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Around the Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Community Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

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Rabbi Zvi Teichman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Rabbi Silber. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Rabbi Motty Rabinowitz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

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613 Seconds with Kalman Finkelstein. . . . . . . . . . . 19 When Will We Get Off this Carousel of Hate?. . . . . 52

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HUMOR & ENTERTAINMENT Notable Quotes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Centerfold. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 The Ultimate Summer Bucket List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

JEWISH LIFE Hydration is the Key to Health. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Dating Dialogue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 BizWiz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Forgotten Heroes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Jewish History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Mental Health Corner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Your Money. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Life Coach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Gluten Free Recipe Column. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Cooking for the King. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

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Dear Readers, #fakenews - We Jews have witnessed it so long we are not surprised by it. I remember sitting on a plane during Operation Grapes of Wrath, a 1996 air campaign to put an end to the bombing of cities in northern Israel. All CNN would play was images of injured people who were either caught in the crossfire or Hezbollah militants posing as civilians. Never mind that it’s a government’s responsibility to protect its citizens, and never mind that Israel went to greater lengths to avoid civilian casualties than any other country. Mainstream media needed Israel to be the villain, and that was it. More recently there was the 2014 Gaza campaign. Again, one-sided coverage painted victims as aggressors and the monster as a harmless child. What’s changed is that now there’s a handheld device called a smart phone through which people can spontaneously record events in real time. For example, following the attacks in London, CNN tried to pull one of its usual “photo ops to fit its message” moves, but unfortunately for them the staged event was recorded, including its journalists directing which police officers should be filmed in the “official demonstration!” The truth is our whole view of olam hazeh is #fakenews. At face value, it seems to run on its own and have its own rules. Success, it seems, is not based on virtue but on strength. Bad things seem to happen to well-behaved

people and great things seem to happen to awfully-behaving ones. But in truth there’s a Creator who created all that we see, and one day, when Moshiach finally arrives, we’ll see everything in its true form. It’s happening already. Just a few years ago, no one even dreamt that Qatar would be at odds with fellow Muslim countries and that the UAE, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia would cut diplomatic ties, put travel to and from Qatar on hold, including all shipments. Or how about this: despite doomsayers telling us for years that if Israel stands strong she will be ostracized and cut off financially, yet the country is thriving more than ever before. Whether one is on the Right, and security is the number one concern, or on the Left, and sees global warming as the number one threat, or if one simply is looking for up and coming technology – Israel has become a trendsetter! Let’s be part of these miracles; or, rather, let’s be part of nature revealing its intended purpose. We can do it by adding goodness and kindness, prayer, learning, and engaging in all matters of Torah and kedushah, preparing ourselves for the time – as the Rambam states at the end of Hilchos Melachim – when “we shall know our Creator as is possible for a human being.” Wishing you and your families an enjoyable and successful summer,

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YCC/TA Baltimore Announces Appointment of New High School Menahel By: TA

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n June 12th, YCC/TA sent the email below to parents announcing the appointment of its new High School Menahel: It is with a great deal of excitement that I announce the appointment of Rabbi Hillel Dudovitz as the new High School Menahel for the 20172018 school year. Over the last two decades, Rabbi Dudovitz has served as a loved and respected 9th grade Rebbe and as the Director of Student Guidance / Mashgiach Ruchani at Yeshivas Toras Chaim in North Miami Beach, Florida. In both of these roles, he set himself apart with the relationships he built with his talmidim, his deep knowledge of educational pedagogy and psychology, and his uncanny

ability to reach every student on an individual level. Rabbi Dudovitz was also responsible for writing and implementing curriculum, teaching and mentoring Rebbeim, and coordinating various support services for faculty, students and parents. Born and raised in Chicago, Rabbi Dudovitz studied in Eretz Yisroel at Yeshivas Toras Moshe, Yeshivas Bais Yisroel and Yeshivas Mir Yerushalayim. Upon returning to the U.S. he learned in Yeshivas Zichron Meilech under Rav Chaim Epstein Zt”l before moving to Miami as one of the founders of the Kollel in Miami Beach. He also obtained a Master’s Degree in Education from Loyola University in Chicago in conjunction with the Jewish Education Leadership Institute. Rabbi Dudovitz has proven himself to be a tremendous Talmid Chacham, a committed educator, an effi-

cient administrator and a person who understands the needs of today’s high school boys, teachers, and parents alike. He is highly respected by his colleagues, parents, and the general community, and has built long-lasting personal connections with his talmidim. Rabbi Dudovitz will now lead an already strong leadership team in our Mesivta - including our Assistant Menahel, Rabbi Yisroel Lefkovitz, our Mashgiach Ruchani, Rabbi Shraga Hershkowitz and our General Studies Principal, Rabbi Shimmy Steinberg. I thank each of them for their support throughout this process. Of course, I thank Rabbi Fuchs as well for his many years of dedicated leadership as Menahel and wish him much success in the future. I would also like to express my sincere gratitude to our search committee

for their time and dedication throughout this process. The committee has remained committed and focused on finding the best candidate to fill this position. Our multi-step and thorough process, including interviews by the search committee, Vaad HaChinuch and Executive Board, all resulted in a strong recommendation to hire Rabbi Dudovitz. I look forward to working together to make this transition a smooth one for our Rebbeim, teachers, parents and most importantly, our deserving talmidim. IY’H, we will see our High School and the entire Yeshiva soar to even greater heights. As we welcome Rabbi Dudovitz as our new Menahel, I know that you join me in wishing him the greatest success in his new position. I look forward to introducing him to you, our parent body, in the near future.

Yeshiva Toras Chaim Fifth Annual Banquet By: Reb Eli Greengart

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he 120 people in attendance at the fifth annual Yeshivas Toras Chaim dinner were amazed at the progress the Yeshiva has made in teaching its talmidim gemara skills and motivating them in learning. Rabbi Szendro told of a boy who, over Shavuous, reviewed the first half of Meseches Brochos 3 times, totaling 90 blatt of gemara in response to a challenge from Rabbi Jaffee. This young man, as well as many others, have discovered their ability to learn and are reaching for greatness. Rabbi Menachem Goldberger said in his divrei brachah, “Several boys in our shul have benefitted from the Yeshiva, continue to benefit from the yeshiva and grow in a way which is beautiful and shows that they are getting the personal attention that they need to shteig in Torah and avodas Hashem.” Yeshivas Toras Chaim is currently housed at Suburban Orthodox, who has graciously hosted the Yeshiva for the past 1 1/2 years. Rabbi Szendro was pleased to announce that the school is currently in the process of

obtaining their own property, within walking distance, right in the heart of the community. The building, on Clark’s Lane off of Cross Country, will help enable the Yeshiva to build upon its important avodas ha’kodesh. The honorees this year were Jay & Devorah Taffel, who have been staunch supporters and tireless volunteers for the mesivta since it began. Parents of the year, Nachum & Chani Hurvitz, are ideal parents: always supportive, always excited about the yeshiva’s initiatives; and modeling a commitment to Torah, middos and the chinuch of the next generation. Both families are stellar examples and role models of mesiras nefesh and commitment to Klal yisroel and avodas Hashem. In accepting the award, Jay Taffel said “One of the best things the Yeshiva does is teach its talmidim skills … We talked to our son, Baruch, who graduated last year. He went to yeshiva in Eretz Yisroel and he was a bit intimidated, a bit worried since he was coming from a small yeshiva into a group of bochurim from larger, better-known yeshivos”. Baruch described two ways that Toras Chaim prepared him to succeed in yeshiva gedola. First, he acquired

skills. He may not have learned as many mesechtos or blatt gemara, but he had the skills to keep up and excel. Second, he had confidence. He was not afraid to ask a question. He was not afraid to say, “Rebbe, I don’t know.” Rabbi Ayson Englander, S’gan Menahel, quoted Harav Yaakov Weinberg, zt”l, Rosh Yeshivah of Yeshivas Ner Yiroel, in his explanation of a gemara in Bava Basra that the “entire chinuch system was changed for what must have been a small percentage of children.” R’ Yehoshua ben Gamla created the school system that we know of today, because orphans were not able to learn Torah. The message, Rabbi Englander explained, is that “Torah wasn’t given to individuals, Torah was given to ganz Klall Yisroel, everybody. Every single person in Klall Yisroel has to be able to get to it, and, if not, we have to turn over the whole world to make sure they can. An amazing thing…They can’t learn in Lakewood, they can’t learn in Bnei Brak if there are kids in Baltimore who are not being reached.“ That is what Toras Chaim is here for, to build passionate Ovdei Hashem by teaching skills with individualized programs and small class sizes.

For more information, please visit www.toraschaim.org or email info@ toraschaim.org. (l to r) Rabbi Mordechai Salzberg, Rabbi Moshe Sandhaus, Rabbi Ayson Englander, Rabbi Marc Messing, and Rabbi Pinchas Goldfinger

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hen Harry was diagnosed with cancer, he received extraordinary treatment from his medical team. But the long, arduous process eventually caught up with his spirits, and he felt lonely and isolated. When the volunteer coordinator of Chai Lifeline Mid-Atlantic, the regional branch of the international children’s health support network, suggested a Chai Super Sibling, his parents weren’t sure what to expect. As the relationship blossomed, they began to view CJ Finkelstein, the energetic, dynamic 11th grader at the Talmudical Academy of Baltimore who was visiting weekly, as almost a miracle for their son. Chai Super Siblings are high schoolage volunteers who visit and mentor children living with illness or loss in their families who need that extra boost of confidence and friendship. Each Chai Sibling is paired with a child by the region’s volunteer coordinator, who knows both the families and the volunteer corps and can make the appropriate match. Volunteers agree to contact their “little sibs” regularly. Chai Lifeline outings and activities give them opportunities to meet and interact, and volunteers and sibs often get together for pizza, ice cream or even a trip to the mall. The change for Harry has been dra-

matic. He continues to inspire all the Chai Lifeline volunteers with his resilience and treatment. As he finished up the school year, his mother wrote, “I just needed to share with you the influence that Harry’s Chai Sibling has had. In school, Harry did work where they had to come up with a character, state a problem, and find a solution. Harry’s entire project was centered around his Chai big brother, who is so much more to him than just a friend. He is a mentor and a true sibling.” “The reality is that the Chai Super Sibling program alters our volunteers as much as our kids,” said Leah Friedman, Chai Lifeline volunteer. “Even though each of our kids face tremendous struggles, they are still able to focus on the positivity. They inspire all of us, and push us to think bigger and more creatively about how we can help our families weather the challenges of their lives.” Daniella, another one of Chai Lifeline’s dedicated volunteers, agreed. “I just want to bring joy to my Chai sister. She means the world to me and seeing her ecstatic and happy makes me just as happy. She has changed my life just as much as I hope that I have changed hers.”

Swearing In of Alex Friedman, Baltimore’s First Orthodox Youth Commissioner on Youth Commission By: BJLife Newsroom BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Jeff Cohn

azel Tov Commissioner Alex Friedman on being sworn in as the first or-

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TA Celebrates Construction Milestone!

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ear Friends, I am pleased to announce that today, Monday June 15th, we hit a major milestone in our construction project! This morning, a minyan of TA students, administrators, building committee members and executive board members gathered on the work site to recite tehillim and mark the pouring of the footers for TA’s new high school building! After many months of sitework, today marks the actual construction of TA’s new buildings, and I am excited to be able to share the news! A tremendous amount of work has taken place over the last few months to get us to today. After the 4 houses in the Scotts Hill neighborhood were demolished in the area where our new preschool building will be, crews got right to work preparing the site for construction. New stormwater manage-

ment drainage systems were installed around the site, including 3 large retention pools. These systems were then tied into the Baltimore County stormwater system. New utilities were brought in, including new gas lines and water lines, to service the campus. Large retaining walls have been built, and massive amounts of dirt and rock have been moved, for the grading of the property and the support of the new buildings. Actual building preparation began first on the high school building, where footers were dug and rebar was set. That all led us to the pouring of concrete this morning. We are told that the walls of the building will begin to go up next week. The building will start with the gym area, which is the area closest to the dormitory, and work its way toward the other end of the building. Throughout this process, I look forward to continuing to share our progress, as we iy”H look forward to completion in the summer of 2018.

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his year will be the 26th year that the Baltimore community has merited to say these words as we repeatedly finish the momentous project that R. Yerachmiel Friedman and R. Simcha Kossman began and Rabbi Joseph Schecter made famous - Baltimore’s Siyum HaTorah. It has been many years that Baltimore has been hosting a community wide Siyum HaTorah. This effort, which includes the learning of Tanach, Mishnayos and Shas Bavli by members of the community, is a great testament to the Achdus of our wonderful city. Each year hundreds of participants take manageable chunks of Kol HaTorah Kula in order to collectively make this Siyum. What one person is unable to accomplish by himself,

becomes an achievable goal when we all join together. Baltimore’s Siyum has been the model for other Siyumim around the country and indeed, the world. This 26th Siyum HaTorah ofBaltimore will take place this year on Wednesday, July 5 at Bnai Jacob Shaarei Zion. Mincha is at 6:30 followed by the Seudas Siyum at 6:45. Words of Chizuk will be spoken and we will then begin, B’Ezras Hashem, the 27th cycle. Many shuls have already committed to learning certain sections and we will hope to also introduce a Youth Siyum as well. Please join with us at this great communal event to show our Kavod HaTorah. RSVP to Seth Gerstman at 410-764-1414 or syata@ us.net.

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Baltimore’s Khal Chasidim Celebrates Hachnasas Sefer Torah By: Devorah Klein

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joyous hachnasas sefer Torah was held for K’hal Chassidim of Baltimore, home of the Chassidishe Kollel – Kollel Le’Hora’ah. The celebration began with a well-attended kesivos osiyos on Wallis Avenue, which was graced by the presence of many Choshuve Rabbonim of Baltimore, including Rav Moshe Heinemann, Rav Yosef Berger, Rav Dovid Heber, Rav Yissochar Dov Eichenstein and others. Assisting in the kesiva was Rabbi Shimon Chaskelson (shoel u’meishiv at the Kollel Le’Hora’ah of K’hal Chassidim) and Rabbi Avrohom Boruch Belz (father of the Sofer, Rabbi Dovid Belz of London). The Sefer Torah was then transferred to Cheder K’hal Chassidim, located on the corner of Park Heights and Pinkney, from where an exuberant procession began. Accompanied by

live music from Korn’s Torah Truck, a leibidig procession led the new sefer Torah up Pinkney Road, across Biltmore Avenue, and down Parkington Road to the Beis HaMedrash of K’hal Chassidim. Hundreds of Rabbanim from across the community, children, Kollel yungeleit, mispellelim of Beis HaMedrash K’hal Chassidim, and many other individuals and families – from Baltimore, New York and New Jersey, came together in a beautiful togetherness to celebrate b’simchas haTorah. Following the procession, a deluxe seudah was held at Bnos Yisroel, for the Kollel Yungeleit, their families, and members of the kehillah. Harav Hershel Rosenfeld, Rosh Kollel, and Mr. Mordechai Snider delivered divrei Torah. “The need for the new sefer Torah is a demonstration of the growth of our kehillah,” remarked Rabbi Tzvi Weiss, executive director for Kollel Le’Hora’ah of K’hal Chassidim. “As we continue to grow, we are making

preparation for our new facility, which will bezras Hashem have multiple minyanim going on simultaneously, necessitating more sifrei Torah. “ The hachnasas sefer Torah was a joyous occasion for the entire community, and specifically the Park Heights neighborhood, which has been growing stronger and more vibrant, due in large part to the presence of the kollel. K’hal Chassidim is also pleased to announce that the twenty town homes that are being built at the corner of Park

Heights and Taney Road are nearing completion, and they are hopeful that the yungeleit will be able to move into their spacious new homes during the summer months. At the same time, the kollel is preparing to welcome a new group of yungeleit, and they are currently interviewing candidates. Cheder Khal Chassidim continues to grow as well, and a chassidishe girls’ school will bezras Hashem be established this coming September, with pre-nursery, nursery, and kindergarten classes.

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JCC/Pikesville Ultimate Frisbee Leagues Combine Middos, Exercise and Competition By: Brett (Alexander) Weil

n the most hotly contested final in the four year history of the Pikesville Boys Ultimate Frisbee league, Ring of Fire narrowly bested Grey Duck 8-7, in sudden death overtime on Wed. May 24. As a recreational sport run in partnership with the JCC and completely shomer Shabbos, the league has open registration but drew heavily from local Jewish day schools. The boys division, which included 7 sessions, had over 50 participants this year and was divided up into two levels: the M&T Elite League for grades 4-6 which had 7 competitive teams and the Sportsboosters Classic Clinic for grades 1-3. Both the Classic Clinic and a separate girls elementary school division focused on skills such as throwing, catching and field awareness. The Elite league featured two sessions of skills and evaluations to balance the teams. Sessions 3-6 included skills and drills as well as two competitive games

each week, to determine playoff seedings. After the round-robin schedule concluded, an all-star game was played which allowed some of the better players to hone their craft against a more consistent level of competition. Additionally, the boys league culminated at Skyzone in Timonium with an hour jump and kosher pizza party. Players all received an appropriate award with their coach publically recognizing their strengths. League leaders included Aaron Luxenburg with 22 assists (touchdown throws), Yechezkal Newman with 26 goals and Dani Ocken with 27 defensive blocks. Even when the playoffs started, good sportsmanship was the rule and not the exception even though play became more competitive and “high stakes.” Coaches focused on giving the kids a positive athletic experience and modeling and teaching good middos. Winning is a salient but secondary goal. Rather, the primary focus on helping to develop solid, respon-

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sible athletes who become menschen. To that end, the coaches and parents were very proud of all of the winners of the Ethan Kadish “Chazak”/ Be Strong award for integrity on the field, hard work and improvement. The award recipients from each team are Nosson Horwitz, Yisrael Yair, Rafi Lerner, Yair Ziffer, Elan Vogelstein, Didi Sebbag, Avi Bookman, Ruxton Smith (boys clinic) and Gav Mirkin (boys clinic) and Kimmie Stal (girls) The playoffs and final were a hotly contested affair. Following the regular season results, Black Tide captured the #1 seed while second place ended in a three-way tie between Rhino, Grey Duck and Ring of Fire. Playoff seeding was settled by a statistical tie breaker (goals against) with Ring of Fire being dropped down to the #4-7 pool. Yet it was Ring, led by Yosef Chaim Weil and Nosson Horwitz, that won a three game play-in and beat the #1 seed in semis (Black Tide) to earn an unlikely spot in the finals. The final was one of the most competitive games in the history of the Pikesville boys league and the most thrilling denouement. Grey Duck, led by Aaron Luxenburg and Yechezkal Newman, and Ring of Fire battled back and forth, matching point for point until half time where Grey Duck took a 5-4 lead. Grey Duck then extended its lead by scoring first out of half-time. Ring of Fire remained calm under the pressure, and took advantage of the mistakes that Grey Duck made in order to comeback and tie the score as regulation play expired. The teams continued battling into the evening in a sudden death situation (a.k.a. “Universe Point”). Drives went back and forth with each team coming close to scoring multiple times. Eventually, Yosef Chaim Weil of Ring found Lucas Elms Kim in the endzone for the game winner to capture the title 8-7.

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n 2011, Mordy and Sarah were feeling helpless. They had just had their third child and moved from an apartment to a small house, but felt like they were regressing financially. They could meet the minimum payments on their credit-card balance, which was growing dangerously. They could afford the mortgage payments, but hadn’t factored in the various moving expenses or the need to replace the roof and the heating system. Meantime, Sarah cut back her working hours to devote time to the family. The couple needed to get their financial house in order, but didn’t know where to start. Their rabbi directed Mordy and Sarah (a real Baltimore family who’re given anonymity here) to Mesila. Mesila, a well-run volunteer organization,

counsel’s families like theirs. Mesila specialists asked Mordy and Sarah to provide their budgetary history. Completing a budget form designed specifically to capture the unique expenses of a frum family enabled the couple to become aware of their actual earning and spending. Mesila also suggested several optional paths to developing a balanced budget. These included additional income, much more careful budgeting and weekly tracking of expenses. Though it took many months to get on track, and with two additional children, five years later, things remain tight financially, but Mordy and Sarah manage their finances effectively and balance their budget. Mesila was founded in Israel, and was brought to Baltimore in 2009 by Laurie Gutman Z” L, Zevy Wolman and Yehuda Neuberger, local, in-

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volved community leaders concerned by those facing difficulties such as that described above. In these eight years, Mesila has worked with more than 250 families. Direct counseling services involve counseling sessions to address the specific needs of each client-family. Some families are managing well and seek guidance “around the edges” to assure that they’re on the right track. Many more families face financial difficulties, often with debt slowly building to the point of concern, as with Mordy and Sarah. Some families grapple with unexpected expenses that threaten their budgets or even lead to desperation, with no clear, viable option open. Mesila helps families gain a comprehensive, accurate picture of their current income and expenses. Achieving awareness of one’s objective financial situation is a pre-requisite to future planning. Mesila’s counselors are true experts in helping individuals and families develop and live within a budget. They apply real-world expertise to assisting families in looking realistically at their financial equation and determining ways to close the gap. It is a highly personalized process in which decisions are made by the family, not the counselor. As volunteers at Mesila, counselors receive intense classroom training and field work to hone their skills. Most counselor volunteers draw from that training and from their career experience, whether it be in the business world or other professions. Mesila assistance, including counseling, is provided at no charge to the client. Integrating, Evolving and Expanding Through relationships with such communal institutions as Ahavas Yisroel, Jewish Community Services, Joblink of Maryland and Hebrew Free Loan, Mesila helps clients to better manage their own finances in ways that these organizations individually are not set up to do. Indeed, several local schools have

over the years arranged for Mesila to present sessions outlining the basics of a family’s financial planning. In recent years, Mesila has expanded its focus to serve the Baltimore Jewish community in a preventative capacity. Mesila offers quarterly seminars for young couples, educating them on the need for budgeting and how to communicate about budgeting and finances. Hundreds of people have attended these seminars: singles, engaged couples, mature couples, again-single individuals and even parents with their young-adult children. Attendees are not precluded from receiving subsequent counseling, although the seminars’ goal is to simply increase the level of awareness and importance of financial management. Additionally, technical budgeting tools provided by banks and organizations like YNAB, (You Need a Budget), and Mint.com streamline the previously arduous task of tracking spending and provide instantaneous feedback. Mesila has had many attendees request counseling to make sure that they are on the right track – something that thrills us, as it indicates a healthy level of consciousness about one’s finances. Upcoming seminars will include a critical module: intra-couple communication. The seminars will stick with the fundamentals of budgeting, preparing a monthly budget, living within the budget, measuring progress on keeping within the budget, analyzing variances between budgeting and spending, discussing one’s budget and joint decision making. Members of the Baltimore Jewish community have many financial challenges inherent to traditional observance. Mesila exists to help educate, inform, coach, teach and counsel. Please sign up for our next FREE two-part Mesila Workshop which will be held on July 16th and July 23rd at Bnai Jacob Shaarei Zion from 7-8:30pm. To register or to get more information, please contact Nisa Felps at 410.800.2390 or email mesilabaltimoreclass@gmail.com.

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on her shidduchim. You mentioned the Governor… are you involved in politics? I am new to political activism, and started to get involved because Yitzy Schleifer’s election made me realize we need to pro-actively change things. Asa parent and homeowner I’m worried about Baltimore’s outrageous crime and high property taxes. As an employer, I want Maryland to be better for business. As a Jew, I care about Israel. Last week I joined Baltimorean Levi Friedman and others in Washington, to lobby Congress on Israel. And I’m supporting Dalya Attar’s race for State Delegate because we need her in Annapolis and its up to all of us to get her there. It’s important that we get everyone in our community registered to vote, to learn about the issues that affect us, and to actually vote. Tell us something that even our readers who know you well don’t know about you: I never met a piece of steak I didn’t like.

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The Finkelstein name is associated with Old Time Baltimore. Tell us about that…and yourself I grew up with six siblings in Baltimore; my father, Levi, worked hard to support the family and my mother, Malka, tried to keep us in line. I went to Israel to learn in yeshiva but couldn’t stay away for long. Five years later, with a brief stop in Antwerp (where my wife is from and my oldest was born) we moved from Bnei Brak to Baltimore. My family lived here since the late 1800s. My mother’s side was Russian Chabad immigrants, running Spiv-

ack’s Poultry on Lombard Street. Not only was I was born and raised here, but today I live within 5 miles of where my great-great grandparents migrated to, and where my great-grandparents, grandparents and mother were born. I daven now by Rav Tzvi Weiss’ shul, but I remember davening at the first Agudah of Baltimore, AKA “Gutmans”, which was directly across the street from my Simmonds Avenue childhood home. So you aren’t operating a chicken store on Lombard Street? Some days at work, I think it may be easier dealing with dead chickens. Seriously though, I was fortunate twenty years ago to team up with Ben Strauss and Steve Schuman. Although Steve grew up in a family furniture business, we started what’s now known as PriceBusters on such a shoestring budget that every day, even the smallest financial problem had potential to shut us down. We were so dedicated to building a successful business that at one point, Steve and Ben even lived together to keep expenses low. But I realized that we’re fortunately a long way from those days when,

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The Week In News

Young Border Police Officer Brutally Murdered

Hadas Malka, a 23-year-old Border Police officer, was sadistically killed by three members of Palestinian terror groups. The three terrorists were all shot dead during the attack, which took place on Friday. Staff Sergeant Malka lived in Moshav Givat Ezer in central Israel. She had completed her mandatory military service and then stayed on for an additional 15 months and became an officer. She was brutally murdered near Damascus Gate on Friday night. Malka was responding to sounds of gunfire when she was attacked. The gunfire was coming from a second attack that was being carried out on Border Police officers in the Muslim Quarter. Malka fought with her attacker, while attempting to get to her weapon. The three murderers were Adel Ankush, 18, Bra’a Salah, 19, and Asama Ahmed Atta, 19, all from the West Bank village of Deir Abu-Mash’al near Ramallah. According to the Shin Bet, all three had been arrested for or

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attack, she sent out a selfie to her friends, “Shabbat Shalom to my loving friends.” They responded just ten minutes before she was killed. “Hadas was a real-life Wonder Woman,” her friend Amit Azulai told Channel 2. “Good-hearted and optimistic.”

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The Week In News living in the country. Their money combined totals over 168 billion U.S. dollars. The richest person in Israel is media mogul Patrick Drahi. The Morocco-born French businessman owns the country’s leading media and telecommunications outlets. He owns a significant portion of the HOT cable television company and founded 124 News. He also founded and is the controlling shareholder of Altice telecom group. In 2015, Drahi was ranked 57 richest person in the world by Forbes magazine. His fortune is estimated to be $14 billion. The second richest family in the Holy Land is the Wertheimer clan, led by patriarch Stefan (Stef) Wertheimer. Their fortune is estimated at $8.7 billion. The German-born Stef is an industrial powerhouse and founder of ISCAR Ltd. He is well-known for his philanthropic work and peace-promoting efforts. He was recently awarded the Oslo Business for Peace Award for his construction of industrial parks in

impoverished, predominantly Arab regions of Israel. Coming in third on Israel’s richest list with an estimated net worth of $5.2 billion is Shari Arison. The New Yorkborn businesswoman is the daughter of renowned businessman Ted Arison. She is the owner of Arison Investments, and Bank Hapoalim is one of her companies. She is considered the richest woman in the Middle East. Next up is Hollywood producer and businessman Arnon Milchan. The $5.1 billion man owns stock in Israel’s Channel 10 and co-owns the New Regency production company with Rupert Murdoch. Rounding out the top five richest people in the State are Danna Azrieli and the Azrieli heirs. The inheritors of the Azrieli fortune have businessman and architect David Azrieli to thank for all of their dough. David spearheaded the Azrieli group, which owns scores of shopping centers around Israel. David died in 2014 at the age of 92, leaving his $4.5 billion fortune to

the family. His 49-year-old daughter Danna has taken over as CEO of the group.

Kraft Brings Hall of Famers to the Holy Land

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft sponsored and led a weeklong goodwill visit to Israel this week. The group included 18 Pro Football Hall of Famers including Jim Brown, Joe Montana, Eric Dickerson and

Marshall Faulk. For all but two of them, this was their first visit to the Holy Land. “I love bringing people from America to the Holy Land who’ve never been here,” Kraft said. “I think bringing these Hall of Famers – it’s a treat for them – and they see that [Israel] is not like it is [described] in the media.” Noting the fear, he added: “If I didn’t come on this trip, they wouldn’t have come. If I was willing to come, they’d come.” The trip was kept a secret until just before their arrival over concerns that anti-Israel groups would pressure the players to boycott the trip and the country. Before the players returned to the U.S., they attended the dedication of a sports complex with a regulation-size football field that Kraft is building in Jerusalem. Other stops on their tour included Tel Aviv, the Old City, and the Dead Sea. The trip seems to have helped Kraft’s New England Patriots. Kraft told reporters that he sponsored the

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same trip in 2015 when his team won Super Bowl 49 over Seattle. He won again in 2017 when the Patriots took the Atlanta Falcons for the title in February. On Tuesday, Kraft cut the ribbon in the ceremony marking the opening of the new Kraft Family Sports Campus in Jerusalem. Kraft made a $6 million gift toward the sports complex – his second in Jerusalem, after Kraft Stadium near the center of the capital. This larger complex was constructed with sponsorship from organizations Mifal HaPais and Toto and built in collaboration with the Jerusalem Foundation and the Jerusalem Development Company – Moriah. Due to open in two weeks in time for the 20th Maccabiah, the complex contains two soccer fields and one dual-use U.S. regulation football and soccer field, as well as locker rooms, administrative offices, parking, a central pedestrian thoroughfare and plans in the pipeline for additional facilities. “This is an emotional moment for me,” said Kraft. “My life is about only doing things I’m connected to. To share this with great players who are here, and see how special this country is, is an honor and a privilege.” Kraft, now 76, said he received tefillin for his bar mitzvah, which he would put on every morning as he prayed facing Jerusalem, amid dreams of being in the holy city and praying at the Western Wall. “I was at the King David with my wife in 1963 and I remember being so disappointed to be so close to the Old City and not being able to go to the Kotel because of Jordanian soldiers on the walls,” he said. “I can’t describe the excitement I felt and the recognition I felt for G-d that we were allowed to go back to our holiest place,” he added, referring to Israel’s 1967 Six Day War victory that won back the Old City and offered access to the Western Wall. “Now 50 years later, I’m here to stand before you and I’m able to help Jerusalem do this.” Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat presented Kraft with the Builder of Jerusalem award. It was in 1999 that Kraft first donated $200,000 to construct the first Kraft Stadium in Jerusalem, a state-

of-the-art AstroTurf field at the entrance of the city to be used primarily by a local league, American Football in Israel. The collaboration began when an AFI player recognized Kraft in the lobby of the King David Hotel and told the millionaire that he and his friends played organized football in Israel on uneven, overcrowded fields. Shortly after, Steve Leibowitz, a Jerusalemite and founder of the American Football League, met with Kraft and received a contract promising $200,000 for a new field. The field was later improved in 2005, and has been used since for AFI football team scrimmages and games, as well as other sports teams, day camps and concerts.

Israel Quietly Funding AntiAssad Rebels

Syrian rebels near the Golan Heights have been getting their funding, medical supplies, and humanitarian assistance from Israel. The Jewish State has been helping forces opposed to the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, according to recent interviews conducted with a handful of rebel leaders. Israel opposes Assad and his Iranian, Lebanese and Russian allies and hopes to set up a buffer zone on its border with forces that are friendly towards Israel. Reports have shown that a special unit has been established to transfer aid to such groups. The unspoken actions taken by the IDF have been dubbed the “Good Neighborhood” policy. “Israel stood by our side in a heroic way,” a spokesman for the rebel group Fursan al-Joulan, or Knights of the Golan, Moatasem al-Golani, said. “We wouldn’t have survived without

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Pricey Parking

If you thought parking in Manhattan was expensive, think again. Recently, the South China Morning Post reported that a business executive paid $664,000 for a parking space in his ritzy Hong Kong apartment building, according to property records, setting a new record for the city by $50,000. Kwan Wai-ming is not poor when it comes to parking spaces. The businessman owns two parking spaces and two apartments in the Upton building – worth over $10 million. The price

paid for the third spot was two to three times the going rate per square foot for apartments in Hong Kong, which is home to the world’s most expensive real estate today. NYC, though, is home to the world’s most expensive spots (don’t we know it!). A penthouse in New York’s Greenwich Village that was sold last year for $26 million originally was listed with a $1 million parking space included. Looking to add expensive parking spot to your list of assets? A new building in SoHo that’s currently being filled has 10 spots available for $1 million each. With prices like these, your cars must be made out of gold.

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Consider an entire building in Singapore designed to be a vending machine for sports cars. Launched in late 2016, Autobahn Motor’s new ABM facility showcases 60 exotic, vintage and supercars which buyers can browse on a tablet on the ground floor before an automated retrieval system brings your choice down. While this is not technically the world’s first car vending machine (they’ve been around in the U.S. for a while), the Ferraris and Lamborghinis on offer almost certainly makes it the most luxurious. Speaking of the finer things in life, if you have a sudden craving for caviar one night while vacationing in L.A., you can enjoy one of the world’s more expensive foods

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The Week In News without heading to a restaurant. At $500 an ounce, it’s good this vending machine accepts credit cards. In London, in Selfridges department store, vending machine users can enjoy a bottle of fizzy champagne from Moët and Chandon. At $23 a pop, you better have something to celebrate. Other, more plebeian, vending machines offer food for the more level-headed and level-walleted people around the world. If you’re hungry, vending machines can be found that offer burgers, hot dogs, pizza, mashed potatoes, French fries or burritos. Hankering for some dessert? Enjoy pecan pie at a vending machine in Texas or delectable cupcakes in myriad flavors. Looking for breakfast? There are machines that offer fresh eggs, raw milk, warm bread, bread in a can – yes, only in Japan – or bananas. For those people who are into the scavengers of the sea, there are machines that sell live crabs in China. They are sold in plastic containers at 41 degrees for $1.50 to $7. Lobsters are also sold in machines. In Vegas, customers can use a “claw machine” to “catch” live lobsters for dinner. If you catch one, some restaurants will even cook it for you for free. That is, unless you want it for a pet. Some vending machines offer the truly bizarre. In Japan, dog wigs and hats are sold at selected vending machines in Tokyo. Socks, made by the I Hate Monday brand, are sold in vending machines in South Korea. And in Germany, if you forget your pants at home, you can buy jeans made by the company Closed on your way to work. Missed your kid’s birthday? Or better yet – need something to entertain them with while you eat your live lobsters and caviar and struggle into your new jeans? Legos are now being sold in vending machines. They are now in Germany and Toronto and will soon be coming to the United States. Last but not least, vending machines are now selling gold. Yes, the precious metal can be purchased at Gold to Go vending machines. The machine tracks real-time gold prices on commodities markets, which

means that keen investors can pick up a bar or coin when the price is right. Gold to Go is available in the U.S., Austria, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Portugal, and is much more filling than M&Ms and a Coke.

Crooked Hillary

Someone with a Sharpie and a little humor went political recently when they changed the sign off the Sagtikos Roadway in Long Island. The original sign read “Crooked Hill Road.” Before the sign was removed by the Department of Transportation last Wednesday it read “Crooked Hillary.” According to the DOT, “Defacing public signs is illegal.” Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump often used the moniker “Crooked Hillary” when referring to Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, who was not able to garner trust amongst voters. In a recent tweet, President Trump wrote, “Crooked Hillary Clinton now blames everybody but herself, refuses to say she was a terrible candidate.” Clinton tweeted back tongue-in-cheek, “People in covfefe houses shouldn’t throw covfefe.” And we thought they were grownups.

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nated a box of clothing to Goodwill. The clothes she dropped off certainly would be put to good use. But Lynette didn’t think too much about her donation until she received a message on her answering machine at the end of the day. During the day employees at Goodwill were sorting through Lynette’s donation and noticed a duffle bag full of play money. At least they thought it was a bag full of fake money, until they realized it was a bag full of real money – almost $100,000 worth of cash – along with a last will and testament and other legal documents. Thankfully Lynette asked for a receipt for her donation so Goodwill had her contact information. They attempted to call her number, although no one answered when they called. They then called the police department and handed over the cash. At the end of the day, when Lynette and Dan Leckrone came home and listened to their messages, they heard the frantic calls from Goodwill. Dan said that he took $97,004 out of his bank account recently to deposit in another bank that would be closer to a new home they would be moving to. He put the money in a bag in the trunk of his car, where he thought no one would find it. He didn’t even know the money was missing. “We picked the money up at the police department and took it straight to the bank,” Dan said. “We are so thankful to everyone that we got our money back.” Michelle Cogswell, central manager, said something like this has never happened in the 18 years she has worked for Goodwill Industries. “We find the occasional $100 bill or $50 bill but that’s about the most that is found,” Cogswell said. “When I heard they found $100,000, I thought they meant $1,000.” “Since October we have found about $1,200, mostly in change in pockets and purses, etcetera,” Cogswell added. “So that kind of puts it in perspective how big this is.”

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There are two things I know about Hely Garagozzo: he loves soccer and he is very consistent. The Venezuelan businessman has the all-time record for most attendances of the quadrennial World Cup soccer championship tournament, Guinness World Records said on Monday. Garagozzo has made it to every single World Cup event since 1982, when it was held in Spain. The tournaments are held once every four years, so Garagozzo’s record is nine straight – good enough for Most FIFA World Cup tournaments attended by an individual. “It’s the magic of football,” he said. “That transcends the field and transforms into culture.” Because the international tournament is held in various locations around the world, Garagozzo has logged substantial mileage crisscrossing the globe to witness the World Cups – nearly 150,000 miles worth. “Equivalent to 5.67 full circumnavigations of the Earth!” Guinness said. Beginning with Spain, the tournament locations Garagozzo has visited over the last three decades include Mexico (1986), Italy (1990), the United States (1994), France (1998), South Korea/Japan (2002), Germany, (2006) South Africa (2010) and Brazil (2014). The next event will be hosted by Russia next year and Qatar in 2022. Garagozzo says he’ll attend both. Guinness said it verified Garagozzo’s claim by reviewing his ticket stubs, photographs and other evidence. He’s the most well-traveled fan we know.

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It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood By Rabbi Zvi Teichman

King David beseeches G-d: ‫שמרה‬ )‫נפשי כי חָ ִסיד אני (תהלים פו ב‬, Guard my soul, for devout I am. The Holy Bnei Yissaschar wonders why would someone who feels he has attained piety need to ask for special protection, wouldn’t it be assumed. Quoting a ‘drash’ he once heard, he answers that it is precisely the one who seeks to go ‘beyond the call of duty’ that needs extra supervision. An average person who feels an urge to sin can simply follow the advice the Talmud offers to “drag the evil inclination to the the Bais HaMedrash”, finding the strength to ward him off by anchoring oneself firmly to the dictates of the Torah. One however who looks to go beyond the strict letter of law will be coaxed into sin by the evil inclination who disguises himself as the good inclination, trying to seduce him into committing sinful acts all in the name of Heaven. The message of Torah will not suffice to stifle his quest, for this ‘pious’ one attests to go beyond the mere limits of obligation. He justifies his actions in a distorted claim he is truly doing the ‘will’ of G-d. Isn’t that the tale of Korach? Observing the reality that he descends from Levi whom the Torah describes as )‫איש חסידך (דברים לג ח‬, Your devout one, and having grown up on the lap of his grandfather Kehos whom the Targum Yonoson )‫ (שמות ו יח‬refers to as ‫חסידא‬, the pious one, he too aspires to rise up the ladder of ‫חסידות‬, piety. In that pursuit nothing can stop him since from his perspective that he is fulfilling a higher and undefined calling.

Indeed, King David, wisely appeals for a safeguard against this dangerous attitude, for the normal restraints cannot contain its ‘pious’ self-righteousness.)‫(אדרא דכלה קרח‬ • Where did Korach go wrong? Is there a specific character flaw that planted the seed for his perilous dissent/descent? In two places Rashi points out that not only was Korach corrupt, but his negative attitude influenced his ‘neighbors’, the tribe of Reuven, who both were situated and encamped south of the Tabernacle. ‫אוי לרשע אוי לשכנו‬, Woe to the wicked, woe to his neighbor. ‫(רש"י‬ )‫ טז א‬,‫בשם התנחומא במדבר ג כו‬ The rabble rousers Dasan and Aviram as well as the 250 contentious heads of courts that joined Korach’s ranks all stemmed from the neighboring tribe of Reuven. In Avos )‫ (א ז‬we are advised to distance ourselves from a ‫שכן רע‬, a bad neighbor. Evidently Korach epitomizes the ultimate ‘evil neighbor’ who took down the ‘hood’ with him. In another Mishna in Avos)‫יד‬-‫(ב יא‬ we are taught about the illustrious students of Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakai. Among them is numbered Rebbi Yosi HaKohen who is conferred by his beloved teacher the title of ‫חסיד‬, devout one. When asked by his Rebbi to dis-

cern a proper way that man should cling to, Rebbi Yosi responds, ‫שכן‬ ‫טוב‬, a good neighbor. And when requested to describe the evil path man should avoid he avers, ‫שכן רע‬, a wicked neighbor. It is safe to assume that this ‘devout one’ selected an approach that reflects on the attribute he so famously extols, that of a ‫חסיד‬, a pious one. So here we have Rebbi Yosi HaKohen, a proud descendant of Levi, the devout one, contrasted with another grandson, the nefarious Korach, a Levite, the paradigm ‘bad neighbor’. How is the character trait of piety evident specifically in being a ‘good neighbor’? In what way did Korach fail in his neighborly manners that set into motion these tragic events? • There is a whole set of laws governing relations between neighbors. The delicate tightrope a neighbor must walk is that fine line between ‘rights’ and ‘responsibility towards others’. Too often we are protective of our domain and property rights to the point of losing our humanity and sensitivity towards others. Therein lies the danger among neighbors that require being ever attentive to not crossing those dangerous lines. Truth is we have no ‘rights’. We possess only responsibilities. There is no inherent right to money or property but rather the privilege of being blessed by G-d with opportunities to use these tools effectively in bringing honor to G-d.

Korach mistakenly believed he was entitled to privilege. Certainly he aspired to use these instruments for the betterment of society and the promotion of his pious mission but it was terribly flawed by the attitude of entitlement that he displayed. One who feels he deserves to be pious because of his lineage and good fortune will eventually poison the atmosphere with selfishness and indulgence. The word ‫ חסד‬is used in the context of excessive devotion towards a cause or alternately to mean shamefulness. One who continuously gives of himself towards others and to G-d out of a sense of ‘shame’, a healthy shame that stems from an overwhelming sense of gratitude for the benevolence G-d showers on him daily that compels him to feel so undeserving that he wants to devote his entire being to G-d, is a true ‫חסיד‬, devout one. Those, however, who perform magnificent acts of devotion merely to promote their personal agenda no matter how noble, are mired in shame. • The Talmud ).‫ (ברכות ח‬states that one who lives in a city where there is a synagogue and doesn’t join with the community to pray there is call a ‫שכן‬ ‫רע‬, a bad neighbor. Why is someone who chooses not to pray labeled a bad neighbor more than simply a bad Jew? Perhaps it isn’t the lack of prayer per se we are concerned with but rather his unwillingness to connect, identify with and sense the joys and plights of others. One who believes his place on earth allows him to disContinued on pg 32

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Finally, one need not search far for opportunities to give grandiosely of oneself, in every detail of life one can raise the bar of piety in serving G-d fully. Korach was vastly wealthy but missed the message therein. He erroneously thought his pedigree entitled him when in fact it obligated him. He thought he could only find piety in aspiring to greater positions of stature when in fact the prospect for utter devotion lay at his very footstep. • A remarkable story was told about a family in Jerusalem of seventeen children who inherited a small fortune. Usually these types of situations result in acrimonious disputes with many of the children feeling cheated. This family successfully developed a plan that all consented to without any residual feelings whatsoever. The Tolna Rebbe was so amazed by their behavior he requested from the family a copy of their amicable agreement so he could frame it and hang it on his

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leviated, and his relief is far greater than our damage. Let us accept upon ourselves to keep silent and not say one word. We will forgo the matter and take this mitzva with us after 120 years to Olam Haba.” The extension still stands till this day! (Ami Magazine June 3, 2015) • What an authentic ‘good neighbor’! What true ‘piety’! What a genuine Kiddush Hashem! One need not look far to find opportunities to devote ourselves in attaining exquisite closeness to the Almighty! May we each strive to be more attuned and responsive to the many chances we have to reach for that greatness!

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Korach I Struggled and I Found By Rabbi Silber

Korach the son of Izhar, the son of Kehath, the son of Levi took [himself to one side] along with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, descendants of Reuben. They confronted Moses together with two hundred and fifty men from the children of Israel, chieftains of the congregation, representatives of the assembly, men of repute. They

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to comprehend. We remain puzzled by Korach’s behavior. How could Korach accuse Moshe of selfish power-grabbing when Moshe was the paradigmatic embodiment of selfless devotion to the nation. What was Korach’s issue? Why was he so angry and outraged at Moshe? What was it that led him to lead this rebellion which ended so tragically? Korach’s entire rebellion rested on one concept, Kulanu Kedoshim, we are all holy. Rashi explains that Korach said to Moshe, “We all heard God speak to us as Sinai. We all heard God declare His unique and singular relationship to us and us to Him. We are all equally holy and therefore, you have no right to lord over us and maintain an unshakeable grip on the reigns of leadership.” It is interesting to note that Korach felt that he (and the nation) was holy because they “heard” God. Hearing is a passive act. The listener must simply remain attentive and absorb the stated message. Korach thought that Kidusha, sanctity was conferred. All you have to do is remain at attention and it is yours for the taking. Rav Soloveitchik explains that there are two different forms of holiness; innate and acquired holiness. Innate holiness is the result of being the offspring of our Matriarchs and Patriarchs. Innate holiness is the result of being part of the Jewish people. But there is a higher level of holiness; this is called acquired or personal holiness. This is the Kidusha that one is able to acquire through good deeds, chessed and self-sacrifice. Personal/acquired holiness requires great effort from the individual and cannot be acquired through lineage or familial connections. Korach was focused on innate holiness but forgot that true greatness can only be found in acquired personal holiness. Korach forgot that true and lasting Kidusha, holiness must be earned. Holiness is a state than can only be reached after man has expended incredible amounts of effort. Holiness is the culmination of dynamic, dramatic and sustained life activity. The nature and depth of my relationship with God, Torah and Mitzvos is directly related to the amount of effort I am willing to put in. A life of holiness is a life filled with work and effort. Hearing God does not

make you holy – serving Him does. Rashi continues and explains that Korach saw prophetically that he was to have a descendant as great as Moshe and Aharon. In this respect he was correct – Korach’s great-grandson was the prophet Shmuel. How did Shmuel actualize his greatness? The Navi states, “And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life. And from year to year, he would set forth, and go around to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpah, and he would judge Israel in all these places. And his return was to Ramah, for there was his house, and there he judged Israel, and he built there an altar to the Lord (Shmuel I 7:15-17).” Shmuel was the prophet and the judge. It was his sacred mission to uplift and inspire the people. It was his responsibility to facilitate the growth of his nation. He didn’t wait for the people to come to him, he went to the people. He spent the entire year travelling throughout the land on a mission of inspiration and spiritual repair. He helped the people settle their disputes and create shalom, peace within their ranks. He invested incredible amounts of effort and hard work in order to create an atmosphere of holiness and spiritual devotion. Shmuel understood what his grandfather, Korach did not. It is true, Kulanu Kedoshim, we are all holy; but that holiness is only actualized through hard work and incredible effort. Rabbi Yitzchak said, if a person will say to you, I toiled but did not find results, do not believe him. If a man says to you, I didn’t toil but found results, do not believe him. But if a person says to you, I toiled and I found results (ya’gati u’matzasi) – believe him (Talmud, Megillah 6b).” We live in a society of instant gratification. We want success and we want it now. We want holiness and we want it now. We want a meaningful, fulfilling and blissful marriage and we want it now. Am I not entitled? Was my soul not present at Mount Sinai? Am I not holy and worthy enough? Too often, we approach life situations from a perspective of entitlement - like Korach. The important things in life can only be acquired through incredible work and toil. We must always remember that beautiful, meaningful and holy results require magnificent, diligent and vigilant effort.

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Machlokes - Is our Generation Different? By Rabbi Motty Rabinowitz For anyone who regularly browses through the many available Jewish news outlets, or indulges in social-media, there seems to be no mistaking that our generation is plagued by internal Jewish discord. However, anyone familiar with Jewish history will note that this is unfortunately not a new phenomenon. There have been many striking and far-reaching episodes of national discord throughout our collective history. Close to our time, the centuries long saga of Shabbetai Tzvi and his followers, and the ensuing excommunications, witch-hunts and paranoia that swept through the Jewish world, is something that still has ripple effects to this day. Yet, in our lifetime we appear to have attained new levels of

machlokes. Perhaps in reaction to this sad development, we see a multitude of organizations dedicated to bridging the divide, overcoming politics, and developing open, respectful communication between different factions. Our subjective assessment might not be far off the ball. Rabbi Yosef Chaim from Baghdad, the Ben Ish Chai, discusses the punishment dealt out to Korach, the instigator of the sharp dispute with Moshe. We are told that the miracle of the earth swallowing Korach was created at the twilight of the 6th day of creation (Avos 5:6). This he suggests, has deep significance. The 6 days of creation represent the 6000 years of history prior to Moshiach. The punishment for machlokes was specifically creat-

ed at this time to highlight that it is at the end of the 6000 years, our current period, when the Jewish people must indeed struggle to maintain internal peace and avoid machlokes. One regularly hears the argument that many of our disputes are ‘leshem shomayim’, with holy intent. Is it not valid to engage in sharp debate? After all, are we not told that disputes with holy intent are legitimate? (Avos 5:17) Rabbi Tzadok Hakohen from Lublin highlights a simple litmus test to decide whether a disagreement is genuinely one of holy intent, or one that is like the machlokes of Korach. The paradigm of legitimate disputes are the disagreements between Shamai and Hillel that fill the folio of the Talmud. We are told (Yevomos 14b) that despite their many contentious debates and arguments, their students and families happily intermarried with each other. This declares Rav Tzadok, is the litmus test. If you find disagreements where both parties maintain a friendly, cordial relationship despite their differences, you can assume they are indeed operating with holy intent. Searching for the truth can only occur when there remains peace between the parties. If there is no peace and deep distrust ensues, one can be sure that the parties are not totally engaged with the objective search for truth, but have other vested interests. There are many modern-day examples of disputes that passed Rav Tzadok’s litmus test. Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Hakohen Kook and Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, had radically differing approaches to the then new Zionist enterprise. Yet, their mutual respect is well documented. Indeed, in 1913 they set out together on a month-long trip to the settlements of the new Yishuv, to strengthen their connection with Torah. Unfortunately, many of our contemporary disputes do not pass that litmus test. Why have our legitimate disagreements degenerated to such ac-

rimonious levels? I have often wondered about a well-known Talmudic passage, ‘Talmidei Chachomim increase peace in the world.’ (Berochos 64a) I admit, that at times I wondered whether this passage was a joke, as many of our political divisions seem to emanate from our leaders. A few years ago, I noticed an insightful explanation to this passage by the Ben Ish Chai. (Ben Yehoyada Ibid.) Usually, a scholar is described as a ‘Talmid chacham’, a student of a wise man, and not just a ‘Chacham’. This he claimed, is the intent of this passage. It is only the Talmidei chachamim, those that even at their great stature are humble enough to be students of each other, with respect for each other, that increase peace in the world. Those who do not possess that humility, but feel that they, and only they, hold the truth, indeed do not create peace. They are unfortunately the ones that create divisive and damaging machlokes. We are currently afflicted with one-dimensional black-and-white thought that dictates that if I am right, everyone else must be wrong, and must be publicly shown to be wrong. Life is not so simple. While we all legitimately have our opinions about contemporary issues, and are convinced that we are correct, we must have the humility to accept that there are other great people who genuinely feel differently. We strive to educate our children to be ‘Talmidei Chachomim’, lifelong students of Torah and life. We must impart them with the skill to debate and disagree, yet remain respectful best-friends and brothers. While this is indeed a great challenge for our generation, it is also a tremendous opportunity. We can show the world, which is itself enduring these issues, that differing approaches to life do not need to result in character assassination or intense divisiveness. The search for truth and peace can coexist.

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Hydration is the Key to Health By Cindy Weinberger MS, RD, CDN

hen you ask the average person, “What’s a surefire way to lose weight without dieting or exercising?” the most common response is to drink a lot of water. Water is famous for aiding in weight loss. How? Drinking water generally replaces sugary beverages, avoiding all those excess calories. Drinking water also helps your body burn stored fat by flushing out all the byproducts of fat. Drinking water also flushes toxins from your body, preventing constipation and regulating bowel movements. Furthermore, drinking plenty of water fills you up, thus suppressing your appetite so you don’t eat as much. But that’s not the only reason why drinking water is so healthy. Drinking water should not be an added chore in order to lose weight. Drinking water should second nature. It’s extremely important to drink plenty of water daily and here’s why. The brain is composed of 95% water; blood is 82% water; the lungs are nearly 90% water. Not only is water the most abundant nutrient in the body, it’s also the most crucial. Water is also the most critical nutrient for health, growth, and development. It is critical to the balance of all the body’s systems, including the brain, heart, lungs, kidneys and muscles. Sufficient hydration is important in all stages in life, however, it is extremely important during pregnancy. Staying properly hydrated assists with the liver and kidney function

for the mother and the fetus. During pregnancy, drinking plenty of water also helps the mother combat constipation and increases her blood volume as her body expands and the fetus grows. Dehydration can cause preterm labor and miscarriage. A nursing mother also needs proper hydration to have a steady supply of breast milk for her baby. Why is adequate water intake so

thirst and minor discomfort, but can also include a water-deprivation headache, fatigue, weakness, constipation, dry mouth, parched lips, dizziness, dry or flushed skin, rapid heartbeat, and muscle cramps. Out of these, the most common symptom that you have probably felt numerous times is a dehydration headache. How does dehydration cause a headache? If you lose enough water, your

Not only is water the most abundant nutrient in the body, it’s also the most crucial.

crucial? Proper hydration is required for maintaining healthy blood flow, proper kidney function, proper sodium/potassium/electrolyte balance and proper digestive functions. Water is constantly leaving the body through urination, sweat and excreting bodily fluids, so it is vital to continuously take water into the body to replenish what is lost. A 2% drop in body water can cause a small, but critical shrinkage of the brain, which can impair neuromuscular coordination, decrease concentration, and slow thinking. This is the feeling that most people describe as being lightheaded, weak, and dizzy. The initial symptoms of dehydration include

blood volume will drop and this will temporarily lead to lower blood and oxygen flow to the brain. When this occurs, blood vessels in the brain will dilate, which can cause some swelling, thus giving the feeling of headache. The key to avoiding dehydration is using preventative measures to remain hydrated. Be sure to maintain an adequate fluid intake. Try to drink between 8-10 cups of water daily. But don’t drink it all at once. Our bodies cannot handle large amounts of water at once. Drinking too much too quickly can lead to a sluggish, bloated feeling. The best is to gradually consume water throughout the day.

Keep a water bottle handy on the go, and have drinks on the table during mealtimes. Make sure you have a means to refill water bottles when you’re out or take enough full bottles. If you cannot tolerate plain water, try a Crystal Lite packet to give it some flavor, or try seltzer, which is simply carbonated water. It’s important to note that not all fluids are equal when it comes to fluid replacement. Coffee and alcohol are bad choices since both act as diuretics, which promote urination and fluid loss, and can cause or exacerbate dehydration and headaches. On these hot summer days, in addition to drinking plenty of water, it’s important to eat foods with a high water content such as fruits and vegetables (and to avoid foods with a high salt content). That’s why a juicy slice of watermelon tastes so good while soaking up the sun. Next time you head to the beach, pack some fresh, juicy fruits and some crunchy vegetables. And, of course, lots and lots of water! Cindy Weinberger MS, RD, CDN, is a Master’s level Registered Dietitian and Certified Dietitian-Nutritionist. She graduated CUNY Brooklyn College receiving a Bachelor’s in Science and Master’s degree in Nutrition and Food Sciences. She is currently a dietitian at Boro Park Center and a private nutrition consultant. She can be reached at CindyWeinberger1@gmail.com.

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A new study reveals more than 2 billion people worldwide are overweight or obese. And at any given time, most of them are at Disneyland the same day as you.

Let me state this clearly: I have never met with or had any conversations with Russians or any foreign officials concerning any ... interference with any campaign or election. Further, I have no knowledge of any such conversations by anyone connected to the Trump campaign. I was your colleague in this body for 20 years, and the suggestion that I participated in any collusion or that I was aware of any collusion with the Russian government to hurt this country, which I have served with honor over 35 years, or to undermine the integrity of our democratic process, is an appalling and detestable lie.

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You know, we haven’t seen any of that whatsoever, George, we’ve been looking and showing everything that they possibly have. That has not led to that. - Senate Intelligence Committee member Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) when asked by George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week,” whether he has seen any evidence of collusion

Get a job! –Cathy Stafford to a robber who walked into her restaurant and demanded that she hand over money from the register, forcing the robber to flee

[James Comey’s] performance the other day, I thought was extremely, extremely weak. You know the notion that he got all quivers in his stomach, and he got nervous and emotional and all this other stuff and he had to run back and write a memo. Did he write a memo when they sent a criminal referral over on Hillary Clinton and said you couldn’t call it an investigation? Did he write a memo when they wouldn’t approve a grand jury? Did he write a memo when the Internal Revenue Service went after thousands of freedom-loving people in this country and terrified them? Where does this guy come off talking about writing memos? - Former FBI Assistant Director James Kallstrom in an interview on AM 970 in New York

An 88-year-old woman has set a new record for oldest female to stand on the wing of a flying plane. It sounds dangerous, but it’s actually the safest place to be when you fly United. – Seth Myers

I get the sense from Twitter that my line of questioning today went over people’s heads. Maybe going forward I shouldn’t stay up late watching the Diamondbacks night games. - Sen. John McCain’s statement after his questioning of Jim Comey was incoherent the day before

Walmart is offering a new service where employees will deliver items to your house on their way home from work. Not only that — they’ll also deliver the items in a Target bag so your neighbors think you’re classy. – Jimmy Fallon

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In protest of President Trump abandoning the Paris Climate Accord, the CEO of Disney has resigned from Trump’s business advisory council. It’s not a good sign when a company led by a giant talking mouse is telling the president to be more realistic . – Conan O’Brien

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David just graduated MIT with a Master’s in Chemistry. He is now working in a top biotech firm which looks to find cures and solutions for world problems. He submits his first paper on the chemical of dihydrogen monoxide. His paper noted that this chemical can be deadly if inhaled; if it touches your body, you cannot remove it with water; it accelerates corrosion and rusting of many metals. The report concluded that the chemical should be banned. Upon reviewing the report, the executive committee immediately fired David. Why? See answer below

Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They drink. They leave. A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves. A dangling modifier walks into a bar. After finishing a drink, the bartender asks it to leave.

A question mark walks into a bar? Two quotation marks “walk into” a bar. A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking a drink. The bar was walked into by the passive voice.

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A run on sentence walks into a bar it is thirsty.

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A person who is unable to make up his or her mind on an issue A shrewd, unprincipled person Someone who doesn’t say much Someone who talks incessantly Someone who is confused, perplexed, or flustered Bad tempered or grumpy A foolish person An eccentric person Someone who never laughs Someone with lots of energy

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What Would You Do If… When I was dating and finally got engaged to Yitz, my good friend Ricky had a problem with him. Ricky is single and I suspected that maybe she was having an issue with me getting serious with someone before her. I know that sounds awful, but she always thought she’d get married before me and she found it disturbing that was going out with someone seriously when she was still very single. Looking back now, I suspect that she searched far and wide to get the dirt on him. She’d come to me with stories about something he did in elementary school!

She never warmed up to Yitz and when she was around him she would act badly and he would naturally react badly. Anyway, she never let it go, constantly having something negative to say about him. At that point I really trusted Ricky and I let myself feed into her advice that he wasn’t for me. She would start each story with something like, “You know how much I love you, so I just have to tell you that…” or “I so want you to be happy. You deserve to be happy. And my gut tells me that you could never be happy with Yitz.”

I know it sounds crazy, but Ricky eventually convinced me to break the engagement. Looking back now, I feel as though I was under her spell, and that she definitely planted many negative seeds in my head and that her messages got so under my skin. I truly believed that she was protecting me and that I had to listen to her advice. That was over a year ago. I’ve gone out since then several times. Not a lot, but whoever I went out with didn’t compare to Yitz. Besides, in general, I found myself really missing Yitz and realizing that my relationship with Ricky was truly dysfunctional and that I should never have listened to her. Since then, I have moved away from my friendship with Ricky, which I should have done a long, long time ago. I analyze that time in my life a lot and realize that I was a victim and subsequently so was Yitz. My question is the following – do I have the right to try and reconnect with Yitz? I know that he is still single and though I’m sure I hurt him very badly, and no doubt he is very angry at me, would it be awful of me to call him and try to explain how I messed up so badly and see if he would be willing to go out again? Is that a really crazy idea?

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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I suppose I always looked up to Ricky, who is a year older than me, and though initially I tried not to let her words affect me, it was cumulative and eventually I started believing that I was settling for Yitz and that I would have the worst marriage ever! After we were engaged for a little while and started feeling the pressure of planning our wedding, we would occasionally disagree and even argue over certain things that we felt differently about. I shared everything with Ricky and when I told her about these arguments, she would tell me that I should break off the engagement, that it would be mistake to marry Yitz.

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ongratulations for being honest with yourself and honest with the panel about your past and present feelings about Yitz and Ricky, respectively. You seem to have matured and that’s good. But your growth and work is not yet finished. You say that you have been a victim in the past and were in an unhealthy relationship with Ricky. But you are still asking permission of us if you have the right to try to restart your relationship with Yitz. You are still not emotionally independent and healthy. It’s OK to consult others and to ask for validation but your

previous history and the details in which you describe it without being fully straightforward leads me to believe that your sense of self is not fully formed. Get help so that you can go for Yitz from a strong, healthy place. If you want to have a good, healthy marriage of partners with mutual support, come to it from a recovered place where you will not run the risk of abuse again.

The Mother Sarah Schwartz Schreiber, P.A.

es! Yes! A thousand times yes! You must absolutely try and re-

kindle the relationship with Yitz! How you go about it is the real question. Your letter goes into painful detail about the toxic relationship between you and Ricky; it certainly sounds like she manipulated you and set out to sabotage the shidduch. Still, as a mature woman and former kallah you are not a blameless victim. When you committed to Yitz, he took the engagement and your loyalty seriously. You violated his trust; for this he deserves a heartfelt apology. Your question omits the circumstances and mechanics of the breakup. Was the engagement a roller coaster ride? Were there angry and hurtful words hurled between you

Looking back now, I feel as though I was under her spell

and Yitz? Does he think of you as impulsive, immature and volatile and is relieved he didn’t marry you? Was he innocently blindsided when you returned the ring? Did you ask for mechilah directly or through an intermediary? Answers to these questions will determine if and how you may attempt to resurrect the relationship. I urge you to seek the

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here is never anything crazy about reaching out to someone you have hurt and owning what you did. At the time, you had a little birdy chirping in your ear, and I hate to say it, but it is Yitz who really dodged a bullet. While we need to be open to feedback from trusted friends and relatives, you allowed a manipulative, jealous, ego-driven third party into your relationship. At the time, you didn’t have the strength or awareness to get rid of her. In a sense, you dodged a bullet as well, because you weren’t ready for marriage. Relationships go through trials and tribulations that will do their best to tear them

down. One such example is a third party trying to destroy it, like Ricky. This is not t h e first time, and won’t be the last time, I hear a story like this. Ricky was probably painfully jealous of you and couldn’t stand to see you happy. I’m glad you got rid of her and I feel badly for her next victim. There will be a next one. We could spend time talking about Ricky, or we can cut right to the chase. It is you who chose her for a friend. And it is you who listened to her. You allowed her to get into your head and to destroy your relationship. I hope

you have done some soul searching or have been in therapy to help you understand how you allowed Ricky to manipulate you. This usually happens (in my experience) to amazing and sensitive souls who either don’t believe people have bad intentions, or have put up with so much garbage in previous relationships that they don’t even realize there is anything wrong with it, or they know it is wrong but do not feel confident enough or worthy enough to say anything. Before you approach Yitz, you must figure out what you have learned about yourself from your experience with Ricky and Yitz…and it should be an “aha” moment, with a lot of connecting the dots going on. (Those are the best kind of “aha” moments.) Both you and the man you commit to (whether Yitz or someone else) deserve that. As for Yitz… I think you can call him up and ask him to meet. If he will not meet, then the phone will do. No texting! If he will not speak, then a heartfelt e-mail. When you speak,

I think you were a victim, but Yitz was a far greater victim and deserves tremendous validation and apologies.

tim, but Yitz was a far greater victim and deserves tremendous validation and apologies. I hope he gives you the opportunity to explain your past mistake and your present understanding of proper behavior. If you are lucky enough to sit down with Yitz and have these meaningful conversations, you will both know whether or not there is still any chemistry between you and whether or not there is an opportunity to revisit a serious relationship. But much work has to be done way before that happens.

the first thing you are going to do is give him a sincere apology, owning all your behavior. And you have to share with him what you have learned about yourself. Make it known that he deserved none of this and convey your regrets and remorse. I think it is fine to tell him how you feel about him; that you have never moved on. See what happens. Life is short. We live once. Go after what you want…respectfully. Sincerely, Jennifer Esther Mann, LCSW and Jennifer Mann, LCSW are licensed psychotherapists and dating and relationship coaches working with individuals, couples and families in private practice in Hewlett, NY. To set up a consultation or to ask questions, please call 516.224.7779. Press 1 for Esther, 2 for Jennifer. Visit www.thenavidaters.com for more information. If you would like to submit a dating or relationship question to the panel anonymously, please email thenavidaters@ gmail.com. You can follow The Navidaters on FB and Instagram for dating and relationship advice.

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bad-intentioned individual. But it’s more than luck. I would wonder what was up with you that you picked such a person to be so close with and how you were unable, at the time, to see how she was manipulating you so horribly because of her jealousy. This speaks so badly about your friend, but I must say, it doesn’t say anything too great about you, no offense, that you were so vulnerable and threw away a perfectly good man because of your friend’s horrible control. Before you decide whether or not to call Yitz, I think you have to work closely with a therapist and understand what happened and also whether you have truly grown from the experience and changed. I’m glad to hear that you and Ricky are no longer friends, but I think there are deeper issues at work here that you need to address before you go out with anyone, let alone Yitz. Once you feel that you really worked on your insecurities and that you are a very different person today than the person who broke a probably perfectly fine engagement, you need to first make amends to Yitz, if you haven’t already done so. I think you were a vic-

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nyone who has ever been in the maze of a manipulative friendship understands the pain and regret you’re going through. I am thrilled that you have had the strength to get out of this manipulative friendship, however, now you have to pick up the pieces that are the product that this mess caused. I am hoping that you’ve worked with a therapist to become a stronger person, which ultimately allowed you to break free of this toxic friend. If not, I’d firstly advise you to go this route. My advice is as follows. Do not expect him to take you back. As much as you have gone through, he

has been the victim here and has undoubtedly been very pained by what your decision caused. While you do have an “excuse,” the truth is, it is you who is to blame for ultimately pulling the trigger on the relationship. You can, however, and should engage him in an in-person conversation. The purpose of this meeting should not be to ask him to revisit the relationship but to apologize to Yitz. Talk to him about the ins and outs of what was happening, how it got to that point, and how badly you regret it. At best he will forgive you and may even offer to start over – but the ball’s in his court to bring that up. If he does not, the best would be to move on and find someone new, away from all the drama that had ensued.

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wise counsel of a rav, yours or Yitz’s, to advise you on your most effective course of action. And, to all you boys and girls in the dating parsha, a final word: Mother knows best. Your friends? They’re just jealous!

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ragedies such as the attack on a congressional baseball team cry out for interpretation, and resist it. By intention or not, the shooter was strategic in his malice, going after one of Washington’s few remaining symbols of openness and normality. Members of Congress – who are some of the best, most interesting people I know – spend much of their time treated either like mini-monarchs or like beggars at the gate, asking for money and votes. Sport is a rare chance to be teammates and friends. Political violence, among other horrible things, makes it harder to be human in public. Those who work on Capitol Hill – as I did for a decade – live with a certain level of risk. They know that Congress has been used as a stage for dramatic violence before. The Capitol building was bombed in 1915, bombed in 1971, and bombed again in 1983. In 1954, four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire on the House chamber. In 1998, two Capitol policemen were murdered. With each tragedy, more separation: magnetometers, surveillance systems, bomb-sniffing dogs, ugly concrete flowerpots, hydraulic barriers. Greater security often means greater distance. And our politics already seems so distant from normal life. There is nothing to be done about it; but something has been lost. Attempts to find political messages

in attempted murder are usually either excruciatingly obvious – we are an angry, divided country – or obscene. After the 2011 Tucson shooting of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, some liberals tried to pin a portion of the blame on conservatives such as Sarah Palin. In turn, Rush Limbaugh judged the baseball diamond shooter to be “a mainstream Democrat voter.” Some partisans seem determined to

for a moment. And what we see is a ready recourse to violence – punches at rallies, assaults, death threats, violent protests and intimidation. The system seems unbalanced – easily veering off course with every provocation. The capacity for human evil is always there. But stable societies construct restraints. Some of those restraints are institutional –

If words can inspire, then they can also incite or debase.

attract attention by taking advertising space on someone else’s cross. Can you imagine the unseemly satisfaction in some quarters if the shooter had turned out to be an illegal immigrant or a Syrian refugee? Such salivation is one of the worst things about our politics. Our discourse is being materially damaged by the endless search for Twitter leverage. At the risk of committing sociology without a license, there are a few conclusions we might draw. Extreme partisanship may not be the direct cause of violence. But political violence acts like lightning, illuminating and freezing the whole political landscape

balancing interest against interest, power against power. In America, such institutions are strong, even under considerable current strain. Yet human beings are also restrained by norms – unenforced and unenforceable standards of civility and respect. We rely on character in countless ways to keep people from destroying themselves and each other. And here all the demonization and decapitation fantasies – all the talk of revolution and warfare against our fellow citizens – have taken a toll. This type of language isn’t new, of course. But the Trump era has unleashed it with a kind of fury. The

routine violation of norms has taken on the nature of an arms race. Each transgression justifies and requires a response. Both sides cultivate a merciless certainty. And, in some cases, they have made anger into an industry – using it to run up the number of listeners, viewers and hits. The trashing of norms has not only been normalized but monetized. This type of hashtag animus is not merely change but decay. The damage is clear. If words can inspire, then they can also incite or debase. We are on a descending path of enmity. In our politics, dehumanization is far along. This is true against outsiders and political opponents. And it is true against those who govern us. We have often dehumanized the leaders that result from our free choices – men and women, on the whole, of public spirit, with a talent for friendship and persuasion. And this should be a reminder to opponents of President Trump as well. His violation of norms is a reason for criticism and opposition; it is not a justification for demonization. As offense and response spin faster and faster, someone must get off this carousel. The success of our politics, the quality of our culture and the order of our society are very much at stake.

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Remember when the approach of summer time was kind of like a roaring approach of a freight train? You could feel it coming from a mile away and there was no way to miss it? Years later as adults in the workplace it sometimes feels like summer can sneak up on you like a sly ninja. No, it’s not because you are losing your hearing or that your reflexes are dulling, it’s because your whole routine has changed. Once upon a time, the arrival of summer represented the achievement of something measurable and important, as you moved from one grade level to another, which created a rhythm and routine that you just could not lose sight of. So, I’ll admit it; I’m jealous of the kids. I miss the excitement and momentum, I am envious of the constant progress and achievement, and while we’re at it, I wouldn’t mind if my bedtime was earlier too. Ironically though, the kids would claim to be jealous of us because, after all, we can “do whatever we want whenever we want”, and we are “free”. Kind of funny, right? In the world of business, staying motivated and keeping others motivated is literally a full-time job. In

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most companies, even in the seasonal ones, there is a lot of risk involved in the possibility of you or your colleagues becoming unmotivated and uninspired by a routine that seems endless and repetitive. For this reason, companies often discuss, invest in, and establish programs and systems to create and maintain employee engagement so they can keep employees happy, motivated, and… yup, you guessed it, productive. The question is however, how can we re-access to that fountain of youth and what advice can we offer our youth to keep the momentum that they may not yet understand but will one day come to appreciate and perhaps miss. This week, students throughout our community, and beyond, celebrate the end of a school year. For some, it’s a transition between grades, and for others an even bigger transition between divisions, levels of education, moving to a new school, or in to the workplace. As these students and young adults make their transitions to a summer of fun and rejuvenation in preparation for what comes next, it seems to me that there are some key elements of this magical process that can be carried far in to the future

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and perhaps re-inserted in to the daily lives of those of us who may have lost some of that momentum in our routines as adults. One such element is the power of progress: Always have goals. Personal, spiritual, professional, recreational, it’s all good. You may not always have “excitement” in every aspect of the things you do in life. Some things just need to be done, and sometimes it just doesn’t work out. However, when you are driven and motivated as a person, even the most routine things are done with great enthusiasm and drive because as a person, you are motivated, positive, curious, and growing. As Shimon Peres once said, “The secret of perpetual youth is to ensure that your list of dreams always remains longer than your list of achievements”. Most kids don’t see School as their only “job” in life. They have friends, hobbies, games, toys interests. They do what they must do, but they also seek much more from life beyond their full-time job, School. Another important skill is maintaining priorities: There is no shortage of work to be done, but there is an order in which it should be completed. For better or worse, kids certainly know how to focus on what they feel is important and priority in the moment, a skill that often fades with time. As Stephen Covey said, “Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important”. And lastly, but perhaps most importantly, know your strengths & use them to help other people: This week the 8th grade at TA gathered with their teachers and families for a graduation ceremony that was far more than the average graduation. In attendance that evening was the family of Moshe Moskowitz A’H, a precious young man and classmate of this graduating class, who was taken in a tragic

accident earlier this year. In an inspiring and moving speech to all in attendance Rabbi Moskowitz, Moshe’s Father, shared a message of strength and motivation to the boys inspired by the life and characteristics of his son, Moshe, who cared so deeply for each and every one of his fellow classmates. Of all the incredible things that were said and shared, I found special meaning in two specific statements that Rabbi Moskowitz made. Speaking to the boys about the challenges they overcame together this year, and how these were to be utilized as building blocks for their future he said” You don’t have to be the best at any specific thing, you have to be the best that YOU can be, and when you’re the best that YOU can be, you’re going to grow and grow and grow….. And when you find that thing that you are amazing at, and you say ahh! I can do it! Don’t make it a competition. Use it to make yourself better and use it to help other people”. Graduation is often referred to as a commencement ceremony. Commencement is defined as a beginning of something, not as one might think an end or conclusion of something. Perhaps, the common theme among all these ideas for how to stay motivated and growing is the simple realization that there are no ends, only new beginnings, and that when you live your life focused on what to do next to make a difference, instead of what you have done, your possibilities are limitless. Azi Rosenblum is a business consultant and the founder and CEO of RemSource, an outsourced provider of administrative and bookkeeping services for small businesses. To suggest a topic or ask a question for a future #BizWiz column, email BizWiz@ baltimorejewishhome.com.

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The Bismarck sinking

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fter World War I, many military restrictions were placed on Germany including the amount of ships that could be produced. Top German admirals thought that in the next war fast battleships would rule the seas. In one of the most crucial errors made by the Nazis, Germany failed to produce a single aircraft carrier. Only a few fast battleships were produced and of the six that were used during the war none of them remained intact at the time of the German surrender. At times, the Allies – mainly the British in this case – went after the capital ships with the might of their own navy. These battles had the home front waiting with bated breath for news of the destruction of the pride of the enemy’s navy. Aside from the U-boats, it was the big battleships and the pocket battleships (in reality, cruiser-types of ships) that posed the main threat to the Allied navies. The Bismarck, the Gneisenau, the Scharnhorst and the Tirpitz were all carefully monitored by the British and through the war encountered the might of the British Navy. Two others, the Schleswig-Holstein and the Schlesien, were preWWI dreadnoughts and didn’t pose much of a threat to Allied shipping lanes.

Named after the former chancellor of Germany, the Bismarck was the second largest warship completed for the Nazis. Her first offensive operation was in May 1941 to raid Allied shipping. She set off in the Baltic Sea accompanied by the cruiser Prinz Eugen to attack convoys in the Atlantic Ocean. A couple of months earlier a leak in the Swedish envoy to Berlin had revealed to the British some of the Bismarck’s characteris-

fleet, the HMS Hood, which was in actuality a battlecruiser. Early on the morning of May 24 the Bismarck and the Hood traded salvos at 14 miles apart in the Denmark Strait. At 6AM an armor-piercing shell ripped through the Hood and exploded the ammunition magazine. A huge explosion erupted, and the Hood broke in two and sank in less than a minute. There were only three survivors of the over 1,400

Shells slammed into the German battleship, and torpedoes from destroyers caused her sink to beneath the seas.

tics. Her movements and timetable were provided to the British fleet by code breakers at Bletchley Park. Unbeknownst to the Nazi brass, the code that the Germans had thought was unbreakable had been broken and was being deciphered and disseminated to the British forces. Two battleships were part of the flotilla dispatched to sink the Bismarck: the newly commissioned HMS Prince of Whales and the pride of the British

crewmembers. The Prince of Whales had sustained significant damage but so had the Bismarck. Both sides had broken contact for some time after the encounter to lick their wounds. All available British warships were ordered to hunt down the Bismarck to avenge the sinking of the Hood. The sinking had hit home, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued the order: “Sink the Bismarck!” The British admi-

rals were worried that the Bismarck would reach port and would be out of reach for British ships. Three hits during the Battle of the Denmark Strait had hurt the Bismarck and the Prinz Eugen left her to defend for herself. On May 26 the Bismarck was spotted by a flying boat and the two ships in the area that could stop her were the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal and the battlecruiser HMS Renown. A flight of antiquated Fairy Swordfish torpedo biplane bombers were sent off the Ark Royal, and scored two hits on the German ship. Pilot John Moffat was credited with hitting the Bismarck with a torpedo that badly damaged her port rudder. This caused it to lose steering, and soon the Bismarck was sunk by other ships of the Royal Navy. The next battleship to be struck from the German Navy was the Scharnhorst. For much of the war she operated together with the Gneisenau. In 1939 they sank the British merchant ship Rawalpindi. As the German battleships were picking up survivors to be POWs, four large Allied warships appeared to pick up the rest of the survivors. By December 1943 Hitler, ym”sh, had become disillusioned with the navy because they weren’t stopping

a large convoy scattered upon hearing of the Tirpitz being in the area. Twenty-four ships of that convoy were sunk by German U-boats. The Tirpitz, however, never sunk an Allied merchant ship. The threat that she posed was enough for the British inventor Sir Barnes Wallis to develop a 12,000 pound bomb named the Tallboy just to penetrate the armor of the Tirpitz. In September 1944, 38 Lancaster heavy bombers took off from a base in northern Russia to attack the massive battleship in the waters off of Norway. One Tallboy struck the Tirpitz and exploded deep in the hull. The damage was so extensive that

the Germans decided not to make her seaworthy again. The British didn’t know this fact and were determined to sink her once and for all. On November 12, two Tallboys from Lancaster bombers hit the Tirpitz in her magazine storage. A large explosion followed, and the largest ship in the German Navy capsized. The other German battleship afloat was the Gneisenau. Although she was wasn’t sunk by Allied firepower she sustained enough damage to be decommissioned in 1942. Her guns were moved to be used as shore batteries, and her crew became submariners. She remained unused until she was sunk by the Germans to

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the British Navy. On December 25 the Scharnhorst set sail into a trap set by the British Navy. Code breakers at Bletchley Park knew of her movements and signaled them to the fleet. Even without the use of radar the Scharnhorst relied on her speed to get her out of traps but this time she was stopped by the battleship HMS Duke of York. Shells slammed into the German battleship, and torpedoes from destroyers caused her sink to beneath the seas. The third German battleship to be sunk during the war was the Tirpitz. Since her commissioning in 1941 she had posed a constant threat to Allied shipping. In one incident,

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be used as a blockship in 1945. The Battle of the Atlantic was the Allied fight against the U-boats and was the longest continuous battle of the war. With the destruction of over 750 submarines and their best capital warships the Germans couldn’t stop the massive amount of equipment from crossing the Atlantic. It was with the destruction of the battleships that caused the German admirals to realize that the war was lost. In contrast, the sinking of Germany’s battleships raised the moral of Allied sailors and civilians at home. Sinking large ships like the big German battleships took the efforts of large fleets. In the Pacific the American used submarines and aircraft to do the job of sinking the two largest warships ever built. We will discuss the sinkings of the Yamato and Musashi in a future issue.

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they tended to run the synagogue as a moneymaking operation, without taking Jewish law or the rabbi into consideration. Rabbi Dunner has already introduced us to Rabbi Ferber’s memoirs in his previous articles, allowing us to glimpse the life of this revered rabbi for the very first time since he began recording it in vivid detail in the year 1938. This is the next excerpt from the memoirs and continues the story of Rabbi Ferber’s brother, Rabbi Eliezer Lipman Ferber, whose great scholarship and piety seemed to forestall a great future.

The translation is not a wordfor-word rendition of the original Hebrew, although Rabbi Dunner has stuck as closely as possible to the original, except when the rabbinic Hebrew makes an exact translation difficult or where ambiguities need to be corrected. The material has also been abridged where necessary, excluding details that disrupt the narrative or expanding where more details are required.

The Milkman In Nottingham In 1913, while I was traveling through England, I visited Nottingham and stayed with a community member who was a milkman. I saw that he was a G-d fearing man and that he observed the Sabbath properly. He was extremely respectful and polite, in a way that was quite unusual and certainly unlike anyone else in that community. Out of the blue this milkman told me that when he was a young man he and some of his Jewish friends had been drafted into the Russian Imperial Army, and when it was almost Yom Kippur they had asked the commanding officer if they could be stationed in a

city with a Jewish community for the holy day, and he had sent them to Koznitza. On Kol Nidre night they had heard a sermon from the rabbi there, a young man, and his powerful words made a great impression. The entire community trembled as he spoke, and their tears flowed like a river. He would never forget that speech for as long as he lived, the milkman told me. When I then told him that the young rabbi he remembered was none other than my late brother, he was shocked, and then he told me that as soon as he saw me he thought that I reminded him of someone or something, but he just couldn’t figure it out. Now that I had told him that the same rabbi he heard in Kosnitza all those years ago was my brother, suddenly it all made sense. And from that moment on, the milkman in Nottingham treated me with the utmost reverence and respect and did everything that he could for me.

The Unexpected Train Stop In Kashodar I once heard a the following story about my brother – when he went to Shavel in around the year 1889 for

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abbi Tzvi Hirsch Ferber (1883-1966) was a Lithuanianborn Torah scholar who spent most of his adult life as the spiritual leader of a small community in the West End of London. He remained there for over 50 years, struggling to maintain his dignity and his principles in a setting that was completely indifferent to the things he found important. His relationship with the lay-leadership of his community, as well as with his fellow employees, was fraught with difficulty and tension, as they were all people devoid of any sensitivity to Jewish ritual law and

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The celebrated rabbinic scholar Rabbi Zelig Tarshish taught at a private synagogue in Slabodka. When Rabbi Ferber’s brother died young, in November 1892, his father engaged Rabbi Tarshish to teach Torah in his son’s memory throughout the week of the shiva mourning. Rabbi Tarshish subsequently moved to Kelm, and after that to Jerusalem, where he passed away in 1940, in his late 80s.

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60 our brother Mordechai’s wedding he was unavoidably delayed at the train stop in Kashodar, Lithuania. While he was there, with nothing else to do, he decided to visit the rabbi of the town, Rabbi Binyamin Meizel, who was later rabbi of Paneman, near Kovno. During their conversation Rabbi Meizel told my brother how upset he was about a vicious controversy that was then raging in the community, a dispute that looked likely to end up at the secular civil court, which would inevitably cause an incredible desecration of G-d’s name among the local gentiles. My brother suggested to the rabbi that he should call the community together at the local synagogue, and once they were all gathered there, he began to address them in a soft tone and spoke to their hearts, inspiring them to reconcile with each other and restore peace and to bring blessings back to their homes and their community. Before long there was not a dry eye in the room. Immediately after he had finished addressing them the warring parties resolved their differences, and everyone in the community, including the rabbi, was delighted by what he had achieved – at which point my brother went back on his journey to the wedding.

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Some Other Recollections Of My Brother Another recollection I have of my brother is of my father telling him that the cloth belt he was wearing was torn, to which he responded that the belt had very important sentimental value, as it had belonged to “Reb Yudel Sennier” (in other words, to Rabbi Yehuda Bacharach, the acclaimed rabbi of Seini, and author of the popular glosses published at the back of the Vilna Talmud), and he had purchased the belt from the aforementioned rabbi’s heirs. I particularly remember how happy everyone was to meet him at the marriage of our brother Mordechai to the daughter of the saintly scholar and acclaimed man of G-d, Rabbi Shlomo Elyashiv, celebrated author of Leshem Shevo ve’Achlama. Every time he found himself at the center of Torah discussions with family members, he dazzled

them with his scholarship, resolving complex issues with just a couple of words – no one was a match for his intellect and scholarship. My brother’s knowledge of Jewish monetary laws was phenomenal, as is clearly demonstrated in all the writings he left behind. He effortlessly judged the most complicated financial cases and resolved the densest money related legal questions, bringing about peaceful solutions for all the protagonists. He was regularly called upon by different communities to rule on the most complex and challenging financial cases, and everyone was astounded by his ability to grasp all the details and cut to the chase. I remember one particular case – a dispute between the well-known tycoon, Yosef Sharshevski of Grodno, and another

did every year and prayed the miniYom-Kippur prayer recited by pious people before a new month begins. But the following day, my brother suddenly felt unwell – and he was diagnosed with typhoid fever. Weirdly enough, my mother had fallen asleep that morning – she was in Slabodka, of course, while my brother was many miles away in Koznitza – and while she was sleeping she dreamt that my brother was sick and that a doctor was standing over him. She woke up frightened and wept bitterly, because she felt that it wasn’t just a dream. Just then a telegram arrived from my brother informing her of his diagnosis and asking her to pray for him, as her prayers would surely be effective. I still recall how she prayed over the next few days with such de-

The entire community trembled as he spoke, and their tears flowed like a river.

party. No one had been able to draw a line under the matter until my late brother stepped in and sorted it out. What was even more remarkable was that he never took any payment for his lawsuit related work – he was not interested in being compensated or in any kind of financial gain. He was a man of truth and integrity, righteous and pious in everything that he did, driven by Torah ideals and a passion for justice.

My Brother Becomes Sick The year 5753 (1892) was a terrible year – as it was the year that my brother passed away. As soon as the year began he had a weird premonition that his time had come, and he asked his loved ones to pray for him. Over the High Holidays he inspired the community with his wonderful sermons, as he always did, and on Yom Kippur he led the Neilah prayer at the end of the day. On the eve of the new month of Cheshvan, just a couple of weeks later, he fasted as he

votion, particularly the penitential prayers of Mondays and Thursdays. I could hear her crying through the wall that separated our rooms, although when I went into her room she went silent so as not to upset me. As soon as the telegram had arrived my mother ran to the synagogue and prayed in front of the ark containing the Torahs. My father also prayed fervently, as did all the members of our household – we cried what seemed to be rivers of tears, praying and pleading for my brother’s full recovery. My mother also made efforts to ensure that the world renowned rabbinic luminary, Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor of Kovno, would prayed for him to recoIn my brother’s town, Koznitza, and the surrounding area, everyone gathered together to pray for him as well. But it seems his fate had already been sealed, and the candelabra that had shone for 39 years, with the flame of mitzvot and the light of Torah had already been

extinguished. When my mother arrived in Koznitza to be with him a few days later, my brother told her that he knew his time was up – it been revealed to him from the Heavens and he had already encountered some of his friends who had passed away.

My Brother’s Passing On the 11th of Mar-Cheshvan (November 1), 1892, my brother passed away. When he was first diagnosed, they had summoned Dr. Zamkov from Grodno, and he had predicted that if my brother was able to make it past two weeks, he would be recover. Dr. Zamkov was a very famous and eminent doctor but unfortunately he had returned to Grodno immediately afterwards, and my brother had been tended to over the next few days by a local doctor, who my mother later said was very young and inexperienced, which upset her enormously. My mother was also extremely upset that my sister-in-law, Chaya Gitel, had allowed her husband to fast on the eve of the new month of Cheshvan. And the truth is, my mother was right. Penitential fast days are not meant for a great scholar who spends his life immersed in Torah study, as the founder of Chassidism, the Baal Shem Tov, had explicitly told his disciple, R. Yaakov Yosef Katz of Polonoyye, author of the book, Toldot Yaakov Yosef. The tragedy of my brother’s untimely death totally devastated my parents, and they never recovered from the terrible blow of his demise for the rest of their lives. During the year of mourning that followed his passing, my father organized a daily prayer service at our home, and a righteous scholar delivered a daily Torah discourse to those who attended and also ate meals at our table. During the initial mourning week the celebrated rabbinic scholar, Rabbi Zelig Tarshish of Kelm, taught Torah in my brother’s memory at our home – at that time he lived in Slabodka; he now lives in Jerusalem.

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ing better. There is a slight possibility that this inner turmoil will cause a downward spiral that can leave the person worse off than when he started. Suppressed emotions that surface can also lead a person to question their relationships and how they live their lives. This can potentially be destructive for their entire family system. A skilled therapist will take the necessary precautions to protect the client from adverse outcomes and will properly manage the type and intensity of the therapy to match the needs of the client. It also must be pointed out that there are certain mental health disorders that carry very little risk, such as with someone who only has an anxiety disorder. How does one lower the risk as much as possible? The obvious answer is to seek out a therapist that is skilled and experienced. At Relief, one of the major factors that we consider in the making of a referral is maintaining the safety of the person who is seeking therapy. If you keep your eyes open as you embark on your journey, you should be able to benefit from all that therapy has to offer. This is a service of Relief Resources. Relief is an organization that provides mental health referrals to the frum community. Rabbi Azriel Hauptman is the director of the Baltimore branch of Relief. He can be contacted at 410-448-8356 or at ahauptman@reliefhelp.org .

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conomic inequality is a hot topic in today’s world. Researchers here and abroad consistently show the top 1% of earners gobbling a disproportionate share of gains throughout the world. This trend has more and more thinkers debating what to do about it. Do we redistribute the pie, so that everyone has a more equal share? Or do we grow it so that everyone can have a bigger slice? (There, we’ve just summed up three centuries worth of political economy in two short sentences!) Now there’s new research that shows the old research actually understates that divide. (Don’t you just love when the research changes?) Last month, a team of professors published a paper that reveals another gap between the rich and the poor — the rich hide a larger proportion of their income from the tax man. In 2015, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists analyzed data covering 30,000 accounts and $100 billion of assets held at international banking giant HSBC’s Swiss private banking department. In 2016, the same group analyzed data on 22,000 shell companies established by the Panama-based law firm of Mossack

Fonseca. The professors matched the information from those leaks to population-wide tax and wealth records from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Scandinavians are known for their democratic socialist philosophies, relative equality, and overall happiness. (The 2017 World Happiness Report ranks Norway first, Denmark second, and Swe-

evasion rate is %3 in Scandinavia, that rises to %30 for the top %0.01 of taxpayers, which includes households with more than 40$ million in net worth. How does that correlate to inequality? In Norway, previous figures had estimated that the country’s wealthiest 300 families control 8% of the country’s net worth. The new data suggest those families keep

The new data suggest those families keep a full third of their wealth offshore, which means they actually control at least 10% of the country’s wealth.

den ninth.) Surely the rich people in those countries are happy to support their less-fortunate brethren through taxes, right? Well, not so much. (With all that socialism and equality, it might surprise you to learn that there even are rich people in that part of the world.) While the overall tax

a full third of their wealth offshore, which means they actually control at least 10% of the country’s wealth. Researchers just didn’t know where it was hiding! Over 1% of the Scandinavian families use HSBC’s Swiss private banking services. Another 1% own a shell company created by Mossack

Fonseca. One percent may not sound like a lot. But remember, HSBC is just one Swiss bank out of over 300, and Mossack Fonseca is just one law firm out of countless more. The paper’s authors found that “in practice, about 95% of all the individuals on the HSBC list that could be matched to a tax return did not report their Swiss bank account.” In fact, when Norway and Sweden passed tax amnesty laws letting scofflaws pay reduced penalties, over 8,000 taxpayers ‘fessed up. And further, the numbers suggest that 15% of the wealthiest households have stashed at least some money abroad. Here’s some good news for those of us who live in the U.S. and don’t have 40$ million to worry about. Our country is actually considered a tax haven by many foreigners. That means we have countless opportunities to save taxes without sending our money on a Swiss holiday. All you really need is a plan. Make sure you have one and see if you can send yourself on vacation! Allan J Rolnick is a CPA who has been in practice for over 30 yea rs in Queens, NY. He welcomes your comments and can be reached at 718-896-8715 or at allanjrcpa@aol.com.

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notice of each other – and it’s not on Facebook, Snapchat or a shidduch resume! It’s right there – live! We are an anxious society these days. Everyone feels concerned about something and it’s staying and

Yet something in the formula, the do’s and don’ts of it, combine to bring one to a level of sudden, complete calm. I guess it’s because the rule is you can do no more! Activity stops and simplicity sets in! This is so

No booking, traveling, or schlepping; just three waves of my hands in front of a candle, and I’m there. playing on their mind. It’s hard to let it go. It’s there, plaguing their brain. Then this magical moment takes place: candle lighting. And it’s better than a Xanax. Everything goes into slow motion. And you are allowed to just be! In fact, you are trained to just be. Which is amazing because we know that people usually cannot relax just because someone tells them to relax!

amazing, if only you could bottle it! So many times, people try to slow their week down but the week gets in the way. This idea of taking the week out of the week seems inspired?! (Wink, wink) In fact, people are always trying to emulate it with camping trips, vacations, office outings. The idea being to get away from the daily routine, concerns, grind. Well, I, for one,

just want to say I’m thankful that Someone bigger and better than me figured this out way before I got here –and at a very good price at that. No booking, traveling, or schlepping; just three waves of my hands in front of a candle – kind of reminds you of Dorothy clicking her heels – and I’m there. So, who cares if the car sits idle a day. The phone hangs out on its charger. The potato sits neglected in its cabinet. I’m hanging out with animate objects and we are totally engrossed, engaged, and enjoying all the bells and whistles built into the technology of the human body and mind. And guess what? It’s a pretty impressive model with more gadgets than the iPhone will ever see! Rivki Rosenwald is a certified relationship counselor, and career and life coach. She can be contacted at 917-705-2004 or rivki@rosenwalds.com

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ou can’t drive anywhere! And your car’s perfectly fine. You can’t use your phone, even though it’s fully charged. You can’t cook or go to a restaurant. What are you supposed to do, starve?! You can’t watch TV, shop, or spend money! Hooray?! Does that sound stifling? Yet, you can relax, notice and enjoy the people around you, read, play games. You can also do this ancient activity: talk, rather than text! You can eat, in fact, too much and the preps all been done! And best of all, you can function in real time rather than overdrive! There was a time some people felt the concept of Shabbos could be restricting. Today, many people start to recognize it as liberating. Kids actually put down their technology. In fact, so do husbands and wives, mothers and fathers. Everyone seems to appreciate that the other person is more present even when they’re missing their “stuff.” People basically seem to take more

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The Cake: 1 cup potato starch ¾ cup oil ¾ cup brown sugar ¾ cup sugar 3 eggs 2 Tbl vanilla 1 tsp baking powder ½ tsp salt 9in round pan that is 2in deep

Pastry Cream Filling: 3 egg yolks (Save the whites for meringue cookies!) 3 Tbl. margarine 1 ½ cups rice milk ½ tsp. vanilla ½ cup sugar, divided pinch of salt 5 Tbl. cornstarch Chocolate ganache: ½ cup defrosted whipping cream 1 cup chocolate chips

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease the deep 9-inch round pan and line bottom with parchment paper. To make the cake, beat sugars and eggs until fluffy. Add all the other ingredients. Mix until smooth and pour into prepared pan. Bake for 40 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean. Cool completely. Split cake into 2 equal 9-ionch round cakes. To make the cream: 1. Whisk together the eggs, ½ cup rice milk, ¼ cup sugar, and cornstarch in a medium bowl. Set aside. 2. In a saucepan, combine remaining rice milk and sugar and bring to a boil over medium heat. 3. Add about one fourth of the warmed milk mixture to the egg mixture, adding it in four parts and mixing constantly. 4. Add the milk-egg mixture to the remaining simmering milk mixture in the sauce pan all at once; continue mixing until it comes to a full boil and begins to become thick. Remove the pan from heat. 5. Stir in the butter, vanilla, and salt and mix completely. 6. Pour the cream into a pan and cover surface with plastic wrap to prevent a skin from forming. Cool completely in fridge before filling cake. Whisk. Chocolate Ganache: Boil whipping cream in small pot. Place chocolate chips into a medium bowl, and pour hot cream over the chips. Mix until smooth and completely melted. To assemble the Boston Cream Pie, spread cream filling over one of the 9-inch layers. Put other cake layer on top. Pour chocolate ganache over top of cake. When dry, you can decorate the top with ½ cup melted white chocolate- in drizzles or spider design.

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Chicken & Beef Fajitas

Makes: 20 servings | Can make ahead Active time: 50 minutes | Cooking time: included Serve fajitas with guacamole, salsa, rice and a big salad. Some might want to forego the tortilla and put the meat & add-ons over the salad for a delicious fajita salad. This recipe serves a crowd, you can easily adjust the amounts, but the leftovers “planned-overs” are great to have in the fridge for the start to another meal (email me at thekosherchannel@gmail.com for ideas). Marinade: 1 cup strong, cold coffee 1 (8 ounce can) tomato sauce 1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce* 1/4 cup oil 4 tablespoons lime juice, about 2 medium limes 1 tablespoon sugar 1 tablespoon coarsely ground black pepper

11/2 pounds London broil 6 boneless, skinless chicken breasts 6 red and green bell peppers, seeded and thinly sliced 4 onions, halved and thinly sliced 8 garlic cloves, minced 3 tablespoons vegetable oil 3 limes 20 flour tortillas

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Preparation:

"Holy guacamole, this is good!" Those were the first words out of my nephew Jeremy’s mouth as soon as he could (sort of) politely speak after downing a batch of this Guacamole Recipe and a half a bag of taco chips. Guacamole can do more than top a taco chip. This one can share the table with your Shabbos appetizer salads, it's a healthy sandwich spread and perfect complement for any Tex-Mex recipe.

Ingredients:

1/4 onion 1/4 cup cilantro 1/2 jalapeno pepper or 4 slices from a jar, rinsed 1 tablespoon mayonnaise Juice of half of 1 lime (about 2 teaspoons) 1 ripe avocado, chunked

Preparation:

Jeremy’s Guacamole

In the work bowl of a food processor, pulse onion, cilantro and jalapeno until finely chopped. Add mayonnaise, lime juice, and avocado. Pulse briefly until mixture is the consistency of chunky guacamole.

Makes: about 2 cups | Can make ahead Active time: 10 minutes

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1. Mix first 7 ingredients. Place beef and chicken in a storage container with a tight fitting lid and pour marinade over all. Cover, shake to coat well and refrigerate several hours to overnight. 2. Heat grill to medium high. Grill beef until desired doneness: 4 min. per side for rare, 6 minutes per side for medium, 8 minutes per side for well done. Grill chicken 4 minutes per side until firm to touch. Alternatively, you may turn oven to broil and position rack in uppermost slot. Line a baking pan with foil and place London broil on foil. Broil as in grill method. Repeat with chicken, broil 3-4 minutes per side until firm to the touch. 3. Allow meat to sit at least 10 minutes. When cool enough to handle, thinly slice meat and chicken. 4. In large heavy skillet over high heat, pour enough oil to coat bottom of pan. Add bell peppers and onions. Stir fry 5-8 minutes until onion is wilted, lower heat, add minced garlic cloves and stir one minute. Do this in batches if necessary. 5. Add meat to vegetables, squirt with lime and toss until warm. 6. Place 1/3 cup of meat-vegetable mixture in a line down the center each tortilla, fold one end 2" over meat. Fold tortilla across meat and roll.

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