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Rosh Yeshiva of Kerem B’Yavneh Speaks in the Five Towns for the Shloshim of Naftali, Gil-Ad and Eyal hy”d PAGE 45

Lev Leytzan’s Five Towns Gift Drive Brings Happiness to Those Who are Ill

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TISHA B’AV 5774 As Far as the Eye Can See

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West Hempstead

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Kehillas Bais YehudaTzvi 395 Oakland Ave. CC 2:30 B 4:15 A

Far Rockaway TAG HIGH SCHOOL 636 Lanett Ave. 1:30 A 4:00 B Young Israel of Bayswater 2716 Healy Ave. 2:45 A 5:00 B Yeshiva Ateres Shimon 1239 Caffery Ave. 12:00 A 3:00 B

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Inwood Bais Tefillah of Inwood 321 Doughty Blvd.

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CONTENTS >>Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 >>Community Readers’ Poll. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Community Happenings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

>> News Global . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 National. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Odd-but-True Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

>> Israel Israel News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 My Israel Home. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

>> People TJH Chats with Rabbi Ament, Co-Director of Machaneh Hakayitz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Eating Diamonds for Bread and Taking a Seat at the Heavenly Seder: Irene Zisblatt’s Holocaust Story . . . . . . 56 The Horrors of the Holocaust: Rabbi Jacob Jungreis’s Thoughts on the Tragedy of the Shoah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Forgotten Heroes: Military Inventions Close to Home. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Dear Readers, This morning I took my three-month-old daughter to apply for her passport. In the post office where we were applying, some customers smiled at me, thinking I was being silly by applying for a passport for someone so young. But in my mind, getting my children their passports is not a choice—it’s a requirement for Jews living in today’s world.

As a grandchild of a Holocaust survivor and a grandchild of those who fled the flaming cities of Europe during and before the war, sometimes, as I lay in bed at night in my younger years, I would wonder what I would do if the Nazis stormed my home just then. Would I hide under the covers, hoping they wouldn’t see me? Would I hide under my bed? Where would I go? I know that many people who grew up hearing about the horrors of the Holocaust have had similar thoughts when they were young.

Nowadays, though, my childish fears have become more mature, and it is that feeling that compels me to make sure all my children have their passports even when they’re young. No matter how complacent we may feel in today’s world, our nation has been—and still is—the nation of the wandering Jew. Throughout the years, we have been told time and time again that we’re not wanted. We’ve been expelled, murdered, persecuted and killed just because we are part of a holy and special people. The Three Weeks and Tisha B’Av highlight those feelings of persecution and help us try to make sense of all the tragedies we’ve endured for thousands of years.

Both Mr. Joe Bobker and Rabbi Jacob Jungreis write in this issue of all the nations who delighted in our murder and gleefully assisted with our demise. They did so willingly throughout the generations and ran the lowly Jew out of town when the winds of anti-Semitism blew in. As Jews, we never knew when we would have to pack our bags and steal off into the night, with the hounds of hatred nipping at our heels.

The situation in Israel today only makes the Three Weeks even more somber for us this year. It’s hard to feel joy when we know that our sisters and brothers are living in fear. So many of the soldiers who are fighting for peace in Eretz Yisroel are so young and their first experience on the world stage is in an area that reeks of death. May Hashem protect them and all of our brothers and sisters in the Holy Land, and may Tisha B’Av next year be filled with rejoicing instead of sorrow.

Wishing you an easy and meaningful fast, Shoshana

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Dear Editor, I live on Seagirt Blvd across from Beach 9th St. I noticed that many people are not aware of the outer boundaries of our community’s eruv. Most of the boardwalk is NOT included in the eruv, yet every week we see people carrying, walking with strollers, even going onto the beach itself carrying things. One of the corners of Seagirt Blvd. and Beach 9th st. has an area that’s not included in the eruv!

Everyone should make sure to be aware of the eruv boundaries in order to prevent chillul Shabbos. There are maps available, but when in doubt, please make sure not to carry on any part of the boardwalk unless you know with certainty that a specific area is in the eruv. The end of Beach 9th St. is also not completely included.

May Hashem see our efforts to do what is right, and bring us yeshuos v’nechamos.

M. S. Dear Editor, I just received this from a friend and I found it be very powerful. I would like to share this with your readers: A soldier on the border writes: What’s happening here in the staging area [area where soldiers prepare to enter Gaza] is beyond comprehension, not rationally, not emotionally and begs the imagination.

Almost every hour a car shows up overflowing with food, snacks, cold drinks, socks, underwear, undershirts, hygiene supplies, wipes, cigarettes, backgammon and more. They’re coming from the North and the Center, from manufacturers, from companies and private businesses, from prisons, Chareidim and Settlers, from Tel Aviv and even Saviyon.

Every intersection on the way down here we get stopped, not by the police, but by residents giving out food. What is amazing is that the entire situation wasn’t organized and everyone is coming on their own without coordination between the folks coming.

They’re writing letters and blessings, how they’re thinking of us all the time. There are those who spent hours making sandwiches, so they’re as perfect and comforting as possible.

Of course, representatives of Chabad are here to help soldiers put on Tefillin and distributing Cha’Ta’Ts (Chumash, Tehillim, Tanya) for every troop transport and Breslov are showing up to the border and dancing with the soldiers with great joy.

The Chareidim are coming from their yeshivot to ask the names of the soldiers with their mothers’ names so that the whole yeshiva can pray for them. It should be mentioned that all of this is done under the threat of the terrorist tunnels and rockets in the area.

Soroka Hospital (in Be’er Sheva) today looks like a five star hotel. A wounded friend who was recently discharged told us how the MasterChef truck is parked outside and is preparing food for the wounded.

It goes without saying the amount of prayer services that are going on. On the religious front as well, there are lectures and Torah classes, all the food is obviously kosher. Shacharit, Mincha, and Maariv with Sifrei Torah. They’re giving out tzitzit and Tehilim by the hundreds. It’s become the new fashion! The Rabbi of Maglan [Special Forces unit] told me that almost the entire unit has started wearing them, because the Army Rabbinate has been giving out tzitzit that wick away sweat. They’re gaining both a mitzvah and a high quality undershirt. We’ve started calling them “Shachpatzitzti” (a combination of the Hebrew term for body armor and tzitzit).

We’re having deep conversations late into the night without arguments, without fights and we find ourselves agreeing on most stuff.

We’re making lots of jokes at Hamas’s expensive and without politics.

There’s lots more to add but my battery is running low and the staff has been requesting someone give a class on Likutei MoharaN (Breslov).

How happy is the nation that is like this.

A Reader Dear Editor, I appreciate your comprehensive coverage on the Malaysia flight that was downed over the Ukraine. Unfortunately, there is still no end to this tragedy as the rebels are still fighting and not allowing investigators into the crash site.

It’s hard to imagine when this will end and when the families of the victims will finally find closure.

Paul E. Stein Dear Editor, I shuddered as I read your article this week on Israelis living under rocket fire. In America, in our cozy homes, it’s hard to comprehend that every time you are sending your children to school or to their friends’ homes or out to play, they may be on their own in the case of a rocket strike. How many mothers have

the Editor their hearts in their hands as the wail of sirens pierce the air? Imagine the terror a young child feels when they are shaken from sleep in the darkness of night to run to the nearest shelter. How can we understand what it’s like for young men to venture into enemy territory and fight for their lives—and our lives, too—when they have never seen combat before?

I appreciate you bringing their “new normal” (and I hope it won’t be like that for long) into our lives. My tefillos for our brothers and sisters in Israel were said more fervently because of your words.

May we all see peace and share in only good tidings together, Rachel Weinstein West Hempstead, NY Dear Editor, As much as I yearn to help, stay connected, and really, truly feel as one with our brothers and sisters in Eretz Yisrael, there are definitely moments when I couldn’t feel further from the daily pain, fear, and reality that they, not I , are experiencing on a daily basis.

I’d like to share one such moment that came from a letter that my sister who just arrived in Israel for the remaining summer weeks emailed this morning.

She writes: We had a wonderful day painting ceramics in Yerushalayim, eating in the German colony, and hanging out on Mom and Dad’s porch.

I do have a story to share about an experience we had today, which I think brings home for us much of the present Israel experience.

We went to eat at Pizza Sababa . We were hot, jetlagged and tired. All we wanted was some French fries (chips), salad and a few slices of pizza. Odelia (our niece) was kind enough to do the ordering for us in Hebrew. Unfortunately, the owner shook his head no when she ordered the fries, etc. and basically said he only had pizza. I was so surprised that more than half of his menu was not available. I looked at him and asked incredulously, “Ain?!” There isn’t any?!

He looked sad and shook his head no. Before I could break the news to my hungry and no doubt, cranky crew, he whispered something quietly to Odelia.

She explained to me that the reason he has nothing is because the young man who works for him and prepares that part of the menu was sent to war in Gaza and was just killed.

And so it hit me, my children and I are from a world where we get upset when there are no fries.

The people of Israel also cry when there are no fries, but that is because the young man who makes them is gone.

May Hashem help us to appreciate all of our amazing blessings, big and small alike, and may AmYisrael be united “as one person with one heart.”

Shalom al Yisrael, Rabbi Joey Werner Lawrence, N

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ISIS Enforces Severe Modesty Laws

Women have come under intense scrutiny as ISIS makes its way through the Mideast. Islamic State, the al Qaeda offshoot that seized large swathes of northern Iraq last month, has warned women in the city of Mosul to wear full-face veils or risk severe punishment. They also listed guidelines on how veils and clothes should be worn, part of a campaign to violently impose their radical brand of Islam. The Sunni

insurgents have declared a caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria, and have threatened to march onto Baghdad.

According to the fanatic group, they are only forcing these standards of dress on the women for their own good. “The conditions imposed on her clothes and grooming was only to end the pretext of debauchery resulting from grooming and overdressing,” said the Islamic State in a statement. “This is not a restriction on her freedom but to prevent her from falling into humiliation and vulgarity or to be a theater for the eyes of those who are looking.”

A cleric in Mosul told Reuters that Islamic State gunmen had shown up at his mosque and ordered him to read their warning on loudspeakers when worshipers gather. “Anyone who is not committed to this duty and is motivated by glamour will be subject to accountability and severe punishment to protect society from harm and to maintain the necessities of religion and protect it from debauchery,” said the Islamic State.

According to ISIS guidelines, hands and feet must be covered. Shapeless clothing must be worn at all times and

In News perfume is strictly prohibited. Women have been told to never walk unaccompanied by a male guardian. The Islamic State even ordered shopkeepers to cover their store mannequins with full-face veils.

The insurgents, formerly called the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), have been systematically stamping out any religious or cultural influences they deem non-Islamic since their lightning sweep through the north. U.S. military and Iraqi security officials estimate the Islamic State has at least 3,000 fighters in Iraq, rising towards 20,000 to include new recruits since last month’s advance.

North Korea’s Summer Camp When you think of summer fun and camp during the hot months of July and August, few would think of North Korea. But believe it or not, around 300 children from around the world flock to the Songdowon International Children’s Camp in Wonsan every year.

The camp, which offers eight days of fun, opened on Tuesday and boasts giant water slides, a private beach, volleyball courts and – of course – statues of dictators.

“At the end there is a talent show,” said 19-year-old Linus Jamal Faustin, who came with a group of 16 from Tanzania’s Laureate International School in Dar es Salaam. “We are ready to show them all how to dance.”

Campers from Russia, China, Vietnam, Ireland and Tanzania sleep in air-conditioned rooms with video games and TVs. Songdowon is a popular beach destination on North Korea’s east coast, famous its clear waters and sandy, white beaches.

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The summer camp opened nearly 30 years ago. Its mission is to deepen relationships with other countries, and give children from those countries the chance to bond with kids from North Korea and explore a nation many people don’t know much about.

Hundreds of Bodies Found at Bolivian Construction Site While digging the foundation for a new building in Bolivia, workers discovered the remains of hundreds of people buried together. The mass grave probably dates back to the Spanish colonial era and may be the final resting place of hundreds of indigenous miners from that time period.

The workers found the remains this week as they started construction on a new building in the “El Minero” district of Potosi, located high up in the Andes.

“We are talking about a common grave found at about 1.8 meters [5.9 feet], and the human remains are scattered over an area of four by four meters,” said Sergio Fidel, a researcher at a museum belonging to Tomas Frias University.

In the Spanish colonial era, Potosi became famous for its massive silver and tin reserves, which started to be mined in the 16th century. Local people, mainly ethnic Aymara, were commonly put to work as both slaves and indentured servants, especially at the famed Cerro Rico Mountain.

The construction workers, who have had no specialized excavation training, say they found the remains of 400 to 500 people and that there may be many more. When it was learned that the workers were piling the bones into a massive heap, Tomas Frias University got involved to ensure the sanctity and integrity of the site.

One hypothesis for the mass grave is that they happened on an indigenous burial ground of slaves and indentured servants who would have worked at the mine in precarious conditions. Another possibility is the remains could be linked to the collapse of a reservoir in Potosi during the 1600s, which killed some 2,000 people.

In News 100M Filipinos Strong

On Sunday, the birth of a baby girl in the Philippines made headlines as she officially pushed the population of the country to 100 million. The child, Jennalyn Sentino, was one of 100 babies born in state hospitals all over the archipelago who received the symbolic designation of “100,000,000th baby.”

“This is both an opportunity and a challenge...an opportunity we should take advantage of and a challenge we recognize,” Juan Antonio Perez, executive director of the official Commission on Population, said.

While a growing population means a larger workforce, it also means more dependents in a country where about 25 percent of people are living in poverty, he said. The Philippines has to find a way to bring services to the poorest families while also curbing the population growth.

While celebrating the birth of the babies with cake and gifts of clothing and blankets, the government will also monitor each of the designated 100 children over the coming years to see if they are receiving the required health services, Perez added.

Australian ISIS Members Post Gruesome Photos

Two Australian terrorists who are believed to belong to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have been found posting several horrific and bloody pictures on social media sites. Sydney-born boxer Mohamed Elomar and his friend, convicted terrorist, Khaled Sharrouf, are both thought to be in Syria now.

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Sharrouf, also a former Sydney resident, last week taunted Australian police via his social media account, boasting that he would “slaughter” Australians.

The jihadist is currently in the Middle East fighting with the extremist group after he evaded authorities in December.

The tweets came as the nation’s Director General of Security David Irvine revealed “tens of people” had already returned to Australian shores from fighting alongside suspected terrorist organizations.

Irvine added that a majority of the 60 Australians they were aware of fighting with Islamic radicals were siding against the government with al Qaeda offshoots. “We have some tens of people that have already returned [from the Middle East]; we have probably another 150 we’re looking at here in Australia

who have inclinations to support those two extremist movements,” he said.

118 Die in Air Algerie Crash

It has been a very tragic few months for commercial air travel. In addition to the downed and lost Malaysian aircrafts, Air Algerie flight AH5017 crashed last week in Northern Mali. 118 people were onboard, 54 of them from France.

French President François Hollande ordered that the French tricolor flag be lowered for three days this week in a display of public mourning. The French citizens were by far the largest group of victims from a single country to die in the crash.

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missing not long after it took off from Burkina Faso’s capital of Ouagadougou for the Algerian capital, Algiers. Aviation authorities said they lost contact with the aircraft after the pilot asked to change course because of a storm. The plane’s wreckage was later spotted in the remote reaches of northern Mali.

There were no survivors from the crash, which claimed the lives of entire families. Those lost included nationals from France, Burkina Faso, Lebanon, Algeria, Spain, Canada, Germany and Luxembourg.

Although the cause of the tragedy has yet to be confirmed, severe weather has emerged as the most likely culprit. Evidence taken from the crash site has indicated that the plane broke apart when it hit the ground, making the possibility of an attack improbable. Two black boxes from Flight AH5017 have arrived in France to be analyzed.

President Hollande announced that all the bodies would be flown to France and a monument would be built at the site of the crash in remembrance of those killed. “A headstone will be erected so that no one ever forgets that on this land, on this site, 118 people perished,” Hollande said.

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When traveling to India, you may want to visit the Tihar Food Court in west Delhi. The food in the air conditioned restaurant is fresh and many love the traditional “thali” meal of flat bread, lentils, vegetables and rice served there.

What makes this eatery so unique is the people who work there. The waiter serving banker Gaurav Gupta lunch last week is actually a convicted murderer serving time in South Asia’s largest prison complex. The restaurant opened just a few weeks ago on an “experimental basis” and is a rehabilitation effort kicked off by the Tihar prison. It is located less than a mile from prisoners’ dormitories.

It’s hard to know that the eatery is part of a prison program. With a spacious interior lined with wooden tables

and walls adorned with paintings done by prisoners, the 50-seat restaurant has been praised for the polite behavior of its employees, who were trained by a prestigious nearby hotel management school.

“The food is average,” said Gupta.

“But the hygiene factor is really good, very clean. And it’s a good thing they are employing prisoners.”

Restaurant manager Mohammad Asim said there are around 50 customers every day, with each worker paid 74 rupees ($1.20) for the day’s work.

“Those who come once to have our food come back again,” said Asim, who has spent 14-1/2 years in jail for murder.

But not all prisoners are deemed worthy to be serving foodstuffs. To be eligible to leave prison and work in the restaurant, inmates must have kept up an “unblemished record” through at least 12 years of imprisonment, and have a high school education. Prisoners eligible to be released within two years are picked for the job to minimize their temptation to escape. They travel to work by bicycle or on foot, as authorities “trust them enough” not to need a security escort.

Once notorious for corruption, drug problems and prisoner abuse, the Tihar jail complex has ushered in several reforms, with vocational training and painting featured among the rehabilitation programs offered to its 13,552 inmates.

“The restaurant was set up to give employment to the inmates and project the positive aspects of prison work to the public,” said a spokesman. A similar experiment has run for more than two years in the southern state of Kerala, where prison inmates dish up food sold at a counter near the jail, or distributed by mobile vans.

Customers have few qualms dealing with the Tihar prisoners. “I think that Tihar authorities have observed them for years and have decided they can be placed in front of the public ... so I don’t think there is a need to be worried,” said first-time customer Atul Singh, who works with the Indian unit of South Korean electronics giant Samsung.

Bal Krishan Grover, 49, wearing the restaurant uniform shirt of red and white stripes, said he was an electrician before going to prison 13 years ago for “accidentally killing” someone in a quarrel.

He says he enjoys working at the restaurant and plans to switch careers as soon as he is a free man. “My aim is to set up a branch of the Tihar restaurant,” said Grover.

The Committee to Protect Journalists prides itself on working on behalf of writers, reporters, and journalists who visit dangerous territories to provide readers with complete and accurate information and news. On Thursday, the group tried to use their power and demanded that the Iranian government immediately release four detained journalists, three of whom hold a U.S. passport along with their Iran identification. Iran does not recognize dual citizenship.

Two of the detainees are married: Jason Rezaian, the Tehran correspondent for the Washington Post, and his wife, Yeganeh Salehi, a correspondent for the United Arab Emirates-based newspaper the Nation. Names of the other two detained journalists have not yet been released but according to the media, they are “freelance photojournalists.”

“We have received credible reports that Rezaian and his wife Salehi were detained on Tuesday evening in Tehran,” said Douglas Jehl, foreign editor of the Washington Post.

“We call on Iranian authorities to immediately explain why Jason Rezaian, Yeganeh Salehi, and two other journalists have been detained, and we call for their immediate release,” said CPJ Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator Sherif Mansour. “Iran has a dismal record with regard to its treatment of imprisoned journalists. We hold the Iranian government responsible for the safety of these four.”

U.S. State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf said Washington was aware of the reports of the detention of three U.S. citizens in Iran.

Even so, she said, “We are not able to comment further at this time due to privacy considerations. Our highest priority is the safety and welfare of U.S. citizens abroad,” she assured.

The Toppling of the Tower of David Thousands of squatters lost the roof over their heads last Tuesday in Venezu-

ela after they were evicted by officials from a haphazard community inside the semi-completed Caracas skyscraper known as the Tower of David, nicknamed after its financier David Brillembourg. The tower is a symbol of the country’s decay and was known worldwide as the largest “vertical slum.”

The government provided the squatters with apartments in the nearby town

of Cua. However, residents complained that they did not want to move so far away. They were concerned with losing the million dollar views, and their easy access to supermarkets, public transportation and, employment.

Understandably, these people did not want to move—even if they truly didn’t own their residences. Police came prepared to deal with the crowd in riot

gear and soldiers with Kalashnikov assault rifles stood on side streets as the residents boarded buses for the 23 miles trip to Cua. Ernesto Villegas, the government minister overseeing Caracas’ redevelopment, told reporters that the 45-story building is unsafe and residents cannot be allowed to stay indefinitely. Sadly, Continued on page 18

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Initially, the tower was intended to be the crown jewel of a glittering downtown but it was abandoned amid a 1990s banking crisis. It quickly became a sym-

bol representing failed capitalism. By 2007, the “invaders,” as they’re called in Caracas, had claimed the entire property. They turned on the electricity, opened stores, and created a sophisticated internal management system.

Last week, the surrounding neighbors were glad to be rid of the squatters.

Retiree Antonio Farias looked on with delight, saying the slum had brought the

In News constant threat of kidnapping, robbery, and crimes against woman.

As the squatters were evacuated, Maria Sevilla, manager of the 28th floor, looked longingly at the grimy concrete skeleton that she called home, and wistfully intoned, “What I’ll miss the most is the community we built here.”

“I don’t know how I’ll be able to find a job out there,” said Yaritza Casares, 28, leading her 4-year-old daughter through a soaring courtyard. “We were lucky to live here.”

Ukrainian PM Resigns; Interim PM is Jewish

On Thursday, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced his resignation. This announcement opened the door for new elections, reflecting the country’s political instability after the overthrow of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych in February.

Yanukovych was replaced by elected President Petro Poroshenko on May 25. At the time, he said that “all opinion polls, and direct conversations with people, show that society wants a complete rebooting of the government.”

Yatsenyuk, a supporter of closer ties with Europe and a key participant in the protests that toppled Yanukovych, made the announcement from the dais of Parliament after two parties said they would pull out of the governing coalition. He said Parliament could no longer do its work and pass necessary laws.

Yatsenyuk has served as prime minister for just five short months and was supported by a coalition of pro-European parties that took power after Yanukovych was ejected from his office by months of street protests on Kiev’s Independence Square.

“I think this is a fully expected and planned development,” said Balazs Jarabik, visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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After the resignation of Yatsenyuk, Volodymyr Groysman, a deputy prime minister, was elected to be the acting prime minister in his stead. Groysman is Jewish. He joined the government in February as deputy prime minister for regional policy and is a former mayor of the city of Vinnytsia. Groysman will serve until lawmakers elect a prime minister prior to parliamentary elections early next year.

The government faces tensions with Russia which labeled Yanukovych’s ouster a coup, seized Ukraine’s Crimea region, and cut off natural gas supplies in a price dispute. It has also battled a pro-Russian insurgency in which rebels armed with heavy weapons such as tanks and anti-aircraft missiles have seized public buildings and battled government troops. The fighting was highlighted on the world stage with the recent downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane over the Donetsk region. The investigation over the bombing is still not completed, although most agree that it is most likely that the pro-Russia rebels shot down the airliner.

Russia denies supporting them.

Plane Crashes during Typhoon in Taiwan

As lightning lit up the sky, the wind fought with a small commercial jet carrying 58 passengers, 4 of them children and 4 crew members in Taiwan. The pilot unsuccessfully attempted to make an emergency landing during a typhoon on Wednesday, June 23. Unfortunately, his attempt ended in a violent and tragic collision.

At least.47 were killed and 11 injured when the TransAsia Airways airplane missed the airport runway and

In News slammed into the ground of a village on the Penghu Islands. Taiwan’s Transport Minister Yeh Kuang-shih said that two homes caught fire as a result of the plane crash; no injuries were reported from that end of the horrific disaster.

The ATR-72 turboprop jet was scheduled to depart from the southern city of Kaohsiung on mainland Taiwan at 4 p.m. but was delayed because of bad weather in the wake of Typhoon Matmo, which struck Taiwan overnight on Tuesday. Eventually, it departed at 5:45 p.m. and encountered heavy rains and strong winds along the journey during the short 35-minute flight, forcing the pilot to delay landing. After one failed attempt, the pilot tried once again to land his aircraft safely onto the runway but crashed.

Chilling photos from the crash site show emergency crews using flashlights and crowding around the wreckage looking for survivors in the darkness.

In a televised appearance after the accident, TransAsia president Chooi Yee-choong bowed twice while offering sympathy. “We express our deepest apologies to everyone for this unfortu-

nate event,” he said.

The ten survivors of Taiwan’s worst air disaster in more than a decade include a 34-year-old woman who called her father after scrambling from the wreckage and seeking help at a nearby home. Hung Yu-ting survived the crash and quickly escaped through a hole in the fuselage and ran to a nearby home to use the phone.

“She called me on the phone to say the plane had crashed and exploded but that she had already crawled out and I should come right away to get her,” said Hung’s father, Hung Chang-ming, who lives just a few hundred meters from the crash site.

Hung rushed to the scene, but his daughter had already been taken away by rescuers.

“When I was halfway there, the fire was still really big, but it was smaller when I arrived on the scene,” Hung told reporters. “There were two other injured outside and the first ambulance had already taken away three, including my daughter.”

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Israel Tunnels Expose Horrifying Hamas Terror Plan

In News Cairo’s Attempt at Peace Talks Last week, representatives of many Palestinian groups traveled to Cairo to resume cease-fire talks. The delegation, which included representatives from the Palestinian Authority, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, was slated to meet with Egyptian officials to discuss the draft truce, which Israel accepted, and Hamas and Islamic Jihad had rejected.

Among the delegation members were Fatah’s Azzam al-Ahmad, Moussa Abu Marzouk of Hamas and Ziyad Nahal from the Islamic Jihad, according to the report.

Israel briefly halted its strikes in Gaza after accepting the Egyptian truce proposal on July 15, but resumed attacks the next day as terrorists in Gaza pounded Israel with fresh barrages of rockets.

Hamas rejected the Egyptian efforts to end fighting, saying any deal must include an end to a blockade of the coastal enclave and a recommitment to a ceasefire reached in Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012. Egypt has previously said it has no plans to revise the cease-fire proposal, while Hamas has stressed that it has no plans to change their conditions to a truce.

Qatar Funding Hamas In a chilling discovery, it has been revealed that Hamas planned to attack Israeli villages across the country on Rosh Hashanah via the tunnels that the IDF is working to destroy during Operation Protective Edge.

Their ambush was planned for a day when Hamas was aware that many soldiers, security officials, police, and guards would be preoccupied with the holiday. They planned to descend on Jewish settlements via hidden underground tunnels that crossed the Israeli-Gaza border and slaughter as many civilians as possible.

Israeli security officials said that Hamas’s complex tunnel system would allow 200 terrorists to invade western Negev towns. The current operation in Gaza thankfully exposed many of these tunnels, prematurely halting these horrific plans and undoubtedly saving countless innocent lives.

May Hashem continue to protect all of our brothers and sisters in Israel.

Eyes have turned to the small oilrich nation of Qatar during the ongoing conflict in Gaza. While they are traditionally close to Iran, Hamas has turned recently to Sunni powers like Qatar and Turkey for economic and political support. Qatar’s ties to the Palestinian terrorist group have drawn increasing criticism from Israel, the United States, and even fellow Arab states like Egypt and Saudi Arabia, who accuse Qatar of undermining regional stability by supporting Hamas.

“Qatar is a very strange place. They rely on the U.S. for protection and invest heavily in the U.S.,” said Jonathan Schanzer, vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), noting that the U.S. has its

largest Mideast airbase in Qatar. “[But] at the same time, just miles away from there, you can find the head of Hamas [Khaled Mashal], and there was even a Taliban embassy there for a while too. All of these things make for a foreign-policy anomaly,” Schanzer said.

With the war raging in Gaza, Israeli leaders have begun to single out Qatar for its support of Hamas. During a meeting with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Shimon Peres slammed Qatar for becoming “the world’s largest funder of terror.” “Qatar does not have the right to send money for rockets and tunnels which are fired at innocent civilians. Their funding of terror must stop.

If they want to build then they should, but they must not be allowed to destroy,” Peres said.

Qatar’s financial support of Hamas is well-documented. The country reportedly pledged more than $400 million to Hamas in October 2012 during a visit to Gaza by Qatar’s ruling emir at the time, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani.

According to a diplomatic source in Qatar, in June, the Gulf state attempted to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars to an Arab bank for the salaries of 44,000 Hamas civil servants who were rendered jobless due to the recent Palestinian unity deal between Hamas and Fatah. The attempted transfer of funds

by Qatar to pay Hamas employees highlighted the dire economic situation Hamas has found itself in over the last year due to Egypt and Israel destroying Hamas’s smuggling tunnels, which the terror group relied on for tax revenue.

Palestinians Accuse Israel of War Crimes

Al-Saqqa and Ismail Jabr, the Gaza court public prosecutor, started legal proceedings via a Paris-based lawyer over the 18 days of fighting between Hamas terrorists and the IDF. Gaza officials say about 1,000 Palestinians have been killed since the onset of this conflict, mostly civilians. As of Tuesday, three Israeli civilians and 53 IDF soldiers have been killed. There have been over 2,000 rockets fired into Israel by Hamas in the past three weeks, many aimed for civilian territory. Yet the Palestinian officials accuse Israel of war crimes, which, they say, under the ICC statutes include “crime of apartheid,” “attacks against civilians,” ‘“excessive loss of human life” and “crime of colonization.” Their accusations are simply based on numbers and the details surrounding the deaths are disregarded.

There has been no mention of Hamas using their own people – men, women, and children – as human shields. Hamas has been using school buildings to store weapons; somehow, that fact has been omitted as well.

To process the complaint, the Haguebased court must first rule if it has jurisdiction in the Palestinian Authority.

The territory isn’t a UN member but became an observer in 2012, a status the ICC chief prosecutor said was required for Palestinians to sign up to the court.

Most experts don’t expect the ICC to recognize the Palestinian proceedings.

“This is more of a symbolic thing.

I’d be surprised if the Hague accepts the complaint. I can’t see the ICC summoning up the Israeli leaders for evidence,” said Mattia Toaldo, policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. “[Palestinian Authority] President [Mahmoud] Abbas gave assurances in 2012 to several countries that they would not use their UN status to go to the ICC,” he added.

IDF: Sgt. Oron Shaul was Not Kidnapped

Top Palestinian officials have once again accused Israel of war crimes in Gaza, but this time they are doing it officially by filing their grievances with the world court. On Friday, Palestinian officials filed a complaint to the International Criminal Court in the Hague, accusing Israel of war crimes in Gaza.

Palestinian Justice Minister Saleem

Golani Brigade fighter St.-Sgt. Oron Shaul, 20, who was unaccounted for last week, was declared dead by the head IDF rabbi on Friday afternoon. Shaul went missing last Sunday after Hamas claimed to have kidnapped an Israeli soldier but failed to mention if he was alive or dead. His unit was attacked in Gaza last week and six other soldiers were killed.

Residents of the Gaza Strip lit fireworks and chanted “G-d is great!” into the early morning darkness on Monday

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Reuters quoted a Gazan vegetable seller, Musa Abu Attiyeh, as saying, “Hundreds of martyrs have fallen and we’re under attack 24-hours a day... but today is like a holiday and we feel joy that a soldier is in our hands and we hope more will follow.”

Although Shaul’s body hasn’t been recovered yet, the IDF confirmed that he was killed in action. Until his body is recovered, no funeral will take place.

Since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge, as of Tuesday, 53 soldiers have lost their lives. Three Israeli civilians were killed as well.

May Hashem protect the brave souls who fearlessly protect our people.

Helping Our Lone Soldiers They may be lone soldiers, but they are not alone.

Of the more than 2,500 immigrant lone soldiers serving in the Israel Defense Forces, there are 740 Americans, according to the New York-based Friends of Israel Defense Forces, FIDF. With a deeply rooted sense of obligation to serve in the IDF, 50 percent of the young men and women serve in combat units.

“They are coming because of their sense of responsibility. They understand where we came from and where we stand today,” said Maj. Gen. (Res.) Yitzhak “Jerry” Gershon National Director and CEO of FIDF. “They understand the importance of the State of Israel, not just for Jews but for the free world. We are fighting radical movements who seek to destroy.”

Still, being a soldier so far from home can be challenging. Most arrive alone, with no Israeli friends or family in country. Many lone soldiers speak lit-

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Some face financial burdens.

Several organizations across America, including the New York-based FIDF, are working to ensure these soldiers receive needed support.

Support from these various organizations is key for soldiers going home for short breaks or on leave, said Dr. Eitan Kilchevsky, neonatologist from Connecticut. He and his wife Laura are longtime supporters of the FIDF. In Israel they may go home to an empty house or apartment. Some need financial assistance to purchase basic appliances, furniture, and food vouchers. In 2013, FIDF provided over 8,000 soldiers in need with necessities such as appliances, Chanukah Friendship Vouchers and furniture, according to FIDF. “We are aggressively assisting the soldiers and their families,” Eitan Kilchevsky, an IDF veteran, said.

The FIDF provides 24/7 call centers in five different languages, flights to visit family and friends abroad, as well as social gatherings and social networking.

As Operation Protective Edge continues, these support networks are more

crucial than ever, Gershon said.

“It’s FIDF’s vision to connect people to people, to support the kids in uniform. We are standing together for the soldiers during the campaign and after the campaign,” Gershon said. “These brave soldiers are pioneers connecting communities around the world. We have a slogan: ‘Watch us, we watch them.’”

FIDF will send care packages to soldiers and make sure they have everything they need. Afterwards they help send soldiers home to visit their families. The organization also works to help provide educational opportunities and post-service academic guidance, scholarships and career counseling.

Sometimes the lone soldiers simply need a place to do laundry, share a meal or a holiday. FIDF links lone soldiers with Israeli families.

“The idea is to create as close a feeling to home as possible. We facilitate communication back home, help parents here visit their kids in Israel,” Kilchevsky said. “It’s very impressive, the close relationships between the soldier and the Israeli families.”

The Jerusalem-based Association for the Wellbeing of Israel’s Soldiers,

In News AWIS, works closely with several overseas organizations. Also, in Israel, the AWIS program “Adopt-a-Battalion” links Israeli companies with combat units.

“First of all we are contributing to the welfare and wellbeing of the Israeli soldier, especially in these times,” Ilan Tal, president and CEO of AWIS, said.

“We want to show how much we appreciate what they [the soldiers] are doing.

It has nothing to do with political views – you can have leftist views and rightest views. But the soldier in the center is the

child of all of us.”

The money raised for the AWIS is used to purchase essentials for soldiers on the frontlines. Tal said they speak with commanders to find out exactly what soldiers in the field need, from sweets and shaving cream to T-shirts and socks. The packages are a morale booster, Tal said, adding that the ones containing letters from children are especially uplifting to soldiers on the lines. All together AWIS has so far gathered and donated tens of thousands of packages for combat soldiers.

“Even if those packages aren’t exactly what the soldier needs, they often include photos and a letter,” Tal said.

“It’s heartwarming to see.”

From New York, Maj. Gen. Gershon said he feels the tug of Israel now. But after serving 32 years of active duty, many commanding combat units, he said his work in New York is critical.

“I see what we are doing here and this is another front,” Gershon said. “We have a saying – their job is to look after Israel, our job is to look after them.”

The Shmira Project was recently established to connect civilians with soldiers in combat. By signing up on their

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National Protest against Anti-Semitic Performance at the Met

Facing crowds heading towards the Metropolitan Opera on West 62nd Street, two dozen members of Americans for a Safe Israel (AFSI) and JCC Watch gathered at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City last week to protest the upcoming performances of “Death of Klinghoffer” which is scheduled to open on Monday, September 22 at the Met. The protestors, who are calling for the cancellation of the program, held signs, distributed flyers to passersby and sat in two wheelchairs brought to the protest to symbolize the murder of Leon Klinghoffer who was thrown from the Achille Lauro cruise ship after its hijacking by the PLO because he was a Jew. This was the second in four protests held this week. According to AFSI member and long-time activist Glenn Richter, the purpose of the protest was to “bring moral clarity to the management of the Metropolitan Opera that anything does not go, that giving a powerful operatic voice to murderous terrorists cannot be justified, even in the name of ‘art.’” Richter asked if the Metropolitan Opera would have staged a “similar production glorifying hooded Klansmen

In News lynching an innocent black person.”

According to event organizer Helen Freedman, the executive director of AFSI, the opera “totally revises the history of the 1948 War of Independence fought by Israel against overwhelming odds. It emphasizes the displacement of the Arabs, blaming it on the Jews, when it was actually their own leadership that encouraged them to leave their homes as they were told that they would return.”

Richard Allen, the head of JCC Watch, addressed the crowd and stated, “The opera espouses incendiary anti-Semitic lies; celebrating the ‘humanity of the terrorists’ is totally unacceptable.”

One stanza from the opera from the mouths of the terrorists reads, “America is one big Jew...You are always complaining of your suffering. But wherever poor men are gathered they can find Jews getting fat. They know how to cheat the simple, exploit the virgin, pollute wherever you have exploited. Defame those you cheated, and break your own law with idolatry.”

Allen suggested that concerned individuals contact management at the Metropolitan Opera, adding, “We must understand the importance of cancelling ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ performances at the Met, especially in light of the onslaught of terrorism going on in the Middle East today.”

The groups are planning to continue protests until the opera is cancelled.

In light of the protests, a live HD broadcast to 2,000 cinemas around the world on November 15 has been cancelled. Peter Gelb, general manager at the Met, admitted, “I’m convinced that the opera is not anti-Semitic, but I’ve also become convinced that there is genuine concern in the international Jewish community that the live transmission of ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ would be inappropriate at this time of rising anti-Semitism, particularly in Europe.”

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When he opened his eyes, he saw the damage that was caused by the lightning bolts. A body boarder’s body was floating the water. Thankfully, the surfer was conscious but lifeguards had to drag him out of the water and start chest compressions to help him start breathing again.

A storm of such caliber has rarely been seen along the California coast. It was sparked by monsoon moisture and was described as very loud and bright by witnesses — and sent people scattering from the beach as lightning hit several people.

The storm managed to strike down another man, 57, at a golf course on Catalina Island off the coast, but he is in stable condition.

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Poor Doors for the Poor: Can Separate be Equal?

There’s no city like New York.

Home to the rich and poor, educated and unschooled, privileged and unprivileged.

We all share the same streets, subways, and buses. And some of us live in the same buildings—where those with more and less money in their bank accounts share the same address.

But the gaps between rich and poor in the Big Apple are becoming more and more visible, especially for some of New York’s low-income residents living in buildings that segregate them from their

rich neighbors. So-called “poor doors” (or separate entrances for poor people, usually located in the back of the building, out of view from the upper-class tenants) are increasingly common among New York’s swanky residential buildings that house the super-rich alongside a handful of low-income people in order to get tax credits from the city.

In News Brooklyn’s Bridge-gate The Stars and Stripes might end with five people wearing cuffs, if the police ever find them. New York police are looking for five young adults in connection with two mysterious white flags that fluttered atop the Brooklyn Bridge this

week. It has been reported that officers were searching for a skateboarder and four others who were either in their late teens or early 20s.

Two U.S. flags usually decorate the towers of the landmark structure, which opened in 1883, but this week stark white flags flew in their place. The banners appeared to be bleached American

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The Week flags. Security footage showed several people crossing the bridge in the early morning hours. A few minutes later, the light illuminating the flag on the bridge’s Brooklyn tower flickered and went out.

NYPD deputy commissioner for intelligence and counterterrorism John Miller held a news conference to discuss the matter. The towers’ security gates were still locked, suggesting the perpetrators were agile and may have construction experience, Miller said.

He said the bridge was seen as a prime target for acts of terrorism and was closely monitored by police. Police are looking at possibly increasing the

number of patrols and cameras on the bridge.

In April, police arrested Brendan Fagan, a street artist who goes by the alias of Judith Supine, after he installed artwork on the Queensboro Bridge farther up the East River at night.

Last week, the New York Department of Housing Preservation and Development approved a request by a swanky new condo on the Upper West Side to have a separate entrance in a back alley for its lower income residents (in New York City that means people with an annual income of $51,540 or less). The front doors, meanwhile, will be reserved for wealthy tenants only.

The proposal was part of an application for the city’s Inclusionary Housing Program, which gives tax credits and other benefits to big real estate developers in exchange for offering some affordable housing units alongside their pricey condos. The program is supposed to help alleviate the city’s overcrowding and increasingly expensive housing situation.

There are many luxury high rises in New York City that cater to wealthy people, yet also house rent-regulated

In News tenants. Some buildings offer amenities such as gyms, playgrounds and pools to only their higher-paying tenants. Developers, for their part, say that amenities are a way to lure in tenants willing to pay higher prices, and that offering those same amenities to tenants who pay far less would be problematic.

3 Officers Shot Trying to Arrest Suspect On Monday, two U.S. marshals and an NYPD detective were shot before killing a child molester who opened fire on officers in New York’s Greenwich Village.

Authorities had been searching for Charles Mozdir since 2012 and finally found him after his friend gave authorities information to lead them to his location. Apparently, the woman saw a segment about the child molester on John Walsh’s TV show “The Hunt’’ on Sunday night — and was so disgusted that she contacted authorities and gave them his cellphone number, they said.

Using cell phone technology, officers were able to track down Mozdir.

Hospital, after visiting the wounded officers.

Mozdir had been the target of a nationwide manhunt after a family friend accused him of molesting her son while the child lay sick in bed in June 2012. It was the second such case against him, investigators said, and they discovered incriminating evidence in his home.

They found his vehicle abandoned, its license plates ripped off and a container of gas inside.

But authorities were not able to locate the madman for years. They knew he had extensive search-and-rescue training, was capable of living off the land and was familiar with firearms. He had at least one gun registered to him and another in his possession. He also dramatically changed his appearance, growing a beard to hide his face.

The City of Happiness They say that happiness is in your state of mind, but sometimes it also helps to be in the right city. Researchers at the University of British Columbia and Harvard University used information from the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research for a study that ranked happiness levels in cities across America.

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When authorities rushed in to take down the child molester, the 32-year-old reached under the counter where he was working and pulled out a gun, shooting at police.

“I heard the screaming,’’ said tattoo artist Dong Hwan Kim, 30, who works nearby. “[The detective] came out holding his belly. Other guys were holding it, too.”

The two U.S. marshals, Pat Lin and Ryan Westfield, also were wounded but they still got off about 10 shots at Mozdir, hitting him seven or eight times and killing him.

Mozdir “had 20 additional rounds of ammunition in his pocket,” said NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton at Bellevue

Where do residents have smiles plastered on their faces? Turns out that Lafayette, Louisiana, is the happiest city around. And speaking of Louisiana, if you know someone from that state, chances are they are probably pretty happy; 6 of the 10 happiest cities in America are in the Pelican State.

Corpus Christi, TX; Nashville, TN; and Fort Walton Beach, FL, all made it to the top ten happiest cities around as well.

Perhaps the most shocking revelation of this study is the unhappiest city in the nation. Yes, residents of the Big Apple seem to have a large cloud looming overhead. They suffer from severe traffic, rough weather, and extremely high living expenses. Even so, cheer

up, New Yorkers, you have so many job opportunities, a high average income, and rich culture, art, and entertainment to make you happy. And you also have a great mayor!

Other cities that came out on the unhappy list include South Bend, IN; Detroit, MI; and Jersey City, NJ.

Nazi Dies before Extradition

Breyer’s arrest in June 2013 under revised laws that allow Nazi guards to be charged with accessory to murder even without proof they took part in the killings, because the camps’ sole function was to kill people, especially those witnessing their crimes. The warrant accused Breyer of 158 counts of accessory to murder — one count for each trainload of victims brought to the Auschwitz death camp in occupied Poland from May to October 1944, when Breyer was a guard there.

Boston Bomber’s Gun Resurfaces

Hours before being told that he was to be extradited to Germany to face trial, an 89-year-old Nazi war crimes suspect died in custody. Johann Breyer died at a Philadelphia hospital where he was being treated after a month in jail, his lawyer and the U.S. Marshals Service said. His death was disclosed just as U.S. Magistrate Timothy Rice approved the extradition request, which would have needed final U.S. government review.

Rice found probable cause that Breyer was the person being sought by German authorities over his suspected service as an SS guard at Auschwitz during World War II. “No statute of limitations offers a safe haven for murder,” he wrote in his ruling.

U.S. marshals had arrested Breyer in June outside his home in Philadelphia.

He was facing charges of aiding in the killing of 216,000 Jewish men, women and children at a Nazi death camp. “As outlined by Germany, a death camp guard such as Breyer could not have served at Auschwitz during the peak of the Nazi reign of terror in 1944 without knowing that hundreds of thousands of human beings were being brutally slaughtered in gas chambers and then burned on site,” Rice wrote.

Breyer claimed he was unaware of the massive slaughter at Auschwitz and that he did not participate in it, but “the German allegations belie his claims,” the judge wrote.

German authorities in the Bavarian town of Weiden issued a warrant for

Since the Boston Marathon bombing, police and the public at large have all wondered where the suspects got their gun. The weapon in question is the one used to shoot and kill a university police officer.

Answers may come soon with the arrest of a friend of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev who some say was the source of the weapon. Stephen Silva made an initial appearance this week in federal court on charges related to heroin trafficking and possession of a handgun with an obliterated serial number.

According to people familiar with the case, the 9mm Rugger pistol described in the indictment is the same handgun that was used to kill Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier. The grand jury indictment, which was filed July 15, does not mention Collier’s slaying or any connection to Tsarnaev.

The origin of the gun was among the remaining mysteries of the investigation into the April 2013 Boston Marathon attack, in which three people were killed and more than 260 were injured when twin bombs exploded near the finish line.

Collier, 26, was ambushed several days later and shot multiple times in his car.

Stephen Silva’s twin brother, who has a very similar name, Steven Silva, is widely identified as one of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s closest childhood friends, and the pair attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth together. The twins both attended the University of Massachusetts Boston in the past year.

Steven Silva was also close friends with three UMass Dartmouth friends of Tsarnaev: Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, who are charged in federal court with interfering with the bombing investigation, and Robel Phillipos, who is charged with lying to investigators.

In News Underwear Bomber’s Faux Pas Personal hygiene or lack thereof is the miracle that saved 290 passengers aboard a Northwest Airlines flight in 2009.

It recently was reported that the suicide bomber who boarded the flight with an explosive smuggled in his undergarments failed to detonate the bomb because he was wearing the same pair of undergarments for two weeks and the device became soiled.

TSA officials say that the explosives in Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s under-

pants caught fire when he tried to set it off on the descent to Detroit Metropolitan Airport aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on December 25 but the device was “degraded.”

TSA administrator John Pistole discussed the failed bomb at the Aspen Institute on Thursday. “Thank goodness for bad hygiene,” moderator Catherine Herridge remarked.

The Nigerian bomber traveled for two whole weeks, from Yemen to Africa to the Netherlands and then to Michigan, with the bomb stuffed in his undergarments. According to authorities, Abdulmutallab hoped to have the bomb go off somewhere over the U.S. by injecting a syringe full of chemicals into it, but it only sparked a small fire in his pants. The fire was easily extinguished, but had it exploded, it could have killed the plane’s 290 passengers and crew members.

Abdulmutallab, 27, pleaded guilty in 2012 and was sentenced to life in prison. He’s being held at the super-maximum security United States Penitentiary Florence ADMAX in Colorado.

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The Week Amish Learn about Outside World While Behind Bars When the Amish are forced to go to prison, they get a real education.

Amish farmer Raymond Miller developed a taste for Mountain Dew soda, got his GED, and wonders if he should get a pool table after learning to play behind prison walls. His wife, Kathryn, who had never ridden a public bus before boarding one last year to go to prison for forcibly cutting the hair of her relatives, was introduced to yoga and step classes while behind bars.

Their stint in prison may have changed the Millers forever. They are members of an Amish breakaway sect from eastern Ohio at the center of the shocking 2011 hair cutting attacks on other Amish followers. After sitting in prison for a year, they are now trying to settle back into life at home after being exposed in prison to a world their religion is focused on locking out.

The Amish shun modern technology and regard beards for adult men and uncut hair for married women as sacred.

In Bergholz, where the Millers live, they are Old Order, which means no electricity or telephone lines are allowed into their house.

But Raymond, 29, is on probation and needs to place a daily call to his probation officer. He also wears an electronic ankle monitor while harvesting hay. “I’m ready to get rid of it,” Raymond said of the telephone installed in his home. “We get salesman calls about electric bills and they don’t believe that we don’t have an electric bill.”

The Millers were part of a group of 16 Amish from Bergholz who were convicted in late 2012 of hate crimes for the hair-cutting attacks. The victims included Raymond Miller’s parents. Prosecutors said the attacks were intended to humiliate and were carried out in retaliation for personal and spiritual disagreements that Bergholz’s bishop and leader Sam Mullet had with Amish in other groups. Mullet, who was portrayed as extremely authoritarian, is serving 15

years as mastermind of the attacks.

One thing both of the Millers had to get accustomed to in prison was the concept of free time, something the Amish do not have a lot of at home.

“I read, played softball and played pool. I liked pool and I was pretty good at it,” Raymond said.

“I think we could get a pool table at Sam’s,” he said, referring to Mullet’s home, which has a large meeting room for church services. “I think it would be alright.”

Kathryn, 25, who also learned the game, shook her head ‘no’ in the background. “I like to play pool but we are not allowed to play pool here,” Kathryn said. “The girls in prison gave me a hard time that I was gambling.”

Raymond lost weight in prison because he did not like the food but says he did develop a liking for Mountain Dew. Kathryn said she wore a smaller head covering than her typical Amish bonnet while in prison, along with long brown dresses. She uses prison slang and referred to fellow prisoners as “cellies” and “bunkies” and talked about the SHU, or solitary housing unit. “I didn’t feel like I was Amish,” she admitted.

She also discovered yoga and step classes behind bars.

The Millers said they do not regret going to trial but do not believe it was fair and are appealing their convictions. “We really didn’t have a jury of our peers,” Raymond said. “They don’t know about the Amish, the lifestyle.”

That’s Odd A Yankees Fan and a Red Sox Fan’s Friendship Rings True

Despite the age-old conflict between the Yankees and the Red Sox, a Yankees fan found it in his heart to make a Red Sox fan happy last week.

In News On Thursday night, Manhattan restaurant owner Luigi Militello could hardly believe his eyes when he found a shiny 2013 championship ring on a restroom sink at his Luke’s Bar and Grill.

This wasn’t a cheap ring winking on the dark sink. It was the real thing, with diamonds and sapphires and rubies, set in 14-carat white gold, with the Red Sox emblem, a Boston Strong logo and an image of the team’s bearded ballplayers.

“I was like…it’s big. Who would leave this here?” Militello recalled. “I’m a big Yankees fan. What are the chances of this happening?”

Drew Weber had dined at the restaurant earlier; it’s one of his favorite spots.

Weber is a New York businessman and also owns the Lowell Spinners, a thriving Red Sox Class A minor league team in Massachusetts. Big league teams often reward executives throughout their organization with World Series rings.

The Red Sox haven’t put a value on these pieces of jewelry — the rings they presented for winning the 2004 crown were worth about $30,000.

Because of its value, this was the first time Weber wore the ring outside.

After noticing its absence, “I went looking around my apartment and started having palpitations. Sweat was pouring off my forehead,” he said. “I’m looking at my finger and it’s not there.”

In desperation, he called Luke’s after midnight. Militello answered the phone and calmed him down. He told him he found the ring. “But this being Yankees-Red Sox, I started razzing him.

I told him he wasn’t getting it so easily.

I was playing with him, a lot,” Militello said.

Weber says, “I was like, ‘Who am I dealing with?’”

But despite differing allegiances, the pair quickly put aside their rooting interests, met the next day at the restaurant, returned the ring and spent 25 minutes talking baseball. Militello was insistent that he wouldn’t accept any money. As a reward, he tried to persuade Weber to call into a local sports radio show and disparage the Red Sox, but that didn’t work.

Instead, Weber and the Red Sox have invited Militello to make his first trip to Fenway Park for the regular-season finale on September 28. That game is sure to be a real prize. It’s also scheduled to be the final game for retiring Yankees star Derek Jeter. “Going for his sendoff, that’s pretty great,” Militello said.

“He asked if he could wear his Yankees paraphernalia,” Weber kidded. “I couldn’t answer him.”

“The ring and Drew Weber have

learned their lesson,” he laughed. “That ring is going on no more road trips.”

Speeding to Prison Ever get pulled over for speeding?

Well, here’s something you shouldn’t do if you are pulled over by a cop: call in a fake shooting.

Julius Lupowitz never got this memo and when he was pulled over by a police officer on Thursday in Florida, the 52-year-old called 911 when the officer turned away.

“There’s definitely someone going to get shot. Please, please. Wingate and Hollywood. Please,” he pleaded to the 911 operator. “There’s a man with a gun.

I see him looking at me but I don’t think he sees I’m on a cell phone. I swear I’m so scared I might get killed myself.

Please.”

After receiving the call, officers were dispatched to the scene, but Lupowitz’s scheme didn’t turn out as he wished: the officer who pulled him over for speeding stayed nearby and was alerted by other officers that Mr. Lupowitz was the one who placed the fake call.

“Our officer was standing at the door of Mr. Lupowitz’s vehicle and realized, at that point, that this was the same person that was making the 911 calls,” said Lt. Cordeau.

So, now, instead of a $200 traffic ticket, Lupowitz is speeding off to jail and facing a felony charge with a fiveyear maximum prison term.

Points are Flying from Sale of the Chicken Cup

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The Week lectors, bought a rare Ming dynasty porcelain cup at auction from Sotheby’s in Hong Kong. The 500-year-old “Chicken cup” is one of only 17 in existence and fetched a record sum: $36 million.

Wondering how he footed the bill? He paid with his American Express Centurion Card, more commonly known as the Black Card, earning himself 422,860,000 rewards points.

Wonder how many times he can fly to Israel and back with those points.

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spirits.

Some of the groom’s ancestors are buried in the cemetery. The excited Oliver said, “It’s not at all creepy; we have thousands of witnesses — both alive and dead!”

The couple married earlier this year in a small ceremony in Pennsylvania.

However, they wanted to hold another wedding affair so friends and family could bear witness. The ceremony took place in the Forest Lawn Cemetery chapel, an ornate 101-year-old chapel decorated with granite, marble, brass, stained glass and mosaic tiles. Guests traveled more than 6,000 miles from three different continents to attend the July 19th wedding.

This gives “till death do us part” a very raw meaning.

$20M Lotto Helps Family Ravaged by Sandy Janyl Jumadinova and Oliver Bonham-Carter chose an interesting venue for their July nuptials. The Nebraska couple got married in Forest Lawn Cemetery, the largest cemetery in Omaha. Of course, they were surrounded by their beloved family and friends, plus about another 100,000 souls buried in the 349-acre cemetery.

Janyl, the bride, is from Kyrgyzstan.

In her culture, there is a strong belief in

In a wonderful twist of fate, a large family that lived at the shore and suffered losses during Hurricane Sandy celebrated the news of a $20 million lot-

tery win last week.

Members of the Endreson family, with 17 siblings ranging in age from 53 to 76, will share in the spoils of the win.

The New Jersey Pick-6 prize will also be shared with three children of a brother who died a few years ago.

John Endreson, 69, became emotional when he described rebuilding his home after Sandy ripped through the area in October 2012. “The hardest part was seeing other people that were devastated,” he said. “I was able to redo my house and help my family and my brothers. I was quite fortunate. I just feel so lucky. And this is just the icing on the cake.”

Another sibling described how their late mother started playing the lottery regularly years ago and would always say that all her children would get a piece of the winnings.

Faith Schiabor related how she got the news from one of her sisters who had bought the winning ticket. “I got this frantic phone call,” she said. “She said, ‘Are you sitting down?’ I thought someone was hurt.”

Her sister Sigrid told reporters that she bought the tickets and then forgot about them for about two weeks before going down to a supermarket to check them. When one came back with the message, “see cashier,” she ran it through again before taking it up to the window and getting the good news. “I started to cry,” she said. “I called my sis-

ter to come get me. I didn’t think I was going to make it. I said, ‘I think I won the lottery.’”

The lucky family decided to take a lump sum payment of $14 million, which is worth about $10 million after taxes.

“It’s going to help the family; it’s going to help Ocean County,” Schiabor said. “It’s just a great pick-me-up for all of us.”

He Doesn’t Take His Job Sitting Down Robert Samuel is a stand-up guy. In fact, he loves to stand—in lines, that is.

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He waits for anything—for Cronuts, for iPhones, for tickets for a show—for his clients. The price of waiting doesn’t come cheap. Samuel charges $25 for the first hour and $10 for each additional half hour. In one week, he can make up to $1,000.

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Samuel got into this business two years ago, when he lost his job as an AT&T sales representative and needed a new way to make extra cash. When the iPhone 5 came out, he put an advertisement on Craigslist offering to wait in line for it for $100. Hours before he purchased the iPhone, Samuel’s original customer cancelled on him, but decided to pay him anyway. Samuel was ready to leave the line, but decided to resell his spot.

By 8 a.m. the next day, after 19 hours of waiting, the entrepreneur had earned $325 from selling his spot, inviting his friends to come down and sell their spots, and selling milk crates for $5 a piece to people who were tired of standing.

After finding the cost of standing in line to be lucrative, Samuel founded SOLD in December 2012. He still keeps

his day job—as a concierge for a luxury building in Brooklyn—but hopes that SOLD will eventually become more solid employment.

High-paying gigs began to roll in when the Cronut craze started last summer in New York City. For $60, Samuel and his line waiters offered to pick up two of the delicious pastries and deliver them straight to their clients. From this service alone, SOLD Inc. would make upwards of $240 per week.

Surprisingly, not all of Samuel’s clients are rich. “It’s all everyday people,” he says. “Sometimes I get a customer who can’t get out of work on time to wait for a movie premiere, or somebody on the Upper East Side who really wants a new Xbox but doesn’t want to stand in the cold for seven hours before it goes on sale. It’s a whole medley.”

In fact, the ever-moving Samuel works a line even when he’s not waiting on it. “I’m very grassroots,” he explains. “When there’s a line that goes around the block, I go and work the line.” When he approaches people, he asks them, “Are you hot, tired? Don’t want to do this again? I’ll do it for you.”

Samuel believes there’s no such thing as over-promotion. “You have to consider everybody as a potential customer,” he says. “Even if they don’t take the card, I’ll tell them our name. They can’t unhear it, so I’ll be as vocal as possible. That’s business for us in the long run.”

Samuel, we’re totally SOLD.

No Loud Americans Allowed

ville, a village on Ireland southern coast below Killarney when he came upon Peter’s Place Café and the sign. “It seems like a guy who is running a place very much in his way, and he serves who he wants to and that’s the way of it,” Campbell said. “I would have thought if it said no Africans, it would have caused a very different sort of trouble. It’s a bit much.”

The sign was especially surprising since the area relies heavily on tourism.

“What surprised me is that nobody from the local community had asked him to take it down, because, goodness, it’s not a very welcoming thing when people are traveling around,” he said.

“We’re all very happy to see Americans come – so many of you have origins of some sort in Ireland – and we like you to come spend your dollars. You’re as welcome as are the flowers in May. So it’s not good to see somebody putting something like that up.”

Ireland hosted more than one million American visitors who spent about $1 billion in 2013, and American tourists tend to stay longer and spend more than the average tourist. “The United States continues to be one of the strongest markets for tourism to the island of Ireland.

2013 was a record year for American visitors to Ireland – even surpassing our previous best year of 2007,” Tourism Ireland CEO Niall Gibbons pointed out.

“We are determined to ensure the success continues.”

Locals share that sentiment, with Niall O’Driscoll tweeting out in response to Campbell’s photo, “Sorry you had to see that. I’m from Cahersiveen, the town before Waterville, and we welcome all Americans loud or quiet.”

I’d say Americans better steer clear of Peter’s Place. I am sure there are pubs around that will welcome you— and your dollars.

In News it may be a simple surgery but once we opened it there were multiple pearl-like teeth inside the jaw bone,” she said.

After removing those, they also found a larger “marble-like” structure which they struggled to shift and eventually had to “chisel out” and remove in fragments, she added.

The youngster’s father, Suresh Gavai, said that the family had been worried that Ashik’s swelling was a cancerous growth. “I was worried that it may turn out to be cancer so I brought him to Mumbai,” Gavai told the Mumbai Mirror newspaper.

Dhivare-Palwankar said the literature they had come across on the condition showed a maximum of 37 teeth being removed in such a procedure, whereas she and her team had counted more than 232 taken from Gavai’s mouth. “I think it could be a world record,” she said.

Gavai’s jawbone structure was maintained during the operation so it should heal without any deformities, the surgeon added.

Sounds like a mouthful.

The Garbage Gourmands

232 Teeth Removed from Teen’s Mouth Despite a busy tourist season in Ireland, one café in the south displayed a sign prohibiting Americans from entering the Peter’s Place Café. “No bus/ coach or, loud American’s [sic]. Thank you.”

“I was a bit taken aback,” Maurice Campbell said, after he posted an image of the sign on Twitter. “I mentioned it to them and said it was a very strange sign, and he [the owner] just sort of looked at me.”

Campbell was vacationing in Water-

In a world record operation, surgeons in Mumbai have removed 232 teeth from the mouth of an Indian teenager.

Ashik Gavai, 17, sought medical help for a swelling on the right side of his lower jaw and the case was referred to the city’s JJ Hospital, where they found he was suffering from a condition known as complex odontoma, head of dentistry Sunanda Dhivare-Palwankar explained.

“We operated on Monday and it took us almost seven hours. We thought

Want a delicious meal? Have some garbage.

Although it may sound more than weird, a food-focused innovator and his chef allies are turning trash-bound ingredients into elegant meals, served to

guests in a cleaned-up dumpster.

“If it’s edible and you can eat it, we should be using it to feed people,” said Josh Treuhaft, who created the Salvage Supperclub after studying how to reduce massive food waste.

The 30-year-old recent School of Visual Arts graduate partnered with Natural Gourmet Institute chefs in March to hold the first supperclub in a Chelsea studio. They’ve now run five dinners, the last two held in an industrial dumpster in Williamsburg.

The 16-person feasts showcase chronically unloved ingredients in gourmet dishes. Chef Celia Lam has mashed disgusting-looking black peel bananas with coconut milk for tasty custards, pureed the greens from rubbery carrots for pesto and juiced bruised apples for sorbets. Purple kale stems get pickled for garnishes. Cracked heirloom tomatoes are boiled, skinned and blended into a summer gazpacho.

“It’s not something that’s very complicated,” said Lam, who hopes to encourage people to use more of their food. “Pickling is easy to do. Pesto is easy to do.”

So how do you know when garbage really is meant for the trash and not your plate? The key is to realize there’s a difference between normal breakdown and the dangerous bacteria from mishandling that can make you sick, Treuhaft and Lam said.

The duo doesn’t just focus on what’s on the menu. The ambiance is key, too. The dumpster dining room was designed to drive home the pair’s sustainability theme. Treuhaft uses materials donated by Build It Green! NYC, a Gowanus-based building supply store that sells salvaged materials. Even the water glasses come from old wine bottles.

Although New Yorkers are generally blasé about most crazy things they witness in their city, the garbage gourmands have raised eyebrows and a few complaints from passersby, Treuhaft said, like the woman who thought it was an insult to homeless people who scavenge for food.

“I was taken aback since that was never an angle I had considered,” Treuhaft said. “But when I explained what the salvage supperclub was actually about, she totally lit up.”

“Anyone can do this,” Treuhaft said.

“You could get together with friends on a Sunday and bring things from your refrigerator and have a great meal.”

From garbage to gourmet…hmmm, I think I’ll pass.

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CCHF to Present “The Last Tisha B’Av” World Event Klal Yisrael’s history in golus has been a roller coaster: peak eras of achievement, inevitably followed by dark valleys of incomprehensible suffering. Today, only 70 years after the Holocaust blotted out 6 million innocent Jewish lives and swept away thousands of Europe’s communities, the makings of a new downward spiral are already plain to see.

Anti-Jewish sentiment is once again being heard in Europe. Many Jews are forced to flee to Israel or hide their Jewishness in public. The Mideast is exploding in civil wars among fanatical groups who are united only in their hatred for the land of Israel and the Jewish people.

Israel’s hostile neighbors are stocking up with powerful weapons of destruction. History is playing itself out before our eyes. The geulah cannot wait.

And there is something we can do to stop this dangerous momentum. In the Chofetz Chaim’s times, as the world edged toward the abyss, he taught that

shmiras haloshon has the power to bring the geulah. He laid out the halachos of this mitzvah for everyone to learn and begged with all the ahavas Yisrael in his heart for Klal Yisrael to grasp this life raft. It was a message for all times.

Nevertheless, 2,000 years after the churban, the struggle against loshon hora is still going strong. The gap between understanding the importance of Shmiras Haloshon and making it a way of life seems too vast to close, even with the great wave of effort and learning that has gathered momentum in recent decades.

At this year’s World-Wide Tisha B’Av Event’s two programs, sponsored by the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation, tens of thousands of Jews will hear riveting presentations that will urge participants to realize that the gap is not large at all. In fact, it is only as large as each person allows it to be, because every Jew has the power to choose the words he speaks.

Program A offers the inimitable presentations by Rabbi Paysach Krohn and Rabbi Zev Leff who will rouse 50,000 participants in 700 gatherings in 16 countries around the world to view Shmiras Haloshon as the vital, non-negotiable and doable mitzvah that is has always been.

They urge their audiences to look inside themselves, identify and overcome all obstacles that distance them from this mitzvah. Each speaker offers concrete steps to take to ensure that this Tisha B’Av, the participants’ awakening will result in long-lasting change.

Program B features world renowned speakers: Rabbi Jonathan Rietti and Charlie Harary. These two dynamic lecturers offer a masterful presentation examining the divisive nature of negative speech and the manner in which it destroys unity. With their own unique and powerful style these lecturers leave an indelible message about the evil force exerted by loshon hora, which propels

Klal Yisroel to danger and destruction.

The two segments come together in one event that will open participants’ eyes to the internal battle between golus and geulah which plays out in the everyday lives of the Jewish people. Although Hashem promises that ultimately the side of geulah will win, the length and difficulty of the battle lies with choices of each Jew. With the inspiration flowing from this year’s event, participants will be energized to join the battle wholeheartedly and add their own special strength to the winning side.

Now is the time to ride this momentum all the way to the finish line, all the way to the geulah that looms just over the horizon.

This year, this Tisha B’Av, join together with Jews in every corner of the world to make a commitment to a life of Shmiras Haloshon and a world of peace and brocha. One day, we will have our last Tisha B’Av in golus. Why not do all we can to make it this one?

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Around the Community Positive Beginnings Preschool Positive Beginnings Preschool is a program that provides educational and therapeutic services for children three to five years of age who are typically developing as well as those children who have special needs. The school has been granted a New York State Education Department award as an Outstanding Early Childhood Program. Services are provided at two locations, one in Flushing at 71-25 Main Street and one in Middle Village at 72-52 Metropolitan Avenue.

In addition, Positive Beginnings Evaluation Center, located at 72-60 Metropolitan Avenue in Middle Village, provides full evaluations for children who speak English, Spanish, Hebrew, Russian and Chinese. Special Education and Therapeutic Services are also provided in these languages.

Classroom instruction is provided in self-contained classes of 12 students with one dually certified teacher and two teaching assistants who are certified by the NYS Education Department.

Also provided are integrated classes and Universal Preschool classrooms. Educational Curriculum follows all New York State guidelines for preschool and is supplemented by programs such as music, art, science, library, parent programs, literacy and social skills training.

Related services are provided for speech and language, occupational therapy, physical therapy and counseling/play therapy.

Beginning in September 2014, both the Flushing and Middle Village sites

will be providing full day and half day UPK classes with an option for extended hours.

Flushing: UPK classes are free of charge to parents for children born in 2010 Full Day UPK classes are 6 hours 20 minutes and half day UPK classes are 2.5 hours Extended hours will be available at parents’ expense specifically to provide Judaic studies in a neighborhood friendly atmosphere to instruct children in Judaic observances, tefilla, brachos, parsha and Judaic culture and history.

Middle Village: UPK hours are free of charge to parents for children born in 2010 Full Day UPK classes are 6 hours 20 minutes and half day UPK classes are 2.5 hours Extended hours will be available at parents’ expense Positive Beginnings is a New York State Department of Education, the New York City Board of Education and Department of Health licensed program subject to and adhering to all requirements and regulations provided by these organizations.

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For more than a decade, and especially throughout the ongoing Operation Protective Edge, Israeli families in the south of the country have been living under an extremely difficult reality. The situation is difficult emotionally, but it has been difficult from an economic perspective as well.

As technological entrepreneurs, we are always thinking about how technology can make lives easier, and together with Elevator and Latet, we created the website, www.isupportisrael. org. This website enables you to easily ship food packages from “the south to the south”— from small businesses in the south of the country to those families who need it most in the same region

who are living under the constant threat of fire and suffer from food insecurity.

Together with the Latet organization, food and products purchased from stores in southern Israel which have received little to no business, will be sent to those Israelis in need.

As of this moment, the reception has been quite amazing. In less than 96 hours, we have crossed the $35K mark, and have already started purchasing goods and delivering them.​People from all around the globe have joined in this unique effort to feed the needy and support those financially affected businesses in the southern region of war-stricken Israel today.

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Yeshiva University Appoints Woodsburgh Resident Jacob Harman Vice President of Business Affairs and Chief Financial Officer Yeshiva University President Richard M. Joel recently announced the appointment of Woodsburgh resident Jacob “Jake” Harman as the new Vice

President of Business Affairs and Chief Financial Officer.

“We are excited to make this announcement as Jake brings to YU a deep

skill-set with more than 35 years of experience and expertise as a seasoned well-rounded financial executive,” said President Joel. “We are confident that

Jake will provide new energy, focus, and commitment to YU’s finance operations at this important juncture in the University’s development of a longterm sustainable business model.”

Harman will lead the University’s finance functions and play an integral role in developing and implementing financial and operational plans to support and meet the strategic goals set by the University. He will serve on the executive cabinet and work closely with Senior Vice President Josh Joseph on numerous strategic initiatives.

“Yeshiva University is a terrific organization that plays an important role in our community at large,” said Harman. “I look forward to working with leadership in developing and implementing financial plans to support the University’s strategic objectives.”

Prior to joining YU, Harman spent his career at KPMG where he most recently served as a senior audit partner in the firm’s Office of General Counsel.

Previously, he was a partner in several areas of KMPG’s activities, including its Assurance, Forensic, and Mergers and Acquisition Practices. Harman is a certified public accountant and holds a Bachelor of Science degree with a concentration in accounting from Brooklyn College. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, and was recently elected to the Board of Trustees of the Village of Woodsburgh, New York.

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The Fun Never Stops at Camp Atara

Food For Thought More than Satisfies Never let it be said that Food For Thought is staid and dull adult fare. On July 23, Cravingz Café was filled to capacity again, but this time, with moms working industriously alongside their four- and seven-year olds (and ages in between and above) on art projects. In one of the accompanying pictures, you can see the artist, Jessica Vaiselberg, who teaches art for adults and children and has summer specials going. The man behind the counter should not be left out. Week after week, he graciously serves free coffee and some kind of pastry to one and

all. That smiling owner is Ira Kurman.

On August 6, Dr. Deb will be speaking on “Mars and Venus Secrets Revealed.”

The crowd was fascinated with Andrew Kahn, owner of the Peaceful Presence Yoga studio, earlier this month, so we’ve invited him back in August. Also new in August will be Rivka Fuchs speaking on why ordinary weight loss does not work; learn why a holistic approach will work. Then Jessica again, with another fascinating art project. My own drawing of a vase with flowers still hangs on my fridge from two months ago!

Despite Rockets and Sirens, Dirshu Tests in Full Swing across Israel By: Shimmy Blum All of Israel – and the southern region in particular – has in recent weeks lived under the frightening reality of rockets, mortars, sirens and shelters.

However, none of that sufficed to dent the dedicated Torah learning of the thousands of participants in the Dirshu program across the country. Last Thursday and Friday, Dirshu’s testing on the Daf HaYomi B’Halacha took place – serving as a refreshing beacon of light amidst the darkness.

At testing locations across the country, tests on the revolutionary daily halacha program took place – on schedule, in every location. Most notably, there was no change in location or schedule in Sderot, Ashkelon, Ashdod and other areas in the line of the heaviest Hamas fire.

Rabbi Avraham Schwartzman, menahel of the Dirshu Testing Program, admits that even he and other Dirshu organizers were surprised. “Initially, we expected to need to reduce the number of seats at the location, and/or move them to special protected locations,” he says. “When we received scores of phone calls asking whether the tests

will be held as per plan, we realized that would not be the case.”

The testing locations were equipped with accessible shelters in case of need, but none were moved to a particular safe zone. Other than the few Dirshu participants who abandoned the city during the turmoil, virtually all Daf HaYomi B’Halacha participants showed up to take the tests – many with their young children in tow – more eager and determined than ever.

Dirshu considered all the logistics necessary in order for the tests and proctors to make it to the war-torn region in time – and, baruch Hashem, succeeded.

Many had to be sent early. Several locations are not being serviced by regular shipping services, and Dirshu needed to arrange its own special transportation.

Watching the yungerleit take the tests in spite of all that’s going on around them was a sight to behold, and an inspiration to all. “At this test, we saw that the true war we are fighting is the milchamta shel Torah,” says Rabbi Schwartzman. “Our response to the rockets and sirens is a strengthening of limud HaTorah – with lots of mesiras nefesh.”

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Gesher Expansion and Relocation to North Woodmere

Assemblyman Goldfeder Stands with Israel at New York City Rally Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D- Far Rockaway) joined with thousands gathered in midtown Manhattan to show solidarity and support for Israel at a rally organized and coordinated by the UJA Federation and the Jewish Community Relations Council of NY.

Assemblyman Goldfeder discussing the situation in Israel with Richard M. Joel, President of Yeshiva University

Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder and Five Towns Assembly Candidate Todd Kaminsky speak with Rabbi Shay Schechter, Assistant Rabbi at Congregation Knesseth Israel (The White Shul)

Any school administrator will tell you that a great school year doesn’t happen by itself. It is through the summer months of planning that success is created.

That is especially true of the Gesher Early Childhood Center. The unique level of individualization at Gesher demands much preparation. And the success is apparent. Without adding grade levels, Gesher has tripled in size since its inception just two years ago.

During that time, many important milestones have been realized. Gesher has developed strong working relationships with all of the local yeshiva day schools. Those lines of communication are invaluable as many Gesher students transition into the yeshiva of their choice in the coming year.

The staff and administration of Gesher have earned the trust and respect of the local school districts. This relationship greatly enhances the implementation of related services.

And with its steady internal growth, Gesher is able to create an infrastructure that can better serve the community.

Perhaps the biggest milestone is that Gesher has “outgrown” its current home. After much deliberation, Gesher has arranged for its relocation to North Woodmere. The preschool facility at Congregation Ohr Torah is a perfect

setting to support Gesher’s continuing growth.

As part of that process, Gesher has connected to the NYS Education Department in Albany. The managing agent at NYSED was extremely impressed with the Gesher model and philosophy.

“It is a very exciting development,” says Mrs. Chava Bodner, founder and director of Gesher, about moving out of Hewlett. “The Yeshiva of South Shore has been much more than a host. The hanhala has been very supportive of our mission from the beginning. It is very unusual that they invited a school to develop inside their school. That is a testimony to their vision as educators.”

She continued, “We are very grateful, especially to Rabbi Dovid Kramer for all of his advice and guidance. And to Morah Elana Fertig and her entire preschool staff who were always so welcoming and professional. Their reputation for excellence is well deserved.”

As the population of younger families continues to grow in North Woodmere, Gesher expects that its contribution to the neighborhood will be notable.

“Being more independent provides us with the opportunity to do more for the overall community. We are looking forward to implementing more services and ideas in the very near future.”

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The Aussie Gourmet Leads Global Culinary Tour at Gourmet Glatt Dozens of participants joined super chef Naomi Nachman – aka the Aussie Gourmet – at Gourmet Glatt this week for an exciting 4-day international culinary journey. At each of three hour cooking demos – which ran from Monday, July 28 through Thursday, July 31— Naomi prepared an array of fabulous dairy and parve dishes representing some of the world’s most popular cuisines, including Italian, Thai, Mexican, Indian, Israeli and more.

Naomi stayed on after each demo to answer questions about the day’s presentation – and general cooking queries.

“This has been an amazing experience,” says Naomi. “The women were all extremely engaged; some went straight home and prepared the day’s recipes for dinner. The next day, they brought pictures to show me how the dishes had turned out!”

“The response has really been very rewarding,” Naomi added.

More Fun for Camp Areivim Freshies This week was “the Fifth Day of Creation” for Camp Areivim Freshies, when Hashem created the fish, birds and bugs. We did lots of fun activities to correspond to the theme. In the art room, the boys made their own aquarium diorama. Monday was an amazing “Bug Bonanza Scavenger Hunt!” The boys took their magnifying glasses out to the huge fields and searched for bugs! They were thrilled when they succeeded in finding the plastic bugs that were spread out as well as some real bugs!

Tuesday was Fish Day. The boys went

swimming with (plastic) fish! What fun. Wednesday brought our amazing Bubble Show with Silly Sally! On Thursday, we made awesome edible nests!

The fun never stops at Camp Areivim Freshies!

Wrapping Up an Inspiring Gift Drive “Often it’s the smallest things that take up the most room in our hearts.”

This valuable insight became the inspiration and motivation behind a grass-roots proposal for a very unique Gift Drive.

“I had always wanted to get involved with the Lev Leytzan organization but I just didn’t have the time available to commit to the training,” said Sara Silverstein, a senior at North Shore Hebrew Academy. Sarah came up with an idea that would allow her to participate in the cause she was so passionate about in her own way. She approached Neal Goldberg, founder/director of Lev Leytzan: The Heart of Therapeutic Clowning, Inc. with an exciting proposal.

The plan was to organize an operation that would collect small gifts from youth across the Five Towns. Participants would be able to deposit the items into bins strategically placed in and around schools and community centers.

With the help of fellow volunteers, the donated items would be collected and finally distributed to individual patients via Lev Leytzan’s new “Medical Clowns on Rounds” homebound program.

Lev Leytzan: Medical Clowns on Rounds is a new initiative, expanding the organization’s services and reach. After more than ten years of working primarily in medical facilities, Lev Leytzan now brings therapeutic medical clowning into homes of those in need, focusing on the homebound elderly and children that have been recently discharged from the hospital.

“The concept is to ‘give back’ to our local community,” said Neal Goldberg, Ph.D., founder and Executive Director of Lev Leytzan. He continued, “Medical Clowns on Rounds will allow us to

extend our services beyond medical facilities. These home visits will allow us to bring magical moments to those who may otherwise feel isolated or alone in battling their disability or illness.”

At the conclusion of the collecting period, the gifts were gathered and assorted. All kinds of thoughtful gifts were donated, such as pairs of new cozy slippers, board games, books, beauty kits and fun projects to name a few. “We loved the idea Sara brought forward and were proud to be chosen as a partner and facilitator in this wonderful campaign,” said Noah Gordon, Director of Development at Lev Leytzan, who happily admits, “We were all stunned with the immense outpouring of support and participation.”

To all who participated and to the Gift Drive committee, Sara Silverstein, Avi Nessim [Brandeis], Karen Nessim [Brandeis], Rafi Winkler [YFR] and Kayla Mansbach, congratulations on making this chesed initiative the huge success it was! Job well done!

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Tehillim Gathering at the Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst PHOTO CREDITS: IVAN H NORMAN

Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum

Rabbi Hershel Billet

Rav Menachem Mendel Blachman, associate rosh hayeshiva of Yeshiva Kerem B’Yavneh

The Fun Never Stops—and Has Only Begun—at Orah Day Camp If you are looking for “up” to the minute fun this summer, it’s not too late to come “down” to Orah Day Camp! Our second half has started and we are off and running. What’s a better way to start than with Wacky Hat and Sock Day? You should have seen our campers and staff members decked out from head to toe in some crazy accessories. There were socks in every shape, pattern and color and every hat imaginable. Tiaras, light up fedoras and even some homemade versions with feathers and balloons—all very original.

Last week had our first graders trying out the child-size equipment at Fitwize and our 3rd and 4th graders going to KZAM. The girls had the run of the place enjoying the mazes, foam ball pits and champion ga-ga games! Our 5, 6, and 7th grades had the coolest trip of the summer: ice skating! It was a terrific way to beat the summer heat.

With the start of the Nine Days we have to find some other ways to keep cool but that’s not a problem; we have some special activities planned to pick up the “slack.” This year we have installed not one but two slack lines for our older division to try and master. Using a buddy system, the girls are learning to walk on these slack lines and make their way back and forth across the backyard. Of course, if it’s too long to walk, the girls can try another special Nine Days activity: zip lining! This awesome activity has the girls seated and helmeted onto a zip line and zipping around with huge smiles on their faces.

To keep the smiles going, Orah Day Camp is participating in a special OHEL program to promote friendship in camp.

The girls are playing fun games to help

foster feelings of friendship and achdus in camp and beyond. Some of our regular specialties are also trying some cool activities like Team Building including making ice cream—yummy, delicious chocolate or vanilla ice cream. The girls are making their very own dairy delicacy using milk, salt and ice. Sometimes it’s the simplest ingredients that make the best stuff. We had a seemingly simple Main Event that used just three components— wood, ribbon and thumbtacks—yet our girls were able to make a wonderful toy called a Jacob’s ladder. All the campers had to do was weave the ribbon around the wood blocks in a specific pattern and use the thumbtacks to keep everything in place. The end result was a super toy that is fun play with (even without batteries!) .

Our Main Event this week focuses on this week’s theme pair, Eretz Yisroel and Chutz La’aretz, which also fits nicely into the Hebrew calendar. Our younger division worked very hard to make beautiful and original Shivas Haminim mobiles and the older girls made Al Hamichya posters out of magazine pictures. The end results were gorgeous! The building is decorated with Kotels and Kever Rochels to depict some sites in Eretz Yisrael, and to represent some things you’d find outside of Eretz Yisrael, there is the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower. This week the usually scrumptious lunch fair also fit into our theme because we served Israeli salad, falafels and French toast.

Practice for our Erev Tisha B’Av cantata is underway and we’ve kicked off our annual Chai Lifeline fundraiser. There is so much going on we are not looking “back”; it’s full steam “ahead” because here at Orah Day Camp there is no opposite of fun!

On Tuesday night, there was a communal gathering for tefilah and Tehillim at the Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst for the shloshim of Naftali Fraenkel, Gil-Ad Shaer and Eyal Yifrach hy”d. Many local rabbanim led the audience in Tehillim.

Hillel Tuchman made the siyum and Rav Menachem Mendel Blachman, associate rosh hayeshiva of Kerem B’Yavneh, was the guest speaker.

Hillel Tuchman made the siyum

Five Towns Marriage Initiative Seeing and Speaking Positively Toward Your Spouse The Bnei Yissaschar explains that the months of Tammuz and Av represent two of the human senses. Tammuz is the sense of sight and Av is the sense of speech. It is important to recognize how these two senses are connected to the sorrow felt during this time period. The Torah describes how in the month of Tammuz the meraglim, the spies, went to scout out the land of Canaan that the Jewish nation was to shortly enter. They spent a considerable amount of time during that month traveling and viewing the land. The meraglim returned to the nation in the month of Av and presented their “report” of the land. The tragic results of this incident are well-known: the Jewish nation had to wander in the desert for forty years before finally entering the land, the spies died a horrible death, and all the males of that generation did not merit entering the land of Israel and died in the desert.

The senses of sight and speech play a very strong role in a marriage relationship. A couple that views each other in a positive way and interacts with refined speech patterns has a relationship that is both stronger and more pleasant. When a person views their partner with a negative eye, it is extremely damaging to their spouse as a person and to their re-

lationship together. Similarly, speaking to one’s spouse improperly or in a degrading fashion impacts the relationship very negatively.

During the month of Tammuz, the meraglim used their sense of sight for the negative and in the month of Av they and the entire Jewish nation used their sense of speech for the negative. Let us make a sincere effort during the months of Tammuz and Av, in particular in this period of the “Three Weeks,” to utilize our senses of sight and speech for the positive. Make a commitment to in one small way change the way you relate to your spouse by either changing how you “see” them or how you speak to them.

May we merit this year to see these months switched from months of sorrow and sadness to months of joy with the coming of Mashiach.

Five Towns Marriage Initiative provides educational programs, workshops and referrals to top marriage therapists. FTMI will help offset counseling costs when necessary and also runs an anonymous shalom bayis hotline for the entire community Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 9:30-11p.m. For the hotline or more information, call 516430-5280 or email dsgarry@msn.com.

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A child playing on the beach had six 1/6 sand piles in one place and three1/3 sand piles in another. If he put them together, how many sand piles would he have?

Change just one letter in the word on either side of the parentheses to form a word that fits the definition within the parentheses.

(The letter you use will not necessarily be the same for each word.) For example, the answer to MATCH (month) DAY would be MARCH and MAY.

CALL (toy) BAR

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Yankel passes by a pet shop and notices a parrot in the window selling for $1,500. He goes inside and asks why it costs so much. The salesman tells him the parrot speaks five languages.

“Five languages!” exclaims Yankel. “Does it speak Yiddish?”

“Sure it does,” says the salesman.

As his mother lives by herself, Yankel decides to buy her the parrot as a present. After all, it’ll keep her company.

So he pays the $1,500 and arranges for the shop to deliver the parrot to his mother.

The next day Yankel calls his mother and asks, “Mom, what do you think of the parrot I bought you?”

“Mmm, it was delicious!” she says.

“What do you mean‘delicious’?” Yankel asks.

“I made soup out of it; it came out great!” says his mother.

“But Mom, the parrot wasn’t for eating. It spoke five languages including Yiddish!” Yankel cries.

After a short pause, his mom replies: “So why didn’t it say anything?”

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An Inside Look at Machaneh Hakayitz

TJH Chats with Rabbi Eliezer Ament, Co-Director of Machaneh Hakayitz

TJH: Thanks for taking the time to speak with me.

Can you give our readers a general overview of Machaneh Hakayitz?

RA: Machaneh Hakayitz is a Darchei-affiliated boys’ camp in Far Rockaway located at Bais Yaakov Ateres Miriam on Heyson Road.

We have programs for boys in nursery through 5th grade and are currently in our 6th year.

Who are the directors?

Rabbi Eliezer Selengut and I are co-directors of the camp. I am a first grade rebbe at Darchei and the director of Darchei’s Dor L’dor Motzei Shabbos learning program. I grew up in Montreal and live in Far Rockaway.

Rabbi Selengut is a second grade rebbe at Darchei. He grew up in Brooklyn, went to Yeshivas Chaim Berlin, and lives in Brooklyn with his family.

When and how did the camp start?

About seven years ago, Rabbi Yaakov Bender felt that we needed to accommodate parents who wanted a full morning of learning. That, along with the great hashkafos of the camp, are filling a major need.

He approached Rabbi Eliezer Selengut and myself, and we started the very next summer. Parents in the community were very supportive of the idea. We handpicked our counselors, who came highly recommended by their rebbes and principals. And here we are today, proud of the energy, the hashkafos, and the safe and organized manner in which our camp is run. Baruch Hashem, we have grown from 60 boys our first summer to 250 this summer.

Can you tell me about the daily program?

The camp schedule is based on the ideal that the solid morning of learning that goes on during the school year should continue through the summer months too. We have a staff of professional and experienced rebbeim and a full morning of learning from 9:30 to noon everyday.

The ruach part of our day starts at lunchtime. We have a stage where each day at lunch, the head staff performs skits or hosts a game show like Minute to Win It or Let’s Make a Deal, and the campers participate through singing songs and cheers and playing the games.

In the afternoon, pre-1A and 1st grade boys have arts ‘n’ crafts with Mrs. Tzippy Fisher and Mrs. Ilana Pilevsky. They make beautiful projects, like wooden model airplanes, havdalah candles, and Shabbos light

switch covers. Then they go swimming in our brand new above-ground pool, followed by playing sports with our sports director, Rabbi Eliezer Post, at Seagirt Park.

The bigger boys play sports with Rabbi Post at Lawrence Middle School immediately following Rabbi Ament lunch, where we have the enand Rabbi Selengut tire property to ourselves, including a basketball court, a running track, and three baseball fields. The boys are divided into baseball teams, and over the course of the summer, they play a regular series, playoffs, and finally, a World Series championship game. After sports, the boys cool off by swimming in an Olympic-sized pool.

It sounds like sports are a major part of the day. Do you have any creative team names?

Yes! Rabbi Post is very creative with the leagues and the team names.

The pre-1a boys are split into two teams: ketchup and mustard.

The 1st grade boys play in a Classic Candy League. Their team names are Wyoming Winkies, Louisiana Lollies, Buffalo Bruisers, and Great Lake Gushers.

The 2nd grade boys are in the Simple Snacks League: Pennsylvania Pretzels, Pittsburgh Potato Chips, Palm Beach Popcorn, and Dallas Dipsy Doodles.

The rest of the camp competes in the Healthy Food Sports League.

Those team names are the Berkeley Broccoli, the San Francisco Spinach, The Boston Blue Milk, The Los Angeles Lean Meat, and Honolulu Whole Wheat Buns.

In a sports competition against other camps in the area, which sport would your campers have the best chance at winning?

Definitely baseball. That’s why the playoffs and the World Series are baseball. The winning team members take home trophies.

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Do you go on field trips or have special events?

We have trips and exciting performances all summer long. In fact, on our very first morning of camp, the Twins from France performed a show. Other special events include the Chicago Boys Acrobats Team and the Living Torah Museum. Some of our trips are to the NJ State Fair, Shark Jet Speed Boating in Manhattan, Kzam in Long Island, Funstation in Lynbrook, and Luna Park in Coney Island. During the last week of camp, we have a water carnival, complete with water rides, water slides, water moonwalks, and of course, snow cones, and cotton candy.

Which is your favorite field trip?

Shark Jet Speed Boating.

to error or weather?

Actually, this summer, Hurricane Arthur was supposed to hit the NJ State Fair area. The head of the fair called me the night before we were scheduled to come. He said he’d let us know by noon the next day whether we could still come, but we were supposed to be well on our way by then! I quickly scrambled for a back-up plan and booked the Aviator, an ice skating rink in Brooklyn. Luckily, the fair went on and we had a great time.

What is the hardest thing about being camp director?

Being concerned about the safety of the children. Baruch Hashem, no one has ever gotten hurt or lost, but those fears are my biggest motivation for Tehillim. I’m always davening that the boys stay safe and secure.

The walls are literally shaking from our songs and cheers.

I’ve heard you have an occasional evening program for the older boys. Tell me about that.

Yes, the third, fourth, and fifth graders stay in camp until 7pm once a week. Rabbi Shalom Rosen, our senior division head, plays unique games with them. They also play hockey, they do woodworking, and they swim in the camp pool. And they enjoy a full barbeque or pizza dinner. Twice a summer we leave the campgrounds with them and return at 10 or 11 pm. Last week, we went go-carting and returned at 11 pm.

What makes your camp unique from the others?

Last Friday night, I ran into a few boys who had attended our camp in the past, but are now too old to continue coming. They started singing all the cheers they remembered from previous years and told me that the ruach, the energy, the cheering, the singing, and the skits at Machaneh Hakayitz far surpassed that of the camp they attend now.

The cohesiveness we achieve through cheers and songs is an incredible part of our camp’s experience. My words don’t do justice to how great that part of the day is. The walls are shaking from our songs and cheers. The kids love it. That is what makes us unique.

Can you share a funny moment you had as camp director?

This year, on our speed boating trip, one of the sailors ran up and down the boat spraying everyone with his water gun. I asked the sailor to spray me, and he got me in the face. The kids couldn’t stop laughing.

After a full morning of learning, the kids must be hungry at lunchtime. Which hot lunch is the camp’s favorite?

Our fantastic cook is Mrs. Levy. The staff agrees that the best lunch of the entire summer is Mrs. Levy’s potato knishes. The kids like the macaroni and cheese the best.

What is your first thought when you see that it’s pouring rain outside?

We haven’t had to deal with that this summer yet, but it’s every camp director’s nightmare. Still, we have some tricks up our sleeve. We play indoor games and game shows, we have scavenger hunts in the building, and we show old camp videos.

Have you ever had to make a major on-the-spot schedule change due

What is the most often repeated question you are asked by campers?

“Are you and Rabbi Selengut brothers?” We do look alike. Some parents even want to know if we’re twins. We’re actually not related, and until we started to work at Darchei together, we had never met each other.

If you were a camper in your own camp, what would be your favorite activity?

Definitely the skits and camp cheers. When I went to camp, I loved the skits and the plays the counselor put on. It made me feel part of something larger.

So, who puts on the skits at Machaneh Hakayitz?

Usually me, Rabbi Selengut, and Rabbi Post.

Do you plan them ahead of time or are they impromptu-style?

Yesh v’yesh.

Why do you think camp is important?

America’s summer vacation is ten weeks long because years ago, farmers needed their children to help out during the summer months.

Nowadays, it’s unnecessary, but it’s set in stone.

I think it’s crucial for the boys to fill their summers with constructive days. At our camp, we learn and daven, engage in achdus-building games, and play sports, all while learning to be an ehrliche Yid even out of the yeshiva setting.

What is your favorite part about being camp director?

When a child comes over to me unsolicited and tells me that he is having the best summer. This week alone we had six parents who signed their kids up for the second half when they were only intending to attend the first half.

It sounds like you are having as much fun as the boys are having! Thank you for speaking with us. Hatzlacha with the rest of your summer.

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Bobker on Tisha B’Av: Forgive Them Not, Father – For They Knew What They Were Doing

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THE HOLOCAUST

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Eating Diamonds for Bread and Taking a Seat at the Heavenly Seder: Irene Zisblatt’s Holocaust Story The Horrors of the Holocaust: Rabbi Jacob Jungreis’s Thoughts on the Tragedy of the Shoah

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The Shmuz

R’ Ben Tzion Shafier

Parshas Devarim / Shabbos Chazon Man: Preprogrammed for Greatness

“The ox knows its owner; the donkey the stall of its master; Yisrael doesn’t know, My nation doesn’t contemplate.”

– Yeshaya 1:3 With these words, Yeshaya Ha’Navi begins the rebuke of his generation.

Rashi explains what he was saying. The ox doesn’t change its nature.

It doesn’t say, “I will no longer plow.”

The donkey doesn’t say, “I will no longer haul loads.” Each animal follows its nature, unquestioningly doing what it was created to do. Klal Yisrael, however, is different. You have veered off course and changed your ways. And so, you are lower than the animals created to serve you.

A Horse and Rider This Rashi is difficult to understand.

When a man mounts a horse, the man might weigh 150 pounds; the horse might weigh over 2,000 pounds. The man is puny and weak; the horse is huge and mighty. Yet the little, pudgy man sits atop the large, muscular horse, and takes control. He commands the horse to ride, gallop, turn and stop. Why doesn’t the horse just say no? “No, I don’t want to gallop today. No, I don’t want to turn right. No, I don’t want to bow to your wishes.” Why does the huge, powerful horse obey the little, weak man?

The reason is because that is the nature of a horse. Its instinct is to obey. It doesn’t think about it. It doesn’t decide to submit. Built into the very being of the horse is a temperament of subservience to its master. 

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Man, however, is different. Man has conflicting wishes and desires. Man has forces pulling him in competing directions. And man has a conscious “I” that sits in deliberation and decides. The reason man is given reward or punishment is because it is in his hands to choose his path. In all of Creation, man and man alone, has free will. So how can Rashi compare the nature of a beast, which was created to comply, to that of man, which is so different?

man. A full half of man’s personality is shaped by base instincts and desires.

Much like any animal in the wild kingdom, man was preprogrammed with all of the impulses and drives needed for his survival. This part of man hungers for things. It doesn’t think about consequences or results. It can’t see into the future. It is made up of hungers and appetites.

Man is a synthesis, a combination of opposites – a perfect balance between two competing natures. If he chooses to

MAN IS A SYNTHESIS, A COMBINATION OF OPPOSITES – A PERFECT BALANCE BETWEEN TWO COMPETING NATURES. The Nature of Man The answer to this question is based on a more focused understanding of human nature: The Chovos Ha’Levovos (Sha’ar Avodas Elokim) explains that Hashem created man out of two distinct parts: the Nefesh Ha’Sichli and the Nefesh Ha’Bahami. The Nefesh Ha’Sichli in man comes from the upper worlds, and so, it only wants to do that which is right and proper. It only wants to serve Hashem and accomplish great things.

Its very nature is to strive for perfection. It desires to help others and make a significant contribution. It was created with a need to emulate Hashem.

However, there is another part of

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listen to his pure nefesh, he grows and accomplishes, reaching his potential and purpose in Creation. If he chooses to listen to his animal instincts, then he destroys his grandeur and majesty, becoming lower than even the behaimah. When we refer to free will, we mean man’s ability to choose which of his inner natures he will listen to.

This seems to be the answer to this Rashi. Man is preprogrammed for greatness. The other half of man’s personality is screaming out for meaning, purpose and greatness. There is a powerful instinct within him that only desires that which is proper. If man follows that side of his inner nature, he is pulled towards perfection.

But that is the point; the need for perfection is built into his very nature.

Deep within him is a hunger to grow, to accomplish, to do that which is noble and great. This isn’t something that he needs to learn; it isn’t something that he needs training in; it is part and parcel of his very being.

For a person to reach anything short of perfection, he must make a conscious choice: he must choose bad. Innate to his being are all of the drives and passions to be like Hashem. And so, Yeshaya rebuked his nation, “Being good isn’t foreign to your nature. Following the Torah’s ways isn’t something that is imposed upon you — it is built into your very soul. You have all of the in-

stincts to follow it. If you have veered off, then you have rebelled against your very nature. You have subverted the pull to greatness that dwells within your heart. And in that sense, you are lower than the animal kingdom because animals obey the nature that Hashem put into them.”

GPS for the Soul This concept is relevant in our lives on two levels. First, simply knowing that there is a full half of me that deeply desires to cling to Hashem, that only wants to do that which is proper and appropriate, that deeply desires to daven, learn, and do chessed is a powerfully motivating concept.

But even more, knowing this allows me to understand how intuitively I know exactly the right thing to do in every situation. Built into me is a part that functions like a GPS, guiding me,

directing me. Do this. Don’t do that.

Turn left. Now turn right. Make the next legal U-turn.

If I choose to ignore that voice, and in its stead I obey the call of the wild, then I sink and damage myself. I become lower than the animals created to serve me. If I train myself to listen to that voice by learning the Torah’s ways and seeking guidance to develop my inner ear, I set my course to becoming the truly great person that I was predestined to be — someone for whom it was worthwhile to create an entire world.

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Parshas Devarim

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eople who attain blessed advanced age and many years tend to look back in time and concentrate less on the future. Old rabbis write autobiographies. Past events, which were previously sublimated and hardly ever recalled, suddenly become vivid memories worthy of meaningful contemplation.

An example of this is to be found in the words of our father Jacob to his children in his final days when he recalls for them the tragic incident of the sudden death of his beloved wife Rachel. Many decades had passed since that event and the Torah does not record for us his ever mentioning that bitter event during that long period of time. But now at the end of his days, this painful and tragic occurrence in his life comes to dominate his memory and his conversation.

This natural tendency of humans to bring forth memory as one’s last testament, so to speak, of a life’s achieve-

ment helps to explain to us this final book of Devarim – the ultimate conclusion of the written Torah. Our teacher, Moshe, delivers a long oration in which he recalls the events of his career, the triumphs and shortcomings of his leadership, and the accomplishments and failings of his beloved people.

and were not therefore actual witnesses to those events. Nevertheless, Moshe feels impelled to make this attempt, for a generation that knows nothing of its past can hardly expect to create much of a future for itself.

So the words of Moshe are tinged with nostalgia and even a note of sad-

THE WORDS OF MOSHE ARE TINGED WITH NOSTALGIA AND EVEN A NOTE OF SADNESS. He attempts to relate to a new generation the experiences and lessons of the past generation of Israel that left Egypt and perished in the desert of Sinai. Every generation has a different take on past events. It is impossible to truly describe the past – its nuances, shadings, feelings and emotions – to those who did not actually live at that past time

ness. Nevertheless, the book of Devarim on the whole is one of optimistic spirit, faith and unending wonder regarding the experiences of Moshe’s life and the destiny of the Jewish people.

The rabbis tell us that no human being departs this world attaining even half of what one desired to own, achieve or accomplish. Such is the na-

ture of our mortality and lives. Moshe’s main sadness in his words to the Jewish people is in his realization that his great hope and dream of entering the land of Israel will never be fulfilled.

This disappointment weighs on all of his words in the book of Devarim. In his recounting of the sins and rebellions over the forty years that he led the Jewish people, there is little bitterness in his voice and tone. However, one feels his pain and anguish at the fate that has befallen him, of being excluded from entering the promised Land of Israel.

As such, the book of Devarim is a deeply personal work reflecting the feelings and memory patterns of the greatest leader of the Jewish people. Its recollections of events, review of the Torah and listing of specific commandments, makes this book, like all of the works of the Torah, a required object of study, reflection, analysis and ultimate faith.

Shabbat shalom.

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Eating Diamonds for Bread and Taking a Seat at the Heavenly Seder Irene Zisblatt’s Holocaust Story

By Brendy J. Siev

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This year, Irene Zisblatt, author of the autobiography The Fifth Diamond, shared her Holocaust story with my students. She joined us a week before Pesach, and her final vision accompanied me to my own family’s seder.

I called Irene to share her story with us during this trying month of Av. Over the course of two hours, during which I was silent and spellbound, she spoke about her past:

was born in a country town in what was then Hungary. The town consisted of 63 families; a third of those families were Jewish.

I thought we had a great relationship with our neighbors. But it was not so.

I had two non-Jewish friends. We were very close. They even helped decorate our sukkah. But when I was ten years old, I noticed something different about them.

They didn’t like who I was. I didn’t get it.

It was anti-Semitism.

I spoke to my grandfather. What is it? He told me that they’re still believing that we killed their god. That’s what they were taught.

From that point on, I became more careful.

When my country became part of Germany, all the latent anti-Semitism came to light. The Jews were very careful, but we were hurt anyway. The local government carried out all German orders.

At first, Jews were not allowed in schools. The first day of the edict, the Jewish children arrived at school, and we were gathered by the door. We had to go home, and our teacher, a Ukrainian woman, told us to never come back.

I went home crying, and I told the other children, “My father will fix this.”

But he couldn’t. And so we were put into full-time Hebrew school—the girls with a teacher, the boys with a cheder rebbe. Eventually, they took the teacher away; she was not allowed to teach us.

Then, the businesses were taken away, we had to wear a Jewish star, and Jews had a curfew.

We couldn’t understand. We never did anything to them.

Without businesses, access to transportation, or community gatherings, we ran out of food and were confined to a dungeon that happened to be our home.

In 1944, all the Jews from the region were gathered into the local public school.

But my family feared what awaited us and arranged to have ourselves sealed into our home, as if no one lived there. My father and brother built double walls in the attic, a hiding place.

A gendarme in the Hungarian government, married to a Jewish woman, asked my father to take his wife in, to hide her. The gendarme then sealed the home to look as if we had left. We planned to escape from a window in the attic at night, if necessary.

During the day, we lived in the house; at night, we went up to the attic.

At times, I slipped out of the house through a back window. My father sent me through the meadows to the spa he once owned. One worker there, my father’s friend, gave me newspapers and food for the family.

One day, my father sent me with a message: “Tell my friend to go to the baker

Transport trains bringing Hungarian Jews close to the gas chambers

Poland. My father was involved with an underground, helping people get from Poland to Palestine. He helped those arriving in our town get to Munkacz.

One night, a man stayed in our home. I overheard him speaking to my father at night, begging him to take his family and come to Palestine. “The Nazis will take your children and kill them,” he told my father.

The next day, I asked my father about these haunting words. “Why?” I asked him. “What have the children done?”

My father answered, “That man doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”

Now, in 1944, holding my two-year-old brother in my arms, I heard those haunting words again. My brother was sobbing the whole time on the train and begged me to take him home. I promised to take him home soon. And now I knew what I would do: I promised myself that no one will ever take him again from me.

I never saw home again.

The crying was so sad in this car. When the train stopped, there was no bathroom, no food, no water.

Just S.S. guards and dogs with the hugest teeth I ever saw.

The guards shouted, “Get out, you dirty Jews, and make it quick!” The train was high, and the people had to jump off. Older people were pushed off, and many died. The men and women were separated; the children went with their mothers. We were told to leave our belongings. And the women never saw their men or brothers or fathers again.

I saw the chimneys and thought, oh, these are the factories where we will work.

In the chaos, my mother tried to hold everyone together. She took my baby brother into her arms and instructed me to hold onto my four-year-old sister’s hand tightly.

A man came over to my mother.

“Give me the child; I’ll help you with the child,” he said.

“No!” my mother told him.

Then a handsome man pointing a stick, pointed at my mother. “Put the child down.”

My mother yelled back at him, “My children will go with me.”

He took his baton, and hit my hand, forcing me to let go of my little sister. I had to let go.

“Don’t cry,” called my mother. “I’ll come for you later.”

Those were her last words to me.

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Later, I learned that that man was Josef M e n g e l e .

Mengele conducted many experiments on me.

His first involved trying to change my eye color. And that was why Mengele had wanted my mother—because my mother had beautiful blue eyes, the ideal Aryan shade of blue. You saw the reflection of the whole world in her eyes. I was grateful that her mother was spared—through death—those horrific experiments.

I ended up with strangers in a big hallway separated by benches. We were instructed to take off our clothes and shoes and put our valuables in a bin. I pulled open my skirt hem and found four of the diamonds. Naked, I put the diamonds in my mouth. But then, as I approached the next section, I saw them opening people’s mouths and pulling out their gold teeth. I had no gold teeth, but I had diamonds in my mouth. Out of fear, I swallowed them.

We were tattooed and shaved and lined up in another section, where everyone was instructed to take clothing from a big pile and put it on. I took a man’s pajama top that covered my whole body.

And then we were taken to a big mirror and ordered to look at our reflection. And we did not recognize ourselves.

We were dehumanized.

In rows of five, we were marched into Birkenau, a place of evil. The skies were as gray as the mud under our feet. We were put into wooden barracks, 1,000 women in a barrack. I thought, we’ll never get out of here.

The smell was unbearable. And, as my mother did not show up, I decided to look for her—I knew she wouldn’t recognize me. But a kapo saw me and yelled at me. I told her I was going to find my mother. She pointed at one of the chimneys: go back to your bunk. Your mother is there and you’ll be there too if you don’t go back to your bunk.

My mother was only 30.

At night, I couldn’t sleep. I was squeezed into the top bunk, and I heard cries of children. I looked out of a crack and saw trucks arriving. Two babies fell out of one of the trucks: one was even swaddled, no more than six months old. The SS men picked them up and slammed the babies against the truck, spraying blood and killing them. I started to scream. The girl

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and bake a lot of bread, to go to the farmer to get a lot of milk, and to bring it to the school” where the Jews were gathered.

When I arrived at the spa, my father’s friend met me. But he would not listen to my message. “Go turn around and run back home. It’s dangerous here.

If they’ll see you, they’ll kill you.”

I ran home and did not slip out again.

On the second day of Pesach, I helped my mother set the table for an early seder. As we set the table, there was banging at the door.

The Nazis had come for us.

We had minutes to pack and get out. But we were already packed for a quick escape that had not happened.

We were taken to the railroad with all the people from the school. Halfway to the Munkacs Ghetto, we disembarked and were marched the rest of the way. The elderly and infirm were taken by truck.

The ghetto was full of suffering. But there was no escape: the ghetto bordered a river, and across the river stood a heavily-guarded, medieval fort.

Boys and men went out daily to build a railroad.

Most returned bloody, hungry, and sick.

But the war was not going well for the Germans, and so they began to turn their attention to winning the war against the Jews.

At the end of April, those in ghetto were packed into cattle cars. We were told we were going to Tokaj, a place in our own country, Hungary, with vineyards. Everyone was happy to go.

At this point, I was 13. I dressed in all my skirts so that we would not have to carry them. And my mother took some diamonds and sewed them into the hem of one of those skirts. “We’re going to the vineyards, and we’re going to work there. We may end up working in separate places. If you are hungry, use the diamonds to get yourself bread.”

We boarded the train to go to Tokaj; the vineyard was not so far. A hundred people were pushed into each car with a single empty pail and no water. The Nazis bolted the doors, and the Jews stood in darkness like sardines in a can. We knew something was wrong.

My father stood by the wall. He knew the geography of the country well and watched the countryside passing through a crack in the side of the train.

But soon he saw that we were far from the vineyard.

“They lied to us,” he said. “We’re not going to the vineyard. We just left our country, and we have crossed the border into Poland.”

Back in 1939, some Jewish men had escaped Poland through the Tatra Mountains. This mountain range merges with the Carpathian Mountains, and our town was the first town with the most Jews near

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next to me covered my mouth; if I was heard, we could all be killed.

So I yelled at G-d in silence. I fought with Him. How could He do this?

He didn’t answer me.

With time, I realized that G-d didn’t create the Holocaust: men did.

But then, in my childish mind, I thought: He’s helping others. Then, He will come to us. I still had my faith.

I retrieved my diamonds during the time we were told to use the latrine. The Nazis did not enter the latrine, and I used a corner of the area. I washed the retrieved diamonds with a bit of water from a puddle and tied them in a corner of my garment. I made sure to tie the other corner as well so no one would suspect I had something hidden there.

Whenever I saw danger of my diamonds being found—a selection, an upcoming experiment—I swallowed them again, and retrieved them the same way. Thus I kept them throughout the war.

I suffered terribly under Mengele. I met a little girl from Vilna who had come into Auschwitz from the Warsaw Ghetto. She had escaped a mass grave there, because her father pushed her into the grave before she was shot. The grave was uncovered that night and so she was able to escape. She found a small grotto in a rocky hill and lived there for a year, seeking food from farms only at night. One day she emerged during the day and was found and sent to the Warsaw Ghetto, and then to Auschwitz.

Mengele conducted experiments on us at times alone, at times in groups of 5, or 2, or 3. We became very close. She told me, “You’re my little sister. I’m your big sister.” We became each other’s silent support. Because of each other, we survived the experiments.

Her name was Sabka.

One day she was taken, and I was sure she had been killed.

The next day, I was selected to be killed. But a nurse came and put me into a tuberculosis room. The Nazis would never go in there for fear of contamination. The nurse said, “You’re going to leave here.

Never talk about what happened today, because then

we all will go to the gas chambers.”

I was then sent back to my barrack, but then I was selected to go to the gas chambers. As I went into the gas chamber, I tried to get out. I pushed on the door and held it until my fingers bled. When the gas came, they couldn’t close the door, not only because of me but because of the people pushing me from behind. The chamber was too full. Because I was in the way of the door fully closing, they threw me out and closed the door.

I ran up the ramp and found a spot under the roof of the gas chamber that was mostly embedded underground. I thought, in a half hour, they’ll find me, but at this moment I have hope.

Hope arrived moments later in the form of a young sonderkommando.

The sonderkommandos were Jews forced to empty the gas chambers of bodies and dispose of them. Every three or four months, they were killed so that there would be no real witnesses to the wholesale murder of the Jews.

This sonderkommando, on his way to empty the gas chamber, pulled me out from my hiding spot. He took off his jacket and covered my unclothed body.

He told me about a train to a labor camp and that he would try to put me on it. He walked me onto the train and told me in Hungarian, “I only have three more days to live. If you make it, live a little for me too.”

At the labor camp, an ammunitions factory, I met up with Sabka, who had not been murdered, but had been transferred there. We worked together, until a forced death march, as the Allies were closing in on the Nazis.

On the death march, with pieces of blanket tied to our feet and a small bit of blanket around my shoulders, I tried to give up. But on the road, Sabka always came up with something to say to fight this feeling.

She said to me, “Why wait? We’re going to the library, to read books, to go home, have Shabbos dinner, and sleep in our own bed.” That pushed me forward. And even when I said to her, “We’re going to be shot and killed,” Sabka said, “No, we need to find real food first. We can’t go to heaven on an empty stomach.”

At night, we were bombed. We had no ammunition, no flashlight, and so Sabka pushed me into the forest where we escaped the others. We just kept going in the other direction. All night we ran or walked.

At daybreak, we reached an abandoned farm. I

ran ahead, looking for food in the mud of a tilled field. I found a small potato, our food to go to heaven.

Then we followed the sound of water to a small brook, where we drank and shared the potato. We needed to rest, and so we leaned against the mountain alongside the brook under our blanket.

I woke up to the jab of the back of a rifle.

Two soldiers stood there.

I have chills until today.

They wore strange uniforms and boots. They were talking, but I didn’t understand them. I tried all the languages I had learned in school. Then one of the soldiers bent down to help me up and his dog tags slipped out.

On the chain was a tiny mezuzah.

“Sabka!” I called out to her. “Come out from under the blanket! There’s a man with a mezuzah.”

I had thought that we were the last two Jews left in Europe.

The soldier helped me up, and I reached out and kissed his mezuzah.

Then I looked up to heaven for the first time since I had heard those babies crying, and I said, “Thank you, G-d, for watching us.”

Suddenly, it seemed like a whole army came; they all looked the same. They stared at us and brought over one German-speaking soldier. He was shocked and asked me, “Who are you hiding from, and why do you look like this?”

I told him, “The Nazis. The Nazis take children and make them look like me. Who are you?”

“We are Americans.”

I hadn’t known the Americans were in Germany.

“Why are you here?”

“We came to get Hitler. We’re going to get Hitler.”

We had run into Russian territory, and this unit, General Patton’s 3rd Unit, had been given the job to hunt for German snipers in the mountains.

The soldier continued, “We know what’s happening here. We’re going to stop the war. We will never let this happen again.”

Then he asked me what I wanted to eat. I told him scrambled eggs—Sabka’s favorite food—and a loaf of bread. So 200 men gathered debris for a small fire so they could make scrambled eggs in some helmets. And we ate eggs and crackers.

Then they put us into a Red Cross van, and our dream had become our reality.

Sabka and I talked a lot that day. We told each other things. We cried ourselves to sleep. We wanted to celebrate—but we had no one to celebrate with.

In the morning, Sabka was still sleeping. I tried to wake her, yelling, “Sabka, wake up! Today might

Hungarian Jews arriving in Auschwitz in the summer of 1944

need someone to show them the truth.

My pain is so bad that it is here as long as I live. But my pain is not important: what’s important is that the children would know my pain.

I was shaking on the plane between Miami and Warsaw. But I made another decision: to open my mind and heart, to let things happen and not fight them.

When we got to Birkenau, I thought, oh, my G-d! They destroyed most of the evidence! They don’t want the world to know what they have done!

I was so angry that I wanted to kill someone. I most wanted to yell at Mengele. So I went into a barracks that is still standing, and I yelled, “Look at me! I am alive in spite of your experiments on me and Sabka! I am back with 5,000 healthy Jewish teenagers, and you cannot touch us.”

I went back to the gas chamber, now a pile of rubble. I wanted to see where my family died. I went into a hole there, a part of a room there, the one half that is not destroyed. The walls were still blue and green. The smell was still strong. The fear of death embraced me.

I sat on the ground. I took out candles that all those on the march carry. I took out all of my candles, and I lit them all.

I thought of my family. How they died and suffered. I felt relief that they hadn’t suffered too long.

I prayed for the ones who died horrible deaths.

As I left, I turned and looked back one more time, and I had a vision.

I saw a table set for a seder.

My whole family was sitting there. One chair near my sister was empty.

I knew it was for me.

I wanted to join them.

But my mother put out her hand. “Go back. Tell people what happened. And promise me, you’ll stop crying. Promise me, you’ll do what I ask.”

She said it as an order.

I looked up, and the vision was gone.

So I sat down, and I wrote her a letter. I promised her not to cry, to try and do what she asked me.

I told her that when I can’t do this anymore, I hope to sit at my chair at the seder and tell them that I’ve done what they asked.

Then, I came out and went over to the group of 5,000 teenagers, and I told them my story, like I’ve told you now, not forgetting anything, and for the first time sharing my story.

My mother initiated this.

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Since then I have spoken to so many groups and addressed the United States Congress. This is the first generation at a distance from Hitler. Soon no one will meet a survivor. My mission now is to teach the children so they’ll learn and pass it on.

I will not to be silent anymore.

I tell children that they will be the government one day. It is up to them to keep all people free.

And what about my diamonds?

They carried so much love and sacrifice. It would have been safer to have thrown them away, but G-d protected them with me.

When I came to America, I put them into a safe deposit box. But before my tenth anniversary, my husband, who was everything to me, wanted to give me something meaningful. He brought up the diamonds.

We took them out of the vault, and our friend, Michael, a jeweler, set them in the middle of a teardrop-shaped pendant with smaller diamonds around them.

I wear them now at times and events when I feel my mother’s presence, times she should be there with us, like a family birthday party or wedding.

I wore them to the premiere of the documentary about my life, The Last Days. But I slipped the pendant under my dress.

At the premiere, Steven Spielberg, noticing the chain around my neck, asked me if I was wearing my mother’s diamonds. I told him I was.

“Can I ask you a personal favor?” he said to me.

“Can I please hold them?”

He took the diamonds in his hand and kissed them like a mezuzah. “I want to be a part of that history,” he said. “Whenever you speak, wear them. Let the kids touch history.”

And so I do.

The diamonds will go to the firstborn girl of every generation in our family. They are never to be sold or traded, except, G-d forbid, if the girl is hungry and needs to buy bread.

Irene Zisblatt’s whole story, The Fifth Diamond, is available through her publisher on irenezisblatt. com or on Amazon. Her story is also highlighted on TJH Steven Spielberg’s documentary, The Last Days. ” 

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be the day we’ll be free! You must get up.”

Then the medic came in, and I asked him to wake her. He gave her an injection, and then he told me, “I can’t wake her up. She is sleeping in a beautiful place. She is no longer sick, and she knows you’re free.”

Sabka had had typhus. I guess she waited to make sure that I—her “younger sister”—was free, and then she had let go.

We buried her by the brook, and I was transferred to a field hospital full of wounded soldiers.

I too had some typhus, perhaps, and other ailments due to malnutrition. When I got stronger, I was sent to a DP camp in Austria. There I joined a group of 40 children destined for transport to Sweden.

Before I left, I received a letter from an uncle in the United States, a man I did not know. One of my liberators had put my name on a list with the Joint in New York to be printed in the newspaper. When my uncle saw my name, he wrote to the Joint to find me.

I gave up my spot to go to Sweden. It took two years to process the papers to get to the United States, and I arrived here in 1947. Here I saw a free world.

My family was good to me. They gave me an education. I went to work for RCA, and RCA sent me to college, to Rutgers, to take courses in engineering.

But I didn’t know where I belonged.

A cousin introduced me to a Jewish youth organization, and I found myself. I became very active, and also fundraised for the VA hospitals and the Hadassa Hospital.

Everything in silence—but I needed to give back.

I became who I am. I met my husband, the love of my life.

I am blessed with two children, no more than that, because of the experiments Mengele did on me and the chemicals I was exposed to. I have five grandchildren; each has two names for those who died, because I lost more than I got.

In 1992, a friend from New York, a leader of March of the Living, came to visit me. She showed me a video of a march and told me that I needed to go on the next march. I told her, “You want me to go back to that hell? What human being wants a child to go back to that horrible past? What can they learn from it?”

Eventually, the Broward County (FL) director of the March of the Living compelled me to attend a pre-march meeting with local teenagers who would be going on the march that year. During the meeting, the president showed the students a clip from Schindler’s List. I hadn’t seen it before, and I lost it. But the kids did not.

Then I knew that I really had to go. The kids

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The Horrors of the Holocaust Rabbi Jacob Jungreis’s Thoughts on the Tragedy of the Shoah

BY NACHUM SOROKA

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iscomfort is not a welcome feeling to most Americans. Movies and books are many times judged here based on the cushiness of their endings; media programs which broadcast untempered horrible events are called too “edgy”; even the new 9/11 museum at Ground Zero in Manhattan has its most raw exhibits cordoned off from the rest of the galleries lest a person of lesser emotional resilience stumble upon the harsh realities of terror.

But to us American Jews, the story of the Holocaust, its causes and effects cannot be softened if we want the lessons taught by the Shoah to be remembered by the current generation.

When Rabbi Jacob Jungreis gives over his personal experience and ruminations about the Holocaust to yeshiva students, visitors of the Holocaust Museum in Battery Park and other Jewish and non-Jewish audiences, he makes sure not to mince words. For one, in order for the listener to really understand the horror of the events and how they pertain to him, it is necessary to hear an undiluted account of the story. Rabbi Jungreis also finds that certain audiences, particularly the non-Jewish ones, want to hear what really took place openly and bluntly. Recently, after a lecture he gave at West Point Military College, the rabbi was approached by a number of generals who told him how much they appreciated his candor.

Central to one’s grasping of the Shoah is realizing who really is to blame for the murder of six million innocents, according to Rabbi Jungreis. While most people may say that Hitler ym”sh or the German people were at fault, in truth it was all the nations of Europe who spilled all that guiltless blood.

Hitler’s role was one of a very competent enabler.

The guilt of the Ukrainian gentiles has been made famous by stories of the Babi Yar massacres and the Ukraine-born death-camp guards who would bury tens of prisoners alive at a time. The ground would tremble for days afterward from the convulsions of the dying Jews.

In Hungary, the birthplace of Rabbi Jungreis, the locals would undress Jewish boys, hang them upside down from a tree and douse them with water so that they would freeze to death during the subzero European winter nights. As a boy of five in 1938, well before the 1944 Nazi invasion of Hungary, Rabbi Jungreis remembers the verbal abuse that was hurled at him on the daily three block walk to cheder. “Dirty Jew! You killed our savior!”

And, taking a page out of Pharaoh’s playbook from 3,000 years before, “Show us your (uncalloused) hands!”, as if to say that the Jews, who were all educated workers and intellectuals, and not physical laborers (they were not allowed into labor unions), were lazy and parasitical; this would become a rallying cry of the nations throughout the Holocaust. (In fact, the official Nazi party line to explain the mass deportation of Jews to death camps was that they were being sent to a place of “rehabilitation” to learn how to work with their hands and toil physically.)

Nor was the cruelty exhibited during the Holocaust exclusive to the more zealous European nations. The so-called “civil” and “nice” peoples there were none too slow in allowing Hitler to be the enabler of one of the most massive genocides ever. Just recently, the French government entered into negotiations to recompense Holocaust victims for the forced deportation it imposed on 76,000 Jewish French citizens via the French national railroad, Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français, to Buchenwald and Auschwitz. According to the Coalition for Holocaust Railroad Justice, “The train cars were packed as tightly as possible in order to maximize the number of passengers and therefore revenue. Employees forced all passengers, including young children and the elderly, to stand for the trip of several days’ duration, with no food, no drink, and no sanitary facilities – terrible and inhuman conditions.”

The Nazis themselves were surprised at the willingness of France, a democracy which was not openly hostile to Jews, in going along with Hitler’s Final Solution.

The cordial Dutch are not often brought up in discussions having to do with the mass extermination. But it was in Amsterdam that they cheerfully sent passenger railcars of unsuspecting Jews on “vacation.” Those trains ended up in Auschwitz, and many of the female passengers were sent to the gas chambers still wearing the makeup they applied back in

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or does Rabbi Jungreis shy away from directness when it comes to discussing Rudolf Kastner, the Hungarian Zionist who organized the transport that saved 1,700 Jews from Nazi-occupied Hungary. Kastner, a Hungarian lawyer and journalist, heroically confronted Adolf Eichmann in his Berlin office and negotiated the release of the Jews for a ransom of close to $5 million, which he mostly raised himself.

While Kastner was an irreligious person, he firmly believed that the survival of the Jewish nation depended on having a strong and illustrious rabbinate. He was therefore adamant about saving as many rabbinic families from Hungary as possible, and out of the 1,700 people he saved, 300 were from the rabbinate. His transport included Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum, the Satmar Rav and his gabbai, Rabbi Yosef Ashkenazi, and the Debreziner Rav. Rabbi Jungreis’s father was the rav of the large Hungarian city of Szeget and one of many rabbis in his family.

(Before the war there were 87 Jungreis family members in the rabbinate; over 80 were killed.) Rabbi Jungreis’s aunt, who headed an orphanage, had her offices next to Kastner’s and was able to arrange for the Jungreis family to be on the transport.

Kastner’s relationship with the Gestapo has always been controversial. His critics have labeled him a Nazi collaborator and accuse him of failing to warn the Jews of Hungary about what was in store for them out of fear that it would jeopardize his negotiations with the Nazis.

Indeed, he lost a libel case he brought against someone in Israeli court, and the Israeli Supreme Court, while it overturned the dismissal of the libel case, agreed that he helped expedite the extermination of masses.

The Satmar Rav refused to testify on his savior’s behalf during the trial claiming that, “Hashem saved me, not Kastner.” In 1957, three right wing Israeli extremists murdered Kastner.

Even so, Rabbi Jungreis says that there is no question in his mind that Rudolf Kastner was a good person, regardless of his religious beliefs. According to Rabbi Jungreis, that one can have the courage to enter the lair of the people who set out to completely and methodically expunge the memory of his nation and negotiate with them face to face is nothing short of heroic and selfless. Kastner’s transport was the only one of its kind in the entire Holocaust. Rabbi Jungreis likens Kastner’s killers to the hoodlums who recently murdered an Arab teenager

They stood and focused on the tekios even as their Ukrainian taskmasters bludgeoned them until their blood flowed freely.

b’Yaakov….Hashem Elokav amo u’teruas melech bo.” Just as they blew the shofar without noticing the horror surrounding them, so does Hashem watch over Klal Yisroel without noticing their iniquities.

Jews vacationing in European destinations is something which bothers Rabbi Jungreis very much. A well-intentioned friend of his sent him once to the Swiss resort town of St. Moritz. While Rabbi Jungreis would never have gone on his own, he felt obliged not to turn down the offer. He recounts walking with another rabbi he met there and being attacked by a local who asked why “your people” felt the need to come there. They ended up at an open field where an orchestra was playing music from a bandstand to a crowd which included 150 or so yeshiva-type people. The song that was being performed then was “Edelweiss,” a German folk song which the Nazis played as they sent Jews to

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be gassed. “I don’t understand why Jewish people can’t just vacation in the Catskills or Israel. If you want to stay local, you can go upstate. If you feel the need to travel farther, then go to Israel,” says Rabbi Jungreis.

Rabbi Junreis's papers after the war

in Yerushalayim under the pretext of avenging the slaughter of three yeshiva students.

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abbi Jungreis likes to quote the pshat of Rabbi Naftoli of Ropshitz to explain why, when he was on his deathbed, Yaakov Avinu did not reveal the date of the coming of Mashiach, even though the pasuk says he was prepared to. The traditional understanding is that the Shechina left him at that moment; Rabbi Jungreis elaborates on this idea that, after foreseeing the atrocities that would befall the Jews during the Chevlai Mashiach—including the gas chambers at Auschwitz and the gallows at Majdanek—Yaakov Avinu lost his feeling of simcha and the Shechina, by design, left. It is no question, says Rabbi Jungreis, that the events of the past 75 years are the preamble to the ultimate redemption of the Jewish people.

At the end of the Tochacha, G-d promises the Jewish nation, “I will remember the Land.” It is almost as if the Torah is telling us that the terrors that shall befall the errant people will naturally lead to its rebirth and reclamation of its heritage. Indeed, within 24 hours after the Allies liberated the Nazi death camps in 1945, there were already immigrants pouring into Palestine, and it didn’t stop until the official declaration of the State of Israel in 1948.

In truth, says Rabbi Jungreis, if one were to look back at the past three-quarters of a century, it would be clear as day that we are living in the days of Mashiach. We all are aware of the miracle of our nation literally rising from the ashes of death camp crematoriums to build a powerful state that has disregarded all laws of chance and logic and has become a global hotbed of inspiration and innovation.

But if we were to actually try to take in the meaning of it all, we would no doubt realize that these days are truthfully the era of Redemption.

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s the Nazis herded Jews onto cattlecars, they would humiliatingly beat them and yell, “Shnell, shnell!” The cars were not made for human passage and their floors were raised a few feet off the ground, thus making the scramble onto them exceedingly difficult. But the ever-efficient Germans did not care: they had a schedule to adhere to and the trains had to arrive in Auschwitz not a second too late; the murder machine mustn’t abate for even a moment.

Rabbi Jungreis has just one question for G-d. If Eisav’s Angel, who ran the camps in the Shoah, was so eager, why can’t our Savior learn from his zealousness, and arrive speedily? And may He do so in TJH our times. 

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the Netherlands. “At least they died looking good for G-d,” Rabbi Jungreis says sardonically. The list of grievances against every nation goes on and on, and the extent of their participation may never be fully known; Claude Lanzmann’s 1985 documentary, Shoah, perhaps the best and most comprehensive film made on the Holocaust, is over nine hours long and implicates many nations besides the Germans in the genocide.

Rabbi Jungreis’s feelings regarding interactions with European countries are products of his experiences in the Holocaust. While he was interned as part of the Kastner group at Bergen Belsen over Rosh Hashanah 1944, his group had only one machzor among them. The Satmar Rav, their spiritual leader, told the group to say only one piyut, L’vochein Levovos, out loud together, to beseech G-d that on the Day of Judgment He should look into their hearts, the only whole part of themselves that was fitting to be shown. They were also able to obtain, at the high price of 200 cigarettes—the equivalent of 200 days of food rations—a shofar from the Polish camp which was located next door to their quarters. When the minyan reached the part of Mussaf shofar blowing, Rabbi Jungreis, then a boy of eleven, opened the window of the room they were davening in and called out to some camp prisoners who were busy moving heavy loads of bricks meaninglessly in and out of the camp, “Shofar!”

The prisoners halted their work and stopped to listen to the Satmar Rav’s tekios. They stood and focused on the tekios even as their Ukrainian taskmasters bludgeoned them until their blood flowed freely. Till this day, Rabbi Jungreis will not buy anything which comes from Ukraine. The wheat that is grown there for matzah may be called shmura, but he believes it is chometz gamur. Only from that experience does Rabbi Jungreis understand the pasuk, “Lo hibit aven

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Cover Story BOBKER on TISHA B’AV

Forgive Them Not, Father – For They Knew What They Were Doing

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hese are the worst Three Weeks the people scendants of those gassed should behave when faced pathizers in general. As if in unison, they assemble as of Israel have had in decades. Sirens and with a new generation of Nazi wannabes. zealous cheerleaders only when those singled out for screams, rockets and indisharm are Jews. They are furious that the criminate missiles, terror same Chosen People who once walked from the ground and from obediently into Auschwitz now have the the skies, the rush to shelters, and the chutzpah to insist on fighting back.

Haman to Hamas, separated only by a Jew weeps at the funerals of young JewChelm has come to CNN. Consider: ish soldiers, a third of whom were takwhen a Hamas rocket hit a UNRWA single letter, but united by filthy Semitic tides ing their final exams when called upon school in Gaza, CNN, that bastion of and numerus clausus of chartered genocide to defend their country, now singled gratuitous slander, quickly criticized out as the most bombed country in the the Jewish state for not dropping leafdesigned to reduce the Jew to a corpus vile. world. lets first to warn those inside to get out, In Europe, those same folks whose as though they graduated from the Goebbels School of Lies and Libels with grandparents and great-grandparents callously and casually rounded up our the motto, “Propaganda has absolutely grandparents and great-grandparents and sent them to The thousands who chant “death to the Jews!” nothing to do with truth!”

As Israel distributes flyers of warnings to reduce incinerators are now the moral arbiters of how the de- from Holland to France to Italy are not terrorist sym-

Every year we pass through these twenty-one days that ramp up as if a crash course in remembering Hadrianstyle gratuitous violence, humiliation, pure anti-Semitism; a curse of Jewish history that jumps up, again-andagain, Jack-in-the-box style, by the powers of an irrational hidden spring.

From Haman to Hamas, separated only by a single letter, but united by filthy Semitic tides and numerus clausus of chartered genocide designed to reduce the Jew to a corpus vile; a disorderly choir of ordinary Jew-hate that jolts our comfortable complacency.

Our Sages understood: memory loss and indifference mark the beginning of the end of Jewish history, and thus they toiled to make the past a compelling present via the Three Weeks, inspired by the Torah’s warning, “Remember the days of old, contemplate the years past,” a command to contemplate the troubles that befall the Jewish people.

The Torah, never wavering from a reality check, demands that we not only recognize the good of history but also the ugly lex talionis that continue to unwind on the bewildering tool of mosaic memory whose Judaic recipe is one of three T’s: tragedies, trials, tribulations.

As such, the Three Weeks brilliantly massage a Back-to-the-Future Judaism into a powerfully potent form of remembrance, a compulsory annual halachik hammer-blow-to-the-head designed to prick our senses. And boy does it work. We weep and mourn for the millions lost by fire and by water, by pogrom or by gas, from starvation and from disease, from the stake and by the cross, and now from tunnels and missiles.

We are aware that when the Russians entered German concentration camps, they found that Adolf’s barbaric primitivism had stored enough deadly Zyklon B to gas every Jew in the world. We are also aware that if Hamas and Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad and their blood-thirsty lethal mates in Iran ever “occupy” the Holy Land, their “solution” to the “Jewish problem” will be as “final” as Adolf’s was.

As we approach Tisha B’Av we are communally shaken by history’s evil and relentless pursuit of the stubborn stiff-necked Yiddishe folk. We cringe as images of monstrously mutated Jews are projected on

the spools of our subliminal self, from destruction of Temples (der erste un tsveyter khurbn) to construction of Treblinkas and now terror tunnels.

These Weeks allow the Jewish dead to speak to us softly, and they scream with the demand not to be forgotten; as do the brave young warriors of Israel today whose nation screams to the Diaspora not to forget the Third Jewish Commonwealth in their prayers and acts.

This is a Tisha B’Av where Eicha must be read not just for the past but for the present. “Every individual is responsible for the misfortunes that afflict our nation as a whole, wherever we may dwell,” writes Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, the brilliant 19th century in-

tellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of Germanic Judaism. “Being part of the Jewish nation means participating in one destiny and experiencing the solidarity of the Jewish people,” writes another genius, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva University in Manhattan.

Rabbi Simcha Kook, chief rabbi of Rechovot, Tel Aviv, urges Jews who are “occupied in Torah and prayer” to do so with a specific soldier of the IDF in mind as a “spiritual backup” to protect him in battle.

Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman of Ponevezh calls upon Jews to increase their mitzvah performance so that the collective “credits” can help protect “our brothers in danger.”

The rabbinic parable (“We’re all in the same boat!”) was articulated some 400 years ago in a responsa given by Rabbi Joseph (Colon) Trabotto (Maharik) who was asked by a Jewish community near Hagen, Germany, if they had something to contribute to monies being raised in a different Jewish community (Regensburg) to help pay for a bribe to save Jews being threatened with a blood libel.

“Do not think,” replied the most influential Talmudist in Italy during the 15th century, “that you are safe and that perhaps this false libel will not spread any further, for you can see with your own eyes that [the gentiles] constantly plot against [all of] us.”

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overing over this years’ whispered Lamentations is an ancient Talmudic truism relevant for the times: “Kol Yisroel areivim zeh lazeh (All of Israel is responsible for one another).” That collective care and determination, now being displayed

by young Jewish boys crawling through tunnels on missions to save Jewish lives, the premiere mitzvah of them all, helps explain why the nation of Israel still exists, a meta-physical reality that is nothing short of miraculous.

From Alexander Janaeus’s crucifixion of 6,000 Jews to Adolf’s elimination of 6,000,000, with unknown more millions now depersonalized and dehumanized by history who died in persecutions and pogroms between the first and the 21st century, we – and the world – are left with one fact: Mighty empires who desired to write the epitaph of the Jewish people, are no more: the Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Persians, Romans, the Third Reich, a Soviet Gulag.

With G-d’s help and our actions we can be assured that the contemporary Arab and Islamic crusade will go the same way, destined for the dustbins of history.

Perhaps more fresh in our memory than the destruction of Temples is the supernatural sight of our parents and grandparents crawling out of an Auschwitz into a world where Jewish sovereignty was pure fiction, only to return to G-d’s Promised Land within three years as free men and women.

Some seven decades later, nearly two generations in Torah terms, we remain as an identifiable people in our own land despite the lethal whims and murderous rampages of those in keffiyehs whose empires they seek will crumble if they persist in their pursuit of another final solution.

These Three Weeks are thus a twin salute: to faith and to Jewish survival, the Mother of all Miracles, the fact that there are still any Jews left alive today.

Jews have never despaired for too long, for in our own special way, we, the smallest of all nations who “dwell alone,” have survived the mightiest of them all. How? The Baal Shem Tov knew: “In the struggle with evil, only faith matters!”

My mother, a Polish survivor of camps and gulags who died last year, could, in Yiddish of course, reduce all of the faith inherent in Jewish history down to five words: Mir vellen zei alle iberleben, “We will outlive them all!”

One night, a mother tucked her little daughter into bed and turned off the lights. The girl got frightened by the darkness. When she caught a glimpse of the moon outside the window, she whispered, “Mother, is the moon G-d’s light?”

“Yes, G-d’s lights are always shining,” she replied.

After a few moments of silence, the young child asked, “Will G-d blow out His lights and go to sleep?”

“No, my child, G-d never goes to sleep.”

TJH “Well, so long as G-d is awake, I am not afraid.” 

Joe Bobker, alumnus of Yeshivas HaRav Kook in Jerusalem, is the former publisher and editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Jewish Times, author of the popular Torah With a Twist of Humor series and the 12-volume Historiography of Orthodox Jews and the Holocaust to be published next summer by Gefen Press, Jerusalem. He can be reached at jbobker@aol.com.

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civilian deaths, the real Angel of Death needs no printing press. I don’t recall British and American planes dropping anything but bombs on the city of Dresden, Germany, killing 300,000 civilians. In Damascus, Assad is too preoccupied with his frenzied slaughter of 170,000 Syrians to be distracted with warning his own citizens that they are about to die.

Meanwhile, the enemy sits in a five star hotel in Qatar and kvells how his innocent bubba and babies are dying for Allah. He sheps nachas from the tunnels and the coverage of falsehood on western media, dining at the smorgasbord of luxury on the Mediterranean coast awaiting his salvation from the United Nations and a hapless president of the United States who turns his conceited back on an ally facing existential threat.

“He who esteems himself highly,” said R’ Akiva, “is like a corpse at the wayside: the passerby turns his head away in disgust and walks quickly by.”

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uring this week leading up to Tisha B’Av, a time in which so many tragedies have befallen our people, each day is greeted delicately, as if by treading gently we will be able to avoid rousing the negativity that has become associated with this time.

Every year at this time, we also discuss the baseless hatred that led to the destruction of the second Temple in Jerusalem and our present lengthy and difficult exile. While we must work hard to eradicate that trait within ourselves, perhaps it would be wise to go back to the source of our golus problems, and armed with a deeper understanding of what went wrong, try to correct the problem at its root.

Historically, the difficulty of this time began when on the ninth of Av the spies that Moshe sent to search out the land of Israel that the Jews were about to enter came back with a report that caused the Jews to be afraid and cry through the night about the terrible fate of being at the border of a country they felt they had no way to conquer. As a result of having disregarded the promises that the One Above made to them that He would fight for them as well as ignoring the miraculous experiences of the Exodus and Revelation, the Almighty decreed: “You have cried baselessly, I will establish this time as a time of real tears for you through the generations.” And so began a long list of tragedies that occurred on that same day.

During the era of the destruction of the first Temple, also destroyed on the ninth of Av, the tragedy of the time was captured by the prophet Jeremiah in the scroll of Eichah, which we read in a sad tune each year. The middle three chapters of Eichah are an acrostic, as each verse begins with a letter of the Aleph Bais. On this, the Gemara in Sanhedrin comments: The people sinned with the Aleph Bais let them be stricken with the Aleph Bais. This statement begs our understanding. Since our Torah is made of words and sentences, wouldn’t it be correct to say that whenever a person transgresses the Torah, he is sinning with the Aleph Bais? And what does being smitten with the Aleph Bais mean?

In the Torah of Rav Moshe Shapira, we find clues to understanding the Gemara as well as the times we live in.

When a person does something wrong, there are two levels on which it can occur. There is what the person actually did, and the change they made in the order that Torah established, which is even worse. An example would be the person who our Sages associate

with being of the worst sinners: a king in Israel named Yeravam ben Nevat. He sinned, and caused others to sin as well. As an example, he decreed that the holiday of Sukkot, which as we know comes in the middle of Tishrei, the seventh month on our calendar, should be celebrated in Cheshvan, the eighth month. He not only transgressed—he changed the order, creating a new reality as the set point.

The Hebrew alphabet is rich in meaning, and on our level, we can access only some of the depth inherent in it. Besides the meaning of the letters themselves, even the shape of the letter is instructive. And because the letters, which are the building blocks of our universe, have numerical value, we learn that the order of the letters is significant as well. In other words, the order aleph, bais, gimmel, etc. teaches us something about the order of the cosmos as the Creator wished it to be. Sinning with the Aleph Bais means changing the order from the way He wanted it to be.

We see a reference to this point in the very acrostic with which Jeremiah wrote the scroll of Eichah.

The three middle chapters, which follow the order of the Hebrew alphabet, have a significant exception. In each of those chapters, the verse that starts with the letter peh precedes the one that starts with ayin, which is the reverse of how it appears in the Aleph Bais.

This change of order is a reflection of what the Talmud teaches us went wrong that caused the spies to sin. Their mouth spoke what their eyes did not see; in other words they changed the order. We are meant to look, see, understand, and then speak. They spoke what they did not see, which means that they did not look, as they had their mind already made up and that is what they spoke. Once they had already decided what they would say, there was no possibility of their actually seeing properly.

To be smitten with the Aleph Bais means to be stuck in the wrong order. Now we tend to speak before we see. Our ability to see has been compromised; it is much harder now to see truth, to see reality. Similarly, once we heard what the spies said and took it in, our hearing was affected, and now we hear without

OUR ABILITY TO SEE HAS BEEN COMPROMISED; IT IS MUCH HARDER NOW TO SEE TRUTH.

recognizing the truth when we hear it.

The change of order created a new—but not better—reality in which we exist, confused and diminished.

What should we do?

As difficult as recent events in Israel have been, and as much as we mourn the losses and pray fervently that the One Above continue to bring miracles, the situation is quite possibly an opportunity. Like a slide projector projecting an image on a large wall, we are being shown what the world looks like out of the order that it was meant to have, and when that becomes the new reality, it is terrifying.

Those who value death are praised and those who cry over every life are condemned. Those who fight to defend themselves are blamed, and those who attack with hatred are lauded. The world cannot see the humane efforts of a country that continues to supply light and water to the country that wants to wipe it off the map. The world cannot hear the soul of the people who set up field hospitals to treat the wounded of their enemy.

We are experiencing what life looks like when the order of reality is changed. It is untenable for us and for the world as well. Suicide bombers started in Israel. We did not object strongly enough to this blatant reordering of the world (people were created to want to live, not to want to die) and now the cancer has spread to many countries .

Our only refuge is within Torah, for that is the place where the proper order of reality is clear. Only through devotion to it can we regain our true vision and hearing. Our perception of self must be measured against its standards, and not by the standards of the world that is more blind and deaf than we are.

We must learn to see our fellow Jews more clearly, and see what is good and beautiful about them. We must believe what the Mishna teaches – that we are all, underneath, believers and children of believers.

The IDF being ordered by a general to pray before entering Gaza? Yeshiva boys making tzitzit by the hundreds for their brothers, the soldiers? Sounds like a re-ordering back to reality.

We have to want to see and hear good about our fellow Jew. This is not being a Pollyanna. This is realigning our sight and hearing with the true order of reality.

May we merit to hear the call of Eliyahu and see TJH the coming of Moshiach, very, very soon. 

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e are well familiar with the reasons provided by our Sages (Yoma 9b) as to why each of our two batei mikdash was destroyed.

Why was the first sanctuary destroyed? Because of three (evil) things that prevailed there: idolatry, immorality, and bloodshed…

But why was the second sanctuary destroyed, since in that time they were occupying themselves with Torah, (observance of) mitzvos, and the practice of charity? At that time causeless hatred (sin’as chinam) prevailed. That teaches you that causeless hatred is considered of equal gravity with the three sins of idolatry, immorality, and bloodshed together.

It is noteworthy that despite their active violation of the three cardinal sins of idolatry, immorality, and bloodshed, those who lived during the first commonwealth were still collectively on a significantly higher spiritual level than their successors. For instance, it was they, not their descendants, who merited an open revelation of Hashem’s presence.

In five areas the first Temple differed from the second (the first three are considered as one): in the aron, the kapores (aron-cover), the keruvim, the fire, the Shechina, the spirit of prophecy, and the urim v’tumim.

(Yoma 21b) More importantly, they were forced to endure a much shorter exile (70 years, compared to nearly two millennia and counting), and knew from the outset as to how long their exile would last.

The former ones whose iniquity was revealed (by not hiding their misdeeds) had their end revealed (through prophecy), the latter ones whose iniquity was not revealed have their end still unrevealed.

(Yoma 9b) The obvious question is why is that so? After all, how can the three cardinal sins for which one is required to give up his life rather than violate (yehareig v’al ya’avor – see Sanhedrin 74a) be only equal to (or perhaps even better than) the transgression of sin’as chinam?

Before we attempt to answer that question, let us first take a moment to analyze perhaps the single most important group of mitzvos ever presented to our nation, the aseres hadibros. These

You Have What You Need mitzvos include core components of our faith, such as Hashem’s uniqueness and the commandment to observe the Sabbath. We are also instructed to refrain from moral turpitude, such as committing acts of murder and adultery.

Clearly, it is neither fitting nor possible for us to rank the dibros in terms of importance. Still, I suspect that many of us look at the list and think of the tenth and final command, a prohibition again coveting one’s neighbor’s possessions (Shemos 20:13), as being of lesser significance than the others. To the degree that we can even understand the

to have and all of my neighbor’s possessions are what Hashem wants my neighbor to have. When we are told not to covet, we are really being instructed to strengthen our faith in Hashem as our provider, and work to appreciate the things that we own as exactly what is necessary for us to fulfill our life’s mission.

Taken in this light, the last directive serves as the perfect complement to the opening commandment (“I am the L-rd your G-d”). It is not enough to know that there is only one G-d. We must also believe that He has a special plan for

WE MUST ALSO BELIEVE THAT HE HAS A SPECIAL PLAN FOR US THAT IS UNIQUELY OURS AND EQUIPS US FULLY TO FULFILL THAT MISSION.

nature of the prohibition, we struggle to comprehend its significance, as well as its rightful place in this foundational list.

To understand its importance, I think that we first must be able to grasp its applicability. The great commentator Rabbi Avraham Ibn Ezra wonders how the Torah can legislate against a person’s desires. Being envious is natural, a built-in urge that is part and parcel of the human condition. How can the Torah command a person not to be jealous?

He answers this question with a parable. No commoner ever thinks he will marry a princess because he knows that the princess is out of his league. Our nature is to covet things that we can relate to and realistically assume may become ours one day. We also do not feel jealous of those who possess things that are of no value to us. An electrician, for example, would not envy the carpenter for owning certain saws meant for woodwork. Such tools would not help the electrician do his job, so he gives them little consideration.

Ibn Ezra states that people do not acquire spouses or possessions based on their wisdom or cleverness. We have what we have because Hashem wants us to have them. The antidote to coveting is emunah, the faith that all of my possessions are what Hashem wants me

us that is uniquely ours and equips us fully to fulfill that mission. If we think in such terms, we will have no intrinsic inclination to murder, steal, engage in adultery, and so on.

Rav Chaim Friedlander, zt”l, (Sifsei Chaim, Vol. III, pp. 279ff) noted an underlying difference in the personal motive behind the sinful behavior associated with the two churbanos.

He suggested that the people from the earlier period had managed to contain their internal urges. Their violation of the three cardinal sins was motivated by compelling external drives (this is what is meant by their iniquity being “revealed”).

(Rav Friedlander cited a fascinating incident (detailed in Sanhedrin 102b) involving the wicked Judean king Menashe and Rav Ashi, a great amora and the primary editor of Talmud Bavli. Menashe appeared to the latter in a dream after Rav Ashi had spoken of the ruler disparagingly during a discourse.

Menashe proved himself to be quite knowledgeable in halacha, prompting the Sage to ask Menashe as to why he was so heavily engaged in idolatry. The king replied by saying that during his time the people wore long garments so that when they felt an urge to sin, their clothing would serve as an impediment. He suggested that had Rav Ashi lived during his reign, he would have

lifted his garment in order to reach the idols more quickly. His point was that the urge for sin was so compelling that practically no one could resist. This only changed after the Sages of the Great Assembly (beginning of Second Commonwealth) prayed for this temptation to be significantly muted.)

In contrast, later generations struggled with their core, inner character and drives. For example, their primary sin, sin’as chinam, is motivated by a lack of emunah. I become jealous of you and feel a form of hatred if I think that you will somehow detract from my needs and aspirations. Such thinking reflects a fundamental weakness in our character and faith.

The reason as to why the proliferation of sin’as chinam independently led to the destruction of bayis sheni is because it represented something much deeper than societal discord and even hatred. It reflected a fundamental lack of faith in Hashem as the ultimate provider. The fact that they observed the Torah religiously was of little consequence.

Rabbeinu Yonah, writing in Shaarei Teshuva (3:160), explains that one can fulfill all of the mitzvos to the fullest degree and still be one who hates God if he is bothered when he sees others serving Hashem as well. Such a person is not serving their Maker out of a true desire to fulfill His will, but rather for the purpose of enhancing his own personal stature. In other words, if we lack faith, we start to see a different world, one of competition and externality. Such thinking is antithetical to G-d’s.

In order to rebuild the bais hamikdash for the final time, we certainly must become more loving towards one another despite the differences that separate us. We saw our tremendous capacity to do so when we prayed that Hashem #bringbackourboys. But we also need to develop the type of deep faith and refinement that will keep us from being envious of others and instead view each Jew as someone who can assist us in achieving the special, unique mission that only we can accomplish.

Rabbi Naphtali Hoff is an executive coach and president of Impactful Coaching and Consulting (ImpactfulCoaching.com).

He can be reached at 212.470.6139 or at president@impactfulcoaching.com.

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The Observant Jew Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz

I Could Care Less

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s I cleaned up my deck, I looked over to the above-ground pool I got for my kids and made a mental note that I had to buy more chlorine. Then I started to think about when they would use it next, and how when it came to the Nine Days I would try to explain to them why I wasn’t swimming. “It’s because the Bais HaMikdash was destroyed and we feel sad, so we don’t swim or eat meat.”

Now, my five-year old is smart, but I can’t imagine her understanding that.

I mean, she can understand that the Bais HaMikdash was destroyed, but will it mean anything to her? I remembered what Chazal says that each generation understands less about the churban than the previous one.

The Midrash relates that R’ Yochanan elucidated sixty interpretations of the verse in Megilas Eicha, “Bila Hashem v’lo chamal, Hashem consumed and was devoid of compassion,” while his rebbi, R’ Yehuda HaNasi, only revealed twenty-four. Was R’ Yochanan a greater talmid chacham than his teacher?

No. After R’ Yehuda HaNasi expounded twenty-four meanings of the verse, he broke down into uncontrollable tears and was unable to continue. He didn’t even live at the time of the churban, yet he was so distraught. His disciple, however, was a generation removed and did not feel the same level of anguish.

I thought about that. My children will not feel the loss of the Bais HaMikdash as much as I do. It will mean less to them. Then a scary, scary thought crossed my mind – Is that even possible?!

Is it possible for my children to care less about the Bais HaMikdash than I do? Do I really have any deep emotion about it or am I just going through the motions of the Nine Days because that’s the thing to do? What kind of connection and loss do I feel for the home of the Al-mighty? To think that I am so far removed that I might question if there was a further disconnect was frightening indeed.

In Shulchan Aruch, Hanhagos ha’adam baboker (1:3), the Mechaber says, “It is proper for every Heaven-fearing person to be distressed and concerned over the destruction of the Bais HaMikdash.” It is not just a nice thing, it is a halacha! Yet do we do

this? Are we concerned about the Bais HaMikdash?

My wife and I were just discussing the Nine Days and the common practice in camps to have a siyum so they can eat fleishig meals. Often, campers may not even realize that it’s the Nine Days because every night they are eating meat.

One camp I know used to have three or four siyumim during the Nine Days, but

pain. Every rocket fired on an innocent home, every young child who dies suddenly, every family left without a father or mother and every person maimed in an accident all link back to the vacuum left when the Bais HaMikdash was taken away from us.

We can learn about the churban, the midrashim, the stories. We can study the Holocaust, a churban of unbeliev-

WHAT KIND OF CONNECTION AND LOSS DO I FEEL FOR THE HOME OF THE AL-MIGHTY?

because they wanted to impress upon the children that there is a period of mourning going on, they limited it to one or two.

The question for us is, could we care less? Do we have a connection to the churban, the loss of the Bais HaMikdash which was the starting point of all light and bracha in the world through which Hashem conducted His power?

If we don’t have a connection, is there anything we can do?

The answer is yes, we have a con-

able proportions which only happened a generation or two ago and realize that Hashem is talking to us, wistfully wishing Himself for the Bais HaMikdash to be rebuilt.

In Shemoneh Esrei, we pray for the flourishing of the salvation of our people through the descendant of Dovid HaMelech, Moshiach. We say, “Ki l’yishuascha kivinu kol hayom, for your salvation we hope each day.” In Nusach Sfard, many siddurim have the words “U’mitzapim l’yishua, and we

cus on what that means and truly yearn for it. It is possible to strengthen our connection and deepen our understanding of the churban, but we must make a conscious effort to do so.

To that end, I have a challenge for all of my dear readers. The Mishna Berura on the above-mentioned halacha regarding being distressed over the destruction of the Bais HaMikdash quotes the Shelah that one should recite Al Naharos Bavel (Psalm 137) before bentsching during the week and Shir HaMaalos (Psalm 26) on Shabbos. We all say Shir HaMaalos before bentsching on Shabbos, but how many of us say Al Naharos Bavel before bentsching during the week?

This challenge is this: During the Nine Days, make sure that you wash and eat bread at several weekday meals. When it comes time to bentsch, say Al Naharos Bavel and think about what you’re saying. Concentrate on the meaning (look it up if you need to).

See if you can feel disconnected and distant from the churban. See if you can help being drawn to tears as you read the words of Dovid HaMelech, the king who captured the emotions of our nation in his songs.

I bet you care more than you realize.

The above article was originally printed in 2006 and is an excerpt from Rabbi Gewirtz’s recently published book. Now in bookstores, The Observant Jew, a compilation of dozens of the best articles from years past, is receiving critical acclaim. With short, funny, insightful selections, this book is the perfect summertime companion. Look for it in your favorite Jewish bookstore or visit Feldheim.com.

nection, and yes, we can strengthen it.

We have a connection because each Jew feels the loss in his heart, no matter how faintly. This holy spark realizes it’s missing the fuel of the manifest presence of HaKadosh Boruch Hu on earth.

Now how to strengthen it? Simple.

We must reflect on the troubles surrounding us, and realize that just as the Bais HaMikdash was the source of all bracha, so is the lack of the Bais HaMikdash the source of all suffering and

hope for salvation” written in parentheses at the end of that phrase. Many say these words, but it is said that these words were not part of the prayer, but a “stage instruction” as it were, to the mispallel.

When you say these words, that you wait for Hashem’s salvation each day, do you mean it? Do you really look for Hashem’s return to us? Therefore, there is a reminder: “Hope for Salvation!” At this point in the davening, fo-

Jonathan Gewirtz is an inspirational writer and speaker whose work has appeared in publications around the world. He also operates JewishSpeechWriter.com, where you can order a custom-made speech for your next special occasion.

Sign up for the Migdal Ohr, his weekly PDF Dvar Torah in English. E-mail info@ JewishSpeechWriter.com and put Subscribe in the subject. © 2014 by Jonathan Gewirtz. All rights reserved.

69 Gedaliah Borvick

Making Aliyah with Family Members with Special Needs

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hana Zweiter has been a pioneer in the field of mainstreaming. Chana made her mark in the United States where she founded and directed Yachad until she made aliyah in 1991. In Israel, she is the founding director of the Rosh Pina Mainstreaming Network / Kaleidoscope and also serves as a special education consultant, helping families making aliyah to find appropriate educational programs for their children with special needs. Chana and I first connected at Yachad, where I volunteered for several years in the late 1980s. We reconnected in Israel on my pilot trip in 2002, when Chana guided us in identifying the right educational program for our daughter, Tova, who has Down syndrome. As I am often asked by potential olim about special

education opportunities, I asked Chana to be my guest columnist.

Coming on aliyah with a family member with special needs often seems like an impossible journey. “It was hard enough finding the right placement here; how are we ever going to do it in Israel?” is the most common refrain heard from these families. The good news is that many such families have made aliyah and have succeeded.

In the last decade in particular, Israel has developed a high-level multifaceted system which makes living in Israel open to all. The following is an overview of this system and how to access their services.

Special needs services in Israel

follow a continuum that tracks the individual throughout his/her development. It includes medical, therapeutic, educational, recreational, vocational and residential services. A baby with developmental disabilities will be referred to the local Child Development Center (CDC), a feature of the health ministry and its health providers, the kupot cholim. The CDC will assess the needs of the baby, will prescribe the appropriate medical and therapeutic care, and will determine the child’s eligibility for early intervention centers which are specialized to meet each patient’s particular needs. The CDC will also guide parents of older children regarding the availability of educational settings and therapies that their child is eligible to receive.

For school-age children, there is a diverse educational system from nursery through high school, which includes educational programming until the age of 21. There are school settings for children with developmental disabilities, physical disabilities and autistic characteristics, and these settings are individualized according to special needs and grade levels. The educational system emphasizes inclusion, which is individualized to address each child’s needs. Consequently, these special education settings are often found in self-contained schools and offer parallel classes in the general educational track. These programs are available in charedi (ultra-religious), mamlachti dati (religious public school) and mamlachti (general public school) settings. It is important to visit the different settings prior to making aliyah in order to determine which environment is most suitable for your child.

Services other than educational, e.g. recreational programming, respite care and vocational and residential placement, and other benefits, e.g.

monthly stipends, are provided by the Ministry of Welfare (Misrad Harivacha) and the National Insurance Office (Bituach Leumi). To be eligible for these services and benefits, one must register in the agencies’ local district offices. The agencies will then determine the degree of disability and to which arm of these offices your family members belong.

For all placements, it is necessary to come equipped with updated (not more than six months old) evaluations, including medical, psychological, psychiatric, and educational when pertinent. All placements are determined soon after you make aliyah by a Placement Committee (Vaadat Hasama) held at the local government offices. Parents have an important

voice at these committee meetings and should attend.

Come to Israel equipped with patience and a positive attitude. It may take time to sort things out, but you can make this work – and it is worth it!

For more information, please contact Chana Zweiter at chanazweiter@ gmail.com.

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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The New York Times is reporting that Montana Senator John Walsh actually plagiarized at least twentyfive percent of his master’s thesis in grad school. Walsh totally denies it and said: “I am not a crook” and “Ask not what your country can do for your, ask what you can do for your country.”

- Jimmy Fallon According to a new report, millennials view smartphones as more important than deodorant.

That makes sense. Nobody ever totals their car because they were staring at their deodorant.

- Seth Myers For the record, all the “villains” on Thomas and Friends are the dirty diesel engines. I’d like to think there was a good environmental message in there, but when the good engines pump out white smoke and the bad engines pump out black smoke – and they are all pumping out smoke – it’s not hard to make the leap into the race territory.

- Tracy Van Slyke in the UK Guardian writing about how the Thomas and Friends children's cartoon gives a bad environmental and racial message to children

If the US imperialists threaten our sovereignty and survival... our troops will fire our nucleararmed rockets at the White House and the Pentagon – the sources of all evil.

- Hwang Pyong-So, director of the North Korea military’s General Political Bureau, at a military rally This year’s box-office revenue is down 20 percent from last summer. I’m not sure why that is, but I’ll bet you there’s a documentary on Netflix about it.

– Jimmy Fallon

Jon Stewart did a controversial bit last week about how Israel has all the advantages in the conflict… with its warnings via app to its civilians about incoming rockets and its ability to neutralize those rockets with its missile defenses…Yes, how unfair. Israel invested in systems entirely devoted to protecting its civilian population from unprovoked attack. What dastardliness is the Zionist entity capable of next?

-Rich Lowry, National Review

Leaked comments from unnamed senior government sources to Army Radio, Channel 2 and other Hebrew outlets have described [Secretary of State Kerry] as amateurish, incompetent, incapable of understanding the material he is dealing with — in short, a blithering fool. But actually, it’s worse than that. What emerges from Kerry’s self-initiated ceasefire mission — Israel had already accepted the Egyptian ceasefire proposal; and nobody asked him to come out on a trip he prefaced with sneering remarks about Israel’s attempted “pinpoint” strikes on Hamas terror targets — is that Jerusalem now regards him as duplicitous and dangerous.

- Times of Israel Op-ed Look at the wreckage that Kerry has done in intervening in the Israeli/Gaza fighting. He decides he has to go, the Israelis did not invite him. The Egyptians didn’t want him. And he said he advanced a peace plan that was sort of building on the Egyptian one. It didn’t at all. It undermined it…Kerry goes over and then he negotiates in Paris with who? Qatar and Turkey and returns essentially as the lawyer for Hamas, hands Israel a proposition that is so outrageous that the cabinet votes 19-0 against it. Israeli cabinets have never voted 19-0 on whether the sun rises in the east.

- Charles Krauthammer on Fox News

I have two words for you: Get lost.

- Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni’s Facebook posting after United Nations Human Rights Council voted to investigate possible Israeli violations of international law in Gaza while giving a pass to Hamas When countries like Cuba, Venezuela and the like vote against us, it means we’re doing something right.

- Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman’s response to the UN Human Rights Council vote

This summer New Yorkers will be able to order delivery food to sunbathing spots in Central Park. Although if you have to order delivery to the place where you’re sunbathing, you probably shouldn’t be sunbathing.

- Seth Myers This crazy weather we’ve been having all over the country — it’s because the polar vortex is back. The polar vortex is causing the Midwest to experience falllike temperatures. I can’t tell if climate change is still a problem or if G-d just put the Earth on “Shuffle.”

- Jimmy Fallon

- David Letterman Maybe that’s why the FCC just announced that it wants to overhaul the Emergency Alert System so President Obama would be able to interrupt any TV broadcast and address the country instantly…They want to make it so the president can instantly interrupt TV broadcasts whenever there’s breaking news. Then Obama said, “And I mean REAL breaking news, not that CNN stuff.”

- Jimmy Fallon

Vegan meals take far less of a toll on the Earth’s resources… It takes about 2,500 gallons of water to produce just a pound of meat but only about 155 gallons of water to produce a pound of wheat.

- PETA’s explanation for their offer to pay the water bills of Detroit residents who go vegan

A company in the U.K. is making news for developing a new vegetable called Brussel-Kale, which is a hybrid of Brussels sprouts and kale. They said, “We got the idea from a child’s nightmare.”

- Jimmy Fallon

North Korea is negotiating to broadcast the Teletubbies.

They have to make changes for North Korean TV. For starters, every episode will end with one of the Teletubbies being executed.

– Craig Ferguson

I have to admit I’ve actually met that guy before. It was a couple years ago and he had the same line. He needs to update his material.

- President Obama when interrupted by a heckler during a rally in Los Angeles

This is probably the safest airport in the world; safer than any airport we have.

- Mike Bloomberg upon landing in Israel on an El Al flight while the FAA ban against American airlines flying to Israel was in place Today the prime minister of Ukraine announced his resignation. He said he wants to spend a little more time fleeing Ukraine.

– Seth Myers “The View” will be trying out new co-hosts this week.

That’s good news for "The View" and even better news for the company that sells noise-canceling headphones.

– Jimmy Fallon

I am familiar with your country, I love your country, and I understand the complications of so many languages and so many cultures and so many histories all rolled up in one. Anything I can do to make the relationship with India better, I’m willing and enthusiastic about doing so. Just as your capital is welcome here to produce good-paying jobs in the U.S., I’d like our capital to be welcome there… And I ask cooperation and commitment and priority from your government in so doing. Can I have that?

- Congressman Curt Clawson (R-FLA) to two U.S State Department officials who were testifying at a Congressional hearing and had Indian names and looked like they were from India I think your question is to the Indian government.

- One of the State Department officials in response I made a mistake in speaking before being fully briefed and I apologize. I’m a quick study, but in this case I shot an air ball.

- Congressman Clawson after the hearing

These huge white flags were placed on top of the Brooklyn Bridge. And late this afternoon, word came from the FBI that the New York Mets have surrendered.

- Craig Ferguson

Today, Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to Egypt and had to pass through a metal detector before he could meet with officials.

Which is ridiculous. Everyone knows he’s made of wood.

- Seth Myers

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is facing corruption charges. If the charges prove true, then Governor Cuomo will be forced to step down and become the governor of New Jersey.

– Conan O’Brien Forgive Us, Netherlands.

- Front page headline of antiPutin Russian newspaper, Novaya Gazeta

As much of world watches Gaza war in horror, members of Congress fall over each other to support Israel.

- Tweet sent out by the Associated Press

Comic-Con wrapped up over the weekend in San Diego. If you don’t know, Comic-Con is the world’s largest gathering of people who know the difference between a modem and a router.

– Jimmy Kimmel A new rumor has surfaced that the next iPhone will feature an all-glass exterior.

Because why should just the front be cracked?

– Seth Myers

I saw that Hillary Clinton visited the headquarters of Twitter and Facebook yesterday.

Hillary would also have visited LinkedIn, but she already knows what job she wants.

– Jimmy Fallon Yeah, yes, indeed.

- Hillary Clinton when asked on Fusion TV whether she is worth millions

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Breaking: Dutch military plane carrying bodies from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash lands in Eindhoven.

- Awkward phrasing of an AP tweet which was quickly deleted

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In the Kitchen Naomi Nachman

Recipes for the Nine Days

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The Nine Days can present a challenge of what to make for dinner. We all would like our dinners to have some variety and be nutritious, while not being a huge “patchke”. Among all the food blogs, cookbooks, and articles in newspapers, there are a variety of fresh ideas for you and your family. I have adapted some of the recipes I came across during the

year while looking for Shabbat meals, but I couldn’t use them for Shabbat as they had some crucial milchig ingredients. So, I put together a few simple ideas for the Nine Days or for any night you are looking for a dairy meal, snack or dessert. Also, I love making dairy desserts, too. (Sometimes it’s just worth the calories!)

Main Course Ideas Fiesta “Chicken” Dairy Enchiladas Ingredients 1 small onion, chopped 1 clove garlic, minced 4 soy chicken breast cut into ½ inch pieces ½ cup corn ½ cup canned black beans, rinsed and drained 2 diced jalapeno peppers 1 cup salsa, divided ¼ cup chopped cilantro 1 tsp ground cumin ¼ cup cream cheese 8 flour tortillas (6 inch) 1 cup shredded mozzarella Guacamole, for serving

Preparation Heat oven to 350°F. Heat large skillet with 1 tablespoon canola oil on medium heat. Add onions and garlic and cook until soft. Add chicken and cook until chicken warmed through. Add corn, beans and jalapeno peppers and sauté until soft for 2 minutes. Then add ¼ cup salsa, cream cheese, cilantro and cumin; mix well. Cook for 5 minutes or until heated through, stirring occasionally.

Spoon about 1/3 cup chicken mixture down center of each tortilla; roll up. Place, seam-sides down, in 13×9-inch baking dish sprayed with cooking spray; top with remaining salsa and grated cheese.

Bake at 350° 15 to 20 minutes or until heated through.

Ricotta Gnocchi in Fresh Tomato Sauce Ingredients Gnocchi 1 pound firm ricotta cheese 1 cup finely grated parmesan cheese ½ cup plain flour 2 eggs, beaten lightly 1 TBS extra virgin olive oil Sauce 4 medium tomatoes, chopped coarsely 4 scallions, sliced thinly 2 TBS coarsely chopped fresh oregano or 1 teaspoon dried 2 TBS extra virgin olive oil, divided 1 TBS balsamic vinegar ½ cup shaved parmesan cheese

Preparation Bring large saucepan of water to boil.

Meanwhile, combine ricotta, grated parmesan, flour, eggs and oil in large bowl. Drop rounded tablespoons of mixture into boiling water; cook, without stirring, until gnocchi float to surface. Remove from pan with slotted spoon; drained, cover to keep warm.

The cooking process is fast so it only takes a couple of minutes.

Combine tomato, scallions, oregano, 1 tablespoon olive oil and vinegar in medium bowl. Top warm gnocchi with fresh tomato sauce; drizzle with remaining oil, top with shaved parmesan.

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Ingredients 1 – 28 oz. bag frozen checked cauliflower, partially defrosted 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese, plus extra for topping 1 egg Salt to taste ½ tsp onion powder ½ tsp oregano Marinara sauce Assorted toppings Preparation Grate the cauliflower in a food processor until it resembles small crumbs. Place the cauliflower crumbs in a clean dish towel. I split the cauliflower in half and place each half in its own dish towel.

Tightly wrap the cauliflower in a bundle and

squeeze it dry. If it’s still cold from being frozen, let it sit out for another 20 minutes and squeeze it again.

Try to make sure the cauliflower is very dry.

After the water has been squeezed out, place it in a bowl and add the egg, cheese and spices. You can also choose to add in your own favorite spices. Mix it really well and it will resemble “dough-like” quality.

Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper, and form the dough into a pizza disc on the parchment paper and bake at 450°F for 15 minutes. It will start to tinge brown.

Take the pizza out of the oven and put on sauce (I love Gefen classic marinara), more cheese, and your favorite toppings.

Turn the oven onto broil and place the pizza under the broiler for another few minutes until the cheese melts and the toppings look like they have softened.

Yields a 9-inch round pie.

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Yummy Sides Curried Butternut Squash with Goat Cheese and Nuts Ingredients 1 medium butternut squash, peeled and cubed 2 TBS olive oil 1 tsp curry powder (optional) 1 tsp cumin (optional) Salt and pepper to taste 1 10 oz. log goat cheese Balsamic vinegar, to taste 1 TBS honey 1 cup honey glazed pecans 3 cups arugula

Preparation Preheat oven to 450°F. Toss together the butternut squash, olive oil, curry powder, cumin, salt and pepper on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Roast in the oven until fork tender and edges are tinged brown.

In meantime, crumble the goat cheese into a salad bowl and add nuts. Once the butternut is ready, add it to the salad bowl with the goat cheese and nuts and add arugula. Drizzle with the balsamic vinegar and honey and toss gently.

Serve slightly warm.

Ricotta Latkes Ingredients 1-½ cups ricotta cheese ½ cup milk ½ tsp vanilla extract 2 eggs, separated ¼ cup sugar 1 cup flour 1 tsp baking powder Pinch kosher salt 2 tsp canola oil

Preparation Place ricotta, milk, vanilla extract and egg yolks in a bowl and mix well.

Stir in sugar, flour, baking powder and salt and mix gently until smooth.

In a separate bowl, beat egg whites to soft peaks, the fold them into the cheese mixture.

Heat oil in a 9-inch pan until oil is hot. Drop 1/8 cup worth of batter into pan, lower heat to medium and cook on both sides until brown, about 2 minutes per side.

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Smoked Salmon and Avocado Salad with Feta Cheese Ingredients Salad 6 cups mesclun greens or 2 to 3 heads of romaine lettuce ½ pound smoked salmon, sliced thinly 2 medium avocados, chopped coarsely 1 medium red onion, sliced thinly ½ block of feta cheese, crumbled 1 cup cherry tomatoes sliced in half Handful of sliced black olives slices (optional)

Dressing 2 TBS finely chopped fresh dill 1/3 cup fresh lemon juice 1 TBS Dijon mustard 2 TBS honey 2 cloves garlic, crushed 1 TBS white vinegar 1 TBS olive oil Preparation Combine mesclun, salmon, avocado, onion, tomato and feta in large bowl.

Whisk remaining ingredients in small bowl, then pour over salad; toss gently.

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Delicious Extras Avocado Mousse on Quinoa Crackers Makes a great appetizer or snack! You can serve it as directed below or just place it in a bowl with a serving spoon.

Ingredients 1 large, ripe Haas avocado ½ small red onion ½ small lemon, juiced 1 tsp Dijon mustard ¼ tsp salt ¼ tsp black pepper

¼ cup sour cream Quinoa crackers or your choice of crackers Preparation Place the onions in a bowl of a food processor and chop until smooth. Add the flesh of the avocado in with the onion and process again until smooth.

Add the lemon juice, mustard, salt, pepper and sour cream. Process again until very smooth.

Pipe through a pastry bag that has a “rose” tip with a swirl action to make a rose onto the crackers.

Onion Soup The famous classic!

Ingredients 1 TBS butter 3 pounds yellow onions, peeled ½ tsp freshly ground pepper Salt to taste 2 TBS paprika ¼ cup flour ¼ cup miso 1 cup red wine 6 cups water or vegetable broth (I use Trader Joe’s vegetable broth) 2 TBS onion soup mix with no MSG Grated cheese for garnish

Preparation Slice onions 1/8 inch thick.

Melt butter; add onions and sauté very slowly for 1 hour in a large saucepan. Then add pepper, salt, paprika, miso and flour and sauté over low heat for 10 minutes. Add water or broth and onion soup mix and wine. Simmer for 45 minutes.

If you want a stronger flavor, add more onion soup powder. The key to imitating the real beef flavor of traditional onion soup is adding the miso into the soup. It really enhances the flavor.

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Deep Fried Oreos A decadent dessert Ingredients 2 quarts vegetable oil for frying 1 large egg 1 cup milk 2 teaspoons vegetable oil 1 cup pancake mix 1 (18 ounce) package cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookies (such as Oreos) Preparation Heat oil in a deep fryer to 375° or use a small pot to heat the oil.

Whisk together the egg, milk and 2 teaspoons of vegetable oil in a bowl until smooth. Stir in the pancake mix until no dry lumps remain. Dip the cookies into the batter one at a time, and carefully place into the hot oil. Fry only 4 to 5 at a time to avoid overcrowding the pan.

Cook until the cookies are golden-brown, about 2 minutes. Drain on paper towels before serving.

Note: Use an oil thermometer to make sure the oil is at the perfect cooking temperature in the range of 360° to 375°. If the heat of the oil is too low, the cookies will come out soggy and if it’s too high, the cookies will burn.

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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Forgotten Heroes

Avi Heiligman

Military Inventions Close to Home Disclaimer: As with all articles of this nature the author reminds the reader that this is meant to be an informative article and not all-inclusive.

If I missed an item, please don’t place a claymore mine under my pillow. Yes, this has been done in combat before when Navy SEALs left a “present” for North Vietnamese troops. Oh, and if you’re wondering, claymores are a military invention and according to my research have no practical civilian applications other than a paperweight and are not meant for home use.

used weapons. Medical advances due to conflict have saved many lives that in some cases wouldn’t have been known if not for combat. Some pieces of technology and home items were created for military purposes but have found their ways into our daily lives. Some inventions have come from the military—like the Swiss Army Knife (raise your hand if you think a civilian invented it)—but some may surprise you.

The first item on our list of important military inventions that are used for civilian purposes is plastic surgery. The surgery had been performed way before WWI but modern plastic surgery had its roots during the war. A New Zealand doctor, Sir Harold Gilles, working for the British medical corps, performed 11,000 surgeries on men who had nasty looking wounds. Most of the cases were face surgeries, and after the war, Gilles and his team performed many more sur-

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geries. Reconstructive and cosmetic Ammunition cases needed to be kept surgeries have come from techniques dry as weapons could be corrupted used during WWI. Skin grafting was if they got wet. Permacell, a division first used during WWII to help burn of Johnson & Johnson, invented duct wounds heal.

Several advances in medicine saved countless lives during WWII. The invention of the penicillin antibiotic and the use of blood transfusions were first used on the battlefield. While the medical field was beginning to learn more about the human body way before the war started, it took the war to Trench coats were worn by men in the trenches during WWI convince companies to produce massive quantities of the an- tape and soon it was used to fix guns, tibiotic. Companies also found ways jeeps and even aircraft. The uses of the to make it more potent and wouldn’t tape are immeasurable and after the have done the research unless the sup- war it became a product that is found in nearly every home in America. (I love seeing duct tape wallets and the Mythbusters episodes using the adhesive are quite fascinating.)

The jeep is also a military invention that first saw use during WWII. As with many vehicles invented during the war, the army asked companies to come out with prototypes of a land vehicle that was light and The original 'walkie talkies' were used in WWII could traverse over most ply was needed. Sir Alexander Flem- terrain so it could be used for reconing discovered penicillin and received naissance missions. Two companies, a Nobel Prize for his work. Blood Willys-Overland and Ford, built a totransfusions also took a giant leap for- tal of 640,000 jeeps during the war. ward during the war as donated blood The jeep saw action in every theater poured in (pun intended) from volunteers and better ways of storage and implementation were found. Tetanus shots were also discovered, and it became standard for all servicemen to be immunized.

Now on to fun stuff like the invention of duct tape. There were other tapes out there before duct tape but most weren’t strong enough Duct tape was developed to keep ammunition canisters dry during WWII for military purposes.

dates to the 1960s. Over the next two decades, several satellites were launched into space including one that had an atomic clock aboard. Eventually, President Reagan allowed for GPS to be made available for civilian use.

The first handheld unit was available for military use in the late 1980s and was used to direct troops to their intended targets during the night or inclement weather. It is used in many functions including search and rescue missions and for reconnaissance missions. The most common civilian application is for navigation, maps and for cellphones.

While on the topic of new and improved technology, the walkie-talkie was invented during WWII. Usually nicknames for a military item don’t stick but calling it the Motorola SCR-300 wasn’t popular among troops.

The original system had 640,000 jeeps were produced during WWII a soldier with all the equipment including an do with GPS (global positioning sys- antenna strapped to his back while antems) can be traced back to the mili- other soldier (the pack-wearing soldier tary. In fact, the study of satellites in could use it too but it wasn’t designed orbit transmitting data back to Earth for that) would talk into the two-way

radio. The pack on the back was so but the truth is that they were invented cumbersome that another system by accident during WWII. American called the handy-talkie was created scientists realized that radar transbut its performance decreased. After mitters actually released enough heat to cook food and the war, the handytalkie morphed soon the microinto ham radios wave was patentand walkie-talkies ed. Engineer Percy are commonplace Spencer walked by on every Hatzolah a radar transmitter member’s waist. with a chocolate Sometimes bar in his pocket the latest in fashwhich melted. He ion garments and then he deliberateaccessories come ly cooked my fafrom odd places. vorite microwave Sir Alexander Fleming developed penicillin in 1928 The origins of the food as his first extrench coat are disperiment: popcorn. puted, as there are both American and There are many other everyday British claims to the invention, but it items that started out in the military was first seen in public during WWI. but there is not enough space to print The name obviously comes from the all of them here. As you can see, the trenches that the soldiers had to live military is useful not just for protectin and the waterproof coat proved to ing us but for giving us some of our be perfect for those conditions. It was common comforts in life. lightweight, had button-closed pockets and went well below the knee. It kept the soldiers dry in wet and filthy Avi Heiligman is a weekly contributor to trenches. After the soldiers returned The Jewish Home. He welcomes your comfrom the frontlines, they brought the ments and suggestions.for future columns trench coats with them and it soon be- and can be reached at aviheiligman@ gmail.com. came popular with civilians.

You may be thinking, “What were microwaves doing on the frontlines?”

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of the war and was put to many uses including as a medical transport, cable laying and even as an amphibious vehicle. (It wasn’t too good as an amphibious vehicle. The best water-land vehicle was the DUKW or the Duck Boat.) Famous author Ernie Pyle wrote about it: “[The jeep was one of the] most important pieces of noncombat equipment ever developed.”

There are many working examples of WWII jeeps that are still in use today.

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Summer Fun in the Kitchen

by ESTHER ESTHER by OTTENSOSER OTTENSOSER

We got such great feedback from our last cupcake column; the readers were just clamoring for more. I’m excited to bring to you three more creative ideas for those super-hot days that you just can’t bear to be outside.

If you’re looking for a fun way to keep the kids entertained, try these easy ideas. Your children will be so proud to show off their masterpiece – and then eat it! (Don’t want to heat up the house by turning on the oven? Many bakeries sell plain cupcakes that would be perfect for this project.)

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FISHING DAY CUPCAKE You will need: Cupcakes Frosting Blue Sugar Thin pretzel sticks Fish candy String

Put a dollop of frosting on each cupcake and cover with blue sugar crystals. Have fun placing the fish candies in the “sea.” Tie a string around the top of a pretzel stick and insert into cupcake.

SEASHELL CUPCAKE

You will need: Cupcakes Frosting Cookies (I used the Ostreichers) Seashell gummy candies Frost the cupcake. Place cookies into Ziploc bags and crush the cookies. You can use a rolling pin, a hammer, or even a bottle of seltzer. Sprinkle crushed cookies on top of the frosting and place seashells in the “sand.”

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You will need: Mini cones Cake balls Wonder Melts Use either frosting or wonder melts to â&#x20AC;&#x153;glueâ&#x20AC;? the cake pop into the cone. Melt Wonder Melts (in the color of your choice) and dip the cake pop into the Wonder Melt, coating it completely.

If desired, garnish with sprinkles, mini chocolate lentils or any topping of your choice. Allow to dry completely.

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t seemed to me he was evil. I don’t say that too often about people. Well, I definitely had that opinion about Osama bin Laden. And our historic enemies, Pharaoh, Bilam, and Haman; as well as our recent enemy, Hitler, y’mach shimo.

But this person looked at me with eyes of steel and I was certain that I would be wasting my breath trying to get through to him. Yet, I had to try.

That is my job. “Yaakov,” I said gently, “Your wife is in pain.” (All stories are made up.)

“So?” Yaakov said defensively.

“What am I supposed to do about that?”

“She’s in pain because you hurt her,” I stated firmly.

“No, she isn’t,” he replied flippantly. “She has lots of old baggage from her childhood. That’s what you’re supposed to be working on. And I might add, I don’t think it is professional of you to be blaming me for that!”

This guy was good. Real slick. No compassion, no responsibility, not one moment of thought given to the possibility that he made any contribution to the problem, and he turns it on me to boot.

“I don’t blame. I think blame is pointless,” I reply evenly. “However, our Torah dictates that we examine ourselves just in case we did contribute to something bad that’s happening out there. That is not blame. That is me being the professional you want me to be.

You’re paying me hard-earned money to tell you how I see it. Whatever injuries Miriam has because of her mother are the foundation on which you may

Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.

TJH Staff

Darkness and Light have inadvertently built. If you want to save your family – and live a happy life – introspection at this point is called for.”

I have not heard from Yaakov in three weeks. I don’t think I will. <sigh> I was just reading Terry Real’s book, “How Can I Get Through to You,” and

that while Avraham Aveinu represented middas ha’rachamim, Yitzchak represented middas ha’din, but Bilam took that very same middas ha’din and distorted it.

Middas ha’din means that if we have not followed Hashem’s mitzvos, then we don’t deserve to live. That is

DARKNESS ITSELF MAY BE A WAY OF ACHIEVING CLARITY AND THEREFORE FINDING G-D.

took heart that he had a client like that, too. But I didn’t take much heart from the episode. After all, there’s a mean guy out there and he’s hurting his wife.

It’s funny how a chunk of my work reminds me of the pain we are all in nationally right now. In both cases, people are hurting people, and some of them will not accept the notion that they are doing something wrong.

A friend forwarded me the following link: https://www.facebook.com/ photo.php?v=10204348730899301&fref=nf. It is a Palestinian mother being interviewed. She explains that death means nothing to her and she hopes her young son who is receiving a transplant at an Israeli hospital will grow up to be a martyr killing Jews.

This way of thinking is so strange.

And I would really not understand it at all were it not for a shiur that I just went to by Esther Wein (you can hear it on Torah Anytime). She explained

why Yitzchak was ready to die. Because no one is perfect, no one should be left alive. That really is what din is.

The problem, of course, is that if Hashem ended the world because we are not perfect, then there would have been no point in creating us with free will.

He is sort of compelled to institute rachamim. The problem with rachamim, however, is that as soon as He lets us get away with our imperfections, Hashem has created His own chillul Hashem.

Even worse, because of rachamim, we are not pushed to do better.

Bilam had no tolerance for the chillul Hashem created by rachamim. He preferred middas ha’din.

That would mean exterminating the Jews since they’re clearly not perfect.

However, since Hashem was using rachamim, then he himself could do anything he wanted – including killing the Jews. Simply put, Bilam took advantage of G-d’s mercy in order to see how far he could advance himself and hurt his adversaries. Because of rachamim, he could get away with it – or so he thought.

Now, as in every generation, we are again faced with Bilam’s heirs: people for whom rachamim does not exist, or shouldn’t from their point of view. How is G-d supposed to be brought into the world in such darkness? How is our friend Miriam supposed to see light in the darkness of such a marriage?

According to Esther Wein, Shlomo

HaMelech has an answer. In Mishlei (8:21), he talks about something of substance that Hashem will give us, something called yaysh (yud, shin). Rambam understands yaysh from a mystical perspective. The gematria is 310 which is made up of 207 2/3 and 103 1/3. The gematria of or (light, clear) is 207 and that of mincha (evening) is 103.

That is to say, everything, both clarity and darkness, adds up to an eventual recognition of Hashem. When things are easy, we might ignore clear revelations. When things are very difficult, it compels us to search hard for answers.

This is why darkness itself may be a way of achieving clarity and therefore finding G-d.

From this understanding, Evil is not simply a denial of G-d. Bilam, descendent of Eisav, believed in G-d and so do our current enemies. But none of them believe in G-d’s Plan for how the world should be run which consists of both din and rachamim. Rejecting rachamim is Evil because it is part of G-d’s Plan.

What is the right thing to do with those who cannot comprehend rachamim? I am a big advocate of being dan l’chaf zchus, but it is also important to see when a person truly rejects rachamim. Perhaps for such people, dan l’chaf zchus would be misplaced.

Miriam and those suffering right now in Eretz Yisroel must struggle to find the clarity to recognize who we are dealing with. It is the answer we all need to find.

Dr. Deb Hirschhorn, a Marriage & Family Therapist and best-selling author of The Healing Is Mutual: Marriage Empowerment Tools to Rebuild Trust and Respect—Together, is proud to announce that readers of The Jewish Home will receive a $50 discount on every visit to her Woodmere office. Listen to her new show called “Kids and Parents” on Chazaq Radio live from 3-4 on Thursdays.

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The Responsibility Inherent in a Fiduciary Position My brother is thinking about estate planning and has asked me to serve as his health care agent, agent-in-fact under his power of attorney, and executor of his Will. I love my brother, but am not sure I want to assume this amount of responsibility. What is involved in these roles?

The Attorney Responds: You are correct that there is a great deal of responsibility inherent in these fiduciary positions. A fiduciary is an agent who acts on behalf of a principal in that principal’s best interests. The role is often time-consuming and requires organization and detailed note and record keeping. Any willful misuse or mismanagement of funds under the fiduciary’s control may result in the fiduciary having to reimburse the principal from his/her personal funds. Yet, these are important and necessary tasks and it is a compliment that your brother chose you to handle his affairs, if necessary.

If, after understanding your responsibilities and obligations as fiduciary, you would prefer not to act in that capacity, please tell your brother now so he may choose someone else who is willing. I understand that you may be in a ‘sticky’ situation in that you may not want the job but do not know how to tell your brother. However, it is better that your brother knows how you feel now so he may appoint an agent or executor who is willing to act in these capacities should the need arise.

So, let’s go through the documents, noting how they specifically relate to the agent (you.) The first document is the health care proxy, which allows an agent to make health care decisions for the principal if the principal is not able to do so himself/herself. Therefore, if your brother can communicate his health care decisions to his doctor or hospital staff,

he makes his own decisions and you would not be empowered to act on your brother’s behalf. In the case of a halachic health care proxy, if your brother were not able (due to lack of mental capacity for any reason) to make his own decisions, you would consult with the Rabbi named by your brother; however, ultimately, the decision making would be your responsibility.

Has your brother conveyed his end-of-life wishes to you? Do you feel you could make difficult (life or death) decisions, if necessary? If you and your brother do not agree on treatment options, your brother would be better off choosing an agent who would follow his wishes.

Let’s move onto the Power of Attorney (POA), which grants an agent-in-fact the power to make all decisions other than those which relate to health care (e.g. financial, business, etc.) Unlike the health care proxy, the POA is effective as soon as it is executed (signed by the principal before a notary

public and two witnesses.) It is very important for a principal to trust the agent as the agent could literally empty all bank accounts, sell real estate, etc. immediately upon execution of the POA. Note that in New York, the agent(s) and any successor agents must sign the POA accepting the agency. Also, the agent cannot delegate his/her role and could be held responsible for handling affairs of the principal while the principal is alive.

Finally, to the Will, short for the Last Will and Testament (called such because the effective Will is the last Will the testator makes). The executor is the fiduciary named to marshal all assets of the estate, pay debts, and distribute the remainder to the beneficiaries. This position comes into play when the testator dies (i.e. becomes the decedent) and estate affairs need to be handled. While you may hire an attorney, accountant, and any other professional necessary to handle the estate matters, you still have a great deal of responsibility for making sure everything gets done on a timely basis. On the plus side, you are also entitled to commissions based upon a per-

centage of the assets of the estate; these commissions tend to be quite hefty.

Other considerations for you include: how close you live to your brother (your travel expenses are generally not reimbursable); your availability to handle matters during weekday daytime hours; your other responsibilities (e.g. to your nuclear family, work obligations, health issues, etc.); and your willingness to handle these matters. Based upon the foregoing, you need to give considerable thought as to your availability and willingness to perform any or all of these tasks before you agree to your brother’s request.

Good luck to both of you.

No column is a substitute for competent legal advice. Please consult with the attorney of your choice concerning specific legal questions you may have.

W. Zehava Schechter, Esq. specializes in real estate law, estate planning and administration, and business law on Long Island, New York. Please send your comments to SchechterLaw@gmail.com.

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From My Private Art Collection Rebbetzin Naomi N. Herzberg

Do You Have a Fear of Drawing but Truly Want to be an Artist?

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any times an adult will confide in me, saying, “I cannot draw to save my life.” Each time I hear that statement I become extremely sad. My answer usually is “You probably never took an art class or if you did then you must have given up very quickly. It takes the three p’s to succeed. They are patience, perseverance and persistence.”

Where do you begin your journey as an artist? Is there anything you have to learn before beginning to paint with watercolor or oil paints? Yes, there is. Take a basic drawing class. Look to see who your heroes in illustration are. By searching through children’s picture books you will see what motivates you and which illustrators you relate to. Theses drawings are usually very clearly drawn as they are made for children’s eyes to focus on and understand the story. Many times these pictures even take the place of the written word. Get a handle on other artists’ work so that you can become inspired. You will learn so much from studying the work of illustrators of children’s books.

Make a study of the drawing techniques and colors being used.

Drawing is where you should start.

Drawing is the frame.

From drawing you see can easily see the structure. If the basic framing is crooked, the drawing will always be crooked. If the basic framing is straight, then the rest will follow. Are you unsure where to start or where to get your ideas from? Go to bookstores and look at the current storybooks that are being sold. Make a commitment to draw every day. Practice, practice and practice some more.

Always carry a sketchbook with you.

You never know when the inspiration to draw something interesting that you come upon will happen and you will be inspired. Sometimes the inspiration comes in the middle of the night so even keep a sketchpad and a pencil by

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er which do not make practical sense as this will whet your imagination.

Drawings do not have to be realistic.

They can be abstract and eclectic as well. Keep a collection of sketchbooks. Look back at your sketchbooks for ideas that will complement your new ideas. Try to copy other people’s work for practice. There is nothing wrong with this advice if you are

Take pictures or videos to tape your work so that you can see how you improve. Share your thoughts with family and friends and begin to speak the language of visual communication by sharing these ideas.

You will be surprised how easy it is to overcome these fears. Eventually you will develop your own style.

It takes some artists twenty years to feel comfortable with their work.

Do not think that all professional artists always worked on the level that they are at today. Art is hard work but extremely satisfying and can be a wonderful hobby or profession if you work at it.

Share your thoughts with creative thinkers The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali who you trust.

The encouragement that you will receive will help you in your endeavors. The tapestry of the world is an inspiration for all of us, as it is the ultimate artistic creation. Do not give up your passion even when it is challenging. Art is a present and we should take full advantage of this gift of visual communication.

Waterlilies by Claude Monet

your bedside. You can then jot down the ideas as they come. In the morning, you will have the notes to remind you.

Creative people like to experiment with all different kinds of exciting things. They like to put objects togeth-

Self Portrait by Vincent Van Gogh

doing it for learning purposes. This is the drill of an artist. We practice the technical skills as a learning tool.

Rebbetzin Naomi N. Herzberg is a professional art educator, artist and designer. Among her known artwork is a floral sculpture presented to Tipper Gore, Blair House, Washington, D.C. Presently she is the Director of Operations at Shulamith School for Girls.

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(Hey, the Rock and Roll Hall makes $40 million a year, and it’s in Cleveland.)

And when they do, they’ll have to dedicate an entire wing to Warren Buffett.

The so-called “Oracle of Omaha” has become a rock star among money managers. His chart-topping net worth soared by $37 million per day last year. And his annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting attracted 40,000 attendees this spring, making it the Burning Man Festival for the cocktail set.

Buffett affects a folksy style, posing for photos with a ukulele and quipping that Wall Street is the only place where people drive Rolls Royces to get advice from people who ride the subway. But he didn’t get to be #2 on the Forbes 400 by being dumb — and this is true with taxes, too. Buffett has made headlines criticizing the carnival of confusion that passes for the “Internal Revenue Code” for taxing his secretary at a higher rate than it taxes him.

But his actions show a keen grasp of the power of smart tax planning.

Let’s take a look at Buffett’s charitable giving. Now, there’s no doubt that his motives are sincere — he’s pledged to give a whopping 99% of his fortune to charity. But his generosity may have the side benefit of saving him $30 billion or more in tax.

So far this year, Buffett has donated $2.8 billion, including $2.1 billion to the Gates Foundation, $215 million to the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, and $150 million each to the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, the Sherwood Foundation, and the NoVo Foundation. But those gifts didn’t really “cost” him $2.8 billion. That’s because he didn’t give cash — he gave Berkshire Hathaway stock. Donating appreciated stock lets Buffett deduct the fair market value of that stock at the time of the gift, even though his “cost basis” — or actual investment in it — is likely to be far, far less. Giving away appreciated stock also lets him avoid tax on the appreciation in that stock.

Let’s say Buffett’s basis in this

year’s gift stock was an even billion dollars. (It’s probably even less, but who’s counting?) If Buffet had sold the stock at a $1.8 billion gain, then given cash, he would have had to pay $712,800,000 in regular tax, plus another $68,400,000 in “net investment income tax.” Giving appreciated stock directly, then letting the charities sell it boosts his largesse by nearly $800 million — money that Buffett evidently thinks his charities can spend better than the folks in Washington.

Buffett probably won’t ever “retire” in the go-fishing-in-Florida-andeat-dinner-at-4 sense of the word. But at some point, he’ll get promoted to that great boardroom in the sky. That’s when his charity will really sidestep our friends at the IRS. Buffett could set up his heirs for generations to come.

But with a 40% estate tax, leaving his current net worth of $58.5 billion to family would cost $23.4 billion in tax.

Leaving his wealth to charity avoids that hit. And it spares the rest of us decades of reality TV about spoiled, dissolute heirs — their gilded lifestyles, their trips to rehab, and their endless shenanigans.

We realize you don’t have billions to give like Buffett. But if you’re one of the millions of Americans who admire his business wisdom, take a lesson from his tax wisdom as well. And call us before you make any sort of major gift, to your shul, your college, or your community. We’ll help you structure it to squeeze out the maximum advantage. You can be sure Warren Buffett would approve!

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2.99

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Chocolate Syrup 22oz

$

1.99

Glicks

Mandarin Oranges

.79

Gedilla

Snack N’ Fries

Apple Juice

Box Drinks

Onion/ Garlic & Bbq

4pk

0.75oz

$

2\$5

2/$3

3/$1

Gefen

Gefen

Tofutti

Glicks

Gefen

Mustard

26oz

8oz

Assorted

$

2.99

Gefen

Salt

Yellow 16oz

Cream Cheese

Potato Chips

Lemon 8pk

2/$3

2/$1

$

5/$1

2/$3

Gefen

J&J

Kedem

Ungers

Ungers

Plain Only

15oz

50oz

Pineapple 20oz

11oz

Cream Cheese Snack

1.99

Ice Pops

Tea Biscuits

Tomato Sauce

Apple Sauce

3oz

$

.89

$

Ungers

.99

2.49

$

2/$1

.79

$

Liebers

Ketchup

2.99

Fruits & Veg.

Alphabet Cookies

28oz

$

12oz

$

1.99

2/ 3 $

Bakery Beigels

Beigels

10 OZ

11 OZ

Mini Cupcakes $

3.99

Black & Whites

3.99

$

Large

Blueberries

$

1.69Ea

Eggplant

.69Lb

$

Zucchini

.49Lb

$

Stringbeans

.89Lb

$

Watermelon

.59Lb

$

Sale valid 7/31/14-8/6/14. Cash & Carry only. We reserve the right to limit quanitities on sale items. Not responsible for typographical errors. While supplies last. No rain checks.

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2014 Nissan Altima 2.5S

Customer Lease Special

• 36 Month Lease • 12,000 Miles Per Year • Up to $5,000 Damage Waiver Available Features: Power Seat/Bluetooth/Remote Keyless Entry

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2014 Honda Accord LX

Customer Lease Special

• 36 Month Lease • 10,000 Miles Per Year • Damage Waiver Included Features: Back-Up Camera/Bluetooth/AM-FM-CD-USB

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• 36 Month Lease • 7,500 Miles Per Year • Up to $5,000 Damage Waiver Available

2014 Chrysler Town & Country Touring

Features: Back-Up Camera/Rear Entertainment/Power Liftgate Leather

Expires 7/31/14

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