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Gold Star families are those that have suffered the loss of a family member who died in the U.S. military in battle. While driving to Philadelphia, and thinking of the Slutman family’s loss, I thought of all the milestones that would be celebrated without their father – the loss of a tooth, the 100 on a test, the trips to the park, the graduations, birthdays, weddings. Who would be there for them?

Sadly, there are many other families who are part of the Gold Star group who can understand their pain.

This past weekend, my family and I joined in the neighborhood’s Memorial Day Parade.

The streets were filled with onlookers, and the many floats and participants were varied and exciting. The organizers of the parade put a lot of time and effort into making the parade a significant event.

During the ceremony, I was able to meet a few veterans who had fought in recent wars.

One World War II veteran proudly asked me how old I thought he was. “95!” he exclaimed with a huge smile. I thanked him for his service and am so appreciative of the efforts he made in ensuring the Allies’ victory.

But there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers whom I am not able to thank. Some of them made it home from war but have since passed on. Others never made it back from the battlefield. My gratitude to them, though, is immeasurable.

n a recent trip to Philadelphia, my husband and I noticed that on every overpass on the New Jersey Turnpike, firefighters were gathered with their firetrucks. On many of those trucks, huge flags were hoisted and ladders were extended, and the firefighters were standing on the tops of the trucks, waiting for something.

Overpass after overpass were filled with firefighters. I urged my children to look up from the videos they were watching – something was happening and I knew that it was monumental.

And then my husband remembered that a U.S. marine was recently killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. His body had been flown into Dover Air Force Base and was being taken from there to New York City that day. Staff Sgt. Christopher Slutman was a decorated firefighter in New York City; his father was a firefighter in Maryland. The firefighters on the overpasses were part of the procession, there to salute the remains of their comrade as they were driven to their final resting place.

I thought of Christopher’s wife, Shannon, and their three young daughters. They, too, were making their way to Christopher’s funeral and were seeing their loved one’s friends memorializing him in such a poignant way. Every flag that we passed and every ladder that was extended to the heavens reminded me of the pain that those girls were going through and the ultimate sacrifice that Christopher made.

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Contents LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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Community Happenings

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Connecting Hearts Through Art

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NEWS Global

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How to Achieve World Peace by Rav Moshe Weinberger

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HEALTH & FITNESS Get Over It by Dr. Deb Hirschhorn

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Managing Mindless Eating by Aliza Beer, MS RD CDN

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FOOD & LEISURE The Aussie Gourmet: Pizza with Pesto Sauce

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Dear Editor, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio for President belongs in the comics section.

Democrats Governor Andrew Cuomo and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio have a lot in common with the late Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller (1959 - 1974) and NYC Mayor John Lindsay (1966 - 1973) along with Governor George Pataki (1995 -2006) and NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani (1994 - 2001). The same is true for the late Democrat Governor Mario Cuomo (1983 - 1992) and NYC Mayor Ed Koch (1978 - 1988). Nelson Rockefeller, George Pataki, Mario Cuomo and son Andrew Cuomo dealt with mayors who want equal billing on the political scene. Lindsay’s urban, Koch’s Big Apple, Giuliani’s safety/quality of life and de Blasio’s progressive agenda were all dependent upon both increased state and federal assistance.

De Blasio envisions himself as the national spokesperson for progressive mayors from all cities. This conflicts with the governor who have to worry about all 62 counties making up New York State. It also creates problems for both Cuomo and de Blasio who harbor presidential ambitions in 2020. Cuomo, like his father Mario, Rockefeller and Pataki, and de Blasio, like Lindsay and Giuliani, will never come close to winning any primaries let alone occupy the White House.

Hey Bill, better to spend your time packing for moving back to your old Park Slope, Brooklyn, home when your term ends in December 2021.

Sincerely, Larry Penner Great Neck, NY

Dear Editor, Your letter this week in the Dating Dialogue was horrible. That boy should run very far away from his mother if he wants to get married.

Clearly she has some very deep issues and is sabotaging her son’s dream of getting married. She should go to therapy pronto. And her son should take his fiancée and run for the hills before she can inflict more damage on their relationship.

E. Herman Dear Editor, I was taken aback that you highlighted a new cereal in your “That’s Odd” section in the news last week.

The cereal is clearly loaded with sugar – it’s a takeoff of an ice cream brand.

Is that the first thing we should be serving our children in the morning?

We need to help them form healthy habits and sugar cereal is not going to help. Truthfully, these cereals should be taken off the shelves – they lead to childhood obesity and diabetes.

Sincerely, Chana Rappen Dear Editor, I am pleased that you chose to focus on China this week.

This is a lot more than tariffs and trade when it comes to China. It’s more about a balance of power and preventing China from taking over the world digitally and economically.

A world run by the communist country – figuratively more than literally – would be a dangerous world to live in.

Keep up the nice work, Yochanan Newman

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Who Will Replace Theresa May?

Boris Johnson appears to be the frontrunner in the race to replace Theresa May as England’s prime minister after she announced last week that she will step aside as Conservative leader following multiple failed Brexit attempts.

May had announced that she will resign her post on June 7, drawing her turbulent three-year premiership to a close.

Known simply as “Boris,” Johnson is a former foreign secretary and

served two terms as the mayor of London. He has cultivated a reputation as a clownish and gaffe-prone politician and a firm supporter of Brexit.

Johnson doubled down on his pro-Brexit message on Tuesday after the Brexit party swept the EU elections a day earlier. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Johnson said that English voters frustrated over the lack of progress on leaving the EU would cause the Conservative party to suffer a punishing defeat at the polls.

“The message from these results is clear,” he wrote. “If we go on like this, we will be fired: dismissed from the job of running the country.”

Other strong candidates in the running to replace May include Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Environment Secretary Michael Gove, and former Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab. Matt Hancock, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Esther McVey, Andrea Leadsom and Rory Stewart have also joined the race.

May had announced her resignation on Friday after she repeatedly failed to deliver England’s departure from the EU. May has repeatedly failed to earn parliamentary support

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A mix of overcrowding and bad weather has led to the deaths of at least eleven people on Mount Everest.

According to Nepali officials, the deaths this week came after long lines at the mountain’s summit caused the climbers to suffer from extreme tiredness, dehydration, and frostbite.

Among those who died on the world’s highest mountain was 56-year-old Kevin Hynes from Ireland, who died after falling down

close to Everest’s peak. Nihal Ashpak Bhagwan, from India, expired from exhaustion after Nepalese officials said he was “stuck in traffic [on the mountain] for more than 12 hours.”

Robin Haynes Fisher, a British mountaineer, passed away after suffering from altitude sickness shortly after descending from the summit on Saturday. Fisher had mentioned the overcrowding on social media that ended up leading to his untimely death.

“I am hopeful to avoid the crowds on summit day, and it seems like a number of teams are pushing to summit on the 21st,” he had posted on Instagram. “With a single route to the summit, delays caused by overcrowding could prove fatal so I am hopeful my decision to go for the 25th will mean fewer people. Unless, of course, everyone else plays the same waiting game.”

One Nepalese, four Indians, an Austrian, and an American are also dead or missing.

Nepal has come under heavy criticism for the fatalities, as the country does not restrict the amount of climbers allowed on Mount Everest at any given time. Nepal had issued a record 381 permits this climbing

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President Donald Trump met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo for a round of bilateral talks last week amid mounting tensions in the area surrounding North Korea and the U.S. trade war with China.

During the visit, Trump became the first world leader to meet with the new Japanese emperor since he was sworn in last month, played a round of golf with Abe, and presented the “President’s Cup” to the winner of a sumo wrestling tournament.

Trump and Abe took pains not to let their differences show despite increasing tensions between the two longtime allies regarding a new round of auto tariffs that Trump is threatening to impose on Japan and the European Union. The tariffs are expected to significantly hurt Japan, whose large auto industry remains the bedrock of their economy.

Tokyo is also upset at Trump for his lack of response to North Korea’s recent missile tests. Most observers say that Pyongyang had tested ballistic missiles, which violate multiple UN Security Council resolutions, and Japan has pressured Trump to take a harder line vis-a-vis North Korea.

While in Japan, Trump brushed aside the conclusions of his National Security Advisor John Bolton and refrained from deeming the missile tests a violation of UN resolutions.

“My people think it could have been a violation,” said Trump. “I view it differently. I view it as a man – perhaps he wants to get attention and perhaps not. Who knows?

“All I know is there have been no nuclear tests, no ballistic missiles going out, no long-range missiles going out, and I think that someday we’ll have a deal,” Trump added.

Trump has been locked in negoti-

ations with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un in an effort to convince the dictator to give up the rogue state’s nuclear arsenal. Those talks, which have included two summits, have failed to produce any concrete breakthrough. Kim’s decision to resume ballistic missile tests after pledging to stop such activity has alarmed Japan, which sees its neighbor’s missile arsenal as a potent threat to its populace.

In August 2017, air raid sirens sounded across Japan after North Korea fired a missile over the country.

Oil-Rich Venezuela Out of Gas

Blessed with some of the world’s largest oil deposits, Venezuela has always ensured that its citizens had cheap and widely available gasoline.

Venezuela’s government has never taxed gasoline despite a massive financial crisis rocking the country and official gas prices in the country remain among the lowest in the world. But now, the violence-plagued state is suffering from a massive gas shortage, with motorists lining up for miles to fill their tanks.

Some drivers reported having to wait almost 24 hours to fill up their vehicles, with people sleeping on the top of their cars or in truck beds.

Some desperate drivers have resorted to camping out in tents outside of gas stations as the shortage becomes more critical by the passing day.

In addition, gas station owners are demanding to be paid in foreign cash as Venezuela’s currency is almost worthless due to hyperinflation. “To keep my bus running, I have to have [U.S. dollars],” said bus driver Juan Carrilo. “I have to have this to pay for repairs and even for gas. I guess we are Americans now. We are using dollars.”

According to Reuters, imports of fuel and other chemicals needed to refine Venezuelan crude have fallen to 86,000 bpd over the past month from the 225,000 bpd it imported in April. Adding to the shortage is the crumbling Cardon oil refinery, which

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has significantly slowed down operations due to its obsolete infrastructure. While Cardon has a capacity of 310,000 bpd, it is currently processing just 115,000 bpd a month.

Key to the growing gasoline crisis are the sanctions the United States slapped on the state-owned Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) fuel company in a bid to drive President Nicolas Maduro from office. The U.S. sanctions banned PDVSA from working with its Houston-based subsidiary Citgo, taking away access to the $11 billion Venezuela makes annually in exports.

Carnage at Tokyo Bus Stop Tuesday morning screams filled the air at a bus stop in Kawasaki City at the outskirts of Tokyo. At least 18 people – 16 of them children – were stabbed by a man brandishing a knife during rush hour. Two people were killed in the carnage, 11-year-old Hanako Kuribayashi and 39-year-old Satoshi Oyama. Oyama was standing at the bus stop with his daughter during the attack and was an official in the Foreign Ministry.

Several other victims suffered from serious injuries. All the children involved in the attack were girls who attended a nearby Catholic school.

The perpetrator, Ryuichi Iwasaki, 51, killed himself after the attack.

Japan has one of the lowest crime rates in the world and mass killings are almost unheard of in the country.

There have, however, been a number of high-profile knife attacks over the past two decades. In 2016, a 26-yearold former employee at a home for people with disabilities went on a stabbing spree at the facility, killing 19 and wounding 25. The attack was characterized as the worst mass killing in the country since World War II. In 2001, a knife-wielding man stabbed and killed eight children at an elementary school in the city of Osaka. The massacre shocked Japan and led to tighter security in schools across the country.

Bitcoin Races Towards $9K Once left for dead by analysts, Bitcoin is again showing signs of life as it races towards $9,000.

The cryptocurrency increased by 10% on Monday and closed at $8,826, the highest it has been at since the summer of 2017 and a 70% jump over this past month. Other cryptocurrencies have also been riding high as of late, with the second largest digital coin Ethereum jumping by 8%.

The developments have sent prices soaring amid predictions that cryptocurrency will eventually go mainstream and replace fiat money in everyday transactions.

“Easier to spend means a greater use case,” Mati Greenspan told Bloomberg. A senior market analyst at eToro in Tel Aviv, Greenspan said the overall customer base could reach “critical mass, as the technology goes from underground to mainstream.”

Far-Right Rises in EU Elections Bitcoin’s current value is still far behind the all-time high of the $19,000 it hit in 2017. Ever since its historic surge, Bitcoin had steadily fallen in value as investors fear the coin’s viability as a form of currency.

With Bitcoin also plagued by payment processing problems, many worried that the crypto meltdown of 2017 would repeat itself.

Recently, though, investors have been buoyed by a slew of optimistic news regarding cryptocurrencies, such as a decision by AT&T to let customers pay via Bitcoin and Fidelity Investments’ announcement that it will open up a Bitcoin trading desk.

Europe’s populist far-right parties made gains all across the continent in last week’s EU elections as the future of the union remains increasingly unclear.

The rise of the anti-EU parties has global ramifications, as Europe is likely to become more unstable as the EU becomes increasingly split.

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In England, Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party was the clear winner after taking home 30% of the vote, while the pro-EU Lib Dems came in a distant second. Farage had campaigned on a strong pro-Brexit message that aims to force England to leave the EU even without a deal.

Farage’s success is expected to cause the ruling Conservative party to shift to the right, as many Tory lawmakers realize that they will be voted out of power if they don’t deliver Brexit as promised. With only 10% of the vote, the Conservatives were the biggest victim of Farage’s success and it seems inevitable that the Labour party, the Greens, and the Liberal-Democrats will likely replicate their success in the UK’s upcoming elections.

In Germany, the far-left Greens Party got 20% of the vote, largely at the expense of the historically dominant Christian Democrats and Social Democrats parties. The results are seen as a sign that the major German parties are being weakened by the smaller parties and more extreme factions.

In France, President Emmanuel Macron’s party was trounced by Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally.

The results are a disappointment for Le Pen, as the 23.3% she received is less than the 33% the National Rally earned in the most recent elections in 2017. The Greens party came in second with 13% of the vote.

Predictions that Italy’s populist parties such as the National League would sweep the elections proved unfounded, as the right only got a combined a third of the total vote.

In neighboring Spain, the Socialists came ahead as expected with 32% of the vote, with the center-right People’s Party finishing a distant second at 20%. The right-wing party Citizens party came in third with only 12% of the vote.

13 Hurt in Bomb in Lyon Thirteen people – eight women, four men, and a 10-year-old girl – were injured when a terrorist set off a pipe bomb last Friday in front of a bakery in the city of Lyon. Police said the bomb contained “screws and bolts.”

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leaving the bomb in front of the bakery a minute before it detonated. He was wearing a baseball cap, a green t-shirt, shorts and sunglasses and arrived at the scene on a bicycle. He was also wearing a knapsack as he rode away.

Over the weekend, French police arrested four people in connection to the attack. The suspected bomber, a 24-year-old Algerian IT student, was among those arrested. He had been unknown to police before the attack and was captured as he came off a bus. When he saw authorities, he raised his arms and did not resist arrest.

The terrorist’s parents were also arrested and taken in for questioning, as was a second Algerian student who is a family relation, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office, which

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Police have already determined that the bomb was based on triacetone triperoxide, or TATP, a powerful explosive popular with terrorists. Investigators recovered small screws, ball bearings, batteries, a printed circuit board, and a remote-controlled triggering device at the scene.

France has been on high alert following a wave of deadly jihadist terror attacks since 2015 which have killed more than 250 people. The pipe bomb is the second terror incident in France this past year, following a March attack in which a Muslim terrorist stabbed two prison guards.

Sugihara’s Empathetic Heart Chiune Sugihara is widely admired as a hero for his role in saving Jewish lives during the Holocaust.

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headquarters would know in advance of an anticipated German attack on the Soviet Union.

ther were his father’s good deeds motivated by religious faith, according to his son.

“The truth is, he just took pity on these people and decided to do something,” Nobuki Sugihara said.

“This wasn’t about ideology.”

Iran’s New Smuggling Route While in Lithuania, Sugihara defied the Nazi government and used his position to issue thousands of fake Japanese visas to Jews. His actions saved them from deportation and, more than likely, subsequent death.

In 1984, Sugihara’s actions earned him recognition by Israel as “Righteous Among the Nations.”

Sugihara was posthumously honored by Japan in 2000, the year that a museum commemorating his deeds was inaugurated in Tokyo, joining one already in existence in Lithuania.

Sugihara passed away in 1986, leaving behind four children. Today, his son, Nobuki, travels the world raising awareness about his father’s story. Rather than putting his father on a pedestal, Nobuki spends most of his time dispelling myths.

Speaking to the Jewish Telegraph Agency, Nobuki Sugihara said that his father would never have wanted to be known for things which he didn’t actually do. “[He] would not have liked it,” the younger Sugihara said. “He would have not approved – he was always in favor of telling things like they were, no melodrama.”

For example, Nobuki cites an oft-told story in which his father was said to have frantically signed visas on his train out of Lithuania after being deported by the Soviet Union. As the story goes, Sugihara then threw the blank visas through the train window. It is thought that approximately 6,000 people, mostly Polish Jews, used these means to escape.

“That never happened,” Nobuki Sugihara told the JTA. “Maybe, maybe he gave three or four visas at the hotel just before his departure.”

Sugihara also dispelled another myth in which his father is said to have given his consular seal to Jewish refugees in order to disseminate as many fake visas as possible. Nei-

New satellite images indicate that Iran is building an alternative crossing adjoining the Iraqi-Syrian border in order to continue smuggling weapons to its proxy forces in Syria and Lebanon.

The photos, which were taken

by ImageSat International (ISI) last week, show a new compound built in the last two months about two kilometers from Syria’s Abu Kama Al Qaim border crossing.

The compound is being built along a section of the border which is totally inactive. Syria had previously announced that it would open the crossing in April 2018, but the plans never materialized. The new infrastructure in the compound suggests that Iran is building an alternative border crossing that will be controlled by the Iraqi and Syrian Shiite militias run by Iran’s Quds Force.

In all likelihood, the compound is being built for use as a staging area for advanced Iranian weapons on the way to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

According to ISI, “without Syrian supervision, Iranian allies in Lebanon and Syria such as Hezbollah get a logistic channel, run by the Shi’ite militias and Iran,” adding that “the foundation is part of the Iranian effort to establish the 1,200 km.length land bridge from Tehran to the Mediterranean.”

For years, Iran has attempted to transfer highly accurate game-changing missiles to Hezbollah, only to be foiled by Israeli airstrikes and ambushes by special forces. Tehran’s tactics have includ-

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tion of the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, which defines “gaming disorder” as a disease. The updated ICD will not be adopted until 2022.

ed flying missiles in commercial airliners to Damascus, building missile factories in the desolate Syrian desert, and smuggling missiles hidden in innocent cargo such as boxes of candy bars.

The new images follow a previous report published in July 2018 that shed light on Iran’s efforts to hide its illicit smuggling from Israel.

According to the report, the Shiite

militias controlled by the Islamic Republic had built a secret road that crossed the Iraqi-Syrian border which led to a series of hidden weapons warehouses. The warehouses in question were totally destroyed in an anonymous airstrike believed to be executed by Israel, though these claims have never been verified.

WHO: Gaming Addiction is a Disease The World Health Organization has officially designated “gaming disorder” as a mental health disorder.

Members of the WHO voted over the weekend to approve the 11th edi-

The ICD-11 says the disorder is “characterized by impaired control over gaming, increasing priority given to gaming over other activities to the extent that gaming takes precedence over other interests and daily activities, and continuation or escalation of gaming despite the occurrence of negative consequences.”

The WHO noted that gaming disorder was a relatively rare condition, writing that “studies suggest that gaming disorder affects only a small proportion of people who engage in digital- or video-gaming activities.”

The designation is likely to draw backlash from the video game industry. In response to the WHO’s move, the industry lobby organization Video Games Coalition said that their products had “educational, therapeutic, and recreational value” and were “enjoyed safely and sensibly by more than 2 billion people worldwide,” according to NBC News.

The American Psychiatric Association has been hesitant to categorize gaming as an addiction, noting that research is ongoing and that scientists are looking into whether gaming is a sign of depression or anxiety.

Experts have expressed concern about the designation, also saying that more research is needed on the topic.

Andrew Przybylski, Director of Research at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford, wrote in February 2018 that “WHO’s tentative move to pathologize digital play is premature.” In his February article in The Guardian, he noted that existing studies were marred by methodological errors. He again expressed concern about the quality of research in August while speaking with the British Psychological Society.

Over 150 million Americans play video games, according to the Entertainment Software Association, which also said that 60 percent of Americans play video games each day.

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German Court Convicts Members of “Sharia Police”

Last week, a German court convicted seven Muslims for taking part in a self-styled Islamic “Sharia police” in 2014.

The court in Wuppertal ruled that the seven males between ages 27 and 37 violated laws against wearing uniforms and were fined between $336-$2,015. The statute in question had originally been passed to prevent neo-Nazis from holding parades decked out in World War II regalia.

According to the judge, the de-

fendants’ actions had the “intimidating effect suggestive of militancy” by imitating the violent Sharia police that exist across the Middle East.

The men had caused outrage across Germany in 2014 after they patrolled the streets of Wuppertal dressed in orange reflective vests emblazoned with the words “Sharia Police.” Activities undertaken by the extremist group included distributing flyers to Muslims, calling the town a “Shariah Controlled Zone,” and warning of dire consequences should people partake in gambling or consume drugs and alcohol.

Videos of the group had gone viral around the world, causing many Germans to express their outrage over the “Salafist scene” and the vigilante Muslims’ aims to replace Germany’s democratic legal system with Shariah law.

The seven radicals were acquitted in 2016 after three judges found that the reflective vests they sported couldn’t be defined as a uniform.

A federal court summarily sent the case back for a retrial, leading to their conviction and fine this past week.

Bibi Begs for Coalition

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu implored Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman to relax his demands for joining his coalition during a prime-time address in the Knesset on Monday evening.

Netanyahu needs Liberman’s five Knesset seats for his coalition to be approved. However, Liberman has conditioned his support on a bill that would force charedim to enlist in

the IDF, something that the charedi Shas and UTJ parties have refused to agree on.

With time running out before the period allotted to Netanyahu to form a government expires on Wednesday, the prime minister publicly pressured Liberman to refrain from sending the country to another costly and divisive election.

“This is a semantic debate – you don’t hold an early election over a cosmetic issue,” Netanyahu said.

He added that the Jewish State has “endless” things to accomplish, such as fighting Iran and Hamas, dealing with pensions for elderly Russian immigrants, and building more settlements in Judea and Samaria.

“I am telling you, from the depth of my heart, from the depth of my understanding, that there is no reason to drag the country into a needless election that will cost an astronomical sum,” the prime minister said.

Noting that he only had 48 hours until the deadline for establishing a coalition, Netanyahu said that the door was still open for further negotiations. “We can do a lot in 48 hours.

We can establish a strong, right-wing government,” he implored.

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minister? This is one big bluff,” said Labor party head Avi Gabbay.

Fellow Labor lawmaker MK Itzik Shmuli also tweeted that the opposition would “act vigorously so that before we head to elections, another candidate will receive the mandate to try and form a government.”

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“I expect the good of the country to overcome any other interest. There is still time. We can still come to our senses,” he added.

Following parliamentary elections in Israel, the president entrusts the leader of the largest party with a mandate to establish a government.

A coalition needs the support of at least 61 lawmakers in order for a government to be approved. Should the leader of the largest party fail to

win the support of other parties, the president is entitled to give other factions the chance to establish a government. If there is no headway, then Israel goes back to the polls again, something that has never happened in the country’s 71-year history.

As the odds of Netanyahu forming a government appeared increasingly dim, numerous left-wing lawmakers called on President Reuven Rivlin to give Kahol Lavan leader Benny

Gantz a chance to form a coalition before holding new elections. While Kahol Lavan garnered 35 seats in the April elections, the same amount as the Likud, the leftist party would have a difficult time building a coalition with the remaining charedi and right-wing parties.

“If someone doesn’t manage to form a government, you task someone else. There is an orderly procedure. Only one person can be prime

Israeli firefighters extinguished some of the country’s worst brush fires on Saturday, capping off a twoday fight with the blaze that had laid waste to entire villages.

By Saturday evening, firefighters had put out a large fire near Jerusalem’s Pisgat Ze’ev neighborhood as well as another in the Jordan Valley. Earlier in the day, firefighters managed to take control over a fire burning in several locations near the northern city of Megiddo.

Another two large fires were extinguished in the Kibbutz Forest near Ramot Menashe after four firefighting planes were dispatched to join the effort. Foreign firefighters that had arrived from Greece, Italy, and Egypt also arrived in time to help overpower a massive blaze near Tiberias that threatened to spread to the city itself.

Israel had experienced two days of devastating wildfires resulting from a mixture of out-of-control Lag B’Omer bonfires, dry weather, and strong winds. There had also been allegations of arson following the arrest of two Arabs attempting to light a field with a tank of gasoline near Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus neighborhood.

Hit particularly hard was Kibbutz Harel and Moshav Mevo Modi’im, a town in central Israel founded by Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. Both villages were completely destroyed by the flames on Thursday, with many residents losing all of their possessions in addition to their homes in the inferno.

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Israel Expands Gaza Fishing Zone Israel has announced that it has extended the area Gazans are per-

mitted to fish back to 15 nautical miles from the coast, only four days after it restricted the area to ten nautical miles.

The move was announced on Sunday by IDF Major General Kamil Abu Rokun, who serves as the IDF’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories. According to Rokun, “this step is part of the civilian policy of preventing humanitarian deterioration in the Gaza Strip and of a policy that distinguishes between terror

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Abu Rokun had announced four days earlier that Israel would reduce fishing space in the Gaza Strip to a range of up to 10 nautical miles until further notice after a series of

As a bedrock of Gaza’s failing economy, the issue of the fishing zone is viewed by Hamas as being of the highest importance and often plays a central role in negotiations with Israel. In recent talks with Israel regarding a long-term ceasefire, Hamas demanded that the fishing zone be extended up to 30 miles, something which Israel has refused to accept due to fears of maritime arms smuggling.

Liberman Likens Israeli Paper to “Pravda”

Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman has likened the Israeli Hayom daily newspaper to Soviet propaganda amid fallout over his refusal to form a Netanyahu-led coalition.

Israel Hayom, which is the country’s most-read newspaper, had blasted Liberman in a front-page article as a “fraud” after he refused to join Prime Minister Netanyahu’s coalition unless it passed a law drafting charedim to the IDF. Liberman’s decision to condition joining the government on a draft law could potentially send the country to new elections, as Netanyahu cannot form a government without Yisrael Beytenu’s five Knesset seats.

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“Even Pravda in the Stalin era was more gentle and objective,” charged Liberman, who was born and bred in Moldova.

Liberman added that his demands were the only thing standing between Israel turning into a theocracy run by ultra-Orthodox rabbis. “I agree it’s not just the draft law. The draft law became a symbol…but look at what is happening here,” he said, invoking a slew of religious moves by charedi parties such as closing stores on Shabbat.

“I want to emphasize yet again: We are in favor of a Jewish state; we are against a halachic state,” he said.

On Monday evening, Netanyahu urged Liberman in a primetime address to withdraw from his demands and prevent Israel from voting for a second time. The premier’s address came after his final meeting with Liberman failed to make any headway in the impasse.

“There is no reason to paralyze the country for another year and a half and waste billions when there is a solution [to the dispute over the conscription bill],” Netanyahu said.

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A Nadler spokesman blamed dehydration for the veteran congressman’s medical scare. “He was sitting down so he did not faint or anything, just was a bit ill. He is responsive and receiving a check-up,” Daniel Schwarz told the Associated Press.

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President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he is deploying an additional 1,500 troops to the Middle East amid rising tensions with Iran.

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port, the new deployment includes batteries of Patriot missiles, fighter jets, and additional forces.

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif responded by calling the decision to send more U.S. troops “detrimental to world peace.”

“Increasing the American presence in our region is extremely dangerous and threatens international peace and security,” Zarif was quoted as saying.

A senior Iranian military official also threatened the United States and said that his country was capable of sinking U.S. warships sent to the Persian Gulf by missiles or “secret weapons.”

“America sent two warships to the region, and if they are stupid, we will send these vessels to the seabed along with the crew and the plans, using missiles or two new and secret weapons,” said General Morteza Corbani.

Don’t Forget Your Loose Change Traveling? Need to empty your pockets for the TSA? Don’t forget your

quarters and dimes as you gather your possessions after going through security. Almost a million dollars is left behind by travelers who go through security at airports – and all that money goes to the Transportation Security Administration.

The existence of this loose change recently entered the limelight when an internal Department of Homeland Security proposal asked the TSA for $3 million worth of loose change gathered at airports for border operations if Congress does not approve its $1.1 billion funding request, according to a report from NBC News.

Every year, the agency has to release a report on all the unclaimed money it collects to Congress. In 2012, TSA collected $531,000 and in 2016 it jumped up to $867,812, according to NBC News. By 2018, it reached $960,105.

Aside from nickels and dimes left in buckets at TSA, the agency also collects large bills left behind in unclaimed wallets.

The most money comes from busy airports in big cities: according to the agency’s report on the 2017 fiscal year, John F. Kennedy International Airport collected the most money at $72,392. Los Angeles International Airport was a close second at $71,748.

Miami International Airport and O’Hare International trailed behind at $50,504 and $49,597. Travelers in Reno, Nevada, meanwhile, left behind a mere $19.85. Perhaps they spent all their money at the casinos there?

Once the loose change is found, smaller airports send the money they collect to larger hub airports, which then rolls the change and gives it to the TSA. The TSA keeps track of all the money that is being stored and transported.

Since 2005, Congress has allowed the TSA to spend the money however it wants to improve security operations.

In the past, some of it has been used to translate security signs into foreign languages and to expand the TSA Precheck system, which expedites security for prescreened passengers.

The TSA Loose Change Act was in-

troduced in 2013 to donate the money to nonprofit organization that would “provide places of rest and recuperation for Armed Forces members and their families” in airports. Though the bill received bipartisan support and passed in the House of Representatives, it died in the Senate. It was reintroduced in 2017, but no progress has been made.

U.S. Sailor Sentenced for Spying

A U.S. sailor who planned to give a journalist classified information about the Navy’s nuclear-powered warships and then defect to Russia was recently sentenced to three years in prison.

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to two counts of espionage earlier this month and admitted to contacting Sevmash, a Russian shipbuilding enterprise. In an email to the ship maker, he wrote: “I am willing,” the FBI said in a statement.

The 26-year-old also admitted to authorities that releasing the classified information could have degraded the ability of nuclear-powered warships and caused injury to the United States. As a nuclear electrician’s mate, Kellogg had access to information related to the capabilities, operations and maintenance of nuclear propulsion systems. Had the information became public, potential U.S. adversaries could have learned the capabilities and limitations of the United States’ nuclear-powered warships, a pre-trial statement said.

In July and August 2018, Kellogg search online for flights to Moscow and contact information for the Russian Consulate in San Diego, the FBI said.

Authorities learned of the plot after Kellogg was arrested in August for drunken disorderly conduct at a San Diego airport where a Delta Airlines employee stopped him from boarding a flight to New York. He was belligerent and had purchased a oneway ticket to visit a high school friend who works as a journalist, telling him he had a big story for him, court documents said.

Kellogg joined the Navy in 2014 and served on the U.S.S. Carl Vinson from 2016 to 2018.

The FBI said Kellogg admitted to taking photographs of areas containing sensitive information about the Navy’s nuclear propulsion program on the ship. He then sent the photos to his father and friend.

He will receive a reduction in rank and a dishonorable discharge.

Univ. of OK Inflated Data

It seems that the University of Oklahoma is not as OK as it says it was.

This year, because of false reporting by the college, U.S. News & World Report will be leaving the school off

its annual list of best colleges. The university has been giving inflated data on its alumni giving rates for two decades.

For the 2019 Best Colleges rankings, the university originally said its two-year alumni giving rate was 14% but later informed U.S. News that the correct number is 9.7%, the magazine said.

The false data affected Oklahoma’s placement in the national universities, best value schools, top public schools, best colleges for veterans,

and A-plus schools for B students rankings and lists. The paper has decided to leave the college unranked because of the false data.

The rankings are based largely on data provided by the universities, such as graduation rates, class sizes and standardized test scores of students. Alumni giving rates make up 5% of the rankings formula because “giving measures student satisfaction and post-graduate engagement,” U.S. News writes in its methodology.

Last year, the University of Okla-

homa (also referred to as OU) was ranked 97th in the Best Colleges survey, and the school touted that placement as the first time it had been ranked among the top 100 universities and colleges.

“This recognition marks a truly historic moment for the university,” then-President David Boren said at the time.

Oklahoma is not alone in this type of data issue. Last year, U.S. News said that the Fox School of Business at Temple University had

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“significantly overstated” the number of new entrants to the 2016-2017 class who submitted GMAT scores, which resulted in it receiving a higher ranking.

The Best Colleges rankings have long been criticized by higher education experts. Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, former president of George Washington University, has called them a “racket” and has said schools feel pressure to game the rankings.

SCOTUS Blocks Gerrymandering Decision

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The Supreme Court’s decision is the latest battle over gerrymandering in the past few years. Critics say that the practice unfairly takes away representation from minority and low-income districts, while proponents point out that the U.S. Constitution leaves the makeup of congressional districts to the states.

While gerrymandering has been utilized by Republicans and Democrats alike for decades, the controversy over the issue took center stage during the 2018 U.S. midterm elections when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that the GOP’s gerrymandering in North Carolina and Pennsylvania was unconstitutional.

Flight Attendants Sue over Uniforms The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked a ruling by a lower court preventing Republican lawmakers in Michigan and Ohio from redrawing congressional districts.

The decision came after the Supreme Court acceded to an appeal by Republicans and granted a stay on the ruling.

A series of lower courts had decided in recent months that attempts to create new voting maps constituted gerrymandering, a practice defined as redrawing congressional maps in order to favor a particular party. The lower court’s ruling affected congressional districts in both Ohio and Michigan, as well as Michigan’s state legislature districts.

The Michigan lawsuit was brought by Democratic voters who claimed that they were disenfranchised by nine U.S. House districts and 25 legislative districts. In Ohio, voting rights groups took issue with 16 House districts, which they contended took away their right to representation.

In April, a three-judge bench ruled that Michigan must redraw its congressional districts by August 1 and cease gerrymandering, which the bench called “[a] pernicious practice that undermines our democracy.” A month later, a federal court in Cincinnati sided with the Democrats and gave the state until June 14 to fix

A pair of flight attendants at Delta Air Lines are suing the Lands’ End apparel giant over what they claim are health problems caused by their uniforms.

The $5 million lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York on Wednesday and does not name Delta as a defendant.

In the court filing, flight attendants Gwyneth Gilbert and Monica DeCrescentis say that the company’s new “Passport Plum” uniforms have caused skin rashes, fatigue, headaches, and other issues since they were issued last year to the airline’s 64,000 employees.

The lawsuit demands Lands’ End compensate Delta flight attendants for the various health problems they blame on the uniform and holds the clothing company responsible for failing to prevent the issues when designing, manufacturing, marketing, labeling, and selling the uniforms.

The two plaintiffs also allege that many of their coworkers are suffering

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fuses to deport illegal immigrants and home of the University of California’s famously leftist Berkeley campus, the city has long been known for its progressive bona fides.

from health problems caused by the uniforms, but are afraid to speak up out of fear for their jobs.

“As Delta flight attendants are non-union, at-will employees, many are reluctant to complain about the problems with their uniforms and suffer in silence, and other flight attendants wear undergarments or long underwear to protect themselves from new uniforms,” says the lawsuit.

The uniforms in question were part of a general company overhaul

last year and consists of two dresses, a pantsuit, and a sweater set.

Following the lawsuit, Delta said in a statement that it was working with Lands’ End to resolve the problems. “Although Delta and Lands’ End conducted in-depth testing during every step of development, a small number of employees have reported skin irritations,” said Delta. “While less than one percent of employees in the new uniform program have reported issues, Delta takes this very seriously

and is working directly with employees on solutions that meet their individual needs.”

NIMBY in Berkeley The California suburb of Berkeley has always applauded itself for its liberal values. As one of the country’s prominent “sanctuary cities” that re-

Berkeley’s liberal values are now being put to the test as it fights its spiraling homeless population. Berkeley’s homeless population has risen by 43% over the past two years, with the homeless population in the greater Bay Area estimated at over 30,000.

While there have been numerous attempts by both the state and local government to improve the worsening state of homelessness, they have been met with limited success. Meanwhile, Berkeley’s residents are fed up and are doing everything they can to make the homeless leave.

The series of measures passed by the city that aims to drive the homeless from city limits includes banning people from living in recreational vehicles such as RVs. Another recent ordinance allows the city to clear homeless people’s property from sidewalks.

The measures have caused controversy among some citizens upset at the “inhumane measures” the city is using against the unfortunate.

“There’s a lot of anxiety about it, the anticipation of getting a ticket or enforcement,” said Councilmember Cheryl Davila regarding the ordinance enabling police to seize homeless people’s belongings. “Their stuff, which is all they have, is in their tent and they’re not able to break it down into a three-by-three.”

However, the growing resentment of wealthy homeowners over the “eyesore of homeless enclaves” such as RV parks combined with a gentrifying city have caused deep divisions among residents regarding Berkley’s future.

The homeless have been causing opposition ever since they began flocking to the city in their RVs and on foot. Local businesses and residents have complained about the eyesore that is the convoy of RVs on city streets, the burden they place on public services, and the potential increase in crime that an expanding homeless population has caused.

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populations with varying degrees of success. While the homeless bash the city for what they say is the lack of services they receive, Berkeley’s wealthy residents want them driven out as quickly as possible. Lawsuits funded by affluent Berkeley residents have scuttled initiatives that would raise hundreds of millions of dollars for homeless initiatives by leveraging a tax on large businesses in the city.

Mayor Jesse Arreguin recently described the dilemma he faced when a parade of RVs parked along the Berkeley waterfront, which is defined as state property. While he wanted to let them stay, local councilmembers were overwhelmed by an outpouring of hostility from homeowners who feared for their property values. “I paid a million dollars for my place, and they have a better view,” raged one resident at a town hall meeting over the issue.

The opposition to the homeless go well beyond economic issues. “The pressure we are feeling as local politicians is telling us that, as people spend more and more on housing, they feel more and more aggrieved by this so-called blight,” said Berkeley Councilmember Kate Harrison.

Bill Buckner Dies

Baseball player Bill Buckner died this week at the age of 69.

Unfortunately for Buckner, many fans associate the elite hitter with an infamous fielding error he made during the 1986 World Series. Buckner, though, was a great hitter, whose name shouldn’t be prefaced with the word “bumbling.”

An outfielder and first baseman, Buckner played for the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Chicago Cubs, the Boston Red Sox, the California Angels, and the Kansas City Royals. His playing career spanned parts of four decades, from 1969 to 1990.

Buckner won a batting title with the Cubs in 1980 (hitting .324), represented the Cubs in the 1981 All-Star Game, and retired with a lifetime batting average of .289.

Over his career Buckner’s smooth,

left-handed swing produced 2,715 hits, 174 home runs, and 1,208 runs batted in. He led the National League in doubles in 1981 and tied for the league lead in doubles two years later.

It was his time with the Boston Red Sox that became the most famous. In Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, the Red Sox were leading the series with 3 games to 2. They were up 5-3 in the tenth inning of the sixth game which was being played at Shea Stadium.

Buckner, hobbled by ankle injuries, was often replaced at first base by another player late in games, but Red Sox manager John McNamara chose to leave him in the field to start the bottom of the 10th.

The Red Sox got two quick outs – and were one strike away from their first title since 1918 – when things unraveled. Three singles and a wild pitch later, the game was tied.

The Mets’ Mookie Wilson then hit a grounder that dribbled up the firstbase line and went underneath the glove and through the legs of the normally sure-handed Buckner, leading to a 6-5 Mets win. The Mets eventually beat the Red Sox two nights later in the deciding seventh game.

Buckner became a scapegoat for the team’s hard-luck loss and endured boos and even death threats from angry Boston fans. The Red Sox released him midway through the next season, but he briefly returned to the Red Sox in 1990 as a free agent.

After retirement Buckner moved with his family to Idaho, out of the media spotlight. Boston fans eventually forgave and even embraced him. The Red Sox, who finally won the World Series in 2004 and again in 2007, invited him back to Fenway Park to throw out the first pitch at the team’s home opener in 2008. Buckner received a standing ovation.

Stolen NSA Hacking Tool Terrorizes Towns

A top secret tool hacking tool stolen from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2017 is now terrorizing cities all across the U.S. with waves of cyberattacks.

For the past three weeks, Baltimore has been battling a massive cyber-attack that has shut down thousands of computers and e-mail accounts in the city. The hacking disrupted online sales, the bill-paying function on the city’s website, and other essential services.

The key component of the malware used by the hackers was developed by the National Security Agency and is known as EternalBlue. Built to take advantage of loopholes in Microsoft programs, EternalBlue was used in a series of highly secret operations against America’s enemies.

In 2017, however, EternalBlue was leaked by a group called Shadow Brokers. Despite an intensive investigation, the NSA never managed to track down the culprits and now watch helplessly as North Korea, Russia, and China have been using it for cyberattacks.

Particularly hit by the hostile cyber operations is civilian infrastructure in the U.S. Commonly based on aging digital platforms, entities such as ATMs, hospitals, and water purification companies have been paralyzed by attacks by hackers armed by EternalBlue.

“It is not just in Baltimore,” wrote The New York Times. “Security experts say EternalBlue attacks have reached a high, and cybercriminals are zeroing in on vulnerable American towns and cities, from Pennsylvania to Texas, paralyzing local governments and driving up costs.”

Cybersecurity expert Thomas Rid told The New York Times that the loss of EternalBlue “was the most destructive and costly NSA breach in history,” even worse in its severity than the leaks by former NSA employee Edward Snowden in 2013.

Historic Drug Trial Commences

On Tuesday, Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter kicked off a historic trial that will be the first major test in the nation of whether a state can make a pharmaceutical company pay for the opioid epidemic.

The trial is expected to lay a road

map for other states and municipalities in holding drug makers accountable for what Hunter told the court was “the worst man-made public health crisis in the history of our country and the state – the prescription opioid epidemic.”

“To put it bluntly,” he said, “this crisis is devastating Oklahoma.”

Hunter said that trial evidence will show 4,653 Oklahomans died of unintentional overdoses involving prescription opioids from 2007 to 2017, and that there were more than 28,000 admissions for opioid and heroin treatment through state services from 2012 to 2018.

Oklahoma ranked seventh in the nation for prescription pain reliever abuse for children between the ages of 12 and 17 in 2013, and hundreds of babies are diagnosed with opioid-related neonatal abstinence syndrome each year.

Hunter and his team have focused their efforts on Johnson & Johnson, alleging the company acted as a drug “kingpin,” created a public nuisance, and cost the state billions of dollars, destroying thousands of lives in the process. Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary company, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, have vehemently denied the allegations and said the public nuisance allegation is being misused.

“Our actions in the marketing and promotion of these important prescription pain medications were appropriate and responsible,” Janssen said in a written statement ahead of the trail. “The (Food and Drug Administration)-approved labels for these prescription pain medications provide clear information about their risks and benefits. The allegations made against our company are baseless and unsubstantiated.”

Hunter filed the case in the summer of 2017. He scored two major settlements ahead of the trial: $270 million from Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, and another $85 million from Teva Pharmaceuticals, one of the biggest makers of generic drugs. The companies settled without admission of any wrongdoing.

The Oklahoma trial is the first major trial of nearly 2,000 cases around the country in which states, cities and hard-hit local municipalities are seeking to hold opioid makers accountable for the epidemic that has left hundreds of thousands of Americans dead and has strapped resources in every state.

The case is being heard by state Judge Thad Balkman, who is allowing cameras to televise the trial live.

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em brought the mabul upon the evil people in the world. Back then, Noach and his family did not suffer any damage in the teivah from the pounding rains and boiling floods that encased the world.

The $100 million “replica” of the teivah, in Williamstown, Kentucky, is 51 feet high and is believed to be the largest timber-frame structure in the world.

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Flood Damage for Noah’s Ark The owners of a life-size replica of Noah’s Ark are suing their insurers over rain damage.

The proprietors of Ark Encounter in Kentucky are suing their insurers for refusing to cover damage caused by heavy rains. The rain, according to The Courier-Journal Kentucky, caused severe damage to the access road to the attraction and the insurance company refused to pay $1 million in damage. The lawsuit seeks compensatory and punitive damages. The ship was not damaged and the guests have been unaffected, but the road had to be rebuilt.

The media has pounced on this story, as Noach built his teivah thousands of years ago when Hash-

Looking for a little adventure?

Well, it’s an adventure in name only.

Next year, NASA is planning on launching its next rover to Mars, with a planned landing in February 2021. The space agency is giving people the opportunity to have their names put on the rover, etched on microchips. NASA says that the Mars 2020 rover will lay the groundwork for eventual human exploration of Mars. It will also study Mars’ climate and geology, collect samples, and search for signs of microbial life.

In addition to their names being put on the rover, people will receive a souvenir boarding pass and “frequent flyer” points.

“As we get ready to launch this historic Mars mission, we want everyone to share in this journey of exploration,” Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said in a news release. “It’s an exciting time for NASA, as we embark on this voyage to answer profound questions about our neighboring planet, and even the origins of life itself.”

A lab for microdevices at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will use an electron beam to stencil in the names that the public submits. The names will be etched on a silicon chip in teeny-tiny text (smaller than the width of a human hair). NASA could easily put more than a million names on a single chip that’s the size of a dime. One or more chips will sit under a glass cover on the rover.

NASA did something similar when it sent its InSight lander to

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The Irish Mirror said relatives of the person who borrowed the book found it during a house clearance at their home in Falcarragh. The book was supposed to be due 14 days after its check-out date.

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The Mars 2020 rover is all part of NASA’s grand plan to send humans back to the moon and then eventually on to the Red Planet.

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An Irish library was surprised after a rare book was returned 80 years past its due date.

The Donegal County Library confirmed on Sunday that a copy of the Annie M.P. Smithson book The White Owl was returned to its Gaoth Dobhair location on Friday, nearly 82 years after it was checked out in 1937.

The Donegal County Library shared photos of the book and its library stamp on Twitter. The book was checked out July 23, 1937.

“Better late than never!! It took nearly 82 years, but the book ‘The

Do you jump when you hear a balloon popping? David Rush doesn’t.

He loves that sound.

Rush holds more than 100 Guinness World Record titles including the most corn kernels eaten using a toothpick in three minutes.

Recently, he added another record to his bloated belt when he used a nail to pop 200 balloons in 14.77 seconds. Rush held the nail in his hand and ran along a wall adorned with inflated balloons at the new RCN Technologies headquarters in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Rush, whose Guinness records are aimed at promoting STEM education, beat the previous record of 33.74 seconds to pop 200 balloons with a nail. The previous record was set by Ashrita Furman in New York in 2014.

Rush set his 100th record earlier in May when he fit 100 lit candles in his mouth and held them for 30 seconds.

Don’t know how STEM-worthy that stunt is, though.

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Diamonds A Korean War era tank owned by the West Virginia National Guard has turned bright lemon-lime yellow. Visitors were curious about the bright, unusual color until the sponsor of a science fiction club at Bluefield State College owned up to the mistake in a letter to The Bluefield Daily Telegraph.

Jerry Conner said the U.S.S. Yeager Chapter of Starfleet International has been cleaning and painting the tank for about 20 years. This time, they took a color sample to a local paint supplier, aiming to match the sample with two gallons of fresh paint for a shiny new coat for the tank.

“We were worried when we opened the containers and found something nowhere near our sample,” Connor said in the letter. He said they painted the whole tank anyway, assuming it would turn olive drab once it dried.

It didn’t.

City Manager Dane Rideout said his staff is working with the club to acquire historically accurate paint for the M41 Walker Bulldog.

“We want to be as historically-accurate as we can be,” he said.

Rideout said a copy of the receipt from the paint sold to the college club does list the color as “tank green.”

“At least the yellow of the tank is a nice match for the red of our faces,” Conner said.

And Then There Were Six

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“Imagine this: we were prepared from early in the morning to help deliver five tiny citizens. So we are in the operating room, there are five teams of doctors ready to take care of five children,” Ryszard Lauterbach, head of Clinical Neonatology at the University Hospital in Krakow said.

“They are being delivered one after another until all five places were

occupied. And then all of a sudden it turns out there’s another one waiting in there.”

He said the children, born at 29 weeks, were in “surprisingly good condition” for sextuplets, but they showed symptoms of immaturity of the respiratory system and the central nervous system that were typical for premature babies.

Doctors said they hoped the babies would be able to go home when they were between 2½ to three

months old.

“We have already made some preparation at home with five children in mind so now we’ll have to rearrange things a bit,” said the children’s mother Klaudia Marzec.

The babies are going to be named Filip, Tymon, Zofia, Kaja, Nela and Malwina.

Their brother, Oliwier, is a toddler. He is waiting at home to see his new siblings and he won’t know what hit him.

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Community Siach Yitzchok’s Lag B’Omer Celebration

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Around the Community

Lag B’Omer at Beis Medrash Heichal Dovid of YDT

L-R Rav Shlomo Avigdor Altusky, Rosh Yeshiva; Rav Yaakov Bender, Rosh HaYeshiva and Rav Shmuel Dishon, guest speaker

Lag B’Omer at YOSS

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orah tziva lanu Moshe!” the YOSS preschool boys sang as they marched up and down Serena Road, at our Annual Lag B’Omer Middos Parade. The Pre-1A children, dressed in red and orange shirts, proudly held their banners filled with ve’ahavta lereacha kamocha messages. The kindergarten boys, dressed in green, waved their

signs filled with pictures they made of themselves and their friends. The nursery children, dressed in blue, spread simcha all over the street, while wearing giant smiles on their hats and faces. The weather was beautiful, the music was great, and the ices were delicious. Thank you to Rabbi Ross and his class and Coach Tzvika for adding the extra ruach to our parade.

Although 6,000 miles away from Meron, the elementary and mechina divisions of Yeshiva South Shore commemorated the Yom Hilula of the Tanna Rabi Shimon bar Yochai. A medurah was lit and the boys sat around the fire. Our fourth grade rebbe, Rabbi Ross, and sixth grade Rebbe, Rabbi Singer, inspired the boys with uplifting music. The mechina boys were treated to a bar-

becue lunch of hot dogs, fries and more. Midway through the event, the boys erupted in dance and in the spirit of achdus a large circle was made with talmidim dancing handin-hand along with their rabbeim. It was a very meaningful event.

May we be zocheh to repeat it next year in Meron.

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Bais Yaakov Ateres Miriam celebrated Lag B’Omer with bonfires, a kumzitz, trips, and more

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istory was made in Lynbrook, Long Island! For the first time ever, the town of Lynbrook was graced with a beautiful display of Jewish pride and unity – its first ever Lag B’Omer Parade!

Cheder Chabad Girls of Long Island is a warm, chassidishe school located in Lynbrook, Long Island, and this year decided to arrange its own local Lag B’Omer parade. Mrs. Unsdorfer, the school’s principal, made sure permits were arranged.

The students and staff were all very excited in anticipation of Lynbrook’s first ever Lag B’Omer parade! In the days leading up to Lag B’Omer, the girls all did their part to prepare for the parade, creating banners in the theme of ahavas Yisroel and practicing the pesukim.

As the big morning arrived, students could be seen getting ready with their special caps – based on their Tzivos Hashem rank – and balloons, holding their banners. Although the forecast was ominous, the rain stopped just in time for the rally and parade. With their banners and balloons, the girls lined up by rank

as parents and onlookers joined. The Tzivos Hashem general, first of the school so far, was dressed in a full general outfit.

Beginning with a rally emceed by a Cheder teacher, featuring the 12 pesukim led by the children, the rally was off to a great start! They then marched through the streets of Lynbrook, with a police escort, led

by General Mushka Lieberman, followed by the school banner, and the proud soldiers in Tzivos Hashem, who chanted and sang all the way to the park. Proud parents also enjoyed the rally and parade. Afterwards, the day continued with a snack, story, tzedakah and relay races. The students in fifth grade planned ideas for the relay races. Rabbi and Mrs. Shmuel Lieberman prepared a delicious barbecue lunch sponsored by Rabbi and Mrs. Tenenboim, shluchim in Hewlett, Long Island, and proud CCGLI parents, for all to enjoy. Playing at the park followed lunch, and then the girls marched back to school for a kumzitz before going home.

It was a wonderful kiddush Hashem.

Shulamith students in grades 1-4 had a spectacular Lag B’Omer. They kicked off the day with a bonfire and kumzitz and enjoyed ice cream from the Cones ice cream truck, sponsored by the SWO. Lunch was eaten picnic-style followed by fun dress-up relay races.

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Hundreds Joined in the Annual Lag B’Omer Hilula with Rav Moshe Weinberger in Lawrence Middle School

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Yeshiva Darchei Torah Marks Lag B’Omer with Fire and Fervor

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Rav Eliyahu Saldinger, second grade rebbi, kindles the fire as Rav Dovid Morgenstern, menahel, Upper Elementary School, looks on

Rav Dovid Morgenstern, menahel, Upper Elementary School, dances with talmidim

Rav Daniel Gavrielov, assistant menahel, Middle School, dancing with talmidim

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Mesivta Netzach HaTorah Scholarship Breakfast

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he gorgeous and sundrenched morning of this past Memorial Day morning found Mesivta Netzach HaTorah celebrating the success of its second year with a tremendous overflow crowd at its Scholarship Breakfast that took place at the home of Miri and Nosson Ginsbury. The warmth emanating among the parents and friends of the Mesivta was truly overwhelming.

Rabbi Yurman, the menahel, addressed the remarkable achievements in limudei kodesh and limudei chol of the Mesivta while maintaining the Mesivta’s focus on personal

growth and menschlichkeit of the boys. Harav Yaakov Feitman, shlita, spoke of the unusual bond between the rebbis and their talmidim and how the devoted parent body is one of the secret ingredients to the Mesivta’s success. He described the Mesivta as a place of tremendous love and learning, and as a jewel of which we can all be proud. The Scholarship Breakfast was a huge success, and the Mesivta is deeply appreciative to the parent body and to the local rabbanim and community members who came out to show support. Thank you to the truly remarkable rebbeim who

give above and beyond to assure each talmid reaches their potential. A special thank you to Shalom Vegh, Mir-

iam Vegh, and the Ginsbury family for making the event the wonderful success that it was.

A Work of Art

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Artwork by Sarah Zilpa Ytshakov

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his past May, Machon Sarah High School held an art show.

Over the year, Mrs. Naomi Herzberg, their talented teacher, guided the students into creating

Riki Bergstein’s artistic impression of the work of Yossi Rosenstein

beautiful masterpieces. These artistically-inclined students selected a few of their finest works and framed them. Mrs. Herzberg and her students diligently decorated the audi-

Portrait by Mindy Lowy

torium to create their gallery of art.

Parents, teachers, and students were invited to enjoy their beautiful masterpieces.

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Artwork by Sarah Zilpa Ytshakov

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me to express my creativity and be able to showcase it,” said a student.

With Mrs. Herzberg’s guidance, the students were able to portray their artwork in the best way possible.

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Lung Power at BYQ

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o learn more about how the respiratory system works, Bais Yaakov of Queens’ fourth graders simulated a lung.

Inside a bottle, the lung was represented by a balloon, the trachea was a straw, and the diaphragm muscle was a cut balloon. When Mrs. Schochet’s students pulled down on the “muscle,” the “lung” expanded,

and filled with air! When the muscle was released or pressed up, the air went out of the balloon, and the “lung” deflated. The girls gained appreciation for Hashem’s marvelous creation of our respiratory system.

The lesson continued with a STEM project where the girls made balloon-powered cars.

SKA Student Wins Honors at LI Science Congress

SKA sophomore Priva Halpert

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he Long Island Science Congress is an annual science competition which brings together students from all over the Long Island area. The competition was held in April and showcased projects ranging from chemistry and biology to psychology and immunology.

The results of the competition were announced at a dinner on May 20. Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls sophomore Priva Halpert received the Honors Award for her work in chemistry. Her project studied alcohol detection using image analysis and color changing methods; Priva developed an original system of detecting alcohol in solutions.

The system accurately detects alcohol in a solution by manipulating the polar and nonpolar qualities of the

covalent bonds of the various components. Priva worked on this project with Dr. Mindy Levine, a mentor made available through the MAGIC (More Active Girls In Computing) mentoring program.

Four other SKA students also had the opportunity to present at the competition. Juniors Talia Ashville and Meira Steiner presented a project about the differences in self-confidence in girls in a coed versus all girls environment. Juniors Atara Shtern and Racheli Kirschner studied the differences between people who don’t use their phones for one day per week (Shabbat) as opposed to people who do not observe this.

Our thanks go to Dr. David Friedman, SKA research coordinator, and Dr. Chana Glatt, science department chair, for mentoring the students.

Juniors Meira Steiner, Racheli Kirschner, Atara Shtern and Talia Ashville

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West Hempstead Breakfast Held in Support of CAHAL

Rabbi Elon Soniker with Rabbi Yaakov Sadigh

Rabbi Yehuda Kelemer with Ari and Chani Nadboy

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n Sunday morning, May 26, the West Hempstead community held a Spring Breakfast Gathering in support of CAHAL. The Hakorat Hatov award was presented to Chani Nadboy, an accomplished social worker who has been counseling CAHAL students and their families for 18 years. The Hebrew Academy of Nassau County also received recognition in appreciation of their partnership with CAHAL for 27 years.

CAHAL’s Executive Director, Shimmie Ehrenreich, greeted the large crowd in attendance. He expressed gratitude to Naomi Nadata, program director, and Alice Feltheimer, educational coordinator of CAHAL. Shira Cohen, CAHAL program coordinator, helped organize the event.

Rabbi Yehuda Kelemer, Mora D’asra of the Young Israel of West Hempstead, was introduced to present the Hakorat Hatov award to Chani Nadboy. Chani, a licensed social worker, is the Clinical Director of the Counseling Department of Yeshiva Darchei Torah where she has been counseling CAHAL children and their families for 18 years. Chani followed with an emo-

tional speech about her relationship with the CAHAL children she services at Yeshiva Darchei Torah. Rabbi Elon Soniker, rav of Congregation Anshei Sholom, was introduced to present the award to the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County, represented by their principal, Rabbi Yaakov Sadigh.

HANC opened the first CAHAL class 27 years ago and continues to partner and support CAHAL today. Mrs. Sondra Gottesman, wife of former HANC Dean Rabbi Moshe Gottesman, z”l, was in attendance at the Breakfast.

Rabbi Sadigh spoke about the unique relationship between CAHAL and HANC. CAHAL’s inspirational video was then shown.

The successful breakfast raised much-needed money for CAHAL’s Scholarship Fund. CAHAL is the local yeshiva-based and sponsored community program for children with learning challenges. For the 2019-20 school year, CAHAL is anticipating the largest enrollment in its 27-year history.

For more information about the CAHAL program contact Shira at shira@cahal.org or call (516) 295-3666 or visit www.cahal.org.

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OHEL’s Fifth Annual OXC

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undreds of dedicated participants, young and senior, individuals and families spent Sunday, May 19 jumping, climbing, swimming, running, muscling and crawling their way at OXC, the OHEL Xtreme Challenge Classic, an inclusive mud run obstacle course at Camp Kaylie in Wurtsboro, NY. OHEL Children’s Home and Family Services Fifth Annual OXC Classic provides for both a 5-mile individual and 1.5-mile family obstacle course.

The OXC Classic is a one-of-a-kind mud run designed to challenge runners of all abilities, embracing OHEL’s mission of inclusion. The two course lengths appeal to both competitive athletes and families, children and people with disabilities.

A total of 36 competitive and extreme obstacles are designed to test people’s physical and mental limits in overcoming these challenges, while in so doing, helping support the over 11,000 children and families OHEL serves in overcoming their challenges in life. The obstacles, including warp walls, sand bag hurdle, tube crawl, tube slides, rope walls, traverse rope, cliff climb, tire flip and the famous mud dumpster, were exhilarating, challenging, and just plain fun!

Scott Sulzberger, a partner in PWC, who is a longtime friend of OHEL’s children and families, encouraged his colleagues in PWC to participate in OXC as a corporate teambuilding event. He and his team were among the highest fundraisers of the day. Scott enthusiastically commented, “It was a great way to bring colleagues together and have a great day

while supporting such a worthy cause.

Our team of 17 had an awesome time.”

OHEL helps over 11,000 individuals annually overcome different personal struggles they face, from abuse to depression, disability and trauma, from foster children to older adults.

OHEL’s OXC Classic provides the unique opportunity for participants to challenge their own bodies and test their limits, for the purpose of helping others and supporting children and adults with disabilities who face great challenges every day.

Together with hundreds of runners and thousands of donors, OHEL raised close to $500,000. OHEL specifically thanks its top fundraising teams and individual fundraisers. The top fundraising teams were Jaffa Team Xtreme (gold), Team PWC (silver), and Team iMove & Sweat (bronze).

The gold award for top individual fundraiser went to Scott Sulzberger, the silver award was presented to Rabbi Lewis Wienerkur, and bronze award went to Ben Englander.

Other awards included top Student Fundraiser which was awarded to Leora Konig and Celebrity Fundraiser Award went to Rachelle Rosenberg and Elliott Steinmetz.

The highlight of the day was the Inclusion Wave where 75 children, adolescents and adults with disabilities successfully completed the OXC Classic. They were led by OHEL and course staff to experience the thrill of victory in crossing the finish line!

Amid loud and excited cheers, clapping, and enthusiasm, these runners crossed the finish line and were greeted with hugs, high fives and

OXC chair Aryeh Jacobson cooling down in a unique OXC way

Jay Kestenbaum, OHEL co-president, going through the course with his granddaughter

celebratory tears. And quite appropriately, the DJ’s music greeted them loudly with the song “We are the Champions!”

OHEL is grateful for its many sponsors without whom there would be no OXC Classic, including obstacle course sponsor Jack Jaffa who successfully completed the race as part of Team Jaffa Xtreme. Other sponsors included: ABC Communications, ABF Mud Run, Airmark, Atlantic PC, Centurion Pain Management, Clif Bar, Investors Bank, Jack Jaffa & Associates, Jake’s Playhouse, in memory of Susan Jacobson z”l, Orlo, PWC, Rosco Vision Systems, RSPC, Rosenberg & Steinmetz PC, Stein Farkas & Schwartz LLP, The Addison Group

An OHEL client being helped up one of the courses with Chad Mason of ABF Mudrun

Inc., The Eberight Law Group, Toby Schwartz Graphic Design and TM. OHEL was pleased to partner with trainers from Avid Fitness, Club Raw Fit, IFit, Move U Fitness, Training Ground and Woodmere Fitness Club to provide training to participants.

OHEL thanks its co-chairs Ben Englander, Aryeh Jacobson, Yehuda Konig, Rachelle Rosenberg and Jeffrey Schwartz and for their hard work and vision in making the OXC Classic a success.

Individuals interested in the many programs and services that OHEL provides should contact OHEL at (800) 603-OHEL (6435) or visit www. ohelfamily.org.

Lead sponsor Scott Sulzberger working OXC in the backwoods of Camp Kaylie

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Upcoming Gesher Dinner Celebrating Seven Years of Educational Leadership

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n its seven years of operation the Gesher Early Childhood Center has made a tremendous impact on the Five Towns-Far Rockaway communities, and beyond.

From its humble beginning as a small, two-class program servicing seventeen children in 2012, Gesher has emerged as a full early childhood platform educating eighty children each year in five classes, nursery through first grade, including two classes of Pre1A. Gesher’s growth and solid establishment is a direct result of its dedication to educational leadership. The vision is founded on a bedrock of firm multi-sensory methods combined with a concrete inter-disciplinary approach. The unique Gesher model creates a path of success for all types of learners. Each child’s individual learning style is incorporated into the overall classroom structure, creating the ideal learning environment for every student.

The commitment to educational leadership has propelled the administration to consistently seek out new resources and to integrate new programming. Most notably in 2018-19, Gesher engaged with Dr. Lydia H. Soifer, a renowned literacy and education consultant. Dr. Soifer has introduced methods and strategies commonly associated with the most prestigious educational institutions.

Inauguration of the Gesher Grandparents Dividend Fund by Rabbi Basil and Mrs. Sherri Herring This year’s dinner will feature a unique dedication. Rabbi and Mrs. Herring are well-known for having dedicating their lives to bettering the communal and religious experience of their fellow Jews.

The effect of their devotion to the Klal is noticed most keenly in their children, themselves role models in their communities. As Gesher grand-

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Ari and Chanie Friedman

parents they were given the opportunity to experience the Gesher difference firsthand. With their altruistic vision they were quick to recognize the significance of an educational model that tailors to each child’s needs.

It is every grandparent’s dream that their grandchildren should succeed and enjoy a happy childhood. The option of choosing Gesher for the early learning experience is therefore so vital for so many people.

As Rabbi Herring noted, investing in a child’s education in the early stages pays dividends year after year. The establishment of the fund provides all of the nachas-filled grandparents with a forum to help perpetuate the mission of Gesher’s educational leadership.

services in their shul.

Their good nature and concern for others have made them beloved members of their community and have earned them a shem tov, a good name, amongst their friends, colleagues, and neighbors.

Ari and Chanie Friedman Guests of Honor It is a well-known axiom in chazal that those who flee from honor will eventually find that honor is chasing them. This is certainly true of Ari and Chanie Friedman.

Ari, a commercial mortgage broker with Meridian Capital Group since 2001, maintains a quiet disposition that masks his internal drive. A Flatbush native who attended Yeshiva Torah Vadaas and eventually Yeshiva Torah Ore and the Mir, Ari’s noble manner speaks volumes of his upbringing and the associated life goals.

Chanie was raised in Queens and attended Bais Yaakov of Queens and Shevach. After spending fifteen years working as a speech therapist she has spent the last several years focused on raising her children.

The Friedmans have lived in the neighborhood since 2009 and, like their parents, are actively involved in the community. They are especially dedicated to their shul, Kehillas Ahavas Yisrael, led by their Rabbi Daniel Glatstein. Ari is a long-time board member and Chanie is active in the N’shei. Their children attend Yeshiva Ketana and TAG. Anyone who connects to the Friedmans immediately senses their humility and marvels at their consistent focused approach to chinuch and to general life values.

Gesher’s second annual dinner will take place on Tuesday night, June 4, at Congregation Ohr Torah, 410 Hungry Harbor Road, Valley Stream. To make reservations or to submit an ad please call 516-730-7377, email to dinner@ gesher-ecc.gof, or visit gesher-ecc.org/ dinner.

Ilan and Haviva Kranz Kesser Shem Tov Award Ilan and Haviva Kranz have been part of the Gesher family since 2013.

Originally as Gesher parents, their relationship with Gesher has developed significantly over the years.

As a family they have lived in the neighborhood for twenty years, are longtime Young Israel of Woodmere members, and have children in HAFTR and HALB schools. But in reality, have been part of the community for much longer. Ilan attended HAFTR High School, YU, and Cordoza Law School and Haviva attended Stern College and Adelphi.

Both Ilan and Haviva come from community-minded families, the Kranz family of Great Neck and the Mark family of Century City, California, dedicated to the shuls and schools of their neighborhoods as well as many other organizations and causes.

Haviva is well-known for her work providing language and social skills therapy and writing ABA language and social cognitive programs. For the last seven years she has been operating a private speech and language practice focusing on social cognition.

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Around the Community Community members lined the streets of Lawrence and Cedarhurst on Sunday to join in the Memorial Day Parade. A ceremony and moment of silence honoring those who died serving their country was held at Andrew J. Parise Park.

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The Young Israel of Long Beach proudly marched in the City of Long Beach Memorial Day Parade

Goal!

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he 5 Towns Girls Soccer League just wrapped their third season. Over 100 girls in the three divisions learned the fundamentals of the game and how to work together as a team while getting a great workout and having a blast. Our energetic staff comprised of high school and parents did a

great job teaching the girls the skills and the rules of the game while still enabling a fun experience. Plans are already underway for next season.

Thank you Oppenheimer Orthodontics for being the league sponsor.

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Shevach’s 2019 STEM Class Excels

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n Sunday, May 19, Shevach High School’s STEM class presented their engineering projects at CIJE Innovation Day. This exciting interschool competition at Bell Works in New Jersey included over 1,400 students from 45 different Jewish Schools from across the United States. After setting up their projects, students met with the judges and explained the technology and processes that they used to build their products.

The 2019 Shevach STEM students, Esty Altman, Neshama Fedowitz, Rivka Finkel, Hadassah Gottesman, Dina Kiffel, Tamar Mayer, Nechama Ribowsky, Neira Rosenbaum, and Leah Scheiner, worked in three teams to develop an improved baby gate, shoes that can assist the blind in navigating city streets, and a device called “The Parker Pointer” for automobiles. All three projects incorporated coding and sensor technology. Since there were close to 480 projects that were submitted, and approximately 24 awards that were presented, Shevach was thrilled that “The Parker Pointer” won one of those awards: 3rd place in The Yeshiva University-sponsored Student Choice Award category.

Guidance throughout the school year came from Mrs. Paula Berger, whose knowledge and commitment to the program encouraged her students in the STEM class to perform their best and actively engage in the CIJE Innovation Day experience.

The Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education (CIJE) is a non-profit organization providing STEM resources to schools that expose students to multiple STEM problem-solving perspectives and hands-on technical skills that scientists and engineers would use toward solving real-world problems.

Here’s what some of the Shevach STEM students had to say about their experience: “I was so excited to be part of something so big!”

“The course was phenomenal…. I never imagined I could invent something or program something…. Now there is no end to what I can accomplish if I pour my mind and hard work into it.”

“I loved that it was a hands-on

course,” “It was so cool to see what teenagers were able to come up with!”

“It felt so good to be the innovator…. I hadn’t realized how much I had absorbed until my project was complete. It was an amazing feeling.”

“I got to meet different people

who took the same course as me even though they live hours away…”

“I feel so capable now that I know how to make circuits and how to code [and] I learned how to get past issues we ran into while working on the project.”

“This course taught me patience, team building, and appreciation for

science and computers.”

Congratulations to all of the Shevach STEM students, Mrs. Paula Berger, and Shevach Associate Principal Mrs. Nechama Mirsky for an outstanding year of achievement in the field of engineering!

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MAY Arista Installation and Awards Night

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ast Tuesday evening, Mesivta Ateres Yaakov held its annual Arista Installation and Awards Night, where tribute was paid to the myriad accomplishments of the talmidim at MAY. The program was particularly special as it commemorates Rabbi Elchonon Zomber, z”l, an alumnus and veteran teacher at MAY. The Zomber family graciously endowed the MAY Arista Society in his honor.

Consistent with MAY’s emphasis on developing all of each talmid, excellence in many areas was recognized: Limudei Kodesh, Middos, Tefillah, Academics, Athletics, Extracurricular Activities and Community Service.

Rabbi Mordechai Yaffe, Rosh HaYeshiva, introduced the program focusing on the small acts of greatness performed by the talmidim at MAY that can often go unnoticed and how the Mesivta not only engenders these acts, but tries to publicly recognizes them as well.

The first order of the night was the installation of the incoming Student Government under the helm of in-

coming President Shimshon Brecher.

Shimshon addressed the close to 400 attendees and thanked the hanhalla and rabbeim who guided him and his fellow students to the achievements being celebrated that evening. He noted that the Mesivta’s confidence in its talmidim is what propels them to excellence.

Awards were then presented to over 100 students for excellence and

progress in a wide variety of areas.

Rabbi Yaffe was joined by General Studies Principal Rabbi Sam Rudansky and Assistant Menahel/Assistant Principal Rabbi Yossi Bennett in presenting these awards.

Rabbi Rudansky commented, “The evening serves as an opportunity to recognize those students who excel in different areas of the high school experience. That may range

from academics for some, to community service, extracurricular activities and even athletics for others. It’s an evening of tremendous nachas for parents and grandparents.”

The evening closed with the installation of over 80 Arista honors students and the recitation of the Arista pledge led by incoming Arista President Yosef DiGiacomo. Mazal tov!

have realized before that they actually enjoy.

The class’s latest goal is 1,150 book links for the year, and considering that they already have 1,025, as well

as seeing their motivation and determination, the girls are definitely on track to achieving this goal in addition to the many they’ve already accomplished.

Book Links at BYQ

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ais Yaakov of Queens fourth grade students are inspired readers. In the beginning of the year Mrs. Bashevkin’s class began a 20-book challenge, a class contest where each girl is challenged to read 20 books of different genres over the course of the year. For each book or 150 pages completed, they complete a book link, creating a chain of hard work on display in the classroom.

Altogether, while they are working

toward the class goal, they are also building a class community, rooting for each other, and performing daily computations to figure out how many book links are needed a day in order to reach their next goal.

With this program, girls have expanded their pleasure reading to include non-fiction, historical fiction, poetry, fantasy, mystery and others.

They are discovering the world of books open to them they may not

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Chai Lifeline Introduces Young Builders Society

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hai Lifeline is pleased to introduce the Young Builders Society. Designed for the next generation of lay leadership and emerging philanthropists, the program is geared towards young professionals who are committed to Chai Lifeline’s mission of bringing hope and joy to seriously ill children and their families.

“Chai Lifeline is privileged to have thousands of young, passionate supporters across the globe,” said Mikey Albala, director of Institutional Advancement. “This initiative allows them to play a meaningful and active role in the growth of the organization.”

The Young Builders Society is based on three key pillars: volunteerism, ambassadorship, and philanthropy.

Young Builders and their families are offered unique opportunities to volunteer based on their personal interests and are encouraged to take part in Chai Lifeline’s various programs and events throughout the year. As ambassadors, they work to raise awareness of Chai Lifeline within their communities and encourage the overall advancement of

the organization. Young Builders partner with Chai Lifeline and commit to a minimum annual gift of $1,800. Additional sponsorship opportunities are available for Young Builders who wish to commit at higher levels.

In return, Young Builders will receive two VIP tickets to the Annual Chai Lifeline Gala in New York City, participate in “family day” at Camp Simcha, be invited to an annual Young Builders Society event, as well as other

exclusive opportunities.

“Chai Lifeline has been serving the most vulnerable children and families in our community for more than 30 years,” said Miriam Tenenbaum, director of Leadership Development. “Our Young Builders will help strengthen and shape the next 30 years and beyond.”

To learn more about Chai Lifeline’s Young Builder Society, please visit www.chailifeline.org/ybs.

IVDU Students Host Carnival for Noam Hatorah

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n honor of Lag B’Omer, the students of IVDU Long Island hosted an exciting carnival for the nursery students of Yeshiva Noam Hatorah. The IVDU students came up with creative ideas for booths and designed beautiful posters for each game. The exciting activities included basketball, scooter races, “Blow the Boats,” cup stacking, a penny hunt, and more.

As the much anticipated day drew near, the students rehearsed teaching the younger children to play the games.

They roleplayed how to encourage the nursery students to play and how to give them positive feedback, such as “Great job!” or “Try again!”

On carnival day, the IVDU students excitedly set up their booths.

Time flew by as the nursery students lined up to play each game and earned tickets for winning. At the end of the carnival, the IVDU students helped the nursery children count their tickets and choose prizes. Finally, the IVDU students had a chance to play the games that their classmates had created. Judging by the smiles on all the students’ faces, it was difficult to figure out who had a better time: the carnival makers or the carnival goers!

Through preparing the carnival, the IVDU students had the opportunity to apply many practical social and academic skills, including planning, organization, perspective taking, and math skills. At IVDU Long Island, extracurricular activities provide opportunities for students to set and achieve goals beyond the classroom walls.

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Mesivta Shaarei Chaim students impressed judges with their inventive projects at the CIJE Innovation Day, taking the skills they develop in the Beis Medrash and the classroom and applying them to their STEM creations

Honor Matan Torah with Honorable Wines

By Gabriel Geller – Royal Wine

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havuos is not an eight-day long yom tov like Sukkos or Pesach, yet it is no less important. Indeed, as we celebrate Matan Torah, we also have special yom tov meals which means special wines are in order, as well. While the minhag in many communities is to eat a milchig meal, whether it is followed by a fleishig one or not, let’s for once this coming Shavuos not exclusively focus on white or rosé wines.

The wines from Bordeaux in France have a special aura which is looked up to by winemakers all over the world. For close to a thousand years, the wines from Bordeaux have been representing the best of the best in terms of quality, knowledge, tradition, and craftsmanship. Baruch Hashem, some of the best wines from Bordeaux have been regularly produced in a kosher version for the past 30 years or so, and the selection grows almost on a yearly basis.

Despite the obvious global climate changes that we have been noticing in recent years, the weather in Bordeaux is still not as predictable and consistent as it is in California or in Eretz Yisrael. Bordeaux, however, has been blessed with good to great conditions from 2014 through 2018; each of these vintages having produced excellent wines.

Top-shelf red Bordeaux wines are typically aged for 12 to 24 months in oak barrels, followed by at least one more year at the winery once bottled.

Therefore the current vintage on the market now is 2016. For those of you who are really familiar with these

wines, you certainly have noticed the Château Giscours 2016 from Margaux – arguably their best wine so far, and considering the previous vintages that’s quite the statement.

There is also the second kosher re-

rosé wines to pair with your appetizers, milchig meals, fish and perhaps even more important, to refresh yourselves.

Take, for instance, the Elvi Vina Encina Rosado 2018. Made from

lease of Château Lascombes which is truly impressive, as well. And then there is Château Montviel, an amazing wine from Pomerol, aka the kingdom of Merlot. The novelty this year is Château du Tertre, a 5th Growth Margaux. It is a supremely elegant wine, already showing its promise and which should age wonderfully for many years to come.

The aforementioned Bordeaux wines will grace the yom tov table as the perfect wines to best celebrate Matan Torah. The weather has also warmed up quite a bit, and therefore here are some excellent white and

Tempranillo grapes, this Spanish rosé has a beautiful intense pink color, as well as a great aromas and flavors of strawberries, raspberries, and watermelon. It would accompany some light snacks such as olives and pickles but also a goat cheese salad with cranberries and sundried tomatoes.

Pacifica winery in Washington State makes an impressive off-dry Riesling 2017; it is simply gorgeous, very much affordable under $20, and a crowd pleaser, liked by sophisticated and winos and casual drinkers alike. I love Riesling because of its

versatility with food. With its great acidity, mineral/earthy notes, subtle sweetness, as well as with its apple and Meyer lemon aromas, it can be sublime with a full-flavored cheese such as an aged pecorino as much as it can cut through the savory flavors of a veal risotto The Tabor Adama Sauvignon Blanc 2018 is yet another success for this excellent producer in the Galilee.

While its compatibility with roasted chicken is undeniable, it would shine best when paired with soft cheeses and fresh sourdough bread, light- to medium-bodied, with notes of ripe lemon, kiwi and freshly cut grass. It is downright delicious and amazingly refreshing also on its own.

The Domaine Bailly Pouilly Fumé 2018 is also a Sauvignon Blanc but its aromatic profile is very different than the Tabor. The style of the wines from Loire Valley’s Pouilly Fumé appellation in France are more floral and mineral than the fruit-forward character of Sauvignon Blanc from Israel or California, medium-bodied with complex notes of lime, spring flowers, grapefruit, flint with a core acidity that should allow this wine to age for a few years.

Last, but not least, dessert: the Herzog Late Harvest Orange Muscat 2018, which is simply perfect to sip alongside a piece of cheesecake. It is light and delicately sweet with aromas of ripe apricot, orange blossom, and quince jam with excellent acidity which is just perfect to cut through the creaminess of the cake. The thought of this combination alone is mouthwatering…

Chag sameach! L’chaim!

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CIJE Celebration of Innovation

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he Seventh Annual CIJE Innovation Day took place on May 19 at the historical Bell Works, Holmdel, New Jersey. This event was the culmination of a year of diligence and perseverance on the part of close to 1,500 young innovators and visionaries, representing 44 schools from Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Texas. The annual CIJE Innovation Day provides an exciting time for students to present the capstone projects which they created, designed and engineered in the areas of innovation in: scientific engineering, eldercare, arts, eco-innovation, healthcare and assistive technology, and consumer products.

There was an exciting and palpable energy in the vast atrium of Bell Works. Students proudly exhibited their projects and enthusiastically discussed the value of their “inventions.” Students came to Innovation Day prepared with comprehensive business plans and pitches.

Clear Water Harvesting, designed by a group of HAFTR students, addressed the lack of access of potable water. This invention preserves and purifies rainwater, utilizing Arduino sensors to a condensation system that is connected to a water filter. A group of MAAYANOT HS students addressed the fundamental need to create an accessible Hebrew language program for the blind through

The following awards were presented at the event: The CIJE Award for Excellence in Eco-Innovation 1st The Clear Rainwater harvesting - HAFTR 2nd Boiler Bot - Ilan HS rd 3 Automeal - YUHSG (MTA) The DentServ Award for Innovation in Healthcare and Assistive Technology 1st Fee Bot - Rae Kushner Yeshiva HS 2nd AS (text) L – YUHSG (Central) rd 3 E Band - Solomon Schechter Westchester RoboKiller Award for Innovation in Consumer Products 1st Flour Power - Bais Yaakov of Waterbury 2nd JDawg - Rae Kushner Yeshiva HS 3rd Self-Parking Car - DRS East Brooklyn Labs Award for Technology Innovation in the Arts 1st Pokeach Ivrit - Maayanot 2nd Automatic Guitar Tuner - Golda Och Academy 3rd Grogger - YUHSG (Central) Sephardic Home for the Aged Foundation Award for Advancement in Elder Care 1st Flex It! - Ma’ayanot nd 2 STS Sound to Sight System - Yeshiva Darche Eres 3rd Track and Kick Back - The Frisch School Dr Lynne B Harrison Award for Innovation in Scientific Engineering 1st The Subway Sorter – Bruriah 2nd A.L.E.R.T. – Advanced Location-Evacuation-Response-Technology - Bruriah 3rd Urine in Good Hands - The Frisch School Award for Innovation in Engineering Technion – Israel Institute of Technology 1st Breakable Drip Skates – JEC 2nd Zoom – The Frisch School rd 3 Time is Up - Mesivta Zichron Baruch of Clifton The Yeshiva University Student Choice Award 1st The Chicken Feeder - Bi-Cultural High School 2nd Blind Dog Collar - HAFTR 3rd Parker Pointer - Shevach

their Pokeach Ivrit project. This Arduino-based system uses Braille and servo motors that move in real time for expression of a tactile word or letter, which is connected to a sound shield that plays the audio version of the word or letter.

Bracha Erblich, a veteran CIJE-Tech Instructor at Bruriah High School, commented, “As always, CIJE Innovation Day was an outstanding experience for my students and, along with the capstone projects, was the highlight of their year.

The teacher training, supplies, ideas and mentors provided by CIJE have fueled creativity that drive not only the individual students in our CIJE-tech classes, but also the school at large.”

At Innovation Day, one very excited student commented, “It is such an amazing experience to work together with my team and invent something new that can be produced and used in the real world to help

people who are have disablilities.”

For over a decade, CIJE, the Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education, has fostered innovation in Jewish schools throughout the United States. CIJE HS students create understandings that turn into prototypes that portray and help our world in new and beneficial ways. At Innovation Day, students show their passion for learning about the world and turning their knowledge into breakthroughs which will make the world a better place and introducing innovations and changes to things that already exist. It is a way of observing what is and, then, imagining and designing a new and improved way of doing it.

The Center for Initiatives for Initiatives in Jewish Education is a non-profit 501C3 organization that, amongst other programs, provides STEM resources to schools that implement CIJE courses and expose students to multiple STEM prob-

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lem solving perspectives and hands on technical skills. The classroom teacher, with the ongoing partnership and collaboration of the CIJE mentor, helps the students to gain the intellectual skills needed to develop autonomous decision-making abilities. The CIJE-Tech students focus on process, research, and development and gains the skills needed for future success!

To learn more about CIJE visit www. cije.org or email info@thecije.org.

On behalf of the Board of Directors and the Emunah of America family we mourn the loss of

DR. MORRIS (MOISHE) SHATZKES a”h

MRS. ROSE SCHARF a”h

Beloved brother of our distinguished Past National President, Charlotte Dachs

Beloved mother of our cherished Benefactor and Board Member, Melodie & Marty Scharf

Dr. Shatzkes was a brilliant physicist who contributed to and significantly impacted the science community.

The Shatkes family comes from generations of supporters of Torah, Jewish Values, and a love for Israel.

The Shatzkes/Dachs families have established many Emunah projects in Israel, including the Emunah Charlotte Dachs Mechina Program and Emunah Achuzat Sarah residential home.

The families generosity has and will continue to change Emunah’s children and families for generations to come.

May Charlotte and her siblings, his wife Miriam, children, grandchildren and family be comforted among the mourners of Zion.

Johanna Guttmann Herskowitz National President

Karen Spitalnick

Chairman of the Board

Mrs. Scharf was a survivor of the Holocaust, and an example of true Emunah. Rose valued family and passing along her Jewish roots, Rose spending as much time as possible with her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.

The entire Scharf family’s impact to Emunah and Emunah Bet Elazraki is an enduring legacy and will continue to change Emunah’s children and families for generations to come.

May her family and friends be comforted among the mourners of Zion.

Laurie Szenicer

Chief Executive Officer

Yehuda Kohn

Director Bet Elazraki

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Rabbi Lebowitz Addresses HALB Kashrut Class

A The Spinka Melave Malka wine tasting event will be held this Motzei Shabbos at the Regency Wine Cellar in Lawrence

s a culmination to this year’s self-paced kashrut class, Morah Pollak’s eighth grade at HALB was honored to have Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz of BKNW come in to address their halachic questions that had come up throughout their

learning. Rabbi Lebowitz is an expert in the laws of kashrut and is involved with the VAAD of Kashrut of the Five Towns. He discussed their questions in-depth and addressed their concerns. They left inspired and thoroughly enjoyed the session!

ple as a whole become responsible for Hashem’s children.

I have heard countless times how people have their favorite charities already. They’re over-tapped. I get it. However, saving another Jewish child and giving them the gift of Jewish knowledge is part of our responsibility as Jews. JEP/Nageela has its most important fundraiser through a 30-hour online X4 matching campaign called 4Hashem. This coming Monday and Tuesday, June 3-4, do something 4Hashem.

Each dollar you give will be matched times four so EVERY AMOUNT COUNTS. Do something 4Hashem. This year the campaign will be run out of 925 Sterling & Art

at 572 Central Avenue in Cedarhurst and a collation will be set up sponsored by Camp Romimu and Gourmet Glatt. We invite the community to stop in on Monday or Tuesday to show your support. In addition, any artwork purchased on those days will have a portion donated towards the campaign. You can also make your donation at jepli.org/4hashem or call me at the JEP/Nageela office at 516-374-1528, ext. 240.

On behalf of all our children, we appreciate your support and are counting on it 4Hashem. Thank you!

Do Something 4Hashem

By Jennifer S. Zwiebel

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ou’re probably familiar with my name as I’ve been reaching out to many of you in our community to help our organization.

Some of you know who I am personally and know my background while others just hear another voice on the phone asking them for support.

I was fortunate enough to go to yeshiva through the hard work, sacrifices and perseverance of my family. For that I will always be grateful.

Still, I wasn’t so familiar with all the beautiful Jewish rituals and traditions of Shabbos and the chagim which most readers may take for granted since they are “FFB,” frum

from birth.

If not for my participation in a Jewish youth group, I highly doubt I would be where I am today – writing this article or representing JEP/ Nageela. This organization, that saves children’s Jewish neshamos, has tremendous meaning to me because of my experiences as a teenager. Without it, I doubt I would be living the lifestyle I hold so dear and trying to raise my precious children that I’m blessed to have with the same values.

There are many Jewish children in our neighborhoods – the Five Towns – and in the NY-area who don’t have the gift of a Jewish education. In that case, the Jewish peo-

Jennifer S. Zwiebel is JEP/Nageela’s Director of PR & Development. Photos courtesy of JEP/Nageela.

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MAY’s Annual Spring Shabbaton

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habbos Parshas Behar was particularly noteworthy for the talmidim of Mesivta Ateres Yaakov. The Mesivta held its annual Spring Shabbaton at the beautiful campus of Camp Romimu in Monticello, NY. The Shabbaton was a resounding success, full of tremendous growth in ruchniyus, achdus, ahavas Hashem and ahavas haTorah.

From start to finish, the Shabbaton was an inspiring and exciting weekend. S’gan Menahel, Rabbi Yossi Bennett, “kicked off” the Shabbos with inspiring divrei chizuk following Shacharis on Friday morning.

Then it was off to the buses for a fun-filled, inspiring, action-packed Shabbos!

The Rosh HaYeshiva, Rabbi Mor-

dechai Yaffe, set the tone for Shabbos, imploring the talmidim to open their minds and their hearts to what this special Shabbos has to offer. The lively Kabbalas Shabbos, with enthusiastic singing and dancing, was a fitting hakdamah to such a unique Shabbos.

The Mesivta invited Rabbi Elysha Sandler, former 12th grade Rebbe at MAY and currently the Mashgiach at Yeshivas Sh’or Yoshuv and Rav of Kehillas Bais Yisroel in Far Rockaway, as their guest for Shabbos.

Rabbi Sandler, who spoke five times throughout the Shabbos, captivated talmidim with his signature style of weaving music into his talks together with his warmth and ideas for growth and development.

As has become a tradition at MAY,

the Shabbos kibbudim had been auctioned to the bidders willing to complete the most learning over the course of the long weekend. Students committed to just under 300 hours of learning outside of the formal shiurim and honored their rabbeim with the kibbudim. The sheer amount learning throughout the Shabbos, both formally and informally, was a testament to the growth experienced this year throughout the z’man.

Motzei Shabbos included the annual varsity vs. junior varsity softball game, a barbeque Melava Malka, a stirring kumzitz, and incredible achdus and comradery among the talmidim and their rebbeim.

Sunday morning, seven senior talmidim delivered self-prepared

chaburos to the younger shiurim and their peers. The Mesivta thanks senior rebbe, Rabbi Yonasan Sprung, for preparing and helping his talmidim with this undertaking.

Thanks Rabbi Shlomo Drebin for organizing the Shabbaton and Rabbi Shlomo Pfeiffer and Camp Romimu for hosting them.

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MAY Celebrates “Your Yeshiva for Life” Annual Dinner

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he hanahala of Mesivta Ateres Yaakov would like to thank the many supporters, family and friends who attended the “Your Yeshiva for Life” annual dinner on Monday, May 20. In celebration of the Mesivta’s growth and impact, guests enjoyed an exhibit of “MAY Milestones.” The display highlighted

key limudei kodesh, general studies and extracurricular programs as well as building dedications from the past five years.

The focal point of the evening was a moving video montage and awards presentation. Dr. Yechiel and Brenda Berkowitz were honored as Parents of the Year. Avi and Goldie Dreyfuss

were Guests of Honor. The Bahn and Samson families dedicated the “Bahn Otzer Haseforim” in memory of Dr. Saul Bahn.

In keeping with MAY’s strong relationships with its graduates, many members of the Class of 2009 were on-hand to enjoy their 10th reunion.

The Mesivta also presented Mr. Gene

Guests of Honor Goldie & Avi Dreyfuss

The Dedication of the Dr. Saul Bahn Otzer HaSeforim

Sullivan, from Bank United, with a special award in recognition of the financial institution’s support and partnership in the ongoing campus expansion.

The evening was a meaningful tribute to the deserving honorees and a new milestone for MAY!

Parents of the Year Brenda & Yechiel Berkowitz

Thanking Gene Sullivan on behalf of Bank United

Celebrating the graduating class of 2009

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Outpouring of Support at RCCS Breakfast

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ast Sunday, RCCS, the Rofeh Cholim Cancer Society, kicked off its Five Towns campaign with its inaugural breakfast at the home of Motty and Hadassa Jacobowitz.

As always, the event was beautiful, with this year the event being held outside in a tent on the Jacobowitzs’ driveway. The weather did its part, as the sunny warm day brought out droves of people in support of this great organization.

While the food and the ambiance were amazing, the real reason why the over-100 guests came out was to support the amazing work of RCCS. Besides its lifesaving work worldwide, in the Five Towns alone, the impact of RCCS is surely felt as 49 patients and their families are being helped out by this amazing organization through its medical guidance and insurance grants program. In the last 12 months alone, RCCS’s annual budget has grown by over 30%. The generous and gracious crowd connected with the message of “Youniting for RCCS” and helped

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Project Extreme’s Annual Breakfast

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rey skies and wet weather did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm on Sunday, May 12 as members of the Five Towns community turned out to show their support for Project Extreme at the Annual Scholarship Breakfast. Held once again at the Lawrence home of Michael and Michelle Edery, the event was a golden opportunity to recognize several notable individuals for their contributions while raising the much-needed funds to allow Project Extreme to

continue running programs to benefit troubled young adults.

Founded more than 18 years ago to give at-risk teens the ability to hit reset and start fresh, Project Extreme’s numerous programs provide life and social skills, support networks and professional counseling in an environment that is simultaneously wholesome and exciting.

Working with boys, girls and their families, Project Extreme is able to supply the essential tools that can

help teens overcome sometimes daunting challenges, its individualized care and long-term commitment to every participant two crucial elements of the Project Extreme formula to success.

Project Extreme’s executive director Rabbi A.Y. Weinberg opened the breakfast, speaking about one of the lessons of sefiras haomer – the ability of every individual to change and to grow. Noting that many of the teens who come to Project Extreme overcome often significant adversity, Rabbi Weinberg praised staff members and supporters who are instrumental in that growth, adding that they are driving force behind Project Extreme’s success.

Young leadership awards were presented to Project Extreme counselors Dalia Klein-Berkowitz, Sheva Meisels-Shain, Sofi Cohen-Teitelbaum and to Perel Leah May-Weinberg who work with teens in their communities. Speaking on behalf of the group, Shain shared her own experiences at Project Extreme, describing the night she and a friend decided to run away from the Camp Extreme girls’ summer program.

Realizing that their efforts were fruitless, they turned around and went back, fully expecting to be sent home from camp, an outcome that never materialized. Staying on in camp and continuing in a positive direction through seminary and at Project Extreme’s Miryam’s House shelter for young women, Shain was the recipient of an endless supply of support and guidance which became the foundations of her new life. Now married, living in Lakewood and volunteering with kids at risk, Shain thanked Project Extreme for never giving up on her, her heartfelt words

moving everyone in attendance.

After being introduced by Rabbi Weinberg, Don Ghermezian spoke at length about his close relationship with Project Extreme and how year after year he has seen young adults blossom during their summers at Camp Extreme. Noting that saving even one person is akin to saving an entire world, Ghermezian exhorted listeners to do their part to help Project Extreme observing “together we can change the world.”

Ghermezian introduced this year’s honoree, Elisha Aryeh, lauding him for his selflessness and the dedication that has him devoting hours on end to helping others, often donning a Batman costume and surprising kids with rides in exotic cars. Addressing the audience, Aryeh spoke about the many obstacles facing today’s youngsters and emphasized the importance of the greater Jewish community pitching in in every way possible to help them succeed.

The final speaker of the breakfast, whose corporate sponsors Commercial included Paradigm Real Estate LLC, Steven Krauss Pediatric Dentistry, Long Island Counseling and Anxiety Center, PM Pediatrics, Weissman Realty Group, Incredible Feets, Esti’s and Gourmet Glatt, was Michael Edery, who together with his wife Michelle has hosted the breakfast for eleven years. Edery praised the many key players at Project Extreme, emphasizing that their many lifesaving success stories could have only been achieved through communal support. Edery urged the audience to open their hearts, the first step in saving lives noting, “What we are about is giving and caring and loving and then loving some more.”

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achad will be hosting its second annual gala dinner at Sephardic Temple in Cedarhurst, NY, on Wednesday, June 12, 2019 at 6:30 pm. The 2019 Yachad gala will honor Lauri and Lewis Barbanel, Martha and Howard Hershkovich, and Tani Sussman with The UPS Store, Financial District.

Yachad serves as a resource for Jewish families who have a child with a disability, offering their young and adult children numerous inclusive services, as well as the tools and skill development for them to claim their rightful place in the Jewish community. What started out as a single inclusive Shabbaton in the Young Israel of West Hempstead 35 years ago, has now grown to provide over two dozen programs, including job development, summer programs, schooling, parent support, social recreational activities and many more.

These Yachad programs serve thousands locally in New York as well as both nationally and internationally.

This year the NY Gala will celebrate Yachad’s 35 years of work with individuals with disabilities in the Jewish community and celebrate the growth and achievements within the New York area, including the recent phenomenal growth in the Five Towns community. Since the opening of a Long Island Center in the Five Towns over two years ago, Yachad proudly offers families of individuals with disabilities an elementary school, parent support groups, daily adult program, job training and weekly social recreational programming.

The Gala’s Guests of Honor are Lauri and Lewis Barbanel of Lawrence. The Barbanels are known as a family who are actively involved with many Jewish organizations and causes. Lauri serves as an Associate Vice President of the OU Board and sits on the Yachad commission. Lewis is the president of Barberry Rose Management and along with serving on the JLIC commission is a board member on numerous shuls and other Jewish institutions. The Barbanels are actively involved at the Young Israel of Lawrence Cedarhurst, where Lauri is the co-president of the sisterhood in the congregation. They have children living in both Israel and the NY area.

Yachad recognizes the Barbanels for their commitment to the entire Jew-

ish community and for Lauri’s major achievements on the Yachad commission, driving the strategic leadership and vision for the future.

The Yachad Keter Shem Tov Award will be awarded to Martha and Howard Hershkovich of Woodmere, NY, for their longstanding involvement and commitment to Yachad’s work. Howie is the owner of Tissa Management and, together with his wife Martha, are active members of Aish Kodesh. Their daughter Sarala has been attending Yachad summer camps at Camp Morasha and Camp Nesher and weekly social recreational programing for many years.

Through Yachad programs, their daughter has formed continual and meaningful friendships with peers of all abilities. Their daughter is a warm and friendly young lady who lights up the room by greeting friends both new and old. The Hershkovichs are known as great community leaders who open their home to all types of Jews, both far and near.

Yachad is presenting its Community Service Award to Tani Sussman and The UPS Store Financial District for their commitment to employing individuals with disabilities. Three years ago, Tani, who lives in North Woodmere and is the owner of a UPS Store in Manhattan, began employing an individual in Yachad’s vocational and day program at his Financial District store. Since then, this employee has gained many hours of meaningful employment, developing his own personal skills as well as the confidence accompanied by gainful employment. Tani’s store, which is among the most successful in Manhattan, is a beautiful example of a workplace being inclusive and welcoming in individuals of ALL abilities.

“Yachad’s critical programming and services would not be possible without the support of our wonder-

ful honorees,” said director of NY Yachad, Rabbi Ahron Rosenthal.

“They are involved with every aspect of the organization – from Lauri’s strategic guidance to Tani’s vocational support to the Hershkovich family’s active participation and advocacy. We would not be where we are today without their commitment and leadership. The exponential growth in the Five Towns community is truly remarkable and their partnership with Yachad spearheads that continued growth.”

For more information or to purchase tickets to the gala, please go to: https://www.yachad.org/newyork/

gala or contact Danielle Bergman at 212-613-8373.

Yachad, The National Jewish Council for Disabilities, a division of the Orthodox Union is a thriving global organization dedicated to addressing the needs of all Jewish individuals with disabilities and ensuring their inclusion in every aspect of Jewish life. Its inclusive design aims to ensure persons with diverse abilities their rightful place within the Jewish community, while helping to educate and advocate for a greater understanding, acceptance, outreach, and a pro-disability attitude.

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The first Mincha at the new BTI shul in Inwood

Darchei Second Graders Celebrate their Expertise in 39 Melachos of Shabbos

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he Yeshiva Darchei Torah second grade talmidim held their year-end 39 Melachos presentation on Sunday. Replete with song, artwork, and a video whose stars were the boys themselves, the talmi-

dim demonstrated before the gathered parents and grandparents their acquired proficiency in the 39 Av Melachos of Shabbos – and their enthusiasm for the mitzvos of the holy day. Each boy was presented with his

own copy of Rav Boruch Chait’s classic, illustrated sefer on the 39 Melachos.

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Shulamith Annual Dinner even a question; they appreciate the warm family-like atmosphere and the deep love of Torah and Israel that is instilled in the children. “There is no other school like it!”

Yossi has been in the food industry for the past 20+ years. Adina, a Shulamith alumna, is a dedicated full-time mother to their three wonderful children, Eitan, Yonatan, and Eliana. The Hollanders have lived in West Hempstead since 2007.

Harriet Cohen has been a beloved fixture in the Shulamith school office for eleven years. Just stand at her desk for half an hour to witness the special care she gives to every student who enters the office. Harriet is always there to help find the jump ropes, make sure every student eats lunch, or to offer a quick hug for a girl who just came to say “hi.”

While many girls feel that Harriet is an essential part of their day, she feels that Shulamith is an essential part of her life. “I love watching these girls grow up.” Harriet is the proud mother of children, David, Elyssa and Ira, and grandchildren, Bradley, Andrew, Max, Jordyn, and Hudson. Shulamith is proud to recognize Harriet and her tireless dedication to our school.

Since their founding in 2009, Global Operations has implemented security solutions at more than 250 Jewish institutions. Their success comes from joining veterans of the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), who are operational and field experts, with veterans of the Israeli Ministry of Defense, who are technology and integration experts, to create technological security sys-

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“They believed they could, so they did.” Shulamith is proud to recognize our founding high school class: Hana Adler, Hadassah Allman, Sara Berger, Chevi Charlap, Shana Deil, Malka Guttman, Ella Lax, Sela Pollack, Avigail Sassoon, Mindy Schreck and Nina Bracha Yurovsky. These pioneers paved the way and planted the seeds. They set the standard, and the standard is platinum. We’re sure they will find much success as they embark on the next chapter of their lives. Mazal tov!

Please join Shulamith as they celebrate their “One Shulamith” Dinner. Journal closes on Friday, May 31!

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With over 20 years of experience implementing and managing projects for the Israeli government, and with extensive experience with the US market and systems, Global Operations provides the best of both worlds when designing and implementing our projects. Global Operations has been extremely supportive of Shulamith and the entire Five Towns community for the last three years. At this time, Global Operations provides various security services to more than ten leading Jewish schools and synagogues in the Five Towns and Far Rockaway area.

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hulamith School for Girls will be celebrating their 18th annual dinner this Wednesday evening, June 5 at the Sands. Please join them as they pay tribute to their very worthy honorees.

Moshe and Idy Jacobowitz have a deep desire to show their hakarot hatov to Shulamith. Moshe, a senior partner at Jacobowitz Newman Tversky LLP, and Idy, a stay at home mom, exemplify the verse in Pirkei Avos, “Al t’vakeish gedulah l’atzmicha, v’al tachmod kavod, yoser m’limudecha asei.”

The Jacobowitzes are described as a family with chein. Their calm nature and kind words act as a model for their children, Yaacov, Nechama, Yocheved, Atara, Meira, and Dovid. They chose Shulamith because of the middot, self-esteem, and values they knew it would reinforce in their daughters: “You don’t get this at any other school.” Moshe and Idy are tremendously grateful for the excellent education and staff that Shulamith has provided for their daughters.

Adina and Yossi Hollander are people who shy away from the spotlight. Quiet chessed is such a strong part of their lives; they do what is needed without fanfare. To that extent, Adina and Yossi often hear of their spouse’s acts of chessed from others.

It was initially difficult for the Hollanders to accept being honored as Parents of the Year. However, once they realized that it was more about honoring Shulamith, they agreed to step out of the shadows to show recognition to the school. Choosing Shulamith for their daughter wasn’t

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SKA Celebrates at Sports Dinner

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t’s been another fantastic year of sports for the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls!

To honor all the amazing achievements of our sports teams, we had our annual SKA Sports Dinner on Monday night, May 20. The Sports Dinner recognized individual athletes with awards as well as teams as a whole.

Each team had a few standouts who received trophies in categories such as Most Valuable Player, Sportsmanship and All Around Player.

Over 40 awards were presented between all the teams. Mazal tov to Tammy Aryeh who received the All Around Athlete Award. Tammy played basketball in the winter and hockey in the spring teams all four years of school and shone both on and off the field!

Mazal tov also to our Basketball team for winning the championship.

The banner for our basketball team champions was presented at the Sports Dinner as well. Many of the teams made it to the playoffs.

We were also privileged to hear from Dr. Karen Green about relating Torah and middot with sports and how to be a team player while enjoying a delicious dinner from Carlos & Gabby’s.

We want to thank all the coaches and teams for their hard work this year and are so sad that the season is coming to an end. Special thanks go to Mrs. Helene Myers, SKA’s Athletic Director for all her support.

bring to the South Shore’s economy as he was in 2016.

“Land Rover has not been on the South Shore since 2009,” says Weidinger. “This development brings the Land Rover brand back to the South Shore with an extremely highend design and our reputation for business excellence and customer support.”

As a third generation dealer principal with over 20 years personal experience, Jack knows that he has a lot to live up to with a family heritage of over 80 years in business.

“When we opened our original Jaguar dealership in 1999, there wasn’t a lot of development in our area. Since then, many businesses opened in the surrounding properties and I hope we had something to do with that. Since the addition of the Land Rover brand, we have had the same level of success that we have always enjoyed and this leads

to further development in the Freeport area. The Jaguar and Land Rover brands are stronger than ever because consumers really value the combination of style, performance and practicality that Jaguar and Land Rover provides. My team and I are thrilled with the results!”

The site of the new Jaguar Land Rover Freeport dealership is located at 146 Sunrise Highway, Freeport, NY.

Jaguar Land Rover of Freeport Celebrating Two Years of Making History on the South Shore

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aguar Land Rover of Freeport has been bringing high-end SUVs back to the South Shore in a major way. Two years ago, Jaguar Freeport and Land Rover of Freeport became one of the first in the country to feature the new conceptual design created exclusively for the Jaguar and Land Rover brands. At over 30,000 square feet, their high-end, cutting-edge dealership layout features a 15-car showroom, a 22-bay service department with a 3-lane service drive up area and will create jobs for at least 50 additional employees. To

make your luxury experience complete, they offer clients who lease or have purchased a vehicle from them the convenience of complimentary pickup and delivery for scheduled maintenance as well as an all Jaguar and Land Rover loaner fleet.

At the helm of this grand undertaking is Jack Weidinger, Dealer Principal of Jaguar Freeport, Land Rover Freeport and North Bay Cadillac Buick and GMC. No stranger to the industry, Weidinger remains as excited today about all the prospects that a dealership of this magnitude will

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About Jaguar and Land Rover of Freeport Jaguar Land Rover Freeport is part of the Weidinger Auto Group. The Weidinger Auto Group started with Jaguar in 1938 and grew to what includes today: Land Rover Freeport, Jaguar Freeport, North Bay Cadillac Buick GMC, Vantage Auto Body, the Pre-Owned Center and multiple service locations throughout the North and South Shores of Long Island.

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Engineers at Central

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tudents in Mr. David Horstman’s Engineering I and II classes at Central have been hard at work all semester putting their knowledge of software, circuits, and engineering principles into practice through projects of their own choice and design.

On May 19, 50 of them showcased their work at the Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education (CIJE) Innovation Day, attended by more than a thousand students from the tri-state area. Congratulations

to eleventh graders Esther Akperov and Leora Khaimov, who won second place in Innovation in Health Care for their glove that translates American Sign Language to text; to ninth graders Miram Cherson and Jordana Sparber, who won third place in Eco-Innovation for their automatic pet feeder; and to ninth graders Orah Fisher and Avigayil Gordon, who won third place in Technology in the Arts for their digital grogger.

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Canadian Facts Spot the one fact below about Canada that is false, eh.

77% of the maple syrup in the world is made in Quebec, Canada.

Approximately 90% of Canada’s population lives within 100 miles of the U.S.-Canadian border.

Residents of Churchill, Canada (also known as the polar bear capital of the world), leave their cars unlocked for pedestrians who might encounter polar bears.

England’s Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state in Canada by virtue of Canada’s former status as a colony of Great Britain. The Queen’s powers as head of state are exercised on her behalf by the governor general of Canada, except when the Queen is in Canada.

Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world’s lakes combined.

Canada is the second largest country in the world.

Canadians are the biggest consumers of doughnuts and have the most doughnut shops per capita of any country in the world.

Canada only got its own flag on February 15, 1965, 100 years after it became officially a country.

Canada and Denmark have been fighting over an uninhabited island in the Arctic North by leaving each other bottles of alcohol and changing their flags since the 1930s.

Canada’s official 1-800-O-CANADA.

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In Newfoundland, Canada, the Atlantic Ocean sometimes freezes so people play hockey on it.

Canada has the largest coastline in the world.

Canada consumes more macaroni and cheese than any other nation in the world.

Over half of Canadian residents have a college degree.

Canada’s Toronto Raptors will defeat the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals. (I know that’s an opinion, Mr. Educated. Settle down…go play some huuucky!)

You gotta be kidding A man was strolling along the beaches area in East Toronto when he spotted a bottle floating in Lake Ontario. The bottle drifted ashore. He picked up the bottle and opened it and out popped a genie.

“Master, master, you have released me from my bondage in this bottle,” the genie said. “Ask me any three wishes, and I will grant them to you.”

The man thought for a moment and said, “I would like the following three things to happen this year: The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup, the Toronto Blue Jays win the World Series, and the Toronto Raptors win the NBA title.”

The genie thought about this for a moment and jumped back into the bottle.

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2019 NBA Finals Trivia 1. What does Warriors superstar Steph Curry do every time he commits three turnovers in a game? a. He stays an extra hour in the gym after the game b. He does not bring the ball down the court in the first quarter of the following game c. He apologizes to his teammates

b. Keyshawn

b. 1995 c. 2002 d. 2010 4. How many championships did the Warriors win since joining the NBA? a. 3 b. 5

d. 9

2. What is Stephen Curry’s first name?

5. Warriors superstar Kevin Durant grew up as a fan of which team? a. Toronto Raptors

c. Odel d. Wardell

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c. New York Knicks d. Los Angeles Lakers

a. 1976

c. 7

d. He give his mother $100

a. Sean

3. In what year did the Toronto Raptors join the NBA?

b. Golden State Warriors

 Scorecard 6-7 correct: You are a slayer! Steph and Clay have nothing on you.

3-5 correct: Not bad - you can be the sixth man.

0-2 cor rect: Air r r r r rbaaaallllllllllll!

6. Warriors shooting guard Clay Thompson holds the NBA record for most points scored in a single quarter, which he did against the Sacramento Kings on January 23, 2015 . How many points did he score in that quarter?

the Raptors superstar Kawhi Leonard, who at 22 years old was the MVP of the 2014 NBA Finals? a. 2 b. 4 c. 9 d. 15

a. 29 b. 37 c. 44 d. 62 7. What pick in the 2011 NBA draft was

Riddle me this?

What travels all the way from California to Toronto without moving?

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Answer to Riddle Me This: A highway.

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Torah Thought

Parshas Bechukosai

By Rabbi Berel Wein

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he final portion of this third book of the Torah contains an ominous tone. This is because of the vivid description of evil events that will befall the Jewish people when they desert their G-dly mission and sink to the level of the societies that surround and outnumber them. The Torah promises us that such behavior and attitudes will surely lead to disaster, exile, and persecution from the very so-

cieties that the Jews try to emulate.

All Jewish history bears testimony to the accuracy of the words that exist in this week’s portion of the Torah. And the way the Torah presents these events, which will occur in the future, is not in the necessary framework of punishment but rather in the inevitable picture of events that inexorably lead to consequences. It is not G-d Himself, so to speak, that is punishing the

Jewish people but rather it is the Jewish people itself that is doing the punishing. This is a logical and even an evitable result of past behavior and misguided attitudes and beliefs.

This is a very important lesson for Jews to understand.

Behavior, speech, attitudes, and beliefs always have consequences in the real world in which we live. They are not to be taken lightly and not to be shrugged off as just being examples of the fallible nature of human beings. We are not allowed to dig a hole under our seat in the boat. The words of the prophet Jeremiah ring true today as they did thousands of years ago: “The fathers ate sour grapes and therefore the children of later generations will have their teeth set on edge.” One has to be

Rabbi Moshe Ben Nachman, in his commentary to Torah, explains that concept this week’s portion and its predictions referred to the destruction of the first Temple and the relatively short exile of the Jewish people after that in Babylonia.

The later section, towards the end of the Torah, refers to the destruction of the second Temple and the long and seemingly endless exile that follows upon its demise.

The latter exile, which was, and to a certain extent still is, a long and difficult one to endure – one that has cost countless generations of Jews their lives and their futures and others their spiritual heritage and legacy – seems to have little if any redeeming features.

And yet the remarkable fact of

All Jewish history bears testimony to the accuracy of the words that exist in this week’s portion of the Torah.

blind to history or even to current events not to realize the lessons involved and described in this week’s Torah portion.

The Torah will expand upon this much later towards the end of the fifth book of the Torah. We will be presented with a full and graphic picture of the cruelty of humanity towards the Jewish people over the centuries until our day.

Jewish history is the vitality and productivity of the Jewish people in exile, suffering persecution and living under adverse circumstances. This resilience is also reflected in the prophecies of the Torah regarding the eternity of the Jewish people and its eventual return to both its physical national heritage and spiritual greatness.

Shabbat shalom.

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Parshas Bechukosai How to Achieve World Peace

By Rav Moshe Weinberger Adapted for publication by Binyomin Wolf

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arshas Bechukosai begins by painting a picture of a perfect world, a world as it could be. It describes images of a physical world of peace, security, and tranquility.

According to the pesukim, this ideal world will exist within the laws of nature. The Torah describes no miracles. In the midst of this section, however, the Torah describes something that sounds almost supernatural. The pasuk (Vayikra 25:6) says, “I will remove the wild beasts from the land and a sword will not pass through your land.” There is a dispute between Rabbi Yehuda and Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai with regard to whether this promise will be fulfilled at the end of time by natural or supernatural means. The Midrash in the Sifra (Bechukosai 2) says as follows: “And I will remove the wild beasts from the land,” Rabbi Yehuda says that this means [Hashem] will remove them completely from the world. Rabbi Shimon [Bar Yochai] says that it means that [Hashem] will remove their tendency to cause harm. Rabbi Shimon says, “What is the greater praise of Hashem? That He removes animals which cause harm or that animals which normally cause harm are present but that they no longer cause harm? Certainly [His greatest praise is when He brings about] a time when animals which normally cause harm

are present but that they no longer cause harm. This is what the pasuk (Yeshayahu 11:6-8) refers to when it says, ‘And the wolf will lie down with the lamb...the cow and the bear will graze together... and a child will play over a snake pit and over the eye of an adder and a weaned child will extend his hand.’ This teaches that a Jewish child will be able to stretch out his hand into the viper’s nest and remove the venom from its mouth.”

Rabbi Shimon brings a strong proof that the nature of the wild beasts will change in the times of Moshiach. The prophet Yeshayahu explicitly tells us that the nature of carnivorous animals will change such that they will live in peace with tame and peaceful animals, and even children. According to the Ramban, Rabbi Yehuda reads the pasuk which says, “And I will remove the wild beasts from the land,” according to its simple, natural meaning. The nature of the animals will not change. Rather, they will simply be absent from the land. As we see from experience, when a place is heavily populated and civilized, wild and dangerous animals simply find other places to live. Rabbi Shimon, however, is not satisfied with this naturalistic explanation. According to the Ramban, he explains that the pasuk means that the evil within the carnivorous animals will be removed.

According to Rabbi Shimon, when mankind does teshuva, obliterates the reality of sin in the world and returns the world to its state before the sin of Adam, then evil, aggression, and venom will automatically be removed from the animal kingdom as well. The world is a reflection of the spiritual state of its pinnacle, mankind. Therefore, when man rectifies himself, the world will automatically follow. As Rav Chanina ben Dosa (Brachos 33a) says, “It is not the snake that kills, but rather, sin that kills.” Therefore, when man removes the “evil beast” from within himself, then evil will be removed from the animals of the world as well. The Ramban, the master of the inner meaning of the Torah, concludes that he prefers Rabbi Shimon’s explanation over Rabbi Yehuda’s.

The Rambam, however, explains the nature of the age of Moshiach differently. As a rationalist, the Rambam always chooses a natural explanation of the pesukim whenever possible. Here too, he explains (Mishna Torah, Hilchos Melachim 12:1) that in the times of Moshiach, “The world will continue in its natural state.” He therefore explains that the seemingly supernatural prophecy in Yeshayahu “And the wolf will lie down with the lamb” should be interpreted allegorically to mean that the aggressive nations of the world will live together with the Jewish people in peace. The

Ra’avad, who is connected to the secrets of Torah like the Ramban, argues with the Rambam, pointing to the pasuk in this week’s parsha, “And I will remove the wild beasts from the land,” to show that the evil nature of the wild beasts will change, just as Rabbi Shimon says in the Sifra as explained by the Ramban. This would therefore imply that the Rambam sides with Rabbi Yehuda in holding that the nature of the animals will not change in the times of Moshiach.

The Radvaz, however, defends the Rambam from the Ra’avad’s proof from our parsha. He says that the pasuk regarding the removal of the wild beasts from the land should also be interpreted allegorically to mean that the evil and wild people will be removed from the land of Israel in the times of Moshiach. Indeed, we find that evil people are referred to as “wild beasts” when Yaakov says (Bereishis 37:33), upon seeing the blood-soaked multi-colored coat brought by his sons, that Yosef had been consumed by a “wild beast,” which alludes to the wicked people of Egypt and the wife of Potifar, who attempted to seduce Yosef to sin.

So too, the Radvaz explains that in the times of Moshiach, the wild and wicked children of Yishmael who live in the land of Israel, who are called (Bereishis 16:12) “pereh adam,” animalistic men, will be removed from the land.

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In actuality, however, the difference between Rabbi Shimon/the Ramban/the Ra’avad on one hand and the Rambam and the Radvaz on the other becomes less stark when one considers how the Rambam concludes his explanation of the times of Moshiach. He writes (Hilchos Melachim 12:5): “At that time, there will be no more famine or war, nor jealousy or envy... The world will involve itself in nothing but the knowledge of G-d alone.” While the Rambam characterizes his explanation of the end of times as completely natural, it is difficult to imagine a more miraculous world than the one described by the Rambam!

We must therefore explain as follows. The difference between the Rambam/Rabbi Yehuda and the Ramban/Rabbi Shimon is not whether or not mankind will experience a spiritual transformation. We see that both approaches agree that in the end mankind will attain a spiritually elevated state of dedication to the

service of Hashem. Rather, the difference must be that according to the Rambam/Rabbi Yehuda, this transformation will take place gradually, and not all at once. According to this view, mankind has the natural ability and potential to rid itself of evil both internally in terms of sin, and externally, in terms of ridding the land of wicked people.

Rabbi Yehuda/the Rambam’s explanation is the first stage. Once man does his part to rid the world of evil, the world will be ready for the second stage, Rabbi Shimon/the Ramban’s world in which the evil within mankind will be transformed. If we try to skip over the first stage in which we obliterate evil from the world, including the people who behave like wild animals and inhabit the land of Israel, it is doubtful that we will ever reach the ideal world in which all of mankind can live together in peace.

This is the foolishness of the Western ideal of diplomacy. They believe that they can make peace with

the Arab and Muslim world right now. They want to skip the first stage and make peace with those who still actively want to destroy the Jewish people as well as the entire civilized world. Whether the wild animals come from Syria, Iran, or Chechnya, they must first be obliterated. We can only achieve the peaceful world described by the Navi Yeshayahu after those who do evil are destroyed.

We also find this two-stage process reflected in the pesukim in Tehillim (108:10 and 60:10). In the first pasuk, we say, “Plishtim, I will shout [in victory].” This alludes to our victory over the “Palestinians.” In the second pasuk, however, we say, “Plishtim, join me.” Which one is it? Do we want victory over them or for them to join us in peace? The answer must be that there are two stages. In the beginning, the only rational approach is to vanquish those who try to harm us with a complete victory. Only after that can we attain the second stage in which we can call out to the children

of Yishmael in friendship. We can only make peace with that nation after we have removed the wild and sinful nature from them and from within ourselves.

It bespeaks the foolishness of the Western nations of the world that they delude themselves into believing they can make peace without first achieving victory over the animalistic nations who want to destroy us. May we merit to see our leaders in Eretz Yisroel and the rest of the world begin to take the evil of the nations which terrorize the world seriously and begin to fight that evil in earnest so that we can reach the time of “And I will remove the wild beasts from the land,” when peace and the knowledge of Hashem will fill the world.

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

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Parshas Bechukosai

By Eytan Kobre

Weekly Aggada These are the commandments that Hashem commanded Moshe to the Jewish people at Mount Sinai (Vayikra 27:34) R’ Chelbo said in the name of R’ Shmuel bar Nachman (Rus Rabba 4:7): When the Jews at the time of the Purim story wanted to write Megillas Esther, eighty-five elders – of which thirty-something were prophets – were troubled by this verse: “these are the command-

ments that Hashem commanded to Moshe” (Vayikra 27:34). “These” – [implying that] we may not add or detract, and a prophet may not originate anything new from now on. And yet Mordechai and Esther want us to originate something new (i.e., Megillas Esther).

But then Hashem enlightened them and they found a hint in Torah, Neviim, and Kesuvim [permitting them to write Megillas Esther]. In Torah: “...write this remembrance in a book...” (Shemos 17:14). In Neviim: “then, they that feared Hashem

spoke to one another, and Hashem harkened and He heard, and a Book of Remembrance was written before Him...” (Malachi 3:16). In Kesuvim: “...behold they are written in the book of the Chronicles of Days...”

(Esther 10:2).

Weekly Mussar

er hand, we must never be content with that bare minimum value; we are to strive to increase our value.

The challenge is to recognize our innate value, while never becoming so complacent by it so as to fail to strive for more.

Weekly Anecdote

And your valuation shall be, for the male from twenty years old to sixty years old, your valuation shall be fifty silver shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (Vayikra 27:3)

He shall not inquire whether it be good or bad, and he shall not change it; and if he changes it, both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed (Vayikra 27:33)

When it comes to making donations to the Bais HaMikdash by reference to human worth, the Torah assigns to each Jewish person a set value: for males between the ages of twenty and sixty, fifty shekel; for females (of the same age range), thirty shekel; for males between the ages of five and twenty, twenty shekel; for females between the ages of five and twenty, ten shekel. And so on.

So one who commits to donate, say, “the value of Mr. X,” must give the set amount designated by the Torah.

It is curious, then, that, to redeem oneself after having been consecrated, the value of the individual is variable – we value the person at the amount he would fetch if sold as a servant (Megilla 23b). So what is it: is the value of the individual fixed or variable?

R’ Moshe Feinstein, zt”l, explains that there is a certain duality in human value. On the one hand, we must always recognize that we have certain inherent value, a bare minimum beneath which we are never worth less. On the oth-

Every person is entrusted with a unique mission in life, taught R’ Yosef Yitzchok Schneerson of Lubavitch (the “Frierdiker Rebbe”), with specific abilities and resources to excel in that ordained role. One should embrace his role, not wander through life trying their hand at every field of endeavor except for what is truly and inherently their own.

This is the story he told to illustrate the point.

A wealthy businessman and his coachman came to a town late one Friday afternoon. The businessman was staying at the finest hotel in town, while the coachman stayed in far more humble lodgings. Seeing as it was close to Shabbos, both the businessman and the coachman washed and dressed, and then set out for shul for the evening prayers.

On his way to shul, the businessman came across a large wagon that had swerved off the road and was stuck in a ditch. Rushing to help a fellow in need, the businessman climbed down into the ditch and began pushing and pulling the wagon together with its driver. But, for all

his commercial acumen, the businessman couldn’t move the wagon an inch. So after struggling in the knee-deep mud for an hour – and managing to ruin his Shabbos clothing and acquire numerous cuts and bruises – he staggered into shul only minutes before Shabbos.

Meanwhile, his coachman arrived in shul early to find a group of wandering paupers. Given his magnanimous nature, the coachman invited the sorry lot to share in his Shabbos meal after davening.

The shul gabbai later approached the poor wanderers to offer meal arrangements with hosts in the town but they declined; after all, they already had been invited by the coachman. But while the coachman’s heart was big, his budget was not. And the dozen or so guests he had invited left his meal later that night with hardly a morsel in their bellies.

26:14-43).

As such, we are not to stop in the middle of reading the Tochacha by breaking it into two or more aliyos; rather, the entire Tochacha (plus three verses before and at least one verse after) is read in one aliyah (Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 428:6; Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 78:4).

We also read the Tochacha at a slightly lower volume than ordinary Torah reading (yet not so low that it cannot be heard easily) (Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 78:4).

Because it describes terrible calamities that will befall a Jewish person who disobeys Hashem, some are wary of being called for the aliyah of the Tochacha. In fact, so apprehensive about this Torah reading are some people that certain entire communities skipped it altogether, a practice roundly condemned by authorities (see e.g. Biur Halacha 428:6).

Still, because one may not wish to

Every person is entrusted with a unique mission in life.

So it was that the expert coachman – with twenty years’ experience pulling wagons out of mud traps – took it upon himself to feed a group of famished guests he never could satisfy; and the wealthy businessman – whose lavish Shabbos meal easily could have fed every hungry man in town – floundered about in a ditch.

Weekly Halacha And if you do not listen to Me, and you do not do all these commandments (Vayikra 26:14) After describing the reward for obeying Hashem’s commandments, a 29-verse Torah portion referred to as the Tochacha (“rebuke”) tells of the calamities that will befall a Jewish person who fails to do so (Vayikra

be the individual called for the aliyah of the Tochacha, we call only a person who agrees in advance or we call “anyone who wishes to take it” (Darkei Moshe, Orach Chaim 139:1; Rama, Orach Chaim 428:6). Others suggest reading the Tochacha without calling anyone for that aliyah (although this practice is hotly disputed), and yet others advise calling the ba’al koreh or shliach tzibur (specifically designated (and paid) for that purpose) for the aliyah of the Tochacha (Mogen Avraham 428:8).

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

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

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Daf Yomi Side Effect

By Rafi Sackville

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he walk from our home to shul at 4:50 every morning is dark and mostly quiet. I walk the streets regardless of the weather.

There’s no sound of traffic in Maalot, and little from highway 89, whose

lights I can see running up towards the east. Occasionally the jackals will yelp in unison, or if I’m unlucky, the neighbor’s poodle will bark and chase my heels as I encroach on his territory.

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The main entrance to the unlit shul is already open. This means that Meir has arrived before me. I grab my Gemara and walk downstairs to the Beit Midrash, where we learn until 6 a.m.

Eran gives the shiur. He is a remarkable man with boundless energy. It’s not accurate to say that teaching the daf is the first thing he does every day. As a first responder he is on call 24/7. There are days – many of them – when he walks in sleepless after being dragged out of bed to some emergency or other. The same is true of the evenings; teaching Torah is supposed to be the last thing he does before retiring at night. With Eran, you never know. He has yet to turn 50, yet he maintains a boyish look that defies the fact that he is the father of twelve.

Together with Israel, Yehoshua and Shraga, I try to keep up with the daily daf, and regardless of what I do or do not understand, I conclude there couldn’t be a better way to start the day. When I have trouble getting out of bed in the morning and don’t want to brave the cold streets, I think of Yehoshua, who leaves his home in Haifa at 4:10 in the morning to attend the daf before driving to the industrial area of Iscar just over the hill, where he is the manager of one of the large factories. Knowing he’s on the road while I’m under the covers gives me the incentive I need to kickstart my day.

While living in New York I attended the early morning Kollel at Sh’or Yoshuv. Under the guidance of Harav Moshe Dov Stein, z”l, we learned the sixth and eighth chapters of Chulin.

At the time, I had no problems discovering the hidden, inner workings of the kosher animal world. I even remember standing in front of a buffalo shechita with my son-in-law, Levi Zafir, quite fascinated and unbothered by the experience.

This time around we started working through the first chapter in Chulin with the onset of colder weather. I was enjoying it until a combination of factors occurred. The first was about 30 pages in when I came down with a case of flu, which is ironic because only weeks earlier I had been vaccinated.

I was laid up for almost two weeks. I was miserable with high fever, aches and pains, and a gluelike attachment to the couch, where I constantly slept. It left me feeling down in the dumps, without appetite and with a burning desire to get better.

At one point Keren suggested I have a bowl of chicken soup. I almost threw up. Its medicinal efficaciousness wasn’t enough to convince me to swallow more than a couple of spoonfuls of what tasted to me, for the very first time, like an actual and very dead chicken in all its shechted gore. I imagined it squawking between my aching teeth. It was

enough to stop me from eating meat or poultry.

Then I recovered. No sooner had I returned to learning the daf than Eran threw a movie night, when we watched shechita in action. The detail was graphic. It brought back memories of those spoonfuls of chicken soup I couldn’t swallow.

The combination of these two events led me not so much to conclude, but to stop eating meat, only without the moral conviction of a vegetarian.

This continued for five weeks, during which I believed I was in for the long haul. We eat little meat during the week as it is, so Sunday through Friday wasn’t anything to make judgements by. On Shabbatot I was quite content to eat fish and salads. This was easy for Keren, who eats meat about as regularly as it rains in an Israeli summer.

Eran and co. thought my decision puzzling. At one point we were discussing blockages in animals, and Is-

rael suggested the situation was like a blockage in a toilet. “Don’t bring up examples like that,” quipped Eran.

“Rafi might also stop using toilets.”

Yes, I had become a vegetarian without ideology. I told my mother,

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invited to our neighbor’s son’s wedding at Sandrine. It’s a fancy place just south of Nahariya. Sandrine has a reputation for fancy smorgasbords and generous portions. I considered the occasion worthy of a personal

I imagined it squawking between my aching teeth.

who said I had to eat everything.

What she meant by this is still unclear to me.

Our sons came for Shabbat. I cooked them chicken, but didn’t join them. I went to a barbecue, which ended the same way.

At the end of January, we were

test. I braced myself by contacting our daughter, Batya, who commented that I must have found really good food to replace the meat for me not to be tempted.

I thought about this for a moment. I couldn’t think of anything I’d done apart from not eating meat.

Was I missing something? Was there a code that vegetarians live by that I didn’t know about?

The wedding was wonderful. I ate salmon. I didn’t touch the burgers, chicken nuggets, shawarma, the Chinese dishes, the meat in cigarettes, the couscous and chicken balls, the beef, nor the lamb.

The following morning before learning about the kosher signs in birds, I was asked about the battle with my yetzer hara the previous night. I told them I had come out victorious. Eran laughed, and Israel scoffed, telling me I wouldn’t last much longer.

I didn’t consider it a challenge, an I’ll-show-you-situation. It’s just that I have yet to be enticed by the smell of a chop on the barbecue or my wife’s tasty, scrumptious, incomparable, mouth-watering, finger-licking chicken.

Rafi Sackville, formerly of Cedarhurst, teaches in Ort Maalot in Western Galil.

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Art Women Unite in their Vision for the Future

By Malky Lowinger

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hat do a photo of a sofer, a sketch of a Holocaust survivor’s arm, and an Eishet Chayil painting have in common?

They’re all part of an upcoming local artists’ exhibit that promises to be intriguing as well as inspiring. The event, scheduled for Sunday morning, June 2 at 9:30 AM, entitled “Lma’an Beit Hashem – Embracing Another’s Perspective,” will feature artwork by local community members expressing their “Visions of Hope.” The artists will include painters, sketchers, photographers, sculptors and needlepoint artists. The exhibit will be followed by Welcoming Words by Rebbetzin Aviva Feiner at 10:15 and a lecture given by Shanny Gejerman on the topic of “Understanding the Challenge.”

This special event is actually a celebration of thirty years since the inception of the Five Towns and Far Rockaway Rosh Chodesh Lecture Series for Women. The story of the lectures (known as the FTFR Rosh Chodesh Se-

ries) is the story of a group of women’s outreach, tenacious and single-minded in its dedication over the course of three decades.

A Dream Fulfilled

The series was founded in 1989 by a group of women who sought to unite the women of the Five Towns and Far Rockaway community in honor of Rosh Chodesh, a time that is special for women. The community was much smaller then, and shiur opportunities weren’t as widely available as they are today.

Neither were the methods of mass communication that we take for granted. One longstanding committee member, reminisces, “Since this was before email and texting, we publicized our events via poster and flyer distribution. This earned us the nickname of ‘the pink flyer people’” referring to the ubiquitous monthly pink flyers that they sent out to the schools, shuls, and women’s groups on a regular basis.

“We would pick up thousands of fliers from Elmat Printers, bring them home, and make piles of 100 across the dining room table. Then we would deliver the appropriate number to each shul and school.”

Even the kids got involved. “My children got to be a part of the distribution effort,” she remembers. “They had a chance to meet the hardworking people on the front lines of our community’s religious infrastructure.”

The shiurim were held in different community shuls, a deliberate attempt to unite all segments of the community no matter where they davened.

“We appreciate all our host shuls,” says Debra, “who regularly partner with us to reach women in different locations. These include Congregation Beth Sholom, Congregation Kneseth Israel, Congregation Shaaray Tefilah, Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst, and Young Israel of Woodmere. Aish Kodesh, Agudas Israel of Long Island, Congregation Beis Medrash and Bais

Medrash Heichal Dovid have hosted us as well through the years.” The program’s official home base is the office of Congregation Shaaray Tefilah.

Over the years, the series has evolved and has morphed into a major source of spiritual inspiration in the community. The Series welcomes requests of topics to explore and of favorite speakers. Some of the many notable past speakers have been Aliza Bulow, Raizy Chechik, Rebbetzin Dina Fink, Chevi Garfinkel, Chanie Juravel, Yael Kaisman, Miriam Kosman, Gila Manolson, Rivka Malka Perlman, Rabbi Mordechai Becher, Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenmann, Dr. Dovid Lieberman, Rabbi Jonathan Rietti, Rabbi Zecharya Wallerstein, and Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb.

The lectures are not only spiritually uplifting. They also offer an opportunity for making connections. According to Faigy, who has been attending the series for many years, “There’s a tremendous amount of networking that

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occurs as a result of the shiurim. People meet and discuss shidduchim or other topics after or before the lectures, and you never know what can come of it. I remember a friend of ours who approached a speaker after the lecture to review her new book. He did and as a result he offered a testimonial which she published on the back cover. She was thrilled. And it all came about because of the shiur.”

Shiurim generally are scheduled for Sunday mornings around the time of Rosh Chodesh. There is no fee to attend, but yahrtzeit sponsorships are available.

The Art – and Heart – of the Matter

Thirty years is a long time for a program to continue on a regular basis, baruch Hashem, and the members of the lecture series recognize the significance of this major milestone. That’s

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the brain. It was fascinating and really helpful.”

Now the community is looking forward to this Sunday’s Local Artists’ Exhibit which will include works by over twenty-five artists who live in the area.

The theme of the event is “My Vision of Hope,” and each work of art will reflect its maker’s personal interpretation of that message. Most of the artists are planning to attend, to meet and connect with members of the community.

A behind-the-scenes peek at some of the expected works includes a stunning and meaningful drawing of a Holocaust survivor’s outstretched arm handing a yellow Star of David to a chayal in the IDF – certainly an emotion-packed image. Also included in the exhibit will be an artist’s personal interpretation of the Eishet Chayil prayer, bursting with vivid color. In the words of Lynn, the artist, “Every creation is an act of hope. Hope imbues

“ We may not envision things the way the artist has – her style or choice of color may not resonate with us – yet we are able to appreciate her vision for what it is.” why they are turning this week’s Sunday shiur into a multi-faceted event.

As the goal of the series is “unifying the women of our greater community by finding our common denominators, acquiring skills with which to navigate our often complex world, and tapping into aptitudes which we may not yet have discovered,” they thought what better way to express one’s inner self and discover hidden aptitudes than through art?

Sunday’s lecture isn’t the first to be held with a creative twist. Just recently, the series included a special program that featured a “mind-sharpening Puzzle Art Workshop” to bolster creativity and serve as a catalyst for personal growth. The feedback was very positive.

Faigy agrees. “I went because I was intrigued,” she remembers. “In the end, it was really helpful to me in dealing with a loved one with Parkinson’s. We learned about exercises that can be done to stimulate memory and

all; every work is a prayer.” A poignant photo of a sofer writing a get for a woman seeking the freedom she so desperately craves will also be on exhibit. It promises to be an extraordinary and epic event.

But there’s more to this exhibit than meets the eye. An underlying theme of this event is not simply tolerating, but embracing another’s perspective. Shanny Gejerman, a shalom bayis mentor and Tanach teacher, will analyze the challenges inherent in recognizing and appreciating the vision of another person. As a committee member explains: “Sometimes we find it challenging to accept the viewpoint of another. This exhibit will be the perfect forum for stretching those muscles that allow us to ingest someone else’s perspective without defensiveness. We may not envision things the way the artist has – her style or choice of color may not resonate with us – yet we are able to appreciate her vision for what it is.

That’s the idea behind what we are try-

ing to accomplish at our 30th anniversary event.”

It’s a fascinating thought and a unique and creative method of bringing it within our reach, one that has been met with much enthusiasm. “A worthy pursuit,” a kiruv mentor says with a smile. “It gives me the goosebumps,” a needlepoint artist adds.

The outcome of this strengthening in our bein adam l’chaveiro can lead to the ultimate goal of hastening the coming of Moshiach and rebuilding the House of Hashem. As Rabbi Mordechai Becher expressed in last month’s 5TFR Rosh Chodesh Series shiur, “I believe in Moshiach. I believe in each and every Jew!”

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AN ESSENTIAL ALLIANCE

By Susan Schwamm

A LOOK AT U.S.-JAPANESE RELATIONS THROUGH THE YEARS

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resident Donald Trump visited Japan this week on a whirlwind four-day tour.

Trump is the first world leader to meet with Japan’s Emperor Naruhito since Naruhito ascended the throne earlier this month.

For decades, the U.S.-Japan alliance has been the cornerstone of U.S. security interests in Asia. The partnership has been fundamental in maintaining stability and prosperity in the region. With North Korea chafing at its nuclear ambitions and China poised to pounce and strangle U.S. global economic interests, a relationship with Japan is fundamental to United States foreign policy.

President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe enjoy a warm relationship. Abe was the first world leader to meet with Trump after the 2016 elections. They have met at least ten times; have talked on the phone more than 30 times; and have played more than 28 holes of golf together.

This week’s trip was typical Trump in that it involved a few surprises and off-the-cuff moments. The first atypical moment took place on Sunday, when Trump and Abe posed for a selfie while playing golf. Later that day, Trump, First Lady Melania, Abe and his wife Akie attended the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo. The U.S. president presented the winner with the newly made “Trump Trophy.” The Trumps were

allowed to sit on chairs during the event, although viewers generally sit on cushions. Additionally, Trump was allowed to wear slippers when he entered the dirt wrestling ring, although people who usually enter are told to go barefoot.

Aside from the fun and games and hamburger lunch, President Trump met with families of Japanese nationals who were abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and ‘80s. Only five have been returned to Japan; North Korea insists that the others are dead but has not handed over their bodies.

The U.S. president surprised his advisors and Abe when he said during a press conference that he’s not “bothered” by North Korea’s missile tests earlier this month.

“My people think it could have been a violation, as you know,” Trump said, noting that no nuclear or longrange missiles had been tested. “I view it differently.”

Abe said he disagreed with Trump’s view on North Korea’s missile testing but added that he agreed with Trump on efforts to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.

The two also spoke about trade between the nations, with Trump stressing that the U.S. is not pleased with its nearly $60 billion trade deficit towards Japan. Trump has threatened to impose higher tariffs on imports of Japanese auto parts unless the two nations can iron out the difference.

Despite certain issues in which Tokyo and Washington have differing interests, Japan and the United States

enjoy a congenial relationship. They both understand the global war on terror, the danger of a more powerful China, and the peril of a megalomaniac handling nuclear weapons in North Korea and Iran.

World War II and Its Effects The United States and Japan’s relationship has been evolving over the decades since World War II. During World War II, Japan and the United States were enemies. In fact, it was Japan that dragged the U.S. into the war. Before the horrific attack on Pearl Harbor, Americans were increasingly wary of being drawn into a long, deadly, and costly conflict. Officially, the U.S. was a neutral country. But on December 7, 1941, 353 Japanese aircraft in two waves buzzed over Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, and blasted the military base. Over the course of just two hours, 2,403 Americans were killed and 1,178 others were wounded. All eight U.S. Navy battleships were damaged – four of them were sunk. 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed.

The Japanese had intended the attack as a preventive action to keep the United States Pacific Fleet from interfering with Japan’s planned military actions in Southeast Asia against territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States.

A day after the “date that will live in infamy,” Japan declared war on the United States. Germany and Italy subsequently declared war against the U.S. The United States had been

pulled into World War II. Ironically, the attacks on Pearl Harbor, which the Japanese perpetrated to prevent potential attacks by the U.S., ultimately led to the Axis powers’ defeat in the war. Without the United States joining the Allies and providing them with a fresh supply of soldiers, ammunition, and tactics, it’s uncertain if Germany and Japan would have been defeated so soundly.

And it was the United States that dealt Japan the final blow at the end of World War II. Germany had surrendered on May 9, 1945 but Japan was unwilling to admit defeat. On July 26, 1945, the Allies called for the unconditional surrender of Japan in the Potsdam Declaration, declaring that without surrender the nation would suffer “prompt and utter destruction.”

The Japanese ignored their call.

On August 6, 1945, the “Little Boy” uranium gun-type bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Despite the decimation inflicted by the bomb upon its citizens and members of the military, the prideful Japanese refused to admit defeat. Three days later, a plutonium implosion “Fat Man” bomb was dropped over Nagasaki. Between 129,000 to 226,000 people were killed in the blasts and in the subsequent days from burns, radiation sickness, and other illnesses. The fallout from the bombs lingered for years.

Six days later, Japan finally surrendered. On September 2, in Tokyo Bay, the Japanese government signed the instrument of surrender, officially ending World War II. Officials met

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President Trump speaks with Emperor Naruhito during a State Banquet at the Imperial Palace

President Trump and Prime Minister Abe took a selfie while golfing together

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida signing the Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan in 1951

Robert Kennedy in Tokyo on behalf of his brother, the president of the United States

in San Francisco to sign the Treaty of Peace on September 8, 1951. While signing the peace treaty, U.S. and Japanese officials also signed the Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan – a 10-year, renewable military agreement that outlines a security arrangement for Japan that accommodates its pacifist constitution.

When the treaty went into effect on April 28, 1952, Japan was once again an independent state and an ally of the United States. In 1960, under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was a five-star general in the army and served as supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World War II, Japan and the U.S. signed a new, revised Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security.

The treaties committed the Unit-

ed States to deploy military forces to defend Japan if the country came under attack; it also provided port and military basing facilities for U.S. forces in territory administered by Japan. In addition, it committed the United States to consult with Japan before initiating direct combat operations. The latter treaty had a defined, renewable ten-year term limit. The 1960 version of the treaty also eliminated the right of U.S. forces to intervene in Japanese domestic affairs to quell domestic disturbances. This agreement has endured for over half a century.

For Japan, the treaties symbolized the country’s independence and return to the world stage. Through its relationship with the United States, Japan gained security with comparatively lower defense expenditures,

which served as an effective hedge against the territorial ambitions of others in the region. Japan was also able to direct financial resources towards its economic recovery, resources that would have otherwise been allocated to defense expenditures.

Indeed, Japan has been able to hold its defense budget to less than one percent of GDP over the years.

Japanese policymakers and business interests also looked forward to gaining access to the massive U.S. market, close to 30 percent of global GDP at the time (and still the largest market in the world today). Because of treaties like this one that Japan and the U.S. have forged, Japan now boasts the world’s third-largest economy by nominal GDP and the fourth-largest by purchasing power parity.

JFK’s Warm Approach When President John F. Kennedy took office in 1961, though, he found that many Japanese were concerned that their country would become entangled in American wars and resented what they saw as an unequal partnership.

During World War II, JFK, who had joined the U.S. Navy, was stranded in the Pacific with his crew when his PT 109 was struck by a Japanese destroyer. After fifteen hours at sea – in which the future president heroically towed one injured crewmember to land as he swam to shore – eleven survivors of the wreckage eventually made it to land.

As president, Kennedy endeavored to salvage the relationship between the two countries just as he saved members of his crew decades before.

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Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato meets with President Nixon at the Western White House in San Clemente in January 1972

President Richard Nixon welcomes Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato to Washington on November 19, 1969

bilateral organizations, conferences, and exchanges between the two nations.

Baseball Diplomacy

President Ford meeting in Tokyo’s Akasaka Palace State Guest House with his staff on a visit to Japan

Kennedy nominated Edwin O. Reischauer, a respected Harvard scholar, as Ambassador to Japan.

Reischauer and his accomplished Japanese wife Haru changed what had been an isolated and imperious U.S. embassy into a force for bilateral understanding between the nations.

The president also began to plan a presidential visit to Tokyo with his counterparts in Japan. This visit – to be the first ever by an American president – would highlight the transformation of U.S.-Japan relations since the war. To advance the historic visit, the president sent his most trusted advisor, his brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, to Tokyo in 1962.

In Japan, Robert met ordinary people of all walks of life and debated U.S. policy with tough critics. He and his wife, Ethel, charmed Japanese crowds with their openness and interest into Japanese culture.

One of the trip’s most eventful –

and perhaps most telling – moments occurred in the Okuma auditorium of Waseda University. While Kennedy attempted to speak onstage, chaos broke out as pro-communist groups shouted him down, while pro-Kennedy students yelled back at them. Kennedy finally gave up on his speech, but instead of walking away, he suggested that one of the students, Tachiya Yuzo, ask him a question so they could have a debate. That, Kennedy said, is the democratic way. An astonished crowd gasped as the U.S. Attorney General extended his hand into the sea of black-uniformed students and pulled Tachiya onstage.

The Attorney General’s quick thinking, respect, and charisma turned what could be a foreign police disaster into a triumph for peace.

As fate would have it, President John F. Kennedy never made it to Japan. His administration, though, worked to construct a network of

When Richard Nixon came to office in 1969, although the alliance between the United States and Japan was still strong, there were fissures under the surface.

With the United States becoming closer to China and Prime Minister Eisaku Sato facing a storm in the Japanese parliament, known as the Diet, Tokyo and Washington agreed on the Okinawa Reversion Agreement.

The pact relinquishes the United States’ hold on the Okinawa Prefecture to Japanese sovereignty. The Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands – which comprise the Okinawa Prefecture – were returned to Japan under the agreement in exchange for the U.S. maintaining a military presence there and being able to access its facilities. Okinawa was a strategic location during World War II and garnered the moniker of the Keystone of the Pacific at that time.

The document was simultaneously signed in Washington, D.C., and Tokyo on June 17, 1971. It was ratified in Japan by the Diet on November 24, 1971.

On September 26, 1971, Emperor Hirohito touched down in Anchorage, Alaska, for a short visit to the United States. President Nixon was waiting to greet him. The meeting was brief, as the emperor was Europe-bound: his plane landed at 10 p.m. and took off again at 11:40. Nevertheless, it was a

momentous occasion as Hirohito had now become, in the words of President Nixon, “the first reigning monarch in Japan’s long history to step on foreign soil.” This was especially remarkable since the Japanese monarchy was and remains today the oldest continuous ruling family in the world.

Hirohito, who is now known in Japan by his posthumous name Emperor Showa, is most famous for ruling Japan during World War II and, in the aftermath, issuing the Humanity Declaration which denied his status as a living god.

In early January of 1972, Prime Minister Sato paid a visit to the United States and met with President Nixon at the Western White House in San Clemente. Aside from the Okinawa agreement, the two discussed China policy extensively. Before the meeting, Sato signaled to the U.S. that he was ready to play ball in the region and that he and President Nixon should seriously reevaluate Japan’s place in East Asia. Nixon assured Sato that he would be visiting China to work towards a limited improvement of relations with China, as opposed to a formalization of relations with the country. He reiterated that the U.S. desired to uphold and strengthen its security assurances to Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, even when reaching out to China.

Visiting Tokyo When President Gerald Ford visited Japan in November 1974, he was the first U.S. president to visit the country. Since then, every president

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Emperor Hirohito with President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy on November 9, 1983

has made at least two visits to Japan.

Interestingly, President Eisenhower planned to visit Japan in 1960 but cancelled his trip because of mass protests in Japan. Earlier that month, protesters attacked a car carrying the U.S. Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II and Press Secretary James C. Hagerty, and they had to be rescued by military helicopter. Eisenhower was already in Asia and was set to swing

by Japan when he was told to avoid the country because of the chaos.

According to TIME, the rebuff was a “stinging slap to U.S. pride and prestige.” When Ford planned on visiting, protests were also being held – including firebombings of the American and Soviet embassies by extremists.

Even so, he visited Japan, although he only spent time in Tokyo and Kyoto and did not go to Hiroshima.

Jimmy Carter addressed a Japanese audience at a small university on his first trip to Japan. Because it was his first visit there, he prepared a joke to begin his speech. He decided, though, to prepare a short joke for his audience, as he knew they were nervous before their graduation ceremony. After saying his joke in English, he waited for the translator to tell it to the audience. After just a sentence or two from the interpreter, the audience erupted into laughter. It was laughter that President Carter was not prepared for – the best reaction to a joke he ever had – and he wanted to know how the interpreter translated the joke.

After his speech, Carter asked the interpreter about his translation

but could tell he was being evasive.

Carter, though, did not let it go. He persuaded the translator to explain it to him.

Finally, the interpreter told him, “Sir, I told the audience, ‘President Carter just told a funny story. Everyone must laugh.’”

Working Together On January 2, 1985, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone met with President Ronald Reagan in Los Angeles at what is known as The Reagan Nakasone Summit. The main purpose of the summit was to enhance the friendship between the two nations. Both Reagan and Nakasone enjoyed a warm relationship, although many would not have predicted that. Before he became prime minister, Nakasone would wear a black tie daily to symbolize his mourning over U.S. troops stationed in areas of Japan. Despite his previous ideals, both leaders worked well together and helped move their countries forward.

At the time, the U.S. and Japan were the world’s two largest free enterprise, democratic countries and accounted for more than one-third of the world’s annual output of goods and services.

During that time, Tokyo had begun working closely with Washington to check the military threat coming from the USSR. It also supported the U.S. security commitment to South Korea and became the sounding board between the Koreas.

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President Ronald Reagan chats with Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone before the official start of their meeting in 1985

time, Japan was a major player in the world economy – far larger than China. Inasmuch as President Trump has been battling China over trade recently, President Reagan was wary of the danger of a too-powerful Japan when it comes to trade and the United States.

During his tenure, Reagan used tariffs to attempt to rebalance the trade figures between the countries.

At one point, Reagan imposed tariffs on $300 million in Japanese electronic goods as punishment for Japan’s failure to honor a computer chip sales agreement. Additionally, he tried to open up Japanese markets to U.S. goods, including beef, citrus, and rice.

“Do the Bush Thing” President George H.W. Bush’s most memorable event when it came to the United States and Japan is what happened on January 8, 1992.

Bush had been on a whirlwind tour through 16 time zones in 10 days when he was defeated at tennis by Emperor Akihito and his son, Crown Prince Naruhito. During a receiving line before the state dinner in Tokyo, Bush wasn’t feeling well and left the line to throw up in the bathroom.

Even though his aides suggested he retire for the night, Bush insisted on fulfilling his presidential duties.

During the dinner, between a course of raw salmon with caviar and grilled beef, Bush appeared to faint. He then leaned to the left and threw up into Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa’s lap. Barbara Bush leaped to her feet and pressed a napkin to

her husband’s mouth. The president’s entourage gently lowered him to the floor and a weak Bush joked to his physician, “Roll me under the table until the dinner’s over.”

Attempting to save face, the Japanese media did not air a tape of the incident for a full week after it occurred.

Even so, there is a term in Japan, Bushu-suru, which means literally, “to do the Bush thing.”

Clinton’s Missteps Relations between Tokyo and Washington were precarious during the Clinton years. For the first few years of the Clinton Administration, the president and his advisors narrowly focused on trade in their approach to Japan. In effect, Clinton’s slogan, “It’s the economy, stupid,” became his vision when it came to Tokyo. As such, the administration applied intense external pressure to the country – but without the desired results. It also thought that in the post-Cold War era, there would be little political fallout from distancing itself from Japan. That, though, was far from the truth.

By the spring of 1995, the Administration was poised for a trade war with Japan, threatening a 100 percent tariff on the import of Japanese luxury automobiles unless Tokyo relented and signed up for managed trade. An era of mistrust and stereotypes pervaded both countries when it came to the other. Trade agreements were ultimately signed but none contained enforceable quotas.

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lations between the U.S. and China.

Japan saw itself as being passed over in favor of Beijing and chafed at the idea of China receiving preferential treatment. The Clinton years were perhaps the least productive years in U.S.-Japan relations in recent history despite President Clinton’s five trips to the country.

President Cinton offering a toast to Japanese Emperor Akihito during a state dinner at the White House in 1994

In a widely criticized move, President Obama bowed to the emperor of Japan

President Obama with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Hiroshima

dent with an American serviceman in Okinawa, calls for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Okinawa dominated Japan’s political public debate. During that time, President Clinton cancelled

a planned state visit to Japan to deal with a budget battle in the States, a terrible optic for the Japanese people.

Japan was also mistrustful of the United States because of warming re-

Heart-to-Heart with George W. President George W. Bush shared a close relationship with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi during his time in the Oval Office.

Bush saw his counterpart as an ally in his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and in confronting North Korea about its nuclear weapons ambitions.

“Decades ago our two fathers looked across the Pacific and saw adversaries, uncertainty and war,” Bush told Koizumi at a welcoming ceremony at the White House in 2006. “Today their sons look across that same ocean and see friends and opportunity and peace.” Koizumi responded by saying that there is no other world leader besides Bush with whom he has felt such a “heart-to-heart” friendship and trust.

Koizumi brought Japan – once seen as a colonizing aggressor – onto the world stage ready to take a bigger part in regional and global security.

“The friendship between our two nations is based on common values,” Bush said. “These values include democracy, free enterprise and a deep and abiding respect for human rights.”

Japan’s post-World War II constitution prohibits its military from combat duty in international conflicts. But the country enacted a law after the Sept. 11 attacks to let Japan provide logistical support to coalition forces in the U.S.-led anti-terrorism campaign in Afghanistan. Under another Koizumi law, Japan was able to send troops to southern Iraq on a noncombat humanitarian mission.

Additionally, during the Bush years, the U.S. and Japan hammered out the biggest restructuring in decades of the U.S. military in Japan.

The plan relocated airfields and aircraft and transfer thousands of U.S. Marines from Okinawa to Guam in an effort to ease tensions with Japa-

nese who have long complained about crime, accidents, land use, and noise associated with U.S. forces.

Remembering Hiroshima President Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima. He spoke at a ceremony on May 27, 2016. 71 years after the bomb decimated the city, the U.S. president laid a wreath at a memorial to the dead of the world’s first atomic bombing.

“On a bright, cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed,” the president said, adding that humankind had shown that day it had the means to destroy itself.

“Why did we come to this place, to Hiroshima? We come to ponder a terrible force unleashed in the not so distant past. We come to mourn the dead,” he said.

“Their souls speak to us, they ask us to look inward, take stock of who we are.”

After looking at some of the exhibits in the peace museum, Obama wrote in the visitors’ book: “We have known the agony of war. Let us now find the courage, together, to spread peace, and pursue a world without nuclear weapons,” a goal he conceded he may not see in his lifetime.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe described Obama’s visit as “courageous,” saying: “An American president has come into contact with the reality of an atomic bombing and renewed his resolve toward realizing a world without nuclear weapons.

“I sincerely welcome this historic visit, which has long been awaited by not only the people of Hiroshima, but by all Japanese people.”

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Jay Baer: “Make Your Customers Tell Your Story”

By Yitzchok Saftlas

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Every other week, TJH will feature leading questions and takeaways from Yitzchok’s popular radio show.

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n a recent 77WABC “Mind Your Business” broadcast, Yitzchok Saftlas sat down to speak to Jay Baer about the secrets behind his remarkable success.

Baer is an award-winning marketing pioneer, with twenty-six years of experience in helping the world’s most iconic brands improve their digital marketing and customer experience.

A New York Times best-selling author of six books, Jay is a hall of fame keynote speaker and emcee. His most recent book, Talk Triggers: The Complete Guide to Creating Customers with Word of Mouth, is taking the marketing world by a storm.

Yitzchok: What was the moment that made you decide to write Talk Triggers? What’s the backstory?

Jay: I wrote this book for the same reason that I’ve written all six of my books. When I heard the same questions from my clients and customers multiple times, I realized that there is a knowledge gap that needs to be filled.

A lot of our clients felt that although they’ve gotten a better handle on the mechanics of content marketing, they still weren’t sure what they should be saying.

That made me think – if our customers, who are some of the most iconic brands in the world, don’t know the answer to that question, then a lot of people must not know the answer.

I realized that these big brands, and most brands, don’t have a story.

They don’t really know what their own story is. I thought, here we are, 2017 at that point, and brands don’t actually know what story they’re trying to tell.

We have to fix that problem first and worry about social media second. A lot of businesses think social media is word of mouth. Social media is a delivery mechanism for a word of mouth, but it’s not word of mouth. Word of mouth is about the story.

Even now, we still have a lot of trouble understanding how to leverage word of mouth on purpose. Everybody engages in word of mouth accidentally, but nobody really does it on purpose.

And so, we set out to fix that with this book.

There are many great books about word of mouth on the market. But you don’t need a book to tell you that word of mouth is important! What Talk Triggers has done – which no other book has – is outline a process, a formula, a system, that any business can use to get their customers talking.

And that’s really the difference. Talk Triggers is not just telling you word of mouth is important and why it’s important, it’s giving you a concrete plan to leverage the power of word of mouth for your business.

YS: There’s an amazing line in your book – “Word of mouth is independent, as the talker has no financial interest in the sale of service.” That is key. It’s one of the best lines in the whole book.

JB: Yes, it is. New research from Edelman Public Relations has shown that while we trust each other more than ever, we trust businesses and organizations less and less. It doesn’t

matter what business you’re in – you can’t change that. So the more you can get your customers to talk about you, the more persuasive it is and the more effective it is. Fundamentally, the best way to grow any business is for your customers to do the growing for you.

That’s what we’re trying to convey here.

YS: “The best way to grow any business is for your customers to do the growing for you.” Can you elaborate on that?

JB: Well, your customers are telling your story, and you don’t have to pay for that. Advertising can be really effective, but advertising can also be pretty expensive. Today, all the social algorithms have said that we’re going to over-prioritize content that is published by real people and we’re going to under-prioritize content published by businesses. Well, to me that sounds like a recipe for word of mouth! If you can get real people talking, it sort of gets around those algorithmic penalties that are being applied to content

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published by businesses. Research shows that between fifty and ninety-one percent of all purchases are influenced by word of mouth. It’s tremendous!

But no one has a strategy for word of mouth. We just take it for granted.

We just assume that our customers will talk about us, and we assume that they will say consistent things about us. Is that really what happens in the real world? It’s not. So what we’re trying to do with Talk Triggers is help businesses do word of mouth on purpose instead of what’s happening today, where everybody’s doing word of mouth by accident and hoping for the best.

YS: So, is there any hope for marketing firms?

JB: Oh, absolutely. You see, what’s interesting about word of mouth is that even with a book like this, that breaks down how to create a word of mouth strategy, a lot of businessowners struggle with it because they can’t find the story in their own operations. It’s really hard for businessowners to find their narrative, because they’re too close to it. They don’t see the gold in the river, so to speak. Marketing agencies are really good at that because they look at everything with a new perspective and can find the inherent value that the owners and CEOs can’t see.

YS: In section three of the book, you talk about the five talk triggers. Can you please explain what those triggers are?

JB: Let me let me define a talk trigger first. A talk trigger is a strategic operational choice that you make that compels conversation. It’s something that you choose to do differently in the operations of your business that customers notice and talk about.

What’s funny about that is that a talk trigger isn’t really marketing, at least not in the classic sense. It’s something that you do that’s different rather than something that you say that’s different.

I’ll give you a quick example before we get to the five types.

There’s a restaurant in Sacramento, California, called Skip’s Kitchen. It’s a regular counter-service restaurant.

There would be nothing extraordinary about it, except that before each customer leaves, they get to choose a card from a deck. If they pick a joker,

they don’t have to pay for their meal.

Skip’s Kitchen has been in business for ten years, and they’ve spent a grand total of zero dollars on advertising. But there’s a line to get in almost every day.

That isn’t really marketing. That is an operational choice that creates and produces a huge marketing advantage.

But it’s not marketing in the way that we typically think of marketing. It’s a customer experience decision, and all good talk triggers are that. So, as you as you prefaced in the question, there are five different types of talk triggers that you can use.

The first one is talkable generosity. You have to be more generous than your customers expect. Skip’s Kitchen is a great example.

There’s also talkable responsiveness, when you are faster and more on top of things than your customers expect.

But that is the exception that proves the rule. Word of mouth by definition tends to happen more slowly — it’s a trickle over time. We have a lot of research in the book that suggests that only about forty-seven percent, or essentially one out of every two of your customers, will ever tell your story, regardless of how good this story is.

And that has nothing to do with you, has nothing to do with the quality of your talk trigger. It’s just how people are wired. So the best case scenario is that you’ve got forty-seven percent of your audience talking about you, and that’s not enough to build a business.

YS: Section four of the book is called, “Create Talk Triggers in Six Steps.” Can you elaborate on that?

JB: The worst way to create a talk trigger is to have everybody sit in a

“Have the courage to do one thing different in your business, one thing that’s different enough that your customers will talk about it.”

The next trigger is talkable usefulness, which is when you’re more useful than your customers expect you to be.

The fourth one is talkable empathy, when you are kinder than expected.

And the last one is talkable attitude, which is when you are a little bit different than your customers expect.

Each one is explained in detail in the book.

YS: Can a business rely solely on word of mouth?

JB: Yes, you can. There are businesses that rely completely on word of mouth like Skip’s Kitchen and the Cheesecake Factory. But would I recommend it? No, I would not. I think that’s dangerous. There are certainly companies that that can exist and prosper and thrive, even without doing much more than word of mouth.

conference room and brainstorm it. If it was that easy, you would have done it already! So, the first thing that we do when we work on talk trigger strategy is map out the customer journey. Write down the key contact points they have with customers.

The second thing to do – and this this is incredibly important. Do not skip this step! – is interview eighteen customers of your client. Three groups of six customers each – new customers, longtime customers, and lost customers. Find out what they expect at each stage of the interaction.

The third step is to create a list of potential triggers, usually between six and ten. Then pick one and put it into practice. There are many ways you can segment that. You can try it with only some customers and then evaluate the effect it had. If you see it was fifteen

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to twenty percent talkable, expand it to the whole company. It takes about ninety days to do this right. Do the research, be thoughtful about it. This is an operational choice that you have to commit to. The process is very specific for a reason.

YS: You talk about influencer marketing in the book. What’s your take on it? Would you encourage a company to develop a relationship with an influencer that would make sense for their brand?

JB: Influencer marketing is not a word of mouth strategy. It’s not the same thing. Influencer marketing is essentially halfway between word of mouth and an ad. To find some sort of celebrity who has disproportionate audience and convince that person, typically with cash, that they should promote your business…I’m not suggesting that doesn’t work. It can work. But once that person stops talking about you, you aren’t left with anything. So it really is a short term advertising-esque approach to acquire attention. Again, I’m not suggesting it’s a bad idea. But it’s not the same as what we’re talking about here.

YS: Do you think there are there certain industries that can rely on or benefit from word of mouth more than others?

JB: That’s an interesting question. Let me let me answer it this way.

I believe with every fiber of my being that every company can benefit from it. It doesn’t matter what type of business you have, whether it’s business-to-business or business-to-consumer. It doesn’t matter, because every company has customers, and those customers talk. Word of mouth is universally applicable.

YS: Do you have any final takeaways for our listeners?

JB: Competency does not create conversation. Same is lame. The more you try to fit in, the more your customers will tune out. Have the courage to do one thing different in your business, one thing that’s different enough that your customers will talk about it and they will tell your story. When your customers tell your story, that’s the best way to grow your business.

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Dating Dialogue

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

Dear Navidaters,

Our daughter has already gone out with over 40 young men.

Thank G-d she is wonderful, has a lot going for her and most men she dates want to see her again and again. Usually she disqualifies them after two dates, but there have been three already that she went out with for quite a while.

We’re seeing a pattern emerge, and it just happened again recently. It seems that she is capable of becoming very excited about some particular young man and she’ll talk about how fabulous he is until we’re all sick of hearing about how wonderful he is. But when it comes to the point when he is ready to propose, she suddenly gets cold feet and starts wondering whether there is someone better out there for her to marry. It’s almost like she’s buying a dress and isn’t sure that the next store won’t offer something nicer.

We’ve been encouraging her to speak to a therapist, or even just a dating coach, because we feel this suggests some kind of problem but she refuses and just insists that the very best “one” hasn’t come along yet. Is there anything we can tell her to help her just make a commitment already? Or is she correct in believing that Mr. Right hasn’t yet arrived?

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

Our intention is not to offer any definitive

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

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The Panel The Rebbetzin Rebbetzin Faigie Horowitz, M.S. t sounds like your daughter is afflicted with FOMO, fear of missing out.

This is sometimes confused with commitment issues, but you seem pretty clear that she articulates her concern that something better will be presented on the menu of marriageable men when a marriage proposal is due.

You are right to respond with a suggestion of going for help. Her words are an expression of a very unhealthy attitude toward marriage. It sounds like she wants a better bargain when the chips are down even though she enthused before. She may be selfish, as well as immature; she may not understand what a marital relationship is all about. I would not push her into a commitment. She has not yet worked through her issues.

She is going to have to be encouraged by others (such as friends, mentors, teachers, etc.) to dig deep within to explore her feelings, insecurities, and attitudes and to access professional help. Clearly, she is not responding to you; hopefully the others will be able to influence her otherwise, her dating career will be a lengthy one.

There is a Hebrew expression that says that when the brain refuses to acknowledge a truth, time will do the job, Mah shelo yaaseh hasechel, yaaseh ha’zman. Waiting may be the only answer if she refuses to talk to qualified people and examine herself in the lens of dating.

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daughters when they vacillated and “over-thought” a prospective shidduch. Her objective: to send a reality check and dose of objectivity to the child who couldn’t commit because of serious FOMO (fear of missing out – if she doesn’t date every guy suggested to her), loving the chase (dating’s more fun than changing diapers), or concern she may be disappointing her parents if the guy she married does not measure up to what they were hoping for in a son-in-law.

Ziva, like you, and many a Jewish mother, thought her kids were the greatest and deserved the best; still, she understood her children’s unrealistic expectations could backfire in the dating process – sending her children on an infinite, futile, frustrating quest for Mr. or Mrs. Perfection until, before long, weeks turn into years and suitable shidduch prospects become fewer and far less attractive.

There are a hundred-and-one possible reasons your daughter is approaching dating as a shopping excursion. And you, as her mom, lack the insight and objectivity necessary to cure her recurrent cold feet. Tell her so. Then tell her to take a break; get off the dating treadmill and…whether she likes it or not, consult a dating coach or therapist. Whether she agrees to go immediately or eventually, only a professional has the training and experience to get to the root of your daughter’s anxiety so she can make a commitment she can live with comfortably and happily until 120.

The Shadchan The Mother Sarah Schwartz Schreiber, P.A. emember: you’re not so hot yourself!”

Sounds a little brutal, perhaps.

But this is what my friend, Ziva, mother of eight wonderful children – all wonderfully matched and happily married – would tell her sons and

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Michelle Mond s I do not know your daughter or her specific case, the most I can do is validate your concern and address the problem, hoping she will stumble across this column. Many parents in your predicament wish there was a magic formula to convince their children to become more realistic – you are not alone.

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The young women like this are generally “ala ma’alos.” These women are accomplished, pretty, smart, and have strong hashkafos who have, until now, been able to map out their lives. Top choice seminary? Check. Nursing school? Check. Custom bridesmaid gown made for their best friend’s wedding? Check. These women have worked hard in life and reaped the reward of it.

Then comes shidduchim, the seemingly daunting process to find the right, most perfect husband. Suddenly the same magic formula that has been used all their lives to map things out and pursue their dreams cannot possibly be implemented in shidduchim.

Why? Because finding a spouse is not like custom making a gown. If you map it all out when it comes to a husband just as you do the perfect gown, you are setting yourself up for failure.

Go to a local Build-A-Bear store and you’ll have a glimpse into what some make it seem like the process should look like. First, you’ll choose the outer trappings, from color eyes, body type, clothing type and style. Choice from small to large, trendy to nerdy, cute to scary-looking; you can make it all.

Then add the custom voice and you even stuff it yourself! This is, however (surprisingly to some), not how finding a spouse works. One cannot map out all the details and try them on until custom perfection is found.

One thing I advise in these cases is, aside for coming up with a resume and what one is looking for, one must also make a very honest list of his/her faults and things that need to be personally worked on. This can help bring the single down to earth with the realization that we too have faults and that someone will have to live with ours as well.

One must be very mature, thoughtout, and realistic to come to the final decision of whom to settle down with because nobody is perfect; not even the singles looking for it. When we choose our bashert based on mutual respect, comfort, attraction, common goals and hashkafos, that person becomes our bashert; but you must actively choose him for him to become it. It might feel

If you map it all out when it comes to a husband just as you do the perfect gown, you are setting yourself up for failure.

scary because in every other aspect of life things came easier and with more apparent clarity.

Also, with any other decision there is always a backup plan. When you look for a spouse, it’s permanent. This can be very scary and even impossible for some people to overcome. In some cases, there is an underlying commitment problem and this must be worked on in intense therapy with a therapist trained in that specific area. Some need anxiety medication as well.

The best recommendation I have for your daughter is to be coached by a therapist, mentor or rebbetzin to help guide her through the process, from working through her own issues and commitment anxiety, from dating to engagement. She might need a heavy dose of maturity as well, to add to the mix.

I wish your daughter much hatzlacha gaining clarity into this very important issue!

The Single Tova Wein t must be very difficult for you to see your daughter let some fabu-

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lous young men slip away for no apparent reason. It sounds like once she’s sealed the deal, the deal no long seems all that appealing to her and she’s onto the next challenge.

Without the insight gained in therapy, I’m sure even your daughter may not totally understand what this behavior is all about. It

could be that she believes no one is good enough for her but she’ll keep looking. Or maybe she suffers from anxiety and can’t bring herself to make a commitment. Whatever the reason, without proper guidance from a professional, it sounds like this pattern will keep repeating itself,

while her prospects begin to dwindle.

All you can do is continue to generously offer her help with a dating professional and remind her that time marches on and that, at some point, she will have let all the great ones slip through the cracks, while she is still alone and searching. Sadly, she may not be the first “wonderful” girl to find herself single and filled with regrets. And you won’t find yourself being the first mother who

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She may not be the first “wonderful” girl to find herself single and filled with regrets. has to stand by, powerless and frustrated. Life is often very unfair!

Pulling It All Together The Navidaters Dating and Relationship Coaches and Therapists

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ow challenging it must be to sit by and watch your daughter end perfectly wonderful relationships with quality men because there may be someone better out there. You’ve offered her therapy and coaching but she refuses. Ultimately, your daughter is in charge of her dating and relationship destiny and encouraging her to commit when she historically breaks up before commitment will not help her long term. As you so wisely understand, your daughter needs therapy.

If you haven’t done so already, try to access her vulnerability through a thought-provoking question such as Is there any part of you that worries you broke it off too soon? Or, do you ever think about or miss Moshe? Is there any part of you that wonders why you’re thinking about “someone better” when you’re with someone you’re crazy about? If she is receptive and responsive to a vulnerable, deeper kind of conversation, then offer therapy again.

(In my opinion, this is not a coaching issue.) Share with her a time you were unsure about your own behaviors, or a time others gave you important feedback that you didn’t see. Share with her about a time that you went for therapy to figure something out for yourself. It may be that your daughter doesn’t really understand what goes on in therapy and a little education about

what it is and what it isn’t may be helpful.

If she continues to refuse therapy after the above approach, then I offer you Plan B, which is to no longer encourage her dating. I understand your desire to see her in a relationship, but in her current state, she is most likely not ready. Unless she gains insight into herself and resolves her issue (whatever that may be), this will probably continue, though I never say never. You may want to talk to her about it like this: You know we love you and want to see you happy. To us, it seems as though a switch is flipped inside of you when you start talking about settling down. As of now, you’re refusing therapy, but without true insight into what is going on inside of you, this will most likely keep on happening. We think you should take a break from dating until you figure this out.

You will have to think about whether or not you are prepared to step away from facilitating shidduchim for her; a decision you may want to consult with someone about (a rav, a therapist, a mentor etc.)

The goal of this is to show your daughter that you are taking a loving but hands-off approach to her dating

and her future. This may provide her with enough motivation to want to figure out her issue. Sometimes when parents take a backseat the child gets into the driver’s seat. You can be there for her as much or as little as you can handle or want to be, but with completely adjusted expectations for your daughter and her relationships.

The last leg of this column will be speaking directly to anyone who relates to the writer’s daughter. If you have a pattern of being crazy about someone until they start to talk about commitment, and you leave believing there is someone “better,” I recommend speaking with a therapist. This is not about whether or not there is someone better out there; it’s about you. It may be some anxiety about commitment (when this is the case, the person leaving may be riddled with worry and “what-if’s”),

not feeling ready for marriage, or not having the tools to create intimacy/connection. In therapy, you will gain critical information about yourself that you need to enter and maintain a healthy, loving and committed relationship. It will be worth the effort..

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. Jennifer is looking forward to teaching a psychology course at Touro College in the fall. To set up a consultation or to ask questions, please call 516.224.7779. Press 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.

Hi Readers!

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

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Dr. Deb

Get Over It

By Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.

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ow many times have I heard some sobbing person complain that their spouse told

them to “get over it” – as if pain and trauma can be something that you can just walk away from?

Those who suffer from it wish they could walk away but the reality is that memories seem to have a way of binding a person with chains to the past.

So as a consequence of knowing this, I would think that people who told their loved ones to “just get over it” were cruel and not too smart either.

Didn’t they know you can’t?

That’s when I started researching what is being done on trauma. And yes, by gee, you can get over it after all. People do not have to be married to their trauma.

For example, Richard Davidson, founder of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a neuroscientist who earned his Ph.D. from Harvard, has been working on correcting trauma through meditation and has published 375 articles on this subject and on the neural basis of emotion.

Davidson started studying the effects of meditation on the brain after meeting the Dalai Lama in 1992. He’s worked with traumatized children and veterans returning from war, suffering from PTSD causing sleepless nights and wrecked marriages. But Davidson not only studies these people suffering from life’s “slings and arrows,” as he calls it, but has helped them overcome their challenges.

His work is at the frontier of brain research including such until recent-

ly unheard-of ideas as epigenetics in which the behavior of our environment can turn on or off the action of certain genes. Thus genetic “traits” are actually changeable based on the context a person finds or puts himself in. For more on this, neuroplasticity of the brain, and his studies on innate basic goodness, see https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=ELLeIMFIWy0.

Another well-known researcher in the field of trauma is Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., a Dutch psychiatrist. When van der Kolk did the first NIH-funded study on the treatment of PTSD, he found that because trauma changes our brains and the memories for it are also stored in the body, yoga turned out to be more effective at reducing trauma symptoms than medications. He considers yoga not to be an “alternative” practice but rather the real approach to healing while drugs are the alternative. Learn more in his New York Times bestseller, The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma.

Coming from a completely different approach is – or was – Milton H. Erickson. He was a medical doctor, going into psychiatry to further understand and teach the hypnosis that he used on himself at age 17 when he contracted polio and was completely immobilized in bed. In that state, he started imagining the use of his arms and legs. Even-

tually feeling came back to him as he recalled what movement felt like.

Capturing the power of the brain to imagine – and thereby change – our moods, thoughts, fears, and perspectives, he empowered people to live healthy lives. For example, in his book, The February Man, he lays out a complete case study of a woman who had been traumatized in early life. While she was in a hypnotic state, he inserted himself into revised memories as a kindly uncle who would protect her. In this way, she overcame the traumatic symptoms and was able to live well after that.

Erickson’s attempts to change memories have been proven to be chemically accurate. It is now known that there is a 6-hour window of time from when a memory is evoked in all its sensory fullness to when it will “reconsolidate” as a new memory. During that window, the underlying protein molecule of the memory itself can change depending on what other thoughts/imaginings are added. In this way, researchers

have shown that human subjects who were conditioned to fearing a neutral stimulus through pairing with electric shocks would actually overcome their fear of that neutral stimulus if the memory of the pairing was disrupted in, say, 10 minutes, but not if the disruption took place after 6 hours. (The

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anything that alters a memory after it’s fully invoked can cause even powerful and painful memories to lose their effect. Using one version or another of Erickson’s basic idea is very potent in this way, and because the reconsolidation of the protein molecules takes place only from the act of remembering

Actual memories are not hard and fast; they can change.

disruption was extinction; for more on this see Biological Psychiatry, Volume 52, Issue 10, 15 November 2002, Pages 976-986.)

To put this into simple terms: actual memories are not hard and fast; they can change when they’re “disrupted” after recall within a 6-hour timeframe.

Clinically, it turns out that nearly

and re-experiencing, a deep hypnotic trance is not at all necessary.

The science on memory, trauma, and brain neuroplasticity is breathtaking in what it reveals. But this makes perfect sense because for all the makkos Hashem gives us, he also has prepared the refuah way ahead.

Hopefully this brief overview will

assure you that people you know suffering from depression and anxiety – even trauma – do not need to be stuck in their pain. Trauma affects marriages because most of the time the partner of a traumatized person just can’t understand the fears and reactions of their mate.

I can think of a couple in another state in which one partner would numb out emotionally and also not remember things. This was part of her trauma.

Her husband had a great deal of difficulty understanding this. But neither one has to remain suffering.

This is my message today: life is beautiful and meant to be enjoyed.

The makkos we get are not supposed to become part of us, but if they do, we can undo that, too.

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

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Health & F tness

Managing Mindless Eating

By Aliza Beer MS, RD, CDN

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he average person makes more than 200 decisions about food each day but we are only aware of a very small fraction of them. The rest of the decisions are performed by our unconscious mind and can lead to mindless eating, which can cause overeating, thereby promoting weight gain. Many of these decisions are made while we are functioning on autopilot. For better, or often worse, our habits take over in mindless mode, so if you put sugar in your coffee every day, that’s what you’ll automatically do if you don’t stop and think twice about it.

Behavioral scientists have found that people often fail at diet and exercise plans because the decision to pick a healthier option is affected by multiple cues and triggers (such as time of day or location) that can cause repetition of past responses. In other words, our habits, both healthy and unhealthy, are so ingrained in what we do each day that we often make choices without really thinking about them.

You can be armed with the all the right knowledge, but your environment and habits can still get the best of you.

The following is a list of tricks to help you break out of the mindless-eating mold.

• Plate Everything: When you plate your meals and snacks before eating, you see everything you are going to eat at once. As a result, you are less likely to munch your way through a whole big bag or box of whatever the food may be. You will only eat what’s on your plate.

• Use Smaller Plates and Bowls: Research shows that people underestimate how much they serve themselves when using larger dishes, because they trick us into thinking that the amount of food served is smaller than it actually is. The standard plate size has increased from 9.6 inches to 11.8 inches since 1900, and so have our rates of obesity! Most people tend to clean their plates, so smaller plates will ultimately result in smaller portions and less food consumption.

• Never Eat Standing Up! This

think about when in the day you usually get the most hungry and have a pre-portioned snack with you for those times. For most people, it’s the time between lunch and dinner.

• Stay Hydrated: Sometimes we eat because we think we’re hungry, but the body is trying to tell us that we’re thirsty. Drinking at least 64 ounces of water a day will help combat this, but you may need some additional beverages like flavored sparkling water or tea.

• Control the Environment: Stop buying those snacks that you

Good habits are easily formed via proper planning and repetition.

is one of my cardinal rules. When you’re standing up and eating, it doesn’t register in the brain as such, and you will feel as if you didn’t eat!

Put the food on the plate, and sit yourself down, and then eat it.

• Time Your Meals: Plan out your meals for the day – know what you’re going to eat and when. Don’t skip meals; it will lead to you feeling “hangry” and that will increase your chances of mindless snacking. When your brain knows that there is a plan, you are more likely to be more mindful around food. If you plan to snack,

can’t resist eating! If you don’t have access to it, you cannot eat it. Perhaps other members of the household desperately need these snacks? Then store them out of sight or in hard to reach places. Out of sight, out of mind.

Often, we mindlessly eat food only because it’s sitting right there in front of us.

• Brush and Floss Your Teeth: This really works! Especially at night, if you brush/floss after dinner, you will be too lazy to do it again. Sometimes, when you have leftover flavors in your mouth you will continue to crave them

and that can lead to mindless and unnecessary eating. Brushing your teeth will eliminate those tastes in your mouth.

• Entertain Yourself: Different things will work for different people.

The idea is to find an activity that changes your mindset or distracts you and prevents you from going into the kitchen. If you’re craving those chips, go take a shower or do some needlepoint, and after 15 minutes, the craving will usually have passed.

To stop mindless eating, we first need to understand and accept that many of the choices we make about food are made without deep thought or intention – they’re made by habitual default. We overeat and gain weight often without realizing the small daily choices we make that contribute to this cycle of excess. Become a more mindful eater by planning your food for the day, plating your food on smaller plates, and removing your trigger foods from your environment.

Bad habits can be broken with the right mindset and a little hard work.

Good habits are easily formed via proper planning and repetition. With focus and determination you can turn the switch on autopilot for healthy habits.

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

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Homemade Pizza with Pesto Sauce, Feta Cheese, and Caramelized Pears Dairy • Yields about 4 servings

By Naomi Nachman

Quick and Easy Pizza Dough Pareve • Yields 1 (12-inch) pie, about 4 servings

Ingredients 2 tsp dry yeast 1 tsp sugar ¾ cup very warm water (115°F) 2 cups flour 1 tsp kosher salt

Preparation Preheat oven to 400°F. Combine yeast, water, and sugar in a medium bowl; proof for 5 minutes, until bubbling. Add flour and salt; knead for 2-3 minutes until flour is well blended and a dough ball forms.

Cover; let rise in a warm place for 15 minutes.

Roll dough to fit a 12-inch pizza pan. Top with your favorite toppings and bake 20 minutes.

Photo credit: Miriam Pascal

I developed this recipe when I was the baking instructor at Camp Dina for seven years. I started the culinary arts program, which became super-popular. The kids loved baking pizza from scratch, and the pizza class became the most anticipated class of the program. You can use this dough for pizza, flatbreads, and even cinnamon rolls.

Prepared Pizza Ingredients Pizza 1 batch Quick and Easy Pizza Dough ¼ cup store bought pesto 3 cups baby spinach ½ block feta or goat cheese, crumbled by hand

Caramelized Pears 2 TBS unsalted butter ¼ cup sugar 1 red Anjou pear, cut into ½-inch-thick wedges (or ¼-inch-thick wedges if pears are very firm) ¼ cup honey

Preparation Preheat oven to 450°F. Roll out prepared pizza dough; transfer to a 1215-inch pizza stone or pan.

Spread pesto over dough; top with spinach, and feta cheese. Set aside.

Prepare caramelized pears: Heat butter in a large skillet over medium-low heat. Add sugar; cook, stirring, until almost dissolved, 1-2 minutes. Add pears; cook, stirring occasionally, until soft and just golden, 15 minutes. Add honey; cook, stirring, until pears are coated and very soft, about 2 minutes.

Sprinkle caramelized pears over pizza.

Bake for about 10 minutes, until the edges of the dough are golden brown.

Recipe reprinted with permission by Naomi Nachman from Perfect Flavors, Artscroll Mesorah publications Naomi Nachman, the owner of The Aussie Gourmet, caters weekly and Shabbat/ Yom Tov meals for families and individuals within The Five Towns and neighboring communities, with a specialty in Pesach catering. Naomi is a contributing editor to this paper and also produces and hosts her own weekly radio show on the Nachum Segal Network stream called “A Table for Two with Naomi Nachman.” Naomi gives cooking presentations for organizations and private groups throughout the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan area. In addition, Naomi has been a guest host on the QVC TV network and has been featured in cookbooks, magazines as well as other media covering topics related to cuisine preparation and personal chefs. To obtain additional recipes, join The Aussie Gourmet on Facebook or visit Naomi’s blog. Naomi can be reached through her website, www.theaussiegourmet.com or at (516) 295-9669.

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Notable Quotes “Say What?!”

I pray for the president of the United States. I wish that his family or his administration or his staff would have an intervention for the good of the country.

- Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) at her weekly press conference

I don’t think the party of infanticide is exactly praying for anyone.

- Donald Trump Jr., in response

When someone says that it’s “too hard” to do a green space that grows yuca instead of, I dunno, cauliflower or something, what you’re doing is you’re taking a colonial approach to environmentalism. And that is why a lot of communities of color get resistant to certain environmentalist movements — because they come with a colonial lens on them.

- Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Socialist/Dem) taking aim at cauliflower, claiming that growing the vegetable in community gardens in nonwhite neighborhoods is an act of colonialism

Here’s an interesting one...

Jose Simms (The first warrant pictured) negotiated with me earlier this week (through Facebook) and has agreed to turn himself in to Torrington Police if we can get 15,000 “likes” on this post (I said 10,000, he wanted 20,000, we split). It will be difficult but is doable.

So please, “like” this post, and while you’re at it, share it, Tweet it, Instagram it, Snapchat it…. Then again, if you know where either of these guys are, you could always let us know that too, it’d save everyone from the suspense of the 15K.... Let’s get it!!

- A social media post by the Torrington, Connecticut, police department containing a photo of Jose Simms, 29, who is on the run after failing to show up to court for various criminal charges

This is an unbelievably corrupt president, corrupt administration, and the Republican Party is right behind him and they all should be thrown into jail as far as I’m concerned.

- Joy Behar, on “The View”

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For the left, whether the country benefits is not the point. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar – herself a symbol of America’s failed immigration system if there ever was one, someone who hates this country coming here at public expense – spent yesterday demanding the abolition of ICE, the decriminalization of illegal immigration itself, and an end to all deportation programs. She demands open borders, the unlimited arrival of anyone who wants to come to America, whether they have anything to contribute or not, and by the way you get to pay for it. And if you don’t want to, you’re a bigot.

- Tucker Carlson, Fox News

After Game 2 in Milwaukee, I was trying to get to the team bus and one of the dudes in the Milwaukee Arena just screams at me. He’s like, “Where do you think you’re going?!” And I’m like, “Uh, I’m trying to get to the team bus.” He’s like, “What? Where’s your pass?” I was like, “I don’t have a pass. I don’t know what you’re talking about. I don’t have a pass.” This happens in a lot of arenas, so I just kind of go with the flow.

- Backup Raptors point guard Jeremy Lin in a radio interview talking about how many people don’t realize that he is an NBA player

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I am so proud, so proud of NYU’s chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and of Jewish Voice for Peace, and of GSOC, and of the NYU student government, and of my colleagues in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis for supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against the apartheid state government in Israel — because this is what we are called to do, this is our NYU legacy.

- NYU graduate student Steven William Thrasher, during his commencement address at NYU’s School of Arts & Science

We must stand together to vanquish racism and Islamophobia and anti-Semitism…

-Ibid. just moments later, illustrating the hypocrisy of the pseudo-intelligent liberal left

She said, “I talk to the president; I don’t talk to staff.” You know, let’s face it, she’s the sixthmost-rich member of Congress. She treats everybody like they’re her staff. She treats me like I’m either her maid or her driver or her pilot or her makeup artist, and I’m not. And I said to her, “How very pro-woman of you.” She’s not very pro-woman.

- Presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway on Fox News following a tense encounter with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) at the White House

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My tweet yesterday about Trump preferring Kim Jong Un to Biden as president was meant in jest.

- Time magazine columnist Ian Bremmer one day after he spun the media into a frenzy by lying and tweeting the following: “President Trump in Tokyo: ‘Kim Jon Un is smarter and would make a better president than Sleepy Joe Biden’”

And you can’t trick it? You can’t cheat them?

- England’s Queen Elizabeth when she was shown a selfcheckout machine in an London supermarket last weekend for the first time in her life

I’m an extremely stable genius.

OK? - President Trump to reporters, trolling Democrats after they questioned his sanity

With oxygen it’s no big deal.

- Kami Rita Sherpa , 49, after he climbed Mt. Everest twice in one week, in an interview with the BBC

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Without question, our data tells us our fans do not want us to cover politics. My job is to provide clarity. I really believe that some of our talent was confused on what was expected of them. If you fast-forward to today, I don’t believe they are confused.

- ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro in an interview with the Los Angeles Times about a new edict at his company stating that politics should not be discussed on air

I asked @SecretaryCarson about REOs – a basic term related to foreclosure – at a hearing today. He thought I was referring to a chocolate sandwich cookie. No, really.

- Tweet by Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) after HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson was confused by the Democrats’ overuse of acronyms during a hearing and when he was asked about an REO responded by asking if the questioner said OREO

I kind of let the gentlemen know sometimes some deeds have a funny way of turning around.

- Boston College Police Officer Carl Mascioli talking to reporters after a group of Jewish teenage boys helped save a man with a swastika tattoo from drowning in a Massachusetts reservoir last week by quickly running over to Police Officer Mascioli’s car and informing him that there was someone in the water who needed help

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Political Crossfire

Will China Dump Dollars?

By Robert J. Samuelson

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t last count, China held slightly more than $1 trillion in U.S. Treasury securities. One fear has been that, should China and the United States engage in an economic war – as they clearly are now – those dollars could become a weapon against us. The Chinese would sell dollars in foreign exchange markets, raising U.S. interest rates and perhaps triggering a serious American recession that might spread elsewhere.

Is this possible? Well, yes. But it’s a long shot. Let’s see how a dollar dump might work.

China would sell a huge portion of its Treasury stake. This, in turn, would reduce the price of Treasuries – which, like stocks, are traded on the open market – and raise their interest rates. Consider a simplified example to see how this works. Assume a $1,000 bond with a 5% interest rate.

It guarantees a payment of $50 a year.

But if the bond’s price has fallen to $800, that same promised $50 produces an interest rate of 6.25%.

Higher interest rates would then percolate through the U.S. economy, affecting consumer and business spending. If the reaction were powerful, a recession might result. Spending would weaken, unemployment would rise, confidence would fall.

China’s dumping of Treasuries would escalate the economic conflict between the two countries. It would signal a second fundamental break with the post-World War II global economic system, the first being Trump’s

aggressive use of tariffs.

But two practical caveats arise.

First, the Chinese might be victims of their own policies. A global recession would reduce exports, compounding the effect of the 25% U.S. tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese exports. The dollar’s exchange rate might fall, while China’s renminbi might rise. The shift in exchange rates would weaken China’s competitive position. China’s sale of some U.S. Treasuries would also reduce the value of

trade – has been shrinking, and this implies that China is accumulating fewer dollars than before. But that hasn’t sent interest rates soaring. They remain historically low. The rate on 10-year Treasuries is less than 2.5%.

One explanation is that the world seems to have a huge appetite for U.S. Treasury securities, which are called “safe assets” by financial experts. This means that, despite all of America’s economic and political problems, investors don’t believe the United States

“It’s a declaration of war - not just against the United States, but the world.”

the Treasuries that aren’t sold.

Why would the Chinese inflict these costs on themselves? Good question. Selling Treasuries “is perhaps the least potent weapon in its arsenal of potential retaliatory strikes against U.S. trade sanctions,” says economist Eswar Prasad of Cornell University. He doubts that China will do it.

The second caveat is the opposite of the first. It is that China might sell lots of Treasuries, and very little would happen. Interest rates would hardly budge. Already, China’s current account surplus – a broad measure of

would default on its government debt.

Treasuries are a good place to leave idle funds.

The various possible consequences have led many observers to doubt that China would deliberately try to undermine the U.S. Treasury market. This is how Capital Economics, a forecasting firm, judged the prospects: “[It] wouldn’t be sensible. If such a fire-sale [of Treasury securities] drove up their yields [interest rates], China would lose money on its remaining holdings. It might also lead to greater instability in emerging financial markets. This includes China, which the

authorities there want to avoid.”

David Smick, editor of The International Economy magazine, echoes this appraisal. Dumping Treasuries poses too many risks, including a global recession. “It’s a declaration of war – not just against the United States, but the world,” he says. “I don’t think the Chinese are going to do that.”

Whatever happens, the China story is undergoing significant revision.

Not so long ago, its economy was growing at a rate of 10% a year. Now that’s slipped to about 6%, and many economists expect it to decline further. Derek Scissors of the American Enterprise Institute thinks it could drop to 4.5% this year and as low as 1 to 2% within a decade.

There are many obstacles to faster growth. Debt is one. Although it spurred growth in the past, borrowing in China has now reached levels that look increasingly unsustainable.

From 2005 to 2018, loans to Chinese nonfinancial corporations went from 112% of GDP to 152% of GDP, reports the Institute of International Finance, an industry research and advocacy group.

The resolution of this struggle is unclear. But if nothing else, the collision between the Trump administration and Beijing heralds a new era in U.S.-China relations. Both countries are caught in contradiction, being in conflict and dependent on each other at the same time. (c) 2019, Washington Post Writers Group

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Political Crossfire

Europeans Must Accept Responsibility for Their Jihadist “Foreign Fighters”

By David Ignatius

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or sheer hypocrisy, it’s hard to match the European nations that are refusing responsibility for dozens of their nationals who became jihadist “foreign fighters” over the past five years and are now warehoused in makeshift prisons in northeast Syria.

U.S. officials say that about 2,000 foreign fighters from more than 50 nations are among the roughly 10,000 captured Islamic State fighters held in several dozen ramshackle prisons in Syria.

The detention facilities are run by the Syrian Democratic Forces, the Kurdish militia that partnered with a U.S.-led coalition to defeat Islamic State. The other 8,000 captives are

Syrian and Iraqi fighters.

The Pentagon and State Department have implored European nations to repatriate their nationals for trial and imprisonment, or at least pay the SDF to hold them temporarily. But so far, most European nations have refused. The SDF warns that it can’t imprison them indefinitely and doesn’t have laws that would allow formal prosecution in the Kurdish-controlled zone.

“If these prisoners are not going to be taken, what is the endgame?” complained one frustrated Pentagon official in an interview: “What comes next? People haven’t thought about it.”

The Europeans protest that they

don’t have adequate laws to try their nationals who committed terrorist offenses on foreign soil and that they don’t have evidence that would stand up in court. They worry, too, that jihadists in European prisons would radicalize other Muslim prisoners and then be released back into society in a few years, perhaps to commit new terrorist acts.

It’s a political problem for Europe, too, explained one European who has talked extensively with officials there about the repatriation issue. “The European Union is in denial,” he told me. “The security and interior ministers don’t want to hear about it. The Europeans feel that a government that takes them

back has no chance for reelection.”

The problem isn’t just the foreign fighters in the prisons, but their wives and children living in camps.

Experts estimate that of the 74,000 people at a huge camp known as Al Hol, about 11,000 may be related to fighters who aren’t Syrian or Iraqi.

The European desire for self-protection was epitomized by Ben Wallace, British security minister, who told The Guardian: “I’m not putting at risk British people’s lives to go looking for terrorists or former terrorists in a failed state.”

The International Committee for the Red Cross, which visits prison and civilian camps in northeast Syria, said in a statement: “Countries of

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origin cannot turn their backs. People – especially children – cannot be made stateless. Faced with this complex problem, moral inertia is not an option.”

What peeves some U.S. officials is that the European nations shunning responsibility for Islamic State prisoners have for years been lecturing the United States about its immoral treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Facing a post-conflict dilemma now that’s similar to what the U.S. encountered with al-Qaeda, the Europeans are ducking the problem.

European castigation of Guantanamo abuses included German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s statement that “an institution like Guantanamo can and should not exist” and the European Parliament’s demand that the U.S. close Guantanamo “without delay.” (These criticisms were gathered by the Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas.)

President Trump tweeted about the problem on April 30, as the last holdouts of the Islamic State were being routed and sent to the overcrowded, underfunded SDF prisons:

are refusing to take back prisoners from their specific countries. Not good!” For once, Trump was right.

But U.S. pleas have yielded little response, especially from Europe.

What peeves some U.S. officials is that the European nations shunning responsibility for Islamic State prisoners have for years lectured the United States about its immoral treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

“European countries are not helping at all, even though this was very much done for their benefit. They

The only countries to accept significant transfers from the SDF prisons are Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Koso-

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vo, Morocco and Bosnia, a Pentagon official said. Some prisoners have also been transferred to Iraq, which has offered to take thousands more, but only if paid.

The SDF, which has limited resources and faces a Turkish threat of attack, has kept holding the prisoners but warned it can’t do so indefinitely. Abdulkerim Umer, an SDF representative, told The Associated Press: “We can’t put up with this burden alone. ... The international community has evaded its responsibility, so we ask that they help us set up the court here.”

European nations talk of some sort of international tribunal for the jihadist prisoners, but there’s been no significant movement to make that happen.

Defeating the Islamic State was a worthy goal. Ignoring the prisoners who were captured in that war, and leaving the problem to others, is reprehensible. (c) 2019, Washington Post Writers Group

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Forgotten Her es

D-Day Storming the Beaches of Normandy 75 Years Ago

By Avi Heiligman

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llied high command during World War II knew that the way to defeat the Germans was to directly assault German-occupied territory and then fight into

Germany itself. The Americans, British, Canadians and other Western European nations that still had a fighting force spent years building up their armies and training sol-

diers for a massive assault. However, much of the planning, including where the actual landings for an invasion would take place, was kept a secret. The buildup for D-Day was a long process that ultimately led to the defeat of Nazi Germany.

In May 1940, Germany invaded Western Europe and forced the British to make a desperate attempt to evacuate soldiers before they were captured. Called Operation Dynamo, the Dunkirk evacuation was successful, and over 330,000 Allied soldiers made it back to England.

In August 1942, with Russian Premier Joseph Stalin demanding the Allies open up a second front in Europe to help alleviate pressure on Russian troops, the Allies carried out the Dieppe Raid. Over 6,000 soldiers, mainly Canadian, attempted to land in Dieppe, France. Over half of the soldiers were killed, wounded, or captured during Operation Jubilee. This failure convinced Allied high command not to make another attempt to land in France until they had the weapons, material, and personnel trained for a large-scale operation. In the meantime, Allied forces landed in North Africa, Sicily, and then Italy, all the while capturing territory from the Axis powers.

Two other plans to land in France had been proposed but were ultimately dismissed due to lack of seasoned troops. With the landings

in North Africa and Sicily, however, the Allies, especially the Americans, gained valuable experience and were ready to train for a French landing.

The difference was that this time around the Germans had no clue where and when the landings were to take place. This was due to many steps set forth by Operation Bodyguard and its 10 sub-operations (according to historians that calculated all of the operations) that were meant to fool the Germans. The name of the operation came from a quote by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, “In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”

Several aspects of the invasion had to be in place and ready for General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander, to give the green light. The weather and the tides had to be just right because if they weren’t, the landing boats would get stuck or overturn far from their targets. Several thousand aerial photo reconnaissance missions were undertaken so that the planes could give the ground commanders an accurate picture of what to expect upon landing. These missions included flying over the entire European coastline so as not to alert the Nazis as to the location of the invasion. Ironically, while accurate information was given over about

the beaches, the ground units knew nothing of the Norman hedgerows that lay inland and spent several frustrating weeks trying to dislodge the Germans. Two artificial harbors with several piers each, called Mulberries, were designed as temporary ports until a real port could be captured.

Rehearsing the invasion was a key aspect to training the soldiers and most had to learn from scratch how to debark from a landing craft and fight on beaches. Typically, marines are given the task of amphibious landings but most were deployed to the Pacific, the numerous landings taking place on remote islands.

Several Nazi agents and spies in England were sending messages back home that the Allied landings were to take place in the Pas de Calais area. What the Abwehr and their wily leader Admiral Wilhelm Canaris didn’t know was that these spies were sending messages that the Allies wanted them to see. Every single agent and spy in England had been caught and the ones that hadn’t been executed were under British control. The organization was called the Double Cross System. “Turned” agents would send false messages to Germany under the watchful eye of the British. Every agent has a special code and feel to their messages and therefore if someone besides the original agent would send back a message the Abwehr would know.

The Germans wouldn’t find out until after the war that all of their agents had been compromised.

The messages included information that the Allies were planning a massive strike with the First U.S. Army Group commanded by Lieutenant General George Patton. In reality, the First Army Group was fictitious and the radio messages that the Germans picked up were deliberately falsified. This part of the plan was called Operation Fortitude and it included contingencies if the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) was to send reconnaissance planes over England. These planes saw many tanks, planes, supplies, and soldiers preparing for the fight.

Most of the material that was photographed by the Germans was

fake – such as inflatable tanks and jeeps and cardboard in the shape of planes. The “dummy” army’s material was arranged just like the real thing so the observers from the sky couldn’t tell the difference. From the air these looked like the real thing and were placed in Northern England, just opposite the Pas de Calais across the English Channel.

Even after D-Day, one double agent codenamed Garbo sent messages back to Germany. Through August,

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took place. As D-Day drew nearer, these exercises stopped and the soldiers weren’t allowed contact with the outside world for fear of the enemy finding out about the plan. The term “loose lips sinks ships” was reiterated to everyone involved, and the few slipups that did occur had serious consequences for the violators.

A major part of the invasion was the three divisions that were to parachute behind the beaches and

The stage was now set for the largest seaborne invasion in history as over 150,000 men were about to invade Nazioccupied France.

21 German divisions were kept in the Pas de Calais – far away from the real battle. Garbo was one of the few people to be decorated by both sides of the war, and the Germans never figured out that they had been fooled.

These preparations masked the real staging area in the south. Several months before the invasion, large landing exercises that involved the troops slated to invade Normandy

prevent German reinforcements from reaching the six divisions that were landing. The seaborne invasion was to take place at daybreak but the airborne troops were to jump at midnight. This would give them six hours to disrupt the enemy’s movements, open up “exits” at the beaches, and cut communication channels. Along with the British 6th, the American 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions, 500 dummies in

parachutes were to be dropped away from the main drop zones to confuse the Germans and their radar.

General Eisenhower postponed D-Day by one day due to weather reports. The ground commander was British General Bernard Law Montgomery who defeated German General Erwin Rommel, nicknamed the Desert Fox, in North Africa.

“Monty,” whom the American troops disliked, was to face off against his fierce rival again in France. Most German generals thought it would be in the Pas-de-Calais and no one thought that the Allies would strike on the sixth of June due to the weather conditions. Rommel had even gone back to Germany to celebrate his wife’s birthday and, with their radar stations out of commission due to the pre-invasion bombings, the Germans had no clue that anything was about to happen until it was too late.

The terms D-Day and H-Hour are generic for seaborne landings but since this is the most famous D-Day in history, the term D-Day without a date references June 6. The night before D-Day 1,000 bombers attacked German gun positions along the Atlantic Wall as the massive armada of warships, landing craft, and a host of countless types of vessels headed straight for the Normandy coast. Besides troops from America, Britain and Canada, sailors, airmen and soldiers from Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, The Netherlands, France, Greece, New Zealand, Norway, Rhodesia and Poland all took part in the historic invasion. Secret signals went out to French resistance groups to start sabotaging German facilities, railroads, and other places that could hinder the Allied advance.

The stage was now set for the largest seaborne invasion in history as over 150,000 men were about to invade Nazi-occupied France. In the next article we’ll go into the invasion and reflect on the impact it had on the world 75 years ago.

Avi Heiligman is a weekly contributor to The Jewish Home. He welcomes your comments and suggestions for future columns and can be reached at aviheiligman@gmail.com.

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A Fulfilled L fe

Coach Your Workplace to Success

By Rabbi Dr. Naphtali Hoff

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ne of the biggest challenges for leaders is to create and maintain the proper conditions for worker engagement and productivity.

We know that if we are to maintain high levels of workplace output and morale we need to ensure that our employees feel valued and challenged.

We also recognize that if we want to be able to respond to, if not stay in front of, marketplace change we need to develop workers who are comfortable thinking independently and contributing to the collective brain trust.

Too many leaders and managers, however, fail to achieve this because they do not understand how to motivate today’s workers or how to empower them to think and act independently and more positively.

In generations past, people would be told what they needed to do from their earliest years. Parents would instruct children on how to behave at home and teachers would demand student compliance in school. Failure to obey would result in corporal punishment or other heavy-handed responses.

In the workplace, employees would be given orders and were required to dutifully implement them if they wanted to hold onto their positions for any meaningful duration.

But times have changed. As younger workers make their way into the workplace, they expect to play by a different set of rules. They want to be given the freedom to experiment, a voice with which to weigh in at staff meetings and the ability to pursue what they view as meaningful, engaging work. Anything

less they view as limiting, which spells dissatisfaction, and, for the most part, underperformance (if not outside job seeking).

Leaders also would be wise to guide their teams in a way that offers them the sense that they figured things out on their own. Not only does this build deeper connections to the work, but it develops resiliency and fortitude.

(While this may not be feasible at the beginning of an onboarding or job transition process, it should become the normative assumption once folks have had opportunity to get themselves settled.)

coaching tend to adopt a far more optimistic view of their people. Instead of strictly measuring performance, leaders who coach are likelier to look beyond what people have done to what they can do and become.

Let’s look at an example. John has been working at the company for the past six years. During that entire time, he is tasked with jobs that fall into a tight range of responsibility. It is simply assumed, by John’s superiors and

by John as well, that he is not able to complete tasks that are more complex and demanding or require different skills than what he has been doing un-

As younger workers make their way into the workplace, they expect to play by a different set of rules.

One of the best ways to achieve these goals is through coaching. The goal of coaching is to help people bring out their own abilities and find solutions that already lie within them. The coach achieves this through a series of questions that help the coachee to get beyond their mental blocks and limiting beliefs to achieve things that they may not otherwise have seen as possible or desirable.

Moreover, organizations that use

til now. Not surprisingly, John is never promoted and fails to live up to his potential.

But say, instead of accepting John’s limitations at face value, John’s superior were to give him a “growth exercise” and ask him to go beyond what he’s done in the past. Perhaps John would resist at the beginning and default to his own set of perceived limitations. However, with a healthy dose of encouragement and some coaching

aimed at helping John succeed, the likelihood of him making a concerted effort to achieve the task would be greatly increased.

Coaching helps higher up the ladder as well. For example, let’s say that Jane, an experienced programmer, was having difficulty completing an order. Her manager could jump right in and offer a solution. What if, instead, she says something like this? “I will be over to assist you in a bit. See if you can identify where the problem is so that we can jump right into it when I arrive.”

I think that we would agree that such an approach is likelier to achieve a breakthrough than would the former approach.

Building a coaching workplace encourages everyone to see opportunities rather than obstacles and to view each person as a source of limitless potential rather than possessing finite capacity.

Leaders who train themselves and their leadership teams in the art of coaching will open up new opportunities, build resilience, increase engagement, and raise morale, all while maximizing effort and impact throughout their organizations.

Rabbi Naphtali Hoff, PsyD, is an executive and business coach and president of Impactful Coaching & Consulting. For a free, no obligation consultation, please call 212-470-6139 or email info@impactfulcoaching.com. Check out his new leadership book, “Becoming the New Boss,” on Amazon. Download his free eBook for understaffed leaders at ImpactfulCoaching. com/EPIC.

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May the 21st Be With You, Yes?

By Allan Rolnick, CPA

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long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (OK, on May 21, 1980), The Empire Strikes Back introduced the world to Yoda, the oldest, most-powerful, and most syntactically-challenged Jedi knight in the universe. Yoda delighted audiences as he trained Luke Sky walker, launched him into battle against Darth Vader, and died peacefully at age 900, his body becoming one with the Force.

Today, his fans remember Yoda by celebrating May 21 as National Talk Like Yoda Day. And celebrating we are this year by talking about taxes!

Hard to believe it is, but taxes lie at the heart of the Star Wars universe. In Episode One: The Phantom Menace, in the very first paragraph of the opening crawl, we learned that taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems was in dispute. The Galactic Senate had imposed taxes to fight interplanetary pirates, and in response, the Trade Foundation had blockaded shipping to Naboo to pressure the Senate into repealing those taxes. The Supreme Chancellor dispatched two Jedi Knights to resolve the dispute…and the adventure begins!

Yes, more to the story there is

than that. The Sith Lord Darth Sidious — masquerading as Senator Palpatine — used the dispute to seize dictatorial powers, declare himself emperor, lure Anakin Skywalker to the Dark Side, commission a Death Star factory, and proceed to ravage the Galaxy. But really…dig down deep enough, past the epic space bat-

murder. Murderers even plotted to cheat the tax by hiding the bodies.

Smart tax policy on Jabba’s part?

Possibly…although probably not sustainable in the long run, yes? That is, unless the Tatooine Department of Tourism manages to make the desert planet appealing enough to attract future victims to emigrate!

Lucas’s timing saved him around $176 million in earthbound taxes, yes?

tles, light saber duels, and colorful aliens inhabiting Mos Eisley’s cantina (aka “the bar scene”), and you’ll find just another battle over tariffs.

Like the American Revolution almost it sounds, hrmmm?

The Galactic Senate isn’t the only body levying taxes in the Star Wars universe. On the desert planet of Tatooine, so common it was that Jabba the Hut imposed a tax on

There’s even a real-life tax-planning success behind the Star Wars story. Back in 2012, before releasing the final three installments of his saga, creator George Lucas sold his production company Lucasfilm to Disney. Closed the deal he did less than three months before the maximum tax on capital gains was scheduled to jump from %15 to %20,and the new 3.8% net in-

vestment income tax was scheduled to begin. Lucas’s timing saved him around $176 million in earthbound taxes, yes?

Lucas with one last challenge success faces. With somewhere north of $5 billion in assets, he’s facing an estate tax bill the size of a minor outlying planet. But estate planning moves he has. Lucas has signed Bill Gates’ “Giving Pledge,” which encourages wealthy people to donate most of their wealth to charity. Signing the pledge accelerates normal charitable giving into hyperdrive and cuts estate taxes with the power of the Millennium Falcon.

When it comes to saving money on taxes, one thing you must remember there is: plan or plan not. There is no try. Jedi tax planning you need.

Fortunately, you don’t have to fight your way through an army of stormtroopers to slash your bill. Make sure you have a plan and feel the proactive power of the Force!

Allan J Rolnick is a CPA who has been in practice for over 30 years in Queens, NY. He welcomes your comments and can be reached at 718-896-8715 or at allanjrcpa@aol.com.

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Life’s Dependable

By Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., MFT, CLC

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call it things you can depend on.

Your friends call, “Hey, let’s go for the first bike ride of the season.” Great, you’re on board. You go into the garage. Whoops! Who borrowed your bike recently and didn’t return it?!

Oh, wait there it is, in the corner. Oh gee, the tires are flat. Wait, no problem. You happen to own a tire pump. Hey, where is that thing?

There it is, stashed away on a shelf – you found it relatively quickly. Oy, but where’s that little piece that gets it connected to the tire?

Voila, it was hidden in a little compartment underneath the pump. Just pop it in and it’s ready to be attached to the bike. Whoopy, I hear the air going. Oh no, I feel the air coming out!

I’m taking all the air out, and none is going in?!

Ah ha! That’s it. You have to angle it a bit. Poof, poof, poof…. Yay, ready to ride!

Ummm, last item – and maybe the most important – where’s my helmet?

Wait, who took my helmet off the hook? Ah, look there. Got it. Oh no, who readjusted it? Ugh, those crazy straps, torturous to reposition; my ears get pulled down, my neck gets shrunk up and cuts my breath off so I can hardly utter a word.

Oh, wait, yippee! There’s mine!

Okay, ready to rock and roll. Just “beam the garage door up, Scotty!”

Oh no, it’s drizzling out! Or is it stopping? Yes, it was just a little

rain shower. Hooray! And I’m off!

Hmmmm, text coming in: “Change of plans, flat tires, we’re going to the beach.”

Does that feel at all familiar?!

Some things just happen to happen that way. Not all but certain ones always have that kind of crazy flow. Like that bike that you ignored all winter that bites you back each spring.

Or kind of like making one wrong move when you’re driving far. It should be one mere blip in your trip but it ends up on a convoluted detour. You were doing beautifully till the highway split. Somehow you went right, and the highway went left. No problem – you’ll just drive alongside and get right back on. Wait, that’s what you think. The highway just went up about 10 feet in the air, and you’re all the way down here. And now Waze just added a half hour to your ETA. Didn’t anyone ever program in U-turns?

Hey, now, where’d all this additional traffic come from? Did everyone make that same wrong turn?!

Okay, I’ll regroup. No way to fly up there onto the highway anyway. But what kind of neighborhood is it taking me through? This is not a neighborhood I’d wander into voluntarily.

Where’s the next highway already?

Yippee! The sign’s in sight. Oh my gosh! Did someone pay everyone with a car to come to this road? It’s bumper to bumper. Looks like we can settle in

for the duration.

Oh, good, it was some temporary tie-up. The traffic is opening up ahead. Now, I just need to get to a restroom quickly. Wait, is that one...that I’m actually just passing positioned in the middle of the road too far over to my left to get to?!

And so, the trip goes on...

There are just these certain situations that intermittently and dependably go from slight blip to extended trying patterns.

Sometimes it’s the restaurant experience.

“Sir, can I take your order?”

“Yes, thanks. I’ll have the squash soup.”

“So sorry. We don’t have that today.”

“No problem. I’ll just have that vegetable purée thing. And for my main, can I get the cowboy steak?”

“Oh yes, excellent choice, our most popular.”

“Excuse me, sir, seems like it really is popular. We ran out of the steak you wanted. How about the Delmonico?”

“Whatever you suggest. As long as I can have the chocolate soufflé for dessert.”

“Ummm. We’ve had a really busy night. Can I suggest…”

“The check?!”

Recognize this one? Your toddler wakes up. Crying more than usual. Just so you can get back to sleep quickly, you put him in your bed. Yay,

done!

But, tonight he’s restless. He is squirming all over the bed. You can’t sleep for worrying. You decide to make sure he’s safe. You get up again and push your bed to the wall. Then you hover off the rim. And wait. Finally, he cuddles next to you. He’s dozing off. Ah, a hint of sleep is in the air. Yup, there’s that steady breathing.

At last, you can get back to sleep.

Hooray! Mmmmmm.

But, alas, as you doze off, a sensation washes over you. You are floating in an ocean. Whoever changed that last diaper of his didn’t do a very secure job closing the sides!

So, it goes, some things feel inevitable time and again. The somewhat humorous/frustrating fact that every once in a while, things will just snowball in complexity. And then there’s those things that don’t necessarily happen a lot but feel like they do. You know like nothing to do three Sundays in a row, and then suddenly, everything you want to be at is scheduled on the same Sunday between 1011!

I just call it all the things we can depend on. And that way instead of feeling so upset when these things happen, we can feel, well, at least life is dependable!

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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