis 18:4) disagrees with the S’ma. He feels that the bracha of Ve’tzivisi applies even b’zman hazeh. He explains that the bracha of Ve’tzivisi itself is a general bracha for the country. It promises that we will have
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Hakodosh Boruch Hu
promised that he would take care of them. Surely we trust Him to
keep His word. If that is the case,
then why are there so many
advertisements to support the
farmers?
FINDING the BRACHA
AN ESSAY BY RABBI SHMUEL BLOOM
report
Farmers BreakfastSunday Morning
SepteMber 7
five towns proudly welcomes
shmittah heroesIt takes grit to plant a seed and grow flourishing farmlands in the desert. But it takes guts to surrender those farms and leave them to wither away. Farmers Baruch Adiri & Avichai Koch will be visiting Cedarhurst and Woodmere. Let's welcome our heroic brothers from Eretz Yisroel as they face 354 days of Shabbos - courageously allowing their farms to languish for a full year, in keeping with the daunting mitzvah of Shmittah.
Farmers visit our towns >
Keren hashviis 4520 18th avenue Brooklyn, nY 11204
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888.675.6694 [email protected]
The mission of Keren Hashviis is to act as the champions of Mitzvas Shmittah. We strive to ensure that shmittah is upheld by every Jewish landowner in Eretz Yisrael who is a maamin b’Hashem and adheres to His mitzvos. To that end, Keren Hashviis serves as a central hub providing farmers with financial resources, halachic guidance, and moral support — before, during and after shmittah.
routes & scheduleShabboS parShaS ki Seitzei
Friday EvEning פרשת כי-תצא
Friday EvEning פרשת כי-תצא
Kehilas Beis Yisrael both minyanim // 6:35 & 7:25 ahavas Yisrael
shabbos aFtErnoon פרשת כי-תצא
morning Kiddush פרשת כי-תצא
shabbos morning פרשת כי-תצא
shabbos morning פרשת כי-תצא
shalosh sEudos פרשת כי-תצא
shalosh sEudos פרשת כי-תצא
This Shabbos come meet the Shmittah farmers in person as they visit our shuls.
#1 // BAruch Adiri #2 // AvichAi Koch
shachris: agudah Kriyas hatorah/mussaF :
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come to settle scores with what was left of two great nations [Russia and China] that... had carried out the heroic deed of putting an end to the imperialist colonial order imposed on the world by Europe and the United States,” the 88-year-old leader said.
He accused the West of “cynicism” and said the trait had become “a symbol of imperialist policy.”
Castro singled out McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential candidate, say-ing he had supported Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency and “participated together with that service in the creation of the Islamic State, which today con-trols a considerable and vital portion of Iraq and reportedly one-third of Syria as well.”
Turning to NATO, Castro said the alliance’s representatives were remi-niscent of Nazi Germany’s feared SS. “Many people are astonished when they hear the statements made by some Eu-ropean spokesmen for NATO when they speak with the style and face of the Nazi SS,” he said.
“Adolf Hitler’s greed-based empire went down in history with no more glo-ry than the encouragement provided to NATO’s aggressive and bourgeois gov-ernments, which makes them the laugh-ing stock of Europe and the world.”
Castro handed over power to his younger brother Raul in 2006 amid a health crisis, and has since devoted his time to writing books and articles and receiving foreign dignitaries.
Brazil’s Women-Only Town
It’s hard to find a male in the town of Noiva do Cordeiro, Brazil. The ru-ral town is inhabited and governed al-most entirely by women. Its population of more than 600 is mostly single wom-en aged 20 to 25. Sons are sent away at 18, and spouses generally leave town to work the mines during the week.
However, now the women are mak-ing an appeal to encourage more single men to come to the town, on condition
that they follow the rules. Incoming men have to follow all the guidelines that the women enacted, from town planning to farming and religion.
The town was founded in 1891 by Maria Senhorinha de Lima, who had been excommunicated after walking away from a man she had been forced to marry. Over time, she was joined by other single women and female-headed families, and the insular society came into being. In the 1940s, an evangelical pastor, Anisio Pereira, took one of the town’s 16-year-old girls as his wife and founded a church there, imposing strict puritanical rules. When he died in 1995, the town’s women were determined to never again be subject to male domi-nation, and they dismantled Pereira’s church. Out of that was born this wom-en-dominated town.
Resident Nelma Fernandes, 23, says, “The only men we single girls meet are either married or related to us…. We all dream of getting married. But we like living here and don’t want to have to leave the town to find a husband.”
All they need is just a few good men.
11 Policemen Killed in Bomb Blast in Sinai
Peninsula
On Tuesday, eleven Egyptian police-men were killed when a roadside bomb blasted their armored vehicle on a road leading to the town of Rafah bordering the Gaza Strip in the Sinai Peninsula.
Islamist militants have claimed a string of attacks that have killed scores of policemen and soldiers, mostly in north Sinai, since the army overthrew President Mohamed Morsi in July last year. Since then, Egypt’s military has sought to quell the militants in a massive operation that has killed scores of ex-tremists and netted some of their leaders.
The main militant group, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, has acknowledged the loss of some of its leaders, but has contin-ued to attack both the security forces and Bedouins suspected of collaborat-ing with them. The group, whose name
means Partisans of Jerusalem, has also said it was behind deadly bombings of police buildings in the capital and the Nile Delta. It says it wants to im-plement Islamic law and that it attacks security forces to avenge the killings of pro-Morsi protesters by the military and police following the Islamist president’s ouster.
At least 1,400 people have died in street violence since Morsi’s overthrow, including about 700 of his supporters killed in a single day on August 14, 2013.
Ansar Beyt al-Maqdis, which has also fired rockets at neighboring Isra-el, released a video last month claim-ing responsibility for beheading men it accused of working with the Jewish state. The group adheres to an austere and militant version of Islam shared by al-Qaeda and other militant groups.
In another video, a militant thought to be the group’s spiritual leader, Abu Osama al-Masri, supplicated G-d for victory for what he called his “brothers” in the Islamic State organization in Iraq and Syria.
Attacks in Egypt by the militants have eased over the past month as the
military squeezed their hideouts in the sparsely inhabited peninsula. Even so, they have persisted in launching sporad-ic assaults and sometimes even set up impromptu checkpoints to target securi-ty personnel.
Largest Drug Bust in Peru
On Monday, Peruvian police dis-played what officials called the largest cocaine haul ever in the Andean na-tion—7.7 metric tons (8.5 tons). Seized in a raid last week, the drugs were flown
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to Lima, the capital, on Monday and unloaded in boxes from an Antonov po-lice transport plane by officers wearing white jackets and surgical masks.
Interior Minister Daniel Urresti, flanked by the police chief and count-er-narcotics commander, touted the sei-zure from a stage set up in the hangar, a banner behind him proclaiming “His-toric Blow to Illegal Drug Trafficking.”
Last week, authorities found the plastic-wrapped cocaine bricks insert-ed and sealed inside chunks of coal in a rural home near the northern port of Trujillo. Six Peruvians and two Mex-icans were arrested. Police said the drugs had been destined for Spain and Belgium and said agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration were involved in the operation.
Before this raid, Peru’s top cocaine seizure was 6 metric tons discovered in January 2002 in a truck in the southern state of Arequipa bound for a fishing vessel at the port of Ilo, from where it was to sail to Mexico.
Since 2012, Peru has been the world’s top producer of cocaine.
Great Escape for
Filipino Soldiers
It has been quite a few harrowing days for 75 UN peacekeepers in the Go-lan Heights. Dozens of Filipino soldiers serving with the United Nations had been surrounded by al Qaeda forces, did not surrender, and ultimately escaped under the cover of darkness.
The Golan Heights has been tense since the start of the civil war in Syria. The fighting in Syria has more than once spilled over to the Israeli side of the Go-lan Heights. Over the past year, the UN force has had its peacekeepers seized by armed groups, its observation posts
attacked and looted, and its freedom of movement reduced.
Military chief General Gregorio Catapang called it “the greatest escape” and praised the soldiers. “Although they were surrounded and outnumbered they held their ground,” he told reporters. However, the fate of 44 UN peacekeep-ers from Fiji remained unknown. Rebels took the Fijians captive just before the Filipinos were besieged. The troops are part of a UN peacekeeping force, which has been stationed in the Golan Heights since 1974 to monitor a ceasefire be-tween Israel and Syria.
An initial group of 35 Filipino troops were picked up from their position by Irish UN soldiers in armored vehicles. The remaining 40 soldiers engaged in a “seven-hour firefight” with rebels who tried to ram the gates with pick-up trucks carrying anti-aircraft guns. The soldiers, who were armed only with ma-chine-guns and rifles, held off the rebels who even used a mortar to shell their positions. The troops later walked to safety after midnight, to a UN position just over two kilometers away.
Filipino President Benigno Aquino’s spokesman Herminio Coloma issued a statement thanking the UN forces as well as Syria, Israel, Qatar and the Unit-ed States for their assistance in the cri-sis. “It is in our nation’s interest to give priority to [the soldiers’] safety but we will not turn our backs on our commit-ment to global security particularly in the Golan Heights and the Middle East,” Coloma said. He did not elaborate on the help provided by the other countries, although the head of peacekeeping op-erations, Colonel Roberto Ancan, said separately that the Syrians had provided “indirect fire support” that took the pres-sure off the besieged Filipinos.
IMF Chief under Investigation
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde is officially under investigation. After more than 15 hours of interrogation in a special court in Paris regarding ministerial misconduct, Lagarde announced, “The investigating commission of the court of justice of the French Republic has decided to place me under formal investigation.”
In France, being placed under for-mal investigation is the closest thing to being charged, but does not necessarily always lead to a trial. It is the outcome decided by the examining magistrate that the case requires answers.
When asked about whether she planned to resign from her position at IMF, Lagarde answered, “No. I have instructed my lawyer to appeal this de-cision, which I consider totally with-out merit.” She replaced Dominique Strauss-Kahn as IMF chief in 2011 after he became embroiled in a scandal.
IMF spokesman Gerry Rice said the board would meet Lagarde “as soon as possible.”
“Until then, we have no further com-ment,” added Rice.
The case relates to Lagarde’s han-dling of a 400-million-euro ($528-mil-lion) state payout to disgraced French tycoon Bernard Tapie in 2008, which investigating judges suspect may have been doled out in return for his support of ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2007 election.
The payout to Tapie was connected to a dispute between the businessman and partly state-owned bank Credit Ly-onnais over his 1993 sale of sportswear group Adidas. Tapie claimed Credit Ly-onnais had defrauded him by intention-ally undervaluing Adidas at the time of the sale and that the state, as the bank’s principal shareholder, should compen-sate him. Lagarde referred the dispute to a three-member arbitration panel that ruled in favor of Tapie and ordered the payout, which included 45 million euros in moral damages. Investigating judges are seeking to determine whether the arbitration was a “sham” organized to reward Tapie for his support of Sarkozy.
In her defense, LaGarde insists she has “always acted in the interest of the country and in accordance with the law.”
“After three years of procedure, the only surviving allegation is that through inattention I may have failed to block the arbitration that put an end to the long-standing Tapie litigation,” Lagarde told AFP on Wednesday.
Five other people have also been charged in the case, including Stephane Richard, then Lagarde’s chief of staff, now boss of telecom giant Orange.
In France, those found guilty of “negligence” can be sanctioned by a year in prison and a 15,000-euro fine.
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ISIS Gruesome Acts Continue
The beheadings that have terrified the world in the past couple of weeks have continued in Iraq. Islamic State militants beheaded a Lebanese soldier who was one of 19 captured by Syrian Islamists when they seized a Lebanese border town. A video of the horrific act was then posted on the Internet.
Islamic State, which declared a “caliphate” in June in parts of Iraq and Syria under its control, has been cited as a major security threat by Western governments. Last month, the real-ity of the threat on Western lives was brought home with the posting of a vid-eo of the beheading of U.S journalist
James Foley. The Lebanese army de-clined to comment, but security and Is-lamic State sources confirmed the latest gruesome act.
On Tuesday, a video entitled, “A Second Message to America,” depict-ed another gruesome beheading of an American, journalist Steven Sotloff. Sotloff was last seen in Syria in August 2013. He had been freelancing for Time and Foreign Policy magazines. Yediot Aharonot reported that according to a former fellow captive, Sotloff, who was a Jew, endeavored to keep his faith a secret from his captors. On Yom Kip-pur, he pretended to be sick so he could fast for the holiday.
Earlier this month, several Syrian groups, including Islamic State and Nusra Front, battled the Lebanese army after the arrest of rebel commander Emad Gomaa. Gomaa is a Nusra com-mander who switched affiliation to Islamic State but remained popular among Nusra fighters. The militants have taken 19 Lebanese soldiers cap-tive. Most of the soldiers were taken by Islamic State fighters while Nusra kept a few soldiers and a number of po-licemen. Nusra has since released four
soldiers and a policeman, all Sunnis. The militants have demanded the
release of Gomaa and several Islamists jailed since a 2007 insurrection by an al Qaeda inspired group at a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon.
Saudi Arabia Warns Against ISIS
The newest warning about extreme Islamist terrorism groups is not coming from the most likely of places. King Ab-dullah of Saudi Arabia has warned that without a strong international response to terrorism, extremists could easily at-tack Europe and the U.S.
While not mentioning any terrorist
groups by name, King Abdullah’s state-ment appeared aimed at drawing Wash-ington and NATO forces into a wider fight against the Islamic State group and its supporters in the region. Sau-di Arabia openly backs rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar Assad, but is concerned that the breakaway al Qaeda group could also turn those very same weapons on the kingdom.
“If neglected, I am certain that after a month they will reach Europe and, af-ter another month, America,” Abdullah said at a reception for foreign ambas-sadors. “These terrorists do not know the name of humanity and you have witnessed them severing heads and giv-ing them to children to walk with in the street,” the king said, urging the ambas-sadors to relay his message directly to their heads of state.
The Islamic State group has been fighting moderate rebels, other extrem-ists and Assad’s forces in Syria for nearly three years. Iraq has faced an on-slaught by the Sunni terrorists and their supporters since early this year, and the country continues to be unstable.
This week, British officials raised
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the country’s terror threat level to “severe,” its second-highest level, because of developments in Iraq and Syria, but there was no information to suggest an attack was imminent. The White House has said it does not expect the U.S. to bump up its terrorism threat warning level.
Saudi Arabia, a major U.S. ally in the region, has taken an increasingly ac-tive role in criticizing the Islamic State group. Earlier this month, the country’s top cleric described the Islamic State group and al Qaeda as Islam’s No. 1 en-emy and pointed out that Muslims have been their first victims.
Spanish Imam Calls for Jewish Annihilation As Jews in Europe are feeling more
and more persecuted, a Spanish imam near Madrid spewed more anti-Semit-
ic rage this week in his sermon. Sheik Saleheoldine al-Moussaoui of the mu-nicipality of Azuqueca De Henares has been documented in an anti-Semitic rant in which he called the Jewish peo-ple treacherous, war-mongering kill-ers and prayed for G-d to “destroy the plundering Jews… Do not spare a sin-gle one of them.”
The sermon was translated and put out on the Internet. In the speech, al-Moussaoui says: “What is being done to the Muslims in Palestine, in Gaza, as well as in the other Muslim countries — we would have been sur-prised if it were done by anyone other than the Jews.”
“The Jews are by nature treach-erous and war-mongering,” he tells followers. “The Jews and the Zionists have treachery and killing as their way of life. They are a people of enmity and jealousy, the masters of treachery and betrayal.” Al-Moussaoui says Al-lah in the Quran described the Jews as spreaders of corruption, adding, “The Zionists do not feel alive if they don’t spread corruption.”
His demonic rhetoric ended with a supplication, “Oh Allah, destroy the plundering Jews. Oh Allah, the Most Merciful, count them one by one, and do not spare a single one of them.”
Small Island Nation Gets Rich off Streaming
On Monday, Amazon said it would pay $1.1 billion for a web-site that streams people playing video games, Twitch.tv—not to be confused with Twitch.com.
The current trend shows that videos are being watched more on smartphones and laptops than on actual TVs, which has made the .tv suffix highly sought af-ter. Last month, 190 million Americans watched online video content, accord-
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ing to comScore.Back in the 1990s, the .tv suffix was
assigned to a small South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu. At the peak of the Internet gold rush, in 1999, a start-up named DotTV paid Tuvalu $50 million over 12 years for the right to sell .tv to other companies. The .tv suffix repre-sented two of the most recognizable let-ters in the world, and DotTV’s founders believed .tv could be bigger than .com because TV viewing would soon mi-grate to the web, a prediction that we can all agree was very accurate.
A .tv web address has become “im-portant from a branding point of view,” said Tony Lorenz, the chief executive
of BOB.tv, a company that streams vid-eos related to best business practices.
China.tv was sold for $100,000 a year to an Internet service provider in China, according to Lou Kerner, a ven-ture capitalist who, in 2000, left his job at Goldman Sachs to become chief ex-ecutive of DotTV.
In 2002, Verisign, a large manager of web addresses, acquired the company and still operates the .tv domain today. It agreed in 2011 to manage the .tv ad-dress through 2021, and the payments to Tuvalu’s government are said to be a couple OF million dollars a year.
The dividends received from selling their domain are the primary source of income for the small country that has a population of barely 10,000. Citizens live on a tiny cluster of coral atolls and islands about halfway between Australia and Hawaii.
The financial success of Tuvalu has led other countries to explore their leverage using their domain names. Montenegro, for example, has the ex-tension .me that can offer a personal touch to a Web address; and Colombia’s .co has emerged as a logical, less expen-sive substitute for .com.
Israel77-Year-Old Still Fighting
for the Holy Land
Most Israelis put in a few days ev-ery so often for reserve duty for the IDF, even in their 40s. But Nahum “Nahche” Gilboa is still fighting—even though he’s 77-years-old. His time in the army during Operation Protective Edge made him the oldest combat soldier in Israeli history.
Having first served as a reservist in
the IDF’s 1956 Operation Kadesh in the Sinai Peninsula, Gilboa donned the IDF’s green uniform this summer in the Paratroopers Brigade. He’s served in the IDF for a staggering 59 years.
Gilboa, a farmer from Lachish, a community near Kiryat Gat, told Israel’s Channel 2 news he enjoys his time with the younger soldiers, and that reserve duty — and hard work on the farm — help keep him young. “It’s part of who I am,” the stalwart soldier said.
Gilboa said he has a reserve duty ID card that expires in 2017, and he hopes the IDF will let him renew it.
Rehab for the Wounded Soldiers
Many soldiers paid the ultimate price in the fight for peace in Operation Protective Edge. Others were wound-ed as they laid their lives on the line for their beloved country.
In Beit Halochem in Tel Aviv, over 80 seriously wounded soldiers receive cutting edge rehabilitation with services
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and a gym, especially fitted for those in wheelchairs. “A month and a half ago no one could have imagined that I would be here today, standing on my own two legs,” said Ran Abutbul, who was hit in the head by a Palestinian bullet during the first days of the operation. Over 17 medical officials fought to save his life, and he underwent ten different surgeries after the bullet ripped through his face and exited through his skull.
Gal Gonen, a Nahal soldier, was se-riously wounded after anti-tank missile shrapnel ripped into the side of his face. On Tuesday night, the two came togeth-er with other wounded soldiers to begin the long and difficult road to rehabilita-tion.
Some of those in Beit Halochem were just leaving the hospital. Many are still adjusting to their new lives on crutches or in wheelchairs. But they all know they are the lucky ones. Abut-bul lost his good friend, Staff Sergeant Daniel Pomerantz, 20, in the war. “We spent our first leave together, we were very good friends. Even today it is hard for me to believe he is gone,” he said.
Gonen also remembers his friend, St-Sgt. Avraham Grintzvaig, 21, who saved his life and then lost his own life in the war. “Avi was one of those who carried me in the stretcher and saved my life,” said Gonen, who despite the severity of his wounds refused to miss Grintzvaig’s funeral. Grintzvaig died just 9 hours af-ter he helped save Gonen’s life.
No More National Geographic for
PrisonersOn Monday it was reported that
terrorists who are imprisoned in the Megiddo prison will no longer have ac-cess to the National Geographic chan-nel on prison televisions. According to
the report, the channel was pulled for fear that the imprisoned terrorists would take advantage of its programming to plan escapes from prison. The Nation-al Geographic channel, in addition to nature-related films, also features pro-gramming about daring and sophisti-cated escapes from prison around the world.
Just last month, Prison Service offi-cials uncovered a plot by Arab terrorists in a prison in northern Israel to tunnel their way out. The terrorists managed to partially dig out an escape tunnel without prison staff being aware of their activity. Acting on a tip, officials dis-covered the well-hidden tunnel and re-moved the terrorists from their cell. The cell was occupied by eight members of Islamic Jihad, all of whom are serving terms for terror acts and endangering the lives of Israelis – with some carrying sentences of several decades.
In June, the Prisons Service was able to foil a plan by Islamic Jihad ter-rorists to escape from an Israeli prison using an underground tunnel which they had dug in the bathroom.
Support for Hamas Grows
An overwhelming majority of Pal-estinians believes that Hamas defeated Israel in the recent conflict and sup-ports the continuation of rocket attacks against Israel if the blockade against Gaza is not removed.
According to the data collected on August 26-30 by the Ramallah-based Palestinian Center for Policy and Sur-vey Research (PSR) headed by pollster Khalil Shikaki, 79 percent of Palestin-ians questioned in Gaza and the West Bank said that Hamas had won the war against Israel, while only 3% said Isra-el had won. A similar majority believed that Israel was responsible for the break-out of the war.
The results of this poll are surprising to many Israelis who felt that the ex-
tent of damage in Gaza would turn the Palestinian population against Hamas. But 94% of respondents said they were satisfied with Hamas’s performance in confronting the IDF, and 78% were pleased with the movement’s defense of civilians in Gaza. Eighty-six percent of the 1,270 adults questioned in the sur-vey said they supported the continuation of rocket attacks at Israel as long as the blockade on Gaza is maintained.
Asked whether they supported trans-ferring Hamas’s model of armed resis-tance to the West Bank, 74% of respon-dents in Gaza and 70% in the West Bank eerily answered in the affirmative.
The results of the poll signify the most significant shift in Palestinian public opinion toward Hamas since the Islamic movement won international-ly monitored elections in 2006. The support for Hamas has taken away ap-proval from the Palestinian Authority in Gaza. Hamas received 88% approval for its performance during the war, and its political chief Khaled Mashaal won 78% approval. The Palestinian Author-ity came in significantly lower, with just 36% approval; its leaders, President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister
Rami Hamdallah, received 39% and 35%, respectively. Clearly, Palestinians are cheering on the terrorist organiza-tion in their territory.
Paradoxically, and worryingly for Israel, Hamas received higher support in the PA-controlled West Bank than it did in Gaza. The poll found that if elections were held today, former Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh would easily defeat Abbas with 61% of the popular vote versus 32%. Sixty-six percent of respondents in the West Bank said they supported Haniyeh, compared to 53% in the Gaza Strip. In the West Bank, Abbas received just 25% approval, as opposed to 43% in Gaza. Overall support for the Palestinian Authority president plum-meted 11% points in two months, from 50% in June to 39% in August, the poll found.
Nashat Aqtash, a communications professor at Ramallah’s Bir Zeit Uni-versity who served as media adviser to Hamas in the 2006 elections, said he was not surprised by the new data on Hamas’s popularity.
“In some parts of the world, pressure begets explosion. In the case of Hamas, [Israeli] pressure yields solidarity and
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power,” Aqtash told The Times of Isra-el. The secret to Hamas’s attraction, he added, was its appealing religious mes-sage as well as the effectiveness of its security forces in Gaza.
Aqtash predicts that Hamas and Is-lamic Jihad would unite ahead of the parliamentary elections expected in early 2015 and together receive at least 70% of the popular vote. “The PLO can get no more than 30 percent,” he said.
Turkey’s Erdogan Meets Israeli Official
A big deal was made in Turkey this week when, for the first time in six
years, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s president-elect, shook the hand of an Is-raeli diplomatic official. Erdogan, who won the presidency on August 10 after serving as prime minister for the previ-ous 11 years, met and shook hands with Yosef Levi Sfari, the chargé d’affaires of Israel’s embassy in Ankara. The much-talked-about meeting occurred during a reception with diplomats to mark Tur-key’s Victory Day – a celebration of the nation’s independence.
Erdogan has avoided any direct con-tact with Israeli officials since 2008′s Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. Dip-lomatic tensions between the nations deepened after the 2010 Mavi Marma-ra incident, when Israeli commandos stormed the Turkish-flagged ship, the largest in a flotilla dispatched by the Islamist IHH group. Those onboard at-tacked the soldiers, and several were in-jured. Nine Turks died in the raid and one more died in hospital this year after four years in a coma. The assault on the ship sparked widespread condemnation and provoked a major diplomatic crisis between Turkey and Israel.
Though relations between the two countries seemed to be warming up sev-
eral months ago, with talk of an official Israeli apology and a reported agree-ment to pay reparations to the victims of the Marmara incident, ties took a turn for the worse following the recent con-flict in Gaza.
Over the course of Operation Pro-tective Edge, the Turkish leader claimed Israel’s actions in Gaza were worse than what Adolf Hitler did to the Jews, said the Jewish state would “drown in blood,” and accused it of committing genocide. Erdogan also sought to posi-tion Turkey as a central mediator in the conflict, along with Qatar. Israel repeat-edly rejected the two nations as medi-ators, seeing Egypt and the U.S. as the only credible parties.
Iran Arms the West Bank
In late July, Iran’s Supreme Lead-er Ayatollah Ali Khamenei published statements condemning Operation Pro-tective Edge and saying that the West Bank should be armed like Gaza. Now, Iran has taken more steps in its goal to annihilate Israel. According to Iranian news sources, Iran will now arm Pales-tinians in the West Bank. “Arming the West Bank has started and weapons will be supplied to the people of this region,” said Basij militia chief Mohammad Reza Naqdi. Naqdi heads the nation-wide paramilitary network.
“The Zionists should know that the next war won’t be confined to the present borders and the Mujahedeen will push them back,” he added. Naqdi claimed that much of Hamas’s arsenal, training and technical knowhow in the recent conflict with Israel was supplied by Iran.
Last week, Iran’s state TV broad-cast footage showing a purported Israeli drone that the country’s Revolutionary Guard says it shot down as it neared Iran’s uranium enrichment facility in Natanz, about 150 miles south of the capital, Tehran. The Israeli army has yet to comment on whether or not the drone
is Israel’s.Tehran will increase weapons and
provide training to Palestinians in the West Bank in retaliation for Israel de-ploying the spy drone over Iran, a mili-tary commander said. “We will acceler-ate the arming of the West Bank and we reserve the right to give any response,” said General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh, com-mander of aerial forces of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards.
34% Americans Sympathize “A Lot” with
IsraelA new poll shows that Americans
have more sympathy for Israel than Pal-estinians after the seven-week long con-flict in Gaza. The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press has released a survey that found that 34 percent of Americans sympathized “a lot” with Is-rael, with another 32% of respondents sympathizing “some” with the Jewish state.
In comparison, the poll found less sympathy from the American public for the Palestinians, with 11% sympa-thizing “a lot” with the Palestinians, al-though 35% said they had “some” sym-pathy for them. While the results of the survey conducted August 20-24 showed that 15% of Americans held little sym-pathy for Israel and 12% feeling “not at all” sympathetic, nearly half of the respondents said they had “not much” (20%) or no (27%) sympathy for the Palestinians.
However, among the 1,501 adult Americans surveyed, 37% overall said their sympathies were not mutually exclusive to either side in the Middle East conflict. A higher number, though, said they sympathized with Israel and not the Palestinians while fewer sym-pathized with the Palestinians and not Israel. Twenty-nine percent of those questioned responded with one-sided sympathy for Israel while 8% said they sympathized solely with the Palestin-ians. The poll found that 18% did not
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sympathize with either side.In terms of a peaceful two-state solu-
tion, the figures showed that the Amer-ican public remains divided in light of the most recent fighting between the IDF and Palestinian factions in Gaza. While 43% said they believe Israel and an independent Palestinian state could coexist peacefully, 48% said they did not believe the situation was feasible.
Hamas’s Ceasefire Demands
A Hamas spokesman has announced that any attempt to disarm Hamas and other militant groups in the Gaza Strip would be “worthless.” Sami Abu Zuhri said such a move would be “inconsistent with international law and our people will not allow it.” Abu Zuhri continued that, if anything, Israel was the party that should be disarmed, while the in-ternational community should “ban the American administration from provid-ing it with the weapons that are used to kill children and women.”
Ceasefire talks were renewed in Cai-ro last week. Palestinian negotiators re-peated their demands for the release of Hamas prisoners held by Israel since June, as well as the establishment of a seaport and an airport in the Strip.
Under the current deal, Israel has agreed to lift restrictions on fishing, al-lowing boats to work up to six nautical miles from the shore. It also pledged to ease restrictions at two of the cross-ings into Gaza — Erez and Kerem Sha-lom — to allow the supervised entry of goods, humanitarian aid and construc-tion materials.
Continued indirect negotiations in Cairo are also stipulated in the deal. Hamas has sworn to pursue its goal of ending the blockade on Gaza and con-structing a seaport and an airport to al-low the Palestinians complete freedom in travel and trade between Gaza and the outside world. But Israel has said such a future is only possible if the territory is demilitarized — a move endorsed by the
U.S. and several European leaders but utterly rejected by Hamas.
Hamas has threatened to resume fighting should its demands not be met, with exiled political chief Khaled Mashaal saying this week that Gaza would never give up its “sacred” weap-ons. “The rockets and tunnels exist; if the negotiations fail and there is a need, we will return to resistance until we reach our goals,” he said at a press con-ference in Qatar.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya-hu responded that if Hamas restarted attacks, Israel would hit back “seven times as hard.”
NationalHow Slow Can You Go?
It’s been four decades since Presi-dent Richard M. Nixon signed into law a mandate that set the maximum national speed limit at 55 mph. Nixon sealed this initiative to help fend off an oil crisis in the nation and surely many road trippers rued the day the speed limit was dimin-ished.
But years later, the law was repealed and it’s now up to the states to decide how fast—or how slow—drivers should go.
So which state’s the fastest in the nation? Well, we all know that “every-thing’s bigger in Texas” and driving is no different. The Lone Star State not only lays claim to the fastest posted lim-it—85 mph—on a single highway in the U.S., it also boasts the greatest overall top speed when you average the highest allowable speeds on its rural interstates, urban interstates and other limited ac-cess roads—78.3 mph.
Idaho speeds into second in the na-tion—it has a top limit of 80 mph and an average top speed of 76.7 mph.
On the other end of the speed spec-trum, meandering along, are Alaska and the District of Columbia, both of which have a top speed and average top speed of 55 mph.
The high-speed portion of Texas State Highway 130, which stretches 91 miles between San Antonio and Austin,
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A dozen more states have top speed limits of 75 mph, including Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota. Moreover, 22 addi-tional states have a top speed limit of 70 mph, five of which (Michigan, Missis-sippi, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Tennessee) average 70 mph across their urban and rural interstates and other limited-access roads.
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Cops in Ferguson Don Cameras
In a bid to calm local anger and chaos, police officers in Ferguson, Mis-
souri, are now wearing body cameras. Thousands have been protesting the fa-tal shooting of Michael Brown, 18, on August 9 by a police officer. Some in the St. Louis suburb have also lashed out at the police response to the protests – which turned violent on several occa-sions – accusing authorities of unneces-sary heavy-handed tactics.
On Saturday, Ferguson police be-gan wearing the cameras, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, quoting the town’s police chief Tom Jackson as say-ing the force – which is overwhelmingly white – received the cameras as a dona-tion from two companies.
Critics believe police will be more accountable if they wear cameras, which will also allow judges and juries to view for themselves police action in disputed incidents.
A grand jury is hearing evidence to determine whether police officer Dar-ren Wilson, 28, used excessive force in fatally shooting Brown, who was hit at least six times.
Sleeping Secrets of Successful People
Preparing for bed is a ritual for many. And, according to some, the way you head to bed can have an impact on the successes in your life. The very last thing you do before you sleep may actu-ally impact your mood and energy level the following day—and also impacts how well you slumber.
So how do some of the most suc-cessful people spend their nights? Well, some are night owls, some head to bed early, and some have rituals to help them settle down after a busy day.
President Barack Obama stays up late. He is said to hold conference calls with senior staff as late as 11pm and then reads or writes before drifting off to sleep. His predecessor, George W. Bush, had the opposite approach. He preferred to hit the sack early and then get work done in the morning.
In an interview with Newsweek in 2011, Obama called himself a “night owl” and then described a typical eve-ning in the Obama home. “Have dinner with the family, hang out with the kids, and put them to bed about 8:30 p.m. And then I’ll probably read briefing pa-pers or do paperwork or write stuff un-til about 11:30 p.m., and then I usually have about a half hour to read before I go to bed ... about midnight, 12:30 a.m. — sometimes a little later.”
In an interview with Rolling Stone, he also admitted to trying to catch “The Daily Show.” “I think Jon Stewart’s brilliant.”
Rewind a few years—or centuries—and you’ll see that Benjamin Franklin had a very different evening schedule. In his autobiography, Franklin out-lined a program that would lead him to “moral perfection.” In this ideal sched-ule, Franklin asked himself the same self-improvement question every night:
“What good have I done today?”He described his other rituals before
bed such as “put things in their places, supper, music or diversion or conversa-tion, and examination of the day.”
And back to the future, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg says that al-though it’s “painful,” she turns off her phone at night so she “won’t get woken up.” Even so, “I check my e-mail the first thing in the morning, and the last thing at night,” Sandberg has said.
Winston Churchill’s bedtime rou-tine never varied. Around 5 p.m., the British prime minister would drink a weak whisky and soda before taking a nap for an hour and a half. Churchill said this siesta, or short nap, allowed him to work for 1.5 days every 24 hours. When he woke, he bathed and got ready for dinner.
At 8 p.m., Churchill would eat din-ner, which was often followed by drinks and cigars well past midnight. Due to his irregular sleep schedule, Churchill was said to hold War Cabinet meetings in his bath.
Stephen King, the master of hor-ror and suspense, has a very specific way to go to sleep. “I brush my teeth, I wash my hands. Why would anybody wash their hands before they go to bed? I don’t know. And the pillows are sup-posed to be pointed a certain way. The open side of the pillowcase is supposed to be pointed in toward the other side of the bed. I don’t know why,” King relat-ed to Lisa Rogak, author of the book, Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King.
Media mogul and syndicated colum-nist Arianna Huffington says she likes to go to sleep reading “real books”—iP-ads, Kindles, laptops are banned from her bedrooms before bed so she can tru-ly unwind.
And no matter when Bill Gates gets home at night, he makes sure to read an hour before bed. “It’s part of falling asleep,” he told the Seattle Times. He enjoys “deeply informative and beau-tifully written” books and his reading topics range from healthcare to climate change to business and politics. He con-siders himself a fast reader, so he goes through books quickly.
Designer Vera Wang actually uses her bedroom for work. “My bedroom is my sanctuary,” the fashion designer told Fortune in 2006. “It’s like a refuge, and it’s where I do a fair amount of de-signing — at least conceptually if not literally.”
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the only time when seven people aren’t coming to me at once.”
Kenneth Chenault, CEO of Ameri-can Express, uses his evening to pre-pare for the next day. Before retiring for the night, Chenault says he likes to write down the top three things he wants to accomplish the next day. This helps him prioritize things the next morning.
Eric Cantor Heads to Wall Street
After Eric Cantor’s recent embar-rassing ouster from Congress, many
wondered where the politician would be heading. According to Business Insider, Cantor will be following the money. The former House Majority Leader landed a job at the investment firm Moelis & Co. as a vice chairman and board member, effective this week.
The politician will be landing soft-ly. He’ll earn a base salary of $400,000 for this year and the next. But that’s not all. Cantor will receive $1.4 mil-lion in a signing bonus this year and $1.6 million in incentive compensation next year. Add it all together, Cantor is looking at a cool $3.4 million.
Mr. Moelis said he is hiring Mr. Cantor for his “judgment and experi-ence” and ability to open doors—and not just for help navigating regulatory and political waters in Washington. Still, expertise in such matters is likely to be valuable given how heavily they can weigh on the minds of corporate executives contemplating deals.
“I have no need for a political fig-urehead,” Mr. Moelis said. “What I want is a partner.”
Cantor will be staying in familiar territory. He’ll be heading the new Washington office of the firm.
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Ever wonder what your fellow Americans are up to right now? Well, the answer is here. Retale.com has come up with an ever-changing chart that is designed to tell you in “real time” how many Americans are eating, sleeping, working, relaxing, and much more.
The list of numbers and colors changes every second based on national data collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. You can also see just how routines shift along age, gender and em-ployment lines.
It helps me to type these words knowing at this very moment
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Anti-White Hate Crimes in Central Park
White joggers in Central Park were victims of racially motivated pellet gun attacks this week. Edward Fall, 20, of Morningside Heights, was charged with assault and reckless endangerment as hate crimes in the non-fatal attacks.
One of the attacks was made against a 34-year-old man who suffered a pel-let gunshot to the head as he jogged on
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Central Park North and the East Drive. In the second attack, a 36-year-old woman was shot in the back of her head as she jogged on West Drive near 60th Street. The woman told cops she turned and saw a group of five black people — three men and two women — “laughing and making anti-white statements,” ac-cording to a police source. The suspects then fled farther into the park.
Fall was arrested after being stopped for marijuana possession — when cops realized he had a pellet gun on him. The man admitted shooting someone in the leg with a pellet gun on the West Side, but denied any involvement in the Cen-tral Park violence.
According to police, all of the peo-ple in the group where the shot came from are believed to be between 15 and 20 years old.
Child Accidentally Kills Shooting Instructor Last week, a 9-year-old girl acciden-
tally shot and killed her gun instructor at a gun range in Arizona that caters to Las Vegas tourists.
Charles Vacca was accidentally shot in the head as he instructed the young girl how to fire an Uzi, an Israeli-made 9mm submachine gun. As she pulled the trigger, the gun jumped out of her left hand toward Vacca, who was standing beside her.
The tragic event highlighted what every parent should know: guns and children do not mix.
“To put an Uzi in the hands of a 9-year-old ... is extremely reckless,” CNN law enforcement analyst Tom Fuentes said.
Gun experts point out that if one needs to teach their child to shoot, a single-shot firearm is much safer than a submachine gun.
“It’s always the supervision,” said Greg Danas, president of Massachu-setts-based G&G Firearms. “But you also have gun enthusiasts running busi-nesses where they place firearms in the hands of the uninformed, whether they’re 9-year-old kids who are not ca-pable or adults. It all stems from gun enthusiasts running businesses that re-quire a level of professionalism and ed-ucation. The unexpected with firearms is something that’s only learned through years of being a trainer, not a gun en-thusiast.”
As of now, prosecutors don’t foresee filing criminal charges.
NYPD Learning Common Sense
New York City cops are heading back to school this semester. NYPD precinct commanders are soon going to be required to be proficient in social media.
After several online blunders, in-cluding a joke tweet about a dead woman and a hashtag that became a laughingstock, the NYPD is forcing top officers to take a course in Twitter. But the lessons shouldn’t be too hard: “USE COMMON SENSE” read a flyer handed out to the commanders at the first train-ing session at John Jay College.
Cops are being warned not to post off-the-cuff remarks on Twitter and are encouraged to praise community groups, send out wanted posters and post crime stats.
“They want us to put info like street closures or bus diversions because of a street fair. Also info like an acci-dent-prone location or a picture of the cop of the month,” one source said. “Public information stuff.”
Commanding officers are also being told not to release information on crime scenes or investigations.
“I think the training is a good idea. A lot of COs are a bit older, so they might not know how. They may not realize the power or the damage one wrong mes-sage can do,” another police source said.
The course is designed to not only avoid mistakes and embarrassments but to create professionalism in a genera-tion that relies on social media. Zachary Tumin, the NYPD’s deputy commis-sioner for strategic initiatives, said so-cial media can be a tool for cops. “It’s an opportunity for commanding officers…to share news while engaging with the people whom she or he serves,” he said.
What’s in Your Cart?What are people in your state shop-
ping for on eBay? If you live in New York, it’s fire arms & supplies. But if you’re a California gal, it’s high-end ap-parel and accessories.
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The Internet-auction website recent-ly created a map revealing the items each state purchases the most when us-ing the online bidding service. While some matches seem pretty obvious or expected—like Texans buying tactical and hunting goods or residents of the District of Columbia purchasing lug-gage (politicians travel a lot)—some seem to be rather bizarre. Alaskans fill their carts with hats, Hawaiians just can’t seem to get enough vitamins, New Hampshire residents must be sending a lot of packages because they are buying loads of packing materials, and Wyo-ming must be home to lots of creative souls since art supplies were a top seller there.
At the end of 2013, eBay had 137.4 million active accounts globally. By the second quarter of 2014, the site reached 148.9 million users.
Septuagenarian Maccabiah Champ
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Dr. Jane Katz is 71-years-old. She also won 13 medals at last year’s Maccabiah Games. Now, Dr. Katz is set to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the US President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition. She will be given the honor in Washington, D.C., in September.
“I’m truly touched that my lifetime of fitness is being honored in this way,” said Katz, who has taught aquatic fitness and safety at the City University of New York since 1964 and at John Jay Col-
lege since 1989. The author of 14 books on swimming, fitness and water exer-cise, Katz has competed in a record-set-ting 14 consecutive Maccabiah Games, dating back to her first appearance as a 14-year-old in 1957.
Katz also represented the United States in synchronized swimming at the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games. In her lat-er years, Katz became an American and world champion Masters swimmer and synchronized swimmer, and she has re-ceived many awards and recognitions, including an induction to the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2011.
For decades now, Katz, whose own father taught generations of children on Manhattan’s Lower East Side how to swim, has been encouraging others to get in the pool. “Anyone can exercise in water, and it’s not just about swimming. There are many disciplines of aquatics, like water polo and synchro,” said Katz.
For her, the most important things are participation and safety.
Katz, who plans on continuing to make waves for years to come, doesn’t see the Lifetime Achievement Award as a culmination of her contribution to water sports and fitness. However, she does consider it a milestone at which to look back and see how far she and other female athletes have come.
Civil War Vet to Receive Medal of Honor
The Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military decoration, is being awarded to 1st Lt. Alonzo H. Cushing, who was killed while fighting against Pickett’s Charge during the infamous three-day Battle of Gettysburg. The violent clash caused more than 51,000 casualties.
The White House made this an-nouncement on Tuesday after a de-cades-long campaign by his descen-dants and Civil War enthusiasts. The medal is reserved for members of the
Armed Forces who risk their lives in an act of great personal bravery.
“Refusing to evacuate to the rear de-spite his severe wounds, he directed the operation of his lone field piece continu-ing to fire in the face of the enemy,” the White House said in its announcement. “With the rebels within 100 yards of his position, Cushing was shot and killed during this heroic stand. His actions made it possible for the Union Army to successfully repulse the Confederate as-sault.”
Last December, Congress approved a special exemption for Cushing to re-ceive the award posthumously since recommendations normally have to be submitted within two years of the act of heroism and the medal awarded within three years.
Obama will award the medal in a ceremony on September 15 to two Viet-nam War soldiers who also received the congressional exemption — Army Command Sgt. Maj. Bennie G. Adkins and Army Spc. Donald P. Sloat.
More than 1,500 soldiers from the Civil War have received the Medal of Honor, most recently Cpl. Andrew Jackson Smith of Clinton, Ill., who was awarded the medal in 2001 by President Bill Clinton.
Cushing was killed on July 3, 1863, at age 22, when he received a bullet wound in the head. He was the com-mander of about 110 men and six can-nons, defending the Union position on Cemetery Ridge against Pickett’s Charge, a major Confederate thrust that could have changed the outcome of the war.
American Killed while Fighting for ISIS
Douglas McAuthur McCain, 33, an American citizen, was reportedly killed last week while fighting for the Islam-ic State in Syria. McCain grew up in Minnesota and last moved to San Di-ego where he attended San Diego City College. College officials confirmed his attendance but declined to provide addi-
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tional details.On McCain’s Facebook page, he
referred to himself as Duale Thaslave-ofAllah. Since his death, though, his Facebook account has been taken down. On a Twitter account identified as be-longing to McCain, he used the name Duale Khalid and wrote, “It’s Islam over everything.”
The terrorist wrote in one Twitter message regarding his conversion to Islam, “I will never look back the best thing that ever happen to me.”
Another tweet reads: “It’s funny to me how all these so call Muslim claim that they love Allah but always curse the one who try to implement his laws.”
White House officials confirmed his death on Tuesday. “We were aware of U.S. Citizen Douglas McAuthur Mc-Cain’s presence in Syria and can confirm his death,” said a statement released by Caitlin Hayden, a spokeswoman for the National Security Council. “We contin-ue to use every tool we possess to disrupt and dissuade individuals from traveling abroad for violent jihad and to track and engage those who return.”
A prime concern of U.S. officials is that Americans who join militant groups fighting in Syria and Iraq may return to America to launch jihadist attacks. Of-ficials estimate that there are anywhere between several dozen to 100 Ameri-cans fighting with Syrian-based terrorist groups.
Richest Members on the Hill
Apparently, being a member of Con-gress is a well-paying job. Recently, the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) collected data in order to identify the five richest members of Congress. Turns out that it’s not just the white-shirted, stiff Republicans who have all the dough. Three out of the top five are Democrats.
So who are the ones who have the fattest bank accounts on the Hill?5. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-TX, worth an average $143,153,910 4. Rep. John K. Delaney, D-MD, worth an average $154,601,580
3. Rep. Jared Polis, D-CO, worth an average $197,945,705 2. Sen. Mark Warner, D-VA, worth an average $257,481,658 1. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-CA, worth an av-erage $464,115,018No wonder they’re all so concerned about the little guy on the street.
That’s OddA Slice of Royalty
Last week, someone paid royally for a slice of cake that’s over 33 years old.
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wedding cake for $1,375. The slice of history was still in its original wax paper and presentation box with a card reading, “With best wishes from Their Royal Highnesses, the Prince & Prin-cess of Wales.” Despite the impeccable appearance, the buyer was warned not to eat it. “The cake turns to crumbs and dust . . . It’s not the cake that’s of value — it’s the box,” said Alicia Carroll of memorabilia dealer Everything Royal, which has sold dozens of slices of his-torical cakes.
Unbelievably, there are a dedicated number of British royal cake collec-tors. Some had even bought cakes dat-ing back to Britain’s Queen Victoria, who got married in 1840.
Diana and Charles were married in July 1981 and were officially divorced in 1996.
Seems like a lot of dough for a small slice of history.
99 Bottles of Beer
Ever went on vacation with an an-noying brother and had to endure “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall” for hours on end?
Well, one company in Texas decided to make the song a semi-reality. Austin Beerworks has launched a 99-pack of its “Peacemaker” ale. The 7-foot-long pack consists of three rows of 33 cans that tip the scales at 82 pounds and is priced at about $99.
“We made it at first as a joke,” said Michael Graham, co-founder of the Austin-based craft brewery. And it’s made quite a few beer-lovers—and their friends—happy. All 20 of the packs that were offered were sold out in just one day.
The pack are too big for refrigera-tors—duh!—but are designed so that once a pack is opened, the beer can be covered in ice. Or you can just invite 98 other people to share in the alcohol overdose.
Hillary Clinton: Secretary of Style
The people of Kosovo have won-derful fashion sense. In fact, they em-ulate the style of one of the most in-fluential women in America…Hillary Clinton.
Standing tall over Bill Clinton Boulevard in Pristina, Kosovo, there’s a gleaming statue of the former pres-ident, honoring Clinton for his assis-tance to the Kosovo people during their struggle with the former government of Yugoslavia in the Kosovo War.
And just around the corner, there’s an homage to his wife—in a different way. The Hillary clothing shop sells skirt and pantsuits inspired by the for-mer first lady, senator and secretary of state. Guests from all over Kosovo and the rest of the Balkans region flock to this mecca of fashion.
“We respect her name and her per-sonality here,” said store owner Besian Morina. “Our clothes are modeled after her own fashion.” The red pantsuits are the most popular items in the store, although navy is a top seller as well.
The store was honored in 2012, when Hillary Clinton herself visited the shop. They presented her with one of their navy suits. Two photos of Hillary hang proudly above the store’s dressing rooms, an inspiration to those trying on their fashions.
“Since she visited here, we are even more popular and we have been able to expand into another room,” Mori-na said. “We thank her very much for that.”
What can we say? They are certain-ly learning fashion from the very best America has to offer.
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Crested Butte, Colorado Says Yes to “Whatever”
“Are you up for Whatever?” Bud Light’s advertising campaign took so-cial media by storm last year when its Super Bowl ad featured Arnold Schwarzenegger playing ping pong with actor Don Cheadle in an elevator with a llama. It took place in “What-ever, USA” and now the beer giant is planning to use Crested Butte, Colora-do, for its next big “Whatever” stunt. Granted, residents are mixed about Bud Light painting their mountain town blue and bringing in more than 1,000 revelers to the town of 1,500 for the September 5-7 event. Some were excited to be part of the secrecy of the campaign. Others were skeptical about the idea of their beloved town being turned into a Disneyland.
But on Thursday, the town council voted to approve the permit to allow the festivities to take over its streets. Bud Light is paying $500,000 for the permit and will be responsible for set up and take down.
No one really knows what will be happening starting September 5. The whole event is shrouded in secrecy, but…whatever.
Dreaming of IKEA
Want to be lulled to sleep surround-ed by do-it-yourself furniture? Well, three families got to live their dream when they slept in an IKEA in Sydney, Australia, this week.
The furniture giant advertised three rooms on Airbnb, with list-ings worded like the site’s rental ads. One “room” promised “Rustic Charm… reminiscent of a Swedish
summer cottage.” In order to participate, families
were asked to apply online and ex-plain why they should be invited to the IKEA sleepover. Of course, the event was covered by the media—make sure to brush your teeth!—and guests were advised that they would be “woken in the morning in a remarkable way.” But the company added, “Nothing frighten-ing — we promise.”
This is not the first time people vied to sleep in the furniture store. In 2012, the company invited 100 IKEA fans to crash for a night at its Essex store in the UK. And some locations in China encourage shoppers to field test the mattresses and couches.
Wonder what they got for breakfast. Swedish meatballs, anyone?
An Art of Gold
An August 28, folks flocked to Folkestone, England, in a modern-day gold rush. As part of an innovative
public art installation, German artist Michael Sailstorfer buried $16,000 worth of gold bars in the sand of Outer Harbor beach.
The mad dash came in the after-noon, when the tide went out. It was finders, keepers for the lucky hunters.
What’s so artsy about burying gold? Well, according to Lewis Biggs, the Folkestone Triennial curator, the art is more about what the finders will do with the gold than about the precious metal itself. “Do you take it to the pawnbrokers or do you take it to So-theby’s? Or do you keep it on the man-telpiece because you think it is going to be worth more later?”
Claire Doherty, the director of the group who commissioned Sailstor-fer’s piece, told The Guardian that the beauty of the project is that it will endure even after all the gold is found, sold or displayed: “A lot of people won’t admit to having found one even if they have. Would you?”
How about just giving me the gold without me having to dig for it? That’s a beautiful piece of art right there.
Shaun and Shrek: World’s Wooliest
Thought your kids needed a haircut before school? Meet Shaun the sheep.
He could have been the wooliest sheep in the world.
The Tasmanian sheep was found by Peter and Netty Hazel as he wandered by them on Sunday. “He couldn’t see very well because of the wool over his face, so I snuck up behind him and grabbed ahold of him,” farmer Peter re-called.
It is thought that the six-year-old Merino ram had never been shorn. But despite his wooly coat being a half a meter thick, Shaun’s 52 lb. of wool was not enough to take away the title of world’s wooliest sheep from Shrek, the current New Zealand record holder, whose fleece weighed a whopping 60lb.
Shaun’s haircut took 20 minutes, and his new owners kept a rug near-by to wrap him in after his shearing to keep him warm. The celebrated fleece will tour the state agricultural show cir-cuit and Netty Hazel says Shaun will do some appearances as well.
What do people think of his new haircut? It’s pretty baaa-d.
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Hello Kitty Not a Kitty Cat
Believe it or not, Hello Kitty is not a cat. Despite her whiskers and point-
ed ears, the cute character is, according to brand owner Sanrio, “a cheerful and happy little girl with a heart of gold.”
Can’t believe this news? Well, this shocking revelation came to light when a Hawaii-based academic spe-cializing in items of “kawaii” (“cute” in Japanese) asked Sanrio to fact-check captions for an exhibition she was cu-rating to mark the 40th anniversary of Hello Kitty.
Christine Yano, an anthropologist from the University of Hawaii, said that she “was corrected — very firm-ly” by Sanrio that Kitty was not a cat. “That’s one correction Sanrio made for my script for the show,” she said.
“Hello Kitty is not a cat. She’s a cartoon character. She is a little girl. She is a friend. But she is not a cat. She’s never depicted on all fours. She walks and sits like a two-legged crea-ture,” Sanrio reiterated.
“It is a 100-percent personified character,” a Sanrio spokesman told AFP in Tokyo. “The design takes the motif of a cat, but there is no element of a cat in Hello Kitty’s setting.”
To explain even further, the spokes-man revealed more about the Hello Kitty character. Her real name is Kit-ty White, and she was born in southern England on November 1, 1974. She is a Scorpio and blood type A. She has a twin sister, Minny White, and lives in an unnamed suburb of London with father, George, and mother, Mary. And she has
her own pet cat: Charmmy Kitty. Hello Kitty first appeared in 1974
on a coin purse in Japan. Since then, she has graced tens of thousands of products in some 130 countries.
And remember, even though she looks like a cat and her name sounds like a cat, your favorite feline-looking character is categorically not a cat.
Painting the Grass Green
Don’t want to spring for a sprinkler? No problem—it’s time to paint the town green.
Thanks to California’s chron-ic drought and watering restrictions, there’s no shortage of dry, dusty-brown lawns. And that’s led to a growth in busi-ness for a remedy that doesn’t involve wasting water or risking fines: lawn painting. Using nontoxic, emerald-hued paints, lawn painters can transform even completely dead lawns to look about as lush as a golf green.
On a recent July afternoon, Da-vid Bartlett, owner of Xtreme Green Grass, stood on the yellowing grass of a Folsom home, a backpack sprayer on his back, walking slowly back and forth dousing the grass in a natural, pigment-based paint. Bartlett started painting lawns three years ago, but this summer business has tripled, he said.
What used to be 10 yards a month has increased to a couple a day.
“People that have brown yards are obviously concerned about water, or they are afraid to get a $500 ticket, oth-erwise they would water their yard,” Bartlett said. “I’m cheaper than a tick-et.”
Bartlett, 36, paints lawns for home-owners who are tired of brown yards as well as people who are selling their home and want to increase its curb ap-peal, he said. Based in Sacramento, Bartlett said he gets lawn-painting jobs from customers as far away as San Fran-cisco and Redding.
Of course, the faux healthy lawn is nothing new. Golf course, athletic fields and hotels have been sprucing up their foliage with paint for years. But this year’s drought has brought out even the simple homeowner, who is concerned about their brown lawn. And real estate agents have been using the lawn-paint-ing business to bring new life to homes on the market.
At 15 to 20 cents a square foot, a typical yard-painting job costs between $150 and $200. Lawn paint, touted as safe for humans, pets and the envi-ronment, generally lasts three to six months. It usually takes about an hour to dry and doesn’t rub off on shoes or bare feet, even when watered or mowed, according to turf professionals.
If a yard is completely dead when sprayed, it lasts longer because it is not being mowed.
“It’s just like hair dye; as your hair grows, the roots are going to come up,” said Bartlett, who markets his company online, through Craigslist ads, and by leaving his signs in a customer’s front yard after completing a job. His start-up costs were minimal: the sprayer and gallons of eco-friendly lawn paint.
Homeowners beware: a green lawn in California may just make your neighbors green with envy.
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While their students were vacation-ing during the months of July and Au-gust, the faculty and staff members of the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach – Lev Chana Pre-School, HALB Ele-mentary School, SKA High School for Girls and DRS Yeshiva High School for Boys – had a special opportunity to enhance their educational technolo-gy skills with a variety of workshops. Over 100 HALB educators registered for the Institute this summer, with many attending multiple classes.
Under the direction of Rabbi Dr. Jeffrey Rothman, HALB Principal of
Academic Initiatives and Advanced Learning, and with the assistance of HALB’s Educational Technology In-tegrators Rabbi Aaron Fleksher, Mrs. Estee Lightstone and Mrs. Rivky Watman, the Institute offered begin-ning and advanced workshops on iPad apps, Google Drive, Forms and Docs, Haiku, IMovie, Screencasting, Voice-thread, Microsoft Powerpoint and Ex-cel, and even Twitter among others! The Smartboard Notebook Software workshop was given by master trainer Faigy Ravitz from the Center for Ini-tiatives in Jewish Education. Some of
the Institute’s workshops addressed the “flipped” classroom which encourages students to “see” the lessons at home via teacher-created videos; what used to be homework is now done in the classroom and allows more student support on a one-to-one basis.
The Institute was an incredible op-portunity for HALB teachers to expand their educational technology toolkit and enabled them to see the potential in these tools.
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Health screenings on offer will include: pediatrics; body mass index; pharma-cist and nutritionist consults; eyes; mental health; foot screening; and /HIV/AIDS testing; and more. There will be free health information. All giveaways, including school supplies, offered as long as supplies last.
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A man was accused of murdering a young girl and given a trial by jury. The prosecution spent days proving that the man had murdered the girl. Throughout almost the entire trial, the lawyer of the accused was silent. On the final day of the case, the accused man’s lawyer final-ly addressed the jury. He explained that the reason he had remained silent all this time was because his client in fact had not murdered the little girl. She was out of the country and after much effort she
was tracked down and was due to arrive at the courthouse at exactly 4:00 pm. The jury was completely stunned by this unexpected development. At exact-ly 4:00 pm, every eye in the courtroom was focused on the courtroom doors. When an hour passed and still no one entered the courtroom, the lawyer stood up and addressed the court house. The lawyer explained if there is any reason-able doubt that the man did not kill the little girl, he should be found not guilty. Since all the jurors turned around to face the door at 4pm, that meant that in their mind, there is reasonable doubt as to if the girl was murdered. The jury was dis-missed to decide the case.
After much deliberation, the jury returned to the courtroom. The speak-er for the jury dramatically read aloud the verdict: “The jury finds this man to be …guilty.” The lawyer was amazed and questioned the jury as to how they reached this conclusion. The spokesper-son of the jury explained.
“At 4pm every eye was glued to the back of the courtroom because we all had ‘reasonable doubt’ in our minds and believed that the little girl might walk through the courthouse doors. I, howev-er, was watching your client and he did not look at the back of the courthouse – because he knew there was no way this little girl was walking in – since he had killed her.”
The mashgiach of Neve told over this powerful story. He explained that during the High Holidays, we are all on trial for our life. In order for Hash-em to “believe” our claims that this year will be different and we really are go-ing to change, we have to first believe in ourselves that we can change and we will change. The best way to “prove” that we can change is to make a small commitment and stick to it.
We all have many areas of our life that can use improvement, both in our relationship with Hashem and in our interpersonal relationships. The month
of Elul presents a unique opportunity to make changes before the days of judg-ment. Of all our interpersonal relation-ships, those with our immediate family members, our spouse and our children are the most essential to improve upon. We still have a few weeks before Rosh Hashanah to “prove our innocence,” to prove that we can change, we have changed and we will change. Let us use this time wisely. May we all be written and sealed together with our spouse and children for a good year.
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].
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The Yeshiva Toras Chaim of South Shore’s “Back to School” Professional Development Day for administrators and faculty saw the greatest number of rabbeim, teachers, staff members and assistants ever.
Of course, that is because Yeshiva Toras Chaim of South Shore is experi-encing its largest enrollment ever in its rich 57 year history. And to meet the ever-expanding enrollment, the Yeshi-va has expanded its superb, warm and caring staff of rabbeim and teachers, assistants and specialties exponentially.
The day was opened by the Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Binyamin Kamenetz-ky, and two new administrative posi-tions were introduced by the Menahel Hayeshiva, Rabbi Chanina Herzberg. He presented Rabbi Rafi Draiman as the Menahel of the Mechina and Rabbi Binyomin ev Karman as the Director of Curriculum.
The Professional Development Day was graced with workshops and speak-ers, among them TJH columnist Rabbi Naftali Hoff who discussed effective school-parent communication.
Mr. Steve Rubin of WorkItSafe dis-cussed and explained the new server and computer infrastructure that were installed throughout the entire YOSS campus. And Mr. Ariel Shlesinger of Global Security reviewed the security protocols that were implemented last year.
But the highlight of the day was an extremely unique and unprecedented opportunity to hear a very important shiur by the Rosh Vaad HaChinuch of the Yeshiva, HaRav HaGaon Rav Shmuel Kamenetzky shlita.
Rav Kamenetzky spoke to the en-tire hanhala and to all the rabbeim about the important topic of educating the whole talmid and the need for ex-
treme sensitivity in im-parting the Ribono Shel Olam’s Torah. Through practical examples and divrei Chazal, the Rosh Yeshiva delved onto the topic of the changing needs of chinuch today and the extreme sensi-tivity needed in helping children grow in Torah and Yiras Shamayim and middos.
The Rosh Yeshiva spoke for close to an hour to the rab-beim and hanhala members and then stayed to answer specific questions from the rabbeim. The rabbeim mar-veled at his keen insight and how he imparted his extreme sensitivity to the feelings and needs of every talmid and the ability to have a worldview of chil-dren focusing on the entire picture.
The secular staff was enlightened by a heartwarming and insightful talk by Mr. Andy Lauber, LMSW, Director of Chai Lifeline’s iShine, who gave a seminar about reaching the soul of ev-ery child in today’s day and age.
The rabbeim and teachers look for-ward to an amazing year and imple-menting all that they have learned.
Address by Rav Shmuel Kamenetzky shlita Highlights YOSS Professional Development Day
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Several lone soldiers in the Israel Defense Force — enlistees from Ameri-ca and countries around the world who come to Israel to serve in the army — recently began their studies at Yeshiva University. Among them was Jonathan Sidlow of North Woodmere, who had been on the frontlines of the war in Gaza only a few weeks earlier, an experience few 19-year-old college students in America can envision.
“When we were go-ing in, it looked like a thunderstorm,” said Sid-low. “I wondered when I’d see my family again or if I’d make it out, but at the same time, I didn’t want to be anywhere else. We are in the same place that the Maccabees were, the same place that Jewish warriors have been in every era.”
For Daniel Gofine, a member of the Givati Brigade from Toronto, Ontario, it made no sense that the Israeli friends he studied alongside in yeshiva in Israel should bear any more responsibility than he did to serve the homeland all Jews shared. “I felt it was an important way to
contribute to the country,” he said.Shmuel Goldis, a sharpshooter from
Hollywood, Florida, agreed. “Teens in Israel get drafted because they’re citizens of Israel—but we are all citizens of Isra-el,” he said. “Why should they put their lives on the line on a daily basis as I sit
back, safe on the side-lines?
The war has been a surreal and deeply spiri-tual experience for Gold-is. “At night it’s pitch dark—all you hear is the whistle of mortars going past and sirens going off, all you see is the flashes of artillery fire,” he said. “It’s a sight I’ll never for-get. But you also really see the hand of G-d, the open miracles, and you
realize He has to be with you every step of the way or you would never make it.”
YU Vice President for University and Community Life Rabbi Kenneth Brander, who has a son currently serving in the IDF, noted that “one of the most emotional experiences I had this sum-mer was going to Bach Golani, the Go-lani training base in Northern Israel, to drop off our son Yosef after a weekend
he had spent with us in Jerusalem. To my amazement, the soldier that opened the gate was a YU student on a leave of ab-sence to serve in Tzahal [IDF]. I soon re-alized that on this Golani base there was a minyan of YU students.”
For many of these students, transi-tioning from a life of 24/7 training and danger in enemy territory to taking notes in an air-conditioned classroom along-side their friends is a mixed blessing.
“I spend a lot of time still thinking about my friends and my commanders and asking them to update me,” said Sid-low. “Knowing what they’re up against, I don’t know if I could handle them going back in and not being there.”
However, they’re still excited to learn and grow in an atmosphere that em-bodies the Torah values and passion for
Israel that have shaped their journey. “I was attracted to the opportunity that YU presents to study both Jewish and gen-eral studies in a great city,” said Gofine, whose two sisters gave him rave reviews of their time at Stern College for Women. “I’m also looking forward to developing close relationships with faculty since the classes here are small and allow for a more intimate class setting.”
Both of Goldis’s parents attended YU schools, so for him, it’s about both con-tinuing a legacy and maintaining close ties with his identity. “In Gaza you see miracles all day,” he said. “Why would I want to go somewhere else and lose any bit of that sense of G-d being with you all the time? YU is the only place that com-bines these great secular academics with G-d and Torah.”
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On September 4th- 7th, the Chicago community will have the privilege to once again host Rabbi Ben Tzion Shafi-er from “TheShmuz.”
He is scheduled to speak in different locations throughout Chicago. These include a Shabbaton in Beis Medrash Mikor Hachaim, his famous “Marriage Seminar” for men and ladies separately, a Teshuva lecture in Kehillat Chovev-ei Tzion in Skokie, an Elul message to Hanna Sacks High School, and Skokie Yeshiva and a Shmuz in Buffalo Grove.
“The Shmuz,” as the title implies, is a mussar talk that deals with a wide range of subjects that affect our daily lives. Drawing from Torah sources, The Shmuz makes Torah guidance rele-vant and understandable to Jews living in the 21st century.
“Everywhere today, people are busy and lives are complicated,” said Rabbi Shafier, a veteran mesivta rebbe who left the classroom to create The Shmuz at the urging of his Rosh Yeshiva, Reb Henoch Leibowitz, zt”l. “The Shmuz
provides 24/6 immediate and free ac-cess to Torah wisdom in a way that is impactful and easy to understand.”
There are over two hundred shmuzz-in available for free downloading from www.TheShmuz.com, or from the Shmuz office. Ten thousand subscrib-ers in 29 countries download more than 4,000 shmuzzin each week. The Shmuz also has published several books in-cluding The Shmuz on the Parsha, Stop Surviving, Start Living and Shmuz on Bitachon: Finding and Keeping Your Soul Mate. His recent popular lecture series titled “The Marriage Seminar” is Rabbi Shafier’s response to the reality of the unfortunate spread of divorce and troubled marriages in our communities. The Marriage Seminar was produced by Rabbi Shafier to address these realities and remedy the issues that they sprout.
To access Shmuzzin, go to www.TheShmuz.com, or call 866.613.TO-RAH (8672).
The Shmuz Returns to Chicago
OHEL Children’s Home and Fami-ly Services has launched a new School Essay Competition. Titled “A Country Attached, A People United,” OHEL in-vites all students from Grades 3 – 12 to share their insights at a time that saw tremendous ahavas Yisrael, prayer and support for our brethren in Israel.
The competition aims to both inspire through personal stories of overcoming challenges, and increase sensitivity to those in need. There are cash prizes for each winner and all entries must be re-ceived by Monday, November 3, 2014.
In OHEL’s last school essay com-petition, we received over 1,500 entries from schools throughout the U.S. and beyond.
For over 45 years, OHEL has helped strengthen the community and this com-petition is part of OHEL’s 45th mile-stone. Winning entrants, together with their respective school administrators, will be invited to OHEL’s Annual Gala Dinner in NYC on Sunday November 23rd, where they will be recognized.
Winning and notable entries will also be published in the media and OHEL publications.
Any inquiries can be addressed to Jeremy Pasternak at OHEL at [email protected] or his direct line of 718-686-3284.
More information can be found at www.ohelfamily.org/competition.
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San Diego, California, was awash with neon yellow t-shirts as nearly 500 members of Kids of Courage arrived for its annual nine-day summer adventure in August. Kids of Courage participants, better known as “Couragers,” flocked to America’s finest city on nearly 20
different flights from 14 states and 4 countries, including Israel for the very first time. A charter flight from Newark carried more than 30 individuals who required supplemental in-flight oxygen at all times, setting a new world record. The flight had been labeled “a hospital in the sky” by the press.
“This is the most medically chal-lenging group that we have traveled with to date,” said Dr. Stuart Ditchek, Kids of Courage co-founder and medi-cal director. “Because of our expertise in traveling with serious illness, it’s essentially easier for us to travel with nearly 150 medically challenged in-dividuals than it is for most parents to travel with just one.”
While in San Diego, K.O.C. adven-tured to Sea World, Knott’s Berry Farm, Legoland, The San Diego Zoo, among many other attractions. Surprise guests included paralyzed former Rutgers foot-ball player Eric LeGrand, actor and co-median Mendy Pellin, and behavioral economist Professor Dan Ariely.
The organization also arranged for an adaptive water sports day at the gor-geous Ski Beach Park. Even full quadri-plegics who rely on ventilation to help them breathe were able to jet ski safely and had the time of their lives.
“It doesn’t matter how serious any-body’s condition might be—everybody
was able to participate equally,” said Yossi Farkas, managing director for K.O.C. “We redefine what it means to live with a serious disability or chronic illness. There are no disabilities in Kids of Courage.”
Each camper on the trip was accom-panied by at least one counselor. Some
campers required two or even three counselors, depending on the severity of their illness.
Kids of Courage brought six doc-tors, and more than 20 nurses and EMTs. Around 1,200 doses of medi-cations were administered on the road per day, which according to Kids of Courage is more than an average-size children’s hospital. Medical logistics personnel tagged along carrying oxygen tanks and ice-cold water in the parks. Campers and counselors couldn’t walk more than five minutes without bump-ing into someone in a yellow t-shirt with hydration in hand. “Every detail is cov-ered,” said a counselor. “Wherever we
go, the logistics team is right there with wheelchairs and any other supplies we may need.”
How does the group do it? “Working out the logistics of the trip
is a near impossible task,” said K.O.C. co-founder and head paramedic Howie Kafka. “Every year we’re amazed that a group of volunteers from all walks of life come together and pull off what can only be called a miracle.”
Dr. Ditchek adds: “The organization goes as far as its volunteers take it. We rely completely on the generosity of good people.”
The trip to San Diego was the or-ganization’s sixth official summer trip. K.O.C. also runs a winter adaptive ski adventure to Vermont, in addition to approximately 30 days worth of activi-ties throughout the year.
When asked to sum it up, camper Racheli Herzfeld from Teaneck, NJ, of-fered this: “Kids of Courage makes the impossible possible.”
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BBY always takes care of its staff. After all, the staff takes superb care of our BBY girls, so it is incumbent upon us to express our thanks to the staff in as many ways as we creatively can.
The most recent addition to the ros-ter of teacher appreciation gestures oc-curred on September 2, the first day of teachers’ meetings. Traditionally, that day is one of the most challenging for teachers who have children. In that post-camp, pre-school chaos of endless unstructured time, attending teachers’ meetings requires herculean efforts to find appropriate and safe child care.
The PTA came up with a brilliant solution to this dilemma. They coordi-nated a mini day camp that was held in
the BBY lunchroom, replete with moon bounces, arts & crafts activities, sports, races, cotton candy, and pizza for staff children to enjoy while their mothers were working upstairs. And never ones to compromise on safety, the PTA ar-ranged for approximately 20 TMM high school girls to supervise the children. These TMM girls willingly gave up one of their last days of summer vacation to help their school in this worthwhile ef-fort.
The high school girls begin to rack up chessed points, the staff children are safe and happy, and the BBY teachers are able to focus on the work at hand. A perfect solution, the BBY way.
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On the outside, it looks like a regular house in the town of Givat Zev, locat-ed just a couple of miles northwest of Yerushalayim. Upon opening and en-tering the front door, however, one is struck by the difference; one’s ears are overwhelmed by a thunderous sound, the back and forth of a spirited Torah discussion; young faces aflame with passion, as they debate the fine points of the Gemara. The sound is reminiscent
of the resounding kol Torah heard in the Lakewood, Mir, or Ponovezh Yeshivos, but a quick look inside the nondescript house sitting on the edge of a hill with a gorgeous panoramic view of the hills surrounding Yerushalayim, paints an unexpected picture. It is a room filled with young people wearing shirts of different colors, sporting yarmulkas of different sizes and fabrics, and learning together with chareidi avreichim. They clearly seem to love every minute. Their passion and enthusiasm is almost conta-gious. “Welcome to Acheinu’s Yeshiva Dover Tov,” says Rabbi Chaim Gold-berg, Acheinu’s Director of Yeshivos.
Rabbi Goldberg continues, “Yes, it sounds like a normal yeshiva scene. If you look behind the outer trappings, it seems like the regular kol Torah that you would hear in any yeshiva, the bachurim here seem to be learning like regular ye-shiva bachurim. What is most remark-able is that this is the middle of their summer vacation! These are teenagers who, just several months ago, knew nothing about Torah and had posters of the leading soccer players or pop stars adorning the walls around their beds. Now the only thing on their minds is the
machlokes between Abbaye and Rava on the sugya that they are learning. This is the power of Acheinu’s Yeshiva Do-ver Tov!”
Acheinu’s Yeshiva Dover Tov was opened about a year ago in Givat Zev by its Rosh Yeshiva, HaRav Dov Slo-schitz, shlita. Harav Sloschitz is a close talmid of the well-known gaon and baal machshava, HaGaon HaRav Moshe Shapiro, shlita. Harav Shapiro
who understood Rav Sloschitz’s prodigious talents in kiruv re-chokim and his love and deeply caring heart for every Jew, saw Rav Sloschitz as the ideal Rosh Yeshi-va for a kiruv yeshiva seeking to produce not just baalei teshuva but talmidei chachomim as well.
Rav Sloschitz, a son-in-law of the un-forgettable Rosh Ye-shiva, Rav Dov Ber Schwartzman, zt”l, Rosh Yeshiva of Ye-
shiva Bais HaTalmud of Yerushalayim, named the yeshiva, Yeshiva “Dover (Dov Ber) Tov” in memory of his illus-trious father-in-law.
Learning Torah: Opening Minds… and Making Inroads
“The main thing,” says Rav Slo-schitz, “is that we learn Torah with them. The light of the Torah is the greatest kiruv tool available. We have seen that, more than discussions about lofty hashkafa subjects, the actual Ge-mara’s discussions about ‘Arba avos nezikin’ purifies their minds and brings them close to Hashem. Just setting up a chavrusa partnership with a yungerman is all they need and they begin to shine, to love Torah and to even want to give up their summer vacation in order to stay in yeshiva!”
Unfortunately, the yeshiva’s sojourn in Givat Zev has not been a bed of roses. Rav Meir Weinberger, one of Acheinu’s devoted activists, relates, “When the ye-shiva opened in a non-religious neigh-borhood in Givat Zev, some neighbors and others who sought to inflame sectar-ian discord, tried to do everything possi-ble to close the yeshiva. We did our best
to try calming things but it has not been easy. I am confident, however, that the kedushas haTorah that is suffusing this neighbor-hood simply from the To-rah being learned in it, will eventually transform our biggest detractors into our most loyal patrons!”
“We Don’t Go Down, We Raise them Up”When asked how avre-
ichim raised in a sheltered environment can find a common lan-guage with their charges, he explains, “At the first Acheinu Kiruv Conference, HaGaon HaRav Matisyahu Solomon, shlita, told over a profound thought that really encapsulates Acheinu’s chi-nuch philosophy. One of the climaxes of the Yamim Noraim davening is the beautiful piyut beginning, ‘Veye’esayu kol l’avdecha.’ The piyut describes the exalted time during yemos haMashiach when all the nations will serve Hashem and recognize His sovereignty over the world. The piyut eloquently describes how the nations will abandon their idols and offer sacrifices to Hashem. It cul-minates triumphantly, ‘Veyitnu lecha keser melucha—they will give You the crown of sovereignty.’ Those words are immediately preceded by ‘Veyishmu rechokim veyavou—Those from afar will hear and will come.’ Those words contain the foundation of our approach to kiruv rechokim. ‘The purpose,’ said the Mashgiach, ‘behind rechokim hear-ing about Hashem is, ‘Veyavou—they should come to us. Kiruv rechokim means drawing rechokim close to us! Not bringing ourselves down to their level! Kiruv rechokim must be the out-growth of a feeling emanating from within a ben Torah, a feeling of, ‘My burning love for Hashem and His Torah is so powerful, how can I not try to share it with my fellow Jews?’”
Acheinu Enrolls 1,500 New Bachurim into Yeshivos
Yeshiva Dover Tov is the latest of Acheinu’s yeshivos, joining its three other yeshivos that cater to talmidim at different levels of the kiruv chain.
Another milestone was reached this summer as Acheinu broke all previous yeshiva enrollment records. In addition
to Acheinu’s own yeshivos, they work with hundreds of yeshivos across Eretz Yisrael finding just the right fit for each of its charges. This Elul, Acheinu en-rolled more than 1,500 new talmidim in yeshivos! “It is because of Acheinu’s tremendous devotion to follow up, that we have had such success in not only enrolling boys into yeshivos, but keep-ing them in yeshivos until they become true bnei Torah,” said Rabbi Shlomo Rozenstein, Acheinu’s Director of Pub-lic Affairs.
Acheinu’s Placement Division at the Forefront of Kiruv KerovimThat brings us to another vital ser-
vice that Acheinu has been providing to the general community. Follow up is perhaps the most important word in the Acheinu dictionary. That is why they have a whopping 93% success rate in retaining the young people whom they are mekarev. They place their charges in mainstream yeshivos tailor made to each boy. As a result, Acheinu yungeleit have a comprehensive, intimate knowl-edge of hundreds of yeshivos through-out the country. This expertise has been remarkably effective as a kiruv kerovim tool as well. When bachurim are having difficulty, either picking an appropriate yeshiva or getting accepted to a yeshi-va, the first number their parents call is Acheinu. With Acheinu’s knowledge of yeshivos and ongoing relationships with Roshei Yeshiva who truly trust them, they have been successful in placing hundreds of bachurim from chareidi homes into yeshivos that suit them.
After all, as its name implies, Ache-niu’s mission is to care for and be me-karev all of our brothers, and bring them me’afeilah l’or gadol!
Acheinu’s Remarkable Yeshiva in Givat Zev, A Beacon of Light in the DarknessBy Yosef Sosnow
Rav Dovid Hofstedter greeting talmidim at Acheinu’s Yeshiva in Givat Zev
Talmidim at Acheinu Yeshiva, Dover Tov
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Israelis are ranked 11th in overall happiness. This, according to our vice-principal, who heard this from a leading educator, was both startling and difficult
to believe, particularly in light of the conversation among the twenty professionals I was sitting with.
Around the circle we went, each expressing the difficulties we’d faced during the July/August war and the way we had overcame our sense of helplessness.
Some still hadn’t come to grips with the situation and had even considered using their spouse’s foreign citizenships. One woman had stayed indoors almost the entire summer, venturing out only when she ab-solutely had to. And she lived in Nahariya, a city only caught in occasional fire. Some spoke of their trips to Europe and the hatred for all things Jewish they had experienced there. Another spoke about her 16-year-old son’s recent acceptance to an exclusive pre-mili-tary school and how, despite his protestations, she had refused to allow him to register. One woman couldn’t speak at all. She burst into tears when attempting to describe her closeness to a soldier killed in battle.
Underlying the gloom there was a sense of opti-mism that, one sensed, would eventually manifest it-self among us. Doesn’t time heal all wounds?
But 11th in overall happiness? As based in sta-tistics as the claim was (made the day after the final ceasefire), it seemed difficult to believe.
Having heard every possible expert opinion on why we won or didn’t win, why Hamas are weakened or not, or why the prime minister succeeded or didn’t, I was startled by a simple statement of fact by a friend who pointed out the strange asymmetry between the major wars fought here since Independence. We have
gone from a tiny country with limited resources able to defeat in a matter of days the massive Arab coali-tion formed against us in 1948 and 1967, to the same tiny country with unlimited resources unable to defeat a small terrorist organization in almost two months, hiding behind the coattails of a desperate population.
Living in the north made dealing with the war easier than having to be constantly on guard waiting for the next wailing siren heralding incoming bombs. It didn’t necessarily make us immune to anxiety. Two rockets fell close by, but if they were reported, they quickly fell out of the news. During the last Lebanon War, the mayor went out of his way to prevent the me-dia from reporting where rockets had fallen.
My family spent the summer packing up our be-longings and moving. It took two and a half weeks to paint the new house. I spent most days alone with Keren, she tinkering here and there, me covered in paint. Kol Yisrael constantly played in the back-ground. The news was depressing, although my work relaxed me.
My friend, Eliezer Twizzer, had promised to take me fishing off the rocks at Rosh Hanikra, but our plans had to be put on hold after his son and family had come up to Ma’alot from Ashkelon. They’d had enough of the sirens and the constant race to their re-inforced room.
That didn’t stop Eliezer from giving me a hands-on lesson in how to set up a fishing rod.
I was standing in his small apartment, feeling too timid to open the rod completely. “Open it up,” he said with a wave of his hand. I looked around the small space.
“In your kitchen?” “Go ahead. How are we going to measure the
length of filament you need if it’s not open?” When extended, the rod is 5 meters long. It
stretched across the kitchen floor into his living room. We measured out a length of line and he taught me how to knot it. Then we moved onto the hooks, and crimping a small lead weight onto the end. We spent an hour together.
I consider myself a good student. He made it sound so easy. The gist of his message was simple: just open the fishing rod, apply a bit of bait, throw it in the wa-ter, and start filling your bucket with fish.
The following morning, Dovi, Laizer and Yonatan got in the car with me for the twenty-five minute drive to Rosh Hanikra. We got there at 9:20.
They were soon bemused by how complicated simple things can become. For example, they couldn’t fathom why the lines continually became knotted, or why the triangular hooks kept snagging shorts and fingers, or why the only things caught were rocks or seaweed. They were even more bemused because all these things were happening to me. At one point, Dovi asked me whether I had really been given a fishing lesson. And then he laughed. When we finally man-aged to get our rods into the water, the fish weren’t biting because they weren’t there. Our predicament was made even stranger when two (obviously) expe-rienced fisherman stood close by and began filling up their buckets with decent-size fish.
At 10:45, I called Eliezer. “It’s Rafi.” “Not Rafi. You are Rephael,” he replied. “How are
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OF HAPPINESS AND FISH
IN THE HOLY LAND
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you faring down there?” “Are you sure you meant the Mediterranean
Ocean?” I asked him. My attempt at humor sailed over his head like a breath of wind.
“Yes. Yes,” he assured me seriously. “Hayam Hatichon. (Mediterranean). The fish are always there.” He paused before comforting me by saying that all be-ginners find it hard.
“I can’t come down. I wish I could. As soon as my grandchildren leave, I’ll take you out,” he promised.
We made plans for the last day of August, the day before my return to work. His kids had returned to Ashkelon. We pulled up outside his apartment on the dot of 8:30. I knocked on his door a few times before calling him to see where he was. He was taking a grandchild somewhere and promised he’d promptly return; said he was just around the corner. It was a mighty large corner because we waited until 9am. Upon arrival, he offered apologies. Soon we were driving off towards the rocky shallows of Rosh Hanikra.
From afar, it’s a beautiful spot. Even from the park-ing lot the innocent allure of the sea beckons. One’s tryst with nature is quickly dampened upon closer in-spection: litter in the form of papers, sunflower seeds, empty bottles and discarded food is scattered across the rocks like confetti at a wedding. If it were candy at shul there’d be children to pick it up. The only hint of authority is a worn sign that threatens fines of up to 750 shekels for leaving refuse in the area.
The lure of the catch tantalized me. I was eager to catch something. Anything.
Eliezer went down to the water’s edge and threw in a few pieces of pita bread. His line soon followed.
Within moments, I could hear the flapping last gasps of a 7-inch fish.
Our two rods were in need of repair, which took time as they were as tangled as a sheep that hasn’t been sheared for a year. By the time we finally cast off, I counted three fish in the bucket. This was going to be easy. I looked at my watch just as I was sprayed by a white wave. It was 10:15.
At 11:30, we decided to call it quits. The boys weren’t particularly enamored by my newfound pas-time. But our bucket was almost full. There were over twenty fish inside.
On the way home, Eliezer couldn’t stop laughing.
Not in derision, but in sympathy. We had switched spots. I had taken his rod. I tried different lengths and depths. There was nothing I had left to chance.
He slapped me on the thigh and said, “I had a friend who had no luck, so he went to the supermar-ket and bought fish home. His wife knew something was wrong when she asked him if the carp he’d caught wasn’t a freshwater fish.”
After we’d dropped him off and were unpacking at home, Keren glanced at the four of us and smartly asked how many pieces Eliezer had caught. We told her.
“Okay, how many pieces were caught altogether?” The three boys looked at me, giving me the chance
to break the news. “Altogether we caught the exact number of fish that Eliezer caught.”
“You didn’t catch anything” And she laughed, a deep throaty laugh that came coupled with a twinkle in her eye. She noticed the disappointment on my face. “Going back anytime soon, Rafi?”
“Did you know that carp are freshwater fish?” I asked her.
“Huh?” So it’s back to work. I’ll have to leave the sea for
another time. Maybe I’ll have a little more luck when I venture out again.
As I sit writing this I cannot stop thinking about our placement as 11th happiest country in the world. If Israelis were fish, and it was I who was on the rocks fishing for them, they’d be in 1st place.
Rafi Sackville, formerly of Cedarhurst, lives in Ma’alot in Western Galil. He teaches in the local high school.
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If it takes six men one hour to dig six holes, how long does it take one man to dig half a hole?
Answer on next page
Riddle!
A linguistics professor was lecturing to his English class one day. “In English,” he said, “A double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative.”
A voice from the back of the room piped up, “Yeah, right.”
You Gotta beKidding!
Anagram ShmanagramAs you get set to return to school, it’s time to sharpen those brain cells with the following game:
Answers:
1) Crazed, Razed; 2) Tower, Rote; 3) Veal, Leave; 4) Insert, Inert; 5) Aloof, Fool; 6) Final, Finale; 7) Zebra, Brazen; 8) Magnate, Magnet; 9) Crave, Craven; 10) Dime, Timed
Two numbers are given in each sentence that need to be replaced by words that have the amount of
letters indicated by the number. Each word is an anagram of the other (just to remind you: an anagram is a type of word play where you rear-range the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase), except that one word contains an additional letter that the other word lacks. Based on the clues given in each sentence, do your best to figure out what the two words are. The numbers given in each sentence indicate the number of letters in each word. Some of the words may be formed without rearranging the letters, and the only difference be-tween the words in this case is the one letter that has been added to one of the words. If you get 5 correct, you are pretty good. If you get seven or more correct, this school year is going to be a breeze for you!
1) The (6) lunatic (5) the entire town to the ground.
2) He could remember what the castle’s (5) looked like years later from (4).
3) If they do not serve (4) in this restaurant, we will (5).
4) (6) a quarter in the game or it will remain (5).
5) He was so shy that he remained (5) the whole time he was at the party. He was afraid of looking like a (4).
6) The (5) scene is known as the (6).
7) I’m surprised that you found the (5) to be (6). I’ve always liked the striped animal.
8) The possibility of acquiring the company drew the industry (7) to the meeting like a (6).
9) The soldier began to (5) liquor before every battle, and unless he had some, he became (6) and unable to fight.
10) The children laughed when the teacher promised a (4) to the student who scored the highest on the (5) test.
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Answer to riddle: There is no such thing as half a hole.
To: Teacher _____________________________
From: ________________________________________
I think my grade in your course, _____, should be changed from _____ to _____ for the following reasons:
____1. The persons who copied my paper got a higher grade than I did.
____2. The person whose paper I copied got a higher grade than I did.
____3. This course will lower my grade point average and I won’t get into:
____Medical School
____Graduate School
____Dental School
____ Accounting School
____Plumbing School
____The Mickey Mouse Club
____4. I have to get an A in this course to balance the F in ____________.
____5. I’ll lose my scholarship to _________________________.
____6. I didn’t come to class and the person whose notes I used did not cover the material asked for on the exam.
____7. If I flunk out of school my father will cut my allowance.
____8. I was unable to do well in this course because of the following illness:
____ Mono
____ Broken pinky finger
____ Nausea
____ Schoolidice
____9. The lectures were:
____ too detailed to pick out important points.
____ not explained in any sufficient detail.
____ your class was far too boring.
____ sleep-inducing.
____ all jokes and not enough material.
____ all of the above.
Also, in the event that I ever fail to do my homework, it will have been because of one or more of the following reasons:
____ The stuffed dog ate it
____ I made it into a paper airplane and it fell off the radar, without sending a mayday call
____ I ate if for supper by accident, instead of the meatballs
____ I was so engrossed in studying the other topics that by the time the morning came I realized that I didn’t even go to sleep at night and I didn’t even get to do the wonderful homework assignment that you gave
____ A weird phenomenon took place last night and for 4 hours I was only able to read Mandarin Chinese. (Thankfully the condition went away, otherwise I would have had to miss school today to see a neurologist.)
____ After spending hours on the homework, I realized that I accidentally used my invisible ink pen.
Additionally, please note that I am usually sick on the following occasions:
____ The morning after any important sports game
____When there is a really big test that I am not prepared for
____ Whenever it was supposed to snow and I was supposed to get a day off, but the meteorologist lied and it was perfectly clear outside.
I look forward to a wonderful year together!
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Parshas Ki TeitzeiI’d Be the First to Thank Hashem, If…
“You shall not reject an Edomite, for he is your brother; you shall not reject an Egyptian, for you were a so-journer in his land.” – Devarim 23:8
Our Attitude toward the MitzrimThe Torah lays out our attitude and
approach to the different nations and tells us, “The Mitzrim cannot be total-ly rejected because you lived in their country.” Rashi is bothered by this mixed expression. If we are supposed to be grateful for the good that the Mitz-rim did for us, why use the expression “don’t reject them?” This doesn’t sound very appreciative.
Rashi answers that the Torah is teaching us precisely that point. Our attitude towards the Mitzrim should be mixed. On the one hand, we don’t for-get that they threw our infant boys into the Nile. On the other hand, they did provide a home for us. So we have am-bivalent feelings. We don’t completely accept them, but we can’t reject them either.
When we think about the back-ground, this Rashi is very difficult to understand. Our stay in Mitzrayim was not pleasant. Tortured and bled, oppressed and hounded, the Jew was treated far worse than a beast of burden. We had no rights. We had no life. We couldn’t choose our destiny or protect our children. What possible debt do we owe to them?
But even more telling is that the Mitzrim weren’t doing us a favor by al-lowing us to stay in their land. We were the backbone of their economy. Their
entire production was based on slave la-bor, and we were the slaves. They didn’t feed us for our good; they did it so that we could produce for them. They didn’t give us a place to sleep for our comfort; they did it so that we could be awak-ened at dawn, to the crack of the whip, to slave away in the sweltering heat. In plain language, we were property –
owned by the Mitzrim, kept for their profit. Any good that they did for us was only for their selfish interests. Do we owe such people ha’karas ha’tov?
This question can best be answered with a mashal brought by the Chovos Ha’Levovos.
The Ungrateful TeenagerTwo teenage brothers living in a
grand estate are having a conversation. One says to the other, “Father is such a wonderful man! He is so generous with us, and so concerned for our good. Look at the entire program he has created for us – private teachers and tutors – all to benefit us. Everything that he does is fo-cused on our betterment. I feel so grate-ful to him.”
His brother looks over and says, “Oh, I don’t know about that. First off,
this getting up at 6:30 in the morning bit is a huge drag. And this whole ‘get an education routine’ is pretty lame. Not to mention five miles of running every morning! It’s just plain dumb! To tell you the truth, I’m not so sure he really has our good in mind at all. I think the old timer just wants to keep us out of his hair.”
What is the difference between the two teenagers? One is adopted; the oth-er isn’t. You see, the adopted son grew up without. He knows what it means to suf-fer. Having had lived in an orphanage for two years, he knows what it is like to go to bed hungry, to sleep in a cold, dank cellar. When his adopted fa-ther took him in, ev-erything was a vast improvement, so he has an unending sense of appreciation for what he now has. His brother, on the other hand, grew up in the lap of luxury. Since he first opened his eyes, all that he has ever known is comfort and abun-dance, and so none of it means anything to him. He is a spoiled brat.
The expression ha’karas ha’tov is highly illustrative of this concept. The word ha’karah means to recognize, to discern. Chazal were teaching us that this issue pivots on perception. By na-ture a person is grateful; the difficulty lies in recognizing what we have to be grateful for.
This seems to be the answer to this Rashi. There is no question that the Mitzrim’s motivation when they were playing host to the Jewish nation was not for the Jews’ benefit but for their own. However, the Jews did benefit. For 210 years they had a land in which to live, food to eat, and a place to sleep.
In that sense, their very existence is attributed to the Mitzrim. Granted the Mitzrim didn’t intend for the good of the Jews, but the Jews were the recip-ients of it. For that we owe a debt of gratitude – albeit mixed – but a debt nevertheless.
The Torah is teaching us that if I have received something, I must recog-nize that, even if it is a mixed blessing. Therefore, while we don’t completely welcome the Mitzrim into our midst, we can’t reject them either.
One of the most motivating forces in our avodas Hashem is a sense of “I need to pay back.” How can I not do ev-erything in my power to pay back the huge debt that I have to Hashem? How-ever, this is based on my understanding of the sheer amount of good that I re-ceive. Unfortunately, we are a bit like
the spoiled teenager who has everything and therefore has nothing. It is difficult for us to thank Hashem. It isn’t that we don’t have; it is that we don’t perceive it.
When I train myself to appreciate the great wealth that I enjoy, I gain an automatic sense of wanting to pay back. By doing this, I enjoy my stay in this world to a much greater extent, I am grateful for what others do for me, and I have an unending sense of appreciation for all that the blessings I have received from Hashem.
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BY NATURE A PERSON IS GRATEFUL; THE DIFFICULTY LIES IN RECOGNIZING WHAT WE HAVE TO BE GRATEFUL FOR.
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I got an e-mail from the publishers of The Front Page Magazine of Rock-land County this week telling me that
they are starting their eleventh year. As they were the first magazine to publish my articles, and I began writing for them from the first week, that means The Observant Jew has been in print for TEN YEARS! I was shocked. I didn’t realize it had been so long since I just kept writing each week, focused on this week’s article, and meeting this week’s deadline.
Well, as it’s Elul, and we’re ap-proaching the New Year, I think this offers quite an appropriate message to share with all of you. You see, we all have dreams and aspirations of making this the year when we will improve our davening, our learning, our business ethics, our relationships with family, our anger management, or whatever it is we want to work on. The problem is that it seems overwhelming and we don’t do it. Then, when next Elul rolls around, we put this year in the rearview mirror and acknowledge that we didn’t do what we set out to do, and start plan-ning for the next one. This is the year we will really make a difference. At least, until the following Elul approach-es.
The Torah says of Eretz Yisrael, “It is the land that the eyes of Hashem are on ‘mei’reishis hashana,’ from the beginning of the year, ‘ad ach-ris shana,’ until the end of the year. I believe it was the Satmar Rav z”l who noted the difference in the words. The first time it says, ‘HAshana,’ the year, and the second time it just says, ‘sha-na,’ year. That’s because when we start, we say it’s going to be the year – the one we’ve been waiting for, which will make all the difference – but since we don’t actually change, in retrospect it’s merely just another year of the same.
Why did the chicken cross the Mo-bius strip? To get to the same side! We all go through the motions of anticipat-ing change but then end up in our old routines again. So, how can we keep from making that mistake and break out of the endless loop?
The answer, I believe, is the same way I managed to write ten years of
articles. Instead of focusing on what I would write for the next decade, year, or even month, I focused on this week, to-day. By making small changes now, we will find ourselves being able to main-tain them for the long term.
Start small for the long haul. This mantra will help us to set achievable
goals. A few years ago, I shared with everyone that I accepted for Elul that I would start benching from a bencher… on Shabbos… at the Friday night meal. I didn’t say I would use a bencher every time because I knew that would be un-sustainable. Once I failed once, I would feel like a failure and throw in the tow-el. Instead, I chose a small goal and by and large I have maintained it. I still don’t use a bencher every time, though that’s an admirable goal to aim for, but I am proud of my having stuck to this goal for Friday nights.
One time I was in a hotel for Shabbos and brought my talis to shul before-hand. I decided to leave my sid-dur in the hotel room in case a family mem-
ber needed it. That evening in shul it hit me: I didn’t have a bencher in the hotel room, but because I had left my siddur there, I could use it to keep up my Elul-inspired practice! I felt like Hashem was giving me a nod that He arranged it for me to continue.
My wife went to a class and the woman said, “Don’t say you will be an expert in every halacha of Shabbos. Start by saying, ‘I won’t rip paper tow-els on Shabbos.’” It may sound strange to some, but it’s good advice. We all do things we know we shouldn’t, but if we attack them little by little, we’ll make it a part of ourselves.
Elul has two days of Rosh Chodesh. Why? Isn’t the first day just the last day of the “old” month? Technically that might be so, but I think it teaches us
a lesson. If you want to have a good beginning, you need to prepare for that launch in advance. In other words, Elul is part of Rosh HaShana! By revving our engines, we can be on our way by the time the new year begins.
So, as I begin my eleventh year as The Observant Jew, why not join me in
my new beginning and find something you want to do differently or better? Make it manageable, and focus on do-ing one day (or week) at a time. Then, by the time Elul comes around again, you’ll be proud to look back and say, “Yes, that was the year.” Then you can start making another one, because you
know that new beginnings start now.Wishing everyone a kesiva v’chasi-
ma tova; may you make it a wonderful new year.
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The Observant JewRabbi Jonathan Gewirtz
New Beginnings
BY MAKING SMALL CHANGES NOW, WE WILL FIND OURSELVES BEING ABLE
TO MAINTAIN THEM FOR THE LONG TERM.
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In this week’s parsha, the Torah por-trays for us an accurate and unfor-giving view of war and its personal
consequences. No one who participates in a war escapes unscathed from these consequences. The ones who are killed or wounded have suffered these conse-quences on their very physical bodies. But even those who have survived the battle whole are affected by the conse-quences of that struggle.
That is the supremely important, al-
beit subliminal message of the beginning of this week’s parsha. A Jewish soldier, who according to the ritual requirements of becoming such a soldier and being accepted for the battle as outlined in last week’s parsha, a G-d-fearing patriotic
and observant person, somehow enters into a l relationship with a non-Jew-ish woman, a relationship which Rashi points out to us will only bring him fu-ture grief and regret.
The heat and passions that war and
combat engender within a person cannot be limited to the actual battlefield alone. They carry on within the psyche and body of the combatant and find different ways of expression in all other areas of human life and experience.
The observant Jew, who under or-dinary and usual non-combat circum-stances is scrupulously pious and mor-al in one’s behavior, now enters into a physical relationship with a non-Jewish stranger. Is this not the strongest mes-sage possible that the Torah wishes to communicate to us about the conse-quences and effects of war!?
War requires the abandonment of personal inhibitions. That will help ex-plain the scenario portrayed for us by this opening parsha of this week’s Torah reading. Without inhibitions there can be no morality or piety.
But as all of us living here in Israel are well aware of, war is a constant state of affairs in our national and personal life. The Jewish people have been at war here in the Land of Israel for almost all of the years of the past century. These wars may not be of our choosing or our initiative but they are omnipresent in our lives and society.
And because of this difficult state of affairs, Israeli society has been affect-ed and even shaped by the presence of constant combat and warfare. Much of the rough spots that still exist in our so-ciety – the divisiveness, the absence of mannered courtesy, the unnecessary as-sertiveness, etc. – are all consequences of our being in a constant state of war. Inhibitions and piety are hard to main-tain under such conditions and conse-quences.
Peace is not merely an absence of a hot war. It is a state of mind that induc-es tranquility, rationality and all around general goodness. That is why peace is so exalted in the works of the prophets and throughout the Talmud and Jewish tradition. And that is why we pray three times daily that its presence should be felt amongst us. With peace – both inner and outer – such events as portrayed for us at the beginning of this week’s parsha simply do not occur.
There is no people that longs for peace as greatly as do the people of Israel. May the L-rd bless us with the achievement of peace and thereby re-store us to normalcy, piety and eternal goodness.
Shabbat shalom.
Torah ThoughtRabbi Berel Wein
Parshas Ki Teitzei
WITHOUT INHIBITIONS THERE CAN BE NO MORALITY OR PIETY.
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The ceasefire proposal called for an indefi-nite end to hostilities, the immediate
opening of Gaza’s crossings with Israel and Egypt, and an extension of the territory’s Mediterranean fish-ing zone. With the openings of the crossings, both Israel and Egypt were demanding of the Palestinian leadership a guarantee that weapons would not be smuggled into Gaza.
In a month’s time, should the truce hold, both sides will once again come to the table to discuss the con-struction of a seaport and airport in Gaza and the free-ing of about 100 prisoners. Israel has also asked for the remains of slain Israeli soldiers held by Hamas and the disarmament of the terrorist group, something it has flatly rejected in the past.
When the announcement of the ceasefire reached Palestinians, there were shouts of victory heard in the streets. Thousands poured into the streets of Gaza and the West Bank, waving the green flag of Hamas, and mosques blared out with calls of “Allah akbar!”
In Israel, the ceasefire was greeted more mutely. Many were skittish about the truce, having been burned too many times before by Palestinians violat-ing brokered peace. Quite a few were skeptical that this was Israel’s answer.
Even so, both sides welcome the immediate relief from threats of rockets and attacks in what has been the longest, deadliest and most destructive of three wars the two sides have fought in the last six years in the Gaza Strip. But did Hamas get all that they wanted?
Did Israel concede too much in the name of peace? Is it possible to come to “peace” with an organization whose premise is for your ultimate destruction?
Although Israel speaks of dealing a “devastating” blow to Hamas during Operation Protective Edge, the truth is that Hamas demonstrated a surprising resil-ience in this campaign. Many have criticized Prime Minister Netanyahu for not dealing a decisive defeat of the terrorist group. Why not eradicate Hamas once and for all and cripple them entirely?
In a recent interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman echoed this sen-timent. “The question is if it’s possible to do some-thing and to achieve a stable and sustainable ceasefire or peace agreement,” he related. “The last speeches that we saw from Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza and Khaled Meshaal in Qatar, they clarified their position. They explained that they will fight Israel and their goal is to wipe out the state of Israel,” Liberman explained.
The foreign minister added that Israel should be dealing a death blow to Hamas instead of sitting at the table with them agreeing to a truce. “I think that we have enough force to finish this story and to topple this terrorist organization, and I don’t see any differences between Hamas and ISIS and al Qaeda,” he said. “We saw their executions in the Gaza Strip. It’s exactly like Islamic State’s or al Qaeda.”
Ultimately, Liberman concluded, the ceasefire is “a really bad choice for the state of Israel.”
Others in the Knesset have also voiced their criti-
cism for the ceasefire and Netanyahu’s decision to bro-ker peace with the Palestinians.
“I ask myself, ‘What have we accomplished?’” said Danny Danon of Netanyahu’s Likud Party who is often at odds with the prime minister on Army Radio. “If we would have acted much more aggressively to begin with, we would have ended this fighting with a much lower price and much preferable conditions.”
Zehava Galon, head of the left-wing Meretz Party in Parliament, said that the ceasefire came “50 days too late” and that “its terms prove once and for all that this operation was Netanyahu’s strategic failure for embarking on this war without goals and ending it by giving Hamas support.”
“We are here today to declare the victory of the resistance, the victory of Gaza,
with the help of G-d, and the steadfastness of our peo-ple and the noble resistance,” a spokesman for Hamas said. Many predicted that the war would decimate the area and that Palestinians would see the destruction and throw out the Hamas leadership. But a recent poll suggests otherwise.
Out of the 1,270 adults questioned in Gaza and the West Bank between August 26-30, 94% of respondents said they were satisfied with Hamas’ performance against the IDF and 78% said they were pleased with its defense of civilians in Gaza. 79% said that Hamas had won the war against Israel. And 74% of those
Consequences of a Fragile Ceasefire
BY SUSAN SCHWAMM
On August 26, after 50 days of fighting, a long-term ceasefire was
agreed upon between Israelis and Palestinian militants in the Gaza
Strip. It is unknown how long the Egypt-brokered truce will hold—
and who exactly benefits from the agreement.
Despite the announcement of the ceasefire, UN Secretary General
Ban Ki-moon cautioned, “Any peace effort that does not tackle the
root causes of the crisis will do little more than set the stage for the
next cycle of violence.” His warning came as the two sides continued
to trade fire. Two Israeli civilians were killed in the Eshkol Regional
Council and six Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes.
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99questioned in Gaza said they supported transferring Hamas’s model of armed resistance to the West Bank. So much for eradicating the terrorist group in Israel. It seems like the war just strengthened Palestinians’ commitment to terror.
In light of this, Israel is trying to bolster Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the region. In a symbolic gesture, Abbas was allowed to give early word of the ceasefire in a speech delivered before the formal announcement by Egyptian mediators in Cairo. Abbas has made it clear that he wants to build “peace” with Israel, although it’s uncertain how much Israel can really trust the Palestinian leader.
The United States has made it clear that it rejects the Hamas leadership in Gaza. After word of the cease-fire, Secretary of State John Kerry hailed the truce and promised U.S. participation in Gaza’s reconstruction in coordination with Abbas and not for the benefit of “Hamas and other terrorist organizations.”
Israel once again is forced to deal with Abbas who is the lesser of the evils found in the region. On Tues-day, the PLO showed just how much of a partner of peace it is with Israel when they declared their inten-tion to seek a UN Security Council resolution setting a three year deadline for an Israeli pullout from the Palestinian territories.
“We should know that the occupation will end within three years,” Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organiza-tion, declared, even though she acknowledged that the United States would veto the resolution.
And if that’s not enough, Ashrawi reminded listen-ers of the PLO’s intention to take Israel to international court. “We are intending to take Israel to the ICC. We do not have a timeframe, we have a program of ac-tion,” she said.
In this region, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. The PLO is anxious to wrest power from Hamas; Is-rael wishes for Hamas’s destruction; Israel is forced to make peace with Abbas and bolster the PLO. Can there ever truly be peace under these conditions?
Hamas’s tunnels and infrastruc-ture have been damaged.
Israel lost many precious lives and Israelis have had their psyches shattered with the constant barrage of at-tacks. There were many losers in this war.
Haviv Rettig Gur, a political correspondent for The Times of Israel, points out that there really is no true victor after seven weeks of fighting. Many have pointed fingers, laid blame and lamented the lack of a true peace. In an interesting point, Gur writes how one of the many losers in this fight may be the relationship shared between Israel and the United States.
On July 27, just three weeks into Operation Pro-tective Edge, after Hamas rejected Egypt’s peace pro-posal, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry clumsily attempted to negotiate peace in Paris with his Qatari and Turkish counterparts. A preliminary draft was produced, listing a few issues that Hamas and Israel would discuss in Cairo under Egyptian eyes, and sent to Netanyahu for “comment and input.”
The reaction from Israel both surprised and shocked the Kerry. An incensed Netanyahu brought the propos-al to the eight-member security cabinet, where it was voted down 8-0. News of the document’s contents and the Israeli cabinet’s displeasure leaked immediately. It was thought that perhaps the United States was in-tentionally trying to undermine Israel’s position in the
conflict. Nothing—no, nothing—will be offered until Hamas fire ceased to exist, Netanyahu thundered.
It could be that Americans just didn’t understand Israel’s position. At the time, Kerry believed that his task would be to bring Hamas to the negotiating table in Cairo, where talks for a ceasefire could commence, and where the United States would back the Israeli-Egyptian position. And the only way Kerry believed he could bring Hamas to negotiate would be by agreeing to place their demands as issues for discussion in Cai-ro. He hoped the agenda he proposed would entice the terrorist organization to hold their fire and head to the bargaining table. “It was about establishing the ability to convey a clear message and to receive a response,” a senior official said.
Clearly, Kerry’s proposal was misdirected. For Netanyahu, Hamas needed to be taught a lesson. They needed to learn that their constant barrage of rockets wouldn’t bring them any benefits. They needed to stop
their aggression before any whiff of ceasefire negotia-tions would begin. For America to not understand this central premise made many Israelis feel that their ally let them down.
Additionally, the United States was not able to pres-sure Qatar, an ally of the United States and of Hamas, to squeeze Hamas politically and financially. The U.S. has vast interests in the country, yet was unable to ap-ply enough pressure for them to choke Israel’s enemy.
Despite the misunderstandings, Israel has not lost the United States. Last week, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni proposed that Israel seek a UN Security Council resolution demanding that Hamas disarm. But a move like that coming from Israel would most certainly backfire—if not for the help of its ally, the United States. Indeed, some are saying that the U.S. may al-ready be working on a disarmament resolution at the UN. If America will be able to shepherd the resolu-tion through the UN, Israelis would once again see the strength of a relationship between the United States and the state of Israel.
Despite the many victories Israel achieved in the war—par-
ticularly the discovery and destruction of Hamas’s ter-rorist tunnel infrastructure—many wonder if Netanya-hu’s coalition will be able to survive the backlash from the war’s end and what Israelis see as an indecisive conclusion to the fighting.
There are two challenges now facing Netanyahu in the mirror: the immediate fallout from the conflict and the looming budget crisis set to begin in mid-Sep-tember.
Those who may be considering leaving the co-alition and forcing new elections — Foreign Minis-ter Avigdor Liberman among them — are carefully watching the postwar mood this week for signs that Netanyahu is weakening. In Israel, where government coalitions are generally shaky, the political sharks are
constantly circling for a whiff of political failure. In 2006, the immediate public backlash against then-pre-mier Ehud Olmert, in the wake of the Second Lebanon War’s ambiguous conclusion, sent him into a down-ward spiral from which he never recovered.
Even those on the right, who have also been criti-cized for the war, will keep Netanyahu’s numbers in their sights. But as long as the prime minister doesn’t seem to have fallen out of favor with too many citi-zens, they are unlikely to topple their own coalition.
On Thursday, a Channel 2 poll revealed that Israe-lis were unhappy with the conflict, but not with Ne-tanyahu’s leadership during the war. They opposed the ceasefire by 54% to 37%, and only 29% believed Israel defeated Hamas. 83% said that the IDF did their part well.
But how many Israelis approve of Netanyahu? 32% are happy with their leader—not high, but in-line with how Netanyahu has polled much of the last five years. And when asked who would be best to lead their country, 28% of those polled said Netanyahu. Naftali Bennett received 15% of the vote.
Right now, it seems that Netanyahu is still holding onto his seat. Barring a major downturn in the polls, his coalition still remains strong.
That may change in a few weeks, when budget talks loom.
Finance Minister Yair Lapid is slated to present the 2015 national budget to the government for a vote in mid-September. If it passes in the cabinet, it is likely to pass easily in the Knesset, but it won’t be easy to pass in the cabinet.
One of the toughest parts of the budget battle is due to the expected growth of the defense budget this year due to the war in Gaza. To pay for such an in-crease, Lapid decided in recent days to increase the government’s deficit spending target — to avoid the specter of tax increases or benefit cuts to the middle-class voters upon which his political future depends. Lapid clearly remembers the spending cuts of last year’s budgets, which cost him as many as half his voting base in polls.
The deficit decision led to a bitter public spat be-tween him and Bank of Israel governor Karnit Flug. The Bank is warning that increased deficits could have painful repercussions for the economy as a whole at a time of weakening performance. Just last week, the Central Bureau of Statistics published performance figures for the second quarter of 2014 that showed just 1.7% growth, down from 2.8% in the previous quarter and 5.3% in the same quarter last year. Those figures are from before the start of the fighting and the result-ing increase in defense outlays and the bludgeoning of Israel’s tourism industry.
Lapid has a tough challenge—one that is hard to wiggle out of. With just weeks to go, he is unlikely to leave the government to escape publishing the bud-get under his name. But he may present a more palat-able budget and then let the cabinet vote on necessary changes. And then, of course, he can place the blame for the painful measures on Netanyahu.
Ultimately, if the polls remain unflattering but steady and cabinet ministers don’t let the budget show-manship get the better of them, Netanyahu’s govern-ment will last until the start of the winter Knesset ses-sion in October.
Then, with politicians back to their usual bickering and calm hopefully being maintained in the region, Is-rael—and the world—will finally be able to deal with Hamas—for once and for all.
Why not eradicate Hamas once and for all and cripple
them entirely?
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Compiled by Nate Davis
Notable Quotes
“Say What?”
The world has seen no respite in recent years, particularly since the European Economic Community, under the strict and unconditional leadership of the United States, decided the time had come to settle scores with what was left of two great nations [Russia and China] that…had carried out the heroic deed of putting an end to the imperialist colonial order imposed on the world by Europe and the United States. –Fidel Castro, writing a column published in Cuban state media
Did you hear about the earthquake in California’s Napa Valley? That’s wine country. The Red Cross now says they want some donations of Merlot. - David Letterman
It’s part of who I am.- Nahche Gilboa, 77, the oldest combat soldier in Israeli history, explaining why he is still in the IDF Reserves
Our own government did more harm to the liberties of the American people than bin Laden did.- Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) in a recent interview
I don’t always drive drunk at 3x the legal blood alcohol limit … but when I do, I indict Gov. Perry for calling me out about it. I am the most drunk Democrat in Texas. - An “unauthorized” tweet sent out from Governor Rick Perry’s Twitter account, featuring an unflattering mock image of Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, who was convicted of drunken driving in April 2013 and who recently indicted Governor Perry in an act of retribution for his withholding funds from her office because she refused to resign
It’s Labor Day weekend. Labor Day, of course, is a holiday where people take three days off from being unemployed. – David Letterman
I know people who can put a bomb on you.- Threat made by Ailina Tsarnaeva, sister of the Boston Marathon bombers, to a woman she was fighting with, resulting in her arrest
I don’t want to put the cart before the horse. We don’t have a strategy yet.- President Obama when asked at last week’s press conference how he plans on dealing with ISIS
For him to walk out — I’m not trying to be trivial here — in a light suit, light tan suit, saying that first he wants to talk about what most Americans care about the revision of second quarter numbers on the economy. This is a week after Jim Foley was beheaded and he’s trying to act like real Americans care about the economy, not about ISIS and not about terrorism. And then he goes on to say he has no strategy.- Rep. Peter King (R-NY), responding to President Obama’s press conference and the taupe suit he was wearing
Our true war is aimed at the liberation of Jerusalem… The time has come for us to say, that our true war is not aimed at opening the border crossings. Our true war is aimed at the liberation of Jerusalem, Allah willing.- A Hamas spokesman at a rally last week
The Sharia will be implemented in America.- English Imam Anjem Choudary to Sean Hannity on Fox News
Every radical Islamist like you will be wiped off the face of the Earth.- Sean Hannity in response
Russia’s partners…should understand it’s best not to mess with us. Thank G-d, I think no one is thinking of unleashing a large-scale conflict with Russia. I want to remind you that Russia is one of the leading nuclear powers.- Vladimir Putin speaking at a pro-Kremlin youth camp last week
If I want, I will take Kiev in two weeks.- Vladimir Putin during a meeting with outgoing European Commission President Jose Manual Barroso
Apple is secretly developing a new product rumored to be the largest iPad they’ve ever made. It’s said to be 12.9 inches across, and it will be the first iPad that folds out into a full-size bed. – Jimmy Kimmel
An iPad that’s 12.9 inches — it doesn’t sound big, but it is big. And it’s going to make those people that take pictures with their iPad look even more ridiculous. – ibid.
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They wouldn’t give me the time of day.- Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) telling Newsmax what happened when he asked the White House for a few minutes with President Obama when he was in Wisconsin to discuss ways to advance bipartisanship
According to an anthropologist from the University of Hawaii, who spent years studying this, Hello Kitty is not actually a cat…The anthropologist said she was preparing for a museum exhibit and according to the company that makes Hello Kitty, she is not a cat. She is a cartoon character. And a little girl. But not a cat. That makes as much sense as Hasbro announcing that Mr. Potato Head wasn’t a potato. - Jimmy Kimmel
According to a report from the United Nations, the damage from global warming could be irreversible. It’s clear we need to do something. We need to give the Earth the ice bucket challenge. – Jimmy Kimmel
You can now buy a pack of beer containing 99 cans. A 99-can pack of beer. Who says America has lost its competitive edge? - David Letterman
I’m 81 — I could go at any moment, I could fall over right here and you all could say, “I was there!”- Comedian Joan Rivers, during a show the night before she went into cardiac arrest
• Yes we tan!• The Audacity of Taupe!• I’m sorry but you can’t
declare war in a suit like that!
- Some of the many online comments about President Obama’s out-of-character tan suit which he wore to last week’s press conference
If you watch the nightly news, it feels like the world is falling apart…The truth of the matter is, is that the world has always been messy…In part, we’re just noticing now because of social media and our capacity to see in intimate detail the hardships that people are going through.- President Obama at a fundraiser last week
When the gut-twisting image stuck in your head is of a masked madman holding a crude knife to the neck of an American on his knees in the desert, when you’re reading about crucifixions in the 21st century, when you’re hearing about women sold by jihadists… and when British leaders have just raised the threat level in their country to “severe,” the last thing that you want to be told is that it’s par for the historical course, all a matter of perspective and not so cosmically dire…And maybe the second-to-last thing that you want to be told is that technology and social media amplify peril in a new way and may be the reason you’re feeling especially on edge. - Frank Bruni in a New York Times Op-Ed, responding to President Obama’s comments
The greatest country on earth is being bullied from within. Actions of Republicans in Congress are worse than ISIL. – Tweet by Jesse Smith, Democrat candidate for Alabama’s 3rd congressional district
When Hamas puts its rocket launchers next to hospitals, next to schools, they’re using their civilian population to protect their military assets. And I believe Israel has a right, at that point, to defend itself.- Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), at recent town hall meeting, shocking the Far Left, of which she is seen as the leader
What and where would you like to tick off on your bucket list, and explain why?- One of the questions from a real contest titled “My Ultimate Bucket List” by Malaysia Airlines (The winner will receive tickets to a Malaysia Air flight)
Chinese authorities have seized 30,000 tons of what? Chicken feet. Because they’re tainted… Is there really a difference between tainted chicken feet and non-tainted chicken feet? It’s negligible. – David Letterman
We’ll just stay on them. We’ll just keep at it. That’s how I got Michelle to marry me — I just wore her down. Persistence — you just stay at it.- President Obama at a Labor Day rally talking about getting Republicans to cave to pressure to raise the minimum wage
How many of you have kids heading off to college? Well, don’t you worry, because that liberal arts degree, that thing is a license to print money. – David Letterman
Frankly, I think I was on their side [Democrats] when I was in the other party [Republicans].- Former Republican Governor Charlie Crist after winning the Democrat primary in Florida You like to take care of
snakes? Come, I’ll give you a few. – Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu joking with an elementary school student who told him that he likes snakes
Burger King is moving to Canada; they bought the doughnut place, Tim Horton’s. Financed by Warren Buffett, Burger King will be moving to Canada to avoid paying taxes. Hearing about it, President Obama immediately took away Buffett’s Medal of Freedom. – David Letterman
In 2009, a Swedish report came out exposing some Israeli troops of selling organs of Palestinians who died in their custody. - A claim made in a TIME magazine online video (the claim was eventually edited out of the online video after it was criticized for being based on a report which was proven to be patently false)
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I had the good fortune to discuss mort-gage issues with Dovid Preil, who is a senior mortgage broker with First Isra-
el Mortgages, which specializes in serv-ing the Anglo community.
GB: What issues should my clients be aware of when shopping for a mort-gage in Israel?
DP: Penalties. Allow me to illustrate with a story about a mainstay in my shul named Saba Maimon. Saba Maimon has dark wrinkled skin, a big kippah and an even bigger smile. He comes and goes on a schedule known only to him. All of the children flock to him; sometimes he has candies and sometimes he has jokes, but he always has a smile.
One day before davening, Saba Mai-mon approached me and asked in his cheerful raspy voice, “You work in mort-gages?” I responded in the positive. He said, “I walked into the bank with a bag full of money and told them: ‘Take it! I am paying off my mortgage’ and they said to me, ‘Okay, but you have to pay us an extra 120,000 shekel as a prepayment penalty.’” He concluded, “I don’t under-
stand; I have to pay them money to pay them money?”
GB: Is Saba Maimon’s story unique?DP: Unfortunately, Saba Maimon’s
penalty is the reality for all too many people looking to pay off, pay down or refinance their mortgages. Unlike in the US, where one can pay off whenever they want, many mortgage products here car-ry the risk of an early payment penalty. The logic is as follows: just like the bank committed to lend 1,000,000 NIS for thir-ty years at a certain set rate, the borrower has committed to pay the interest on this loan for thirty years. Therefore, if you want to pay off your entire loan, the bank calculates the interest that would have been owed over the rest of the term and demands it up front.
GB: What can be done to minimize the risk and impact of these penalties?
DP: Unlike in the US, an Israeli mort-gage can be comprised of multiple parts, or maslulim. Variable rate mortgage prod-ucts don’t carry the risk of penalties, so by including variable rate products, one can guarantee that there will not be any penalties on these maslulim. Additional-
ly, shorter term loans carry reduced pen-alties. Both of these solutions come with tradeoffs: variable rate products expose one to rising interest rates and shorter term loans will have higher monthly pay-ments. The most surefire way to lower and even eliminate penalties is to secure a low interest rate on the fixed portions of one’s loan. Even if interest rates drop, if one is paying a low enough rate, there will not be any penalty when paying off the loan.
GB: And that’s where you come in.DP: Yes. The best way to guarantee
the right mortgage for your needs at the lowest rates is to engage the services of a professional who understands the system and has strong relationships with many lending institutions.
GB: In what other ways do Israeli mortgages differ from US mortgages?
DP: Israeli mortgages often carry a
minimum early payment amount of 10%, meaning someone owing 1,500,000 NIS would not be allowed to pay off less than 150,000 NIS. This precludes the possibil-ity of slipping an extra 100 NIS into the mortgage payment when you have had a good month.
GB: Last thoughts?DP: Despite the challenges we’ve dis-
cussed, there has never been a better time to take out an Israeli mortgage. Interest rates are at historic lows, with variable rates on US dollar-linked products around 2% - and lower if linked to the shekel – and fixed rates on US dollar-linked prod-ucts around 4.3%. If you were considering purchasing property in Israel, now would be a very good time.
Dovid Preil can be reached at [email protected].
Gedaliah Borvick is the founder of My Israel Home (www.myisraelhome.com), a real estate agency focused on helping people from abroad buy and sell homes in Israel. To sign up for his monthly market updates, contact him at [email protected].
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For the past century, athletes have been a part of the American Armed Forces. Some of these
soldiers/athletes were top notch play-ers before and after their service. For example, Ted Williams was a marine fighter pilot during WWII and the Korean War. He had a hair-raising experience in Korea when his fighter jet burst into flames after a “belly-up” landing.
There were some athletes who paid the highest price for freedom. This included the entire starting football team for Montana State during WWII. Pat Tillman was a safety for the Ar-izona Cardinals who turned down a multi-year contract to join the army after September 11. He was killed in Afghanistan while a member of the
elite Airborne Rangers. Bob Kalsu was the starting guard for the Buffalo Bills who left to become an officer in the 101st Airborne Division. In 1970, he was killed by mor-tar fire in Viet-nam.
On a hap-pier note, the feel-good sto-ry this year can be Tom Hruby if he makes the Northwestern squad as a walk-on. Currently, the 32-year-old
is an active Navy SEAL, presently as an instructor, who has seen action in sev-eral countries w o r l d w i d e . The most inter-esting of these a t h l e t e - s o l -diers was John Slade. (In case you were won-dering, catcher Moe Berg was a civilian spy
and did not join the military.)John Slade’s real name was Hans
Schlesinger, and he was born in Frank-fort, Germany, in 1908. His family was prosperous from the real estate business and were assimilated Jews. Even so, he felt connected to Judaism and to his parents’ surprise, prepared for his bar mitzvah on his own. A top athlete throughout school, John ex-celled in the sport of field hockey. He was the country’s top goalie in field hockey and was a shoe-in to make the 1936 Olympics. However, under Hit-ler’s ym”sh Nuremberg Laws, Jews were prohibited from competing in national sports and he was forced to resign from his club. He stayed in Germany for a year before coming to New York.
It was in the U.S. that he changed his name to Slade and took a job at Bear Sterns. John made enough mon-ey to bring his family to the U.S., thus saving them from the horrors of the Holocaust. Even though he was climb-ing the corporate ladder, he chose to enter the army in 1942. He said, “I decided that if a guy from Oklahoma could fight against Hitler, then I, too, must fight.”
German-speaking soldiers were needed to interrogate captured Nazi officers. The American Army has a strange way of doing things (the saying goes, “there’s the right way, the wrong way and the army way”) and many German-speaking soldiers found themselves fighting in the Pacif-ic against the Japanese. On the oppo-
site side of the world, an entire battal-ion of Japanese-speaking Americans fought against the Germans. The only way for a soldier to be sure that his language skills would properly be put to use was to volunteer as an interro-gator. Slade wanted to help his breth-ren in need and interrogated German officers after their capture. One of the officers he interrogated was the noto-rious Jurgen Stroop who destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto.
Slade was also on the frontlines as the Allies needed every man for the breakthrough into Germany during the spring of 1945. Slade was command-ing a small group of soldiers when they stumbled upon a Bavarian castle. A hundred Nazi officers were holing up in the castle and were preparing for a fight. Without regard for his person-al safety, he approached the front en-trance and in German demanded their surrender. The Nazis gave up without a shot being fired. Slade was awarded the Bronze Star for his actions.
After the war, he returned to New York and continued working at Bear Stearns. In 1948, Slade tried out for the American national field hockey and made it along with another Jewish immigrant refugee. The team lost ev-ery game in the Olympics, but Slade, who was 40 years old at the time, could care less.
Slade continued to rise at Bear Stearns and became a managing di-rector, publishing a weekly financial report that had a wide circulation. He died in 2005 at 97 and was believed at the time to be the oldest active mem-ber of the New York Stock Exchange. While his story is unique, his success was certainly shared by many Jewish refugees. Having to leave wealth and fame behind in a country that wanted to kill him, John Slade came back to fight for his Jewish brethren and once again succeed in the United States.
Avi Heiligman is a weekly contributor to The Jewish Home. He welcomes your com-ments and suggestions.for future columns and can be reached at [email protected].
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John SladeStar Athlete, Brave Soldier, Brilliant Businessman
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While I know my father is not really a world-recognized ce-lebrity, there are many times I
would think that he is. My father, oth-erwise known as “Bernie the Baker,” operated a kosher bakery in Atlanta for a little over twenty years. Unhappy with the baked goods that were served at synagogue functions and kiddushim, my father began baking at our shul (Beth Jacob of Atlanta) in the early 1980s so the community could have better quality baked goods. He eventu-ally broke away from his former career and into the baking business (they say it makes good dough—a baker’s joke!). After outgrowing the shul kitchen, my father relocated his operation into the basement of our home, where he re-mained for a little under a decade. Run-ning the bakery from the basement was my father’s favorite period of being in the business.
People still tell me they reminisce about coming to our house on erev Shab-bos and being welcomed by the aroma of the Shabbos meal cooking in our kitchen and of fresh baked challahs as they walked downstairs to pick up their orders of challahs and goodies. While I was too young to remember this time, at times I get a glimpse of what people are talking about when we still bake chal-lahs down there for personal use and the exhaust fan sends the aroma outside of our house, enveloping our property in the aroma of fresh baked challah. The basement bakery had many visitors who were regular customers and travelers who came from New York and Chica-go who were told that while in Atlanta they had to come to my father’s bakery and take some stuff back home. We even had the privilege of having HaR-av Shlomo Freifeld zt”l in our house, as he, too, came to visit the bakery.
My father then moved shop to a storefront location in the Toco Hills Shopping Center (where a tanning place now stands—I tell people that building always has had some sort of oven in it) and remained there until 2000, when he closed the business in order to care for my sister and me after the passing of my mother.
While the bakery has been gone
for years now, Atlanta locals still talk about Bernie’s Bakery—we have even run into people who visited the bakery from out-of-town and recognize my fa-ther right away as “Bernie the Baker.” That’s where feeling like the son of a celebrity comes in…. A couple of years ago, my father, Bubbie (grandmother), and I were in Miami Beach for a short winter vacation. On Friday afternoon,
we were in the over-crowded grocery store on 41st Street buying food for Shabbos when someone came over to my father and said, “Hey!, You’re Ber-nie the Baker! I used to come to your place on my visits to Atlanta.”
But wait, it gets funnier. The fol-lowing Sunda,y the three of us were walking on the quiet back roads to visit the Holocaust Memorial when out of nowhere we hear someone calling out, “Bernie! Bernie the Baker!” We looked over across the street and saw three people in the parking lot of an apart-ment complex, one of which somehow noticed and recognized my father from way across the road. It turned out she used to work for the Jewish Federation of Atlanta and used to place many or-ders at my father’s bakery and was just vacationing in Florida, like we were. On that trip, I really felt like my dad was a celebrity…and I was a celebrity’s son.
But it doesn’t stop there. When I left
Atlanta to attend yeshiva in New York, I encountered many people in my two years there that had some sort of Atlanta connection. Either someone had family in Atlanta, went to college in Atlan-ta, etc. There were a few people who I had met that when I mentioned Atlanta, they would ask my family name. Upon realizing they did not recognize my surname, I would ask, “Do you know
Bernie the Baker? That’s my dad.” One woman who I met (whose family I lat-er became close with) attended Emory University and became religious in At-lanta. When I told her my father is “Ber-
nie the Baker,” first thing she said was, “Of Course...good challah!” Another person I met in New York used to live in Atlanta and could not for the life of them figure out who I was. When I told him that I’m Bernie the Baker’s son, he got so excited. A friend of mine even attended a Shabbos meal with some for-mer Atlanta residents. I’m not sure how my name came up at the Shabbos table, but he reported back to me that he ate with some people who know my dad and got all excited when they heard my surname, “Idov,” exclaiming, “Bernie the Baker, Bernie the Baker!” I thought that was hilarious.
So while I’m not famous, or even almost famous (as I can mention my name and get an “Alex, who?”) it’s nice to know that as the son of Atlanta’s “fa-mous” Bernie the Baker, I guess you can say I’m the almost famous son of the baker.
Alex Idov is a kosher food blogger who runs the award-winning site, “Kosherology,” and a regular contributing food columnist to The Five Towns Jewish Home magazine, LA Jewish Home magazine, and the Atlanta Jewish Times. He is currently studying for his bachelor’s degree in Culinary Sustain-ability & Hospitality. Visit “Kosherology” at www.exploretheworldofkosher.com and like “Kosherology” on Facebook.
From an old Atlanta Jewish Times article on the Atlanta Jerusalem 3000 Festival (circa 1996-1997). Pictured: Bernie ‘the Baker’ Idov with his daughter Esther (to his left), son,
Alex (bottom left), and hungry festival attendees anticipate cutting into the ‘Bernie the Bak-er’ Jerusalem 3000 Cake. My grandmother, Charlotte, is sitting in the back.
Son of a Baker: Reflections of the Almost Famous
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Making something from something is noth-ing. Making something from nothing…now that’s something! And that’s just
what Rachel Septimus did when she built The Stu-dio in Cedarhurst. Rachel, a graduate of the New York School of Interior Design, jumpstarted her ca-reer when she landed a position with Keith Balti-more of The Baltimore Collection. After spending many years managing a stone and tile store, where she specialized in designing kitchens and bathrooms for customers, she decided to expand her knowledge and experience by working as head salesperson for New York Lighting Co., where customers sought out her expertise to help them decorate their homes. Subsequently, building up a reputation for being extremely talented, decisive, and efficient, Rachel officially started her own interior design business, boasting an impressive clientele who appreciates the creative energy and passion she infuses into her projects. She quickly developed relationships with furniture, lighting, wall covering and fabric vendors and decided to expand her private business by “go-ing public.”
“My goal was to create a separate entity from my personal business by opening a retail showroom to share my resources with other designers. I know firsthand how tiring, time-consuming, and expen-
sive it is to travel to the D&D building just to find a wallpaper or fabric for a client, so I came up with the concept of opening a design center right here in the Five Towns,” Rachel relates. The Studio, Ra-chel’s brainchild, opened in 2012.
When an old building came on the market, she seized the opportunity to turn her dream in to a real-ity. “When I first looked at the space it was a disas-ter. Everyone I showed it to walked in and ran out. They all thought I was crazy to undertake such a risky project, but I saw the potential,” she says. With extraordinary vision, the very gifted designer trans-formed the uninspired two-story structure into a cut-ting edge, airy space. Located in the parking lot off of Cedarhurst Avenue between Broadway and Cen-tral Avenue, the building was formerly used as a fur-niture and mattress warehouse and had to be gutted down to its bare bones. The façade was desperately in need of a major facelift. “I wanted the exterior of my showroom to reflect the vibe inside—modern, sleek, and hi-tech.” Rachel chose to face the build-ing with floor to ceiling sheets of glass, giving it a contemporary look while at the same time flooding the interior with light.
By knocking down the ceiling and walls inside, Rachel was able to construct a 30-foot high atrium entryway with a second story, 1200-square-foot
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loft. She built an interior two-story brick wall and installed sheets of metal on the ceiling lending the space an open industrial aesthetic. She then trans-formed the stairwell by installing floating steps with a half wall of thick tempered glass.
The next challenge was the floor. Septimus and her architectural team poured concrete and hired a specialized polishing company who skillfully gave the floor a shiny terrazzo look. “I really took a chance with the concrete. I had no idea what the outcome would be, but in the end we achieved an original and fantastic outcome,” says the designer.
When the construction phase was done, Rachel turned her attention to the interior. On the entrance level, she created three spaces to showcase the lat-est furniture, lighting, and hardware trends. In the
huge loft upstairs, she installed a library featuring hundreds of fabric and wallpaper books. “My idea was to fashion an environment where laypeople as well as professionals could come to for all their de-sign needs. Decorating on any level, whether it is one room or a whole house, can be overwhelming—why not simplify the process?”
To that end, Rachel equipped the showroom with work desks and computers, so that professional de-signers can meet with their clients to peruse the li-brary, plan their projects, research products on the internet, and place orders through The Studio’s many vendors. Do it yourselfers (DIY’s) can decorate their own homes with the help of The Studio’s experienced staff of designers. They can obtain samples from the vast selection and receive designer discounts on fur-
niture, lighting, hardware, accessories, fabrics and wallpapers when placing their orders. Rachel really created an environment where everyone, designer, client or DIY’s, can benefit from her efforts.
The concept of a designer showroom in the Five Towns was innovative and the result is impressive and successful. Something from nothing…now that’s something!
This is the first in a series on interior design which will feature articles on “The Latest Trends in Design,” “Be-fore and After Projects,” and “Ask the Designer.” The column will be running bi-weekly in The Jewish Home. Readers can reach out to Rachel Septimus of The Studio at [email protected].
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They daven in your shul.They live in your neighborhood.They are your relatives.
They need your help.
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Rabbi Yaakov Bender312 Hicksville Road
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Dear Friends,We hope this letter finds you and yours in the best of health.We are sure that you are inundated with requests for tzedokoh at this time of year. The financial situation of our Jewish brothers has become perilous. There are many hundreds of families who find themselves in dire financial straits, which is creating major issues for these families. These issues include problems with marital harmony, health related issues, unemployment, cost of education, costs of marrying off children, widows, orphans, and just plain poverty.
Our organization, through your help, has been able to ameliorate many of these situations. We have brought a ray of light and hope to these families. Sometimes to the point of taking broken families and putting them back on their feet. Your help is desperately needed to ensure we can continue to do our little bit to help many hundreds of people. Your tax-deductible check may be made payable to Yeshiva Darchei Torah – Rabbi’s Special Fund.Wishing you and yours a kesiva v’chasimah tovah.
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The facade of The Studio before construction The first floor before construction The second floor before construction
loft. She built an interior two-story brick wall and installed sheets of metal on the ceiling lending the space an open industrial aesthetic. She then trans-formed the stairwell by installing floating steps with a half wall of thick tempered glass.
The next challenge was the floor. Septimus and her architectural team poured concrete and hired a specialized polishing company who skillfully gave the floor a shiny terrazzo look. “I really took a chance with the concrete. I had no idea what the outcome would be, but in the end we achieved an original and fantastic outcome,” says the designer.
When the construction phase was done, Rachel turned her attention to the interior. On the entrance level, she created three spaces to showcase the lat-est furniture, lighting, and hardware trends. In the
huge loft upstairs, she installed a library featuring hundreds of fabric and wallpaper books. “My idea was to fashion an environment where laypeople as well as professionals could come to for all their de-sign needs. Decorating on any level, whether it is one room or a whole house, can be overwhelming—why not simplify the process?”
To that end, Rachel equipped the showroom with work desks and computers, so that professional de-signers can meet with their clients to peruse the li-brary, plan their projects, research products on the internet, and place orders through The Studio’s many vendors. Do it yourselfers (DIY’s) can decorate their own homes with the help of The Studio’s experienced staff of designers. They can obtain samples from the vast selection and receive designer discounts on fur-
niture, lighting, hardware, accessories, fabrics and wallpapers when placing their orders. Rachel really created an environment where everyone, designer, client or DIY’s, can benefit from her efforts.
The concept of a designer showroom in the Five Towns was innovative and the result is impressive and successful. Something from nothing…now that’s something!
This is the first in a series on interior design which will feature articles on “The Latest Trends in Design,” “Be-fore and After Projects,” and “Ask the Designer.” The column will be running bi-weekly in The Jewish Home. Readers can reach out to Rachel Septimus of The Studio at [email protected].
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“IT’S NOT THE MOST QUALIFIED PERSON WHO GETS THE JOB. IT’S THE QUALIFIED PERSON
WHO KNOWS HOW TO GET HIRED.”
The first question that anyone start-ing a job search these days asks is, “Why bother?” Anyone who
can open a newspaper or a browser sees the headlines every day, and they aren’t encouraging. We are in a “job-less recovery,” where it feels like the “employment news is worse than the headlines say!” Even worse, almost everyone knows someone who is unem-ployed who says that he “just can’t find anything,” very often adding, “There just aren’t any jobs.” What is the point of looking for a job that doesn’t exist?
The truth, of course, is that the headlines are not describing the entire situation. Good news doesn’t get much attention. Even the good part of the bad news doesn’t get much attention. Unemployment in New York is now around 6.5%, and the financial sector, a major driver of job growth in this area, has been hiring. So while there are other parts of the country where the employment pic-ture is even better (but do you want to move to North Dakota?), the New York area, and most of the other urban areas around the United States where the Jewish community is concentrated, is doing, if not well, at least a lot better than a couple of years ago.
This point doesn’t make us very happy. There are just too many people who can’t find work, and too many more who would leave their jobs in a second if they thought they had some-thing better. What is really going on? Are there jobs out there, and if there are, why do so many people have a hard time finding them?
One of the best places to find infor-mation on the job market is the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. You can find the latest reports on employment at their website, www.bls.gov. One number they keep track of is how many people get hired each month. The current rate is about 4.8 million. That means that every month, 4.8 million people hear those magic words, “You’re hired!” So there are jobs out there, and people with the right background and training are being hired to fill them, people who
may be very similar to that fellow you know who is still looking. Because in today’s job market, having the skills for the job is not enough. Today, no matter what job you are applying for, you are
competing against other qualified can-didates. To stand out from the pack, you need another skill, one that they don’t teach in school or anywhere else.
Job search expert Richard Bolles wrote over 40 years ago in his groundbreaking
book, What Color is Your Parachute? (yes, you should read it. Right away. This year’s edition) that when several candidates are com-peting for a job, “It’s not the most qual-ified person who gets the job. It’s the qualified person who knows how to get hired.” Let me repeat that point. Aside from all the skills and talents that are needed to succeed in a job, there is a separate skill called “how to get hired.” It is the skill that makes a candidate stand out from the competition, that conveys the message that in addition to being qualified, “I am the best person for your job.”
There are three essential compo-nents of this skill. The first is to iden-tify the job which you really should be looking for, the one where it is true that, because of your unique combination of background, skills, and talents, you are the best person for the job. The second is to zero in on the companies or em-ployers who hire people to do that job. And the third is to build the network you need to contact the people who can hire you. These three comprise the kind of proactive job search that has the best chance of success.
Pathways to Parnassa was founded in our community to provide people, whether starting in the world of work or looking for their next opportunity,
with the best information and guidance on choosing a career and searching for a job. Pathways provides coaching to individuals, workshops for groups, and distributes information to the Jewish
community.A lot of job hunters get sensitive
when I suggest that my coaching might help them. They tell me, “I know how to look for a job. I just haven’t found one yet.” And maybe they do know some good things to do. But look at the
greatest athletes—gold medal winners, superstars—they all have coaches. A coach keeps you focused on the things that count the most. The things that are hard to do and easy to ignore. The things that put your strongest message in front of the people who need to see it. The things that lead to “You’re hired!”
The key to success in job hunting is to realize that, unless you married the boss’s daughter, no one can “give” you a job. But you can be the kind of job hunter that finds one. Stay tuned to this column. And of course, questions and comments are welcome.
Rabbi Mordechai Kruger is the Director of Pathways to Parnassa, an organization dedicated to educating our community in all aspects of career choice and job search. He can be reached at [email protected].
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IT’S AWFUL AND DISHEARTENING TO LOSE IT ALL – BUT SOMETIMES IT HAPPENS.
How bad would it be if you lost all the information in your comput-er?
A local architect had been working on a book for about two years when, one day, the hard drive in his laptop failed. He didn’t have a backup of his files and was forced to send in his hard drive to a data recovery center. The center deter-mined that the data was not recoverable and his book was gone. Ultimately, he found an old PDF copy of his book that he had emailed to someone for review a year prior and didn’t have to start from scratch. But it was a big loss of time – and some of the creativity that went into his work had been forgotten.
It should go without saying that in a digital dominating world, we should be taking the necessary steps to secure and backup our information. However, that’s not always the case and many people are bewildered by what’s in-
volved in creating a safe, available copy of personal data. We rely heavily on our technology to perform and retain all the documents, photos, and critical files we’ve accumulated. Too often, our PCs are subject to viruses, hard drive failures, accidental file deletions, theft, and environmental elements and that’s why it’s really important to have
a backup solution in place. At the start of this school year, students (and teach-ers alike) can benefit from the follow-ing points in the event of data loss and corruption:
Make use of your system’s built-in backup feature. Windows 7 (and newer operating systems) have an in-tegrated backup utility that runs on its own and, once configured, will back up on the schedule you decide. Windows 8 has a backup utility called File History which backs up your data immediately after being modified and retains multi-
ple versions of each file so you can go to the revision of your choice. Mac OS uses Time Machine to retain your files and multiple versions for your Apple PC. For any one of these op-tions, you’ll need to remem-ber to attach an external hard drive to the PC at the time you wish to schedule a backup.
Your USB flash drive is not a backup. A more reliable backup would be to keep your files in a location other than your PC and protected from the elements. It’s a popular misconception of a backup to carry a copy of your documents with you on a USB drive. They are relatively cheap, small, and can hold a lot of doc-uments but USB drives are more of a “modern day floppy disk,” and best used as a means to transport documents from one location to another. They are easily lost, stolen, and can become dam-aged from use (and misuse).
Online backup is better than on-site backup. This last option, and the best, is to perform your backups online. Software can be installed on your PC which identifies your personal files and saves a copy to a remote, secure data center. That backup is only accessible to the user with the account name and password. No need for an external hard drive or additional equipment. No need to remember to do a backup. As long as the computer is on and connected to the internet, it’s backed up! Online backups are not susceptible to the damage that comes from flooding or fire in an office. And no one can run off with your data as
they could with an external drive. Two popular online backup solutions are Carbonite (www.carbonite.com) and MozyHome Backup (www.mozy.com) and are both available for about $60 a year each. Both of these retain your files and multiple versions up to 30 days – and you can access your data anytime, from anywhere, for a low price.
Have a Plan C. Your laptop was stolen. Your online backup was Plan B. But it turns out that information is corrupt or infected with a virus. So now what? You may find yourself comb-ing through old emails and contacting friends to re-send whatever related files you can scrape. It’s awful and disheart-ening to lose it all – but sometimes it happens. This situation can be prevent-ed with a combo backup, one on-site with an external drive, and one online. You can also, periodically, burn your
files to a CD and keep that in a safe lo-cation in the event of catastrophe. The better data recovery locations charge a minimum to attempt to recover your data – and that’s something you want to avoid. Either way, have a plan for the worst case scenario.
Preparing your files to be accessible and recoverable is the best way to lim-it downtime and ensure the perpetuity of your data. By following these steps, you’ll find yourself benefiting in a way that can’t be measured until the inevita-ble happens. And with the low cost of these options, you can easily gain the peace of mind that comes from a better backup. Better safe than sorry!
Adiel Lejbovitz is a freelance IT consultant at Siyata Computers. He services technol-ogy needs of the residents and small busi-nesses within the Far Rockaway/Five Towns community. He can be reached at [email protected] or at 917-535-7294.
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Lucky is the person who hasn’t been betrayed in one way or another.
I knew someone whose uncle promised to pay for her law school ed-ucation. The conversation had come up so casually. She got back from her year in seminary, studied psychology and didn’t like it. She was trying to figure out what to do with her life so she went to a bookstore – that was in the days before Amazon annihilated bookstores – and sat there, going through the LSAT exam. That seemed to be fun and she mistaken-ly reported the story to her uncle. Next thing you know, he made an offer, as they say, that she couldn’t refuse. She started law school, except midway in her first semester, he told her he would pay it “later” and later never came.
Then there is the story of the father who unexpectedly turned against his son. His son made a remark, perhaps not a very complimentary one, about his fa-ther’s line of business which had more downs than ups and seemed unstable. The son wanted to encourage the father to reconsider his work but instead it per-manently ruptured the relationship. Sud-denly, the son was making a bar mitzvah and his father wanted no part of him, so in one fell swoop, the son was deprived of a father and the grandson, a grandpa.
Someone told me some time ago of a therapist who just dropped her. Just like that. They were having what she thought was a productive foray into worlds you don’t touch without help and suddenly she was left without a guide or a listen-ing ear.
There are the rabbis who disappoint and the friends who don’t show up. There is a world order you thought you could count on which you can’t after all. And then there is marital betrayal.
Another kind of marital betrayal we don’t talk about is what happens as you get older, into your bubby and zaidy years and then the wife that you thought you always knew isn’t quite “there.” Suddenly, your partner in life is gone but no one warned you. And no one out there knows; no one can commiserate with you because it doesn’t show. “These are not the ‘golden years’ I was expecting,” said one person.
Where do you go after betrayal? Af-ter your world turns upside down and you look at the shattered pieces of your dreams, what do you do?
I’d begin by taking a look at yourself – with love. Don’t ever think, not for one
minute, that you “deserved” the betrayal or that it was through this horrible event that G-d punished you.
This is how I see the pain of life: It could be that our poor choices led to where we are today – or not. Often, it is completely out of our control. But let’s say for a moment that you are right and it is due to poor choices. Why did you make them? Are you or were you evil?
I didn’t think so.And you weren’t stupid. Perhaps
naïve. Perhaps uninformed, inexperi-enced. But not stupid. Because if you were stupid, then you could be totally forgiven for making such mistakes. Af-ter all, you didn’t have the mental abili-ty to do better.
You made the choices you made be-cause you used whatever tools you had at your disposal. It is also possible that you were battling with poor coping skills. Well, that isn’t your fault either. I un-derstand you might have gotten blamed growing up. That is why you are trying so hard to blame yourself right now. But, don’t! You didn’t deserve it then and you don’t deserve it now.
No, to those of you who think I’m trying to get people off the hook and not have to take responsibility, no, that is not the point, here. In fact, if you think about it logically, the point is exactly the opposite: When you stop blaming yourself and start loving who you are, that is the very moment you can more coolly and rationally evaluate the terri-ble situation you are in right now – and
take responsibility.But here is the difference between
the blaming kind of taking responsibil-ity and the loving kind. What I am sug-gesting you do is take responsibility for where you will go next. Where you’ve been really doesn’t matter. You made mistakes and now have suffered because of them: You were betrayed. Now, can you embrace yourself? Can you recog-
nize you may have made a poor choice and not hold it against yourself? Can you forgive yourself and make a good choice in the present moment?
The next order of business is to won-der about the person who betrayed you. Was it malicious? Are you quite sure? Maybe it was an act of desperation – to gain attention, perhaps? Or maybe the
result of a weak character. What can be done for this person? Is it your responsi-bility to help the person who hurt you?
These are the Big Questions. When you look at things in your life in this way – with a wide-angle lens – it takes the pressure off of you to scrutinize your-self too carefully. Sure, you must look at yourself; that is precisely what Elul is for. But not with an ayin ra – an eye that is looking to dig up dirt about yourself so you can be mad at yourself.
Your job is to understand and put into context all your mistakes and the weird and unpleasant things that happened to you as well. Putting them into context means understanding the tools, infor-mation, and your own background that brought you right here to this moment. When you can truly see how you got to this bad place, you know exactly what you need to do to leave it behind.
That’s also what Elul is for; yes, it’s for looking back – up to a point – but it’s for looking ahead even more. It’s not about beating yourself up.
Dr. Deb Hirschhorn, a Marriage & Fami-ly Therapist and best-selling author of The Healing Is Mutual: Marriage Empowerment Tools to Rebuild Trust and Respect—Togeth-er, is proud to announce that readers of The Jewish Home will receive a $50 discount on every visit to her Woodmere office. Listen to her new show called “Kids and Parents” on Chazaq Radio live from 3-4 on Thursdays. The call in phone number is 718-285-9132. Attend the Food For Thought lectures at Cravingz Cafe, 410 Central Ave, Cedarhurst, on Wednesdays at 10 AM. Any questions, call 646-54-DRDEB or check out her website at http://drdeb.com.
TJH StaffDrDeb
Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.
WHERE DO YOU GO AFTER BETRAYAL?
After Betrayal
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According to the International Health Club Association, half of all new health club mem-
bers quit within the first six months of signing up. In addition, 90% of those who join health and fitness clubs will stop going regularly within the first three months. Many things can de-rail a workout. You’re too tired, too busy or too stressed. You’re bored with your workout or progressing too slowly.
What can be done to stay motivat-ed and help keep you sticking with a long term workout regimen?
You need to counteract those ex-cuses by discovering what motivates you, and use these strategies to devel-op and maintain an active lifestyle. Start by figuring out exactly what you want to get out of your workouts. For example, you want to be around for your kids or you want to feel better about the way you look.
Next, determine an attainable goal, such as exercising twice per week and once on weekends. Creating realistic goals will set you up for success. If your goal becomes too easy, you can always create a new one.
However, just saying you’ll try to work out three times a week isn’t
enough. It’s important to choose a specific workout schedule including days and times you are setting aside for exercise. By doing this, you will
help avoid the all too com-mon excuse of “there’s no time.”
* Set realistic goals that include clear mile-stones, and as you progress toward your goal, you’ll find a ripple effect will oc-cur and things will fall into place in your work, home life and health.
* Training with an experiences fitness trainer can also be a great way to stay motivated. He/she can help you stick with your program even on those days where you feel like hitting the snooze button a few more times.
* Partner with a friend, co-worker or family mem-ber—someone who will support you and your goals.
* Sometimes, changing into your workout clothes is half the battle. Don’t harp on all the reasons why you can’t work out today, pon-der the reasons why you can (and should) work out today.
* Add variety to your routine. If every other day you’re on the treadmill with the same exact speed, after a while you may begin to lose your motivation. Once a week, try walking outside
or going for a bike ride, or hop on an elliptical machine.
* Erase the concept that if you can’t do at least 30 minutes, you’re wasting your time. Exercise burns cal-ories, increases energy, and improves your health – even in small doses.
* Look for ways to incorporate activity into your day, even if you can’t do your normal exercise routine. Take the stairs instead of the elevator. Instead of the local ice cream shop, take your spouse to the boardwalk.
* Do whatever you can to enjoy your workouts. If you start treating exercise like a burden, that’s exactly what it will become. Make your exer-cises fun and exciting (listen to your favorite music or speaker) rather than looking at it as a chore you have to do. Don’t let yourself get a bad atti-tude towards exercising or you will be more likely to give up.
* Remind yourself of the many health benefits of an exercise pro-gram. When you feel like quitting, think about what brought you to exer-cise in the first place and how it is go-ing to change your life for the better.
So get ready, because you are about to surprise yourself with just how much discipline and dedication you really have towards your fitness goals!
Dov Segal is a Master Fitness Trainer specializing in weight loss, post-rehab, muscle strength, back pain, and heart con-ditions. He has private studios located in Manhattan, Queens and the Five Towns. Female and male trainers are available. For more information, you can visit www.fitness1on1.net, email [email protected] or call 347-619-9035.
Dov Segal, MFT
How to Stay Motivated to Exercise
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Step 1 Lie on a mat face down.Step 2 Position your body so your
forearms are flat on the mat and your toes are touching the mat.
Step 3 Lift your body so only your forearms and the balls of your feet are supporting your body. Your body should now be parallel to the ground.
Step 4 Hold the position for 20 seconds, lower and then repeat.
Step 1 Begin by lying flat on your stomach.
Step 2 Place your palms flat on the ground directly in front of you and begin pushing yourself upward. Keep your lower body flat on the
ground while stretching your back, neck and head toward the sky. Step 3 Hold the position for about 15 to 20 seconds and lower
yourself again.Step 4 Repeat one more time,
Note: If you find it difficult to stretch your body in this position, use your elbows instead of your hands to propel yourself.
ERASE THE CONCEPT THAT IF YOU CAN’T DO AT LEAST 30 MINUTES, YOU’RE WASTING YOUR TIME.
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In the KitchenNaomi Nachman
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.
My Favorite Deli SandwichIngredients2 slices multi-grain bread, roll, baguette
or your favorite breadSuM SuM (a techina spread available
at Gourmet Glatt)1 pickle, sliced1 tomato, sliced1 red onion, sliced thinly (optional)1 package of Hod Golan thin-sliced turkey
PreparationLayer up the sandwich with all the meat and
spread one side of the bread with the SuM SuM. Take all the sliced vegetables and put them in a Ziploc bag. Your family member can add the “fixin’s” to the sandwich right before they eat it so the bread won’t become soggy.
Children all over the Northern Hemisphere will begin school this week. College kids have
already moved into college cam-puses all over the country – and sandwich season for the academic year has begun. As a mother of four, I have to be creative every day to think up new and delicious lunches for my children (not to mention for my husband!).
It’s so important to have nutritious lunches and snacks to keep your family sustained throughout the af-ternoon. Below are some great tips for delicious lunches. A great idea is to spend Sunday morning after breakfast planning a menu of lunch ideas together as a family to cre-ate a shopping list so there will be supplies in the house for the entire week.
Here are some snack ideas for hubby, college kids, school-age children and other busy people. (Make sure your portions are cor-rectly suited for the people who are eating it.):
• Fruit salad• Packaged nuts (some schools
are nut-free)• Vegetables and dip• Mini hummus packages and
fat-free crackers• Cheese sticks• Yogurt• Smoothies• Soup in a thermos • Crackers and cheese• PopcornMix and match up snacks to
throw in the brown paper bag or lunch box. I try to send two snacks per day – one of them always being fruit.
Here are some combos of sandwiches that my family likes to eat:
• Goat cheese on crusty bread with raspberry vinaigrette (this is a delicious combination!)
• Edam cheese with Abeles and Heymann sweet and tangy mustard and sliced tomato
• Tuna with pickles
Salad Ideas• Quinoa with sautéed onions
and mushrooms with pieces of cooked salmon
• Leftover chicken from the previous night’s supper with lettuces and tomatoes
• Greek salad• Sushi salad
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In the Kitchen
Homemade GranolaGranola is the perfect complement for so many breakfast foods
Ingredients1 cup honey or pure maple syrup½ cup vegetable oil or coconut oil3 TBS butter ½ tsp. cinnamon, optionalPinch of salt1 tsp. vanilla extract5 cups oats4 cups nuts and seeds—sunflower seeds, sliced almonds, chopped pecans,
walnuts, pepitas, cashews1 cup dried fruit—raisins, craisins, dried blueberries, chopped and dried apricots
or mango
PreparationPreheat oven to 325°. Line two large rimmed cookie sheets with parchment
paper.In a large bowl, toss together the rolled grains and/or oats, nuts, and seeds. Do
not yet add in the fruit.In a small saucepan over low heat, combine the honey, maple syrup, butter, and
vegetable oil, stirring occasionally, until butter is melted and ingredients are fairly well combined. Add the cinnamon, pinch of salt, and/or vanilla extract if using.
Pour the honey/butter/oil mixture over the grain/nut/seed mixture, and toss until evenly coated.
Spread granola on cookie sheets and bake for 30-40 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes, until the granola turns golden brown.
Let cool, then toss in the dried fruit.Store in an airtight container. Granola tastes delicious over oatmeal, in yogurt,
or just as a snack.
Whole Wheat PancakesThese pancakes are surprisingly moist and delicious!
Ingredients1 cup whole wheat flour½ cup quick oats½ tsp. salt2 tsp. baking powder1 tsp. ground cinnamon1 large egg1 cup milk (skim is OK)2 TBS brown sugar¼ cup Greek yogurt1 tsp. vanilla extract½ cup cut up bananas, blueberries, chocolate chips or add-in of your choice
PreparationToss the flour, oats, salt, baking powder, and cinnamon together in a large bowl.
Set aside. In a separate medium bowl, whisk the egg and milk. Whisk in the brown sugar and yogurt until no lumps remain. Whisk in the vanilla until combined.
Make a well in the dry ingredients and pour the wet ingredients in. Stir gently until just combined. Do not overmix the batter or your pancakes will be tough and very dense. Add any mix-ins you prefer, but do not overmix the batter.
Heat a griddle or skillet over medium heat. Coat generously with cooking spray, oil, or butter. Once hot, drop about 1/4 cup of batter on the griddle. Cook until the edges look dry and bubbles begin to form on the center or sides, about 1 minute. Flip and cook on the other side until cooked through, about 2 more minutes.
Keep pancakes warm in a preheated 200°F oven until all pancakes are cooked. Serve immediately.
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Rise ‘n’ Shine SmoothieWant something refreshing and delicious to start your day? This is it!
Ingredients1 banana, cut into chunks,½ cup fat-free milk¼ cup frozen blueberries¼ cup frozen strawberries1 tsp. peanut butter½ tsp. honey
PreparationC o m b i n e
all ingredients into a blender and process for about 1 minute, or until the con-sistency of a thick milkshake.
Loaded Veggie OmeletThis is so light yet filling—perfect for the start of a brand new day!
IngredientsFor the filling: 2 tsp olive oil1 small onion, chopped¼ cup chopped mushrooms½ cup fresh spinach3-4 cherry tomatoes, halvedShredded cheddar cheese, to tasteFor the omelet: 2 eggs1 TBS oil or PAM2 TBS water or milkSalt and pepper to taste
PreparationTo prepare the filling: heat oil over medium heat. Add onions and mushrooms
and sauté until onions are translucent. Add spinach and tomatoes. Remove from heat when spinach is wilted. Cover with foil to keep warm.
Crack eggs over mixing bowl and whisk. Coat pan with oil and heat over medi-um-low heat. Add water, salt and pepper to eggs and beat vigorously until light and airy. Slowly pour eggs into pan. Do not stir. Let eggs sit and bubble. Once they’re slightly set, use a spatula to push edge of eggs to center of pan, tilting to allow the uncooked eggs to flow underneath.
Once set, gently flip and cook for just a few seconds. Stir cheese and fillings together and spoon down center of omelet. Fold one end of omelet over the other and gently remove from pan.
Serve with salsa, guacamole or the toppings of your choice.
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Solomon Steiman, Esq.
After 40 Years, New York State Overhauls the Not-for-Profit Corporations Law
What it May Mean For Your OrganizationI am the Executive Director of a
small Jewish non-profit in this region. I read that New York State recently over-hauled its Not-For-Profit Corporation law and that it could significantly affect non-profits such as mine. Please tell me what happened and how it may apply, especially since I’m certain it will affect many of our community’s nonprofits.
The Attorney Responds:Over a year ago, in response to a ques-
tion, I described in detail the procedures that would be required and the complexi-ties that would be faced in forming a not-for-profit corporation in New York and then obtaining tax exemption under sec-tion 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code. Although I may revisit that topic in the future, since the complexity involved in “getting it right” certainly warrants hir-ing a tax attorney experienced in the non-profit (or “not-for-profit”) requirements, nevertheless, in this article, I will limit my focus to the specifics of your ques-tion and the overhaul of the New York Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, which reflects the most significant changes to that law in over forty years.
On December 19, 2013, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the Nonprofit Re-vitalization Act of 2013 (“the Act”). The Act, which was intended to improve gov-ernance and oversight while cutting red tape, was ushered in with much fanfare, since its creation involved a “ground-breaking coalition of nonprofit leaders, the New York State Bar Association and a bipartisan group of legislators.” The Act, which applies to both New York nonprof-its and those out of state entities regis-tered to solicit donations in New York, just recently took effect on July 1, 2014, although some provisions will be delayed per legislation signed by the governor on June 30, 2014. In this article, I will focus on some of the major changes that will affect organizations in our community.
Formation and Financial OversightIn its mission of cutting red tape, the
Act eliminated the requirement of obtain-ing certain approvals (i.e. from the De-partment of Education) prior to formation and simplified the classification of non-profits from four types (A, B, C or D) to just two – charitable and non-charitable.
Charitable non-profits are gener-ally organized for religious, educa-tional, charitable, scientific or liter-ary purposes, and generally go on to obtain IRS 501(c)(3) recognition, while examples of non-charitable nonprofits include busi-ness leagues, bar associations or cham-bers of commerce. Charitable nonprofits are generally subject to more regulation and scrutiny. Existing nonprofits will automatically be reclassified into one of the two new categories depending on the purposes set forth in their certificates of incorporation
Prior to the Act, nonprofits with gross revenue over $100,000 were required to annually obtain and submit the results of a review conducted by an indepen-dent certified public account, while those with gross revenue over $250,000 were required to undergo a CPA’s audit. For small nonprofits these requirements could be relatively costly and could take up a lot of time from an already stretched and limited staff. Thankfully, the Act now raises the thresholds, so that a review will only be required when gross revenues reach $250,000 and an audit will only have to be conducted when gross reve-nues reach $500,000. The audit thresh-olds will increase to $750,000 on July 1, 2017 and $1 million in 2021.
Meetings and ConsentThe Act formally recognizes the
technological realities of the twenty-first century and formally clarifies the ability of nonprofits to use those technologies for meetings and written consents. Al-though some of these mediums may have arguably been permitted prior to the Act, the Act now formally allows nonprofits to use fax and e-mail to send notices of board and membership meetings or re-ceive waivers of such notices, and allows email for the granting of member proxies and the receipt of unanimous member and director consents. The Act also allows board members to participate in meetings by video conference (or Skype) and al-lows notice of a member meeting to be given by publication in a newspaper and
on the homepage of the corpora-tion’s website, in instances where the nonprofit has more than 500 members.
Finally, the Act makes it eas-ier for nonprofits to dispose of real
property when it does not constitute all or substantially all of its assets by elim-inating the two-thirds board approval re-quirement, and even in instances where such property does constitute all or sub-stantially all of its assets, a majority of di-rectors will suffice if the board has more than twenty directors. Although approval is still necessary prior to a nonprofit dis-posing all or substantially all of its assets, participating in a merger or consolidation or making certain material changes to its certificate of incorporation or dissolving, the Act takes into account the expenses and delays incurred in obtaining judicial approval, and now permits a nonprofit to seek and obtain Attorney General ap-proval in lieu of court approval.
Internal Control Policies and Formalities
Although much of what I have writ-ten about the Act until now seems to sim-plify day-to-day operations, the internal control policies and formalities which I will now discuss may actually make life more difficult for small nonprofit organi-zations. That is because this component of the Act officially legislates what has until now only been considered aspi-rational best practices by requiring all nonprofits to adopt a written conflict of interest policy. Through that policy, all directors must disclose annually whether they (including certain family members) are affiliated with any entities the non-profit has a relationship with, and any transactions of the nonprofit for which they have an interest. Before entering into a transaction with a related party, the board must determine that the transaction is fair, reasonable and in the nonprof-it’s best interest, justification of which should be documented. Charitable non-profits must also consider whether any alternative transactions may be more advantageous. In carrying out such ac-
tions, it is often beneficial to consult with an attorney experienced in the intricacies of the nonprofit requirements, since the Attorney General may bring an action to void a related party transaction that it believes violated any provision of the law or was not reasonable or in the nonprof-it’s best interests at the time the trans-action was approved. Nonprofits with twenty or more employees and annual revenue of more than $1,000,000 are also required to adopt a whistleblower policy to prevent retaliation against people who report suspected improper conduct in good faith.
The Act also prohibits all members, directors or officers from participating in or influencing the vote as to their compen-sation. As such, they will have to step out when the actual vote as to their compen-sation is taken. In general, the amount of compensation nonprofits pay executives needs to be justified, and when significant requires consultation with experts in the field. Finally, the Act prohibits any em-ployee from serving as chair of the Board or in a similar position. Per legislation signed by the Governor on June 30, 2014, this last requirement will only take effect on January 1, 2016.
As you can see, although possibly simplifying day to day operations, the Act significantly increases the regulation of actions between the organization and its members, directors or officers, for which a potential conflict of interest may arise. I would be glad to discuss these matters with you when the need arises.
This article is published for informa-tional purposes only. It is not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, for the purpose of (i) avoiding penalties under the Internal Revenue Code or (ii) promoting, marketing or recommending to another party any transaction or mat-ter addressed herein.
Shlomo Steiman, a former Justice Depart-ment Auditor, is a Queens attorney with an office in Manhattan. His practice focuses on taxation, businesses and nonprofit organiza-tions, as well as elder law and guardianship matters, for which he has been appoint-ed a Court Examiner. He can be reached by phone at 917-838-5923 or by email at [email protected].
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Have you been eager to create a children’s book and do not know where to begin? It is an overwhelming task. Wow! There is so much to think about! Will it be a storybook or a picture book?
Children’s books can tell stories about animals and art, babies, buildings, ed-ucation, elderly people, family, food, landscapes, music, nature, religion, science, or toys, etc. The decision is a tough one to think about. Will you use illustrations of inanimate objects, plants, flowers, animals or humans? Which steps are in-volved?
Character sketches depicting the personality of the characters described in your manuscripts are a good beginning. Next, a storyboard must be created. This storyboard consists of black and white sketches of pictures describing your actual manuscript in picture form, step by step, in the order of which it has evolved in to a story. Once the storyboard is completed it can be kept as is or done in color illustrations.
This will then be printed in book form.Insightful quotes with important tips for those who want to be illustrator:“A single action, whole and complete, with a beginning, a middle, and an
end…will thus resemble a living organism in all its unity and produce the pleasure proper to it” (Aristotle)
“Cut it down by half, leaving nothing out” (James M. Barrie)“If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts” (Car-
lyle)“There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than a change of circum-
stances and varieties of fortune” (Cicero)
“The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles noth-ing” (Horace)
“Without emotion art is lifeless, without intellect it is shapeless” (Charles Johnson)
“We make doors and windows for a room; but it is these empty spaces which make the room livable. Thus, while the tangible has advantages, it is the intangi-ble that makes it useful” (Lao-tzu)
“Consult nature in everything and write it all down…memory is not that huge” (Leonardo da Vinci)
“Remember: acquire accuracy before speed” (Leonardo da Vinci)“Communication is possible only through a degree of novelty in a context that
is familiar” (John R. Pierce)“Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but
in saying exactly what you think yourself” (James Fitz James Stephen) “Not the whole forest—just one leaf” (P.L. Travers)To be continued…
Rebbetzin Naomi N. Herzberg is a professional art educator, artist and designer. Among her known artwork is a floral sculpture presented to Tipper Gore, Blair House, Washington, D.C. Presently she is the Director of Operations at Shulamith School for Girls. Please feel free to email [email protected] with ques-tions and suggestions for future columns.
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From My Private Art Collection
Illustrations for Children’s Books Part I
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Where’s the Bacon?
The last Saturday in August is In-ternational Bacon Day here in the United States. (Yes, it’s really a
thing.) IBD is a chance for Americans to celebrate all things bacon, like pea-nut butter-bacon pop tarts, bacon-fla-vored ice cream, and bacon cocktails. It’s all great fun for everyone, except those who eat kosher and, oh yeah, t the pig.
Today’s clever chefs are combining all sorts of unexpected ingredients to make all sorts of new dishes. They’re drizzling chocolate on things that never went with chocolate. They’re deep-fry-ing things that should never, ever be deep-fried. Today’s eaters are having more fun with food than at any time since John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, decided not to get up from his card game to eat lunch.
What does any of this have to do with taxes? Glad you asked! We’ve said before that every financial deci-sion you make has at least some tax consequence, even if it’s a simple sales tax. So let’s look at three random nug-gets about food and taxes to whet your appetite for the weekend’s global cele-bration of all things bacon:
1. What fun is a business meeting without food? Meals and entertainment that include a bona fide business dis-cussion are ordinarily 50% deductible. But claiming a tasty deduction for a delicious meal doesn’t have to mean eating at a restaurant. Did you know you may be able to write off the cost of entertaining at your Labor Day barbe-cue? It’s true. And you don’t even need receipts for expenses under $75. Just record who you host, when you host them, how much you spend, your busi-ness relationship with your guest, and the specific benefit you hope to gain by
hosting them. 2. Some business meals and en-
tertainment are 100% deductible. You can deduct 100% of your expenses for meals and entertainment for sales seminars and similar events where the meal is integral to the presentation. You can also deduct 100% of the cost of sporting events you organize to ben-efit charitable organizations, and rec-reation expenses for your employees. Be generous with those delicious little knishes on toothpicks that everyone loves — it’s on the IRS!
3. Switching gears a bit, here’s another new food hit. Taco Bell’s new Doritos Locos taco is a fiesta wrapped up in a tortilla for customers and tax collectors alike. Taco Bell sold 100 million of the messy faux-Mexican creations in the first ten weeks, and still sells a million a day. In fact, Taco Bell claims the phenomenon is responsible for 15,000 new jobs. And while those probably aren’t the sort of high-pay-ing positions that prop up an economy, they still generate millions in federal, state, and local income, payroll, and sales taxes.
So enjoy International Bacon Day. Help yourself to some “facon.” Don’t call us for recipes — but do call us with any tax questions before you make im-portant financial decisions. We’ll help you get the satisfying results you crave, without any financial gluten, trans fats, or heartburn.
Allan J Rolnick is a CPA who has been in practice for over 30 years in Queens, NY. He welcomes your comments and can be reached at 718-896-8715 or at [email protected].
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Are You a Bath or a Shower Person?
Are you a bath person or a shower person?
Does sitting in the bath make your cringe? Does it make you feel like you are soaking in your own dirt? Or are you one of those people who feel relaxed in there, coddled and soothed? Dirt aside, I love a bath. I think it cures everything. Even your concerns about dirt. I figure if I survived nine months in my own pool of water, an hour or two every once in a while won’t kill me.
How about food choices? Does a good piece of steak appeal to you or are you thinking of that poor creature who lost its life for your sake? I always feel bad for the poor plants too…now, that they are cut off from their life source. Once my mind goes there, it gets sad for everything that sacrifices for me. So I just indulge in everything and call myself an equal opportunity eater. In fact, a water-logged, dirt-saturated one at that!
Here’s another choice for you: are you a texter or an emailer? What’s your best mode of reaching out or being reached? I prefer texting! Because, so far, only peo-
ple who know me seem to have my cell number, so it’s certainly a more manage-able way to connect. This way, I’m not spending half my time figuring out who the communication is from. Though sometimes, I must ad-mit, there is even con-fusion with texting. Sometimes I text a person whose number I have, but who doesn’t have my cell number in their phone. The inter-action goes something like this: “I’d love to have you for the week-end!” and they reply: “Great, would love to come! Can use the break! Working too hard lately! Definitely in! By the way….Who is this?”
Does that happen to you, too?!If not, send me your cell and it will.So…here I am, just sharing some of
my choice patterns with you.We are always struggling with choic-
es and trying to think of what appeals to us, and why one choice is better than the other.
Of course, there are these things called preferences, but they should not be
confused with choic-es. Preferences are simple. We definitely pull one way or anoth-er. Choices are more challenging. We feel a bit torn. And then there are these things called decisions; they can put you away altogeth-er! I think that’s the case because there are either completely ap-pealing or unappealing options of completely
equal magnitude on both sides. And it’s just too tough to decide!
The saying goes, “No decision is also a decision.” It’s kind of a decision to stay stuck, which actually feels worse. Because any decision ultimately frees you up. It helps you make progress. And
moving forward always helps create new possibilities which distracts you from the past and moves you on to something new.
Sometimes when I’m struggling with a major dilemma I try to relax and take a … you know what. It helps me calm down and focus. And when I know the decision or easily know what I need to do, I usually jump into the shower and I’m on the move.
I’d call myself a “both” person. It’s not that I can’t decide, it’s just that dif-ferent situations often call for different measures. The important thing is to be at peace with your preferences, choices, and decisions.
And that’s what I wish for you all in the year ahead: A greater clarity as to who you are and what is right for you whenev-er you face life’s dilemmas and challeng-es – or confront a decision as spiritually and physically cleansing as a bath or a shower!
Rivki Rosenwald is a certified relationship counselor, and career and life coach. She can be contacted at 917-705-2004 or [email protected]
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