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only that, but with his handling – or lack of handling – of Syria and his “red line” Obama only strengthened the slumbering giant. Ever ignore your child’s actions as he sneaks into the cabinet for a candy or two? Well, keep on ignoring him and you’ll find a lot of empty bags of nosh after a while. Putin is now holding the keys to the candy store – and he’s only so glad to wave those Twizzlers in front of Obama’s face. When Obama took office, many hailed his selection to the highest post in the free world as a symbol of the United States living in a post-racial world. But instead of uniting people – all people – regardless of their skin color or their race or their religion, Obama only highlighted the differences. And it has divided our country. Abraham Lincoln famously said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” If we cannot soothe the anger simmering beneath the surface, we will be living in a very volatile world. A few weeks ago, Obama boasted that had he run again in 2016, he would have won the election. Many laughed at his arrogance. Truly, though, he may have been accurate. The black community came out in droves in 2008 and swept him into the pages of history books. But in making that comment Obama showed just how faulty his view of his legacy is. Doesn’t a major loss for the Democratic Party to a flawed candidate show just how much America wants a change? In 2008, Obama campaigned with the words of “hope” and “change.” The 2016 elections signaled just how much change America wants as they hope for a better four years.

his week, one of my children’s teachers called me. Report cards were coming in the mail and she wanted to speak with me before I saw them. “Don’t worry,” she said, “we didn’t give out any ‘excellents.’ A grade of ‘excellent’ is only for the last semester; everyone still has room to improve.” I thanked her for the call but I wasn’t too concerned. After all, my child is in kindergarten. It’s 2017 and Obama is finishing up his last “semester.” And yes, report cards are in the mail. How do you judge the president of the United States, the leader of the free world? Is it based on his popularity? On his accomplishments? On what he could have done? On what he attempted to achieve? Obama is coming out of office with an approval rating of 55%, according to a poll released on Tuesday of this week. So more than half of Americans like him. They see him as presidential, especially compared to Donald Trump. And yes, I do too. He has an extreme – maybe too extreme – swagger of confidence as he walks up to the podium to address a crowd. During his speeches, he’s self-assured with what he’s saying and squashes any hecklers who dare oppose him. But what about his accomplishments? What about his failures? Well, you can say that Obama is pretty good at starting fires – or at least fanning them. Consider his foreign policy. Instead of propping up the situation in the Middle East, he helped promote the Arab Spring. Giving Arabs freedom is important, but leaving them with voids of power is negligent. Holes in that region tend to be filled with evil, and ISIS was only too glad to pack them with severed heads. The United States’ relationship with Russia has deteriorated under Obama’s watch. Not

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Contents LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

COMMUNITY Readers’ Poll

Community Happenings

NEWS

Global

National

Odd-but-True Stories

The Obama Years: The Good. The Mediocre. The Bad. The Ugly.

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ISRAEL Israel News

My Israel Home: Apartment Registration

20 84

PEOPLE A Light in the Darkest Hour: Rabbi Elchonon Zohn, Founder of National Association of Chevra Kadisha, Speaks about End-of-Life Issues 88 Remembering Two Jewish Generals by Avi Heiligman

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PARSHA Rabbi Wein

JEWISH THOUGHT Salt of the Earth by Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz

Cheese! by Eytan Kobre

Knock, Knock by Rabbi YY Rubinstein

Seeing the Meaning in Our Work by Rabbi Dr. Naphtali Hoff

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HEALTH & FITNESS Remarriage and Parenting by Dr. Deb Hirschhorn

Vacation the Right Weigh by Aliza Beer, MS RD

Dear Editor, It’s that time of year again: “High School Time.” The time when some people are elated and others quite embarrassed. Some are excitedly looking forward to the next year, while others want nothing more than to hermit in their rooms for the next 20 years. But I’m not here to discuss high schools looking at kids’ middos when considering applicants, as discussed in last week’s letter to the editor. I’m here to tell all of those parents and children out there who were accepted to more than one high school and are debating which one to go to: talk to your kid’s rebbe/teacher. They have your children’s best interest at heart and know them very well. Don’t just go wherever your friends are going! Their mentor (i.e. parent) has to choose the place that’s right for their child – not just go where there is the most peer pressure to attend – and the rebbe is probably the best person to advise you on this. I have heard of people who could have become great learners in one yeshiva but ended up attending a different yeshiva and not living up to their potential, to say the least. Your child’s rebbe, however, knows the high schools, knows your

child and knows which place is going to be best for him. If I may say so myself, not consulting with your child’s rebbe before sending him off is like going into the lion’s den with a blindfold. Parents, please keep in mind: consulting with your child’s rebbe/ teacher is integral to your son’s future. All the best, Zundel Bresher, aka Sudo Nimm P.S. Thank you TJH for letting your newspaper become something of a public forum. Dear Editor, I am writing to express my unhappiness at you having printed the letter against Trump in the last week’s paper. There is no need for you to print letters that 90% of your readers disagree with and get angry at. I understand you want balance, but a Reform newspaper wouldn’t print a letter supporting Trump, so why should you print this outrageous letter? I am attaching for your attention R’ Elchanan Wasserman’s words (from Kobetz Maamrim and Agadot) that when all else is equal the wicked Continued on page 12

Peanuts – No Longer a Four-Letter Word among Children’s Foods by Dr. Hylton I Lightman 100 FOOD & LEISURE The Aussie Gourmet: Fabulous Fish

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LIFESTYLES Dating Dialogue, Moderated by Jennifer Mann, LCSW 92

HUMOR

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Better Than all the Rest by Rabbi Mordechai Kruger

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Your Money

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The Brain Lunch Connection by Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS 142

Centerfold Uncle Moishy Fun Page

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POLITICAL CROSSFIRE Notable Quotes

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Cold War Relic, Present Day Threat by Charles Krauthammer

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win over the righteous because first of all the righteous also have a part of them that’s wicked and secondly the wicked usually use methods that the righteous would never use. The Democratic Party does not share any of our values on key issues (abortion, removing even the mentioning of G-d from schools, etc.). In addition, Democrats are not for the working people but instead for making everyone dependent on the state. According to Torah law it’s better to help someone with a job, something Republicans are better at, than to give them charity. Indeed it’s a mitzvah to help members of your country first, and therefore Trump’s slogan “America first” is correct. (I am not even talking about that Trump is not against all immigration but only immigration from areas where there is a miut hamatzuy of those who support terror.) It’s ironic that this letter supporting the Democrats comes at the time when they are trying to promote Keith Ellison to one of their key positions. I wish you further success with your wonderful paper. Sincerely, Michael Rosen Dear Editor, A writer in last week’s editorial section, Richard Lipsman seemed overtly disgruntled about Donald Trump and then completely whitewashed the history of the Democrat Party. First, there is scarce any evidence that Trump unleashed anti-Semitic activities and outbursts; such claims are utterly false. The only can-

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didate in this past presidential race who has demonstrated anti-Semitic tendencies throughout her career was Hillary Clinton. Second, white supremacist groups also supported Ronald Reagan, but Reagan swiftly disavowed them. Though it may have taken a bit longer for Trump to do the same, he eventually did, and that’s all that counts. Lipsman then asserts the most absurd claim any Democrat can make when he says, “Democrats have always stood for the working class and still do…” Clearly Lipsman is completely oblivious to U.S. history. This claim is even more outrageous when you account for the KKK specifically and white supremacist groups generally, the very organizations Lipsman denounces and excoriates Trump for unleashing during his campaign. So I will do a public service and reveal the sordid history of the Democrat Party, both in light of the KKK and the working class. According to many historians, Andrew Jackson founded the Democrat Party in the late 1820s. While I will not delve deeply into that era, suffice it to say that Jackson was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Indians. He confiscated their land to give it to white settlers and for his own personal enrichment, and those who opposed his expulsion were killed. Now fast forward a bit. Since America’s founding through the Civil War, the Democrat Party had consistently supported slavery. The Civil War was not simply a war between the North and South – it was really a moral conflict between the Republican and Democrat parties: Republicans held that slavery was immoral and ought to be abolished, whereas Democrats held that slavery was moral and ought to be maintained. After the Civil War, the Democrats in the South sponsored Jim Crow, the Black Codes, and segregation. Eric Foner, one of the most prolific historians of American history in the U.S., has noted that the KKK was “the domestic terrorist arm of the Democrat Party.” The KKK itself was founded by the Democrat Party and was used to brutalize blacks in the South, specifically to prevent them from voting for Republicans; lynching was their common tactic. Now let’s turn to the Republican Party. Abraham Lincoln founded the Republican Party in 1854 precisely to fight against slavery, and his Emancipation Proclamation and victory over

the Confederates not only saved the Union but eventually paved the way for the abolition of slavery. The “Civil War Amendments” – namely, the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution – were passed almost exclusively because of Republican support. On average, for each amendment there was 100% Republican support, and somewhere between 0-7% Democrat support. The Republicans also sponsored civil rights legislation on numerous occasions, namely: in 1866, 1875, 1957, 1960, and 1964, and a majority of Democrats opposed every single one. In fact, the original civil rights movement was spearheaded by Republicans in the immediate years following the Civil War. Moreover, even the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 would not have passed without overwhelming Republican support in Congress, even though they were entirely unnecessary because blacks were already protected under the Civil War amendments. The story, however, doesn’t end here. Though the Democrats may have repudiated slavery and segregation, they have now enslaved black people through socialism and the welfare state. (This is why blacks have abandoned the party of Lincoln.) But it is precisely socialism and the welfare state which have economically devastated the working class and black communities. I find it unconscionable that Lipsman is both Jewish and a proud Democrat simultaneously, lectures us about anti-Semitism, the KKK, morality and justice, and yet is affiliated with a party that once supported that organization, has completely eviscerated the working class, rejects morality and justice, and reeks of racism and anti-Semitism! Unlike Lipsman, I am proudly a Jewish conservative-Republican (conservative in the political sense). My party has always supported liberty, has been the most tolerant of minorities, and has always supported free market capitalism, which was the greatest thing that ever happened to the working class, particularly black people. The values of the Republican Party are completely consistent with Judaism: morality, freedom, equal justice under the laws, sanctity of human life, private property, free markets and traditional marriage. The Democrat Party’s values are clearly not. Sincerely, Rafi Metz

Dear Editor, Your article this week on Russia and the threats it poses with the United States was appreciated. There’s one interesting thing about Russia. In other cases, with other nations, once we saw them fall, they never fully arose again. Take, for example, the Roman Empire. At its peak it was comprised of 60 million people and covered almost all the major population centers and civilizations of antiquity, including Greece, Egypt, the Levant, Carthage, Anatolia and Italy. Now, Rome’s “power” is only found in the Vatican and even that is limited and for the very few. Consider the Mongol Empire, the world’s largest land empire. A group of Mongol tribes numbering no more than a million managed to conquer empires that were literally hundreds of times bigger. Now Mongolia is only a blip on the map. Looking a bit more recently, look at the British Empire, which held power over a fifth of the world as its peak. In fact, it was said that the “sun never set” on the land because of the amount of land that it encompassed. Yes, Britain is a “world power” today but certainly not anything too remarkable in comparison to the United States. Now let’s look at Russia or the Soviet Union. Years ago, the Soviet Union had us ducking under our desks in preparation for an attack. The fear that it generated was palpable. The world was essentially hanging on a balance between two world powers: the U.S. and the Soviet Union, good vs. evil, democracy vs. Communism. But then, the Soviet Union fell and we thought that the nation was humbled. But fast forward twenty-five years and we’re back in the same place. Russia is very much a superpower, manipulating events in Syria and the Middle East and even in the United States. Our government essentially empowered the Kremlin by allowing them to roam over lands that were not their own. And we’re back where we once were: the United States vs. Russia, good vs. evil, democracy vs. autocracy. Will Trump be able to rein them in? Will he fall under their spell? Will he offer them the carrot or the stick? Time will tell, but until then, don’t file Russia under “has-been” just yet. Sincerely, R. Hammond

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Money-For-Free in Finland

You may want to pack up and move to Finland after reading this. The country, which is the most sparsely populated of all the European Union members, is starting a pilot program to give a guaranteed income to 2,000 of its citizens. The program will give about $587 a month to its participants regardless of their income, employment status, or wealth. The main idea behind universal income is that it offers workers greater security. It also allows unemployed people to get smaller “odd jobs” without losing their unemployment benefits. The initial “free money” program will run for two years. The participants – which are selected randomly – have to have either received unemployment or some other form of income subsidy. The money will be tax-free. The government is hoping to save money in the long term. Right now the welfare system is very expensive and complex to run. The simpler system would save money on costly bureaucracy which bogs down the cash flow. Guaranteed income subsidies have been tried before but most do not end up sticking. However, in Alaska, there has been a similar type of system in place since the 1980s. All Alaskan residents receive a percentage of the oil revenue that the state generates. I guess that’s one reason to move to Alaska.

Former Portugal PM Dies Mario Soares, beloved former prime minister of Portugal, passed

away this week at the age of 92. Soares contributed a lot to his country during his years in office; he was a major player in transitioning Portugal to a democracy. He was the first freely elected leader after a revolution ended almost five decades of dictatorship. “The loss of Soares is the loss of someone who is irreplaceable in our recent history – we owe him a lot,” current Prime Minister Antonio Costa announced after his passing. Beginning Monday, the country began three days of mourning and thousands bid farewell to Soares in a state funeral.

Soares risked a lot in his battle for freedom. He was arrested on several occasions in his fight against Antonio de Oliveira Salazar’s dictatorship and even served 12 years in prison. He returned from exile in Paris after the 1974 Carnation Revolution, and later that year he was appointed foreign minister in a provisional government. Soares was in charge of negotiating the independence of Portugal’s overseas colonies. As co-founder of the moderate Socialist Party, he was also involved with facilitating opposition to the Communist Party’s attempt to gain more power after the relatively nonviolent revolution. Soares’ Socialist Party won the country’s first free elections in 1976 and he then became prime minister. In 1983, he was elected prime minister again and helped negotiate Portugal’s entry into the European Economic Community, a predecessor of the European Union. He served as president from 1986 to 1996. Even after leaving office, Soares remained an active voice in Portuguese politics.

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black sedan approaches the gate, he fires before running off. Authorities believe that the gunman was wearing a wig, mustache, glasses and gloves during various stages of the crime. The diplomat’s vehicle had consular license plates from Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretariat.

Attacks on diplomats are federal crimes in Mexico. Jalisco state is dominated by the hyper-violent Jalisco New Generation cartel, although there was no immediate evidence of any cartel link to the attack. The official who was shot in his car has not been identified by the U.S. embassy. However, Mexican authorities have identified the victim as Christopher Ashcraft, a consular agent who has been at his post since March 2016. Secretary of State John Kerry called the strike a “heinous attack” in a statement on Sunday. For security reasons, Ashcraft will be sent back to the U.S. while officials investigate the failed assassination attempt. In 2015, a powerful cartel in Guadalajara killed 25 police officers in two months, shot down a military helicopter, and shut the state of Jalisco down with 40 roadblocks.

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western city of Guadalajara, Mexico, has been apprehended and sent back to the U.S. Mexican federal authorities said the suspect, who was not identified, was being returned to the United States for the “cunning and cowardly attack.” The attempted murder was caught

by surveillance camera. The video was heavily circulated and aided authorities in capturing the suspect. In the video, the suspect is seen in a dark blue shirt, pants and a black hat deliberately waiting by a security gate at a shopping center and scanning the occupants of cars as they pass. As a

It seems that Erdogan has not yet gotten over the coup that attempted to overthrow him last July. Over the weekend, Turkey ordered the dismissal of almost 8,400 civil

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servants in connection to the failed coup. About 80 associations, including sports clubs, were part of the expulsion. Since the summer, more than 100,000 people have been suspended for allegedly having links to coup-plotters. Immediately after the attempted overthrow, a state of emergency was declared and three new decrees published. The botched uprising caused 248 deaths and thousands of injuries. The recent expulsion includes 2,687 police officers, 1,699 civil servants from the justice ministry, 838 health officials and hundreds of employees from other ministries. They will lose their jobs and get no compensation. Another 631 academics and eight members of the Council of State were also dismissed. All dismissals were authorized by the cabinet and required no parliamentary approval under the state of emergency, which has twice been extended and is now due to last until April 19. The decree also says that Turkish citizens abroad who do not respond to a summons to testify as part the coup investigation could lose their citizenship. Meanwhile, police have also been authorized to access the identity of internet subscribers to investigate

crimes committed online. The European Union and human rights activists have criticized the sweep claiming that the crackdown is extending way beyond suspected rebellion organizers and targets anyone who has dared show opposition to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkey, though, vows that all those investigated will have a fair hearing. Supposedly 276 people that had previously been dismissed were allowed to return to work following a probe that was found to be false. Turkey is also insisting that harsh security measures are necessary due to the rising threat of the Islamic State group and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Just last week, the country suffered two attacks, one claimed by the Islamic State group and the other authorities blamed on the PKK in the western city of Izmir. Ankara has pointed fingers at U.S.-based Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen for the coup. Gulen has repeatedly denied the allegations. More than 41,000 people have been arrested over suspected links to Gulen within the state of emergency, with the first trials only now getting underway in the biggest legal process in the country’s history.

The first verdicts were delivered on January 5. A court in the eastern city of Erzurum sentenced two army officers to life in prison over their roles in the failed coup.

Kippahs for NonJews in Poland

Head to Café Foksal in central Warsaw one night and it’ll be filled with yarmulkes. No, this is not the newest kosher establishment in town. In fact, there are only a few observant Jews in the city. The kippah-donning patrons were actually non-Jews who wore the head covering in solidarity with Israel and the Jewish nation. On New Year’s Day two people accused the bartender at Café Foksal of

telling them not to speak about Jews and then throwing them out of the bar, an act they saw as anti-Semitic. Amid allegations that the complainants provoked the bartender with anti-Christian rhetoric, the affair highlighted the polarization between liberals and conservatives that is dividing Polish society. Attempting to halt any vitriolic speech against a people or race, Ryszard Schnepf, a former ambassador of Poland to the United States, gathered a group of people – journalists, activists and others – who came to Café Foksal with yarmulkes covering their heads. Before the delegation arrived, hundreds of people joined a Facebook group calling for a boycott of the cafe over the unverified — and hotly disputed — charges of anti-Semitism. Hundreds more joined a rival Facebook group vowing support for Café Foksal, whose management has categorically denied the anti-Semitism accusations. They claimed the patrons were tossed for engaging in anti-Christian hate speech while under the influence of alcohol. The media, including the prestigious Gazeta Wyborcza daily, were sucked into the ensuing debate. That’s what prompted Schnepf to organize

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the kippah-wearing expedition in a bid to show that Jews were welcome at Café Foksal and that anti-Semitism is not tolerated in Polish society. “It was friendly and fun,” Schnepf wrote on Facebook about his visit to the cafe, where he was photographed wearing a kippah. “That’s how you do it, for tolerance and friendship.” Café Foksal’s management also expressed its satisfaction with the event, sharing a picture of it on the establishment’s Facebook page. “A very nice evening in the company of dozens of terrific men and woman wearing kippahs,” they wrote. “Thanks for a nice initiative against those who would divide us.” Anti-Semitic incidents are relatively rare in Poland, which is home to some 20,000 Jews, according to Michael Schudrich, the country’s chief rabbi. But such incidents receive massive attention in a country where anti-Semitism is a sensitive issue. Approximately 90 percent of Poland’s 3.3 million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. The vast majority were killed by Nazi Germans. Thousands of courageous Poles, including Schnepf’s mother, saved Jews. But many Poles joined the killing, massacring several thousand Polish Jews.

Haitian Politician Arrested During Interview

Guy Philippe was celebrating his win as the newly elected Haitian Senate representative on a live radio talk show, but he still had some unfinished business on U.S. soil. The former rebel leader was wanted on U.S. drug charges and was arrested during his appearance last Thursday. According to witnesses, as Phillippe was being interviewed along with another recently elected lawmaker, police arrived at the studio. Radio host Gary-Pierre Paul Charles abruptly announced that police were outside

the studio in the Petionville district of the capital to arrest the interviewee. Several moments later, the host came back on air and announced that authorities had taken Phillippe away. Charles later said that the police were members of the Haitian anti-drug unit and fired shots into the air to disperse a crowd that had gathered. “It was shocking. People were running everywhere,” he said. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration nearly captured Philippe in a 2007 raid but he managed to evade authorities. It remains unclear whether or not he will be extradited to the United States. He is accused of drug trafficking charges, including conspiracy to import cocaine into the United States. In Haiti, he is a contentious figure and was one of the leaders of a violent 2004 rebellion that led to the overthrow of then-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Philippe’s recent election win threw him into the spotlight, perhaps not the smartest move for someone on the run. He had not yet been sworn into office. A photo of Philippe in a white dress shirt and smiling while being led out of the studio by police has been circulating social media in Haiti. Until now he has spent the majority of his time in a remote, mountainous part of southern Haiti with his extended family. It was difficult for authorities to locate and arrest him there. Still, occasionally he would appear in public. In August of last year he conducted an extensive interview with the AP. In that interview, he insisted that he is innocent of any crimes, blaming the accusations on enemies trying to silence him. “The path I chose, the way I chose, is not easy. But I chose it and I’m willing to die for it,” he said at the time.

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Mr. & Mrs. Chaim Shmuel (Henry) Schachar at the home of Mr. & Mrs. David Lawrence

‫מנחה וקבלת שבת‬

Congregation Aish Kodesh Rav Moshe Weinberger ‫שליט’’א‬ 894 Woodmere Place 4:40 pm Mr. & Mrs. Steve Landau

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and wily political maneuvering. A close aide of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the multimillionaire was relatively well-liked and respected in the international community. He was involved in the nuclear talks with Washington that led to the highly controversial nuclear deal in 2014. Rafsanjani was a key player in the war with Iraq and used his Khomeini influence to negotiate a ceasefire as the war was crippling the country’s economy. The former president did not have a good reputation within Israel and the international Jewish community. Argentinian prosecutors named Rafsanjani as a suspect in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires that left 85 people dead. He was also accused of slaying liberals and dissidents during his presidency. Those charges were – surprise! – never followed up on by the Iranian authorities.

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Lieutenant Yael Yekutiel, 20, Cadet Shir Hajaj, 22, Cadet Shira Tzur, 20, and Cadet Erez Orbach, 20, were the four IDF soldiers tragically murdered by an Arab terrorist this week. Fadi al-Qanbar, a resident of the capital’s Jabel Mukaber neighborhood, viciously rammed a flatbed truck into a group of soldiers on Sunday afternoon. The soldiers were participating in a group tour in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood in Jerusalem. As they unloaded off the tour bus the truck came charging at full speed into them, killing four and injuring another 16 people, two very seriously. According to police, the terrorist accelerated as he approached the group. He then reversed the vehicle and struck the

group a second time. Within seconds the driver was fatally shot by a civilian guide and soldiers. The truck, with Israeli license plates, was purchased by the terrorist last year. It approached from the direction of the Arab neighborhood Jabel Mukaber, which is adjacent to the promenade. Al-Qanbar was in his late 20s, was married with four children, and had previously served time in an Israeli jail. “In a fraction of a second during which I was speaking with one of the officers, I saw the truck plowing into us. After a few rolls on the grass I saw the truck start to reverse and then I already understood that this was not an accident. I felt that my pistol was still on me, so I ran up to him and started emptying my clip. He went in reverse and again drove over the injured,” the group’s guide, Eitan Rund, said. Since the incident, Rund has expressed his concern that the soldiers did not react fast enough. “I have to ask why it took a 30-year-old civilian to fire first,” he said, “when there were well-armed officers [present].” He blames the conviction of manslaughter handed out last week to soldier Elor Azaria, who shot dead a disarmed, injured Palestinian assailant. The IDF, though, claims that two to three soldiers opened fire from close range, perhaps after Rund, and are thought to be the ones who killed the terrorist. Within an hour after the attack, a Jerusalem court imposed a gag order on the investigation, so the exact details have not yet been revealed. Leah Schreiber, one of the guides for the group of soldiers, shared her harrowing experience, “I was explaining about the view of Jerusalem. I saw soldiers shouting and screaming. Some of the soldiers started shooting. It took some time to kill [the driver] so he was able to reverse. The whole thing took maybe a minute and a half,” she said. The tour was a field trip as part of the army’s “Culture Sundays,” in which troops visit historical and national sites at the start of the week. According to the Ben Zvi Institute, which organized the tour for the IDF, the soldiers were cadets from the officer’s training course and were from non-combat units. Following the attack, the Hamas terror group praised the attack as “heroic.” Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem wrote on his Facebook page: “These operations demonstrate that all attempts to bypass the resistance

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or to thwart it will fail every time.” Israel Hayom reported on Monday that a relative of al-Qanbar said that al-Qanbar became incensed after hearing a sermon at his mosque on Friday excoriating U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. According to Israel Radio, the expected embassy relocation was the chief subject of religious sermons throughout the West Bank on Friday, with PA leadership instructing the mosques under its control to focus on the matter. In response to this revelation Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman noted that “the worrisome thing is that terrorism and incidents in the field are the result of orders from on high — direct orders from Abbas to imams in mosques to incite [to violence].” “Anyone who thinks that instead of sitting down and talking, he will change the situation through pressure, intimidation or international conferences is wrong,” Liberman added. “We have no intention to waver from the decisions we’re made and I hope that we’ll exact a toll on the other party for all this incitement.” On Tuesday, Netanyahu criticized Abbas’s Fatah party for not only “fail[ing] to condemn the latest terrorist attack, but that there were even those in Fatah who praised it.” Both Netanyahu and Liberman have previously blamed incitement from the PA for fueling terrorism against Israelis, although the prime minister said on Sunday regarding the attacker that “according to all the signs he is a supporter of the Islamic State” terror group, without elaborating. On Monday, four people were arrested in the Old City were graffiti which praised the attack and called it “resistance.” “We will not despair until you give up” and “There is no place for you [Jews] in Jerusalem” was written in Hebrew. Another piece of graffiti proclaimed, “Yesterday’s attack is the beginning of 2017.”

Ben Gurion – Busier Than Ever An 11 percent rise in visitors at Ben Gurion International Airport

has led to record numbers in 2016. Counting only international travel, 17,387,971 people passed through the award-winning airport last year. The number is well over 18 million when domestic travelers are taken into account.

Over 100 airlines fly out of Israel to 135 international destinations. Broken down by country of destination, Turkey saw the most people at 1.6 million, though most of these travelers were in transit to somewhere else. 1.5 million people who traveled through Ben Gurion went to Italy, 1.45 million went to the U.S., 1.2 million to Germany, and another million each ended up in Russia and France. The top airlines to fly out of Ben Gurion in 2016 were El Al, with 5.5 million passengers; Turkish Airlines (932,000); easyJet (719,000); Aeroflot (704,000); Arkia (650,000); and Israir (548,000). The airport is currently working on security and infrastructure expansions which will allow Ben Gurion to accommodate even more passengers and airlines in the coming years.

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Is Sunday the New “Off” Day?

Get ready for some longer weekends in Israel. The country has spent many years debating the addition of Sunday to its weekend leisure time. After years of debates between lawmakers and industry leaders, it looks as if the country is poised to begin counting the first day of the week as a day off from work – some of the time. Many proposals have been sent

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would lead to less Shabbos desecration. Others have suggested that more weekend time would increase quality of life over all, while others feel the added spending on Sunday would boost the country’s economy. The latest draft of the bill, which was drawn up in May 2016, only proposes one Sunday a month to be

converted into an off-day. But even that was too much for some people. Concerns over the 12 days of lost production throughout the year have led to a modification that the bill only include six free Sundays a year. The bill is to go before the Knesset for a vote this coming week.

There are certain perks to being the prime minister of Israel, as there should be – it might be one of the most difficult jobs in the world. Recently, there have been allegations against Benjamin Netanyahu for excessive spending and corruption within his cabinet and household and many fingers have been pointed at Netanyahu’s wife, Sara. According to a new report released on Sunday, the Netanyahu family was wined and dined by an Australian businessman, a personal friend and business partner of the prime minister. The meal, served at the Netanyahu’s Caesarea residence, was worth tens of thousands of shekels, and was paid for and was sponsored by James Packer, an Aussie billionaire. There were also accusations that Netanyahu’s college-aged son, Yair, benefited from Packer’s generosity. Packer bestowed many gifts upon him including extended stays at luxury hotels in Tel Aviv, New York, and Aspen, Colorado, and the use of his private jet. Packer, a neighbor of Netanyahu in the affluent coastal community of Caesarea, is reportedly seeking Israeli residency status for tax purposes. It is unusual for a non-Jew not born in Israel to get permanent resident status. A report claimed that a lawyer for Packer, Yaakov Weinroth, another personal friend of Netanyahu, had unsuccessfully leaned on Interior Minister Aryeh Deri to grant the businessman permanent resident status. Previously, the media reported that Israeli Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan also gave the Netanyahus lavish gifts. Allegedly, Milchan presented Netanyahu with expensive cigars and his wife with champagne over the last several years. His motives were supposedly to get the help of Netanyahu in securing a long-term visa for Milchan to reside in the U.S. Netanyahu had asked U.S. Secretary

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of State John Kerry three times in 2014 to intervene on behalf of Milchan, and visa was eventually granted. Netanyahu is fully participating with the ongoing probe and was questioned by police under caution last Thursday evening. He was interviewed for more than five hours over the illegal gifts he received – it was his second questioning for the week. The Israeli leader has consistently denied any wrongdoing.

Israel Pulls UN Funding

In response to the passing of UN Security Council Resolution 2334, which condemns Israel’s presence in

Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem, Israel will be suspending significant amounts of its annual UN contributions in 2017. The Israeli Mission informed the UN that it will be cutting approximately 6 million dollars in protest. The 6 million represents the amount of money the UN allocated to anti-Israel bodies. These groups include the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), the Division for Palestinian Rights (DPR), the Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories (SCIIHRP), and the Special Information Program on the Question of Palestine of the UN Department of Public Information. Danny Danon, Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, said that “it is unreasonable for Israel to fund bodies that operate against us at the UN. The UN must end the absurd reality in which it supports bodies whose sole intent is to spread incitement and anti-Israel propaganda.” Danon added, “Now is the time to implement real change at the UN. We seek to stop the practice where the UN is used solely as a forum

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Israeli Jews: Obama not our Friend President Obama had eight years to serve as leader of the free world. During those years, he fostered certain relationships – think Cuba, Iran. But he also pushed away some of the

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in the territories?” Some 62% of the Jewish public replied that building should continue and 71% of Jewish respondents said that under the Trump administration Israel will be able to keep building in the settlements. In the Arab public that rate was even higher, at 81%. The latest poll of 600 respondents — 500 Jewish and 100 Arab — also looked into the public’s position on the attitude toward Israel of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The prevailing opinion (41%) is that his attitude to Israel is neutral, with 26% of respondents saying his attitude toward Israel is unfriendly and 19% describing it as friendly. Among the Arab Israeli respondents, however, 55% said they regard Putin as a friend of Israel.

FBI Reopens Cold Case

It’s been 44 years and the answers could be finally here. On July 1, 1973, after coming home from a dinner party, Colonel Yosef Alon, an Israeli diplomat serving as a military attaché, was shot and killed while exiting his car in the driveway of his home. It was never clear who actually killed the Israeli. Just a few months later the Yom Kippur War broke out and Israel needed to focus on other things. But now, the FBI – not Israel – is reopening the case due to information that was obtained by investigative reporter Adam Goldman. Goldman made contact with Ilich Ramírez Sánchez — known as Carlos the Jackal — who replaced Mohamed Boudia as head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, The New York Times reported this week. On the day of the attack, the Cairo-based Voice of Palestine claimed that Alon was targeted in retaliation for Israel’s killing of Boudia two days earlier. The FBI suspected Arab terrorists killed Alon but closed the investigation in 1976. The Jackal’s testimony now points to another culprit: American assassins with connections to the Palestinian terror movement.

Based on Goldman’s material and an earlier article of his on the subject, FBI agent Eugene Casey interviewed Ramírez, who is currently serving a life sentence in French prison. The Jackal claimed that it was not Palestinian terrorists but rather U.S. Vietnam vets who assassinated Alon at the behest of a Syrian member of Black September — the group responsible for the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Alon was shot five times as he was getting out of his car, returning home from a dinner party at about 1 a.m. He had served almost three years in his diplomatic role and was due to return to Israel the following month. As a pilot and founder of the Israel Air Force, his mission as naval and air attaché was to ensure Israel received the best planes and the latest aircraft technology from the U.S. In Chasing Shadows, a book about the assassination, Fred Burton wrote that Alon was murdered by a terrorist from the Black September group who was ultimately killed by the Mossad in 2011, though Casey has said that was never verified.

Elor Azaria Convicted

The IDF’s military prosecutors are reportedly going to offer Elor Azaria a lower jail sentence in exchange for him dropping his appeal. Azaria was convicted of manslaughter for killing an incapacitated Palestinian 15 minutes after the terrorist had been captured for stabbing an IDF soldier in March of 2016. The high-profile trial that concluded last Wednesday with a guilty verdict has deeply divided the country. The court was accused of bias by Azaria’s attorneys minutes after the verdict was handed down. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has backed calls for pardoning the young soldier. Many politicians and army topbrass had called for a guilty verdict in the trial. Former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon also joined in the rally against Azaria’s shooting of Abdel Fat-

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tah al-Sharif. When reading the verdict, the judge made clear that Azaria’s testimony was “not credible” and concluded that he had acted out of desire for revenge and was “not justified.” Azaria’s actions were deemed, in the eyes of the court, to explicitly disobey the IDF’s rules of engagement which state that deadly force cannot be used once the assailant no longer poses an immediate threat. As it stands, the young soldier’s verdict carries a maximum sentence of 20 years. According to Israeli news, the term he will actually receive if he chooses not to appeal will be far shorter than that.

Israel’s Solar Future

Israel will soon be home to the world’s tallest solar tower. The

proposed project is part of Israel’s recently renewed commitment to renewable energy production. Currently, the sundrenched nation utilizes very little solar energy – only about 2.5% – but that is about to change. A major project has begun to help reach Israel’s goal of 10 percent renewable energy by 2020. The Ashalim project, deep in the Negev desert, has four plots of land each with a different type of solar energy harvesting system. When completed in 2018, the fields will be powerful enough to supply 5 percent of Israel’s population – about 130,000 households – with their energy requirements. “It’s the most significant single building block in Israel’s commitment to CO2 reduction and renewable energy,” said Eran Gartner, chief executive of Megalim Solar Power Ltd., which is building one part of the project. The main attraction of the project is a 820-foot solar tower, which will be the world’s largest. The tower will not directly turn the sun’s energy into power. The tower will be surrounded by 50,000 mirrors which will reflect and focus the sun’s rays onto the tower which will contain a boiler that will produce steam

to turn turbines which will produce electricity. Another one of the fields will be used to store the energy, and another will use classic solar panels to create electricity directly from the sun’s rays. For a long time, Israel has lagged behind much of the developed world in renewable energy. Now, with new incentives and less bureaucracy standing in the way, the future of solar is looking sunnier. Leehee Goldenberg, director of the department of economy and environment at the Israel Union for Environmental Defense, pointed out, “Israel has a potential to be a sunshine superpower.”

Terror in Florida Fort Lauderdale Airport was the latest scene of terror in the United States when a gunman opened fire on Friday afternoon. Esteban Santiago, 26, boarded

his flight in Alaska on a one-way ticket to Ft. Lauderdale, one of the indications that the attack was planned. He only checked in a gun case. It is legal for airline passengers to travel with weapons as long as the firearms are stored in a checked bag — not a carry-on — and are unloaded and locked in a hard-sided container. Guns must be declared to the airline at check-in. Upon arrival in Florida, Santiago retrieved his luggage, went to the bathroom to load his gun, and emerged firing. Santiago, an Iraq War veteran, killed five people and wounded six others on Friday. He reloaded his automatic weapon twice within his 45 second shooting spree and then proceeded to drop his gun and lay facedown on the floor, awaiting arrest. Authorities have not yet released a motive for the attack. “We have not identified any triggers that would have caused this attack. We’re pursuing all angles on what prompted him to carry out this horrific attack,” FBI Agent George Piro said. On Saturday the suspect was charged with an act of violence at an international airport which can potentially hold the sentence of the death penalty if he is convicted. “Today’s charges represent the

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gravity of the situation and reflect the commitment of federal, state and local law enforcement personnel to continually protect the community and prosecute those who target our residents and visitors,” U.S Attorney Wifredo Ferrer said. On Tuesday it was revealed that Santiago initially purchased a ticket to New York City for New Year’s Eve but then cancelled the ticket and then rebooked for Florida a few days later. This is not the first time that Santiago has come across authorities’ radar. According to authorities, three months ago Santiago entered a FBI field office in Alaska with complaints that the U.S. government was controlling his mind and forcing him to watch Islamic State group videos. “He was a walk-in complaint. This is something that happens at FBI offices around the country every day,” FBI agent Marlin Ritzman explained. On that day a loaded gun was discovered in his vehicle along with his newborn child. Officers seized the weapon. Santiago was forced to undergo mental health evaluations and was hospitalized for four days. The child was picked up by its mother. However, a few weeks later, on De-

cember 8, the weapon was returned to Santiago. Last year Santiago had been discharged from the National Guard after being demoted for unsatisfactory performance. In the summertime he told family members that he was hearing voices and sought professional help from vet services. However, Bryan Santiago, his brother, said that his brother’s requests for psychological help were basically ignored, although he never discussed his mental health issues with his brother directly. Santiago was born in New Jersey and moved to Puerto Rico at the age of 2. He grew up in the southern coastal town of Penuelas before joining the Guard in 2007. While fighting in Iraq, Santiago witnessed two close friends being killed, spokesman Lt. Col. Candis Olmstead told The New York Times. He was awarded a Meritorious Unit Commendation. Upon returning from Iraq, Santiago served in the Army Reserves and the Alaska National Guard in Anchorage. He was serving as a combat engineer in the Guard before his discharge for “unsatisfactory performance.”

Jews in Congress

It’s always a good time for a little Jewish geography. As of last Tuesday, when the 115th Congress commenced, it was 5.6% Jewish, according to an analysis by the Pew Research Center. The previous Congress was made up of 28 Jewish legislators but this year another two seats are occupied by Jews. Of the 30 current Jewish lawmakers, 28 are Democrats and two are Republican. For the first time, 8% of the incoming non-Christian representatives are Jewish. The Jewish representation can be seen on both sides of the aisle. Of the 193 Republicans in Congress, only two of them are not Christian (they also happen to be Jewish): New York Rep. Lee Zeldin and Tennessee Rep. David Kustoff. Democrats are slightly more diverse in their religion. They are represented by members who also identify as Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, Unitarian Universalist and unaffiliated. There are 28 Jewish Democrats – 20 in the House of Representatives and another eight in the Senate. Leadership roles will be held by Jews as well. In Congress, prominent member New York Senator Chuck Schumer will serve as Senate minority leader. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders will serve as director of outreach for the Democratic caucus. Only about 2% of Americans are Jewish.

Bring Out the Good Ol’ PB&J Comfort food in the form of chocolate and peanut butter is oh so good! Parents who want their children to be able to indulge in the tasty treat should offer it to their infants well before their first birthday, according to new research. In recent years there has been a surge in food allergies, particularly to peanuts.

Now doctors are recommending exposing children to this food at a young age in order to evade allergies. The guidelines released last Thursday from the National Institutes of Health recommend feeding peanut butter to babies at a very young age in order to protect them from developing the dangerous food allergy. New research has discovered that early exposure dramatically lowers a baby’s chances of becoming allergic. The recommendations guide parents on how to introduce peanut-based foods to infants, depending on whether they’re at high, moderate or low risk for the allergy. In some cases parents are recommended to begin exposing babies as early as 4 to 6 months. Babies who are highly likely to have the allergy are instructed to take a very cautious approach. Babies with eczema or egg allergies are highly likely to be allergic to peanuts, and they need a pre- and post-checkup before any exposure. In some cases, the doctor will recommend giving the child his first taste at the office, just in case he has a reaction. “We’re on the cusp of hopefully being able to prevent a large number of cases of peanut allergy,” said Dr. Matthew Greenhawt of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, a member of the NIH-appointed panel that wrote the guidelines.

“It’s an important step forward,” echoed Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which appointed experts to turn the research findings into user-friendly guidelines. “When you do desensitize them from an early age, you have a very positive effect.” Currently, 2% of American children suffer from peanut allergies, and the number is growing. Children who suffer are forced to avoid any setting that may contain peanut butter and must abstain from a wide array of peanut-containing foods or risk severe, perhaps life-threatening, reactions. Exposing children to peanuts at a

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Obama Burning the Midnight Oil

The American Action Forum has conducted a study in which they found that President Obama has so far issued 145 “midnight” regulations. The “midnight” period refers to the time between Election Day and Inauguration Day. The cost of these regulations from just Election Day to December 31 already went above $21 billion. The rules he signed include 31 “economically significant” regulations with a price tag of at least $100 million each. “The administration has published more than 21 million hours of final federal paperwork requirements since November 8,” said Sam Batkins, AAF’s director of regulatory policy. “At the current pace, the Obama administration is going to be the most active ‘midnight’ regulator in more than a generation.” The Republican-led House of Representatives took measures to ensure they are not stuck with Obama’s policies after the current president is gone. This week they passed the Midnight Rules Relief Act by a vote of 238-184. The legislation allows Congress to repeal any regulations finalized in the last 60 days of an administration under a single disapproval resolution. The House also passed the REINS Act, which requires any executive branch rule or regulation that has an economic impact of $100 million to come before Congress for an approval vote before being enacted. young age is a new revelation. Until now, pediatricians advised parents to avoid peanuts until the age of 3 for children at risk of the allergy. That recommendation was dropped in 2008 but parents still held onto it. The new report is partially based on a study that found that Jewish children in Britain are 10 times more

likely to develop a peanut allergy than children in Israel. Children in Britain are rarely exposed to peanut butter, and Israeli toddlers’ love for Bamba begins way before they can talk to ask for more. In 2015, an NIH-funded study of 600 babies put that theory to the test, assigning them either to avoid or regularly eat

age-appropriate peanut products. By age 5, only 2 percent of peanut eaters — and 11 percent of those at highest risk — had become allergic. Among peanut avoiders, 14 percent had become allergic, and 35 percent of those at highest risk.

Birth Tourism: Instant Citizens A trend of Chinese “birth tourism” has been on the rise in recent years. The term refers to individuals who come to America while pregnant in

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order to have their children in this country, making their newborns citizens of the United States.

There are entire industries that have popped up around the movement. Chinese midwives, drivers, and doctors who accept cash, and even “maternity hotels,” all advertise online appealing to incoming pregnant “tourists.” Southern California is a particularly popular place for birth tourists. Chinese listing sites show several hundred maternity hotels listed throughout the region. Although the practice is not explicitly illegal, American authorities are trying to shut down such places of business. It is not legal to lie about one’s purpose of their visit to the U.S., however, “there is nothing in the law that makes it illegal for pregnant women to enter the United

States,” according to Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Critics blast the practice as a way of getting around tough immigration laws and the red tape in the system. Around 2.27 million visas were issued to Chinese tourists in 2015. The State Department does not track what portion of its visas are issued to pregnant women. According to The Center for Immigration Studies, a conservative-leaning think tank, roughly 36,000 Chinese nationals give birth in the U.S. each year. Jessica Vaughan, the center’s executive director, explains, “Birth tourism commodifies U.S. citizenship rather than keeping it something that is earned through the legal immigration system. It cheapens citizenship in the eyes of native-born Americans.”

Drive-Thru Tree It was a one-of-a-kind tree, and tourists enjoyed a special “ride” when they came to visit. Sequoias can grow to extraordinary heights and are famous for reaching mammoth diameters up to

27 feet. This particular sequoia had a “tunnel” that was carved into its 22foot diameter in the 1880s to allow tourists to pass through, first with horses and buggies and later with cars. The tunnel was limited to pedestrians in recent decades. According to Tony Tealdi, a supervising ranger at California State Parks, the tree was about 2,000 years old and was 100feet tall.

On Sunday, during a storm, the almost-dead tree fell and then shattered when it hit the ground. Visitors mourned the tree’s demise. “It’s kind of like someone in the family has died,” said Joyce Brown, a 65-year-old retired middle school teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area who spends about a third of the year at her family’s cabin in Arnold, about 4 miles from where the now-fallen tree lies dead in Calaveras Big Trees

State Park. She first visited the tree when she was 12. Four generations of Brown’s family have spent countless hours at the tree and often took outof-town visitors there, some from as far away as Turkey. Sumner Crawford of Charleston, South Carolina, remembers every detail of his first visit to the tree as a kid in the early 1990s. “I remember I was walking through the tree and thinking, ‘I’m inside of the tree right now!’” he said. “It was madness.” Jim Allday, a volunteer at Calaveras Big Trees State Park, felt the loss. “It was majestic,” he said. “Now it’s basically a pile of rubble.”

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period before returning to U.S. soil. This year things are a bit different. President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition staff has issued a blanket edict requiring all politically appointed ambassadors to leave their overseas posts by Inauguration Day. The mandate, sent on December 23, and issued “without exceptions,” could potentially leave the United States without Senate-confirmed envoys for months.

For the last several decades administrations of both the incoming and outgoing parties agreed to extend the time of some ambassadors, par-

ticularly those with school-age children, so that they could finish off the school year or at least transition. The general rule is that “political” ambassadors, many of which are big financial donors and are selected because of their personal relationship with the president, leave at the end the presidential term in most cases. But ambassadors who are career diplomats often remain in their posts for several weeks or months. However, it seems that Trump is strategically planning to disassemble Obama’s foreign and domestic policy regardless of what type of ambassador is at the post. This has caused many diplomats to rush to make plans for life back in America. Some are attempting to make plans to remain overseas and are seeking alternative living arrangements and the proper visas in order to remain in their countries. Ronald E. Neumann, president of the American Academy of Diplomacy, a Washington-based nonprofit association for former ambassadors and senior diplomats, said that since ambassadors are direct representatives of the president it is appropriate to expect them to return at the end of the term, however it is not generally enforced so strictly. “When you have

people out there whose only reason for being an ambassador is their political connection to the outgoing president of a different party, it’s pretty logical to say they should leave,” said Neumann, a career Foreign Service officer who held ambassadorships in Algeria, Bahrain and Afghanistan. “But I don’t recollect there was ever a guillotine in January where it was just, ‘Everybody out of the pool immediately.’” The unpopular move was a main topic of conversation at the White House farewell reception that Obama held last Wednesday night for non-career ambassadors. Many argued that just as Trump’s wife, Melania, has decided to remain in New York City so that her 10-year-old son can finish school, they would like to be allowed that flexibility.

Congressional Hearing on Russian Hacking State Republicans – basically ignoring President-elect Trump – have dug into the alleged hacking of the election by the Russian intelligence

community. John McCain, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, invited intelligence leaders to testify about “foreign cyber-threats” before Congress. The goal was basically to outline how Russia attempted to sway the 2016 presidential election and what should be done about it.

After all the testimony was given, it is clear that the American intelligence community thinks that Russia meddled in the presidential election. Candidate emails and party databases were definitely hacked by the Russians. Both the FBI and the CIA are in agreement that Russia wanted Trump to win the election. A major question that was addressed at the hearing last week was why Russia would go to such lengths to influence the outcome of the U.S. elections. Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. explained to the committee that “the Russians are bent on establishing a presence in

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the Western hemisphere” for a variety of reasons. Clapper outlined how Russia hopes to gain military allies, sell equipment, set up air bases and – crucially – set up intelligence-gathering facilities. The testimony that was given also makes clear that top Russian officials must have been involved in the hack. More will be known when an unclassified version of the report that President Obama and President-elect Trump are receiving is made public next week.

Hey Dude, Where’s My Car? Ever lose your car on Central Avenue on Friday afternoon? You know you parked it right in front of this store and then when you come back, it’s not there. No, the meter maids didn’t tow it away; the car simply was parked a few cars back. Phew.

A man in the UK experienced this sort of panic – just a billion times over. Back in June, he borrowed a friend’s BMW in Scotland and then drove it to Manchester for a concert. He parked his car in one of the parking garages – and then forgot which one.

Turns out, looking for a car in myriad parking garages is like, well, looking for a needle in a haystack. Impossible to find. After searching for five days, he gave up. His friend, the owner of the vehicle, emailed parking garages and officials in search of the car as well but to no avail. Finally, the owner reported the vehicle lost or stolen. Well, we know it was lost. Now, seven months later, it seems that the BMW has finally been found! Police officers say that they happened upon an abandoned car in one of the area lots just before midnight on Friday and, after seeing it had been

reported lost or stolen, tweeted that they’d found the car that had been lost since June. “We can’t imagine what the ticket machine is going to say when they finally put the ticket in,” posted Manchester City Centre officers in a follow-up tweet. The officers’ best guess? Around $6,150. And I sure hope the guy finally buys his own car. His friend is never going to lend him anything again.

A Ticket of the Past

We know that people return library books late – even years late. But this week, Renae Thornton reached out to police to pay a ticket that was a bit past the due date – 57 years old. The ticket was issued to Thornton’s “Paw Paw,” Delbert Kyle, for driving with one headlight and without a driver’s license. The fine? $10. Through Facebook Thornton connected with Police Chief Darryl Barton of West, Texas, telling him she wasn’t sure if the ticket had been paid. Barton replied to Thornton: “Well now, let me see… late fees, court cost, failure to appear charges…this could get expensive. Sure, come on over. Let’s talk about this…JUST KIDDING.” He added, “No worries, but I would be very interested in seeing this piece of history.” Thornton retrieved the ticket, snapped a photo and sent it to Barton. The ticket was dated April 27, 1960. According to the back of the ticket, the ticket was paid and was signed by Mayor George Kacir. Mystery solved. Her “Paw Paw” can now drive again.

Out of the Picture

In an effort to save face, an upstate New York man bought up nearly 1,000 copies of a local newspaper when it printed his mugshot and information about his recent driving while intoxicated arrest. But his efforts were for naught as the story of his frantic purchase went viral. Joseph Talbot (see, even you in the Five Towns are reading about his arrest) was arrested by State Police last Thursday. He was charged with driving while intoxicated and obstruction of governmental administration in the second-degree. During his arrest, Talbot called the officers names and refused to be fingerprinted or photographed because he didn’t want it to be in the local newspaper. He told the trooper the arrest would ruin his family. But never tell a newspaperman that you’re scared of publicity. When Ron Holdraker, editor and owner of the Wayne County Times, heard about the story, he obtained Talbot’s mugshot and printed it on Saturday morning. The story was featured in the 12,000-circulation newspaper and on its website. That’s when Talbot took action. The self-conscious man followed the paper’s deliveryman and bought nearly 1,000 copies of the paper at $1.25 each. His frantic antics were picked up by other news outlets. You see, Talbot forgot that most people nowadays don’t read newspapers (except TJH). There’s something way more far-reaching called the internet.

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Week, suits are becoming a costume just for funerals. Enter a sweet young man about to be an uncle. When heading to the hospital to see his niece for the first time, he donned a suit. According to his sister, “My sister is about to have a baby and my brother showed up to the hospital in a suit because ‘first impressions matter,’” she tweeted. The blazer and slacks were worn with a tie, tie clip, pocket square and watch. His hair was freshly combed. When a photo of the gentlemen hit the internet, it went viral. After all, don’t we all wish our dates came that nattily dressed?

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Joseph Schwab, 36, was driving home from work in August of 2015 when he was pulled over by a cop. The officer said that Schwab was driving erratically and said that she believed he was under the influence of drugs. She observed that he was “amped up” and had dilated pupils. She also noticed workout supplements in the car. When a blood test was taken to determine what was in Schwab’s system, the only evidence found was caffeine. Could be he downed too many cups of coffee that day. But is coffee a drug? Schwab was then charged with a misdemeanor DUI charge for driving under the influence. Interestingly, despite the blood test results that indicate only the presence of caffeine, the prosecutors were initially moving forward with the charge against Schwab. “This is a case without a blood result, right, so it makes it a very difficult challenge to prove in court to not have the blood result,” Solano County District Attorney Krishna Abrams admitted. Schwab says that more than a year later, this whole ordeal has hurt him financially and damaged his reputation. “Looks like I’m undependable,” Schwab said. “And when you tell this type of story to somebody, they are naturally not going to believe you.” Ultimately, the DUI charge against Schwab was dropped. He is still facing a charge of reckless driving. Joseph, keep off the Red Bull for a while.

When Silence isn’t Golden

It’s been 20 years since she heard her husband speak to her. Otou and Katayama Yumi have been married for over two decades. Together, they have three children. But all three children – who are 25-, 21- and 18-years-old – say they have never heard their father speak to their mother. Instead, their mother speaks with him, and he only nods or grunts in return. He speaks with his children normally. The reason for his rudeness? Apparently, he has been “jealous” of the attention his wife has been focusing on the children. The bizarre situation came to light recently when their 18-year-old son, Yoshiki, came to a TV show in Japan asking for help in reuniting his parents. “My father doesn’t talk to my mother but my mother talks normally to him,” he explained on the show. “It’s a one way chat.” On the show Otou attempted to justify his insolence. “When the kids were born my wife was very involved and busy in raising the kids. I was kind of ... jealous. I was sulking about it. There’s no going back now I guess,” he added. The show then helped the children reunite their parents by arranging a meeting between them at the same park where they had their first date. At the park, finally, after struggling for a few minutes, Otou spoke the first words to his wife in twenty years: “Somehow it’s been a while since we talked,” he said. “You were so concerned about the kids. Yumi, up until now, you have endured a lot of hardship. I want you to know I’m grateful for everything.” Their children, watching from afar, were pleased, one even bursting into tears. The pair promised their future together won’t be so quiet. Sure hope so. They have 20-years of things to talk about.

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Community Yeshiva of Far Rockaway Annual Lakewood Melava Malka was held this past Motzoei Shabbos. Despite the snow, their was a large turnout at the event.

Rabbi Paysach Krohn Launches Chessed Program at HAFTR Middle School

n Monday morning, January 9, Rabbi Paysach Krohn, world renowned speaker, author and mohel, addressed the HAFTR Middle School student body and faculty about the importance and benefits of chessed. The program was sponsored by Lisa and Arthur Perl in honor of their daughter Eliana’s upcoming bat mitzvah. Rabbi Krohn captivated the students with inspiring stories and messages about the powerful impact of even one act of chessed. The first message was that the goal of doing chessed for someone else is to make the other person feel special and to do it with dignity. He then shared a second message that chessed has powerful outcomes in this world and did so using numerous inspirational stories and examples. One quote he used in delivering this message was “any fool can count the number of seeds in an apple, yet only Hashem can know how many apples will come from one seed.” And then the big announcement came from Rabbi Krohn about the new initiative at HAFTR. HAFTR Middle School will be starting a CPH,

Chessed Program at HAFTR, one in which every student can perform amazing acts of chessed. Rabbi Krohn explained that the acronym, CPH, is a take from CPR. “CPR is a breath of fresh air, and CPH shows that

we care.” Each student received a Chessed a Day Journal in which they can record an act of chessed that they performed each day. The students left the program inspired and motivated to live a life filled with perform-

ing acts of chessed. Shortly following the program students were overheard saying, “I just held the door open for someone else” and “I already starting using my journal.”

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OHEL Provides Chanukah Warmth to So Many

t OHEL, Chanukah starts early with the Annual Toy Drive. Together with the Daniella Moffson Foundation and many local schools, hundreds of gifts were donated to the children and families of OHEL. And this was just the beginning. The start of Chanukah saw the many residents in OHEL Bais Ezra and OHEL Mental Health homes light candles together, exchanging gifts and celebrating each night with singing, smiles and of course good Chanukah food! At OHEL’s Annual Chanukah Party for Foster Families, OHEL foster children enjoyed a loving, and joyous night of entertainment together with their foster parents. The evening is, in addition, a celebration and tribute to the dedicated and tireless efforts of OHEL foster parents and OHEL foster staff who are dedicated to help nurture children who are loved and thrive in their OHEL foster homes. For individuals and staff at OHEL, Chanukah is also a very important time to show appreciation to the many public service workers of NYC – from firefighters to policemen who spend their holiday season watching over others. Several of OHEL’s homes in Brooklyn and the Five Towns visited local police and fire stations with presents, snacks and warm hugs to give thanks for their hard work and dedication. Everyone was smiling. The culmination of OHEL’s Chanukah festivities was, of course, OHEL’s Annual Chanukah Party, where OHEL clients and their families, employees, friends and supporters of OHEL and many OHEL Board Members, shared an unforgettable evening celebrating the Festival of Lights. From clowns on stilts, a talking dreidel, to face painters, the evening was one of laughter and big smiles. Balloon artists crafted everything from a ninja to Cookie Monster, and everyone enjoyed a sumptuous Chanukah buffet. OHEL thanks Sammy and Lea Trencher for their gracious support of OHEL’s Annual Chanukah Party, and, with the assistance of many children in attendance, they together lit the Chanukah candles followed by a beautiful rendition of Maoz Tzur. OHEL Board Member Shlo-

Sammy Trencher, second from left, sponsor of the OHEL Chanukah Party, joins with members of OHEL’s Board of Directors

ime Dachs and his orchestra led the songs, music and dancing, and many clients joined Shloime on stage sharing the microphone and singing their favorite songs. The celebration reached a finale when Shloime introduced two couples on stage, who are dating through OHEL’s Simcha Fund – a program which helps individuals challenged by disability to learn dating and social skills. The smiles on their faces as they sang together helped cap a truly special night. At the end of this incredible evening, Sammy Trencher sang an inspiring rendition of “HaMalach HaGoel,” a tradition at OHEL events – that dates back almost 47 years! Since 1969, OHEL has served as a dependable haven of individual and family support, helping people of all ages surmount disability, everyday challenges, heal from trauma, and manage with strength and dignity during times of crises. OHEL serves thousands in need every day in communities in New York, New Jersey, California and worldwide. Individuals interested in the many programs that OHEL offers should contact OHEL at (800)-603OHEL (6435). Like us on Facebook at OHEL Children’s Home and Family Services and follow us on Instagram @ohelfamily.

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he Young Israel of Long Beach held their annual Scholarship Concert on Motzaei Shabbos, January 7, 2017. The concert featured the newest musical sensation Mordechai Shapiro who entertained the audience with his vast repertoire of popular and Chassidish Jewish music. Mordechai’s “Sechar Mitzvah Mitzvah” brought the audience to its feet. Although there was a momentary hesitation as to whether to cancel and reschedule the event given the worsening weather conditions, it was decided to move ahead as planned. As it turned out there was an exceptional turnout with a near sold-out attendance. Once again this year’s concert took place at the Long Beach Hotel which offered its facilities without charge in order to support the mission of the concert. The Young Israel of Long Beach is the cornerstone of the Orthodox Jewish Long Beach community and is led by Rabbi Dr. Chaim Wakslak. There are multi-faceted programs and activities sponsored by the YILB which are designed to satisfy the diverse needs of its membership. More fundamentally the YILB emphasizes

a core mission of being a mikdash me’at for all – a place of introspection, tranquility where one can come to daven and connect to the Ribbono Shel Olam. Rabbi Wakslak and Joseph Langer, a past shul president, conceptualized this scholarship concert nineteen years ago. Since that time, the proceeds from this scholarship concert has allowed many local community youngsters to attend yeshiva and/or overnight summer camps. Ten years ago, following the untimely p’tirah of Robert Chiger, z”l, a young vibrant member of the congregation, it was decided that his memory would be most appropriately perpetuated by re-naming this scholarship fund the “The Robert Chiger Scholarship Fund.” Bob had a unique connection to the youth of the synagogue and cared for their religious and character development. He was also a strong proponent of the YILB youth and sports programs. This concert is strongly supported each year by Beth Chiger and Neil Sambrowsky and Beth’s children Michele & Eric Ehrenhaus, Andrea & Ariel Gantz, Elliot & Chana Chiger, and David & Rachel Chiger.

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Chabad on Campus of Queens Winter Torah Program

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habad on Campus of Queens launched a pilot for a distinctive, advanced Torah program. “We’ve been working with college students in Queens since 2004,” said Rabbi Shaul Wertheimer of Chabad on Campus of Queens, “and there is a genuine thirst for more depth, and more spirituality, amongst students. We reached out Rabbi Shais Taub of Pittsburgh to answer the call as the scholar-in-residence. Taub is a prolific author and educator, with a rare talent for elucidating Torah in general and Chassidic texts in particular. I also thoroughly enjoyed teaching Chumash and Talmud.” The day began at 9:30am with a gourmet breakfast, followed by intensive learning that kept the students intrigued until 5pm. Classes included Tanya (the foundational book of Chassidic thought), Chumash in depth, Talmud, the Chassidic discourse “Kuntres U’Maayan,” and more. “I am so grateful that the Chabad Winter Torah program has allowed me to immerse myself in the deepest, truest Torah learning,” remarked Sarah Shevchuk of Barnard College. “I not only

feel elevated by the learning but also feel that I have something incredibly valuable to take away and share with my family and friends back on campus,” she added. Coordinated and staffed by both Rabbi Shaul and Tzipah Wertheimer, the program’s success is “in large part due to Rabbi Shmuli and Chavie Lieberman, our colleagues at Chabad of Hofstra, who taught classes and were involved in almost every detail,” Wertheimer said. Teaching staff also included Rabbi Yisrael and Mrs. Vivi Deren of Stamford, CT “whose wealth of wisdom

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all day Torah study program for a week,” reflected Rabbi Taub. “It was a pleasure to study with such bright and highly motivated students.

They asked great questions and made great points. I’m honored to have been a part of the first year of this new initiative and I definitely see this growing in a major way.” Mordechai Caplan of Queens College learns Torah with Wertheimer regularly and was eager to attend. “The Winter Torah Study program gave me context about the world around me and my role, not just as a person, but as a Jew in the grander scheme of things,” he commented. “It was truly mind opening.” Eliran Rebeyev of Kew Gardens Hills heard about the program from his Chabad Rabbi at SUNY Albany where he attends school. “This has been

a great experience,” Rebeyev said, “[Rabbi Taub] has really opened my eyes to the world of Chassidut.” “My wife, Tzipah, and I are very excited about the future, this is just the beginning. We are very grateful to Chabad on Campus International that helped facilitate this program with their undying efforts to meet the needs of students from all backgrounds,” Wertheimer concluded. Students who attended the program study at SUNY Albany, Barnard College, Brooklyn Law, Hofstra University, Penn State, University of Pennsylvania, Miami University of Ohio, Texas A&M and Queens College.

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completely in Ivrit and singing a variety of songs. After each performance, there was a short video presentation depicting the girls going through their daily routine in school: davening, enjoying the playground, learning in their classrooms, having lunch, and

more. The girls were then each presented with their own leather-bound Chumash engraved with their Hebrew names. The event ended with a collation in the sunlit Middle Division lunchroom.

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Last Monday the sixth grade students of Yeshiva Har Torah invited their parents to come to the yeshiva on their “day off” due to the legal holiday. The students and their parents prepared sources together in preparation for a shiur from the Menahel of Yeshiva Har Torah Rabbi Menchel on the topic “Being sensitive to not embarrass others.” It was an inspiring day to see so many parents dedicate their day off from work to spend time learning Torah with their children.

HANC Middle School Moments

ANC Middle School held its school-wide spelling bee on January 4. Each class was able to have two class finalists. They were Avi Brandler, Jaden Etienne, Jessica Haynes, Grace Herschberg, Jesse Kramer, Rena Max, Liana Schwartz, Mor Sharoni, and Moshe Wieder. They all spelled so many words correctly. We continued on, round after round, until we were finally down to two. Congratulations to our HANC MS champion, Rena Max, and our runner up, Avi Brandler. Rena will represent us at the Long Island Spelling Bee Companionship at Hofstra in February. We’re so proud of all our spellers. What a great job they did! Shabbat Parshat Vayigash was Middle School Shabbat in West Hempstead. Rabbi Harris, Rabbi Olshan, Morah Klein, Morah Hakimian and Rabbi Hecht came with their families for Shabbat. Each of the rabbis spoke at Anshei Shalom, Eitz Chayim of Dogwood Park, and the Young Israel of West Hempstead over the course of Shabbat. Friday night there was an amazing father-son oneg at the HANC 609 elementary school with Rabbi Harris, Rabbi Olshan and Rabbi Hecht. There was delicious food, catered by I and D, and

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beautiful zemirot. Rabbi Harris led an interactive shiur which discussed mitzvot and whether there were bigger or smaller mitzvot. Students and parents alike were enthralled. The evening ended with the entire room forming one big circle and singing “Acheinu.” Shabbat afternoon, there was a mother-daughter shalosh seudot. There was a lavish buffet, catered by Bagel Town. The mothers and daughters sang zemirot together with Morah Hakimian, Morah Klein and Mrs. Fryman. The morot then led them in a very interesting game which tested the mother’s and daughter’s knowledge of each other’s likes and

dislikes. Everyone also learned about the parsha together with a beautiful source booklet put together by Morah Hakimian and Morah Klein. This Shabbat was a wonderful opportunity for the rebbeim and morot to spend time with the West Hempstead community. HANC Middle School would like to thank all of the hosts and sponsors of the Shabbat. We would also like to thank Rabbi Goller, Rabbi Greer, Rabbi Soniker and the shuls for welcoming us so warmly. As many of you know, Rabbi Yehuda Kelemer, Rav of the Young Israel of West Hempstead, was hit by a car about a month ago. As a zechut (merit) for a refuah shelaima, the

HANC Middle School has undertaken a new tefilla initiative called the Hashket Vavetach Tefilla Initiative. Rabbi Kelemer has often mentioned his desire for quiet during tefilla. The students have been working diligently on their avodat Hashem. This initiative has helped the entire minyan concentrate better on their tefillot. Additionally, each Tuesday and Wednesday we spend a few minutes at the end of davening focusing on a piece of tefilla so that the students can also understand what they are saying even better. May this initiative be a zechut for a refuah shelaima for Yehuda ben Rivka Leah b’toch shaar cholei Yisroel.

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Engineers at Work By Adena Cohen, sophomore

n Thursday, January 5, the sophomore engineering class along with their instructor, Mrs. Victoria Pero, took a trip to Queens College to attend the 20th Annual Science Open House for High School Students which is presented by Stony Brook University. At the seminar, the students had the opportunity to experience different events related to both biology and chemistry. The engineering class began with a lecture on non-Newtonian fluids and received a hands-on experience with the substance that is still being researched. The class continued their day by visiting the Holtzman Lab and viewing the topic researched there, the development of zebra fish embryo.

Silly putty (Hydrophobic materials in nature) and fake milkshakes (polyurethane foam) were created by the students in two other lessons that followed. The students then had a relaxing

lunch break before continuing their informative day. They finished off by watching the Hayden Memorial Chemistry Show, a show that demonstrated a variety of chemical reactions such as explosions and color trans-

aging students to be more engaged, and created an interactive learning environment. The grade two students went on a trip to Alley Pond Environmental Center in Douglaston to participate in the program, Animal Clues. The students learned more about animals and their habitats and how they adapt to those habitats, specifically in the winter. They discussed hibernation and learned what clues to look for that show an animal once dwelled in this habitat, such as feathers, footprints, nests and burrows.

Eitan Mullakandov, grade 2, said, “My favorite part of the trip was when I found out that if you look for animal footprints and follow them, you can sometimes find where the animal is hibernating.” There was a nature hike and a visit with rabbits, turtles and doves that the students were able to pet. This trip enhanced the learning experience by reinforcing what the students have learned this year in science about different animal groups, their habitats and how they adapt to their homes.

Art and Alley Pond at YCQ

he grade six students at the Yeshiva of Central Queens had a visit from Elana Kaplan, educator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mummies and Masterpieces program. She showed the students a slideshow of artifacts that are displayed at the museum in the ancient Egypt exhibit that coincides with what they are learning in class. The students got to see what life was like in ancient Egypt, which Mrs. Kaplan connected to Chumash and T’nach, and was able to answer the students’ questions. Following the demonstration students were given clay to work on their own artifact replica, carving boats, sphinxes and hieroglyphics. Jonathan Ivraghimov, grade 6, said, “My favorite part was carving my name in clay using hieroglyphics.” And Matthew Hayimov found “the slide show to be interesting and educational at the same time.” The hands-on experience reinforced the material learned in class, bringing history alive, encour-

formations that received a great response from the crowd. Afterwards, the students headed back to school, excited to share their newfound knowledge with their peers.

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“Spinning like a dreidel” is what was happening at this week’s Learn & Live Program. R’ Mosey Kaplan showed the boys how to spin with a real spinning wheel. The boys learned some new words such as bobbin and spindle in connection with the spinning wheel. Each boy received a cotton ball to unroll and prepare it for spinning and then most boys got a chance to spin it. This Sunday will feature a special presentation. For more information regarding L&L, email learnandlivefr@gmail.com.

January Enrollment Deadline Approaching for Program Providing Rabbeim with $10K Annual Raises

historic initiative that has already provided more than 300 rabbeim with immediate $10,000 salary increases is about to open its second enrollment period, giving yeshivos a groundbreaking opportunity to properly recognize their most valued asset: their rabbeim. This past September, 24 yeshivos jumped at the chance to participate in The Rebbe Initiative, a joint effort of Torah Umesorah and Agudath Israel of America, which is subsidizing a significant portion of the funding over a six year period. Rabbeim in participating yeshivos will receive a $10,000 annual raise, an amount that will grow to $15,000 over the six year program. During the first two years of participation, the cost of the raises will be borne equally by the fund and the schools. As schools continue in the program over the remaining four years, the yeshivos will absorb a greater share of the associated costs as The Rebbe Initiative slowly scales back its contributions, an approach that gives schools time to get their fundraising programs in full swing. The Rebbe Initiative is working with participating yeshivos who will be required to make strong financial commitments to cover their additional payroll costs. A marketing campaign launched by The Rebbe

Initiative to encourage donations from the public highlights the prestige of being a rebbe as well as the importance of a Torah education as an investment in the future of klal Yisroel. Fundraising packages have also been created to help yeshivos solicit donations to underwrite the associated costs so that overburdened parents are not faced with an additional financial responsibility. “The goal is that this money should come from community fundraising and not tuition increases,” said program director, Rabbi Shmuel Bloom. The Rebbe Initiative began as a call to action at the 2015 Agudah Convention by Rabbi David Ozeri of the Yad Yosef Torah Center in Flatbush. Speaking passionately as he addressed the convention, Rabbi Ozeri warned that substandard salaries have caused countless gifted educators to seek more lucrative forms of employment. These departures have left a tremendous void that can have devastating ramifications for students, noted Rabbi Ozeri, who challenged listeners to rise to the occasion and augment the salaries paid to mechanchim so that they would be able to continue in their chosen professions. “We cannot afford to lose our rabbeim,” cautioned Rabbi Ozeri during the convention’s fiery keynote session.

While Rabbi Ozeri may have tossed out the first pitch in an effort to improve the lives of rabbeim, within a matter of weeks a group of baalei batim at Torah Umesorah’s Presidents Conference took that same ball and ran with sowing the seeds for The Rebbe Initiative. The program would be based on a $66 million fund that would be established through private donations and, in conjunction with fundraising efforts by yeshivos, would ultimately provide 3,000 rabbeim with $10,000 pay raises over a six year period. Speaking at last year’s 72nd Annual Torah Umesorah dinner, guest of honor Avromi Hirsh announced the kickoff of The Rebbe Initiative to thunderous applause. “Significant change is needed; significant change is coming,” said Hirsch. “It is time we stepped up to accept the achrayus for, after all, it is an achrayus that is actually ours to begin with.” When school opened this past September, 314 rabbeim at participating yeshivos began receiving immediate salary increases, bringing tremendous benefits not just to them and their families but also to their talmidim. The additional raise in salary will by no means afford rabbeim a luxurious lifestyle but would provide some element of peace of

mind, allowing rabbeim to focus on educating their students instead of having to worry about their precarious financial positions. The Rebbe Initiative has been opened again now, during the month of January, and those involved in the initiative hope to see 300 to 400 rabbeim added to the program before the January 31st enrollment deadline. The program is currently scheduled to be re-opened in September 2017 and, as the fund continues to grow towards its ultimate goal of $66 million, the program will be opened again in order to accommodate a greater number of mechanchim. While the costs may seen daunting, they are absolutely attainable, remarked Rabbi Avrohom Fruchthandler, a member of Torah Umesorah’s presidium. “People tell me there was never so much Torah being learnt as now in America,” observed Rabbi Fruchthandler. “There was never so much money by Yidden as there is now in America. It’s just a question of moving it from the Zevulun to the Yissochor.” To find out more about the Rebbe Initiative contact Rabbi Chaim Wein of Torah Umesorah at 845304-5493 or email cwein@torahumesorah.org

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Cupcake Chessed

rs. Lisa Abittan came to Shulamith last Tuesday morning and taught grade eight students cupcake decorating techniques. The girls then visited the Long Island Assisted Living Center where they shared their cupcakes with the residents.

Gamba at Shulamith

t Shulamith, every possible strategy is employed to ensure that students become completely literate in the Hebrew language. To that end, for the past five years, students in the Shulamith Lower Division have been using Gamba, a reading website developed by the Center of Education Technology in Israel. The website offers a wide selection of exercises, extensive vocabulary, and a fun, easy way to

practice kriyah, allowing students to increase fluency and master correct pronunciation of the Hebrew language. Teachers are able to differentiate instruction for each student and receive reports of what each student has completed. Rivka Holtzman, third grade teacher and the school’s Hebrew reading specialist, says, “The girls in Shulamith love using Gamba, and many are using it at home as well!”

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Remembering Hallel

ayin Tevet was a somber day in Shulamith Middle Division as teachers and students remembered Hallel Yaffa Ariel, Hy”d, a beautiful thirteen-year-old Israeli girl who was murdered in her own home last summer by a terrorist. In accordance with the wishes of Hallel’s mother, Mrs. Rena Ariel, we marked

what would have been Hallel’s fourteenth birthday by trying to do acts of kindness in her memory. Each student received small heart shaped memo pads in which to record their acts of kindness l’iluy nishmata. May Hallel’s neshama have an aliyah and may we know peace in our land.

Mesivta of Queens Announces New Building By Devorah Brody

he Mesivta of Queens is pleased to announce their new building: the Maspeth Jewish Center, located on Grand Avenue, near the intersection with the Long Island Expressway, in Maspeth, Queens. The roomy building has ample space for classrooms, dining room and offices. It also boasts a beautiful, carpeted shul with an exquisite carved-marble aron kodesh. Sports activities will take place in the tremendous, five-thousand squarefoot yard in back of the building. The building is presently undergoing renovations to make it suitable to serve our needs. Mesivta of Queens, under the leadership of Rabbi Gershon Brafman, Dean, and Rabbi Ronen Dvash, Menahel, will be hosting an Open House in Rabbi Oelbaum’s Shul, at 141-39 73rd Avenue, in Kew Gardens Hills, on January 15th, at 2:00 pm. Potential talmidim, and their parents, will have an opportunity to hear how the warm environment

and close rebbe-talmid relationship will help the talmidim in Mesivta of Queens to develop fine middos, achieve a true simchas hachaim, and foster a desire to grow and achieve. For more information about Mesivta of Queens, or to request an application form, please contact the Yeshiva at 718-755-4358, or rgb@ mesivtaq.org. Find out if Mesivta of Queens is the right choice for your son.

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BioBus

AFTR scientists discovered that you can learn about science everywhere and anywhere – even on a bus! Students in kindergarten, fourth and fifth grades explored microscopic organisms with the BioBus, a mobile science lab. The instructors were experts in their fields and introduced students to the world of microscopic organism. Younger students used a handheld microscope to explore microorganisms found in the world around them. Students inspected their shoes, their skin, the shapes found in their hair strands and the fibers of their uniforms. They also used state-of-the-art microscopes, to observe movements of Daphnia, a microscopic animals found in ponds and puddles across NYC. Scientists in fourth and fifth grades also observed the Daphnia. They discovered how these single-celled organisms work together inside the freshwater ecosystem.

Looking at large screen video microscopes, students marveled at the wriggling and tumbling paramecia, amoeba and bacteria race across the slide. Perhaps most amazing to students was that the bus operated on solar power and was heated even in this cold weather.

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CAHAL at the Yeshiva of South Shore Invention Convention

nventions are made to fill a need, and we all know the old adage, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” The boys in the CAHAL fifth grade class at Yeshiva of South Shore used their creativity and ingenuity to design new inventions for YOSS’s Invention Convention. First, the students brainstormed about different ideas that would help improve their lives and the lives of others. The next step was to make lists of supplies that they would need to build their inventions. Together, the boys decided what steps were required in order to make their ideas into real and useful objects. The students brought supplies to class and then built their prototypes. Although not all of the prototypes were immediately successful, the boys were able to test their inventions and think of changes, which would make their inventions work better. Finally, the students created presentation boards and proudly displayed their unique inventions. The boys even came up with catchy slogans! Some of the students’ inventions included: the Smart Math

gram and to the CAHAL teachers Ms. Shoshana Lubin, Mrs. Jill Roth and Rabbi Moshe Hoffman. They gave their students the skills and confidence to transform their initial ideas into their final inventions. CAHAL, the local yeshiva-based and sponsored community program for children with learning challenges, now in its 24th year, provides smaller, more individualized classes in the local yeshivas catering to children’s learning styles, where all the students attend mainstream activities daily, including lunch, recess, specials, assemblies, trips and more. When ready, children attend academic classes as well, with support from CAHAL to ensure success. The experienced and caring CAHAL teachers make it all happen. Notebook, the Master Eraser, Super Hot Sox, and the Super Comfy Notebook. The boys had a fabulous time at the YOSS Invention Convention. It was so exciting for them to share their displays and inventions which demon-

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he snow and cold did not stop the women from coming out and making the Sh’eefa Melave Malka on December 17 the success that it was. The room was filled with women ready to enjoy each other’s company, eat delicious food, hear inspirational words of Torah and create beautiful desserts. Upon entering the room, the women were greeted with beautifully set tables in a gold and black theme, with gold flickering candles in honor of Chanukah that added a warm glow go the Aish Kodesh simcha hall. After enjoying a delicious dairy buffet from The Coffee Bar, the women were privileged to hear from Mrs. Amit Yaghoubi who spoke about Chanukah and the overlapping theme of money. She explained the overwhelming attention to money: we give Chanukah gelt, the halacha is that one cannot use the menorah’s candlelight to count his money, and when Yaakov Avinu went back to get little jugs of oil before his fight with Eisav’s Malach, Rashi explains that he returned because he was careful with his money. She explained that money is something physical and that it represents the potential that can be acquired with it. Chanukah is a time when we should not just be asking Hashem for the small “money” of life, but actually see beyond those mundane objects and activities and ask for the unending potential that Hashem can shower upon us. Following the wonderful words of chizuk and inspiration, the women were treated to a tasty, fun and interactive cupcake decorating demonstration with Bonnie Klein from Bonnie’s Bites. Bonnie told everyone how she herself used to attend Sh’eefa during her single days, and has such fond memories spent there. Now she

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runs a business where she bakes delicious pastries for her satisfied customers. Bonnie showed the women different techniques on how to use the different icing tips and then everyone had a chance to decorate their own cupcakes! The room became filled with laughter as we discovered there was a lot of artistic talent in the room, while everyone designed the most creative and beautiful cupcakes. Thank you to our anonymous sponsor for sponsoring the entire event lilui nishmas Avraham Ben Yitzchok a”h. Thank you to Sh’eefa’s program director Mrs. Aviva Zakutinsky for all her hard work to make this Melave Malka such a smashing success. Much thanks also goes to the Melave Malka committee Gabby Decter, Danielle Koppel, Sara Nissanian, Margalit Salig and Tamara Weinberg for all their assistance with making the night possible. As the fun-filled night winded down, everyone left with cupcake boxes in hand, smiles on their faces, and the same thought – we can’t wait for the next Sh’eefa Melave Malka! For more information about Sh’eefa’s Women’s programming, please visit www.sheefa.org, or follow @sheefaseminary1 on Instagram for updates.

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SKA Faces the Future: Career Day

igh schoolers aren’t usually given the opportunity to evaluate career choices during their teen years, but the sophomores, juniors and seniors of the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls were more fortunate! At SKA’s Career Day, held on Monday, January 2, students heard accomplished mothers and alumnae showcase the work they do, giving girls the ability to learn about different professions and gain an understanding of what it means to be an Orthodox Jewish woman in today’s workplace. The keynote speaker, Ms. Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt, a noted journalist, spoke of finding her passion as a writer. The student audience was fascinated as Ms. Chizuk-Goldschmidt recounted her early years as an undergraduate and how she was determined to write, while holding on to her religious identity. The students were then able to

select three different sessions from a broad range of choices, with each session hosting female professionals working in the discipline they selected. Seminars on “A Jew in the Workplace: A Halachic Perspective,” “Internships and Career Opportunities” and “Making a First Impression” were very informative and of much interest. We were honored to host Ms. Chizhik-Goldsmidt, Rabbi David Cohen, Mrs. Marjorie Kellner, Mrs. Sarah Hofstetter, Mrs. Natasha Srulowitz and Mrs. Adele Dubin and all the other professionals who gave up their free time and contributed to making SKA’s Career Day so productive. Our thanks and appreciation goes to Ms. Raizi Chechik, SKA Principal, and our parent volunteers, Chairperson Mrs. Rachel Laufer, Mrs. Autumn Mael, Mrs. Deborah Rockoff and Mrs. Ariella Zuller, for organizing this very enlightening program.

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10 Jewish MLB Players Visit Israeli Air Force Base

en Jewish current and former Major League Baseball players and their families visited the Tel Nof Israeli Air Force Base near Rehovot, Israel, last week as part of a trip to Israel in preparation for the World Baseball Classic. The base visit, organized by Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF), allowed the players to meet and hear firsthand from the fighter pilots who protect Israel’s skies. The visiting players, led on the trip by FIDF supporter and Jewish Baseball Museum Founder Jeff Aeder of Chicago, included former New York Met Ike Davis; New York Mets players Ty Kelly and Josh Zeid; Oakland Athletics players Ryan Lavarnway and Sam Fuld; Boston

Red Sox player Cody Decker; Cincinnati Reds player Jon Moscot; St. Louis Cardinals player Corey Baker; Philadelphia Phillies player Jeremy Bleich; and Los Angeles Dodgers Director of Player Development Gabe Kapler. “These 10 Jewish baseball players are visiting Israel for the first time to celebrate the fact that they’ve qualified for the World Baseball Classic,” said Aeder. “I thought this would be a wonderful opportunity to expose them to the country and for them to meet some of the brave men and women who defend Israel and Jews everywhere, and derive pride from the Jewish State’s ability to defend itself.” Aeder added: “It is my great honor to do anything

I can to support the soldiers who fight to protect the land of Israel.” The 10 players will represent Israel in the World Baseball Classic, marking the first time that American

Chessed on Chanukah

some of our talmidim connected with the students at Kulanu. Yaasher koach to our students and teachers for recognizing the importance of giving to our community especially during the chagim.

During their tour of Israel, the 10 players and staff practiced on baseball fields and met with Israel Association of Baseball players. They also visited some of Israel’s landmarks and holy sites.

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ALB students took time out on Chanukah to spread the light and love of the chag by doing chessed. Some of our talmidot spent time at the Nautilus signing and dancing with the residents while

Jewish athletes will play for Israel in a world championship. World Baseball Classic rules state that players who are eligible for citizenship of a country may play on that country’s team.

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Rav Avrohom Bender and his second grade talmidim at Yeshiva Darchei Torah performed the mitzvah of bikur cholim and went to visit and cheer up the residents of a local nursing home.

Visual Arts and Literacy Contest Invites Students to Reflect on Experiences of Children During the Holocaust

he Amud Aish Memorial Museum’s (Amud Aish) Kleinman Holocaust Education Center division has launched its third annual Student Visual Arts and Literacy Contest, Born to Live: Remembering the Children of the Holocaust. Open to students in grades six through 12, this year’s contest focuses on children who lived through the Holocaust and the items they took with them when they escaped or were sent to a ghetto. There are six items that students can respond to in their entries: the Michelsohn letter, what may have been a father’s last words to his son when he escaped on a Kindertransport; the Lonner Tehilim (Book of Psalms), a mother and father’s last gift to their son; the Horowitz challah cover, carefully embroidered by a sister who was later murdered; the Kirshner doll, a child’s sole connection to home while in hiding; the Felsenburg wallet, full of receipts from parcels a son sent to his doomed parents; and the Ettlinger shoe from a toddler who escaped with his family. To enter, students may write a poem or a letter to one of the chil-

dren—sharing personal connections, observations, and questions; or, they may create a work of art reflecting on the child’s life and the cherished item. The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2017. “This year’s contest allows students to see the Holocaust through the eyes of the children who survived. These ordinary objects—a letter, a wallet, a doll—speak of extraordinary circumstances as they were precious to the children who were fortunate to make it through. We invite teachers to book a field trip to our museum to see many of the items we’ve featured in the contest and learn more about what it was like to be a child in hiding during the Holocaust,” said Mrs. Julie Golding, Director of Education. The title of the contest, Born to Live, is taken from a poem written by Rabbi Moshe Portman when he was in the Šiauliai Ghetto in Lithuania. In the poem, he laments the plight of the youngest victims of the Holocaust and their unfulfilled potential—that they were born to live a full life, but so many young lives would be cut short. This program is presented in memory

of the children who were murdered during the Holocaust and to inspire students to fulfill the potential in their own lives. “Our annual contest is a favorite among teachers because it offers a perspective they may not explore in the classroom. Because Amud Aish is now in possession of significant artifacts and archives from the period—those that help tell the full story of what happened before, during, and immediately after the Holocaust—we are able to create educational opportunities that weren’t available even a few years ago. It’s important that we make these items accessible to students so that future generations can learn about what happened,” said Rabbi Sholom Friedmann, Director of Amud Aish. The contest is sponsored by Meridian Capital Group, LLC, The Jewish Press, and The ArtScroll Library. Students will be judged by grade groups: grades six through eight; grades nine and 10; and grades 11 and 12. Grand prize winners will each receive a $150 Visa gift card, second place winners will each receive a $72

Visa gift card, and third place winners will each receive a $25 Visa gift card. The first 80 participating teachers will receive a copy of The Youngest Partisan by A. Romi Cohn. About the School Program The Amud Aish school program in Mill Basin, Brooklyn, accommodates students in grades six and up. School visits are content-rich experiences that support the New York State social studies standards and align with Common Core Standards. Museum educators provide resources to teachers in advance of each visit to prepare students for the experience and encourage learning beyond the field trip. In addition to a tour of the exhibition and a small-group classroom workshop, students have the opportunity to express what they learned through the tools in the new art workshop. Tours are available in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish. The online group reservation system is currently taking requests at http:// www.amudaish.org/group. In 2015, many thousands of children visited the school exhibition program.

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Achiezer: The Gold Standard in Medical Recommendations Part I of a special series highlighting Achiezer’s innovative programs which service the community throughout the year, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

n the desk of Rabbi Boruch Ber Bender, President of Achiezer, sits a small notebook filled with names of doctors, phone numbers and notations. “The Achiezer you see today,” shares Rabbi Bender, “began with these pages. Achiezer was originally founded to help people with medical recommendations. This little notebook,” explains Rabbi Bender, “was the precursor to Achiezer’s highly successful and sought-after medical recommendation program, which until today, remains one of the core services we provide.” Whether you are struggling with a recurrent medical issue, are in the hospital facing the possibility of emergency surgery, or have been referred to a specialist by your primary-care physician, the prospect of finding the right provider can be daunting. Which specialists are available locally? How can you determine who is best equipped to treat your issue? And, once you do have a name in hand, can you even secure a timely appointment? The answers to these questions can be life-altering and even, at times, life-saving. Rabbi Bender explains that concerns such as these comprise the most common phone calls Achiezer receives. Many of these callers need help immediately and connect to Achiezer via the Urgent HotLine manned by Mr. Shalom Jaroslawicz, Mrs. Esther Novak, Mrs. Elke Rubin and Mrs. Aliza Wartelsky. 80% of weekend calls are medical-related – often from those on their way to a hospital or already there. Ably assisted by this team, Rabbi Bender provides invaluable guidance to every caller. His experience and knowledge ensures that every caller is directed to the most appropriate professional for their individual situation regardless of what it takes to make that happen. “Medical crises do not discriminate between socioeconomic groups, background or affiliation,” says Rabbi Bender. “You may be a very capable

individual, but navigating a world in which you have never stepped foot, particularly when your life or quality of life depends upon your decision, is overwhelming.” By now, Achiezer has amassed a vast network of doctors and specialists in every area. In addition to considering obvious points such as areas of expertise and level of experience, each recommendation takes into account critical side-points, such as doctor availability and insurance coverage. But Achiezer goes way beyond the recommendation. They help patients secure appointments, navigate insurance hurdles and then follow up to ensure that the patient did receive proper care. Because they are known for their unparalleled expertise in this area, Achiezer also receives phone calls from across the tri-state area – Brooklyn, Queens, New Jersey, etc. Achiezer regularly works hand-inhand with Hatzalah; after delivering patients to the hospital, Hatzalah often recommends that family members speak with Achiezer for further assistance. Once upon a time, when someone in the community needed to see a medical specialist, they did not know what options existed, let alone how to secure optimal care as soon as necessary. Yes, there were medical referral agencies, but they did not cater to the Far Rockaway-Five Towns and surrounding communities. Today, there is Achiezer. No one wants to be hospitalized. No one wants to face medical crisis. But when the need arises, Rabbi Bender and his staff are there to offer guidance based on years of experience to make an overwhelming and sometimes frightening situation just a little bit easier. Thanks to the dedicated team at Achiezer, medical recommendations of this caliber are available to the community with just one call. Join Achiezer on February 26, 2017, in supporting a unified goal to always be on call, with just one call.

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HaRav Avraham Schorr, shlita, visited Mesivta Ateres Yaakov this week. Rabbi Schorr captivated the rabbeim and talmidim with tremendous divrei chizuk and bracha

Career Coaching at MAY

esivta Ateres Yaakov prides itself on preparing its talmidim to be bnei Torah who are also prepared to meet the challenges of productive careers. To this end, MAY invites presenters to speak with students about a particular career or profession and the challenges that need to be addressed if one decides to pursue that avenue. Last week, the senior class of MAY had the distinct pleasure of hearing a presentation from Mr. Mark Gold. Mr. Gold is an attorney, has a longstanding, successful IT Services firm, and is the Chief Information/Technology Officer of Brooklyn College. He is also the president of the Mesivta. Mr. Gold discussed the impor-

tance a strong education and planning as a forerunner to securing the career of one’s choice. “If there is something you enjoy, then look for a career that can harness that drive.” He advised the students to stay aware of changing trends in the economy and look for emerging opportuni-

ties, as opposed to currently popular careers, and to think carefully about how a proposed career will fit their career-life-family goals. He noted that it’s important to select a career that is compatible with their Yiddishkeit and Jewish values and that upholding those values should be no

hindrance to success. He counseled them to make maximal use of their time before marriage to advance their career searches in practical ways. The talmidim has numerous on-target questions and were sincerely interested in putting the advice they received into practice.

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SKA Reunion in Israel

he annual Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls reunion in Israel is an event that graduates anticipate since entering seminary. On Monday night, January 2, it was the Class of 2016’s turn! The alumnae gathered in Michlalah for dinner with Mrs. Helen Spirn, Head of School, and Mrs. Paghit Ralbag, limudei kodesh teacher and Israel advisor. It was the first time the class had been together since leaving SKA and all were so happy to catch up with their former classmates. There was much spirited schmoozing and hugging. Clips from

the SKA Production and a video filled with divrei bracha from SKA faculty and staff prepared for the seminary girls were shown to heartfelt applause. After the reunion, Mrs. Spirn and Mrs. Ralbag visited the seminaries that their students attend, speaking with SKA graduates and seminary heads to get a better grasp of the learning and student growth in the schools. You can see from the photos how delighted the former SKAers are – they may be in Israel, but they are still part of the SKA family!

Brain Breaks at Shulamith High School

t Shulamith High School for Girls, we believe in taking “Brain Breaks.” “Brain Breaks” are a time to unwind and blow off steam between your final and the next day’s review. It is a time to use your body and mind in a cre-

ative and fun way. Among the fun and exciting “Brain Breaks” this week were ice cream sundae making, and Jackson Pollack splatter painting. We’re looking forward to yoga with Studio Inna and a dance party next week!

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Chanukah in Kol Yaakov

Village of Lawrence By Shoshanna Friedman

ol Yaakov boys relished their week of Hanuka programming that brought their annual Hanuka Olympics, Big Brother Little Brother Reading Partners, Pre1A edible “Counting Menorahs,” and Doughnuts and Dancing with their rebbeim! The week began with classes joining for Big Brother, Little Brother Reading Partners where older and younger classes paired together for a shared reading experience. Mrs. Hekmati’s 2nd grade joined with Morah Ramona’s Pre1A with the older boys reading stories to their little “brothers” and then being good listeners while younger “brothers” read to them, while third and fifth grades shared a non-fiction currents events piece that they read and discussed. All classes ended their partner reading with a joint bracha and some yummy Hanuka cookies together. Wednesday brought our annual Hanuka Olympics where this year’s

“Team Building” theme brought boys together in cooperative races. During relay races, boys tossed the football back and forth between them, jumped rope alternately, and joined together in groups of four for puzzle building. The Puzzle Teams proved to be the most challenging with each tag-team group having just three minutes each to see how much of the giant floor puzzle they could put together. Everyone participated and each group built upon the work of the last group until the entire puzzle was complete. Both Olympic teams shared in the chocolate “wealth” as they enjoyed their chocolatey Hanuka coin winnings. Our week of Hanuka simcha ended with a pizza lunch followed by yummy doughnuts, Hanuka music and dancing with our rebbeim. Kol Yaakov boys enjoyed a week of Hanuka simcha filled with activities that reinforced collaborative reading, cooperative teamwork, and talmidim and Rebbeim joining together in simchat ha’chag.

Mayor Alex H. Edelman and the Board of Trustees of the Village of Lawrence will conduct a Regular Monthly Meeting on Thursday, January 19, 2017 at 8:00 p.m., at Lawrence Village Hall, 196 Central Avenue, Lawrence, NY; which will include a special report from N.C.P.D. Inspector Lee Steinberg and officers of the Fourth Precinct.

All Village residents are urged to attend.

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Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce Mission to Israel Reverberates Through the Halls of Power By Shimmy Blum

t the turn of the secular new year, the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce launched its first ever “U.S.-Israel Business Alliance” mission to Israel, aimed at strengthening the U.S.-Israel economic and diplomatic relationships, and fighting the BDS movement, UN anti-Semitism and other threats to Israel and the Jewish business world. The mission was led by the Jewish Chamber’s Executive Public Policy Committee – Dr. Joseph Frager, Dr. Paul Brody, Odeleya Jacobs and Duvi Honig – and its special guest, former Arkansas governor and two-time presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. Governor Huckabee is a leading supporter of Israel and strong pro-Israel voice in the media. He first visited Israel in 1973, at age 17, and has returned approximately one hundred times since. On Tuesday morning, January 3, a diverse dozen Knesset members gathered in the Knesset’s Jerusalem Hall for a special two hourplus “U.S.-Israel Business Alliance” symposium. You could hear a pin drop in the room throughout the sympo-

sium. The sensitivity of the times was felt in the air. We were mere days after the UN Security Council passed Resolution 2334 and just over two weeks away from when Donald Trump will be inaugurated as president of the U.S., which is expected to significantly affect U.S. policy towards Israel. Speaker after speaker thanked Governor Huckabee and the entire Jewish Chamber delegation for displaying unapologetic U.S. support for Israel at this crucial juncture. The nickname “Huckabee the Maccabee” was an instant favorite in the room. The fact that Governor Huckabee has a particularly close relationship with incoming President Trump was particularly heartening. Dr. Frager, a longtime pro-Israel activist, had strong words for the recent actions of the U.N. and Obama administration, calling the resolution a “mockery and travesty” and a “shot in the arm for the BDS movement.” He heralded the strength of this mission, boosted by Governor Huckabee and dozens of other participants. “Let’s hope this sets the tone for the next eight years of the Trump administration.” Reb Duvi Honig noted

“We think of Rome and Babylon, Greece and Persia, the Holy Roman Empire and even the Soviet Union as being swept into the dustbin of history, never to rise to power again.” Page 78

Governor Mike Huckabee delivering keynote address at the VIP Business Networking Dinner. Seated, left to right, Duvi Honig, MK Bezalel Smotrich, Dr. Joseph Frager and MK Oren Hazan

the Jewish Chamber’s particular motivation to utilize its global network of Jewish community businesses and business leaders to fight BDS and other efforts to harm the Israeli economy. “An eye for an eye,” he stated with visible passion. “We’ll use our strength to fight you all.” Reb Duvi added the importance for Israel and the Jewish people to respect Shabbos and other Torah traditions and laws, in order to be able to expect the world to respect our historical biblical connection to the land. He also highlighted the strong personal connection that the Jewish Chamber maintains with top aides to President-elect Trump, particularly Jason Dov Greenblatt, Esq., and Israel Ambassador designate David Friedman. Dr. Brody kept his remarks short, heralding Governor Huckabee’s longstanding friendship with Israel, and concluded by raising the Israeli flag and proclaiming, “Am Yisrael Chai!” Starting her remarks with the words, “Hodu l’Hashem ki tov,” Odeleya Jacobs, who invested countless hours to arrange the symposium, noted the importance of the mission and its message to the world. “The Jewish people

are indigenous to this land,” she exclaimed. “No power can go against G-d.” Though the only non-Jew in the room, Governor Huckabee harped on his strong religious faith and how it shapes his view of Israel. “When I first came here, Israel was struggling to live off kibbutzim, but is now one of the most entrepreneurial nations in the history of mankind; and won many wars it shouldn’t have (by conventional measure),” the governor explained. “There is no explanation for this other than G-d’s unique personal involvement.” The governor reiterated his belief that Israel has rightful sovereignty over Judea and Samaria and warned that abandoning portions of land won’t satiate Israel haters. “The world doesn’t hate you because of where you are, but because of who you are and whose you are,” he exclaimed. Build Israel Great Again: Maale Adumim Looks Forward to End of Freeze For over seven years, Maale Adumim, the sprawling city of 41,000 residents, saw development completely frozen after outgoing U.S.

President Barack Obama warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel cannot add “one more brick” to the community, which is just over the Green Line. In clear defiance of this edict, Mayor Casriel, Governor Huckabee and the Jewish Chamber delegation made their way to the outskirts of the city with a bird’s eye view of both Maale Adumim and the vast surrounding Judean hills. The stage was emblazoned with a red banner with the words “Build Israel Great Again,” a play on the famous “Make America Great Again” slogan of incoming U.S. President Donald Trump. Red and white “Build Israel Great Again” caps were distributed to Governor Huckabee and mission participants, who were all too eager to wear them. The group was there to, no less, lay the marker for a new Maale Adumim neighborhood to be built, which would meet the pent-up demand due to natural growth and the need for affordable housing in the Yerushalayim region. Governor Huckabee, a close friend and ally of President-elect Trump, said that he expects the Trump administration policy towards Israel and residence in Judea and Samaria to be

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rael UN resolution as a harbinger of what can happen when Jews dismiss their religious tradition. “If we don’t respect our traditions, how can we expect the world to respect our historical roots in Eretz Yisroel?” Reb Duvi asked. Naftali Bennett Listens – and Makes a Move on Behalf of Torah and Shabbos Governor Mike Huckabee, Dr. Joseph Frager and Duvi Honig paid a visit to Education Minister Naftali Bennett, head of the Habayit HaYehudi party. They discussed various pertinent issues, such as strengthening U.S.-Israel economic ties

Governor Mike Huckabee, Duvi Honig and Dr. Joseph Frager meeting Education Minister Naftali Bennett

was among the MKs who attended and addressed the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce’s Knesset symposium the previous day, when Reb Duvi Honig made

L-R: MKs Eli Ben-Dahan and Miki Zohar, Dr. Joseph Frager, Dr. Paul Brody, Duvi Honig, Michael Eisenberg, and Governor Mike Huckabee at VIP Business Networking Dinner

Mayor Barkat detailed the difficulties that he encountered during his tenure, as the Obama administration put immense pressure that the municipality stop Jewish construction in various parts of the city while also pressuring them not to demolish illegal Arab homes. Members of the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce articulated their dedication to promote economic activity between the U.S. and Israel. Reb Duvi Honig also made an impassioned plea to the mayor not to change the Orthodox status quo at the Kosel Hamaaravi, warning that a commitment to democracy should never supersede fealty to our common religious obligations. He pointed to the recent anti-Is-

and fighting the BDS movement. Reb Duvi reiterated the message he delivered at the Knesset and Yerushalayim municipal hall, urging Mr. Bennett to respect Torah traditions in matters of education, Shabbos and more. In a remarkable development, that very day, HaBayit HaYehudi officially joined the charedi parties in support of maintaining the religious status quo regarding the closure of Israeli businesses on Shabbos. Habayit HaYehudi previously did not align with the charedim in this battle. This significant change was announced via an official letter from MK Bezalel Smotrich to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Smotrich

his emotional plea on behalf of maintaining Torah true Yiddishkeit. “When I heard of the letter, I thanked Hashem,” Reb Duvi explained. “It’s an amazing zechus to have had a part in this.” Mission Wraps Up at VIP Business Networking Dinner The event hall at the prestigious King David Hotel in Yerushalayim was upbeat on Wednesday evening, as approximately one hundred business leaders, elected officials and community leaders gathered for a VIP business networking dinner wrapping up the U.S.-Israel Business Alliance mission. Duvi Honig commenced the event, marveling at the many high level guests in atten-

dance, including several who traveled from the U.S. for the dinner alone. “We think big,” he exclaimed. “We are uniting Jewish community businesses at a global level.” The dinner epitomized the goal of the Jewish Chamber and this mission to Israel, which is focusing on networking Jewish communal and economic powerhouses to advance economic success within the U.S. and Israel and between the two countries. The speakers list included Michael Eisenberg of Aleph Venture Capital; Knesset members Zeev Elkin, Minister of Jerusalem Affairs; Eli Ben-Dahan, Deputy Defense Minister; Oren Chazzan; Miki Zohar and Bezalel Smotrich; Consul General in New York Danny Dayan; and Efrat Mayor Oded Ravivi. Dr. Frager was clearly moved by the vibrancy of the mission and its success, noting that the dinner also heralded the upcoming fiftieth anniversary of the reunification of Yerushalayim. Audience members rose to applaud Dr. Frager when he spoke of making “the Jewish people a greater people; Israel a greater Israel; build Judea and Samaria into a greater Judea and Samaria and build Yerushalayim to be the greatest city on earth.” Odeleya Jacobs hit at the core of the mission, stressing the importance of the Jewish Chamber goal to help Jewish businesses thrive across the globe. “We need to teach

people how to fish, rather than just give them fish,” she explained. Governor Huckabee recounted with his trademark oratory skills the story of a father who took his eleven-year-old daughter on a tour of Yad Vashem for the first time. After they walked through exhibits of the horrific events prior to and during the Holocaust, particularly what was done to Jewish children, the girl simply wrote in the museum guestbook, “Why didn’t somebody do something?” The governor then shared that this occurred with him and his daughter Sarah. He was proud of his young daughter’s insight and how she internalized the Holocaust’s most important lesson for future generations. Sarah Huckabee is now a senior aide to President-elect Trump and will serve in his administration. Her father expressed confidence that she will be a forceful advocate against evil, particularly those that seek to harm Israel and the Jewish people. Governor Huckabee derided the two-state solution as “diplomatic fantasy” and confirmed the sense in the room that the incoming president will be a strong ally for Israel. “The partnership between the United States and Israel are deeper than political and economic,” he summed up. “It is based on the values of what it means to be a human being.”

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Tehillim Kollel Offering Special in Honor of Shotzer Rebbe’s Yahrtzeit on 22 Teves By Yoel Krausz

n honor of the upcoming yahrtzeit of the Shotzer Rebbe zt”l on 22 Teves, Tehillim Kollel is offering a special opportunity: Receive a 40 day hazkara at the righteous tzaddik’s gravesite in London, England. This site is just one of the 15 Tehillim Kollel locations all around the globe, in which devout and holy men recite the entire Tehillim, praying for

klal Yisroel, asking that the sick be healed, the single find their match, the childless be blessed, and so much more. The Tehillim is an age-old spiritual tool, possessing inimitable divine power and offers heavenly protection, salvation, and blessing. Tehillim Kollel is an organization that has been in existence for over six years, expanding and growing tremendously over this time span. It began with just one location in Kiryas Joel, Monroe, but

now has many locations all across the globe, including Eretz Yisroel, Belgium, and this special site in England. The Shotzer Rebbe is renowned for the special promise he included in his will, pledging that all who come and pray by his kever, as well as accept upon themselves a new commitment to spiritual growth, will receive his unique assistance and help in life. At the kever of the Shotzer Rebbe, handpicked, pious emissaries of the

Tehillim Kollel recite the Tehillim each and every day of the year. For a limited time, subscribers will receive the special opportunity of having their names mentioned for 40 days, beginning on the yahrtzeit of the Shotzer Rebbe. This unique offer is only available for a limited time, so all who are interested in subscribing should contact Tehillim Kollel’s central office at (718) 705-7174 or info@ tehillimkollel.org.

and Rebbetzin, is quickly becoming known for its warm and welcoming atmosphere, down-to-earth members, and growth-directed orientation. Inwood’s fledgling shul started out as a group of individuals in a resident’s basement, with volunteers walking in from nearby neighborhoods to complete the minyan and a homemade aron kodesh proudly built by one of its members. At this point, this once-tiny shul has outgrown two subsequent locations, and is now being graciously hosted by Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island on Doughty Boulevard. When considering Inwood’s shul, N’shei, chessed organizations and Kollel, as well as its convenient proximity to local shopping centers, schools, and supermarkets, you could say that Inwood is a full service community. You would be wrong. Inwood is missing one fundamental facet of a full functioning Orthodox community, a gap that was identified some time ago by several of Inwoods’ resolute members. Inwood is within driving distance to several mikvaot in other towns, but without its own local mikvah, families were having a difficult time observing the laws of Family Purity, specifically on Friday night and yamim tovim. With this realization, the Inwood Mikvah project, a full service men, women’s and keilim mikvah, was born. Two strong motivating factors for this project are the growing extended community and Inwood’s involvement in kiruv activities. The burgeoning growth of the extended Five Towns and Long Island has made it such that current mikvaot are operating at full capacity, indicating a clear need for

more locations where people can partake in this mitzvah observance. Additionally, many of our individual community members are involved in different kiruv organizations and host people on a regular basis whose observance of taharat hamishpacha would be made possible by a local mikvah. An example of this phenomenon involves one specific organization that is determined to meet the needs of troubled, traumatized teens. Often, these young people’s abusive backgrounds make it emotionally difficult for them to attend the mikvah when they get married. One of Inwood’s dedicated community members currently accompanies these girls to the mikvah in order to provide them with emotional support. An Inwood mikvah would greatly enhance her ability to continue this invaluable chessed. So there you have it. Now you know five, you know fifth, and you know the short, sweet, substantial history of this fifth town. You also know a fabulous project to which you can donate a fifth of your money…joking. Maybe. In all seriousness, Inwood activists have currently raised $700,000 of the $1.3 million that needed in order to complete this project. Your support, suggestions, cents and dollars can bridge that gap. Then all that will be left to do is figure out who’s on first… Thanks for reading, and please make sure to check out this fifth town for yourself the next time you are visiting one of the other four. For more information, please visit our website at www.inwoodmikvah.org. Donations for the mikvah can be sent to: Mikvah Sara Laya, 312 Sprague Rd, Inwood, NY 11096.

Who Knows Fifth? By Avigail Stoll

ho knows five? I know five, you know five, and kids of all ages know five. But who knows fifth? That’s a trickier question. Up until a few years ago, the “fifth town” of the well-known Five Towns Community was unfamiliar to most Orthodox Jews. That has changed,

thanks to a rapidly growing congregation of devoted, determined, and dedicated young families. They have managed to establish this previously unknown fifth town as the up and coming in-town location with out-oftown charm. The Inwood community, under the dynamic leadership of its Rav

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HaGaon HaRav Berel Povarsky, Shlita to Grace Dirshu Convention Numerous Other Gedolim to Attend and Address Lomdei Dirshu massive tent on the premises. The tent will also serve to accommodate the burgeoning crowds so that they can hear the shiurim of Rav Povarsky, Rav Steinmentz and numerous other gedolim in a dignified manner as befitting a maamad of kavod haTorah.

By Chaim Gold

aGaon HaRav Berel Povarsky, shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of the Ponevezh Yeshiva, will be coming especially from Eretz Yisroel to attend the Dirshu Convention where he will deliver a shiur klali after davening on Shabbos morning and then, on motzoei Shabbos, will make the Hadran and give a keynote address at the melave malka siyum on Masechta Bava Metziah. The Convention, to be held this coming Shabbos Parshas Shemos, 22-24 Teves/ January 20-22, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Stamford, Connecticut, is entitled Shabbos Chizuk L’lomedei Torah. In truth, its name truly encapsulates and defines what the Shabbos is all about. The Shabbos is to pay tribute and give chizuk to the myriad lomdei Torah and their wives who, day in, day out, week after week, month after month, throughout the year, Shabbosim, yomim tovim, easy times, hard times … are dedicated to learning Torah and taking regular tests to ensure retention.

Climax will be Keynote Motzoei Shabbos Melave Malka Siyum Numerous gedolei Yisrael will grace the convention and deliver addresses paying tribute to the lomdei Torah comprising the worldwide mishpachas Dirshu. The climax of the Shabbos will be motzoei Shabbos’s keynote session where a siyum on Masechta Bava Metzia will be made. At the siyum, addresses will be given by HaGaon HaRav Berel Povarsky, shlita, Dayan Yonasan Abraham, shlita, a member of the London Beis Din and Rav of the Toras Chaim Shul in Hendon, North West London, HaGaon HaRav Binyomin Eisenberger, shlita, Rav of Kehal Heichal Hatefillah in Boro

HaRav Berel Povarsky addressing the 2012 Dirshu Convention

Park, and Rav Dovid Hofstedter, Nasi Dirshu. Even though the hotel is completely sold out for Shabbos, the Motzoei Shabbos Siyum and keynote session Melave Malka will be open to the general public. Bus transportation will be provided but RSVP is required by calling 1-888-5 Dirshu, ext. 153 or RSVP@dirshunj.org. Throughout the Shabbos, other gedolim will give addresses, among them, HaGaon HaRav Reuven Feinstein, shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva of Staten Island; HaGaon HaRav Aharon Feldman, shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of Ner Yisrael, Baltimore; HaGaon HaRav Yechiel Michel Steinmetz, shlita, Skverer Dayan of Boro Park; HaGaon HaRav Yitzchok Sorotzkin, shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of Mesivta of Lakewood; HaGaon HaRav Dovid Schustal, shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of Beth Medrash Govoha, Lakewood; and HaGaon HaRav Dovid Olewski, shlita, Rosh Yeshivas Ger. Hailing a Joint Effort There will also be a comprehensive women’s program catered especially to the wives of the lomdei Dirshu. Indeed, every person present at the convention is a person who has shown deep dedication to limud haTorah. The men show that dedication by learn-

ing, chazering every day, day in and day out, and taking monthly tests over a protracted amount of time. Similarly, every Dirshu wife has displayed mesiras nefesh for her husband’s learning and spiritual ascent by enabling him to devote tremendous amounts of time to learning the daily material and then repeatedly reviewing so that he will know the material sufficiently to earn an exemplary mark on the test. This often does not come easily. It frequently means sacrificing the help of a husband in the most hectic of times, such as the morning rush to school or the evening bedtime crunch. That is why Dirshu siyumim and Shabbos conventions always have an important place for Dirshu wives, true partners in the Torah success of their husbands. “Earning Olam Habaah with Phenomenal Olam Hazeh!” One of the highlights of previous conventions has been the unique shailos and teshuvos session held on Friday night after the seudah with the Skverer Dayan, Rav Yechiel Michel Steinmetz, shlita. Questions that span literally the entire gamut of halacha are moderated and posed by Rav Eliezer Ralbag, shlita, to the dayan who, with his encyclopedic knowledge

and good cheer, answers them all comprehensively and often with a good dose of added humor as well. At the previous Dirshu Shabbos Chizuk L’lomdei Torah, it was Rav Steinmetz who encapsulated what he saw as the uniqueness of the Dirshu convention saying, “A unique koach of Dirshu is that it not only gives a person Olam Habaah, it also gives a person phenomenal Olam Hazeh! Where else can you have a convention where after a moving oneg Shabbos, followed by going to sleep at 1:00 a.m., the next morning at 5:00 a.m., one hears a resounding kol Torah in the beis medrash? Where do you have a convention where after the seudah on Shabbos afternoon, the ‘taanug’ of sleeping on Shabbos is replaced by the even greater pleasure of learning and chazering another blatt Gemara and another seif in Shulchan Aruch?!” Rav Steinmetz will be introduced by another distinguished international guest, HaGaon Dayan Binyomin Eckstein, shlita, Dayan in the London kehillah and the yoshev rosh of Dirshu in Europe. Inasmuch as the Convention is a sold out event, in order to ensure the proper kavod for davening and learning, Dirshu plans to erect a

“The Shabbos When Totty and Mommy Went to Learn How to Learn More Torah!” After the last Dirshu convention, Dirshu received numerous letters from lomdei Torah and their wives, expressing their feelings about how limud haTorah with a plan has transformed their lives. One woman wrote, “I would like to share what Dirshu and the Shabbos mean to us. There is no way we can ever express the depth of our gratitude. While my husband, a kollel yungerman, always admired his father who is a great masmid, he didn’t think he was capable of doing the same. At the first Dirshu Shabbos when my husband saw yungeleit just like him becoming Shas Yidden and being tested on the entire Shas, he came home determined to do the same! Since that Shabbos every moment in our life has become a treasure, life is a rush of excitement! “Another amud, another Daf… Baruch Hashem, my husband makes a siyum so often that my two-year-old confuses the word siyum and Shabbos seudah. A seudah with a siyum is such a thrill as the children march into the dining room with a special dish while singing a niggun in honor of the siyum…. Although I never imagined I would leave my children behind for a Shabbos, this Shabbos is different. My children treasure the memory of ‘The Shabbos that Totty and Mommy went to learn how to learn more Torah!’”

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Kollel Chatzos Announces New Branch in Boro Park

t’s a celebration for the entire klal Yisroel – and especially for Boro Park. A new Kollel Chatzos is opening in Boro Park, bringing along with it the special siyata Dishmaya and bracha that the kollelim have already brought to communities across the globe. We express hoda’a to Hashem for orchestrating this long-awaited inauguration … and a tefilla for the continuation of the Kollel’s hatzlacha. Kollel Chatzos. It’s no longer a name of a kollel. It represents a phenomenon. It’s an empire of talmidei chachamim to serve Hashem with Torah, ahavas Hashem, and mesirus nefesh as they learn throughout those pure night hours. It’s an empire, built by devoted legions, dedicated supporters who soldier the burden of the Kollel with pride and joy. It’s an empire that’s an inspiration to every community blessed by its presence, as passerby who chance upon the Kollel and hear the Torah, echoing vibrantly through the night, are awed and driven to partake. Established five years ago, Kollel

Chatzos was charged with a mission; “l’hachazir atara l’yashna,” to re-establish the age-old beloved practice of learning from chatzos. In previous generations, even simple Yidden would awaken to serve the Hashem at midnight. Five years ago, a small group of stellar talmidei chachamim committed to the rigorous learning schedule, forming the core group of the original Kollel. Eventually, the Kollel flourished and established branches in Meron, Williamsburg, Kiryas Yoel and Monsey – aiming towards the goal to establish a Kollel in every heimishe community. For years, Boro Park residents longed for a kollel to call their own, so that they too can reap the shemira and bracha that overflow from having a Kollel within their midst. Today, as Kollel Chatzos works towards launching the Boro Park Kollel, the many requests of “why not Boro Park?” will have a satisfactory answer: “We’re on our way!” As soon as plans for the Boro Park

Kollel started to formulate, Kollel Chatzos received requests from some of Boro Park’s most prestigious talmidei chachamim, rabbanim, and marbitzei Torah asking to join the Kollel, so that they too can experience the special zechus of learning throughout the night hours. Hanhalas Kollel Chatzos invites all talmidei chachamim who wish to partake in the kollel to call the office as soon as possible so that they too can have the opportunity to participate. Kollel Chatzos has invested a lot of effort to find the proper setting for Torah learning and growth because an integral part of the hatzlacha of Torah is the “achsanya shel Torah.” Baruch Hashem, at last, a beautiful, spacious bais medrash was found, a most befitting place for the kollel to thrive. In the past few days, Hanhalas Kollel Chatzos have been going around to the local rabbanim to accept their birchas haTorah in honor of the Kollel’s inauguration. It was heartwarming to see the outpouring of chizuk and bracha that the rabbanim showered upon

the Hanhalas Kollel Chatzos, thanking them for the opportunity to host such a special Kollel in their midst and expressing esteem for the Kollel’s great accomplishments of providing Hashem with such a nachas ruach throughout the auspicious night hours. May Hashem rest His Shechina in this new Torah embassy – just as Hashem as showered His bracha upon the other locations. May the zechus of this Torah learning pour forth a shefa of bracha, refuah, and yeshuah. “Chacham lev yikach mitzvos” – The wise-hearted gather mitzvos A request to the noble benefactors in Boro Park and in other cities. Now you have the opportunity to acquire the zechus of establishing a makom Torah, a rare opportunity of hachzakas haTorah with everlasting dividends. For more details, call the Kollel Chatzos office: 718-887-9114 A rare opportunity! An exceptional zechus!

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Chai Lifeline Chanukah celebrations around the world impacted the lives of 10,000 children and their families, bringing light to lives that have been darkened by illness, loss, or trauma.

WE’RE GOING TO THE PARTY! Ten thousand kids, sibs, parents, friends, and volunteers attended our Chanukah Galas around the world. In every location, they were treated to crafts and shows, sufganiot and gifts, music, dancing, friendship, and the warmth for which Chai Lifeline is famous. Chai Lifeline also partnered with many hospitals to bring holiday fun to children stuck in hospital beds during Chanukah. “These parties demonstrate the strength we have when we come together,” said Rabbi Simcha Scholar. ✦

FAMILY CHANUKAH GALAS WERE HELD IN CITIES AROUND THE WORLD: Greater NY Region: Brooklyn, NY Mid Atlantic Region: Silver Spring, MD Midwest: Chicago, IL NJ Region: Lakewood & Cherry Hill, NJ Southeast: North Miami Beach, FL West Coast: Los Angeles, CA. and Phoenix, AZ Chai Lifeline Canada: Toronto, ONT and Montreal, QUEBEC Camp Simcha UK: London and Manchester Chaiyanu/Chai Lifeline Israel: Jerusalem & Petach Tikvah

WE RECEIVED THIS FROM A GRATEFUL FRIEND… I’d like to share this story with you. It happened last Chanukah. A family down the block was mourning the loss of a young mother and wife. One of their children, a four year old boy, is a playmate of my son. My son had won a “standing microphone” in school the week before. On the first night of Chanukah, he and his friend were taking turns with it when the boy’s father called him to come home for candle-lighting. He refused to go until I convinced my son to allow him to borrow it for candle lighting and singing. He brought it back later that evening. The scenario was repeated the second night. I saw how attached he was to the toy and wondered if I should buy one for him. I wasn’t sure that his father would appreciate the gesture. It was a real dilemma. On the third night, however, when his sister came to retrieve him for candle lighting, he didn’t ask for the microphone. “He has one already,” the sister explained. “Did you buy it for him?” I asked. “No. We got it from Chai Lifeline.” I was speechless. I asked the girl if she realized how Hashem is taking care of them. Hashem had sent her brother exactly what he wanted. And you, Chai Lifeline, were the messengers. ✦

THANK YOU TO THE SCORES OF VOLUNTEERS WHO BROUGHT CHANUKAH TO THE FOLLOWING HOSPITALS: Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Chicago Broward General Children’s Hospital The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Children’s Specialized Hospital, New Brunswick Cohen Children’s Medical Center (Northwell), New Hyde Park Columbia Presbyterian, NY Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital (NYU Langone), NY

Ann and Robert Lurie Children’s Hospital, Chicago Montreal Children’s Hospital Jack Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, Miami Children’s Health System Procure Proton Therapy Center, Somerset Sick Kids Hospital, Toronto Tisch Hospital (NYU Langone), New York

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Our Toy Drive could not happen without the dedication and untold hours of work of Chani Traube & family, Celia Gindi and the Melnicke Family. Once again, we are indebted to Rabbi Menny and Basya Schwab, the Cohen and Dweck families of Lot Less Closeout, Rohr Chabad of Binghamton University, and the Bergen County Toy Drive. Thank you for bringing Chanukah joy to our children.

MID ATLANTIC REGION Adina Levitan Aliza Scher Brandon and Shari Kirk Brenda Shnidman and Family Caryn, Michael, Drew and Nathan Richman Chana Mirel Ryback Debbie Berlin Devorah Salzman Emma Murray Jack and Shelby Kirk

NEW YORK REGION Volunteers: Lillian Barnathan Pinny Berger Rochelle Beyda Sruly Bloom Yocheved Bornstein Moshe Cohen Rachel Dabbah Dina Danielchik Gitty Edelstein Layla’la Ehrlich Gila Elefant Dovid Eliyahu Raizy Estersohn Ester Friedman Elisheva Friedman Faigy Gelbendorf Arlette Gindi Chaya Ginsberg Goldy Gleiberman Shani Glenn Raitzy Gobioff Lazer Grunwald Shevy Haas Anell Hakimian Richard Hampton Suri Hoffman Yoely Holender Yocheved Horovitz Raquel Imir Miriam Krausz Sefy Krawiecz Fortune Laboz Moshe Landau Eli Lederman Adena Lenefsky Eli Levertov Dovid Lewis Ruchie Maimon Adina Markowitz Idy Markowitz Mrs. Chaya Chana Max Chani Melnick Pessy Melnick Chana Esther Milworm Aidel Malka Mintz Chaya Mintz Simcha Nierenberg Miriam Pilicer Frumie Rabinowitz Sarala Rockach Tzippy Rockach Frady Rockach Estie Rosembaum William Rosenberg Eli Rosengarten Pinchas Rubinfeld Yosef H Rubinfeld Shmiel Rubinfeld

Jack Sardar Pinky Sarway Robbie Schwartz Shaindy Schwartz Audrey Seleski Mimi Shalam Adina Shonfeld Miri Shteirmon Louise Sitt Chana Sitt Moriah Spellman Faigy Spira Esti Taube Arlette Tebelie Devorah Traube Chaim Traube Yanky Traube Frumie Weiss Frumi Weisz Baila Wigdor Boruch Zukcer Schools: Ashar Ateres Bais Yaakov Avir Yaakov Girls’ School Bais Brocha Stolin Karlin Bais Esther School Bais Malka Girls’ School of Belz Bais Shifra Miriam Bais Trany Bais Yaakov Academy (BYA) Bais Yaakov D’Chasidei Gur Bais Yaakov D’rav Meir High School Bais Yaakov Faigeh Schonberger of Adas Yereim Bais Yaakov of Bensonhurst Bais Yaakov of Boro Park Bais Yaakov of Eighteenth Avenue Bais Yaakov of the East Side Bais Yakov Derav Meir Barkai Yeshiva Bas Mikroh Girls School Bedford Stuyvesant New Beginnings Charter School Beikvei Hatzoin Bet Yaakov Ateret Torah High School Beth Rivka School Beth Rochel School Bnos Bobov Bnos Bobov Pre School Bnos Chaya Bnos Esther Pupa Bnos Malka Academy Bnos Yaakov Educational Center

Bnos Yaakov Educational Kindervelt Bnos Yaakov Pupa of BP Bnos Yisroel Girls’ School of Viznitz Bnos Yisroel Girls’ School of Viznitz Bnos Yisroel School Bnos Zion of Bobov Chabad of Port Washington Chabad of Putnam Chabad of the West Side Chabad of Tribeca Chatzar Hakodesh SanzKlausenberg Cheder at the Ohel Cheder Ateres Tzvi Cheder Chabad of MonseyBoys Division Cheder Chabad of MonseyGirls Division Chofetz Chaim Preschool East Midwood Hebrew Day School East Midwood Jewish Center Educational Institute Oholei Menachem Elite Academy of Science & Technology Elyon Seminary/Bnos Chava High School Fifth Avenue Synagogue/ Creative Play School Gan Chamesh Preschool Gesher Yehuda H.A.N.C. Plainview Elementary School/Joshua Waitman E.C.C. HAFTR Middle School Ha’or Beacon School Hebrew Academy of Five Towns and Rockaway Hebrew Academy of Five Towns and Rockaway - Middle School Hebrew Academy of Long Beach Hebrew Academy of Long Beach Hebrew Institute of Riverdale Kinneret Day School Lev Bais Yaakov Magen David Yeshiva High School Magen David Yeshivah Mazel Day School Mazel Day School Mesilas Bais Yaakov Mirrer Yeshiva K’tana Monsey Beis Chaya Mushka

Moshlu Nesivos Bais Yaakov New York Hebrew North Shore Hebrew Academy North Shore Hebrew Academy High School Oholei Torah-Oholei Menachem Ohr Temimim Park East Synagogue Positive Beginnings Prospect Park Yeshiva Shaare Torah Girls High School Shulamit of Long Island Shulamith School for Girls Stein Yeshiva of Lincoln Park Talmud Torah Adas Yereim Talmud Torah Bobov Talmud Torah Me’or Hachaim Viznitz Talmud Torah Ohr Moshe Talmud Torah Siach Yitzchok The Cheder The New Bais Yaakov The Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein Upper School of Ramaz The Ramaz Lower School The Solomon Schechter School of Queens Tomer Dvora School Torah Vedas YDE School Yeshiva Ahavas Torah Yeshiva Bais Dovid Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/ Children’s Learning Center Yeshiva Bais Mikroh Yeshiva Ch’san Sofer Yeshiva Darchei Noam Yeshiva Degel Hatorah Maamar Mordechai Yeshiva Eitz Chaim / The Skill Building Center/Bnos Bracha Yeshiva Ketana of Manhattan Yeshiva of Brooklyn - Girls Yeshiva of Central Queens Yeshiva of Flatbush Yeshiva of Greater Monsey (The Cheder of Monsey) Yeshiva of Spring Valley Yeshiva of Spring Valley-Bais Sarah Yeshiva Tiferes Elimelech Yeshiva Toras Emes Kamenitz Yeshiva Tzoin Yosef-Pupa Yeshivah Prep High School Yeshivas Boyan Tiferes Mordechai Shlomo Yeshivas Ruach Chaim

Jessica Hilfer Laurie Kott Lisa Shell Lisa, Kyra, Kayla and Mason Diamond Mandy Diamond Mariel Goldstein Michal Balakani Mikki Wassner Mindy, Matt, Jordyn and Sam Saler Moshe Mutterperl

Rachel Burnham Rachel Rosenberg Reyna Charapp Sachs Family Shana Wohl Students of Meor Maryland Tamar Schmerling Terri, Olicia and Evan Diamond Tracy, Scott, Brody, and Zack Stein Yankee Doodle Art Studio Yitzy Bortz

CANADA TORONTO Aleph Bet Daycare Eitz Chaim Schools Associated Hebrew Schools Kamin Campus Gan Shelanu Netivot Ha Torah Day Schools The Leo Baeck Day School Loving Care Day Care Centre Beth Radom Congregation Joe Dwek Ohr Haemet Sephardic School Chabad of Flamingo Beth Tzedek Congregation Bialik Hebrew Day School - Himel Campus Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto – Kimmel Campus

Ulpana Orot Girls School Yeshivat Or Chaim Petah Tikvah Synagogue Chabad of Markham Kensington Place Chabad of the Avenue, Gan Shalom Preschool The Toronto Cheder City Shul Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto & Pre School Forest Hill Jewish Centre Chabad of Midtown Bais Yaakov Elementary School Hamilton Hebrew Academy Early Childhood Centre at Holy Blossom Temple

Ahavat Yisrael Hebrew School Beth Torah Congregation Bialik Hebrew Day School Beth Sholom Synagogue Bais Chaya Mushka B’nai Brith Canada Chabad of Aurora Montessori Jewish Day School Dairy Queen at Bathurst & Atkinson Herbert H. Carnegie Public School Rochelle Kerzner in Memory of Barbara Frances Grimson z’l & Norton Lorne Grimson z’l National Conference of Synagogue Youth - NCSY Brian Schiffman Of JB Brands Corp

JPPS Bialik Les écoles Azrieli schools UTT / Herzliah Merton Elementary School Solomon Schechter Academy

Toy Drive Boxes Rebox Corp

MONTREAL Schools Akiva School Congregation Adath Israel Poale Zedek Anshei Ozeroff Congregation Beth Tikvah Hebrew Academy Afternoon School Congregation Tifereth Beth David Jerusalem Diller Teen Fellows Montreal Early Childhood Education Center Sylvan Adams YM-YWHA École Honoré Mercier School Hebrew Academy (Daycare, Elementary & High School) Hebrew Foundation School

Other Toy Donations Aero Trading Hasbro Jack & Jill Karmine Group Toy Drive Chairs Estee Fagen Sarah Lieberman

Graphics Marina Tejarian & M-Inspiration Chanukah Party Rabbids Amusement Centre DeSerres Alex Galchenyuk of the Montreal Canadiens The Kunstlinger Family Chanukah Party Chairs Reitzu Iczkovits Leah Hochstadter

SOUTHEAST REGION Zohara Epstein Zach/ Claire Mamrout L’Hermitage Condominuims Hebrew Acadamy Day School Sylvia Miller/ Jewish A of Atlanta LEC Hebrew academy of miami beach Hadar school for girls Katz Hillel Day School of Boca Raton Samuel Scheck Hillel Community Day School

Sha’arei Bina Jewish cooperative school Pearl Blank Young Israel Youth Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center Chai Tots Preschool The Rohr Bais Chaya Academy Tila Falic Jackie Mathews Chabad of Broward Rabbi Pinny Andrusier Rabbi Eli Lipskar

Jewish Heritage Night Eli Nash Reinfeld Chanukah Angels 2016 Chic Me Out Events Lennys Pizza Audrey Bensassoun Miami Loc LLC Yacht Charters of Miami Back Yard BBQ Sterling Linens

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Sammy Braha

Melnick Family

Moshe Cohen

Rite Lite

DYNAREX CORP

Chaim Silber

Martin and Lauren Geller

Lilian Saur

Eleonora Gurgova

Joy Sklar

We couldn’t have done it without you! Mid-Atlantic Chanukah Party.

NEW JERSEY REGION Sponsors/Supporters Ariella Lomnitz Benny’s Educational Toys Chayala Kipper of Chay Art Dalgar Caterers Golden Fluff Hillside Frosting Tint Honey Engel Toy Fund Jeremey Messler Photography JFCS of Southern Jersey Judie Singer Parnes Family Pret-a-partee Rabbi and Mrs. Yisroel Braunstein Rothkopf Family Shapiro’s Bakery Shloime Friedman Orchestra Star Pediatric Suki and Ding Truly Divine WSS Uncle Moishy Yehuda Aderet Coordinators Bobbi Engel Bracha Elazary - Albert Chana Dina Zucker - Arlington Chana Schneck - Teaneck Chana Suri Hoffman - Brookhill Chaya Sarah Kramer - Williams St Chaya Steinfeld Leah Brisman - Jackson Malky Goldbrenner - The Woods Malky Stein - Presidential Estates Michal Ferziger - Coventry Naomi Kurland - Adams Nechama Leiber - Raintree Nicole Englert Pessi Friedman Rebecca Safdieh - Pine River Rochel Mendlowitz - Martin Luther Dr Shira Levine Traci Levine Tzippy Prager - Twin Oaks

Partnering Stores Creative Kids DB Electronics Toymax Toys 4 U Toys for Thought Institutions Ateres Tzipora Bais Avrohom Bais Faiga Bais Kaila HS Bais Rivka Rochel Bais Rochel Bais Shaindel HS Bais Tova Bais Yaakov HS of Lakewood Bnos Bais Yaakov HS Bnos Bracha Bnos Esther Malka Bnos Yaakov Chabad of East Brunswick Chabad of Manalapan Chabad of North Brunswick Chen Bais Yaakov Child Life at CHOP Cong Sons of Israel - English Town C-Teen of Delaware Hillel Yeshiva - Deal, NJ Ilan High School JCC Bridgewater JCC Middlesex County Kesser Bais Yaakov Madison Title Moreshes Bais Yaakov Netivot Ohav Shalom - Marlboro, NJ Oros Bais Yaakov Polizt Day School Cherry Hill, NJ RPRY Shaarei Tzion Shaarei Tzion PreSchool Shalom Torah Centers Shiras Chaim Shiras Devorah HS Temple Beth Ohr Yeshiva Toras Emes

WEST COAST REGION Volunteers A Sac Akiva L. Avrumi Milworm Bluma Rothkopf Chaim Shmuel Bouskila Chama Esptein Chani Jakobovits Dini Lowey Elisheva Rosenberg Laya Zisow Leah Cohen Leah Weintraub Lean Weingarten Levi Grossman Liba Friedman Lipa Eidelman Malky Green Meir Kolko Menachem Schwartz Meshulam Lamm Moshe Karmel Moshe W. Nachman Lapa Nellie Sebag Nissim L. Nuta Grinberger Pinny Neiman Rivkala Weisblum Rivky Dembinski Rivky Epstein Rivky Hirsch Rochel Epstein Shloime Milworm Shosh Tomaszewski Shua Glustein Simi Halpern Sruly Morgenstern Tehila Mizrahi Tzippy Newman Yehoshua Lapedis Yirmiyahu K. Yitzchok R. Yossi F. Zevy N.

Chanukah Angels The Andron Family B&B Premier Insurance Solutions, Inc. Congregation Adat Shalom Kehillat Ma’arav Temple Aliyah Early Childhood The Arastoozad Family The Aron Family The Ashkenazi Family The Aslmand Family The Axelrod Family The Babay Family The Banafshe Family The Banafsheha Family The Banafsheha Family The Barlava Family The Bernstein Family The Beron Family The Berookim Family The Birnbaum Family The Borenstein Family The Breskal Family The Brookler Family The Buchman Family The Chankin-Gould Family The Chirchick Family The Cohen Family The Cosgrove Family The Danialian Family The Dolgin Family The Edwards Family The Elisha Family The Esmailzadeh Family The Farhadi Naysan Family The Feiz Family The Feldman Family The Fitterman Family The Friedman Family The Gabay Family The Gabbaian Family The Gabbay Family The Goodman-Schlessinger Family The Gul Family The Gutis Family The Guzik Family The Hallegua Family The Hanasab Family The Hanasab Family The Harouni Family The Harouni Family

The Heald Family The Hendeles Family The Hoffman Family The Horn Family The Iloulian Family The Javaheri Family The Javaheri Family The Javid Family The Kadoche Family The Kahen Family The Kahenasa Family The Kamran Family The Kashani Family The Khorshidi Family The Kleinman Family The Koss Family The Labib Family The Lainer Family The Lameh Family The Lamishaw Family The Lavine Family The Lawrence Family The Leifer Family The Leman Family The Lerner Family The Leshem Family The Lewis Family The Lewis Family The Lipman Family The Lovelady Family The Magna Family The Mansoury Family The Marciano Family The Melamed Family The Melmed Family The Mescobi Family The Meyer Family The Moskowitz Family The Nagel Family The Nassibi Family The Nehouray Family The Neman Family The Newman Family The Niknia Family The Nussen Family The Okhovat Family The Parsakar Samadi Family The Paul Family The Pompan Family The Putnam Family The Rahimian Family The Raiss Family The Rodef Family

The Rollman Family The Rosenthal Family The Rostamiam Family The Rothman Family The Schutzer Family The Separzadeh Family The Shabatian Family The Shabatian Family The Sher Family The Shokouhi Farhadi Family The Shuchatowitz Family The Smith Family The Sooferian Family The Soroudi Family The Spratt Family The Starr Nayssan Family The Szew Family The Thomas-Newborn Family The Toczek Family The Tsarovsky Family The Turobiner Family The Wacht Family The Wachtel Family The Walt Family The Weindling Family The Weiner Family The Weiser Family The Weisz Family The Wertheim Family The Yadegar Family The Yamini Family The Yashapour Family The Yashar Family Chanukah Volunteers Avital Abraham Rivkah Abrams Julia Ackerman Saul Ackerman Julia Berger Rifka Basya Brecher Shaya Cohen Hadaya Freid Chanie Friedman Ellie Gofman Richard Gralnik Stacey Gralnik Daniella Hanas Abegail Javidzad Dani Katz Hannah Kaye

Elisheva Levin Penina Mandelbaum Laura Nickowitz Elizabeth Richter Adina Schwartz Yosef Shuchatowitz Moryel Yashar Ellie Zisblatt Camp Simcha Alumni Srula Chaiton Menucha Freedman Yitzie Ingber AY Mernick Nuchum Shapiro Becky Usdan Chanukah Toy Drives Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School Brentwood Country Club Congregation Adat Shalom Emek Hebrew Academy Gannot Family Toy Drive In Loving Memory of Daniella Haya Gannot Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles Kehillat Ma’arav Maimonides Academy Pressman Hebrew Academy Temple Judea Transitional Kindergarten at Heschel Day School Young Israel of North Beverly Hills YULA Girls High School Sponsors/Supporters Scott Bachrach, The Wish Factory Danielle Cohen Sandy Feldmar Kylie Hall Chani Levine Anthony Serra Bruria Siegel Phyllis and Alan Steinberg Allen Steiner Allen Weinstock Wax Creation

West Coast Chanukah Party

MIDWEST REGION Volunteers Alan and Leslie Berger Bentzy Bider Devorah Bider Shaindel Bider Rabbi Yisroel Brooks Nechama Cohen Rabbi Yosef Cohen Linda Cohen Chasi Davis Moriel Draimon Shira Etzman Goizman Family Aniel Goldberg Gina Gottesman Marc and Ruki Halpert

David & Chaya Tova Hartman and family Mark & Penina Hartman and family Rena Helprin Ilana & Mervyn Kopinsky Joel & Iris Friedman Lori Kaufman Michael Kirschner/Starr Catering Sarita Kohn Malkie Kohn Nsia Lebovitz Mala Lipson Shira Muskat Rabbi Shlomo Newberger Russy Raisman Rivka Recht

Tein Li Chow Tzippy Schultz Tzvi and Sara Reifer Yoel and Malky Reifer Alon & Eirit Yonatan Schools Anshei Shalom Bnei Israel Arie Crown Hebrew Day School Joan Dachs Bais Yaakov/Yeshivas Tiferes Tzvi Akiba Schechter Jewish Day School NCSY Midwest Seymour J. Abrams Cheder Lubavitch Hebrew Day School Yeshiva Ohr Boruch-The Veitzener Cheder

THE MAGIC NUMBER FOR TOYS GETS HIGHER! Chai Lifeline toy drives around the world outdid themselves this year. Thanks to the schools, individuals, retailers, synagogues and community groups that helped us collect, sort, and distribute almost 60,000 toys and gifts.

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Which one of these children needs Chai Lifeline? (Hint: They all do.) Chai Lifeline is renowned for the care and love it bestows on children ﬁghting cancer. But that’s only the beginning. Chai Lifeline serves thousands of children with medical challenges that aren’t evident on the outside, everything from Crohns Disease to cystic ﬁbrosis to heart disease and illnesses so rare only a handful of children have been diagnosed. And still, that’s only the beginning. Chai Lifeline includes siblings and parents, too, with programs geared towards the entire family. We care for more than 5,000 children and their families around the world and across the street. Chances are, you know them. They just don’t look sick.

Whenever, wherever we’re needed, Chai Lifeline is there.

Chai Lifeline. Comprehensive, compassionate, professional assistance for families facing illness, loss or trauma. 151 West 30th Street, New York, NY 10001 I (877) CHAI-LIFE I (212) 465-1300 I www.chailifeline.org

Regional Offices: Greater New York I Southeast I West Coast I Midwest I Mid-Atlantic I New Jersey I Canada I England I Israel I Belgium Hospital Support: Meals | Transportation Assistance | Hospital Visits | Respite Children’s Programs: Arts and Recreational Activities | After-school programs | Sibling Programs | Educational Assistance in Limudei Kodesh Counseling for patients and siblings | Camp Simcha/Camp Simcha Special Family Programs: Advocacy and Information | Retreats | Insurance Advocacy | Family Recreation | Family Counseling | Bereavement Services Community Programs: Project CHAI, support for schools, camps, and communities facing crisis or trauma.

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TJH Funny Irony Donald Trump is here tonight. Now, I know that he’s taken some flak lately but no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than The Donald. And that’s because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter, like, did we fake the moon landing? … All kidding aside, we all know about your credentials and your breadth of experience. For example, on a recent episode of Celebrity Apprentice, at the steakhouse, the men’s cooking team did not impress the men from Omaha Steaks. There was lots of blame to go around, but you, Mr. Trump, recognized that the real problem was a lack of leadership. Ultimately, you didn’t blame [rapper] Lil Jon or [singer] Meatloaf, you fired Gary Busey. These are the kinds of decisions that keep me up at night. Well handled, sir! Well handled. – President Obama addressing Trump at the 2011 White House Correspondence Dinner

Centerfold Obama’s Likely Last Actions in Office L He will pass an executive

L He will issue an executive

order transferring all Guantanamo detainees to Trump Tower.

order that they should start chiseling his face into Mt. Rushmore.

L He will allow Biden to REALLY say what’s really on his mind: “Old McDonald had a farm E...I...E...I...O.”

L He will order an investigation into this crazy Russian thing called “The Electoral College.”

L He will go for one last

L In order to address wealth

motorcade ride through Manhattan...just to cause gridlock one more time (because being upended by Trump is no fun).

inequality, he will sign legislation that anyone who owns a mansion in Chicago, a $8.5 million mansion in California, and a $4.5 million mansion in Hawaii and lives full-time in a rented mansion in Washington, D.C., must host homeless people in those homes – unless your name is Barack Obama.

L He will put a cell jammer in the White House so Trump can’t send tweets such as, “Now see how much damage Obama really did. Shame!” L He will audition for role as the Marlboro Man by putting on a cowboy hat and having a cigarette on the White House lawn. L He will leave a copy of a Kenyan birth certificate in the Oval Office desk.

L He will shred the Constitution...oops did that already.

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President Obama Trivia 6. In which foreign country did President Obama live from ages 6-10 as a young boy? a. Indonesia b. Kenya c. Japan d. France 1. Where was President Obama born? a. Kenya b. Kenya c. Kenya...just kidding, settle down.... d. Kansas e. Kentucky f. Hawaii 2. President Obama has said several times that his favorite children’s book is: a. Where the Wild Things Are b. Goodnight Moon c. Cat in the Hat d. Caps For Sale 3. Pres. Obama is: a. Right-handed b. Left-handed c. Ambidextrous 4. How old is President Obama? a. 50 b. 53 c. 55 d. 57 5. Which state did President Obama represent in the Senate before becoming president? a. Illinois b. Hawaii c. California d. Indiana

7. Who lost the 2008 election to President Obama? a. Mitt Romney b. Bob Dole c. John McCain d. Newt Gingrich 8. President Obama played over 300 rounds of golf while in office. What did he recently say that his golf handicap is? a. 4 b. 13 c. 17 d. 21 Answers: 1. F 2. A 3. B 4. C 5. A 6. A 7. C 8. B Wisdom key: 5-8 correct: I know what you sound like when you snore—“OBAMA! OBAMA! OBAMA!” 2-4 correct: Don’t submit your application to Jeopardy so fast. 0-1 correct: Mr. Trump, it’s time for you to stop reading the TJH Centerfold and focus on your presidential briefings

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Torah Thought

Parshas Vayechi

By Rabbi Berel Wein

he traditional rabbinic approach as to why this portion of the Torah is the titled “vayechi Yaakov” even though the subject matter of this Torah portion concerns itself with the death of Yaakov is that as long as his descendants – the Jewish people – are alive and functioning, then Yaakov is still considered to be alive. The message here is one of immortality and continuity, family and generations. Like life itself and its counterpart, death, these words mentioned immediately above are difficult

to define. Other nations and empires that are long ago extinct in terms of presence and participation in current world events also have biological descendants alive and present in today’s world population. Nevertheless, we think of Rome and Babylon, Greece and Persia, the Holy Roman Empire and even the Soviet Union as being swept into the dustbin of history, never to rise to power again. So, the rabbis must be telling us a deeper message than mere biological and genetic survival from the past until today.

I have often thought that a great part of the secret of Jewish survival lies in the fact that different – completely different – generations are able to bond together, recognize each other and have the same common goals, values and lifestyle. My father was born before the Wright brothers flew an airplane and he lived to see human beings walk on the moon. In spite of the difference in age, background and even language, he had close contact with and a great influence on his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. They somehow recognized who he was in his essence and beliefs and easily responded to his presence and later treasured his memory. So, to a certain extent we may say that he

perhaps that fact that guarantees that as long as his descendants are alive, Yaakov also lives. Every one of his descendants could say in response to the blessing that each one received – all of them different and personal – that their old father and grandfather understood them and recognized them for what they were. And because of that, they treasured his memory and championed his cause throughout the ages. Relationships that bridge time and space, generations and world upheavals, can only be forged upon the recognition and acceptance of the uniqueness of the parties involved. There is no blessing ultimately in national and personal life that is brought about by

lived on through his descendants. Yaakov recognized the different personalities, qualities and talents of each of his children and grandchildren. His blessings to his children and grandchildren, as recorded for us in this week’s Torah reading, clearly indicate this fact. He had no one-sizefits-all blessing to bestow. And it is

conformity. The pithy remark of the great Rebbe of Kotzk was: “If I am I and you are you, then I am I and you are you; but if I am you and you are me, then I am not I and you are not you.” The blessings of Yaakov to his future generations reflect the wisdom of this truism. Shabbat shalom.

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The Observant Jew

Salt of the Earth By Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz

often ask people, “What’s your superpower?” You see, I firmly believe that Hashem imbued each of us with special abilities, and if we look at them as superpowers, something that the average person doesn’t have, we are more likely to act responsibly with them. You, sitting there right now reading this column, likely have special abilities that others don’t. I don’t mean like being able to open a beer bottle with your teeth or eat very spicy peppers without your eyes melting out of their sockets. I mean something that can be used for the benefit of Mankind, like patience, understanding, wisdom, warmth, or being able to cook a perfect brisket or chicken soup. One of my superpowers is writing beautiful, imaginative sentences that convey a wealth of ideas and feelings while using just enough commas or parentheses (often for comedic or dramatic effect) to make the reader forget that what I’ve written would probably be considered, by most English teachers at least, a run-on sentence. I’ll give you a minute to go back and reread that last line. Another superpower is one that I can actually teach. It’s a power I have been honing for years now and I’m happy to share the technique with you. It’s the ability to find godliness in seemingly mundane occurrences. The technique itself requires mental training and reinforcement. What you need to constantly remind yourself is that nothing is a coincidence and that something can be learned from every event no matter how small. The second step is identifying what the message might be. Usually, the message will be about how you need to change or improve yourself. The reason you will rarely find a

message telling you to change others is because that’s not your job. If you change yourself, you have the best chance of them changing themselves, so you get to do both at the same time. The fact that these mini-messages are intended for you and not someone else is great too because you don’t have to worry about getting embarrassed as you might if you had to tell them to someone else. As a bonus, the more you practice this skill, the easier it becomes, which is a perfect segue for the story I wanted to share. Years ago, my wife told me we needed to get a water softener. I’d never realized water could be hard – you know, without the use of ice cube trays – but she convinced me that it

One part of the process is passing the water molecules past these charged beads in a salt-water solution. That means that several times a year I have to put 400 pounds of salt into the unit. It’s not an easy task. The delivery company is kind enough to stack the 10 40-pound bags in my garage, but the rest is up to me. As I filled the unit recently, I took note of a few things.

What you need to constantly remind yourself is that nothing is a coincidence and that something can be learned from every event no matter how small. was very important to our skin and clothing. My research told me that water is considered hard when it contains large amounts of minerals like calcium and magnesium. That can harm pipes and reacts negatively with soap when you bathe or wash clothing. So how do you “soften” water? There’s a machine that uses salt and negatively-charged plastic beads to swap out the calcium and magnesium and replace them with sodium ions, which are rather innocuous to soap and pipes. We got one and I’m guessing it’s been a big improvement.

The bags are heavy. Yes, if the most you are accustomed to lifting is your computer mouse or a fork, you can’t gingerly grasp and carry one of these things. Solution? Put it on your shoulder. It makes it easier to carry. Once you get them to the unit, you need to open the bag and dump the contents into the drum. As the salt starts pouring out, it gets easier to hold the bag. (Who would have thunk it?) Ten trips to the water softener seems like a lot, but when you’re done, you’ve moved 400 pounds of salt which is very impressive!

That was my mundane experience, and here’s the valuable life lesson part: First of all, anything of value will be a challenge to do. It won’t be easy, but that’s OK. Accepting the job is the hardest part. R’ Matisyahu Salamon explains that the yoke on an animal is specifically designed to channel its strength in the most efficient way. That means accepting the yoke of Torah is a tool to help us be the best we can be as opposed to a burden. Second, as you keep at it, it gets easier. The difficulties wane and if you can hold out at the beginning, you’ll find yourself easily doing what you need to. And finally: When you look back at your life, if you’ve put these lessons into practice, you’ll have a lot to be proud of. Not only that, you won’t even remember why you thought it was so difficult. And it isn’t, remember – you’re superhuman. Jonathan Gewirtz is an inspirational writer and speaker whose work has appeared in publications around the world. You can find him at www.facebook.com/ RabbiGewirtz, and follow him on Instagram @RabbiGewirtz or Twitter @ RabbiJGewirtz. He also operates JewishSpeechWriter.com, where you can order a custom-made speech for your next special occasion. Sign up for the Migdal Ohr, his weekly PDF Dvar Torah in English. E-mail info@JewishSpeechWriter.com and put Subscribe in the subject.

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Between the Lines

Cheese! By Eytan Kobre

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. - Phyllis Diller

f you’ve ever wanted to work for Holiday Inn, you probably appreciate the importance of smiling. Years ago, the company was looking

to fill 500 positions for a new facility. While over 5,000 candidates were granted an interview, hotel management rejected all candidates who smiled fewer than four times during the interview. The idea was that a smiling employee meant smiling patrons, and smiling patrons are good for business.

Smiling is also good for the one who smiles. Smiling reduces stress, enhances immune response, and releases endorphins and serotonin. (It also makes you look younger and more attractive.) In fact, in a 2010 study published in Psychological Science, researchers from Wayne State University analyzed the smiles of 230 Major League Baseball players from the 1952 player register to determine how positive emotions influence longevity. The study found that the span of a player’s smile could actually predict the span of his life. Players who didn’t smile in their pictures lived an average of only 72.9 years, while players with beaming smiles lived an average of 79.9 years. Before his passing, Yaakov blessed each of his children according to their nature and abilities (Ohr HaChaim, Bereishis 49:28). For Yehuda, the tribe destined for leadership, Yaakov envisioned a prosperity fit for royalty – the tribe “will launder his garments in wine and his robe in the blood of grapes. His eyes will be red from wine, and his teeth white from milk” (Bereishis 49:11-12). While the simple reference is to the abundance of grapes (producing wine) and cattle (producing milk), there is another interpretation. “The Jewish people said to G-d, ‘The smile of Your eyes is more savory than wine, and the white of Your teeth is more delicious than milk,’” from which we derive that smiling at others is greater than offering them a glass of milk (Kesubos 111b; see Yalkut, Tehillim 80). One can provide all sorts of physical sustenance and

comfort, but it pales in comparison to the succor and self-worth that only a smile can offer (Avos D’Rabbi Nosson 13; Bava Basra 9b). The value of a smile is rooted firmly in our tradition. “Receive every person with a pleasant countenance” (Avos 1:15 and Vilna Gaon ad loc.). “One should not show a sullen face towards others, but rather should greet people with a radiant face,” presumably a smile (Orchos Chaim, No. 57). Indeed, even an infant recognizes a smile and responds in kind (Alei Shur, Vol. 1, pg. 190). The great leaders of the Mussar movement (R’ Yisrael Salanter, the Alter of Slabodka, R’ Yechezkel Sarna, and others) regarded our faces as having the status of a public domain, and we are to project a countenance that does justice to that social responsibility. R’ Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler famously reproved his pupils when they wore a long face. “You are like a thief,” R’ Dessler would explain. “You have no right to deprive your fellow man of the pleasantness of a cheerful face.” The leading disciple of the Alter of Slabodka, R’ Avrohom Grodzinski, went so far as to spend two years perfecting his cheerful countenance, which he managed to maintain throughout the horrors of the Holocaust (Toras Avraham, Introduction, pg. 11). Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch put it well. “A smile costs nothing, but gives much. It enriches those who receive, without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or

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mighty that he can get along without it, and none is so poor but that he can be made rich by it. A smile creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in business, and is the countersign of friendship. It brings rest to the weary, cheer to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad, and is nature’s best antidote for trouble. Yet it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give.” But this firsthand account just might sum things up best. One day, when I was a high school freshman, I saw a kid from my class walking home from school. It looked like he was carrying all of his books. I figured Kyle was a real nerd to be carrying all his books home on a Friday, whereas I had quite the weekend planned. Then I saw a bunch of kids

running towards him. They knocked all his books to the ground and shoved him to the dirt. His glasses went flying, and I saw them land in the grass about ten feet from him.

We talked all the way home. He was actually a pretty cool kid. We hung out all weekend, and the more I got to know Kyle, the more I liked him. Kyle and I became best friends.

“Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give.”

He looked up and I saw this terrible sadness in his eyes. Instinctively, I jogged over and handed his glasses to him. I smiled at him. He smiled back. I helped him pick up his books, and I asked him where he lived. As it turned out, he lived right near me.

Four years later, Kyle was honored as valedictorian of our high school class. Speaking from the podium at graduation, he cleared his throat and began. “Graduation is a time to thank those who have helped you make it through trying times—parents,

teachers, siblings, coaches…but mostly friends. Let me tell you a story.” I was dumfounded as my friend told the story of the day we first met – the full story. Apparently, he had planned to commit suicide over that weekend, and he had cleared out his locker so his mother wouldn’t have to. That’s why he’d been carrying all those books. “Thankfully,” Kyle concluded, “my friend saved me from doing the unspeakable – all with that one simple smile.” Kyle smiled. His parents smiled. I couldn’t help but smile. Given the profound reach of a simple smile, can any of us be sure we’d make the cut for Holiday Inn?

Eytan Kobre is a writer, speaker, mediator, and attorney living in Kew Gardens Hills. Questions? Comments? Suggestions? E-mail eakobre@outlook.com.

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Challenge for Overseas Buyers Apartment Registration By Gedaliah Borvick

y relatives recently sold their apartment, and the contract signing was delayed by over a month because their identification numbers on the apartment registration were from expired passports, which had since been replaced by new passports with new passport numbers. Soon after this incident, I was talking with attorney Yaacov Epstein, an up-and-coming lawyer based in Jerusalem. This article is a summation of our conversation and offers suggestions for overseas purchasers to protect themselves from having property registration issues. In Israel, ownership of homes is registered in the land registry called TABU, or through other similar registration offices, depending on the type of title on the property. The law requires all buyers to provide an identification number. Israelis use their legal identification number (“mispar zehut”) and overseas buyers fulfill this requirement by using their passport number. Parenthetically, one can theoretically use their social security number, but we would

dissuade people from doing so, due to the inherent security risk. The challenge is that when passports expire, the new passports have a new number. Consequently, an overseas owner’s registration document needs to be updated to reflect their new passport number. To do so, the land registrar required two affidavits to be presented, from the owner of the property and from a third party. With my relatives, I needed to sign an affidavit vouching that the people in the new passports were the same people who were in the old passports. That solution was simple enough. However, when it’s not possible to find two people to sign affidavits, we have a potential legal challenge. To avoid this issue, we recommend that if you are about to purchase an apartment and your overseas passport will expire in the near future, you may want to renew your passport now, as it is much easier to renew your passport early than to update your registration in the Israel land registry later on.

What should one do in a situation where one’s passport is not expiring for a number of years? We suggest that – even if you are not planning on selling in the near future – on your next trip to Israel after you acquire a new passport, drop by your attorney’s office and sign an affidavit to update the ownership registration. The lawyer will then submit your affidavit and a second affidavit, plus original or certified copies of the old and new passports, and change the passport number at the land registrar. Signing an affidavit in front of your lawyer in Israel is much easier than signing overseas, as you avoid having to waste time and money going to the Israeli Consulate or hiring an apostille to bless the document. However, if you forgot to update the registration when you renewed your passports and only remembered to do so after you decided to sell your apartment – which is what usually happens – contact your attorney immediately to quickly resolve this matter before it causes any contract signing delays. This land registration issue is

one of a number of glitches that can arise in any given deal. The key to a smooth transaction is for your attorney is to be on the lookout for potential hiccups; doing so will ensure that these nuisance issues do not become major problems. As I received input from an attorney, I was requested to add the following legal disclaimer: This information is not intended to constitute legal advice and should not be relied upon in lieu of consultation with the appropriate legal advisors in your own jurisdiction. Should you have any follow-up questions, please feel free to contact Yaacov Epstein at y@epsteinlaw. co.il. His firm’s website is www.epsteinlaw.co.il.

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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Knock, Knock By Rabbi YY Rubinstein

t seems that the more new things come along the more amazing they become. Smart is the phrase that comes to mind and, of course, “smart” is the adjective that defines all new technology that wants to be taken remotely seriously. Take the newest cars for example. There are no door handles (ha, ha! door handles; how quaint). There are no keys, of course (puh’lease…how passé). Cameras use facial recognition to identify the driver and passengers, then adjust the seats to everyone’s preferences. There are no mirrors. High-definition displays replace the rearview and side-view mirrors through HD cameras. Of course, the cars park themselves. They use up to 30 sensors around the car to enable it to hunt around a parking lot for a space and then park perfectly. I am not sure I’ll be able to afford that sort of car any time soon, but I can always console myself with my smartphone. Leaving aside about a gazillion

apps, including Jewish ones that can make my phone do everything apart from making challah (at least I think it can’t do that), the list of things it can do is astonishing. You can monitor your blood sugar and pressure; retina scanners are here too, as well as fitness monitors. Then there is the standard fingerprint recognition feature to unlock your phone and let you can use it and more importantly stop other people from using it. With all these features and, of course, the fact that your phone probably contains all of your most critical personal details, like passwords, it becomes more than a phone. It becomes a crucial part of you. During this Chanukah, disaster struck. I lost my smartphone. Given how much essential “me” is contained inside it, I started to panic. My wife calmed me by pointing out that smartphones have features that allow them to be traced and located by their signal. Phew! Panic over. My wife and I started the pro-

cedure that launches the search on her iPhone and off we set to retrieve our lost child. At this point I should point out that although the adjective “smart” may well apply to the phone, it might not always apply to its owner. If only we had pressed one more part of the screen, we would have been all set. Instead I had a “glitch” in my own programming so that the map took us on a treasure hunt all over the Five Towns. Every time we arrived at an address, which surely must be where some saintly soul who had picked up the lost item resided, the phone informed us it was now at a different house! After six or seven tries we came to a house where everyone seemed to be out. For once the signal did not dance away to another location. We were convinced that behind this front door sat a smartphone pining to be reunited with its owner. My wife had the great idea of asking a neighbor if they could call the owners of the house to see if they had found a lost phone. Across the street, a brightly lit home showed

that lots of people were inside. We crossed the street and rang the bell. No one answered so we waited and rang again. No one answered. So we knocked. No one answered. Then a child’s figure appeared behind the glass and disappeared. We rang once more. Then an adult’s outline appeared behind the glass and disappeared and no one answered. I could see a video camera staring down at us and understood what had happened. We had been taken for meshulachim. Crossing the street we knocked on another door and their help was spontaneous and enthusiastic. Soon we were reunited with our phone. As we drove home I recalled a story I heard many years ago. For many years, Reb Moshe Reichmann, z”l, was a major supporter of countless Torah institutions — yeshivos, schools, kollelim. This included my own community kollel in England. One of the avreichim used to travel to Toronto annually to request funds from Mr. Reichmann,

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and these were always supplied. On one occasion he brought back the following story from his trip. Mr. Reichmann had flown to Manhattan for a meeting with some other property developer. He arrived at the skyscraper offices of the New York firm and exited the elevator into the corporation’s office suite. The receptionist sat behind a pentangle-shaped desk surrounded by glass walls that gave onlookers a view into the offices of the firm. Through the glass walls, Mr. Reichmann could observe the staff busy at their desks, and he could even see the owner of the firm, whom he had come to meet, sitting in his own plush office. The receptionist asked if she could help the bearded man who wore the traditional dark suit of Orthodox Jews. Reb Moshe supplied his name and said that he had come to see Mr. “Cohen.” The receptionist invited him to take a seat and promptly picked up the phone and dialed her boss to inform him that Moshe Reichmann was asking to see him. But when she said Mr. Reichmann’s name she repeated what she had heard him say, only she had misheard him. “There is a Mr. Reinman here for you, Mr. Cohen.” The boss looked up from his desk and through the glass saw what he believed was yet another meshulach come to elicit a donation. After ten minutes of waiting, Moshe Reichmann approached the receptionist again and asked if she wouldn’t mind reminding her boss that he was still waiting. The young lady obliged and once again explained that Mr. Reinman was still waiting. This did not even provoke her boss to look up; he hung up the phone and went back to his work. After half an hour, Mr. Reichmann went back to the receptionist and said that he could see that Mr. Cohen was clearly very busy but he could not wait any longer. “Could you just tell them that Mr. Reichmann had to leave?” This time the receptionist heard the name correctly and her face turned white. She knew exactly

who Mr. Reichmann was and, fumbling for the phone, she informed her boss who had been waiting for him all this time. The man behind the glass leaped from his seat and burst through the door looking whiter than his soon-to-be ex-receptionist. “I am so sorry...” he stammered, shaking

message was not really for me instead. How did I feel standing on that cold threshold being ignored and turned away? Perhaps I too had ignored someone in trouble when I could easily have helped. And suppose someone could develop yet another Jewish app to add to the thousands that tell

This time the receptionist heard the name correctly and her face turned white.

Mr. Reichmann’s hand. “My receptionist misheard your name, and she didn’t realize who it was!” Mr. Cohen was clearly alarmed, as the deal they were scheduled to discuss involved hundreds of millions of dollars. “You see, we have never met before, and when I looked up and saw you, I thought you were a meshulach!” Mr. Reichmann apologized and said, “I am very sorry, but if that’s the way you treat meshulachim... the deal’s off.” And he left the plush offices and returned to Toronto. This was a story my wife had heard me recount many times before. That morning, though, I had been learning something new with my chavrusah something that was very relevant to that closed door. Reb Elya Lopian zt”l writes in Lev Eliyahu (Bereshis page 119): If Hashem sees that the middas ha’din is readying himself to punish someone because something they have done, he sends a poor person to his door. This is so as to evoke the person’s feelings of pity and mercy towards someone who is in trouble. That in turn, middah, kneged middah, arouses Hashem’s feelings of pity and mercy towards the person whom the middos ha’din wanted to strike and stops him doing so! A day later I toyed with the idea of returning to the house with the closed door to explain why I had come that night and to tell them about this frightening teaching. Instead I paused to wonder if the

you the time of Mincha, or where you can find the nearest minyan or kosher store. Suppose this app, let’s call it, “The Rachmanus App,” sends you an alert to tell you that the middos ha’din is angry with you and is trying to cause you harm for something you have done. This

smart app will show you where you can find another Jew who needs a bit of help with tzedaka to help a sick spouse or money for a sick child. The app will have a graphic of a figure standing outside a door. The sound to alert you to your danger and how to avoid it will be noise that resembles, “Knock, Knock.” Of course, if you are smart, you’ll want to download this to your smartphone right way. If you are really smart you’ll never go anywhere without it so you can listen out for the “Knock Knock” alert and the opportunity to show a little kindness which might just force the middos ha’din to visit another address in another neighborhood altogether.

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Shedding Light on the Darkest Hour Rabbi Elchonon Zohn, Founder of National Association of Chevra Kadisha, Speaks about End-of-Life Issues

Rabbi Zohn, this week’s parsha, Parshas Vayechi, has been designated as TEAM Shabbos. Can you tell us more about TEAM Shabbos? TEAM is an acronym for Traditional End-of-life Movement. The Shabbos of Parshas Vayechi is dedicated to spreading and articulating the important topics surrounding end-of-life to the broader Jewish community through sermons, articles, lectures and events on, before and after this Shabbos.

Why was there a need to dedicate a Shabbos to this topic? Because these are sensitive and uncomfortable topics to discuss, even for rabbonim, particularly in a large group, yet it is extremely important and responsible for everyone to know and understand the significance of these issues and to be prepared to face them when they arise, often when least expected. Having a national Shabbos dedicated to these concepts makes it easier

for everyone to “open the discussion” and address them. 300 shuls from across the nation will be participating. What topics will they be focusing on? First of all, it will be”H be well over 400 participating shuls. We have identified 13 topics of focus. Our website, www.teamshabbos. org, lists them and provides many resources regarding each one. In brief, the subjects range widely. We

begin with an appreciation of the sanctity and value of every minute of life from the Torah’s perspective contrasted with the secular/medical ethics view and conclude with appreciating the work of the chevra kadisha. In between are issues dealing with preparing ourselves with halachic wills – living wills, estate wills and ethical wills – all defined by halacha; taking responsibility for parents’ medical and after-life needs; being prepared by buying

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kevarim and making pre-need funeral arrangements; reaching out to unaffiliated, secular Jews and encouraging their choice of traditional Jewish burial practices; etc. All of these are reflected in the short slogan we chose for this Shabbos: “Respect Life – Here and Hereafter.” Rabbi Zohn, you are the Founder and Director of the National Association of Chevra Kadisha. Please tell us about your organization. The National Association of Chevra Kadisha (NASCK), founded in 1996, was created to assist affiliated chevros kadisha in defining, establishing, and achieving the highest degree of kavod ha’mes (respect for the deceased) as defined by Jewish law. NASCK also creates and advances programs and initiatives to promote traditional Jewish end-of-life values. That is our short mission statement. We offer a 24/6 hotline to chevros kadisha for practical and halachic questions. We

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are a resource on end-of-life issues and halacha serving chevros, rabbonim, professionals and individuals. When did you become involved in the chevra kadisha? I observed my first tahara at age 17 when I was acting as a shomer for a rebbe in our yeshiva. A couple of years later, when the Vaad Harabonim of Queens was seeking to form a chevra kadisha with a group of talmidim at Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim, I was asked to join because I had “experience.” What prompted you to devote yourself to this mitzvah? After being a member of the Vaad Chevra Kadisha in Queens for over 10 years and just after receiving smichah (rabbinic ordination) I was asked to head the Chevra. I agreed to do so until I found a job in rabbanus or chinuch, which was the direction I was looking to pur-

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sue. When I did finally get an offer for the position I wanted, I resigned from the Chevra. The Vaad asked me to discuss my decision with a gadol since, be”H, I had been very successful in raising the standards of kavod ha’mes and k’vurah k’halacha (traditional Jewish burial) in the two years of my tenure. After a lengthy discussion with Harav Yaakov Kaminetzky, zt”l, I was convinced that unless I could find someone willing to take the job who would equally dedicate themselves to its growth and success, I could not leave what was a communal responsibility. The rest, as they say, “is history.” What does being part of the Chevra Kadisha entail? It means being ready at all times to help take care of and prepare every Jewish person, for whom your chevra kadisha is responsible, with proper Jewish burial in the quickest possible time with the greatest

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possible kavod (respect), as defined by our tradition. It might also entail advocating for families with hospitals, medical examiners, and other entities to ensure proper kavod is achieved. Some chevros also get involved with setting up a shivah home, ensuring minyanim, etc. Speaking about death is sometimes an uncomfortable and sensitive topic. How can we explain to our not-yet-religious brothers and sisters about the beauty of tahara and the laws surrounding a niftar? Opening the conversation is indeed difficult. However, we must and there are ample opportunities. Every rabbi must use 2-3 minutes of every funeral where non-frum Jews are present to extol the beauty and the meaning of the minhagim and traditions that we follow. Focus on the respect for the body that housed a holy neshama; closure and comfort to the family; reflection of our beliefs in the afterlife and t’chi-

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yas hameisim; etc. We should never waste that “teachable moment” when those in attendance are listening attentively. Anyone can speak to those not-yet-religious Jews when someone in their circle passes on or even when a well-known Jewish person – like Joan Rivers – chooses cremation one can raise the question why would any Jew make that choice? Can you relate two stories that you found extremely powerful in all your years of being part of the Chevra Kadisha? The first story happened thousands of times. The hashgachah pratis that is clearly visible in the day-to-day operation of a Chevra Kadisha is inspiring. It is clear that the Ribbono Shel Olam only gives us that which we can handle. On a day that we struggle to get out one group of people to do a tahara (every tahara needs four participants), we only need one group. The next day we may need five groups and they are readily available. This applies to every facet of the Chevra process. Sometimes I will get a phone number or make a new contact who will make it possible the very next day (or hour) to get a release from a hospital, medical examiner or a cemetery to open late, etc. A story that illustrates this common (yet not so common) phenomenon took place in 1981 a few months after I took over as director of the Chevra. In those days we had fewer women volunteers, mostly older people, many of whom didn’t drive and who would not do more than two taharos consecutively. I called a meeting of the Women’s Chevra to introduce myself and to review some halachos. To make sure we had a strong turnout for the meeting I spent the night before calling each of the 28-30 women, encouraging them to come and setting up rides for them, etc. The next day the phone kept ringing. By 5PM we had the need to do ten taharos for women in six different funeral homes in Queens and Long Island. Because of the meeting (which I cancelled) I had 24 women available to go, all with rides to get there, and with very minor changes we accomplished what

would have been impossible otherwise. I learned that lesson and it has given me the confidence I needed to undertake this tremendous achrayos (responsibility). The second story may be even more frequent. It is the story of the heroic efforts that klal Yisroel exhibits on a constant basis to ensure kavod ha’mes. It is the boundless efforts to protect people from autopsy, to clean up the blood of Jews who die in accidents and disasters of all kinds. The members of ZAKA, Misaskim, Chesed Shel-Emes and individual Chevros who will leave no stone unturned so that any Jew will be given the greatest kavod after their p’tirah. Organizations like Agudath Israel of America, NASCK, Achiezer and others who will intervene with agencies of all kinds and go to court if necessary to stop an autopsy or cremation. The extraordinary efforts of such groups to identify the remains of niftarim after 9/11, TWA flight 800, Lockerbie, and r”l in Israel, on a constant basis. Last, but not least, is the story of selfless individual Chevra Kadisha members everywhere who are so careful with the kavod of each Yid they service at the taharos they do. It is not only the time they give, very often at difficult moments, but also the dedicated care and concern to do each tahara with sensitivity and perfection. I know because of all the shailos I receive before, during and after taharos, that make it so clear there is no chessed too big or too small. It is a unique privilege to be part of this truest chessed shel emes. What are a few halachos or hashkafos that you find people don’t know about but should? The need to bury people as quickly as possible and the z’chus and comfort that provides the niftar or nifteres. People need to know what is appropriate to speak about at a levaya and how to be menachem aveilim. NASCK has a very helpful packet we give to aveilim at the levaya which helps address the last point. Are there any misconceptions that you feel need to be cleared? Filling out forms about end-of-

life medical issues or buying a kever leads to an ayin hara. “I don’t need a health care proxy or a halachic living will before I turn 60.” “I will get to these things before I need them when I reach 50, 60, 70.” Reaching out to Jews who may choose cremation (these could be relatives, co-workers, neighbors or acquaintances) is not the responsibility of frum Jews. We highlighted these in this year’s TEAM Shabbos program but there are many others. What do you do when a family member calls you up and tells you that the niftar wanted a burial that is k’negged halacha, for example, cremation? The first thing we ask ourselves (sadly) is why they waited to find this out after they died? We will then explore the reasons for their choice and who are the people empowered to make the decisions now. What is the personal relationship between the person calling and the person making decisions? We will then give them some points that they can use in trying to convince the family to bury k’halacha. We will offer to speak with the person making the decisions, if they are willing to speak with us. We will not pick up a phone and call that person who just lost a spouse, parent, sibling or, chas v’shalom, a child, and begin suggesting what they should or should not do. If the choice is based on cost, there are many options available to help them get buried. B”H, there are organizations like Hebrew Free Burial that will assist. NASCK has just purchased a piece of land in South Florida that when developed will be”H become “The South Florida Jewish Cemetery.” When this project is fully financed, it will, be”H, allow for the burial of Jews who are indigent or who are choosing cremation because of the high cost of burial. You can learn more about this by visiting www.nasck. org or www.southfloridajewishcemetery.org. However, if the choice was based on ideological or psychological reasons, the chances are very slim to affect a change after the fact. If we are able to address this topic while the

person is still well, we have a great chance of success. NASCK has a website dedicated to this issue www. peacefulreturn.org which has many resources. Is there any way to perform an autopsy k’halacha if needed? There is no way to be menavel (desecrate) a mes k’halacha. In cases of murder or where there are potential health risks, a rav should be consulted. In these extreme cases the medical examiner will generally insist on some form of autopsy in any case. At the request of the late NYC Medical Examiner, Dr. Charles S. Hirsch, NASCK developed a set of protocols to follow when an autopsy must be done. These protocols have been adopted by Agudath Israel of America and by medical examiners across the country, when necessary. The Traditional Jewish Autopsy Procedures can be viewed at our website www.nasck.org . The direct link is: https://www.nasck.org/ guidelines-and-procedures/ Should we all make sure to have living wills? What is it? A halachic living will is a legal document that appoints someone to be your health care agent (proxy) and directs your agent to make all decisions in accordance with halacha. This includes some postmortem decisions as well. In the event that a question arises regarding the appropriate halachic protocol, the form directs the agent to the rabbi of your choice. This gives every Jew the peace of mind that all medical decisions made for them will be in accordance with halacha and their wishes. NASCK also offers a card (the EMES card) that contains the contact information of your proxy and the rabbi to be consulted in case of emergency. This card attaches to your driver license or ID in a special sleeve that will be found in the case of emergency. These cards are available free of charge by calling NASCK at 718.847.6280 or by requesting it at www.nasck.org. Rabbi Zohn, thank you for taking of your time to speak with us. May you continue to be osek for the klal in this very important mitzvah.

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

Dear Navidaters,

Our son recently got engaged to a young woman who seems nice enough, though we really haven’t gotten a chance to know her that well yet. Before he started dating her, however, we did hear good things about her and her family and allowed our son to start dating her.

Last week we got together with our future mechutanim in order to meet each other and also talk about the future, the upcoming vort, wedding, finances, etc. My husband and I left the meeting both feeling as though we were run over by a Mack truck! I wouldn’t describe myself or my husband as particularly humble people – but we are on the quieter side and try to be unassuming. We talk to people, not at them. We felt as though this couple came to the meeting with an agenda about where the wedding would be (very close to where they live and very far from us), where the children should look for an apartment (very close to their home and far from us). It gets worse. They walked in like accountants, telling us how much they expected us to pay for everything. We are so shocked that we sat there speechless. Now, we’re wondering whether we should try to break off the engagement. Besides how put upon we feel, we worry about our son getting into such a controlling family, where I would imagine he’ll be told how to live his life in every possible way. My husband says it’s not fair to our son to encourage him to break it off. I feel we would be doing him a big favor in the short run and, more so, in the long run. What are your thoughts on this situation?

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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ou find yourself in a situation that is not uncommon. Negotiating with mechutanim is not simple. The topics are financial and very costly. They reflect different values, bank accounts and self-perception. What’s at stake, however, is important and more costly than FLOPS and per couple catering charges. Your son’s future is what is of utmost importance and your reaction is unfair and inappropriate. Urging him to break off his relationship when you have already agreed to it because you could not work things out with the mechutanim is not right. It’s up to you to handle things. Usually, with careful communication and an approach to try to negotiate for the sake of the couple, wedding planning can be accomplished. It’s normal to feel some internal stress and to feel like you are “giving in” and agreeing to more than you would have liked. But an effort to talk and resolve matters has to come first. Even if the girl’s parents came to the table like accountants, you have to take some responsibility. Did you do your homework beforehand to find out how they handled previous simchas? Did you find out about their character? What was your attitude at the meeting itself? How did you react? Did you set up the meeting for failure? Did you expect to figure everything out right away? How did you respond to their talk about where the couple will live? Did you mention that it’s the children’s decision? Besides for soul searching, get some coaching and guidance from a rabbi or professional. Make sure you don’t vent to your son. And do your homework.

his may be your first experience as mechutanim or maybe you’ve been lucky in the past but, believe it or not, these first meetings often turn into diplomatic disasters. You describe your son’s future in-laws as coming on like “accountants”; you felt yourselves rammed by a Mack truck. Many have depicted the “other side” as adversaries in a boxing ring – “in this corner, the Friedmans…on the opposite side, the Cohens. Touch gloves; fight clean. May the best side win!” While I certainly do not condone rude and obnoxious behavior, I rationalize their “guns blazing” approach to the fact that they do not know you, the polite and reasonable mechutanim. As parents of the kallah, they may have been warned about demanding in-laws; rather than engage in a courteous, respectful give-and take conversation, they chose to stake their territory with a pre-emptive strike. Not an auspicious way to kick off a lifelong relationship! And yet not a reason to break an engagement! Talk to your trusted friends or relatives, your rabbi or the shadchan (if she or he is experienced) regarding the reasonable and customary financial expectations of the respective chosson and kallah (e.g. FLOP, wedding venue, first apartment). Then, prepared with information, call another meeting with the mechutanim. Take the high road; start off by saying, “After our first meeting, I realize we have different perspectives regarding the details of the wedding. The one thing we do agree on is that our children’s shalom bayis is paramount. What better way to maximize their happiness than by showing how we, as mechutanim, conduct our-

selves in a friendly, cooperative and respectful manner. In this spirit, I would like to re-open the discussion of wedding plans; I am confident, considering all the wonderful information we have heard about you, that we can arrive at decisions we can all feel good about.”

The Dating Mentor Rochel Chafetz Educator/Mentor es, these things sound scary and, yes, sometimes they can trickle down to the couple. You have to

No one said you would be best friends with your mechutanim. And that is OK.

find out from your son what the relationship between her and her parents is like and if he ever noticed her opinion not being valued or heard or whether the father is overly opinionated. You can tell your son about your concerns, but don’t go too far with this conversation. Just explain

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that you’d like him to watch and take note. Does she talk about her parents being the only ones in the world to the exclusion of anyone else? When talking about her parents, does she always says things like “my dad tells me this,” and “my mom tells me I have to do that.” I’m more concerned about how their behavior affects your son’s kallah rather than their behavior per se. Is she an independent thinker or is it all about her parents? Maybe it would help if your son went there for a Shabbos and observed. She should also come to you for a Shabbos and give you the opportunity to observe her. I would even take her out for lunch and listen to how she talks. As far as they are concerned, you have to tell them very nicely that you are all in this together and you feel as parents it’s important for a young couple to make a decision about where they want to live, etc., and that there has to be a balanced agreement on finances. If you still be-

lieve that they are belligerent, call their rav and speak to him. Maybe he can intervene somehow, though it does not sound so simple. Ask your son if she values his values or does she always talk about her father’s values and customs? Ask him if he feels respected or does Dad always come first. These are things that can get in the way. Has Dad ever said things to him which go against what he stands for – like, “Oh, we do it this way” or “We don’t do it that way,” because if she is totally under their control, she will have a hard time acclimating to anything that has to do with your family. That is my major concern. Good luck.

The Single Tova Wein he situation you describe is probably more common than you might believe. But that doesn’t

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he panel really nailed it. They provided you with wonderfully constructive advice and practical guidance. The panel also gave you some food for thought with regard to reframing the mechautanim’s behavior. Working with “difficult” mechautanim (in-laws) is not pleasant, but as Rachel Chafetz so poignantly mentioned, it is the kallah’s behavior, affect and disposition that should be of more importance to you and your son. Does the kallah behave like her parents? Is she completely docile … or is she healthy with

regard to her own needs and the needs of those around her? I’ve worked with parents of engaged children before and here are some guidelines that have been helpful to others in your shoes before. I make no promises, as every situation is different and there can be no guarantees. 1. When working with in-laws, live by the following motto: The children come first. Or, we will manage our relationship with the in-laws

mean that you shouldn’t take an active role in nipping some of this lopsided behavior at the start! First of all, since it seems as though you and your husband were blindsided and had no idea what you were walking into during your first meeting, you should, sooner rather than later, call for another meeting. Simply tell the kallah’s parents that you were caught off guard by their strong opinions and felt you didn’t get a chance to voice your own feelings during the first meeting. Explain to them that you are fair people who expect to be working with like-minded fair people and that you expect all decisions to be compromises. From the location of the wedding hall, to the expectations about where the married couple should live – though ultimately it is up to the young couple – every decision must work equally for both sides. Be nice but be firm. From the beginning, it’s important to present yourselves as people who will not be pushed around and treated like wimps. Hopefully they’ll get the message

loud and clear and back down. As far as your concerns about your son entering a family that is totally controlling, I think that is something worth exploring with him. You can tell you son that you found his future in-laws to be quite strongminded and urge him to be aware of their behavior and also to discuss with his kallah upfront about the fact that he anticipates a wonderful relationship with her parents but that he has no intention of being told how to live his life, and furthermore, that he expects his future wife to put his needs before her parents’ needs. Both you and your husband and your son will take note how these conversations go. Hopefully, the kallah’s parents will back down and understand that none of you are people who will go along with being bullied. If the kallah or her parents respond by upping their game and expressing their intention of being in control of everything and everyone – I would proceed with extreme caution. I have learned during my life that when people demonstrate and tell you who they are – believe them!

according to the best interest of our child and his/her relationship with the fiancé. In your case, this means that you do not tell your son the horrifying details about your meeting with the kallah’s parents – just yet. Do not speak poorly of them. What is he supposed to do with that information? He will either argue with you or argue with his kallah. If he asks, “What happened? How’d it go?” or if he comes back to you with a retelling of the meeting from his kallah’s parents point of view, bite your tongue and say something along the lines of, “We met and it went well overall. There were some logistical differences, but these things happen. We’ll work it out.”

2. Second impressions are most important. Yes, I know, first impressions make the most impact. It behooves you to give these people a second chance and truly be dan l’kaf z’chus. Maybe they were nervous. Maybe they are being guided by a misguided person who told them to approach you with a no-nonsense attitude. Maybe they approach their children’s wedding as they would any business dealing. Maybe they were simply making their first offer and they are awaiting your counter-offer. Then, there are those people who become unhinged around a child’s engagement because of their own personal issues or neuroses. 3. You don’t have to like them, but you do have to fake liking them… forever. For your son, for the sake of his relationship with his kallah, for the sake of their shalom bayis, for your relationship with the couple,

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and for the sake of your future grandchildren. No one said you would be best friends with your mechutanim. And that is OK. 4. Invite the mechutanim out for coffee or to your home. Create a casual, comfortable, warm atmosphere where you will take responsibility to set the tone for a better outcome. When one is being run over by a Mack truck, it can feel impossible to take the reins or even get to your agenda. Be positive. Validate their wants, express your own, and tell them you are hopeful that you will all be great compromisers for the sake of the young couple. 5. If your warmth and positivity go unnoticed and you get run over by that Mack truck yet again (insisting on where the couple will live and where the wedding will be, etc.) then it becomes crystal clear that you are dealing with bullies. Grown up bul-

lies don’t understand emotions or feelings. They understand and often respect “pushback.” You will have to have very firm boundaries with her parents and learn how to engage with them in a way that is most comfortable for you. I would bring their behavior to your son’s attention, only because you will have been backed into a corner. They will have created a situation that he needs to be made aware of. (This is completely on them. Do not feel guilty for one minute about this!) Create a dialogue rather than tell him what to do. Ask him what he thinks about the way they have spoken to you and your husband. Ask him what his thoughts are about being told where to live. And most importantly, encourage him (if he hasn’t done so already) to speak to his kallah. It is the young couple that need to figure out the place

her parents will have in their lives. What does the kallah think about being told where to live? What role does the kallah expect her parents to have in her married life? And how does your son feel about her views? If your son and his kallah need help with these meaningful and necessary conversations, encourage and even insist upon premarital counseling. It is so wonderful to lay all your cards out on the table, create meaningful dialogue and work through potential issues before they arise. If the kallah turns out to be controlling like her parents, of course you can express your concerns to your son. Of course! I think that is what any loving and concerned parent should do … especially if they are a young couple and/or your son simply isn’t mature enough to recognize the signs of control, manipulation or abuse.

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One step at a time. Make a second meeting with a positive, cheerful, collaborative spirit. Deep breaths. Let me know how it goes after the meeting. Sincerely, Jennifer

Esther Mann, LCSW and Jennifer Mann, LCSW are licensed psychotherapists and dating and relationship coaches working with individuals, couples and families in private practice in Hewlett, NY. To set up an appointment, please call 516.224.7779. Press 1 for Esther, 2 for Jennifer. Visit www.thenavidaters. com for more information. If you would like to submit a dating or relationship question to the panel anonymously, please email thenavidaters@gmail.com. You can follow The Navidaters on FB and Instagram for dating and relationship advice.

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Remarriage and Parenting By Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.

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y grampa is getting married!” said Sheva to her best friend,

Ruchie. Ruchie was wide-eyed. “How is that possible?” she asked with all the innocence of being seven. Sheva shrugged, perplexed at her friend’s confusion. “Why not?” she said, a little defensive, like there was something wrong with it. Still wideeyed, Ruchie tried hard to put concepts together that didn’t usually enter her world. “Well, your grampa had a wife, right? Does he get another one?” Sheva batted her pretty brown eyelashes at her friend, shrugged her shoulders and took advantage of the teacher’s call to end recess so she could scurry back to the classroom and not have to think about the possibility that her grampa was doing something wrong. When she got off the bus later that day, there was something in the slump of Sheva’s shoulders that alerted her mother, Menucha, to a possible problem. Offering her a healthy snack and getting her started with homework did not seem to work. Sheva doodled with her pencil and stared around the room. Menucha eventually got her started talking about what was bothering her, and her own feelings resonated with that of her little girl. She knew that she, loving daughter that she was, would always be there to see that her father was well-cared

for and treated right by his wife-to be. Yet, that thought made Menucha feel her stomach muscles tighten as she thought protectively of her dad and how someone could take advantage of him.

ADULT CHILDREN’S ATTITUDES MATTER Contrast this approach to that of another family, the Friedmans across town. The family matriarch, Sadie, had been a widow for a number of years and when she announced to her adult children that she was going to get remarried, the children’s stress actually went down. Now, there would be someone there to love and care for their mom, give her attention, stimulate her interest in new things, and just share time with her. The children made every effort to learn just who this new person was, but kept an open mind and an open heart to appreciating him. How did the Friedmans get past the normal concerns that any parent would have – oops, I mean adult child would have – concerning their precious family member who was about to get married? Actually, the Friedmans applied the same formula to Sadie as they had when their own children were getting married: • They believed that they – and life itself – have given their child or parent the tools to make intelligent decisions. And what tools they lack, they can learn.

• They recognized that if the decisions are not so intelligent it is because we are not prescient; we cannot foresee all possibilities, and being human, we can – and will – make mistakes. • But even in that scenario, they believe that the role of a loving family is to be there for support while the person at the center of concern is learning and growing. • Finally, the reason they can do this with equanimity is because they also recognize that everything is in the Hands of HaKadosh Baruch Hu. He runs the world and we don’t, so there is nothing to get overly nervous about. To summarize these points: 1. People can make good decisions. 2. We do make mistakes; that’s the learning process. 3. Families are there to give support. 4. A lot is out of our control so there’s no point in worrying. So now we can zero in on #3 and how it affects the Friedman family. When Sadie marries, her new husband gets the exalted status of being part of the “family.” That means that he too must be respected for his decisions, allowed to make mistakes, and above all, supported. This is a major shift from the position that Menucha has taken. She is already seeing this woman coming into her father’s life as potentially a major adversary: She feels protective and worried. This

feeling will surely lead to behavior that is defensive, perhaps cold. The new lady in her father’s life may feel confused, hurt, or angry by this. In turn, you can see that the original stance of guardedness can lead to the very problem that Menucha was trying to avoid: Her stepmother becoming her enemy.

THE PRINCIPLES APPLY IN REVERSE, TOO “My goodness, Arnold,” Heidi said, “I just can’t believe how rude your son is to me. Just because he’s a teenager does not give him that right! Doesn’t kabed es imecha apply to stepparents? I believe it does,” she concluded with a huff. You know only too well the turmoil that a child goes through when parents break up their marriage. This is particularly true if the reason for the breakup was the emotional instability of the other parent in the first place. The atmosphere created in the home by parental moodiness, outbursts, accusations, and silent treatments would cause anyone undue stress, let alone adolescents. Not only that, but the child does not have a good role model of being calm and reasonable and being dan le chaf zchus. So if he comes into the new family with an attitude, a protective shield, and a lack of manners how can he be faulted for it? True, Heidi cannot reasonably pounce on the child’s father who himself is undergoing stress from

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ongoing litigation, the unpredictability of his ex-wife, and the newshoe feel of a new marriage. There’s only so much a person can deal with at one time! So what could Heidi do? She, too, is under stress because this is a new marriage and because of her stepson’s behavior. Further, regarding our four points: 1. It is not possible for her to assume that her new stepson will make good decisions because, unfortunately, no one gave him the tools. However, Heidi has the power to do just that for him. She can be a role model of a person with good manners, patience, and compassion. Maybe that is difficult when someone is pounding you, but she is the adult here and this technique actually works. When you combine it with gently delivered boundaries, you get a winning – and powerful – combination.

So she can say “Hello” and “Good morning” b’sever panim yafos (with a nice expression) regardless of the reaction she will get. She can offer good food to eat to the boy; she can

a kindly expression and tone will surely lead to a win-win. As you can see from this, Heidi is following rules 2, 3, and 4 while she models for him the tools for #1. What’s the key here? Relationship. There is no reason why a stepparent should forgo the joys of a real relationship with a stepchild. Or the reverse. Of any age. But where will Heidi get the fortitude from to get through that horrible six months? The answer is because she understands, now, that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. It is a process and all she needs is to keep reminding herself of that. Isn’t that how we ordinarily get through hard times?

uate to actually inquiring how was his day and could she be of help if he looks down-in-the-mouth. He might just take her up on it. The best part is that if he reacts badly to

There is no reason why a stepparent should forgo the joys of a real relationship with a stepchild.

do little things for him that would make him feel nurtured – perhaps for the very first time in his life – such as buying a book or a game that he might like. And if he is rude, she can lovingly say that she believes him to be a better person than that, and then let it go. Six months later, she can grad-

her overtures, she will have built up enough goodwill through the kindness of the last six months to be able to open up a dialogue with him. She might be able to say, “I absolutely believe that I have only been kind to you and have not harmed you in any way. Is it quite fair that you mistreat me?” Saying that with

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Vacation the Right Weigh By Aliza Beer MS, RD

inter vacation is finally upon us and with it comes the highly anticipated relaxed week spent away from home, not a worry in the world. However, do not let that carefree vibe ruin the progress you have been making with your diet! Though being away from home on family vacation can make sticking to a healthy diet regimen more difficult, it is not impossible and can be achieved more easily than one may think. With proper planning ahead of time and maintaining good motivation, you can enjoy your vacation without letting poor nutrition become a central focus. One of the biggest challenges of vacation is that there is more time than usual spent at restaurants. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner all become feasts at various food establishments. Of course, dining out is a luxury that should be enjoyed on vacation but making a proper game plan is essential. Instead of dining out for every meal, try to limit the time spent at restaurants. Planning ahead and purchasing groceries from a local store can allow you to stick to meals that are similar to what you would eat at home. A nutritious salad, yogurt with fruit, high fiber cereal or oatmeal, low-fat peanut butter and rice cakes, and a healthful whole wheat sandwich are all practical options even if you do not have access to a full kitchen. This will help cut back on excess calories inevitably taken in by eating all three meals at a restaurant. Also, by maintaining your usual dietary practices at least for some meals, you will likely be more motivated to stay on track on your diet!

When the time comes for dining out at a restaurant, try to stick to healthier options. This is especially true as it is likely that you will be spending more time eating out than usual. While treating yourself is okay in moderation, you do not want to consider every vacation meal at a restaurant a cheat meal. Cutting back on simple carbohydrates is key to limiting calorie intake and avoiding vacation weight gain. This means skipping the bread with butter at the beginning

making healthful choices as long as there is proper planning and motivation. Another area where vacationers may meet their nutritional downfall tends to be related to snacking. Less structured days and being away from your own healthful pantry can make unhealthful snacking a sore temptation. Ice cream, doughnuts, cookies, chips, and other junk food become regular snacks throughout the day, as they are easily available and often

Ordering meals that are rich in protein, healthy fats, and complex carbohydrates is the key to success.

of the meal, sticking to water as opposed to sugary drinks, avoiding the French fries and mashed potatoes, and omitting dessert. Ordering meals that are rich in protein, healthy fats, and complex carbohydrates is the key to success. This can be a colorful salad topped with fish or a grilled chicken and roasted veggie dish. When your meal offers an option for a side avoid the fatty fries and opt for a side salad, grilled vegetables, or sweet potato. Most restaurants will make substitutions. In pizza stores try the low-carb pizza option or a Greek salad. The portions at restaurants are often too large, so try to share or order an appetizer as a main. One can easily enjoy a delicious meal dining out while still

strategically located for vacationers to frequent. To avoid this temptation, pack some healthy snacks to have on the go when you feel the need for a snack. Individual bags of plain popcorn, organic dried fruit, packages of assorted nuts, or a healthful wholegrain granola bar are great options! These yummy options will keep you energized and feeling full without the unnecessary excess sugar and fat. Additionally, make sure to stay hydrated! Whether on the ski slopes or by the hot beach, you need to keep your body properly hydrated. Often thirst is mistaken for hunger, which can be yet another reason why excess (and often unhealthy) snacking takes place over vacation where one may

not be adequately hydrated. Keeping a large water bottle by your side throughout the day will ensure you stay hydrated and may keep the misjudged “hunger” at bay. Lastly, try to work in physical activity into your vacation plans. If your vacation consists of spending the day on the ski slopes, you probably are getting plenty of exercise. Those enjoying their vacation relaxing on the beach or sitting by the pool may have a more difficult time getting in a nice amount of physical activity. Everyone needs downtime and, while spending a week just relaxing in the sun may sound ideal, it is not the best way to stay in good shape. Making the time to take a walk or run along the beach; swimming, kayaking, biking, or going on a nice hike are just a few ways to have fun while also being active. Winter vacation is an exciting time especially for those going away on family vacations. However, this should not become an occasion to lose focus of the nutrition and health goals you have been working towards! Planning ahead for areas that may cause poor nutrition temptations is key to sticking to a healthy regimen. Of course, vacation is also a time to treat yourself a bit more than usual but as always, in moderation! Wishing everyone a safe, healthy, and enjoyable winter vacation. Aliza Beer is a registered dietician 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.

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Peanuts No Longer a FourLetter Word Among Children’s Foods By Hylton I. Lightman, MD, DCH, FAAP

or years my patients have heard me say it. My blog and TJH readers read it back in November. My advice has been helping patient families for years. Finally, a scientific study shows that I was on the right track! The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) announced last week that parents should give their children foods containing peanuts. The process should begin early and should be done often. Their new guidelines: low-risk infants (those who don’t have family history, eczema or an egg allergy) who have already started solid foods can be introduced to peanut-containing foods around 6 months of age. Parents can add peanut powder or extract to foods. This is even okay with moderate risk children. The new guidelines say even high-risk infants (those with severe eczema or an egg allergy) can be introduced to peanut-containing foods after they start other solid foods. Importantly you should have your pediatrician evaluate your baby for risk and safety. And just a reminder: never give whole peanuts or peanut bits to a baby because they can be a choking hazard. What’s this all about – why the change? Peanut allergies have become ubiquitous (though it is rare that a child dies from a peanut allergic reaction) and are rarely outgrown, which means the person has to deal with this for their whole lives. This new protocol has “the poten-

tial to stop something in its tracks before it develops,” says Dr. Matthew Greenhawt, chair of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology’s food committee and one of the authors of the new guidelines. It appears that there’s “a window of time in which the body is more likely to tolerate food than react to it, and if you can educate the body during that window, you’re at much lower likelihood of developing an allergy to that food,” Dr. Greenhawt adds. This is a big change. (But not for our patients!) For years, experts said that the best way to fight peanut allergy was to avoid peanut products in the first years of life. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended in 2000 that any child with a risk of a peanut allergy (such as those with a family history of peanut allergy or other food allergies or eczema) not eat any before 3 years of age. However, avoidance did nothing to arrest peanut allergies. If anything, more peanut allergies were diagnosed. That’s why in 2008 the AAP stopped recommending it. What happened? These new guidelines have grown out of several studies conducted over the last decade. Some were motivated by anecdotes that Jewish children in Israel rarely suffered from peanut allergies. Dr. Gideon Lack, the senior author of the study and professor of pediatric allergy at London’s King’s College, studied the allergy rates of Israeli Jewish children with those of

Jewish children in Britain. He found that the British group was 10 times more likely to have peanut allergies than their Israeli counterparts. This disparity could not be explained through differences in genetic background, socioeconomic class or tendencies to other food allergies. The big difference: Israeli children, starting in infancy, eat foods containing peanuts, most famously, Bamba, a corn puff made with peanut butter. This peanut food introduces babies and their digestive systems to peanuts. Bamba is less sticky than peanut butter and encourages exploration and improves hand-mouth coordination. Dr. Lack and his colleagues wondered: Could this be the important difference – that the Israeli children ate peanut products from an early age? So they tested it. They conducted a study on about 600 babies who had severe eczema or egg allergy, which are known to increase the risk of peanut allergies. They divided them up into two groups: one was given Bamba to eat regularly (if they didn’t like Bamba, they ate smooth peanut butter), and the other was told to stay away from foods containing peanuts. They did this until the children were 5-years-old. What did they find? • 3% of the kids who ate peanut products were allergic to them at age 5. • 17% of the no-peanut product kids were allergic to them at age 5.

This included children who tested positive for a peanut allergy as infants. (Children with strong positive tests, however, were not included in the study.) Wow. Now this doesn’t necessarily mean that everyone should run out and buy peanut butter – or that doing so will guarantee that the child never has a peanut allergy. There are questions that still need answers, like how much peanut exposure will prevent an allergy? How long does it need to be eaten? Is it okay to eat it a few times and stop? Should families keep giving it? Further, peanut food should not be the first solids introduced into a baby’s diet. You should work with your pediatrician to develop a protocol appropriate to your baby. This report is promising and reinforces our experience at Total Family Care: if more parents follow these rules, maybe it will be okay for kids to revert to the old peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich as a lunchroom staple. As an aside, imagine: another Israeli product has the potential to change lives for the better worldwide. How will the BDS movement handle that? Dr. Hylton Lightman is a pediatrician and Medical Director of Total Family Care of the 5 Towns and Rockaway PC. He can be reached at www.totalfamilycaremd.com, on Instagram at #lightmanpeds or visit him on Facebook.

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By Naomi Nachman

This past week we lost a foodie friend, neighbor, baal chesed, and a true anav. Robbie Schonfeld of Ossie’s Fish was such an amazing person. Robbie was always there for anyone who needed anything. His loss will be felt across the world.

Miso Glazed Sea Bass Can also use salmon, ﬂounder, or tilapia

Ossie’s Fish, under Robbie’s leadership, was the first company to hire me for recipe development and to do cooking demos. I developed many fish recipes, which helped grow both our brands. I am dedicating this fish round-up as a tribute to him.

frigerate at least 2 hours and up to 6 hours. Preheat broiler. Remove ﬁsh from marinade. With broiler door slightly open, broil ﬁsh 6 inches from heat source until just opaque in center, about 6 minutes. Garnish with scallions and sprinkle with sesame seeds.

Ingredients 1/3 cup sake 1/3 cup mirin 1/3 cup light yellow miso ¼ cup toasted sesame oil 3 tablespoons packed brown sugar 2 tablespoons teriyaki sauce 4 6oz. sea bass ﬁllets (each about 3/4 inch thick) 2 tablespoons scallions 1 tablespoon black sesame seeds

Ragin’ Cajun Tilapia Ingredients ½ cup cornstarch 2 tablespoons Cajun creole seasoning Salt and pepper 1 tablespoon canola oil 4 6oz. pieces of tilapia, ﬂounder or bronzini

Preparation Place cornstarch and seasoning in a small bowl and mix together. Coat fish in the cornstarch mixture and set aside. Heat a sauté pan on medium heat and add oil. When the oil is hot add the fish and cook the fish until it is flakey in the center. Serve with store-bought sweet salsa such as peach or mango.

Crunchy Honey Mustard Salmon Ingredients 2 lb. side salmon ﬁllet 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard 2 teaspoons soy sauce 1 teaspoon oil 1 tablespoon honey 3 cubes frozen garlic 1 cup terra chip sticks

Preparation

Preparation Mix ﬁrst six ingredients in shallow glass baking dish. Add ﬁsh and turn to coat. Cover and re-

Preheat oven to 350°F. Place side of salmon on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. In a small bowl, mix ﬁrst ﬁve ingredients together and pour over salmon. Press the terra chips on top of the sauce so they stick. Bake for 20-25 minutes until cooked through.

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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The Obama Years The Good. The Mediocre. The Bad. The Ugly. It’s been eight years since President Obama took oﬃce and a lot has happened in those two terms. Here are the big events that we think will determine the legacy upon which his time as president will be judged.

THE GOOD Killing Bin Laden Although many argue that Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts would never have been discovered if not for intelligence conducted during the Bush years and it was a no-brainer to go after him once they located him, President Obama authorized the raid into Pakistan, a sovereign nation with a precarious relationship with the U.S. Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad was located 1,000 yards from a Pakistan Military Academy. The mission was high risk and could have resulted in disaster. President Obama made the call to take down the terrorist. He gets the credit for taking him out.

Let’s Move First lady Michelle Obama led a valiant effort to bring awareness to childhood obesity issues during her time in the White House. Whether it was focusing on what children eat in schools or hula hooping on the White House lawn, the First Lady spent eight years highlighting the importance of healthy nutrition and exercise. Let’s move, America!

2009 Auto Industry Bailout At the time, the thought of the government pumping billions of dollars into Detroit’s failing auto companies was highly unpopular. Many saw this as an attempt to nationalize America’s auto industry, but it actually rescued the industry and hundreds of thousands of jobs. Between the end of 2008, when George W. Bush began the bailout of the auto industry, and the beginning of 2009, when President Obama continued it, the federal government invested a total of $80 billion into Chrysler, GM and Ford (which received a $9 billion loan but was not temporarily taken over by the government). By 2014, the federal government sold its remaining shares in the auto industry. The total loss on investment was $9.2 billion, which is a small price to pay to rescue the auto industry.

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THE MEDIOCRE The Obama Economy On July 29, 2011, as the U.S. economy was sputtering along in a low-grade recession and the president faced reelection, The New York Times chief financial correspondent Floyd Norris noted that it would be unfair to blame the economy on President Obama. “There is an element of unfairness in attributing economic growth to a president, of course. The government has limited influence on the economy, and the president can have limited influence on government policy,” he wrote. Even so, presidents get the blame for economic downturns and the credit for economic upticks. President Obama’s economic legacy will be debated for years, but he is not waiting for others to consider his successes and failures and has already begun making the case for himself, by himself. Just last week he declared, “I took an economy that was about to go into a Great Depression, and we’ve now had a little over six years of straight economic job growth, an unemployment rate that’s below 5 percent, and incomes that have gone up and poverty that has gone down...” But it is really not so simple. As Bloomberg’s Richard Carrol notes, “President Obama might be a savior of the economy or have one of the worst records ever, depending on your viewpoint.” In sizing up the Obama economy, one of his primary defenders, The Washington Post, acknowledged that it is “far from perfect” but is “far better than he found it.” (This is the at-least-he-is-not-George-W-Bush argument which will go a long way for Obama’s legacy.) Investors Business Daily, on the other, summed up the Obama economy in one word: “Lackluster.”

Actual Jobs Created The unemployment rate is down. That’s great! Isn’t it?

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When Obama took oﬃce the unemployment rate was 9.3%. Today it is

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Ironically, those on Wall Street – whom Obama and the Democrats demonize for creating inequality – are the ones who thrived the most during the Obama years. (Did the Federal Reserve keeping interest rates at nothing create a stock bubble? We will find out as they begin to raise them.) But Main Street did not do as well as Wall Street during the Obama years as poverty rose. Many of the millions of jobs that Obama claims to have created are only part-time jobs. Debt has gone up. The amount of people on food stamps has gone up. Homeownership has gone down. And the amount of people in the workforce has gone down. These factors may be why although most people agree that there has been some sort of economic recovery, it has been an anemic one.

P 26.5 million...

Number of Americans on food stamps when Obama took oﬃce

P 44.5 million... Number of Americans on food stamps today

Workforce Participation Rate The workforce participation rate refers to the number of people who are either employed or are actively looking for work. During an economic recession, many workers often get discouraged and stop looking for employment, resulting in a decrease in the participation rate. Workforce participate rate increase/decrease percentages of past ﬁve presidents:

Q Carter – 2% increase Q Reagan – 2.2% increase Q Bush I – 0.2% decrease Q Clinton – 0.8% increase Q Bush II – 1.4% decrease Q Obama – 3% decrease

P $10.626 trillion... National debt on the day Obama took oﬃce

P $19.95 trillion... Current national debt

Real GDP

Real GDP (growth domestic product) is an inflation-adjusted measure that reflects the value of all goods and services produced by an economy in a given year. It is one of the primary indicators used to weigh the health of a country’s economy. The U.S. economy historically has grown about 3.3% a year. Average annual GDP growth rate during the past five presidents: Carter

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THE BAD Obamacare After Obamacare passed in the House – when Democrats used a procedural gimmick called “reconciliation,” thus bypassing the need for even one Republican to vote for the bill – the president signed the bill into law on March 23, 2010. But by design the most damaging parts of the bill – which would cause healthcare costs to rise – were not put into effect until after the 2012 presidential elections. Despite President Obama’s repeated pledges (over 35 times) “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan” and “You will be able to keep your doctor,” millions of Americans were forced to change healthcare plans and doctors because of Obamacare. The death spiral of Obamacare has already begun as health insurance companies such as Blue Cross Blue Shield, United Healthcare and Aetna are pulling out of Obamacare exchanges. Premiums for 2017 also rose by an average of 25%. Furthermore, Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion has been a massive burden on states. Most importantly, the underlying problems with America’s healthcare system are not adequately addressed by Obamacare. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that the number of uninsured will increase to 26-28 million over the next ten years as more employers opt to stop offering insurance plans.

q “If you like the plan you have, you can keep it. If you like the doctor you

have, you can keep your doctor, too.” - President Obama, 6/6/09

“No matter how we reform healthcare, I intend to keep this promise: If you like your doctor, you’ll be able to keep your doctor; if you like your healthcare plan, you’ll be able to keep your healthcare plan.” - President Obama, town hall in Green Bay, Wis., 6/11/09

q “If you like your plan and you like your doctor, you won’t have to do

a thing. You keep your plan. You keep your doctor.” - Presidential press conference, 6/23/09

“If you’ve got health insurance, you like your doctor, you like your plan — you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan. Nobody is talking about taking that away from you.” – President Obama at a political rally, 7/16/09

q “Michelle and I don’t want anyone telling us who our family’s doctor

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“If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Because I can tell you that as the father of two young girls, I wouldn’t want any plan that interferes with the relationship between a family and their doctor.” – President Obama, press conference, 3/3/10

“If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.” - President Obama, St. Charles, Mo., 3/10/10

Syrian Red Line As the Syrian civil war raged, in August 2012, Obama declared that Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons against his opponents would constitute a “red line” that Assad could not cross without suffering serious international consequences. On several occasions over the next several months, the president reiterated this “red line.” One year later, it was disclosed that Assad used chemical weapons in an attack on neighborhoods outside Damascus, causing the deaths of an estimated 1,429 Syrians. Obama condemned the use of chemical force and said: “We cannot accept a world where women and children and innocent civilians are gassed on a terrible scale.” But he backed out of his threat of military intervention. “Backing away from reacting once the red line was crossed impacted American credibility not just in the Middle East, but I think it was being watching in Moscow and Tehran and Beijing and Pyongyang and elsewhere,” said former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who had worked under Obama until 2011, to the Business Insider. “The rest of the world must know that when the president of the United States draws a red line, that it is dangerous, if not fatal, to cross it,” he said. Americans rightfully do not want our soldiers getting involved in any more Middle Eastern tribal wars. The mistake was not that Obama did not engage militarily once he found out about Assad’s use of chemical weapons. It was that he declared that there was a “red line” without understanding that down the road – when Assad would cross that crimson stripe – America would have two horrible courses of action: military intervention or exposure as a “paper tiger.” Guess how America is viewed now?

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Creation of ISIS In December 2011, President Obama pulled all remaining troops out of Iraq after he was unable to negotiate a status of forces agreement with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Such an agreement would have enabled thousands of American soldiers to remain in Iraq in an advisory role to assist the burgeoning Iraqi army and police to take control of their country. When the U.S. forces hastily departed, there was a power vacuum which was immediately filled by the al-Qaeda-backed insurgency, which quickly morphed into ISIS. As Retired Army Gen. Jack Keane, who was a key architect of the Iraq troop surge, explained to The Washington Times: “[J] just think of this: We had all our intelligence capability there. We knew where the enemy was. We were flying drones. We’re tracking them. We have signals intelligence pouring in, eavesdropping on phone conversations and the rest of it. We’re using our counterterrorism forces to bang against these guys. We’re passing that to the Iraqis so their commandos can do the same. On a given day in 2011, that screen went blank. The Iraqis went from a significant amount of intelligence on what was taking place, and the screen just went blank.” Even after ISIS was created, Obama failed to realize the gravity of the situation and famously said in early 2014, as ISIS was taking control of large swaths of Iraq, “If a JV team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant.” In an interview with NBC News, Obama’s former Defense Secre-

Iran Goes Nuclear In July 2015, after years of negotiations, the Obama administration was outfoxed by Iran and agreed to a lopsided and dangerous nuclear deal which all but assured that Iran would become a nuclear superpower. In exchange for Iran rolling back its nuclear program – while it was allowed to maintain its nuclear infrastructure – sanctions against Iran were lifted. Shortly after implementation, Iran gained $150 billion in revenue, some of which, by Obama administration officials’ own admissions, would likely be used on terrorist activities. The U.S. itself has returned $400 million in Iranian funds it seized in 1979, plus $1.3 billion in interest. (This took place on the same day that four U.S. hostages were “released” from Iran.) Under the terms of the deal, when the International Atomic En-

tary Leon Panetta stated, “I think when we stepped out of Iraq, in many ways, we created this vacuum in which not a lot of attention was paid to what was happening in Iraq or what was happening in Syria with the extremists who were developing a base of operations there. That combination, plus obviously not getting all of the intelligence that we should’ve had on it, I think is what produced the ISIS that we’re confronting today.”

ergy Agency (IAEA) wants to inspect any site for banned nuclear activity, Iran must be given 24 days to prepare for the inspections. Furthermore, no Americans are allowed to be part of the IAEA team. The most harmful aspect of the deal is that it essentially ends after 10 years, at which time Iran will be allowed to expand its uranium enrichment program, thus gaining nuclear weapons. In a candid interview with Obama-friendly New York Times Magazine after the deal was complete, Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes disclosed that much manipulation was used to push the deal through. He gloated that the Obama administration was able to get inexperienced journalists to carry their message. “We created an echo chamber… They were saying things that validated what we had given them to say,” he explained. Rhodes is proud of how the Obama administration lied to the American people in order to sell the Iran deal.

“The way in which most Americans have heard the story of the Iran deal presented — that the Obama administration began seriously engaging with Iranian officials in 2013 in order to take advantage of a new political reality in Iran, which came about because of elections that brought moderates to power in that country — was largely manufactured for the purpose for selling the deal,” notes the New York Times Magazine article. Proud liars.

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it is “up to Iranians to make decisions about who Iran’s leaders will be.”

In June 2009, after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was announced the winner of contested presidential elections in Iran, millions of protestors took to the streets, calling themselves the Green Revolution, and demanded freedom and democracy. They claimed that the mullahs and Ahmadinejad stole the election. Facing a violent crackdown, the protestors sought the support of the freshest and most popular face on the world stage at the time: President Obama. However, he remained silent. When he finally did address the protestors he poured cold water on the Green Revolution by saying that it is “up to Iranians to make decisions about who Iran’s leaders will be.” He added, “We respect Iranian sovereignty and want to avoid the United States being the issue inside of Iran.” Obama’s failure to support peaceful protestors who were being quashed by a brutal regime is believed to be because he didn’t want to sabotage his secret outreach to Iran to make a nuclear deal. According to Wall Street Journal reporter Jay Solomon, who wrote The Iran Wars, Obama overruled advisers who wanted to do what America had done with similar transitions from dictatorship to democracy and signal America’s support. Solomon reports that Obama ordered the CIA to sever contacts it had with the Green Movement’s supporters. Obama’s failure to support the Green Revolution may have resulted in the mullahs retaining control over Iran in 2009. Fast forward to the “Arab Spring” in 2011.

In January 2011, when protests broke out in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and demanded the overthrow of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, President Obama waded deeply into the struggle. He declared that Mubarak must leave office immediately. He expressly supported the protestors and declared, “I want to be very clear in calling upon the Egyptian authorities to refrain from any violence against peaceful protestors. The people of Egypt have rights that are universal. That includes the right to peaceful assembly and association, the right to free speech, and the ability to determine their own destiny. These are human rights. And the United States will stand up for them everywhere. I also call upon the Egyptian government to reverse the actions that they’ve taken to interfere with access to the Internet, to cellphone service, and to social networks that do so much to connect people in the twenty-first century…. This moment of volatility has to be turned into a moment of promise…” Well, it turned out that the protests were stoked by the Muslim Brotherhood, a radical Islamist organization which seeks an Islamic caliphate throughout the world. When elections were held in early 2012, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi became Egypt’s president. (Morsi was eventually removed in a military coup in 2013.) Next stop: Libya. In March 2011, President Obama responded to “Arab Spring” protestors in Libya by spearheading a NATO effort of military intervention – no fly zone and air sorties – against Libyan dictator Muammar al-Qaddafi. Eight months later al-Qaddafi was killed on the street in Sirte, Libya. Obama took to the Rose Garden to declare, “Without putting a single U.S. service member on the ground, we achieved our objectives.” However, things have not worked out in Libya as Obama thought they would. Instead of a democracy taking hold in Libya, the country has descended into chaos and a haven for radical Islamists. At the same time that Obama used NATO to intervene in Libya, he did not intervene in Syria, which was undergoing the same “Arab Spring” demonstrations. Unlike Libya where Obama marshalled the power of NATO, in Syria he refused to get involved even after Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad used chemical warfare on men, women and children. (See the section on the Syrian red line.) After all of these years, one would think that Obama would appreciate the one true democracy in the Middle East – the small state of Israel. But, of course, he has sought to delegitimize Israel by allowing last month’s UN resolution demanding that Israel return to its 1967 borders.

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THE UGLY Fast & Furious Fast and Furious was a Department of Justice Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) “gunrunning” operation in 2009, orchestrated by the Justice Department and the ATF, which allowed guns to be sold to Mexican drug cartels in the hope that the weapons would be recovered at crime scenes, leading to the arrest of criminals. On December 14, 2010, U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was killed during a gunfight by a gun which was allowed into the murderer’s hands because of the Fast & Furious operation. In 2011, when Congress began investigating Fast & Furious, the Obama administration used the executive privilege in an attempt to halt emails related to the case, and Attorney General Eric Holder withheld important documents relating to the operation, resulting in him being held in contempt of Congress.

Benghazi… The Big Lie On September 11, 2012, Islamic militant terrorists attacked the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi, Libya, killing U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens and three other U.S. government employees. The Obama administration immediately said that the attack was part of a “spontaneous riot” which was caused by an offensive YouTube video that an American made which insulted Islam. However, it was later revealed that Obama administration officials knew immediately that the attack was a preplanned assault carried out by an al-Qaeda affiliated organization but, because Election Day 2012 was 56 days away and they didn’t want their opponent to say that there was a “terrorist attack” under their watch, they created false talking points and completely made up the narrative that the attack was caused by a YouTube video insulting Islam.

President Obama on the “Late Show With David Letterman” one week after the attack: LETTERMAN: Now, I don’t understand, um, the ambassador to Libya killed in an attack on the consulate in Benghazi. Is this an act of war? Are we at war now? What happens here?

Obsession with Guantanamo Bay In his ﬁrst 100 days in office, President Obama ordered the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility where the worst al- Qaeda terrorists have been detained since the September 11 attacks. Although Congressional roadblocks prevented Obama from fully carrying out his promise, he did release hundreds of terrorists from that facility. Many of them made their way back into the battlefield. Pentagon official Paul Lewis, who oversees Guantanamo issues at the Defense Department, admitted during a Congressional hearing that at least twelve of the detainees who were released from Guantanamo were directly involved in killing American citizens after their release. What is the value of an innocent human life? Certainly more than Obama’s liberal dream of closing Guantanamo.

OBAMA: Here’s what happened. ... You had a video that was released by somebody who lives here, sort of a shadowy character who – who made an extremely offensive video directed at – at Mohammed and Islam – LETTERMAN: Making fun of the Prophet Mohammed. OBAMA: Making fun of the Prophet Mohammed. And so, this caused great offense in much of the Muslim world. But what also happened, extremists and terrorists used this as an excuse to attack a variety of our embassies, including the one, the consulate in Libya… As offensive as this video was – and obviously, we denounced it, the United States government had nothing to do with it – that’s never an excuse for violence.

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IRS Scandal In 2013, it was revealed that for several years IRS employees broke the law by unfairly singling out conservative political groups for extra scrutiny, including delaying the processing of their applications and requesting unnecessary information. Non-profits with terms such as “tea party” or “patriot” in their name were placed on a spreadsheet and given the “special treatment.” A Congressional report also disclosed that donors to Tea Party causes were ten times more likely than everyone else to be audited by the IRS. At a Congressional hearing into the matter, IRS Director of Exempt Organizations, Lois Lerner, invoked her Fifth Amendment right and refused to testify. In response to a subpoena by the Congressional House Oversight Committee, the IRS in 2014 informed Congress that it was unable to recover Lerner’s e-mails from January 2009 to April 2011 because of a computer crash. Lerner was eventually put on administrative leave by the IRS, which means she still got her pay and benefits but didn’t have to work. (Hmm…not a bad arrangement.) When asked about the IRS scandal by Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly in 2014, President Obama declared that there was “not even a smidgen of corruption” and that “these kinds of things keep on surfacing in part because you and your TV station will promote them.”

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The War on Police Although the war on police is by no means the fault of President Obama, his actions have not been supportive of the men and women in blue and at times he seems to have even stoked animosity between police officers and the African-American community. In June 2009, shortly after taking office, Obama waded into matters of police and race when he stated that a Cambridge, Massachusetts, police officer “acted stupidly” when he arrested black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. The officer, Sgt. James Crowley – who was a decorated officer and taught a class on how to make sure officers don’t engage in racial profiling – said his actions were in no way motivated by racism and refused to apologize. Officers verified that Gates flew into a rage when officers asked him for identification while investigating a report of a break-in at his home and they had no choice but to arrest him. Cambridge police commissioner Robert Haas said that he was “deeply pained” by the president’s remarks. In response, President Obama held a “beer summit” with Professor Gates and Sgt. Crowley. In 2014, the president jumped to conclusions in a much larger matter when he concluded that the August 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson exposed the racial divide in the American justice system that “stains the heart of black children.” Three Obama administration officials attended Brown’s funeral. Although it was initially claimed that Brown had his hands up when he was shot (“hands up, don’t shoot”) no charges were brought against the police officer as the evidence revealed that Brown had robbed a store, assaulted the storeowner, assaulted the policeman and was trying to grab his gun when he was shot. After the shooting Ferguson was ablaze with riots for months, giving birth to the Black Lives Matter movement. In their two years in existence, members of Black Lives Matter have frequented the White House for visits with the president. After five police officers were killed in Dallas by a gunman who declared that he wanted to kill white police officers, the executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations, William Johnson, said on Fox News, “I think [the Obama administration] continued appeasements at the federal level with the Department of Justice, their appeasement of violent criminals, their refusal to condemn movements like Black Lives Matter, actively calling for the death of police officers, that type of thing, all the while blaming police for the problems in this country has led directly to the climate that has made Dallas possible.”

Refusal to Recognize Radical Islam as a Threat When Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad shot and killed Army Pvt. William Andrew Long and injured another, Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula, at a military recruiting station in Little Rock, Arkansas, on July 1, 2009, President Obama refused to recognize that the sick ideology of radical Islam played a role. When Major Nidal Malik Hasan shot up a military base in Fort Hood and murdered 14 people while screaming “Allahu Akbar!” on November 5, 2009, President Obama refused to recognize that the sick ideology of radical Islam played a role. When Tamerlan and Dhozkar Tsarnaev set off two bombs at the 2013 Boston marathon on April 15, 2013, they placed the bomb near the feet of a 9-year-old boy who was eating ice cream, killing him and two others and injuring over 260 people. While on the lam they shot and murdered Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier. The Tsarnaev brothers were self-radicalized through online jihadist propaganda and through a mosque with ties to al-Qaeda. Yet President Obama refused to recognize that the sick ideology of radical Islam played a role. When Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez shot and killed four marines and a sailor at a military base in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on July 16, 2015, President Obama refused to recognize that the sick ideology of radical Islam played a role. When Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik shot and murdered 14 people and injured 22 others at the St. Bernardino office holiday party on December 14, 2015, President Obama refused to recognize that the sick ideology of radical Islam played a role. When Omar Mateen opened fire in an Orlando nightclub, killing 49 people and injuring 53 others on June 12, 2016, President Obama refused to recognize that the sick ideology of radical Islam played a role. These are some of the more publicized terrorist attacks which took place on American soil during Obama’s presidency. The lesser-known attacks are those that were thankfully not as successful. Each of these attacks were perpetuated by radical Islamists. And after each attack America looked to its president, hoping that he would recognize the evil force which is at war with us because we all know that there is no way to defeat an enemy which you refuse to even recognize exists.

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I’ll look into it. - White House spokesman Josh Earnest when asked about the statistic that President Obama is the first president since Herbert Hoover in the 1930s not to see more than 3% economic growth in at least one year of his presidency

Later this month, Google will be testing its new self-driving minivans. The vehicles can do all the functions of a human driver, except wonder, “[Gee], how did I end up driving a minivan?” – Conan O’Brien

Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the iPhone. The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 even celebrated with a fireworks display. – James Corden

The viral video of a beating and knife attack in Chicago suggests the assault had racial overtones. CBS’s Dean Reynolds tells us the victim is described as a mentally-challenged teenager. In the video he is choked and repeatedly called the n-word. His clothes are slashed and he is terrorized with a knife. His alleged captors repeatedly reference Donald Trump. Police are holding four people in connection with the attack. – The distorted “fake news-ish” way CBS 880 News reported last week’s incident when four African-American perpetrators tortured a disabled white man while screaming anti-Trump slogans at him and saying the n-word

I just want to remind folks that we cannot sit here and ignore that — at least for the last year on very public display — the worst parts of America have been brought from the fringe into the mainstream. That affects people on both sides. - Symone Sanders, Bernie Sanders’ former spokesman, on CNN, excusing the vicious Chicago hate crime

I don’t think it’s evil…I think these are young people and they have bad home training. - CNN’s Don Lemon regarding the four Chicago monsters’ actions

Are you going to send me or anybody I know to a camp? - MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, who suffers from chronic Trump Derangement Syndrome, on what she would ask Trump in an interview

But though the term hasn’t been around long, its meaning already is lost…the label has been co-opted to mean any number of completely different things: Liberal claptrap. Or opinion from left-of-center. Or simply anything in the realm of news that the observer doesn’t like to hear. The speed with which the term became polarized and in fact a rhetorical weapon illustrates how efficient the conservative media machine has become. – Op-ed in the Washington Post by Margaret Sullivan explaining why the liberal media, which recently invented the term “fake news,” should stop using it

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A man in Vietnam was hospitalized after doctors realized that he had a pair of scissors in his digestive system that had been left there by a previous surgery that he had 18 years ago… The sad part is after they sewed him up the second time the doctor was like, “Wait, where’s my watch?”. – James Corden

She clearly was delivering a thoughtful, carefully considered message that she believes in deeply. - White House press secretary Josh Earnest when asked about a Trump-bashing speech by an aging actress at an awards ceremony

Presidential Tweets How did NBC get ‘an exclusive look’ into the top secret report he (Obama) was presented? Who gave them this report and why? Politics! The Democrats, led by head clown Chuck Schumer, know how bad ObamaCare is and what a mess they are in. Instead of working to ﬁx it, they ... do the typical political thing and BLAME. The fact is ObamaCare was a lie from the beginning. “Keep you doctor, keep your plan!” It is.... ...time for Republicans & Democrats to get together and come up with a healthcare plan that really works – much less expensive & FAR BETTER Only reason the hacking of the poorly defended DNC is discussed is that the loss by the Dems was so big that they are totally embarrassed. Jackie Evancho’s album sales have skyrocketed after announcing her inauguration performance. Some people just don’t understand the “Movement!”

Joe Biden and I know that women are as least as strong as men. - President Obama in his last speech to the military

Schumer and Trump have known each other for many, many years and I think that the president frankly wants to shrink him and I would say to Sen. Schumer, if you look what happened to Jeb Bush, if you look what happened to Hillary Clinton, you should be very worried if Donald Trump decides to focus on you because so far the track record is pretty good. He can deﬁne you a lot better than you can deﬁne him. – Newt Gingrich on Fox News, warning Sen. Schumer to proceed with caution in taking on Trump

Yesterday Donald Trump tweeted at North Korea after they announced plans to test an intercontinental nuclear weapon. Trump tweeted, “It won’t happen.” I’d like to believe he’s right, but “it won’t happen” is exactly what everyone said about Trump becoming president. – James Corden

I am humbled to be able to participate here in paying tribute to some of the extraordinary Americans whose footsteps paved the way for me and my generation. I feel blessed and honored to have partnered with Sen. Sessions in being the Senate sponsors of this important award. - Democratic Sen. Cory Booker (D- N.J.) thanking Sen. Jeff Sessions (R- Ala.) last year at the Capitol for his help celebrating the 1965 “Foot Soldiers,” those who marched from Selma to Montgomery. (This past Wednesday, though, Booker testified against Sessions’ conformation as attorney general, essentially claiming that he is a racist)

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You’d have an explosion, an absolute explosion in the region, not just in the West Bank, and perhaps even in Israel itself, but throughout the region. – Sec. of State John Kerry, essentially inciting potential violence against Israel by warning that there will be an “explosion” if the U.S. Embassy is moved to Israel

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and control re-entry, they’ll be able to push a button in Pyongyang and wipe out an American city. What to do? The options are stark: (1) Pre-emptive attack on its missile launching facilities. Doable but reckless. It is the option most likely to trigger an actual war. The North Koreans enjoy both conventional superiority and proximity: a vast army poised at the Demilitarized Zone only 30 miles from Seoul. Americans are not going to fight another land war in Asia.

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(2) Shoot down the test ICBM, as advocated by The Wall Street Journal. Assuming we can. Democrats have done their best to abort or slow down anti-missile defenses since Ronald Reagan proposed them in the early 1980s. Even so, we should be able to intercept a single, relatively primitive ICBM of the sort North Korea might be capable of. Though such a shoot-down would

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A Fulfilled L fe

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was recently given the opportunity to address a group of advancement professionals at a national conference in Chicago. These individuals labor in the back offices of large non-profits such as universities and museums, advancing their institutions by developing donors, managing campaigns, and the like. My talk focused on why their work matters and was intended to help attendees – many of whom did not occupy prominent roles within their organizations – see the value in their daily efforts. As I researched this topic I was struck by the extent by which all people, not just back office or less prominent professionals, identify meaning and purpose as central

elements of their job satisfaction. We all seek affirmation and want to know that the work that we do makes a difference. Mary Kay Ash once said, “Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, ‘Make me feel important.’ Never forget this message when working with people.” Money alone is not what motivates us. In fact, while meaningful pay is certainly a key element in selecting and remaining in a job, compensation is usually not at the top of what motivates us to come to work every day. Purpose, more than any quality, is what we value most. But how exactly can we foster a deeper sense of purpose in our work? What can we do that will help us feel like we’re doing more than earning a paycheck or making a profit. These strategies represent a partial list of things that all of us

can do to increase our sense of purpose and satisfaction. 1. Envision the importance of what you do every day. A story is told by John C. Maxwell of a man who came across three bricklayers busy at work. The man asked the first bricklayer what he was doing. “I’m laying bricks,” the worker replied. He then asked the second bricklayer the same question. “I’m putting up a wall,” he said. The passerby then asked the question one more time, this time to the third bricklayer. The response: “I’m building a cathedral.” As this story illustrates, three different workers can do the exact same task but for very different reasons. The first may have labored exclusively for the paycheck. He saw his work as exactly that, a task that needed to be completed regardless of the outcome. When the bell rang, he was out the door. The second

was likely motivated by a sense of completion and was proud that his bricklaying would result in the construction of a wall. Perhaps he would add a few extra minutes here and there in order to see the goal to completion. But the third was no doubt driven by a deep desire to fashion a religious structure that would enhance worship and bring glory to his religion. Every brick was a step towards that grandiose vision and aspiration. If you’re motivated only by a paycheck then things can get stale quickly. But if you’re driven by a desire to make a difference and build whatever cathedral you’re involved with, the smallest contributions feel larger and more important. 2. Find your sense of purpose at work. For decades, Americans have ranked purpose as their top workplace priority—above promotions, income, job security, and

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o you have 10 seconds?” When you are writing a resume, it’s not a question, it’s a statement. You’ve got 10 seconds. Research shows that an employer decides whether a resume is worth a shot, or worth a shot to the trashcan, within 10 seconds. With the clock ticking, there’s no time to waste. Yet most resumes do waste time. They begin with high sounding “personal statements” which include important information (aka meaningless fluff) like “a self-starter, highly motivated team player … seeking a position where I can use my skills to help a company grow.” That information would be important if all the other resumes said, “a lazy, disinterested hermit … seeking position where I can stagnate.” Since nobody says things like that, the self-starter fluffy stuff is basically a generous serving of baloney. Placing a pile of baloney at the top of your resume conveys two really bad messages. First, it tells the hiring manager that you are the type of person who, when you are handed a shot at making an impactful first impression, will waste it on meaningless noise. Second, it says that the resume itself will at best describe a person who has the qualifications for the job but not stand out from the crowd in any noticeable way. After all, if the overture puts you to sleep, how interesting is the play likely to be? The sad part is that some resumes go on to describe someone who really does have some good points, maybe even some outstanding ones. But because

they waste time saying nothing, by the time the reader gets to the good stuff, it’s too late. He’s made up his mind. This resume is headed for the circular file. Not only are openings like that hurtful (which doesn’t stop many “resume professionals” from writing them) they point the whole hiring process in the wrong direction. They open the conversation with a potential employer by saying, “Let me tell you about me.” Well, at the risk of upsetting sensitive job seekers, I’m getting straight to the point. No one is interested in “you.” At all. There is one thing and only one thing that an employer wants to know, and that is: “Is this the person who can do the work I need done better than anybody else?” So instead of a resume saying, “Let me tell you about me,” the resume needs to open by saying, “Let me tell you why I’m the best possible person for your job.” I believe that this is stated most clearly when it is broken down into three parts. They are: 1) “I know what the job is”; 2) “These are my accomplishments which prove I can do it well”; 3) “These are the specific skills which I can use to do the job in an outstanding way.” With these points a job hunter can write the all-important lines that belong at the top of the resume where they will be seen well within that 10 second window of opportunity. I call these lines “the billboard.” Imagine that your child just got engaged (mazel tov!). You will probably want to hire a photographer. No, you want to hire a wedding photog-

rapher. Well, not any wedding photographer, one that has experience with weddings like yours. A wedding photographer with experience doing large “heimish” yet elegant chasunas that will be attended by several important rabbis and large extended families. And you want to see a sample album. If you find the best photographer in the world but he’s never done a “heimish” chasuna, you are not hiring. I hope. Every employer works the same way. Except he’s got a high pile of resumes and no time. You need to get straight to the point and show him that you know what his job is about and that you have accomplished things similar to the demands of this job using skills that enable you to do the job well. Imagine that you are a bookkeeper who wants to move to a bigger company. A friend tells you that Abe Schwartz needs a bookkeeper. You send a resume which says the usual: bookkeeper, responsible for accounts payable, receivable, work with CPA on… and on… zzzzz… Straight into the trash. You have told Mr. Schwartz that you are just like all the other bookkeepers. So why should he hire you? If you have done a little homework about Mr. Schwartz’s business, you should know enough to open your billboard with the points that he really wants to see, the ones that say, “I am the best person for your job.” For this job, it might be something like, “A bookkeeper with 6 years’ experience using Quickbooks to manage payables, receivables, and payroll.”

Your willingness to go straight to the point grabs his attention, and then you prove your worth by mentioning specific accomplishments and the skills you used to get them done. “Increased efficiency while lowering turnaround time by 30% by fully implementing Quickbooks. Lowered bank fees by 15% through improved cash management. Enabled outside CPA to deliver annual audit 30 days ahead of schedule because all necessary records were clear, complete, and up-to-date” (actual examples borrowed from a client). The third sentence of your billboard lists skills that you know are valuable specifically for this job. Did you mentor other workers? Create or help adapt new procedures? Know how to use important computer software? Those are always worth mentioning. If Mr. Schwartz does business in South America or South Florida, how’s your Spanish? And then you’re done. Showing that you know when to stop talking is as important as knowing what to say. You’ve said that you know what the job is, you’ve got the key skills, and you’re ready to get to work. The billboard will grab an employer’s attention within 10 seconds, and show that you are a candidate worth considering. The rest of the resume will complete the picture of you, the best person for the job. Rabbi Mordechai Kruger’s Job Search for Champions has helped clients of all kinds find the jobs they really want. He can be reached at jobsearchfor champions@gmail.com

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Forgotten Her es

Remembering Two Jewish Generals By Avi Heiligman

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rity for a variety of reasons. Some only achieved the rank of one or two stars, had far-off command posts, or just served during low-intensity times in American history. Whatever the case may be, there are many that deserve mention and in this article we will discuss two Jewish generals that are side-notes in history. Milton Foreman was born in the middle of the Civil War in Chicago. While his family wasn’t rich, they lost everything in the 1871 Chicago Fire. Soon Milton was on the streets selling hats during the day, and at night he studied law. The budding lawyer and entrepreneur became enamored with the Illinois Militia, joined as a private, and worked his way up in the ranks. In 1895 he joined the cavalry of the state’s National Guard. Being a horseman in the National Guard was only part-time and his regular job was that of a lawyer. After passing the bar in 1899, he served on the city council for twelve years. Almost exactly a century ago the U.S. sent an expeditionary force into Mexico to search and capture revolutionary Pancho Villa. Many resources went in with General Pershing on the expedition including the 1st Illinois Cavalry under Colonel Foreman. After forming up in Brownsville, Texas, the unit went into Mexico with such speed that they outpaced their supply train. Left without their

horses they became known as the “Horseless Cavalry.” What started as a joke became the reality for most cavalry units when the U.S. started to fight in WWI. Foreman’s cavalry later switched over to field artillery. Now called the Illinois 2nd Field Artillery, still under Forman’s command, they went into the fighting in Europe and earned six unit citations. In some of the last fighting of the war Foreman was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross by General Pershing. The citation reads in part: When the advance of the Infantry was held up by heavy fire from hostile machine guns and artillery, which his artillery was unable to locate and neutralize, Colonel Foreman personally advanced by creeping through a heavy enemy artillery barrage to a point in the Infantry front line where he could by direct visual observation locate the position of enemy machine guns. Remaining at this post exposed to a terrific hostile bombardment he transmitted information to the supporting artillery and directed their fire on hostile strong points until the advance of the Infantry line was effected. Foreman was given the Army’s Distinguished Service Medal and Continued on page 132

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the Silver Star for not faltering despite many difficulties that crept up on his unit. His batteries of artillery kept on firing, providing vital fire support for the advancing infantry. After distinguishing himself again by crawling into enemy territory to locate machine gun nests, Foreman was awarded the Silver Star for the second time. After the war ended in late 1918, Forman stayed with the Illinois National Guard and in 1920 was promoted to brigadier general. Later he became a major general and when he retired in 1931 he became one of the very few Jewish lieutenant generals (three stars) in history. Before retiring he visited France as an American Legionnaire and was personally decorated by Marshal Foch. Still involved in politics after leaving his command post in the militia, Foreman occupied himself by joining the repeal efforts of the 18th Amendment which prohibited alcohol. Two years later, the 21st Amendment repealed the Prohibition.

Another Jewish general that had an interesting past was former spy Julius Klein. Klein descended from the Maharam Padua on his father’s side and the Maharam Schick on his mother’s side. Born in Chicago in 1901, his family moved to Germany a few years later where Julius participated in WWI as a spy. As an American living in Germany during the Great War Klein was placed under house arrest when the Americans starting fighting. With the help of a friend he obtained a Swedish passport and escaped to France where he lent his services to the American Army. The interwar years for Klein were fast-paced as he worked as a criminal reporter for a Chicago newspaper, arranged for the first German language radio programming in the U.S., and worked in the movie industry. In 1931 he joined the Illinois National Guard and a year later put in a failed bid for Congress. In 1933 General George Marshall tasked him to lead a secret investigation on Americans fas-

cists that supported the Nazi cause. Klein’s reports became sources of intelligence during WWII as the FBI kept tabs on fifth columnists. Existing National Guard units were utilized by the U.S. Army during WWII by which time Klein was a lieutenant colonel. He was stationed in the South Pacific where he won seven medals for his service. One incident in particular stands out in which rescued soldiers after a dock explosion in New Caledonia and was awarded the Soldier’s Medal for Heroism. As a public relations officer he published several works including plans of psychological warfare and propaganda. After the war he became a general and served as a special assistant to Secretary of War Robert Patterson in 1946. General Klein was elected national commander of the Jewish War Veterans in 1947. A month before Israel became a country Klein organized a parade down 5th Avenue in support of the U.S. effort in the U.N. A hardened

supporter of the Jewish cause in the Middle East, Klein organized a “shirt-off-your-back” campaign to provide 100,000 shirts to the Haganah. Later he worked with the West German government to compensate victims of the Holocaust and organized a meeting between the German chancellor and Prime Minister Ben-Gurion. Lieutenant General Milton Foreman and Major General Julius Klein were two of the Jewish generals to serve in America. While not making headline news, they were vital in the large network that makes up the American military. In the future we will discuss other generals that are also considered Forgotten Heroes.

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COMMERCIAL RE INWOOD OFFICE SPACE LOWEST PRICES IN TOWN! 500-7000 Square feet gorgeous office space with WATERVIEW in Inwood! Lots of options. Tons of parking. WIll divide and customize space for your needs! Call 516-567-0100 VALLEY STREAM : Various Sized Retail Spaces in Emerson Plaza, Up to 1,800+/-SF, Plenty of Parking, For Lease… Call Lori for More Details (516) 295-3000 www.pugatch.com BOHEMIA: 2,000+/-SF & Up to 4,050+/-SF Stores in Retail Strip, High Visibility, Great Location, For Lease... Call Lori or Randy for More Details (516) 295-3000 www.pugatch.com

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WOODMERE: Follow The Leader To Woodmere, Now Is The Time To Act!!! No Metered Parking, Various Retail/Office Spaces Available, For Sale/Lease...Call For More Details (516) 295-3000 www.pugatch.com

FAR ROCKAWAY FOR RENT: BEAUTIFUL, LARGE 2 bdrm, above ground basement apartment in two family detached house. eat-in kitchen, lr/dr, full bath ,w/d hook-up. BCH. 9th St. Area. Near All $1350. For appt. to see please call 917-495-0623

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EAST ROCKAWAY: 6,200 +/- SF Building with Retail Spaces, Basement, Some Parking, Near Municipal Lot & Major Highways, Great Location, High Visibility, For Sale/ Lease…Call Ian For More Details (516) 295-3000 www.pugatch.com

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CO-OP FOR SALE WOODMERE: BEST BUY PRICE REDUCED - SMALL PETS OK – Beautiful Corner Unit in Elevator Bldg, 2BR, 5 Closets, All Large Rooms, Sunny & Spacious, Close To All...$165K Call Carol Braunstein (516) 295-3000 www.pugatch.com WOODMERE: BEST BUY PRICE REDUCED - SMALL PETS OK Beautiful Corner Unit in Elevator Bldg, 2BR, 5 Closets, All Large Rooms, Sunny & Spacious, Close To All...$165K Call Carol Braunstein (516) 295-3000 www.pugatch.com

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Lovely 2BR Co-op, Elev, Renovated 1BR Apt, Eik, Fab 4BR, 3BA Hi-Ranch, All Redone 3BR Ranch, Pets Ok, Near All..$165K Close To All..$1,995/mo Den, Near All..$3,950/mo Low Taxes.. $599K

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is likely to be a big year for taxes. House Speaker Paul Ryan and President-elect Donald Trump haven’t been shy about their New Year’s resolutions to rewrite the tax code, and we could be in for quite a ride. So here are some thoughts to start exercising your 2017 tax-planning muscles: • “If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead — if you strike oil.” - J. Paul Getty • “If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract — teach him to deduct.” - Fran Lebowitz • “The question is: What can we, as citizens, do to reform our tax system? As you know, under our threebranch system of government, the tax laws are created by: Satan. But he works through the Congress, so that’s where we must focus our efforts.” - Dave Barry • “The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.” - John Maynard Keynes • “The taxpayer — that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.” - Ronald Reagan • “Income tax returns are the

most imaginative fiction being written today.” - Herman Wouk • “Dear Tax Commissioner: Three years ago I cheated on my taxes. Since then I have been unable to sleep at night. Enclosed is $5,000. If I still can’t sleep, I’ll send you the rest.” - Anonymous • “Just because you have a briefcase full of cash doesn’t mean you’re out to cheat the government.” - Pete Rose • “The difference between death and taxes is death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.” - Will Rogers • “Worried about an IRS audit? Avoid what’s called a red flag. That’s something the IRS always looks for. For example, let’s say you have some money left in your bank account after paying taxes. That’s a red flag.” - Jay Leno We wish we could tell you exactly what’s going to happen with taxes. But whatever the future holds, we can promise we’ll be here to help you make the best of it, in 2017 and beyond. Allan J Rolnick is a CPA who has been in practice for over 30 yea rs in Queens, NY. He welcomes your comments and can be reached at 718-896-8715 or at allanjrcpa@aol.com.

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The Brain Lunch Connection By Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS

an it be diet time again so soon? I can’t believe it. How do they come around again so quickly? I just started one last week! That’s the thing, starting them is really tough enough. But starting them again and again is enough to kill you. Sure I get it: if you could stay on one, you wouldn’t have to start again. But don’t blame me – they keep re-opening the supermarkets and pizza shops and sushi joints every single day. And now they even have 24 hour a day kosher stores. How’s a person to find success?! I’m thinking of getting my jaws wired shut. But I can just see myself stocking up on straws and jzajzing everything right down to purée form to get around that! Summer is different. You eat, you go to the boardwalk. You eat, you play tennis. You eat, you go bike riding. Winter, now there’s the problem. You eat, you say it’s cold out. You eat, you watch the snow fall! And these early Shabbosim… they really sabotage you. You eat a whole long Friday night meal.

Then finish all the Shabbos meals by 4:10pm on Saturday. And then the early sundown provides a very lengthy Saturday night to go out and eat again. Yes, I know I don’t have to do this. But who’s telling my esophagus that?! So, here I am with another Monday morning to face and a cottage

cipline to lose a pound? Isn’t weight weight? There must be something I missed in physics operating here. I’ve been thinking of booking a flight to Israel. You may be wondering where that came from. No, it’s not some sudden spiritual blip that needs nurturing. I just thought it can add to my success, ‘cause when

I’ve been offered a Dunkin’ doughnut, chocolate kisses, and a mini muffin. How strong can I be expected to be?

cheese container boldly held in my hand. But already I’ve been offered a Dunkin’ doughnut, chocolate kisses, and a mini muffin. How strong can I be expected to be? So far I’ve resisted. But the day is young. And I need to stay focused for a full week just to lose just one pound. Why does it take no discipline at all to gain a pound, yet take absolute dis-

I get there I will already have been on a diet for two days! That might seem extreme but I’m just looking for ideas to move more rapidly toward my goal. Does this speak to many of you? Then I wish I had some learned wisdom to share with you. Sure nutritionists help, joining a gym helps, not bringing highly caloric foods

into the house helps. But to really get to the answer to how to stay committed, there’s got to be some solid brainwork involved. What do I mean? A decision must be made at the level of your mind! You need to ask yourself: Can I hold onto the fact that eating the right thing is more important than anything else for me? Or do I want to just forget about dieting? Or lastly, do I want to keep starting again and again? I’d say if you’re like me, my brain does all three. It says I can do this. Then I’ll decide to forget about it. And then I start over and over again. From this I’m sure you can see that my brainwork leaves much to be desired. Its level of commitment fluctuates. I’d say my brain is just out to lunch. Hey, I guess that explains why I always have food on my mind!

Rivki Rosenwald is a certified relationship counselor, and career and life coach. She can be contacted at 917-7052004 or rivki@rosenwalds.com

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