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This past week, the Baltimore community had the honor of hosting the Skulener Rebbe of Monsey, marking a special occasion immersed in Chassidic tradition. Over 150 Chassidim made the journey to Baltimore, primarily from Monsey, to accompany the Rebbe and were graciously welcomed into homes in the greater Ranchleigh area. For a brief period, the Ranchleigh neighborhood took on the atmosphere of a mini Boro Park, as throngs of Chassidim strolled the streets adorned in their distinctive “shtreimelach,” creating a picturesque scene rarely witnessed in our community. Mercaz Torah U’Tefillah (Rabbi Eichenstein’s shul) served as the central hub for the weekend, with traditional “parenchas” (bleachers) set up on both sides of the Bais Medrash. Chassidim and locals alike gathered on the parenchas, flanking the regular seats in the shul for davening and multiple “tishim.” The atmosphere throughout Shabbos was electric, resonating with the fervent tefillos and uplifting melodies of the Skulen tradition. It was an experience that left

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a lasting impression, fostering a deeper sense of unity and respect among all who participated.

The Skulener Rebbe, a distinguished descendant of the previous Skulener Rebbe, was warmly received by the large crowd gathered to spend Shabbos in his presence. He is one of five Skulener Rebbes, alongside his brothers, who carry forward the illustrious lineage, each assuming the mantle of leadership in various cities worldwide. Those fortunate enough to encounter him could sense an unmistakable aura of nobility surrounding him. With the demeanor of a monarch, the Rebbe welcomed all with a warm smile that immediately put them at ease, readily offering brachos and guidance to those in need. Though the Skulener Rebbe’s visit to Baltimore was brief, his impact on the community is sure to endure, leaving behind a legacy of inspiration and reverence for generations to come.

Wishing everyone a peaceful Shabbos!

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Harav Hagaon R’ Moshe Hillel Hirsch, Shlit”a, Visits TA

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arav Hagaon R’ Moshe Hillel Hirsch, Shlit”a, Rosh Yeshivas Slabodka in Eretz Yisrael, recently paid a visit to TA. Talmidim in 4th thru 12th grades had the zechus of greeting the Rosh Yeshiva and hearing Divrei chizuk.

Rav Hirsch addressed the boys saying if we show respect to each other, we are showing Hakadosh Baruch Hu how much we honor Him and His children.

He will help us grow in Torah and we will be zoche to finish shas.

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overnor Wes Moore announced the appointment of Magistrate Hope Tipton and Levi Stuart Zaslow to the Baltimore City Circuit Court.

“Hope Tipton and Levi Stuart Zaslow define what it means to serve the public and follow the law.

They will each bring humility, excellence, wisdom, and fairness to the bench,” said Gov. Moore. “I thank them both for raising their hands to sit on the Baltimore City Circuit Court.

The judiciary and the state will benefit from their service.”

Magistrate Hope Tipton has worked as a Family Magistrate in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City since 2013.

Her practice has always been devoted to representing poor and low-income clients in various civil legal matters,

including family law, educational issues, denial of public benefits, and landlord tenant matters. Before her appointment as a magistrate, she served as the Maryland Legal Services Program Executive Director at the Maryland Department of Human Services.

From 2003-2012, she worked as an attorney with the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Services, as the Founding Director of Project HEAL (Health, Education, Advocacy and Law), which provided free legal services to children and families who received medical care at The Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. She began her career as a staff attorney in the mental health unit at Disability Rights Maryland, Maryland’s designated Protection and Advocacy agency.

Magistrate Tipton received her B.A. from Transylvania University

Prior to joining Hijazi, Zaslow and Carroll, P.A., Zaslow was an attorney for twelve years in the litigation division at Joseph, Greenwald and Laake, P.A., after which he worked at Smithey Law Group LLC. Upon graduating law school, he served as the Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Althea M. Handy in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. and her J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law. Levi Stuart Zaslow most recently served as partner with the law firm of Hijazi, Zaslow and Carroll, P.A. He focuses his practice on commercial litigation, employment law, government litigation, appellate litigation and significant tort claims in Maryland and the District of Columbia.

In addition to his law practice, Zaslow was a contributing author to four legal treaties or texts, previously served on the Executive Council of the Bar Association of Baltimore City and served as a board member of the Civilian Review Board of Baltimore City.

Zaslow received his B.S. from Excelsior College and his J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law.

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BJH: Today we have the honor of interviewing Rabbi Amrom Jungreis, Rov and Rosh Kollel of Mosdos Kehal Chassidim.

Rabbi Jungreis: Thanks for having me!

BJH: Please tell us a little about yourself.

BJH: Tell us, how long has MKC been in Baltimore?

RJ: MKC was started about 10 years ago, with 20 Chassidish families moving to Baltimore from all over New York to make Baltimore their home. The families are a warm mix of chassidim from Belz, Satmar, Skver, Skulen, Vizhniz and more, united in the shared hashkafos of ahavas haTorah, chessed, and raising strong, Chasidishe families.

BJH: Tell us more about MKC! RJ: With a lot of siyata dishmaya, MKC has grown so much over the past 10 years! We now have 4 separate Mosdos/ divisions - the daycare, preschool, girls elementary and cheder for the boys, and go from 6 weeks old through 4th grade, with

over 150 children, both Chassidish and Litvish who come to learn Torah and embrace the greatness of yiddishkeit. We have both Chassidish and Litvish staff who work for us in the mosdos who are amazing and truly make up the vibe in the schools.

BJH: How is MKC integrated into the Baltimore community?

RJ: Great question! Our mosdos have been warmly welcomed by the Baltimore Torah community, and Harav Moshe Heinemann is part of its Rabbinic committee. We have had special visitors come and see the cheder including Rabbi Heinemann shlita and Rabbi Feldman shlita. In fact, Baltimore families who appreciate yiddish-speaking chinuch and warm chassidishe approach have chosen K’hal Chassidim schools for their children, in all divisions with small class sizes, making our kehillah an additional facet in the growing yeshiva community.

In addition, I give Shiurim at local shuls, and my wife, Rebbetzin Jungreis, has weekly chabros for girls, and also gives Shiurim all over. She is a dedicated teacher at two of our big local schools and a valued member of our community.

Shabbos Bnos groups are held in one of our buildings in the upper Park Heights area.

Our Mosdos employ mostly litvish staff and administrators, creating jobs. Our daycare center is proud to be one of the few LICENSED daycare centers in Baltimore for infants/toddlers.

Kedushas Yisrael (the Chassidish shul/

kollel), welcomes Litvish people to learn there, attend shiurim, and daven there on Shabbos and Yom Tov. They embrace the community and are appreciative to be here in Baltimore.

If you walk past MKC on Shabbos or Yom Tov during nice weather, you will see lots of frum children playing and enjoying our playground.

BJH: Wow you really make an impact in the Baltimore community. Please tell us about your upcoming campaign.

RJ: That would be important! We are having a critical campaign to help us subsidize our budget and help us continue to do the great work we do! We have a budget of over $1.5 million dollars a year, and we need to fundraise the deficit. This money will go to give our children the best chinuch possible and get the best staff and pay them nicely. It will also go to resources needed that aren’t covered with tuition that will help each child grow and excel in their yiddishkeit. BUT, we cannot do this without YOUR help. Please help us keep the Mosdos running by giving to our campaign - tizku l’mitzvos!

The campaign website is www.childrenofjoycampaign.com For more information about MKC, please email administration@mkcbaltimore.org BJH: Sounds like a great organization, hatzlacha !

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RJ: I was born and raised in London, England! After I married my Rebbetzin, we moved to Boro Park where we have family.

I had the zechus to receive ‫ סמיכה‬and have ‫ שימוש‬from the famous Ga’on Rabbi Moshe Halberstam ‫ זצ”ל‬of the ‫עדה החרדית‬ as well as of ‫ יבלחט”א‬the Rav and author of the N’tei Gavriel ‫ שליט”א‬where I served as a dayan for over a decade.

I also served a number of years as ‫שואל‬ ‫ ומשיב‬in the Kollel ‫ בית חיים יהושע‬in Boro Park, where I have also given Shiurim at different places, including all the famous ‘Irgun Shiurie Torah’ shiurim. Many of my divrei torah will be printed in a sefer that

will be published in the next few weeks IYH. I moved to Baltimore 2 years ago along with my Eishes Chayil, Rebbetzin Peri Jungreis, a teacher in a few of our local schools, and our 5 beautiful children, to become the Rosh Kollel and Rav, and ultimately ended up taking over the Mosdos as well, B”H. The administration team that makes up MKC are: Rabbi Amrom Jungreis – Rov and Rosh Kollel; Mrs. Tamar Schulman Executive Director and daycare director, Mrs. Shoshana Sofer - preschool director; Mrs. Rochel Devoiry Hill and Mrs. Faige Lurie - girls elementary principals; Rabbi Menachem Mendel Ganzfried - cheder principal.

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Hezbollah Commander Killed In response to a Hezbollah missile strike, which caused the death of an Israeli soldier and an additional eight injuries in northern Israel, the Jewish state launched a barrage of attacks against the Lebanese terror group last Wednesday.

The following day, the Israel Defense Forces announced that, as part of its strikes, it hit a building in Nabatieh, with the strike killing Hezbollah commander Ali Muhammad al-Debes, his deputy Hassan Ibrahim Issa, and several others.

Al-Debes was the commander of Hezbollah’s top Radwan Force and was behind the terror group’s airstrike

on Megiddo Junction in Israel, an attack that wounded one man, according to the IDF. Al-Debes was also responsible for several other Hezbollah attacks on Israel.

Israel’s strike on Wednesday resulted in ten fatalities, three of whom were members of the Iran-backed terror group; the other seven were civilians, officials from Lebanon claimed.

According to a security official from the Lebanese government, the three deceased Hezbollah officials were on the building’s ground floor when the structure was hit by Israeli fighter jets.

The civilians, who were all part of one family, were on the floor above the terrorists. The other eliminated terrorist, 36-year-old Hussein Ahmad Aqeel, was named by Hezbollah as the third deceased terrorist killed in the Israeli operation.

An anonymous security source from Lebanon reported that Al-Debes was injured in another Israeli strike targeting the Hezbollah commander just a week before his death. As a member of the terrorist organization, Al-Debes, according to the Lebanese

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Reacting to Wednesday’s attacks, Hezbollah vowed that Israel would “pay the price.”

On Thursday, the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah continued, as the terror group launched twelve rockets and two anti-tank missiles at Kiryat Shmona, resulting only in property damage. Earlier that day, the terror group launched a rocket at Mount Dov and three anti-tank missiles at Shtula, although no one was injured as a result of the attacks, thank G-d.

The IDF announced that it hit many Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon, including terror infrastructure such as buildings and rocket launching positions.

Yoav Gallant, the defense minister of Israel, said that the IDF upped the intensity of their attacks on Hezbollah by “one level out of 10,” and said that “the IDF possess very significant further strength,” with “Air Force jets currently flying in the skies of Lebanon have heavier bombs for more distant targets.”

Hezbollah’s attacks against the Jewish state have been motivated by the ongoing war in Gaza, which was triggered on October 7 when thousands of Hamas terrorists invaded southern Israel, killing more than 1,200 people and kidnapping 253 others. The escalating tensions on Israel’s northern border have heightened fears of a broader conflict which may potentially lead to open warfare between Israel and the Lebanese militant group.

“The State of Israel will not tolerate attacks on its citizens. We will ensure security and the safe return of our communities to the north and are prepared to do so via diplomatic or military means,” Gallant asserted.

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to wounds he sustained on February 15 while fighting in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip.

Morell, 22, from Talmon in the Binyamin region of Samaria, was the sixth combat soldier from the same high school yeshiva in Dimona to die in the Gaza war.

Before an official announcement was released of his death, Morell’s brother Dov posted to X: “My brother Maoz passed away tonight in the hospital. We had time to read vidui at his bedside, parents and siblings.

“Maoz is the first brother whose birth I remember. I hope and pray very much that he is also the last brother to go in my lifetime. Friends— it is very important to me that you come to comfort us. We will sit shivah in Talmon.”

Maoz’s funeral was held at noon on Tuesday on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. “We would be happy if you would come to pay him last respects,” his brother wrote.

Rabbi Yaakov Dudi, head of the high school, the Tzvia Dimona Yeshivah, paid tribute to Morrell.

“Maoz’s bravery and determination were manifested throughout his life’s journey, in his constant dealing with day-to-day challenges, in his diligence in the Torah and in his adherence to its teachings. The pleasantness of his ways, the charm of his face and his love for his family, his friends and everyone around him will remain engraved in our hearts and on the walls of our seminary,” the rabbi said.

His friends said of him, “Maoz was marked by his vigor, kindness, smile, joy and music. He was a true friend and loved by all of us.”

Two other paratroopers died in the same battle as Morrell, Staff Sgt. Rotem Sahar-Hadar, 20, and Sgt. Noam Haba, 21. Other soldiers were wounded. (JNS)

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According to The New York Times, Israel was behind a pair of attacks on major gas pipelines inside Iran last week, which disrupted the flow of gas to millions of people. The Times cited two Western officials and a military

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BJH: It’s clear that your practice is more than just a dental office. How do you ensure it remains a key part of the community?

Dr. Moss: Sure. We amalgamated four practices into what is now Smile Forever Dentistry, moving them to Owings Mills for a fresh start in a modern, accessible location (not far from Ner Israel & TA). This consolidation included practices from wellknown dentists like Dr. Barry Cohen, William Weinhardt, Stanley Plunka, and the Axman brothers, aiming to maintain their legacy while enhancing the dental care we provide with modern advancements. We also expanded into offering multiple specialties.

Dr. Moss: Beyond providing topnotch dental services, we strive to be accessible and accommodating. We take most PPO dental insurance and participate in the Maryland Healthy Smiles program. It’s about removing barriers to care and ensuring our services are available to everyone in the community.

Smile Forever Dentistry BJH: Let’s begin by getting to know you a bit better. Can you share with us some background on where you grew up and what led you to where you are today?

Dr. Cheryl Frenkel Moss, DDS: Absolutely. I grew up in Brooklyn, specifically in Flatbush (Midwood), and I never envisioned leaving New York. However, life took an unexpected turn when I married my husband, Larry, who hails from Portland, Maine. He was residing in Baltimore at the time, so we decided to build our life there. My educational journey took me from Stern College to NYU Dental School, followed by a two-year residency at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, where I received a certificate in geriatric dentistry and special patient care.

BJH: What inspired you to focus on geriatric dentistry and special patient care?

Dr. Moss: I have always liked caring for the whole family. My certificate in geriatric dentistry and special needs helps to to better care for some of the most “at risk” members of our community. As a dentist, I have also come to understand that a person’s smile can affect their self-perception

BJH: With such a broad base of patients and specialties, what unique aspects does your practice offer?

Dr. Moss: Our practice is designed to be a comprehensive care environment. We’re equipped with the latest technology, including digital X-rays, digital impressions (I-TERO Scanners), a CT scanner, and we focus on utilizing high-quality dental materials.

BJH: Shifting gears a bit, let’s talk about your motivations. What drives you in your career?

Dr. Moss: My family and my community are my biggest motivators. I aim to be an example for my children, showing them that hard work and dedication can lead to fulfilling your dreams. It’s also about giving back to the community that has given us so much, ensuring we provide the best care possible.

BJH: It’s heartwarming to hear how your personal and professional

BJH: Before we wrap up, any advice for young women looking to start their professional lives?

Dr. Moss: Pursuing a career requires passion, dedication, and a willingness to face challenges head-on.

It’s crucial to find a balance that allows you to thrive both professionally and personally. Support from family and a strong community connection can make all the difference. And remember - im ein ani li mi li- believe in yourself. If you don’t no one will.

When I first came to Baltimore to get married and start my family life, re-establishing myself as a professional was a challenge. Months after getting married, when I was expecting my first child, my OB (Dr. Hopkins), encouraged me by saying, “Pregnancy is NOT a disability.” That encouragement helped me to restart my career here.

BJH: Dr. Moss, your journey from Brooklyn to leading a successful practice in Baltimore is truly inspiring.

Thank you for sharing your story and insights with us today.

Dr. Moss: Thank you for having me. It’s been a pleasure to share my experiences and I hope they can inspire others in their own journeys.

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and confidence which has caused me to proactively learn about and offer a wide range of cosmetic treatments to patients.

Our multi-specialty approach sets us apart, we are proud to have a Pediatric dentist, an orthodontist, and a periodontist (specialist in implants and gums) in our practice along with our three general/family dentists. Having each of our specialists in one place facilitates treating the WHOLE patient rather than just one part of their needs.

It is both more convenient for patients AND results in better care through the integration of care.

Dr. Moss: Balance is always a challenge, but it’s about prioritizing and making the most of the time you have. I make a concerted effort to be present for my family, especially during significant moments. My practice is an extension of my family, and I approach it with the same care and dedication.

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The Week In News strategist affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as its sources.

If confirmed, the strike would amount to an escalation by Israel, which has been linked to numerous strikes in Iran over the years, but primarily against the country’s nuclear program, as well as assassinations of senior figures.

“The enemy’s plan was to completely disrupt the flow of gas in winter to several main cities and provinces in our country,” Iran’s oil minister, Javad Owji, told Iranian media in comments on the “sabotage and terrorist attacks.”

He avoided publicly blaming Israel for the blasts, which he said were aimed at damaging Iran’s energy

infrastructure and stirring public upheaval.

A Western official told New York Time that the strike was largely symbolic, causing minimal harm and being easy to repair, but sent a message that Israel can cause significant damage.

The natural gas pipeline that was targeted runs from Iran’s western Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province up north to cities on the Caspian Sea. The roughly 1,270-kilometer (790-mile) pipeline begins in Asaluyeh, a hub for Iran’s offshore South Pars gas field.

The two Western officials said Israel was also behind another blast on Thursday inside a chemical factory on the outskirts of Tehran. However, local officials quoted by the Times said the explosion was due to an accident in the factory’s fuel tank.

There has been no comment from Israel on the blasts, which came amid the ongoing war in Gaza triggered by the Hamas-led October 7 onslaught in which Palestinian terrorists killed more than 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 253 others hostage.

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Still, it has praised Hamas for the massacre and has boasted of supporting the terror group and other proxy terror groups.

Families File ICC Complaints Against Hamas

Stories of the slaughter, assault, and unspeakable terror perpetrated

by Hamas on October 7 continue to come to light more than 130 days after the massacre. More than 250 people were abducted from their homes on that day, with 134 of them remaining in Hamas captivity.

Last Wednesday, relatives of those who remain in Gaza brought forth legal action against Hamas at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague, with family members insisting that the terror group be held accountable for their heinous crimes.

The group was made up of around one hundred family members, as well as dozens of lawyers who helped file the ICC complaint.

The ICC differs from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in its scope of jurisdiction; the ICC prosecutes individuals for crimes, whereas the ICJ, which recently saw Israel accused of genocide by South Africa, deals with legal disputes between nations. The ICJ is a part of the U.N., while the ICC is not, but was rather established under the Rome Statute, an international treaty that was ratified by around 120 countries — but not by Israel.

“Criminals must be held criminally responsible for their atrocities. We rely on the ability of the International Criminal Court to bring justice to the hostages and their families,” said Dr. Shelly Aviv Yeini, the head of the group’s legal team. “This is part of the mechanism of exerting pressure to release the hostages and encouraging countries around the world to take

legal action against those responsible for these heinous acts. This represents international recognition that holding hostages is always illegal.”

The families submitted 1,000 pages of evidence and testimony of Hamas’ October 7th war crimes, charging the terror group with “kidnapping, crimes of [assault], torture and other serious allegations.”

Karim Kahn, the ICC’s chief prosecutor, announced that he had already initiated an investigation into the actions of Hamas on October 7. However, the families of hostages hope their legal action will encourage the prosecutor to escalate matters further by issuing arrest warrants for top Hamas officials and furthering the overall investigation.

The distraught families made their way to the Hague by bus, with many holding flowers and pictures of their kidnapped family members. The group arrived and saw hundreds of supporters, who stood waiting at the site after enduring rain and strong winds. The supporters waved Israeli flags and proclaimed, “Bring them home, now!”

After the legal complaint was filed with the ICC, the families led a rally, with relatives of those held hostage making speeches and pictures of the slaughter being shown to those present on large screens.

“Ohad, my husband, the love of my life, and the father of my girls, is still being held hostage in Gaza. I think about him every day and every night,” said Raz Ben Ami, a former hostage who was freed during a shortlived truce in November. She and her husband were kidnapped from their house in Kibbutz Be’eri.

“The world must wake up. The world needs to open its eyes, to look us in the eyes, and begin acknowledging what we went through,” said Yamit Ashkenazi, the sister of hostage Doron Steinbrecher. “The world needs to know that my sister is in a tunnel somewhere, cold, hungry, without medication… for 131 days.

“They took my sister from her bed, from the place that was supposed to be the safest place in the world for her.”

Hours after the march, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his decision against sending a group of Israeli officials to Cairo,

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Gaza. In response to Lula’s unfounded assertions, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz, on Monday, declared the Brazilian president “persona non grata” – meaning he isn’t welcome in Israel “until he retracts his statements.”

Following Lula’s verbal attacks on the Jewish state, Katz met with Brazilian Ambassador Federico Mayer for a diplomatic reprimand at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.

At the memorial, Katz, whose parents survived the Holocaust, told the ambassador that Israel “will not forget and we will not forgive.” Katz and Mayer then took a tour of the memorial, during which the foreign minister showed the Brazilian ambassador the Book of Names which has the names of

Katz’s grandparents written in it.

“I brought you to a place that testifies more than anything else to what the Nazis and Hitler did to the Jews, including members of my family,” Katz told the ambassador. “The comparison between Israel’s just war against Hamas and the atrocities of Hitler and the Nazis is a disgrace and a severe antisemitic attack.”

Lula falsely stated, while in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, that “what’s happening in the Gaza Strip isn’t a war, it’s a genocide.”

“It’s not a war of soldiers against soldiers. It’s a war between a highly prepared army and women and children,” Lula said.

“What is happening in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian people hasn’t happened at any other moment in history” besides “when Hitler decided to kill the Jews,” the Brazilian president asserted, continuing his string of verbal, slanderous attacks.

Following his statement, Brazilian-Jewish organizations criticized Lula.

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Dayan said that the Brazilian president’s statements were “an outrageous combination of hatred and ignorance” towards the Jewish people, while many Israeli officials condemned Lula for his claims.

“The words of the President of Brazil are shameful and alarming,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“This is a trivialization of the Holocaust and an attempt to harm the Jewish people and Israel’s right to defend itself.

“Comparing a country fighting against a murderous terror organization to the actions of the Nazis in the Holocaust is worthy of all condemnation,” the premier added. “It is sad that the president of Brazil has stooped to such a level of extreme distortion of the Holocaust.”

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Lula isn’t the first to accuse Israel of such crimes. One month ago, South Africa initiated a legal battle against Israel at the International Court of Justice, accusing the Jewish state of intentionally perpetrating genocide, and asking the court to order an immediate ceasefire. Although the court case will likely continue for several years, the court dismissed the need to call for an immediate ceasefire but alleged that there was “plausibility” to South Africa’s accusations.

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U.S. Constitution Vandalized Two men were arrested at The National Archives in Washington, D.C., last week after throwing red powder at the protective casing that holds the U.S. Constitution. The incident took place on Wednesday at around 2:30 p.m., prompting the museum’s closure for the remainder of the day.

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“We take such vandalism very seriously and we will insist that the perpetrators be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” said Colleen Shogan, a United States archivist.

The museum reopened on Thursday, except for the National Archives Rotunda, which remained closed for cleaning purposes.

This act of vandalism is not the first of its kind. In fact, there seems to be an emerging pattern of environmental advocates defacing cultural treasures and artworks in the name of their cause. In 2022, a protester at a London Gallery threw tomato soup at Vincent Van Goh’s “Sunflowers” painting. In 2023, a group of climate activists defaced French Impressionist Claude Monet’s “The Artist’s Garden at Giverny” with red paint before gluing their hands to the painting, which was on display at Stockholm’s National Museum. Many assert that demonstrations of this sort undermine the message of climate activism.

The Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights are “sealed in the most scientifically advanced housing that preservation technology can provide.” On most days, the documents are publicly viewable from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Capital One Buying Discover On Monday, Capital One announced that it’s acquiring Discover Financial Services for $35.3 billion in an all-stock deal, giving the bank a leg up in the competitive credit card market.

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The Week In News major credit card networks in the U.S. — Visa, Mastercard, and American Express.

Acquiring Discover would give Capital One a leg up against competing credit card-issuing banks such as JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Citigroup, which don’t process transactions themselves.

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Trump Ordered to Pay $355M A New York judge on Friday handed Donald Trump a crushing defeat in his civil fraud case, finding the former president liable for conspiring to manipulate his net worth and ordering him to pay a penalty of nearly $355

million plus interest that could wipe out his entire stockpile of cash.

The decision by Justice Arthur Engoron caps a chaotic, years-long case in which New York’s attorney general put Trump’s claims of wealth on trial.

Engoron banned Trump for three years from serving in top roles at any New York company, including portions of his own Trump Organization.

He also imposed a two-year ban on the former president’s adult sons, Eric and Don Jr., and ordered that they pay more than $4 million each. The judge also ordered that they pay substantial interest, pushing the penalty for the former president to $450 million, according to the attorney general, Letitia James.

Trump will appeal the financial penalty but will have to either come up with the money or secure a bond within 30 days. The ruling will not render him bankrupt, because most of his wealth is in real estate, which altogether is worth far more than the penalty.

Trump will also ask an appeals court to halt the restrictions on him

and his sons from running the company while it considers the case.

But there might be little Trump can do to thwart one of the judge’s most consequential punishments: extending for three years the appointment of an independent monitor who is the court’s eyes and ears at the Trump Organization. He also strengthened the monitor’s authority to watch for fraud and second-guess transactions that look suspicious.

Trump’s lawyers have railed against the monitor, Barbara Jones, saying that her work had already cost the business more than $2.5 million.

Even though lenders made money from Trump, they were the purported victims in the case, with James arguing that without his fraud, they could have made even more. The financial penalty reflects those lost profits, with nearly half of the $355 million — $168 million — representing the interest that Trump saved, and the remaining sum representing his profit on the recent sale of two properties, money that the judge has now clawed back from

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The over-the-top footwear is all gold and is called the “Never Surrender High-Top Sneaker.” It is selling for $399.

But before you pull out your wallet, keep in mind that the sneaker is already sold out. There had been 1,000 sneakers available before customers nabbed the flashy shoes.

“This is something I’ve been talking about for 12 years, 13 years, and I think it’s going to be a big success,” Trump said at Sneaker Con. According to the website, the products sold are “trademarks of CIC Ventures LLC. Trump Sneakers are not designed, manufactured, distributed or sold by Donald J. Trump, The Trump Organization or any of their respective affiliates or principals. 45Footwear, LLC uses the Trump name, image and likeness under a license agreement.”

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Honor Among Thieves

When the thieves broke into the country home of a renowned film director in southern India, taking gold, silver and cash, they made a clean getaway. But days later, a small plastic bag appeared outside the house’s gates, stitched shut with thin sticks and containing something wrapped in

a white handkerchief.

Inside was a medal for a prestigious national award that the director, M. Manikandan, had won in 2021 for one of his films.

With it was a brief note handwritten in Tamil, a regional language.

“Sir, please forgive us,” the note read. “Your hard work belongs to you alone.”

The burglary and partial return, with its small-town intrigue and big-hearted absurdity, could have figured in the kind of movies Manikandan and other filmmakers in India’s south make.

Manikandan broke through with a film about two egg-stealing, slum-dwelling brothers with a single goal: to do whatever it took to taste pizza. The film for which he won the purloined medal, “Kadaisi Vivasayi,” or “The Last Farmer,” was a commentary on the difficulties of farming in India.

Sathish Kumar, a head constable who is part of the intelligence-gathering team of the local police unit investigating, said the house, in the town of

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It is a one-bedroom property, with an office and a garden. Manikandan is there only occasionally, living mostly in Chennai, the state capital, about 300 miles away.

Thefts are frequent in the town, although most have been solved with the help of CCTV footage, Kumar said. But in the burglary at Manikandan’s place, there were no clues.

When the film director’s manager found the plastic bag with the medal on the east side of the property four days after the burglary, he called police at once, according to Kumar. Kumar and his team took the bag and the medal into police custody, hoping they finally had a lead on the culprits. But the fingerprints collected have resulted in no matches. (© The New York Times)

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The Week In News Young Grandmaster

Ashwath Kaushik is just eight years old, but he is smashing records.

He became the youngest player ever to beat a chess grandmaster in a classical tournament game.

Kaushik was actually eights years, six months, and 11 days old on Sunday when he accomplished this feat.

The youngster, who lives in Singapore, beat Poland’s Jacek Stopa, 37, in round four of the Burgdorfer Stadthaus Open in Switzerland.

The previous record was only just set last month by then eight-year-old Leonid Ivanovic – who became the first player under the age of nine to beat a grandmaster in a classical game

– but Ashwath was five months younger than the Serbian when he beat Stopa, according to Chess.com.

“It felt really exciting and amazing, and I felt proud of my game and how I played, especially since I was worse at one point but managed to come back from that,” Kaushik said.

Born in India in 2015, Ashwath has already made a name for himself after winning a number of youth tournaments around the world – notably becoming the World Under-8 Rapid champion in 2022. He finished 12th in this week’s tournament in Switzerland.

Surprisingly, Kaushik’s father and mother do not play chess. The eightyear-old practices the “sport” around seven hours a day.

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A Long Story Short It was the world’s weirdest shidduch date.

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Sultan Kosen, from Turkey, towers above at 8 feet, 2 inches. Jyoti Amge, from India, is a mere 2 feet, 0.7 inches.

Kosen is 41 years old; Amge is 30.

They posed for a new set of photos when meeting this week.

In one of the images, Amge is just a little taller than Kosen’s shoe, as she stands alongside it smiling ear to ear.

The pair had traveled to the United States to meet with an American producer.

The duo last met in 2018 when they visited Egypt, posing next to the Great Sphinx of Giza. The sphinx also holds a Guinness World Record – it is officially the largest monolithic sculpture in the world.

Kose officially became the world’s tallest man living in 2009 and was, at the time, the first man to grow over 8 feet tall in over 20 years. He also holds the record for the world’s largest hand.

His super size is the result of a medical condition called pituitary gigantism

that causes his bones and body parts to grow at a much faster rate than in most people. He had been growing at an average rate until the age of 10,

when a tumor led to this medical condition.

Amge received the title of world’s shortest woman in 2011 after earlier holding the record of being the world’s shortest teenager. Her diminutive height is the result of a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia.

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T

he eight vestments of the Kohen Gadol, we are taught, had the power to atone for various sins.

The ‫ — כתונת תשבץ‬the Tunic of a box-like knit, atones for the sin of bloodshed.

Although the brothers originally intended to murder Yosef, when they deferred to Yehuda’s suggestion to sell him instead, they nevertheless stripped Yosef from the ‫כתונת פסים‬ — the tunic of many colors his father awarded him, dipping it in goat’s blood, disguising their misdeed by

displaying it to Yaakov as evidence that Yosef was killed by a wild animal. The bloody cover-up was tainted with murderous intentions and thus a symbol of bloodshed. It was regarding this sin and similar acts of bloodshed we would succumb to, that the tunic of the Kohen Gadol was meant to atone for. (‫ ורש"י שם‬.‫)ערכין טז‬.

There would seem to be nothing inherent within the nature of a tunic that relates to this sin specifically, and it is only by the association with the bloodied ‘tunic’ of Yosef that the Kohen’s tunic plays a role in addressing this sin.

When Shaul HaMelech was mortally wounded in his final battle, prior to his impending death he asks the Amalekite to kill him because ‫אחזני‬ ‫ — השבץ‬I am gripped with convul� sions.

The Midrash points out that the similarity of the word ‫ — השבץ‬cconvul� sions, and the word used to describe the unique knitted box design on the tunic of the Kohanim — ‫כתונת תשבץ‬, is meant to conjure the earlier tragic decimation of the Kohanim of the city of Nov — who wore priestly tunics — at the behest of Shaul who was infuriated by their harboring of David, suspecting them of rebellion — that Shaul is now being held accountable for.

The Kohanim wore several vest-

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There are varying opinions as to the exact description of this special woven pattern, varying from simple depressions like settings for precious stones, to diamond or hexagonal shapes.

Rav Saadyah Gaon as quoted by the Ibn Ezra makes an intriguing claim that it was ‫מרובע עשוי מתוך העגול‬ — a series of box-like patterns within a circle.

The Jerusalem Talmud makes an astonishing observation. ‫אין מרובע‬ ‫ — מששת ימי בראשית‬There is nothing within the six days of creation that is square.

Every natural item in creation is curved, from atoms to the planets and their circuits, and everything in between. Man-made items however are identified by the angles of their structures.

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The Akeidas Yitzchok asserts that the very nature of the construction of the Tunic of the Kohen — a long shirt that reached down to one’s heels — restricts swift movement that is critical for a criminal seeking to flee a crime scene or chase after his victim. This garment symbolizes restraint, and contemplative deliberate steps taken in man’s quest for thoughtful ambition and accomplishment.

Additionally, he adds, that whatever nature the depressions in the tunic were, each individual cell indicates a withholding and containment of sort.

This is perhaps the deeper sentiment conveyed by having boxes placed within a circle. It is testament to our placing our defined selves mindfully within the circle of our Creator.

It is for this reason all objects of Mitzvah are squared: Tefillin, Tzitzis, Mizbeach and so many more.

Even if we pay tribute to G-d’s centrality, it can mislead us to pursue that truth but invalidate others who

may see the world from a different angle and perspective, yet be equally devoted to G-d.

One not mindful of this relationship to the ‘wider world’ around us will dangerously lapse in the consciousness of others, and the limitations that exist in discovering our own identities, and trample upon others, developing ‘murderous’ tendencies of intolerance or worse, towards those different than us.

The focus on G-d’s will must be tethered to a belief that we each are permitted to create our own box and perspective, all of course within the framework of Torah.

Perhaps it was the brothers’ denial of the right of Yosef to create his own ‘box’ within the greater circle of G-d’s centrality, that lead them to be intolerant of him and plot to kill him.

Shaul HaMelech was blinded by his personal ambition and belief, fueled by his fear of David.

In his last moments he contemplates the message of the ‫כתונת תשבץ‬ — the boxed tunic.

The Radak in his Sefer HaSharashim, quoting Rabbeinu Yonah, interprets Shaul’s last words ‫כי אחזני‬ ‫השבץ‬, as: ‘he grasped the situation and realized he was boxed in and unable to escape’.

Perhaps he realized his failure in absorbing the message of the ‫כתונת‬ ‫תשבץ‬,, that man must limit his percep� tion to his own self and permit others to ‘think within their own box’ if we are all to fit into the greater circle of G-d’s will.

It was thus no coincidence that the image of the Tunic of the Kohen is used to identify the Kohanim of the city of Nov. We must don ‘clothing’ whose very nature limits our impulsive movement, and which possess a pattern that reminds us to mindfully construct our personal boxes within the greater circle of G-d’s reality, that also reminds us to respect and encourage others to ‘think inside their box’ too!

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A Brief History of Antidepressants

By Rabbi Azriel Hauptman

Since ancient times, people have looked to substances to alleviate their depression. One needs to look no further than the book of Mishlei (31, 6) that states, “Give strong drink to the hapless, and wine to the embittered.”

The Chovos Halevuvos also writes, “Your drinking should be only water, unless your intent in drinking wine is to benefit your body, or to remove distress from your heart.”

Unfortunately, alcoholic substances have troubling side effects, which include a wide array of physical illnesses and also depression itself! Although wine might offer some short-term benefits for a depressed mood, it can also be a trigger for severe depression. Our Sages cautioned us about this inconvenient truth when they said (Sanhedrin 70b) that nothing bring wailing upon a person more that wine. Hence, the adage that alcohol is both the cause and the solution of life’s problems. Humanity has, therefore, been in engaged in pursuit of the magic pill that treats depression without all of the side effects. The history of that search is quite fascinating.

Opioids have been used since ancient times to treat depression and

many other maladies. Opium spurred lucrative international trade that even led to the Opium Wars in the nineteenth century. Many types of opioids were developed throughout the nineteenth century that led to widespread use for all kinds of aches and pains, both physical and emotional. During the American Civil War, opioids, especially morphine, were extensively used to treat wounded soldiers. Many of these soldiers developed addictions in the years following the war.

Only in the twentieth century was the non-clinical use of opioids criminalized.

Amphetamines were the next fad in the treatment of depression. Amphetamine started being marketed in the 1930’s and remained unregulated for many years. As the years passed, the addictive and harmful nature of this drug became known, and finally, in the 1970’s, amphetamine was declared as a Schedule II drug and became unavailable without a prescription.

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In the 1950s and 1960s, MAOIs were very popular, but as time went on it became clear that there were very troubling side effects, and that some of the side effects could be fatal. MAOIs are still used as a last line of treatment under the watchful eye of a psychiatrist when other antidepressants have failed to be effective.

Another early class of antidepressants were the tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs), which are named after their chemical structure of three rings of atoms. As with many antidepressants, the medication was being studied for other purposes, and its antidepressant properties were discovered by accident. TCAs had their drawbacks as well, as it can be toxic if taken in too large of a dose. Hence, the world still kept on searching for that perfect antidepressant.

All of this changed with the development of the SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor). The first one to be marketed in the late 1980s was fluoxetine, better known by its brand name – Prozac. Within one year, annual sales in the United States alone was $350 million, and worldwide sales eventually reached $2.6 billion per year. Since then, other SSRIs have been developed, and their names are commonly known. They include citalopram (Celexa), escitalopram (Lexapro), fluvoxamine (Luvox), paroxetine (Paxil), and sertraline (Zoloft).

Although SSRIs have their fair share of potential side effects, they are not toxic or addictive. The relative safety of the SSRIs created a revolution in psychopharmacology. Whereas in the past, only a psychiatrist would

dare prescribe a psychiatric medication, now regular physicians felt safe in prescribing these medications. Additionally, in the past, only severely depressed patients were prescribed psychiatric medications. Now, even mildly depressed patients are sometimes taking medication.

Another factor in the “Prozac Revolution” is that before the emergence of Prozac, the pharmaceutical companies never advertised to the general public. This changed after Prozac, and now it is commonplace for “Big Pharma” to advertise in all kinds of mediums to the general public. Of course, they always conclude their advertisement by saying, “Ask your doctor…”

It is now estimated that approximately twelve percent of the population above age 12 is currently taking antidepressants.

Where does this leave us? We live in a world that has medical options that our predecessors wished they had. Countless people literally owe their lives to antidepressants such as Prozac. It is still not the magic bullet, as not every medication works for everyone and there can be side effects. Finding the right medication at the right dose can sometimes be a real journey. If you are suffering from depression and your clinician advises you to use medication, do not be ashamed. Just like if you are shortsighted it is not a crutch to wear glasses, similarly if you are suffering from depression, it is not a crutch or a sign of weakness to take medication.

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istory books are full of heroes who made headlines for their contributions to their country.

Generals, top-ranking officers, and politicians often get credit when rank and file members of the military did the hard work on the front lines. These soldiers often get credit among their peers with citations and medals but are rarely known to the public. There are some history books that make it a point to recognize these heroes, and here are some of those unsung heroes from World War II. Jewish First Lieutenant Walter Berlin from Baltimore was with the 36th Armored Infantry Regiment, 3rd Armored Division during its initial push into Germany before the Battle of the Bulge. The 3rd Armor Division, under Jewish General Maurice Rose, was nicknamed the Spearhead Division and had been one of the first to penetrate the Siegfried line.

On December 12, 1944, Berlin’s unit was fighting against pillboxes that were pouring fire into the American lines. A week earlier, Berlin had been assigned as company commander of Company A after being transferred. He climbed on top of one the American tanks to direct its fire on the pillboxes. Berlin continued to direct the tanks to fire on enemy emplacements until the enemy stopped firing. For his bravery in action, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. Berlin was also awarded the Silver Star, two Bronze

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Stars and two Purple Hearts for actions during World War II. During the Korean War, Berlin served as a battalion commander.

There has been an effort in recent years to upgrade the medals of many decorated Jewish servicemen from World War II. Sergeant Raymond Groden from Brooklyn is one of those soldiers. He was serving Company C, 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division in France on December 2, 1942. His company had run into a roadblock defended by three enemy machine guns. Groden charged at the German emplacement with his M1 rifle and killed three enemy soldiers. He killed another four Germans when he attacked their command post through a hail of enemy fire. Only his raincoat and other equipment were hit.

Then he destroyed another machine gun and took control of four enemy mortars.

There was no more enemy resistance then, as he also captured two German soldiers. Groden was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for these exploits and in April 1945 was awarded a Silver Star for actions inside Germany.

Forward observer Lieutenant Robert Fierman from New York was another Jewish soldier awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. His job with the 32nd Infantry Division was to direct artillery during the fight along the Villa Verde Trail on Luzon in the Philippines. On

The Distinguished Service Cross medal

March 21, 1945, he was in exposed position while the Japanese attacked his unit.

Despite his buddies telling him to take cover, he remained where he was and was able to use his radio to direct artillery fire on the Japanese. After twenty-five minutes, a shell fragment hit Fierman, but he still stayed on the battlefield. He stayed there directing fire on the Japanese until his unit moved to another position. The Japanese suffered heavy casualties due to the artillery fire that Fierman called in and allowed his battalion to move to a better location.

In mid-1944, the Germans and their Italian Axis partners held a defensive line in Italy called the Gothic Line. The British Eight Army and the American Fifth Army faced two German armies in a battle that would last until March 1945.

Lieutenant Sid Goldstein was a platoon leader with Company A, 133rd Infantry Regiment, 34th Infantry Division that was attached to the Fifth Army. In September 1944, Goldstein’s platoon assaulted a hill that was defended by Axis troops. Goldstein and the 24 men he led were repelled by mortars, machine gun and small arms fire. He regrouped and led eleven men up the hill into a dugout. There, they captured four German soldiers and continued up a hill. Then, with two non-commissioned officers, he attacked another dugout, capturing three more Germans.

One of the Germans was an officer who

told Goldstein that he would surrender the rest of the German force, but only if Goldstein would come with him to the forward slope. This was a dangerous proposition as Goldstein could be walking into an ambush, but Goldstein, fully knowing the danger, went along with the enemy officer. Once at the slope, about forty German enlisted men and two officers surrendered. The German officer then led Goldstein to another position where sixteen more soldiers surrendered.

Altogether, Goldstein captured 67 Germans and was personally awarded the Distinguished Service Cross by General George Marshall.

Many servicemen during World War II were noted for exceptional service, and even though their stories didn’t always make headline news, it is heroism that deserves to be remembered. There are many more stories of heroic Jewish servicemembers just like ones we have covered in this and past articles. While it is not possible to write about them all, Forgotten Heroes will continue to write about more honored heroes in the future.

Avi Heiligman is a weekly contributor to The Jewish Home. He welcomes your comments and suggestions for future columns and can be reached at aviheiligman@gmail.com.

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Your Jewish Heritage at Your Fingertips Let My People Know™ — Discover Your Story with the Steinsaltz Daily Study App and Portal

By Rosally Saltsman

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hroughout the millennia Jewish learning has always been valued and encouraged. The Torah is our lifeline and our way of life. In recent decades, enormous strides have been made in expanding Jewish scholarship by trying to make learning more accessible, understood and convenient. The Steinsaltz Center, which produced the well-known elucidated and translated English Talmud, has made all Jewish texts accessible in the most convenient format, which allows learning at your own pace, in your own time, and anywhere you want with its newly designed Daily Study App and Portal.

“Together, we are making significant strides in democratizing access to Jewish knowledge and empowering individuals to explore and engage with the rich traditions and teachings of our heritage,” says Rabbi Meni Even-Israel of the Steinsaltz Center.

Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, ztz”l, although being a scion of the Slonimer rabbinic dynasty, did not receive a religious upbringing. His son, Rabbi Meni Even-Israel points out, that Torah learning was important to the family, nonetheless. Rabbi Steinsaltz became a Ba’al Teshuvah in his teens, and not only became a great Torah scholar but a conduit for thousands of others to embrace Jewish practice as well.

Among his many pursuits, Rabbi Steinsaltz went to help Jews in the Soviet Union, becoming the spiritual mentor of Russian Jewry, when Jews who were denied permission to emigrate to Israel suffered under Communist rule and were forced to learn Torah in secret. Later, he opened the first Yeshiva in post-Communist Russia.

Rabbi Steinsaltz’s credo was, “Let My People Know.” His many commentaries and translations into English

are also colorful illustrations to further clarify the text.

have made the treasury of the Jewish liturgy accessible to the modern era English speaker. He had a vision that every Jew, everywhere, would be able to learn about their heritage no matter how distant it seemed they were from it.

Rabbi Steinsaltz’s efforts for the yet unlearned or unaffiliated have had amazing benefits for all Jews, regardless of their level of observance, especially through his translation of the Talmud.

The Center has just gone further in bringing Rabbi Steinsaltz’s translations and elucidations on the ancient Jewish texts to everyone via the Steinsaltz Daily Study App and Portal with many options to study from – Amud Yomi, Daily Humash, Daily Mishnah, among a wealth of Jewish sources. You can literally tap into his legacy and enhance your Torah learning by using this App to study whenever, wherever and however you want. Torah study has never been easier or more accessible. You can watch classes, bookmark your studies, and track your progress and achievements as well.

The Steinsaltz Daily Study App and Portal bring the profound insights of Torah study to your fingertips, translated and explained in clear, modern English. Whether someone is investi-

gating these teachings for the first time or seeking a deeper understanding of foundational Jewish texts, the App is designed for learners at all levels, of all Jewish backgrounds or none at all.

For those even having only a few spare minutes to do some revision of a sugya, you literally have everything you need in your pocket.

With this new and unique App, Rabbi Steinsaltz’s vision to infuse Torah knowledge with heart and soul, and make it accessible to Jews worldwide is now being realized. The Steinsaltz Center’s commitment to advancing Jewish learning and making the rich heritage of the Jewish people uni-

versally available, has now, with this App, put the entire spectrum of Jewish knowledge at your fingertips, giving everyone the opportunity to taste the sweetness of Torah, and to learn about their heritage in a comfortable and individualized, and dynamic way. There

In the 1700s the Chassidic movement made the Torah and its commentaries available to the average person and demonstrated that you needn’t be a scholar to claim your Jewish heritage. Today, in the 21st century, the Steinsaltz Center has made inroads in learning the Torah and its commentaries by enabling anyone with a digital device to explore, engage, and connect with the full spectrum of Jewish knowledge. It even makes learning b’chavruta easier; you can discretely learn together on your commute on the train.

In a show of solidarity and to advance educational empowerment during these trying times of war, and as a zechut for our IDF soldiers who are risking their lives each day, the Steinsaltz Center is offering the App for free. Tens of thousands of people have already signed up and begun their studies.

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By Rabbi Moshe Dear

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hese parshiyos which deal with the construction of the Mishkan and the various clothing and items used by the Kohanim, seem to be linked with theme of Purim. Each year, the weeks of Purim itself or of Purim Katan, such as this year, falls during the weekly readings of the parshiyos dealing with the building of the Mishkan.

There is one interesting parallel which we find both in relation to the Mishkan as well as in Megillas Esther.

We find that Hashem makes a point several times to note whom He personally selects to be the chief craftsman and architect of the Mishkan.

“See, that I have called by name Betzalel ben Uri ben Chur from the shevet of Yehuda”. Hashem makes it abundantly clear that we are to take note of the precision with which Betzalel, the grandson of Chur is selected for this most holy of callings.

We find a similar expression when the Megillah introduces Mordechai to us. “There was a Jewish man in Shushan – and his name was Mordechai the son of Yair, the son of Shimi, the son of Kish”. Here too, as by the Mishkan, the Torah informs us of the individual, as well as his father and grandfather. This pattern is unusual and apparently not coincidental.

Who was Betzalel’s grandfather, Chur? Chazal tell us that he was Miriam’s son, and that he unsuccessfully attempted to intervene when Bnai Yisrael made the Aigel Ha’Zahav, the golden calf. He tried to thwart this ill-fated incident but he paid for this effort with his life.

History might look back at Chur and view him as a failure. They will say that perhaps he lacked the charisma or popularity to be adequately influential. They will say that perhaps he lacked the resources and skills to

be successful. He may be judged as a failure in his attempt to reconnect Bnai Yisrael to Hashem.

Therefore, Hashem makes it crystal clear in his instructions for the Mishkan’s construction; the Mishkan which symbolized the reconnection between Hashem with His people. “See! Take note! From amongst the thousands of potential candidates I am hand-picking Chur’s grandson, Betzalel to be linked forever as the chief architect of the Mishkan.” Chur did the right thing stepping in to protect Hashem’s honor and to protect the Jewish people.

Ultimately, you cannot fail if you do the right thing! Hashem notices, takes note, and repays in kind.

This lesson is equally gleaned from Megillas Esther. Mordechai refuses to bow down to Haman, igniting his wrath and deep anger. The Gemara tells us that the Jews in Shushan were quite upset with Mordechai. Why can’t

he just conform? Why insist on causing us all these problems? This is all because of Mordechai’s insubordination, they felt. However, the Megillah informs us otherwise. Mordechai’s piety, fasting, and sublime tfillos, as the gemara infers from the names of Yair, Shimi, and Kish, became the catalyst for our amazing salvation rather than the root of our trouble. Again, because when one does the right thing, Hashem takes note and responds in kind.

Adar is a month which builds tremendous achdus and opportunities for unity. As we go about our day, we seek to be kind, helpful, giving, and pious.

We may wonder to ourselves- “Does it make a difference? Are my actions impactful?” Learn and remember this lesson- Do the right thing and Hashem notices!

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Tears of Joy, Tears of Pain

BY RABBI ARON WHITe Rabbi Doron Perez’s son, Daniel, who is still being held hostage by Hamas

Rabbi Doron Perez has experienced the full gamut of emotions since the massacres of October 7. His two sons are IDF commanders; Yonatan was injured in the fighting, and Daniel was kidnapped and is still held in Gaza. Ten days after October 7, Yonatan was due to be married, and the family faced an agonizing decision whether or not to make the wedding. In spite of the tremendous challenges and emotional turbulence, Rabbi Perez has been an inspirational voice, moving thousands around the world with his faith and hope.

Rav Doron, thank you for sharing your story with us.

At the time of writing, your son Daniel is still being held in Gaza. Can you tell us about him?

Daniel is 22 years old and is our second son. He is a real chevraman, with a ton of friends of all different types. In the past few weeks, we keep meeting new people who know him from South Africa, school, from the army, from so many places, and he is loved by so many people. He is a really active guy, always running, playing sports – he is incredibly strong willed.

Daniel became a tank commander, and he was based on the Nachal Oz base right on the Gaza border on October 7. That base was overrun by Hamas terrorists, but Daniel and his team fought bravely for hours to hold off the invasion and save as many lives as possible. One member of his tank was tragically killed, and Daniel and the other two were taken captive to Gaza. A few weeks after the events, the army analysis came back showing that Daniel had been injured in the battle, but the amount of blood found did not thankfully imply a life-threatening injury. Since then, we have heard nothing. We don’t know where he is, in what state he is in, and obviously that aspect of not knowing his situation is an additional part that makes this incredibly difficult.

You have been through an emotional rollercoaster in the last few weeks. Let’s go back to the morning of Shemini Atzeres. Where were you that day?

We were home for yom tov in Yad Binyamin, and when the siren went off, we ran to our safe room. It did seem strange to us that the sirens kept on going – we were basically in and out of the safe room for an hour, which is unusual. Our oldest son Yonatan is a paratrooper commander, and he was with us for yom tov together with his then fiancé Galya. His phone started going off with urgent messages from his commanding officer: Anyone who can should come immediately come to Sderot. We now know what happened that day, but at that moment, no one knew what was going on. There were stories and information swirling around, but no one really had a clear picture.

Yonatan left with only a handgun. (He had left his army rifle uncharacteristically at his army base when he came home as it was Simchat Torah and didn’t want to

carry it around for all the dancing.) Yonatan was determined to go, and he drove off into the unknown.

At around four in the afternoon, our phone started ringing constantly from unknown numbers. It was Shabbat, but after consistent calls, we realized something was wrong and answered. “I’m OK, Dad,” said Yonatan at the other end of the line. Whenever you hear that as a parent, that’s when you really start to worry! He said that he had been shot in the leg, after he had been fighting terrorists for five hours around the Sderot and Shaar Hanegev junction area. He had ended up fighting on the Nachal Oz army base, to help retake it from the Nukhba forces, and it was there he had been shot. Only by grace of G-d he had “only” a moderate to light injury.

The army base where Yonatan was shot was the same base that Daniel was based. We later pieced together that they both fought that day about a few hundred meters from each other. Yonatan said that he knew where Daniel’s tank was parked, and when he was on the base that afternoon, he hadn’t seen it there. We took that as a good sign. We assumed he was with it fighting somewhere, and naturally, he wouldn’t have his phone on him in that situation. Yonatan also told us that he had seen tens of dead soldiers on the base, so the fact Daniel was out fighting with his tank we assumed was a good thing.

When Yom Tov was over, I drove to Soroka Hospital to visit Yonatan and bring him home to continue recuperating. I went around the hospital to see if Daniel had been brought in, as many other parents were doing, but did not find him there. By the next morning, when Daniel hadn’t called, that is when we really started to get worried.

When did you find out that Daniel was kidnapped?

The army officially came to tell us on Thursday, but already on October 8, we had heard unofficially through Yonatan speaking to friends that Daniel’s tank had been found and that he wasn’t there. We cried a lot, hugged each other, and it was a really hard moment. When the army came to officially tell us, they told us that there is an officer who is assigned to us who would be our official source of information.

“There is going to be a lot of rumors and fake news swirling around,” they said, “so any time you have any

questions ask me and I will be your source of information.” His name is Yossi Shemesh, and he has been incredibly supportive to our family.

As you were dealing with the news of Daniel being kidnapped, Yonatan was recovering from his injuries and was due to get married on October 17, only a few days later. How did you handle the decision of whether or not to go ahead with the wedding?

Well, firstly, my wife and I were clear in our minds that it was Yonatan and Galya’s decision, not ours. “We will support whatever you want to do,” we told him.

“But Dad, it is your decision. It’s your son who is kidnapped!” Yonatan responded.

“It’s your brother,” I told him, “And Mum and I will support you and Galya in whatever you want to do.”

A big moment for me processing the decision came a few days after Simchat Torah, when Yonatan’s commander came to visit him and to tell us the story of the battle that Yonatan had been injured in. As I sat listening to him, it started to dawn on me just how lucky we are that Yonatan was alive. He had been fighting on the Nachal Oz base that was swarming with Hamas commandos, and on that day, tens of Israeli soldiers were killed during the fighting on the way into the base – literally, soldiers to his right and his left had been killed or injured in more serious ways. Later on, when we started to go to more doctors, we began to realize the miracle of Yonatan’s injury – many of them literally didn’t understand or believe us when we said he had been shot in the thigh but it wasn’t serious – tremendously fortuitous ! A milliliter one way or the other, and his injury would have been more life threatening and with the bullets flying, he could easily have been killed, chas vshalom.

I came out of that meeting with an immense sense of pride at what he had done, risking his life to defend our people and land, and with such a deep sense of hakarat hatov to Hashem that he was alive. Since then, and with all the emotions that we have felt, we have never stopped feeling that gratitude just to have Yonatan with us, alive and well.

I have a colleague, Rav Shmuel Slotki, who lost two sons on October 7, fighting to defend Kibbutz Alumim, and with so many stories around of such loss and devas-

tation, we have to be so appreciative of every soldier and civilian who survived the battles that day.

When the commander was starting to leave, he said, “Yonatan, what’s going to be with your wedding?”

“What do you think?” I asked the commander.

He looked at Yonatan and said, “I think you should put on your uniform, go into your backyard with the chuppah, and get married tonight! Your dad is a rabbi; he knows what to do. Am Yisrael need smachot!”

Hearing that from his commander was also an important moment for me – it almost validated those same feelings that I was having. I had been concerned that despite the personal pain of Daniel’s capture, continuing with wedding was perhaps insensitive or detached from the horror of what Am Yisrael is going through, especially in the incredibly difficult first few days. But the commander gave me a sense of validation that wanting to continue building is not crazy but is healthy.

Yonatan and Galya came to the decision that we wanted to move forward with their wedding.

We also feel such incredible support, love and prayers from our family, our community, from our friends in South Africa and around the world. We are currently experiencing very stormy waters, and sometimes, the support from those places gives you the push you need to get through the next wave.

Can you share anything about the efforts to return Daniel and all the hostages home?

We are working with many different people around the world to try and bring Daniel and all our sons home.

“Since then, and with all the emotions that we have felt, we have never stopped feeling that gratitude just to have Yonatan with us, alive and well.”

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We have formed a very close bond with the other hostage families, especially the soldiers. A few weeks ago, we had a Hachnasah Sefer Torah in Hostage Square, and many of the hostage families all wrote a letter, dedicating it to their loved ones, in the merit that they should return home.

Often, when Israeli media speak to me, they ask me which box am I in: do I believe in fighting the war to return the hostages militarily or that we should make a hostage deal? Or to release the hostages at all costs or continue to defeat Hamas at all costs? I tell them that it is very complex. As a father, of course, I would do anything and everything for my son to return him, and there is no price which is too high! But I am not only a father; I am a member of Am Yisrael, too. How many

How do you stay strong, even just staying functional, during such a challenging time?

The human spirit is much more resilient than we often realize, and the Jewish spirit especially so. We are a nation who has been attacked, knocked down, more times than any nation in the world, but we are still here – not only surviving but thriving! It is deep in our DNA to be able to cry and feel the pain but never to lose our hope and to keep moving forward.

Just think about the founding story of our people, Yetziat Mitzrayim. At the Seder night, we don’t just tell a story about exodus and freedom. We sit and eat marror, mentioning the bitterness of bitterness of slavery.

But the yom tov is not called Chag HaMarror, but Chag HaMatzot. The marror is part of the story; Judaism has never denied that. But it is not the whole story. We are not defined or condemned by our suffering. We are never victims of bitter circumstances and always have a choice of how to respond. We keep going, fighting on rebuilding, and sowing seeds of hope.

We have witnessed in the past months such gevurah from our soldiers, such achdut within Israel, and with Jews from all over the world. These are the things that give each of us strength. Our family would enormously appreciate it if people could please daven for our son, Daniel Shimon ben Sharon, for his physical and emotional health and immediate return for him as well as every one of the hostages. And may we merit very soon to celebrate the day of their return , the safety of all our soldiers, the healing of all our wounded, the removal of any threat of evil from our borders, and the return of all the displaced people back to their rebuilt homes and to thriving towns and villages in the north and the south.

Light will triumph over darkness, truth over falsehood, morality over barbarity, and hope over despair!

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How did you deal with the emotions of marrying off your oldest son, while your second son Daniel was missing, held hostage in Gaza?

I had been planning in my head that I needed to put Daniel mentally to the side, to be in the moment. It was very hard. After Yonatan hopped down the chuppah, limping from his injury, the first thing he said to me was, “Dad, I could never imagine a scenario that Daniel was not at my wedding.”

The rabbi who was marrying them started speaking under the chuppah, and he said, “How can we not mention the person who isn’t here, Daniel?”

We said a perek of Tehillim for Daniel, and I broke down – it was some of the hardest, most painful minutes of my life. But then, we wiped away the tears, and were truly in the moment for the simcha.

In Kohelet, Shlomo HaMelech says, “La’kol zman va’eit,” there is a time for everything – for joy, for sadness, for war, for peace. What is remarkable is that sometimes totally conflicting emotions come at the same time.

It was simultaneously a time of great pain, but also of great joy, and we were able to compartmentalize the emotions to truly be able to celebrate the building of a new bayit in the Jewish people. Somebody said to me that it was the holiest, saddest, happiest and most inspiring chuppah she has ever been at. It was mainly a happy one, and it is possible to hold all the emotions together at once.

At 8 a.m. the day after the wedding, I was interviewed by the media for the first time. I couldn’t deal with any media in the days before the wedding, especially with the roller coaster we were on. I started, little by little, to share our story in the media, and then to solidarity missions that started to come to Israel. I began to realize that people draw strength and hope from sharing the story, so I have been doing that. In a time of unbelievable shock and sadness, our story was something that contained both sadness but also hope and the building of a new home and future while struggling with the contrasting emotions.

We at World Mizrachi bring around five groups a week to Israel, and in general, it is simply incredible to see how many missions with Jews from all over the world continue coming to Israel to show support.

Yonatan and Galya under the chuppah

soldiers, Heaven forbid, need to die to release my son, and is that right? What if something that endangers Israel in the future is done to release my son and the other hostages – is that correct?

Life is complex, and this situation is impossibly complex and painful without simple, elegant solutions.

Sometimes, decisions in life are between bad and worse options and not between good and bad. Often, journalists, media pundits and activists wish to simplify complex issues and pit one side against the other. Instead of a monolithic “this or that” perspective, I feel we need a broader more integrated viewpoint.

In the early weeks of the war, the parents of soldiers were less public and vocal due to all sorts of sensitivities.

But now we are being more vocal. We are worried about a scenario where deals are done to release the hostages except for soldiers who Hamas want to leave to the end.

If that happens, we are worried that once all “humanitarian” hostages are out – children, women, elderly – the U.S. Administration may pressurize Israel to end the war as soldiers are, Heaven forbid, “the price for doing war” – something which endangers our children. We therefore all believe very strongly as the soldier parents that any deal must include information about proof of life regarding our children and that the overall framework must include the release of soldiers who are the most exposed.

We are doing everything to communicate this to politicians and diplomats around the world.

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Commandos Recount the Rescue of Fernando Marman and Louis Har

by Eyal lEvi and itsik saban

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The helicopter that brought Fernando and Louis to safety

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n Monday morning, a moment after they completed the rescue of Fernando Marman and Louis Har from Hamas captivity in the heart of Rafah, Supt. Y., the commander of the primary assault force for “Operation Yad Zahav,” sat in the vehicle on its way back to Israel and said to the fighters, who were regulating their breathing: “We won’t rest on our laurels for a moment, and we hope that we are only getting started.”

There’s probably no better way to describe the heroic rescue operation that took place in the heart of en-

emy territory infested with terrorists. If a Hollywood scriptwriter had placed a script like that on a producer’s table, he would have been immediately asked to remove a few scenes to make the story more realistic.

“Everything is possible,” explains Supt. Y, who met us this week at the Yamam—Israel Police Counter-Terrorism Unit base in central Israel. “Regarding our unit and our friends from the Israel Security Agency [Shin Bet] and from other Israel Defense Forces units that took part in the operation, even if the conditions right now don’t seem right for the rescue of more hostages, it doesn’t mean that we won’t do everything to keep trying, whether its intelligence or operations, and we’ll

take every risk on ourselves to carry out the next operation.”

Supt. Y. met us together with three other Yamam officers, who on Monday morning were at the heart of the operation. Four men you may have met this week in the supermarket or asked about the time on the street, but only a few know about the dramatic event they participated in and how good it is that they are protecting us.

Supt. Y., 35, married with one child, who serves as deputy squadron commander in Yamam, already knew about the operation a few weeks ago. Because of the secrecy, only he and the squadron commander

57 less, but we understand that we’re ready to be harmed for something bigger than a single person, that’s who we are.”

Cmdr. D., 34, married with one child, said that the day before the operation he was mostly concerned for his family.

“I took out life insurance. Seriously. I sorted it out the day before the operation,” he says. “Since Oct. 7 everything has become much more real, and one needs to be practical. We’ve lost friends. I’m responsible for my family.”

Cmdr. A. said he thought the same thing. “I checked the insurance and I saw that I had left a decent sum.

My wife would be sorted,” he jokes.

High-Risk, Low Pulse The day of the operation arrived. Alongside the excitement and the tension, there were also fears, affecting Cmdr. A. “On a personal level, there was fear.

During the preparations and the battle procedure, I

We Know Every Window at the Target had big butterflies in my stomach and thoughts about what might happen and how to respond during the operation. However, during the operation itself, my pulse was a steady 60. I can’t explain it.”

Before departure, platoon commander Ch. Supt.

A. came to speak with the men. Yamam has lost nine members since Oct. 7, and the unit commander, Dep. Supt. H., lost his son, who served in the Shin Bet and was killed at the Supernova music festival massacre.

Even while he was sitting shivah, he continued managing Yamam operations.

Yamam began the operation with the knowledge of past failings in hostage rescues. Thirty years ago, in October 1994, Sayeret Matkal (the General Staff Reconnaissance Unit) failed to rescue Sgt. Nachson Wachsman, who was taken hostage by Hamas in northern Jerusalem. He was killed during the operation, as was Sgt. Nir Poraz. During the current Gaza war, three hostages—Yotam Haim, Alon Shamriz and Samar Talalka—were killed by IDF fire, even though they had succeeded in escaping from their captors.

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You weren’t afraid, when you killed the terrorists, that maybe you were mistakenly shooting at the hostages?

“The faces of Louis and Fernando have already been in my head for a long time. They were engraved in my mind, and I knew that if I wasn’t sure then I wouldn’t shoot.”

Even at the price of the terrorists shooting at you?

“I think we’ve all already made our peace with that.”

No longer an imaginary operation.

Supt. Y. and Cmdr. A. took Fernando and Louis to the balcony and lay on top of them to protect them, since the munitions charge and the bursts of gunfire had woken up the street, and armed terrorists were leaving their homes.

“Inside the house, there was massive fire through the walls and the windows,” says Supt. Y. “A terrorist or two threw grenades at us, so D. came with his team and killed them.”

“Every terrorist who peeked took a bullet. The supporting forces were very strong and precise.”

Says Cmdr. E., “At a certain point, we began to get supporting fire from the IAF—I don’t think they have ever fired from so close to our forces before. Just a few meters.”

The force understood that they needed to complete the mission quickly as the area was becoming hotter by the moment. They removed Fernando and Louis by rappelling from the second floor of the building.

“That was planned,” Supt. Y. says. “The preference was to remove them quickly and not to spend too much time dealing with the terrorists inside the home.”

“Fernando and Louis were in shock because of the shooting and explosions, but they behaved excellently,” says Cmdr. A. “They seemed cool, sharp. They were incredibly disciplined; we didn’t think they would be like that. I told them: ‘Soon you’ll be home, and you can invite me for coffee.’”

Yamam returned to Israeli territory crowned with glory. The fact that there were no injuries will long be taught in military schools.

Supt. Y. says there weren’t special celebrations at the base. They cleaned the weapons, organized the special equipment, and are now waiting for the next operation.

© JNS. Originally published by Israel Hayom.

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The operation was supposed to take place several times, but it was postponed because the conditions in the field weren’t yet ripe. At the start of the week, when the stars aligned and every force knew its mission—not only Yamam but also those supporting it, Shin Bet, Shayetet 13 navy commandos, and the Israeli Air Force—the go-ahead was given.

This kind of operation involves hundreds of people.

“The operation was planned to the level that each one of us knew exactly which window he was supposed to guard or which building threatened him during the operation,” says Supt. Y. “In breaking into the building, the soldiers knew how and when and which means they would use.”

They are young men with families. I asked them if all this risk was worth the rescue of two people. Cmdr.

D. doesn’t think for long and answers: “We don’t look at in terms of a person being worth the life of another, and if two soldiers die the operation is a failure. It’s not a zero-sum game. There is something here that’s far bigger. I won’t say that we in the unit are worth

Once at the target, the Yamam operatives knew exactly what to do, says Cmdr. A. “We place a munitions charge on the door and burst inside. I enter the room first and identify opposite me two terrorists. I deal with them both. I see Fernando and Louis on the floor.

Y. got Fernando and succeeded in taking him to the balcony. I grabbed Louis, dragged him towards me, and said, ‘We’ve come to take you home.’”

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“I dragged him toward me and said, ‘We’ve come to take you home.”’

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received the initial information about the possibility of rescuing hostages from the depths of Rafah.

“There was great secrecy about the identity of the hostages we were going to rescue,” he says. “During the following weeks, we revealed the information to the unit captains, and only a week before the operation, at the end of the preparations, did the operational soldiers learn who the target was.”

Every soldier who took part knew everything about Fernando Marman, 60, and Louis Har, 70, who were captured on Oct. 7 from their home in Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak near the Gaza Strip—their facial features, qualities and personalities. They also knew that the operation would be tough because it would take place in a Hamas stronghold that the IDF still hadn’t targeted, full of terrorists for whom Rafah is their last bastion.

The unit trained non-stop during those weeks, with an emphasis on the fact that the difference between success and failure was measured in millimeters.

“There’s an extremely extensive process of intelligence gathering for the event,” says Supt. Y. “We go down to fine details and there’s a long process of learning the territory, of understanding what the challenges are in planning.”

Cmdr. A., 35, married with two children, is the only reservist among the four policemen we met. A veteran, experienced soldier who quickly understood that everything he had done in his military service thus far didn’t compare to what he was going to experience.

With all the excitement, the policemen also understood the possibility that some of them wouldn’t return from the mission. The more intelligence that came in, the more they understood the complexity of the operation.

“We don’t talk about risks, we do the best we can, and we’re always developing and sharpening the plans and how we act to increase the chances among the decision-makers,” Supt. Y. explains.

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Tootsie Roll Facts February 23rd is National Tootsie Roll Day. (I celebrate it every day!)

Leo Hirschfield, who owned a candy store in Brooklyn, created the Tootsie Roll and named it after his daughter, whose nickname was Tootsie. (Leave it to a nice Christian man!)

Since they don’t melt in hot weather, the U.S. Army gave out Tootsie Rolls with each ration during World War II. (What’s the big deal? I eat Tootsie Rolls with every meal, too!)

Researchers at Purdue University and the University of Michigan researched how many licks it takes to finish a Tootsie Roll. Purdue found that it takes 364; Michigan found that it takes 411. However, one child who did a self-study informed the company that it took him 5,800 licks! (One kid that definitely does not have ADHD!) 64 million Tootsie Rolls are made every day at company headquarters. (But, then again, who’s counting? Uh…me!)

During the Korean War, “Tootsie Rolls” was the U.S. Army’s codename for mortar shells. (I’d jump too if someone said, “Incoming Tootsies!”)

Riddle me This A farmer is on his way back from the market. With him is a fox, a chicken, and some grain. When the farmer reaches a river crossing, he must use a small boat only big enough for him and one other item. Unfortunately, if the fox is left alone with the chicken, it will eat it, as will the chicken

with an empty boat and collects the chicken. (or fox). At the far side, he leaves the fox and grain together. He returns near side. At the near side, he deposits the chicken and collects the grain He drops off the fox (or grain) and picks up the chicken to return to the there. Then he returns in an empty boat and collects the fox or the grain.

Answer: First the farmer takes the chicken to the far side and leaves him

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eat the grain. How does the farmer get everything across the river?

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1. What is George Washington’s birthday? a. February 22, 1732 b. July 4, 1776 c. April 30, 1789 d. July 22, 1732

3. How old was Washington when he stopped going to school? a. 7 b. 15 c. 23 d. 37 4. What year was George Washington inaugurated as the first President of the United States? a. 1776 b. 1789

8. In what year did the George Washington Bridge open? a. 1912 b. 1936 c. 1947 d. 1953

5. What was the name of George Washington’s plantation home in Virginia? a. Mount Vernon b. Monticello c. Montpelier d. Montebello 6. How old was Washington when he became commander of the Continental Army? a. 27 b. 36 c. 43 d. 54 7. Who served as George Washington’s vice president during his first term in office? a. Thomas Jefferson b. Alexander Hamilton c. James Madison d. John Adams

5-A 6-C 7-D 8-B Wisdom Key 7-8 correct: You are a true history buff— the type that dresses up as a Revolutionary soldier.

3-6 correct: You generally know your history, but ain’t exactly crossin’ the Delaware!

0-2 correct: Hey, look at the bright side— you don’t carry any singles!

“I hired a professional worrier, and I haven’t had a worry since,” replied Yankel.

Yankel had been a compulsive worrier for years, to the point that it was ruining his life. He saw a psychologist

“That must be really expensive,” Mendel replied.

who recommended that he hire a specialist who could

“He charges $3,000 a month,” Yankel said.

help him.

“$3,000! How in the world can you afford to pay him?”

His friend, Mendel, noticed the change and asked, “What happened? Nothing seems to worry you anymore.”

askedMendel.

Yankel responded, “I don’t know. That’s his problem.”

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You Gotta be Kidding Me!

Answers: 1-A 2-A 3-B 4-B

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2. George Washington’s face is featured on which denomination of U.S. currency? a. $1 bill b. $5 bill c. $10 bill d. $20 bill

c. 1792 d. 1801

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Notable Quotes “Say What?!”

Ladies and gentlemen, Trump’s gonna get reelected. Donald Trump is going to be the next president of the United States if this kind of stuff that I’m reading continues to happen in American cities. Donald Trump is a shoo-in for re-election, even if he’s a convicted felon.

- Sports host Steven A. Smith

What it came down to for me was this. I see homeless folks in the street of New York all the time that are American citizens, I … sure see them in California. We’ve got poor, impoverished, starving people who are born and raised in this nation. How in the [world] do we come up with a $53 million pilot program for illegals, but folks who are here legally, or born here, we don’t have enough for them?

- Ibid.

I have respect for the governor. We get along well. I disagree strongly with how he would describe that situation. I certainly do think this was criminal activity. It was lawlessness, and I think that that’s troubling. But “thugs” is a dog whistle in the most classic sense.

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- Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas (D) accusing Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) of using a racial “dog whistle” by calling the animals that opened fire at the Kansas City Super Bowl parade, killing a woman and wounding 19 others, thugs

Change the definition of crime. If you get to define what conduct is going to be made criminal, you can predict who the criminals are going to be.

- Civil rights attorney Ben Crump on MSNBC arguing that the way to end the crime wave in the U.S. is to redefine what is a crime

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Everything is possible… Even if the conditions right now don’t seem right for the rescue of more hostages, it doesn’t mean that we won’t do everything to keep trying, whether it’s intelligence or operations, and we’ll take every risk on ourselves to carry out the next operation.

- The commander of the elite IDF unit that rescued two hostages from Rafah last week, in an interview with JNS

- From a letter that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny (who was killed in a Russian gulag this week) wrote to Russian refusenik Nathan Sharansky

I wish to you — no matter how hard it may be physically — to maintain your inner freedom.

On this day, I am sitting at the celebratory meal wearing a kippah, which was made 40 years ago, out of my footcloth, by my cellmate — a Ukrainian inmate in the Chistopol prison. That’s how twisted everything in this world is! I wish to you, Aleksei, and to all of Russia, an Exodus as soon as possible.

I think you are what cool looks like. You are a good sport to go out there every day to defend Bidenomics. But do you know what Bidennomics is?

It’s just paying more to live worse.

– Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), addressing Secretary Janet Yellen at a Senate hearing

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I want to thank you for this book as it has helped me a lot and continues to help. Yes, I am at SHIZO now, but when reading about your 400 days spent in the “punishment cell” on decreased food rations, one understands that there are people who pay much higher prices for their convictions. I understand that I am not the first, but I really want to become the last, or at least one of the last, of those who are forced to endure this.

– From Sharansky’s letter to Navalny

- Hillary Clinton in an interview with Christiane Amanpour at the Munich Security Conference

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You need to listen to him and take him seriously.

He is telling us what he wants to do. He wants to be a dictator on day one. He wants to round up people because of the way they look. They may or may not be undocumented. It doesn’t matter to him. He wants to call out the Army to do that.

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62 Forget about Trump, every single real estate developer everywhere on Earth does this. They always talk about their asset being worth a lot, and the bank says no. That’s just the way it is. If you’re going to sue this case and win, you’ve got to sue every real estate developer everywhere.

- Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary responding to a judge fining Donald Trump $355 million because he found that Trump inflated the value of his real estate assets

I would never invest in New York now.

- Ibid.

It is a form of Navalny. It is a form of communism or fascism.

- Donald Trump on Fox News calling out the fraud verdict in a less articulate way than Kevin O’Leary did and referring to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was killed by Russia this week

We are prepared to make sure that the judgment is paid to New Yorkers, and yes, I look at 40 Wall Street each and every day.

- New York Attorney General Letitia James on ABC taunting Trump that she is going to seize one of his prized buildings to satisfy the $355 million verdict

Hamas’ invasion…brought about the largest single-day loss of Jewish life since the end of the Holocaust. Is Biden so addled that he doesn’t understand that? Or is he so fixated on a second term that he doesn’t care?

– Michael Goodwin, New York Post

Asked about working with the perpetrators of Oct. 7, [Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh] replied, “One should not continue focusing on Oct. 7.” He later clarified on Al Jazeera, “Palestinian suffering did not start on Oct. 7” but with Israel’s creation. “Don’t deal with the cosmetics, you should deal with the roots of the problem.”

“Cosmetics” is a cavalier way to brush off Oct. 7, but why should Mr. Shtayyeh guard his tongue?

Even as his PA glorifies Oct. 7 at home and compensates the killers, the Biden Administration insists that a new Palestinian state be created for the PA to rule.

- Wall Street Journal Editorial Board

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Dating Dialogue

What Would You Do If… Moderated by Jennifer Mann, LCSW of The Navidaters

Dear Navidaters,

I have been dating on and off for five years and have met some really cool people. I enjoy the dating process and am extroverted by nature, so dating comes naturally to me. (For reference, I’m 28 years old.) I read shidduch columns, and I don’t have the regular issues of not getting suggestions or guys not liking me. Most people I go out with want to continue, but

my issue is that I have never met anyone I want to continue with past a sixth date. Lots of times, I like these guys as I would like a friend, but I don’t feel anything more pushing me towards a longer term relationship. My parents have asked me what it is I am waiting to feel, and the only thing I can describe it as is a magnetic pull towards someone, kind of like an extremely strong chemistry. If I don’t feel that by a sixth date, it’s just not going to happen. I’ve started getting pickier about who I give a yes to because it gets draining to break up with guys when I know they like me. I have to be more particular now about who I will give my time to.

My question is, although I feel very self-aware and know what I’m looking for, is there anything I could do differ-

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ently to make dating more successful?

Thank you, Ariella*

Disclaimer: This column is not intended to diagnose or otherwise conclude resolutions to any questions. Our intention is not to offer any definitive conclusions to any particular question, rather offer areas of exploration for the author and reader. Due to the nature of the column receiving only a short snapshot of an issue, without the benefit of an actual discussion, the panel’s role is to offer a range of possibilities. We hope to open up meaningful dialogue and individual exploration.

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The Panel The Rebbetzin Rebbetzin Faigie Horowitz, M.S. ou are a social person, confident, and extroverted. I think some answers may emerge from a two-fold process. Look inwards and look outwards. Look inwards and think about your friendships, old and newer. What keeps those relationships going? What are the commonalities and differences? Do you see any patterns? Do your relationships sustain you or can you be on your own and enjoy your own company for some time? Dig deep to understand yourself and your tendencies up until now.

You may want to go into short term therapy if it is a struggle to pose and answer questions about your nature and relationship patterns.

Do make an effort to look outside yourself. Are you swayed by a romantic ideal such as portrayed in literature and entertainment? Are you expecting to be swept away by a Prince Charming who will fix all and give you a wonderful life? Think, grow, and date new kinds of guys beyond your checklist.

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The Shadchan Michelle Mond hank you so much for sharing your question with us. You seem like a friendly, young woman who has a genuine interest in getting to know people. It is because of this that you often get stuck dating someone who’s wrong for you over a long period of time. You need to have a list of characteristics which are present in a potential suitor. When approaching a third date, look over your list. Keep your finger on the pulse. Is this person just a good person? Or is he good for YOU? Are you attracted to this person? Do you have respect for this person?

While dating should be a natural progression, you might need to set seemingly unnatural benchmarks for yourself just to make sure you are going in the right direction. You are a natural connector and truly enjoy getting to know people – this is an unbelievable quality. You must recognize this and work around it, making sure you are not dragging out relationships just for

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the sake of being friendly. Try setting the boundary of sharing a more personal story or fact about yourself on a fourth date. This way, you will know for sure that if you are not comfortable sharing it with this person, he is likely just someone you’re dating because you are enjoying the company, rather than feeling compatible with the actual person.

The Single Tzipora Grodko ear Ariella, Wow! I would be extremely drained if I gave each person suggested to me a six-date minimum. You must be a natural connecter, which might lead to spending more time with people (than you probably should). Chemistry is extremely important, and I believe comes with respect, appreciation, and of course physical attraction. Additionally, it comes from connecting to others on a deeper level, practicing vulnerability, and sharing personal experiences that lead to deeper connection.

I understand that you’re extroverted by nature and “enjoy” the dating process.

Is it possible that you are keeping the connections surface level, inhibiting you from deeper connection? I always encourage people to explore potential obstacles with a therapist because it’s always important to get a professional opinion to ensure nothing is interfering with the quality of our decisions. That being said, dating multiple people for a minimum of six dates is a bit unusual. I would encourage you to consider a professional opinion or dating coach to ensure you don’t burn out and can continue to date from a place of intention instead of simple social connection.

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netism and chemistry seem instantaneous.

Poem #2- “Through nights of laughter, days of care, slowly bloomed the love we share.”

In other words, by contrast, for some other couples, love needs more time to develop, where feelings of romantic attachment grow gradually, over time, and only after many dates.

So, Ariella, may I respectfully suggest that setting a strict limit of “six dates – love him or leave him” seems a bit arbitrary and capricious. The next time you meet a suitable guy, please consider dating him for much longer.

By doing so, with sufficient time, you might begin to envision the potential of building a life with him. And, when that happens, perhaps then you might start to feel that “magnetic pull” and “strong chemistry.”

I’m not smart enough to know why you have not yet felt an attraction that makes you feel a yearning for a long-term relation-

Are you expecting to be swept away by a Prince Charming who will fix all and give you a wonderful life?

ship, but I will venture a prediction.

I predict that you will experience those feelings, when, instead of wondering if a young man might be able to make you happy and enhance your life, you begin to dream how you might be able to make the young man happy and enhance his life.

This shift in perspective, from self-centered to other-centered in relationships, might be a potential turning point in your dating experience.

Good luck!

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Pulling It All Together The Navidaters Dating and Relationship Coaches and Therapists

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ear Ariella, Thank you for your email! Let us always acknowledge the possibility that it simply hasn’t been your time yet and that when Hashem decides it is, it just kind of happens. If you want to do

a deep dive i n t o whe t her t here is any thing you can be doing differently to make dating more successful, I suggest meeting with a

coach and/or asking friends and family this question. Without knowing you, I really have no way of responding to your question. We can guess until the cows come home, but I don’t know how helpful that would be to you.

Six dates seems like a nice amount of time to give to a prospective guy. It’s very understandable that you are feeling drained! My suggestion is that you speak with someone to explore this in more depth.

May I respectfully suggest that setting a strict limit of “six dates – love him or leave him” seems a bit arbitrary and capricious.

All the best, Jennifer

Jennifer Mann, LCSW is a licensed psychotherapist and certified trauma healing life coach, as well as a dating and relationship coach working with individuals, couples, and families in private practice at 123 Maple Avenue in Cedarhurst, NY. To set up a consultation or to ask questions, please call 718-908-0512. Visit www.thenavidaters.com for more information. If you would like to submit a dating or relationship question to the panel anonymously, please email JenniferMannLCSW@gmail.com. You can follow The Navidaters on FB and Instagram for dating and relationship advice.

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How to Hate Yaakov

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ISCLAIMER: Baruch Hashem, we are living in phenomenal times, when all of the antisemites around us are finally outing themselves so we don’t have to wonder who they are. That said, it’s come to my attention that my columns have not been very inclusive. Mostly, I talk to a large audience of Yidden about things that Yidden can relate to – sometimes I even talk about things that secular people can relate to – but I never really talk to the antisemites.

Where’s their column?

Here it is.

If you’re not an antisemite, feel free to skip this one.

-You don’t either have to know anything about the region or its history. Most don’t.

-What all antisemites are familiar with is the International Rules of War. They’ve all read it, internalized it… I think this is one of those things they teach in public schools that they don’t teach in yeshivas. They definitely know it better than an entire country’s military.

-Every Jew, no matter where he or she lives, is an official ambassador of Israel. So any time Israel does anything, feel free to run over to the nearest Jew for an explanation. To see if Israel shared it with all of us in our nightly Zoom meeting.

-The biggest part of being an antisemite is pulling people over to your cause while at the same time also denying that you’re an antisemite. “Listen when I said, “Kill all the Jews,” I didn’t mean in an antisemitic way. I meant in a humanitarian way. Like I believe Israel has a right to defend themselves. I’m just saying that if all of them died, they won’t have to.”

So you just came out as an antisemite. Congratulations! It is definitely the fashionable thing to do these days -- to hate a people who’ve been laughing in the face of antisemitism for thousands of years.

-You can also say things like, “Listen, I don’t hate the Jews; I just hate Israel. And all the Children of Israel.”

But perhaps you’re wondering: How do I go about it? Do I have to hold any core beliefs? How do I defend my values against those who would seek to defeat me with logic? This column might help you.

-If you have a choice between attending two opposing rallies, you want to go to the one that defaces monuments that have nothing to do with the Jews. Nothing says, “I am definitely right about who should live on specific pieces of land halfway around the world” like the destruction of public property.

-Just as Jews have a long, rich, and storied history, so do antisemites. Just as long, in fact. As long as there have been Jews, there have been antisemites.

Our forefather Yaakov’s own twin brother Eisav was an antisemite. So it in fact turns out that antisemitism may be a minute or two older.

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-Everyone likes having someone to blame for their problems, and the Jews have always and will always be around. If you want a scapegoat for your problems, you do your research -- you want to blame a people who won’t suddenly disappear, and then you’ll be like, “We still have that problem that we used to blame on them. I guess it wasn’t their fault.” Well, now what? You can’t now blame the same problem on a new group. People need someone to blame who won’t suddenly disappear on them. Hence the Jews.

-You don’t actually need a reason to hate Jews. No one’s going to call you on it.

-At Jewish rallies, nothing gets vandalized or looted.

So how are they sending a message, exactly? You want to attend a rally that destroys property, loots stores, and gets into fistfights with the cops (before thanking them at the end for doing their job, of course), in order to prove that the people on whose behalf you’re protesting are a peace-loving people.

-Chants are fun, as long as they rhyme. You don’t actually have to know what river or what sea. It could be the Nile River to the Red Sea. All you have to know is that “sea” rhymes with “free” and “Intifada” rhymes with “Intifada.”

-If you see a poster, rip it down. It’s just propaganda for whichever side wants people to live.

-What you’re doing is not antisemitism if you say it’s not antisemitism. Even if the Jews say it’s antisemitism what do they know? They’re just Jews.

Their opinion doesn’t matter. Also if you step on

someone’s toe, you get to decide whether it hurts.

-You are probably more sick of hearing the Jews complaining about antisemitism than the Jews are of experiencing antisemitism.

-For all that the Jews talk about G-d being on their side and miracles happening to them every day, miracles are happening on both sides. How many videos have we seen of deceased Palestinians that suddenly get up and walk away? Miracles! We have video proof.

-Jews think they’re so smart, but which side do you think is smarter? Israel takes weeks to figure out their tragedy numbers, whereas the Gaza Health Ministry can tell you within minutes of a rocket hitting a parking lot exactly how many hundreds of people happened to randomly be standing in that parking lot.

Sometimes they can tell you before even.

-The Gazans are way more environmentally friendly. They recycle photos of carnage from previous events in other countries, reuse their crisis actors for multiple scenes, and all of their missiles are made out of repurposed water pipes. Whereas a Jewish family goes through more foil in one year than a typical non-Jewish family does in a lifetime.

-Israel says they don’t release many pictures of victims because of respect and privacy, but at the end of the day, you’ve seen way more moving pictures of deceased Palestinians. Way more pictures of moving deceased Palestinians? Something. As the Jews say, “Reshaim afilu b’chayeihem kruim meisim.”

-The Jews say, “Don’t believe everything Hamas says. Hamas lies.” Then Hamas gets up and says, “We want to wipe all the Jews off the face of the planet.” And you say, “I don’t believe them.” And then the Jews say, “No, that you’re supposed to believe.” What do these Jews want?

-If you side with Hamas, they will add your name to a list of people they will kill last.

-You want an actual tip? Here’s one: Whichever side G-d wants to win will win. So maybe get on his good side. If you don’t know how, we can give you some pointers.

Mordechai Schmutter is a freelance writer and a humor columnist for Hamodia and other magazines. He has also published eight books and does stand-up comedy. You can contact him at MSchmutter@gmail.com.

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Mendy Levy Surviving Lev Tahor

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ingly of all, his followers were held to the highest of standards – punished severely for even the slightest “transgressions” – while his life of lies and acts of abuse were always excused under the pretense that he was a perfect man.

This was a community – or more accurately, a cult – made up of three hundred Jews. But one day, the group suddenly vanished from the land they had occupied for several years. The tents, the shipping containers, the muddy grounds, and the ice-cold rivers – now deserted. The people were gone.

This wasn’t the first time that the “Ultra-Orthodox” group, ironically named “Lev Tahor” (lit. pure heart), disappeared from their country of residence overnight.

One might appropriately label the cult a globetrotting group, considering the number of countries they’ve lived in through-

In His Words… it took me time to process everything as i was hanging around with very loving people, and i started realizing there’s a different

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if you are alive, you’re absolutely going through a challenge.

Everyone who’s alive has some challenges, but i would say the main thing is to focus on never giving up. There’s always space to grow and become better. you can’t give up.

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They [lev Tahor] should know that what they’re doing is very wrong and that everything in life has a consequence… There’s a g-d, and he loves our brothers and sisters. you can’t hurt them like that.

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Mexico now, in the middle of Shabbos.

Friday night, they took three buses, and the whole community moved to Mexico – on Shabbos. Where does religion come in here?”

And yet, the cult leaders claim that Lev Tahor is the only authentic form of Judaism, even going so far as to assert that Mashiach will come exclusively for those in the group. Those who deviate from their norms are considered like Gentiles.

Thus, we must avoid treating Lev Tahor as a Chassidish sect, for as popular cult buster and author Rabbi Shea Hecht explains, this group, like every other cult, is not about serving G-d; it’s about serving man. * * * It was the late 1980s. Mendy’s father, an eighteen-year-old secular Jew named Yehoshua Levy, had stumbled upon Lev Tahor when he was living in Israel. After mistakenly boarding the wrong bus, Yehoshua found himself sitting next to a man whose face would haunt him until his untimely death: Shlomo Helbrans.

Yehoshua was struck by the rabbi’s warm smile and “nonjudgmental, kind nature.” Talking to Mr. Helbrans on the bus, the teenager felt an incredible sense of acceptance and belonging, one that he had been craving for so long. Yehoshua was hooked, and he soon found himself becoming a devoted follower of Shlomo Helbrans, attaching himself to the growing community that the cult leader was beginning to craft.

Lev Tahor began in just that way: accepting, open, and warm. Just like most cults, this one was made to appeal to those in search of something more in life, namely

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out their 36-year history: Israel, the United States, Canada, Guatemala, Mexico, and other lands as well. They even tried and failed to move to Iran, whose supreme leader they pledged allegiance to, before settling down in certain European countries, such as Romania. While the leaders of the cult have attributed the group’s many escapes to religious persecution, the reality behind their departure is more likely rooted in deeply sinister motives.

At a glance, he seems harmless. Shlomo Helbrans, the first “Rebbe” of Lev Tahor, had long, thick peyos, a gray beard, and a wide-brimmed black hat – dressing like many Ultra-Orthodox Jews. He was a middle-aged, charismatic man with an undeniable charm, revered by his followers as a semi-Messianic saint. But discounting the fact that he abused children, kidnapped a teenager, inflicted physical harm on his followers, caused a man to die, and formed a deadly, brainwashing, draconian cult through manipulative tactics – Mr. Helbrans, despite his pious appearance, never was a truly religious man. According to a Lev Tahor survivor who spent several days with Mr. Helbrans – from the earliest time of day to the latest time that one may put on tefillin – the cult leader consistently failed to don phylacteries. Another escapee pointed out the fact that cult members do not learn Gemara or any Jewish sefarim, except for Chumash and books authored by Mr. Helbrans.

“When it comes to their leadership, to their decisions, there’s not even Shabbos anymore,” said Mendy Levy, a survivor of the cult, who escaped in 2018 at age fifteen.

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ld tents and worn-out shipping containers were scattered about on a small plot of land on the outskirts of Guatemala City. The mostly barren, muddy grounds, where mango trees once stood tall, were dotted with patches of grass; the ice-cold rivers were infested with snakes. This was a place – a community, you could say – surrounded by barbed wire fences; all too easy to get in, nearly impossible to get out.

Everyone lived in makeshift houses, except for one individual: the revered founder and leader of the group. The lifestyle he led was quite different, in several ways, from that of his followers. They were helpless in the summer heat, while he enjoyed the luxury of air conditioning in his large, comfortable home. They went along each day, hungry and malnourished, while he was allowed to feast. But perhaps most disturb-

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Soon after, Yehoshua, who, at the time, started wearing a black hat and growing long peyos, met the woman whom he was to marry. The girl wore a long black cloak, covering every part of her body except for her face. The unique-looking clothing, which to this day is worn by every female member of the cult starting at age three, eerily resembles the garments worn by Afghan women, thus earning Lev Tahor the nickname “the Jewish Taliban.”

With his wife, Yehoshua had ten children, each of whom was born into the cult, including Mendy and Yoel Levy, who were fifteen and sixteen years old respectively when they escaped from Lev Tahor.

Initially, the cult wasn’t isolated from the outside world. When the group existed in Israel, the United States, and even, to a degree, in Canada, members were allowed to live their own lives, go places, and do things that didn’t necessarily pertain to the cult. But eventually, Shlomo Helbrans stripped his followers of the ability to make choices for themselves. No longer could they work or do anything outside of the community; no longer could they even step foot out of the cult’s premises.

Thirty years later, when the cult was based in Guatemala, Yehoshua suddenly became severely ill from a blood infection.

The man’s family begged the Hanhala – the leader’s enforcers – to let him go to the hospital. And yet, the Hanhala denied their pleas, banning the man from seeking medical care outside the cult’s barbed wire fences.

Only when Yehoshua was on the verge of death did they allow him to go to the hospital. But it was too late. A few hours later, he passed away. The hospital informed the family that if he had been admitted just one day sooner, he would have survived. Yehoshua was 46 years old. * * * According to Mendy, Canada was bad, but once the cult moved to Guatemala, where the government was weak, the group’s leaders suddenly began subjecting their followers to several new restrictions and consequences.

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variety of punishments commonly administered in Lev Tahor. Children are punished physically for the slightest of “sins,” after which the child must say thank you and kiss the hand of the punisher. If someone violates a rule, they may be placed in chairem for a year or two, locked inside their homes, and banned from talking to anyone. And if the leaders decide that parents aren’t raising their kids well enough, they will not hesitate to take the children away and place them in other homes.

Lev Tahor’s definition of “good parenting” is further evidence of the group’s draconian nature. Parents are banned from showing their children affection – such as hugs, kisses, and I love you’s – and furthermore, all parents are forced to hit their kids.

The Levy family received all of the above mentioned punishments and more.

As a young boy, Mendy’s older brother, Yoel, wanted glasses and he thus lied, telling his teachers that he couldn’t see clearly. After they found out that he was lying, he received malkus in front of the entire school.

Yehoshua, a year or so before his death, told his family that he wanted to leave the cult; when the authorities heard of his desire to escape, they placed him and his family in chairem for a year. Most tragically, after Yehoshua died, the leaders determined that his widow wasn’t fit to raise her children.

They split the family up, placing each child in different homes.

“They were carrying my sister on the street, schlepping her to a different family.

She was screaming on the street, and she was crying,” Mendy recalled. “The worst retzicha (abuse) you could think of, they were doing.”

Shortly after the family’s tragic separation, the authorities forced Mendy’s mother to remarry, having her raise her new husband’s children. Not only were the children estranged from their mother, but they were banned from interacting with her at all. In one instance, Yoel Levy tried visiting his mother. As punishment, a member of the Hanhala suddenly grabbed a chair and broke it over the fourteen-year-old boy’s back. In the eyes of the “law,” she was no longer their mother. * * * Every day was the same. Everyone, the children included, would wake up early – oftentimes before sunrise – to daven a

three-hour-long Shacharis.

“When you come to school, you have to bring a form that your mom has to fill out: did you say Krias Shema, did you say Hamapil, did you wash negel vasser, did you say a lie? All of these things, they would have to write and give it to the rebbi at cheder,” explained Mendy Levy. “If you did something wrong, he would punish you in front of all the kids. I remember there were boys who were so scared that they would erase things before coming. It’s not like giving a small smack – it was big malkus with a belt.”

Later on, the children would have to go to the house of Shlomo Helbrans himself and personally testify to him whether they did anything wrong. The children would arrive at his home, petrified and anxious, and he would stare at them, insisting that he could tell that they were lying just by looking at their foreheads. Like most cult leaders, he could, at times, be electrically charismatic, and, at other times, frighteningly intimidating.

In Lev Tahor, the children are brainwashed into conforming to the cult’s rules through the use of fear tactics. The teachers would spend time, describing Gehenom in great detail to eight-year-old kids, informing the children of the unspeakable “torture” they would endure if they dared deviate – even slightly – from the rules of Lev Tahor. While Mendy desperately wanted to leave the cult for a long while, he was seized by this unimaginable fear, for he believed that the threats of his teachers were the words of G-d. The mere thought of leaving the group caused him tremendous guilt; he was born into the cult, this was what he grew up with, this was all he knew.

“In Shemoneh Esrei, there are two spots where you could pray to G-d and ask for things. They would give out papers on everyone’s siddurim, putting the names of the people who left [the cult], saying that you have to pray that they’re going to die with a meesa meschina [a horrible death],” Mendy said.

A few months after Yehoshua Levy passed away in 2016, Shlomo Helbrans mysteriously drowned while immersing himself in the river. His successor was Nachman Helbrans, his son.

After Shlomo Helbrans died, Mendy felt a sense of hope that the terrible situation would improve, but under the new reign of Nachman Helbrans, everything became

much, much worse.

“He made new rules: You can’t eat fish, you can’t drink milk, you can’t eat sugar – unless you go to the honeybees – you can’t have coffee. It started becoming ridiculous; no protein, nothing,” he explained, adding that none of the restrictions applied to the leader himself. “Everyone is hungry over there because you can’t be full from just eating fruits and vegetables.”

While Shlomo Helbrans, for instance, forced 15-year-old girls to get married to 31-year-old men, his successor made a new rule that was far more extreme, forcing everyone to get married on the day of their bar/bas Mitzvah.

Thus, it was time for Mendy, who was already fifteen at the time of the decree, to get married.

Soon after, Nachman Helbrans decided that Mendy was to marry his twelve-yearold first cousin. Although the boy was resistant to the idea of getting married, he had no choice in the matter; the leader was not taking no for an answer.

Soon after, Mendy and his cousin were engaged – but he had other plans. * * * The forced engagement was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Mendy couldn’t take it anymore; he knew he had to escape.

Mendy Levy is now twenty years old, free from the shackles of Lev Tahor. Despite his unspeakably traumatic upbringing, he insists on being a survivor, not a victim.

Today, he is a talented photographer and musician, spending much of his time in Canada and New York.

Although he no longer has long, thick peyos, he remains dedicated to enhancing his relationship with G-d, and he hopes to grow in his level of observance – out of love, not out of fear.

Mendy tells his story with the hope that his mother, his siblings, and all of the victims of Lev Tahor will be freed someday from the clutches of its evil leaders.

Although the cult still exists today, justice is catching up with its leaders. Nachman Helbrans is currently serving a twelveyear sentence for kidnapping two children, and several Hanhala members have been convicted and jailed or are awaiting trial or expedition over similar charges.

“There’s a G-d, and He loves our brothers and sisters. You can’t hurt them like that,” maintains Mendy Levy. “I think G-d will take care of it.”

This article is based on a podcast, “Inspiration For the Nation,” hosted by Yaakov Langer. To catch more of this conversation, you can watch it on LivingLchaim. com or YouTube.com/LivingLchaim or listen wherever you listen to podcasts (just search for “Inspiration For The Nation”) or call our free hotline: 605-477-2100.

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What Happens in Vegas…

By Allan Rolnick, CPA

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ast Sunday’s Super Bowl in Las Vegas was a spectacle for the ages. MVP Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs affirmed their dominance in the NFL, coming from behind to win in overtime. It was their second straight Lombardi trophy and their third in five years. About 1,000 celebrities clogged nearby airports with their private jets. Thousands more fans descended on the stadium and the city to eat, drink, and be merry.

The IRS is always a big winner on Super Bowl Sunday. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority expects it to generate $600 million in economic impact for the city. Much of that $600 million will eventually find its way to Washington in the form of taxes on income from seat sales (the most expensive luxury boxes went for $2.5 million), lodging, food, and beverage revenue, and gambling winnings. (Most of the ballers flying in for Super Bowl Sunday would rather die than be seen sitting at a nickel slot machine.)

But hosting a Super Bowl in Vegas marks a turning point for the NFL, along with a broader transition that works in the IRS’s favor, too.

The NFL has always had an uneasy

relationship with gambling. League officials aren’t stupid, of course. They’ve always known it happens, both among friends and through goons with names like “Louie the Nose” and “Frankie Bats” hanging out in sketchy bars. They’ve even facilitated it in ways both big and small – for example, by requiring teams

banned sports betting in most states.

Since then, sports books have exploded, especially online. Now, all you have to do is download an app, and you’ll have a casino in your pocket wherever you go. And you’ll be amazed at the variety of “proposition bets” you could make on the game. Are you a coin toss fan?

Are you a Gatorade fan? You could bet on the color of the Gatorade to be poured on the winning coach after the game.

to report on players’ injuries, which helps oddsmakers set lines. But they’ve always worked to avoid betting scandals that could destroy fan confidence in the integrity of the game. And that included blackballing Las Vegas simply because Nevada was the only state with legal sports books.

In 2018, though, the Supreme Court struck down a 1992 law that effectively

You could bet heads or tails, or Chiefs or 49ers. Are you a Gatorade fan? You could bet on the color of the Gatorade to be poured on the winning coach after the game. (Purple was the favorite at +225, with blue running a close second at +275, and “no bath” a longshot at +2000.)

The bottom line here is that much of the Super Bowl betting that used to go

through bookies (where it got spent on pinkie rings) has moved to legal sports books (where it gets taxed). Today’s legal sports books report your winnings to the IRS. Then, they report their own income, too. And that means the IRS wins no matter which team scores the most points.

Once those winnings hit your tax return, you’ll discover another IRS edge. Gambling winnings are taxable, of course. But losses are deductible only up to the amount of winnings. In other words, the IRS shares your gain when you win but not your pain when you lose.

Today’s story is just another example of how taxes affect everything. Sadly, we can’t help your favorite team win the big game. But if you call us to stop wasting money on taxes you don’t need to pay, we’ll help pay you for your seat in the stadium!

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 allanjrcpa@aol.com.

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Smoked Turkey Salad

By Naomi Nachman

Ingredients

Linda Ru benstein, who is a fa bulous cook, made this salad for Shabbat lunch, and it was devoured in minutes. Linda graciously shared the recipe with me for this article, and I’m sharing it with you.

Dressing

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I have just returned from a trip to Las Vegas where I ran a culinary event for the Community Kollel of Greater Las Vegas in Su mmerlin. We stayed with our close friends, who live in the community.

◦ 6 cups romaine lettuce ◦ 1 Persian cucumber, thinly sliced ◦ 1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved ◦ 1 avocado, cubed ◦ 1 lb. slab smoked turkey, cut into cubes ◦ 1 cup La Choy crunchy noodles

◦ 2 tablespoons sugar ◦ 1/3 cup mayonnaise ◦ 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil ◦ 1 tablespoon parsley flakes ◦ 1 teaspoon mustard powder ◦ 1 teaspoon lemon juice

Preparation

Mix all dressing ingredients together and set aside.

Place salad ingredients, except for the crunchy noodles, in a bowl. Top salad with

crunchy noodles and dressing right before serving.

Naomi Nachman, the owner of The Aussie Gourmet, caters weekly and Shabbat/ Yom Tov meals for families and individuals within The Five Towns and neighboring communities, with a specialty in Pesach catering. Naomi is a contributing editor to this paper and also produces and hosts her own weekly radio show on the Nachum Segal Network stream called “A Table for Two with Naomi Nachman.” Naomi gives cooking presentations for organizations and private groups throughout the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan area. In addition, Naomi has been a guest host on the QVC TV network and has been featured in cookbooks, magazines as well as other media covering topics related to cuisine preparation and personal chefs. To obtain additional recipes, join The Aussie Gourmet on Facebook or visit Naomi’s blog. Naomi can be reached through her website, www.theaussiegourmet.com or at (516) 295-9669.

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