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THEJEWISHHOMEA PUBLICATION OF THE FIVE TOWNS & QUEENS COMMUNITY January 10 - January 16, 2013 | DistributeD in the Five towns, Queens & brooklynWeekly
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Dear Readers,
As I write this, my neighbors are packing up their house for their move from Lawrence to North Woodmere. The move is bittersweet for me; we are happy that they are moving on to a new home but are sad to see them go. Living next to them over the years has been a wonderful experience. Our children have become close; in some ways, they are like siblings to each other. They play together in the morning and evenings, share toys and laughter, and sometimes join in each other’s suppers. It’s funny—as I saw them fill their house with boxes, it brought me back to camp days when all our possessions were packed into our suitcases and duffel bags the night before we were set to go home. Yes, we were happy to go back to our families, but we were sad to leave the place that brought us so many wonderful memories. I guess this is true for so much in life. As we go from stage to stage, we experience a moment of nostalgia. We know that moving on is important. We know that as people it’s important for us to move to the next level. But there is still something within us that yearns to stay at that point just for a little bit longer.
This week, we are privileged to hear from Michael Fragin, one of the Trustees of the Village of Lawrence. Years ago, Michael joined the board of the Village of Lawrence when he saw that things needed to be fixed in our town. Now, Michael is the host of Spinclass, a popular “radio” show streaming on-line. In his weekly show, Michael brings listeners the people and politics behind the headlines. It is refreshing to hear his views and the story behind the news. If you are interested in knowing what goes on behind the scenes in Washington, Spinclass is required listening.
The schools in our community are wonderful institutions that provide stellar education to our precious children. The teachers and rebbeim are warm and enthusiastic. They bring Torah and Yiddishkeit alive for our young generation. But the cost of tuition and the tough economy has been hard for many frum families. Of course, the tuition crunch is a topic that is on the minds of many parents in our community. This week, Shira Diamond presents some solutions for the high cost of tuition. The solutions she writes about are varied, but the underlying message is clear: change is needed and if we all work together, a solution can be found.
As always, we love to hear from you! Feel free to email me at [email protected].
Wishing you and your family a wonderful week,
Shoshana
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>>Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
>>CommunityReaders’ Poll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
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Ace Pilot Herschel “Herky” Green . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
The World That Was:
The Story of Lola Lieber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
>>ParshaThe Shmuz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
>> Jewish ThoughtLife Hangs in the Balance,
by Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
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Dear Editor,I cannot agree with letter-writer Mr.
Novak more. In his letter, Mr. Novak opines that perhaps our community should insist that women marry at a more mature age. I have been saying this for years. Among others, one of the prob-lems with shidduchim in our community stems from an age-gap between the girls and boys. Indeed, some say to let our boys date younger. But that is hardly the solution. With parents desperate to find the “right” shidduch and terrified that their children will be “left out,” we have pushed our girls to date younger and younger. As Mr. Novak points out, our girls are barely out of high school when they are forced to provide for families and juggle babysitters and work sched-ules. Let’s let our girls enjoy life. Let’s let them take the time to breathe after school, get a worthy degree, a wonderful job, build up a substantial bank account and become more mature women before building their homes.
Many young couples struggle with relationships. Perhaps, that is not a “sign of the times.” Perhaps that is just because they were not given the time to develop as their own people before start-ing a relationship with another. Mar-riage is hard work. A solid marriage
does not come easily—a couple has to invest time and effort, and each person has to be mature to be able to deal with the other’s differences.
My daughter tells me time and time again that she feels that she only was able to make the right choice in a hus-band because she only got married when she was 24. She says that if she would have gotten married at a younger age, it’s possible that the relationship her husband and she shares would have a different flavor.
Parents, do yourselves a favor. Let our young women enjoy life and mature to the right age before partaking on the journey of building a family. Let’s give them a good chance to share a wonderful relationship with their future spouses.
May all our children find the right shidduch in the right time!Karen W.
Dear Editor,I have noticed that many policemen
are on the streets, pulling cars over and issuing tickets. In general, talking and texting on cellphones is truly dangerous. But when the cops are issuing tickets right and left, I hope that our community will be extra careful. S. S.
Letters to the editorCompiled by
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GlobalAl Jazeera to Call U.S.A. Its Home
Al Jazeera, the pan-Arab news giant, has been trying to convince Americans that it is a legitimate news organization as opposed to a parrot of Middle East-ern propaganda. Their latest investment may help promote their case.
On Wednesday, Al Jazeera an-
nounced a deal to take over Current TV, the low-rated cable channel that was founded by Al Gore, former vice president, and his business partners sev-en years ago. Al Jazeera plans to shut down Current TV and start an English-language channel, which will be avail-able in more than 40 million homes. News will originate from New York and Doha, Qatar.
The news network is financed by the government of Qatar, although it claims editorial independence from the coun-try.
The purchase price was not dis-closed but sources claim it was around $500 million. Since Al Gore owned 20 percent of the company, that’s a $100 million payout for him.
Luckily for Gore and his partners, this deal went through by December 31 so they are not subject to the higher tax rate that took effect January 1.
Perhaps the biggest challenge the channel will face will be persuading Americans to watch. “There are still people who will not watch it, who will say that it’s a ‘terrorist network,’” said Philip Seib, the author of The Al Jazeera Effect. “Al Jazeera has to override that
by providing quality news.”“There’s a major hole right now that
Al Jazeera can fill. And that is provid-ing an alternative viewpoint to domes-tic news, which is very parochial,” said Cathy Rasenberger, a cable consultant who has worked with Al Jazeera on dis-tribution issues in the past. However, she warned, “there is a limited amount of interest in international news in the United States.”
Time Warner Cable had warned that it might ditch Current because of its low ratings. It took advantage of a change-in-ownership clause and said in a brief statement Wednesday night, “We are removing the service as quickly as pos-sible.”
How scary that this news giant can now flaunt its hatred against America and democracy in the land of the free and home of the brave!
Cat Burglar Arrested at Prison
Brazilian prisons have their share of animals trying to enter their walls. But last week, when prison guards saw a furtive feline approaching, they arrested
the cat. It seems that this kitten was no ordinary kitten. This cat was about to help prisoners escape by carrying vi-tal instruments needed to dig tunnels and communicate with the outside. It was trained by prisoners to deliver cell phones and tools to dig tunnels and also sneak in with forbidden items strapped to its body.
Marcelo Avelino, the head of the prison guards’ union, explained, “An agent saw the cat and went to look at it closely because something about it seemed wrong.”
The agent found a bag tied to the animal’s body filled with saw blades and drill parts for concrete drilling and digging tunnels, along with a cell phone complete with battery and charger. This cat had been seen many times entering and exiting the Alagoas jail but no one ever paid much attention to it until now.
Prison officer Luiz de Oliveira said that prisoners had raised the cat and that relatives would often take it home after a prison visit. Oliveira said, “We were very surprised by this new tactic of pris-
oners,” who trained the animal so that it returned to the prison and even man-aged to carry materials.
Thank G-d it was caught—this story could have ended cat-astrophically!
Google Chairman Visits North Korea
North Korea is not a country known for its openness and technology. The country’s economy has been languish-ing for decades and has been relying on outside help for supplies. Strict regu-lations are set, restricting many things people in the free world enjoy.
That is why a visit from Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, is so surprising. It’s almost as if the two—the person and the country—are at dia-metric opposite sides philosophically. On the one hand, Schmidt heads one of the most open and advanced companies in the world. On the other hand, most North Koreans do not have access to the world wide web and many of them don’t even have access to computers and cellphones.
Last Monday, Schmidt and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson visit-ed the dictatorship. Schmidt is the high-est-profile U.S. executive to visit North Korea since Kim Jong Un took power a year ago. Many at the U.S. State De-partment have criticized the trip since it comes so close to a recent rocket launch by North Korea. Richardson has vis-ited North Korea more than half-dozen times over the past 20 years.
Richardson emphasized that the trip is a “private trip.” “This is not a Google trip, but I’m sure he’s interested in some of the economic issues there, the social media aspect. So this is why we are teamed up on this. We’ll meet with North Korean political leaders. We’ll meet with North Korean economic leaders, military. We’ll visit some uni-versities. We don’t control the visit. They will let us know what the schedule
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is when we get there,” he said.In general, much of what comes out
of North Korea is heavily censored. Visitors only see what the government intends for them to see. The dictator-ship squashes any dissidents and relies on fear to promote its agenda.
Google has offices in more than 40 countries, including all three of North Korea’s neighbors: Russia, South Korea and China, another country criticized for systematic Internet censorship.
Venezuela Appoints Assembly Chief Due to Chavez’s
Medical Condition
Diosdado Cabello, a combative ex-soldier, was reelected by Venezu-elan lawmakers as Assembly Chief of Venezuela. The close ally of President Hugo Chavez will become the caretaker president if the socialist leader does not recover from cancer surgery.
Cabello is regarded as the third most powerful figure in government, behind Chavez and Vice President Nicolas Maduro. If Chavez is forced to step down due to his medical condition or dies, Cabello would take over the run-ning of the country as Assembly Presi-dent until a new election could be orga-nized within 30 days.
“As a patriot ... I swear to be su-premely loyal in everything I do, to defend the fatherland, its institutions, and this beautiful revolution led by our Comandante Hugo Chavez,” Cabello said as he took the oath, his hand on the constitution.
In the last 18 months, Chavez, 58, has undergone four surgeries in Cuba, where he is currently recovering. On Thursday, the Venezuelan government said he was suffering from a “severe” respiratory infection that hindered his breathing. The Venezuelan leader has not been seen in public for more than three weeks.
Hours before the vote to re-elect Cabello, thousands of Chavez support-ers clad in red gathered, chanting: “We are all Chavez! Our comandante will be
well! He will return!” The opposition says Chavez’s ab-
sence is an indication that he is no lon-ger fit to govern. Cabello slammed their criticism. “Get this into your heads,” he shouted. “Hugo Chavez was elected president and he will continue to be president beyond January 10. No one should have any doubt.”
Icelandic Teen Fights to Keep Her Name
For many, their name defines who they are and is precious to them through-out their lives. But for a 15-year-old teenager in Iceland, the name she holds dear is officially illegal and she is suing the Icelandic state for the right to legal-ly use the name given to her at birth by her mother.
The girl’s birth name was Blaer (Eidsdottir), which means “light breeze” in Icelandic but is not on an official list approved by the govern-ment. The Personal Names Register of Iceland includes 1,712 male names and 1,853 female names that fit Icelandic grammar and pronunciation rules and that officials claim will protect children from embarrassment and bullying. Par-ents need to choose from the list or ap-ply to a special committee that has the power to allow or forbid a name.
Iceland is not the only country that has rules about baby naming. Germany and Denmark have similar laws.
Blaer’s mother claims she only learned that her daughter’s name wasn’t on the list after she had already named her. The clergy who gave the baby the name mistakenly allowed it. “I had no idea that the name wasn’t on the list, the famous list of names that you can choose from,” said Bjork Eidsdottir, adding she knew a Blaer whose name was accepted in 1973. “And my daugh-ter loves her name,” Blaer’s mother added.
The panel rejected the name, claim-ing that the word Blaer has a masculine tone. This is ironic since Blaer was the name of a female character in a novel by Iceland’s revered Nobel Prize-winning author Halldor Laxness.
Blaer’s official documents say
“Stulka” which means girl. (Is that less embarrassing?!?) This has obviously caused frustration over the years since she always had to tell the whole story when questions arose.
Blaer and her mother are hoping to challenge the names committee deci-sion in court. “So many strange names have been allowed, which makes this even more frustrating because Blaer is a perfectly Icelandic name,” Eidsdottir said. “It seems like a basic human right to be able to name your child what you want, especially if it doesn’t harm your child in any way.”
“The law is pretty straightforward so in many cases it’s clearly going to be a yes or a no,” said Agusta Thor-bergsdottir, the head of the committee, a panel of three people appointed by the government to a four-year term. “What one person finds beautiful, another per-son may find ugly,” she acknowledged. She pointed to “Satania” as one unac-ceptable case because it was deemed too close to “Satan.”
Names beginning with a “c” have been rejected because the letter “c” is not part of Iceland’s 32-letter alphabet.
Aid Workers Murdered for Fighting Polio
Last week, TJH focused on some of the items and concepts that have been banned in Pakistan. Among them was the polio vaccine, as the Taliban be-lieves that the inoculations are a con-spiracy of the United States. Last Tues-day, six female aid workers and a male doctor were ambushed and shot dead by gunmen in Pakistan. The attack is be-lieved to be linked to the groups’ work distributing the polio vaccination.
District police officer Abdur Rashid Khan said their vehicle was targeted as they returned home from work at a children’s community center run by Pakistani charity Ujala, or Light. The shooting occurred in Swabi district, northwest of the capital of Islamabad. This was the first attack on aid workers in the area.
The victims worked at the center for aid agency Support With Working So-lutions, whose head Javed Akhtar said they had told their other 160 staff to sus-
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pend work following the killings. It had run a school and dispensary in Swabi and helped vaccinate children against polio, a disease that can cripple or kill within hours of infection.
In reference to the attack, Mr. Akhtar said: “This seemed to be part of the campaign against the polio drive by certain anti-polio elements.”
The Taliban denied any involve-ment in the attacks, although its leaders have repeatedly denounced the vaccina-tion program.
It was in this region that a Taliban gunman shot 15-year-old Malala You-sufzai in the head last October for advo-cating for girls’ education.
No group has officially claimed re-sponsibility for the incident.
French Actor Becomes Russian to Protest Tax
For months, French actor Gerard Depardieu has been fighting a proposed super tax on millionaires in France. He has been threatening to give up his French citizenship in protest, and as of last week, is now a citizen of Russia.
Last week, the celebrity was person-ally given his new Russian passport by President Vladimir Putin. To celebrate, he flew to the provincial town of Sa-ransk on Sunday where he was greeted by fans as a local hero. Supporters even offered him a free apartment.
Putin welcomed the actor to his resi-dence in Sochi, the host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics on Saturday. Russian media showed a photo of the two men embracing.
Depardieu has not decided exactly where he will live within Russia. He did mention that he was not consider-ing Moscow because it is too big and he prefers a smaller village.
France’s new Socialist government tried to raise the tax on income above $1.3 million to 75 percent from the cur-rent 41 percent.
That plan was shot down by the highest court. Budget Minister Jerome Cahuzac said on Sunday that the gov-ernment is coming up with a new plan
that will still force the very wealthy to pay higher taxes. “I find it a bit pathetic that for tax reasons this man – whom by the way I admire infinitely as an actor – has decided to exile himself,” Cahuzac said.
I actually think it’s smart. If some-one were to take all my money, I’d also leave the country. Here’s to you, Mr. Obama!
How Do You Say Frozen in Chinese?
Bbbrr it’s cold out there…Temperatures in China have dropped
drastically, making this winter the cold-est in almost three decades. Tempera-tures are cold enough to freeze coastal waters and trap 1,000 ships in ice.
Since November, the average tem-perature has been minus 3.8 degrees Celsius, which is equal to 25 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s 1.3 degrees colder than the previous average, and the low-est in 28 years.
The sea in Laizhou Bay on the coast of Shandong province in the east has frozen due to the bitter cold, stranding nearly 1,000 ships. The area under ice is reported to be 291 square km or 180 square miles. The weather has affected transportation in and out and within the country. More than 140 flights from the state capital airport in central Hunan province were delayed.
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IsraelFatah and Hamas
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Thousands of Palestinians joined together in a rare rally led by Presi-dent Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah group in Gaza on Friday, as tensions ease with rival Hamas Islamists ruling the enclave
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since 2007.A long hiatus in peace talks between
Abbas’s administration and Israel has narrowed ideological differences be-tween the two main Palestinian fac-tions. Solidarity has developed since the Israel-Gaza conflict in November, after which Hamas declared victory.
Abbas remains based in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, but several of his senior advisers attended Friday’s march in the Gaza Strip. They paraded down the street with yellow Fatah flags rather than the green Hamas colors that have dominated such events since Hamas fighters drove Fatah from the territory in 2007.
Egypt Seizes U.S. Made Weapons Meant for
GazaSecurity officials reported that
Egyptian security forces snatched U.S.-made anti-tank and surface-to-air mis-siles intended for Gaza.
After a tip-off, officials discovered six missiles in the Sinai, which borders
Gaza and Israel. Sinai is a scarcely pop-ulated peninsula that is home to lavish tourist resorts in the south and terrorists in the north. It is a key transit point for smuggling arms into Gaza.
Friday’s report comes a few days af-ter Western sources revealed that Egypt has prevented three instances of large-scale smuggling of weapons into Gaza since the end of Operation Pillar of De-fense.
The activity against the weaponry smuggling is part of Egyptian-U.S. co-ordination, agreed upon in the discus-sions involving Secretary of State Hill-ary Clinton two days before the end of the operation.
According to the sources, Egyptian forces hindered at least three separate instances of significant quantities of weapons being smuggled. Two of the occurrences originated from Libya, and another from Iran through Sudan.
Last week, Egyptian media reported that the country’s armed forces in the northern Sinai, in cooperation with local Bedouins, foiled an attempt to smuggle 17 rockets to Gaza.
Last month, Italian police seized a shipment of weapons intended for Egypt with a final destination of Gaza.
The weapons, which included a rocket launcher, were part of a shipment that was supposed to go on an Egyptian ship which was detained by local authorities. Italian media reported that the informa-tion about the weapons came from Is-rael.
Israel has accused Iran of supporting the smuggling of weapons into Gaza. Recently, there was a mysterious bomb-ing at a military factory in Khartoum, Sudan that Israel was being blamed for. The October 23rd strike on the Yar-mouk compound led to speculation that Iranian weapons were stored or manu-factured at the factory in Sudan.
Sudan has denied Iranian involve-ment in weapon manufacturing and has accused Israel of “spreading fabricated information.”
What a mess!
Israeli Arrested in Yemen
A man with two names has been imprisoned for the last few weeks in Yemen after being accused of being an Israeli spy.
Abdullah Muhsan al-Himi al-Siari, also known as Abraham al-Deri, was ar-rested in the southern province of Ta’izz several weeks ago, after being accused of working for the Israeli Mossad and setting up an espionage network in the country.
Reportedly, he was taken to the nearby city of Aden for questioning. Authorities believe that recently he was moved to a different holding facility.
According to Yemeni media, this is the first time an Israeli citizen has been arrested in the country.
Israeli Doctors Treat Obama’s Grandmother
Barack Obama’s step-grandmother received emergency eye surgery from Israeli doctors in Equatorial Guinea last week. Sarah Onyango Obama is the third wife of President Obama’s pater-nal grandfather. She lives in a remote Kenyan village.
Mrs. Obama required surgery for an unspecified problem, and the nearest full-service hospital was the Israeli-op-erated Shalom Hospital in the Guinean
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capital of Malabo. The elderly Obama was personally escorted by Guinean Health Minister Tomas Mecheba Fer-nandez, and after her treatment was quoted as saying, “All of Africa is talk-ing about your [the Israeli] hospital and the fact that one doesn’t need to fly to Europe to get medical treatment.”
For years, Israeli humanitarian aid groups and teams of doctors have been providing free and low-cost medical as-sistance to poor regions of Africa.
Morsi Calls Israel “Blood Suckers”
A video released by Egyptian media showing President Mohammad Morsi speaking harshly about Israel back in 2010 has been circulating. In the video, he calls for armed resistance against the “criminal Zionist entity.”
The video was taken when Morsi served as the Muslim Brotherhood’s of-ficial spokesman. In the first clip, Morsi described “Zionists” as “blood suck-ers,” “warmongers” and “descendants of apes and pigs.” “These futile [Israeli-Palestinian] negotiations are a waste of time and opportunities,” he said. “The Zionists buy time and gain more oppor-tunities as the Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims lose time and opportunities and get nothing out of it.”
He went on to say, “The Palestin-ian Authority was created by the Zion-ist and American enemies for the sole purpose of opposing the will of the Palestinian people and its interests. No reasonable person can expect progress on this track. Either [you accept] the Zi-onists and everything they want, or else there is war. This is what the occupiers of the land of Palestine know – these blood suckers who attack the Palestin-ians, these warmongers, these descen-dants of apes and pigs. They must not be given any opportunity and must not stand on any Islamic or Arab land. They must be driven out of our countries.”
He also claimed that, “We should employ all forms of resistance against
them. There should be military re-sistance within the land of Palestine against these criminal Zionists who attack Palestine and the Palestinians. There should also be political and eco-nomic resistance through a boycott as well as by supporting the resistance fighters. This would be the practice of the Muslims and the Arabs outside Pal-estine. They should support the resis-tance fighters and besiege the Zionists wherever they are.”
Morsi stated, “Resistance is the only way to liberate the land of Palestine.”
In a separate interview with the Hamas-affiliated al-Quds TV, Morsi said, “The Zionists have no right to the land of Palestine. There is no place for them on the land of Palestine. What they took before 1947-8 constitutes plunder-ing. By no means do we recognize their Green Line. The land of Palestine be-longs to the Palestinians not the Zion-ists. We must confront this Zionist en-tity. All ties of all kinds must be severed with this plundering criminal entity, which is supported by America and its weapons as well as by its own nuclear weapons, the existence of which is well known. The Arab peoples must boycott this entity and avoid normalizing rela-tions with it. All products from coun-tries supporting this entity – from the US and others – must be boycotted.”
“They [the Zionists] are hostile by nature. The Zionists understand noth-ing but the language of force,” Morsi added.
The video was also distributed by an Israeli research institute, the Middle East Media Research Institute. Howev-er, several Egyptian media outlets used another version of the clip to discredit Morsi for altering his radical views since taking power.
This version shows Egyptian Am-bassador to Israel, Atef Salem, saying, “I come with a message of peace” after he presented his letter of credence to President Shimon Peres. “I am here to emphasize that we shall work to build trust and transparency and we are com-mitted to all the agreements we signed with Israel,” he said.
Morsi sounds like a true friend to Israel.
Israel Bans Cosmetics Tested on Animals
A revolutionary step has been taken in terms of the welfare of animals in Israel. The import of cosmetics, toilet-ries, and detergents whose manufactur-ing process involves animal testing has
been officially banned by law. The Knesset originally passed the
law in 2010. The new regulations took effect on January 1, 2013.
MK Eitan Cabel (Labor), who serves as head of the Knesset’s Animal Rights Lobby, promoted the legislation which states that “Israel will no longer allow the import and marketing of cos-metics, toiletries or detergents that were tested on animals. Animal testing in the Cosmetics Industry inflicts horrific suf-fering on these animals. Each product requires between 2,000-3,000 tests, and animals die in agony.”
The only exception the law allows is for medicinal products, which are not categorized as drugs, and follows the guidelines set by the European Union, which enacted a similar ban in 2004.
MK Cabel said that the law repre-sents “a true revolution in animal wel-fare in Israel. We’ve come a long way in the last Knesset term and this law in the pinnacle of our efforts.
“I hope we’ll create a change in per-ception that will end animal testing al-together,” Cabel added.
The new law was enacted as an ad-dition to a law enacted in 2007, which
banned animal testing in the Israeli Cosmetics Industry altogether.
NationalOutspoken Critic of
Israel Nominated to Secretary of DefenseIn what Senator Lindsey Gra-
ham describes as proof that President Obama’s second term will be “in your face,” President Obama has chosen former Republican Senator Chuck Ha-gel as Secretary of Defense. President Obama’s choice places many in the awkward position of wanting to support the seemingly bipartisan choice of a for-mer Republican Senator, who is also a Vietnam War veteran, while at the same time protesting the choice due to Sena-tor Hagel’s outspoken positions against Israel.
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The Week In newslobby” intimidates members of Con-gress when it comes to Israel. He also advocated for direct talks with both Iran and Hamas and voted against encourag-ing the European Union to label Hez-bollah a terrorist group.
In an interview with the Algemeiner Journal, former New York City Mayor Ed Koch stated, “Frankly, I thought that there would come a time when [Presi-dent Obama] would renege on what he conveyed on his support of Israel. It comes a little earlier than I thought it would.” Koch added, “It’s very disap-pointing, I believe he will ultimately re-gret it.” He pointed out that “it undoubt-edly will reduce support for him in the Jewish community, but I don’t think he worries about that now that the election is over.”
Hagel has said that his critics have “completely distorted his record” and that the nomination will enable him to show his “unequivocal, total support for Israel.”
Despite Chuck Hagel having an “R” for “Republican” after his name, there are many that question the authenticity
of the “R.” If enough Republicans in the Senate oppose Hagel’s nomination, this may turn into a classic nomination fight.
Teenager Confesses to Hit-and-Run
on Facebook
They say there’s a truth behind ev-ery joke…
Jacob Cox-Brown is an 18-year-old teenager from Oregon. It comes as no surprise that he frequently uses Face-book to communicate with friends. A recent posting that was intended as a
joke but had some truth behind it landed him in prison. He joked about driving drunk and hitting another vehicle. Two of his 656 Facebook friends saw the post and instead of chuckling, wisely reported it to police.
After investigation, police discov-ered that thankfully no one was hurt but Cox-Brown did indeed strike two cars that were damaged and fled the scene.
“We have used Facebook previously as an investigative tool, but this is the first time I believe we have arrested someone who posted they had commit-ted the crime,” Brad Johnston, deputy chief of police in Astoria, Oregon, said.
On New Year’s Day, the teenager posted: “Drivin drunk... classsic ;) but to whoever’s vehicle i hit i am sorry. :P” (Doesn’t sound too regretful…)
Astoria police “have an active So-cial Media presence. It was a private Facebook message to one of our officers that got this case moving,” said John-ston in an incident report file shared on the department’s website which includ-ed a screenshot of Cox-Brown’s Face-book posting.
“When you post [that] on Facebook you have to figure that it is not going to stay private long,” Johnston said in the release.
Maybe this will teach him to stay out of trouble and stay off the road for a while.
America Loves Hill & Bill
Who are America’s favorite politi-cians? Well, it turns out it’s none other than Hill and Bill.
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The Week In newshusband, former President Bill Clinton, are America’s two most popular politi-cians. At the same time, a Bloomberg poll found that 70 percent of Americans view Ms. Clinton favorably—that’s an amazing number considering the politi-cal divide that splits our country.
So what makes these two so lov-able?
Some say that Americans admire Ms. Clinton for her “get up and go” atti-tude. She is the most traveled Secretary of State, and even after spending time in the hospital, was “raring to go” to continue her mission around the globe. The Clintons also seem to be ubiqui-tous. Bill has been seen showing up ev-erywhere from the Democratic National Convention and on the campaign trail for Obama. He is a popular speaker and people feel connected to him when he talks.
Others admire Ms. Clinton for being able to work for the man she once op-posed in the primaries. Many admire her for turning a defeat into a political asset and for doing her job to its fullest.
Regardless of what exactly is their
secret for likability, it is certain that we will be hearing more from this power couple in 2016.
NY Has Fifth-to-Most Burglaries in USA
Every city has its share of thefts, but some cities seem to have than others. Residents in these cities should make sure to lock their doors, set their alarms and buy a watchdog.
According to the FBI, burglaries ac-counted for approximately $4.8 billion in lost property in the U.S. last year. With almost 2.2 million burglaries com-mitted, this means that the average loss per burglary was $2,185.
FBI Uniform Crime Report put to-gether a list ranking the cities with the most burglaries. And since you’re won-dering…New York has the fifth-to-most burglaries nationwide. In 2011, there were 18,159 robberies in New York.
Phoenix held down the number four spot at 18,666 last year. Next up is Dal-las at 18,727 followed by a big jump to
Chicago that had 26,420 forced entries last year.
The city with the most burglaries nationwide is Houston, Texas. In 2011, there were 27,459 robberies.
My advice to you? Make sure to set your alarms!
Some Missing From Official Photo of
Women in Congress—Or Maybe Not?
To mark the first day of the 113th year of Congress, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi organized a photo with all the female Democratic law-makers on the Capitol steps to mark the historic number of women in the new Congress. There are now 101 females in both chambers—twenty in the Senate and 81 in the House.
The temperatures on Thursday morning, January 3rd, were below freezing, and after several minutes of waiting atop the frigid marble for late-comers, Pelosi had the official picture taken without four tardy members.
And now, thanks to Photoshop, when Pelosi’s office released the photo, all the women in the party appeared.
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ing of the photo, Pelosi defended the incident.
“It was an accurate historical record of who the Democratic women of Con-gress are,” she said during her weekly Capitol Hill press briefing. “It also is an accurate record that it was freezing cold and our members had been wait-ing a long time for everyone to arrive and had to get back into the building to greet constituents, family members to get ready to go to the floor,” she said. “It wasn’t like we had the rest of the day to stand there...Not only were they women, but they reflected the beautiful diversity of our country. Women who from every community, as well as ev-ery religious faith, so we were pretty excited about it.”
She added: “Thank you for asking about it.”
I don’t know why she didn’t Photo-shop everyone in the photo in the first place—this way no one would have had to wait outside in the cold. Oh, and by the way, Ms. Pelosi, when you do that, sometimes people wonder just what else you’ve been Photoshopping…
No Respect for Life in Detroit
Real estate in Detroit may be down but the homicide rate in the city has continued a devastating upward trend in 2012, hitting its highest peak in nearly two decades.
A shrinking population of 706,585 people in 2011, combined with the rise in homicides, makes Detroit’s murder rate among the highest in the nation.
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing and Po-lice Chief Chester Logan held a press conference to address the grave matter.
“We’ve just lost respect for each other; we’ve lost respect for life,” Bing said. “I don’t want to say that you can forget about this generation or the gen-eration before us, but if we’re going to solve the problem, we’ve got to get into the heads and the minds and the hearts of our young people, and it’s going to take all of us to do that.”
There were a total of 411 homi-cides in 2012, up from 377 in 2011. The number includes 386 criminal ho-
micides and 25 “justifiable homicides” that included three shootings by police, according to numbers released by the city. The number of criminal homicides increased 12 percent from 344 in 2011. The total in 2010 was 308.
“I think the message that we want our citizens to understand is that we need them. We need them to help us. I just don’t believe that our police de-partment should have the total respon-sibility for safety in the city,” Bing said. “There are, as the chief said, he can have an additional thousand cops, but there are things that are happening in homes and families in the communities and the neighborhoods that whether a cop was there or not is not going to stop the crime.”
Detroit Police Chief Logan said the criminal activity in the city comes from a small minority of the city’s popula-tion. “These aren’t the average citi-zens we are talking about,” Logan said. “Many of these people are involved in nefarious walks of life, and there’s a dif-ference between a law-abiding citizen who shoots a gun and a criminal or a
thug who’s out there using one.”Mayor Bing added a message of
hope for the city, “We can’t give up, we can’t give in, and we’ve really got to let the small percentage of our population that’s creating havoc in our city know that we’re not going to continue to ac-cept it and all of us need to get involved and help each other solve the problem,” he said.
For the most part, homicides nation-wide have been declining for the last few years, most notably in New York, where in 2012 there were 414 homi-cides at a rate of one per 19,915 people.
Record $80.4 Billion Spent on SNAP
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According to the Monthly Treasury Statement that summarizes the receipts and outlays of the federal government, $80,401,000,000 went towards SNAP during FY 2012, which was a $2.7 bil-lion increase from $77,637,000,000 in FY 2011.
The SNAP program is administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which also runs other food as-sistance programs under the auspices of the Food and Nutrition Service Agency.
In total, nearly $106 billion was spent on food assistance in 2012, with $18.3 billion that went to “Child Nutri-tion Programs.”
Throughout Obama’s first term to-tal federal spending on SNAP has in-creased each year.
Obama Signs Fiscal Cliff Bill
While on VacationThanks to the help of a handy “au-
topen,” President Barack Obama didn’t have to interrupt his fun in the sun in Hawaii in order to sign Congress’ new fiscal cliff bill.
The technology works by copying a signer’s pen strokes and storing them for when the user is not present. NPR notes that this is at least the third time Obama has used the device during his presidency. In May 2011, Obama signed a Patriot Act extension while attending the G8 Summit in France. In Novem-ber 2011, the President signed an emer-gency spending bill while in Indonesia.
The Obama administration defends the practice by citing a 2005 decision by the Justice Department that allows the commander-in-chief the ability to command a subordinate to affix his sig-nature (via autopen) to a bill he has ap-proved.
This makes the autopen an extreme-ly powerful device. “I always heard the autopen was the second-most guarded thing in the White House after the presi-dent,” said Jack Shock, Bill Clinton’s director of presidential letters and mes-sages.
What will they think of next? A body double?
Town to Burn Violent Video Games
In the wake of the Sandy Hook tragedy, a Connecticut community has a plan to try to eliminate and discour-age children from playing violent video games.
The city of Southington plans to hold an amnesty of violent video games by offering gift certificates in exchange for donated games, which will be burned on January 12th in Southington, Con-necticut. The group, a coalition of lo-cal organizations, says its actions do not assert that video games were the cause of the killings in nearby Newtown, but argues that violent games and films de-sensitize children to “acts of violence.” A dumpster has been placed to collect any violent video games, CDs or DVDs.
On Thursday, January 3rd, students of Sandy Hook elementary school re-turned to classes for the first time in Monroe, the neighboring town. Sandy Hook elementary is still being treated as a crime scene and it has not been deter-mined if it will reopen.
“As people arrive in their cars to turn in their games of violence, they will be offered a gift certificate donated by a member of the Greater Southing-ton Chamber of Commerce as a token of appreciation for their action of re-sponsible citizenship,” the group said in a statement. “Violent games turned in will be destroyed and placed in the town dumpster for appropriate perma-nent disposal.”
That’s OddDr.’s Rx: Daily Tanning
Josh Borelli has a rare skin disease with an equally rare treatment.
When Borelli was in eighth grade, he woke up one morning with lesions all over his body. They resembled chicken pox but were not contagious and did not go away after a few days. His doctor eventually diagnosed him with Much-Habermann disease, an extremely rare skin condition.
Mucha-Habermann strikes males more often than females and occurs more frequently in children, specifically between the ages of five to 10. Borrel-li’s father claims that Josh was believed to be the only person in the country to have the disease at the time he was di-agnosed.
“This disease is so rare that most dermatologists don’t see it in their en-tire practice,” said Dr. Doris Day, clini-cal associate professor of dermatology at New York University Medical, who does not treat Borrelli. “It’s something that we read about but don’t see.”
Borrelli’s case went into remission as he entered high school but returned at the start of his senior year at the Med-ford, New Jersey, high school. This time, his doctor ordered a new treat-ment in addition to his prescribed medi-cation: daily visits to the tanning salon. “My dad went with me the first couple of times to the tanning salon because I was a bit nervous,” Borrelli said. He now spends eight minutes per day in a tanning booth.
The treatment was successful and Borrelli’s skin is now smooth with no lesions. Doctors say that if Borrelli would miss a single day of ultraviolet rays it could potentially cause the dis-ease to resurface and cause life-threat-ening complications.
“It’s a tough situation and it’s been very challenging for him but I’ve seen him rise to the occasion,” Borrelli’s fa-ther, David Borrelli said.
Wonder if his insurance covers the tanning salon bills…
Woman Writes Memoir with Only Her ThumbSusan Spencer-Wendel was always
a writer. She used to write about other
people’s lives until one day her own life circumstances and hardships became the subject of her journalism. Susan suf-fers from ALS, also known as Lou Geh-rig’s Disease; she was diagnosed during the summer of 2011.
As her body succumbed to this dev-astating disease, Spencer-Wendel spent three months typing a memoir of her life on her iPhone with only her right thumb. The memoir she wrote is inspir-ing and heartrending, as she knows she only has a short time left to live.
“I cannot lift my arms to feed my-self or hug my children,” the 45-year-old mother of three wrote in Until I Say Goodbye: My Year of Living With Joy, which will be published in March. She predicts that by the time the book is re-leased, she probably will no longer be able to speak clearly.
“My muscles are dying, and they cannot return. I will never again be able to move my tongue enough to clearly say, ‘I love you,’” she wrote. “Swiftly, surely, I am dying. But I am alive to-day.”
Spencer-Wendel is a former courts reporter for the Palm Beach Post news-paper in South Florida. She still resides in the sunny state with her husband, John, and their children, Marina, 15, Aubrey, 11, and Wesley, 8.
“Time to stop dreaming and start doing, I thought,” she wrote of her trip to New York.
She and her daughter, then just 14, went to New York City to pick out Marina’s wedding dress at Kleinfeld’s Bridal. It was a bittersweet moment since they both knew that Spencer-Wendel will not live to see her daughter walk down the aisle.
“As my beautiful daughter walks out of the dressing room in white silk, I will see her ten years in the future, in the back room right before her wedding, giddy and crying, overwhelmed by a moment I will never share,” she wrote. “When my only daughter thinks of me on her wedding day, as I hope she will, I want her to think of my smile when I
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say to her at Kleinfeld’s, ‘You are my beautiful.’”
Editors at publishing giant Harper-Collins noticed Spencer-Wendel’s man-uscript and offered her $2 million for her memoir, co-written with Bret Wit-ter. Until I Say Good-Bye is expected to be translated into 25 languages. Univer-sal Studios paid her another $2 million for the movie rights to her story.
Fight Erupts over Ketchup, Leads
to 911 Call
One Florida man just wanted ketch-up on his Philly cheesesteak sandwich at Subway. When he didn’t get it, a con-frontation with the sandwich maker en-sued, leading to a 911 call.
Now-former Subway employee Lawrence Ordone was working the counter at the Subway in an Orlando Walmart on New Year’s Eve. A man walked in and ordered a sandwich…standard fair for a sandwich restaurant. But the customer wanted ketchup—doesn’t sound like a big deal, right? However, according to the menu on the Subway website, they do not offer ketchup. Instead, they offer other con-diments like mustard, vinegar, oil, and mayo.
“He [the customer] wants ketchup on the Philly cheesesteak and I have never put – we don’t even have ketchup at Subway – I’ve never put ketchup on anybody’s sandwich,” Ordone said.
But Luis Martinez refused to eat a ketchup-free sandwich so another cus-tomer standing in line offered to buy it instead.
That’s when things got heated. Or-done claims that Martinez got upset by the offer and began to yell at the other customer. Then Martinez said to Or-done that he had “something” for him and walked toward his car and the em-ployee felt threatened and called 911.
“I was scared,” Martinez said.
“Next thing, I’m thinking a gun’s going to come out.”
Supposedly, by the time the police arrived, the irate ketchup-lover had fled the scene.
This incident caused Ordone to lose his job at Subway. Ordone regrets his actions that led to his dismissal. “You can go buy your own ketchup, and I promise to G-d, you can put as much as you want on it and nobody’s going to say nothing,” he said.
What would you do for ketchup on your sandwich?
Passenger Taped to His Seat on Flight
Flying just got a little stickier.An attention-grabbing photo ap-
peared on a blog run by New York busi-nessman Andy Ellwood. It was a photo of a drunk passenger on a trans-Atlantic flight taped to his seat. Ellwood re-ceived the picture from an acquaintance who witnessed the incident.
“My friend was on the flight and he sent me the photo because we like to trade travel war stories,” Ellwood said. His friend chose to remain anonymous.
As the story goes, the passenger got a little too rowdy and uncontrollable after consuming too much alcohol in flight. The passenger “drank all of his duty free liquor on the flight from Ice-land to JFK yesterday,” Ellwood wrote in his blog post. “When he became un-ruly, (i.e. trying to choke the woman next to him and screaming the plane was going to crash), fellow passengers subdued him and tie(d) him up for the rest of the flight. He was escorted off the flight by police when it landed.”
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey confirmed the incident.
“A 46-year-old man was taken into custody last night at JFK off an Ice-landic flight and then brought to the hospital because Port Authority police determined he was intoxicated,” said Ron Marsico, a spokesman for the port
authority.“He was not charged ... he’s free to
go.”The man had an Icelandic passport,
Marsico said.Icelandair did not immediately re-
spond to a request for comment, but a spokesman for the airline confirmed the incident to Icelandic media, adding that plastic ties and tape are standard on board flights to help in such situations.
I wonder if they made him fasten his seatbelt when landing.
World’s Fattest Man Loses Weight
Paul Mason lost two-thirds of his weight. That’s a whole lot since he now weighs around 330 pounds. He didn’t do it through diet and exercise. He lost the weight after undergoing gastric by-pass surgery that shrunk his stomach to the size of an egg.
The next surgery on Paul’s wish list is getting rid of loose skin.
The retired postman admits, “I still have a way to go.” He was once the
world’s fattest man and dreams of being the world’s greatest “slimmer.”
Medical bills are estimated to have cost taxpayers £1million which is about 1.6 million in dollars. Paul is fight-ing the National Health Service (NHS) to fund another surgery, to remove the skin left over after his weight loss. This surgery can cost up to £30,000 which is around $50K.
Paul said, “The NHS says my weight must be stable for two years be-fore they will consider operating on me to remove the loose skin.”
The 51-year-old confessed: “I was ashamed to be called the fattest man in the world because I knew I’d got myself in … a state. Now I guess I could well be the biggest slimmer in the world, but I still have a way to go. I want to get down to between 14 and 15 stone which is the healthy weight for someone who is 6-foot-4inches. I am proud that I have shown to other people with weight problems what can be achieved.”
Fourteen stone is about 200 pounds. Paul remembers that on his worst
days he would consume close to 20,000 calories a day—that’s nearly ten times the suggested daily intake. His diet
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consisted of supersized takeout meals, fried everything, and up to forty bags of chips.
After his operation, he gave up his electric wheelchair and began eating a healthy diet of veggies and small por-tions. Breakfast is a single slice of toast with jam or peanut butter, lunch is a small spaghetti Bolognese, and dinner consists of a jacket potato with cheese. He is now able to take his dog for short walks.
Firefighters removed the front wall of his house and used a forklift to plant him in an ambulance when he needed a hernia operation in 2002. A housing association built him a special wide-doored bungalow, and council workers feed and clean him four times daily.
Paul blames childhood bullying for a compulsive eating disorder and says it intensified when his dad died in 1986.
I feel a whole lot skinnier after read-ing this article!
Walking Down the Aisle in 10 Degree Weather
One couple from Dayton, Minne-sota, shivered their way through their “I Do’s” on New Year’s Day.
Nikki Hering, 28, and Ryan Hoff-man, 26, got married at the Minnesota Horse and Hunt Club on January 1. Instead of the ceremony taking place inside the cozy warm lodge, the couple
chose to walk down the aisle in 10-degree weather outside.
“We both really love winter,” Hering said. “We wanted to be a little differ-ent. The outdoor area just really has a neat backdrop and overlook and it was the perfect setting for it,” said Hering. “We gave them [guests] blankets to wrap up, and provided hot coffee and cider for them to hopefully warm up. It was short and sweet so they weren’t miserable for too long.”
Hering herself wore a fur cropped jacket over her wed-ding dress to brave the cold.
“I had the fur stole wrapped around the top half of my dress, and had some finger-less gloves. Other-wise, I got boots to wear under my dress that you couldn’t see, and wore them with my lucky hunting socks,” she said.
Of course, their plans were initially met with skeptics.
“They didn’t quite believe us,” Hering said. “Every-body asked, ‘Really, are you sure?’ We told them it’d be short so they wouldn’t have to wait too long. The grandmas and the young kids in the family watched from a window inside.”
“It was somehow magically snow-ing right when the ceremony started. It was a super-light, perfect snow,” said the bride.
Bbrr…
Police Ordered To Stay Out Of Restaurant
Belleville police chief Bill Clay is ordering his officers to get their pan-cakes from anywhere but Denny’s, call-ing the restaurant “political stupidness.”
There’s a story behind this strange command.
On New Year’s Day, there were was a slight quarrel between five detec-tives and one Denny’s manager. It all began when a few detectives went out for lunch, out of uniform but wearing their badges. Manager David Rice ap-proached them and asked them to either leave the restaurant or put their guns in their vehicle.
Rice told the detectives that one of their weapons, specifically a female de-tective’s gun, was making another diner feel uncomfortable.
The officers chose to leave without their food. The General Manager Mi-chael Van stepped in a little too late. As the officers were walking out, he cor-rected the manager and said it was fine for them to stay. The insult was already in the bag and the officers declined the offer to stay, saying that it would be awkward and left.
Denny’s corporate office has re-leased an apology saying, “Denny’s pol-icy permits law enforcement officials to carry their firearms in the restaurant and we regret any misunderstanding.”
Looking for Jewels at KFC
Two Australian thieves set out on a mission to steal precious gems from a jewelry store. Instead they found fried chicken.
The burglars burrowed the wall of the wrong store and found themselves inside a KFC and not inside Wrights Jewelers jewelry store. The pair used an iron bar to break into a bathroom at the rear of the connected shops.
Sorry, wrong address! But this pair was unstoppable and spontaneous. Un-deterred, the pair staged an impromptu hold-up and escaped with $1,000.
Peter Welsh, 32, and Dwayne Dool-an, 31, were arrested and charged with the New Year’s Eve robbery on Wednes-
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day after a police raid on Welsh’s Wo-odridge home.
Reportedly this was the pair’s third unsuccessful attempt to rob the inde-pendent jewelry store that day. Police prosecutor Sergeant Damian Summer-field said that earlier in the day, the thieves began throwing spark plugs at the jewelry store, in an attempt to smash the front window.
When “plan A” failed, they alleg-edly tried to break in through the rear doors, but instead found themselves in the neighboring Animal Welfare League Opportunity Shop.
Sgt Summerfield said the men stole a charity box from the front counter containing $50, before trying again to break into the jewelry store. Their third attempt ended up at the KFC when they hacked a hole in the wall of the public restrooms. Once inside, they allegedly threatened staff and demanded cash.
These thieves may not be the bright-est, but they do get an “A” for effort.
Man Buys Shirt Made of Gold for $230K
Talk about a gold rush…An Indian businessman bought a
solid gold shirt for $230,000 as an in-vestment. Datta Phuge has an obsession with gold.
More than two dozen goldsmiths toiled for 15 days to prepare the shirt custom ordered by Phuge. The top weighs seven-pounds. The shirt is crafted from 14,000 22-karat gold rings linked together with six Swarovski crystal buttons and has a belt also made of gold.
Phuge said he considers the shirt “an investment which will keep appreciat-ing.” “People buy cars and go on holi-days abroad,” he told the Mirror. “For me, gold is the ultimate passion. That is the reason I have spent a whopping amount of money on the shirt.”
In India, gold is the symbol of
wealth and financial security. Luckily for Phuge, his investment
may pay off. HSBC recently predicted that gold prices would jump even more this year. And that is thanks in part to demand from Indian customers like Phuge.
To welcome in 2013, Phuge wore his beloved shirt accessorized with an-other 11 pounds of gold accessories in-cluding chains, bracelets and rings.
Rumor has it he just custom ordered a gold case for his Nokia phone.
Phuge isn’t concerned about being robbed or mugged. “I have my own security system in place,” he told the said. “I always move around with body-guards.”
What’s next? A toothbrush made of gold??!!
Completely False Article on Wikipedia
for 5 YearsOften you read something online
and it’s completely unbelievable. But there are some sites we have come to trust. Wikipedia is one of them and just recently, editors of Wikipedia.com dis-covered an issue with one of the site’s articles.
The subject of the entry was a well-written 4,500 word document detailing the 17th century Bicholim Conflict. It was on the website for at least five years. It was voted a “good article” by readers. It was even nominated for a featured article – Wikipedia’s gold star for research.
The piece tells the story of “how colonial Portugal clashed with India’s massive Maratha Empire.” However, there is one thing wrong with the entry. The article is 100% false and complete-ly made up.
Wikipedia has admitted the entire conflict and books cited as sources for the piece are fictional. The writer of the article remains unidentified but was clearly successful in pushing his own agenda thanks to Wikipedia’s lax rules.
The scam was uncovered when another user from Missouri, known as ShelfSkewed, finally realized the de-ception and nominated the article for removal. Wikipedia acted on his warn-ing and immediately removed the piece.
“After careful consideration and some research, I have come to the con-clusion that this article is a hoax—a clever and elaborate hoax, but a hoax nonetheless,” they wrote. “An online
search for ‘Bicholim conflict’ or for many of the article’s purported sources produces only results that can be traced back to the article itself.”
“Unfortunately, hoaxes on Wiki-pedia are nothing new, and the craftier they are, the more difficult it is to catch them,” William Beutler, president of Beutler Wiki Relations, a Wikipedia consulting firm said. “Anyone who’s clever enough to make up convincing sources and motivated enough to spend the time and skilled enough to write a plausible article can deceive whole In-ternet—at least for a while.”
Anyone ever hear of the Parpades Islands?
Pilot Watches Burglar Rob his
House from the AirIt’s all about timing…A Florida pilot was flying over his
property upon returning home from North Carolina on his personal plane when he spotted an intruder on his prop-
erty.David Zehntner was returning home
on Sunday in his Cesna 182 and decided to fly over his home in LaBelle, when he noticed an unfamiliar truck in his driveway. He hovered over his home for nearly 10 minutes, watching a man try to break into his house.
“Right in front of us, with us mak-ing a tight circle around our property here, watching from the air – and he was clearly looking at us several times,” Zehntner said.
Zehntner then flew closer, dropping the plane to 300 feet, and saw the man attaching Zehntner’s red trailer to his truck and pulling out of his driveway.
The pilot immediately called Glades County Sheriff’s Office from the air while continuing to follow the thief as he drove down the road.
“The gentleman had a plane at sev-eral points circling him at close altitude and never thought, I guess, that some-body might be watching me,” Zehntner said.
Authorities located the thief on In-terstate 75 heading into Charlotte Coun-
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ty and arrested him after a traffic stop about 40 miles from Zehntner’s house.
The thief, Gary Robert Haines, had his truck impounded and searched, and authorities found a loaded rifle and bul-lets on the floorboard.
Score one for the good guys!
Kindness Streak Lasts 3 Hours
During the holiday season, coffee drinkers in Canada spread kindness and generosity. For three hours at a Tim Hortons branch, the chain of kindness was 228 customers strong, as one cus-tomer after another paid for the next person’s purchase.
It began when one drive-through customer in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Cana-da, decided to pay for the next customer in line at Tim Hortons, a Canadian cof-fee chain. The next person caught on, evidently, and continued the trend. In the spirit of the gift-giving season, the acts of kindness continued for about three hours, as 228 orders were fulfilled
all on someone else’s tab.According to Troy Thompson, who
manages the restaurant, both staff and customers delightedly participated. “They were calling out the numbers, ‘We’re at 162,’ and they made a really big deal of it. I think that’s what helped keep it going because nobody wanted to be the one who broke that streak,” said Thompson.
“We don’t know who started it, but that’s the beauty of this act of generos-ity,” a company spokeswoman said. “It was the start of something wonderful.”
But every party has a pooper. Even-tually one customer wasn’t feeling the spirit and ended the streak of kindness by refusing to pay for the next cus-tomer’s three coffees although he had received four free coffees.
This Gym is Not for the Slim
If you’re looking to join this gym, you better gain a few pounds.
Downsize Fitness is an exclusive
health club but it doesn’t require a load of money to join. One of the require-ments, though, is that members must be at least 50 pounds overweight to join.
The chain says that members feel more comfortable around other mem-bers who need to lose a few pounds. In an extra push to make members even more comfortable, there are no mirrors in the gym. Windows are fogged so passersby can’t peek in. And the equip-ment is built to hold the extra pounds. One personal trainer says that she is still trying to lose weight and her clients feel they can relate better to her because of that.
Francis Wisnewski said he started the gym because “I was embarrassed to go to the gym.” He admits that he has been “overweight [his] whole life.”
Apparently, others agree. Wisnews-ki opened his first two stores in 2011 and has since expanded.
Going Green for CoffeeIf you’re a daily Starbucks visitor,
you may have noticed a new kind of cup
last Thursday. In an effort to help save the earth, Starbucks Corp. introduced a $1 reusable plastic cup at its cafes.
The Seattle-based coffee chain al-ready gives customers a dime discount each time they bring in reusable cups for refills. The goal of the new cup, that resembles the throw away cups and bears the Starbucks logo, is to discour-age customers from always using dis-posable cups.
The new cups will be cleaned with boiling water each time a customer brings them in to be filled. The cups were tested in 600 stores in the Pacific Northwest over the past few months and hit stores nationwide and in Canada last Thursday.
In 2008, Seattle-based Starbucks had said it wanted to serve 25 percent of all drinks in reusable cups by 2015. That goal has since been reduced to 5 percent.
Saving the environment one cup at a time!
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An overflow crowd of approximate-ly 1,500 parents, grandparents, alumni and friends of Yeshiva Darchei Torah gathered on its Far Rockaway campus on Sunday for the Yeshiva’s 40th an-nual dinner, an event that paid tribute not only to a distinguished set of award-ees but to the Yeshiva community’s re-sponse to Hurricane Sandy.
Throughout the inspiring speeches and the beautiful video presentations, speaker after speaker echoed a consis-tent theme: in response to a devastat-ing storm, the Yeshiva and the greater Far Rockaway-Five Towns community banded together to ensure that the learn-ing resumed as quickly as possible and that the affected families –which num-ber in the hundreds – would be given every form of assistance necessary to rebuild their homes and lives. Darchei Torah’s modus operandi for forty years – a chinuch infused with chesed – was illustrated even more vividly in the cri-
sis of the hurricane and its aftermath.This year’s dinner was held on the
Yeshiva campus for the very first time, in recognition of the hardship still fac-ing many yeshiva families as they re-cover from the storm. And judging by the guests’ reactions, holding the dinner at the Yeshiva itself – and in the heart of its community – has been received quite favorably.
The program, preceded by a deli-cious buffet prepared by the Yeshiva’s own kitchen staff, was opened by Eli-sha Brecher, co-chairman of the Dar-chei Torah executive board. Divrei bracha were delivered by Rav Shlomo Avigdor Altusky, Rosh Yeshiva of Dar-chei’s post-high school Beis Medrash Heichal Dovid. Yeshiva president Ron-ald Lowinger served as dinner chairman and delivered heartfelt remarks. State Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder, an alum-nus of the Yeshiva, spoke briefly, as did Jason Cury, the president of the Gruss
Life Monument Funds who accepted an award on behalf of that organization.
Rav Yaakov Bender, Rosh HaYes-hiva of Yeshiva Darchei Torah, deliv-ered the final address of the evening and then introduced the honorees with the screening of individual videos about
them: Mr. and Mrs. Yisroel Salamon, alumnus of the year; Mr. and Mrs. Motty Jacobowitz, young leader-ship award; Mr. and Mrs. Naftali Tepfer, parents of the year; and Mr. and Mrs. Ben Landa, guests of hon-or. A surprise presentation was made to Rav Yitzchok Brailofsky, a devoted rebbi in the Yeshiva for decades who also serves on the Hanhala.
The conclusion of the program was the showing of
“Strength through the Storm,” a moving presentation about the Yeshiva and the community’s resilience and resolve in the face of the hurricane.
The program was followed by a de-lectable dessert reception and a rousing performance by the Yeshiva Darchei Torah Fifth Grade Choir.
The reaction of the guests seemed to be unanimous. “The dinner tonight was truly outstanding,” wrote one. “It was brilliant having it in the yeshiva itself and entirely appropriate in the post-Sandy matzav. And the yeshiva itself was transformed beyond words! As usual the speeches and videos were inspiring and beautiful to watch.
“Thanks for a wonderful evening and a wonderful yeshiva!”
Videos are available from the Yeshi-va Darchei Torah office. Email: [email protected].
Rav Yaakov Bender addressing the crowd at Yeshiva Darchei Torah’s 40th anniversary dinner
Yeshiva Darchei Torah Dinner Celebrates 40 Years of Chinuch and ChesedPhotos by tsemach Glenn
This coming Sunday, January 13th, thousands of American alumni will join via a live broadcast from the Main Beis Medrash of Ohr Somayach in Yerusha-layim a Shloshim Tribute to the Be-loved Rosh HaYeshiva and co-founder of Ohr Somayach International , HaRav HaGaon Mendel Weinbach, zt”l.
The dream of Harav Weinbach 40 years ago was to create a Makom HaTorah that would give any young or middle-aged man from the English-speaking world despite an assimilated
background that precious opportunity to connect to his Torah heritage. And over the four decades that followed, Harav Weinbach inspired tens of thousands to become frum or more committed.
Today there is no kehilla or hardly any shul in Eretz Yisroel and the Eng-lish-speaking world in which you will not find among the mispallelim alumni who got their start in Yiddishkeit at Ohr Somayach or its satellite branches.
The Sheloshim will begin in a packed Ohr Somayach Beis Medrash
in Yerushalayim at 8 P.M. (Israeli time) and will include speakers such as Ha-Rav Yitzchok Scheiner, HaRav Moshe Shapiro, HaRav Nota Schiller, HaRav Aharon Feldman and HaRav Moshe Lazerus.
The tributes to the beloved Rosh Hayeshiva will be broadcast live to Brooklyn’s Young Israel of Midwood (1 P.M), Monsey’s Yeshiva Ohr So-mayach (1 P.M.), Chicago’s Chicago Center for Torah & Chesed (12 P.M.) and Baltimore’s Congregation Shomrei
Emunah (1 P.M.)Following the live broadcast, special
hespedim will be delivered in Brooklyn by Rabbi Moshe Pindrus, in Chicago by Rabbi Avraham Rockmill, in Monsey by Rabbi Yisroel Rokowsky and Rab-bi Yehuda Samet, and in Baltimore by Rabbi Mordechai Perlman.
For further information, please call (718) 677-6200 or email [email protected].
Shloshim for Rav Mendel Weinbach, zt”l to Be Broadcast Live to Four U.S. Communities
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Our inaugural Alumni Day event, held on Thurs-day, December 27, was as successful as we had hoped. The program was a collab-orative effort between the College Guidance Depart-ment and the Business Of-fice. Director of Admis-sions and Communications Leslie Gang, College Guid-ance Counselor Susan Szaluta, and As-sociate Director Karen Wolf met over a period of several months to plan the logistics of Alumni Day. The goal of the event was to raise awareness about a wide range of colleges (academical-ly and geographically) and careers. It is vital that students as early as ninth grade begin to think about the college process as well as alternative careers.
Prospective alumni were contacted through various social media outlets, including traditional email, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. The entire HAFTR High School student body participated; students selected a career panel (otherwise they were assigned)
and were placed in a random college panel. Eight panels (four career pan-els and four college panels) ran simul-taneously with two sessions of each to accommodate all of the high school students. Twenty-two current college students, recent college graduates, or graduate students participated, repre-senting many different colleges, in-cluding Barnard, Binghamton, Baruch, Boston University, Columbia, Cornell, Emory, FIT, George Washington, Hof-stra, Maryland, MIT, NYU, University of Pennsylvania, Queens, Stony Brook, University of Michigan, University of Pittsburgh, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and YU. Approximately 25 HAFTR alumni from a variety of ca-
reers and industries participated, in-cluding science and technology, engi-neering, health sciences, business and finance, visual and performing arts, social media, law, entertainment, and fashion.
We are grateful to all of our accomplished alumni who took time out of their active lives to answer our students’ questions and at-tend this worthwhile event. Following the two roundta-ble-style sessions, students and alumni met in the gym to give students the oppor-tunity to converse with our
alumni. Feedback from students and alumni has been very positive, and we hope to use responses gleaned from our surveys to make next year’s event even better.
HAFTR High School Hosts First Alumni Day
Nathan was born and raised in Far Rockaway, where he currently resides with his wife and three children. He graduated from Queens College with Honors, earning a Bach-elor’s degree with a major in Political Science. Sub-sequently, he graduated from Yeshiva Sh’or Yo-shuv with a Master’s de-gree in Talmudic Law and received rabbinic ordina-tion. Currently, Nathan attends Fordham Law School in the evenings.
Nathan comes to the JCCRP from The Met Council on Jewish Poverty where he worked for the past three years, first as a Legal Liaison in the Family Violence Department and then as the Director of its Midwood, Brooklyn Single Stop program.
Nathan was responsible for trans-forming The Single Stop into one of Met Council’s most successful pro-grams, providing low-income residents of the Flatbush community with a wide
array of social services, including as-sistance with public benefits, legal ser-vices, immigration help and emergency financial assistance. This success led
to six featured articles in the New York Times from 2011-2012.
In addition to these specific achievements, Nathan utilizes a very se-rious and conscientious approach to his work combined with a humane, empathic attitude to his clients.
The JCCRP is very excited to welcome Na-
than and to begin its new era, under his direction. Under his leadership, the JC-CRP will continue its dedicated service to the community.
The JCCRP continues to offer the following services to community resi-dents: – Food stamp advocacy and enrollment– Medicaid/CHP/FHP enrollment, re-certification and advocacy– Kosher food pantry
– Information, referral and assistance with government benefits including: –Social Security, SSI, SCRIE, HEAP and Section 8 Housing –Tenant/Landlord mediation–Assistance with Medicare – enroll-ment into part D, advocacy and infor-mation–The Rabbi Michael Scholar summer camp scholarships– Crisis intervention– Free summer fair and concert
In order to make an appointment to apply for health insurance as well as the services listed above, please call the JCCRP at (718) 327-7755 or visit our offices at 1525 Central Avenue, Far Rockaway, New York.
In order to make a tax deductible donation you may visit our website www.jccrp.org or mail a check to us at the above address. Remember, 100% of your donations goes to the needy in our community.
Nathan Krasnovsky Joins the JCCRP as Executive Director
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Rabbi Yerachmiel Milstein was the keynote speaker at this year’s Rambam Grandfather/Father/Son Learn-A-Thon. For the past two decades, Rambam has been holding a special program on Jan-uary 1st and has been privileged to have many Roshei Yeshiva and prominent rabbanim as guest speakers. This year’s program was no different. Rabbi Mil-stein, who is one of the senior lecturers for Aish HaTorah Discovery Seminars,
is a much sought after and internation-ally acclaimed speaker.
Grandfathers and fathers joined their offspring for Shacharis in the Ash-kenazic or Sephardic minyanim which are held daily at Rambam. After some divrei Torah from Rabbi Friedman and Rabbi Eliach, parents and sons pro-ceeded to the gymnasium where the women’s league, chaired by Sharon Duftler and Devorah Elkouby, had set up a beautiful and sumptuous breakfast. Families bonded over omelets, French toast, and hot chocolate before the learning began.
After bentching and clearing the tables, ma’areh mekomos were hand-
ed out and c h a v r u s h a style learn-ing began in earnest. It was truly h e a r t w a r m -ing to see the active learn-ing taking place between grandfathers, fathers and sons. “It was a true fulfillment of the Pasuk of ‘and you should teach it to your children and your grandchildren!’” said Rabbi Fried-man. Rabbi Milstein was also visibly impressed by the intensity of the learn-ing of the participants. He then launched into his shiur, which he described as a ”white knuckle, one hour, rollercoaster ride traversing over 3000 years of Jew-ish history.” In essence, Rav Milstein shared the various prophecies outlined in the Torah and showed how it was im-possible for any human being to divine such predictions.
“By all accounts of history and
natural order, the Jewish people should be extinct today, yet we are here,” he proclaimed. The Torah predicts that we will be scattered amongst the na-tions, oppressed and discrimi-nated against, which has hap-pened through-out our history. No human being could have made such a predic-tion thousands
of years ago with such a c c u r a c y . Noting that in the usual course of one nation conquering another, the defeated nation remains in place and be-comes the subjugated slave of their conquerors, the Torah predicted that the Jews would be exiled from their land, which indeed happened. Once again, “These are the events that would be impossible for a per-son to predict and foretell,” said
Rabbi Milstein. He continuously dem-onstrated with prophecy after prophecy the impossibility of any source other
than Hashem making such predictions and having those predictions fulfilled exactly as stated.
The close to 300 people who were in attendance were enthralled by his pre-sentation. A lively question and answer session followed as yet another inspir-ing Rambam Learn-A-Thon came to a close.
Rambam’s 21st Learn-A-Thon Features Rabbi Milstein
Rabbi Israel D. Rosenberg Educational Institute Of Con-gregation Etz Chaim presents Shiur Ha’chodesh For Women By Women, a monthly program of advanced shiurim on Wednes-day evenings at 7:45 pm.
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Seventeen HANC High School stu-dents were officially inducted into the school’s Maalot chapter of the National Honor Society at the end of December. Selected on the basis of their scholastic excellence, service to school and com-munity, character, citizenship, Ahavat Yisroel, Limud Hatorah, and Derech Eretz, these sophomores, juniors and seniors joined with the other 37 estab-lished members in a beautiful candle-light ceremony in the HANC auditori-um. After short greetings by Associate Principal, Mrs. Carole Tabin; Honor Society advisor, Ms. Karen Sheff; Maalot President, senior, Jacob Kes-sler; and HANC Principal/Menahel, Rabbi Shlomo Adelman, the inductees were presented with their NHS certifi-cates and membership cards by Mrs.
Carole Tabin and Assistant Principal, Ms. Tziporah Zucker. Science Chair-person, Mrs. Marie Palaia and Rabbi Mezei helped recognize our current members of the National Honor Soci-ety. Kudos to freshman, Sarah Byrne and senior, Michelle Teitelbaum, who provided the musical accompaniment and to the members of the Boys’ Cho-rus who assisted during the singing of the national anthem and the Hatikvah.
HANC’s NHS chapter is named Maalot after the northern Israel town of the same name, in which 23 yeshiva high school students were murdered in cold blood by Palestinian terrorists on Yom Ha’atzmaut 1974. Rabbi Meyer Fendel, HANC’s founding dean, estab-lished HANC’s Maalot chapter l’zecher nishmot the twenty-three korbonot.
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On Motzai Shabbos, December 29th, the Young Leadership Committee of Yeshiva of South Shore conducted a Melave Malka in the Yeshiva’s gym. The theme of the eve-ning was “Standing Together”; the YOSS family is there for each other through good and difficult times.
In line with this theme – Rabbi Yisroel Kaminetsky, Menahel of DRS was invited to speak. He expressed his Hakoras Hatov to the 200 parents for their Yeshiva’s Hachnosas Orchim during his Yeshiva’s time of need. The 9th and 10th grades of DRS spent a month on our campus while their build-ing was repaired due to the damage from the storm.
Ben Isaacs, an alumnus of the Ye-shiva and now a parent, spoke of his
newfound respect and appreciation for all that is YOSS; the care and concern
of the administration as he, and many oth-ers, went through this crisis, gave them the strength to deal with it – knowing that the Yeshiva was there for them.
Zvi Rada, a parent of the Yeshiva, pro-vided the musical ac-companiment for the evening, while David Jaison, another par-ent and a Mentalist, went from table-to-table drawing in the audience. Together
with soups, wraps and salads (oh – and cheesecake, always cheesecake!), the evening created an atmosphere where parents introduced themselves to each other – truly joining in that most won-derful community – the South Shore family!
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DRS is proud to offer a brand new STEM course to its students. STEM is an acronym that stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math-ematics. STEM is an approach to edu-cation that expands current teaching models for science and math, by in-corporating technology and engineer-ing concepts into standardized instruc-tion. The demand for jobs in America that require STEM skills continues to grow. The mission of the STEM course at DRS is to help students realize their potential for success in future engineer-ing or technology careers by supporting their exploration of STEM related fields and by encouraging the development of 21st century skills. The STEM course is designed so that students have the op-portunity to develop relationships with-in teams to collaboratively solve prob-lems and to develop leadership skills. Hence, the course not only improves the academic component of the stu-dents’ lives, but also provides valuable
life lessons that can be applied to solve tomorrow’s problems in the real world. STEM students will utilize advanced technology and equipment, investigate a wide variety of STEM related fields such as robotics, bio-technology, assis-tive technologies, structural engineer-ing, bio-mechanical engineering, com-puter science, and more. Students will get a chance to interact with profession-al scientists and engineers.
Another way our students develop their STEM skills is by attending our new state of the art robotics course. Us-ing the LEGO NXT robot system, the students meet in pairs and learn to col-laborate toward solving challenges pre-pared for them by Mr. David Mark, who also serves as the DRS AP Psychology teacher. A vital part to any difficult task is learning to work as a team and “deal” with those in our immediate work envi-ronment. This is a class that stresses the importance of perseverance, out of the box thinking, and collaboration.
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The Bayswater Players will be pre-senting their annual play once more this year at the Bayswater Jewish Center. Two of their popular performers, local favorites Dr. Stuart Rappaport and Jack Tarzik (seen above), will be featured players once more, this time in the per-formance of “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller. Performances will take place at 8 p.m. on January 3, 5, 10, 12, 17 and 19 and at 3 p.m. on January 6, 13, and 20. Also pictured here are some of the per-formers going through a practice ses-sion preparing for the upcoming perfor-mance under the guidance of Director Mario Martone and Producer Michael Gliner.
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Students in Morah Shoshana’s first grade class at HANC’s Samuel & Eliza-beth Bass Golding Elementary School in West Hempstead reviewed Sefer Bereishit by creating dioramas. Each student was given a topic in Sefer Bere-ishit that he/she brought to life with an original and creative diorama. The
students had a wonderful time learning about their topics and presenting their dioramas to the other students in the class.
The dioramas are now displayed in the school lobby so you are invited to come take a peek!
HANC’s Sefer Bereishit Dioramas
In The Elementary Division:Lazer Marble 45, Perfect Collision
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Waldman had 12 & Yosef Kapetas 13 in the loss. Both teams are now 3-3.
Quality Carpet rolls over ITP as Ezi Fischman outscored ITP 39-16.
Look for some changes to come, Yanky Frank’s team leads with a 5-1 record.
Pizza Nosh stays undefeated eating up Art World 59-30: Gideon Valenski matched Art World’s total by himself. Shmuel Mandelbaum chipped in with another 17 points.
In the game of the night, The Jew-ish Connection pulled out the win vs. its rival The Jewish Press 52-51: Yaakov
Ibrigimov and Dovid Reiser showed the way for JC, but the tag team of David Manashirov & Gavriel Niyazov showed how powerful they are, scoring 37. JP`s record of 1-5 is very misleading.
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36: Shaya Greenspan`s “ally yoop” was a key in this upset win. The division get tighter as Shulem’s China squad is now at 500 with a 3-3 record.
Ari Slomovics has a breakout game with 15 points as Repairs on Wheels rolled over Batampte Pickles 50-37.Mordy Kiss had a team high 13 for Batampte and Arele Birnbaum had 20 for Russels’ Repair team.
In the closest game of the season, Aura Electric beat out Pizza World by a final score of 31-30. Moshe Shain’s 17 points helped Aura with the victory.
In the biggest shocker yet, Ave. M Bagels beat the #1 seed Plaza Auto Leasing 45-36. Aron Weiss’ 13 points led M Bagels to their much deserved second win of the season.
The Jewish Home snatched their first win of the season beating Nosh Express by a score of 37-32. Yossie Schwarcz and Mendy Klipper led with 13 and 14 respectively.
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At first glance, Tamar Lichter looks like a regular senior at Midreshet Shal-hevet High School in North Wood-mere, NY. Yet, once you get to know her, you’ll find that she has accomplished far more than your average high school student. Tamar is a semifinalist in them National Merit Schol-arship Competition. Tamar says that “I am so grateful to Shalhe-vet for helping me get so far, challenging me with high-level classes, and encouraging me to be myself and explore creative and interesting hob-bies. I am really happy with my college prospects and I appreciate Shalhevet’s excellent college guidance as well as their teachers. They help me do the best I can.”
Tamar has taken four Advanced Placement courses as well as Honors classes each year. Shalhevet has a huge variety to choose from; last year Tamar took AP Calculus AB and AP Biology, and this year she’s taking AP Calculus BC and AP English. She finds Honors Gemara especially interesting—it chal-lenges her to use new thought process-es. Tamar also has enjoyed electives such as Studio Art, Sign Language, and Spanish III. Tamar has competed on the school’s College Bowl team all through high school and became the team’s cap-tain as a junior. This year, in addition to heading the team, she helped write
the official College Bowl qualifying exam. Tamar also competes with and is captain of Shalhevet’s Math team.
With all her intellectual interests, she is still a well-rounded student, with a special interest in art. She has enrolled in Shalhevet’s many art electives. As a sopho-more, Tamar won the competition to design the Israeli Day Parade Tee, and this past sum-mer she took private art classes to broaden her range of mediums and
techniques. She is currently using her artistic skills to design the set for Shal-hevet’s play, an adaptation of “News-ies, The Musical.” She will also dance in this production. “A Shalhevet educa-tion can’t be beat. Shalhevet is prepar-ing me for life. Taking Zionism with Rabbi Yotav Eliach has grounded me in understanding our history and con-nection with Israel. Business math and Economics teach you real world skills. Shalhevet courses such as Machshava, Nashim Bihalacha, and Jewish Ethics have strengthened my relationship with Judaism. My Shalhevet experience has equipped me with confidence that I can enter the next stage of my life with grace, with the ability to make my own choices. I am confident in the skills I have been taught, and I know that I will be prepared and ready for seminary and college, and beyond.”
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Students in Kindergarten – Second Grade at HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School in West Hempstead celebrated the com-pletion of Sefer Bereishit with a spirited Chazak Party!
Rabbi Michael Merrill read the last few pesukim of Sefer Bereishit from a sefer Torah and after the final words
were read, all the students respond-ed with a very enthusiastic “Chazak, Chazak, V’Nitzchazeik.” After the reading from the Torah, the students continued the celebration with singing and refreshments.
All the students are excited to start Sefer Shemot!
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Last Tuesday, DRS held its annual Father-Son Yom Iyun. This year’s Yom Iyun was titled: Maintaining Healthy Relationships in Modern Times. The program focused on various relation-ships that the students have and would have encountered in their lives. The program began with opening remarks from DRS Menahel Rabbi Yisroel Ka-minetzky, who delivered a message to
fathers and sons about the importance of Kibbud Av V’Em, and the tremen-dous focus that Judaism places on the relationship between parents and chil-dren. After a delicious breakfast, stu-dents and fathers got the opportunity to choose from a long list of shiurim, delivered by DRS Rabbeim. Topics of the shiurim included “Honoring One’s Grandparents,” “The Shidduch Crisis,”
“10 Torah Secrets to a Healthy Mar-riage,” “Parameters and Limits of Kib-bud Av V’Em,” “Teenage Relationships between Boys and Girls,” “Develop-ing a Relationship with Oneself,” and “Peer Pressure.” Following the shiurim offered by the Rabbeim, students and fathers were treated to a special pre-sentation by ORA, the Organization for the Resolution of Agunot, in relation to
Masechet Gittin, the Masechta that the students of DRS are learning this year. ORA expressed the pressing need for Jews to help Agunot. DRS thanks the sponsors for the event, as well as all the fathers who gave of their time to learn with their sons on New Year’s Day.
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Completing Shas with Tosafos! No words sound more beautiful to the ear. It is a dream that is within reach!
The Dirshu World Siyum did not just mark the historic occasion of thou-sands of people finishing Shas and being tested on it. It marked the beginning of something far bigger and greater! Not only have more than 15,000 lomdim been taking tests on the new machzor, but perhaps even more historic—a large number of them are taking tests on To-safos too!
On many occasions, Dirshu’s hanha-la has emphasized that Dirshu’s goal is to continuously raise the level of learning and to seek new vistas in limud haTorah; its aim is to increase learning, encourage deeper learning and propel its lomdim to have greater she’ifos in learning.
At the world Siyum, the Rosh Ye-shiva of the Chevron Yeshiva, HaGaon HaRav Dovid Cohen, shlita, related that Dirshu strengthens the in-depth learn-ing of its participants while simultane-ously providing them with wide-ranging knowledge of Shas.
HaGaon HaRav Wosner, Shlita: “It Was Rav Meir Shapiro’s Desire That The Daf Yomi Not Be Learned Superficially.”
Indeed, HaGaon HaRav Shmuel Wosner, the venerated posek hador and one of the last remaining talmidim of the founder of Daf Yomi, Rav Meir Sha-piro, zt”l related that it was Rav Meir Shapiro’s desire that the Daf Yomi not be learned superficially but rather be learned and reviewed with iyun.
Perhaps this is why gedolei Yisroel and the family of Dirshu is especially gratified that now, in this latest machzor, scores of talmidei chachomim are learn-ing the Daf Yomi with Tosafos.
Dirshu is Constantly Striving Higher and Deeper
Learning the Daf Yomi with Tosafos, with even more iyun, was proposed at the World Siyum in Eretz Yisroel by the Nasi of Dirshu, Rav Dovid Hofstedter as being the next frontier for constant growth in limud haTorah. At that time he clearly said that Dirshu will never rest on its laurels but will always try to con-quer new vistas in Torah and learning the Daf with Tosafos was the next step.
Perhaps nothing more signifies Dirshu’s desire to keep raising the aspi-rations of its participants than its regula-
tion that states that those who have al-ready been zoche to complete the entire Shas with Rashi during the last machzor of Daf Yomi will only receive half of the regular stipend in this machzor if they continue to learn the Daf Yomi just with Rashi. If, however, they undertake to be tested on the Daf with Tosafos too, they will receive the even higher stipend awarded to the elite group of lomdei To-safos.
Rabbi Avigdor Berenstein, Dirshu’s Director of Operations, relates a fasci-nating incident that transpired just over a week ago. “Every three months Dirshu dispenses an optional chazara test with questions on the material covered over the previous three months. There is no stipend for the test, but those who achieve excellent results are entered into a lottery for a prize. Although we have both the Rashi and Tosafos track in the monthly tests for the chazara test we ne-glected to compose a chazarah test that includes questions on Tosafos. Instead we sufficed with the test on Gemara and Rashi. I was completely floored by the reactions of the lomdei Tosafos. They were upset! ‘Why didn’t you make a chazara test on Tosafos too?’ they asked. ‘We have been toiling over Tosafos, we have been chazering with tremendous iyun and diligence; we would like to be tested on Tosafos as well!’
“It was then that I realized the extent of Torah lishma that Dirshu promotes. There was no reason for them to de-mand the Tosafos test. Their only rea-son for wanting such a test was so that they could test themselves lishmah, so that they could ensure that they learned, reviewed and truly remembered every single Tosafos. That is the beauty of Dirshu,” Rav Berenstein concluded, “it engenders constantly striving for higher goals, for aliyah ruchniyus and greater hasagos in Torah in all of its partici-pants.”
Groundbreaking New Daf Yomi Shiur With Tosafos
That is why it should not be sur-prising that Dirshu has embarked on a groundbreaking addition to its myriad shiurim – its new Daf Yomi iyun shiur with Tosafos!
It is no secret that the Dirshu revolu-tion began 15 years ago in Toronto, Can-ada with the founding of Dirshu by Rav Hofstedter. Since then thousands upon
thousands have joined, many becoming bekiim in the entire Shas; others becom-ing the morei horaah, the poskim of the next generation; and yet others learn-ing the Daf HaYomi B’Halacha thereby bringing shmiras halacha into their daily lives. Rav Shlomo Rozenstein, Dirshu’s director of Communications in Eretz Yisroel, put it most succinctly when he said, “Dirshu has been instrumental in making Daf Yomi learn-ing a nach-las haklal for thousands of bnei Torah who other-wise would never have joined the Daf Yomi learners and acquired Shas.”
By nature, bnei Torah are constantly seeking ways to take their learning to the next level. In keeping with this transformative legacy, Toronto, the birthplace of Dirshu, is once more serving as the trailblazer of a new shiur that in the spirit of Dirshu’s hashkafa, propelling the learning of Daf Yomi to an entirely new level.
Rav Hofstedter has now begun de-livering a daily shiur on Daf Yomi with Tosafos and iyun kal. The shiur is attend-ed by distinguished talmidei chacho-mim, marbitzei Torah and mechanchim from across the city and has raised limud haTorah with its inherent excitement and simchas haTorah to new heights. The shiur is uniquely suited for talmidei chachomim who have already learned the Daf once and now desire to review it while adding the Tosafos and other me-forshim that come in its wake. Each day, the shiur covers the particular daf from 7 days prior in the standard Daf Yomi cycle to allow for chazara in preparation for the Tosafos and iyun shiur. The shiur began last week with Perek Klal Gadol, one of the most challenging, deep pera-kim in Masechta Shabbos.
“It Isn’t A Daf Yomi Shiur. It Is A Totally Different Dimension!”
Rav Aharon Levine, former Mena-hel of both Yeshiva Eitz Chaim and Ye-shiva Ner Yisrael of Toronto and a shiur participant, relates, “It isn’t a Daf Yomi
shiur. It is a totally different dimension! Most Daf Yomi shiurim don’t even learn all the Rashis and here we are treated to a shiur that is literally a ponim cha-dashos. It is a totally different Daf.”
Tosafos Weakens the Yetzer Hara and Rectifies the Sin of Adam Harishon
Rav Eisenthal, another participant of the shiur, concurred, elucidating with
a story. “The Gerer Rebbe, the Imrei Emes, would hire private melamdim to teach his sons. The melamed whom he hired to teach his youngest son, the future Gerer Rebbe, the Pnei Me-nachem, was
an elite talmid chacham who gave the future Rebbe his foundation in learning. The Pnei Menachem related that this melamed told him in the name of Rav Simcha Bunim of Peshischa, that as long as the yetzer hara can prevent a person from learning Gemara with Tosafos he is more than happy for a person to engage in any other kind of avodas Hashem. Learning Tosafos purifies the mind, it gives a person a Torah mind. For that reason, the yetzer hara will do anything to prevent a person from engaging in this life-giving elixir.”
It was this ideal that Rav Hofstedter so eloquently explained at the Siyum HaShas, held in the French Hill neigh-borhood of Eretz Yisrael. He said that learning Shas with yegiah, with toil, with Tosafos, is the tikun – it is the way to rectify the original sin of Adam Haris-hon that caused the yetzer hara to dwell within the person. Quoting Rav Meir Shapiro, Rav Dovid said, “The snake is the only animal whose gestation period is 7 years… and it takes 7 years to learn the entire Shas with Daf Yomi! Those 7 years of toil, those 7 years of hard work, of taking Daf Yomi learning to the next level by learning and truly laboring and sweating over the Gemara, with To-safos, with iyun, is undoubtedly a tikun of that aveirah! It is a tikun that has the power to usher in the ultimate geulah for which we are so longing!”
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Rav Hofstedter speaking at the Siyum Hashas at French Hill
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While Delicious Dishes’ Cholent is a great place to meet friends and eat great food on a Thursday night, there’s something you can’t get there. You can’t learn about and contribute to a great cause that is saving Jewish neshomos. But on Thursday evening, January 3, you could have done just that. The 2013 kickoff fund-raiser for TOVA Mentoring was held at the home of Pinky and Miri Friedman and was successful beyond expectations. The list of inspirational speakers included Rabbi Dovid Wein-berger of Shaarei Tefillah, his son Akiva, himself a beneficiary of the program, and Mr. Richard Altabe, one of TOVA’s founders.
The event had originally been planned for November but our local su-perstorm blew the event out to sea. Ye-huda Klinkowitz, Program Director for TOVA, worked around the clock in the dark to reschedule this important event and hired a new Director of Develop-ment, Eliezer Zezy Fuld, to initiate, de-velop and implement new and exciting events for TOVA.
The rescheduled event last Thursday was a great hit. R’ Zezy Fuld emceed the evening and introduced the program by describing how he came to work for TOVA after investigating how he could best help the children of the Five Towns and Far Rockaway. Guest speaker Rab-bi Dovid Weinberger spoke on the topic “No Child Left Behind”. He related a moving and tragic story of a woman he met at an out-of-town wedding who shared that in the 13 years since her di-vorce, four of her seven children went “off the derech.” “I searched for people to work with my children and speak with
them. Unfortunately, there was nothing like that where I live.” Rabbi Wein-berger went on to say that every Jewish neshoma is priceless and must be helped and how fortunate our community is to have TOVA Mentoring.
Akiva Weinberger related his own experience as someone helped by TOVA Mentoring many years ago and how the experience permanently changed his life for the better. “My mentor is still in al-most daily contact with me. I feel that I can discuss anything with him.”
Richard Altabe, one of TOVA’s founders, pointed out that for the cost of taking a young person out to coffee daily, you could sponsor a year’s worth of mentoring for a child for $1,800. “It buys 12 sessions of therapy. We are get-ting off cheap!”
The event concluded with people feeling inspired, making donations and partaking of delicious desserts. One guest, Mr. Jordan Hiller, was extremely enthusiastic, “Rabbi Weinberger is a wonderful speaker! I find it hard to be-
lieve that I have lived in this area for many years but did not know how truly amazing TOVA Mentoring is!” Mr. Hill-er was so inspired that he has agreed to host an event for TOVA in February for his North Woodmere community.
“We need more people to understand how important TOVA’s services are for our chidren and for them to help out any way they can,” said the host of the eve-ning, Mr. Pinky Friedman.
Since Hurricane Sandy, TOVA has
been receiving an increased volume of requests for mentoring and are working overtime to fill the need. Zezy Fuld, the new Director of Development, is work-ing on several upcoming events to help support TOVA’s vital programs. A raffle will get underway very shortly and there are other events on the horizon. For in-formation on how you can help TOVA Mentoring please e-mail [email protected] or call 516-295-0550 EXT 102.
TOVA Mentoring’s 2013 Kickoff Event A Resounding Success
L-R: Pinky Friedman; Richie Altabe, Founder and Executive Vice President of TOVA; Yehuda Klinkowitz, Program Director; Eliezer Zezy Fuld, Director of Development
L-R: Eliezer Zezy Fuld, Director of Development; Rabbi Dovid Weinberger, Rav of Shaarei Tefillah;
Yehuda Klinkowitz, Program Director
L-R: Yehuda Klinkowitz, Program Director of TOVA; Pinky Friedman; Rabbi Reisman, Rav
of Agudas Yisroel of Long Island
L-R: Boruch Ber Bender, Founder of Achiezer; Yehuda Klinkowitz, TOVA program Director; Rabbi Feiner,
Rav of The White Shul
Photo credits harvey baron
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Acheinu Brings Another 1,400 Neshamos to TorahBy: Shimmy Blum
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On a recent trip to Eretz Yisroel, I had the opportunity to visit Yeshi-vas Acheinu in Har Nof. None of the wealth of information that I had known about the Acheinu organization could have prepared me for the sight I was treated to.
It was Friday afternoon, shortly before Shabbos. Immediately upon en-tering the Bais Medrash, I was hit by a resounding kol Torah reminiscent of what can be expected from much larger crowds of talmidim on the first day of the zman. Wide smiles were plastered on the faces of both the Yeshiva bo-churim and the rabbeim as they engaged in boisterous debate over the nuances of Rashi, Tosafos and Rishonim in the sugya of “Isho m’shum chetzyo.” I sat down with two bochurim and delved into the sugya, and was blown away not only by their keen grasp of their limudim, but also by their distinctly refined, re-spectful demeanor.
This scene would be de-lightful in any context, but the fact that this was a Yeshi-vas Acheinu, whose talmidim were devoid of Torah and mitzvos not all that long ago, made it all the more special. As its Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Zev Hofstedter, shlita, explained, “You can literally write a book about every bochur in this Bais Medrash.”
Indeed, books can be written about every single one of the over 10,000 boys and girls that have been brought under the wings of Torah through this organization over the past two decades. This year alone, Acheinu helped place 1,400 new students in the protective walls of various Yeshivos. We’d rather not think of where they’d be now with-out that effort...
Acheinu BoomWith the stark divide between pious
Torah Jews and rabid secularism per-meating every aspect of Israeli society, its ramifications affect perhaps nothing greater than the educational scene for Israeli youth. Children and teenagers of any background who do not merit a sol-id Torah education can be expected to have virtually no knowledge of Hash-em and His Torah, and are prone to the most decadent aspects of global secular society.
Down in the trenches of the battle to
have Hashem’s children acknowledge and serve their Father is Acheinu, the foremost kiruv organization for youth in Eretz Yisroel. Acheinu works at various levels to reach out to Israeli youth from secular or weak religious backgrounds and lead them to become full-fledged bnei Torah, firmly rooted in Yiddish-keit. Over the years, Acheinu’s unique multi-tiered outreach system has, b’ezras Hashem, enabled the organiza-tion to have an over 90% success rate in developing lost youth into earnest Torah Jews. The premier gedolei hador – past and present – have actively supported Acheinu. The revered elder mechanech, Harav Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz zt”l,
served as the organization’s nasi until his passing.
Shortly before Rosh Hashana, this writer spoke to Acheinu’s exuberant kiruv coordinator Rabbi Chaim Gold-berg, who was immersed in opening yet another Yeshivas Acheinu, this time in Rechovot. This is in addition to the net-work of approximately 30 independent Yeshivos and girls schools that are af-filiated with Acheinu and are matched up with suitable boys and girls seeking to advance in yiddishkeit.
As we spoke, Rabbi Goldberg was, in classic Acheinu fashion, making sure that the talmidim of the newest Acheinu Yeshiva are taken care of as best as pos-sible, down to the last detail. Referring to the 1,400 neshamos that have been newly saved by the organization, Rabbi Goldberg commented, “Acheinu is like special operations commandos. They use sophisticated tactics to be effective in every situation.”
Besides for the comprehensive, growing network of Yeshivos, Acheinu runs “Batei Chizuk” youth centers across Eretz Yisroel, where youth are offered a haven from the streets, where
they can interact with loving kiruv pro-fessionals and get acquainted with To-rah true Yiddishkeit in a most pleasant way. Another secret to Acheinu’s suc-cess is its comprehensive mentoring program, where qualified frum mentors build close relationships with youth un-der the organization’s wings, and help lead them towards healthy, viable Torah lives for the long term – through their Yeshiva years, marriage and child rear-ing.
One huge component in reaching the number 1,400 has been “Project Toronto,” an innovative program tar-geted towards children from secular or weaker religious backgrounds who at-tend Chinuch Atzmai or other religious elementary schools that do not continue into high school. Project Toronto reach-es out to these students during their up-per elementary years and helps acquaint them with life in a Yeshiva high school through short and weekend visits to Yeshivos and other methods. Approxi-mately 400 of the latest neshamos saved by Acheinu are elementary school grad-uates who are now blossoming in the walls of mainstream Yeshivos due to Project Toronto’s efforts.
Yet another major catalyst for Acheinu’s increased reach, says Rabbi Goldberg, is its cutting edge use of modern day technology to spread the word of Hashem. Acheinu’s website offers youth in Eretz Yisroel a daz-zling treasure trove of information re-garding their questions and struggles with Yiddishkeit, and a convenient medium through which to connect with Acheinu’s kiruv resources.
Book of LifeWhile trying to absorb the latest sta-
tistic, the words of Rav Zev Hofstedter, son of Rav Dovid Hofstedter, shlita, founder of Acheinu and Dirshu, during my recent visit to his Yeshiva continue to ring in my ears. You can write a book about every one of them.
Though I had to rush out of the Ye-shiva to make it back in time for Shab-bos, Rav Hofstedter did manage to give a small taste of some of the stories behind the young, radiant bnei Torah around us, who appeared just like their peers in mainstream Yeshivos and were on track to move on to the most presti-gious Yeshivos in Eretz Yisroel.
Every one of them was a living tale of struggle and triumph. They struggled vigorously to abandon the freewheel-
ing surroundings they were raised in and had to deal with parents who fought them at every step. The mother of one of the boys showed her son a bottle of prescription drugs and promised to overdose if he goes to Yeshiva. Upon consultation with gedolim, the boy went to Yeshiva; his mother is alive and well. One boy came to the Yeshiva, but later chose to leave its uplifting surround-ings. His father, who had vehemently fought his enrollment in Yeshiva just a few months earlier, came pleading to the hanhala to try to get him back in. He realized what a positive impact the Yeshiva had. And so on.
Multiply these precious neshamos and their offspring for generations by the thousands -1,400 for 5773 alone. May Hashem inscribe all of his return-ing children, their guides – indeed all of klal Yisroel – in the Book of Life.
The upcoming Acheinu Lakewood Parlor Meeting is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at 8:30 pm. The event is being hosted by Reb Binyomin Heinemann at his home, located at 327 Carey Street. HaGaon HaRav Yitzchok Sorotzkin, shlita, the Rosh Yeshiva of Telshe, Mesivta D’Lakewood, will be the guest speaker. A delicious hot buffet will be served as well. 100% of proceeds from the event will go directly to Israel to help an Acheinu child.
For dedication opportunities and more information related to the Acheinu Lakewood Parlor Meeting, please con-tact Acheinu’s Executive Director Rabbi Moshe Simcha Levine at 718-412-3540 or visit www.Acheinu.org.
R’ Chaim Goldberg with an Acheinu child at the Kosel
One-on-one learning at Yeshivas Acheinu in Har Nof, Yerushalayim
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Maps visually clarify our under-standing, and Bais Yaakov students of all ages deepen their knowledge with them. While learning about communi-ties, first grade students defined all dif-ferent types of communities, including where they live, their school, and even their classroom. They learned that every community has a plan, and the plan in-cludes the needs of those who live in it. Lively discussions described the many communities of the children, their simi-larities and differences. Further discus-sion led the students to question about the ways we learn about communities. Mrs. Schonfeld, their first grade teacher, introduced the concept of maps to her class. Students discovered the many ways a map can help someone as well as the many types of maps one can have. Listening to the students’ conver-sation about maps, their teacher guided them to actually create a map of their classroom. The girls decided what was necessary for a clear and understand-able depiction, including pictures and a key. Their newfound map skills and art-istry designed a huge map of their class-
room which they display right outside their door, and it is beautiful.
At the same time, one of the fourth grade classes used baking ingredients to deepen their understanding of the world and mapping. If anyone peered into Mrs. Geiger’s room, it may have seemed that the course title should be entitled “bak-ing 101.” Actually the flour, found ev-erywhere, the dough, carefully mixed, and the warm water, added slowly, were the culmination of a map skills unit. The students made salt and flour dough to mold it onto a wonderful likeness of a world map showing all continents and adjacent oceans. After each student pre-pared a mold, the students had the op-portunity to paint them being very care-ful to outline the continents and oceans differently. Lastly, and the true test from a teaching perspective, they accurately labeled flags with the names of the con-tinents and oceans and placed them on the ready-to-maps. Truly, it was fun and educational! With these mapping skills, Bais Yaakov students will be ready guides throughout their lives!
Bais Yaakov Students Deepen Their Understanding of Cartography
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Bnot Yaa-kov’s first grade filled out their “lab sheets” quite carefully last Friday, de-scribing keen observations of what they saw, heard, felt and tasted in their “Popcorn Experi-ment.” Mrs. Kashi taught her students about the human body, its construct of neurological systems that manifest as our “senses” and then had them experi-ence it with popcorn. “Popcorn is the perfect vehicle for getting kids to real-ize how they perceive the world,” said Mrs. Kashi enthusiastically. “The girls can see it popping, hear it, smell it and then after –they get to taste it and eat it.” First graders had a great time with their very scientific Popcorn Experiment and
conscientiously wrote down their ev-ery observation just like real scientists do. They reported with great accuracy all they had observed through their senses onto lab sheets before sampling the “experimental” popcorn itself. The students were generous enough to share their samplings with others and offered popcorn to all visitors who poked heads into their room to see what the Bnot Yaakov Scientists were up to. The halls smelled of popcorn and people just fol-lowed their noses to the first grade!
Bnot Yaakov of Great Neck Popcorn Experiment
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Motzei Shabbos, February 16, 2013 • d ”ga, rst ‘ z7 : 3 0 p m
Y e s h i v a K e t a n a C a m p u s321 Doughty Blvd • Inwood, NY
Honorary Chairmen charles harary
eric stern
Dinner Chairmen motti lazar
moshe majeski
Journal Chairmen shlomo katz
yehuda samter
howard balterdavid bugayeraryeh gibbermendy haasshalom huberfeldavi krasnowsteve landauavrum pultmanavrumi rosenbergdani rosenthalbinyamin schwartzushi shafranyaakov spinnerdavid vegh
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For the first time in many years, I took a group of campers on a tour of Western Europe. I set myself a budget of under $1,000, including food, trans-portation, accommodation, and touring. There was no agency that would even work with me for that budget and so us-ing the internet and Google to translate, I began researching everything. From overnight trains to low budget motels, I pulled it off. Here are the highlights of our week in Italy.
Our first stop was Vienna. We first visited Judenplatz, the town square in Vienna’s Innere Stadt that was the center of Jewish life and the Vi-ennese Jewish Community in the Mid-dle Ages. The highlight of Vienna was the Schönbrunn Palace, a former impe-rial 1,441-room Rococo summer resi-dence in modern Vienna. Brunch was at a really fine restaurant called Novel-lino. We then took the overnight train to Rome.
The first day we relaxed and at night we explored the famous Colise-um which was all lit up. On the second day, we toured the Jewish Ghetto and visited the main attractions of Rome with the local double-decker buses, fol-lowed by a short cruise through the ca-nal. We took our second overnight train to Milan, where we spent some time at the Piazza del Duomo – the world fa-
mous square in Milan, Italy.The weekend, and no doubt the
highlight of the trip, was spent in Ven-ice and it was indescribable. Every-thing was amazing. The apartments we
stayed in were 5-star and the hospital-ity of Chabad was really inspiring. The Shabbos meals were catered by Gam Gam, alongside the water. Singing and dancing was comparable to camp itself.
We also made friends with the young Chabad shluchim and got to know them well over the weekend.
Venice is as beautiful as they say, if not more. It’s relaxing and busy at the
same time. The ghetto is very small but it feels like home. Motzei Shabbos we walked to the famous Piazza San Mar-co, which is the nicest part of Venice. It’s hard to explain the beauty of it, I
don’t think pictures do it justice. Sun-day morning we took a tour of the three famous shuls in the ghetto. The archi-tecture was incredibly breathtaking; unfortunately no pictures were allowed.
Sunday afternoon we took a boat-bus to the nearby Island of Murano where the famous glass factories are. We got a tour of the glass blowing and visited the many shops in town. It was like visiting a museum with all different forms of glass art. Some of us contin-ued on to Burano, another small island known for its manufacturing of lace. The lace wasn’t too interesting but the homes were, as each home is painted a different bright color, like something out of a Dr. Seuss book. We left Venice on Sunday night and took our last over-night train to Vienna to board our plane. We made the flight just in time and after a long, fun-filled week we were all ex-cited to go back home.
B”H it was a big success and every-body had an amazing time. I think the small group of boys that went created a stronger connection over the extra week. Maybe it was the overnight trains and being stuffed into small living quar-ters. We hope to keep this as an option for future summers.
Camp Sdei Chemed Tours Western EuropeBy Dovid Teitelbaum
With the growth spurt of the Jew-ish communities in Israel and the world over, and the continual rise in Aliyah numbers, it is obvious that the develop-ment of new communities and build-ing projects in Israel is of paramount importance. As the epicenter of Aliyah dreams, Jerusalem sees an unprec-edented number of immigrants annu-ally, many of them searching for high-quality living in one of the world’s most sought after cities.
Many Orthodox-Hareidi families who are considering or have made Ali-yah are struggling to find the perfect neighborhood of residence. With the convenience of religious institutions such as shuls and schools of key con-cern on one hand and high quality of life of considerable importance on the other hand, many are finding the search for the perfect home in Israel a struggle.
In addition, achieving the dream of liv-ing in Jerusalem itself is even harder.
Enter Nofei Israel. With visions of luxury and class, built in the heart of Jerusalem for affordable prices, Nofei Israel’s building projects are truly a dream come true for anyone consider-ing Aliyah or searching for the perfect home in Jerusalem. Located in the neighborhood of Givat Zeev, minutes away from the center of Jerusalem, No-fei Israel truly brings the best of both worlds. Surrounded by beautiful green-ery and parks, Nofei Israel caters to religious families who are looking for high quality of life amidst all of the nec-essary community facilities and ame-nities. Modern commercial and recre-ational areas will further serve to create a rich living experience.
Marketing of the first 400 lots is now underway, with 150 lots currently
being marketed as self-constructing. An additional 250 luxury apartments will be added to establish the Orthodox community, as well as the necessary shuls, schools and mikvahs. So far 80 lots have already been sold. While ca-tering to the enormous demand for liv-ing quarters in Jerusalem, Nofei Israel places strong emphasis on quality of life with beautiful views of nature and a country atmosphere being of utmost consideration. In addition, community centers will also be built in the neigh-borhood – uniquely adapted to the tar-get audience and its requirements.
Designed by Israel’s top architects, individual apartments within the de-velopment have potential for every conceivable comfort – from swimming pools to private decks and beyond. No-fei Israel, a company that has acquired an esteemed reputation in the Israeli real
estate market, offers buyers five differ-ent design options. Alternately, buyers may choose to build their own homes to their unique specifications.
The most desirable aspect of the deal is of course the bottom line. With land unit costs at about $250,000 and construction costs estimating $380,000, the final cost of a luxury house in Gi-vat Zeev is between $600,00-$700,000, a bargain for a rich quality of life in a spacious beautiful home.
Nofei Israel representatives will be available to discuss options in the com-fort of your home in the Five Towns over the next few weeks.
For more information or to setup an appointment in your home, call 718-475-5668.
Nofei Israel Presents Self-Construction Lots in Givat Zeev for Sale
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Yeshiva of Far Rockaway Yarchei Kallah
The Yeshiva of Far Rockaway in conjunction with Kollel Ner Rochel Leah, the yeshiva’s k o l l e l hosted a three day Ya r c h e i K a l l a h held at the ye-shiva on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, Decem-ber 30th through January 1st, where they learned the sugya, Melecha Sheino Mis-kavein.
Each day began with a Mussar Vaad. On Sunday, the vaad was given by Rabbi Aaron Brafman. On the following two
days, the vaad was given by the Rosh Ye-shiva, Rabbi Yechiel Yitz-chok Perr.
The vaad was followed by a learning
seder focusing on the sugya, as prepa-ration for the shiur to follow. On each of the three days, shiurim were given by different Rabbonim. Sunday featured Rabbi Yoel Marton, an alumnus of the yeshiva; Rabbi Yosef Bronner, Rosh Kollel of the Yeshiva’s Kollel on Mon-day; and Rabbi Moshe Brown, 2nd & 3rd year Maggid Shiur, concluded the series.
Rabbi Yosef Bronner
The Rosh Yeshiva speaking
Rabbi Yoel Marton
Rav Simcha Bunim Cohen shlita recently deliv-ered a shmuess to the upper grades of Mesivta Chaim Shlomo in Far Rockaway, New York.
Rav Cohen is the rov of Khal Ateres Yeshaya in Lakewood and the author of numerous sefarim.
At Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim’s HaRav Paltiel and Goldie Friend
Memorial New Year’s Day Alumni Learning Program
Rav Akiva Grunblatt giving the shuir
Rav Binyomin Kaminetzky, a talmid of Rav Dovid Leibowitz ztl, speaking with (R) Rabbi Moshe Winter at the event
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It has been weeks since Hurricane Sandy stormed our community, leav-ing devastation and trauma in its wake. For many, life has returned to “normal,” though that term might be suspect con-sidering the life altering circumstances that many experienced. Perhaps a bet-ter phrase would be the “new normal.”
With the new normal there are still traumatic memories that are too fresh to forget. For those that have returned to their homes, jobs, and their old routines, memories, images and sounds may still cause distressed and painful reactions that unfortunately may last for a while. But what about those not back in their homes or regular work environments? Those that are still in limbo and cannot even claim to have a new normal?
The Six Phases of DisasterThere are several stages in a Disas-
ter. The first 3 stages include: the Pre-Disaster phase, where there may or may not be warning signs, causing different reactions ranging from feelings of ex-treme vulnerability to guilt; the Impact Phase, where reactions can range from shock to overt panic; and the Heroic Phase, where many exhibit a sense of altruism and there is tremendous activ-ity and the desire to aid and rescue.
As we saw during the Hurricane Sandy Disaster, during the next phase, the Honeymoon Phase, disaster as-sistance was readily available. Many relief teams within the communities
bonded together to offer help, sup-plies, moral support, counseling, and optimism. Community cohesion was at its height. People began to rebuild their homes, get their children back to school, acquire new cars, and get back to work, all the while receiving ongo-ing services and support from the many agencies and programs that were set up to help during this tragic crisis.
But now, as they say, the honey-moon is over. Though many are still displaced and even those that are back to a new normal are still reeling, a new phase is about to set in: the Disillusion-ment Phase. During this phase, the constant stress and fatigue, both emo-tional and physical, begin to take its toll. Optimism may turn to discourage-ment. The reality of all that was lost, from the living room furniture, to the family album, to the important work documents, is settling in. Acute Crisis programs may begin to diminish their services and decreased services may lead to feelings of abandonment. A new kind of panic may set in. Many may ask: “Will our trauma be forgotten? Will people not realize how unsettled and traumatized we still are? Will the nightmares and anxiety ever go away?” These statements may be exponentially relevant to those who have a history of trauma and who are now experiencing significant re-traumatization.
At OHEL, we are committed to en-suring that the Disillusionment Phase
for traumatized victims of Hurricane Sandy will not cause feelings of aban-donment. We are there—through Proj-ect Hope at OHEL.
What is Project Hope at OHEL?Project Hope was created to help
adults and children feel strong again after Hurricane Sandy. Project Hope provides free and confidential crisis counseling, education, outreach, and referrals to individuals and groups af-fected by Hurricane Sandy, related trau-ma and its aftermath. Project Hope at OHEL is funded by the Federal Emer-gency Management Agency (FEMA).
What services does roject Hope at OHEL offer?
• Individual Crisis Counseling: Proj-ect Hope at OHEL provides emotional support to individuals to understand their own responses to trauma, manage stress, and identify and develop healthy coping strategies.• Group Crisis Counseling: Project Hope at OHEL offers support groups to family members and friends affected by the disaster, youth groups, senior citi-zens, teachers, administrators, and oth-ers who are offered the opportunity to share experiences and provide support to one another.• Outreach & Education Services: Project Hope at OHEL participates in health fairs, community events and pro-grams, and meets with individuals to
educate them about our services. • Educational Programs & Lectures: Project Hope at OHEL gives presen-tations on the range of responses to trauma in order to strengthen healthy coping skills, and places a focus on wellness, stress-management and resil-ience. Project Hope at OHEL provides lectures to organizations, schools, com-munity centers and houses of worship on topics related to Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath• Distribution of Educational Materi-al: Project Hope at OHEL educational brochures help individuals understand the range of responses to trauma. These are distributed through public education events, health fairs, mailings, news-papers, and in-person through Project Hope at OHEL’s outreach efforts. • Referrals for ongoing services: Re-ferrals are made for those individuals who require treatment or services out-side of what is provided by the program.
At Project Hope at OHEL, our goal is to work with and help those in need, so that they can continue to move to-ward the last phase, the Reconstruction Phase. A time where people can truly and positively adjust to their “new nor-mal,” grieve their losses, develop strong resiliencies, and recognize their ability to rebuild their lives.
For more information about Project Hope at OHEL, please contact Tzivy Reiter at 718-686-3294 or [email protected]
Hurricane Sandy and the Evolving Needs of the Community By: Hindie M. Klein, PsyD, OHEL Director of Clinical Project
How many of us still wonder what we want to be when we grow up?
High schoolers usually aren’t giv-en the opportunity to evaluate career choices during their teen years, but the sophomores, juniors and seniors of the Stella K. Abraham High School High School for Girls were more fortunate! At SKA’s Career Day, held on Tuesday, January 1, students heard mothers and alumnae showcase the work they do, giving girls a chance to learn about dif-ferent professions and an understand-ing of what it means to be an Orthodox Jewish woman in today’s workplace.
The guest speaker, Mrs. Marjorie Glatt, spoke of her work as a Rebbitzen, lawyer and matchmaker, all while rais-ing a Jewish family. She exhorted the
girls to determine what their passion is when deciding on a career, and painted a realistic picture of working outside the home as an Orthodox Jewish woman.
The students were then able to select three out of eighteen career rooms to visit, each with two or three profession-als who gave an overview of their work. Workshops on interview skills and re-sume writing were very informative and a special session on being Orthodox in the workplace was of much interest too.
Thanks go to Dr. Tzipora Meier, SKA Principal, Grades 11-12, Mrs. Sheri Hammer, Mrs. Naomi Nachman, Mrs. Elaine Steinmetz, Mrs. Jan Wer-nick and their committee members for a very enlightening morning!
Mrs. Margie Glatt speaks at SKA’s Career Day
Facing The Future: Career Day At SKA
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What do the girls of Bnos Bais Yaa-kov, Bais Yaakov Academy of Queens, Shulamith, Hebrew Academy of Long Beach, and Yeshiva Central Queens have in common? They share a com-mon interest in conquering the chal-lenges of solving complicated math problems.
The Center for Initiatives in Jew-ish Education (CIJE), the organization that is committed to ensuring academic excellence in Jewish day schools, has been conducting a math competition for the last four years which was open to boys’ schools and coed schools. BBY’s General Studies Principal, Mrs. Surale
Koenig, has long been interested in having her junior high school students join such a tournament. She knew that her math teachers were superb and that the girls were more than capable of
holding their own in a contest of math skills. The problem, as she explained to Mrs. Linda Goldberg, CIJE Math and Science Coordinator, was that BBY girls could only compete in an all-girls event. For two years, Mrs. Koenig and Mrs. Goldberg discussed this idea until finally, this year, it came to fruition with the help of Ms. Esti Hellmann, CIJE Educational Liaison. An all-girls Math Olympiad was held on January 6th and BBY, the initiator of this event, hosted it lavishly.
In preparation, all students inter-ested in participating underwent a math screening to determine eligibility. Mrs.
Devorah Monczyk, one of BBY’s junior high math teachers, acted as coach to the selected team members. By working with the girls on weekends and after school, Mrs. Monc-zyk took these bright and motivated girls and challenged them to think harder, lon-ger, deeper, and more creatively about math than ever before. Her hard work, the girls’ incredible dedication, and the excellent foun-
dation laid by BBY math teachers, Mrs. Rocky Stern, Mrs. Miriam Mandel-baum, and Mrs. Ahuva Berkowitz, led the BBY 7th graders to victory.
At the conclusion of the two rounds
of math questions, it was quite clear that the young ladies seated around the tables in BBY’s lunchroom were all extremely mathematically adept. Round 1 tested each girl’s individual knowledge, while round 2 allowed each school’s participants to work as a team. Mrs. Koenig noted with pride that the BBY girls were exceptionally smooth in their teamwork. They “divided and conquered” with no time wasted on de-liberations over approaches or assigned tasks.
CIJE Vice President and Director, Mrs. Judy Lebovits, Olympiad Facilita-tor, Mrs. Michelle Saks, and Mrs. Gold-berg were extremely impressed with the enthusiasm BBY displayed for the Olympiad, and they thank BBY’s Dean, Rabbi Shmuel Hiller, for once again seizing an educational initiative and running with it. Mrs. Lebovits has of-
ten commented that the climate of aca-demic conscientiousness in BBY is sim-ply amazing. She enjoys working with BBY as the pilot Bais Yaakov school for many CIJE initiatives because of the staff’s willingness to cooperate and the excitement the school generates about its own academic achievements. Mrs. Goldberg was lavish in her appreciation for Mrs. Koenig’s spirit of cooperation. Everything that Mrs. Goldberg sug-gested in preparation for the tournament was met with Mrs. Koenig’s standard response, “It’s not a problem.” Mrs. Goldberg found that it was a “sheer pleasure to work with BBY personnel. They are very accommodating, helpful, and welcoming.”
Mazel Tov to the winners of the competition: BYQ’s 6th graders, Sh-ulamith’s 8th graders and BBY’s sev-enth graders.
CIJE and BBY… A Winning Team!
To teach the girls more about the new Midah of the Month, Kibud Horim U’Morim, the girls played musical chairs. At this month’s Midos Assembly, the 5th and 6th grades kept standing up, as they would for parents and teachers. In addition, a card with either a T, true, or F, false, was stuck under each chair with magnetic tape. Each time the music stopped and the girls sat down, one of the 6th grade assistants read a Halacha, such as, “You may not interrupt your parent!” which is true, or a statement such as, “You should go to sleep an hour after your parent tells you!” which is false. After each Halacha or false state-ment was announced, the girls called out “True!” or “False!” and then checked
under their chairs. If the correct card was there, they were in, otherwise they were out. The girls learned many halachos of Kibud Horim U’Morim while playing this exciting version of Musical Chairs.
Afterwards, the Talmidos Hachodesh were announced, one from each class. The girls have been putting notes of recommendation into a special box this entire month, writing how their friends excelled in Nosei B’ol im Chaveiro, last month’s Midah. Some of the more special notes were read aloud first. Then one note from each class was randomly selected from the many notes submitted, and that girl was awarded a Talmidas Hachodesh certificate and prize.
Bais Yaakov of Queens Integrates Play With Learning For Middle School!
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YAAKOV & ILANA MELOHN CAMPUS IN MEMORY OF REB YOSEF MELOHN Z’’L
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Experienced parents are well
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efforts in other areas, ultimately a proper seviva, the right environment, will
be the greatest and most influential factor in a child’s successful
development. We are gratified that for more than fifteen years,
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Overnight Potato Kugel, a.k.a. Yaptzik
In the KitchenNaomi Nachman
Naomi Nachman moved from Australia approximately 20 years ago and, in 2004, started “The Aussie Gourmet” to cater weekly and Shabbat/Yom Tov meals for families and indi-viduals within The Five Towns and neighboring communities. Naomi is also sought after to teach cooking classes throughout the NY/NJ Metropolitan area (from Scarsdale to Boro Park, Manhattan to Teaneck, the Hamptons and Connecticut… and of course, The Five Towns). She has also taught classes in Florida, Australia and Israel. Naomi is a guest host on the QVC TV network and has been featured in cookbooks, a cooking CD and a variety of news-paper articles. Naomi currently lives in Woodmere, NY with her husband and 4 daughters.
It’s always a challenge during the winter months making hot foods for Shabbat lunch. I came up with the idea to make a Yaptzik, a.k.a. overnight potato kugel with meat. It is so easy to make and so delicious. It is always a big hit. I tried to
Google the origins of the recipe and the name and there wasn’t much information there except for the fact that it was layers of potato kugel and meat cooked in an overnight oven.
Another idea for hot food for Shabbat day was putting a Naval pastrami (a fully-cooked and smoked pastrami) in the oven overnight. I buy it at Seasons in
Lawrence and it comes double wrapped in plastic. I take off the outer plastic layer and keep the vacuum-packed plastic on. Right before Shabbat, when I am putting in my Yaptzik in the oven, I place my pastrami in a Pyrex dish and fill it ¾ way up with hot water, cover it tightly, and place it in the oven at 200°. The next day I carefully take it out as the water is very hot. I drain the water, cut open the plastic, and slice the pastrami. (It cuts like butter.) My guests and family go crazy over this meat. (Make sure you buy the Naval pastrami as it is fully cooked already.) I serve it with different kinds of mustard.
Ingredients 2 strips of meaty flanken8-10 large potatoes (I prefer Yukon Gold)1 large onion4 large eggs salt and white pepper to taste1 cup water or chicken soup
Directions Place meat at the bottom of a 9 x13
inch pan. In a food processor, grate on-ion, potato and eggs. Add salt and pepper to taste and pour batter over the meat.
Bake for 1 hour and a half at 350° and remove from oven. (You are only partially cooking it so don’t eat it yet.)
Before Shabbat, add one cup of water or if you have chicken soup boiling for Shabbat, use some of the soup. (The soup boosts the flavor.)
Place a piece of parchment paper over the kugel, then layer some heavy duty aluminum foil over that and cover well. Place in a 200° oven right before Shabbat. Take out the next day right before serving.
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TJH: Michael, it’s a true pleasure to speak with you. I hear that your new show, Spinclass, which started in Octo-ber, is really popular right now. I love the name! Can you tell us how it got started?
MF: It’s a pleasure to meet with you as well. Well, before the summer, a friend of mine asked me to co-host a show on Zev Brenner’s network that was called Let’s Talk Tachlis. It was a more heimeshe-oriented show. We hosted it for seven or eight episodes and then after some discussions with Nachum Segal and his station manager, Miriam Wallach, who lives in Wood-mere, I decided to host a show on his network.
What’s interesting about Spinclass is that it’s not really on the radio. In this day and age most people don’t even lis-ten to radio anymore. In fact, if you try to listen to JM in the AM in the Five Towns, you won’t be able to find the right signal. You have to listen to it on-line. And my show streams online on Nachum Segal’s website.
TJH: I know the show focuses on politics. What’s your “spin” that sets the show apart from the regular politi-cal shows we hear daily?
MF: My focus has been to give my listeners the people and politics behind the headlines. Generally, I have been doing interviews with journalists who write the headlines and we try to put a “spin” on what’s behind the regular news that you read in the papers daily.
An hour is incredibly short—it just flies by. Many times I don’t have time to answer the calls or have my guests respond to the emails I receive. You know, it’s hard to compartmentalize what your guest has to say. And there are things that you want to follow up on as well, so it’s been a challenge to get everything into the time slot that we have but it’s really been a lot of fun.
TJH: It sounds like you enjoy what you do. Who have you had on the show so far?
MF: Most of the people who I’ve had on the show have been people who
I have been friends with for a while. I’ve been involved in politics for many years and so I know many people in the political arena. PR maven Stu Loeser, Mitch Barak of Kevoon Polling, Josh Nathan Kazis of The Forward, GOP consultant Jeff Ballabon, Josh Pruzan-
sky of the OU, and Allison Hoffman of Tablet Magazine have all been guests on the show.
I aim to give people something that they won’t read in the general news. For example, my last show was about the fiscal cliff deal, something that’s on everyone’s minds. Well, I wanted to discuss what went on behind the scenes and why it went down like it did. Why was it a Republican-brokered deal that the House Republicans actually voted against? Why was it brokered by Biden and not Obama? And most importantly, why do the Republicans look like the Democrats used to look? Why is the
Republican Party seemingly falling apart?
I’m friendly with many of these guests. At first they may come on my show as a favor to me but hopefully, they’ll like the banter and the flavor of the show and then join me again.
TJH: Spinclass sounds like a “must” for anyone who is looking to learn more about what goes on behind closed doors in Washington. I’ll be sure to tune in. So tell me, I know you’re a Trustee of the Village of Lawrence. Can you tell us why we seem to be the only place in New York that has villages? I feel like that word takes us back to the 1800’s.
MF: Sure. Well, every state is dif-ferent, but in New York, the village is the smallest part of government. Not all areas in New York have villages. Some choose to incorporate as villages and some don’t and there are advantages and disadvantages to both.
States are divided into counties. Counties are divided into towns. And then towns are divided into villages. Nassau County is sort of an anomaly. It has the Town of Hempstead which is the largest town in America. Some say that a town that large is way too big to
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My focus has been to give My listeners the people and politics behind the headlines.
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Cities themselves are self-contained and are not part of towns. There are only two cities in Nassau County—Long Beach and Glen Cove. They have their own police and fire department and their own sanitation department.
As a village, we can choose to have more or less control but each village control its own zoning and court sys-tem. For example, if you get a ticket in Cedarhurst, you have to go City Hall in Cedarhurst to pay the ticket. In Law-rence, we have our own country club with a golf course, marina, and tennis courts. That’s something that’s owned by the village. The Village of Lawrence has around 7,500 people. Hewlett Har-bor has around 700 people. So villages really vary in size.
TJH: I never really knew that about the Five Towns, so thanks for giving me that information. You’re a Trustee—so what exactly is your role?
MF: Well, in order to incorporate as a village, you need a mayor and an elected board. I’m a trustee—a legisla-tor essentially—so I vote on the budget and on any laws.
TJH: What made you decide to get involved in local politics?
MF: I wanted to make a change and make a difference. You see, back in 2007, I would walk across the 878 every Friday night with my kids. But it was dangerous—the street lights were out at least eight months a year. And so, I started going to monthly meetings and every month I would ask, “What is up with the streetlights on the 878?” and every month I would get the run-around. So I got frustrated and I de-cided to run. There had never been any contested elections. Well, in turns out, that in the end, there was a vacancy and the mayor appointed me to the board.
There are four board members and the mayor who is considered part of the board as well. All the members are frum.
TJH: Let’s go back a few months ago, to Hurricane Sandy. How do you feel the disaster was handled?
MF: Let me start by telling you that it was not handled well. As a village, we have very little control, unfortu-nately. Emergency help goes from the federal level, to state to county and then to us. We, the Five Towns, were on the short end of the stick. The county re-ally fell down on the job. They couldn’t even get emergency street lights here—they were really not well-prepared. And LIPA was really not well-prepared. You know, when you call LIPA, it’s very archaic. Their orders are not computer-
ized. Sometimes they don’t even know what’s happening until the crews come back at night. And their problems were compounded by the storm.
TJH: I have seen that you are in-volved with helping candidates run for office. How did you get involved with that?
MF: I’ve been involved with many campaign elections throughout the years. Generally, you have a relation-ship with a candidate and they ask you to help out. There is not a large place for Republican operatives in New York, especially on the Jewish side.
TJH: Did you think Mitt Romney would win?
MF: No.
TJH: Well, did you hope he would win?
MF: Does that matter?
TJH: Well, how about this: did you think he was a good candidate?
MF: I didn’t support him in 2008 either. I never thought he was a good candidate.
TJH: I thought he did surprisingly well in the debates.
MF: He had his moments but oth-erwise, I thought he was pretty lousy.
TJH: So why does the Republican Party have such a problem getting good candidates to run?
MF: The Republican Party is at war with itself right now. There’s no other way to say it. Look at the fiscal cliff. They can’t figure out if they want to be outsiders, or angry or if they want to govern. They Republican Party always had the message that they are better than the Democrat Party and that they will make government work, they will make it more efficient. But so many people go to Washington and believe that government has no function at all and don’t believe in government except militarily. So it’s a little bit of a prob-lem because philosophically, they will do everything that they can to kill it and do away with it.
I can’t say I blame certain people because in certain ways government is more the problem than the solution. I mean, look at the hurricane—look at what FEMA, the state, the city, and the
county did versus what our local volun-teer organizations did.
When comes down to it, you can’t have a good working philosophy that’s predicated on destroying government. You have to believe that government serves a role and a purpose. I don’t think the Ron Paul approach wins. Ron Paul is the most extreme. But Republi-cans have fallen into some sort of grade of that.
Every Republican candidate is far more afraid of primary elections than general elections because they are afraid of someone who’s more extreme than them taking their seat. Primary voters are generally more ex-treme or passionate about their views. And they will consistently vote in more “extreme” candidates. Generally more moderate voters stay home during pri-maries and they’re more casual in their voting. So that’s one of the problems of the Republican Party nowadays.
There’s another problem, and I think Mitt Romney did this with his 47% comment. Republicans are mar-
ginalizing themselves as a party with-out a message for most of the country. They can’t continue being the party of angry, white men. The Caucasian group is a shrinking part of the voting pie. You can’t build a party that won’t reach out to emerging minorities. Latinos, Asians—we have done so poorly with those groups. Perhaps it’s a legacy of doing so poorly with African-Ameri-cans and they don’t feel connected to them. But those two groups are very right. Latinos are socially conservative and Asians are fiscally conservative. We have a base on which to appeal.
Ed Koch said one of most wonder-ful things ever. He said, “If you agree with me 100% of the time, you’re in-sane.” You don’t have to agree with these groups on everything. And that’s the problem. The party has become what the Democrats were 20 years ago. You have to agree with us all the time otherwise we’re gonna run you out of the party—like they did with Joe Leiberman—and the Republicans are becoming like that as well.
TJH: That sounds scary. How do you begin to change it?
MF: Politics are cyclical. It’s gen-erational and it’ll eventually swing back.
TJH: I certainly hope so. I see you have a copy of TJH on your desk. Why did you decide to keep this issue on dis-play?
MF: I kept this issue because of the feature article—The State of Housing in the Five Towns. It was written right be-fore Hurricane Sandy. And this is some-thing that people have not yet come to terms with: a lot of the houses have no value now. Think of the equity that has been lost by some people. Some people are so mortgaged out and owe way more than their houses are worth—this is a terrible situation to be in.
TJH: I agree. That is something that many people are unfortunately fac-ing after Hurricane Sandy. Is there any-thing that you’d like to tell our readers?
MF: First of all, if something needs to be done, contact your local officials directly. People do it all the time and that’s what we’re here for. Also, if you’re looking to hear some inside “scoop” into politics, listen in at 8pm on Thursdays at nachumsegal.com or at jmintheam.org. You’ll be glad you did.
TJH: Thanks so much Michael! It was a pleasure speaking with you.
the republican party is at war with itself right now. there’s no other way to say it.
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You Gotta be Kidding! Riddle
Submitted by Yochanan Krong
There are three light bulbs in a room, and three light switches outside the room. You are outside and want to match up which switch goes with which light bulb. You can only travel into the room once, and cannot come back in again. You can do anything you want upon entering the room. You have 10 minutes to figure out which switch goes with which light bulb. What do you do?
Answer on next page
Submitted by Yoni Vertig
Maurice, who has all the money and mundane accomplishments there are to achieve, is about to embark on a solo sailing voyage around the globe. This is a risky voyage, but he is ready to take on the windy seas and high waters.
Before departing, he gets his affairs in order and draws out a lengthy will. He tells his best friend, Sammy, “If I’m not back in two years, I want you to have the contents of my treasured safe. Here is the key.”
Sammy solemnly takes the key and bows.
Maurice sets sail, when almost immediately a massive wind and tornado erupt. He is fortunate to get out of the sea alive and trudges home.
His family is shocked that he survived and can’t contain their tears of joy. Whereas he just departed several hours ago, they were certain that he could not have survived the gusty storm.
His best friend Sammy is also in tears and turns to him and says, “Maurice, wrong key.”
• the Macy’s one day sale flu.
• The Friday Afternoon Shabbos Starts Way Too Early Sudden Unbearable Stomach Pains.
• The I’m Looking for a New Job and I Don’t Know How Long It’s Going to Take, but I Want To Stay On The Payroll Until-Then Mysterious Infection.
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• The I Really Am Sick and I’ve Got The Doctors’ Bills and the Completed Medical Expense Reimbursement Forms to Prove It Infirmity
• The I Can’t Bear Another One of Those 9:00 AM Three-Hour Meetings Morning Sickness.
Homonyms are words with the same sound and spelling but different meanings. The blanks in the following sentences will be filled in with three different homonyms to make valid sentences. The dashes indicate the number of letters in the words. Can you fill in the blanks?
1. The cut on his _ _ _ _ won’t _ _ _ _ in time for the race, so _ _’ _ _ have to drop out.
2. The man was so upset about being _ _ _ _ that he regularly _ _ _ _ _ _ himself up on the bed and _ _ _ _ _ _ his eyes out.
3. I couldn’t _ _ _ _ _ any of the _ _ _ _ _ _ in the flower shop, because for some strange reason I had 50 _ _ _ _ _ crammed up my nose.
4. A bloodthirsty pirate will wander the _ _ _ _ and essentially _ _ _ _ _ everything he _ _ _ _.
Better Take Your VitaminsThese Diseases are Contagious!
Homonym...homonym...homonym
Answer:1. The cut on his HEEL won’t HEAL in time for the race, so HE’LL have to
drop out.2. The man was so upset about being BALD that he regularly BALLED
himself up on the bed and BAWLED his eyes out.3. I couldn’t SENSE any of the SCENTS in the flower shop, because for
some strange reason I had 50 CENTS crammed up my nose.4. A bloodthirsty pirate will wander the SEAS and essentially SEIZE ev-
erything he SEES.
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Turn one of the switches on for 9 minutes and 29 seconds, then shut it off and turn another switch on. Then enter the room. The light that is on, goes with the second switch you hit. Feel the two bulbs that are off. The one that is warm goes with the first switch that was on and the cold bulb obviously corresponds to the switch which was never turned on.
GOt funnY? Let the Commissioner decide.
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Answers:1. C2. A3. D4. B5. C6. B- Victor Cruz caught 10 TDs for the Giants,
and Jeff Cumberland & Stephen Hill each caught 3 TDs for the Jets.
Scorecard5-6 correct: You know too much about 2 teams that
had useless seasons.3-4 correct: Hopefully you got the Giants ques-
tions right and not the Jets ones, because even though both teams were a waste this year, I must say, the Jets were a bigger waste.
0-2 correct: Rex, instead of reading TJH trivia, why don’t you get to work on put-
ting together another one of your “this is my best team
ever” teams?!
NY GIANTS& JETS
NOT SUPERBOWL – TRIVIA(A 2012 wrap up trivia for both teams
because neither deserves their own trivia.)
1. How many touchdowns and interceptions did Eli Manning throw this season?
a. 23 (TD) - 4 (Int)b. 17 (TD) - 17 (Int)c. 26(TD) - 15(Int)d. 30 (TD) -12 (Int)
2. How many touchdowns and interceptions did Mr. Sanchez throw this season?
a. 13(TD)-18 (Int)b. 17 (TD) - 17 (Int)c. 26(TD) -15(Int)d. 16 (TD) -12 (Int)
3. How many yards in total did Tim Tebow throw for as a NY Jet?
a. 630b. 864c. 1,145d. 39
4. What did Rex Ryan say about the 2012 Jets at the beginning of the season?
a. “I really like this team...but we are going to need every player to step up and play their hearts out be-cause like all teams we have our shortcomings.”
b. “I really like this team...this has the chance to be the best team I’ve had since I’ve been the coach here.”
c. “I predict that there will be a TJH Centerfold trivia in January with the words ‘Jets’ and ‘Superbowl’ in the same title.” (Just so Rex is right about some-thing, we named this trivia what we did.)
d. “I am hopeful that we will win more games than we lose and make a nice run in the playoffs.”
5. What did Tom Coughlin say about the 2012 Gi-ants at the beginning of the season?
a. “I really like this team...but we are going to need every player to step up and play their hearts out be-cause like all teams we have our shortcomings.”
b. “I really like this team...this has the chance to be the best team I’ve had since I’ve been the coach here.”
c. “We have no illusions of the improvement that needs to be made, and I am talking about from the top of our team to the bottom.”
d. “I am hopeful that we will win more games than we lose and make a nice run in the playoffs.”
6. How many touchdowns did the leading receives for the Giants and Jets have this year?
a. 7 (G) - 7 (J)b. 10 (G) - 3 (J)c. 4(G) - 6 (J)d. 6 (G) - 4 (J)
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“This was Aaron and Moshe to whom Hashem spoke...” — Shemos 6:26
After Hashem commanded Moshe and Aaron to be the emissaries to free the Jewish people, the Torah lays out their lineage. At the conclusion, the Torah repeats the names of Aaron and Moshe, this time in reverse order, with Aaron mentioned before Moshe.
Rashi seems to be bothered by both the repetition of the names and the reversal of their order. He says this comes to teach us that Moshe and Aaron were equal. Even though from this point forward, Moshe would be the leader of the Jewish nation, don’t make any mistake. Aaron was just as great.
The difficulty with this Rashi is that according to all measures, Moshe Rabbeinu was far greater than Aharon. Moshe was the leader of the Jewish na-tion. He brought the makkos on Mitz-rayim. He led the Jewish people out of slavery. He split the Yam Suf. He went up to receive the Torah on Har Si-nai. But even more telling, he was the greatest Navi who ever lived. The only human who reached the level of seeing Hashem with total clarity was Moshe. There never was, nor will there ever be, a person who will reach that level.
So how can Rashi tell us that Moshe and Aaron were equals when clearly Moshe Rabbeinu was on a higher level?
Two Systems for Measuring the Greatness of a Person
The answer to this question seems to be that there are two systems for judging a person’s greatness: one is absolute and the other is subjective. When measuring a man based on the absolute standard of greatness in To-rah and perfection, Moshe was far greater than Aaron. He towered over any other human ever created. How-ever, there is another system for mea-suring a person’s success. Based on his capacity, and his potential, how much did he accomplish?
Before each person is born, he is predestined to certain abilities and tal-ents, a particular level of intelligence, and an exact disposition and tempera-ment. At the end of his days, he will be compared to what he could have become. How far did he grow? How much did he accomplish with the tools given to him? This system is subjec-tive. How much of his potential did he fulfill?
Moshe may well have reached 99% of his potential, but so did Aaron.
So even though in the absolute sense Moshe was far greater, and others had to treat him as the greatest human be-ing ever, in the subjective sense of reaching one’s capacity, Aaron was his equal, and as such was just as great. That is what the Torah is teaching by exchanging the order of their names.
I Won’t Be Compared to YouOne of the most sobering concepts
is that when I fin-ish my job on this planet, I will be judged. But I will not be measured in absolute terms of how much To-rah I mastered or how much I ac-complished. That is far too inequi-table.
I won’t even be compared to others in my gen-eration. I won’t be compared to you, or to him, or to her, or to any-one else. I will be measured by a far more just and exact-ing standard – me. How much of me did I become? 80%? 60%? 50%? And that is who I am for eternity.
When We Leave This Earth – the System is Subjective
In this world, we can’t measure a person’s capacity, so we give honor and respect based only on the absolute measure of the person. If this person is functioning on the level of a great person, we are obligated to respect him and treat him with honor.
However, when we leave this tem-porary existence, everything will be-
come clear. I will understand exactly what I was destined to be. And I will also know your capacity and what you could have been. There are no head starts, no advantages or disadvantages, just percentages of realized potential.
At that point in our existence, there will be individuals who appeared to us as great while we were occupants of the physical world who then will shrink dramatically, having only reached 20% of their potential. They’ll be pygmies. And there will be many others who we once cast into the category of the in-significant, but who are actually tower-ing giants, having reached 85% of their potential. Just as with Moshe and Aha-ron, it wasn’t the rank or position that they held that is the final determinant, but rather their subjective greatness in regards to who they should have been.
Who I Am For EternityThis concept
has great rele-vance to us – both positive and nega-tive. It seems to be a natural tendency to compare our-selves to others. “I am smarter than he is. Better than she is. Not as tal-ented as he is. . .” If my disposition is to favor myself – being kindly to me and tough on you – I become
inflated, over-confident, and full of myself. If my prejudice is to be harsh on myself, then I will constantly find others superior, and my sense of self will suffer.
The reality is that all of it is irrel-evant. It just doesn’t matter. It is true that at the end of my days I will be compared – not to you, but to me. The only question they’ll ask and the only criteria that will count is how far I took my G-d-given talents and situation. How much of me did I become? And that will be the rank and station that I will occupy for eternity.
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Parshas Va’eirahThe Measure of the Man
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I used to occasionally attend a certain shul where the Rov would never fail to make some reference to my
articles. Almost as soon as I entered the foyer of the shul, he would say, “You don’t have to include this in an article,” or “I hope you don’t write an article about that.”
What’s funny is that each time this happened, something I deemed wor-thy of being written happened as well. This time, it was something I said that I didn’t intend to be profound, yet the way it came out was phrased in a way that made me decide it should be writ-ten down (unlike the structure of the preceding sentence, which gave me a headache).
On that morning, I was given Hag-ba, the honor of lifting the Sefer Torah in the air, showing it to the attendees, then sitting with it upright, ready to be tied and covered (the Torah, not me). As we had just lained the last parsha in the Torah, V’zos HaBracha, the Se-fer Torah was rolled almost entirely to one side. As I approached, murmured comments offered opinions on how dif-ficult it would be; musing whether I was a righty or a lefty, including the de ri-gueur comments about having eaten my Wheaties.
I managed a smooth lift, opening the Torah about 4 columns wide, and turning com-pletely around. The Rabbi whis-pered, “I knew you could do it.” That’s when the following pearl of wisdom fell from my lips: “It’s not about strength, it’s about balance.”
In truth, this really is the secret to a good Hagba. It’s not a question of how strong you are, though if it’s a heavy scroll, a weakling might not be able to do it. The lift itself isn’t so bad. The hard part is getting it into the open position and keeping it from flopping over. That is achieved by making sure the parchment is taut, so that you’re lifting one large item with both hands, not trying to control two in-dividual scrolls, one in each hand.
If you’ve never done Hagba, you probably have no idea what I’m talking about, so I’ve just eliminated at least
half my readership, if not more. But suffice it to say that when people think big muscles guarantee success, they’re dead wrong.
Often, we try to get our way or make our points by screaming louder than the other person, or by getting angry and
showing powerful emotion. We think this will impress them and help us. The odds are it actually works against us.
You see, as much as we want to be right, so does our opponent—be they our friend, enemy, business partner, neighbor or spouse. Strength may make a person give in, but it won’t make them agree with you. For that, you need di-plomacy and balance.
You need to find a way for them to feel they got their way, or at least, they weren’t totally stripped of any options or opinions. If something is forced, it won’t last.
I’m reminded of an old parable from a Sunday school book my mother used to teach from. The Sun and the Wind
made a wager about who could get a man to take off his coat. The wind tried first, blowing with all his might. Fierce wind swirled around the poor man, but he just pulled his coat around himself more tightly.
The wind blew until he was blue in the face…or blew in the face… or what-ever… but he could not get the man to take off his coat.
Then it was the sun’s turn. Instead of force, he just beamed at the fellow until he felt all warm and cozy. Then he kept on smiling, and the man got hot, ultimately removing his jacket.
I guess it’s pretty simple. Force isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Imagine your child tells you he can’t sleep. Do you think a calm lullaby will work? Or would it perhaps be better if you berat-
ed him for ten minutes at the top of your lungs about how he will be too tired to go to school or have fun or do anything else, and if he doesn’t go to sleep this instant he will never be allowed to see his friends and he will end up a sanita-tion engineer in a small town in Appala-
chia? I think we know which one has a better chance of working.
How about yelling at someone who is hysterical: “CALM DOWN THIS SECOND OR YOU’LL BE SOR-RY!!!”? Think it will work? I don’t.
The problem is, it takes more strength to remain balanced than to exhibit strength and force. Ironically,
showing our power is one of the easi-est things for us to do, while being calm and soft is so much harder.
“It’s not about strength, it’s about balance.”
If we can remember that, then we have a better chance of succeeding in our goals, and of uplifting others (and the Sefer Torah). It doesn’t mat-ter whether or not you’ve eaten your Wheaties; you can be a champion every time.
Jonathan Gewirtz is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in publications around the world. He also operates Jew-ishSpeechWriter.com, where you can order a custom-made speech for your next special occasion.
For more information, or to sign up for his weekly Dvar Torah in English, e-mail [email protected].
© 2012 by Jonathan Gewirtz. All rights reserved.
STRENGTH MAy MAKE A PERSON GIVE IN, BUT IT WON’T MAKE THEM AGREE WITH yOU.
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T uition is a word that strikes fear in the hearts of just about any Jewish family and with good reason.
The price of tuition has been a hot topic for a very long time, as the cost of a Jewish education continues to rise and with today’s economy, families are being squeezed tighter than ever before. Is there anything that can be done to make tuition more affordable? Or is the price of tuition going to create a frum elite so-ciety where only the rich can receive a good Jewish education? Are there any reforms on the horizon that
can possibly lighten the load on frum families, or are we destined to pay sky high prices forever?
For most frum families, Jewish education is a necessity, not a luxury. The choice to send a child to public school simply does not exist. But for many, the stress of paying the hefty price tag that comes along with it can wreak havoc on their personal lives. Some families choose to send their children to a school that is not appropriate for them, simply because the tuition costs less there. Some families fall into debt because
of the large amount of money they must shell out for yeshiva tuition. And some simply just make ends meet, without an extra penny to put away for the future. Of course, there are some lucky families that do not stress about the high costs of a Torah education, but those are the exception, not the rule. In fact, I remember when my first child was born, I received words of wisdom from numerous people, “Better start saving for tuition now…”
T he issue of how to bring relief from the high tuition prices has been one that has occupied the minds
of many over the past two decades. A study done by the Institute of University-school Partnership at Ye-shiva University called the “Survey of the Governance Practices of Jewish Day Schools” says that the current model for Jewish day schools is unsustainable because the system costs about $2 billion annually and requires $500 million in financial aid for students. “I agree that it is unsustainable,” says Dr. Jeffrey Becker who is the co-founder and immediate past president of the board at Shearim Torah High School for Girls in Phoenix. He continues by saying that “to fix this, boards must take the role of developing a solid strategic financial plan for future economic viability.” That, however, is much easier said than done. The study talks about some solutions that have been put out there to remedy this situation. Some have suggested that conducting a massive community fundraiser and putting together a community tuition fund might help solve the crises. Others disagree; Harry Bloom, for example, who pro-duced the governance study, said that wouldn’t be enough. Even a seemingly massive fund would not provide enough for each school to make a real differ-ence. According to him, that is only part of the solu-tion. Another idea is to get schools to work together to create buying power as well as share office support and space. “We need to think out of the box in order to find a real working solution,” he says. But Mr. Bloom admits that something absolutely must be done to fix what is broken with the system.
Speaking to frum families can open a small win-dow into just how much pressure tuition prices put on parents. A woman living in Lawrence told me that she and her husband are constantly discussing their finan-cial future, lamenting that they don’t see how they can pay their tuition bills. “My son’s yeshiva education is wonderful—his teacher and rebbe are amazing. But we have only one child in school now, and iy”H our other children will be entering school soon. How can we afford to spend almost a whole salary on our kids’ education?” And that, she explained, is with both
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Nothing can compare to the warm and enthusiastic words of a beloved teacher or rebbi. These people help mold our children and are the reason our children grow up to be contributing members of Klal Yisroel.
Pioneering a Solution to the Tuition CrunchChildren are the most important part of our nation. They represent the future and are the links in the chain
of our important lineage. So much of our mesorah is given over to our children at home. But not everything can be given over at mother’s knee. In order to make sure that our children learn the richness of our heritage and the importance of our Torah and mitzvos, we entrust our children to dedicated teachers and rebbeim who spend their lives instilling our beautiful values in our precious children.
Parents spend long nights worrying about their children’s success in school: Is Sara learning the Aleph Bais correctly? Does Chaim have friends? Will Rachel ever learn the multiplication tables? When will Avi master the gemara? Is Daniel seeing the beauty of Yiddishkeit in everything that we do?
But parents also spend nights worrying about another factor in our school system—tuition. How will we afford it? Will we ever be able to make ends meet and still be able to provide a quality, Torah-dik education for our children?
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she and her husband working full-time. One mother from Queens who sends her children to yeshiva told me, “Every year prices go up. You have to struggle to find the money. It makes you question whether or not to grow your family. It shouldn’t be like that. By the time our children get to high school, what will we be paying already?” Similar feelings to these are shared by many parents in our communities. And the fact that tuition can play a role in family size is frightening. An article by Rabbi Yitzchok Alderstein in Cross-Currents sums it up when he writes, “Here’s where it gets ugly. I wouldn’t write about it so openly if this were not already the dirty secret that every-body knows. The changed realities of the new econ-omy mean that people are having [smaller families] … They are limiting family size because they cannot see how b’derech hatevah, they can fork over those tuition checks for another child.” So where does this leave the frum middle class, those who fall between the lines of not being able to secure tuition assistance and those who can easily pay the astronomical sum for their children’s education?
In recent years, much more is being done about the tuition crisis and the problems that come along with it. There have been several schools opening up that claim to offer superior education at a reasonable rate. One school in New Jersey called Yeshiva Ha’atid, opened its doors to 115 students this year based on a model that claims to lower costs without compromising quality. One of the main focuses of the school is the blending learning model. It combines face-to-face instruction with online learning tools to create a positive and ef-fective learning environment for the child. This model also is said to reduce the need for resources outside the classroom. Founders of the schools believe that a bold idea such as this not only helps prepare children for the ever-changing world that we live in, but also makes tuition much more affordable for many parents. The school is out to prove that the idea that one needs to spend more money for a better education is just not true. Two more schools are said to be following their lead in the Five Towns and Westchester, both in initial planning stages, as well as in Los Angeles, Baltimore and Boston. There are some that are confident that this is the new roots of a plan that will possibly spell relief for families. But it is not the solution. Nothing can compare to the warm and enthusiastic words of a beloved teacher or rebbi. These people help mold our children and are the reason our children grow up to be contributing members of Klal Yisroel.
S ome organizations are stepping up to the plate be-cause of the massive financial pressure on Jewish
private schools and frum families. About a year ago,
the Orthodox Union had a tuition conference, where participants identified a need for more government funding for Jewish schools. The OU realized they needed to put more resources and time into a more ef-fective approach, an approach that was already going on at a national level and now could be brought down locally.
Maury Litwack, the director of state political af-fairs and outreach in the OU’s Institute for Public Af-fairs, heads a team set on accomplishing this goal. He is a recognized advocacy expert and has worked with many elected officials. Maury and his team have gone from a staff of one or two people, to fifteen people working exclusively on funding for Jewish educa-tion. The team has three types of basic staff members. There are those that work exclusively for lobbying in the legislature. Another group works with schools in maximizing the funding they already get. Lastly, there are staff members that work with the community, get-ting the community leaders engaged and encouraging activism. They are looking to demonstrate to govern-ment officials that we as a community have a strong voice.
Maury emphasizes that he and his team do not want to repeat what has already been done in this area. He explains that they asked themselves, “’How are we really going to get this done?’ Typically, getting things done is about who you know. If you know someone who works in politics or you get someone who can speak to a politician, that person becomes the voice of influence. But in this group, we try to turn com-munity activism into a lobbying group, similar to the education lobby. The more people we have to voice our needs, the more politicians understand how im-portant this topic is.” And seeing the effort our com-munities have put into this initiative, Maury says, is a model of how much influence the frum community can have in politics. The team also works on coming up with real life ideas that can work to make increased government funding more possible. One idea is having the states pay for secular funding. “Why can’t they pay for math and science for our kids, like they pay for the rest of the population to learn those subjects in pub-lic schools?” Maury asks. He also tells us how frum lobby groups can maximize their influence on Capitol Hill. Other faith-based communities who use private schooling can join with the Jewish groups to create an even more powerful influence. Our groups don’t al-ways agree on every topic and area, but we can work together in this issue to get the job done. There are also a number of school choice advocates that support the group’s efforts just because they feel it’s the right thing. Education is the civil rights issue of our day, and there are many people not personally involved who
take an interest in fighting for private schools.The government provides some funding for schools
now, but the funds are just not enough. It’s possible that the funds are insufficient because the govern-ment doesn’t truly understand our needs and why it’s important. Or they might look at our budget and say they don’t know how they could help. But the OU’s education team’s goal in lobbying is making elected officials understand that frum people cannot send their kids to public schools; help for them is absolutely vi-tal. In New York State, 15% of children go to private schools, but only 1-2% of the budget goes to private schools. That is a huge gap. Where is the other 13%? To date, Maury and his staff have had some smaller and some bigger wins across the nation. Millions of dollars have been brought in for schools in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida.
Cash credit programs are also a possible help to the current situation. Currently, Florida and Pennsylvania parents can take a percentage of their dollars and ap-ply it for schools. These programs will help private schools in many ways, and many schools can pass the savings down to parents. Without this money, schools would have had to increase tuition rates for parents. Maury explains, “We have a big return compared to what we invest in. The more we put in, the more we will succeed. Many times people doubt the ability to gain more funding. They say, ‘I don’t know if you can do it.’ We say, ‘Let us turn ourselves into a serious lobbying group and then let’s see where we’re at.’ It is definitely possible and even likely if we are an orga-nized entity.”
T he topic of yeshiva tuition will most likely re-main a key concern for many years to come. But
the awareness that has been created and the programs formed to help remedy the situation shows how the community has grown in leaps and bounds in turns of effective campaigning for important topics. Just how much these new ideas with help, only time will tell. In the meantime, it pays for each and every one of us to get involved and make our voices heard in govern-ment. There is power in numbers, and the more of us that stand up for financial relief from the heavy bur-den of Yeshiva tuition, the more likely it can become a reality.
Our children are our future and the most impor-tant people in our lives. Their yeshiva education is vital for their growth. And the lessons that they learn there are vital for the growth of our nation. But the economy and finances play a large role in our lives as well, and as a community we can work together to make sure that every one of our precious children receives the stellar education that they deserve.
“We try to turn community activism into a lobbying group. The more people we have to voice our needs,
the more politicians understand how important this topic is.”
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Throughout the 20th century, before the video game craze took over, m a n y
young children had the dream of becoming an airplane pilot. The plane first took to the skies in 1903 and within a few short years, many daredevils were in them showing off their skills around the country on b a r n s t o r m i n g tours. Many of the children were enamored by the brave pilots and hoped to fly one day. Little did they know that soon America would one day need hundreds of thousands of pilots to fight against the fascists during WWII. One of these children who became an ace pilot was Herschel “Herky” Green.
Herschel Green was born in Hick-ory, Kentucky in 1920 and watched his first barnstorming aerial show when he was five. As an added bonus, he was given a ride in the backseat of the bi-plane and from then on was hooked on flying as a career. In 1940, he earned his civilian pilot’s license and a year later joined the Army Air Force as a cadet (the air force was a branch of the army until 1947). After the war broke out, he was assigned to the 317th Fighter Squadron, 325th Fighter Group and flew in the P-40 Warhawk. The squad-ron, nicknamed the Checkerboard Clan, was sent to the Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO) in early 1943 aboard the carrier USS Ranger. They flew off the carrier to their new base in Casablanca in North Africa and began preparing for operations.
The Allies were about to force the Axis out of Africa and reinforcements were pouring in to finish off the task and prepare for the next operation—the invasion of Sicily. The 12th Air Force, which later became the 15th Air Force, was the American air unit in the MTO. The squadron was flying the P-40, a plane made famous by the Flying Tigers
fighting in China. Even though before the war it was considered obsolete by
some, others pre-ferred it and had success with the plane.
Green flew his first mission on May 19, over Italy and shot down a Messer-schmitt Me-109. His plane was so shot up with en-emy bullets that even though he was able to land safely, the plane itself never flew again. Nine days later, he shot down two more Me-109s and
soon was promoted to captain as well as given a new type of aircraft—the P-47 Thunderbolt.
Herky didn’t shoot down any more Germans until January 30, 1944, when
he achieved an extraordinary feat. He shot down six Nazi planes in one day. (A pilot needs five confirmed “kills” to be called an ace. An “ace in a day” was extremely rare.) The plane that he usu-ally flew was down for maintenance so he borrowed the plane of a fellow pi-lot but was unaware that the plane car-ried 6,400 rounds of ammo instead of the usual 3,200. Had he known that, he more than likely would have shot down more enemy planes instead of turning for home with 4,000
rounds left onboard. Green’s total that day included 4 Junkers transports, a Dornier bomber and a Bf-109 fighter that he caught after a thrilling tree-top chase. The total of the 325th Group that day was an astounding 38 destroyed and six damaged enemy aircraft.
Two months and three more enemy kills later, Green became the command-ing officer for the 317th Squadron. After shooting down two more Nazi planes, he switched air-craft again this time to the P-51 Mustang. He shot down five planes with the new plane for a total of 18 aircraft shot down in the air. He was also credited with destroying 10 planes that were on the ground. He describes in his book Herky. The Mem-oirs of a Checkertail Ace, a particularly fierce battle over Germany:
Our next oil raid with the heavies (B-24 Liberator 4 engine bomb-
ers) was on the 23rd of June to Ploesti where we always ex-pected a fight from the Germans who were fighting des-perately to protect their dwindling oil supply. We were not disappointed. Ap-proximately 35 en-emy aircraft met us in the target area. I saw three Me-109s below me turning to attack the bombers. I pushed my nose
down and started after them. I came down on the tail of the last plane and
fired a long burst into it. I could see hits along the fuselage and engine. The 109 burst into flames and start-ed spinning toward the ground out of control. A minute and a half later, I saw an aircraft fire on the ground directly below my attack. Lt. Gille witnessed the combat and confirmed the victory, my fifteenth. In the con-fusion of the fight, I got a snap shot
at a passing FW-190 and observed some hits on it, but I couldn’t continue the attack and don’t know what happened to him… I was always awed by the flak put up over Ploesti, and I said a prayer for the bombers which flew through it. Once the bombers were committed to
the run, they had to fly straight and level for the bombardier to hit the target.
Herschel Green not only led the 325th as their leading ace, he had more kills than anyone in the MTO. He also flew 100 missions, which is another amazing statistic as most pilots were relieved of frontline duties after having flown just 35 missions and those who did stay on were eventually shot down by the enemy—but not Green. After his 100th mission he was promoted to Lieu-tenant Colonel and assigned to the 15th Air Force’s headquarters.
After the war, Green was again in the pilot’s seat, this time flying the new F-80 Shooting Star jet plane. Most pi-lots fly just one type of aircraft through-out their career; Herschel Green flew several types, and not just well—he became an ace in two of them and shot down another three in a third type. His record is a testament for his superb fly-ing skills and will live on as a legacy for generations of pilots to come.
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].
Forgotten HeroesAvi Heiligman
Ace Pilot Herschel “Herky” Green
HE SHOT DOWN SIx NAZI PLANES IN ONE DAy. A PILOT NEEDS FIVE CONFIRMED “KILLS” TO BE CALLED AN ACE. AN
“ACE IN A DAy” WAS ExTREMELy RARE.
Heiligman Hershel Green in the cockpit of his plane. Notice the swastikas painted
on the side. Each one represents another Nazi plane shot down.
Green standing on his P-51 Mustang deco-rated with the Checkertail warpaint.
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what happened to the people in new York and new Jersey.”
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“Sadly, Harry Reid has again revealed himself to be an idiot, this time gravely insulting Gulf Coast residents.”
– Sen. David Vitter (R-La.)
“Al Gore’s Current tV has been sold to Al-Jazeera for a reported $500 million. Experts believe that Al-Jazeera overpaid for Current tV by approximately $500 million.”
– Jay Leno
“I called the Speaker four times last night after 11:20. He did not take my calls... You don’t play games with this. Apparently that was ripped out of the House leadership manual last night.”
– New Jersey Governor Chris Christie discussing Speaker Boehner’s failure to bring
a Hurricane Sandy relief bill to a vote
“If you ever need any help on your pecs, let me know.”
– Joe Biden at the swearing-in ceremony of a new Senator to a family member who looked
built
“today the Senate swore in a record 20 female senators. Yep, the women said they’re very excited, and look forward to proving they can accomplish just as little as male senators.”
– Jimmy Fallon
“[Gov. Christie’s] jobs package is a hurricane. I guess he prayed a lot and got lucky that a storm came. I shouldn’t say that. I apologize for saying that.”
– New Jersey State Senate President Steve Sweeney
“Do not think for a minute that the wealthy are ever going to allow you to legislate their riches away from them. Please understand that. However, we are in a moment where the wealth disparity in this country is very remi-niscent of the robber baron ages. the labor leaders of that time, though, were ready to kill. they were. they were just – off with their heads. they were seriously talking about that. I don’t think we’re at that point. And that’s
scary to most people. But the key is they think nothing of killing us. they think nothing of putting our people in harm’s way. they think nothing of lethal working conditions.”
– Chicago Teachers Union president, Karen Lewis
“Lance Armstrong now says he may admit that he used performance-enhancing drugs. I guess he realized he’s the only person in the world who still wasn’t sure about it.”
– Jay Leno
“tickets to President Obama’s inaugura-tion have sold out. At least that’s what the President is telling Joe Biden.”
– Conan O’Brien
“Call back later.”
– What a woman in Detroit was told when she called 911 to report that her van,
which had a gun under the seat, was stolen
“Mr. Obama’s supporters always give him an out by saying, ‘But the President can’t work with them, they made it clear from the begin-ning their agenda was to do him in.’ that’s true enough. But it’s true with every American President now—the other side is always try-ing to do him in, or at least the other side’s big mouths are always braying they’ll take him down. they tried to capsize Clinton, they tried to do in Reagan, calling him an amiable dunce and vowing to defeat his wicked ideol-ogy. We live in a polarized age. We have for a while. One of the odd things about the Obama White House is that they are traumatized by the normal.”
– Peggy Noonan in the WSJ
“A team of scientists in Scotland has devel-oped a computer that writes jokes. the good thing about a computer that writes jokes is that the jokes may not be that funny, but at least it doesn’t take off the Jewish holidays.”
– David letterman
“In an Oval Office meeting on December 29, President Obama’s top advisers stood before him discussing the heated fiscal negotiations. A White House photo shows 10 of the aides. All are male.”
– New York Times, in a rare tepid criticism of the Obama Administration’s
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David Elazar Simai, M.D.
Health & Fitness
As I promised last week, I will try to provide some more “calming” information and offer
some advice for parents that deal with common pediatric problems.
Spitting up or Gastro-Esophageal Reflux is an extremely common symp-tom in infants. I vividly remember that while watching my son playing in Little League in 2011, one of my friends com-mented that from the amount of pre-scriptions of Prevacid for babies being filled at his pharmacy, it seems that the entire Boro Park suffers from reflux.
I was not shocked, because as I re-called, I had to spend many hours calm-ing and explaining to parents why babies spit up and when to treat it. Therefore, I felt that by sharing my advice, I may be able to alleviate some unnecessary wor-ries that some of you may have.
Is Your Child Vomiting or Spitting Up?
For many first time parents, spitting up is a new, frightening event. Do you remember when your baby first spit up? When the milk came out shooting from his or her nostrils? When you first wit-nessed that “huge” pool of milk on the floor?
Hundreds of times, parents have paged me after hours to describe these horrific events and each time they de-scribe the baby “vomiting,” I recall the wise guidance of my late mentor Dr. Harvey Aiges ob”m. While I was a fourth year medical student at Down-state, I rotated at Northshore Manhasset Hospital in the Department of Pediat-ric GI, which was then headed by Dr. Aiges. Dr. Aiges was an amazing di-agnostician and an even more capable mentor. After each patient left his of-fice, he put up a warm smile and in an inquiring tone posed a question regard-ing the case we just witnessed. One day he asked us, “Guys, how would you define the difference between spitting up and vomiting?” None of us could put our fingers on the exact difference so he proceeded: “When you last vomited, do you remember how sick you felt before vomiting? There was probably pain and discomfort that lasted at least 5-10 min-utes, followed by an excruciating act of
vomiting. Spitting up, on the contrary, is a quick act that is not preceded by pain; rather, it is often preceded by a small burp and is totally painless.”
That is exactly what my patients hear each time they confuse “spitting up” with “vomiting.”
Why Do Babies Spit Up?Here are several explanations:• Babies have small stomachs. If
they drink too fast, too much, too fre-quently, or if they swallow air, their stomachs become over-distended, which makes them spit up.
• Babies have a weak gastro-esophageal sphincter that allows food to come up when they burp or when they lay down after being fed.
• Babies are fed mostly liquids that can easily ascend into the esophagus. Once they are introduced to solid foods, the spitting up generally improves.
When Should You Treat Babies With Reflux?
1. If your baby appears to be in pain each time he spits up.
2. If your baby is struggling to gain weight.
3. If your baby starts to refuse to drink bottles, due to the pain associated with feeding.
4. If your baby or child has a persis-tent cough.
5. If your baby or child is persis-tently hoarse.
What Else Could You Do?My father told me over a story of
how 50 years ago, an Iranian profes-sor asked a full auditorium of students to diagnose a 2-month-old child who persistently spit up after every single feeding. The students wanted to im-press him by suggesting that the baby suffered from the likes of pyloric ste-nosis (which many frantic parents un-wisely google and convince themselves that their baby is sick), milk allergy and esophageal atresia. Then, the professor smiled and said: “This baby is perfectly healthy. Unfortunately, the mother was
using his older sister’s nipple which was too wide for the baby’s bottle. The baby was drinking the formula much too quickly and subsequently spit up after every feed.” The nipple was switched to a smaller size and the spitting resolved.
Relax – Mothers, you have gone through so much pain carrying the baby and delivering, now you toil around the clock changing and cleaning her. I suggest you all try and stay seated for 10 minutes after finishing the feeding. Don’t rush and run right after nursing your child. You deserve the rest (fathers too, on occasion). If your child is a bad “spitter upper” – do not stand up for 10 minutes. Put your feet up, relax and enjoy your baby six times a day.
Keep the baby upright for 30-40 minutes after the feeding. Never put the baby in a rocking swing after feeding her.
Elevate the head of the bed – by placing a small towel under her mat-tress.
Thicken the formula with baby cereal – this is used in many Neona-tal ICUs, even for premature babies. Just make sure that the formula is not too thick, so it could pass through the nipple, and make sure that your baby is not constipated by the rice or oatmeal cereal.
Start solids – You can start feeding your baby solid foods from the age of 4 months. Solid foods are heavier and will not reflux up the esophagus as eas-ily.
I do not like to treat reflux with medicine unless I see signs that are very worrisome. Anti-reflux medicine have a slew of dangerous side effects such as eradication of the normal flora of good bacteria from the intestines and preven-tion of calcium absorption into our bod-ies.
Most babies naturally stop to spit up between 9-12 months, as their esopha-geal sphincter becomes stronger and tighter.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions or comments. Until then, put your feet up and enjoy some quality time with your precious ones.
Wishing you all happy and calm ba-bies,
David Elazar Simai, M.D.
Dr. David Simai is a Board Certified Pedi-atrician from the Five Towns. He is a full time attending in his own private practice since 2007 in Cedarhurst, New York. In ad-dition, he is an Attending Physician at LIJ-Cohen Children’s Hospital, North-Shore Manhasset University Hospital and South Nassau Communities Hospital. He can be contacted for consultation at 516 374-2228 or via email at [email protected].
NOTE: name, gender, geographi-cal area and other identifying information were deliberately altered in this article in order to protect the patient’s privacy. This article is not intended to help diagnose or treat any specific disease. Always consult your personal physician before diagnosing or treating yourself or your child for any of the above mentioned illnesses.
Do Not Panic Part IIWhen Your Baby Spits Up
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86 Health & FitnessSara Schwartz-Gluck, LCSW
When Recess is the Worst Part of the Day
“I have a stomachache, Mommy. It hurts so much.” 8 year old Eliana looked up at her mother with tears in her pleading eyes. 7:45 AM. Stomachache time. Some days it was a headache, oth-ers it was a vague leg pain, but mostly it was the standard stomachache. Eliana knew that when she got to school, she’d be alone. At recess time she would stand at the side of the playground, watching while the other children played jump rope and ball. She would rather clutch at her stomach until she made it hurt for real than go to school and be alone for another day. Why do some children have a hard time making and keeping friends?
Social challenges can be especially difficult for young children. They often lack the skills for handling playground situations. Problems that could be solved with some basic solutions may seem insurmountable. Telling a teacher what is going on may seem like a task too hard to face. The factors listed be-low are some of the root causes of so-cial skill problems. Often, when we see a child who has a hard time with peers, it’s because there is another, deeper problem that is showing up in the way he or she acts. The social skill deficit may be just a symptom.
• Anxiety. Children who have phobias or anxiety may be worried about how they appear socially. They may freeze when in a group setting, finding themselves too afraid to interact with others.
• Temperament. Some children are naturally shy and introverted. They may struggle to assert themselves in a
group setting. Saying, “Can I play with you?” may be too risky for kids who are used to being quiet.
• Academic Challenges. Children tend to view their peers by the way they perform in the classroom. If one child goes out to the resource room, answers questions wrong in class, or does poorly on tests, s/he may be viewed as inferior by classmates who are too young or ignorant to tell the difference between academic and social success.
• Low Self Esteem. Children may develop low self confidence for a vari-ety of reasons. The problem is that once they are convinced that they are not as good as their classmates, it may be hard for them to believe that they could actu-ally make friends.
• Speech or Motor Skill Delays. When children have a physical delay, that often affects the way that they func-tion with friends. Children with speech delays may have a hard time expressing themselves in a way that their peers can understand. Children with motor skill or sensory problems may struggle with the physical aspect of playing games and using appropriate social boundaries.
• Low Frustration Tolerance. Some children find themselves getting angry when things don’t go the way they expect. They punch, kick, or yell instead of communicating in ways that can be more effective.
What Does a Social Skill Deficit Look Like?
Zevy stuck his hands into his pockets and wandered around the schoolyard. He was in no rush. He had nowhere
to go during the fifteen-minute recess. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw his classmates starting a game of football. Why did they never let him play? He got angrier and angrier as he saw all the kids having fun. All he wanted was to be a part of it. He ran to Chaim, that boy who was always in charge, and grabbed the ball, pushing Chaim to the ground. “Ha, ha, now no one can play!” Zevy thought to himself.
Social skill deficits most commonly appear in two ways: loneliness and ag-gression. The lonely child is left out of games and discussions, either by choice or because s/he has no friends. The lonely child may have diffi-culty with skills such as making eye contact, ini-tiating conversa-tion, respecting social boundaries, and maintaining a positive self-im-age. The aggres-sive child may use words or actions to hurt other children. The aggressive child may be perceived as a “bully” and may have difficulty with skills such as recognizing and managing emotions, tolerating frustration, and communicat-ing in a healthy way. Being alone and using aggression may be equally pain-ful when children just don’t know why they are not making friends. They may not realize that the things they do are alienating them from their classmates.
Helping from the Outside InHow do we help children who are
suffering in social settings? One key and underutilized way of helping is communicating with the other adults in a child’s life. When parents and teach-ers make the effort to reach out and have conversations about a child’s chal-lenges, new solutions can be found. A teacher may be able to pay special at-tention to a struggling child during re-cess, ensure that the child has a partner for a special project, or praise the child in class. However, this can only hap-pen if the teacher is aware of the prob-lem. Sometimes even the most talented teachers may not realize that a child is hurting inside. Once they are made
aware, teachers can be allies for stu-dents facing social difficulties.
Helping from the Inside OutChildren can learn many skills that
help them feel more confident and pre-pared in social situations. Picture the process of building muscle through ex-ercise—it takes time and effort, but ul-timately builds strength. The same goes for learning social skills—the process may take children out of their comfort zone, but it ultimately helps them build social “muscle” that they can use to conquer many social situations. Chil-
dren are very resilient, and with the right support they can change the way they interact with peers.
Social skills groups are one effective way to bolster social skills. At South Shore Cogni-tive Therapy (SSCT), social skills groups are run by seasoned professionals who help children learn the skills they need for social success.
SSCT uses the latest scientific and evidence-based cognitive and behavioral treatments to alleviate emotional problems. Our experienced clinicians offer intensive and customized treatment plans that en-able our clients to maintain a high level of personal control throughout the treatment process. Jonathan Cohen, PsyD is the di-rector of SSCT and has advanced training in evidenced-based therapies for emotional and behavioral problems. Sara Schwartz-Gluck, LCSW is a Clinical Social Worker who works with children and adults, and has lectured at schools and mental health organizations throughout NY and NJ. She can be reached at 516-568-7493 or at www.southshorecognitive.com.
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Remember Kalman? We wrote about him a couple weeks ago. He and his brother-in-law had
a flare-up because Kalman used some very sharp language to make his point. He felt entitled to “express” himself.
His wife, Penina, was exhausted with a lifetime of this sort of thing. She used to quarrel with her husband and that certainly didn’t work. Then she tried to reason with him and learned, much to her surprise, that he could not apologize to her brother because he would feel it was “weak.” She dis-agreed; she told him that admitting mistakes is a sign of strength because it takes a strong person to do that.
I asked how readers think that the story will end. Some people think that Kalman will never change. Here is my problem with that: You have to have tried everything—and I mean every-thing—before you can be sure that your conclusion is correct. Most peo-ple give up too easily.
Kalman might possibly be able to change if he can heal from the original pain that caused him to become so ad-versarial and sharp-tongued.
Kalman grew up with very critical parents. As he said, “They never had anything positive to say.” When that happens, a child is always on the look-out for criticism. He expects it. So, if the best defense is a good offense, then Kalman mastered the art. The problem, of course, is that it causes the very problem it was meant to avoid: attacks. Not only that, it certainly loses the good will of others.
This is made worse because Kal-man bears a painful secret, a secret that he is too ashamed to admit to anyone. It’s one thing if your critical parents missed the mark in their negativity, but what if they were correct? What if they thought you were something of a loser – and you actually were? Wouldn’t that really put a dagger in your heart?
That’s how Kalman felt. You see, he had, over his lifetime, made some bad business decisions and lost a con-siderable sum of money.
As a child, Kalman learned that one way he could feel good about himself (given all these toxic messages swirl-ing around in his head) would be to
brag and spout out what he believed to be wisdom: He became a know-it-all. When he graduated college, he de-cided upon e m b a r k i n g on a busi-ness. This would be a great way to quiet those ugly voices: He would be wildly suc-cessful. So it was not enough for Kalman to work hard at growing his business. After all, it was not to be an ordinary business but one that produced real wealth, and quick-ly, if possible. Only that would chase away the evil voices in the back re-gions of his mind.
Unfortunately, he suffered a self-fulfilling prophecy: His business his-tory was a disaster. I’ve found that this scenario happens often. It seems as though having been criticized as a child goes hand-in-hand with later business failure and verbal abuse at home.
Worst of all, not only will the un-desired end come about through these messages, but the recipient of them will surely hear a lot more of them once the business dreams collapse. The entire family and extended family will blame Kalman for all these mistakes. They would be justified; after all, he lost a lot of money through bad plan-ning and insufficient ego disguised as too much ego.
What can Kalman do for himself? What is Penina’s role here? And what
is the family supposed to do? Kalman has two jobs. He has to
work on the present but he must cor-rect the past. In the pres-ent, he needs to acknowl-edge each of his mistakes and come up with a plan to solve them. The beautiful thing about life is that we all get an-other chance. And another
one. Our generous and gracious G-d bestows endless opportunities on us to get it right.
My mother-in-law passed away just a few months short of 102. That’s pretty old. And in the last year of her
life, she came to acknowledge HaKo-dosh Baruch Hu. It took that long, but it happened. So we must never give up on trying.
Kalman can sit down, for example, with a member of SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives) who give their time for free to figure out how to rescue his business – or start over. He can consult a vocational counselor and consider getting a job to generate a cash flow while he restarts his busi-ness. There are hundreds of possibili-ties for Kalman. He only has to think in terms of “How can I solve this prob-lem?” rather than, “It’s all over.” Be-cause it most definitely is not all over.
The second job Kalman has is to correct the past. Now this is tricky. He can’t be telling himself, “I am a suc-
cessful investor,” because he’s not. But he can’t continue with the negativity he always received, either. He’s got to start displacing all the old messages in his head with positive but realistic new ones such as, “I’ve learned some tough lessons and I will use what I’ve learned to rebuild my life intelligently.”
What should Penina be saying to her husband when he starts up with family members? I think Penina should reinforce the above positive message that Kalman needs to hear. Perhaps she can say to him, “I love the idea of you rebuilding your life intelligently. Do you really want friction with family to be part of that?”
Since friction is not intelligent, it is unlikely that Kalman will keep up the battle with Chemie, his brother-in-law, or with others, for that matter. Penina may need to ask that question more than once. I have rarely met a person who learns with one trial.
Now just how many times should Penina have to remind her husband through this gentle question before she can conclude that it is not working?
It is really possible that it will have to go on quite a bit but that in the end, Kalman will improve his vision of what he wants for his life. Which brings me to all the extended family and how they can be helpful. All they really need to do is lovingly remind Kalman of his new goals – and cheer him on. They also must be realistic about the possibility of backsliding and watch Kalman’s actions going forward. No one learns anything in a straight path to a goal; there’s always a step or two back. But don’t look at the backsteps and think everything is doomed. There is always a chance for Kalman to re-deem his life. I believe in giving lots of chances.
Dr. Deb Hirschhorn has had over 35 years clinical experience. She has been in numer-ous publications, both professional and for the public, and has appeared on TV and has been featured on radio. She practices Marriage-Friendly Therapy. She has a lo-cal practice in Woodmere, N.Y. See her website, http://drdeb.com, or call her at 646-54-DRDEB.
TJH StaffDrDeb
Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.
Secrets and Struggles
KALMAN HAS TO WORK ON THE PRESENT BUT HE MUST correct the past. the beautiful thing about life
is that we all get another chance.
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90 From My Private Art CollectionRebbetzin Naomi N. Herzberg
Discovering a Non-Verbal Form Of Communication Through Art
All human beings possess a need to communicate feelings. Each individual’s needs differ
on many levels. Children for some reason, have an easier time expressing themselves than adults. I did not study psychology on a deep level; therefore, I am not going to speak about this topic in depth. My connection to the understanding of human emotions comes mainly from life experience in my many various roles. These
experiences have granted me an unofficial license to understand the strong need for human connection and
communication. The art of
Winslow Homer is worth investi-gating. Winslow Homer was born in 1836 and grew up in New Eng-land. He had a very happy child-hood and loved the outdoor coun-try life. Winslow was an artist who used art as a non-verbal means of
communication from which we can all learn. He would draw continuously
in the margins of his schoolbooks, illustrating numer-ous pictures of real life happenings that told a story. Some of his paintings depict scenes from the Civil War. In a book written about him, it said that he was “the most vital, colorful, and most varied of all American artists of the 19th century. He saw things in Ameri-can life that no other artist had seen, and painted them in new ways.”
Did Winslow’s love for art come from his being in the presence of a mother that was an artist? All we know is that he absolutely adored sketching from a very young age, and that he never formerly studied art. He was planning on going to a university when he grew up, but unfortunately, life was difficult and he had to earn a living to financially help his family. He took a job as an apprentice for a lithographer earning some money, but he did not enjoy doing this. That feeling forced him to take a chance painting pictures and to develop his own talents. He loved painting outdoors—taking in the light and feelings of the areas sur-rounding him, which eventually became his trademark and “sig-nature.” After some time, he sold one of his pictures to Harper’s Magazine. He traveled with the Union army and was able to see firsthand what was happening; he painted pictures communicat-ing in a non-verbal way, the true story in picture form as to what he saw. Harper’s Magazine put his paintings of the Civil War into its publications. The rest is history. He became a famous painter.
Later on in life at the age of 37, Winslow began to paint in watercolor. He loved the outdoors; this medium gave him the ability to paint while trav-eling, as it dried quickly and required minimal clean-up. He spent much time doing pictures of the sea in watercolor. Winslow was an emotional person who enjoyed painting pictures with a strong
sense of realism. He contributed great-ly to the world of art and his work is sorely missed. Many artists have tried to duplicate his style. I myself have practiced and taught his style of paint-ing to many of my students. It is not an easy task that takes persistence and an extremely steady hand; even then, it is still hard to capture and own. Un-fortunately, Winslow died quite young at the age of 74. As Winslow Homer was able to do, I have chosen the ven-ue of art, my life-long passion, as my means of non-verbal expression. This path has been extremely satisfying for me. Based on my varied experiences, I have come to the conclusion that per-sonalizing an art experience helps one gain insight into their uniqueness and sense of self.
Rebbetzin Naomi N. Herzberg is a profes-sional art educator, artist and designer. Among her known artwork is a floral sculp-ture presented to Tipper Gore, Blair House, Washington, D.C. Presently she is the Di-rector of Operations at Shulamith School for Girls. Please feel free to email [email protected] with questions and suggestions for future columns.
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Social Smarts
Temper Tantrum TipsRifka Schonfeld
Q: Is there a solution to temper tantrums?
A: The short an-swer to this question is “yes.” However, the longer answer is that depending on the age of the child and the type of tantrum, there are many differ-ent solutions.
For toddlers, Dr. Harvey Karp, a board certified pediatrician, suggests speaking in “toddler-ese.” In other words, speak to the child in way they can understand. We all do these actions when we are happy, but when our child gets upset, we often become calm and rational. Toddlers may not respond to that kind of reaction. Instead:
• Reflect their wants back to them in short sentences and syllables. For instance, if your child is upset because they want a candy bar in the store. Say, “You want a candy bar.” “I hear you.” “You want a candy bar.”
• Use repetition. In order to get your child’s attention, they need to rec-ognize that you are listening to them.
• Express yourself through facial expressions and hand motions. These physical gestures are much easier for children to understand. Let them know that you are aware that they are upset.
Once your child recognizes that you are listening, chances are he will calm down enough to rationalize with. This will be your chance to explain to him what he needs to do so as to get what he wants. Alternatively, this might be your chance to distract him. Either way, once he recognizes that he has been heard, he will calm down and be ready for a calm interaction.
All children are argumentative and cranky from time to time, especially when they are tired, hungry, or stressed. Their behavior could range from argu-ing, talking back, and disobeying or defying authority figures. This conduct is even part of the normal development of toddlers and early adolescents. How-ever, when a child consistently and fre-quently acts out so much that it stands out when compared to other children of the same age and developmental level, there might be something more than regular temper tantrums going on.
“Explosive Children” or children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) exhibit a pattern of uncoopera-tive, defiant, and hostile behavior that interferes with day-to-day performance.
Some signs of ODD are:• F r e q u e n t
temper tantrums• E x c e s s i v e
arguing with adults• Often ques-
tioning rules• Active defi-
ance and refusal to comply with adult re-quests and rules
• Deliberate attempts to annoy or upset people
• Blaming others for his or her mistakes or misbehavior
• Often being touchy or easily an-noyed by others
• Frequent anger and resentment• Mean and hateful talking when
upset• Spiteful attitude and revenge
seekingThere are multiple treatments for
ODD, among the most effective is so-cial skills training to increase flexibility and lengthen frustration tolerance with peers.
In many ways, a child with ODD can be very difficult for parents. Be-low are some ways that the American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychia-try suggests dealing with children with ODD:
• Build on the positives. Give your child praise and positive reinforce-ment when he shows flexibility or co-operation.
• Take a time-out. Time-outs are useful for yourself as well, if you are about to make the conflict with your child worse, not better. This is good modeling for your child. Support your child if he decides to take a time-out to prevent overreacting.
• Pick your battles. Since the child with ODD has trouble avoiding power struggles, prioritize the things you want your child to do. If you give your child a time-out in his room for misbehavior, don’t add time for argu-ing.
• Set up reasonable, age-appro-priate limits. Make sure you can en-force the consequences if these expec-tations are not met.
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CHAPTER 4The Education of a Jewish Girl
Adjusting to Mechel visiting our home each night was not as much of a jolt to my situation
as the question of my formal education. There has always been a mythology that strictly Orthodox families do not wish to educate their daughters. Certainly there was resistance to girls receiving formal Torah education and training to the same extent and depth as boys. Our faith is the oldest monotheistic faith in the world, and in our Torah men and women
are treated equally. Each contributed in their own way to maintaining our faith at crucial times in our long history. Sarah, our matriarch, joined Abraham, our patriarch, in leaving the land of false gods and settling in the land where our religion took hold. Of course, I was also aware from the teaching of our belfer and from my babbiko of our other matriarchs besides Sarah – Rebecca, Rachel, Leah – and others such as Miriam, Devorah, Ruth, and my own namesake, Queen Esther.
I also knew the blessings and duties required to be performed by women on
Shabbos and during the Holidays. I was intuitively aware that as women we did play a significant role, particularly in what is now called “ultra-Orthodox” Ju-daism. It was a term I had never heard as a child. We all lived in our shtetls and everyone was the same…we were sim-ply all Orthodox Jews living together and observing in the same ways. Labels were not necessary in those days.
By the 1930s in Poland, and in Kra-kow especially, a new phase in the edu-cation of Jewish girls had dawned. I am talking about the historic figure of Sarah Schenirer, a remarkable and intelligent Jewish woman, the leader of the Bais Yaakov movement. She was a Krakow seamstress (in fact her last name is the word for seamstress). Although she was unmarried and had no children of her own, she was a true Jewish mother. She became the spiritual mentor for many Polish girls. Our modern Sarah was born in 1883. By 1918 she had accomplished something few believed possible. She had opened an authorized Orthodox school for Jewish girls in Krakow. The number of her schools, which she named Bais Yaakov, expanded quickly into the hundreds.
She was taken from life in 1935. It was by the profound grace of Hashem that she did not live to witness the extin-guishing of the lights of Jewish learning and of Polish Jewish life. It is told that upon her death hundreds upon hundreds of Jewish girls wept in inconsolable grief at the loss of their teacher and mother figure. How sad it is that despite the great amount of knowledge now avail-able about women leaders and thinkers, few people, even among Jews, know of this dedicated and pious woman.
You might say that Sarah Schenirer was a Jewish missionary working for the continuation of our people. She saw that without understanding the mean-ing of our rituals, Jewish girls could be tempted to leave Judaism and to marry outside our faith. In nothing short of a miracle of understanding and activism,
she understood what needed to be done. In the period just after the First
World War, she saw that as girls became more modern, they were somewhat em-barrassed by their mothers. Mothers had old-world or shtetl mannerisms and usu-ally spoke in conversational Yiddish. She knew this could cause a rip in the fabric of Jewish life that would disrupt the legacy of Jewish continuity. Sarah Schenirer knew that the way to a girl’s heart would be through her mind. A girl who understands fully the antiquity of our faith and is able to comprehend Torah knowledge will develop pride for the critical role a woman plays inside Judaism. Feelings such as this ensure a lifetime of devotion to Jewish tradition. Sarah was able to convince important Chassidic Rebbes in Krakow of the im-portance of and the need for the educa-tion of girls. With their cooperation and approval she established a school and an after-school program, and later a semi-nary for the training of women teachers.
When I was only ten years old and spent a year in Krakow, I once met her. I did not then have any idea of her signifi-cance to Jewish life in Krakow and else-where. She was an unassuming woman, who wore thick glasses and dressed in a simple style. I was not enrolled in the Bais Yaakov School then because I was only a part-time resident in Krakow. In any case, I could not have done the re-quired assignments as my Hebrew was woefully inadequate.
When we think of the Shoah, it is difficult to focus on anything other than the genocide of an entire people. How-ever, it is also important to remember that besides all the lives lost, we lost the main threads of our history because we lost entire nations of Jews. Although the Bais Yaakov movement eventually re-built itself in Europe, Israel, and North America after the war, the numbers are far smaller than they would be if so many had not been efficiently and ruth-lessly killed.
Lola Lieber SchwartzLola's Story
A World After ThisA Memoir of Loss and Redemption
Lola Lieber Schwartz is a world-renowned artist whose paintings have been exhibited in art galleries throughout the United States and are part of the Yad Vashem archives in Jerusalem. Most importantly, Lola is a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother to many. She has myriad friends and sees life in all its vibrancy and vitality. But life was not always easy. Lola was only sixteen-years-old when Hitler ym”sh invaded Poland, and Lola was forced into hiding and spent years on the run with her husband, Mechel. Through six years of trying times, near
starvation and brutality, Lola and her husband held onto their faith and values. It was Mechel’s words of encouragement, “There will be a world after this,” that helped them cling to the hope that there will be a life of light and joy waiting for them at the end.
This is the story of Lola’s life—from her grandparents’ “enchanted garden” to meeting Eichmann ym”sh to making the Pesach seder for the Bobover Rebbe dur-ing the war—her words will take you back to a different world.
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What would become of my educa-tional development? I think everybody in the family was a bit perplexed about what to do with me. While I did love to read and to learn, there was no question my talents and true vocation resided in the world of art. I “killed time” with Polish library books, trying to further my comprehension of the language. I read them between mornings at the cor-set shop and evenings of crocheting. My Polish was getting better and better, but it wasn’t really enough to satisfy me. Nor did it serve to replace companion-ship for a girl so homesick for the famil-iar setting in Munkach.
Then I discovered B’nos, which was the after-school organization of the Bais Yaakov movement. I fell in love with it. Their activities held my attention and made me happy again. We divided our-selves into groups, each with a leader who attended the seminary. My group leader was Reina Finkelstein, and one of the other participants was Peszka Man-delkern (subsequently Pearl Benisch), who wrote the best-selling Holocaust memoir, “Vanquish the Dragon.” This is when I became officially known as Lola, the Polish version of Leiku. I had girlfriends now as well. My two best friends were older girls, who were both named Lola.
Lola Scheindorf crocheted pilot caps and earmuffs to earn enough money to purchase a proper marriage trousseau. She was extremely disciplined; she set herself a quota each day and would not stop until she had reached it. Finally I figured out that despite her strict regi-men, she was never going to have a mo-ment of life as a girl if someone didn’t rescue her. Happily, I pitched in, and then we had some fun together. The oth-er Lola was from the Petzenbaum fam-ily. She was a wholesome, dark-haired girl, whose family owned a furniture store. We were the Lola Triplets.
Even though we were not full-fledged Bais Yaakov students, as B’nos
girls we were still taught some Tanach (Bible) as Jewish history. We also stud-ied the weekly Torah portion. We sang Hebrew songs and danced the hora (tra-ditional Jewish circle dance) together. The memory of all of us Orthodox Jew-ish girls dancing together still brings me joy when I recall it. At last, I looked for-ward to each day with the expectancy of a normal teenager. It was thanks to these girls and to the B’nos program that for the first time since our rushed and forced departure from Munkach, I wasn’t so sad.
To some of the B’nos girls I ap-peared a bit spoiled and privileged. They were not unkind to me, but they couldn’t figure me out. I did not look anything like they did. By their standards, I wore fancy clothing. More than anything else what set me apart in dress was my silk stockings. Fifteen-yearold girls in Kra-kow wore heavy woolen stockings, not lady-like stockings. I was modestly dressed, of course, but still, the sleeves on my dresses and blouses were a tiny bit shorter than theirs, and this raised eyebrows too. And I played the violin and spoke several languages.
But the most obvious deviation from
the norm, even worse than the stockings, was my hair! I’d come from Munkach with beautiful curls, just like Shirley Temple. In Krakow, Orthodox girls all wore their hair very short or braided. At first, I brushed off their attitudes because I knew that teenagers are conformists – they all want to be alike. I was an artist; I was from Munkach; I was different. They would just have to accept me as I was. It was their problem, not mine.
What was really bothering them be-gan to settle into my brain more slowly than it should have. They were thinking something other than what I thought they were. It wasn’t that they thought I was rich or that I was spoiled or that I was a snob. They suspected that my ap-pearance was the sign of something far more troublesome. What I saw as exhib-iting a personal artistic and geographic cultural difference, these girls saw as an indication of religious laxity – or worse! They thought I was indifferent to our tra-ditions. Krakow had such a large Jewish population of so many different leanings that things like this mattered. This was the real education of Lola. I finally real-ized that I was misunderstood because of something I had not thought about, yet
could unintentionally bring embarrass-ment to my family. That is why I wanted to enroll in the Bais Yaakov seminary and become a part of the educated and Jewishly enlightened girls of Krakow, who knew more than their Hebrew blessings. I wanted to know more Torah and more about our faith. The paradox is that I wanted to become more observant, not less. Yet the others thought the way I dressed signified a lack of commitment. The girls who were “in charge” debated at length about what on earth to do with me, an alien creature from Munkach. They reasoned among themselves that if I were admitted, I might be a bad influ-ence on the others. They were probably also a little jealous. They criticized me but they might have liked to have pretty things to wear. Fortunately, the teachers took over and held a vote. They admitted me, the nonconformist, but with some restrictions. I, too, would wear woolen stockings and a sweater to cover my shorter sleeves.
I wanted to be accepted by the B’nos girls, and I wanted to receive a deeper Jewish education, so I surrendered to the requirements. Then they went too far. They demanded that my hairdo had to go with words such as, “Why can’t you just put it up into a bun?” I felt I had giv-en up enough of my former identity, said no, and stood firm. They compromised and let me keep a bit of my old self. So with compromises on both sides, the Education of a Jewish Girl In Krakow began in earnest.
Goldie had promised me her friends would become mine, so I contacted them, but found only more disapproval. After we met, they immediately asked about my background. Most of them had turned eighteen and were marriage-minded. My responses caused them to question me even further. Oh No! I thought to myself, here I go again. Am I ever going to be accepted into this Kra-kow Bais Yaakov crowd? However, they were acting like typical girls and I real-ized they didn’t dislike me. They simply had to become comfortable with some-one so different. They told me small secrets about how they sometimes bent the norms a little bit themselves. Noth-ing they did was of any serious impor-tance. It was just their way of saying: “Okay, Lola, we will take you at your word and you’ll take us at ours.” Our di-vergent personalities and styles met and adjusted to each other and our norms converged. Finally, I had friends and a life in Krakow.
Continued next week
Lola wrote this book with the help of Alida Brill.
Leah, Mechel’s sister Mechel’s brother, Joel Lieber, in Paris
Sara, Mechel’s sister Beyla, Mechel’s sister
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Q: I am in my 30’s and my wife is pressuring me to have a Will prepared. I am still young and do not own much property so I do not see the need to incur a big expense. What age is the right age to do estate planning?The Attorney Responds:
As I tell my clients, the right age to do estate planning is yes-terday. We do not know what Hashem has in store for us to-day or tomor-row. Age is not a factor. We all know of instances where “young” people have experienced illness or accidents, chas v’shalom, and it is too late to plan for the future. Also, estate planning does not have to be ex-pensive. The key is to cover your bases so that your wishes for what happens to your assets are fulfilled. There is no one estate plan that fits all cir-cumstances.
How much property do you own? If you add up a home, car, pension or retirement fund, bank ac-counts, etc., you would be surprised how much you own – and how much is susceptible to federal and state estate taxes. Even if you own less now, in the future, iy”H, you will have more assets which will need to be protected so that your family (and not the government) inherits your hard-earned property.
What is estate planning? In its most basic sense, it is planning for what hap-pens to your assets should you become incapacitated or when you die and thereby minimizing taxes, as well as taking care of surviving family mem-bers. It is a bracha to loved ones when your financial affairs are in order and they are not left dealing with disorga-nized matters. It sounds like this is the foundation of your wife’s request.
Clients have told me they are afraid
to plan for when they may become inca-pable of handling their affairs or when they die as if planning for the inevi-table will forestall it. Benjamin Frank-lin said, “Nothing is certain but death and taxes.” You cannot escape death,
so you might as well plan for it.
A basic es-tate plan in-cludes a Durable Power of At-torney (covered under prior ar-ticles by Roman Aminov, Esq. and Stephen
Weiner, Esq.), a Health Care proxy – both documents for while you are alive – and a Last Will and Testament for af-ter you pass. Once you execute these three (3) essential documents, you may
be interested in employing other estate planning tools, including life insurance and/or a trust, to custom tailor your plan.
W. Zehava Schech-ter, Esq. specializes in real estate law, estate planning and administration, and
business law. Her private practice is located on Long Island. Please send your comments to [email protected].
CNG Networking Group is an Ortho-dox Jewish networking group which meets in Queens and Long Island. The attorney sub-group of CNG has 8 members with various specialties: Trusts & Estates, Real Estate, Matrimonial, Criminal, Personal Injury, Trademarks/Copyright, Tax, Non-profits, Litigation. We welcome questions from readers on a wide range of legal mat-ters. Please submit your legal questions to [email protected]. While we do not provide specific legal advice, we hope to present readers with a greater understand-ing of the issues presented and potential means of resolving difficulties. No column is a substitute for competent legal advice. Please consult with the attorney of your choice concerning specific legal questions you may have.
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Finding Meaning In Misfortune
Yehoshua Levy
Recently I have been experienc-ing very serious health and financial issues. I do believe that G-d is send-ing me a message, but I have no way of knowing what it is. Is there a way to determine what He is trying to tell me? If not, what’s the point?
The Rabbi Responds:It was truly inspiring to read your
letter. To see how you choose to deal with difficulty and suffering is nothing less than remarkable. Instead of feeling hopelessness and giving into despair, you look for meaning in your strug-gles and are a t t empt ing to turn ad-versity into opportunity. You have al-ready taken the first, formidable, and most critical step: recognizing that all that befalls a man is decreed by G-d and not random mischance. This recognition itself is ironically a source of relief, for if one knows that every aspect of his life is controlled by a merciful, loving, and wise Father, he realizes that as difficult as things may seem, all that transpires to him is ultimately in his best interest. (See Psalms 23:4).
Why does G-d make you suffer? Is He sending you a message? There are many reasons why G-d can bring difficulty upon a person; most are be-yond the human ability to comprehend. That does not mean that He isn’t send-ing you a relevant message. In fact, Maimonides refers to someone who experiences misfortune and chooses to ignore G-d’s communication by at-tributing his troubles to coincidental hard knocks, as a “cruel person” be-cause he is being cruel to himself and to G-d. G-d caused him misfortune for a constructive purpose, and he made his suffering meaningless. What could be crueler?
In the days of yore, things were much simpler. If a person fell ill, in-stead of making an appointment with his doctor, he made an appointment
with his prophet, who would decipher G-d’s message, and the patient would become penitent, and then cured. To-day, we no longer have prophets among us. Yet, the Talmud tells us that one who experiences adversity should en-gage in self-introspection. Maimonides writes (Hil. Teshuva 6:5) that beside the prophets, G-d endowed mankind with a natural moral compass, the ability to be intellectually honest, and understand his own shortcomings. Still, G-d does not, and cannot, expect us to know
with cer-tainty why c a l a m i t i e s occur. He only expects us to use our hearts and minds to heed his words to the best of our finite ability. E v e r y o n e
has weaknesses and areas they can im-prove upon. Committing to taking even a small step towards making yourself a better person shows that you are trying.
There are also instances when the primary reason for one’s suffering is not a call to repent, as there are count-less possibilities behind G-d’s some-times mysterious ways. We don’t know the answer to the timeless question of why the righteous suffer. But as we know that G-d is omnipotent, omni-scient, and has unconditional love for us, we can strive to reach the faith of those who aren’t bothered by the ques-tion.
All the best, Yehoshua Levy
Please note, the information written above is not meant as a rabbinic ruling. If you have any questions, please consult your rabbinic authority for clarification.
Yehoshua Levy, a teacher of Torah, is a writer and lecturer who dares to think out-side the box to bring his thought-provoking insights and facts to his readers. He wel-comes your comments and can be reached at [email protected].
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2013 is here, and after months of post-election sound and fury, we took a quick “test leap” off the
dreaded “fiscal cliff.” Look out below! By this point, we’re all familiar with
the income tax consequences of the cliff. The Bush tax cuts expired, as scheduled, on December 31, sending everyone’s taxes up. The 2% payroll tax holiday ex-pired at the same time, with no hope of resuscitation. The Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT), which up until this week had never been indexed for inflation, still hadn’t been “patched” for 2012, mean-ing it would catch 27 million more Americans in its claws. There are even new Medi-care taxes and a 3.8% “unearned income Medicare contribution” on earned income and investment in-come for individu-als earning over $200,000 and joint filers earning over $250,000. (Okay, those new Medi-care taxes aren’t technically part of the “fiscal cliff” – but they don’t give upper-income earners much reason to cheer 2013, either!)
But the fiscal cliff also threatened some dramatic estate tax changes as well. Taxpayers dying on December 31 could leave a tax-free $5.12 million “unified credit” to their heirs, and pay a 35% rate on any balance above that amount. On January 1, however, that unified credit shrank to just $1 million – and the tax itself jumped to 55%. Die on December 31 with a $3 million estate and owe Uncle Sam nothing. Die just one day later, and pay a $1.1 million tax. That’s one awfully expensive day!
Of course, Washington spent New Year’s Day scrambling its way back from the cliff. As we now know, we’ll keep the Bush tax rates on incomes up to $400,000 ($450,000 for joint filers) and get a permanent AMT fix. As for estate taxes, the unified credit stays the same and the rate climbs to 40%.
So, here’s an awkward question, moot as it now may be. With such large estate taxes at stake, would millionaires choose to die early to spare their heirs the risk of higher taxes?
You probably won’t be shocked to
learn that determined patients can liter-ally will themselves to delay death past important dates like birthdays, holidays, and anniversaries. Hospitals saw death rates drop significantly in the last week of 1999, only to increase by similar amounts in the first week of 2000. That suggests that patients were determined to catch at least a peek at the new mil-lennium.
A similar but happier phenomenon can occur when it comes to giving birth. In 2004, the Australian government gave taxpayers a $3,000 new baby bo-
nus, starting on July 1. A 2009 study found that as many as 1,000 births were de-layed to take ad-vantage of that windfall.
But dying ear-ly to save estate taxes? Really . . . ?
Well, believe it or not, yes. A 2003 study published in the The Review of Economics and Statistics by two
economics professors asked if changes in estate tax rates affected mortality rates – and found that for individuals dy-ing within two weeks of a tax reform, a $10,000 change in estate taxes increased the chance of dying in the low-tax pe-riod by 1.6%. This is hardly surprising when living longer let people claim the savings. But the authors even found evi-dence of people dying sooner to avoid the increases. (That’s especially ironic considering that, by definition, nobody gets to enjoy saving tax on their own es-tate!)
We’ve said all along that proactive planning is the real key to paying less tax. And smart tax planning lets you pay less and even live to enjoy it! So, we’re glad that you’re reading these words, and we promise we’re here to answer all your questions on the “American Tax-payer Relief Act of 2012”!
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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Dying to Save Taxes? Food For Thought
for individuals dying WITHIN TWO WEEKS OF A TAx REFORM, A $10,000 CHANGE
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So I’m at this Bar Mitzvah and a rabbi gets called up to speak. He’s the last one on the program. He
starts off by sharing with us that now he has now been put in a tough spot. He has been warned… “Don’t ever get caught between a Jew and his dessert.”
You know that’s probably why many Jews get frustrated with life. It’s the place a Jew gets caught between be-ing born and his ultimate dessert. Why are we Jews so hung up with food? And is it a good thing?
Honestly—I think it is!I mean think about it: no one ever got
pulled over for a D.W.E. (Driving While Eating). D.W.I’s on the other hand, are lethal and they’d get you arrested. Driving while texting is considered a major danger and you’d get ticketed and fined. Driv-ing without a seatbelt gets you a fine of $50. But, eat, gazinta heit, the whole trip driving, say, all the way to Florida and no one will say a word. That is, un-less you eat so much that you can’t get your seatbelt around you, then you’re in trouble—at least to the tune of $50.
A baby is born, we eat. People get engaged, we eat. People get married, we eat. Shabbos is a 15-hour eating mara-
thon:• Breakfast• Kiddush club• Kiddush• Lunch• Shabbos Party• Shalosh Seudot• Melava Malka• Out with friends• Midnight snack• And that all-important 1am
Dunkin’ Donut run!The only time we don’t eat is on a
fast day. But then we spend the whole day thinking of what we’re going to eat when the fast is over.
Still, you’ve got to be impressed with us. Some people are getting row-dy, acting nuts, throwing furniture, all because of what they drank. Or some people spend their time preoccupied
with inappropriate items. They wind up causing massive tragedies.
But the worst thing we find a Jew doing is eating so much chulent or kugel on Saturday afternoon that he fails to drag himself up to bed and in-stead commandeers the whole living room couch for himself.
I know people are not always happy to be burdened with this preoccupa-tion. They keep dieting and visiting nutritionists, but that’s still a heck of a lot better than visiting bars or shooting ranges.
We are obsessed with eating, but the worst thing anyone ever did with food is throw a tomato at a bad performer. And I wouldn’t be surprised if the per-son on stage didn’t think, “You couldn’t
toss in a little salad dressing with that?!”
I’m not trying to make fun of us. I’m actu-ally saying even our vic-es are pretty mild. We are a people who try not to hurt
others or be disruptive. We want to have a good time but not at the other person’s expense.
In fact, we want everyone to join in and have a good time, too! I think one of the most famous lines we all iden-tify with a warm Yiddishe Momma saying is “Ess, ess mein kind!” (eat my child). Food was always the answer to good health! After all, I ask you what’s been the most popular cure for what ails you—even till this day? It needs no FDA approval, has no toxicity, yet it’s certified to make you feel good every time! Absolutely, the good, old, de-pendable chicken soup!
Just think of some popular sayings:“The way to a man’s heart is through
his stomach.”“Food for thought.”“It takes calories to burn calories.”Whether you’re getting into shape,
trying to grow intellectually, or looking for a lifemate, there is a saying that en-courages eating.
We are certainly onto something! Even when G-d promised us a re-
turn to our homeland… He promised us a Land of Milk and Honey!
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Seeking:VERY INTERESTING!
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This winter has turned out to be one of the worst seasons for colds and flu,
with a record- b r e a k i n g n u m b e r of people r e p o r t i n g f l u - l i k e symptoms and an unusually great volume of people being hospitalized due to the flu. Taking precautionary measures like getting the flu shot, washing your
hands, and taking vitamin C are certainly prudent, but there are also
foods that can aid in prevention or help decrease the symptoms of the flu/cold. Try these tasty foods and you just may
avoid getting sick this season.Chicken Soup: Otherwise known
as nature’s penicillin, this oldie but goodie works for several reasons. Hot chicken soup helps clear clogged air-
ways by thinning the mucus thus enabling you to blow your nose and the bacteria within. The broth also contains phytochemicals from the vegetables that have been steeping in it.
Hot and Spicy Foods: These were re-cently mentioned in my appetite suppressant article, and have the added bonus of easing congestion. Use spicy sauces or spices when cooking to give your food that extra zip.
Garlic: It contains a phytochemical called allicin, which can kill bacteria. A Brit-ish study found that people taking allicin supplements suffered 46% fewer colds and recovered faster from the ones they did get. Garlic is also believed to act as an antioxidant and destroy free radi-cals. Experts recom-mend cooking with at least 2 fresh cloves a day.
M u s h r o o m s : These veggies usu-ally get overlooked as a health food but they contain two weapons you can use to fight the flu: one is seleni-um, which helps white blood cells produce cy-tokines that clear sick-
ness, and second is beta glucan, which help support the immune system by
activating cells that find and destroy infec-tions.
Tea: Re-searchers at Harvard Uni-versity found that drinking 5 cups of black tea a day qua-
drupled the body’s immune system, probably because of the theanine. Tea also contains catechins which clean up the free radicals n your body. Drink one to three cups of black, green, or white tea every day.
Vitamin C sources: Citrus fruits like oranges and grapefruits, strawber-ries and pineapple can help you fight/prevent colds and the flu.
Ginger: Many people find that fresh ginger root helps treat the cough-ing and fever that often accompany a cold or flu. Try making a ginger tea: pour a cup of boiling hot water over 2 tablespoons of freshly grated ginger and let it steep for 5-10 minutes.
Yogurt: Probiotics, which is the friendly bacteria found in yogurt, help reduce cold and flu symptoms. When buying yogurt look for the “Live and Active Cultures” label.
A crucial preventive measure is to keep your immune system strong by eating three meals a day and getting enough sleep. When your immune system is compromised, you are more susceptible to getting sick. Whether you are well or sick, incorporating these foods into your diet will be the tools that will aid you in your fight back to good health. Wishing you a happy and healthy winter!
Aliza Beer is a registered dietician with a Master’s degree in nutrition. She has a private practice in Cedarhurst, NY. Patients’ success has been featured on the Dr. Oz Show. Aliza’s new line of prepared, healthy meals-to-go are available at Gourmet Glatt. Aliza can be reached at [email protected].
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Iowa—the land of rolling hills and rushing rivers—is bushels, barrels and acres of fun. The relaxing and peaceful nature of the land is apparent, and its residents
are friendly and easy-going. In fact, Iowa has been named one of the safest states in which to live. But don’t be fooled by the calm spirit felt in Iowa. Iowans are hard-working and the state produces much of what you see in your food pantry. This mid-western state has been named the Food Capital of the world, as it grows many important staples for our world’s economy. A trip here will bring you back to nature and invigorate you with its old-school charm and refreshing appeal.
Things You Won’t Want to MissDes Moines
As Iowa’s capital and largest city, Des Moines is a “must-see” on a trip to this state. Plan on spending time here—there is so much to explore! Make sure to include the State Capi-tol, the Botanical Center, a relaxing stroll along Principal Riverwalk, and Terrace Hill, which is the official residence of the Governor of Iowa. Des Moines is also just a hop, skip and a jump to Adventureland in Altoona and the Living His-tory Farms in Urbandale. Boys and dads alike will enjoy Trainland USA in Colfax and the Iowa Speedway in Newton.
Iowa State FairIf you’re planning a visit to Iowa, make sure to stop in
during the summer. The Iowa State Fair, which is held an-nually in August, is one of the largest state fairs in the coun-try and is bushels of fun! This year’s Fair’s theme was “It’s Fairilicious!” and the residents here take their “Fair food” really seriously! The first State Fair was (appropriately) held in Fairfield in 1854, with a budget of just $323. Now over a million people visit the Fair and the Fairgrounds take up over 445 acres! People flock here to see the world famous Butter Cow, one of the world’s largest livestock shows, more than 50 foods-on-a-stick, and the Fair’s double Ferris wheel. There are contests throughout hailing the largest animals—the Big Boar, the Super Bull, the Largest Rabbit and the Heaviest Pi-geon. And of course, no fair is complete without some wacky contests including monster arm wrestling, pie eating and pi-geon rolling. It is also home to the world’s only Lawn Chair Toss competition. (I’d like to sign up for that one!)
Reiman GardensLocated in Ames, Iowa, Reiman Gardens is a wonderful
place to spend a beautiful spring day with the family. This
picturesque garden features 14 acres of outdoor gar-dens along with a tropical conservatory and a But-terfly Wing with more than 800 live, exotic butter-flies in flight. There is a new garden theme every year and children will enjoy the Children’s Garden and special award-winning rose gardens.
Swan Lake ParkLocated in Carroll County, Swan Lake
Park is home to 550 acres of nature. The park offers picnicking, camping areas, canoeing, a 100-acre lake, a nature center, a petting zoo and scenic miles of trail to explore. For those who love to fish, boat or go horseback riding, the time to visit is in the summer. Ice fishing, cross country skiing and snowmobiling are popular winter activities.
Crystal Lake CaveA tour of the Crystal Lake Cave showcases
stalagmites and stalactites glittering in the dark. A visit here is fun for everyone—just remember, the cave is only open from May to October, so plan your trip accordingly.
Living Tree MuseumA tree museum is certainly unique—it’s an
open-air museum that features “descendants” of fa-mous trees. Located in Storm Lake City Park, the museum plants seedlings and cuttings of trees that are documented to be associated with famous people or events, such as Johnny Appleseed and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Whether you’re a fan of trees or not, a trip here is relaxing as you stroll along the yards of foliage.
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Tu B'Shvat Eve TripsTu B'Shvat Eve Trips ...wiTh EvE harow...wiTh EvE harow
Yesodot-Netzer Hazani; the indomitable Anita Tucker, winner of Moskowitz Prize for Zionism. Netiv Ha'asara; a Gush Katif farmer's new hothouse and a northern Gaza view. Cafe Cafe in Sderot for a mehadrin dairy lunch. The Black Arrow Memorial, symbol of the region's 'battle heritage'. The 5th century synagogue mosaic at Hurvat Maon. South to Yamit's Steel Memorial Tower alongside Holot Halutza's Gush Katif replants; the farms, homes and people of Nave and Bnai Netzarim. Tomatoes in the sand—again; inspiration and personal sacrifice in the air—still.
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Tapuach; where 4 legged defenders of the Land are bred and trained. Itamar; to Zimmerman's organic farm for jams and cheeses in Gav HaHar. Yitzhar; HaCohen's Flour Mill and a luscious lunch at Savta Chana's warm home. Tel Aufer; the Ofra of Gideon the Judge? Shilo; Meshek Achiya, because olive oil is only part of the story.Ending our day with Amichai Luria at his award winning Shilo Winery.
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Enrich your Tu B'Shvat Seder - and your Spirit.
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We leave from the Liberty Bell Parking lot Jan 23: promptly at 8:15am, return approximately 7pm.Jan 24: promptly at 8:30am, return approximately 6pm.
Cost per day including lunch: $65/adult $55/student in Israel or child under 12.
For reservatIons & Further InFormatIon vIsIt www.oneisraelfund.org/daytrips
or send email to [email protected]: Zahava englard 052.484.6034 In US: ruthie Kohn 516.239.9202 x10
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Whole Chicken – $2.29/lbAll Natural Flanken – $7.49/lbBoneless Flanken – $6.99/lbFamily Pack Rib Steak – $9.99/lbTurkey Stew Dark Meat – $4.99/lb
Plum Tomato - $0.99/lbBaby Carrots 16 oz - $0.99 #113 Sunkist Oranges - 5/$1.00Hass Avocado - 3/$2.00Extra Fancy Eggplant - $0.59/lbChunk Pineapple or Cantelope LLarge container - $2.99 each
EXTRA LARGE EGGSDOZEN
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CANADIANBAGEL PIZZA8 PK
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$1.99
NATURES OWNAPPLEJUICE64 OZ
$1.99
UNCLE MOISHEHEALTHYBITES 6 PK
$1.39
GOLDEN FLOWBROCCOLIFLORETS32 OZ
$4.49
PLASTICSOUP BOWLS12 OZ
2/$5
J&JFRENCHFRIES32 OZ
$1.99
GOLDEN TASTETOMATO DIP7 OZ
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PRO PACKSANDWICHBAGS 300 CT
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UNGERSBARLEY16 OZ
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UNGERSPLAIN BREADCRUMBS25 OZ
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SMACKIN GOOD POTATO KNISHES12 PK
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BEIGELSRYE BREAD2 LB
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PLENTYPAPER TOWEL15 PK
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YUMMIESYOGURT4 OZ
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A&BGEFILTEFISH20 OZ
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SALE DATES: 1/3/13 – 1/16/13
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