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August 29, 2019

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ast week, as we went to print, we heard of the tragic passing of Rebbetzin Hindy Sitnick, a”h, wife of Rav Dovid Sitnick, menahel of Siach Yitzchok. Rebbetzin Sitnick was someone who was vibrant in her love for every Jew, her infectious smile brightening others as they listened to her kind and encouraging words.

Sincerity, perhaps, was one of the words that could have easily defined her. She was sincere in her yiras Shamayim, in her love and appreciation for Hashem and His world, and in her affection for klal Yisroel. Chinuch was at the forefront of her mind, as she was Rav Dovid’s partner in bestowing a stellar Jewish education upon the hundreds of boys in Siach Yitzchok. Rebbetzin Sitnick was the principal of Tapeinu, the school that preceded Bnos Bais Yaakov in Far Rockaway. She guided hundreds of girls and showed them the joys of Yiddishkeit. Rebbetzin Sitnick also connected to many young women who were not yet frum and helped to lead them on a path to Yiddishkeit.

But Rebbetzin Sitnick was not one to speak at large rallies; she was not who needed the spotlight upon her. It was her quiet, unassuming authenticity that made her reach such great heights.

Recently I heard that a few years ago, when Rebbetzin Sitnick was in Lakewood, she noticed a store that was owned by a non-Jew in the frum neighborhood whose window displays were inappropriate for the community. Many other people had passed by that store and, perhaps, many other people were bothered by the inappropriateness of the display. But Rebbetzin Sitnick was jarred by the improper presentation and approached the owner. With her sincerity and with her heartfelt words, Rebbetzin Sitnick was able

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to persuade the owner to take down the inappropriate display.

One person, strong in her convictions, effecting change when others thought there was no chance.

There are many times in life when we notice something that’s amiss. We see that something needs to be corrected or we see that a situation can be made better by changing something. But rarely do we speak up. Rarely do we see ourselves as capable of effecting change.

For the past few weeks, our community organizations, community leaders, and concerned individuals have endeavored to propel the community to effect change. With proposed regulations on yeshivos in our state looming, we have been granted a comment period – which is set to end on Monday, September 2. Even though thousands of emails have been sent out about the issue, hundreds of advertisements have been published, and myriad articles have been written, I can bet you that there are some individuals who have said to themselves, “There’s no need for me to get involved. My neighbor/friend/rabbi/boss/ spouse will send the letter. I’m not an activist.”

But when we send these letters during the allotted comment period, we are each able to effect change. We are each able to fix a wrong that is threatening our community.

You can be that one person, strong in your convictions, helping to effect change for a whole community.

If you haven’t yet done so, time is running out. Send your letter at yeshivosbychoice.org.

You can – and will – make a difference.

Wishing you a wonderful week, Shoshana

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Contents LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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COMMUNITY 8

Readers’ Poll Community Happenings

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NEWS Global

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National

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Odd-but-True Stories

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Israel News

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My Israel Home

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JEWISH THOUGHT Rabbi Wein on the Parsha

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Parsha in Four by Eytan Kobre

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When the Broken Path Still Leads Home by Shmuel Reichman

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PEOPLE Doron Sheffer’s Slam-Dunk by Tzvi Lev

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HEALTH & FITNESS Why Are Brilliant Women Irrational? by Dr. Deb Hirschhorn

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Honey, “Are Your Nuts?” Cheerios by Aliza Beer, MS RD CDN

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A Healthy Back to School by Alice Harrosh

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Dear Editor, During the summer we always enjoy reading your interviews with the local camps. I’d like to add my personal perspective as a mother who sends to Machaneh HaKayitz.

My son has a severe peanut allergy and his bunk was going on a trip to the local ice cream shop which is filled with nuts. I emailed camp the night before to go over some precautions to keep my son safe. I got an immediate call back from the director, Rabbi Ament, who listened to my instructions and said that he will take full achrayis for my son.

The trip went well, b”H, and was uneventful and my son was so thrilled to be a part of it. When I thanked Rabbi Ament for the special consideration, he replied, “Every camper is worth the whole world!”

The staff at Machaneh Kayitz truly feels that way about their campers, and the campers are enveloped with warmth, care, awesome ruach in a wholesome environment. We are so grateful that Machaneh HaKayitz exists in our community!

Looking forward to many more fabulous summers, Ilana Pilevsky Far Rockaway

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Dear Editor, Your article on the situation facing yeshivas and private schools in New York was exactly what was needed. You framed the issues clearly. My only hope is that when people read the article, they reached for their phones and took 30 seconds out of their busy day to advocate for their children’s yeshivas. Too often, we procrastinate or think that others are going to shoulder the burden for us. No! It is incumbent upon everyone to send in these letters and protest the state’s proposed regulations.

There are only a few days left.

Write those letters now – before the comment period ends.

A concerned parent in the Five Towns Dear Editor, Now that the summer is ending and school is about to begin, I’d like to remind parents to remind their children not to talk to strangers while standing on their bus stops and not to get into a car with anyone who they do not explicitly have permission from to get a ride.

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es, many times without adult supervision. But this is the perfect opportunity for strangers to approach children. So please, remind children of the dangers. And, if possible, have an adult watch these children as they wait for their buses.

Sincerely, Chanala Bader Dear Editor, I’d like to point out that the reason why many Americans don’t use their vacation days (“A Waste of a Vacation,” August 22, 2019) is because they have so many that they have accrued throughout the years, that there’s no need for them to take their vacation. Even if they take off two weeks in the winter and two weeks

in the summer season, there are still days off that they have in the bank.

And, if they don’t use them, they roll over to the next year and the cycle repeats itself. Of course, this is not everybody – you need to have a good vacation package from your company and you need to have been there for a while – but that’s one of the reasons why a good chunk of vacation gets “wasted.”

I truly believe that an employee needs to take a vacation every once in a while. By taking vacation, they recharge their batteries and come back refreshed and revitalized, which adds a huge benefit to the company’s atmosphere and productivity.

Here’s to taking vacations!

Terry Farkas

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The Week In News

Tight Smiles at the G-7 Summit On Sunday, world leaders gathered on France’s Atlantic coast for the Group of Seven summit to talk about trade disputes, tariffs, and tensions among the nations around the world.

The G-7 this year seemed more tense than usual, with the United States being the target of barbs or innuendos at the elegant seaside resort Biarritz.

Even an impromptu lunch on Saturday between Trump and his host, French President Emmanuel Macron, appeared to be an attempt by the French leader to corner Trump into a discussion of climate change and trade. Trump insisted the meal was their best meeting ever. But afterward, American officials com-

plained the session materialized without warning and amounted to a first attempt by Macron to mold his summit around issues that will divide Trump from other leaders.

On Sunday, Trump seemed to dispute an announcement from the French president that the leaders had all agreed for Macron to deliver a message to Iran on their behalf.

“No, I haven’t discussed it,” Trump said, adding he’d generally support Macron’s outreach to Tehran. Macron was then forced to acknowledge that Trump was the “president of the world’s number one power.”

But Macron then, on his own, invited Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to the G-7 for an uninvited visit to the summit.

Zarif came to the building where world leaders were discussing how to handle Tehran’s growing nuclear ambitions. Zarif is sanctioned by the United States.

Far friendlier was a Sunday morning breakfast with Boris Johnson, the newly installed British prime minister in whom Trump sees a more natural ally.

“You know who this is?” Trump asked reporters, gesturing toward

Johnson, as the men descended a grand staircase at Trump’s hotel.

“He’s going to be a fantastic prime minster.”

Later, over a meal of scrambled eggs and veal sausage, Trump acknowledged he was more aligned with Johnson than his predecessor in Downing Street, Theresa May. “He needs no advice. He’s the right man for the job. I’ve been saying that for a long time. It didn’t make your predecessor happy,” Trump said.

“You’re on message there,” the enthusiastic prime minister replied.

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Looking to replace aging military equipment, Malaysia is in talks with at last six countries on the possibility of using palm oil to pay for arms.

Southeast Asia’s third-biggest economy has struggled to update its defense equipment over the years and a cut in its defense budget this year all but derailed efforts to replace navy ships, some of which have been in service for 35 years or more. Costs have been a big hurdle but using palm oil to help pay for equipment could open new avenues to upgrade, Defense Minister Mohamad Sabu said on Monday.

Mohamad said discussions on paying with palm oil had started with China, Russia, India, Pakistan, Turkey and Iran.

“If they are prepared to accept a palm barter trade, we are very willing to go in that direction,” Mohamad said of talks with those countries.

“We have a lot of palm oil.”

Malaysia and Indonesia, the world’s two largest palm oil producers, are embroiled in a dispute with the European Union over a plan to phase out the commodity from renewable fuels used by the bloc by 2030 over deforestation concerns.

The two countries supply about 85% of global palm oil, much of which is used in food but also in items such as lipstick and soap.

Mohamad said he could not put a figure on how much palm oil Malaysia was looking to trade for defense equipment. Besides new ships, Malaysia was also keen to acquire long-range surveillance aircraft, un-

manned aerial vehicles and fast intercept boats, the minister said.

The planned barter is part of a 10-year defense policy to be tabled in parliament this year, which Mohamad said would focus on boosting naval capabilities, including in the disputed South China Sea. China claims historic jurisdiction over the sea via a so-called nine-dash line on maps, but it overlaps with territory claimed by Malaysia, China, Vietnam, Brunei and the Philippines.

Taiwan also claims most of the sea.

Recent Chinese naval deployments in the disputed sea, through which over $3.4 trillion in goods are transported annually, have reignited tensions with Vietnam and the Philippines.

Malaysia had been critical of China’s South China Sea position, but has not been excessively outspoken recently, especially after China pumped in billions of dollars into infrastructure projects under its Belt and Road Initiative.

China Arrests Writer for Spying

After being detained for seven months in China, Beijing confirmed this week that Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun has been arrested on espionage charges.

His charges were announced by the Australian government. Yang’s Melbourne-based lawyer, Rob Stary, said few details had been released about the case beyond the spying charges.

“We don’t know whether he’s accused of spying on behalf of a third party actor, a foreign government such as Australia or the U.S.,” Stary said. “We know him as a blogger and democracy activist – so we can’t conceive of any other actions outside of his role as a political agitator.”

Espionage can carry the death penalty in China, so the charges are concerning.

A former official with the Chinese foreign ministry, Yang, 53, also holds Australian citizenship, and was

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He was detained in the city of Guangzhou in January, while he and his wife were visiting from New York, where Yang was a visiting scholar at Columbia University. Yang’s wife, Yuan Xiaoliang – a Chinese citizen with Australian permanent residency – has been issued an exit ban preventing her from leaving China.

Yang’s detention in January came amid a period of rocky relations between Beijing and Canberra.

The two sides were clashing on issues ranging from China’s alleged attempts to influence the former’s domestic politics, to Australia’s decision to ban technology by Chinese company Huawei from the country’s 5G mobile networks and Beijing’s rising ambitions in the South Pacific.

In December last year, two Canadians – former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor – were detained in China and accused of stealing “sensitive information and other intelligence.” Their detention came just over a week after the Canadian government arrested

Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Chinese tech giant Huawei, on behalf of the U.S. Meng is facing charges of working to evade U.S. sanctions on Iran.

Indonesia’s New Capital

Since 1949, Jakarta has been the capital of Indonesia. But that is set to change real soon. A jungle-covered area on the east of Borneo island is set to be transformed into Indonesia’s new capital city.

Jakarta has become too congested and is physically sinking into the mud. President Joko Widodo announced that a new capital will be established near the relatively underdeveloped cities of Balikpapan and Samarinda.

“As a large nation that has been independent for 74 years, Indonesia has never chosen its own capital,” Widodo said in a televised speech.

“The burden Jakarta is holding right now is too heavy as the center of governance, business, finance, trade and services.”

Moving the capital will take a lot of time and will be expensive. According to CNN Indonesia, the move will cost around 486 trillion rupiah ($34 billion) and will take around 10 years.

Jakarta is home to more than 10 million people, according to the United Nations, with an estimated 30 million in the greater metropolitan area – making it one of the world’s most overpopulated urban regions.

It’s also one of the fastest-sinking cities on Earth, according to the World Economic Forum, dropping into the Java Sea at an alarming rate due to over-extraction of groundwater. The city sits on swampy ground and hugs the sea to the north, making it especially prone to flooding.

A worsening air pollution crisis, exacerbated by near-constant traffic congestion on its roads, has grown so dire that some residents sued the Indonesian government in July.

S. Korea: No Military Sharing with Japan

South Korea is scrapping its military intelligence-sharing agreement with Japan, the latest escalation in a trade dispute that threatens global supply chains for smartphones and other gadgets.

Kim You-geun, first deputy director of the Blue House National Security Office, said the move was in retaliation for Japan’s decision to exclude South Korea from its list of trusted trading partners.

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22 Iyar 5779 My dear friend Harav Hagaon Avrohom Halevi Eisen, the Pozna Rov, shlit”a, Founder of the Shas Yiden Kollelim Network in the Holy Land I thank you for the great pleasure that you gave me with the examination of the avreichim of Kolel Shas Yiden. Their remarkable answers captivated the soul and revealed their expansive, deep and encompassing knowledge. Their countenances reflected their essence, as did their nobility of their pleasantness and their immersion and cleaving to the Torah. Those who know Shas are recognized by their faces, because such faces are different.

I feel obliged to comment with wondrousness that here we did not see just clear knowledge of the entire Shas, but also delving, in-depth, clear reasoning and expansive knowledge of the words of the Rishonim.

So much so, that I was amazed at this great sight, that clearly E-lohim is to be found in this Holy Place, Kolel Shas Yiden. They have merited to achieve wonders in both penetration of the subjects and also allencompassing knowledge.

Thus, I praise the Rabbonim Geonim, and I hereby testify that I merited to wonder about their ‘pitcher of knowledge’ and to witness their nature from up close; and to test them vigorously on the entire Shas Bavli by heart. I quizzed them with many types of questions, encompassing and in-depth, and they knew the answers without any hesitation, together with the page numbers of the Shas and of other sources. Praised are my eyes that I witnessed this, and happy is the People (Klal Yisroel) that this phenomenon is theirs.

My blessings are that they should go from strength to strength, to rise to higher and higher lofty heights of Torah as they strive to do, and to see nachas from the fruits of their work and toil.

And my blessings to you shlit”a, who merits to propagate Torah in such a solid manner, that one cannot adequately quantify or describe. May your zechus bring you blessings in all good things. Together with you, all those who stand by you and support you, should be blessed from Heaven with all the brochos that are written in the Torah – Amen Selah.

With blessing for the honor of those who know Torah,

Itamar Garbuz

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Shas Yiden Meet An All-encompassing In-depth Farher Head On

By Rabbi Eliezer Sandler

Facing one of the most searching farhers to date, the Shas Yiden geonim avreichim once again astounded the examiner. Those present, travelling from New York, found the scholarship nothing short of amazing! With comments like: “They own Shas!”

“Their accomplishment is just ‘beyond’…” “I thought the claim that they all complete Shas five times a year was hallucinatory talk, but with my own eyes I saw them in action – just something else!”

Giving the farher on this occasion was Harav Hagaon Itamar Garbuz, shlit”a, Rosh Yeshiva of Orchos Torah (appointed by Maran Hagaon Aharon Leib Steiman, zt”l) and Rosh of the 15 kollelim ofTaharos (appointed by Maran Hagaon Mechel Yehuda Lefkowitz, zt”l).For a full hour, Rav Garbuz conducted a non-stop, penetrating,

all-encompassing examination. It is not possible to fully describe all the fascinating and deep responses, the heated dynamic of Torah, and the power and the personal spiritual gifts which this entire experience involved and demonstrated. The Rosh Yeshiva expressed his amazement at the knowledge of these geonim avreichim. He said, “These are not just ‘regular’ Shas Yiden who show a broad knowledge of the text of Shas. Behold, here we have seen and heard knowledge of the Shas in depth, with Rishonim and they have the needed scholarship.” Simply, it is also not possible not to emphasize their pansophic knowledge which is extraordinary.

In his conclusion, Rav Garbuz blessed the founder of Shas Yiden, Hagaon Harav Avrohom Eisen, shlit”a, the

Pozna Rov, together with the supporters who travelled from overseas to be present at the farher and to meet with the Nasi of Shas Yiden, Maran Hagaon, Sar Hatorah, Harav Chaim Kanievsky, shilt”a, and other gedolei Torah who are avid supporters of Shas Yiden. Rav Garbuz again expressed his excitement at the Shas Yiden phenomenon. He then added that he was jealous of their zechus in supporting this incredible endeavor and the development of these geonim avreichim who are unique in our generation.

For more information on Shas Yiden, to view live farhers, including that of Rav Garbuz, or to donate, click on www.shasyiden.com

Some of the wide-ranging questions: • We all know the statement “One can rely on Rabbi Shimon in the case of an emergency“. What is considered the emergency for which we are relying on Rabbi Shimon? How many times do we find this in Chazal? Their immediate responses: Shabbos 45a – muktzeh; Brochos 9a – recitation of the Shma; Gittin 19a – shtar mukdam. Then they added Rabbi Elazar in Niddah 6b; Eiruvin 46a in the sugya of in ‘m’eis l’eis’.

• Is an egg is considered food or a liquid and explain? Three immediate responses: Beitza 2a; Yoma 80a; Sanhedrin 5b.

Rav Chaga at 18 – Moed Katan 25a. Who concluded a maseches at a younger age?

‘Hahu yanuka’ concluded Avoda Zara at age 6 – Avoda Zara 56b.

• In Shabbos, how many disputes are there between Rabbi Shimon and Rabbi Yehuda?

Immediately they listed them all and their page numbers. All present could not believe their eyes and ears.

• How many mishnayos in Shas have no gemara on them? Bechoros 13a, Rosh Hashanna 22b, Nedarim 63b.

• Which Amora concluded Shas at a young age? Rav Cahanah at 18 - Shabbos 63a;

• Which daf in Shas contains the expressions of Rava only? Bechoros 59.

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ing sensitive military information for security (purposes),” Kim said.

The rising tensions between the two countries have sparked concerns around the world.

“We encourage Japan and Korea to work together to resolve their differences. I hope they can do this quickly,” said Lt. Col. Dave Eastburn, a Pentagon spokesman.

“We are all stronger – and northeast Asia is safer – when the United States, Japan, and Korea work together in solidarity and friendship,” he said, adding that intelligence sharing was key to developing common defense policy and strategy.

The standoff between Tokyo and Seoul started last month when Japan placed new restrictions on the export of three chemical materials to South Korea. Those chemicals are used in computer chips manufacturing, a key part of the South Korean economy. The new rules delay exports as Japanese companies must apply for licenses for each of the materials, a process that can take up to 90 days.

Tensions between the two countries have been rising for months, stemming in part from Japan’s colonial rule over the Korean peninsula in the early 20th century. South Korea’s top court recently ruled that its citizens can sue Japanese companies for using forced Korean labor during World War II. Japan has denied that the issues are linked.

Is Boris Brexit’s Savior?

If you were one of those people who cheered when Boris Johnson ascended the position of prime minister in the United Kingdom, hoping for a clear end to the Brexit conundrum, you may be a bit crestfallen.

The deadline for Brexit is coming ever closer: October 31 is just two months away. It’s been three years since the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. And

they’re hardly any closer to extricating themselves from their neighbors.

Enter PM Johnson, an avowed Brexiteer whose bet is that the threat of a disorderly “no-deal” exit will convince German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron that the EU must grant him the divorce deal he wants.

But on his first foreign trip as prime minister last week, the response from Germany and France was polite but firm: the Withdrawal Agreement struck last year by thenPrime Minister Theresa May will not be changed much.

“I want to be very clear,” Macron said. “In the month ahead, we will not find a new withdrawal agreement that deviates far from the original.”

In Berlin, Merkel used a puzzling remark about finding an answer in “30 days” to underscore just how little time remained before the October 31 Brexit deadline and how complex the Irish border riddle was.

Johnson, who allowed himself to put one of his feet on a coffee table at the Elysee Palace in a light moment with Macron, lauded Europe for “positive noises” and insisted a deal could be done, possibly in the “final furlong.”

Johnson’s key demand is that the EU remove the Irish border backstop – an insurance policy that would keep the United Kingdom in a customs union with the EU unless a better solution is found to keep open Ireland’s 500-km (300-mile) land border with the British province of Northern Ireland.

As the backstop would also keep Northern Ireland aligned to the rules of the EU’s single market, Johnson and the Northern Irish party that props up his government see the backstop as a threat to UK unity – and their own political survival.

Britain says there must be a better solution, though it has yet to present one.

Part of the problem is that there is suspicion in Europe that Johnson is using Brexit diplomacy to line up a potentially vote-winning confrontation with the EU ahead of a possible British election.

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ing tropical vegetation, trees, and the fauna they house.

Since August 15, more than 9,500 new forest fires have started across Brazil, primarily in the Amazon basin. The blazes – and the choking smoke clouds they create – are visible from space.

Global Forest Watch, an organization sponsored by the World Resources Institute to monitor forests and track fires using satellite data, reported more than 109,000 fire alerts in Brazil between August 13 and last week.

So far this year, 2019 has the highest number of fires observed in Brazil in any year since researchers began keeping track in 2013 – and there are still four months to go. So far, scientists have recorded more than 74,000 fires in Brazil in 2019.

That’s nearly double 2018’s total of about 40,000 fires. The surge marks an 83% increase in wildfires over the same period in 2018, Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research reported.

The largest state in Brazil, Amazonas, declared a state of emergency on Monday.

In the Amazon region, fires are rare for much of the year because wet weather prevents them from starting and spreading. However, in July and August, activity typically increases due to the arrival of the dry season. Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research, a federal agency monitoring deforestation and wildfires, said the country has seen a record number of wildfires this year.

The smoke plumes from blazes in the Amazon have spread from the state of Amazonas to the nearby states of Pará and Mato Grosso, and even blotted out the sun in São Paulo – a city more than 2,000 miles away.

In total, the blazes have created a layer of smoke estimated to be 1.2 million square miles wide.

This week of fires comes on the heels of another worrisome milestone for the world’s largest rainforest. July set a new record for the most deforestation ever in the Am-

azon in a single month, The Guardian reported. The Amazon shrunk by 519 square miles (1,345 square kilometers). That’s an area about 23 times the size of Manhattan.

Data from Brazilian satellites indicated that about three football fields’ worth of Amazonian trees fell every minute last month.

The deforestation is directly linked to fires in the Amazon, since farmers sometimes set the forest ablaze to make room for livestock pastures and crop fields. These purposeful burns can then get out of control. In the past 50 years, roughly 20% of the Amazon – about 300,000 square miles – has been cut down in Brazil.

Iranian Reporter Seeks Asylum A hardline Iranian journalist with ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is seeking asylum in Sweden or Norway. Amir Tohid Fazel had accompanied Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on his tour of the Scandinavian region and then fled from there.

Fazel was a political editor for Iran’s Moj news agency and had previously worked for the government-funded Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA).

Al Arabiya news agency quoted Moj’s editor-in-chief Amir Mortazavi telling Iranian news site Ensaf News that “[Fazel] was a political editor at the agency and was sent to Sweden with the Foreign Ministry.”

Mortazavi added that “he has not come to work since going to Sweden.”

The Iranian newspaper Kayhan referred to Fazel as a traitor.

Over the weekend several Iranian news reporters wrote on Twitter that Fazel did not return to Iran and accused the reporter of taking advantage of Zarif and the Foreign Ministry for personal gain. Fazel cryptically responded on Twitter, “Everyone can decide for himself.

No one knows what happens in the future. Only the short-sighted will speak out of ignorance,” without revealing his location.

Zarif visited Sweden before flying to Biarritz in a surprise visit to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron, who was hosting the G-7 summit at the time.

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Rina Shnerb, Hy”d, Killed in Bombing

Seventeen-year-old Rina Shnerb was killed by a bomb while hiking to the Ein Bubin spring near Modiin with her father, Rabbi Eitan Shnerb, and her brother, Dvir, 19, on Friday.

“I wanted to believe it was just a dream,” Rabbi Shnerb said on Friday from the hospital. Both Rabbi Shnerb and Dvir were wounded in the attack.

“We started going down toward

the spring, [and] as we came close to the spring there was a roadside bomb.

I have experienced several bombs in my life and been saved, thank G-d, but this one got us,” Rabbi Shnerb said.

“It was a very big roadside bomb.

It was black, everything went black… and I heard Dvir shouting to me, and I immediately called to Rina, shouting, ‘Rina, Rina,’” he said. “I looked down and saw that she was not alive.”

Rina was buried in Lod on Friday.

Thousands joined in her funeral to commiserate with the pain that the Jewish nation felt upon hearing of her passing. Her father was not able to attend the funeral because he was in the hospital at the time.

“Immediately after the attack, I understood…. At first I wanted to believe it was just a [bad] dream, but when I saw Rina, I knew we had to do something,” he said.

“Dvir said to me we will be strong, we will protect the people of Israel and the Torah of Israel, and together we will move forward,” he said. “That’s what I also told Rina. At the same moment, her face was unmarked and serene, I gave her a kiss and I told her we will make sure to be strong.

“Rina saved us, she absorbed it

all,” he said.

Rabbi Shnerb spoke at the funeral by phone, saying that: “We are trying to be strong here in the Land of Israel, the people of Israel, Rina believed in that.

“Our response to the murderers is that we are here and we are strong and we will prevail.”

During the attack, Rabbi Shnerb used his tzitzit to make a tourniquet for Dvir. Dvir was in serious condition after undergoing surgery and was unconscious on a ventilator. A piece of shrapnel had pierced Rabbi Shnerb’s stomach; he also suffered a broken hip.

Earlier this year, Rabbi Shnerb was recognized by the army for helping to thwart an attack on a West Bank settlement while serving as a rabbi in an IDF reserve brigade. While checking the eiruv, Rabbi Shnerb spotted two Palestinians outside Har Bracha and alerted the soldiers. One of the suspects was shot as they were arrested and Israeli troops found a knife and pistol on them.

On Friday, Hamas said in a statement that the bomb attack was “proof of the vitality and bravery of the Palestinian people, and of the fact that it will not surrender to the crimes and

terrorism of the occupation.”

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, in his Friday sermon in the Gaza Strip, called the killing “a heroic attack,” though he claimed ignorance as to who was responsible.

But it “shows that the default state in the West Bank is one of resistance, despite what our residents suffer there. The West Bank has strong people who are no less faithful and steadfast than their brethren in Gaza,” he said.

On Monday, the IDF said that they captured the terrorists who planted the unusually large bomb.

Israel Pushing Emigration from Gaza

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emigration of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and is working to find other countries who may be willing to absorb them. The country is also willing to bear the costs of helping Gazans emigrate and would consider using an Israeli airfield near Gaza to help them leave to other countries.

More than 35,000 Gazans left the Strip in 2018, the official said, not including those who left but later re-

only opened sporadically. While the crossing is intended for brief trips out of the enclave, many residents, mainly young and educated, use the Rafah crossing as an opportunity to escape permanently, usually seeking refugee status in Europe.

An Islamist movement that openly seeks Israel’s destruction, Hamas has fought three wars with the Jewish state since 2008 and has launched thousands of rockets at Israeli cities, as well as incendiary balloons and kites carrying explosive devices that since last summer have burned large swaths of land.

turned.

“That’s a pretty high number,” the senior official said.

According to the official, European and Middle Eastern countries had been approached by Israel to accept Gazans who want to leave the Strip, but none had agreed to absorb them.

The official said the National Security Council had been spearheading the effort, with Netanyahu’s

blessing, for about a year.

The Hamas terror group – which took over Gaza by force in 2007, leading Israel and Egypt to impose a blockade – has imposed measures to stem the tide of emigration.

Gaza shares one tightly controlled civilian crossing with Israel, generally only used for humanitarian cases.

Most Gazans leave the Strip via the Rafah crossing with Egypt, which is

A drone attack on a Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut early Sunday that was attributed to Israel targeted the Lebanese terror group’s precision missile project, the British Times reported on Tuesday.

In the predawn hours of Sunday morning, two copter-style drones crashed in the Dahiyeh neighborhood of Beirut, an area of the city known to house Hezbollah members and offices. One of the unmanned aerial vehicles was reportedly brought down by teenagers who pelted it with rocks. It was recovered by Hezbollah and taken away for study. The other drone exploded while still in the air, causing damage, according to Lebanese officials.

Hezbollah has claimed that its media offices were damaged by the blast.

However, according to the Times, the explosion set fire to two crates that held materials for a Hezbollah program to turn its stock of simple rockets into precision-guided missiles – a project that is of deep concern to Israel as it would significantly increase the threat posed by these projectiles. One of the crates contained a “computerized control” unit and the other held a specialized industrial mixer that is used to make solid-state fuel. The crates were being held in Dahiyeh before being

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Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has denied the existence of the factories but said his organization

does possess such weaponry.

Hezbollah and the Lebanese government both blamed Israel for the drone strike earlier this week.

The reported Beirut drone attack came after Israel on Saturday carried out airstrikes in neighboring Syria to thwart what it said was a plot to fly explosives-laden drones into the country. On Sunday Nasrallah said that two Hezbollah mem-

bers were among those killed in the Syria strike. They were buried in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Monday, amid a large turnout of party supporters.

While both Hezbollah and the Lebanese military insist the drones were sent by Israel, several well-connected Israeli commentators, including a former IDF general, said the drones appeared to be of Iranian

This week, Tehran sentenced two people, including a British dual national, to 10 years behind bars after convicting them of spying for Israel.

The claim comes amid reports of a wave of Israeli strikes against Iranian targets and Iran-backed militias in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, and Israeli accusations that Iran had planned a kamikaze drone assault on northern towns.

Anousheh Ashouri, a woman with British and Iranian citizenship, was found guilty of feeding information to Israel’s Mossad spy agency and handed a sentence of 10 years in jail, Iran’s judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said.

Ashouri had managed to “transmit a lot of information” to Israel, Esmaili said. She was also ordered to return the millions of euros she had allegedly received from the Mossad.

Ali Johari, an Iranian national, also got 10 years for various espionage offenses, including “widespread connections with Mossad… and meeting with various elements linked to the Zionists,” Esmaili said.

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In December, the Israeli army launched an anti-tunnel operation on the Lebanese border dubbed “Northern Shield.” Israel said it had found six tunnels, while UN officials confirmed three reached into the Jewish state’s territory. Hezbollah planned to use them to abduct or kill Israeli soldiers or civilians and to seize territory in the event of hostilities, according to the military.

They ran for dozens of meters and some reached a depth of 55 meters (180 feet).

In recent days, fresh tensions have erupted between Hezbollah and Israel; the Iran-aligned Shiite movement blamed the Jewish state for a drone attack on its Beirut stronghold. Hezbollah chief Hasan Nasrallah called it the first such “hostile action” since a 2006 war between his movement and the Jewish state. He threatened retaliation.

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Until recently the domain of video game creators, the virtual world has in recent years made inroads into medical, aerospace and military research, where it is increasingly used for training.

“Technology is an essential part of the fight,” which justifies heavy investment, says H., commanding officer of Yahalom’s training center at a military base in central Israel.

The Hezbollah tunnels exposed by Israel have been digitally scanned and appear on a soldier’s headset as they are in reality.

“The soldier sees what a tunnel looks like,” says H. Since it is not always possible to train in the field, the virtual world allows personnel to familiarize themselves with a hostile underground environment without leaving their base, he added. There are a dozen soldiers on the current course; 100 have been through it since it began three years ago.

While virtual reality (VR) aims to place the person in a simulated world, augmented reality (AR) allows elements to be added in a real-world environment. Both aim to provide a multi-sensory experience.

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place, y’all. South Carolina came next. Tennessee nabbed the second spot on the list.

Minnesota was crowned number one. According to the survey, the North Star State is “hard to match, with a homey feel and locals who go the extra mile to welcome tourists.

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So where can you find friendly faces in the U.S.?

Well, Wyoming took fifth place with its “sense of community” and “safe” feeling. Texas took fourth

Federal prosecutors announced last week that 80 people, most of them Nigerians, have been charged in the United States with being part of a widespread conspiracy that stole millions of dollars from businesses and elderly individuals through a variety of scams and then laundered the money.

Law enforcement officers arrested 14 people in the United States on Thursday, the U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles said while announcing a 252-count indictment that was unsealed. At least three other defendants were already in custody.

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ed States are fugitives.

The remaining defendants live in other countries, primarily Nigeria.

“Today’s announcement highlights the extensive efforts that organized criminal groups will engage in to perpetrate (business compromise email) schemes that target American citizens and their hard-earned assets,” said Assistant Director in Charge Paul Delacourt of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office.

“Billions of dollars are lost annually,” he added, “and we urge citizens to be aware of these sophisticated financial schemes to protect themselves or their businesses from becoming unsuspecting victims.”

All defendants will face charges of conspiracy to commit fraud, conspiracy to launder money, and aggravated identity theft. Some also will face fraud and money laundering charges.

Alaska Burns At least 80 structures have destroyed in the McKinley which has spread to more 4,300 acres in Alaska. The

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Conditions are extremely dry in the state, according to the Alaska Fire Service. Fire growth slowed earlier in the week with calmer winds and cooler temperatures.

Flames and falling structures are not the only causes of concern for communities affected by the fires. Anyone in the region of a fire

also faces the effects of increased air pollution. Particles in wildfire smoke can cause respiratory troubles including chest pains, a fast heartbeat or an asthma attack. Generally, females are more vulnerable to wildfire smoke than males, and children are more at risk than adults.

Rush Hour ‘Round the Clock If you’ve been leaving your house earlier and earlier every day to beat the traffic, you know that there is always going to be traffic – no matter how early you get up. It seems that

Los Angeles is not the only city bogged down by an influx of vehicles heading to work. Commuters in the San-Francisco-Oakland area kiss 103 hours a year goodbye while sitting in traffic; drivers in Washington, D.C., throw 102 hours a year out the window during their commute; and workers in the New York-Newark area waste 92 hours a year in their cars.

It’s not just rush hour that can take hours out of your day.

“Congestion is also a problem at other hours,” the report reads. “Approximately 33 percent of total delay occurs in the midday and overnight (outside of the peak hours) times of day when travelers and shippers expect free-flow travel.”

While there are obvious consequences of bad traffic, like wasted time and all matters of urban planning issues, the Texas A&M Transportation Institute also concludes that time spent stuck on the road wasted $8.8 billion and 3.8 billion gallons of fuel in 2017. The average cost of extra traffic was $1,010 per commuter.

Traffic is only going to get worse.

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hours in traffic by the year 2025, and the national congestion cost will balloon to $200 billion that same year, a 20% increase over the $166 billion related to traffic costs in 2017.

FEC Losing Power

When Matthew Petersen announced on Monday that he will resign his commission post at the Federal Election Commission on August 31, it created ripples that may affect our election season.

The FEC is the federal agency charged with policing violations of campaign finance laws. With Petersen’s departure, the commission has only three members; four or more commissioners are required, according to federal law, for approving new

rules or taking action against those who violate election law.

The six-member commission has not operated at full strength for some time, and it has often deadlocked along partisan lines on important issues, such as donor disclosure.

Tiffany Muller, the president of pro-regulation End Citizens United Action Fund, said a weakened FEC “is a recipe for a corrupt government further beholden to big donors and special interests.”

In a statement, the commission’s current Democratic chairwoman, Ellen Weintraub, maintained that the agency will still “shine a strong spotlight” on the finances of the 2020 campaign even if it can’t vote on possible infractions. (Commission members serve one-year rotating stints as chair.)

She urged President Donald Trump to nominate new commissioners and called on the Senate to confirm them quickly. Trump nominated Texas lawyer Trey Trainor to the commission in 2017, but the Senate has not acted on his nomination.

Petersen, a Republican who has served on the commission for 11 years, did not disclose his next career move in his resignation letter.

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A Distinctive Honor

Last week, basketball legend Bob Cousy received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, in an Oval Office ceremony.

Cousy, 91, played for the Boston Celtics from 1950 to 1963. He won six NBA championships and was voted MVP of the league in 1957. The Bob Cousy Award, given to the country’s best point guard in men’s college basketball, is named after him. He is a member of the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame.

“He is a great champion, and we love champions,” President Trump said of Cousy, known as the Houdini of the Hardwood, on Thursday.

“It’s been great for 91 years,” Cousy told the president at the ceremony. “Only in America could my story have been told,” he said to Trump during the ceremony.

Referring to the accolades he was receiving, the nonagenarian quipped, “If I’d known I was going to be eulogized I would probably have done the only decent thing and died.”

He said his life was always dedicated to help those who were less fortunate and those who needed a boost.

After hanging up his No. 14 jersey, the 13-time NBA All-Star went on to coach at Boston College. In 1969, he was named head coach of the Cincinnati Royals, now the Sacramento Kings. Cousy held that position for four full seasons, resigning 20 games into the 1973-74 campaign.

Cousy is the second Celtics player to be awarded the Medal of Freedom, following his former teammate Bill Russell, who received the honor in 2011 from then-President Barack Obama.

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is given, the White House said in a statement, “to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States,

to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.”

Cousy is the second Medal of Freedom recipient this year. Trump presented the award to golfer Tiger Woods in May. Cousy is the tenth honoree under Trump.

In a recent interview with NBA. com, Cousy described himself as politically moderate. He said that although he disagrees with some of the president’s actions, he plans to vote for Trump next year. He had supported Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson in 2016.

A Fitting Punishment

Both Ryan Patrick Morris and Troy Allan Nelson are liars. They were both sentenced for separate crimes on Friday by Cascade County District Judge Greg Pinski, following apparent bids to get resources and preferential treatment from a veterans’ court.

Morris received 10 years in prison for violating probation after a felony burglary and falsely claimed he was injured by an IED explosion during one of seven combat tours, the Associated Press reported. Nelson was sentenced to five years for drug possession and enrolled in a veterans court before it was discovered he isn’t a veteran at all.

The judge said their false veteran claims were “abhorrent to the men and women who have actually served our country,” the Great Falls Tribune reported. “You’ve not respected the veterans. You’ve not respected the court. And you haven’t respected yourselves.”

Within his sentencing, the Montana judge gave them a chance for parole – if they abide by certain conditions.

Both must hand-write the names of all 6,756 Americans killed in Iraq and Afghanistan to qualify for future parole, along with the obituaries of the 40 Montana soldiers in that group. They must also complete 441 hours of community service af-

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ter being released from prison. That adds up to one hour per Montanan killed in combat going back to the Korean War. Morris and Nelson must serve seven and three years, respectively, and they would be eligible for parole part of the way through if they meet those conditions, county attorney Joshua Racki said Monday. But if they decline or fail to meet the requirements, the men must serve out their entire sentences without a shot at early release.

Additionally, while on probation, they must wear placards on Memorial Day and Veterans Day outside the Montana Veterans Memorial with a sign that reads: “I am a liar. I am not a veteran. I stole valor. I have dishonored all veterans.”

Veterans courts are designed to help veterans with nonviolent charges that may have been prompted by service-related issues, like post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury, and funnel them to treatment rather than jail.

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David Koch, billionaire conservative activist and philanthropist, who was lauded by the right and rebuked by the left, died at the age of 79 last week.

“It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of my brother David,” Charles Koch said in a statement on Friday. “Anyone who worked with David surely experienced his giant personality and passion for life.”

David Koch had stepped down from Koch Industries last year after his health deteriorated.

Koch Industries is a Kansas-based energy and chemical corporation with an annual revenue of about $110 billion. David Koch, regarded as the more gregarious of the two brothers, served as the executive vice president of Koch Industries. He held a master’s in chemical

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engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Charles Koch, who also has engineering degrees from MIT, is the company’s chairman and chief executive officer.

The brothers were tied as eleventh richest people in the world this year in a ranking by Forbes. At the time of his death, David Koch was worth $42.4 billion.

David and Charles Koch, along with their brothers, Frederick and

Bill, inherited the business when their father, who founded it, died in 1967. Frederick and Bill Koch sold their stake in 1983, and in 1998 pursued an unsuccessful lawsuit against the other two brothers, claiming they were cheated when they were bought out of the private company.

David and Bill were twins.

With the wealth from their business, David and Charles Koch helped to build a massive conserva-

tive network of donors for organizations that work to mobilize voters in support of libertarian-leaning economic policies. They founded the nonprofit Americans for Prosperity, which has spent more than $1 billion over the past several elections to support candidates who adhere to their free-market, small-government, libertarian ideals.

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Democrats as a symbol of the corrupting force of corporate money in American politics.

The Kochs had more recently split with the GOP under President Donald Trump — refraining from publicly endorsing him in 2016 and launching a multimillion-dollar campaign last year promoting free trade and warning against tariffs.

David Koch himself ran as the Libertarian Party’s vice presidential candidate in 1980. He and the party’s presidential nominee, Ed Clark, won a little more than 1 percent of the vote.

David Koch, who had survived prostate cancer, donated hundreds of millions of dollars to medical research. Koch was also a huge supporter of the arts, specifically in New York City where he lived. His donations included $65 million to support a renovation of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. When David was diagnosed with cancer 27 years ago, he was given five years to live.

“David liked to say that a combination of brilliant doctors, stateof-the-art medications and his own stubbornness kept the cancer at bay,” Charles Koch’s statement

said. “We can all be grateful that it did, because he was able to touch so many more lives as a result.”

David Koch is also survived by his wife, Julia, and their three children.

“While we mourn the loss of our hero, we remember his iconic laughter, insatiable curiosity, and gentle heart,” Julia Koch said in a statement.

“His stories of childhood adventures enlivened our family dinners; his endless knowledge rendered him our ‘walking Google.’ His sensitive heart had him shed a tear at the beauty of his daughter’s ballet and beam with pride when his son beat him at chess,” she wrote. “We will miss the fifth link in our family.”

J & J to Pay $572M In a landmark verdict, Judge Thad Balkman of Cleveland County District Court ruled that Johnson & Johnson had intentionally downplayed the dangers of opioids and oversold the benefits of opioids. He

order the drug manufacturer to pay the state of Oklahoma $572 million in the first trial of a pharmaceutical manufacturer for the destruction wrought by prescription painkillers.

The amount fell far short of the $17 billion judgment that Oklahoma had sought to pay for addiction treatment, drug courts, and other services it said it would need over the next 20 years to repair the damage done by the opioid epidemic.

Still, the decision heartened lawyers representing states and cities — plaintiffs in many of the more than 2,000 opioid lawsuits pending across the country — who are pursuing a legal strategy similar to Oklahoma’s. His finding that Johnson & Johnson had breached the state’s “public nuisance” law was a significant aspect of his order.

Sabrina Strong, a lawyer for Johnson & Johnson, one the world’s

biggest health care companies, said, “We have many strong grounds for appeal and we intend to pursue those vigorously.”

Johnson & Johnson, which contracted with poppy growers in Tasmania, supplied 60 percent of the opiate ingredients that drug companies used for opioids like oxycodone, the state argued, and aggressively marketed opioids to doctors and patients as safe and effective. A Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, made its own opioids, a pill whose rights it sold in 2015, and a fentanyl patch that it still produces.

Judge Balkman said the $572 million judgment could pay for a year’s worth of services needed to combat the epidemic in Oklahoma.

“We would have liked to walk out of here with $17 billion, but we’ve been able to put together a billion dollars,” Oklahoma’s attorney general, Mike Hunter, said at a news conference on Monday. He was referring to the cumulative amount from the Johnson & Johnson judgment and previous settlements with two other drug manufacturers that produce opioids. Earlier this year, Purdue Pharma and Teva Pharmaceuticals

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agreed to pay $270 million and $85 million, respectively.

The case was also closely watched by some two dozen opioid makers, distributors and retailers that face more than 2,000 similar lawsuits around the country.

Oklahoma has suffered mightily from opioids. Hunter has said that between 2015 and 2018, 18 million

opioid prescriptions were written in a state with a population of 3.9 million. Since 2000, his office said, about 6,000 Oklahomans have died from opioid overdoses, with thousands more struggling with addiction.

RBG Treated for Cancer Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been treated for pancreatic cancer in New York City, the Supreme Court announced Friday.

“The tumor was treated definitively and there is no evidence of

This is the 86-year-old liberal icon’s fourth bout with cancer. In 1999, she successfully underwent surgery to treat colon cancer. She was treated for early stages of pancreatic cancer in 2009. Last December, Ginsburg underwent surgery to remove two cancerous nodules from her left lung. She also underwent a heart procedure in 2014 to have a stent placed in her right coronary artery.

Ginsburg, who inspired the meme “Notorious RBG” and was the subject of a documentary and feature film in recent years, missed oral arguments for the first time earlier this year while recovering but participated in rulings via court transcripts and in writing.

Ginsburg’s health has long been an issue. The oldest Supreme Court justice, Ginsburg leads the liberal wing on the court which is currently outnumbered 5-4 by conservatives.

She has refused to step down from her post, concerned that President Trump will replace her with a conservative justice, who will sway the decisions of the Court for decades.

Despite her recent health scare, Ginsburg has made a series of public appearances and continues to travel.

Asked late last month about any retirement plans, Ginsburg said: “I’ve always said I’ll stay on this job as long as I can do it full steam.”

At her age, she assesses that each year: “I was OK this last term. I expect to be OK next term. And after that we’ll just have to see.”

An appointee by Democratic President Bill Clinton, Ginsburg was confirmed by the Senate on August 3, 1993 and took her oath for the Supreme Court a week later. She was the second woman ever appointed to America’s highest court, after Sandra Day O’Connor, who served from 1981 to 2006.

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Over time, she also wrote opinions advancing broader civil rights and liberties.

She became the leader of the left wing when Justice John Paul Stevens retired in 2010. Under court tradition, the most senior justice in the majority assigns the opinion for the court and the most senior justice among dissenters chooses who writes the main dissenting opinion.

In 2013, Ginsburg’s dissent for the liberals in Shelby County v. Holder, when the majority curtailed the reach of the Voting Rights Act, went viral on social media.

It inspired the “Notorious RBG” meme, which has stuck as she has become the subject of books, films and assorted mementos. Her workout routine is also well-known and even the subject of a book by her trainer, Bryant Johnson.

Joe Walsh to Challenge Trump

If President Trump thought he’d be unopposed in the Republican primary, Joe Walsh is gearing up for battle. Conservative radio host and former Illinois U.S. Rep. Walsh will challenge Trump for the Republican presidential nomination in 2020, he announced on Sunday.

“I’m going to run for president,” Walsh said on ABC’s “This Week,”

also telling host George Stephanopoulos, “I’m going to do whatever I can. I don’t want him (Trump) to win. The country cannot afford to have him win. If I’m not successful, I’m not voting for him.”

Walsh also called the president “nuts,” “erratic,” “cruel” and “incompetent.”

Walsh, who was elected to Congress with support from the Tea Party movement, has a history of making controversial comments, including some about former President Barack Obama. In 2016, he accused Obama of hating Israel and pushed the theory that Obama is Muslim.

He was also accused that year of inciting violence against Obama in the wake of a deadly sniper attack on Dallas police.

A few years earlier, in a 2011 interview, he suggested that Obama was only elected because he was “a black man who was articulate.”

Walsh was also once kicked off air for using racial slurs when discussing the Washington Redskins NFL team.

He said he voted for Trump in 2016, but only because Trump wasn’t Hillary Clinton. Where Trump lost him, Walsh said, was during the president’s news conference with Vladimir Putin at their summit last year in Helsinki, Finland, at which Trump sided with the Russian strongman over his own intelligence community’s assessments of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election.

Walsh had previously called for a Republican to challenge the president, and earlier this month called Trump an “unfit con man” who is “bad for the country.”

Walsh is not the only one looking to take on POTUS. Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld said in April that he wants to challenge Trump.

Former Rep. Mark Sanford told CNN’s Brianna Keilar in July that he is considering mounting a challenge to Trump in 2020, with plans this month to explore a possible

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candidacy.

Any of the three possible Republican contenders, though, would be a long shot against the president, who, according to Gallup, has an 88% approval rating among Republican voters.

Overstock CEO Out

Patrick Byrne, the outspoken CEO of online home goods retailer Overstock.com, resigned on Thursday, days after he issued a press release entitled “Comments on Deep State” that claimed he helped the FBI carry out “political espionage.”

The strange post from Byrne triggered a steep decline in Overstock’s stock price last week. The company’s stock price later recovered, and it surged more than 10% Thursday on news of Byrne’s exit.

In a letter Byrne issued Thursday, he stated that he is “already far too controversial to serve as CEO” and added that he chose to step away after 20 years so that his presence wouldn’t affect Overstock’s business.

Byrne had said in an August 12 press release that he helped the FBI’s “‘Clinton Investigation’ and the ‘Russian Investigation’” – “operating under the belief that I was helping legitimate law enforcement efforts.” He also claimed he “put the pieces” together in mid-2018 and realized the investigations amounted to “political espionage” against the 2016 U.S. presidential candidates.

Byrne said he decided to speak to journalists about his involvement this summer after discussing it with his rabbi – his way of referring to Warren Buffett.

“Coming forward publicly about my involvement in other matters was hardly my first choice,” Byrne wrote in the letter about his resignation. “I now plan on leaving things

to the esteemed Department of Justice (which I have doubtless already angered enough by going public) and disappearing for some time.”

Byrne recently admitted in a series of interviews that he was connected to accused Russian agent Maria Butina and ultimately assisted law enforcement in their investigation of her. Prosecutors accused Butina of trying to make inroads

with prominent political groups, including the National Rifle Association, to promote Russian interests.

She pleaded guilty to a lesser count of failing to register as a foreign agent and is serving 18 months in prison.

Overstock is an e-commerce site known for selling furniture, decor and appliances on the cheap. But for months Byrne has worked to turn

Overstock into a venture focused on blockchain, the technology behind cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.

The company still plans to aggressively pursue blockchain business opportunities. Jonathan Johnson, the president of Overstock-owned blockchain company Medici Ventures, will serve as interim CEO.

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Solo Surfing It took a bit over 76 days, but Antonio de la Rosa is now on terra firma. The Spanish endurance athlete braved the winds and currents of the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Honolulu with only his 24-foot-long stand-up paddleboard.

De la Rosa paddled more than 2,900 miles to raise awareness about protecting the ocean from man-made pollution.

“SAVE the OCEAN,” the side of his boat reads. “NO plastics, NO nets, RECYCLE.”

The front part of his boat provided sleeping quarters and the back part was used to store his provisions and tools.

Fittingly, de la Rosa came eyeto-eye with whales and other sea life on multiple occasions, which he described as “incredible.”

The last day, though, was the hardest.

“The last 24 hours were of concern and uncertainty,” he wrote in a Facebook post in Spanish. As he navigated between the islands of Molokai and Oahu, he was surprised by a strong wind that pushed him dangerously close to the rocky coast.

He barely slept that night as he tried to keep his boat on course.

On Saturday, de la Rosa finally reached dry land. He was greeted by one of his sponsors at the Waikiki Yacht Club – the first person he had seen in two-and-a-half months.

De la Rosa was the first person to ever cross the Pacific Ocean on a stand-up paddleboard, but his other feats include racing across the Atlantic Ocean in a solo rowing vessel and canoeing across all eight Canary Islands. Solo travel is de la Rosa’s specialty — he says it doesn’t have to be isolating.

“Going alone does not mean being alone,” the fifty-year-old adventurer said.

We’ll take his word for it.

Clothing Heroes

Beachgoers in Barcelona have become the victims of clothing thieves.

After they swim in the ocean and return to their spot on the beach, they notice that their clothes are gone.

Now, police in Barcelona are coming to the rescue.

Officers have been handing out “support packs” to those who have had their belongings stolen. The emergency clothing kits include a t-shirt, flip-flops, pants and a metro-card, so they can get back home.

Millions flock to Barcelona’s beaches during the summer months.

But thieves also are on the prowl.

On average there are around three thefts a day in the city during the summer months. Officers have been patrolling the beaches to prevent the thefts, but they acknowledge that some of these thieves are ultra-slippery.

$1.1M to Prove Nonexistence You can become a millionaire if you can prove that the German city

of Bielefeld doesn’t exist. The cash reward is in reference to the satirical and notorious Bielefeld Conspiracy, which originated in the early 1990s. As the conspiracy theory goes, this city in northwestern Germany is not actually real.

Now the town, which is home to 300,000 residents, a university and even a castle, is out to discredit the conspiracy theory by offering a large sum of money to anyone who can prove it’s more than a hoax.

According to reports, the Bielefeld Conspiracy began on the Internet after computer science student Achim Held joked that the city, far from real, was actually a fabrication created by the authorities.

“The conspiracy theory picked up speed and began to make the German population believe Bielefeld would not exist,” Bielefeld’s tourism page states.

The conspiracy is built around three questions: Do you know anybody from Bielefeld? Have you ever been to Bielefeld? Do you know anybody who has ever been to Bielefeld?

The city, close to eight centuries old, is seeking submissions from people who think they can prove Bielefeld isn’t real. According to the website for the contest, “any kind of contribution is allowed” that will prove the conspiracy.

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percent sure that we will be able to refute any claims,” said the head of Bielefeld Marketing, Martin Knabenreich.

Better be quick with your nonexistence claims. The contest ends on September 4. And you better believe Bielefeld is going to be all over those submissions.

Costco Crazy

A four-year-old boy from California is so in love with Costco that his family threw him a birthday party in the local Costco Warehouse store.

Armando Martinez, 4, who has his own Instagram page documenting his love for Costco, celebrated his birthday in Costco-style. The store shut down the outside food court for the party, which featured the boy being presented with his own Costco hat and a special Costco badge with his name on it. The birthday boy wore a white button-down shirt and jeans along with his new, red Costco hat. Party-goers were presented with honorary “membership cards” at the event.

One of the games played at the super-size party was “Name that Costco Price,” in which partygoers had to guess the prices on various Costco items.

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Community Cross River Tenth Annual Golf and Tennis Outing to Benefit Madraigos

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n Monday, August 19, Cross River held its Tenth Annual Golf and Tennis Outing to benefit Madraigos at Trump National Golf Club in Westchester. Known for its challenging course, spectacular grounds, and breathtaking waterfall on the 13th green, it proved to be the perfect backdrop for a day of golf, tennis and networking.

Madraigos was thrilled to be chosen once again by Cross River and its Board of Directors as the sole beneficiary of this most successful outing. Madraigos owes a sincere debt of gratitude to Cross River for their extreme generosity and genuine vote of confidence.

“Now in our 10th year, the Cross River Classic has been a great way for our friends, partners and clients to come together and help Madraigos raise much needed funds,” said Gilles Gade, founder, CEO and Chairman of Cross River. “At Cross River, we embody the values of community service and are thrilled to play a small role in the tireless work Madraigos does on behalf of the community.”

Major event sponsors included VISA, the Diamond Level Sponsor, SR-X and Mobile Vascular Physicians, the Sapphire Level Sponsor, and Master Card, Deloitte, Infinity Land Services, Jefferies, The Battery Group, Federal Savings Bank, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, Wachtel Missry, Donovan, and Singer Environmental, to name a few.

Golf and tennis players had an extra special event experience, full of unique amenities and gifts. Ray Ban sunglasses, sponsored by In-

finity Land Services, were a huge hit among players who were custom-fit with the style of their choice.

Thanks to sponsor, Exigent Capital Management, golfers also enjoyed custom-fit leather golf gloves.

Additional giveaways included

a premium water bottle sponsored

by Deloitte, a Rabbit Pro Axis Lever Corkscrew, sponsored by CAHE, a Footjoy Golf Shoe Bag sponsored

by Best Egg, a high capacity, and a Totes umbrella sponsored by Sunlight Financial. Participants were

given an insulated food cooler, sponsored by Atalaya, filled with other valuable items.

Following a lavish breakfast sponsored by Liberty One, and a quick work-out at the Stretching Station sponsored by Jefferies, equipped with Vpar live golf scoring devices sponsored by Affirm, the 36 foursomes prepared for a competitive day of golf.

Many of the participants expressed their enthusiasm for the event.

“Events like these reinforce how important it is to give back,” said Meir Krengel of TBG Funding “The fact that so many people came out to support such an amazing organization is inspiring. Each year grows stronger, which is a testament to Madraigos and all those involved.”

The BBQ lunch, sponsored by Triplenet, featured gourmet fare relished by all. Outdoor entertainment and amenities provided by Cross River enriched the experience.

Tennis players also hit the jackpot this year, with a Babolat Racquet Demo, two Tennis Pros, and courtside specialty beverages and snacks.

Trophies, Babolat bags, and gift certificates to Tennis Warehouse were given to the lucky 1st place winners.

Over 200 additional people joined for the Cocktail reception and “Network for A Cause” where guests met with fellow professionals, business leaders, and entrepreneurs.

The grand finale was the Dinner reception, sponsored by SR-X and MVP. Phil Goldfeder, SVP, Public Affairs at Cross River, former NYS

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Around the Community Assemblyman, and long-time friend of Madraigos, emceed the short dinner program, awards presentation, and raffle drawing.

Attendees were treated to Goodbye Goodie Bags sponsored by Freedom Financial for sweet and safe travels and appreciation for ten years of dedicated support.

“I have experienced the Cross River Classic from every vantage point and it continues to get better each year,” said Phil Goldfeder.

“I am continually amazed by the generosity of our sponsors to help Madraigos, a cause that benefits so many individuals. The Outing is a fantastic day for all involved, from our partners and sponsors, to friends and the community, and we are already looking forward to next year’s.”

Grand Raffle Drawing featured two premium tickets to the Broadway show, Dear Evan Hansen, and dinner at Le Marais as well as prestigious Callaway Golf Clubs. Additional top-notch prizes included US Open tickets, a tropical resort va-

cation, a MacBook Pro, and an iPad Air. Rabbi Dov Silver, Founder and Executive Vice President, Madraigos, said, “We are grateful beyond words to Cross River and its Board of Directors for the tremendous constant flow of generosity and commitment, enabling Madraigos to serve the community that needs our

resources and services. We are also thankful for all the organizations and companies that sponsored this year’s event.”

“We graciously acknowledge Cross River’s generosity which makes it possible for us to serve the community on many levels. Our gratitude extends to the many loyal sponsors, participants, and friends

who believe in our mission and support our work,” commented Sharon Gross, Executive Director, Madraigos.

Funds raised at the event will assist Madraigos in providing valuable prevention and intervention services to the Five Towns/Queens community and beyond, including a Support Line, Community Education, Crisis Intervention, Case Management, Assessments and Referrals, School-Based Services and Mental Health Awareness Program (MAP), The Lounge, Camp Ignight, Parenting Matters, Shabbatonim, Support Groups, and Yom Tov Retreats, including this year’s inspirational Rosh Hashana program which will take place in Westchester, NY. For more information about the 10th Annual Cross River Classic Golf and Tennis Outing to benefit Madraigos, visit www.crossriverclassic.org.

For information about Madraigos, please visit www.madraigos.org.

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It Takes a Village

By Principal Mrs. Sara Munk

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hen Sarah Schneirer established the Bais Yaakov school network in 1917, she did so to train Jewish girls to serve Hashem with their minds, hearts and souls. They needed to be educated in order to fulfill the mitzvot of the Torah with pure passion and sincere excitement. In her diary she lamented that “we pass through the days prior to the Yomim Noraim, fathers and their sons travel off to Ger, to Belz, to Alexsander and to Bobov. They travel to all those places that have become citadels of ruchniyus, led by the Rebbes. Yet we stay at home, the wives, the daughters and the little ones. Ours is an empty yom tov. Ours is a fate devoid of Torah’s intellectual content. The women have never learned anything about the spiritual meaning that lies within a yom tov.”

Education has undergone countless changes since Sarah Schneirer revolutionized the world of Jewish education 102 years ago. Bloom’s Taxonomy, Digital Citizenship, Project-based Learning, Genius Hour, and STEM are just some of the most commonly talked about educational trends. And yet, the very ideals identified by Sarah Schneirer remain unchanged. Educating Jewish girls is about connection, identity, and devotion.

In 2016, the USA’s National Public Radio (NPR) researched the ori-

gins of the saying: “It takes a village to raise a child.” While they were unable to pinpoint the specific origins, many suggested the proverb embodies the spirit of several African cultures. Examples of African proverbs that translate to this proverb include, “A child does not grow up only in a single home” and “regardless of a child’s biological parents, its upbringing belongs to the community.” Though as a parent I would like to think I have all the control over my children’s’ developing value systems, the reality we live in dictates otherwise. Our school and camp systems, shul communities and homes all play an integral role in the constantly evolving identities of young Jewish women.

As an educator, internalizing the awesome responsibility of teaching young Jewish women is a humbling thought. But it is heartening to know that I do not carry this responsibility alone. There is no one institution, among our homes, schools, shuls, and camps, that is more influential on our students’ education than the other. Thus, we must unify together and utilize all our resources to help each of our students reach her potential. It is no surprise that the word chen, favor or grace, is found in the word commonly used for education, chinuch. Our responsibility as educators, parents, and community members is to find favor in each of our students and children so they can find favor in themselves. While

kids today are growing up in a remarkably complicated world, they are the beneficiaries of an educational system geared toward finding and nurturing their strengths, without a uniform set of expectations.

The importance of unity between home, school, and community shines bright during these dark days of national mourning. In the words of George Trumbull Ladd, a 19th century American philosopher, educator and psychologist, “Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency is felt throughout all the subsequent growth of the organism.”

In Shulamith High School we seek to partner with our families and communities to educate the whole child. We live in a world that presents real challenges in shemirat mitzvot, but it is not impossible.

We believe in educating toward the present as well as the future. Our goal is to open minds, cultivate passions, and graduate unbelievably educated young women who can tackle any program in college, take on any profession, and yet maintain an uncompromising and steadfast commitment in their avodat Hashem. We seek to take our students’ individual passions such as learning, athletics, cooking, fashion, STEM, history, literature, and find exciting ways to convey them through the lens of Torah. Our faculty and staff are committed to being there

every step of this journey we call high school, a journey which bears the same goal that Jewish education for young women has always had. I am truly excited to be a part of Shulamith and am so looking forward to partnering with this outstanding community where together we can achieve our goals.

It is no coincidence that the school-year almost always begins during the month of Elul, the days of personal introspection and teshuva. In order for education to be successful, we all must first evaluate our own personal motivations and actions in an effort to refocus on the incredible responsibility we have.

As Sarah Schneirer once said: “People are such perfectionists when it comes to clothing their bodies. Are they so particular when they address themselves to the seeds of the soul?”

In Shulamith High School, the answer is a resounding yes.

Dor Yeshorim Does More for Klal Yisroel Specialized family testing is only one way Dor Yeshorim preserves generations

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ou may know Dor Yeshorim as a compatibility test, ensuring that you or your children would never have to experience the pain of genetic disease, r”l.

You may not know that hundreds of families with rare genetic mutations turn to Dor Yeshorim for highly specialized testing panels. When their healthy children reach marriageable age, the standard testing panels do not suffice. Unique genetic strands require unique screening solutions.

To date, more than 10,000 individ-

uals have turned to Dor Yeshorim for specialized testing panels researched and developed by the high-tech Dor Yeshorim labs.

“For the hundreds of families facing rare genetic diseases, Dor Yeshorim has become the preeminent source of specialized testing,” says Dr. Wendy K. Chung, the Kennedy Family Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center’s Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York.

“I can personally attest to the un-

told hours and countless dollars the organization invests to ensure that these families will have reliable testing panels when it comes time for their healthy children to marry.”

Dor Yeshorim’s mission and man-

date is to pioneer, protect, and preserve our people, healthy generation after healthy generation.

When special people with special circumstances deserve specialized testing, Dor Yeshorim is here.

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Camp Shira Ends With a Shimi

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amp Shira enjoyed a dynamic Shimi Adar concert on the last day of camp! The girls wore tutus, made signs, and got free Shimi-themed water bottles compliments of Party Favors NY. It was a blast and was an amazing way to end the summer!

Dating Decisions: A YUConnects Survey

By Marjorie Glatt

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hat affects the millennial’s mind? How does today’s young adult population decide whom to date? With the prevalence of online dating apps, abundant social activities, and the ability to access more names than ever before match suggestions come in from sources both far and near. YUConnects, the popular matchmaking program serving as the Orthodox Jewish world’s educational and dating resource, recently surveyed its membership to further assess dating trends in the 18- to 35-year-old age group.

One of the most significant sociological findings dealt with “decision-making” by online daters. Fully 54% of the respondents purported to make a decision about a potential date within 10 minutes of reading their online profile. However, when undecided, the process the members take coincided with contemporary norms of the millennial and “Generation Z” age groups. While only 19% discuss the idea with their matchmaker, 34% call references, 41% discuss with their parents but almost 46% talk over the

potential date with friends. Most interestingly, a whopping 89% “google” or access social media to collect further information about their future dating prospect.

“That doesn’t really surprise me at all,” says Mindy Eisenman, YUConnects Staff Connector, about the findings. “Before someone dates, they often tell me that they check out names on Facebook or other social media outlets.” In fact, the staff at YUConnects often counsels their members to carefully review their own online posts or photos, as they are often scrutinized by others. “For better or for worse, people are frequently treating this like they are part of an HR department in job recruitment where prospective dates want to glean as much information as possible before they step out the door,” concurred Dr. Efrat Sobolofsky, Director of YUConnects. Especially in the close-knit Orthodox Jewish circles, knowing friends of future matches aids in the decision-making process; doing a quick Facebook search of someone’s friends often is an important factor in whether to accept the dating idea.

Dr. Jean Kim, M.D., in a recent

Psychology Today article on online dating, also feels that “it is reasonable to conduct some form of a background search via Google, Facebook, and other sites, and to keep one’s ears open for inconsistencies and vagueness.” She points out that we are often swept away by superficial idealizations about the perfect person which makes people more vulnerable to deceptions that can occur online.

Dr. Kim recommends trusting one’s own gut, in addition to vetting people online. She further comments that “hopefully, the worst secret a person is keeping from you is that a favorite movie they listed on their profile isn’t actually their favorite.”

In general, YUConnects staff point out that the personal Connectors (matchmakers) on their website can be the best allies to their members as they offer guidance and act as mentors. “Our volunteer matchmakers are specially trained and are happy to assist their members in all sorts of ways,” offered Mrs. Eisenman. “I always recommend, that when undecided, a guy or girl should turn to their Connector for advice. This mentorship is an underutilized resource that

can be extremely helpful.”

Marjorie Glatt, the Special Projects Coordinator at YUConnects, points out that YUConnects is currently running a limited time promotion which allows new enrollees to get a free one-month trial of “gold” upgraded membership. With two personal matchmakers making targeted suggestions and offering guidance, this upgrade is especially beneficial.

Use marketing code “chazaq” at the site’s checkout for the free promotion.

With 370 engagements, 80 volunteer Connectors and over 3,000 members of the YUConnects program, YUConnects continues to conduct academic research about the modern dating world. Housed at Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future, it is a self-funded program open to the entire Jewish community. In addition to its targeted matchmaking, the program runs unique social events and educational forums. Its friendly office welcomes comments, visits, and inquiries on any dating matter.

For more information, visit www.yuconnects.com , call 646-592-4259, or email yuconnects@yu.edu.

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MTA Welcomes New Faculty Members

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TA is thrilled to welcome new faculty members for the upcoming 2019-2020 school year, including: Rabbi Danny Konigsberg (‘05) as the Director of Student Activities and Chumash and Bekius Rebbe. Rabbi Konigsberg is a passionate and experienced mechanech, who is excited to return to his roots at MTA. He previously served as the founding director and senior maggid shiur at Yeshiva Toras Halacha in Queens, where he developed curricula and taught Gemara and halacha to undergraduates.

Prior to that, he served as a rebbe and Director of Student Life at Yeshiva Madreigas HaAdam. He received semicha from Lander College Bais Medrash L’Talmud, where he attended college and was a member of the Kollel. He also earned his JD from Fordham University School of Law and has practiced as an attorney. Rabbi Konigsberg lives in North Woodmere, NY, with his wife Esti, and their four children.

Rabbi Yoni Stone has been part of the MTA family for the past several years, with a new role for the upcoming year as the Director of Admissions. Rabbi Stone will continue teaching halacha and bekius to the

Leah Silvera

Rabbi Danny Konigsberg

Rabbi Yoni Stone

Ian Ulmer

9B Shiur. Rabbi Stone received semicha from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, where he served as shiur assistant to YU Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Yaakov Neuburger. He is also pursuing his Master’s degree in Jewish Education from the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration. Rabbi Stone will continue to coach the MTA Varsity hockey team and JV softball team.

Rabbi Stone lives in Teaneck, NJ, with his wife, Cayley, and their son, Azi. Ms. Leah (Wadler) Silvera (YUHSG ‘86) as the Learning Center Coordinator. Ms. Silvera is excited to join the MTA team after 12 years of serving as the Founding Coordinator of the SAR High School Student Learning Center - Support Program. In that role, she

guided students through four years of high school and helped prepare them for college and beyond and also actively mentored faculty, conducted professional development, assisted with college guidance for students with learning challenges, and managed all facets of the IEP and ACT/ SAT process. Simultaneous to her duties at SAR, Ms. Silvera served as an adjunct professor at Mercy College, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in education with a focus on differentiation and assessment. Prior to her work at SAR, Ms. Silvera taught at SINAI schools. Ms. Silvera holds a BS in Business Management and an MA Ed in Special Education from the University of Phoenix. She currently resides in Riverdale, NY.

Mr. Ian Ulmer as the History Department Chair and Director of Educational Technology. Mr. Ulmer has been teaching history to middle and high school students for the past 18 years and for the past 10 years has also served on the Educational Technology Committee at Harvard-Westlake School, a prestigious private school in Los Angeles, which makes recommendations for integrating technology into the classroom. He received a BA in History; Religious Studies from UC Berkeley and an MA in the Teaching of Social Studies from Teachers College, Columbia University. Mr. Ulmer resides in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife, Kate, and their three children.

flashlights with batteries, and then, they too, personalized each flashlight with hopeful messages and cute jokes.

The next day Rabbi Dr. Hillel

Fox, Director of Chaplaincy Care and Education, came to Camp Revach and personally thanked the girls for their time in preparing these special gifts. He plans on distributing

them to NSUH patients and families in hopes of sharing good cheer and warmth in the coming weeks.

Tizku l’mitzvos!

Spreading Cheer to Children in Hospitals

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amp Revach, a girls’ summer day camp in Far Rockaway, participated in a unique chessed program this year, spreading cheer and performing acts of kindness all around the Five Towns.

One of the chessed projects included bunk 5B decorating frisbees for sick children in Northwell Health’s North Shore University Hospital. They wrote inspirational messages on soft frisbees to be distributed by the Child Life Specialists to children in the hospital’s Pediatric Emergency Unit.

Another bunk, Seniors C, prepared mini flashlights to be distributed to patients in the hospital as well. They first had to pack the

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JCCRP 47th Annual Legislative Breakfast

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he JCCRP 47 th Annual Legislative Breakfast is slated to take place on Sunday, September 8 at 9:30 a.m. at The White Shul.

This breakfast is one of the few occasions during the year in which the Jewish community has the opportunity to come together and demonstrate our strength as a community to the elected officials, city and state agencies, and other groups with whom we relate. It is also an opportunity for us to thank individuals who have rendered services to the Jewish community and made the JCCRP the remarkable organization so many people rely on behind the scenes. The JCCRP has passionately assisted our community in its quiet fashion for 47 years!

This year the JCCRP will be honoring six individuals committed to the JCCRP and enhancing our community.

Karen Friedman will be receiving the Community Chessed Partnership Award on behalf of the UJA Federation of NY. Through her lay leadership at the UJA, Karen has been a dedicated leader assisting thousands in alleviating various crises, feeding the hungry, helping the impoverished gain independence and assistance after natural disasters like Hurricane Sandy. The UJA Federation of NY benefits everyone in our community. Most recently, the UJA created a $50,000,000 day school challenge that is benefitting many of our local yeshivas and day schools. Please join us in showing appreciation to Karen and the UJA for their generosity.

Councilman Barry Grodenchik will be receiving the Distinguished City Legislative Leadership Award.

Councilman Grodenchik is a dedicated public servant who is always advocating in the NYC Council for our communal needs such as increased funding for feeding the needy. Additionally, the councilman

Karen Friedman, at UJA Federation of NY

Assemblywoman Missy Miller

is an active volunteer for Tomchei Shabbos of Queens and a longtime friend of the JCCRP. Congresswoman Grace Meng will be receiving the Distinguished Congressional Award. The Congresswoman has been a true friend of the Jewish people even if it means swimming against the tide. She constantly votes against BDS, denounces anti-Semitism, and advocates for additional defense funding for Israel. Ms. Meng is a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and its Subcommittees on the Middle East and North Africa, and Asia and the Pacific. This is a crucial time to show appreciation to the congresswoman.

Assemblywoman Melissa (Missy) Miller will be receiving the Distin-

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guished Community Service Award.

Assemblywoman Miller works diligently to assist the entire community. Whether in Albany or in district, the Assemblywoman is a staunch advocate for special education and all communal needs. Due to unfortunate illnesses to her own children, the Assemblywoman is very busy training pediatric care professionals on how to properly care for chronically disabled children.

Senator James Sanders Jr. will be receiving the Distinguished Public Service Award. The Senator has been a community leader for over 30 years, fighting for constituent and communal needs including state investment in local roads, increase in job opportunities, and economic growth.

Elisheva Trachtenberg, LMSW will be receiving the Distinguished Staff Member Award. Elisheva is the Director of Social Services at the JCCRP leading the case management team. She has personally helped thousands of community members survive crisis, sign up for Medicaid,

receive crucial services, government benefits and reach financial independence.

Moshe Brandsdorfer, JCCRP executive director, commented. “When people walk into the JCCRP with an issue, I’m confident that they will get the help they need. Elisheva and her team leave no stone unturned. We are all indebted to Elisheva for her selfless and dedicated klal work.”

Your attendance and participation in this breakfast is the best advertisement for the community and is a source of encouragement and gratitude for the many individuals and institutions that work together with the JCCRP to make our community an even better place to live.

We hope to see you there!

There will be a journal in correlation with this breakfast to honor our esteemed honorees. To place an ad in their honor or for reservations, go to www.jccrp.org/breakfast or contact Barbara Satt at bsatt@jccrp.org or 718-327-7755 ext. 6113.

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Mesivta Yam HaTorah Welcomes New Faculty Members

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esivta Yam HaTorah is excited to welcome the following new faculty members for the upcoming 2019-2020 school year.

Rabbi Yosef Jaffe, Halacha, Bekiyus and Chumash Rebbe, originally from Passaic, NJ, went to Chofetz Chaim affiliates for three years following high school before learning in Yeshiva Zichron Aryeh the past seven years. During that time, he has assisted the younger Bais Midrash students, helping talmidim enhance their learning, as well as being a mentor and role model. Rabbi Jaffe’s proficiency with in-depth Torah learning and intuitive understanding of human nature, especially teenagers, coupled with his approachable nature will truly enable him to reach and uplift our students. He will be assisting the Iyun shiurim in addition to teaching Halacha, Bekiyus, Chumash.

Rabbi Tzachi (Yitzchak) Diamond, Director of Programming/ Student Activities, has a wealth of experience connecting with students across all age groups and creating ruach and exciting programs. He is currently a rebbe and Director of Development at Ezra Academy, where he has been since 2016. He has been involved in the administration of many day camps since 2012. He will

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oversee and administer our student council and bring his dynamic personality, enthusiasm, and creativity to elevate the programming and ruach at Yam HaTorah to a new level.

Rabbi Shmuel Lemann, teacher, has been teaching in various elementary schools as a rebbe since 2014. He is currently the rabbi of Torah Center of Hillcrest where his lectures and shiurim are sought after. He received his Master of Education Administration from Loyola University in Illinois and his semicha from Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim. Rabbi Lemann will be teaching psychology and public speaking to the 12th grade which will be offered in conjunction with Touro College.

Mr. Daniel Feit, Mathematics, is completing his Bachelor of Economics from Queens College where he has earned a spot on the Dean’s List with

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exemplary academic performance.

Daniel has been tutoring math and giving Regents and SAT crash courses since 2015 where he has successfully helped his students perform well on exams. He will be teaching 10th grade geometry and 11th grade trigonometry as well as an optional class once a week to reinforce and refine students’ math skills.

Mr. Justin Stark, Social Studies, has worked for the past 17 years as an educator in the NYC Public School System as a social studies teacher and assistant principal. Mr. Stark is a graduate of Queens College with a BA in History and degree in Secondary Education, and from Touro College, where he earned his MA in Educational Leadership. Mr. Stark has had the pleasure of teaching in multiple yeshivas, including Yam HaTorah in 2014 and 2015. He is an experienced

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teacher with a track record helping student grow in their literacy skills and perform at high levels on the NYS Global and US History Regent Exams.

Is your son analytical, perceptive, or an out-of-the-box thinker? Can he benefit from personal guidance and a closer relationship with Rebbeim and mentors? Does your son need an academic environment that goes beyond the standard curriculum and embraces a more interactive and stimulating learning experience?

Does your son need a wholesome environment that respects him for his unique personality?

If you are interested in finding out more information or to register for the 2020–2021 school year, please call 718-471-7471, visit www.yamhatorah.org or email mesivtayamhatorah@gmail.com.

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Thousands of Bochurim in Camps Experience Dirshu Learning This Summer

By Chaim Gold

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or three and a half weeks you are zocheh to experience and understand what a talmid chocham meant when he said, ‘Dirshu ruined my life!’ Here at Camp Rayim you have gotten a taste of what it means to learn Torah with accountability and to love it!”

Those were the words of Rav Shaul Pinter, maggid shiur at Camp Rayim L”Bochurim, as he introduced Rav Dovid Hofstedter, Nasi Dirshu, to deliver a shiur to the bochurim.

Rabbi Pinter was referring to a comment made by a Yid who met Rav Hofstedter in the streets of Boro Park. “I don’t have a day, I don’t have a night, I don’t even have a minute to go to a simcha… I am just so busy learning and chazering!” With a pure smile bathing his entire face, the Yid exclaimed, “On behalf of myself and my whole mishpacha, I don’t know how to thank you!”

The Importance of Structure Camp Rayim is one of eleven camps that participate in Dirshu’s Daf HaYomi L’Bochurim summer camp

program. Over 2,500 bochurim participated this year.

Rav Pinter explained the tremendous impact that the program had on his talmidim. “One of the critically important things that enhance learning in the summer is structure. When bochurim know that they have a certain amount that they have to learn every day and when they know that if they are tested on that learning and achieve good results, they will be rewarded, it transforms the learning experience in camp into a goal-oriented, geshmake experience.”

Rav Hofstedter, who visited both Camp Rayim and Camp Toras Chaim-Tashbar, on Friday erev Tisha B’Av, delivered a shiur on the halachos of Tisha B’Av that falls out on Shabbos and is pushed off until Sunday. He also gave divrei chizuk to the talmidim.

A Lifelong Lesson Rav Menachem Schmelczer, Dirshu Daf HaYomi L’Bochurim maggid shiur at Camp Toras Chaim Tashbar, said, “There are so many benefits that a bochur gains from Dirshu’s Daf HaYomi L’Bochurim summer camp

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program. First and foremost is the limud haTorah itself. The summer is a time when bochurim require a bit more motivation than during the year and the Dirshu program has proven an exemplary motivator. The fact that bochurim are learning halacha and accustoming themselves to learn Mishnah Berurah every single day is a remarkable routine that starts when they are young but can often continue through life.

“Another important benefit is the fact that bochurim spend a half hour each day actually reading the Mishnah Berurah. It is well known that many difficulties that bochurim face are a result of imperfect reading skills. This summertime opportunity to engage in reading the Mishnah Berurah empowers them to perfect their reading, it is an opportunity that should not be missed. Last but not least, the bochurim develop a tremendous chashivus for the Chofetz Chaim and that can last a lifetime!”

Achdus is a Foundation for Limud HaTorah At Camp Toras Chaim Tashbar, Rav Hofstedter was introduced by Rabbi Alexander Dembitzer, the camp’s director. After Rav Hofstedter addressed the bochurim, he and Dirshu’s North American Director, Rabbi Ahron Gobioff, had the opportunity to attend a live shiur on that day’s limud given by Rav Schmelczer. “The large group of bochurim were so involved, attentive and animated,” said Rabbi Gobioff. “Clearly the learning of hala-

cha and the clear and geshmake elucidation of the interesting halachos of Rosh Chodesh that they were learning, was something that they found very stimulating.”

In his remarks, Rav Hofstedter commented that “there is a misconception about bein adam l’chaveiro.

Some people think it is a nice extra thing in Yiddishkeit, akin to extra credit. Nothing could be further from the truth. Bein adam l’chaveiro is not just a nice middah; it is an integral component of success in Torah learning itself.”

He explained that Chazal tell us that the achdus at maamad Har Sinai, ‘as one man with one heart,’ was a vital prerequisite to Torah. Rav Hofstedter asked, “With regard to the first Beis Hamikdash the Gemara asks, ‘Why was the land lost?’ The reason given

by Chazal is that ‘they forsook the Torah.’ The Gemara asks, ‘What does it mean they forsook the Torah? They learned Torah!’ The Gemara answers that indeed they learned Torah but they did not have the proper respect for Torah and therefore their Torah learning did not bind them to Hashem and protect them. Why, however, does the Gemara not ask the same question regarding the destruction of the second Bais Hamikdash, which we know was destroyed as a result of sinas chinom?” He answered, “Everyone knew that sinas chinom, the lack of achdus, was a barrier that would prevent their Torah learning from adequately protecting them. The question did not have to be asked. Without achdus nei-

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Rav Hofstedter ended off by encouraging the bochurim to continue learning with accountability and being instruments of kovod haTorah.

He also invited them to the great maamad of kavod haTorah, the Dirshu World Siyum that will take place this winter.

Young Aspiring Talmidei Chachomim Become Part of a Worldwide Movement This year, the participating camps were :Achim Mesivta, Camp Agudah, Camp Agudah Toronto, Camp Degel Hatorah, Camp Derech Aliyah, Camp Merkaz Hachaim, Camp Nachal Yam, Camp Rayim Mesivta, Camp Ruach Hakayitz, Tashbar, Camp Toras Chesed.

One of the Dirshu mechanchim who teaches the Dirshu seder in a camp related, “The Dirshu seder plays an integral role in the learning and ruchniyus of the entire camp. Firstly, it teaches every boy the value of temidus, of regular daily learning, no

matter what happens. If there is a trip, Dirshu comes along; on Friday afternoon, a time that is often neglected, we are plugging away with the Dirshu seder after Mincha; on Shabbos morning after kiddush before the seudah the Dirshu seder continues.”

Another very important lesson that will last long after camp is over is that when bochurim set a goal which

they then achieve, they gain a tremendous sense of accomplishment and sipuk.

Perhaps Rabbi Shaul Pinter put it best when he told the bochurim, “Here in camp we have the zechus in the summer to become part of a worldwide movement that seeks nothing more from every Yid other than that he should learn more Torah and max-

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The Other Side of the Cork: Netofa – the Essence of the Lower Galilee Terroir

By Yael E. Geller, MPH

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always wanted to write an article on the history of the kosher wine evolution. It is fascinating that here we are in 5779/2019 and we have access to multitudes of kosher wines from the most famous wine regions in the world. We live in a time where Israeli wine has made tremendous strides and arguably dominates the kosher market. It seems as though every single week we hear of new and exciting wineries popping up all around Israel; from the small-batch, garage wineries to the large estate wineries, there is no shortage of variety.

In order to develop one’s palate, it is critical to taste as much quality wine as possible, as this expands the mind and taste buds beyond previous experiences and broadens our preconceived notions about flavors. There is so much planning and coordination that goes into quality winemaking, and as I continue to taste and learn (a journey I have been on since my youth), I realize that many outstanding winemakers do not get enough recognition for their precision and, even more importantly, their experience.

Pierre Miodownick is one of the pioneers of the kosher wine industry, having made his first kosher wine Château de Paraza in 1982. Many people may not know Miodownick’s name despite the fact that he was the first to make kosher runs of the most famous Bordeaux wines. In 1993, he made the first kosher Château Giscours but re-

Pierre Miodownick, the winemaker, and the cellar workers overseeing the crush

fused to take credit by signing the bottle as winemaker. This is the epitome of Pierre, an extremely humble, pious, introspective artist and master of a craft. Not many can boast they have accomplished as much as he has for the kosher market.

Some of Pierre’s most important contributions to the kosher wine world post-1982 include: The first quality Bordeaux, 1986 Barons Edmond & Benjamin de Rothschild, Haut-Médoc, the 1987 Château Piada, Sauternes, the first ever kosher Sau-

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ternes, which is still alive and kicking, Château Giscours, Margaux, 1993 and Château La Gaffelière, 1er cru Classé B, Saint-Emilion Grand Cru, 1993, the first ever kosher Bordeaux classified growths from Left and Right Bank, and finally Les Forges, Côte de Beaune, Meursault, 1987 the first-ever quality kosher white Burgundy.

Talking with Pierre about his experiences over the last almost-four decades in the kosher wine industry is eye-opening. I feel as though I myself have accompanied him to Château de La Tour Clos Vougeot in Burgundy and crushed grapes with my feet or perhaps went hang-gliding over the vineyards of Sancerre in the Loire Valley with proprietor Alphonse Mellot. These are experiences that wine aficionados and winemakers around the world would give anything to have experienced!

Miodownick was born in the Languedoc, an area in France where life was all about grapes and wine.

Living in a place where 100 percent of the industry related to wine production, Miodownick was naturally attracted to the wine world (he jokes that he was born in a fermentation tank). Languedoc is surrounded by Carignan vines, a grape variety which

has recently gained lots of traction in Israel. Despite Carignan’s popularity, Miodownick prefers to work with other Mediterranean grape varieties that complement the terroir of the area below Mount Tabor in the Lower Galilee, on which the vineyards for Netofa winery were planted in 2006.

Pierre planted the vineyards for Netofa winery in the foothills of Mount Tabor about a five-minute drive from Moshav Mitzpe Netofa, where the dreams were born for the winery and where the tasting room today is located. This area was chosen for its beauty and soil, which was analyzed on a microscopic level to determine which grape varieties would thrive and produce the best quality wines.

It is no secret that with Miodownick’s expertise, Netofa wines are something truly unique and special, and I believe they have filled a new niche in the kosher wine market. There has been a lot of buzz regarding these wines, to the point where those who know about the wines are constantly trying to find them in their local shops.

Netofa wines were previously available in the USA for sale, and after a threeyear hiatus they are finally making a comeback – and they are better than ever. There is not one offering from

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France (it is Netofa’s only wine which is not made with a Mediterranean grape variety).

Netofa wines are truly unique and are sought after by many for the obvious reasons. They are also wines which are extremely high quality and fit every palate and budget. While the wines are enjoyable now, they do have a long shelf life. I had the honor to taste through the entire series starting with 2009 Latour Netofa, and it was wonderful to compare each vintage.

The tasting room at Netofa is the most beautiful tasting room I have ever visited. The shelves are lined with beautiful spotlights, highlighting all of the winery’s offerings. Sitting in the oversized leather wingtip chairs makes visitors feel like they are part of the family, as Pierre explains the processes and tastes all of his creations along with you. The environment is relaxed and so spectacular for tasting through the portfolio, which is not always the case at a tasting room visit.

The wines showed no sign of sliding even 10 years later. These wines were made to grace your Shabbat and Yom Tov tables.

L’chaim!

Netofa winery is located in Moshav Mitzpe Netofa. To coordinate a visit and tasting of the wines at the Tasting Room, please contact office@ netofawines.com or by phone at +972(0)46786454.

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Netofa I would ever pass on at any type of meal or occasion, as they are extremely versatile wines and I truly believe that they are crowd-pleasers for any occasion.

Netofa wines are comprised of the following grape varieties: Syrah, Mourvèdre, Grenache, Tempranillo, Touriga Nacional, Chenin Blanc, and, most recently, Roussanne. Roussanne is one of Miodownick’s favorite varietals to work with due to its versatility and uniqueness, with the ability to produce some of the most complex white wines the world has seen.

All of the red wines produced at Netofa are blends of different grape varieties, with the exception of the flagship wine, Dor. Netofa Dor 2016 is made from 100% Tempranillo and it represents the generations of winemaking (dor means “generation” in Hebrew). Its name is also reminiscent of the strip of land at the foot of Mount Tabor, Ein Dor, where the Netofa vineyards are planted.

Newly added to complement the Latour Netofa line is the Tel Qasser line, which includes the white version, Roussanne, and red version made from Grenache and Syrah toting identical sleek, highly recognizable yellow gold labels, yet differentiated by the red and white foils covering the necks of the respective bottles. The Latour White is also a favorite of mine, a Chenin Blanc first produced in 2010 that pays tribute to the world-famous whites made in the Loire Valley of

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Ponder This on Labor Day...

If you take a long time, you’re slow. BUT if your boss takes a long time, he’s thorough.

If you don’t do it, you’re lazy. BUT if your boss doesn’t do it, he’s too busy.

If you make a mistake, you’re not smart. BUT if your boss makes a mistake, he’s “only human.”

If you’re on a day off sick, you’re “always” sick.

BUT if your boss is a day off sick, he must be very ill.

If you take a stand, you’re being bull-headed.

BUT if your boss does it, he’s being firm.

If you overlooked a rule of etiquette, you’re being rude. BUT if your boss skips a few rules, he’s being original.

If you please your boss, you’re a goody-goody.

BUT if your boss pleases his boss, he’s being cooperative.

If you do something without being told, you’re overstepping your authority. BUT if your boss does the same thing, that’s initiative.

If you’re out of the office, you’re wandering around. BUT if your boss is out of the office, he’s on business.

If you apply for leave, you must be going for an interview. BUT if your boss applies for leave, it’s because he’s overworked.

Riddle me this?

A man worked for a high-security institution, and one day he went into work only to find that he could not login to his computer terminal.

His password no longer worked. Then he remembered that the passwords are reset every month for security purposes. So he went to his boss and they had this conversation: Employee: “Hey boss, my password is out of date.”

Boss: “Yes, that’s right. The password is different.”

Boss: “Your new password has the same amount of letters as your old password, but only four of the letters are the same.”

Employee: “Thanks boss.”

With that, he went and correctly logged into his station.

What was the new password?

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You gotta be kidding Morris comes home from work and is raging about his boss. He turns to his wife and screams, “I’m never going to work for that man again!”

His wife asks, “Why, what did he say to you?”

“You’re fired,” replies Morris.

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...And Ponder This on Labor Day An American tourist was at the pier of a small Caribbean village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna. The tourist complimented the fisherman on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them. The fisherman replied, “Only a little while.”

The tourist then asked, “Why didn’t you stay out longer and catch more fish?”

The fisherman said, “With this I have more than enough to support my family’s needs.”

The tourist then asked, “But what do you do with the rest of your time?”

The fisherman said, “I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siesta, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my friends. I have a full and busy life.”

The tourist scoffed, “I can help you. You should spend more time fishing and with the proceeds buy a bigger boat. With the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats. Eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing, and distribution. You could leave this small fishing village and move to Mexico City, then Los Angeles and eventually New York where you could run your ever-expanding enterprise.”

The fisherman asked, “But how long will this all take?”

The tourist replied, “15 to 20 years.”

“And then what?” asked the fisherman.

The tourist laughed and said, “That’s the best part. When the time is right you would sell your c om p a n y stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions.”

“Millions? Then what?”

He said: My password is “out of date.”

And the boss told him the new one when he said: “The password is different.”

Answer to Riddle Me This: The old one was: Out of date The new one is: Different

The American said, “Then you would retire. Move to a small Caribbean fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siesta, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your friends.”

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Parshas Re’eh

By Rabbi Berel Wein

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he Torah presents us with a seemingly simple and uncomplicated choice in this week’s reading – the choice between life and death. And the Torah deems it necessary to instruct us to choose life. It certainly seems at first glance to be a very superfluous instruction, for the instinct to preserve our lives for as long as possible is one of the basic drives of human beings. An equal part of our nature is that we are shortsighted and give in today foolishly against our own interests and our own life force itself.

There is no other explanation for why alcohol, tobacco and recreational drugs should exist in our society, allowing for hundreds of thousands of lives every year to be summarily wasted. Choosing life has many nuances attached to it. People who are determined to enjoy pleasures of the flesh, to satisfy wanton desires, and to pursue temporary pleasures regardless of the long-term costs and consequences also think that they are somehow choosing

life and its pleasures. One of the great catchphrases that exist in our current society is quality of life. Like all catchphrases and currently socially acceptable mantras and mottos, there is no way to define this term. No one can measure accurately what life means to any individual person and quality of

with superior intelligence can measure what quality of life means to a given individual. And, if those given individuals do not measure up to those elitist standards, then this becomes preferable to life. The twentieth century is littered with millions of corpses who were victims of such false and murderous

Choosing life has many nuances attached to it.

life is certainly not given to measurement by any objective standards.

The whole tragedy of eugenics and biological selection that was so common in the twentieth century is based upon the fact that somehow someone

thoughts and policies.

To put it bluntly, the Torah is very much pro-life. It is pro-life before we are born, while we are alive, and after the physical body has returned to the dust from which it was created. That

is why the Torah emphasizes that we should choose life and not give in to the specious theories and quality-of-life fictions and conveniences. Our mere existence as human beings presents us with difficult choices at every stage of our lives. It is never quite as easy as the verse in the Torah may indicate at first glance.

Because life is not always convenient or even pleasant, it requires sacrifice, postponement of pleasure, and a long view of the consequences of our actions and behavior. As such, choices for life are always made in a gray area and are not generally as black and white as we would wish them to be. The Torah comes to help guide us through this unclear and muddied situation that we call society. It comes to establish the rules by which we would always be wise enough to choose life and avoid the pitfalls of fads, desires, and foolishness that can only lead to the loss of life, qualitatively and quantitatively.

Shabbat shalom.

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Parshas Re’eh Search Required

By Rav Moshe Weinberger Adapted for publication by Binyomin Wolf

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e hope and pray that Hashem will soon cause His presence to become apparent in the world through the long-awaited rebuilding of the Beis Hamikdash. The search for the Beis Hamikdash is one of the central points in this week’s parsha as well.

Without specifically identifying its location, the pasuk (Devarim 12:5) says, “… the place Hashem your G-d will choose from all of your tribes to affix His name there, you shall seek Him there at His dwelling and come there.” The Torah is telling us that an integral part of the building of the Beis Hamikdash is that we must “seek Him there…”

The Location of the Beis Hamikdash Instead of specifying the place where the Beis Hamikdash would be built, the Torah repeatedly says that the Beis Hamikdash shall be in “the place Hashem your G-d will choose.”

This phrase is used no less than sixteen times in this week’s parsha alone.

According to our Sages, this is why the Beis Hamikdash is called Beis Ha’Bechira, The House of Choice.

But why is the location of the Beis Hamikdash treated by the Torah as such a mystery? Why must the Torah repeatedly say that it is in “the place Hashem your G-d will choose”? It is clear from Chazal that Hashem designated the future location of the Beis Hamikdash from the beginning of time, even carving out the site of the altar and canals for the wine libations

at the time of the Six Days of Creation (Sukkah 49a). The Rambam (Beis Habechira 2:2) teaches that: There is a tradition maintained by everyone that the place where Dovid and Shlomo built the altar is the same place where Avraham built an altar and bound Yitzchak, the same place where Noach built [an altar] when he left the ark. It is the [location of] the altar on which Kayin and Hevel offered sacrifices, and on which Adam sacrificed an offering when he was created, and Adam was created from that place.

The sages say, “Man was formed from the place of his atonement.”

It is clear that we have known from the time of Creation that the Beis Hamikdash would be built on a certain mountain in Yerushalayim. According to the Midrash (Pirkei D’Rebbe Eliezer 28), Avraham circumcised himself at the future location of the Beis Hamikdash and his blood flowed into the earth that would eventually fill the altar. If this was known long before Hashem gave us the Torah, why does He conceal the location?

Rav Shlomo Hakohein Rabinowicz of Radomsk, zt”l, the Tiferes Shlomo, expressed the question clearly: Why did the pasuk not explicitly say, “the place that Hashem will choose, the holy mountain in Yerushalayim”? It would have been much clearer. Why the mystery?

The answer to our question lies in the very same pasuk we started with. In order to find the location of the Beis Hamikdash, “you shall

seek Him there at His dwelling.” We must seek it out. As the Midrash (Sifri) says, commenting on the pasuk, “Seek and you shall find it. And afterward, the prophet will tell you [that it is the correct spot].” Expanding on the Ramban, zt”l, on the same pasuk, the Malbim, zt”l, says: “This teaches them that Hashem will not reveal the chosen place through His prophets until they make an effort and seek it out. Then, [Hashem] will pour a spirit from above upon them after the appropriate preparation…” Along these lines, the Chasam Sofer, zt”l (Resp.

Yoreh Deah 234), teaches that the location of the Beis Hamikdash was “hidden until [Hashem] illuminated their eyes in the days of Dovid Hamelech.”

In other words, Hashem is telling us that it is not enough that He chose the location of the Beis Hamikdash.

We must choose it, seek it out, long for it, and do everything we can to find it. And who finally revealed Hashem’s choice as the actual location of the Beis Hamikdash? The man who felt more “unchosen” than anyone else in the world: Dovid Hamelech.

Dovid wrote about himself (Tehillim 118:22), “The stone despised by the builders became the cornerstone.”

It became the very foundation of the entire Beis Hamikdash. Even after Shmuel Hanavi told Yishai that one of his sons would be the next anointed king and excluded all of Dovid’s other brothers, it still never even occurred to his father and brothers that Dovid could possibly be the anointed

one (Shmuel I 16:6-11). Yet Dovid, the “stone despised by the builders,” became the cornerstone, the beginning of a new dynasty to which Moshiach himself would eventually trace his lineage.

Dovid said (Tehillim 42:8), “All of Your breakers and waves passed over me.” He went through so much suffering. Chazal even discuss (see Yevamos 77a-b) whether Dovid was allowed to marry into the Jewish people! Dovid certainly knew what it meant to feel “unchosen” and what it mean to seek, work, long, pray, and toil until he found his place in the Jewish people.

Hashem therefore chose him to clearly reveal the location of the Beis Hamikdash and build its foundation. Dovid Hamelech represented the pinnacle of choice, the highest fulfillment of our obligation to “seek Him there at His dwelling and come there.”

In verses that Chazal say refer to Dovid, Shlomo Hamelech described this attribute of his father as follows (Shir Hashirim 3:1-2): “In my bed at night I sought that which my soul loves; I sought but I did not find. I will arise and walk around the city, in the market places and city squares. I will seek that which my soul loves. I sought but I did not find.” What was it that he sought out so deeply? What was it that robbed him of sleep? Dovid wrote in Tehillim (132:1, 3-5), “A song of ascents: Remember, Hashem, Dovid, all of his affliction [in his toil to find a place for Hashem’s presence to rest – Rashi]… I shall not come into the tent of my house, I shall not

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go upon the bed that was prepared for me. Nor shall I give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my pupils until I find a place for Hashem, dwelling-places for the Mighty One of Yaakov.”

All Dovid Hamelech sought was the place where Hashem’s presence could be felt on a permanent basis in this world. He conducted his investigation by indefatigably searching through the streets and markets of Yerushalayim, looking for clues, comparing each location to maps and psukim, trying to find the exact location of the alter and the Holy of Holies. That is why Hashem answered his prayers and rewarded his search with success. Hashem chose the place where we chose Him (ibid. at 13-14), “For Hashem has chosen Zion, He desired it for a dwelling-place. This is My resting place forever, here I shall dwell, for I desired it.”

It is the same now. We may know the location of the Beis Hamikdash but strangers defile it every single day and we cannot rebuild. Vile terrorists fire rockets at Yerushalayim and Jews all over Eretz Yisroel. So we continue to daven for the Beis Hamikdash, to seek it out. As the Tiferes Shlomo says, “Even if we know this place, that it is in Yerushalayim, and that no other place will be chosen, nevertheless, it is still impossible to build [the Beis Hamikdash] there until Hashem chooses our prayers and desires ‘from all of your tribes,’ that they are worthy that it should be built for them and that Hashem should cause His presence to dwell among them.”

We may know where the Beis Hamikdash will be rebuilt, but there is so much impurity standing in the way and the right time has not yet arrived.

In fulfillment of the pasuk, “you shall seek Him there at His dwelling,” we must daven and hope for the rebuilding of the Beis Hamikdash constantly.

Marriage Partners Just like one must seek out Hashem, the One without Whom we are incomplete, we also seek out a marriage partner, the one with whom we will build a home that serves as a microcosm of the Beis Hamikdash.

Why is there so much searching involved in finding one’s mate? We know Chazal say (Sota 2a), “Forty days before a fetus is formed, a Heavenly

Voice goes out and says, ‘the daughter of so-and-so to so-and-so!’” If the right person is predetermined, why is it so hard to find one’s destined soulmate?

First, one cannot find his mate without first feeling a profound sense of loneliness. One must feel he is missing an essential part of himself, that “it is not good for man to be alone,” Bereishis 2:18. One must first experience that existential loneliness before he is reunited with his other half and can say (ibid. at 23), “This time it is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh.”

The pasuk which personifies the connection between marriage and our loving relationship with Hashem is (Shir Hashirim 6:3) “Ani l’dodi v’dodi li, I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine.” We know that Chazal teach that the first letters of those words spell Elul, the month in the Hebrew calendar which starts this week and marks the beginning of the teshuva process. This pasuk shows that we must first seek out our beloved. Only when “I am my beloved’s,” when I search out the one I love, will I merit to attain the level called “And my beloved is mine.” Anyone in a successful relationship knows this to be true. It is so sad to have a wife and to give up searching for her, to have a child and to no longer seek him out.

This two-stage process is also reflected in the double meaning of the Hebrew word for “betrothed, mekudeshes.” The chosson says to his bride, “Harei at mekudeshes li, Behold you are betrothed to me.” On one hand, the word implies that she is forbidden to every other man in the world. Betrothed here is a word signifying exclusion. This meaning of the word is related to the word hekdesh, sanctified to the Beis Hamikdash, i.e., forbidden to everyone such that no one may use the sanctified object for anything other than its designated purpose. So too, the bride and groom agree, through their betrothal, not to look anywhere else in the world. But the word “betrothed, mekudeshes,” also means that the two are dedicated to one another. This usage implies inclusion, a positive, proactive dedication to one another. They are saying that they one have eyes for one another.

These two aspects of the relation-

ship between a husband and wife are also apparent in our relationship with Hashem, as hinted at in the pasuk (Tehillim 100:3), “He made us and we are His.” The word for “His,” however is read one way and written another way. It is written as if says, “Lo, no/ not.” According to this reading, the pasuk says, “He made us and not us,” i.e., we did not make ourselves. We must know that our relationship with Hashem must exclude the perception that we take credit for any aspect of attainments, skills, or accomplishments. It is a word of exclusion. But the word is also read as if it says, “Lo, His.” According to this reading, the pasuk says, “He made us and we are His.” It is not enough to look to Hashem alone and not give ourselves credit for anything we have. We must also realize that we are His, we have a unique and special relationship with Him. In fact, if we put the two ways of reading that word together, it contains the same letters as the month of Elul.

Whether it is an intimate human relationship, our relationship with

Hashem, or meriting the fulfillment of Hashem’s dwelling place on earth, where the intimacy of the relationship between the Jewish nation and G-d is most revealed, there is always a duel nature. On one hand, there is the exclusion of all else which is personified by searching and longing. And there is the dedication to one another, the intimacy personified by Hashem’s revelation of the location of the Beis Hamikdash after our search and by the way a husband and wife find each other.

May Hashem put all of our difficulties behind us, may He reveal the way forward toward the rebuilding of the Beis Hamikdash soon in our days, and may every husband and wife merit finding one another and never looking at anyone else but their beloved.

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

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Parshas Re’eh

By Eytan Kobre

Weekly Aggada When Hashem your G-d expands your borders, as He spoke to you, and you say, “I will eat meat,” because your soul desires to eat meat, you may eat meat according to all the desire of your soul (Devarim 12:20) This is what is meant by the verse, “A man’s gift expands for him, and it brings him before great men” (Mishlei 18:16) – when a person gives charity, it expands for him and places him before great people.

It once happened that R’ Eliezer and R’ Yehoshua went to collect charity from a once-wealthy man named Aba Yudan. Aba Yuda had always contributed generously, but he had lately lost his fortune and become destitute. So when he saw the rabbis approach, he ran to his house and hid there for a day or two without appearing in the marketplace.

Seeing him home, Aba Yudan’s wife asked him why he hadn’t been to the marketplace for two days.

“The rabbis have come to collect funds to support Torah study,” replied Aba Yudan, “and I have nothing to give them. I am ashamed to go to the marketplace.

But that did not satisfy his wife.

“Do we not own one more field? Sell half of it, and donate the proceeds to them.”

So that’s what Aba Yudan did: he sold that half of his remaining field for five gold coins, which he gave to the rabbis while asking them to pray for him. The rabbis blessed him that “G-d should fill all your losses.”

When Aba Yudan plowed his remaining half a field, he found a treasure trove, which made him even

wealthier than he had been previously. In fact, Aba Yudan subsequently became so wealthy that when R’ Eliezer and R’ Yehoshua later sought to solicit donations from him, they found it even more difficult to meet with him than to meet with a king (Devarim Rabba 4:8).

Weekly Mussar If there is an impoverished person among you, one of your brethren, from one of your communities, do not harden your heart and do not close your hand to the impoverished person. Rather, you shall surely open your hand to him, and you shall surely lend to him what is sufficient for his needs that he is missing (Devarim 15:7-8) When it comes to our impoverished brethren, we are commanded not to close our hands to them (i.e., by refraining from giving charity to them) and also to open our hands to them (i.e., by giving charity to them).

But that seems a bit redundant. After all, if we should not close our hands to giving charity, doesn’t that necessarily mean our hands will be open?

Why the need for both expressions?

One major impediment to giving charity is our misconception that the money and possessions we “own” in this world are ours forever – that we can take them with us when we depart this world. In reality, of course, we take no material possessions to the World to Come. Indeed, “it has been taught in the name of R’ Meir: Man enters the world with clenched hands saying, ‘The whole world is mine; I shall inherit it!’ But man leaves the world with his hands open,

saying, ‘I have not taken anything from [this] world’” (Koheles Rabba 5:14).

Some therefore explain our verse as follows: “do not close your hands” to giving charity because, in the end, “you shall surely open your hands.”

You will surely leave this world with open hands, since you cannot take any wealth with you. So do not close your hands now to the plight of your brethren, for in the end, when it is your time to leave this world, you will end up leaving with open hands (i.e., taking nothing with you) anyway.

Weekly Anecdote After Hashem your G-d you shall walk, and Him you shall fear, and His commandments you shall keep, and His voice you shall hearken, and Him you shall serve, and to Him you shall cleave (Devarim 13:5) While most Jews in the Chofetz Chaim’s town of Radin were deeply observant, one man, the town’s pharmacist, was less so. Although he was generally observant – even forming and operating a small loan gemach – there was one major area in which he erred in gravely: he kept his pharmacy open on Shabbos. It wasn’t so much a disdain for Shabbos as much as a misguided belief that selling mediciation to his neighbors trumped technical Shabbos observance. His neighbors pleaded with him to close for Shabbos but to no avail.

One day, the Chofetz Chaim visited the pharmacist’s home unexpectedly. The pharmacist was honored by the visit, of course, but he was certainly caught off guard. He welcomed

the Chofetz Chaim inside, where the two sat down to speak.

“I have come to visit you to tell you how much I envy you,” the Chofetz Chaim began.

“Me?” replied the pharmacist incredulously. “You are the leading Torah scholar of our generation, and you are envious of me?”

“Indeed, I am,” explained the Chofetz Chaim. “You own a pharmacy and have the great merit of bringing healing to all the residents of our town. Surely, you do this with the noblest of intentions, to help your Jewish brethren so that they may serve G-d in a state of health. That must bring tremendous pride to G-d.

“Not only that, I know you also formed and operate a small loan gemach for Radin’s residents. There, too, you likely act with the noblest of intentions, to help your Jewish brethren so that they may serve G-d in a state of sustenance. That, too, must be a tremendous source of pride to G-d.

“Certainly, these two acts – intended to bring pride to G-d – are most worthy of my envy!”

With that, the Chofetz Chaim left the pharmacist’s home. No one, least of all the pharmacist himself, could understand why the Chofetz Chaim had made this unexpected visit and heaped such praise upon the Shabbos-violating pharmacist.

From that day on, however, the pharmacist carried with him constantly the “envy” expressed by the Chofetz Chaim and the noble intentions the Chofetz Chaim attributed to his actions. Every time the pharmacist sold a pill or made a small loan, he recalled the Chofetz Chaim’s praise, and he started to believe that he was in fact selling those pills and

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making those small loans for the purpose of bringing pride to G-d. And who could fault him for starting to believe as much? The Chofetz Chaim himself had said it was so!

A short while later, the pharmacist got to thinking about his decision to keep the pharmacy open on Shabbos. Maybe this isn’t really the right thing to do. Is staying open on Shabbos really a source of pride for G-d, or would He prefer that I close on Shabbos? He couldn’t shake these thoughts until, ultimately, he decided to close the pharmacy for Shabbos.

in mourning or in furtherance of idolatry (Makkos 21a), we also derive from this verse (homiletically) that we may not divide ourselves into competing factions (Yevamos

12:14).

Many authorities hold that the prohibition applies to customs (as opposed to strictly matters of halacha) (Rema, Orach Chaim 493:3;

“I have come to visit you to tell you how much I envy you,” the Chofetz Chaim began.

Weekly Halacha You are children of Hashem your G-d; you shall not cut yourselves, and you shall not make any baldness between your eyes for the dead (Devarim 14:1) While, on the surface, this verse forbids us from cutting ourselves

13b-14a). According to some, this prohibition ensures that it does not appear that there are multiple Torahs (or versions of it) (Rashi, Yevamos 13b); to others, the prohibition is aimed at preventing disputes between us (Rambam, Avoda Zara

Magen Avraham 493:6; Responsa of Radvaz 3:523; Responsa of Chasam Sofer 6:86), although some disagree (Rambam, Avoda Zara 12:14; Yabia Omer, Orach Chaim 6:10:6).

One frequent expression of the prohibition against dividing our-

selves into competing factions arises on Chol HaMoed with the various opinions as to whether to wear tefillin. Some argue that one should conform his practice to that of the shul in which he is davening (Aruch haShulchan 31:4; Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 10:25; Mishna Berura 31:8), while others permit those wearing tefillin and those not wearing tefillin to daven together since people understand that a minyan will be comprised of people adhering to diverse customs (unless the shul in question has a defined custom) (Igros Moshe, Orach Chaim 5:24:6; Igros Moshe, Orach Chaim 4:34).

The Weekly Halacha is not meant for practical purposes and is for discussion purposes only. Please consult your own rav for guidance.

Eytan Kobre is a writer, speaker, and attorney living in Kew Gardens Hills.

Questions? Comments? Suggestions?

E-mail eakobre@outlook.com.

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Elul When the Broken Path Still Leads Home

By Shmuel Reichman

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n old man sat on the train as it rumbled peacefully along the countryside. He was enjoying the view and the quiet atmosphere of the train car, until at one stop, a young man got on the train and sat across from him. The man was sweating visibly, gripping his knees, and occasionally stealing nervous glances out the window. Concerned, the old man asked if there was anything he could help with. The young man looked at him, sizing him up, before apparently deciding to trust him.

“I’m not sure that you can help me, but I guess I may as well share. I grew up just a few miles from here….

In fact, my parents still live there. My parents blessed me with an incredible childhood – love, support, and every opportunity I could ask for. Unfortunately, I gave them the exact opposite in return. I was ungrateful, selfish, rude, and oppositional, causing trouble wherever and whenever I could.

I eventually left them, deciding to strike it out on my own, free of them.

They were heartbroken and tried for years to reconcile with me. I ignored their every effort, working to build a new life for myself. I began making connections and cutting deals, slowly building a life for myself that looked nothing like the honest, giving, value-based life that my parents lived. I cut any corner I needed if it would get me ahead, using people in ways that I should have been ashamed of.

“However, things did not go as planned. Eventually, everything fell apart. Those who I considered ‘friends’ were quick to abandon me as soon as our friendship stopped benefiting

them. My financial plans turned sour, with my shady deals being exposed for what they were. I borrowed, I begged, but things just kept taking turns for the worst. I soon found myself friendless, penniless, and feeling completely alone and abandoned. With nowhere to turn, I contemplated ending my life.

“Then, I thought of my parents.

How they had spent years writing to me, pleading with me, saying how much they love me, before eventually giving up. ‘No,’ I thought to myself.

‘There’s no way they would take me back. How could they, after everything that I’ve put them through?’ I debated back and forth for weeks before finally mustering up the courage to pen them a letter. In it, I apologized for what I’ve done, explaining how low I’ve sunk, and begged them to take me back. I then made a deal with them. On Tuesday, I would take the train that passes right by their home. If they were willing to accept me once again, they should hang a white flag on the tree in front of their house. And if not, I would keep riding the train. I would understand that I had simply gone too far, that they no longer had a place for me, and that I was completely on my own.”

The young man, now crying, looked up at his older seatmate. “We’re two minutes from their house. I can’t bear to look,” he said, as he broke down completely.

The old man nodded with compassion and kindly assured him that he would look out the window and check if there was a white flag. The young man whispered his thanks, as he sat with his head in his arms, softly crying.

Two minutes later, the old man gasped. The young man, unable to look, frantically asked what was going on. “Is there a flag hanging?” he asked, with an air of panic to his voice. The old man just slowly shook his head, gazing out the window in awe. The young man finally gathered up the nerve to look, and his entire body was flooded with warmth. There wasn’t a flag hanging in the tree; the entire tree was covered in white flags.

This beautiful and heartwarming story relates to a deep theme that is central to the transition between Tisha B’Av and Elul.

In Parshas Va’eschanan, we read about the topic of ir miklat, the city of refuge for one who accidentally murders another. This parsha always falls out immediately following Tisha B’Av, and, consequently, right before Elul. At face value, these themes do not seem to share a connection. The ir miklat is a city of refuge, a safe haven, for one who unwittingly murders. Tisha B’Av is a day of sadness and destruction, as Klal Yisrael mourns the loss of the Beis Ha’Mikdash and the tragedies that have occurred throughout Jewish history. And Elul is the month of teshuva, repentance. What links these three topics together? In order to answer this question and understand their deep underlying connection, we must first delve into each of these three seemingly unrelated ideas.

On Tisha B’Av, we go through aveilus, the process of mourning a loved one. This seems to be an excessive response to the loss of a building, the Beis Ha’Mikdash, Holy Temple. How-

ever, the destruction of the Temple itself was only the physical expression of a much deeper tragedy. As we have discussed in the past, the Beis Ha’Mikdash was the locus, the makom, of connection between Hashem and this physical world. The Beis Ha’Mikdash was destroyed as a result of the disconnect that we, Bnei Yisrael, created between us and Hashem, between us and each other, and between us and ourselves. We lost sight of the spiritual root of this world, shattering the connection between us and our Creator.

As the Nefesh Ha’Chaim explains, once this was broken, the physical vessel that represented this connection, the Beis Ha’Mikdash, was reduced to an empty vessel and could easily be destroyed.

The death of a person reflects the process of one’s soul separating from his or her body. The concept of death is the disconnect between a spiritual life-force and its physical vessel. When the Beis Ha’Mikdash was destroyed, the world died. The soul of the world, Hashem, left its body, its vessel, the physical world, resulting in a cosmic spiritual chasm and a shattered reality. (Hashem is still manifest in this world but only infinitesimally compared to what it once was.) We mourn on Tisha B’Av not for the destruction of a building, but for the death of the world itself. And we yearn for the day when Hashem will once again be fully and clearly manifest in this world, revealing the spiritual core of this physical reality.

This is why Elul directly follows Tisha B’Av. Tisha B’Av is the time of breakdown, exile, and death; Elul is

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the time of rebirth, creation, and redirection. As we transition from Tisha B’Av towards Elul, we pause, stop the downward momentum, recalibrate, and begin building anew. The low of Tisha B’Av becomes the impetus for growth throughout the month of Elul, and in this way it becomes a yeridah l’tzorech Aliyah, a breakdown for the sake of ascension. Elul, in the deepest sense, represents our journey back home to our proper makom, back to our unbreakable bond with Hashem.

The goal of Rosh Hashana is to genuinely and completely anoint Hashem as our King; this follows only from a month spent bridging the gap that we have created between us. Elul is our voyage back home, as we reconnect Hashem to this world, the Soul of the world to its proper place. The definition of teshuva is return, and that is our goal at this time. We yearn to return the world to its proper, higher state, to return the Jewish People back to our elevated status, and to return each and every one of ourselves back

to our higher and true selves.

The process of return is a sweet one, but it is also a difficult one. We feel as though we are fighting an uphill battle, and we struggle to maintain momentum. Every year as we approach Elul, there is an underlying sense of dread as we prepare ourselves for another year of “New Year’s commitments,” writing down the same list of goals, only to be forgotten two weeks later. For many, this is the unspoken terror of Elul - the feeling of despair and loneliness as we grapple to rebuild ourselves and our connection with Hashem. This is why Hashem created the ir miklat.

An ir miklat, a city of refuge, is a place for those without a place. When one loses his physical makom, he feels lost, abandoned, hopeless. It’s at specifically this point that he receives a sense of hope. He may have lost his place, but even so, there will always be a place for him in the interim until he can return. This is what the ir miklat represents: hope for the hope-

less, home for the homeless, stability for the unstable.

This is the purpose of Elul. Tisha B’Av reminds us about how broken life can become, about the genuine difficulty and challenge of life. But there will always be an Elul, an ir miklat, a makom. We will always have a place to stay until the chaos fades away. But when that happens, we mustn’t remain in this waystation; we must arise and journey back to our true makom, to our true destination. Elul is our shelter amidst the storm, a lighthouse in the mist. It helps protect us during the madness, but it also helps guide back to our true destination.

Whenever we go through the month of Elul, Hashem covers millions of trees with white flags. Elul is Hashem’s way of saying, “There will always be a place for you.” But we must then make sure to dig our feet down and spring forward towards our true destination. When you get the opportunity to grow, to create momentum, and to progress you have to run after it!

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This is the very first step of teshuva, recognizing that we are not where we need to be but that through constant effort and the help of Hashem we can get there; we can return to our true makom, we can ascend to a true Rosh Hashana. The foundation for this is the fact that we still have a makom in the interim, an ir miklat, an Elul, a place for those without a place. This allows us to gain our footing, create clarity and purpose, and strive forward on our journey back home.

May we all be inspired to pause, find our footing, and use this Elul to strive forward back to our true makom, Hashem Himself.

Shmuel Reichman is an inspirational speaker who has spoken internationally at shuls, conferences, and in Jewish communities. You can find more inspirational shiurim, videos, and articles from Shmuel on Facebook and Yutorah.org. For all questions, thoughts, or bookings, please email shmuelreichman678@gmail.com.

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Doron Sheffer’s

Slam-Dunk The Basketball Legend Talks about How the Sport Led Him Back to His Roots

By Tzvi Lev

n early February, the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies announced that they were waiving Omri Casspi. The 6-foot 9-inch small forward’s play had fallen in recent years and averaged only 6.3 points and 3.2 rebounds in 14.4 minutes this year.

In addition, the Grizzlies’ decision to release him meant that he had been cut by two teams in two consecutive years. After the news of his departure was announced, Casspi acknowledged that his sojourn in Memphis didn’t go as well as he had hoped, as he appeared in only 36 games as a reserve and got into a widely-publicized physical altercation with a teammate during practice.

“Didn’t go as we all envisioned but the team and city embraced me and my family as one of their own.

Thank you, Memphis,” Casspi wrote on his Twitter account.

The news that Casspi was released by the Grizzlies barely made a ripple in the United States. A cursory Google search of the subject shows only three relevant results. In Israel,

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however, the reality was very different. The latest twist in the career of Israel’s favorite son was the subject of prime-time telecasts and was splashed across the opening pages of the next day’s newspapers.

Casspi earned his status by virtue of becoming the first-ever Israeli to play in the NBA. Since being drafted by the Sacramento Kings in 2009, Casspi has been viewed as a rock star of sorts in his home country and is frequently mobbed by his proud countrymen when returning to Israel during the offseason.

Before Casspi, however, there was Doron Sheffer. One of the first Israelis to play NCAA Division A basketball, Sheffer won three straight Big East Championships while at the University of Connecticut. Playing under the legendary coach Jim Calhoun, and forming a trio with Kevin Ollie and future hall of famer Ray Allen, Sheffer rocketed to stardom as the 1993-1994 Big East Conference Rookie of the Year.

Similar to Casspi today, all Israeli eyes were on Sheffer. With a proven ability to perform at basketball’s

highest levels, Sheffer was expected to begin a long and fruitful NBA career and enjoy everything being young and famous had to offer.

Sheffer is indeed famous today, but not only for sporting accomplishments. A sought-after motivational speaker, the man whose emotionless blue eyes once earned him the moniker “The Iceman” is now a religious moshav-dweller who peppers his sentences with chassidus. From college campuses to television studios to the life-coaching seminars he gives over, everyone wants to know: why did he decide to turn his back on the NBA despite being drafted by the Clippers in the second round? What caused him to give up millions of dollars in order to embark on a search for inner peace? And most importantly, why did he decide to return to his roots, becoming one of Israel’s most prominent ba’alei teshuva?

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heffer still remembers when he first realized that he had what it took to compete with the best.

Born in the central city of

Ramat Gan, Sheffer grew up as any other secular Israeli, attending public elementary and high schools, and serving a mandatory three years in the army upon graduation. Yet there was nothing ordinary about his basketball skills. Already at a young age, Sheffer was dominating his opponents on his local youth team with his mix of playmaking and natural athletic ability.

Yet Sheffer only realized that he had something special after he thrived against the top players that Europe had to offer. “At the age of 16, I was invited to play in Israel’s national youth team,” recalled Sheffer in an interview with The Jewish Home. “That summer, we participated in the European Championships that were held in Spain.

“For the first time in my life, I played against the best players in the game and noticed that I had dealt with them as an equal,” continued Sheffer. “At that point, I understood that I had received a gift and that I had been blessed with this talent and that it was worthwhile to utilize it as much as possible.”

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Sheffer’s gift continued to pay dividends. By the age of 18, Sheffer was already starting for the Hapoel Galil Elyon professional basketball team. This achievement was deemed all the more impressive considering that Sheffer was actively serving in the IDF at the same time. A year later, Sheffer led his team over the powerhouse Macabbi Tel Aviv to win Israel’s national basketball championship, ending Macabbi’s 23-year run at the top. At that point, it was obvious where someone with Sheffer’s talents would go: America.

Sheffer’s “desire to experience something else, to change and innovate” led him to join the UConn Huskies under Jim Calhoun, considered one of the greatest basketball coaches of all time. Sheffer’s decision to join the Huskies would thrust him into the national spotlight. Historically a basketball powerhouse, the Huskies are perennial contenders who have won four NCAA Tournament Championships and are tied with the most Big East Tournament Championships ever.

To perform at the high level demanded by Calhoun, Sheffer says that he was forced “to adapt to the different culture, the new home, and the intensive training regime and the different style of play.”

His hard work paid off.

Sheffer quickly established himself as a presence in Waterbury, Connecticut, and formed an explosive trio with future NBA superstar Ray Allen and center Kevin Ollie to win the Big East title in each of his three years at UConn.

By the end of his freshman season, Sheffer had beaten out Allen to become the Big East Conference’s Rookie of The Year. Sheffer also succeeded in becoming the first Husky to score 1,000 points and 500 assists in each of his three seasons.

In a 2014 Sports Illustrated article about Sheffer, he was described by fellow teammates and coaches as a player who stuck out for his stoicism and intelligence.

“Remember, he was a thoughtful guy to start with, and he was 21 as a freshman,” says Calhoun. “There was such a maturity there.” Ray Allen, meanwhile, remembers Sheffer as “poised. He had a lot of control over

Doron with Coach Jim Calhoun, right, and Ray Allen

his game and his life, and we learned from him,” he said.

With his successful tenure at UConn ending, everyone assumed that Sheffer would become the first Israeli to play in the NBA. Indeed, Sheffer was selected 36th overall in the 1996 draft by the Los Angeles

team that he had beaten to end their 23-year run at the top. Sheffer described this turbulent period in the article “A Letter To My Younger Self,” which he published this past year.

“Your personal achievements and your team’s achievements during the three years you spent in the U.S. will

“I felt my soul was wanting to spread wings and fly.”

Clippers, and the story seemed to write itself. Sheffer would sign with the Clippers, cementing his status as an Israeli icon, and enjoy a flourishing career on professional basketball’s highest stage. et this story had a different ending.

Sheffer surprisingly turned down the Clippers after he wasn’t offered a guaranteed contract and decided to return to Israel to play for Maccabi Tel Aviv, the same

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be incredible, and many will predict that you will be the first Israeli player to play in the NBA – the best basketball league in the world,” wrote Sheffer.

“Although you will not think you will be able to reach this summit at first, you will slowly see that you are an equal competitor to the best college basketball players, some of whom will predict a bright future in the NBA. “‘I can, too,’” you say to yourself, and decide to try to take advantage of this possibility,” continued Shef-

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fer. “You will be ranked 36th in the second round by the Los Angeles Clippers and will become the first Israeli to be selected in the NBA draft.

“But the joy will be too early: you will find that the choice does not guarantee you a contract in the best league in the world and next season you will find yourself returning to Israel to the ranks of Maccabi Tel Aviv.”

In the beginning, Sheffer’s choice seemed to be a wise one. His basketball acumen, which only improved from competing against the likes of Allen Iverson, enabled him to lead Maccabi Tel Aviv to four straight championships and a spot in the 2000 EuroLeague Final Four. It was precisely at the highest point in his career that Sheffer shocked the sports world by announcing that he was walking away from it all.

“My heart told me to, and you don’t argue with your heart,” Sheffer would answer when pressed by journalists as to the reason of his sudden retirement. He then packed a bag and went to travel the world in search of inner peace, to find answers to the questions that wouldn’t stop nagging him. “I felt my soul was wanting to spread wings and fly,” Sheffer told Sports Illustrated.

“I couldn’t do it with basketball.”

For the next few years, he traveled to India, Brazil, Thailand, Costa Rica, Australia, the U.S., and Europe, trying to unravel the meaning of what he called “the game of life” and to “end the pain I was experiencing.” He searched everywhere; his journey led him to a wide variety of places in an attempt to find answers.

From Buddhist ashrams in India to meetings with shamans and other gurus, the former basketball star tried everything. “I was in a kind of trance, naive,” Sheffer recounted to Haaretz. “I lived the moment and acted according the slogan: ‘I’m following my heart.’ And I went to the edge and didn’t receive the answer.”

It was cancer that prompted his ultimate return to Judaism. During one of his wanderings in 2002, Sheffer was diagnosed with testicular cancer. After first attempting to treat it with new-age methods, he eventually underwent a surgery that put him into remission. It was

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this frightening experience, however, that started him on the path to Jewish observance. oday, Sheffer calls his cancer diagnosis “one of the most enlightening experiences of my life, which changed my lifestyle in different levels such as nutrition, exercise, coping with stress, etc.” His inner drive to live better in every aspect of his life “naturally returned me home to our roots and [Jewish] sources” and caused him to embrace “the land of Israel, Judaism, and the Torah.”

Sheffer never had a single spiritual awakening. Despite growing up completely secular with zero religious background, there was no one moment that caused him to adopt a religiously-observant lifestyle. “It’s like somebody who tries to stop smoking,” said Sheffer. “He tries for years and years. He goes to treatment, stops for three months, then comes back. Then one day, poof! it’s no longer there. But before, there’s 20 years of trying.”

In 2003, the newly-observant Sheffer decided to return to professional basketball and signed with Hapoel Jerusalem. With his personal upheaval behind him, he found that he was a changed man on the court. Rather than be plagued by the stress and pressure that tormented him in the past, he was finally able to go out and have fun.

“It was the same ball, same court, same coaches, same players, but a totally new game,” Sheffer says. “I could see it in a much more healthy, balanced way. Much less pressure and tension. I could also play much more freely.”

That season was historic; Sheffer’s mix of clutch shooting and decision-making led his team to win the 2004 Euroleague championship, becoming the first Israeli team to raise the Eurocup. After the final victory against Real Madrid, Sheffer famously celebrated while wearing a shirt he had designed reading “Ein Od Milvado.”

He would play for another year for a team in Tel Aviv before retiring again. After having another change of heart and returning to basketball,

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he retired again in 2008, this time for good. Today, his life is drastically different from the high-flying pace of a professional athlete. iving in the rural agricultural village of Amirim near the Sea of Galilee with his wife and five children, Sheffer now dedicates himself to his life coaching practice. A popular motivational speaker, Sheffer aims to apply the lessons he learned during his basketball career towards helping others.

“I returned to our Land of Israel, to Judaism and to our Torah,” he explains. “This journey continues

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today, and it is a constantly moving, breathing and challenging journey.”

Sheffer says that in his seminars, he utilizes sports in general and basketball in particular as educational and therapeutic tools to provide essential skills and advice for personal growth. In 2012, he founded a self-help and wellness center titled “Hyuli – Hospitality, Treatments and Workshops” together with his wife.

Sheffer explains in a book he published titled, The Game of Life, that only recently did he realize that his experiences both on and off the court could be utilized to help others.

“For me, basketball hasn’t been

just a game. It was the game, the game of life,” wrote Sheffer. “Basketball has revealed life in all its glory, with its successes and failures, expectations and disappointments, fears and hopes, misery and happiness.

“Even if I have felt otherwise in the past, today I know that the championships, the trophies, the personal achievements, the money – all of these were just bonuses I enjoyed along the way,” he continued.

“But over the years, it has become clear to me that the game of basketball is an amazing gift I can use to learn about myself, about life, and, particularly, how to grow and develop as a human being.”

Despite his new career helping other people, he hasn’t jettisoned his previous life as a professional athlete. While acknowledging that it’s “not as much as in the past,” Sheffer says that he still keeps in contact with the basketball superstars he played with at UConn. “When I come to the United States, I try to make contact and sometimes to see people and friends, such as Coach Calhoun, Ray Allen and more,” he said.

In 2013, Sheffer published a book titled Aneni, which chronicled his athletic career, his bout with cancer, and the personal quest he embarked on that returned him to religious observance. As Sheffer learned from one of his rabbis, Judaism is “like driving a car.”

He expanded on this theme in an interview with Sports Illustrated: “If you take a car that drives on 95 [octane], it will drive on diesel, but not as good. If you put in 95 and it is exactly what it needs, it will drive better,” he said. “There’s a lot of wisdom in all religions, with things I still can use in my life. But as soon as I got to the Torah in Israel, in my language, I came back home.”

“The Torah is the teacher of life,” Sheffer said in an interview with Jewish Action. “The Torah includes everything. It gives me endless advice, tools and inspiration for how to live in a more healthy, happy and balanced way – in my married life, raising my kids, employment and faith. All in all, it helps me be a better human being.”

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My Israel Home

The Cycle of the Jewish Year

By Gedaliah Borvick

Celebrating Israel’s independence

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he calendar is replete with days that are significant to the Jewish nation. It should therefore come as no surprise that many of these dates – and activities associated with them – have become names of streets and communities in Israel.

The ram’s horn is the iconic symbol of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. To mark the auspicious holiday, many Israeli streets are named “Hashofar.” A week later is the Day of Judgment, and “Yom Hakippurim” Street can be found in Holon and Rehovot.

Immediately after the High Holy Days, we celebrate “Sukkot,” and streets in Be’er Sheva and Haifa proudly bear the holiday’s name.

Several Israeli streets named “Arba Minim” honor the mitzvah of shaking the four species during the weeklong holiday. In addition, streets in a number of cities are named for each of these species: “Ha’etrog” or citron, “Halulav” or palm branch, “Hahadasim” or myrtle branch, and “Ha’arava” or willow.

The next holiday is Chanukah and streets across the country are

named “Maccabeem” for the Maccabean warriors who led the revolt against the Greek armies and the Hellenistic influence on Jewish life.

The community “Hashmonaim” is an alternative name for the Maccabees, and the neighboring city of “Modiin” is named after the priest and leader Matityahu Hamodai, father of the legendary “Yehudah Hamaccabi” or Judah the Maccabee, whose name adorns streets in half a dozen cities.

Two months later is the joyous holiday of Purim. Take a stroll in Rishon Lezion and the colorful Purim story will come alive. Some examples of the many Purim-themed streets you will encounter include “Shushan Habira,” the capital of the Persian empire where the story unfolded, the month of “Adar” in which the miracles took place, the heroes “Mordechai Hayehudi” and “Esther Hamalka,” and “Hapur,” the lots which the wicked Haman cast to determine which day to exterminate the Jews.

There is a street named “Hamegilla,” the scroll chronicling the Purim story that we read on the holiday, and even a street named “Shoshanat Yaakov,” the prayer sung upon completion of

the megillah reading.

The following month is Nissan in which we celebrate Passover. I was initially puzzled why the holiday with the most incredible miracles does not have street names memorializing these remarkable stories.

Perhaps it is because the plagues, though fascinating, would arguably be poor choices for street names. I wouldn’t want to visit a friend living on “Death of the First-Born” Street, and it might be somewhat repulsive to dine at a restaurant located on “Pestilence” Street. However, “Yam Suf” or Red Sea, which miraculously split seven days after the exodus from Egypt, “Shirat Hayam” or Song of the Sea, which the Jews spontaneously sang to celebrate their salvation after walking through the parted sea, and “Har Sinai” or Mount Sinai, where the nation received the Torah soon thereafter on Shavuot are all emblazoned on street signs across the country.

One of the very few streets named for a Gregorian calendar date is Jerusalem’s “Kaf Tet B’November.” The name commemorates November 29, 1947, the day in which the United Na-

tion’s Partition Plan was approved.

On that fateful day, the Jewish delegation dramatically eked out the required two-thirds majority, paving the way for the creation of the State of Israel.

Other streets that celebrate Israel’s inception include “Ha’atzmaut,” or Independence, which can be found in several cities; Be’er Sheva’s “Kachol V’lavan,” or Blue and White, in honor of the Israeli flag; and Tel Aviv’s intersecting streets “Hei B’Iyar” (5 Iyar) and “Taf Shin Chet” (5708), which corresponds to May 14, 1948, the date when the State of Israel proclaimed its independence.

Street names mirror the values and history of a nation. How fortunate we are to have a Jewish homeland that treasures our magnificent past, which offers us hope for a glorious future.

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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Dating Dialogue

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

I am a divorced mother of three. I’ve been divorced for over five years. About two years ago I felt ready to date and I put myself out there full steam ahead. I went to singles’ events and joined Facebook groups and networked. After putting in what I can only describe as hard work, I met a special guy. He is divorced himself with children of his own. We both agreed that we wouldn’t introduce each other to our children until things were serious. Why cause them any more heartache after what they have all been through? Over the summer, Donny and I got engaged and naturally I started bringing him around my children. My oldest immediately told me he didn’t like him and the other two seem unphased by him. When I got divorced my oldest took it the hardest. I made a conscious decision to put all my energy into my kids and would tell them I have no interest in dating, almost allaying their concern that there would ever be a new man in my life, which I’m wondering now if that was a big mistake.

Dear Navidaters,

Anyway, the more time Donny spends with my children, the more I am starting to wonder if he is disinterested in them or if my expectation is too great. I’d like to give some examples to explain my confusion. He came over the other night to make a big BBQ for all of our kids. He paid for all the ingredients and manned the grill. But when it came time to sit down and enjoy ourselves, I noticed that he seems disconnected not only from my children, but from his as well. I am making an effort to get to know his kids and make them feel comfortable around me and my family. Donny kind of sits there when the kids are around and doesn’t have much to say. He doesn’t ask them questions about camp or school or friends. His children spoke more with me than with their own father.

We took all the kids to a baseball game. Same thing. No conversation. My oldest told him about an AP course he will be taking and about the basketball team at school. Again, not much response. I broached the topic with him, and he had no idea what I was talking about. He felt badly and told me he would try and work on it. But there is no change.

Donny is a wonderful boyfriend/fiancé and I believe would make an excellent husband. He is responsive and emotional and an incredible provider to his own family. My concerns are twofold: 1) That I will resent him for not being able to make an active effort with my kids (and his!); and 2) that my children shouldn’t ever feel an ounce of discomfort in their own home.

There is no abuse, he’s not unkind to my children, but he is a bit shut down around them. He’s attempted to change it but it doesn’t seem like he can. I’ve spoken about this with girlfriends, both married and divorced, and my siblings and parents and my own rebbetzin and therapist, and the advice is truly a mixed bag.

P.S. My kids are 15, 12 and 9, so the little ones especially would be spending many formative years with Donny as a critical player in their lives. To make matters more confusing, my ex-husband, with whom I share a very amicable relationship, thinks Donny is the right man for me. They’ve met, and he thinks he is fantastic.

I would love some straightforward advice or insight. Thanks and love the column!

Disclaimer: This column is not intended to diagnose or otherwise conclude resolutions to any questions.

Our intention is not to offer any definitive

conclusions to any particular question, rather offer areas of exploration for the author and reader. Due to the nature of the column receiving only a short snapshot of an issue, without the benefit of an actual discussion, the panel’s role is to offer a range of possibilities. We hope to open up meaningful dialogue and individual exploration.

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The Panel The Rebbetzin Rebbetzin Faigie Horowitz, M.S. n second marriages, many, many relationships have to work. How many? Multiply the number of children you have and yourself times the number of the proposed mate and himself. That’s a lot of relationships!

They will not work without serious effort, which will take years until they will be smooth. When you see other blended families that seem to work well, know that it took years of effort on everyone’s part and money paid to therapists to get there. This is a long road.

A few things disturb me in your note. You led your kids to believe that you were not interested in dating and it seems that you did not let them know when you decided you were ready. You spent two years investing in efforts to date but you had told your children that you were not interested in dating. In other words, it sounds like you did not include them in your plan to get married again and you did not prepare them.

Openness and communication with your children may have been lacking.

You seem unrealistic. There will be more than an ounce of discomfort with any man marrying the mother of children, no matter how much they like him and connect with him. Happily ever after is an ending for fairy tales, not real life.

What is troubling is that, although you focus on Donny and your kids, I see no mention of your efforts to develop a relationship with his kids. Was it instant magic?

Did you connect immediately? Did he judge you and confront you on the outcome as you did him?

Perhaps Donny has difficulty relating to kids. Maybe he is not so comfortable with casual encounters.

Maybe he is not an initiative taker.

Have you seen him do homework with his own kids? How does he

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spend time with them? Does he just take them to entertainment venues and buy them stuff rather than spend quality time together with focus and attention on the kids?

Have you spent a Shabbos with him and the kids? Maybe playing games together or structured activities with the kids will work better than just having a barbecue. Perhaps he needs some coaching.

People in your situation spend a lot of time together with the kids before taking the next step. As I said earlier, this is a long road. Investing in professional help together and qualified coaching about how to nurture relationships with the children is worthwhile. Donny seems like a nice guy. You, he, your kids, and his kids deserve focused effort with a professional over a period of months to see whether the marriage can work out well for everyone.

It’s time to take out your calculator and do the math. How many more years in your children’s fleeting childhood? I’m talking about the formative, critical period – spanning childhood, adolescence and adulthood – when your children depend on you for emotional support and stability. These are the years, the moments and the milestones, that will sprint fastest and have the greatest impact on your children’s future.

Yes, my dear, after all you’ve been through, you deserve an emotionally fulfilling marriage – a second time around, a do-over. But please, please, please – not at the expense of the people who need you the most. There can never be a doover for a broken childhood.

The Shadchan The Mother Sarah Schwartz Schreiber, P.A. kay, now I’m stumped.

I’m going to dive headfirst into the pool of family members, rebbetzins, therapists, and ex-husbands and say, “I’m not sure.”

Because only you can know.

Only you can describe the loneliness and frustration you’ve endured over the last five years after divorce.

Only you can recount how you spent the first three agonizing years “putting all your energy” into your children. Finally, only you can reveal how you found the strength and alacrity to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and seek happiness once again. It took a lot of effort to find a great guy, like Donny, with whom to share the rest of your life.

But, alas, to your great trepidation, the husband of your dreams (“responsible/emotional”) may be an abysmal father (“detached/uncaring”).

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Michelle Mond irstly, mazel tov on your engagement! After reading your letter, I truly see the conundrum. You are absolutely right that your children should be a priority and should always be comfortable in their own home. You must realize, however, that this is an adjustment for everyone involved. You wrote at the end of your letter, “Donny is a wonderful boyfriend/fiancé, and I believe would make an excellent husband.

He is responsive and emotional and an incredible provider to his own family.” Remember: this is why you got engaged to him to begin with. I do not believe he is shutting down due to a middos issue, as that would have been a flaw picked up on while you were dating him. You make no mention of communication or distance issues while dating. It is because of this that I believe that the distance has risen because this is a second marriage including blending two families together, establishing a norm will take a lot of time. In

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Show him how present and caring you are with his children, so he understands what real connection looks like.

the meantime, you need to communicate the issue and set attainable goals to make sure to see progress before you tie the knot. When you tried talking to him about it you may have sugar-coated the issue by being vague. Sentences such as, “You don’t really listen when my children talk to you” can be translated in his mind many different ways. He may actually think he is listening, and in his way, he actually might be! Instead, reframe the issue in the following way: “Donny, you’re going to make such an amazing husband and I’m so lucky! There is just one thing that my children and I have noticed.

When we are out together and the kids try to connect with you, tell you about their week, etc. you do not seem to display much interest. They are feeling a separation and would like to feel closer. Do you think we can work on that?” Communicating in this way will bring his defenses down, present the problem, and create an interest in fixing it. Then you may present some ideas. Perhaps he can take the kids out for a fun ice cream trip once a week to get to know them. This will be time allocated to getting to know your children as a unit and individuals; it will also help build memories. You

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can also ask him if, before family outings, you can update him on something special about each child so that he can casually mention hearing about it and how proud he is or ask them about it. You can also teach by example. Show him how present and caring you are with his children, so he understands what real connection looks like.

The meshing of your families will take time, but with hard work and a lot of patience, if he is truly interested in making his zivug sheini

work, it will, b’ezras Hashem, happen.

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the house. As hard as marriage can be in general, blending (if that word even conveys something possible) is that much harder. I think we’ve all seen the occasional second marriage that works on all levels, but it is truly rare, never simple, and extremely challenging to pull off. There are so many variables that come into play and hard to get just right.

If you feel marrying this man will lead to discomfort among your children and subsequently your own discomfort, then I would wonder why you are even entertaining the thought of marrying him. It sounds as though your children are the most important thing to you,

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Once you have children, your first priority are those kids.

and I don’t know why you would want to rock that boat. You’ve already seen that all the coaching from you is not going to change his personality. He is obviously not that into children – period.

Regarding your ex’s commentary on him, I hardly see why his opinion should bear any weight. He isn’t witness to what you have been witness to and therefore hasn’t earned the right to weigh in.

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ou and Donny should be speaking with a professional to discuss your concerns. A professional will facilitate the necessary conversations that must happen around this issue of warmth toward the children. I think every couple, first or second time around, can only benefit from pre-marital therapy.

Second time “arounders” who have children…it should be mandated.

Once you have children, your first priority are those kids. There is so much to be discussed! “What is my role when his daughter is obnoxious to me? What can I say or not say?” “How do we facilitate our children’s’ relationships? Or should we not?” “What do we do when we disagree about the parenting?” “What do we do if I am a laid-back dad and she’s more on top of things with her kids?” These are real concerns! If you think that Donny has it in him, and if you have it in you to see if there is room for change, go for premarital therapy.

You will get the answers you are

looking for.

In my opinion, once we have children, our first priority is them. If they are uncomfortable, we are uncomfortable.

Period. Kids are smart. They know who likes them and who doesn’t.

They know. A child should not have to live in his own home feeling unliked or uncared for.

While I can’t make any predictions, I will share with you what I have seen handfuls of times in second marriages. StepMom/Dad who isn’t interested in step-kids....

Spouse starts resenting that this person doesn’t take an interest in her children. So she starts pushing her husband. He views her as a nag. The kids know (because kids know everything), and they begin to feel like a burden and may feel responsible for the problems in this marriage. They’ve been through enough.

You cannot enter this marriage

with the hope that this will change. It’s simply too big of a risk. You’ve asked everyone there is to ask. Now it’s time to ask yourself if you’d truly be able to be happy with Donny knowing that your children are unhappy.

All the best, Jennifer Jennifer Mann, LCSW is a licensed psychotherapist and dating and relation-

ship coach working with individuals, couples and families in private practice in Hewlett, NY. She is looking forward to teaching a psychology course at Touro College in the fall. To set up a consultation or to ask questions, please call 516.224.7779. Press 2 for Jennifer.

Visit www.thenavidaters.com for more information. If you would like to submit a dating or relationship question to the panel anonymously, please email thenavidaters@gmail.com. You can follow The Navidaters on FB and Instagram for dating and relationship advice.

Hi Readers!

Receiving your enthusiastic emails wanting to participate in the Reader’s Respond section has been wonderful! Just a reminder about how Reader Response works. Email thenavidaters@gmail. com with the subject line “Reader Response.” We will then ask you, in the order we receive your email, if you would like to respond to the coming week’s email. If you would like to respond to an already printed Navidaters Panel, please submit your answer to the editor at editor@fivetownsjewishhome.com. You can also join us on our FB page @thenavidaters on Sunday evenings to post your response to the week’s column. Interacting with you has been a pleasure! Thank you for all of your feedback.

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Dr. Deb

Must Brilliant Women be Irrational?

By Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.

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now have in mind four women in the last two months who were so sick and tired of their husbands that they absolutely, 100%, refused to work with me on helping their husbands become the man they wanted.

Baruch Hashem, I have many more women who have worked or are working with me on that very project even though they were nearly ready to give up on their husbands. The difference between the two groups of women?

The first group was irrational and the second group is rational.

What do I mean?

We make decisions with our feelings. Research proves this. In research meant to demonstrate the power of emotions, people who had, unfortunately, to have surgery due to medical illness (like epilepsy and malignant brain tumors) which disconnected the emotional right brain from the logical left brain were unable to make even the simplest decisions such as which restaurant to go to.

Much as we want to pride ourselves in doing all the reading and research in order to make logical, well-thought-out decisions, the bottom line is that from politics to marriage, all of our decisions are more emotional than rational. Without the emotional component, we can’t make them. But if we let the emo-

tional component rule us, the result can be disastrous.

Not only that – and this is the worst part – but, as David Eagleman puts it in his book, Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain, “We are constantly fabricating and telling stories about the alien processes running under the hood,” by which he means that our right brain conceives of a plan of action or decision (based purely on emotions) but our left brain wants us to appear rational and logical, so we fabricate a story to sound like a smart explanation (or justification) of our idea.

Here is a story from Eagleman’s book to explain this process: “In 1978, researchers Michael Gazzaniga and Joseph LeDoux flashed a picture of a chicken claw to the left hemisphere of a splitbrain patient and a picture of a snowy winter scene to his right hemisphere. The patient was then asked to point at cards that represented what he had just seen. His right hand pointed to a card with a chicken and his left hand pointed to a card with a snow shovel.

“The experimenters asked him why he was pointing to the shovel. Recall that his left hemisphere (the one with the capacity for language) had information only about a chicken and nothing else. But the left hemisphere, without missing a beat, fabricated a story: ‘Oh, that’s

simple. The chicken claw goes with the chicken and you need a shovel to clean out the chicken shed.’”

Eagleman concludes, “Fabrication is not limited to split-brain patients. Your brain, as well, interprets your body’s actions and builds a story around them.”

So, I get that. I get that we are meaning-makers and our emotional actions get justified by often-ridiculous explanations of why we did something. And I get that we often don’t even realize that this process is going on. In fact, we usually don’t know that this process is going on.

But the almost-miraculous part of this is that somehow some of us can pull our heads out of the water and breathe the fresh air of reason.

I don’t know how they do it but I see that, too, happening every day.

So, for example, I have three women in mind who currently bucked the tide of their emotions and beliefs to give their ne’erdo-well husbands a chance at redemption. Like the four women who previously bailed ship, these women have an awful large pile of sins ascribed to their husbands: lying, cheating, and manipulating of all sorts. The fact that all seven of the men committed to work on themselves, put their egos aside to admit their flaws, and practiced using whatever tools I gave them so as to make radical changes in their

mindset, behavior, and feelings meant something important to the three women working hard to see changes but did not mean a thing to the four women who quickly said, “Forget it” and left broken-hearted men behind.

And I’m so disappointed. The women who jumped ship are highly educated and intelligent; they’re used to using their brains at work every day. But they allowed themselves to be convinced that their husband “couldn’t” change even when they admitted seeing the changes as the men worked hard on themselves.

Incidentally – and it is a significant matter – the main difference between the four who gave up and the three who didn’t is that the ones who gave up had already filed for divorce before they ever met me and the ones who didn’t, hadn’t.

I’m not sure if that represents an inherent difference in the mindset of the women. Perhaps the ones who didn’t file were a more hopeful group; or maybe they were more loyal; or maybe they still loved their husbands and that’s why they hadn’t filed.

Or maybe, just maybe, the very act of filing slammed the door shut.

As Eagleman would explain, once they filed, they didn’t want to be persuaded with possibilities to refute the decision that they had al-

ready made. So they simply “decided” that their husband could not or would not change.

As to the men, honestly, they’re not significantly different from one another in the injustices they were guilty of inflicting on their wives. I guess the ones whose wives did not file should consider themselves very lucky and very blessed.

The biggest tragedy?

The women who gave up will not heal.

They think they will just by being apart. But they won’t. Just google – when you’ve got nothing better to do – the number of divorce cases that languish in the courts for many years, sometimes over a decade. It looks like it’s all about money, but it’s not. The amount of money those people will end up with does not compensate for the pain and suffering they experienced in court to get it.

So why do they do it?

To recoup their emotional loss-

es. They firmly believe – another trick of the left brain trying to make sense of things that don’t – that by ripping their ex apart in court they will somehow, miraculously, get paid back for the suffering they experienced in their marriage. Instead, what really happens is that

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will accomplish one thing: the person who hurt you is out of sight so that person’s presence can no longer be a trigger for the emotional damage that he or she caused. But that is not to say that something else won’t bring up the bad feelings. Anything can be a trigger – a conversation, an

We make decisions with our feelings.

they suffer in court and their spouse also suffers, and no one ends up satisfied.

The reason, of course, is that a legal process can never compensate for emotional losses.

The same is true for simple divorces. Just the fact of being apart

object the person used, the remark of a child – anything.

To the degree that the ex is still in someone’s life, there will be triggers and the ex is not going to be in a position to heal them.

But on the other hand, when the wife (however reluctantly) decides

to see if this Dr. Deb person is full of hot air or really offers help, then there’s a world of possibilities for healing and happiness open to this suffering woman. What everyone who takes this path tells me is what one of these three women who took the plunge just texted me today: that working with me “has been so enlightening, only wish we had found you sooner.”

The key word here is “enlightening.” When you take the plunge, you’re starting with the acknowledgment that you do not know everything about marriage and healing from its wounds and you are open to discovery. I call that rational thinking.

Is that you?

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

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Health & F tness

Honey, “Are You Nuts?” Cheerios

By Aliza Beer MS, RD, CDN

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n mid-June the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a nonprofit watchdog group, published a report regarding the herbicide called glyphosate, a cancer-causing ingredient found in the popular weed-killer “Roundup.” The report asserts that popular cereals, such as Honey Nut Cheerios and Multi Grain Cheerios, contain “troubling levels” of glyphosate. The level of glyphosate detected in 21 oat-based snack and cereal products was higher than what EWG scientists recommend for children.

The EWG’s benchmark for levels of the ingredient deemed safe for kids is no more than 160 parts per billion.

Honey Nut Cheerios Medley Crunch had the highest level at 833 ppb! The most common variety of Cheerios, Cheerios Toasted Whole Grain Oat Cereal, had the second to highest at 729ppb. How can this be? Why is this happening?

Scientists say that glyphosate gets into theses foods because the weed-killer Roundup is used on or near oats and other crops grown for food. The weed-killer is sprayed on oats before they are harvested to be used in food. Glyphosate was classified as “probably carcinogenic to humans” by the International Agency for Research on Cancer in 2015. It was classified as a known carcinogenic by California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard assessment in 2017.

There have been several lawsuits brought against Roundup’s manu-

facturer Bayer-Monsanto alleging that its weed-killer causes cancer and that the company has known about it for years. More than $2.2 billion has already been awarded to victims. In August 2018 a California jury found that Monsanto had failed to warn a school groundskeeper of the cancer risks posed by Roundup. This man’s attorneys said he developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after using the weed-killer as part of his job as a pest control manager for a California county school system. Monsanto was ordered to pay $289 million in damages. The company says it is facing more than 5,200 similar lawsuits.

What exactly is glyphosate? It is an herbicide, a chemical that kills weeds. First registered for use in 1974, glyphosate has become one of the most popular herbicides in the country. One can be exposed to glyphosate by breathing it or absorbing it through the eyes while using products like Roundup. If you don’t wash your hands after using it, or if you touch plants that have been sprayed with it, then you could swallow it when eating your food. So how does it end up in our food?

Farmers who grow non-organic products use Roundup to kill weeds on their farms, then companies like General Mills buy contaminated food products from those farmers. General Mills recently stated that the company’s top priority is food safety. They went on to say that “most crops grown

in fields use some form of pesticides and trace amounts are found in the majority of food we all eat. Experts at the FDA and EPA determine the safe levels for food products. These are very strict rules that we follow as do farmers who grow crops. We continue to work closely with farmers, our suppliers, and conservation organizations to minimize the use of pesticides on the ingredients we use in our foods.”

So should we stop eating Cheerios?! Maybe. There is still ongoing research and controversy surrounding exactly how much glyphosate is dangerous, with the EPA having one legal limit of 30,000 parts per billion and the Environmental Working Group citing 160 parts per billion. The Environmental Working Group has conducted many tests which found traces of glyphosate in six types of Cheerios, Fiber One’s oatmeal raisin softbaked cookies, and fourteen Nature Valley products. Some research has been more conclusive than others, but the amount in food products is within current legal limits. However, especially with children, the EWG suggests to be cautious and avoid the updated food list on their website that has a glyphosate content above 160ppb.

It is very clear that you should not spray weed-killers such as Roundup, as direct exposure to it is extremely dangerous. However, for those that want to also be safer pertaining to

the food they eat, one good way of minimizing or even eliminating the potential of consuming glyphosate in our cereals is to buy organic. Look for organic alternatives to the cereals and snack bars you use now. The price tags for organic products tend to be higher, so go to the websites of organic products and look for coupons.

Are we completely safe when eating organic? Not entirely. While organic farming prohibits the use of glyphosate, it can end up in organic brands because the chemical is able to bind to water and soil and travel through the air or streams to nearby organic farms. So, in addition to buying organic when financially feasible, we must use our voices to protest the use of glyphosate in the United States. It has already been banned or restricted in 17 countries, including France, Italy, Denmark, Belgium, Czech Republic, Bermuda, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. Let companies and the FDA know that we don’t want glyphosate in our food. What we don’t buy will send a message that can ultimately trigger the FDA/EPA and companies to ensure the food we consume is safe.

Aliza Beer is a registered dietitian with a master’s degree in nutrition. She has a private practice in Cedarhurst, NY. Patients’ success has been featured on the Dr. Oz show. Aliza can be reached at alizabeer@gmail.com, and you can follow her on Instagram at @alizabeer.

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Health & F tness

A Healthy Back to School

By Alice Harrosh

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s you’re preparing for the back to school rush, there may be one thing you forgot about on your lists. Surely you have school supplies, haircuts, shoes, and medical records all on your list but what about the health aspect of your child’s school year?

Some mothers are very on top of their kids’ activities in the summer months, and even make sure they are eating healthy, but not so much so when it’s back to school and the kids are out of sight for many hours at a time.

It starts with breakfast.

I know mornings are rushed but try to encourage your child to eat breakfast. Even a quick bowl of a non-sugary cereal with low-fat milk and a fruit is great. I also like the Grab One bars since they’re easy to eat while running to catch the school bus, are delicious, and have a lot of protein.

Quick fruits: think apple or banana versus cutting up pineapple or washing grapes.

Healthy snacks to take to school: Please note that some snacks are not necessarily healthy but are not unhealthy either and are low calorie so they are a better alternative.

• Pretzels • Popcorn • Popcorners • Mauzone Mania fiber biscotti • Veggie straws • Quinoa crisps • Grab 1 bar • Kind bar • Nugo bar • String cheese • No sugar added fruit leathers

It’s not water (but it’s not soda either) ideas for drinks: • Crystal light pure (sweetened with truvia) • Seltzer with no sodium • SOBE life water (sweetened with truvia) • Vitamin water zero (sweetened with truvia)

Healthy lunches: I usually make a deal with my young clients: three days a week home lunch, two days a week school lunch.

This “deal” used to take a lot of convincing but more and more kids don’t even want school lunch and prefer to bring home lunch so that may work in your benefit.

School lunch: Teach them the one plate rule which means one plate filled halfway with vegetables and half with the best possible choice available. Teach your child how to decide that. For example, chicken versus a hot dog or fish versus oily eggplant parmesan. If they don’t know or there are no healthy choices, they can still stick to the one plate rule.

Note to schools: The healthier your students eat, the better students you will have.

Please consider using fresh fruit versus canned, and fresh vegetables versus canned. Please add whole wheat bread as an option and always have water available versus just juice. Your students would also appreciate undressed salads so they can choose whether to add the dressing in.

To-go lunch ideas for your child’s backpack: I like when my clients have bal-

anced meals so every meal has a starch, a protein, and a fruit or a vegetable. Start with either whole wheat bread, a whole wheat wrap, or a whole wheat pita (if your child doesn’t want to wash, then whole wheat Melba toast also works). Do a side of vegetables like a salad or just some cut up vegetables. Not everyone likes or wants to take a whole salad so baby carrots, cherry tomatoes, cucumber and celery sticks work well too. For dressings, you can buy the small to-go dressing cups and make your own. There are so many great low-calorie recipes available.

Now we just need a protein. Here are some kid friendly ideas: • Peanut butter (if the school allows it); 1 tablespoon is a good serving • Low fat cottage cheese. Depending on the child, ½ cup to ¾ cup is a serving.

• Cheese. Make sure it’s low fat (under 6 grams of fat per ounce) • Tuna. 1 can in water with up to 2 tablespoons light mayo is a good serving.

• Turkey breast. About 6 slices is a serving. Make sure it’s not turkey roll since that has fat versus turkey breast, which does not. If you’re concerned about the sodium and chemicals in packaged turkey, get fresh sliced from the deli.

• Yogurt. Ideally, a Greek yogurt since it is the highest in protein.

• Low fat cream cheese. This is not the best one as it does not have lot of protein but I reserve it for my picky clients who won’t go for the other choices.

Nosh from school: Whether it’s the candy from the rebbe or the snack swapped with a friend, kids are faced with many temptations.

A great idea my client came up with is that she offers her child a monetary swap. He brings home the candy, she gives him money instead. I love this idea because the child will most likely not feel deprived and learn to give up nosh.

Activities indoors: Summer comes with built-in movement as kids run around, play sports, and swim. Back home, however, with earlier nights, school work, and less safety outside, activities are limited.

Here are some ideas for indoor exercise: running up and down the stairs (make it fun, time them or do a family race of who does it faster); hula hoop (lots of fun and burns calories); the dance machine with kosher music.

Kids love this one!

It is never too early to start teaching your kids about healthy eating and the importance of movement. Make it a great healthy school year and a good eating year!

Alice Harrosh is a nutrition counselor and manager of the Lakewood, Queens and Five Towns locations of Nutrition by Tanya. Alice knows that making healthy decisions is not always easy. She understands that tempting foods can be hard to resist because she has been through the struggle herself. As an optimistic person, Alice’s favorite quote is: “It’s never too late to start eating better. If you have a bad morning, make it a better afternoon.” She can be reached at alice@NutritionByTanya.com.

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In The K

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Mac ‘N Cheese

By Naomi Nachman

My friend, Melinda Strauss, gave me this recipe from her mother (Shelley Russak of Seattle, Washington). When I made it for my kids, not one elbow noodle was left over!

Ingredients 3 TBS unsalted butter 2 TBS all-purpose flour 2 cups whole or 2% milk 2 tsp Dijon mustard ½ tsp salt ¼ tsp pepper 1/8 tsp ground nutmeg 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese ½ cup shredded mozzarella cheese ½ cup cubed American cheese ¼ cup grated parmesan cheese 4 TBS breadcrumbs + additional butter 4 cups cooked elbow pasta

Preparation Preheat the oven to 375°F. To make the béchamel, melt the butter over medium heat in a large saucepan for 1 minute.

Add the flour and stir with a wooden spoon until thick, around 30 seconds. Add the milk, mustard, salt, pepper and nutmeg and stir until bubbling and thick, around 5-7 minutes. Add the cheddar, mozzarella and American cheese and stir to combine.

Pour the sauce over the pasta.

Combine the parmesan and breadcrumbs and sprinkle over the cheesy pasta. Dollop approximately 2 tablespoons of butter over the crumbs.

Baked uncovered for 30-35 minutes.

Adapted from Kitchen-tested.com.

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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Yummy & Easy After-School Snacks

Zucchini

Chocolate Chip

Muffins

It’s 4: 30p. m., and your kids jump off the school bus. Thei r knapsacks loaded w ith books, you want to hear ab out their day before they star t their homewor k and compl ete th eir assignments .

Here are some yummy snack ideas for them to munch on as they sit around the tabl e and fill you in on their packed day.

INGREDIENTS • 1 1/2 cups flour • 3/4 cup sugar • 1 tsp baking soda • 1 tsp cinnamon • 1/2 tsp salt • 1 egg, lightly beaten • 1/4 cup milk or soy milk

• 1 TBS lemon juice • 1 tsp vanilla extract • 1 cup shredded zucchini • 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips • 1/2 cup chopped walnuts

PREPARATION Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease 12 muffin cups or line with paper liners.

Combine flour, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt in a large bowl. Mix egg, oil, milk, lemon juice, and vanilla extract in a bowl; stir into dry ingredients until just moistened. Fold in zucchini, chocolate chips, and walnuts.

Fill prepared muffin cups 2/3 full.

Bake in preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes.

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INGREDIENTS • 1 1/2 cups warm water • 2 TBS light brown sugar • 1 package active dry yeast or 2 1/4 tsp • 3 ounces unsalted butter, melted • 2 1/2 tsp kosher salt • 4 1/2 to 5 cups all-purpose flour • Vegetable oil • 3 quarts water • 1/3 cup baking soda for boiling the pretzels • 1 whole egg beaten with 1 TBS cold water • Coarse sea salt

PREPARATION Combine the 1 1/2 cups water, sugar, yeast, and butter in the bowl of a stand mixer and mix with the dough hook until combined. Let sit for 5 minutes.

Add the salt and flour and mix on low speed until combined. Increase the speed to medium and continue kneading until the dough is smooth and begins to pull away from the side of the bowl, about 3 to 4 minutes. If the dough appears too wet, add additional flour, 1 tablespoon at a time.

Remove the dough from the bowl, place on a flat surface and knead into a ball with your hands.

Oil a bowl with vegetable oil, add the dough and turn to coat with the oil. Cover with a clean towel or plastic wrap and place in a warm spot until the dough doubles in size, about 1 hour.

Preheat the oven to 425°F. Bring the 3 quarts of water to a boil in a small roasting pan over high heat and carefully add the baking soda. It will boil over, so add slowly and be careful!

Remove the dough from the bowl and place on a flat surface. Divide the dough into 8 equal pieces. Roll each piece into a long rope measuring 22 inches and shape. Cut the dough into one-inch pieces to make the pretzel bites. Boil the pretzel bites in the water solution in batches. Boil for about 30 seconds. Remove with a large slotted spoon. Place pretzel bites on a baking sheet that has been sprayed with cooking spray. Make sure they are not touching. Brush the tops with the egg wash and season liberally with the salt.

Place into the oven and bake for 15 to 18 minutes until golden brown.

Remove to a baking rack and let rest 5 minutes before eating.

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Baked Mozzarella

Sticks

INGREDIENTS • 12 sticks part-skim mozzarella string cheese • 1/4 cup plain breadcrumbs • 1/4 cup panko breadcrumbs • 2 TBS grated Parmesan cheese • 1 tsp dried parsley • 1/4 tsp dried basil • 1/8 tsp dried oregano • 1/8 tsp garlic powder • 1/4 cup all-purpose flour • 1 large egg PREPARATION Cut string cheese in half and freeze until hard, about 30 minutes.

In a small bowl, combine the breadcrumbs, panko breadcrumbs, Parmesan cheese, parsley, basil, oregano, and garlic powder.

In a separate small bowl, add the flour. In a third small bowl, add the egg and whisk well.

Spray a large baking sheet with nonstick cooking spray. Dip frozen cheese sticks into the flour, shaking off any excess flour. Next, dip into the egg and then coat with the breadcrumbs mixture. Make sure you coat the cheese sticks well, including the ends.

Place sticks on prepared baking sheet.

When all of the sticks are coated, freeze on the sheet for at least 15 minutes, or until ready to bake.

When ready to bake, preheat oven to 400°F. Place the cheese sticks in the oven and bake for 4-5 minutes, turn sticks over and bake for an additional 4-5 minutes, or until sticks are golden brown and soft.

Serve warm with marinara sauce.

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Easy Veggie Pasta Salad INGREDIENTS • 16 ounces rotini pasta • 1 TBS vegetable oil • 1 cup grape tomatoes, cut in half • 1 yellow bell pepper, diced • 1/2 medium-sized red onion, thinly sliced • 1 medium broccoli, checked • 3/4 cup Italian dressing • Salt and pepper to taste PREPARATION Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Cook the pasta according to package directions until al dente.

Drain and rinse pasta. Toss pasta with oil to prevent sticking.

Cut broccoli into small florets. Add all the vegetables to the pasta.

Pour the Italian dressing over the vegetables and pasta. Use a wooden spoon to gently toss everything together until well coated in the dressing.

Season with salt and pepper to taste, if desired.

Banana

Strawberry Smoothie

INGREDIENTS • 1 cup vanilla yogurt • 1 cup frozen strawberries • 1 frozen banana • 1/4 cup orange juice

PREPARATION Add all ingredients to a blender. Blend until smooth.

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Notable Quotes “Say What?!”

By the 10th night, we were losing patience, hope, physical energy and courage. We could not do anything to help [the situation]. The only thing that I could do was to pray. I prayed, “L-rd, I’m only a boy. You are Almighty G-d, You are holy, and You are powerful. Right now I can’t do anything. May You protect us, come to help us all 13.”

- 15-year-old Adul “Adun” Samon recounting the rescue of him and the other 12 members of the Thai soccer team from a cave last year, after 18 days of being trapped

Trump is as destructive a person in this century as Hitler, Stalin and Mao were in the last century. He may be responsible for many more million deaths than they were.

I call him rabbi even though neither of us are Jewish.

- Patrick Byrne, who recently resigned as CEO of Overstock.com, in an emotional interview on MSNBC, talking about Warren Buffett advising him to resign

- Psychiatrist Allen Francene talking about President Trump on CNN

Pardon me for getting a bit farklempt.

– Ibid., after tearing up

It feels like some Democrats are cheering on a recession because they want to stick it to Trump.

- 2020 presidential hopeful former Rep. John Delaney (D-MD)

Preparation trumps youth.

- Robert Long , of Idaho, who at age 70 became the oldest winner of the Mongol Derby, a 620-mile horse race through the Mongolian steppe

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When I grew up as an Israeli, I never really saw Judaism as part of my daily routine. I felt Jewish and almost everyone around me was Jewish and then suddenly I get to another country and Yom Kippur is just another day. If you don’t emphasize Judaism in your private life, you can lose that focus. In that regard, it made me think of what I want to emphasize to my daughters and to my wife and what are some of the values that we as Jewish people have and have had over the years.

These things always brought me back to a full family life in Judaism.

– Omri Casspi, 31, the first Israeli NBA player, explaining his decision to return to Israel and play basketball there, in an interview with the Jerusalem Post

I was going to say “[expletive] Jew Year,” but one of my resolutions is to be less anti-Semitic. So… HAPPY Jew Year. You Jews.

- Old Tweet by Tom Wright-Piersanti, who is a senior political editor at The New York Times, which recently made an editorial decision to focus on Trump being a racist (the tweet was unearthed by Breitbart)

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I love this place. Look, what’s not to like about Vermont in terms of the beauty of it?

- 2020 presidential hopeful Joe Biden, while campaigning in New Hampshire

My two political heroes were Martin Luther King [Jr.] and Bobby Kennedy. My senior semester they were both shot and killed. Imagine what would have happened if, G-d forbid, Barack Obama had been assassinated after becoming the de facto nominee.

What would have happened in America?

- Ibid.

Everybody knows who Donald Trump is. Even his supporters know who he is. We got to let him know who we are. We choose unity over division. We choose science over fiction. We choose truth over facts.

- Ibid., at a recent event in Iowa

We have this notion that somehow if you’re poor you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.

- Ibid.

Joe is not playing with a full deck. He made that comment, I said, “Whoa, this is not somebody you can have as your president.”

- President Trump commenting on Joe Biden’s gaffes

I want to be clear, I’m not going nuts.

If I’d known I was going to be eulogized I would probably have done the only decent thing and died.

- Basketball legend Bob Cousy, 91, who played for the Boston Celtics from 1950 to 1963, upon receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom last week

I went on eBay and bought a jet ski – and now it takes me 15 minutes; I just cut straight across the harbor.

- David Pike telling “Good Morning America” how he cut his commute from New Jersey to Brooklyn from 90 minutes to 15 minutes

- Ibid., addressing his numerous gaffes on the campaign trail

I am going to vote for the candidate who I am absolutely certain has a brain that is functioning. And that narrows it down to exactly one.

- Dr. Neal Kassell, who performed surgery on Biden three decades ago following two brain aneurysms, responding to President Trump’s comments, in an interview with Politico

Justice-involved person.

- The new term that San Francisco uses instead of “convicted felon”

Not today.

– What an employee at a Family Dollar store in Miami said to an attempted burglar who approached the cash register and pulled a knife

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I am a liar. I am not a veteran.

I stole valor. I have dishonored veterans.

- The sign that a Montana judge ordered two criminals, who falsely claimed to be veterans in order to get lighter sentences for drug charges, to wear while standing at the Montana Veterans Memorial for eight hours on Memorial Day and Veterans Day

It was all very nice, except for cranky Bernie. He didn’t want to shake hands; he didn’t want a picture. He wasn’t nice to any of the staff. He lost my vote.

- John Konstin, owner of the famed 111-year-old bistro John’s Grill in San Francisco, talking to the Politico about Bernie Sanders after a meeting of numerous Democrat party leaders in his restaurant

I got Cash App, I got PayPal, I got Venmo, I got all that stuff.

- Black conservative commentator Rob Smith at the Iowa state fair confronting numerous Democrat presidential candidates, who have pledged support for reparations

Warning! You have the Right to Remain an Idiot.

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Trump’s Idea of Buying Greenland is Far from Absurd

By Marc A. Thiessen

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resident Trump is upset that Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called his interest in purchasing Greenland “absurd.”

Her dismissive response should have come as no surprise. In 1946, when President Harry Truman tried to purchase Greenland, Secretary of State James Byrnes wrote that the proposal “seemed to come as a shock” and an insult to Danish officials, who turned it down.

That was a big mistake. As part of his deal, Truman had offered to trade parts of the Point Barrow district of Alaska, including the rights to any oil discovered there, to Denmark, in exchange for parts of Greenland. The Danes dismissed the idea just as they did Trump’s proposal. In 1967, the richest oil strike in U.S. history was made in the Point Barrow area. Bad move, Denmark! Sad! With that blunder in their rearview mirror, you would think that Danish leaders would at least hear Trump out. The president’s idea of buying Greenland is far from absurd. Today we have a military base in Greenland, so there is no need to buy it for that purpose. But Greenland has enormous unexplored stores of natural resources, including zinc, lead, gold, iron ore, diamonds, copper and uranium, that Denmark has been unable or unwilling to exploit.

It also has large, untapped stores of rare-earth elements, such as praseodymium or dysprosium, that are critical to the production of everything

from electric cars to smartphones and lasers. Today, the United States gets many of these rare-earth elements from China, which makes Americans dependent on Beijing. The Wall Street Journal reports that Beijing may cut off access to those minerals in its trade dispute with Washington, and China is also trying to corner the market for rare-earth elements in Greenland.

Buying Greenland would put those strategically valuable minerals in U.S. hands.

travel between Asia and the West by as much as 20 days.” He added that the emerging “Arctic sea lanes could become the 21st-century Suez and Panama canals.”

He’s right. A recent report in the New York Times notes that as sea ice melts and “Arctic routes become more direct, voyage times could fall to less than three weeks in some cases, making Arctic shipping potentially more attractive than the southern routes in coming decades.”

We’ve long ago established that parts of Denmark are for sale; there’s no harm haggling over the price.

But what makes Greenland particularly valuable to the United States is global warming. The unavoidable receding of Arctic sea ice will open a new sea route in the Arctic that can be used for both commercial and military vessels. In May, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered an address at the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Finland in which he pointed out that “steady reductions in sea ice are opening new passageways and new opportunities for trade. This could potentially slash the time it takes to

The United States and its allies have a major interest in not allowing these Arctic sea lanes to fall under Russian or Chinese control. “Do we want the Arctic Ocean to transform into a New South China Sea, fraught with militarization and competing territorial claims?” Pompeo asked in Finland. Purchasing Greenland would help the United States to better secure these emerging strategic passageways.

In 1946, the Joint Chiefs of Staff told Truman that Greenland was “completely worthless to Denmark.”

Today, Denmark may not feel that way. But rather than getting offended, Copenhagen should entertain Trump’s offer. After all, it would not be the first time Denmark sold the United States one of its overseas possessions. In 1916, it sold the Danish West Indies (now the U.S. Virgin Islands) to President Woodrow Wilson. So, we’ve long ago established that parts of Denmark are for sale; there’s no harm haggling over the price.

Indeed, a Greenland purchase would be in keeping with a long history of presidential land acquisitions.

In 1803, Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana territory from France. In 1819, President James Monroe bought Florida from Spain. In 1854, President Franklin Pierce, in the Gadsden Purchase, bought part of New Mexico and Arizona from Mexico. In 1867, President Andrew Johnson bought Alaska from Russia. In 1898, President William McKinley bought the Philippines from Spain. And in 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt rented the Panama Canal Zone from Panama and Guantanamo Bay from Cuba. If Denmark won’t sell Greenland, maybe we can rent it!

On Monday, Trump tweeted a picture of a gleaming Trump high-rise amid small huts on the Greenland coast and declared, “I promise not to do this to Greenland!” But the idea of buying Greenland is no joke. It actually makes a lot of strategic and economic sense. (c) 2019, Washington Post Writers Group

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Political Crossfire

An Obvious Proviso for Re-admitting Russia to the G-7

By David Ignatius

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s the G-7 gathered in Biarritz, President Trump had expressed hope for the return of Russia, the missing guest at the table.

But any consideration of this issue requires dealing with Trump’s least favorite subject -- Russian cyber-meddling in U.S. elections.

The stark reality is that the United States is now fighting a low-level cyberwar to combat Kremlin political interference and other malign actions.

U.S. Cyber Command launched this “hunt forward” campaign last summer to deter Russian meddling in the 2018 midterm elections. It’s part of a broader strategy of “persistent engagement” with adversaries.

If Trump truly wants to invite President Vladimir Putin to the 2020 version of a re-christened G-8, there’s an obvious price he should demand from Putin: a verifiable commitment to stop Russia’s egregious cyber-interference in the elections of the U.S. and other members of the current G-7.

Trump this week floated the idea of readmitting Russia, which had been expelled from the then-G-8 in 2014 following its invasion of Crimea. “I could certainly see it being the G-8 again,” he told reporters before a meeting with President Klaus Iohannis of Romania, “because a lot of the things we talk about have to do with Russia.”

That’s not a crazy idea. Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, maintains a regular dialogue with his Russian counterpart.

After the latest meeting this week, a

Pentagon statement cited “the inherent value of regular communication in order to avoid miscalculation and promote transparency.”

Meanwhile, the invisible cyberwar continues, with Cyber Command dispatching teams to work with key allies to identify and expose Russian malware. A senior defense official provided new details of this operation in an interview this week.

tional authority in August, and began deploying forward teams abroad in September and October. Each of the teams was small, and fewer than 50 people were sent abroad in total.

The Pentagon has disclosed three countries where Cyber Command teams were deployed: Ukraine, Montenegro and Macedonia. With permission from these host governments, the teams operated inside their networks

“We know what you’re doing. We are united against you. Your behavior has consequences.”

The timeline of 2018 election-security effort is intriguing, because it unfolded while Trump was publicly discounting Russian election meddling in 2016. The push began in May 2018, when then-Defense Secretary James Mattis tasked Gen. Paul Nakasone, the newly appointed head of Cyber Command, to work with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security to defend the midterm elections.

The “Russia Small Group” was the anodyne name given to the joint task force created by Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, both under Nakasone’s command. By government standards, it moved quickly: It was formed in July, got legal opera-

to collect malware the Russians had planted on supposedly secure systems.

It was a treasure trove, according to the senior defense official.

“What surprised us was how blatant they were,” said the senior defense official. “The activity was so pervasive.”

The forward-deployed teams discovered new pieces of Russian malware, including “rootkits,” which can allow an adversary to control a target’s computer system without being detected, “tunneling” software that hides communications in public networks, and other dangerous tools.

The Russians were sloppy in attacking networks of countries close to their borders, the defense official said.

“If you think nobody is watching you, you don’t try to cover your tracks.”

Then came public exposure: After the malware had been analyzed at Fort Meade, some of it was sent to an internet clearinghouse called VirusTotal, where computer-security professionals could analyze it and adopt countermeasures. In October and November, 10 of these malware tools were posted online, and a half-dozen more have been added since, the defense official said.

The campaign objective was to impose costs on the Russians. “When you lose a tool, somebody has to re-create it,” which takes time and money, the official said. Cyber Command also dropped calling cards, so to speak, personally messaging some of the hackers at the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg. The Washington Post has reported, without rebuttal, that Cyber Command operatives also briefly shut down the Internet Research Agency’s computer systems.

Cyber Command’s forward-deployed campaign will continue to protect the 2020 election, the defense official said. The message to Moscow is three-fold, he said: “We know what you’re doing. We are united against you. Your behavior has consequences.”

Even with this new U.S.-led campaign, Putin isn’t likely to disarm what has been such an effective cyber campaign. But the G-7 leaders, Trump most especially, should make clear that’s the first requirement for getting back in the club. (c) 2019, Washington Post Writers Group

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Forgotten Her es

Funny-Looking But Fearless Military Machines

By Avi Heiligman

Israel’s Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozer

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ince the introduction of the tank in battle during World War I, many designs and improvements have gone into making the tank a feared weapon. Along with these improvements came other designs that were just crazy in their appearance or operation. When these came on the battlefield, they turned heads from both enemy and friendly troops. Many crazy military vehicles never even went into production as engineers and manufacturers tried making game-changer tanks, regardless of their appearance.

Here are some of the wild and wacky military vehicles from the past century.

Most modern tanks use caterpillar tracks that run on continuous bands of treads or plates. Wheels inside the treads move the tracks along, and the tracks became suitable for many types of terrain including muddy conditions.

Early tanks didn’t always use treads, and the Russian World War I-era Tsar Tank is a perfect example with its tricycle design. It had two large front wheels that measured nine feet tall and 27 feet in diameter. The back wheel was only five feet high and was used for steering.

Sherman DD Tank

Ten soldiers manned the tank, and it could carry an array of guns and cannon. Each wheel had its own 150 hp engine, with a top speed of 11mph. Many issues arose while testing the tank, and it never reached the frontlines.

Not every army does well during early battles of a war but a good army will learn from its mistakes. Great Britain and Canada had suffered an embarrassing defeat in 1942 against a well defended beach in German-held France.

Standard tanks did not do well on the soft sand of those beaches, and even if they managed to get inland, they experienced other problems. Engineering expert Major General Percy Hobart of the British 79th Armored Division was tasked with developing unconventional vehicles and tanks for these types of terrain. His creations were known as the Hobart’s Funnies.

The Crab Flail tank was one of the more iconic designs of Hobart. A Sherman tank had an attachment of a roller and weighted chains to clear mines that could potentially be in its path. When the flail was not in use, the Sherman could use its 75mm gun. During World

War II they were used successfully to clear minefields, and mine flails on vehicles continued to be used through several engagements including the War in Afghanistan.

British Churchill tanks were commonly modified by Hobart’s men for use in the Normandy campaign. The Bobbin tank had a canvas cloth on steel poles rolled out in front of the tank so that heavy vehicles would not sink into sandy beaches. Fascine Carriers were Churchill tanks with bundles of wood that could be released into gaps to make the area passable for vehicles.

Bridge layer tanks would carry a 30 foot bridge and was used on D-Day on Sword Beach.

Also used during the D-Day invasion was an amphibious swimming tank known as the DD tank, which were used by eight allied battalions.

DD – which stands for Dual Duplex and were humorously called Donald Duck tanks – had a flotation screen or skirt placed on a standard Sherman or Valentine tank. They were used on all five landing beaches but many were launched too far offshore and sank.

Only two of the 32 DD tanks of the American 741st Tank Battalion reached Omaha Beach as most either sank or were hit by German fire.

DD tanks were used throughout the remainder of the war and saw some success when used properly. Tankers used them to cross the Rhine River in March 1945 and were able to climb the steep, muddy banks once they reached the opposite side of the river.

Another Hobart Funny that saw success during the Normandy campaign was the armored bulldozer.

Engineers would refit a standard Caterpillar bulldozer with armor to protect the driver. Building on its accomplishments during World War II, the armored bulldozer is still used today with Israel being a leading manufacturer of the vehicle. Modified armored bulldozers could also carry weapons like machine guns and grenade launchers to be used when attacked. The IDF used them during the Second Intifada, and they withstood RPG attacks and anything else the terrorists threw at the vehicles.

One very intriguing vehicle that is

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interesting for multiple reasons is the German-built Kugelpanzer. No one is quite sure of its intended use but one of the theories does not include it being used by kitchen personnel. It was a spherical one-man tank with light armor and a small viewing slit for the driver. In 1945, the Soviets captured it from the Japanese in Manchuria, leading to theories that it was going to be

used as a suicide weapon. It is now on display at a Russian tank museum Take one look at the Soviet-built Progvev-T Gasdynamic trawler, and most people would think it was from a different planet. It was a 37-ton T-55 tank with a jet engine from a MiG-15 on top. The idea was to have the jet engine blow on the ground ahead of the tank to blow up mines in the way.

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Problems arose when the engine used a lot of expensive jet fuel quickly and was extremely loud for anyone standing nearby.

Tanks and other combat vehicles are extremely important for ground troops while fighting in battle. Sometimes engineers and inventors get wild ideas, and some of them are potential successes, if manufactured correctly.

Many of the vehicles that have seen action are unknown to the public but are very much appreciated on the battlefield.

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

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A Fulfilled L fe

Becoming a Leader of Influence

By Rabbi Dr. Naphtali Hoff

In a previous article about understaffed leaders, we spoke of the importance of pulling understaffed teams together to ensure that they are cohesive and that work gaps do not remain unfilled. This essay will offer added strategies for understaffed leaders to help their teams overdeliver.

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t the heart of great leadership is influence, as in the ability to influence others to do what needs to get done.

In a piece written for Forbes, contributor Kevin Kruse defines leadership as “a process of social influence, which maximizes the efforts of others, towards the achievement of a goal.” I like his approach because it factors in some important primary leadership elements: (social) influence, others, effort optimization and goals.

Leadership is about influencing others, rather than demanding and coercing. It speaks to the ability to win people over to a new way of thinking and practice, through idea sharing, collaboration and role modeling.

While influence is important for ev-

ery leader, it is especially critical when we’re understaffed and need to maximize every ounce of talent and time at our disposal.

Leaders often think, “How can I know if I am really doing my job well and getting the most out of my people?

Maybe my self-perception is not what others think of me.” It’s a valid point.

You might be doing well, but there are always gaps between your self-perception and how others think of you. So leaders who really want to know how they’re doing need to be willing to get honest feedback.

Many leaders use some form of leadership assessment, such as 360-degree feedback or a psychometric tool, that provides information about leader characteristics, strengths, weaknesses, and personality traits.

If you haven’t done this in a while, now is the time to act. The feedback that you get will form the basis of an action plan to help you become a better leader. Even if you have, it is still worthwhile to brainstorm on the results with a coach or mentor who can help you make sense of things and

maximize your leadership capacity.

Of course, whenever you ask for feedback, the possibility exists that it will not be all positive. Some may be less than flattering or even scathing.

Here are some tips that can help you make the most of the feedback that you receive and help position you to get more open, quality feedback in the future.

1. Lower your defenses – If you want to grow from the feedback, you have to be able to look at it objectively, as if was describing someone else rather than you. Take time to understand what’s driving people’s observations and identify ways that you can improve upon their perceptions moving forward.

2. Respond carefully – If you are unsure about the validity of feedback or what to do with it, let it settle for a bit. There’s nothing worse than a misguided, rushed reaction. Consider discussing it with a few trusted colleagues and/or mentors.

3. Thank them –Let whoever took the time to share feedback know that you appreciate their willingness to

share their views.

4. Do something – This may be the hardest part. No one likes to change.

But it’s often a lot better than continuing on as is while waiting for the other shoe to drop.

We all want to hear that we’re doing well. Feedback is the breakfast of champions. But no one wants to be an emperor without clothes, or, worse yet, a dethroned emperor. Whether the feedback that you receive is solicited (ideal) or not, be sure to make good use of it so that you can become the very best, most influential leader possible and lead an inspired and engaged team forward.

Rabbi Naphtali Hoff, PsyD, is an executive and business coach and president of Impactful Coaching & Consulting. For a free, no obligation consultation, please call 212-470-6139 or email info@impactfulcoaching.com. Check out his new leadership book, “Becoming the New Boss,” on Amazon. Download his free eBook for understaffed leaders at ImpactfulCoaching. com/EPIC.

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By the Time We Got to Woodstock

By Allan Rolnick, CPA

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ifty years ago, a dairy farmer named Max Yasgur thought it would be a rockin’ idea to rent his field to a bunch of kids who wanted to throw a concert. From August 15-17, 1969, 400,000 hippies, peaceniks, and plain old music fans converged on the scene. If you’re a ‘60s fan, Woodstock represents the high point of that era, a giddy celebration of peace and good vibrations. If you’re a hung-up Mr. Normal, you might dismiss it as three days of mud-soaked filth, drugs, and music. And while Woodstock Nation may not have managed to save the world, they managed to leave quite a legacy!

Woodstock Ventures hoped 200,000 fans would pay $6-18 for passes – about $41-124 in today’s dollars. In the end, organizers grossed $1.8 million, suggesting state and local tax collectors shared a groovy $108,000 in sales taxes (3% for the state and 3% for New York City, where most of the tickets were sold).

Sadly for the squares at the IRS, there was nothing left over for them to tax. It wound up cost-

ing $3.1 million to rent the farm, book the performers, and charter the helicopters to lift the musicians over the stalled traffic. At the height of the crush, some acts were demanding twice their usual fee to perform – in cash. The Wood-

The crowds turned Yasgur’s farm into the third-largest city in New York. Fun fact: members of the Hog Farm commune, led by Hugh Romney (aka “Wavy Gravy”) were running a free kitchen on the premises.

On Saturday morning, they served

But it took until Ronald Reagan (!) was president to finally break even.

stock documentary, edited in part by then-unknown Martin Scorsese, helped start recouping those losses.

But it took until Ronald Reagan (!) was president to finally break even – an irony that shouldn’t be lost on counterculture fans.

As the unticketed hordes grew closer, organizers realized there would be no way to turn them back, so they declared it a free festival.

“breakfast in bed for 400,000 people” and introduced the hippies to a brand-new food called “granola” [gru-noh luh]. This has nothing to do with taxes, but it’ll impress your friends when the topic of Woodstock comes up over the next few days.

Today, Yasgur’s farm is still finessing taxes like Jimi Hendrix shredded the national anthem.

That’s because it’s owned by the

nonprofit Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, home to a 15,000-seat amphitheater and museum. Local sales tax collectors still take a piece of ticketing and merchandise. But income tax collectors are no-shows (just like concert no-shows Joni Mitchell, the Doors, and others).

And while property taxes in Sullivan County generally range from $25-65 per thousand of assessed value, the center’s nonprofit status takes 800 acres off the property tax rolls.

Today’s music festivals all try to recapture a bit of that Woodstock magic. Sadly for the fans, the acts are a bit more corporate, the facilities are a bit cleaner, and the tickets cost a lot more. So for this week we’ll leave you with a pipeful of gentle hippie sentiments, and hope you enjoy the rest of your summer. After Labor Day, official tax planning season starts, so get ready to save!

Allan J Rolnick is a CPA who has been in practice for over 30 years in Queens, NY. He welcomes your comments and can be reached at 718-896-8715 or at allanjrcpa@aol.com.

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Life C ach

The Cycle

By Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., MFT, CLC

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he perpetual struggle.

There is probably more than one that comes to mind.

I bet some of you can fill this in with a lot of different ones. So which am I talking about? Let me give you some hints....

It often gets resolved and returns; there’s more than one way you can choose to address it; it afflicts many across gender, race, and religious divides; and it makes you crazy.

Did you get it?

OK, here it is: the cycle of trying

to lose weight.

There’s always a new rage for what can help with weight loss: gyms, trainers, nutritionists, diet programs....

But in reality, we all know the easiest way to get it done – just shut our mouths!

But that reality has nothing to do with life. The reality that is relevant is that no one has that kind of self-control. Shut my mouth? Oh, sure, that’s easy when I’m sleeping!

But home in the kitchen, tempted at a smorgasbord, ordering from a menu, or when I’m bored at work – nah, that ain’t happening!

The mind may say no, but the mouth says yes! Then the lips part and the teeth get involved; the saliva kicks in and the stomach is doomed.

And boom, you’ve self-sabotaged once again.

So you explore the next proactive options.

You join a gym. That helps because you’re too embarrassed to eat there.

If somehow you manage to still gain through that endeavor, the trainer is your next move. He or she is a person you can also complain to about how hard this all is. So that helps a bit.

But if you still find yourself finding the kitchen...the nutritionist is your next stop. The nutritionist is a person that forces you to be accountable. And if that works – great. If it doesn’t, you go for all-out support....

With the diet program, which provides accountability plus there’s people to be embarrassed in front of or to commiserate with your dieting problems.

So if the gym does it for you, you can probably stop right there. You go there, you work hard and you say, “OK, I had to work this hard. I’m not adding more calories to force me to do more of this.”

If that doesn’t do it for you, you need someone to show up at your house. That’s when the personal trainer comes in. So they make sure you exercise and they offer an empathetic ear.

If you need a tougher person, empathy is not the order of the day. Discipline is the way to go!

You’re paying up for the nutritionist, but maybe that helps you step up to the plate – I mean, step away from the plate.

Finally, there’s a bunch of new diet plans to explore. If you’ve been through all of them, and you’re back to square one and lots more pounds to go, then I guess you get why I refer to this as the perpetual struggle.

Hopefully, you’re somebody who doesn’t identify with this at all. However, if you do, here’s wishing you that the next creative plan you try, stops the cycle for you!

Rivki Rosenwald is a certified relationship counselor, and career and life coach. She can be contacted at 917-705-2004 or rivki@rosenwalds.com.

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