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he Preamble to the Declaration of the Independence begins with the seminal words: “We hold these truths to be self-evident...”

Isn’t it ironic that the Founding Fathers of the United States, in their desire to found a new country, began that journey with the concept of truth? Nowadays, truth has become elusive in a nation that allows the assignation of truth to anyone who feels their voice should be heard loudest.

Society, as a whole, endeavors to bring upheaval to known facts and realities.

What we thought was undisputable is now being called into doubt. These are key concepts that have been undeniable for centuries, and yet, now, we are being told that these ideas are no longer true.

Soon, we will be told that “right” is “left” and that “left” is “right” – and even more than that, we will be vilified if we calmly continue to refer to “right” as “right.”

The more confusion society tries to bring to the world, the more proud I feel of the Truth that was gifted to our Nation.

There are no doubts or deniability found in our Truth. Nowadays, the contrast between a Torah life and a life led by society’s whims is so stark – and that makes it so much easier to continue our lives as Torah Jews. We clearly see how living a life of Torah ideals is the only way to navigate the turbulence we feel around us.

When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, he made sure that G-d, the Creator, was mentioned in the Preamble, too. The only way society can prevail is if there is a belief in G-d, if there is a concept of understanding that there is a Higher Authority that one has to answer to. Yes, Jefferson and his fellow Founders were looking to create a new country – one with separation of church and state – but they were acknowledging that belief in G-d is essential for society to flourish.

It’s been 246 years since the Declaration of Independence was signed. Clearly, our country has changed in many ways.

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Contents LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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COMMUNITY Readers’ Poll

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Community Happenings

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NEWS

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Global

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National

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That’s Odd

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ISRAEL Israel News

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My Israel Home

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Knesset Collapse: Bennett’s Many Faces Led To His Fall

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JEWISH THOUGHT Rabbi Wein on the Parsha

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I Know by Rav Moshe Weinberger

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Delving into the Daf by Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow

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PEOPLE The Wandering Jew

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July 4th Throughout History by Avi Heiligman

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HEALTH & FITNESS Time to Rethink the Barbecue by Cindy Weinberger, MS RD CDN

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What Your Marriage Needs Most by Dr. Deb Hirschhorn

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FOOD & LEISURE The Aussie Gourmet: Fish Tacos

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LIFESTYLES Your Summer Bucket List

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Dating Dialogue, Moderated

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Parenting Pearls

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Your Money

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Dear Editor, Poland’s attempt to impose rules on Israeli children who visit Holocaust sites in order to prevent its being cast in a negative light only serves to accentuate its behavior during the Second World War. This so-called “negative image” is clearly justified when one examines how Poland treated its Jews in centuries past.

Jews were vilified by all of Polish society.

Whether it be at the hands of the lowly peasant or the country’s ruling elite, Jews were often berated, isolated and beaten. Despite being attacked by Germany, many in Poland saw the German invasion as a means by which to finally rid the country of its Jews. Many Poles were only too happy to inform the Germans of where Jews were hiding so as to rummage through or take ownership of abandoned Jewish homes and businesses. Germany did attack and victimize Poland, but in turn Poland saw fit to join the invaders in seeking to eradicate its own resident Jews.

Poland continues to proclaim its victimization by Nazi Germany as a means to overshadow its own victimization of Jews. This egregious behavior prior to and during the Holocaust should never be forgotten.

Shmeel Kovitz Dear Editor, Did you ever see someone after they accomplished a seemingly impossible goal? There’s an extra smile on their face, extra step in their walk, and bubbling enthusiasm. What about two weeks later? Is the same emotion displayed? Likely not.

Why is that? It can be contended that life is a collection of moments and it’s impossible to sustain the same emotions later

in time. What is one then supposed to do?

My wife once wrote: “Rabbi Orlowek recommends that you make a really strong memory by focusing all of your senses and then you can play back the vision like a 4-D film at any time. According to Rabbi Zelig Pliskin, another strategy is to proclaim Modeh Ani when you feel grateful and in this way every morning upon waking you will supercharge your tefillah of Modeh Ani (I personally prefer to say Shiur Hamalos from before bentching) with that same authentic and spontaneous burst of inspiration.”

As a footnote, one could argue that man is responsible to carry the same enthusiasm every moment because the Gemara points out that we are lucky to merely be alive, as we are mired in sin and G-d still gives us life. According to this, achievement is a bonus and should be acknowledged on a moment-to-moment basis.

Steven Genack Dear Editor, President Biden has proposed a temporary suspension of the federal gas tax over the summer as a means to reduce the price which is now averaging over $5 per gallon nationally and growing each week.

This makes no sense in the long run. He reminds me of the emperor during the decline of ancient Rome. The emperor would offer the masses free bread and circuses as a means to placate them.

Biden fails to explain how Washington would deal with less money going into the Highway Trust Fund as a result of his federal gas tax holiday. This is a critical source of funding for highway and transit projects. A federal gas tax holiday would result in Uncle Sam not collecting $0.18 Continued on page 10

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For the Fall of Roe v. Wade, Thank Donald Trump by Marc A. Thiessen

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for every gallon of gas purchased. The Highway Trust Fund already faces financial difficulties. The loss would have to be made up. Congress would have to decide how to make up the lost dollars. They will either raise other taxes, transfer revenue from another source, borrow more (raising our growing $30.4 trillion national debt) or reduce the scope or number of transportation-funded projects. In the end, both motorists and transit riders will be the losers if federal gasoline taxes are temporarily suspended.

How did we go from an energy independent nation to an energy dependent nation under President Biden? Why have gasoline prices increased from $3 to $5 or more under his watch? Why haven’t Senate Majority Leader Schumer and House Speaker Pelosi convened a special commission to investigate this?

Sincerely, Larry Penner Dear Editor, The Supreme Court’s ruling against New York’s unreasonable and unconstitutional Conceal Carry denial scheme is fantastic news for Pistol Permit holders in the Nassau and NYC metro area. We have abided by numerous regulations, paid hundreds of dollars in application fees, disclosed our personal and health history, been fingerprinted and interviewed, and are successfully approved by the Pistol License Bureau to purchase and keep handguns, but prevented from discreetly carrying them. Many of us have held pistol permits for many years with no issues or infarctions. In general, millions of citizens in the rest of mainstream America carry concealed handguns for personal protection, and the data shows that negative incidents are extremely rare occurrences.

None of us seek to use firearms to enforce laws and we do not fantasize about being the hero in a confrontation. We treat firearms with respect, and we do not view gun ownership or concealed carry as signs of machismo or bravado. We are ethical, moral, family-oriented men and women who train and wish to protect our loved ones, shuls, and communities in an increasingly dangerous world.

The celebration is short lived, however. There is talk that Nassau County is following Albany’s lead and will seek to impose excessive restrictions and expensive training requirements and importantly, declare public transportation systems, county parks, and private businesses “Gun Free Zones.” This is effectively a de-facto ban on concealed carry, and a measure already ruled constitutional in the decision. And as we know, mass murderers specifically seek out Gun Free Zones as soft targets incapable of mounting armed resistance.

The hysteria whipped up by opponents to citizens exercising their Second Amendment rights and carrying for their personal safety is expected but simply unprecedented. False claims, inflated panic, and ridiculous equivalencies to a “Wild West” are being made by the governor, city mayors, and police officials. All this nonsense is designed to frighten the public. For anyone curious enough to do some research, the fear-mongering is easily refuted by basic facts, history, and common sense.

I urge everyone to respectfully contact members of the local legislatures, County Executive Bruce Blakeman, and the District Attorney’s office and question why they seem content with following Albany and New York City in creating unnecessarily broad areas of gun-free zones in our county that will put anyone Conceal Carrying in legal jeopardy and confusion every time they step out of the home.

Sincerely, A resident of the Five Towns Dear Editor, I was confused by the dating question this week.

If these people were the actual shadchanim, then they should speak up and let the couple know. No one is interested in not paying a shadchan. We all want to do what’s right, especially in a time of simcha, like an engagement and marriage.

It seems as if this woman is not vocal about her involvement. Let the people know that you were the shadchanim (if you set them up a few times, I can’t imagine why they wouldn’t know that), and I’m sure they’ll be more than happy to compensate you for your time.

Best of luck, Shiri K.

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The Week In News

$3M in Cash to Prince Charles

According to the Sunday Times, Prince Charles had received a suitcase full of €1 million in cash from a Qatari politician. In response to the article, Clarence House said that the correct processes were followed after the Prince received the cash that eventually came to a total of €3 million from former Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani between 2011 and 2015.

“Charitable donations received from

Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim were passed immediately to one of the Prince’s charities who carried out the appropriate governance and have assured us that all the correct processes were followed,” Clarence House said.

The Sunday Times reported that on one occasion, Sheikh Hamad gave Prince Charles €1 million reportedly stuffed into carrier bags from the upmarket London department store, Fortnum and Mason.

On another occasion, Prince Charles accepted a duffel bag containing €1 million during a private one-on-one meeting at Clarence House in 2015.

The Sunday Times reports the payments were deposited into the accounts of the Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund (PWCF), an entity that bankrolls the Prince’s private projects and his country estate in Scotland.

There is no suggestion the payments were illegal.

Which Countries Are Best for Jews?

This week, an index revealed which countries are best, quality-of-life-wise, for Jews in the 12 countries of the European

Union with sizeable Jewish communities.

Daniel Staetsky, a statistician with the London-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research who wrote the report for the European Jewish Association in Brussels, noted, “The goal with this report is to take the excellent data we already have about how Jews feel, about how prevalent antisemitism is, and combine it with government policy measurables,” Staetsky said during a conference held by the European Jewish Association in Budapest.

He said the results may challenge preconceptions about which EU countries are most hospitable to Jews. For example, Germany scored high when it came to government policies relating to Jews, but Jews there report a weak sense of security, leading to an overall middling score. Antisemitic sentiment was especially felt in Italy and Hungary.

The index is primarily a tool “to demand concrete action from European leaders,” said Rabbi Menachem Margolin, head of the European Jewish Association. “We welcome statements against antisemitism by European leaders. But more than statements is needed.”

The European Jewish Association will make individual recommendations to each country surveyed, Margolin added at the press event.

Titled “Europe and Jews, a country index of respect and tolerance towards Jews,” the study ranks the 12 countries surveyed as follows: Italy: 79, Hungary: 76, Denmark: 75, the United Kingdom: 75, Austria: 75, the Netherlands: 74, Sweden: 73, Germany: 72, Spain: 70, France: 68, Poland: 66, Belgium: 60.

To come up with the ranking, Staetsky gave each surveyed country grades on multiple subjects, including the Jewish sense of security, public attitudes to Jews and the number of Jews who said they’d experienced antisemitism. The grades were based on major opinion polls in recent years. The study combined those scores with scores the author gave to countries’ government policies, including their funding for Jewish communities, whether they had adopted a definition of antisemitism,

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“More than a thousand people worked all night on the ruins – rescuers, police, medics and volunteers,” said Dmytro Lunin, governor of the Poltava region, where the Amstor shopping mall was hit.

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Under that scoring system, Germany received an overall score of 72 despite having the best score (89) on government performance on issues related to Jews and a solid 92 when it came to the prevalence of antisemitism. But a relatively low score on Jewish sense of security (46) hurt its overall score, among other factors.

In the case of Hungary, “the score

it received reflects the reality on the ground,” according to Shlomo Koves, the head of the Chabad-affiliated EMIH umbrella group of Jewish communities in Hungary. “Jews can walk around here, go to synagogue, without the slightest fear of harassment,” he said. But the prevalence of antisemitic sentiments in Hungarian society — an Anti-Defamation League survey from 2015 found that about 30 percent of the population hold them — “shows there is work to be

done here, too, in education and outreach,” Koves added.

Russia Targets Ukrainian Mall At least 20 people were killed this week when Russian missiles hit a shopping mall in Kremenchuk, Ukraine. Rescuers sifted through the rubble on Tues-

A spokesman for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that at least 59 people were injured; at least 40 people were still missing. There were around 1,000 people in the mall at the time of the attack.

The daytime attack on the crowded mall, which is located hundreds of miles away from the eastern Ukraine, is just the latest in Russia’s aberrant strategy in conquering Ukraine. It has continued to target civilian areas, including those in Kyiv.

In defense of the horrific attack that drew condemnation from Western leaders, Russia’s Defense Ministry said the high-precision missile strike in the Poltava region was directed at a weapons depot nearby that subsequently caused a fire in the shopping center, which Moscow said was closed at the time.

Zelensky spoke with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg about Ukraine’s need to shore up its defenses against Russian missile strikes as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) prepared for its annual summit meeting in Madrid on Tuesday. “Stressed the importance of a powerful missile defense system for Ukraine to prevent Russian terrorist attacks,” Mr. Zelensky wrote on Twitter.

Stoltenberg said NATO would step up its support for Ukraine now and in the long term. Hours after the attack on the mall in Kremenchuk, leaders of the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations issued a stark condemnation, describing it as a war crime.

“We stand united with Ukraine in mourning the innocent victims of this brutal attack,” the leaders of the U.S., Canada, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, and Japan said. “Indiscriminate attacks on innocent civilians constitute

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a war crime. Russian President Putin and those responsible will be held to account.”

The G-7 pledged to provide financial, humanitarian as well as military support for Ukraine until “Russia ends its cruel and senseless war on Ukraine.”

The group also agreed to work on further sanctions against the Kremlin, including a ban of Russian gold exports and a cap on the price of Russian oil and gas to limit its revenue from natural resources.

On the eastern front, Ukraine has worked to consolidate its position in Lysychansk, which overlooks current Russian positions in the city of Severodonetsk which fell to Russian forces last week.

Russia’s capture of Lysychansk would effectively bring all of Luhansk province, which makes up half the Donbas region, under Moscow’s control, bringing the Kremlin one step closer to its goal in conquering the heavily Russian speaking eastern Ukraine region, which was once the economic engine of the country.

“Lysychansk is the last outpost of the Luhansk region,” said Ukrainian regional head of Luhansk, Serhiy Haidai. “Our main task is to hold out as long as possible.”

New Frontline Army Duties in North Korea

North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong Un met with military leaders last week and doubled down on his nuclear arms buildup, in an effort to overwhelm “hostile forces.”

At the meeting, the military leaders approved unspecified new operational duties for frontline army units.

According to state media, members of the Workers’ Party’s Central Military Commission agreed to supplement an “important military action plan” on the duties of front-line troops, with the goal of increasing the nuclear war deterrent.

Details on the new operational duties were not available. However, during the

military commission’s three-day meeting, which ended Thursday, Kim called for the army to “go all out” and consolidate the country’s “powerful self-defense capabilities for overwhelming any hostile forces and thus reliably protect the dignity of the great country.”

Though the meeting did not mention plans for a nuclear test, it did discuss ways to strengthen the party’s leadership over the entire armed forces, KCNA reported.

Bangladesh’s Longest Bridge

It’s been years of delay and almost $4 billion, but this weekend, Bangladesh’s longest bridge opened to great fanfare over the rushing waters of the Padma River. The Padma Bridge will connect

Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka to the underdeveloped northwestern region of the country.

The opening on Saturday of the Padma Bridge, which has been dubbed a “symbol of national pride,” marks a momentous occasion in the South Asian nation’s history.

The construction of the 6.15km (3.82 miles) bridge began in November 2015 to connect 21 districts of the country’s southwestern region with Dhaka via road and rail, thereby cutting travel time considerably. Without the bridge, it takes travelers 15 to 22 hours to travel between the districts of the northeast region and Dhaka.

The bridge can accommodate four lanes of traffic and a train on the lower level.

With a construction cost of $3.87 billion, this is one of the largest mega projects Bangladesh has ever undertaken.

The entire amount was financed by the Bangladesh government after other entities – including the World Bank – walked away from the project due to corruption.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina addressed the audience on Saturday.

“Some people said we would always be beholden to others, but our Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur

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Rahman taught us the importance of self-respect,” she said.

Sheikh Rahman was Bangladesh’s founding father who led the movement to secede from Pakistan in 1971.

“This Padma Bridge is not a pile of brick and cement, but a symbol of Bangladesh’s pride, honor and ability,” she said.

“We have shown the world that we can.”

Terming it as an “engineering marvel,” experts say the construction of the bridge is a great feat as the Padma is the most “treacherous and unpredictable” river after the Amazon River of South America.

China’s state-owned Railway Major Bridge Engineering Group (RMBEG) was tasked to lead the construction of the bridge with the help of about 1,200 Bangladeshi engineers. With steel piles being driven 122 meters (400 feet) deep into the riverbed, Padma Bridge has the record of having the deepest piling among all the bridges in the world.

Hamzah al Yemeni, was a senior leader of an al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group known as Hurras al-Din.

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U.S. forces killed a senior terrorist leader in an airstrike in Syria on Monday.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said the target of the strike, Abu

Al Yemeni was riding alone on a motorcycle in Idlib province at the time of the attack.

Violent groups like Hurras al-Din pose an ongoing threat to the U.S. and its allies.

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Mohammed Zubair, co-founder of India’s leading fact-checking website Alt News, has long been in the crosshairs of Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

This month, Modi’s government faced one of its worst diplomatic crises in recent years after two BJP officials made derogatory remarks against Islam’s Prophet Muhammad and his wife Aisha.

More than a dozen Muslim nations, including Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members with whom New Delhi has strong ties, condemned the remarks and demanded an apology, forcing the BJP to issue a rare statement saying it “respects all religions.”

Zubair, who has more than half a million Twitter followers, was probably the first journalist to share a clip of the TV debate on a news channel in which the now-suspended BJP spokeswoman Nupur Sharma made the comments against the prophet.

While he did not name Sharma or tag her handle in his tweet, he questioned the news channel, its anchor, and the network’s owner for allowing the incendiary remarks.

As the controversy snowballed into a major diplomatic crisis, many BJP supporters demanded Zubair’s arrest by running the hashtag #ArrestZubair on Twitter.

Earlier this month, police charged the 39-year-old journalist for calling some far-right Hindu monks “hatemongers.” The monks had made inflammatory statements about Muslims and at least one of them had called for a “genocide” of the Muslim community, a minority in the Hindu country.

Zubair’s arrest on Monday also came five days after Twitter received a request from the Modi government, claiming his account had violated Indian laws.

Alt News has made a name for itself by calling out Hindu anti-Muslim sentiment. As such, right-wing Hindus have openly called Zubair an “Islamist” and a “jihadist,” accusing him of targeting them and demanding action against him

and his website.

Alt News has also called out incidences of derogatory remarks, actions, or apps that negatively target women.

Toxic Gas Leak in Jordan

At least 12 people were killed and 260 people were injured after toxic gas leaked out of a container in Jordan’s port of Aqaba this week.

The container was being transported by a crane before it dropped, unleashing a cloud of yellow, gaseous material onto a ship and inside the port.

A team of specialists on hazardous materials from Jordan’s Civil Defense were dispatched to the scene of the incident. The area has been quarantined.

Out of the deceased, eight people were Jordanians.

Among the injured are 45 personnel who work with the Public Security Directorate, Civil Defense and Gendarmerie Cadres First Responders, according to the country’s Public Security Directorate.

Aqaba is a popular tourist resort, located on the Red Sea.

Terror in Norway

Norway has raised its terror alert to the highest level following a shooting at a bar over the weekend.

In the Friday night attack, a gunman opened fire in a nightclub in Oslo, Norway, killing two and injuring over 20 people.

Norwegian security services called the incident an “extreme Islamist terror act.”

The suspect, a 42-year-old Norwegian originally from Iran, was arrested after opening fire at three locations in Oslo.

Following the attack, Norway’s PST security service raised the alert level

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PST acting chief Roger Berg noted that the suspect suffers from mental health issues and has a “long history of violence and threats.”

According to police attorney Christian Hatlo, the terrorist was being held on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and terrorism.

“Our overall assessment is that there are grounds to believe that he wanted to cause grave fear in the population,” Hatlo explained. Hatlo also said that police seized both a handgun and an automatic weapon after the attack.

According to investigators, the shooter was known to the police and to PST but not for major crimes.

Earthquakes Rock Afghanistan An earthquake in eastern Afghanistan measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale has left at least 1,000 dead and another 3,000 injured.

The earthquake, which was centered in the country’s province of Paktika and occurred last Wednesday, left hundreds of homes destroyed and is the deadliest

earthquake to have struck the country in twenty years.

Afghanistan is located on several fault lines, where the Indian and Eurasian plates meet. As a result, in the past two weeks, the country has suffered 10 moderate earthquakes with magnitudes of 4.0 and above; in the past year, there have been 219 minor earthquakes in the country with magnitudes between 1.5 and 4.0.

The recent 5.9 earthquake’s epicenter was just six miles underground and was felt hundreds of kilometers away.

Dr. Brian Baptie, seismologist with the British Geological Survey, noted, “This part of Afghanistan contains the foothills of the Himalayas. Here, the tectonic plates are not colliding directly, but are partly sliding past each other. The

result of this is that earthquakes in this region tend to be more shallow, and so the shaking is much closer to the surface.

“This earthquake was only a moderate-sized one but in terms of impact, it was extremely destructive.”

He added, “Afghanistan is particularly vulnerable, because the buildings there are not earthquake-resistant. They tend to be built of timber and adobe – a type of mud brick – or out of weak concrete.”

In 2015, a quake that shook parts of South Asia killed more than 300 people in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.

More than 1,000 people died in 2002 after two earthquakes hit the Nahrin region of northwestern Afghanistan. A powerful earthquake struck the same region in the 1998, killing about 4,700 people, according to records from National Centers for Environmental Information.

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Around 30 of the victims suffered serious injuries in the collapse, which occurred in Colombia’s state of Tolima, government officials said.

Speaking on BluRadio Colombia, Tolima Gov. Ricardo Orozco said, “At this moment, we have four (dead) victims confirmed – two women, an adult man and a minor – plus about 30 people seriously injured. Of course, we have activated all the hospitals and ambulances we can work with.”

Espinal’s mayor, Juan Carlos Tamayo, said, “We deeply regret what happened in our bullfight arena. I want to ask all the citizens who are in the area to please evacuate, authorities are already responding to the emergency and the injured have been taken to hospitals.”

He added that authorities “have already begun investigating the causes of what happened.”

Footage showed the three-story wooden stand filled with spectators falling during the bullfight. The traditional “corraleja” event involved members of the public entering the ring to engage the bulls.

It was not the first time a tragedy like this one occurred in the country.

On Saturday, several people were injured during corralejas in El Espinal.

Earlier this month, one person died after being gored by a bull during a corraleja in the town of Repelon.

Nazi Guard Gets 5 Years in Prison

A 101-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard was handed a five year jail sentence this week. Josef Schuetz is the oldest person to go on trial for complicity in war crimes during the Holocaust.

Schuetz was found guilty of being an accessory to murder while working as a prison guard at the Sachsenhausen camp in Oranienburg, north of Berlin, between 1942 and 1945, presiding judge Udo Lechtermann said.

Schuetz had pleaded innocent, saying he did “absolutely nothing” and was not aware of the gruesome crimes being carried out at the camp.

“I don’t know why I am here,” he said at the close of his trial on Monday.

But prosecutors in Germany said he “knowingly and willingly” participated in the murders of 3,518 prisoners at the camp and called for him to be punished with five years behind bars.

More than 200,000 people were detained at the Sachsenhausen camp between 1936 and 1945. Tens of thousands of inmates died from forced labor, murder, medical experiments, hunger or disease before the camp was liberated by Soviet troops, according to the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum.

Prosecutors said Schuetz had aided and abetted the “execution by firing squad of Soviet prisoners of war in 1942” and the murder of prisoners “using the poisonous gas Zyklon B.” He was 21 years old at the time.

During the trial, Schuetz made several inconsistent statements about his past,

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complaining that his head was getting “mixed up.” At one point, the former Nazi said he had worked as an agricultural laborer in Germany for most of World War II, a claim contradicted by several historical documents bearing his name, date, and place of birth.

After the war, Schuetz was transferred to a prison camp in Russia before returning to Germany, where he worked as a farmer and a locksmith.

Despite his conviction, he is highly unlikely to be put behind bars, given his age.

Tavern Investigation in South Africa At least 22 teenagers, the youngest possibly 13, died last weekend in a tavern in South Africa for unknown reasons.

According to provincial officials, many of the students may have been celebrating the end of their high school exams.

There were no visible wounds on the bodies of the victims, and officials have ruled out a stampede. Autopsies will be performed to determine if the deaths were caused by poisoning.

National Police Minister Bheki Cele

told reporters, “It’s a terrible scene. They are pretty young. When you are told they are 13 years, 14 years, and you go there and you see them. It breaks (you).”

Bennett Warns Iran

The dead included at least eight girls and 13 boys. Seventeen of the victims died in the tavern, while the rest died in the hospital. Police found the teens slumped over tables and chairs or sprawled on the floor of the club when they entered the premises.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa posted on Twitter, “My deepest condolences go to the families of the 22 teenagers who lost their lives. This tragedy is made even more grave by its occurrence during Youth Month – a time during which we celebrate young people.”

Tehran should be warned that Israel will go after anyone who attacks the Jewish state. That was outgoing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s message on Tuesday, a day after Iran’s major steel companies were hit by a cyberattack. “[The] approach with our enemies, especially Iran… we don’t go around wreaking havoc in Tehran — that’s never been our policy. Our policy is, if you mess with Israel, you’ll pay a price,” Bennett said at the Cyber Week conference in Tel Aviv.

He also highlighted the benefits of using cyber warfare over more traditional military offensive methods, noting, “You can get a bunch of smart folks sitting on a keyboard to achieve the same effect… without risking your soldiers’ lives.”

Monday’s large cyberattack forced the state-owned Khuzestan Steel Co. to halt production; two other major steel producers also reported being targeted.

An anonymous hacking group claimed responsibility on social media for the attack, saying it had targeted Iran’s three biggest steel companies in response to the “aggression of the Islamic Republic.” The group, calling itself “Gonjeshke Darande,” shared what purported to be closed-circuit footage from the Khuzestan Steel Co. factory floor that showed the malfunction of a piece of heavy machinery on a steel bar production line, causing a massive fire.

Israeli military correspondents, who are regularly briefed off-the-record by senior Israeli officials, hinted that Israel was directly responsible for the assault

in retaliation to a suspected cyberattack that caused rocket sirens to be heard in Jerusalem and Eilat last week.

Bennett added, “You can no longer hit Israel indirectly through proxies, through Hezbollah, through Hamas, and think you’ll get away with it.

“If you’re the bully who’s sending folks to hit us,” he elaborated, “we’re going to try and not fight with those folks; we’re going to hit the bully.” This approach, he said, applies in all dimensions including cyber: “If anyone attacks us on cyber, we’re going to attack back. We’re not going to be feeble,” Bennett said.

Bennett also told the audience that he was “a bit surprised” by the relative “lack of use of cyber tools in the war in Ukraine” because of how beneficial it can be used in time of war without risking soldiers’ lives.

According to data presented by the directorate at the conference, 1,500 cyberattacks on the Israeli homefront were foiled over the past year alone.

Arrest in Disappearance of Young Boy

This week, police said that they had arrested a suspect in the case of Moshe Klinerman, a young boy who has been missing since March 25. The sixteenyear-old was last seen when he left his home in Modiin Illit with a few friends for a trip to Meron.

The group had arrived in Meron, and Moshe had wandered off to spend some time with himself; he told his friends not to wait for him. Since then, no one has heard from him.

Two weeks ago, police said that they will establish a special task force that would assist in the investigation and were scanning the area where Moshe disappeared.

“The area where he went missing is very challenging,” police have said, pointing to hilly terrain marked by uneven land and many hidden areas that make searching difficult.

Klinerman’s parents have long said

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they believe their son was kidnapped.

Speaking to the Walla news site last week, Klinerman’s mother Giti criticized the Israel Police for not doing enough.

“This is a failure [of the Israel Police].

This should have happened three months ago,” she said, referring to the recent decision to establish a special task force.

“At first there was only talking, barely any action. Some steps were taken, but they were minimal. It was a joke, just so they could check a box and nothing beyond that,” she charged.

“Unfortunately, the decision [to set up a task force] was only reached after we shouted. And had we not shouted, would it have happened?” she said.

“Why do we need to reach a situation of parents not sleeping for [over 80 days], not having a life — and until they scream their lungs out, no one is willing to listen to them?” she told Walla.

Bennett: Israel Needs Wide Unity Government Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who is set to step down from his po-

sition soon, has said that he believes Israel needs a coalition which will include both the extreme-left and the extreme-right.

Speaking to Channel 12 News, Bennett said that a “fully” right-wing government would be a “disaster” for the State of Israel, because it lacks balance.

In his opinion, both the United Arab List (Ra’am) and the right-wing Otzma Yehudit, led by MK Itamar Ben Gvir, should be in the coalition. Bennett also said that the coalition should not be dependent on either Ben Gvir or Ra’am.

“Would a government that depends on Ben Gvir and [Religious Zionism chair MK Bezalel] Smotrich be good for Israel? No,” Bennett asserted. “I’m not saying they’re barred, but the government cannot be dependent on them. This year proved it’s not good to be dependent on the extremes.

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Regarding his own political future, Bennett said, “I will want to return. I think I was a prime minister who tried to do good for his people and his country. I think I succeeded. The Holy One, blessed be He, and the people of Israel will decide.”

Bennett’s political future is uncertain, as his party has fallen to four or five seats in polls, down from the seven it won last year in the 120-seat Knesset.

Israel is set to head to its fifth general election in under four years in the fall. The opposition bloc led by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been polling strongly, but no party has a clear path to a majority government without any changes in political alliances, raising fears of a return to political deadlock and instability.

IDF Arrests 17 Terror Suspects Israeli security forces operated throughout Judea and Samaria early Monday morning, arresting 17 wanted Palestinian Authority Arab terror suspects, the IDF said.

In Jalazone, north of Ramallah, troops detained four suspects over suspected involvement in terror activities, and weapons were confiscated at the scene.

At the same time, IDF special forces from the Golani Brigade with police commandos operated in the city of Jenin to arrest three wanted Arabs.

According to the IDF, the troops came under “massive fire” from a passing vehicle during the operation, but no injuries were caused.

Three terror suspects were arrested in Dheisha, near Bethlehem, and one was arrested in the Jordan Valley village of an-Nassariya, where security forces confiscated, among other things, a hunting rifle and a makeshift “Carlo” submachine gun.

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tries have agreed to increase efforts to improve security, stability, and prosperity in the Middle East. The diplomats met during the Negev Summit’s meeting in Bahrain this week.

In a statement following the Monday meeting, Israel’s Foreign Ministry underlined the importance of the first meeting of the Negev Summit Steering Committee, saying that it is “especially important in light of U.S. President Joe Biden’s expected visit in Israel and Saudi Arabia and America’s commitments to widen the circle of peace.”

Israeli and Arab Allies Agree Senior diplomats from Israel, the United States, and several Arab coun-

The Steering Committee is comprised of representatives from Israel, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Morocco, and the U.S. An Israeli diplomatic official noted that the meeting was “an important milestone.”

“It is part of an ongoing effort to build what we like to call a regional architecture, which is both military and civilian in its character, with a meaningful American presence,” he said.

The meeting in Bahrain was intended to turn the Negev Summit, which originally took place in March, into a permanent forum for regional cooperation. During the meeting, representatives created a core document detailing the goals of the forum, what each working group will deal with, and who will lead them. The working groups will address a variety of issues, and each of the countries will head one of the working groups, which will meet two or three times per year.

The next steering committee meeting will take place in Israel.

Oded Joseph, head of the Foreign Ministry’s Middle East desk, noted, “Many of the things that have been done, including in the years we didn’t have these diplomatic relations and things were done quietly, were done bilaterally. What we’re trying to do now with the Negev Forum is trying to create a situation in which there are multilateral activities on this issue.”

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Hamas: Israeli Prisoner is Deteriorating

The Hamas terror group’s military wing on Monday night claimed that the health of one of its Israeli prisoners has deteriorated.

Two living Israelis, Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, are currently being held by Hamas, despite repeated calls by the international community to free them due to their mental illnesses.

Both men crossed voluntarily into Gaza, in 2014 and 2015, respectively.

A statement from Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s office said, “Hamas proved again tonight that it is a cynical and criminal terrorist organiza-

tion, which holds mentally ill civilians in violation of all international conventions and laws, as well as the bodies of fallen Israeli soldiers.”

On Tuesday, Hamas revealed a video of al-Sayed in which he is seen hooked up to an oxygen mask. The footage was undated, but it appears to have been recent, as a conference streaming on Al Jazeera’s Arabic channel seen behind the Israeli hostage took place on June 21.

The video also shows al-Sayed’s Israeli identification card.

The footage was the first time his family had seen al-Sayed in seven years. The long silence had led them to fear their son had passed away while in Hamas captivity.

“This is the first time I see his face in seven years. It helped put us at ease. He used to take medications and I hope they give him them,” his father Sha’aban alSayed told Channel 12.

He appealed to Hamas, demanding, “Release him immediately. He’s sick and needs medical care at all times.”

In addition to Mengistu and al-Sayed, Hamas is holding the bodies of two IDF soldiers who fell during 2014’s Operation Protective Edge: Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin.

“The State of Israel will continue its

efforts, mediated by Egypt, to bring the captives and the missing back home,” Bennett’s office added.

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid called the footage proof that Hamas was “a despicable terrorist organization.”

“Israel holds Hamas directly responsible for the plight of the civilians it detains in violation of international law.

These are two mentally ill people and holding them captive for years is an act of inconceivable cruelty,” said Lapid.

Israel Building Air Defense Alliance Against Iran

case, we will continue intently to defend ourselves with our own forces, to build that force, to act against Iran and its process, and to be prepared for the possibility that it breaks out to a nuclear [weapon].”

According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. organized talks in Egypt earlier this year to discuss countering the Iranian threat to the Middle East. These talks were attended by representatives from Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Jordan.

Although Gantz’s remarks seem to support the WSJ reports, he did not specifically comment on the direct coordination with any of the countries involved.

Israel does not maintain official ties with either Saudi Arabia or Qatar.

SCOTUS: Praying Allowed on Field

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Monday said that Israel is building a regional air defense alliance to protect its citizens from threats by Iran.

Speaking at a party meeting, Gantz said, “We are building our wide partnership with additional countries in the region to ensure a secure, stable, and prosperous Middle East. Among other things, this also includes aerial defense.

“We will strengthen this, as a stable Middle East is an international, regional and Israeli interest of the highest order.”

He added, “Of course, we are all preparing for [U.S. President Joe] Biden’s visit to the Middle East and Israel, which I hope will have a positive influence and maybe even bring a breakthrough in our ability to act against Iranian aggression in the region.

“Israel does not necessarily oppose a nuclear agreement; it opposes a bad nuclear agreement,” Gantz added. “This is the official position of Israel, which has been openly and frankly expressed to our allies in the world.

“With the expected resumption of nuclear talks, we will continue to work together with the United States and other countries in order to make our position clear and to influence the design of the deal if there indeed will be one. In any

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled 6-3 that a Washington state public school district violated the rights of a Christian football coach when he was suspended after he led prayers on the field.

The coach, Joseph Kennedy, was booted out of his position after he refused to stop leading prayers with players on the field after games.

Kennedy served as a part-time assistant football coach in Bremerton until 2015.

In the ruling, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote that Kennedy’s actions were protected by his rights under the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment, which protects free speech and religious expression, and rejected the school district’s claims that the prayers and speeches could be seen as coercive or as governmental endorsement of Christianity.

Gorsuch explained, “Respect for religious expressions is indispensable to life in a free and diverse republic – whether those expressions take place in a sanctuary or on a field, and whether they manifest through

Please Keep Your Returns

Don’t like the shirt you just bought online? Return it – or not.

Retailers are becoming disenchanted

with the influx of returns they are seeing from customers, creating an inventory surplus in their warehouses. Now, many of them, in some instances, are allowing customers to “return” their items – without returning them. In this way, customers can get a refund for what they purchased but do not have to return the items.

Some of the big names weighing this option are Target, Gap Inc., Walmart and American Eagle, among others.

Forbes has reported on how the influx of returns has been encumbering retailers since early 2021.

Back then, UPS took in 1.75 million returns every day. The expected 9 million returns in a week signified a 23% year-over-year increase compared to the holiday season that ended by ringing in 2020.

Forbes noted that 25% to 30% of online purchases were being returned in pre-pandemic times. But as more customers started “bracketing,” or buying the same product in different sizes or colors and sending back what they didn’t want, returns surged.

Letting customers keep an unwanted item also makes sense financially: It’s cheaper than taking it back, re-stocking it, and trying to sell and ship it again.

“Retailers are stuck with excess in-

ventory of unprecedented levels. They can’t afford to take back even more of it,” said Burt Flickinger, retail expert and managing director of retail consultancy Strategic Resource Group, according to Fox Business.

Flickinger said that returns often cost companies more money than they’re worth. They typically make oneto five-cent profit on a sale, but they lose between 15 to 30 cents on every return they handle. Returns don’t always go back on store shelves for the same price either. Some damaged returns will be refurbished and marked down, while others will be taken to a liquidator to resell.

That said, the policy does expose a business to the risk of customers wanting to game this potential new system.

“One thing retailers need to track and ensure is that customers that become aware of the policy do not begin to abuse it, by seeking free merchandise over a series of orders by getting a refund but getting to keep the merchandise,” Keith Daniels, a partner with Carl Marks Advisors, warned.

Forbes noted that in 2021 most retailers use artificial intelligence systems to track a customer’s purchase history, so they have a record of who may be taking

advantage of their goodwill.

Roe v. Wade

The U.S. Supreme Court last week overturned Roe v. Wade, handing the authority to decide whether abortions are legal back to the individual states.

Associate Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the majority, said, “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences.

“It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”

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In a statement issued by First Liberty Institute, which represented him, Kennedy said, “This is just so awesome. All I’ve ever wanted was to be back on the field with my guys.”

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abortion, either immediately or in the near future, while four more states have indicators that they could ban abortion.

Alabama, Alaska, and Arkansas all have pre-Roe bans, and those of Alabama and Arkansas are near-total. Arkansas also has a trigger ban, designed to take effect if Roe were struck down. Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, and Louisiana all have six-week bans; Idaho, Kentucky, and Louisiana also have trigger bans; and Louisiana’s is near-total. Michigan and Mississippi both have pre-Roe bans; Mississippi has a trigger ban and a sixweek ban as well. Missouri has a trigger ban and an eight-week ban; North Dakota has a trigger ban and a six-week ban, while Ohio has a six-week ban.

Oklahoma’s ban is pre-Roe, and there is a trigger ban which will take effect in November which is near-total and forbids abortion after six weeks. South Carolina has a six-week ban, while South Dakota has a trigger ban; Tennessee has both.

Texas’ ban is pre-Roe; the state also has a trigger ban and a six-week ban. Utah has a trigger ban and a near-total ban. West Virginia’s ban is pre-Roe, as is Wisconsin’s; Wyoming has a trigger ban.

Meanwhile, sixteen states and the District of Columbia will still allow abortions: In California, Connecticut,

Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, and Washington, abortion will remain legal until viability. In Colorado, the District of Columbia, New Jersey, Oregon, and Vermont, abortion will remain legal throughout pregnancy.

46 Migrants Die in Tractor-Trailer

At least 46 migrants were found dead inside a tractor-trailer in San Antonio, Texas, on Monday. Sixteen others were taken in for treatment at hospitals for heat exhaustion and heat stroke.

They were discovered inside an abandoned 18-wheeler near railroad tracks in San Antonio’s Southwest Side neighborhood. A city worker had heard a cry for

help around 6 p.m. There was no working cooling system or water in the vehicle. When help arrived, the victims who were still alive were hot to the touch.

The San Antonio Police Department and the Department of Homeland Security are investigating the tragedy.

There have been multiple incidents of undocumented migrants being found inside tractor-trailers in Texas in recent years. In 2017, nine people were found dead, with 20 others hospitalized after they were discovered packed into a truck in a Walmart parking lot in San Antonio.

At least 22 of those found in the truck this week were Mexicans, seven were Guatemalans, and two were from Honduras.

A tweet from Republican Texas U.S. Representative Tony Gonzales on Monday noted that it had been “102 degrees” in San Antonio when the bodies were discovered.

“Imagine being abandoned inside an 18-wheeler left to die…will [Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas] even mention their names?” he added.

“This is nothing short of a horrific human tragedy,” San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg said.

Juul Banned by FDA

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced last week the ban of all Juul products.

Juul is the largest American electronic cigarette company.

In 2018, an estimated four million high school students and 840,000 middle school students used e-cigarettes.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that nicotine can harm adolescents’ brains, specifically the areas controlling attention, mood and impulse control, and learning. In addition, nicotine use during adolescence can increase the risk for future addictions.

According to the FDA, Juul failed to prove that its products remaining on the market “would be appropriate for the protection of public health.”

Though e-cigarettes have been mar-

keted as safer and less harmful than traditional cigarettes, the CDC says that some e-cigarette flavors should not be inhaled because the lungs are not as capable of processing the substances as the gut is.

The FDA also warned that Juul “adulterated its products” by selling or distributing them as modified risk tobacco products without the agency’s approval.

Meanwhile, research shows that secondhand vape is associated with increased risk bronchitis symptoms and shortness of breath among young adults.

At the same time, according to the American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation, aerosol from e-cigarettes carries a higher particle concentration than conventional tobacco cigarette smoke and can exacerbate asthma and constrict arteries, possibly triggering a heart attack.

SCOTUS Addresses NY Gun Laws The U.S. Supreme Court last week struck down a New York law requiring state residents to have a special need to carry weapons outside the home.

In the ruling, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas wrote, “We know of no other constitutional right that an individual may exercise only after demonstrating to government officers some special need.

That is not how the First Amendment works when it comes to unpopular speech or the free exercise of religion.... And it is not how the Second Amendment works when it comes to public carry for self-defense.”

He added that the New York law violates the Constitution by preventing “law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their right to keep and bear arms.”

SCOTUS passed its ruling 6-3, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett voting with Thomas in the majority.

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At least five states have licensing laws similar to New York’s.

U.S. President Joe Biden responded to the SCOTUS ruling, saying that he is “deeply disappointed” and that “this ruling contradicts both common sense and the Constitution and should deeply trouble us all.”

National Rifle Association’s (NRA) executive vice president Wayne LaPierre said, “The right to self-defense and to defend your family and loved ones should not end at your home.”

lomats, officials, intelligence officers, and their family members worldwide. It is not clear what causes the symptoms, which include migraines, nausea, memory lapses, and dizziness.

First reported among U.S. officials in Havana, Cuba, in 2016, Havana Syndrome has since been reported in dozens of other locations around the globe.

Compensation for Havana Syndrome Victims

A CIA investigation found no evidence of involvement by other countries in the 1,000 or so cases it had investigated, but the agency said it was continuing to investigate two dozen unexplained cases.

Last year, the U.S. Congress passed the Havana Act, authorizing the State Department, the CIA, and other U.S. government agencies to provide payments to affected staff and their families.

In a recent statement, the U.S. State Department declined comment on the

The Biden administration is planning to compensate the victims of Havana Syndrome with payments ranging between $100,000-$200,000.

Havana Syndrome is a series of health incidents affecting around 200 U.S. dip-

payments. Referring to the regulations, the agency said, We will have more details to provide on that process soon.”

takes eight hours for most of us, for these [short sleepers] it only takes four to six hours.”

Some People Need Just 4 Hours of Sleep

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Researchers have found that some people do well with half the amount of sleep most of us require.

Specific mutations in three genes which control resting needs allow these “short sleepers” to maintain better health and greater resilience to stress.

Brad Johnson, 65, is one of those who only need a few hours of sleep. He recalled that initially he thought something was wrong with him.

“I just physically cannot sleep like other people,” he said. “And everything you read says you’d have to have seven, eight, nine hours of sleep, or you’re staring serious health conditions in the face, and you can’t ever be as productive.”

He added, “Less than [four hours], and I have the same problems everyone else does if they’re sleep-deprived.”

Researcher Ying-Hui Fu of the Weill Institute for Neurosciences at the University of California, San Francisco, who studies sleep behaviors and circadian rhythms, said her team identified five mutations in three genes that control how much sleep a person needs but she suspects there are additional genes involved as well.

“These short sleepers not only need less sleep, but while they’re awake—for 18 to 20 hours— they are more active than typical sleepers. With all that extra time, they tend to be multitaskers,” Fu explained.

Short sleepers also tend to have less disease than others.

“Their bodies’ [function] at 100 percent or close to that every day,” she said.

“When we are sleeping, our body is working very hard to help us maintain our health—to remove toxins, to remove waste products, to repair damages, to do all kinds of things, so that our body can maintain the health that we should have.

So let’s say there are ten things our body needs to do when we sleep. And what

U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday suspended an order focused on resources for the arrest and deportation of illegal immigrants who present a threat to public safety and national security. The decision follows a federal court ruling in Texas.

Immigrant advocates and experts said the suspension of the order will lead immigrants to fear leaving their homes.

According to Steve Yale-Loehr, an immigration law professor at Cornell University, prioritizing who to arrest and deport is a necessity, since “we simply don’t have enough ICE agents to pick up and put into proceedings everyone who violates our immigration law.”

Last September, the U.S. Department for Homeland Security issued a memorandum instructing agencies to focus enforcement efforts on those who represent a threat to national security or public safety, or who recently entered the country illegally.

Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton in southern Texas voided the memo, supporting the claim that the Biden administration did not have the authority to issue such a directive. As a result, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers will now make decisions based on “a case-by-case basis in a professional and responsible manner, informed by their experience as law enforcement officials and in a way that best protects against the greatest threats to the homeland,” the Department of Homeland Security said on Saturday.

Earlier in June, Thomas Giles, head of ICE’s LA office, noted that Biden’s order did not change anything on the ground, since officers were already focused on those with criminal convictions or prior deportations; nine out of 10 immigration arrests locally involve people convicted of crimes.

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Fatal Amtrak Crash

On Monday, three people lost their lives when an Amtrak train struck a dump truck and jumped the tracks in Mendon, Missouri. Seven of the eight train cars derailed.

Train 4 was carrying 243 passengers and 12 crew members from Los Angeles to Chicago when the crash occurred around 12:45 p.m.

Two people on the train were killed, in addition to a person who was in the truck.

The collision happened at an “uncontrolled crossing,” Missouri State Highway Patrol Cpl. Justin Dunn said.

NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy noted that there is a recorder on the train that will provide information and that investigators will look into whether there were forward- and internal-facing cameras.

Another Amtrak train was involved in a fatal crash on Sunday. During that incident, three people were killed and two others were injured when the train crashed into a vehicle obstructing rail tracks near Brentwood, California.

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Thai authorities said the suitcases belonged to two Indian women: Nithya Raja, 38, and Zakia Sulthana Ebrahim, 24, who were due to board a flight to the Indian city of Chennai.

Animal trafficking via airports has long been an issue in the region. In 2019, a man arriving in Chennai, India, from Bangkok was reportedly detained at the airport after customs officers found a month-old leopard cub in his luggage.

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Jacob Chandler is now a world champion, according to Guinness World Record, after he found and alphabetized all

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“I was intrigued by the idea of alphabetizing a can soup. I’ve eaten plenty of alphabet soup in my life but never stopped to think someone would make a challenge out of organizing the letters,” Chandler said.

The man from Oregon made preparations, including finding the perfect-sized bowl and spoon, identifying the right kind of alphabet soup with large and easily recognizable letters, and studying up to make sure he could tell the difference between letters like “M” and “W.” “Many of the letters had similar features, and I needed to know that before the attempt,” he said. Yes, it’s the little things in life that are just so important.

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Thankfully, things worked out in his favor. Chandler successfully broke the record by finding and organizing the 26 letters in 2 minutes and 8.6 seconds. He said he wanted his accomplishment to inspire his 11-year-old son, Brycen, to achieve his dreams.

“When he was born, I learned to love unconditionally. I realized every word and action would influence his well-being and future self. He has helped me to grow as a person, and as a father,” he said about his son.

Wise words.

Flying Car Commute George Jetson would be proud. This week, Tomasz Patan used a flying car to get to work.

Now, Patan is no ordinary man, as most of us do not have flying cars at our disposal. Patan is the co-founder of Swedish firm Jetson, which created the Jetson ONE vehicle. Patan used the flying car to travel from his Italian home to a company building in Tuscany, cutting his commuting time by 88%.

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“The Jetson is built like a Formula One car for the sky and incredibly fun to fly. Most importantly, the Flight Stabilization System we developed makes flight super easy. We can make anyone a pilot in less than five minutes,” Peter Ternstrom, co-founder and president, said.

The company said that “the entire 2022 production is sold out, but we are accepting orders for 2023 delivery.”

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Running on a high discharge lithium-ion battery, the vehicle can carry a pilot’s weight of 210 pounds.

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World’s Ugliest Dog contest in California.

The 17-year-old Chinese Crested dog also won a $1,500 cash prize for the honor.

Wild Thang came in close second; Monkey nabbed the third slot.

Jeneda Benally adopted Mr. Happy Face from a shelter in Arizona after he was rescued from the house of someone suffering from hoarding.

Describing the moment she first set eyes on Mr. Happy Face in his competition entry, Jeneda wrote, “When I first met him, he was the happiest creature that I had ever met.

“He hobbled up to me and chose me. I vowed that day, he would be so loved that he would never remember how awful his previous life had been.”

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Ten months later, Mr. Happy Face is thriving.

“Love, kindness and mommy kisses have helped him defy the anticipated short life that we all expected him to have with our family,” Jeneda added.

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Leah is highly respected by her peers and has cultivated a stellar reputation for scholastic achievement as well as having refined character, making her a fitting recipient of this honor.

Salutatorian - Ayelet Glatt This year’s salutatorian for our eighth

grade graduating class, Ayelet Glatt, is a student whose accomplishments and endeavors have been wide ranging and impressive during her time at HAFTR Middle School. In addition to the outstanding academic achievement that qualified her for this honor, Ayelet has been a member of the Torah bowl team, the Ohr L’olam task force, and participated in the Names, Not Numbers program and yearbook committee. As a complement to her accolades and accomplishments, Ayelet is a young woman who has tremendous character and personifies so many of our middle school’s core values, including having a growth mindset, being loyal and honest, and working collaboratively with peers.

omin Ginsburg, Rabbi Yehoshua Kalish, Rabbi Uri Orlian, MK Meir Porush, MK Bezalel Smotrich, Mr. Yossi Dagan, Mr. Alex Edelman, Mr. Eliyahu Gafni, and Mr. Ben Landa.

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David Sassoon Joins CCJH Advisory Committee the United States and Israel. David has become active and involved with CCJH and has made several financial contributions that focused on supporting Israel and Jewish education for the community, both in the U.S. and Israel.

“I have known David for over a year now and have come to enjoy our working relationship and the intellectual debates we often have. He is a strong supporter of Israel and Jewish causes, a staunch Zionist who loves the Land of Israel and the Jewish people. There are many projects we are currently exploring; this is just the beginning,” said Rabbi Lerner, Co-Chairman of CCJH and David Sassoon’s rabbi.

Rabbi Lerner has recently been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Sassoon Family Continuation Trust.

Makor Institute Presents: A Mental Health Primer What Every Parent Needs to Know “Is my child’s fear about going to school normal?”

“My 9-year-old daughter prefers playing by herself. Is that healthy?”

In our increasingly complex world, even the most conscientious and dedicated parents can use an extra measure of insight and guidance in raising healthy, well-adjusted children. So often children exhibit behaviors that may be a subject of concern: how is a parent to know what requires intervention and what measures to take?

The renowned Dr. Samuel Mandelman, PhD, a widely sought-after lecturer on the topics of mental health and education, will be conducting an informative and engaging Zoom Conference: Mental Health Primer - What Every Parent Needs to Know. The focused lecture will address a broad range of the most fundamental mental health issues including anxiety issues, mood disorders, thought disorders, as well as learning and attention difficulties, giving parents a basic framework to recognize potential red flags.

The lecture is part of an ongoing series of presentations by The Makor Institute, a broad-based community resource of results-driven data, practical knowledge, and information on a wide range of relevant issues. The Institute is

the research, education, and innovation branch of Makor Care and Service Network, a professional non-profit agency providing a system of support, care, and services to individuals with intellectual or physical challenges and their families.

Dr. Mandelman has gained acclaim for his trailblazing work as founder and clinical director of The C.L.I.N.I.C., a multi-specialty practice specializing in the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of mental health and learning-related issues, where he conducts neuropsychological evaluations as well as differential diagnosis consultations. Dr. Mandelman holds a doctorate from Columbia University in Educational and Developmental Psychology as well as a specialty in Clinical Psychology/Neuropsychology. He also holds Rabbinical ordination from Rabbi Dovid Feinstein, zt”l, and Rabbi Nota Greenblatt, zt”l, and is a close disciple of Rabbi Elya Brudny, shlit”a.

The Zoom presentation will take place on Tuesday, July 5 at 7:30 PM. Pre-registration is required at www.makornetwork.org/lecture . It’s a valuable service that parents would be wise to avail themselves of.

For additional information, call Makor 917-853-0900.

Saved His Vision One day, Nachum* saw perfectly. The next day, his vision was cloudy. And with each passing day, his eyes seemed to deteriorate more and more. It was frightening. Nachum turned to top doctors and specialists in search of the cause, and of course, a solution. But one by one, they issued the dire prognosis: Nachum’s eyes were beyond repair. They were slowly turning off and it looked like a one-way route. Soon, Nachum would be blind.

His family and friends were anxious and afraid. But Nachum kept strong. He was not worried. When he called in to the central Tehillim Kollel office, his voice was strong and confident. “The human doctors cannot heal me, but it is surely in the power of the ultimate Healer,” he said, his unwavering emunah shining through. He gave over his own name for tefillah, in hope that the weighty perakim of Tehillim, recited by the Tehillim Kollel minyan, would awaken his yeshuah.

After several weeks on the Tehillim Kollel list, Nachum found out about another specialist who had a natural treatment that could actually save and restore his vision. But, again, Nachum’s faith did not waver, “The cure is not simply natural,” he told the Tehillim Kollel office, “It was orchestrated from Above in the merit of the precious words of Tehillim…” *Not his real name.

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David Sassoon is the Executive Chairman of the New York-based investment banking firm, The Joseph Sassoon Group, and Chairman of the Sassoon Fund, which focuses on the U.S., Israel and Eastern Mediterranean markets. David Sassoon has taken over the helm of the family business and has rebranded and relaunched the firm with strong emphasis on supporting startups, entrepreneurs and SMEs in

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Congratulations to the 5TLL 2022 World Series Winners! What an unbelievable finish to an unbelievable season.

Thank you to the league sponsor, FM Home Loans, and all the amazing team sponsors.

YCQ Participates in First Truman Scholar Program Graduation Ceremony

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n Sunday, June 19, the Truman Scholars Program Capstone Event & Graduation took place in the law offices of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Over 200 people were in attendance, with students from 17 Truman schools located in 9 states represented at the Graduation.

YCQ grade 8 seniors Chani Orenbuch and Max Olsen completed the Truman Scholars Program and attending the Truman Scholars event and graduation. The Truman Scholars Program, sponsored by The Tikvah Fund, builds Jewish leaders through learning about American and Israeli Jewish history.

Mrs. Jen Jaffe, in attendance, reported, “It was a privilege to attend the graduation from the Truman Scholars Program for our students chosen to participate. This program is of vital importance. Our students learn to strengthen their moral confidence and become strong leaders of the Jewish nation.”

“The students who participated in the Truman Scholar Program are kids that are interested in history and philosophy and eager to learn and read more in their free time,” reported Ms. Odelia Schlisser, YCQ JHS General Studies Assistant

Principal. “I am so proud of all our YCQ participants, and especially our graduates who demonstrate maturity, dedication, and thirst for knowledge. They are leaders in their grade and poised to be leaders in the community.”

“We are so proud of our students who participated and excelled in the Truman Scholars Program,” stated Rabbi Mark Landsman, YCQ principal. “Programs such as these allow our most exceptional students to have the opportunity to further develop their academic skills in order expand their knowledge in content areas that they enjoy so much.”

Rabbi Mark Gottlieb, Senior Director of The Tikvah Fund, answered questions about the event and program.

Tell us about the Truman Scholars Award Program Graduation – what was unique about the graduation this year?

Students participated in seminars with the Truman faculty on the topic of “Why Do We – As Jews – Study History?” Afterwards, students and parents were inspired by Elan Carr – the former U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism – who called on the

students to pursue leadership opportunities in all aspects of their lives. Truman seminars throughout the two years of the program have all been on Zoom, so the students were excited to meet each other in person for the first time. The graduation was a meaningful event for all who attended, including Scholars, parents, grandparents, Truman faculty, heads of school, and more. We at Tikvah are very proud of this cohort of Truman Scholars—our first graduating class.

Were any special awards given out to students?

Each Scholar was given a “Certificate of Graduation,” and four Scholars were awarded with “Certificates of Achievement” for their exceptional participation in the Truman seminars.

After speaking with the graduating scholars, what were the most interesting remarks made about the program?

Scholars and their families appreciate that the Truman Program takes its students seriously and expects them to excel.

The learning is on a very high level – generally a few years above grade level. Scholars read challenging primary sources and

then participated in intense discussions and debates in their seminars. We hope that the Scholars take themselves and their potential seriously, too.

Based on this years’ experience, how do you think the Truman Scholar’s Program will evolve next year?

We look forward to growing the Truman Scholars Program in the coming years by expanding our network of school and students. Currently, we have 25 schools in our network from 13 States; we hope to expand those numbers next year and beyond, while still maintaining the highest standards of selectivity and educational content.

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YI of Kew Gardens Hills Honors Rabbi and Rebbetzin Schonfeld

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n Sunday evening, June 26, the Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills held a dinner celebrating its 70th anniversary and honoring its rabbi and rebbetzin, Rabbi Yoel and Peri Schonfeld, for thirty years of service to the synagogue and community. This service was attested to by the many elected officials who came to present proclamations to the couple – City Councilman James F. Gennaro, Assemblyman Daniel Rosenthal, Assemblyman David Weprin, State Senator Joseph Addabbo, Jr., State Senator Leroy Comrie, and Congresswoman Grace Meng through her Special Community Liaison Rabbi Daniel Pollack. Family members from around the country and world came to honor their siblings and parents. Rabbi Aryeh Schonfeld from Switzerland and

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Aviva Pinchik from Israel provided reminiscences about their brother as a young man and the place of the Young Israel in their family ‘s life. Simcha Schonfeld spoke about growing up with such wonderful parents. Guest Speaker Rabbi Noach Isaac Oelbaum of Congregation Nachlas Yitzchok in Kew Gardens Hills gave an appreciation of his colleague, Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld, and Rabbi Schonfeld’s predecessor Rabbi Fabian Schonfeld, founder of the Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills.

One of the highlights of the evening’s program was the unveiling of two plaques marking the dedication of the main sanctuary to Rabbi Fabian Schonfeld’s memory. The other was Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld’s tribute to his wife’s role in his successes in life.

Ready, Set, It’s Time for Avnet!

It’s that time again at Avnet Country Day School. After a year of planning incredible activities and securing an impressive team, final preparations are underway to welcome campers for what promises to be the best summer yet. The adventure will begin when the buses roll into the amazing facilities at HALB’s New Woodmere Campus and DRS Campus.

Daniel Stroock, Camp Director, energized the staff at orientation by emphasizing how vital the camp experience is for children and that the memories made at camp will last a lifetime. In addition to important discussions about safety and schedules, a key theme for the team was being role models for the campers. As part of the emphasis on appropriate be-

havior, an exciting new “SPARRK” program was announced. The program encourages all bunks to strive for greatness, and SPARRK points will be awarded for excelling in the key criteria of Safety, Participation, Avnet Ruach, Respect and Kindness. Score boards will be on display throughout both campuses and winning bunks will be able to make a “purchase” from a list of amazing bunk prizes!

“At Avnet, the camp experience goes beyond our packed roster of sports, swim, specialties and trips,” Daniel said. “We strive to provide a warm and nurturing environment where good middot are emphasized and campers can learn by example. That’s why we’re thrilled to introduce our SPARRK program. It’s more than

just ‘showing up’ every day. We want our campers to understand that how we treat and respect one another is everything.”

Right before opening day, new families were invited to a special tour of the

facilities.

“We loved meeting our new families and we can’t wait to get started this week,” Daniel said. “We wish everyone a safe and enjoyable summer!”

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Survivors Greet Summer with Gratitude and Celebration

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ho doesn’t look forward to the summer?

The slower pace, the myriad and magnificent shades of green on every street, and the sounds of laughter as children on summer break happily play outdoors.

Each year the start of the summer is a welcome and exciting occasion. For the aging and frail Holocaust survivor population, the greeting of any new season is a cause for gratitude and celebration.

At the Marion and Aaron Gural JCC, where we have been the gathering place and safe haven for Holocaust survivors for over two decades, every meeting is a time of joy, of camaraderie and family.

Last week, as we celebrated the beginning of summer in a special get-together, over sixty five survivors gathered at our Cedarhurst campus in brightly colored outfits, floral hats and in great spirits to welcome the new season together.

Rabbi Yosef Spiegel, of Bais Medrash of Cedarhurst, addressed our guests

with uplifting words of humor, joy and strength. He called each survivor a miracle and compared them to candles who bring light and warmth to our nation. He concluded his speech with a poignant and heartwarming rendition of “My Yiddishe Mama” in his strong, and melodious voice and nearly every survivor joined in the song, many with tears streaming down their beautiful faces.

After the presentation, a delicious and festive meal was served followed by a joyful hour of singing and swaying with long time favorite Israeli entertainer, Shlomo Haviv. At the end of the program, Rabbi Kenneth Hain from Congregation Beth Shalom stopped by to pick up a special gift we presented to him on the occasion of his retirement and in recognition of his many years of devotion to our JCC survivor program.

The Marion and Aaron Gural JCC is a proud not-for profit partner of UJA Federation New York.

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Center Stage Incredible Stories and the People Behind Them

By CB Weinfeld • Published by ArtScroll/Mesorah Publications

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.B. Weinfeld knows people. And she knows how to tell a fantastic story. In Center Stage, she brings us stories that engage and inspire us. Stories that sometimes surprise and often elevate us. Stories that rekindle our belief in others and enhance our own optimism and simcha.

The following is a story from the upcoming release Miracle in Surfside On Thursday, June 24 at about 1:25 a.m., Champlain Towers South, an iconic twelve-story beachfront condo in Surfside, Florida, partially collapsed, instantly killing ninety-eight people, many of them Yidden. The heartbreaking tragedy shook up the Jewish world and united Klal Yisrael like never before.

Here is the true story of one young man who was saved through an incredible set of circumstances that had begun

many years earlier. Some names and details have been changed to protect the privacy of the family.

Monday, June 21, 2021 It was just two weeks before his wedding. Matan was in a whirlwind of frenzied preparations.

The young businessman had spent the last few weeks in Eretz Yisrael, busy from morning until night with the arrangements. He helped his kallah, Shira, find an apartment and set it up.

It was time to go home, to spend the remaining days before his wedding with his family, who lived in a beachfront home in Miami. He had lots to do in preparation for the big day, including shopping and packing up his possessions. Although his parents lived in the Miami Beach area, he had been living in their second apartment, at Champlain Towers South in bucolic Surfside.

Matan, who had been in shidduchim

for years, was thrilled to be getting married and very grateful to the One Above for uniting him with his bashert. His family, back home, was equally ecstatic to share in his joy.

On the final day of his whirlwind trip, as he was heading to the airport, Matan realized that his kallah, Shira, was preoccupied. “Is everything all right?” he asked. “Is it something I said or did?”

“No, it’s nothing,” said Shira. “I’m just feeling a bit overwhelmed, because there still is so much to do. Are you really sure you can’t push off your trip?”

“Push off my trip?” It was barely two weeks before the wedding, and Matan had a lot of loose ends to tie up in Miami. Still, it was obvious that his kallah needed his help. He hesitated for a moment, weighing his options, and called his mother to ask her opinion.

“If your kallah needs your help, of course you must stay another few days,” his mother said. “Don’t think twice about the expense. Just cancel your ticket and book a new one for next Sunday.”

The relief in Shira’s eyes when he delivered the news made it all worthwhile.

Matan realized that he had, indeed, done the right thing, even though it threw a monkey wrench into his plans. He needed to pack up his apartment in Surfside and ship his possessions, but that could wait another few days. No big deal.

Little did he realize that the decision to extend his stay in Eretz Yisrael saved him from an unthinkable fate. For that Wednesday night, shortly after midnight, the entire building where Matan had been living trembled and suddenly pancaked, trapping the sleeping residents inside under several hundred tons of crushed concrete. The tragedy capped off a four-week recovery process, as the victims and their remains were extricated, many of them brought to kever Yisrael.

Shortly after news of the mass tragedy spread, Matan’s family members rushed to the site of the collapse. They stared in mute horror at the remains of the once-prestigious building, where a second-floor apartment had been their beloved vacation home for nearly eighteen years. Their hearts were broken at the knowledge of their longtime friends and neighbors who were missing in the

rubble and for whom the rescuers held out only the faintest hope.

At the same time, their gratitude for the miracle, that their Matan, the chatan, was alive and well, was beyond measure.

And then they realized the extent of the miracle: Were it not for Shira’s insistence that Matan stay another few days to help with the wedding preparations, an insistence that was uncharacteristic of her, he would likely be yet another casualty of the collapse.

Before long, a crowd of friends and relatives joined Matan’s family at their Miami home, just to be there with them during this poignant time and celebrate this most bittersweet miracle. Everyone had their own conjectures about what happened, and what merits Matan must have had accrued in order to be spared.

Yet, Matan’s mother brushed away their suggestions, as she had an incredible story of her own to share. A hush fell over the crowd as the chatan’s mother related a story that occurred nearly two decades earlier, which she felt was directly connected to her son’s salvation. ** You are all probably wondering in what zechut, in what merit, my precious Matan was spared from this horrific tragedy. Though I am not a prophetess, and don’t have the ability to fathom the calculations in Heaven, I want to share Continues on the next page

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a true story that happened when Matan was a little boy.

Back in 1981, shortly after we bought our home in Miami, my husband and I heard of several available apartments in the highly desired Surfside area. Construction of the building was well underway, and apartments were very affordable at the time. We immediately made an appointment to see the apartments, which were built on the main thoroughfare of Collins Avenue, overlooking the beach.

To our incredible delight, the apartments were truly magnificent, offering wonderful amenities and a sweeping 360-degree view of the ocean. There was one penthouse apartment, located on the top floor, which was especially breathtaking. Although this apartment was slightly more expensive than the others, the incredible view made it all worthwhile.

My husband and I looked at each other and made a decision: this apartment would be ours. We would use it as a second home, an escape from the pressures of everyday life, and also to host our numerous year-round visitors from up North. Although we were very comfortable in our Miami Beach home, there was something soothing and relaxing about this penthouse apartment, tucked away in peaceful Surfside.

We spoke with the real estate agent and made arrangements to wire a down payment for the apartment, which we had reserved. However, before we could go through with our plans, I realized there was an issue. Purchasing a twelfth-floor apartment meant that we would need to avail ourselves of the Shabbat elevator, as going up and down twelve flights of stairs was both exhausting and impractical.

Many of our friends and acquaintances owned high-rise apartments, and had received a heter to use the Shabbat elevator. Despite that, I had my doubts. After much discussion, we decided to consult with a prominent rabbi in Israel to discuss our reservations.

We put the plan to buy the apartment on hold for a few days, and tried to get in touch with the rabbi, who had a very busy schedule. My husband kept calling, until he was given a few moments on the phone with the great sage. He listened to our di-

lemma and didn’t interrupt until we were done. Then the rabbi said, “It’s hard for me to tell you what to do, especially since I am not in your shoes. In certain situations, one can be lenient, especially when one has no choice.

“However,” he stressed, his voice clear and confident, “I can promise you one thing. If you make this sacrifice for the holy Shabbat, and purchase an apartment on a lower floor, avoiding the need for a Shabbat elevator, your gesture will be appreciated on High. I give you my assurance that the Shabbat Queen will ensure that you are amply repaid, not only in the next world, but on this world as well.”

The rabbi’s powerful words made a deep impression on us, and we resolved to modify our plans. Instead of purchasing the penthouse apartment, we would buy an apartment on the second floor, which didn’t have the beautiful view, but which was accessible via a stairway. The real estate broker kept asking us if we were sure, if we didn’t want to change our mind. “These penthouse apartments are going quickly. If you change your mind, it may be too late.”

Despite the pressure, I didn’t waver for a moment. I had made my decision to honor the holy Shabbat properly, regardless of what I needed to sacrifice.

And indeed, we bought the second-floor apartment, which was beautiful and sunny, and which we used for many years as a vacation/guest house.

When Matan grew up he wanted his independence, and asked us if he could stay in the apartment until he finds his bashert.

Of course, we immediately agreed, and Matan moved in two weeks later. Aside from his business travels, he has been staying at the apartment, which is his home base, ever since.

So now, my dear friends, do you understand the significance of what happened? The Rav’s powerful words keep echoing in my mind. As the Rav said, “I give you my assurance that the Shabbat Queen will ensure that you are amply repaid, not only in the next world, but on this world as well.”

Sometimes, we feel like martyrs, sacrificing something important, not realizing how much we are receiving in return.

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Exalted Moments Welcoming Shabbos: Stories, inspiration, and insights

By Yisroel Besser • Published By ArtScroll/Mesorah Publications

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t’s the wondrous song of Shabbos.

And it’s coming, with its blessings and its peace and its delights and its beauty.

Erev Shabbos. Yes, it’s a time of rushing to get everything done. But when Yisroel Besser describes the frenetic activity, Erev Shabbos becomes not a tension-filled, stressful race against time, but an enthusiastic and joyous preparation for the incomparable delights of Shabbos.

And then we welcome our Queen, with flickering candles and uplifting song. Here, again, as we enter a new and holy dimension, Exalted Moments enriches our experience, bringing our tefillos and bakashos to life.

In Exalted Moments, Yisroel Besser – author of many bestselling books, including Nishmas –shows us how to experience those special first moments of Shabbos. Exalted Moments includes

stories, ideas and insights on Erev Shabbos preparations, the enormous power of prayer during candle lighting, Shalom Aleichem, Eishes Chayil and Kiddush.

Open this book and learn to savor those first wondrous moments, as the sun gently drifts downward and we begin to experience the energy, hope and sheer holiness of Shabbos.

The following excerpt is one sampling, a taste of this book that enables us to hear a little less of the noise around us, and a little more of the sacred song of Shabbos.

The Rush The sun over Radin hung low, the onset of Shabbos just a few minutes away. The talmid who entered the humble home stopped in place and froze, for his rebbi, the Chofetz Chaim, was humming. His face alight, his eyes closed, the

Chofetz Chaim was singing words.

“Shabbos kumt, der Shabbos kumt, der Shabbos kumt... Shabbos is coming...”

Chassidim would speak with longing of the atmosphere in the court of the Kotzker Rebbe.

“Fartzeitishe Yidden,” they would say, “Jews of a bygone time, as es iz gekimmen Shabbos, as the Shabbos approached, hut a tug fri’er di kapote gebrent, a day earlier the Shabbos’dike garb was already aflame.”

The Brisker Rav did not sing, but he sat on his porch dressed for Shabbos, waiting with reverence and awe for the arrival of Shabbos, in accordance with the words of the Rambam: “...And be seated with reverence in anticipation of the Shabbos, receiving it as if he were coming out to meet the king” (Hilchos Shabbos 30:2).

The Yerushalayimer mekubal, Rav Yeshaya Asher Zelig Margolies, had a tradition that each Erev Shabbos, the Ohr HaChaim Hakadosh would learn Hilchos Eidus, the Laws of Witnesses. This was so that he might serve as a proper witness on Leil Shabbos, when he would give testimony that Hashem created the world.

So many different approaches, but they all lead to the same destination, a million paths ascending from the valley of the mundane up toward the peak of holiness.

During those final moments, the air is laden with anticipation, charged with longing. The word “erev,” explains the Zera Kodesh, is connected with “eiruv,” which means a mixture, a fusion of mundane and holy, the radiance and holiness of the impending day already hovering even before it arrives.

It is a day of such haste.

People running, running, running...

The word for run, ratz, is connected with ratzon, desire.

Rashi in Shir HaShirim (7:6) describes the appreciation that the Creator has for one who engages in that sort of

motion: “Hakadosh Baruch Hu is bound with love to those who perform mitzvos, running swiftly to do so.”

The running to do mitzvos is an expression of pure ratzon, desire.

Issi ben Yehudah says that one who runs in a reshus ha’rabbim and causes damage is liable to pay, because his behavior is unusual. But if he did so on Erev Shabbos, he is exempt, because he is running with permission (Bava Kamma 32a).

The running on Erev Shabbos is “with permission,” for unlike the scramble of the six days of the week, this haste has a purpose, a destination, the holy haste of Erev Shabbos itself engendering hashra’as haShechinah, the Divine Presence, viewed with love in Heaven.

It is the rush to do teshuvah, to leave behind, in the week that was, those actions, words and decisions of which we are not so proud. We will turn around during Lecha Dodi, casting a final look at a week — a world — to which we will never return. As the setting sun paints the world a fiery orange, we scramble, because in a few moments, we know, all activity will cease. The days of activity were all leading up to this moment, all of creation waiting for Shabbos to set in.

This is the focus of it all.

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MR. & MRS. CHAIM & ROCHELLA TREITEL Gymnasium Wing

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THE BLOOM FAMILY

THE K TEAM

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‫ לע”נ‬The children, bochurim, and all 45 neshamos of the Miron tragedy, Lag Baomer 5781 ‫לע”נ הרה”ג ר‘ דוד בן הרב אברהם בנדר זצ”ל‬ ‫והרבנית בתיה חיה בת הרב יעקב הלוי ז”ל‬ ‫לע”נ זעליג בן מרדכי ע”ה‬ ‫לע”נ משה אלעזר בן נטע שלום ע”ה‬ ‫לע”נ דוד בן משה ע”ה‬ ‫הר‘ משה נתן בן יחזקאל ע”ה‬ ‫וישראל בן אברהם ע”ה‬

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The Next Frum Frontier If you are looking for a small town with patriotism in its name, consider these locations * Liberty, Missouri – population: 29,811 * Liberty, Kentucky – 2,189 * West Liberty, Kentucky – 3,397

* Independence, Kansas – 9,242

* Eagle Pass, Texas – 27,283

* Freedom, California – 3,070

* Eagle, Idaho – 21,025

* New Freedom, Pennsylvania – 4,525

* Eagle, Alaska – 88

* Liberty, Texas – 8,743 * Liberty Hill, Texas – 1,012

* Eagle Point, Oregon – 8,624

* Independence, Missouri – 117,270 *

Independence, Iowa – 5,967

* American Fork, Utah – 27,147 * American Falls City, Idaho – 4,421

* Libertyville, Iowa – 317

* American Canyon City, California – 19,933

* New Liberty, Iowa – 141

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* North Liberty, Iowa – 14,485

Patriot, Indiana – 203

* Unity, New Hampshire – 1,530

* West Liberty, Iowa – 3,730

* Unity, Oregon – 70

* Eagle County, Colorado – 51,874

* West Unity, Ohio – 1,670

* Eagle Mountain, Utah – 23,212

* Prosperity, South Carolina – 1,184

You Gotta Be Kidding Me! Little Johnny seemed totally ignorant about things.

The father said to John-

One day, the teacher asked him who signed the Decla-

ny, “Come here, boy, and

ration of Independence, and of course, he didn’t know.

sit down.”

The teacher asked him every day for a week but still he couldn’t give the right answer.

Finally, in desperation, she called the Johnny’s father

Johnny did as he was told and then his dad said to him, “Now Johnny, if you

to come and see her. She said to him, “Your boy won’t

signed that thing, just admit it, so

tell me who signed the Declaration of Independence.”

we can get out of here!”

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1. The Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest was started on July 4, 1916. How did the idea come about? a. Nathan’s opened a new store and wanted to generate excitement; their PR department came up with the idea of a contest. b. Hot dog eating champ Joey Chestnut’s great-grandfather was a hot dog eating champ in Wisconsin and when he moved to New York he convinced Nathan’s to start a competition. c. Four people were arguing over which one of them was more patriotic. So, to prove their patriotism, they decided to have a hot dog eating competition. d. Two hungry fellows did not have enough money to buy hot dogs so they hatched a scheme to convince the manager at the Coney Island Nathan’s to give them hot dogs for free by having a competition and attracting passersby.

2. The first-ever Macy’s fireworks show lit up New York skies in 1958. Why did Macy’s start the tradition? a. An employee of Macys happened to be in Lancaster with his family between camp and school and purchased an inordinate number of fireworks.

He didn’t know what to do with them, so they decided to do an

Independence Day fireworks show. b. The first fireworks show was to celebrate 100 years since Macy’s founding. The show actually took place on July 1.

One million people showed up, so they did the show the following year and ever since on the 4th. c. They held the show the first year because they wanted to see if people would look up from their smartphones for long enough to even watch the fireworks…Oh, sorry, that’s today. d. It was started by a 10-yearold who wrote to Macy’s CEO that the company should hold a fireworks show in honor of Independence Day. 3. Which one of the following institutions was founded on July 4, 1802? a. West Point Military Academy b. Harvard University c. Baskin-Robbins d. United States Navy 4. The Statue of Liberty was given to the U.S. on July 4, 1886. Which country gave this gift to us? a. Greenland b. Germany c. Italy d. France 5. In Venice, California, there is a muscle competition every year

on July 4th on Venice Beach. On the other side of the country, in Boston, the 4th is celebrated a bit differently, with the following taking place: a. A Prius Parade is held where Bostonians gather in formation and drive their electric mobiles around town b. There are two public readings of the Declaration of Independence c. Locals spill tea in the harbor d. There is a book-reading competition Answers: 1-C (Because nothing says “I live America” like pounding franks!)

2-B 3-A 4-D 5-B Wisdom Key: 4-5 correct: Wow! You are a real patriot. Let me guess, you can eat 14 hot dogs at one barbeque. (I only know that because that’s what I do.)

2-3 correct: Not bad. You are a decent patriot, but you gotta stop putting ketchup on your hot dogs— in America it’s franks/mustard and hamburgers/ketchup.

1-0 correct: You are totally not a patriot. Go pound nak-nik-iot (pareve Israeli hot dogs, if you can even call them that)!

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Torah Thought

Parshas Korach

By Rabbi Berel Wein

T

his week’s reading describes the rebellion of Korach and other disastrous incidents that occurred to the generation that left Egypt who were destined to expire in the Desert of Sinai. After the previous debacles: the complaints against Moshe by Miriam and Aharon, the demand for food, the ingratitude towards the manna that fell from heaven, the failed mission of the spies who visited the Land of Israel, and

the military defeat suffered by the Jews at the hands of the Canaanites, it seems that this generation would have learned its lesson by now.

Instead of internalizing the reasons for these events and their reactions, we read in this week’s portion about the anger and frustration by many of the leaders that was turned upon Moshe instead of the self-examination that would have been proper and beneficial. Kor-

ach and his group spoke in the name of high-sounding democracy and equality.

It is quite common in history that dangerous, corrupt, and nefarious political groups always claim the high moral ground for themselves.

One of the great shams of Marxism was that it always used high-sounding moral adjectives to describe itself.

When it was the aggressor, it called itself peace-loving. When it was totalitarian and dictatorial in its rule, it always titled itself democratic and progressive.

Moshe, whose presence and greatness so tormented them, that brought all of these differing personalities together and ironically guaranteed them a common fate of destruction.

Because of his piety and innocence, Moshe is the greatest thorn in the side of the rebels who are only looking for their satisfaction and advancement. Moshe understands it is not his personal honor that is at stake here but rather the entire concept of Torah leadership and the essence of being a special people with a divine

It is quite common in history that dangerous, corrupt, and nefarious political groups always claim the high moral ground for themselves.

The high-sounding words of fairness and equality that were hurled against Moshe

by Korach and his group of followers sound hollow to us even today, thousands of years later.

We have witnessed in our own time the fact that disparate groups and differing individuals unite because of a common hatred or dislike of another group or person. According to the Midrash, each of the 250 followers of Korach had a different agenda and ambition for themselves.

It was the opportunity to strike down

mission. It is not his personal reputation alone that he is defending but, rather, the spiritual future of the Jewish people.

The rebellion of Korach is not a small offense but a great personal failing like the sin of the Golden Calf. It is a mortal blow to the continuity of the Jewish people and to its very survival. The Torah describes the events throughout the Desert of Sinai so that we will be aware of the pitfalls that lie at the footsteps of personal ambition and unwarranted hubris.

Shabbat shalom.

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From the Fire Parshas Korach

I Know

By Rav Moshe Weinberger Adapted for publication by Binyomin Wolf

D

espite all of the difficulties caused

by Dasan and Aviram, Moshe made one final attempt to speak with them. But when they made it clear that they would not even engage in a sincere conversation with him, saying, “We will not ascend” (Bamidbar 16:12), Moshe became angry. He said to Hashem, “Do not accept their offering!” (ibid.

16). Rashi, quoting the Midrash (Bamidbar Rabah 10), explains that Moshe was saying, “I know that they have a portion in the communal Daily Offerings. May their portion not be accepted favorably before You. Cause the fire to leave it and not consume it.”

First, why does Moshe say, “I know that they have a portion…,” as if this is some special secret that only he knows about? Everyone knows that the Tamid, Daily Offering, is paid for with the half-shekel collected from every single Jew. Second, the truth is that no individual has a portion in the Tamid offerings because they are communal offerings, which are distinct from individual offerings and from offerings brought by several partners. In each of these scenarios, there are identifiable individuals to whom the offering is associated. Communal offerings, by contrast, are not attributable to a million individuals. Rather, the communal offerings have only one owner – the Jewish people as one whole. So how can Moshe say that Dasan and Aviram have a portion in the Tamid offering?

These questions are answered in Likutei Sichos 33 by the tzaddik whose yahrtzeit was this week, 3 Tamuz, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, zy”a. There, the Rebbe explains something about tzaddikim in general, but there is no question that he was describing himself to a T. The Rebbe

reiterates the point that communal offerings are not ascribed to anyone, or even to a collection of individuals, by quoting the Gemara (Zevachim 4a). According to Chazal there, if the kohein bringing an individual offering has in mind the wrong individual, the korban is disqualified. But when it comes to a communal offering, if the kohein thinks about an individual, even an idol-worshiper, it does not affect the offering. This is because the communal offering belongs to only one owner, the Jewish people. After an individual donates his half -shekel to the Beis HaMikdash, the Tamid and other communal offerings purchased with that money is no longer identified with that individual. They are only identifiable as part of something greater, the Jewish people as a whole.

Two Modes of Government The Rebbe explains that there are two primary philosophies undergirding the various forms of government: those that prioritize the individual and those that prioritize the community. This debate rages on until today. Systems of government which prioritize the community recognize that they must sometimes do so at the expense of individual rights. To the extent a policy favors the community, it will come at the expense of individual rights.

On the other hand, governments which prioritize individual rights over those of the community would say that it is better to allow crime rates in impoverished communities to increase rather than infringe on the rights of any individuals within those communities. These two general approaches are mutually exclusive. Any increase in the emphasis of one comes at the expense of the other.

This tension between the needs of the group and the needs of the individual is extremely difficult to balance, even for much smaller collectives. Within a family, for instance, if there is only one child, it is not very challenging. But in families with two or more children, the parents naturally tend to govern based on the wellbeing or vision of how the entire family should look. Children who do not neatly fit into this overall vision often suffer. It is very difficult to act with every individual child according to his or her nature without this negatively affecting other children or the family as a whole.

The challenge becomes even more difficult for teachers and rebbeim. Most work to enable the class as a whole to prepare for the next regent or test, even though some children are left behind. It is a rare teacher who is able to drive the class as a whole forward while working with individual students who would otherwise feel left out, giving them what they need to succeed as well.

The tzaddik is the rare individual who knows how to contain within himself an impossible duality: unbreakable focus on the welfare and development of the entirety of the Jewish people with an unwavering focus on the wellbeing and growth of every individual. This is why Moshe Rebbeinu said, “I know that they have a portion….” In almost every way, the individual Jews’ portions in the communal offerings is lost. Only the tzaddik

has the ability to see every individual’s portion within the national offering.

My Story While the Lubavitcher Rebbe concerned himself with building Jewish institutions and Jewish life in every nook and cranny throughout the world, most stories people tell about him involve the Rebbe’s unique ability to take care of individuals’ needs, no matter who they were or where they lived. In fact, a few years ago, a book was published called “My Story,” recounting 41 individuals’ stories of their encounters with the Rebbe.

I would therefore like to share my own story with the Rebbe.

When I was in my last year of college at Yeshiva University, I was at a crossroads – facing what I felt was the most critical decision in my life. On one hand, I considered attending law school. I had even attended the Kaplan LSAT preparation course, though I spent most of those classes listening to Simon and Garfunkel on my Walkman. My mother was an extremely strong and persuasive proponent of this option. And my father always told me that it was better to go into a profession than into business because it would be easier to find a job even in difficult economic times. But my heart told me that I should continue learning Torah and pursue chinuch, teaching in yeshiva. It was an extremely difficult choice.

Despite the fact that the Lubavitcher

pah srugah, knitted yarmulke, was there, I must have some important reason for wanting to see the Rebbe. They therefore pulled me to the front row. Thankful for their help, I hoped that I would at least have the chance to make eye contact with the Rebbe.

waiting for him when he paused for a moment. He then turned around and walked straight up to me. He stood about one foot in front of my face without saying a word.

After a moment, looking at me straight in the eyes as he did so, he simply pumped his fist into the air in a gesture which said

After a moment, looking at me straight in the eyes as he did so, he simply pumped his fist into the air in a gesture which said to me, “You can do it! You will succeed!”

When the Rebbe emerged from 770, he walked extremely quickly, carrying a siddur in one hand and a bag of kvitelach to bring to the Ohel in the other hand.

With each step he took, he nodded purposefully at those in the crowd around him. As he sped past, I sadly realized that the Rebbe did not even notice my presence, and I was not able to make eye contact.

The Rebbe began to duck into the car

to me, “You can do it! You will succeed!”

And just as quickly as he had come, he turned back toward his car, got in, and left. The chassidim around me were baffled and asked me what was going on and why the Rebbe had stopped and gestured to me.

Afterward, when I returned home to process what had happened and what the Rebbe’s message meant to me, I understood it to mean that despite the fact that

Torah and chinuch held a more uncertain financial future, I could do it and I would succeed. My mother, however, was convinced that the Rebbe was telling me, “You can get into Columbia Law School!”

But in the end, I took the Rebbe’s encouragement to mean that I should continue to pursue my dreams of continuing to focus on Torah and chinuch.

That is why we need and love true tzaddikim like the Lubavitcher Rebbe.

While they live and die for the welfare and development of the Jewish people, they continue to concern themselves and care about every single one of us as well. They tell each of us, “I know. No one else may understand you, but I know your pain and your deepest desires and dreams. I haven’t forgotten about you.”

May Hashem send the ultimate tzaddik, Moshiach Tzidkeinu, into the world soon in our times so that we can also return to Yerushalayim for the ultimate fulfillment of our national and individual potential.

Rav Moshe Weinberger, shlita, is the founding Morah d’Asrah of Congregation Aish Kodesh in Woodmere, NY, and serves as leader of the new mechina Emek HaMelech.

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Rebbe was no longer holding individual meetings, I traveled to Crown Heights one Sunday. I did not have a clear plan, but I knew that the Rebbe finished Micha and left to daven at the grave of his father-in-law, the Friediker Rebbe, zy”a, at the same exact time every Sunday. I suppose that I planned to try and catch the Rebbe’s attention and ask my question before he got into his car. If he normally left at, for example, 3 p.m., I waited outside 770 Eastern Parkway at 2:55. I was initially pleasantly surprised by the fact that there were only three or four other people around. I thought it might be easier than I had originally anticipated to catch the Rebbe’s attention. Unfortunately, at approximately 2:59, hundreds chassidim appeared seemingly out of nowhere and gathered on either side of the sidewalk between the exit from 770 and the Rebbe’s car.

Not being a particularly pushy individual, I found myself about three rows back from the front of the row of people on my side of the sidewalk. My hopes of even catching the Rebbe’s eye now seemed completely unrealistic. A few of the chassidim around me, however, seemed to feel bad for me, realizing that if a young man like me, with a little kip-

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Delving into the Daf

The Key to Success in Chinuch

By Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow

R

av Yitzchak bar Bisna was the gabbai in charge of opening the doors to the beis midrash. He did his job without fail, until one fateful day when he lost his keys. He realized on Shabbos that he had dropped the keys in a public thoroughfare. He could not carry the keys to open the doors because that would violate the melachah of hotza’ah, transporting items.

Rav Yitzchak approached Rebbe Pedas for advice. Rebbe Pedas advised him to take some children to play in the vicinity of the keys and then lead them back to the beis midrash. Inevitably, one of the kids would pick up the keys and bring them there.

The Gemara (Yevamos 114a) uses this incident as a starting point to discuss whether one has to stop minors from performing an action that is forbidden for adults. The Rambam opines that even if an unrelated individual does not have to stop a minor from “sinning,” the father certainly does. The father has a mitzvah of chinuch to teach his children how to perform mitzvos and how to refrain from sinning.

The above incident does not refute the Rambam’s opinion, because we can surmise that Rav Yitzchak bar Bisna was unrelated to the children who would carry the keys on Shabbos. Nevertheless, in the Gemara’s ensuing discussion, there was a scenario that seemingly involved the father. The Gemara discussed a scenario where a child was holding rabbinical terumah that was tamei.

Such terumah is rabbinically proscribed from consumption, but a father does not have to take away such food from his child. This seems to demonstrate that even a father does not have to train his child not to perform aveiros. The Ritva therefore concludes that the Gemara must be speaking about a child that is not old enough for the mitzvah of chinuch to be applicable. A child of that age has no

concept of mitzvos at all.

Indeed, the Mishnah Berurah writes (343:3), “And know that the age of chinuch for every mitzvah depends on the child’s acumen and knowledge. For example, with a child who knows about Shab-

stands when it is said to him that this is forbidden to do or eat. But a child who has no understanding, the father is not obligated to refrain from violating the laws of Shabbos.”

Rav Neuwirth (Kuntres Chinuch

“The age of chinuch for every mitzvah depends on the child’s acumen and knowledge.”

bos, one is obligated to accustom the child to hearing Kiddush and Havdalah. This applies to positive biblical commandments and rabbinical ones. However, the mitzvah of chinuch as it relates to negative precepts applies to every child who has understanding, meaning he under-

HaBanim) writes that this latter age extends until the age of two or three.

A homiletic interpretation of the incident with Rav Yitzchak bar Bisna was suggested. He was concerned that the beis midrash wasn’t producing gedolim, men of outstanding scholarship, and he

was looking for the keys to success in Torah learning. Rav Pedas answered that the key is starting with proper chinuch when the children are young. He told Rav Yitzchak to seek out young children and lead them to the beis midrash.

The pasuk in Vayikra (21:1) states, “And Hashem said to Moshe, ‘Tell the kohanim the sons of Aharon and tell them, “None shall defile himself for any person among his kin.”’” The Gemara notes repetition in the verse: “Tell the kohanim The sons of Aharon and tell them.” The Gemara says this indicates that the adults should make sure the children keep the mitzvos. Rav Moshe Feinstein writes that the Gemara’s question is clear, but the answer seems to be pure conjecture. How does the repetition of the verb “tell” indicate that the verse is directing parents to educate their children in mitzvos?

Rav Moshe answers that chinuch involves two statements from the parent.

The first is to educate the child as to the nature of the mitzvah he is expected to perform. The second is the statement regarding how much the parent enjoys that mitzvah. A child who hears a parent complain how hard a mitzvah is to keep will be discouraged from observing that mitzvah. The child will reason that the mitzvah is beyond his capabilities, surmising that he lacks the fortitude of his parents.

On the other hand, if a child hears from his parents how enthusiastic they are about a mitzvah, he will be motivated to make the effort of keeping the mitzvah.

The enthusiasm will be contagious.

This is the key to success in chinuch.

Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow is a rebbe at Yeshiva Ateres Shimon in Far Rockaway. In addition, Rabbi Sebrow leads a daf yomi chaburah at Eitz Chayim of Dogwood Park in West Hempstead, NY. He can be contacted at ASebrow@ gmail.com.

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The Wandering

Jew

Journeys to Holland Part II

By Hershel Lieber

1992 July 28 was just two months since my father-in-law, Reb Ezriel Kroen, a”h, was niftar. My mother-in-law, as well as the entire family, were still in shock over his passing, though he was sick for almost two years. One is never ready to accept the inevitable. Pesi and I had already been going to the Ronald Lauder Summer Retreats in Poland since 1988 to lead kiruv projects on behalf of Polish Jews. Our plan for the summer of 1992 was to be there for four weeks. We thought it would be therapeutic if my mother-in-law joined us. She would be meeting different people, speaking the Polish language which she knew very well, and could put aside her daily grief even if only for a short time. Surprisingly, she was interested in joining us, and although she never liked or approved of traveling, she actually welcomed this suggestion. Our fifteenyear-old daughter Chavi, her friend Rivky Kahan and our nine-year-old son Mechel were also on board to join us for this escapade.

We arrived in Amsterdam early Wednesday morning and took the airport train to the station near the Novotel. There

were no taxis available, so we walked for blocks on end, half bent over as we endlessly wheeled our old-style luggage. Our rooms were not ready when we arrived, and when we ultimately got them, we spent four hours in a deep slumber. We went down late that afternoon and took the boat ride on Amsterdam’s famed canals. After eating the tasty supper that we brought along, we called it a day.

The next day we treated ourselves to a very special attraction. Floriade is an international flower and entertainment show held every ten years in Holland.

This was the year that the event was being held. We traveled there by train and spent a total of five hours oohing and aahing at the gorgeous floral displays. There were acres upon acres of varieties of flowers from dozens of different countries in a rainbow of colors and in an array of scents. We were blown away from the beauty that greeted us from the moment we arrived until we said farewell to the last petals.

On the way back, we stopped in Madurodam, a park featuring hundreds of miniature models of famous Dutch buildings and landmarks. It was a lots of fun

Mechel and I feeding the pigeons in Dam Square

Chavi (r) and Rivky (l) on the canal boat

Our family at the Dam Square

Pesi at Madurodam

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walking among the exhibitions, many with moving vehicles and flashing lights and sounds. The children especially enjoyed this exciting attraction.

On Friday, we went to the Joods (Jewish) Museum and the Portuguese Synagogue. This historical part of our voyage was spiritually rewarding and a great lead in for the coming Shabbos. We shopped for food for the seudos and prepared our Shabbos meals. Mechel and I went to the Lekstratt Shul for Kabbalas Shabbos and met a heimishe Yid, a former shochet named Mr. Krakauer. We returned to a beautiful Shabbos tisch complete with matamin and madanim, zemiros and divrei Torah.

The next morning, we left the two girls sleeping as the rest of us all headed to shul. The davening led by a chazan from Israel was uplifting, and we were invited to a kiddush at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Katz. After our seudah at the hotel and following a rather long nap, we had traditional Dutch herring for Shalosh Seudos and headed to shul for Mincha and Maariv. After havdalah, we relaxed in our room and played a game with the children.

Sunday was our last day in Amsterdam, but it was quite cold. The only major thing we did was visit the Anne Frank House, where we were given a tour of the Frank family’s hiding place. We explained to the children the significance of this hidden room which characterized the tragedy and horror of the Holocaust through the vision of young Anne.

Our Holland segment of our trip ended when we boarded the plane early Monday morning for our next destination, Warsaw, Poland. We felt that this portion of our trip was a success in terms of our children’s learning experience.

What was very rewarding was the benefit that my mother-in-law gained from these first few days; we witnessed the start of her healing process after the loss of her life’s partner.

A tongue-in-cheek postcard from the Hans Brinker Hotel

2008 The success of me leading Aish Hatorah college student trips in 2007 to Budapest, Bratislava and Vienna was a forerunner to being asked to lead similar journeys the following year. Two tours were scheduled back-to-back for May of 2008, where university students toured

Aish students at the Diamond Exchange

tel was surely an experience that we will never forget.

Immediately after checking in, we launched a hectic two-day period of sightseeing and activities. The first day we took the group to visit a diamond cutting and polishing factory, which was intriguing. This was followed by a tour

We checked into the Hanks Brinker Youth Hostel, which was faithful to its motto, “It Can’t Get Any Worse.”

Brussels, Antwerp and Amsterdam.

Pesi and I arrived together with the first group on Monday, May 19. In Belgium, we took the students for a bus tour of sites in Brussels, which was followed by a sumptuous lunch at Hoffy’s in Antwerp.

Then we were off to Holland for two days.

Our Holland itinerary started with an overnight stay in the beach resort city of Scheveningen. I managed to take a quiet walk with Pesi on the deserted boardwalk before beginning an orientation session.

We spent the balance of the evening with everyone introducing themselves and playing a game designed to promote a feeling of camaraderie. The next morning, we were off to Amsterdam.

We checked into the Hanks Brinker Youth Hostel, which was faithful to its motto, “It Can’t Get Any Worse.” The closet-size rooms were clean, but other than two single beds and one wooden chair, there were no furnishings. Forget any amenities! The hostel was jampacked with teenagers and young adults with the typical dress and hairstyles that carried the message of anti establishment rebellion. Jeans, tattoos, piercings, and dyed hair in a spectrum of colors were the order of the day. Staying at a youth hos-

of the Joods (Jewish) Museum and the famed Portuguese Synagogue known as the Esnoga. A bris was taking place there, and the students – all new to Jewish traditions – were fascinated by being able to witness this ritual from the balcony.

Our visit to the Anne Frank House was a very moving experience, and the emotional pain it triggered was followed by an extended period of complete silence. We took the group to the Carmel Restaurant for dinner, and it took a while before the regular chatter and kibbitzing

of the students resumed.

The next morning, after preparing a boxed breakfast for the group, we took them for a boat ride on the famed canals.

From there, the bus took them straight to the airport for their flight to Israel.

There, they would immerse themselves in a month-long studying and touring program to acquaint them with their Jewish heritage.

After spending a Shabbos with friends in Antwerp, we met the next group on Monday, August 26th and retraced the identical European itinerary in the cities of Brussels, Antwerp and Amsterdam.

When we bid farewell to the second group, we set out for a two-day trip to Luxembourg and headed back to Amsterdam for Shabbos. On the way back home, we made a short stop in Maastricht, where we walked around this medieval university town and stopped at the market to buy flowers for our Shabbos hosts.

Our host, Reb Meir Gottlieb, was the proprietor of a guest house where we stayed over Shabbos. We were invited for all the seudos and had a wonderful and inspiring experience during our stay.

Reb Meir, a Gerer chassid, and his wife were great hosts, and we shared many acquaintances. I managed to go to the mikvah before davening at the Yeshiva

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With Reb Meir Gottlieb. I didn’t have my hat so I wore his Gerer kapuliscz

Preparing boxed lunches for the Aish students

Pesi with a few Aish students

and Kollel. There, I met other people with whom I found a common connection, including Rav Ephraim Padwa, their rabbi.

Besides the beautiful seudos at the Gottliebs and a long walk with a rest stop at the park, we took naps and spent time studying Pirkei Avos.

On Motzei Shabbos, we went to visit Rav Meir Just, the Chief Rabbi of Amsterdam for over forty-five years. We were trying to establish if he was in some way related to Pesi’s maternal grandmother, as they both shared the family name, Just. We spent a good half-hour with the elderly rav but could not actually confirm a family relationship.

On our final day in Holland, we went for a short visit to the town of Delft which was only an hour’s ride from Amsterdam.

What a lovely village with Dutch-styled houses colorfully bedecked with tulips

With Rabbi Meir Just, chief rabbi of Amsterdam

and other flower! The name Delft is associated with the beautiful and expensive pottery produced in that locale. The history of these cobalt blue glazed ceramics started in the 17 th century and continues to this very day.

We stayed in Delft for a very short time and were sorry that we had to leave so soon. We then made our way back to Antwerp, where we ate at Hoffy’s and headed to the airport in Brussels.

This two-week journey was jampacked from the beginning to the end. Besides leading two student groups through Belgium and Holland, enjoying a Shabbos in Antwerp, a Shabbos in Amsterdam, a day in Ghent, two days in Luxembourg, a morning in Maastricht, and an afternoon in Delft, we met so many different people and enjoyed some great experiences throughout our journey.

Hershel Lieber has been involved in kiruv activities for over 30 years. As a founding member of the Vaad L’Hatzolas Nidchei Yisroel he has traveled with his wife, Pesi, to the Soviet Union during the harsh years of the Communist regimes to advance Yiddishkeit.

He has spearheaded a yeshiva in the city of Kishinev that had 12 successful years with many students making Torah their way of life.

In Poland, he lectured in the summers at the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation camp for nearly 30 years. He still travels to Warsaw every year – since 1979 – to be the chazzan for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur for the Jews there.

Together with Pesi, he organized and led trips to Europe on behalf of Gateways and Aish Hatorah for college students finding their paths to Jewish identity. His passion for travel has taken them to many interesting places and afforded them unique experiences. Their open home gave them opportunities to meet and develop relationships with a variety of people.

Hershel’s column will appear in The Jewish Home on a bi-weekly basis.

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My Israel Home

How Are Property Taxes Computed?

By Gedaliah Borvick

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n Israel, just like the rest of the world, owners of real estate must pay property taxes, which are used to support city administrative activities such as garbage collection and maintenance of parks and roads.

In Israel, property taxes are called “arnona,” an ancient Greek word which has been in our lexicon for at least two thousand years (see: Pesachim 6a and Sanhedrin 26a). This term should not be confused with the Jerusalem neighborhood Arnona, which received its name thanks to its great views: on a clear day, one can see the Arnon River in Jordan which runs into the Dead Sea. In the United States, property taxes are determined based on the property’s value. In Israel, however, arnona payments are based on the property’s size.

apartment and balcony space but also the unit’s portion of the common areas, including public stairwells and hallways, parking, storage, roof, garden, and even trash bin areas. (Don’t worry; parking and storage space are taxed at a lower rate.)

Determining the Tax Rate After determining your apartment’s

Jerusalem. Some cities have multiple districts, each with its own tax rate. In addition, many cities have different tax rates based on the size of the apartment.

For example, in Jerusalem there is one rate for units below 120 sqm and a higher rate for units that are above 120 sqm. To make matters even more complicated, in Jerusalem, different building types have different tax rates. For example, the tax

To make matters even more complicated, in Jerusalem, different building types have different tax rates.

Determining the Size Different cities use different methods to calculate the size of apartments.

The computation methods range from the most conservative extreme of only including the apartment’s net usable space, all the way to the most far-reaching extreme of including not only the

taxable size – based on your city’s arnona calculation method – the next step is to determine the arnona rate on a per square meter basis.

Each city has a different tax rate, and the rates fluctuate greatly; for example, Beit Shemesh’s tax rate is about half of

rate in a stucco-faced shikun building is lower than in a stone-faced building.

One last – and compassionate – twist: discounts are available to various residents, including senior citizens, people with health-related issues or special needs, and indigent families.

Future Changes?

Jerusalem has historically used the most conservative measuring approach of only including net usable space, but there is currently a movement to expand the calculation method to include the apartments’ internal and external walls.

Although this proposal is facing considerable resistance, there is a chance that this broader calculation method will pass, as it will fill the city’s coffers in multiple ways. First, the average apartment will suddenly grow by about 10%, thus increasing taxes by 10%. In addition, many apartments are currently just below the 120 sqm threshold and going above 120 sqm will raise the unit’s tax rate by about 20%.

Thank you to my chavruta Peretz Silverman, who – while researching his own tax bill – generously agreed to research and co-write this article.

Gedaliah Borvick is the founder of My Israel Home (www.myisraelhome.com), a real estate agency focused on helping people from abroad buy and sell homes in Israel. To sign up for his monthly market updates, contact him at gborvick@gmail.com.

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Knesset Coll apse Bennett’s Many Faces Led To His Fall

By Shammai SiSkind

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n March 21, 2021, Yamina Party head Naftali Bennett appeared on Israel’s Channel 20.

The purpose of the evening interview was to publicly announce his commitment to never join a government that included Yesh Atid’s Yair Lapid or the United Arab List’s Mansour Abbas.

“I won’t allow Yair Lapid to be prime minister, including in a rotation agree-

ment [...] I will not establish a government based on the support of Mansour Abbas from the Islamic Movement,” he asserted.

In one of the closest things to a political prop-stunt he ever did, Bennett produced a document declaring these two commitments which he then signed live on air. He finished his television appearance by calling on then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to sign the pledge as well.

Less than four months later, Bennett was sitting in the Prime Minister’s chair, presiding over a government that included the very two people he vowed to never engage with.

The most recent coalition was structurally unsound from the start. Everyone recognized this, including Bennett himself. The hope of both Bennett and his diverse partners was that these instabilities

could be overcome. Alas, it was not to be.

What Went Wrong?

As is often the nature of these things, there is no one reason for the failure of the Bennett-Lapid experiment. While many point to the defection of Idit Silman from Bennett’s Yamina party in April as the major milestone, in truth, however, the 36th Knesset died a death of a thousand cuts.

Some of the issues that both the public

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and policymakers took with the coalition’s handling of things were real. Some were just bad imagery. In the end, all of them contributed to the collapse.

To start with some successes: There were some notable achievements in Bennett’s short-lived prime ministership – the shortest in Israeli history. He brought about substantial improvements on the Gaza front. He put an end to the mountains of Qatari cash being funneled into the Strip, while at the same time offering “carrots” to the residents of Gaza in the form of work visas to Israel--a move that gave a strong incentive to Hamas to keep relatively calm.

Bennett put into motion the most aggressive Iran policy in over a decade, planning daring missions targeting not only Iran’s strategic periphery in Syria and Iraq but also hitting members of the regime on their own turf. Perhaps the single most underappreciated contribution of Bennett’s time in office was the role he played in convincing the Biden administration to not go ahead with the unhinged idea of reviving the nuclear deal and reconciling with Tehran.

Bennett did more than a passing job in foreign affairs. He strengthened ties with the Emirates, a nation that is quickly proving to be Israel’s most important Middle Eastern ally. Behind-the-scenes talks with the Saudis have also progressed. Turkey, whose stance toward the Jewish State is volatile on a good day, has also been rather warm toward Israel as of late, a fact that has, and will likely continue, to benefit Israel’s efforts in countering Iran.

And finally, regarding the domestic front: Bennett and his team formulated the first state budget to be passed in Israel in three years. This allowed government agencies to function smoother and implement long-awaited reforms.

There were some notable failures as well, and these were, not surprisingly, viciously highlighted by Bennett’s detractors.

First on the list is the deteriorating housing crisis. Despite all the government’s efforts in expanding housing production and loosening restrictions, costs of housing continued to rise. For most Israelis who spend a substantial percentage of their monthly budget on rent, this was a fact hard to overlook.

The housing expenses rose alongside the general cost of living, specifically in regard to food prices. In the end, as Bill Clinton’s well-known “it’s the econo-

Bad pR Arguably, however, the coalition’s collapse was not a product of concrete failures. It was much more due to some very powerful and very negative public perceptions pasted on Bennett and the coalition as a whole. Some of these could be attributed to Bennett’s own doing.

Others were totally and completely out of his control.

Bennett the tRaitoR First and foremost is the fact that Bennett formed the current government by reneging on some pretty strong commitments. He said he would never sit with “the Left.” And he did. He said he wouldn’t sit with the “Islamist” Arab party. And he did.

Bennett, of course, acknowledged his reversal, defending himself with the shaky excuse that he had also promised not to let the country slide into a fifth consecutive election; teaming up with Lapid

through his utopian plan for the Middle East by a razor-thin margin that included Arab votes.

When the wave of terror attacks hit Israel earlier this year, Bennett’s enemies jumped at the opportunity to highlight the fact that he was breaking bread with the very people supporting this terror.

Objectively, this accusation was more than a bit disingenuous. The supposed

in tRuth , howeveR , the 3 6th Kne s s et died a de ath of a thousand Cuts . and Abbas was the only way to prevent that from happening, he said. Of course, many on the right could not forgive Bennett for this betrayal. The idea of a coalition relying on Arab MKs is a touchy subject, one that reminds Israelis of the dark days of Oslo when Yitzchak Rabin stubbornly pushed

terror-supporter Abbas has made serious efforts to push back against any accusations of “Islamism.” He repeatedly condemned the wave of terror attacks and even visited (in front of TV cameras) the vandalized Beit Israel synagogue in Lod. When Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar issued a statement demanding Abbas leave the government, Abbas publicly responded by stating, “We don’t owe anything to Yahya Sinwar or anyone else. We are what is good for the Arab community and Palestinian nation.”

It also worth noting that under Bennett, the country has seen one of the biggest spikes in counter-terror operations by the police and military – a trend that is still ongoing. Netanyahu, on the other hand, received ample criticism (mostly from the right) for his slow handling of riots and widespread violence that preceded the 2021 Gaza war. Still, the imagery of Bennett sitting next to an avowed pacifist (Lapid) and a Bedouin politician (Abbas) while Jews were being murdered in the

streets was simply bad PR.

Bennett the seCulaRist Another major issue of controversy that befell Bennett’s time in power was the government’s push to change religious matters.

Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana opened 2022 with proposals to undermine two state monopolies in the domain of religious observance: kashrut and conversion.

Both of these topics have been widely debated and intensely controversial in the Holy Land for many years – well before Bennett was even seriously in the political theater. But Bennett and his team were the first who were in a position of power that decided to actually take it on.

The problem they were trying to solve was one that grated on those on the left.

The Chief Rabbinate’s exclusive control over these two areas do not accommodate those on the left who wish to convert Jews in their own way or wish to offer kashrus certification not in the standards of Jewish law.

In regard to conversion, the state recognizes only several dozen rabbis and four conversion courts in the entire country that can legally perform conversions to Judaism. While access to kashrut services is much broader, it is still bureaucracy-heavy due to its centralized structure.

For years, food establishment owners have complained to the secular government of the numerous obstacles placed on their businesses when dealing with the Rabbanut. The fact that it is illegal to use the word “kosher” on a storefront in Israel without the Rabbinate’s certification has turned the kashrut battle specifically into a sort of public outcry for change.

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tained structure can have some sort of validity – in small part. But despite the cries of those on the left, decentralizing the system will undoubtedly undermine halachic standards and lead to pervasive problems in the kashrut of food establishments in the country.

It should be noted that Reform and Conservative conversions performed in Israel have not been recognized for years, and Kahana’s plan didn’t attempt to change that. In a similar vein, Kahana said that his kashrut proposal did not set out to create new standards for what is considered “kosher” but only to create additional agencies (certified by the Rabbinate) that could issue kashrut certificates.

But here as well, Bennett’s efforts tasted sour to many in the country. He had embraced a cohort of anti-religious radicals the likes of Labor’s Merav Michaeli, an unabashed social reconstructionist who travels the world lecturing on the evils of marriage and family. And let’s not forget Avigdor Liberman, a vocal secularist whose campaign slogan reads, “Bring an end to the totalitarian rule of the chareidim.”

Bennett the leftist elite Closely tied to the first unsavory reputation that developed around Bennett was the notion that he had moved over to the camp of the Leftist elite. Here, there are some conflicting points to consider.

When looked at from a purely socio-economic perspective, the coalition’s eight parties did mostly represent the higher classes. As the socialist newspaper Davar pointed out, Yamina and Yesh Atid voters have one thing in common: they’re both in the top-earning brackets of Israeli society. This fed into the narrative that

Bennett, known to be extremely successful himself and living in the bourgeoisie city of Raanana, was firmly part of that world. This was fuel to the fire for much of Israel’s middle and lower classes who, as mentioned earlier, were feeling the pain of economic strain under Bennett.

It should be noted that Likud’s vast constituent pool is drawn mostly from poorer cities in Israel such as Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh, and Beit Shaan. When Bennett announced he would not move

support for a Two-State Solution, and it was Netanyahu who voted for the Gaza disengagement in 2005, a decision that directly led to the creation of a genocidal terror state thirty miles from Tel Aviv.

Despite his signature wartime rhetoric, in the no less than three military conflicts Netanyahu has presided over, he has never gone “all the way” in annihilating Israel’s sworn enemies in Gaza--a policy that Bennett has frequently attacked over the years.

Still, it was imagery that won the day – Bennett had sold out to the anti-nationalist and anti-Jewish forces by the very fact he was sitting in the same coalition as they were. Many of Bennett’s own partners began to believe this. One of them, the aforementioned MK Idit Silman, believed it enough to abandon ship.

Irony of ironies, it was not a Right-winger that finished off the coalition but a far-Left official. The death knell of the 36th Knesset came on May 20 when Meretz member Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi left the government.

“Unfortunately, in recent months, out of narrow political considerations, the leaders of the coalition have chosen to preserve and strengthen its right-wing flank,” read Zoabi’s resignation letter.

At that point, the coalition was officially a minority. It would not be able to

s till , the imag e Ry of B e nnet t s it ting ne x t to an avowe d paCifis t (l apid) and a B e d o u in p oliti Cian (aB Ba s) while Jews we Re B e in g m u Rde Re d in the s tre ets wa s s imply bad pr . to the prime minister’s house in Rehavia (ostensibly to contrast himself with Netanyahu), the decision became a scandal of sorts and was used as further proof of Bennett’s aloofness.

The notion that Bennett had joined forces with or somehow acquiesced to the Left is also unfair. Granted, symbolically, and perhaps even principally, forming a government that rests on Arab support was an extreme move. But in terms of actual policies, it is difficult to see where Bennett capitulated. As noted, his policies on Iran and domestic counter-terror have been quite strong. In terms of past records, it should be remembered that it is Netanyahu who has repeatedly expressed

pass any laws or approve any budgets.

From then, it was only a matter of time.

the Biggest loseR Days following Bennett and Lapid’s joint announcement of the government’s dissolution, the Haaretz newspaper printed an article with a headline that read: “The Biggest Loser in Government’s Collapse: The Israeli Economy.”

The trademark cynicism of Haaretz aside, the point being made was a fair one. All of the focus leading up to and following the government’s collapse has been on the reasons for the coalition’s failure. Few were considering what the consequences of that collapse might be.

There are certainly some serious challenges facing Israeli society. It’s a reasonable concern that political instability will exacerbate those challenges.

However, there are some stark reasons for optimism.

Perhaps the most astounding fact about Israel’s history over the past three years is that the country has not descended into a death spiral of deterioration. On the contrary, much has flourished. Infrastructure projects around the country are booming. Development in Israel’s periphery, especially in the crime-plagued south, is also progressing at an impressive pace – a fact that Netanyahu himself has acknowledged.

Investment in Israel’s miracle industries is also rising. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Israel increased by 4.7 billion USD in March 2022 alone. This has followed at least two consecutive years of record-breaking FDI (yes, right in the midst of the pandemic crisis).

Some point out that this investment tends to focus on only a few sectors – namely hi-tech and defense – and doesn’t affect the broader economy. First off, even that trend is fast changing, as other industries such as agro-tech, medicine, and even energy continue to develop rapidly.

But even with the relatively narrow range of investment targets, FDI in Israel has benefits for the country at large.

The government’s revenue from this surge of capital, either in the form of direct returns of investment or taxation, has ended up contributing to the entire country. In its latest reports filed in March of this year, the Israeli government recorded a surplus of $5.1 billion – over one percent of the country’s GDP and just shy of four percent of the national budget. Policymakers across the spectrum admit that this has significantly impacted the country’s growth, in everything from reforming agencies, to developing the country’s infrastructure, to taking in and integrating new immigrants. Furthermore, this growth has substantially expanded the job market and unemployment has been mostly dropping for over a year, reaching its lowest since the onset of the pandemic just last month. Considering that Israel has gone through eighteen months of Covid, four elections, and a small war – all over the span of just three years – that fact is really quite remarkable.

The political instability of the past three years has certainly been bizarre, and more than a little chaos-inducing.

But if nothing else, what the recent period has shown is that Israel can still thrive despite it all.

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The Ultimate Summer Bucket List

By SuSan Schwamm

Every year, we prepare a mental “to-do” list for our summers. We want to empty out our closets, take more walks, eat healthier, and spend more time with the family. But summer is about relaxation and fun. Don’t spend your summer season checking off your list of tasks. Spend it by ticking off the fun things that will make the season memorable. Better dive in soon – the summer will fly by!

D Grill pineapples on the BBQ

D Wear a tie-dye T-shirt

D Take the kids biking on the boardwalk

D Read at least one book D Jog a mile

D Catch a butterfly and then let it go free

D Have a charcoal BBQ

D Go hiking

D Go sail boating on the Hudson

D Fly a kite

D Learn to play one song on the harmonica

D Eat an ice cream sundae with the works—just because!

D Go zip-lining

D Watch the sun rise

D Put your pictures into photo albums

D Eat breakfast for dinner

D Rent a convertible and drive with huge sunglasses and a scarf in your hair, Jackie Onassis-style

D Go to a fair

D Go on a picnic

D Make a lemonade stand

D Sleep in a tent

D Learn to rollerblade

D Take family photos outdoors wearing funny glasses

D Stay up all night D Go for a drive without any destination D Eat a banana split

D Make real s’mores on the BBQ D Watch fireworks D Count the seeds in a watermelon D Go on a Ferris wheel in Coney Island D Make homemade Slurpees

D Watch your wedding video

D Host a yard sale

D Make lemonade – from scratch

D Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge

D Go for a night swim

D Build a sandcastle

D Play mini golf

D Pick berries and make a pie

D Go to the farmers market

D Go fishing

D Do The New York Times crossword puzzle D Braid your hair D Go to a waterpark D Smile – all day!

D Play monkey in the middle D Write a real letter, put a stamp on it and mail it at the post office

D Grow tomatoes D Spend the whole day barefoot D Skip rocks in a river D Take a nap in a hammock D Lie on the grass D Put together a 1,000 piece puzzle

D Go bird watching

D Go to a state park

D Canoe

D Take a walk in the rain

D Run with the kids on the beach barefoot

D Get a tan

D Go to a baseball game D Play flashlight tag D Call your grandmother

D Sleep late D Learn to juggle D Blow bubbles

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D Take a nap under a tree

D Learn how to play tennis

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Dating Dialogue

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

Dear Navidaters,

Thanks for considering publishing my question. Whether you print it or not, can you please have the panel respond to this? Thank you.

My sister has been engaged for the past three months; it’s a pretty long engagement, and honestly, I’m so worried about her.

She’s a really serious, quiet type, but with the right combination she really comes out of her shell. She has dated guys in the past, seriously, whom she was

happy around. Now, she’s engaged to a nice guy, and since she’s in her upper 30’s we’re super excited she’s finally met “the one.” However, he doesn’t seem to make her happy. From the beginning, she seemed conten, and excited to be engaged but didn’t seem particularly into him.

We’re busy planning the wedding and excited for the huge simcha but I’m just worried that this won’t work out the way it should be.

What are the panel’s thoughts?

Thanks so much, -Sherri*

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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Rebbetzin Faigie Horowitz, M.S.

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herri, you and your family members are loving and concerned about your sister’s happiness. Your sister, however, is in her late thirties and has had ample time to consult dating coaches, therapists, and others to support her in her dating life. She, as you pointed out, is not so demonstrative, although she seemed excited at the time of the initial engagement. Sometimes, the brouhaha made by others at a simcha is infectious. But if a person is not really the expressive type, as your sister seems to be, the sustained joy may not be seen.

If she has not confided in you, it is not your role to act upon your worries. She is a mature adult, and you are not privy to

her thoughts and emotions, which tend to be very private.

Your worries are coming from a loving place, but they may be attributed to her style and your expectations of excitement. Remember that people who get engaged in their late thirties don’t respond like people in their early twenties. He may be a nice, dependable guy who is not so exciting, but she has decided to commit to him, even if he isn’t a heartthrob. So what if she is marrying a dull accountant, to give a trite example? If that’s whom she chose and she is a quiet person, she doesn’t have to respond the way you do.

What you can do is daven. Do your best to make the simcha as joyful and festive as you can and add the fanfare, which can enhance her joy. She deserves it, even if you are concerned and she’s not as outwardly thrilled as you expect.

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Your worries are based on fears, not facts.

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ear Sherri, Mazal tov on your sister’s engagement! I completely understand your concern, but I do have some thoughts to share.

You mention your sister’s quiet demeanor and placid personality, having seen a jovial side protrude under the spell of other men, however not with the one she has chosen to marry. To this I answer you: She has not married those other men, has she? Those other prospects have not worked out for one reason or another.

Perhaps those men were not interested in her long term, or perhaps she did not like the way she had to be on her game all the time.

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Your worries are based on fears, not facts. Your sister is more quiet and serious, so it seems she has been acting quite like herself during the engagement, which is a good thing.

My advice is for you to show her your upbeat excitement and be happy for her that her time has finally come. Find ways to compliment the man she is engaged to and watch how she blushes and reacts.

Outward excitement does not always equal bliss.

Mazal tov again on the upcoming simcha!

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The Single Tzipora Grodko

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ear Sherri, As a sister, there’s nothing you want more for a sibling other than their own happiness. I can’t conclude using the minimal information you provided but will try my best.

You used the word “content and excited” when describing your sister’s feelings towards her new spouse. Those are key traits that would seem to reflect genuine interest and connection in a relationship. The Webster’s Dictionary translates true happiness as feelings of contentment, inner peace. I wonder if your expectation of what your sister’s happiness should look like is different than what you expected and therefore leaves you reason to be concerned.

Regardless of these hypotheses, simply ask your sister how she feels, express your concerns, and fact-check whether they are true or false. When exercised properly and respectfully,

communication is always the best way to go.

Hatzlacha!

The Zaidy Dr. Jeffrey Galler

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emember, that while it is very normal for you to worry about your sister, it is also very normal for a new kallah to feel a bit overwhelmed and seem unhappy. This is especially true when the kallah is a bit older, has been living on her own for a long time, and will need to radically change the lifestyle that she’s been accustomed to.

If you’d like to be helpful, without being overly intrusive, you may wish to sit down with your sister, and, over a cup of coffee, recommend that she and her chosson attend pre-marital classes.

On a personal note, before I started contributing to this Navidater column, I

had never been a fan of “Let’s send them for therapy.” However, over the last two years, I have become a bit more educated about the role of pre-marital classes.

For older singles like your sister and her fiancé, this might be a nice way to ease their transition into married life.

Imagine what it must be like for someone like your sister, who has been completely independent and living by herself for almost two decades, to suddenly contemplate sharing virtually every aspect of her life with someone, who until recently, has been a complete stranger.

Hopefully, a skilled therapist who leads the class will be attuned to, and help identify and deal with, any potential issues that may come up.

The YUConnects website (https:// y uconnects.com/pre-marital-workshop/) advises: “We highly encourage all engaged and recently married couples to participate in pre-marital and educational workshops.

“The SHALOM Workshop is designed to help couples develop a deeper self-awareness and teach them practical tools to

I wonder if your expectation of what your sister’s happiness should look like is different than what you expected

build a happy, successful and long-lasting marriage. In just a few meetings the couple will learn how to: • Increase understanding and sensitivity to each other’s feelings • Communicate through a sense of mutual respect • Promote self confidence in each other • Manage their finances Good luck to your sister and to all of the singles in our community.

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i Sherri, Thank you so much for writing into our panel. Let’s take a moment to acknowledge and organize the pickle you are in.

You love your sister and feel in your bones that she is unhappy and perhaps settling to settle down. You

are worried about her. On the other hand, your sister is a grown woman and free to make choices and we could argue (on this side of the coin) that this is none of your business. And finally, we

have no idea how your sister would react to you saying something.

Your email tells me that you and your sister enjoy a pleasant relationship. I don’t know how close the two of you are or how deep the connection runs, but suffice it to say, I feel that things are pleasant between the two of you.

If you feel your relationship is strong enough to withstand an honest conversation, then by all means have one. You

can share your excitement with her and ask her the following: Does he make you happy?

Her answer will tell you what you need to know. Ultimately, your sister is all grown up and responsible for her decisions. Whatever she decides, you will always get to be her loving sister who is there for her no matter what.

All the best, Jennifer

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

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Health & F tness

By Cindy Weinberger MS, RD, CDN

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uly 4th is not only when the United States gained its independence, it’s a day that marks the start of summer. Once July 4th is crossed off of our calendars, it is officially summer and officially barbecue season. We all love those fun summer barbecues bonding over a burger and a hot dog. However, a study from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has found that eating red meat cooked at high temperatures, such as barbequing and pan frying, is linked to an increased risk of kidney cancer.

Kidney cancer, also known as renal cell carcinoma, is the most popular form of cancer among adults in the U.S. and developed countries. Researchers examined the facts and suspected that the western lifestyle – a diet high in processed foods and meat – may play an important role in this phenomenon. They studied the dietary intake and genetic risk factors of 659 newly diagnosed renal cell carcinoma patients and 699 healthy adults as controls. The researchers found that the kidney cancer patients ate more red meat, compared with the cancer-free participants. Furthermore, researchers found that the cancer patients consumed more cancer-causing chemicals – those that are produced when meat is cooked at high temperatures or over an open flame such as pan-frying or barbequing. The

kidneys are in charge of clearing out the metabolism and therefore are exposed to many more carcinogens than other organs, which is why the kidneys get hit hard when people ingest carcinogens.

This research is in agreement with the World Trade Center Fund in 2011 that found that red and processed meat increase the risk of colon cancer specifically. The researchers define processed meat as anything that has been salted, cured, smoked, or changed to enhance flavor or preservation. The World

sandwich. The same meat or poultry when served with minimal sauce and controlled portions can fall within the 300-500 calorie range. The higher in fat the food is, the smaller the portion size should be. Aim for 4 oz. portions for all red meat. The ideal foods to eat a barbecue would be chicken, chicken breast and turkey. Turkey can get you a bigger portion on your plate – up to 8 oz. – and still be less than 300 calories. Substitute ground beef with ground chicken and ground turkey for hamburgers or use ex-

The higher in fat the food is, the smaller the portion size should be.

Health Organization (WHO) feels that processed meats produce carcinogenic chemicals from preservatives such as nitrites and nitrates. The WHO also linked overall red meat consumption to colorectal and stomach cancer.

Aside from the carcinogens found in barbecued red meat, much of what is offered at a barbecue is high in calories.

Between the bun and condiments, you can be easily looking at a 1,000-calorie

tra lean ground beef. Therefore, the best barbecue option would be poultry with minimal condiments and bread. Avoid heavy sauces and dips. Use minimal barbecue sauce to coat the meat for flavor.

Ketchup packs a lot of sugar, so try to skip the ketchup. Mustard and relish are healthier options in terms of condiments.

We can conclude from this research that the more red meat you eat, the higher your risk is of developing certain cancers.

The way the meat is cooked definitely plays a role since the high temperatures (from barbecuing and pan frying) release certain carcinogens into the food.

Researchers recommend limiting red meat to no more than 1.1lbs once a week, which is about the size of 3-4 small patties. Don’t get scared and cut out red meat completely, though –red meat is a good source of iron, zinc, essential amino acids, and vitamin B12.

Like I always say, as with everything, moderation is key. Lean meats in moderation can still be part of a healthy diet. A barbecue is great every once in a while, but don’t get carried away and barbecue red meat more than once a week.

There are still plenty of ways to have a healthy and yummy barbecue season!

More importantly, summer should be about getting outside and enjoying the beautiful weather.

Have a healthy and happy summer!

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 private nutritionist. She can be reached at CindyWeinberger1@gmail.com or 917-623-6237.

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Dr. Deb

What Your Marriage Needs Most

By Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.

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he one thing that is absolutely necessary in your marriage is the one thing that no other marriage counselor addresses: Self Love.

Why is it so important?

And why don’t other marriage counselors think it is?

Why Self Love is Crucial to Your Marriage We all have needs. That’s human.

And the two biggest complaints that people have when the marriage is unraveling are: 1. He/she is not meeting my needs.

2. We can’t communicate.

But see, here’s the sad thing: When you don’t even meet your own needs, how can you expect someone else to meet them for you?

When you don’t respect, value, and love yourself, how can you expect your partner to?

And when your heart isn’t filled with love for yourself, where will the love come from for your partner?

Now, you could argue that if someone loves you, they “should” be able to meet your needs even if you don’t. But it absolutely doesn’t work that way.

Because what you think are your needs aren’t.

Take Terrence. He works for a boss who overloads him. True, he’s well paid.

But he has to cut corners on the clients in order to get all the work done. He’s not so happy with that aspect. And he comes home late, and then his wife, Sandy, feels neglected.

Sandy: I told you when you took that job, it wouldn’t be good for us.

Terrence: I felt stuck. I needed to earn a salary so I could support you and the kids.

But then the truth comes out, the hidden truth….

Terrence: And besides, I wouldn’t be able to do it on my own.

What??

Why not?

Terrence: I’m really not that smart.

Or capable or creative. You fill in the blank.

Oh, no.

That’s what Terrence thinks of himself.

Well, I certainly didn’t see him that way. At all.

What gives?

Take another example, Rosie.

Rosie refused to work outside the house because she was scared of the outside world. You would think, wouldn’t you, that she’d be an excellent mother since she stayed home. But no. She spends her day shopping.

Shopping??

Why? Rosie: It feels so good to shop. I really

like it.

Rosie is fooling herself. She’s escaping.

But what is she escaping from?

Herself.

This is a tragedy, a literal loss of a life.

People not being who they really are have basically lost their lives. They’re not living.

I could go on with dozens of stories.

Here’s another one.

Sheila is an accountant and does her work well. She knows it, too. She’s good at what she does, her clients love her, and she is well paid.

But then she never shows up at home ‘til after her husband, Ben, has put the kids to bed.

Wha??

What gives?

Sheila tries – unconsciously – to come home when everyone is waaaay too tired for connection.

• to go to individual therapy and discuss how rotten their spouses are What’s wrong with all these options?

Talking just brings out the complaints and the misery. That is not a solid foundation on which to build a marriage. People feel defensive and they shut down and lock themselves away from each other even more. So that’s why conventional marriage counseling won’t work.

going.

Which brings me to the last option: individual counseling.

That one doesn’t work because when the other person is not there, the counselor can start to “see” the spouse through the muddy lens that their client is seeing their spouse through. Nah-uh.

That doesn’t work – to the tune of a higher divorce rate among unhappy peo-

Change has to start with getting closer to your own feelings about who you really are, what you want, and where you’re going.

Weekends are superficial. They are the opposite of the conventional therapy because they gloss over the deep problems and give people instructions on changing their behavior. But change has to start inside yourself. It can’t start on the outside.

Change has to start with getting closer to your own feelings about who you really are, what you want, and where you’re

ple who go to individual therapy over people who go to the “poor” choice of conventional marriage counseling.

Ouch.

There seem to be no options left.

Except mine. My option works – here’s why.

There are two fundamental ideas to my work:

1. We need to split you both up at first and then come together after you are able to love yourselves. Completely.

2. We start with the opinion that the awful behavior you’re exhibiting – – like being your boss’s punching bag in Terrence’s case, or shopping to forget who you are in Rosie’s case, or avoiding your family altogether in Sheila’s case – – are not the real You. The real you underneath all those scared, avoidant, angry, numb parts of you is beautiful.

We just need to kind of clear the covering over the real You to find it.

People will tell me they don’t understand how I do the work I do because it must be so painful to witness other people’s pain. Well, it would be, if that’s what I do. But instead, what I’m witnessing is more like listening to a violin concerto: It’s beautiful to hear the words of love, the tones of compassion, and the tears of empathy that come out of formerly hostile or shut-down spouses.

Dr. Deb Hirschhorn is a Marriage and Family Therapist. If you want help with your marriage, begin by signing up to watch her Masterclass at https://drdeb.com/myw-masterclass.

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Why would that be?

Because underneath her success she thinks she’s a fraud. She hates herself.

And what happens to the marriage in each and every case?

Terrence “borrows” his wife’s vitality, her energy, her enthusiasm for life because he doesn’t have any of his own.

And Sandy feels it. More and more, she feels the blah-ness of the marriage.

How long will this marriage last?

Rosie’s husband, Jon, was happy to marry his trophy wife. She’s beautiful and has a smile you could get lost in.

Except, as reality sets in, she’s not smiling so much. And Jon doesn’t understand what he could have done “wrong.”

He doesn’t know who she is anymore – because she doesn’t know who she is herself.

And he’s getting tired of it.

And Sheila? Her husband, Rob, is already fed up. He’s given her an ultimatum and she’s panicked.

Here is what these couples do NOT need: • to go to therapy and “talk” about the problems • to go to a guru weekend where someone tells them what they need to “do” differently

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Parenting Pearls

Getting Ready for Camp

By Sara Rayvych, MSEd

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ith school barely behind us and camp coming up fast, there’s so much to do. It’s surprising just how much kids require to start the summer. Shopping for everything they need and then labeling it with a Sharpie is a full-time job.

There are many ways to enjoy the summer, and not all kids will attend a formal camp. For many of our local children, they will attend camp at home, work, swim or enjoy some other means of relaxing and refreshing themselves.

For most of our local youngsters, though, camp is where they will be spending those enjoyable summer days. Our local children are fortunate to have many, wonderful camp options. Besides the variety of local day camps and sleepaway camps, they now have hybrid camps where the campers can enjoy the best of both worlds. While I only ever attended our local day camps as a child, it’s nice there are so many options today to accommodate the needs of each individual. Kids are not one-size-fits-all and neither are their summer needs.

For this week’s topic, I’d like to focus exclusively on day camps. While some portions of this discussion will apply to sleepaway camps, too, I’ll mostly be addressing the topic as it pertains to day camps.

Why Camp?

There are many obvious reasons why children go to camp. Some parents need childcare, while others are afraid their child will go crazy with nothing to do. But camp can be more than just babysitting or entertainment. For many children, camp gives them a chance to shine in ways they wouldn’t normally have the opportunity to do.

School is a major part of a child’s life.

For a child who experiences stress during that time or doesn’t feel successful in academics, they now have the opportunity to show their talents in camp. Whether it’s the more relaxed learning environment or the increased stress on sports, arts and crafts, singing or any of the myriad nonacademic activities children enjoy, there are so many unique ways for children to succeed outside the classroom. For example, the youngster who feels inadequate during math may be the one leading the cheers in camp.

It is true that many children will choose the same camp their friends do.

Even so, they will still meet new people.

Most children enjoy meeting new peers and benefit from adding new friendships.

For children who haven’t found their niche yet, camp provides yet another opportunity to find that chevra. Camp friendships

can last all year and are another opportunity for children to bond and connect with others their age.

Camp bunks are generally smaller than school class sizes. Being in a smaller setting may permit those who shy away from large groups to open up in a more cozy environment. For these children, camp provides them with another chance to thrive.

Counselors I was newly married when I entered the classroom for a new substitute teaching job. The regular teacher was about to give birth, and I was stepping in to take the reins for approximately the next six weeks. As I looked at the room full of high school girls (who were curiously studying their new, temporary teacher), my gaze settled on one face that looked familiar but I couldn’t fully place. I realized I must have glanced at her a bit too long when I noticed she began to squirm slightly.

The last thing I wanted was to make a new student feel uncomfortable, so I quickly asked her name and then explained to her that she looked familiar and that I suspected I had been her camp counselor years prior. I was shocked to not only confirm that I had been her

counselor, but nearly ten other girls raised their hands to say that I had been their counselor, too. They were correct!

As I went through the list of names, I was suddenly looking at my young campers, now teenagers. It was surreal but also immediately bonded me to my students.

I had been a camp counselor for many years. As the camp moved me up with the same girls each year, I was also privileged to get to know my campers very well. I learned a tremendous amount from each of them, and it was a joy to see them in my classroom years later.

As much as I felt close to my campers, it was still an incredibly demanding job.

To this day, I still have a lot of respect for what good counselors do to ensure our children have a wonderful summer.

The majority of counselors are teenagers, themselves trying to relax after a hectic school year. Rather than spend time at home, they choose to take on a job that will challenge them and make them work hard. Please don’t be mistaken and think it’s easy to keep a large group of kids entertained throughout the day, at each activity punctually, and interacting together with proper middos. I suspect many adults themselves would find that challenging.

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Safety It’s important to teach our children how to be safe and appropriate in all environments they will encounter; camp is certainly no exception. This list cannot cover all possible situations, and parents will know what their child’s unique needs are.

Even when we were children – way back when I had my beloved pet dinosaur – allergies existed. While I have no statistics to back this, my anecdotal evidence suggests there has been an increase in the severity of allergic reactions. Parents may remember when school lunch programs had peanut butter as a mealtime staple for children that didn’t have lunch.

There was no concern about anaphylactic nut reactions back then. Today, the food

landscape has changed tremendously, and too many children are at-risk from nuts, sesame or other foods. You will most likely receive a communication from the camp explaining their food policy. Please check the ingredients of your child’s snacks before packing them and respect the food sensitivities of others.

Clothing Take the time to mark your child’s clothing and other items with their name. By the end of the summer, camps can easily accrue a lost and found full of unmarked, hefker items. It’s easy to confuse clothing when children change in and out of their bathing suits. Cloth-

For many children, camp gives them a chance to shine in ways they wouldn’t normally have the opportunity to do.

There are many professionals that have covered this topic of “safe touch” in-depth so I will simply suggest parents avail themselves of these resources and remind everyone to make the time to have that important conversation with your child. Your child should know they can speak to you about anything that comes up. This is just one of the many discussions we need to have on an ongoing basis with our precious loved ones.

ing can look very similar, especially when parents tend to shop in the same stores.

Additionally, little children can have a difficult time recognizing their own items. If you’d like your child to return in the correct underwear and socks, then labeling them is your best chance. It’s also a chessed to your child’s counselor who will now avoid the guessing game of “to whom does this belong?”. Tip: silver Sharpies show well on dark fabrics and

ultra-fine point Sharpies work great in small areas.

Youngsters are busy in camp. They’re having fun and getting messy. Please don’t send any item that you would become upset about should it become damaged or not come home at all. When you have 15 little ones painting, the mess flies. When children run across the grass, their clothing can get stained. Only send clothing that can be easily washed and you don’t mind sacrificing for a wonderful summer.

Take the time to check the camp’s dress code before the camp season begins. It’ll make shopping easier and prevent last minute fashion fiascos.

Camp is the highlight of the year for so many children. It’s truly special that we have so many local options to provide our community’s youth with a safe and wholesome environment. Take advantage of what our community has to offer.

Have a wonderful summer!

Sara Rayvych, MSEd, has her master’s in general and special education. She has been homeschooling for over 10 years in Far Rockaway. She can be contacted at RayvychHomeschool@gmail.com.

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counselor, please remember their age.

They’re doing their best but don’t have the same life experience and maturity that we do. It’s unfair to expect they will suddenly develop the understanding of an adult when they’re handed their bunk.

As nice and appreciated as tips are, a sincere thank you can go a long way towards showing your child’s counselor that you are grateful for all they’re doing to give your child a wonderful summer.

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Mind Y

ur Business

James Rosebush: Communicate and Care

By Yitzchok Saftlas

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his column features business insights from a recent “Mind Your Business with Yitzchok Saftlas” radio show. The weekly “Mind Your Business” show – broadcasting since 2015 – features interviews with Fortune 500 executives, business leaders and marketing gurus. Prominent guests include: John Sculley, former CEO of Apple and Pepsi; Dick Schulze, founder and Chairman Emeritus of Best Buy; and Beth Comstock, former Vice Chair of GE; among over

400+ senior-level executives and business celebrities. Yitzchok Saftlas, president of Bottom Line Marketing Group, hosts the weekly “Mind Your Business” show, which airs at 10pm every Sunday night on 710 WOR and throughout America on the iHeartRadio Network.

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n a recent 710 WOR “Mind Your Business” broadcast, Yitzchok Saftlas (YS) spoke with James Rosebush, former senior advisor to President Ronald Reagan.

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Yitzchok Saftlas: There is a lot of turmoil in leadership. I want to focus tonight, and if I may, seek your guidance and wisdom from the decades of the work that you have been in, understanding communication in its finest form. Perhaps you could share with us some interesting and important leaders and that which defines them, their success, communication, and leadership?

James Rosebush: There’s a lot of turmoil. We’re not talking about just the

U.S., we’re not talking about politics, we’re talking about all sectors that are in complete turmoil. When you search for leadership, to emulate, to copy, to use as examples to have tremendous success, it is hard to find it in any sector, and I ask myself every day, why is that? Why is there such a shortage of great leadership? I have to say it relates to values.

However, a great example of a leader is Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky. Why does Zelensky come across as a great leader today?

It is because he is completely authentic. He has something he believes in, to the nth degree. You know he’s willing to sacrifice his life for something that he believes in and cares for – he believes in Ukraine, the future, and because of that, you are going to believe in the Ukrainian people. He is truly a fighter for the Ukrainian people.

Now, let us look at the corporate sector. Let us look at business customers. They want to flock to a company that they know cares about them. They want to know that if I’m going to come into your store or if I am going to order something from you to be delivered to my house, that the people who are running that company care about me, because I’m a customer buying their products and I can be the first person to promote their business.

On tonight’s show we are talking about principles of leadership and examples of leadership. Let us talk about what you learned from President Reagan. What better example was there?

You asked me what I learned; I will tell you I learned a million lessons. And I should write another book called A

Million Lessons I Learned from Ronald Reagan.

First, I will tell you something interesting is going on right now. Reagan is having a resurgence; it is not that Reagan was never in a cool spot in terms of his popularity and respect. But he is having a moment right now, and I will tell you how I know: because my bestselling book True Reagan, which was out in 2016, is now being translated into Hungarian and Portuguese and I am also negotiating to have it translated into Polish. In Poland, they love Ronald Reagan, they have statues of Ronald Reagan in Gdansk and when you go there, you see it even more. The reason is that they have a thirst for what Reagan represented: being an evangelist for freedom. Reagan was certainly great, in the top five of all U.S. presidents. But more than that, Reagan, wherever he went in the world – and I went with

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Let’s head to the second principle that we are addressing in tonight’s show. The first one was authenticity, and this one is recognizing opportunity. Let’s talk about Elon Musk, because he is on fire with this. Walk us through the process of Musk acquiring Twitter, what he saw in the opportunity, how he held on, and now he’s proceeding forward.

My vantage point is that I just read a couple of months ago the definitive biography of Elon Musk. Elon Musk is a person who captures opportunities and does something about it. You know, there are a lot of us that sit around and say, “Well, it would be a great opportunity to turn Niagara Falls into a hydropower plant,” you know, or something like that. OK but it is not going to happen. So, what makes Elon Musk different is that he takes on the biggest challenges.

What I really love about Elon Musk among many things, is that he does not care about money. And you would say, “Oh, come on, what do you mean? He is the richest man in the world.” He is willing to lose it all. That is not what he is there for. He has an idea a minute, and he wants to take that opportunity

and do something about it. I believe that his methods or his goals are as humanitarian as moneymaking. Look at him – he is thinking about space, tunnels, transportation, and how we can improve them and now he sees Twitter as something that he can improve as well.

cause at the end, he recited this magnificent poem that ends with this phrase, “slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of G-d.” And that is how he ended his speech. Now, I am telling you, that is what I remember about his speech.

Could you share another key principle in communication?

I tell you; I wish that I could give you examples of 100 great leaders that are masters of communication. But we have this tremendous deficit of great communication today.

The first thing that you really must master in terms of being a great communicator is storytelling. It does not matter if you are a business leader or

James, you service a wide range of professions and professionals. How can people find out more information about what you do?

One of the most fun things that I get to do is a program – I have a business partner in this – called Deal Ring. We train people who are fundraising for their investment products. One of the most gratifying things is to see people come in. It is their job to talk to inves-

“To be a great communicator, you need to tell stories.”

running a shop. To be a great communicator, you need to tell stories.

Number two, the story must have a point. The story is really like a parable that illustrates something that you’re trying to say. That is why people who are trying to be like standup comics when they work as a business leader or a leader of a country and try to just tell an offhand story, it just doesn’t work. Reagan, they said, you know, loved jokes.

However, he did not tell that many jokes or stories that were not related to a political objective. He would often tell stories about what life was like in the Soviet Union. He would say, “You know, when you place an order for a car in the Soviet Union (not so true today), you get it delivered within a month or you could have it in 38 years,” or something like that, you know, it just brings down the house, right? But look, he was making a point. He was denigrating their economy, but the way he was doing it is the most important.

I will give you another example. In Reagan’s speech when the Challenger came down, you may remember, that was a very, very tragic day. He talked about it a lot and he said lots of wonderful things, as the whole country was in mourning, but his speech that followed is top in history. Now, why is that? Be-

tors to bring money into funds that they have created or companies that they are trying to fund, but they are completely terrified. They know their product, but they just need some help being coached.

So, I spend a day coaching them. We put them in front of judges, and there is a contest to see who is going to win the right to make the pitch to these investors. It is one of the most enjoyable and rewarding things I do, and I will tell you why.

One day a guy came in and he was a part of the program, and the whole time he was speaking down to the floor, and his hair was hanging down, and the audience could not even see him. So, I thought to myself, this guy really needs a jolt of confidence. So, I told him, “Go across the street, and get some hair gel.”

He is like, “What do you want?” I said, “Go. Just do what I tell you to do.” I am pushy because I want to see results. So, he comes back and goes into the bathroom and puts in the hair gel. He comes out and he looked so much better. Then I pushed him against the wall, and I said, “I want your neck against the collar of your shirt.” Then I sent him back out to try again, and he received a standing ovation, why? Because people could see him. And getting a standing ovation increased his confidence.

He wrote a review on my website, and he said, “Oh, you changed my life.”

Well, I did not change his life. I just gave him a few tips. Right? So, these are things that everyone needs and there are not that many great speakers that really know all these things. I have to say I just learned them by watching other people. But you can contact me at www.growth strategy.us and find out more about what I do.

On a personal level, is there anything you can share about Reagan that people would not know?

One quick story I will tell you was when we went to Geneva to have the first meeting with Gorbachev. I asked him as we were spending time together, sitting in front of a big fireplace at the villa of the Agha Khan, “What do you think? We had all these initiatives with the Soviet Union. But what do you think will really bring down totalitarianism? Communism? What will end it?”

He said, “Oh, Jim, there is only one thing, and that is people’s desire to worship G-d.”

Now, I could not run out and say that to the press corps, because they would have laughed at me and it would be a big headline: “Reagan, is this kooky, you know, blah, blah, blah.” So, he did not talk like that in public, but to me, he did.

That is just an example of the things that Reagan was, he was working on two levels. One was the pragmatic political platform and the other on a much more spiritual plane.

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Reagan on so many of these trips – when he went out to talk to collectivist farmers in China, in the Soviet Union, and everywhere he went, he was always preaching that freedom is a G-d-given right. The reason for that is that he was an evangelist for freedom, and he wanted people to have the freedom to worship the G-d that they chose, and that was not worshiping the state. Communists and other restrictive regimes are looking to control you from the government, so he wanted to unleash the individual’s ability to worship in the way they sought. Because why? Because he believed thoroughly that man was born with an individual right to freedom and liberty and that was the only way for a person to ever get out of poverty.

You must have the freedom of self-determination, to advance your skills, to advance the opportunities that are given to you in capitalist economies.

They do not want you to have those in these restrictive controlling societies. Why? Because they want to be the players and have control of regulating everything in your life and everything that you do. Reagan was very opposed to that, so he was an evangelist for freedom everywhere he went in the world.

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By Naomi Nachman

I have just come back from a trip to California. Every restaurant I ate at (which were quite a few!) had a variation of a taco in it.

I love tacos, and I try to order them whenever I see them on the menu. I haven’t made tacos at home in a while so I pulled out my recipe files to make some for dinner on my return so my family could also enjoy them as much as I did.

Ingredients ◦ Fried fish (see recipe below) ◦ Pickled onions (see recipe below) ◦ Avocado cream sauce (see recipe below) ◦ Homemade cabbage slaw (see recipe below) or store-bought ◦ Shredded mozzarella ◦ Lime wedges ◦ 8-10 corn tortillas

Fried F ish

Ingredients ◦ 1 1/2 pounds flounder, salmon or tilapia (make sure the fish is thin) ◦ 1 tablespoon chili powder ◦ 1 teaspoons cumin ◦ 1 teaspoons garlic powder ◦ 1 teaspoons onion powder ◦ ½ teaspoon kosher salt ◦ 1/8 teaspoon black pepper ◦ 2 eggs ◦ 1 tablespoon milk (can substitute soy milk) ◦ 1 cup panko breadcrumbs ◦ ½ cup course ground yellow cornmeal ◦ 1 cup plain flour ◦ Canola oil

Preparation Combine the panko crumbs, cornmeal, and spices in a shallow dish. In another shallow dish, whisk together the egg and milk. In a third shallow dish, add the plain flour. Line up all three dishes.

Dip each piece of fish in each of the bowls coating it well: First the flour, then the egg and finally the panko crumb mixture. Make sure to shake off each piece of excess mixture.

Set the pieces aside in a single layer until ready to fry.

Heat about 1/4-inch of canola oil in a large pan over medium-high heat (360°F).

Working in batches of 2-3 pieces of fish so you don’t crowd the pan, add the fish carefully to the hot oil and fry until the coating is crispy and the fish is cooked through, 2 to 3 minutes per side.

Drain on paper towels and transfer to a serving platter.

Pickled Red Onions

Ingredients ◦ 2 large red onions, peeled, halved, and thinly sliced ◦ 1 cup cider vinegar

◦ 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar ◦ 1/8 cup granulated sugar ◦ 1 heaping teaspoon kosher salt Preparation Place all the ingredients in a glass jar and keep in the fridge until ready to use.

The longer you store the red onions in the pickling liquid, the more intense the flavor gets. Since the onions are sliced so thin, you can start using them after 30 minutes of marinating.

Avocado Crea m Sauce Ingredients ◦ 2 Haas avocadoes, ripe ◦ 1 jalapeño pepper ◦ Juice from 1 lime ◦ ½ cup milk ◦ ¼ cup sour cream ◦ ½ handful of cilantro ◦ ½ teaspoon kosher salt ◦ ½ teaspoon cumin ◦ Sriracha hot sauce, to taste

Preparation Place all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. Taste and adjust seasoning if needed.

Cabbage Slaw

Ingredients ◦ 1 16 oz. package shredded cabbage ◦ 1 jalapeño pepper, seeded and chopped ◦ ¼ cup fresh cilantro, chopped ◦ 2 tablespoons sugar ◦ 2 tablespoons vegetable oil ◦ 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice Preparation Mix all ingredients together. This slaw tastes better the longer it sits and can be made 1 day in advance and stored in an airtight container in the fridge.

F ish Taco Assembly

Preheat the oven to 300°F. Tightly wrap the tortillas in aluminum foil and place them in the oven to warm.

Remove the tortillas from the oven and place on a serving plate.

Top each tortilla with fried fish, then top with the pickled red onions, avocado cream sauce, cabbage slaw and shredded mozzarella.

Serve with lime wedges and enjoy!

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

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Notable Quotes “Say What?!”

I’m just trying to show people I’m kind of an ordinary, ordinary guy who is trying to get along like everybody else. If you think I’m just some crazy person, I’m not that anymore at all.

- John Hinckley Jr., who shot President Reagan in 1981, in a CBS interview, now that he was let out of prison, blaming what he did on mental illness that he had back then but no longer has

Inflation is hitting my people so hard, they’re coughing up bones.

– Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) at a Senate hearing

Vice President Kamala Harris in an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash about the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade:

VP Harris: I thought about it as a parent, I thought about it as a godparent, I thought of it as an aunt of pre-school children Dana Bash: And a woman yourself.

VP Harris: And a woman myself, and the daughter of a woman, and a granddaughter of a woman.

I guarantee you she hasn’t read the decision, and I guarantee you she has no understanding of what substantive due process is, or the history of any of what she’s talking about.

- Megyn Kelly talking about Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s (Dem/Socialist-NY) temper tantrum about the Supreme Court’s abortion decision

So for all those Republicans in Congress criticizing me today for high gas prices in America, are you now saying we were wrong to support Ukraine? Are you saying we were wrong to stand up to Putin? Are you saying that we would rather have lower gas prices in America and Putin’s iron fist in Europe? I don’t believe that.

- Pres. Biden, seeking to cast off the blame for steadily rising gas prices since he took office

And I’m sorry this dark day has come. That we’re supposed to go back to what was in place since 1788 when the Constitution of United States America was ratified. And I would like to point out to the Supreme Court justices that the only weapons at that time were muskets. I’m prepared to go back to muskets.

– New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, in her remarks in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down New York State’s concealed carry restriction

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On the one hand, you’re allowed to have all the margaritas you want. But on the other hand, you say, “I can’t invest; I have student loans.”

- CNBC financial analyst Jim Cramer urging young people to invest some money in stocks because in the long-run it will pay off

This fall, Roe is on the ballot. Personal freedoms are on the ballot. The only way we can secure a woman’s right to choose is for Congress to restore Roe v. Wade as federal law.

- President Joe Biden, after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v.

Wade

I don’t like the Supreme Court decision on abortion. I think it went too far.

– Then-Senator Joe Biden in 1974, criticizing the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision

What’s the best part of being 107?

- A news anchor to Louise Signore of the Bronx, at her 107th birthday party

Not getting married!

- Signore, in response

My sister says, “I wish I never got married.”

- Ibid., talking about her baby sister who is 102

Both Berlin and Austin factories are gigantic money furnaces right now.

- Tesla CEO Elon Musk talking about trouble getting parts to ramp up production at two new factories

The past two years have been an absolute nightmare of supply-chain interruptions, one thing after another, and we’re not out of it yet.

Overwhelmingly, our concern is how do we keep the factories operating so we can pay people and not go bankrupt. The Covid shutdowns in China were very, very difficult, to say the least.

- Ibid.

I am so proud of my strong, beautiful daughter for not allowing this to faze her. She continued to smile and pose for the picture like a Queen. No child should be pushed to the side for a photo op. PERIOD!!

- Rep. Mayra Flores (R-TX) tweeting a video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi deliberately pushing her 10-year-old daughter when a group photo was taken after Rep. Flores was sworn i to office and the child seemed to get too close to Ms. Pelosi

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88 Jackets on? Jackets off? Shall we take our clothes off?

- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking the other world leaders sitting around a table at the G7 Summit

We all have to show that we’re tougher than Putin.

- Ibid.

We’re going to get the bare-chested horseback riding display.

- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

There you go! There you go! We’ve got to show them our pecs!

- Prime Minister Johnson

In January of 2021, inflation was at 1.4%. By December of 2021, it had risen to 7% — a fivefold increase. Now, since the war in Ukraine began in late February, the rate of inflation has risen incrementally another 1.6% to a current level of 8.6%. So again, from 7% to 8.6%. Given how inflation has escalated over the past 18 months, would you say that the war in Ukraine is the primary driver of inflation in America?

- Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) questioning Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell at a senate hearing

No, inflation was high before — certainly before the war in Ukraine broke out.

– Chairman Powell’s response

I’m glad to hear you say that. The Biden administration seems to be intent on deflecting blame and as recently as just this past Sunday spread the misinformation that Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is the “biggest single driver of inflation.”

I’m glad you agree with me that that is not the truth.

– Sen. Hagerty

I went to law school with [Justice Thomas]. He’s been a person of grievance for as long as I’ve known him — resentment, grievance, anger.

- Hillary Clinton on CBS News after the abortion decision, talking about Justice Clarence Thomas

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By David Ignatius

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s President Joe Biden heads toward potentially cataclysmic midterm elections, he has a last chance to show that he can make the machinery of Congress work to pass a big, bipartisan plan to bolster America’s dominance in technology.

The “America Competes Act” is the catchy name for this pathbreaking $52 billion effort to supercharge the U.S. semiconductor industry and preserve America’s technological edge against China.

But given the endless delays and political wrangling that have snarled this effort, it has actually been a demonstration, so far, of why America can’t compete: Our broken political system makes it nearly impossible.

It may seem strange to focus on semiconductors at a time when the country is reeling from so many other blows: a conservative Supreme Court that’s dictating extreme laws on guns and abortion rights; a Republican Party that won’t disavow a coup plot by its leader. Unfortunately, these big issues can’t be fixed by a hyper-partisan Congress. But this technology challenge is one that can. It’s a “makeable putt,” as golfers say.

When a bipartisan group of senators first proposed the semiconductor legislation more than two years ago, they described it as an urgent fix for a big strategic problem – the United States’ eroding position against China in design and manufacture of advanced computer chips. The need for federal research dollars to compete with China Inc. in this critical technology was one of the few issues on which Republicans and Democrats agreed.

At first, the momentum seemed irresistible. The Senate approved what it

called the Chips Act in June 2021 by a wide margin, 68 to 32. The bipartisan infrastructure bill passed the Senate not long after, and in that moment, which now seems very long ago, it appeared that Biden might be able to deliver on his promise of making the political system work again to solve important problems.

But then something strange happened.

Rather than pocket the win, the House dithered and delayed on Chips for eight months, much as it did on the infrastructure package. When the House finally passed its own version in February, it was substantially different from the Senate bill. A huge, 107-member conference committee was appointed in April to reconcile the two bills; it didn’t meet until May. But Democrats understood that this was urgent, right? Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., the chair of the Senate team, said when the conference began that the Chinese technology challenge was a shock like the Soviet’s race into space in 1957. “I believe this is a Sputnik moment, where it

is clear to Americans that we are falling behind on innovation, and we can’t risk falling further behind,” she said.

Biden echoed that urgency. “Pass the [darn] bill and send it to me,” he said during a May visit to Ohio, where chipmaker Intel had said it would expand a planned $20 billion fabricating plant to $100 billion if it could get congressional support. But this president, for whatever reason, has failed to mobilize the House Democratic caucus and transform his rhetoric of action into reality.

The House conference moved at the speed of molasses, not microchips. Progressives had some quibbles. But the real problem was that the bipartisan bill was too popular. Because members knew that it was likely to pass, they attached pet projects, creating a “[holiday] tree” effect similar to what happens with defense authorization bills. Biden and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., should have stopped this process, but they didn’t.

“We need more urgency,” Sen. Mark R.

Warner, D-Va., one of the original drafters of the bill, told me. “If we don’t move quickly, the GOP will delay it to next year.”

Several tech CEOs I spoke with said they don’t want more delay. But can the Democrats get this done?

The House leadership had initially talked of completing work on the bill by May. That deadline slipped to the end of June, which obviously won’t be met, and Congress is running out of time before the August recess. “There is no reason that we should not pass this bill through Congress in July,” Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a joint statement last week. No reason, that is, except inertia, incompetence, and internecine war.

What makes this story truly disturbing is that while Congress has been dithering, other countries are racing to pass their own industrial policies to invest in chipmaking. India told one chipmaker that if a $10 billion incentive wasn’t enough, it should just name the amount. The European Union began working on its own semiconductor plan last year, a year after the U.S. legislative effort began. Industry executives tell me it’s ready to go.

That’s the takeaway: The European Union, supposedly a bureaucratic morass, got started a year after the United States in building this essential pathway to the future. It is now comfortably ahead.

Come on, Mr. President: Get it done.

Crack some heads. You can’t fix everything in our messed-up country. But you can deliver on your promise to create good high-tech jobs in the semiconductor industry and compete with China for the strategic high ground. (c) 2022, Washington Post Writers Group

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For the Fall of Roe v. Wade, Thank Donald Trump

By Marc A. Thiessen

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verturning Roe v. Wade has been the overarching, seemingly impossible goal of the pro-life movement for almost five decades. Now that it has finally been achieved, four words should be on the lips of every prolife conservative today: Thank you, Donald Trump.

Looking back on Trump’s chaotic presidency, some understandably ask: Was it all worth it for a few conservative justices? To which I answer: Yes. A thousand times, yes.

Every Republican president before Trump failed miserably when it came to Supreme Court picks. In 1970, Richard M. Nixon nominated Harry A. Blackmun, who would go on to be the ignominious author of Roe. Gerald Ford picked only one justice, John Paul Stevens, who became the leader of the court’s liberal bloc.

Ronald Reagan had three appointees (Sandra Day O’Connor, Antonin Scalia, and Anthony M. Kennedy), but only Scalia was a consistent conservative vote on the court. George H.W. Bush named one brilliant conservative (Clarence Thomas) and one catastrophic liberal (David Souter). George W. Bush selected Samuel A. Alito Jr., a marvelous conservative intellect who wrote the decision overturning Roe. But Bush also gave us John G. Roberts Jr., who promised to be an impartial umpire but instead has repeatedly legislated from the bench – siding with the court’s liberal bloc on a string of cases, including saving Obamacare, preserving the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and striking down state laws that required hospitals to extend admitting privileges for doctors who perform abortions.

But Trump broke the mold. His nominations of Neil M. Gorsuch, Brett M. Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett have

made him the only Republican president in six decades to have a perfect record in appointing judicial conservatives. His picks have transformed the court: With Gorsuch, he saved its conservative majority. With Kavanaugh, he moved the court

held it, Planned Parenthood v. Casey.

But thanks to Trump, Roberts was powerless. All three Trump appointees voted to strike down Roe and Casey – declaring that, like Plessy v. Ferguson (the 1896 case that upheld racial segregation), these

Trump’s appointments have effectively turned the Roberts Court into the Thomas Court.

to the right by replacing a swing vote, Kennedy, with a reliable conservative.

And with Barrett, he gave the conservative bloc the five votes they need to prevail without the vacillating chief justice.

No doubt, Roberts would have found some Solomonic middle way to uphold Mississippi’s abortion law without overturning Roe and the 1992 case that up-

decisions were so egregiously wrong that they had to be overturned.

Trump’s appointments have effectively turned the Roberts Court into the Thomas Court. Whenever Roberts votes with the liberal bloc, Thomas – as the most senior associate justice – gets to assign the majority opinion. In Dobbs, he gave that responsibility to Alito, with

brilliant effect.

Democrats have a virtually perfect record in appointing Supreme Court appointments. Their justices never defect to the conservative bloc on important cases. Not so for Republicans – until Trump.

With his picks, Trump batted a thousand.

And his perfect record will transform the court’s jurisprudence for a generation – with far-reaching consequences not only for unborn life but also religious liberty, free speech, Second Amendment rights, the separation of powers and limited government.

Trump not only gave us a conservative court majority; he also saved us from an activist liberal majority. Had Hillary Clinton won the 2016 presidential election, she would have nominated a judicial activist to replace Scalia, creating a 5-to4 liberal majority. Then she would have replaced Ruth Bader Ginsburg and perhaps Stephen G. Breyer, securing those seats for the liberal bloc for decades. Not only would Roe still be standing today, the activist liberal court that Clinton would have ushered in would have done breathtaking damage. It is thanks to Trump that this never happened.

No, this doesn’t forgive Trump’s behavior after the 2020 election. But knowing what I know now, am I grateful for Trump’s four years in office? You bet I am.

Millions of precious unborn lives will be saved as a result of this decision. And Trump made it possible.

I hope he does not run again in 2024.

But I’m sure glad he ran and won in 2016.

Whatever else history says about him, he’s secured his place as the most consequential president when it comes to the Supreme Court – and our greatest prolife president as well. (c) 2022, Washington Post Writers Group

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By George F. Will

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n 1892, a Massachusetts policeman challenged in court a law forbidding police officers to be political activists.

The justice, who had the battle of Antietam in his past and 29 years on the U.S. Supreme Court in his future, was unsympathetic. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. said the policeman had a constitutional right to be politically active but not to be a policeman.

Since then, protections of the rights of public employees have been expanded.

They were again Monday in the case of the Bremerton, Washington, public high school assistant football coach. Joseph Kennedy thinks the First Amendment guarantee of free speech and the “free exercise” of religion protected his practice of taking a knee for postgame prayer on the 50-yard line. And he thinks that if his school had continued to tolerate this, as it did for his first seven years as a coach, the toleration would not have constituted endorsement of religion in violation of the First Amendment proscription of the “establishment” of religion.

On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed with him, 6 to 3. Cue the alarms from those secularists who bring religious zeal to their crusade against the incipient theocracy they detect in every religious observance allowed in the public square.

One can, however, understand the Bremerton school district’s skittishness about the coach’s kneeling and praying quietly, especially because, over time, he was joined by players and spectators, unbidden, after games. (He had stopped leading group prayers in the locker room.) Attention from media and politicians intensified worries that prayers by

the coach – a government employee at a public school event – would be deemed government speech endorsing religion.

And that players and other students might feel coerced to conform to the coach’s practices.

Nevertheless, Justice Neil Gorsuch, joined by justices Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Kavanaugh and Barrett, wrote that the risk-averse school district, which terminated the coach’s employment, tried to avoid one constitutional violation but committed another. Seeking to avoid seeming government endorsement of religious speech, it violated the coach’s rights of free speech and free exercise of religion. Gorsuch argued that no reasonable observer would have concluded that the specific actions for which the school district disciplined the coach – brief, quiet and solitary prayers after three games – were the government speaking.

Gorsuch noted that the free speech and free exercise clauses “work in tandem,” protecting both expressive and noncommunicative religious activities: “That the First Amendment doubly protects religious speech is no accident. It is a natural outgrowth of the framers’ distrust of government attempts to regulate religion and suppress dissent.”

Dissenting, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by justices Breyer and Kagan, noted, accurately, that “students face immense social pressure.” Sotomayor, however, simply asserted this: The fact that a majority of his players eventually joined what had been his solitary prayers showed “coercive pressure at work.” Oh? The school district said it had “no evidence that students have been directly coerced to pray” with the coach.

Besides, part of growing up is learning to surmount pressures toward confor-

mity. This part is missed by young people who are intimidated by social media, who feel “unsafe” around heterodox beliefs and who are shielded from situations in which they must develop a capacity for independent judgments.

How far would the three dissenting justices go to protect students from feeling pressured by the observable religious behaviors of authority figures? What if a teacher bows her head in prayer before beginning lunch in the school cafeteria?

Ever-more-minute legal scrutiny of religious behaviors is a recipe for migraines and anger.

Our cranky nation, with its constant surplus of truculence, could benefit from a smidgen of Thomas Jefferson’s liveand-let-live spirit. He was at most a Unitarian (understood as the belief that there is at most one God). As president, however, two days after he wrote the letter endorsing a “wall of separation” between church and state, he attended, as he occasionally did, religious services in the House of Representatives. (Services were held every Sunday in some government buildings.) He was respecting beliefs he rejected.

In “Notes on the State of Virginia” (1785), Jefferson had written, “It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” The court’s decision for the football coach should cause timorous adults, and the fragile young people they shape, to stop fueling today’s cancel culture and the demands for “safe spaces.” Mere exposure to another’s belief does them no injury. (c) 2022, Washington Post Writers Group

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Jewish History

80 Years Ago This Week The Rubble That Could Have Been Jews

by Rafael Medoff

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f you walk all the way to the eastern end of Manhattan’s 25th Street, you come upon a small plaque explaining why the site was given the name “Bristol Basin” in June 1942. What it does not explain is the fascinating connection between that story and the plight of Jewish refugees fleeing from the Nazis. *

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Throughout the Holocaust years, the Roosevelt administration insisted that it did not have any ships to bring Jewish refugees to the United States. “There just is not any transportation” available for refugees, Assistant Secretary of State Breckinridge Long told a congressional committee in 1943.

In his autobiography, Congressman Emanuel Celler (D-New York) likewise recalled how he was told by an administration official that in order to rescue Jews, the U.S. would need to “divert shipping for the transportation of war materials and troops for the refugees.”

In reality, American troop-supply ships, known as Liberty ships, were returning to the United States empty after delivering their cargo to Europe. They had plenty of room to carry people on the return trip.

Moreover, the ships needed something heavy on board—known as ballast—to keep them from capsizing. Jewish refugees could have served that purpose.

Instead, the ballast was found in the English city of Bristol—or, more precisely, in the city’s remnants.

Situated on the southwest coast of England, Bristol was heavily bombed by the Germans beginning in the summer of 1940. Some 85,000 homes and other buildings were destroyed. Liberty ships that off-loaded American men and weapons in the port of Bristol then loaded up on rubble from the bombed-out buildings in order to make the journey safely back

across the Atlantic.

Not only did the rubble keep the Liberty ships afloat, but it served a second important purpose. When the ships reached New York City, they dumped the debris in the East River, between 23rd Street and 34th Street. There it served as part of the foundation for a highway which was then under construction, known as the East River Drive.

In June 1942, New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia headlined an event saluting the people of Bristol. La Guardia, British Consul-General Godfrey Haggard, and other dignitaries—including twenty-six Bristol-born British Royal Marines—gathered in the small promenade at the end of East 25th Street to install a plaque proclaiming the site “Bristol Basin.”

“Brought here in ballast from overseas, these fragments that once were homes shall testify while men love freedom to the resolution and fortitude of the people of Britain,” the plaque declares.

“They saw their homes struck down without warning. It was not their walls but

their valor that kept them free.”

Mayor La Guardia called the naming of the site “a reminder of the fury and cruelty of the Nazi forces.” Nazi cruelty was also of particular concern to Jewish rescue advocates in the United States, who noticed the irony in the Roosevelt administration’s choice of ballast.

The “huge mounds of rubble” brought from Bristol to Manhattan demonstrated that bringing Jewish refugees to the United States would be “no problem at all,” the editors of The Answer (published by the rescue activists known as the Bergson Group) wrote. They argued: “It is as important to devote shipping space to help secure the foundations of humanity by saving lives as it is to bring rubble for filling in foundations for River driveways.”

The editors of the Baltimore Jewish Times likewise cited the Bristol precedent. They pointed out that the Roosevelt administration’s claim that shipping “is not available” was disproven by the fact that U.S. ships were “going out of their way to find ballast on return trips” from England. Not only that, but the Allies re-

cently had used supposedly “unavailable” ships to bring many thousands of Polish (non-Jewish) refugees to Mexico, the editors noted.

Similar calls were made in the years to follow. When the Germans began the mass deportation of Hungary’s Jews to Auschwitz in 1944, Freda Kirchwey, editor of the political affairs journal The Nation, urged President Roosevelt to “immediately establish ports of asylum [for Jewish refugees]….Troopships which have delivered their loads at Mediterranean ports could be diverted for a single errand of mercy.”

Ultimately, the real obstacle to rescue was not a lack of ships. It was President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s opposition to bringing any significant number of European Jewish refugees to the United States. Late in the war, public and congressional pressure convinced the president to make one small election-year gesture on the issue: he authorized the temporary admission of one group of 982 refugees. There was no difficulty finding a ship for them.

The final irony of this story has to do with the construction of the East River Drive, which was completed with the help of the rubble from Bristol—the rubble that was chosen to serve as ballast instead of Jewish refugees. Today known as the FDR Drive, it was renamed to honor a president who is deservedly revered for his many achievements but whose legacy is tarnished by his tragic abandonment of the Jews.

Dr. Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and author of more than 20 books about Jewish history and the Holocaust. His latest is America and the Holocaust: A Documentary History, published by the Jewish Publication Society & University of Nebraska Press.

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July 4th Throughout the Years

By Avi Heiligman

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very American is taught that July 4, 1776 was the day that the Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia by the Continental Congress. It took a few more weeks for all of the colonies to adopt the Declaration and for all of the delegates to actually sign the document. Known as Independence Day, July 4 was first observed a year later with a thirteen gun salute in Rhode Island.

Throughout the years, July 4 became a day of celebration of the United States of America’s independence from the British.

In addition to parades and salutes, there have been fascinating incidences of note that took place on that date since 1776.

The war went on until 1783, and during the war years General George Washington knew quite well that if the Americans lost the war, they would be treated as traitors to the king. In 1778, to celebrate July 4, Washington gave his soldiers a double ration of rum along with an artillery salute. John Adams and Benjamin Franklin were on a diplomatic mission in France and held a dinner in celebration of independence from England. It took until 1870 for Congress to make it an official federal holiday; in 1938, Congress made it a paid federal legal holiday.

The first parade was held in 1785 in Bristol, Rhode Island, and in 1800 in Philadelphia the Marine Band made their first public appearance. In 1802, ten cadets were enrolled in a military school overlooking the Hudson River in New York – today it is known as the West Point Military Academy.

The 50th anniversary of Independence Day was observed in 1826 with quite a remarkable occurrence. Two of the Founding Fathers central to the writing of the Declaration of Independence died hours apart. The second president of the United States, John Adams’ – who had served to help draft the wording and then went to France to help the Patriot cause – last words were, “Thomas Jefferson still survives.” However, five hours earlier at Monticello the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson,

who had authored the Declaration, had passed away. The two had their differences in political views but held mutual respect for each other throughout their storied careers. Incredibly, five years later in 1831, the fifth president of the United States, James Monroe, also passed away on July 4. Newspapers of the time were

pi River was vital for the Confederacy to keep their troops and cities supplied.

The Union commanders knew that if they controlled the river and its strongholds the Confederacy would be split in two.

General Ulysses Grant had tried twice to penetrate the city’s defenses and was repulsed. For the next 47 days, he and

Calvin Coolidge, born in 1872, was the only president to have been born on Independence Day.

quick to notice the concurrence of events, with one in Frederick, Maryland, writing, “Thus have three of our revolutionary presidents departed … on the anniversary of our independence; presenting the most remarkable tissue of coincidences that have marked the history of nations.”

Several battles have taken place on July 4, with the most significant military action occurring on that date in 1863 at Vicksburg, Mississippi. The Mississip-

77,000 Union troops of the Army of the Tennessee lay siege to Vicksburg against General John Permberton’s 33,000 entrenched men. On July 4, Grant accepted the surrender from Pemberton who did not want his starving troops to wind up in prisoner of war camps. After some consideration, Grant agreed to not imprison them, and the men were paroled. A few days later, Union troops captured Port Hudson in Louisiana and the North now

had complete control of the river. Together with the victory at Gettysburg on July 3, the tide of the war had finally changed in favor of the Union Army.

The first few months of American involvement during World War II were spent on the defensive. The first American bombing attack over Nazi-controlled territory took place on July 4, 1942. Six A-20 Havocs from the 15th Bomb Squadron of the Eighth Air Force under Captain Charles Kegelman flew to targets in Holland, but the results were less than encouraging. Two of the planes failed to return, and German anti-aircraft fire prevented all but two of the planes from attacking their targets. Kegelman’s plane was severely damaged by flack and returned to England on one good engine.

The Americans learned from their mistakes and soon were regularly seen bombing German installations and bases all over occupied Europe.

The date also has significance into some other happenings as well. Calvin Coolidge, born in 1872, was the only president to have been born on Independence Day. In 1884, France presented the Statue of Liberty to the United States at a ceremony in Paris. In 1959, the American flag got its 49th star to reflect Alaska’s statehood, and a year later, a 50th star was added for Hawaii.

July 4 has become a day for parades, barbeques, and fireworks to celebrate American independence as well as a time to reflect on the past that has made America what it is today. Whether it was Lewis and Clark handing out an extra ration of whisky to their men west of the Mississippi River in 1804 to laying a cornerstone for a new skyscraper at the World Trade Center in 2004, the day is history to be remembered.

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

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very so often, I come across a newspaper headline and think, “I have got to turn that into story!”

Usually, it comes from someplace like The New York Times or Wall Street Journal. Sometimes it’s from a specialized business publication like Bloomberg or a tax journal. But this week’s “ripped from the headlines” story would be just as appropriate in The Onion as it would in any of those places.

I’m talking, of course, about Walmart’s decision to stop selling Chaokoh-brand coconut milk.

Why? According to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the company forces monkeys to pick the coconuts that go into the milk. The group found that “the coconut trade uses social monkeys as chained-up coconut-picking machines, depriving them of any opportunity to eat, play, or spend time with their families.” The monkeys are “tethered, chained to old tires, or confined to cages barely larger than their bodies.” Walmart joins Target, Costco, Wegman’s, Food Lion, and Stop & Shop in 86’ing the ethical challenge from Thailand’s Theppadungporn Coconut Company.

Naturally, that raised the question,

how would we tax the monkeys? Snatching half a banana after the whistle blows seems almost as cruel as forcing the monkey to pick the coconuts in the first place. Besides, monkeys don’t actually eat bananas in the wild, and some zoos have stopped serving them because the sugar is just as bad for the monkeys’ waistlines as it is for ours.

es would give the robots just one more reason to revolt against their human overlords!

The same approach could work for the coconut-harvesting monkeys and other animal workers. Iditarod racers can pay for the dogs that drag their sleds. Coffee growers can pay for those civet cats that eat those coffee beans

Just imagine how fast Han Solo powers up the Millennium Falcon when he sees the IRS coming for his Wookie!

Microsoft founder Bill Gates suggested one solution when he proposed taxing robots that take away human jobs.

“If a human worker does $50,000 of work in a factory, that income is taxed.

If a robot comes in to do the same thing, you’d think we’d tax the robot at a similar level,” he said in 2017. Of course, it won’t be the robots doing the paying; it will be the factory. Having to pay tax-

before they turn them into kopi luwak.

(Yes, you read that right.) And just imagine how fast Han Solo powers up the Millennium Falcon when he sees the IRS coming for his Wookie!

The Chaokoh story sounds like the sort of thing you’d find here when there isn’t any real tax news. But it reveals how taxes can adapt (or fail to adapt) to all sorts of changes in our economy. For

example, Washington wants to phase out environmentally destructive fossil fuels, so they give us credits for buying electric cars. At the same time, we tax gasoline to pay for roads because existing cars and trucks use gas-powered engines.

The more you drive, the more you pay.

So that makes electric cars “free riders” that don’t pay for the wear and tear they cause. Perhaps a special tax on car chargers could even the scales? Or maybe cut out the middleman and just take the electric car credit and pay it over to the Highway Trust Fund?

Next time you find yourself at the grocery store, look around and notice how many milk options you have, from plain old cows (and goats) to almonds, soybeans, macadamia nuts, and even coconuts. Nobody needs that many choices (although the economy stopped being about “needs” a long time ago). When it comes to taxes, though, we’re here to help you make the right call, with no monkey business involved!

Allan J Rolnick is a CPA who has been in practice for over 30 years in Queens, NY. He welcomes your comments and can be reached at 718-896-8715 or at allanjrcpa@aol.com.

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Prices Good Sunday, July 3rd through Friday, July 8th, 2022

Poland Spring Sports Cap Water

36 Pack

2

$ 99

3

$ 99

$ 99 24 oz

Gevina Greek Yogurts

Hoffman’s Pizza Balls

3

$ 99 18 oz

5.3 oz

Cream Gelateria Gelato or Sorbeto

Tree Ripe Grove Select Orange Juice

5

$ 99 12 oz

1

$ 99 52 oz

Rib Steak

NY Strip Steak

Minute Roast

Family Pack

1199

$

LB

9

$ 49 LB

LB

Del Monte Pineapples

Plum Tomatoes

Red Grapes

2

1

1

$ 99 EA

$ 19 LB

5

4

Assorted

6

$ 99 16 oz

Chocolate Almonds

5

$ 49LB

Fish S�cks

6

$ 99 EA

6

$ 99

$ 99 24 oz

Fleischmann’s Finest Sausages

Assorted

28 Pack 20 oz

High Breeze Cauliflower or Brocoli Florets

7

Assorted

$ 49LB

1

$ 99 32 Pack 5 LB16 oz

1

$ 99 14.3 oz/15 oz

1399

BestABev Avenue Flour All Purpose or Unbleached Smoothie Cups with Lids

Bowl & Basket Salsa

Assorted

$

1

$ 99 12 oz/17 oz

1

$ 99 5 oz

Paskesz Trio Cookies

28 oz

PR Crisp Rice or Bran Flakes

Assorted

1

10

10

10/$

Pop Chips

$ 79 18 oz

10/$

Assorted

2

Chewy Fudge, Dark or Milk Brownies

15 oz

Powerade

$ 99 16 oz

6.53 oz

Duncan Hines Yellow Cake or Brownie Mixes

Roasted Almonds

4

4/$

Mighty Sesame Tahini Paste

Heaven & Earth Quinoa Bowl

3

Hunt’s Tomato Sauce

Fun Pops

12 Pack - 16.9 oz

2/$

More for Less

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$ 99 LB

Pistachio Salmon

8

$ 99 EA

Tuna Fish Wrap

5

$ 99 EA

Hot Poppers

1499

$

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