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of the room. He would then ask for the class list and go through it, name by name. And he would play Jewish geography. “Chava Stern? Who is Chava Stern? Is your grandfather the Stern from Munkacs? Oh, he is a very special man.”

Or “Chani Schwartz? I know your father. He is a doctor, right? A very good person. And your mother, she’s a Weider, right? A wonderful family.” He would go through the list, singling out girls, extolling their family’s virtues.

When Rabbi Kelman would pass me in the halls, I would stop to say hello, and he would ask me if I was a Soroka. Only three Sorokas passed through Prospect’s halls – my two sisters and I – and he would still remember a Soroka face out of the myriad faces he saw every day.

He would ask me about my grandfather – he loved reading his articles – and about my uncle in Baltimore.

I think the secret to Rabbi Kelman’s success was the fact that he knew that education is about the individual, not the masses. In a school where around hundred girls would graduate each year, he would single out each person, talk to them, highlight their family’s goodness.

He made each girl feel special. He understood that each person is a whole entity and deserves special attention. In that way, he was an educator way ahead of his time, someone who saw a student as a person and not just as a pupil.

I am forever grateful to Rabbi Kelman whose mossad helped to mold me into the woman I am today. Yehi zichro baruch.

xcept for kindergarten, I went to the same school all my life. I am grateful for all my years there. Even as an adult – even today – I still remember certain lessons, certain things that I learned throughout the years, and certain teachers who were able to bring the lessons to life. A lot goes into building a school and shaping and molding its students. Throughout the years, thousands of girls passed through the halls of Prospect Park Yeshiva and can proudly call themselves alumna.

I don’t know if Rabbi Avrohom Kelman, z”l, knew of how many women and homes he would impact when he created his school. It’s been 55 years since the school created its all-girls class.

And every woman who graduated from BLOPPY, as it is now known, can credit much of her strength in Yiddishkeit and her knowledge in both Torah and worldly subjects to the hanhala of Prospect Park.

Rabbi Kelman was a giant of a man – physically he towered over others. But it wasn’t just his height that was impressive. He had a vision that was far-reaching and profound. He wanted his students to be involved and informed. He wanted them to be strong, influential, knowledgeable women who would be able to go into the world armed with a solid background in their heritage. He wanted them to be able to build homes with a sturdy foundation, steeped in Torah and joy in Yiddishkeit.

Almost all graduates of Prospect Park (at least in my days) remember Rabbi Kelman from the few times he would enter the classroom during the year. He would peer into the window and then come inside, taking a seat at the head

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Contents LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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COMMUNITY Readers’ Poll

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Community Happenings

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This Week We’re Talking to...Camp Matov

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This Week We’re Talking to...Hillel Day Camp

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National

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ISRAEL Israel News

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My Israel Home

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Behind the Scenes at Your Simcha by Malky Lowinger The Six Forgotten Heroes of TA by Avi Heiligman

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PARSHA Rabbi Wein

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Growing Up by Rav Moshe Weinberger

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JEWISH THOUGHT Nice Guys Finish Last by Eytan Kobre

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Tu B’Av, the Shidduch Crisis, and the Meaning of Life by Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz 76 HEALTH & FITNESS New Thoughts on Using Leverage in Relationships

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Dear Editor, I am a regular reader of TJH, as well as many other Jewish publications, and I always wonder why we Jews insist on referring to young men and women as “boys” or “girls.”

I see this constantly in advice columns regarding dating and shidduchim and even in your centerfold “Riddle me this” column this past week (where the object was to guess which girl was wearing which colored shirt, even though one of these “girls” was married). It seems clear to me that if someone is old enough to be married or even dating, he or she shouldn’t be addressed so demeaningly.

Renee Silverstein Dear Editor, I liked your comments in last newspaper but I don’t think Democrats like Senator Gillibrand is naive. I think we are naive to believe the Democrats don’t understand what they are doing and if we simply explain to them they will change their mind. Most Democratic representatives today are purely evil and not naive! They know what they are doing but their agenda is more important to them than even simple common sense. And it’s no longer “cool” in their circles to support Israel. Unfortunately. I just hope that

our people will realize this and as the demographics keeps changing one day we may have a very large number of Orthodox Jews and if we all vote Republican we can get rid of the evil, “u’biarta hara mikirbecha!”

Michael Rosen Dear Editor, After reading your letter in the paper this week, I was reminded how it important it is for voters to be in touch with our elected officials.

I took the opportunity to call Senator Gillibrand’s office to express my displeasure and disbelief over her recent comments regarding the current events in Israel.

Thanks again for the reminder!

P. Bluth Editor’s Note: I should have included Senator Gillibrand’s office number is my letter to readers last issue. She can be reached at 202224-4451 or at 518-431-0120. The more people to voice their displeasure at her comments, the stronger our pro-Israel voice will be.

Dear Editor, In your Notable Quotes, the honorable Senator Gillibrand is concerned that “Prime Minister Netanyahu does not have a plan for Continued on page 14

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LIFESTYLES Dating Dialogue, Moderated by Jennifer Mann, LCSW

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peace and doesn’t have a vision for peace.” I find it concerning, if not appalling, that the good senator is concerned about Netanyahu and not the Palestinian leadership. Any elected official with a finger on the pulse of Mideast negotiations can easily appreciate that no plan or vision for peace has any chance to succeed when the Palestinians cannot agree to the presence of a Jewish state.

Shmuli Herschlikowicz Dear Editor, I always appreciate when you print biographies on individuals in our community, highlighting their bravery. Dr. Avital is one such gentleman. His story seems almost impossible – to have survived the camps and then to have traveled to Israel, to have escaped the internment camps there, to have served in the Haganah, and then to have immigrated to the United States and becoming a lecturer and scholar

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here. He is a hero.

What’s astounding to me is that our nation is made up of myriad heroes. Each survivor has an amazing story to tell. Each person who served in the Haganah has an amazing story to tell. Each person who came to the United States with nothing and then made something of themselves and their family has an amazing story to tell. What an inspiration to us all!

Sincerely, C. Newman Dear Editor, I am writing this the day after Tisha B’Av. I am overwhelmed with feelings as I pen this letter. So much of our lives are spent comparing ourselves to others. We look down on our brothers and sisters for trivial matters. This one talks too loud, this one snubbed me on the street, this one blocked my car, this one honked their horn at me... But what if we stopped all that? What if we forced ourselves to let things slide and to look for only the positive in our brothers and sisters? Wouldn’t we love for someone to do that for us?

Wouldn’t that make us feel good?

Furthermore, when we see the positive in others, we will begin to feel happier. Negative thoughts pin us down. They make us feel bad. But positive thoughts will lighten us, will make us more upbeat, radiant.

That should be what we should all work on this Elul. We should get up in the morning and put on our “positive glasses.” We should look for the good and let the negative roll of our backs. We should start our year in a more positive way, and then, iy”H, we will be blessed with only good things in the upcoming year.

A Reader

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The Week In News

Brexit’s Hefty Price Tag

Leaving the European Union is going to cost Britain a pretty penny.

As part of the Brexit deal Britain is prepared to pay up to 40 billion euros ($47 billion), according to the Sunday Telegraph newspaper, citing three unnamed sources familiar with Britain’s negotiating strategy. The fee will be paid over several years, with 10 billion euros a year for three years after their exit date of 2019; the remaining balance will be settled once detailed trade talks begin.

The European Union originally demanded 60 billion euros. The EU is also necessitating that Britain settle liabilities before they begin negotiating future trading arrangements.

Neither Britain nor the EU has given official comment on the leak.

David Davis, the British minister in charge of Brexit talks, said on July 20 that Britain would honor its obligations to the EU but declined to confirm that Brexit would require net payments. British foreign secretary Boris Johnson, a leading Brexit advocate, said last month the EU could “go whistle” if it made “extortionate” demands for payment.

According to many economists, the Brexit uncertainty is affecting the economy negatively. Finance Minister Philip Hammond has been vocal about wanting to stabilize business. If Britain cannot conclude an exit deal, trade relations would be governed

by World Trade Organization rules, which would allow both parties to impose tariffs and customs checks and leave many other issues unsettled.

Another condition the EU is pushing for is an agreement regarding rights of EU citizens already in Britain and on border controls between

the Irish Republic and the British province of Northern Ireland – even before trade and other issues are discussed.

Britain makes up a sixth of the EU economically. When – and if – the exit actually goes through it would have an impact globally.

Queen’s Husband Wants to be King

The dream of being a king is still alive for Prince Henrik of Denmark.

The prince is 83-years-old. Five decades ago Henrik married Queen Margrethe II and received the title of the queen’s prince consort. But Henrik has wanted to be named king or “king consort.” He never got over the snub and is still protesting – 50 years later. In protest, Prince Henrik recently expressed that he no longer wishes to be buried beside the queen, although he did not reveal where he would like to be laid to rest.

“It is no secret that the prince for many years has been unhappy with his role and the title he has been awarded in the Danish monarchy,” the Royal Danish House’s director of communications, Lene Balleby, said.

“This discontent has grown more and more in recent years.

“For the prince, the decision not to be buried beside the queen is the natural consequence of not having been treated equally to his spouse — by not having the title and role he has desired,” Balleby added.

When Henrik and Margrethe wed she was already the crown princess.

He was a successful diplomat in the French foreign service and a member of the nobility. He gave up his career to be the queen’s husband, an undefined role since it was the first in the history of Denmark. All previous monarchs were male except for a 14th-century queen, who was married to the king of Norway.

Queen Margrethe II, 77, serves as Denmark’s head of state and is responsible for signing all laws passed

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by Parliament. The country’s legislative powers have been in the hands of elected governments since 1849.

Originally Henrik didn’t even receive his own salary but after protest he was awarded a salary and a staff, but not the title of king. The Danish court’s reasoning is that the practice is in line with that of other European royal families.

New Venezuelan Govt Outs Chief Prosecutor

The chief prosecutor of Venezuela has been ousted by the country’s newly installed constitutional assembly.

The political crisis that has plagued Caracas in the past few weeks brings new developments almost daily. This recent move is a sign that President

Nicolas Maduro’s government plans on moving quickly to consolidate power.

Luisa Ortega was unanimously voted out of her post as the nation’s top law enforcer. She has been banned from leaving the country, and her bank accounts have been frozen while she awaits being charged for alleged “irregularities.” Ortega has refused to recognize the decision and has promised to continue fighting for her countrymen. “This is just a tiny example of what’s coming for everyone that dares to oppose this totalitarian form of government,” Ortega said in the statement she signed as chief prosecutor. “If they’re doing this to the chief prosecutor, imagine the helpless state all Venezuelans live in.”

Ombudsman Tarek William Saab was sworn in as Ortega’s replacement.

Saab was recently hit by tough sanctions by the Trump White House for failing to protect protesters against abuses while he was the nation’s top human rights official.

Over the past four months, Venezuela has seen protests that have led to the death of at least 120 people and sent hundreds more to jail and to the hospital.

The United States has been very

critical of the new government in Venezuela, which many are calling a dictatorship. U.S. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert called the removal of Ortega an attempt to tighten the “authoritarian dictatorship” of Maduro.

N. Korea Blames U.S. for New UN Sanctions

North Korea is blaming the U.S. for a new round of sanctions that were placed over the weekend and is threatening to take “ultimate measures” in response. The United Nations Security Council was unanimous in its call for the new sanctions which aim to cut a third of North Korea’s annual export revenue. The

sanctions came about in response to two intercontinental ballistic missile tests conducted last month and included the support of both Russia and China.

“We will balance the U.S.’s felonious crime against our country and our people with something thousands of times worse, and if the U.S. does not retract its attempts to crush us to death and behave prudently, we will be ready and not hesitate to take ultimate measures,” the North Korean government said in a statement.

On Monday, North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho said that in case of attack by the U.S., the country “is ready to teach the U.S. a severe lesson with its nuclear strategic force.”

Other countries were not threatened unless they joined the U.S. in a military attack, his statement said. “The unwise conduct of the U.S. will only speed up its own extinction.”

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made clear to reporters that there is one way for North Korea to improve their international relations: “We’ve not had an extended period of time where they have not taken some type of provocative action by launching ballistic missiles. So I think that would be the first and strongest signal

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According to the White House, President Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in had an hour-long phone call in which “the two leaders affirmed that North Korea poses a grave and growing direct threat to the United States, South Korea, and Japan, as well as to most countries around the world.”

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Libya has had six very tense years since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. Sectarian violence has overtaken the country, and the political and economic challenges faced by the small country are enormous.

In order to help stabilize the nation, the UN has appointed a new envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salame.

During his first visit to the country, Salame spoke of his hopes for a “year of stability” in Tripoli. He held talks with the UN-backed Prime Minister of the Government of National Accord Fayez al-Sarraj.

Sarraj said that “we are ready to provide all the necessary support and assistance to him.” He wished the new envoy good luck and said that he hopes that the country will “emerge from the current crisis” to a “safe and stable Libya.”

Sarraj recently struck a deal with rival leader Field Marshal Khalifa Belqasim Haftar of the Libyan National Army in order to attempt to establish peace in the region.

Pakistan PM Out – and Fighting Despite being ousted from his position on July 28 of this year, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of Pa-

kistan has insisted that his removal from office does not mean his future in politics is over, as he plans to go ahead with a rally this week and to fight a legal battle to reverse his disqualification.

“I don’t want reinstatement for myself. I am struggling to ensure the rule of law in Pakistan,” he emphasized.

Sharif said his legal experts will soon file a review petition against the Supreme Court order that ousted him from power for concealing assets — specifically, that his son’s Dubaibased company listed a monthly salary for him. Sharif has repeatedly said he never received any of that money.

Sharif has said he wanted to start a debate, in parliament and public, to discuss why no elected prime minister has complete their full term in Pakistan, which has been ruled by army generals for more than half of its 70year history.

When asked whether the army had influenced the judiciary against him, Sharif said “let’s leave this question for later.”

Sharif has a history of rocky relations with the military, and he was cautious about commenting on the sensitive issue of civil-military relations. He insisted he was a victim of a conspiracy, but he avoided a direct answer when asked who conspired against him. “You will know the answers to these questions soon,” he said.

Sharif’s removal plunged Pakistan into political turmoil but in less than a week parliament elected senior lawmaker Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as the country’s new prime minister. Sharif’s party initially wanted Abbasi to serve as an interim premier for 45 days until Sharif’s younger brother, Shahbaz Sharif, the chief minister of Punjab, secures a national assembly seat in a by-election. On Tuesday, Sharif said his party won’t replace Abbasi with his brother, but that decision has yet to be finalized.

Sharif did not say who will now lead his ruling Pakistan Muslim League party as last month’s court decision also barred him from participating in politics.

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Cyber Hero Arrested for Cyber-Attack

In early May, Britain was hit with a cyber virus called WannaCry which attacked a third of their National Health Service facilities and many private companies and individuals. In an interesting twist, Marcus Hutchins, the security researcher who is credited with putting a stop to the WannaCry attack, has now been arrested in Las Vegas for being involved in another software attack that targeted bank accounts.

The 23-year-old was in Las Vegas for the annual Def Con hacking conference, which is the largest hacking conference in the world. After the conference was over, Hutchins was arrested while returning home at the Las Vegas airport by FBI agents and is being held in a federal facility.

He is accused of helping create and spread Kronos, a banking Trojan malware program, in 2014 and 2015.

The malware was sent in email attachments and was used to hijack credentials and internet banking passwords. Users of the malware would then easily steal money from these accounts. Hutchins, known online as MalwareTech, has been indicted along with another unnamed defendant.

Hutchins is credited with publishing a website that acted as a kill-switch for the WannaCry cyber-attack. WannaCry had spread to hundreds of thousands of computers on the first day it was active. It would encrypt a hard drive, shut down the computer, and then demand $300 in bitcoin currency to receive a decryption key. The United States and the United Kingdom’s intelligence agencies have linked WannaCry to North Korean sources. North Korean hackers have become bolder lately, using cyberattacks to raise money for the heavily sanctioned state.

Rouhani Inaugurated – Again

Over the weekend Iran swore in President Hassan Rouhani, 68, for his second term after winning a 24 million vote in May. During his campaign, the Iranian leader promised to include women and young, fresh faces in his 18-member cabinet.

However, it now seems he may be rescinding that promise due to pressure from conservative leaders.

“We supported him during the campaign, but now there is no place for us,” said Jila Baniyaghoob, a women’s rights advocate, who said she was informed 10 days ago that there would be no female ministers in the cabinet. “Clearly, Mr. Rouhani does not believe in the capabilities of women. This is so disappointing.”

Rouhani’s personal life was thrust into the spotlight a few weeks ago when his brother, Hossein Fereydoun, a former ambassador to the United Nations, was detained on corruption charges. He was let out upon paying $13 million bail, raising suspicions on how he got his hands on that kind of money after spending his life in a career as a diplomat and think-tank chief.

In Thursday’s endorsement ceremony, the Ayatollah advised the president to “pay attention to the people’s problems, which today are primarily the economy and living conditions.” He also urged Rouhani to have extensive interaction with the world and to “stand strongly against any domination,” state media reported.

“Rouhani faces serious pressures,” said Fazel Meybodi, a Shiite cleric from Qom who supports change in Iran. “Perhaps too many.

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Tragic Helicopter Crash

A pilot was killed in a training mission accident on a base in southern Israel this week. The helicopter pilot, Maj. David “Dudi” Zohar, reported a problem during his evening flight in the Ramon Air Base in the Negev Desert. A few minutes later, while attempting to land, the Apache helicopter crashed on the runway, killing Zohar, 43, and critically injuring a crew member.

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mining what went wrong. Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel appointed an air force colonel to head up the investigation. The entire fleet of Apache helicopters was grounded pending the results of the investigation.

Zohar, a father of four, began his career in 2004 as a systems engineer.

From there he continued on to management and, starting in February 2016, served as vice president of the air division and dealt with the subject of precision munitions. Maj. Zohar was a graduate of the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa. He met his wife Galit at the school, and their four children, ages 6-14, study at the institution.

“You will not find any better than him,” said Shaul Zohar, David’s older brother. “He had a wonderful family and wonderful children. It’s a hard blow for us, and we thank everyone for the love and support, thank you all.”

The crash came a week after another Apache helicopter had to carry out an emergency landing in the Hebron Hills in the southern West Bank.

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E Jerusalemites Permitted to Enter Gaza

On Monday, it was announced – on Facebook by Major General Yoav Mordechai – that East Jerusalemites in a position to improve the economic or humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip would be eligible to apply for Israeli permits to enter the Pales-

tinian enclave. Only 150 such permits will be granted at one time.

“Access is allowed to businessmen and others who want to improve and strengthen the economy, infrastructure and humanitarian conditions of the Gaza Strip,” the statement said.

Prior to the new policy, East Jerusalemites could only enter Gaza strictly on humanitarian grounds and with individual coordination, a spokesperson for COGAT, the Defense Ministry agency that liaises with the Palestinians on civil affairs, said.

The Palestinian terror group Hamas seized Gaza from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah forces in June 2007, leading Israel to impose a crippling blockade that critics say punishes the Strip’s two million residents indiscriminately. But Israel has defended the blockade, saying it is necessary to prevent Hamas from acquiring the weapons and military infrastructure it uses to attack the Jewish state.

The new policy is aimed at improving the dire economic and humanitarian conditions in Gaza, COGAT said. The new East Jerusalem policy is intended mostly for businesspeople and physicians who can contribute to Gaza’s economic development and

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the improvement of its civilian infrastructure. The entrance permit for residents of East Jerusalem will enable them to stay in Gaza for between a week and a month.

Despite the gesture by the Israeli government, the move was criticized for limiting the permits to those from East Jerusalem and not allowing those in Israel or the West Bank access as well.

Unemployment in the Strip is above 44 percent and among youth it is 60%, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.

A 2012 UN report predicted the Palestinian enclave would be “unlivable” by 2020 if nothing was done to ease the blockade. In July, Robert Piper, the UN’s top humanitarian official in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, warned that Gaza had already become “unlivable” in some senses.

“We predicted some years ago that Gaza would fast become unlivable on a host of indicators and that deadline is actually approaching even faster than we predicted – from health access, to energy to water,” he said.

A UN report released in July, “Gaza — Ten Years Later,” said more than 95% of Gaza’s water is now unfit for drinking, while electricity flow has been critically lacking in recent months — falling to only a few hours a day.

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car into an Israeli soldier and then got out and stabbed three others.

Zayoud, who was given a 25 year sentence, will have his citizenship revoked in October and will be given a temporary status that will be extended at the discretion of the interior minister after his sentence is complete.

Avraham Elyakim, Deputy President of the Haifa Magistrate Court, said that the punishment was “suitable and proportional.”

“For every citizen, alongside his rights, there are commitments,” Elyakim reasoned. “One of them is the significant and important commitment to maintain loyalty to the state, which is given expression also in the commitment to not carry out terror acts to harm its residents and their security. We cannot allow an Israeli citizen to impact the lives and dignity of other Israeli citizens, and whoever decides to do so in acts of terror removes himself from the general society of the country,” he added.

When he was being investigated, Zayoud admitted to the detectives that his attack was “nationalistically motivated,” which is police jargon for a terror attack. He had originally claimed that his collision was a simple car accident and that the stabbings were carried out in self-defense.

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Israel, for the first time ever, has stripped an Arab Israeli of his citizenship after he carried out a terror attack. The Haifa Magistrate’s Court decided to revoke Alaa Raed Ahmad Zayoud’s status as an Israeli. On October 11, 2015, Zayoud rammed his

The Shin Bet has exposed an elaborate Hamas money laundering scheme that has been funneling money from Gaza to Chevron by way of Turkey.

The complex scheme was exposed by the Shin Bet, the IDF and the Israeli Police. It led to the arrest of five Hamas members in the West Bank and two others in Turkey and the Gaza Strip. The operation was spearheaded

by Muhammad Mahen Bader, a senior Hamas operative from Chevron.

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and ship them to Chevron. Once the goods arrived in Chevron, the money from the sale of the goods was given to other Hamas members.

The long-distance scheme successfully laundered $200,000 before it was shut down. It was up and running for just over a year. Many of those involved had been previously imprisoned and released in the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange.

The Shin Bet revealed that Hamas “frequently mobilizes relatives of the organization’s operatives in the field or is assisted by merchants and businessmen who pay a significant personal and business price for this activity.”

The intelligence agency is on a hot streak. They recently also stopped the construction of a multi-million dollar concrete plant that was a front for a major Hamas money laundering operation.

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The left-wing Molad think tank filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Yair Netanyahu for defamation over a Facebook post by the prime minister’s son slamming the group. In the suit, which was filed with the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court, Molad accused Yair Netanyahu of seeking to “shame” the group through what it said are libelous accusations. “[Yair Netanyahu] committed an injustice against the plaintiff in a terrible, cynical, despicable, evil and uninhibited manner in order to try to shame the plaintiff, ‘spill its blood,’ harm its good name and reputation, sabotage its operations and humiliate it publicly by publishing ugly falsehoods that don’t have an iota of truth,” the suit said.

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In addition to seeking NIS 140,000 ($39,000) in damages, the suit calls for Netanyahu to apologize and delete the Facebook post.

Yair Netanyahu had accused Molad of serving a radical left-wing and anti-Israel agenda after the group posted scathing criticism of the prime minister’s son last week on the Facebook page of its “Sixty One” initiative. Titled “5 facts about Yair Netanyahu, our national son,” Mo-

lad’s post castigated the prime minister’s son for living at the taxpayer’s expense, taking lavish vacations with an entourage of state-funded security guards, seeking to influence his father, and encouraging the boycott of Arab-owned businesses.

Netanyahu, who was already in the news over an incident the previous Saturday in which he allegedly refused to clean up after his dog, hit back at Molad, saying in a Facebook

post that Sixty One’s accusations were “lies.” He accused Molad of being a “radical, anti-Zionist organization funded by the Foundation for the Destruction of Israel [a reference to the New Israel Fund, in a Hebrew play on words] and the European Union.”

“How nice that your side is always going on about incitement, demonization, character assassination and crossing of all red lines,” he wrote, before signing off with certain emojis.

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The emojis referred to Saturday’s incident at the dog park, during which a woman said Yair Netanyahu made a rude gesture to her after she asked him to clean up after his dog.

Molad issued a swift response to Netanyahu’s post, calling on him to apologize and remove it or face a libel lawsuit. He refused, instead posting several more attacks on the group on his page in the ensuing days.

Responding to the lawsuit on Tuesday, Yair Netanyahu’s lawyer Yossi Cohen called it “delusional” and said it was an attempt to silence his client.

“A body that pretends to be liberal and pluralistic first slandered the son of the prime minister and is now working by means of an aggressive silencing lawsuit in order to deny him the right to respond,” Cohen said.

“We will easily repulse this delusional lawsuit and will of course take corresponding legal steps.”

Al-Jazeera Finally Gets the Boot

Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based broadcasting service, is being expelled from Israel by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The satellite news company has been accused of inciting violence and raising tensions over the Temple Mount issue.

“Al-Jazeera has become the main tool of Daesh (the Islamic State terror group), Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran,” said Communications Minister Ayoob Kara. They have been “inciting violence which has provoked losses among the best of our sons,” he added, referring to two Druze policemen who were killed in a terror attack on the Temple Mount compound on July 14.

The communications ministry said that “nearly all countries in the region – including Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan – have concluded that Al-Jazeera incites terrorism and religious extremism.” Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt all broke ties with Qatar in the first week of June. They accuse the country

of fostering extremism and listed the closure of Al-Jazeera as one of 13 demands made of Qatar if ties were to be re-established.

A statement issued from the Doha-based news channel denied any incitement and said that it will continue to monitor any fallout from the ban.

“Al Jazeera stresses that it will closely watch the developments that may result from the Israeli decision and will take the necessary legal measures towards it,” the statement read. “Al Jazeera will continue to cover the events of the occupied Palestinian territories professionally and accurately, according to the standards set by international agencies, such as the UK Office of Communications (Ofcom).”

Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera senior political analyst, said the latest move by Israel shows a “synergy” of “dictatorships” in the Arab world and “dictatorship of military occupation in Palestine.”

“It is as if closing down a network will diminish violence, when everyone knows that repression and military occupation and aggression is the reason for violence in the region. Not reporting it,” he said.

The channel’s cable and satellite connections will be cut in the Holy Land, and Al-Jazeera journalists will have their credentials revoked. Offices in Gaza and Ramallah will not be affected.

German City Bans “Israel is Illegal” Vote

In Bremen, Germany, authorities have stopped a group from holding a vote on Israel being an illegal state.

The group, known as The Feather, has a photo of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on its website and says that they are “supporters of the Islamic Revolution.” The group was established in 2007 and has “Israel being destroyed” listed as one of its major goals.

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Abbas Continues to Pressure Hamas Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, has sworn to keep cutting his financial support for Gaza, which is run by Hamas. “While there is a severe electricity crisis in Gaza, Hamas provides light for its underground tunnels and the homes of its officials around the clock,” Abbas said.

Abbas began to cut back on his financial backing of the Gaza Strip earlier this year in order to force Hamas to give up control of the region. The main areas that the Palestinian Authority cut funding was for electricity bills.

The lack of support has worsened the frequency and duration of blackouts that plague the Strip.

Hamas took control of Gaza in 2007 after splitting from Abbas’s Fatah movement. All attempts at reconciliation have failed so far. Abbas recently told a gathering of visitors that the Palestinian Authority would “continue the cuts in Gaza, gradually, unless Hamas accepts the requirements of the reconciliation.”

It appears that Hamas is having more and more trouble actually governing the Gaza Strip. The terror group has not been able to provide many basic needs to the residents in the past few months. There have been reports of a severe shortage of medicine and medical equipment in recent weeks.

Another 9/11 Victim Identified Last year, The Feather conducted public voting on the legitimacy of Israel’s existence in the cities of Delmenhorst and Hannover. Now, the German-Israel Friendship Society in Bremen, known as DIG, has launched a counter-protest against eight members of The Feather. DIG thanked Bremen authorities on their website for banning the vote in their city, having ”learned that continued actions of the organization...under the disguise

of free speech, call for the destruction of Israel.”

The Social Democratic mayor of Bremen, Carsten Sieling, was a part of the counter-protest. He told local news outlets that placing “Israel’s existence in question is almost a civil declaration of war,” adding that the event was no longer a legal question.

Bremen does not have a historically pro-Israel reputation. The Simon Wiesenthal Center has urged Mayor

Sieling in the past to shut down any city support for BDS groups. Dr. Shimon Samuels, director of the international relations for the Wiesenthal Center, wrote the mayor in 2016: “Our members are most concerned by the inaction of your municipality against a reportedly increasingly violent anti-Semitic campaign, otherwise known as BDS, reminiscent of the 1930s ‘Kauf nicht bei Juden’ [Do not buy from Jews] assaults in Nazi Germany.”

September 11, 2017 will mark 16 years since the horrific World Trade Center terrorist attacks. Now, over a

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The man’s name was not released, upon the family’s request. There are still 1,112 people, almost 40% of the victims, who remain unidentified from that tragic day. Approximately 22,000 human samples recovered from Ground Zero have been tested and retested since 2001 in the hope of returning the remains to their families. About 100 victims did not have living relatives or family members who participated in the identification process where scientists used relatives to match DNA recovered after the attack.

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The accident occurred while attempting to land the aircraft on a Navy ship. The U.S. military has been in the area for training exercises with the Australian military.

“The aircraft involved in the mishap had launched from the USS Bonhomme Richard (a Navy amphibious assault ship) and was conducting regularly scheduled operations when the aircraft entered the water,” the Marine Corps said in a statement.

Crew on board the Bonhomme Richard were performing water training exercises on Saturday, according to the ship’s Facebook page.

The exercises were a follow up to joint military training between U.S. and Australian forces that wrapped up last week. The recent joint military exercise took place largely in Shoalwater Bay and involved more than 30,000 U.S. and Australian personnel, according to Australian Defense Department.

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On Saturday, three Marines lost their lives after a U.S. military aircraft crashed into waters off Australia’s east coast. 1st Lt. Benjamin Cross, 26, Cpl. Nathaniel Ordway, 21, and Pfc. Ruben Velasco, 19 were declared dead after “extensive search and rescue efforts.” Their remains were not recovered.

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23 others survived the crash.

The Australian Navy had located the missing U.S. military MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft that crashed off the

Get ready for the Olympics 2028 in Los Angeles, California!

Although that’s over a decade away, city leaders recently secured the deal hoping that it’ll earn millions of dollars in profit. But people who oppose the arrangement express concern over the long gap of time in which things can change drastically, for better or for worse.

“It’s a big chunk of time,” noted Jules Boykoff, a Pacific University professor who has written widely on the Olympics. “You just don’t know what’s going to come. The world presents surprises.”

Doomsday predictors worry about the economy plunging, political upheaval, an influx of the homeless, or a natural disastrous earthquake in the Golden State.

Mayor Eric Garcetti stands behind the potential of the deal. He told reporters, “Los Angeles is resilient.

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If the entire earth falls apart, probably the Olympics aren’t happening in Los Angeles. But short of that, we are going to have a great Games here in LA,” he vowed.

The 2028 date will be finalized later this year. Rumor has it that Los Angeles was competing with Paris for the 2024 games, but Olympic organizers ceded the Games to Paris for ‘24. Garcetti and other supporters are now saying that the four-year delay is good because it allows for more time to build rail lines in the traffic-congested city. Others have pointed out that it will boost the economy by pumping millions of dollars into youth sports.

Los Angeles hosted the Olympics in 1932 and 1984 in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. However, the structure, which is almost 100 years old, was severely damaged in a 1994 earthquake. It is currently under repair and remodeling, but experts have warned it could still be vulnerable to shaking.

In recent years, most Olympic projects have run way over budget.

The federal government would be required to spend $1 billion-plus on security. Studies have questioned if host cities benefit economically from hosting the sporting event.

Last summer’s Olympics was hosted by Brazil in Rio. The 2018 Olympics will be held in Pyeongchang, South Korea; 2020 will be in Tokyo, Japan; and Beijing, China, will host the Olympics in 2022.

Google Tech Fired

On Monday, James Damore, the engineer at Google whose internal memo produced an uproar across the nation, was dismissed from the internet giant.

Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai told employees in a note on Monday that portions of the anti-diversity memo Damore penned “violate our Code of Conduct and cross the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace.”

Damore has said he will fight back against his dismissal.

Damore asserted in his 3,000word document that circulated inside the company last week that “Google’s left bias has created a politically correct monoculture” which prevented honest discussion of diversity.

The engineer, who has a doctoral degree in systems biology from Harvard University, according to his LinkedIn page, attacked the idea that gender diversity should be a goal.

“The distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and ... these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership,” Damore wrote in the memo.

Google’s vice president of diversity, Danielle Brown, sent a memo in response to the furor over the weekend, saying the engineer’s essay “advanced incorrect assumptions about gender.”

Apparently Google is diverse – but not if you say something they don’t like.

DOJ: Ohio can Purge Voter Lists

On Monday, in a reversal from a position taken during the Obama administration, the Justice Department sided with the state of Ohio in a high-profile voting case to allow the purging of voters from the rolls for not answering election mail and for not voting in recent elections.

Civil rights groups last year challenged Ohio’s process, arguing that such purges are prohibited under the National Voter Registration Act. The Justice Department under Obama filed an amicus brief siding with the groups, and the Supreme Court was set to hear the case in the next term.

But in an unusual turn, the department filed a new amicus brief on Monday arguing that the purges of voters are legal under federal law. This brief, unlike the prior one, was not signed by career attorneys in the civil rights division.

The Ohio procedure allows the

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Such a reversal from the Justice Department is “quite rare,” said Justin Levitt, a professor at Loyola Law School who was deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s civil rights division during the Obama administration.

Kristen Clarke, the president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, called the Ohio purges “a critical voting rights case” and said the department’s reversal is “the latest example of an agency whose leadership has lost its moral compass.”

Ohio’s purging process has been defended by Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, a Republican who is running for governor. He said that the method of removing inactive voters has been used by both Republicans and Democrats to clear the rolls of people who have moved away or died.

“Maintaining the integrity of the voter rolls is essential to conducting an election with efficiency and integrity,” Husted said in a statement in May when the Supreme Court said it would hear the case. “I remain confident that once the justices review this case they will rule to uphold the decades-old process that both Republicans and Democrats have used in Ohio to maintain our voter rolls as consistent with federal law,” Husted said.

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tion is backfiring.

Last year, the Harvard College freshmen class was comprised of mostly nonwhite students, making history in the school’s history. This coming fall will be a repeat, with the majority of the class identifying as ethnic minorities. Of the 2,056 students accepted for the class of 2021, 50.8% do not identify as white. Of the admitted students, 22.2% are Asian-American, 14.6% are African-American, 11.6% are Latino, 1.9% are Native Americans, and Native Hawaiians are 0.5%. First-generation students make up 15.1% of the admitted class.

Most people didn’t seem to be bothered that less than half of Harvard’s incoming class is non-white.

Non-Hispanic whites are 62.06% of the U.S. population. So where has the white student gone? Apparently not to Harvard. But this year, the skewed population of Harvard is making headlines as the Department of Justice is investigating a discrimination complaint against the school.

The complaint in question was filed by a coalition of 64 Asian-American associations in May 2015, DOJ spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said in a statement. The case has rolled over from President Barack Obama’s administration.

“The complaint alleges racial discrimination against Asian-Americans in a university’s admissions policy and practices,” Flores said.

“This Department of Justice has not received or issued any directive, memorandum, initiative or policy related to university admissions in general.”

Harvard strongly denied the allegations brought by the coalition, Students for Fair Admissions.

“As the 2015-16 academic year begins, Harvard confronts a lawsuit that touches on its most fundamental values, a suit that challenges our admissions processes and our commitment to a widely diverse student body,” Harvard President Drew Faust said in a speech at the start of school two years ago. “Our vigorous defense of our procedures and of the kind of educational experience they are intended to create will cause us to speak frequently and forcefully about the importance of diversity in the months to come.”

Harvard spokeswoman Melodie Jackson said in a statement that the college’s admissions process “considers each applicant as a whole person” and is “consistent with the legal standards established by the U.S.

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“To become leaders in our diverse society, students must have the ability to work with people from different backgrounds, life experiences and perspectives,” Jackson said. “Harvard remains committed to enrolling diverse classes of students.”

Tuition at Harvard for the 2016-

2017 year was $63,025 for tuition, room, board, and fees combined.

Each year, Harvard gets close to 40,000 applicants and has about a 6% acceptance rate. The average high school GPA of the admitted freshman class at Harvard University was 4.04.

Cops Boycott Dunkin’ What’s a cop without a doughnut?

This week, police officers in New York banned together to boycott

Detectives’ Endowment Association president Michael Palladino is leading the boycott. He has said that the incident – although probably isolated – was “disgraceful and it should not go unattended.” Until Dunkin’ Donuts issues an official apology, Palladino has asked detectives and their families to “refrain from patronizing [its] stores.”

The two officers, who were assigned to the 73rd Precinct’s detective squad, entered the Atlantic Avenue Dunkin’ Donuts location mid-afternoon on July 30 for ice cream. After waiting in line, the cops approached the counter but were ignored by a clerk who asked a man behind them for his order instead.

The man gave his order, but added, “These two guys were in front of me.”

“Yeah, I know, but I don’t serve cops,” the clerk replied.

The store manager defended the employee, telling The Post, “These two men in shirts and ties — who I later found out were police — must have never come to this Dunkin’ Donuts before, because instead of waiting in the line where you order, they waited at the counter where you pick up your order.”

He continued, “You can see on the security tape: they stand here for five minutes, while other customers were being served. One customer even ordered ice cream, and they must’ve not liked that because they left the store.”

“We serve everyone, we have nothing but respect for the police, and they were standing at the wrong counter. It was a busy time, and we were busy serving customers,” the manager insisted.

Seems like the NYPD does not run on Dunkin’.

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Chicago: We’re a Sanctuary City but We Want Your Money

Sanctuary cities have been getting an influx of illegal immigrants since Trump’s immigration crackdown.

A sanctuary city is officially a city that limits its cooperation with the national government’s immigration laws in order to provide a safe haven for individuals who are facing the fear of deportation and possible family break-up. The cities believe that by providing refuge they are enabling illegal immigrants to enroll their children in proper schools, encouraging them to report crimes, and allowing them to use health and social services.

Recently, the Trump administration threatened to block certain federal grants to cities that don’t comply with federal immigration law. This angered Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel who announced on Sunday that his city will file a lawsuit against the Trump administration. In response to the lawsuit threat, the Justice Department called out the mayor, with the department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores telling the Chicago Sun-Times, “In 2016, more Chicagoans were murdered than in New York City and Los Angeles combined. So it’s especially tragic that the mayor is less concerned with that staggering figure than he is spending time and taxpayer money protecting criminal aliens and putting Chicago’s law enforcement at greater risk.”

At the center of the debate are the Byrne Grants that are specifically for cities’ law-enforcement groups. On Thursday, federal officials published an updated application for the grants, which Emanuel compared to “blackmail.” The updated application requires local jurisdictions to report to federal officials about the release of illegal immigrants from police custody at least 48 hours in advance. The $3.2 million in grant money – although

just a fraction of the city’s budget – is integral to Chicago’s program for buying more police vehicles. The grants are named in honor of former New York City police officer Edward Byrne who was murdered in 1988.

“Chicago will not be blackmailed into changing our values, and we are and will remain a welcoming city,” Emanuel said. “The federal government should be working with cities to provide necessary resources to improve public safety, not concocting new schemes to reduce our crime-fighting resources.”

He added, “Chicago will not let our police officers become political pawns in a debate. Chicago will not let our residents have their fundamental rights isolated and violated.

And Chicago will never relinquish our status as a welcoming city.” Emanuel continued, “The city of Chicago may be the first to bring a lawsuit, but I’m also confident we will not be the last.”

In response to the lawsuit, Attorney General Jeff Sessions noted, “This administration will not simply give away grant dollars to city governments that proudly violate the rule of law and protect criminal aliens at the expense of public safety.”

Grand Jury Sitting on Russian Election Scandal

The Trumps are not off the hook just yet in the Russia scandal, despite all the firings and the drawn-out swirling accusations. Robert Mueller, who was appointed special counsel in the scandal, has impaneled a grand jury to issue subpoenas and compel witness testimony. According to The Wall Street Journal, the grand jury is sitting in Washington and has been active for several weeks. The probe into Russian interference in the presidential election will include an alleged June 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer. By appointing a grand

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jury, Mueller gains access to evidence needed for a criminal probe.

“In a case like this, where you have a lot of documents that are going be necessary, grand jury subpoenas are a pretty early phenomenon,” said Philip Allen Lacovara, a former U.S. deputy solicitor general who served as counsel to Watergate special prosecutors.

Throughout the headlines, Trump has denied all accusations of collusion. He has publicly accused the Democrats of generating the bad press in an attempt to reverse their unexpected losses in November.

“Democrat lawmakers will have to decide. They can continue their obsession with the Russian hoax, or they can serve the interests of the American people,” the president told the thousands of supporters a rally in West Virginia.

“They are trying to cheat you out of the leadership you want with a fake story that is demeaning to all of us and most importantly demeaning to our country and demeaning to our Constitution,” Trump said. “I just hope that the final determination is a truly honest one, which is what the millions of people who gave us our big win in November deserve.”

Grand juries conduct their work in secret, with news of their actions typically breaking only when they return criminal indictments. Generally prosecutors ask grand juries to consider whether there is evidence to indict someone of a crime.

Jay Sekulow, an attorney for President Trump, said a grand jury was not a cause for alarm. “With respect to the impaneling of the grand jury, we have no reason to believe that the president is under investigation,” he said in a statement to The Washington Times.

Russia was suspected of interfering with the 2016 presidential election, an accusation that was confirmed by the United State Intelligence Community. Allegedly Russian intelligence services hacked the servers of the Democratic National Committee and the personal Google email account of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and forwarded their contents to WikiLeaks, damaging Clinton’s campaign for the presidency, which ultimately contributed to her loss. The interference was discovered during the Obama administration, but they chose to kick the can down the road.

America’s Oldest Shul Remains Property of NYC Synagogue

The First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston has ruled in favor of the New York City-based synagogue Shearith Israel and has given them control of the oldest shul in America.

The 250-year-old Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, is home to Congregation Jeshuat Israel.

In 2012, Jeshuat Israel attempted to sell a set of silver rimonim which decorate the Torah scrolls in the shul. The rimonim were crafted in the late 18th century by Myer Myers, who was one of the most prominent silversmiths of the Colonial era. They are valued at $7.4 million. The shul was trying to

establish an endowment to maintain a rabbi and take care of the building with the proceeds of the sale.

But the sale was stalled when Shearith Israel sued the 120-family congregation to get them to stop the sale of the rimonim. The rimonim had been on loan from the shul to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, which had made an offer to purchase them.

Shearith Israel has been the trustee of the Touro Synagogue since the early 19th century.

Who, indeed, owns the shul and its rimonim? The case ended up in court.

In May 2016, U.S. District Court Judge Jack McConnell ruled that Jeshuat Israel would have control of the synagogue and the rimonim. His decision included a tracing of the history of the Newport Jewish community and their relationship with Shearith Israel and Jeshuat Israel. Now, the Court of Appeals has reversed his decision.

During the Revolutionary War, members of the Touro Synagogue shipped the rimonim to New York and asked their leaders to act as trustees for the synagogue while the members in Rhode Island fled from the Redcoats. The shul stood empty for some time but has had regular services since the 1870s.

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New York City’s subways are in dire need of some TLC, and Mayor Bill de Blasio wants you to pay for it. On Monday, de Blasio proposed raising taxes for the wealthiest New Yorkers to fund subway system repairs.

The proposal was to increase the tax rate on individuals whose income is above $500,000 from 3.876 to 4.41 percent. Part of the program is to fund half-price bus and subway rides for up to 800,000 of the city’s poorest residents. Essentially, de Blasio wants the wealthier New Yorkers to pay for poorer New Yorkers’ rides.

There has been a dispute between de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo as to who is responsible for funding the project. Cuomo controls the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the state-run corporation that operates the subway and bus system. He has the power to close it down without consulting the mayor, as he did before a winter storm in 2015.

“Taking responsibility is the first step toward a solution,” de Blasio told a news conference, emphasizing that the system is controlled by the state.

But Cuomo says the city should be responsible to take money from its own funds since it technically owns the subway system, a point echoed by newly appointed MTA Chairman Joe Lhota.

“The good news is that Mayor de

Blasio has acknowledged New York City’s significant ownership of the New York City Transit Authority and the fact that new funding is needed to modernize the subway system,” Lhota said in a statement. “The bad news is that the mayor has not acknowledged that the MTA needs funding today.”

If the proposal goes through, New York will raise an additional $700 million in 2018 for this project.

About 32,000 of the city’s wealthiest residents would see their taxes rise, de Blasio says. The plan would need approval from the Republican-controlled New York Senate, which is averse to tax increases. New York residents also don’t seem to appreciate de Blasio’s proposal. Many of them want de Blasio to just take a (fare) hike.

The city contributes about $1.6 billion a year toward operating costs of the subway system, on top of the nearly $6 billion that comes in from New Yorkers and visitors using the system. The city has also committed to giving about $2 billion toward the MTA’s $32.5 billion long-term improvement plans, while the state has committed about $9.3 billion.

There have been several derailments in recent months. In June, a subway derailment injured 34 people. There are also many problems with scheduling; only 63% of subway trains arrived on time this year. Six years ago, 85% of trains arrived on time, according to MTA data.

Dedicated Deliverer Benjamin Houston works as a pizza deliveryman, and he is wholly dedicated to the job. In fact, last week,

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when Benjamin’s car broke down, he walked to Ashley Schafer’s house to deliver her three pies of pizza and a liter of soda.

Ashley was so inspired by Benjamin’s dedication that she said that her “faith in humanity was restored all because of pizza.”

Huh?!

“It might seem silly,” Ashley wrote on Facebook, “but in a world that right now feels tumultuous and full of hate, and in a city where itself and its people are constantly put down, there was this bright light that was Ben.” Ashley lives in Flint, Michigan.

Attempting to show her gratitude for her pies and soda, Ashley created a GoFundMe page for Benjamin to fix his broken vehicle, which has since raised more than $3,000.

Ashley had ordered the pies late on the evening of July 15. She saw, according to the app on her phone, that

the pizza left the store at 11:24pm. But time passed and there was no pizza.

Finally, at 12:30 in the morning, there was a knock at the door. Excited to finally see her pies, Ashley opened the door – only to find the assistant manager of the store. He told her that the delivery driver’s car broke down and that he was concerned about Benjamin, who is deaf. They didn’t know where he was.

When Benjamin’s car broke down he initially waited for his co-worker to pick him up. But after a while, he decided to set out on foot and deliver the pizzas.

“I don’t like sitting in a car doing nothing for so long,” Benjamin said, “even though the area where I live is not safe for people to walk, especially a deaf person.”

Finally, two hours after Ashley ordered the pizza, Benjamin showed up. She tipped him $20 – and then started the GoFundMe page.

“It’s more than pizza, of course,” Ashley said of Ben’s trek. “It’s an enormous understanding of responsibility, respect for self and another human being, and above all unsolicited kindness.”

Sorry, Street’s Sold

When homeowners in the Presidio Terrace section of San Francisco woke up recently, they were none too pleased. It seems that the streets and sidewalks of their tony neighborhood had been sold – and they didn’t even know it was up for sale.

Presidio Terrace is one of San Fran’s most expensive neighborhoods.

Lined with towering palm trees and multimillion dollar mansions, the street has been home, over the years, to famous residents including Sen. Dianne Feinstein and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi.

But wealthy neighborhood or not, we all must pay our taxes. And when the homeowners association neglected to pay a $14 a year tax bill, the city’s tax office put the property up for sale at the cost of $994 in an online auction

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to regain unpaid back taxes, penalties and interest. Michael Cheng, real estate investor, and his wife Tina Lam, handily won the streets, sidewalks, and other areas of “common ground” for a mere $90,100 bid at auction.

Cheng said he thought that residents would welcome him with open arms. But it seems that they don’t appreciate having their sidewalks owned by someone other than the homeowners association.

“I thought they would reach out to us and invite us in as new neighbors,” Cheng said. “This has certainly blown up a lot more than we expected.”

Residents just recently found out that Cheng owns their streets. He sent letters to homeowners asking if any one of them were interested in buying back the property. That, says Cheng, was one of the reasons he actually purchased the property – he intended to flip it. He and his wife have also considered to charge residents to park on the streets – and to rent out the 120 parking spaces that line the grand circular road.

“As legal owners of this property, we have a lot of options,” Cheng said, adding that nothing has been decided.

The matter could be headed for court. Last month, the homeowners

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petitioned the Board of Supervisors for a hearing to rescind the tax sale.

The board has scheduled a hearing for October. The homeowners association has also sued the couple and the city, seeking to block Cheng and Lam from selling the street to anyone while the city appeal is pending.

Sorry, Mr. Cheng, this is not one way to win friends and influence people.

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Guardian of the Galaxy Applies to NASA

This boy has high hopes. Yes, Jack Davis really reaches for the stars.

Recently, 9-year-old Jack, who described himself as a “Guardian of the Galaxy,” applied to NASA for the “Planetary Protection Officer” position.

NASA received an application from the fourth grader who asked to apply for the job. In a letter the agency posted online, Jack acknowledged his youth, but said that will make it easier for him to learn how to think like an alien. He said he has seen all the space and alien movies he can see, and he is great at video games.

“My sister says I am an alien also,” Jack wrote in the handwritten letter dated August 3.

NASA took the inquiry seriously.

The budding scientist/alien lover received a letter from NASA Planetary Science Director James Green encouraging him to study hard so he can one day join them at the agency.

“We are always looking for bright future scientists and engineers to help us,” Green wrote. He said that the job is about protecting other planets and moons “from our germs” as the agency explores the solar system.

Jack also received a phone call from NASA Planetary Research Director Jonathan Rall thanking him for his interest.

“At NASA, we love to teach kids about space and inspire them to be the next generation of explorers,” Green said.

NASA says the job might not quite

A very desperate and very debt-ridden woman in China transformed her appearance with plastic surgery in order to avoid paying 25 million yuan ($3.71 million) in personal debt. Police officers were “astonished” when they finally tracked down Zhu Najuan, who is 59-years-old. Her nips-andtucks made her look like she was in her thirties, and she looked different than she had looked in all the photos officers had of her.

Zhu Najuan had fled her city after a judge ordered her to pay off her debt.

She also used other people’s identity cards to travel by train across country and financed her recent surgeries with – what else? – other people’s bank cards.

China is undergoing a tough time when it comes to credit. Recently, representatives from more than 300 Chinese cities released a declaration promising to make more credit available for consumer spending, part of the country’s efforts to find new sources of economic growth and reduce its dependence on heavy industry and state-driven infrastructure investment. But when credit is easier to obtain, people become laden with debt.

The nation has seen a surge in household debt, which is estimated to have reached around 50 percent of gross domestic product last year, more than doubling in less than a decade.

As regulators try to establish a reliable nationwide credit rating system, authorities across the country are also exploring new ways to crack down on those who do not pay debts. According to state media, one court in Jiangsu province has drawn up a blacklist of defaulters. Anyone who telephones an individual on the blacklist will first be forced to listen to a pre-recorded message saying, “Please urge this person

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to fulfill their legal obligations.”

Xinhua said the city of Wuhan has also launched a series of crackdowns on debt defaulters and detained a total of 186 people in the first half of the year.

Sometimes, you know, cash is king.

Garda security officers recovered $85,900 of the money from a car the next day. What Brooks did with the rest of the cash in just one day is a good question.

Men Pay More Guard ‘n’ Thief

He was the fox guarding the henhouse.

Last week, a New Jersey security guard showed up to work, ready to start his new job. He was also ready to commit a robbery.

The Fairfield Police Department said that Larry Brooks was caught on security cameras stealing $100,000 in cash from a truck belonging to Garda, an armored car company for which he’d just started working.

Looking to buy a latte? Well, if you’re male and are in Melbourne, Australia, you may have to fork over some extra cash.

The owner of the Handsome Her eatery, Alex O’Brien, charges men an 18 percent “man tax” and gives women priority in seating at her cafe. In defense of the tax and the headlines it’s generated, O’Brien says, “I do want people to think about it, because we’ve had this (pay discrepancy) for decades and decades and we’re bringing it to the forefront of people’s minds. I like that it is making men stop and ques-

tion their privilege a little bit.”

She says that the tax will help to close – or at least bring awareness to – the gender pay gap. All the money raised goes to a women’s welfare charity.

O’Brien says the response from her customers has been positive, with one man even donating $50 (£30) to the cause. “There’s been nothing but positivity from everyone, males and females.”

Some people, though, have been less than generous with their words for O’Brien and her café.

I’m guessing not too many men patronize her establishment.

Fried Chicken Beer

fried chicken?

Introducing Fried Fried Chicken Chicken beer (no, that’s not a typo).

The beer is a collaboration between two breweries: Virginia’s The Veil Brewing Company and New Yorkbased Evil Twin Brewing.

“The idea came to us after eating a significant amount of fried chicken at various establishments in our beautiful city of Richmond,” Veil Brewing said. “We actually put a very small amount of fried chicken in one of two of the mashes (less than .4% of the total weight of the mash contents).”

Despite the small amounts of chicken, the brewery said the beer doesn’t carry a poultry taste. “It doesn’t even remotely taste like chicken,” Veil Brewing enthused. “If you think it does, you might want to go to the doctor, bucko!”

The 8 percent alcohol by volume beer was also hopped heavily with Citra, Simcoe, and Enigma. The brew debuted on July 25. Veil Brewing teased the unique beer on June 30, with the caption, “Y’all like fried chicken?”

I do – but not to drink.

Fried chicken goes well with beer.

But what if the beer was made with

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Community Color Run at Camp Toras Chaim, “color the fun” summer

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Triumphant Tour de Simcha Cycles into Camp Simcha Special

Deborah Katz, Baila Hersh, Sarah Liss and Shiffy Edelman were among 219 Tour De Simcha participants

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he road from Vernon, NJ, to Glen Spey, NY, was dotted with pink last week when 219 women cycled their way from the Minerals Spa and Resort to Camp Simcha Special as part of the 2017 Tour de Simcha. There were a significant number of cyclists from the South Shore/Five Towns area, including Suri Bender, Shiffy Edelman, Allysa Feiner, Meira Feiner, Chaia Frishman, Baila Hersh, Deborah Katz, Sheera Landsman, Garyn Leiber, Sara Liss, Rachel Rosenberg, and Bonnie Shertz and her daughters Elisa and Jennifer.

The women cycled either 40 or 75 miles to reach the “The World’s Greatest Finish Line,” the gates of Camp Simcha. They arrived in a sea of hot pink cycling shirts and matching covers for their helmets.

Despite 90-degree heat and the

Riding into Camp Simcha were Chaia Frishman, Alyssa Feiner, and Meira Feiner of the Five Towns-Far Rockaway, NY, and Rochel Shain Frank of Cleveland

fact that it seemed like every hill was going up, the women seemed filled with energy as they passed the finish line. They got off their bicycles, which were efficiently whisked away by volunteers, and danced with Camp Simcha Special’s campers and staff.

The group was welcomed with music, screaming adulation from the campers, dancing, and a barbecue guaranteed to replace all calories lost during the arduous trek.

Many professed that they hadn’t felt the 90+ degree heat during the afternoon. “It’s all in your mind,” one laughed at a visitor who was clearly feeling the temperature. “It’s worth it for the kids,” another said.

Now in its fourth year, Tour De Simcha has become one of the premier women’s charity cycling events. The fully supported ride allows women

Bonnie Schertz and her daughters Elisa and Jennifer strode up the red carpet at Camp Simcha after finishing the 2017 Tour De Simcha

Bayla Hersh, Sheera Landsman, Rachel Rosenberg, Garyn Leiber, Suri Bender and Meira Feiner were ecstatic after passing through The World’s Greatest Finish Line at Camp Simcha

to choose both distance and route. It begins with a lavish and spirited pasta party the night before the ride, and ends with an emotional, triumphant entrance into Camp Simcha and a presentation created by the campers. This year’s program included two choreo-

graphed dances adapted for children with disabilities. Cyclists were clearly moved as they watched. “It’s the essence of camp,” commented a woman who wouldn’t take her eyes off the performance. “They are proving that disabilities can’t stop you.”

Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Staff and Residents Rally to Protest Health Care Cuts

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esidents and staff at Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center took to social media, traditional snail mail and the local news media recently to protest the drastic cuts to the Medicaid program as initially outlined in the Senate’s proposed American Health Care Act. Gurwin staff rallied to pen more than 800 letters, alerting Congressmen Peter King and Lee Zeldin of the devastating consequences the health care bill’s cuts

to Medicaid would have on those living in skilled nursing facilities.

Gurwin’s residents, eager to have their voices heard, were interviewed by the local news channels, and participated in a #NoCutsNoCaps Twitter and Facebook campaign directed at legislators. The social media campaign visually conveyed the residents’ objections to the $772 billion cuts proposed under the AHCA. According to Stuart B. Almer, Gurwin’s Adminis-

trator/Chief Operating Officer, “Medicaid helps provide funding for vital skilled nursing care to the majority of our long-term care residents at Gurwin. Our residents, many of them military veterans and retired, hard-working citizens, are at a point in their lives where they require advanced health care that’s just not possible at home. In fact, at Gurwin we have some recent retirees – having worked well in to their 80s and 90s – who now need skilled nursing care. It

is our duty, and their earned right, to live out their lives comfortably and be well cared for. Staff and residents were pleased that their efforts had an impact on the rejection of the Repeal and Replace proposal, but are still concerned about the future of health care and Medicaid. Adele Danon, a member of the U.S. Nurse Cadet Corps during World War II, now 91-years-old and living at Gurwin, dedicated her life to helping others. Her nearly seven-decade career in nurs-

ing culminated, ironically, in her caring for the elderly in a Long Island nursing home.

“I retired from nursing at the age of 85,” says Danon.

“I thought I’d have enough money in the coffers to pay for my care. But I don’t.”

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Second Annual Walk the Boardwalk for Sderot

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he Second Annual Walk the Boardwalk for Sderot was held in Long Beach, NY, on Tuesday, July 25 on the Long Beach Boardwalk.

More than 100 walkers, young and old, walked in unison on a beautiful summer evening to support the programs of the Hesder Yeshiva and the community of Sderot.

The evening started with registration at the Young Israel of Long Beach. All attendees received “I walked the Long Beach Boardwalk for Sderot” t-shirts, sponsored by Shalom Maiden-

baum of Maidenbaum Property Tax Reduction Group, Sderot messenger bags and a bottle of water. There was great excitement as the buzz about the program grew and many walk-ins joined to participate.

After the walk, everyone returned to the Young Israel of Long Beach for a sumptuous coalition that was generously donated by various vendors and supporters of the evening. A wide array of treats were served including sushi, pastries, fruit and refreshments.

Judah Rhine, Director of

American Friends of Sderot, welcomed and thanked everyone for joining the cause and for their financial and moral support, giving special thanks to the local shuls including: the Young Israel of Long Beach, Lido Beach Synagogue, the BACH, the Sephardic Congregation and Atlantic Beach Jewish Center for their participation and promotion of the event. He also thanked the sponsors for their generous donations of food and supplies including, Oma’s Sushi of West Hempstead, BagelTown, Country Boy, Life’s a Bagel, Alan’s

Bakery, Stop Chop and Roll, Gourmet Glatt, Season’s and the Paper Place.

Judah spoke about his family’s experience in Sderot, how the town is thriving and growing, and the need for continued support and visits to the Yeshiva and the city of Sderot. The program concluded with the showing of the Sderot video that truly summarized and captured the importance of the close connection between the Yeshiva Hesder of Sderot and the city and community of Sderot. In addition, there was a second video shown highlighting the highly successful Swish for Sderot Yeshiva Day School Boys Basketball Tournament, which has become a signature event for the Amer-

ican Friends of Sderot. The Raffle winner of a Sderot mezuzah cover made from fragments of the Iron Dome was Tova Kutner from West Hempstead.

Following Maariv, all the participants expressed their sentiments of being extremely impressed with the program and their excitement about being part of the Sderot family. Everyone is already looking forward to next year’s Walk on the Boardwalk for Sderot.

If you are interested in purchasing a Sderot mezuzah cover please contact judah@ sderot.org.

AFS is planning some new and very exciting events throughout the year. We look forward to seeing you there.

Dieting on the Run

By Malky Zimmerman-Kugel

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e all lead crazy busy lives, running around to get everything done before the end of the day. Getting up early to get the kids dressed and off to school on time, getting out of the house on time for work, shopping or trying to get everything done by the end of the day can make it harder to eat the right foods that your body needs. Making those wrong choices can leave you feeling weak, dizzy, craving junk, and leaving you with little strength at the end of the day.

Here are some quick, easy tips to make it easier to stay on track and eat right on the go.

Planning the night before Planning the night before helps you stay on track. Making lunch or

preparing something to eat when you get home after a long day can keep you away from junky options. Some ideas you can use are making a big salad, preparing a vegetable platter or fruit bowl, or arranging a healthier snack.

Drinking 1-2 cups of water before every meal Drinking water before eating a meal will help you not overeat. It also provides your body with some vitamins and minerals that your body needs.

Making the right snack choices Everyone needs snacks; they keep you full and keep your metabolism going, which can help with weight loss.

The right types of snack have the benefits that everyone wants and needs.

Picking a snack that’s higher in protein and dietary fiber and less in sugar will help get you through the

day and stop you from feeling weak and dizzy. The right type of snacks can give you the energy you need for the entire day and stop you from crashing the second you get home.

Going out to eat/takeout food Whether it is going out to eat with friends or running to grab something to eat during work, you can make a healthier choice. Pick something from the menu that will ensure a well-balanced meal, such as a salad with salmon, tuna or chicken. Another option can be a whole wheat wrap with a protein and some vegetables. Try to stay away from fried food and foods that are drenched in sauces.

Getting a good night’s sleep Getting 7 hours of sleep will help you the next day. Your body needs time to rejuvenate and to take care of itself. By getting a good night’s sleep,

you’re accomplishing just that. Getting that good night sleep can also help to stop those sugar cravings and help you make the right decisions the next day.

Malky Zimmerman-Kugel is a nutrition counselor at Nutrition by Tanya and is the manager of the 5 Towns location. Nutrition by Tanya offers personalized and practical weight management and nutrition counseling for children, men and woman.

Nutrition by Tanya has locations in Boro park, Flatbush, Williamsburg, Monsey, Lakewood, 5Towns, Crown Heights and Monroe. The office can be reached at 844-Tanya-Diet or info@nutritionbytanya.com. You can also visit Nutritionbytanya.com for more info, inspiring success stories, and photos.

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“My flu-like symptoms turned out to be a heart attack.”

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PROCEDURE:

I was getting ready for my grandson’s birthday, when all of a sudden I became weak. I thought I was coming down with the flu. Before going to sleep, I called my son and told him that something didn’t feel right. We took no chances and called 911. The paramedics arrived and within minutes, I was in cardiac arrest.

LIFE BEFORE HEART ATTACK:

I woke up a few days later and after many tests the doctors determined that the upper part of my heart wasn’t sending signals to the bottom part to pump blood, and that’s why my heart stopped.

I was fitted with an ICD to treat my irregular heartbeat. After the procedure, I’m back to normal, I’m energetic, and I feel great.

LIFE AFTER HEART ATTACK:

WHY CHOOSE SOUTH NASSAU? The entire cardiac team was amazing. No amount of words will ever help me express how thankful I am.

They’re my heroes. They’re my angels.

To learn more about cardiac services available at South Nassau or to watch Heidi’s story, visit southnassau.org/cardiologystories.

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Camp Kaylie at OHEL Color War Rocks Like Never Before

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his year’s color war at Camp Kaylie was one we will never forget.

And it all started with an announcement no one will ever forget!

During dinner, head counselor Rabbi Ahron Rosenthal, unbeknown to campers, dressed up as a member of the Woodridge Marching Band! The band played some of the Camp Kaylie favorites, and then in the middle of the songs, with campers completely taken by surprise, Rabbi Rosenthal jumped onto a chair with a sign that said “Color War!”

Campers and counselors literally jumped out their seats and started screaming and cheering – though we believe significantly more screaming!

Captains and generals were called up in front of a

cheering and festive room, and the activities began.

From Torah Bowl to intense sports to creative artwork projects, there were activities for campers of every interest and passion. The next two days brought thrilling activ-

ities, as campers competed in an array of challenges including races, intense sports games, swim meets and so much more.

The Grand Sing, which was the culmination of color war, was absolutely inspiring to all!

Despite the intense competition, there remained an underlying unity among our campers and staff.

The middot exhibited throughout color war was inspiring, especially during the closing ceremony where both teams joined in singing each other’s beautiful alma maters.

Congratulations to the blue team for their victory, but really to both teams – who were the mutual winners in a legendary Camp Kaylie Color War!

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Santino & D’Esposito Take in the Sights & Sounds of Kulanu

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r. Beth Raskin was pleased to host Town of Hempstead Supervisor Anthony Santino and Councilman Anthony D’Esposito on their recent visit to Kulanu.

They enjoyed the soothing effects of the sensory room, generously gifted by the Glaubach Family, as they learned about the vast array of services and programs offered at the Kulanu Center for Special Services

in Cedarhurst, NY. Mr. Santino went on to say “great to see the outstanding and impressive work this community non-profit organization does for neighbors with special needs. I am proud of their continued and expanding efforts in Hempstead Town.

Thank you Beth Raskin and her team of professionals for your continued work on behalf of All of Us.”

Camp Al Haderech

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he Juniors Division at Camp Al Haderech had a meaningful Nine Days. Since the theme this summer is “hands” we were able to coordinate with multiple tzedakos, both near and far! The girls have been collecting all of their water bottles and taking a trip to the recycling machine to do the good deed of recycling. They are sending the mon-

ey to Yad Eliezer in Eretz Yisrael to buy bottles for babies there. Also, the girls have been collecting clothing for Yad Leah, an organization that resells the clothing to needy people in Israel at a highly discounted price. The girls learned that lending a helping hand and working hand in hand is always a good thing!

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Chazaq Organization, Building a Stronger Future, Now in Brooklyn

J Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato honored 70-year-old Edwin F Wilmarth, Jr., this week with a New York State Assembly Resolution, marking his 50 years with the Broad Channel Volunteer Fire Department. Wilmarth is a sixthgeneration volunteer firefighter and still serves as an Engineer in the VFD. All three of his children became volunteer firefighters as well, making them seventhgeneration. Stacey Pheffer Amato is seen here with Queens County Clerk Audrey Pheffer and former Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder.

Kaminsky Organizes Back to School Supply Drive

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enator Todd Kaminsky has organized a Back to School Supply Drive to prepare students who may not have access to necessary supplies for the first day of school. Suggested donations include backpacks (new or gently used), No. 2 pencils, pens, notebooks, folders, crayons, colored pencils, binders, rulers and safety scissors.

“Many students do not have access to the essential school supplies they need to be successful,” said Kaminsky. “And we all know that when

communities band together, great things happen. This school supply drive is a small investment that will make a big impact in helping the students of our community achieve their full potential.”

Donations will be accepted from now until September 8, and can be dropped off at Senator Kaminsky’s district office, located at 55 Front Street, Rockville Centre, NY. Any questions? Call Halie Meyers at 516766-8383.

Chessed and Fun at Camp Revach

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he girls in Camp Revach were busy with all sort of chessed activities during the Nine Days. The theme of the week was “bringing Mashiach 4ward,” and the goal was to spread a feeling of achdus amongst our community. On Wednesday of the Nine Days each bunk set out on their own bus for a “Chessed Marathon,” Although the skit explaining the day was funny, it was not the beginning of color war.

They began by baking in a camper’s house (a surprise, of course) for people in need for Shabbos. Stops after included leaving nice Post-it messag-

es on cars on Central, helping to clean a Hatzalah bus, volunteering at the Woodmere Fire Department, singing at the nursing home, giving out quarters for meters, handing out cold water bottles, and even having a mini scavenger hunt in Gourmet Glatt Woodmere in which all the food was then donated to the JCC Food Pantry.

Special thanks to Gourmet Glatt for graciously sponsoring the food for this special mitzvah. Of course there was also a photo booth and time for Rita’s ices on the day! Many campers exclaimed, “This is the best trip!” After all, it feels good to do good.

ews throughout the world had just finished chanting, “Chazaq, chazaq v’neschazaik!

Strong, strong and we will become stronger!”

As the week of parshas Devarim was just beginning, late afternoon right before Menachem Av was set to start in its totality, the Chazaq organization organized a shiur at Knesses Bais Avigdor synagogue in Brooklyn. Rabbi Fischel Schachter gave an inspirational shiur. The Rav elaborated on some themes in a very humorous fashion, three of which were that it is Hashem who controls the world, we need to realize He is with us, and make the most of each precious day that we have.

“What is aveilus?” Rav Schachter asked. “Aval,” according to Rashi, can mean “kushta” or “truth.” It sounds like the word “aveilus.” Both are about keeping proper perspective and realizing the truth within any painful situation. Based on that reality, we must act accordingly, as best as we can and as the Torah dictates we should.

Whether for us in galus or an individual with hardships large or even small: “Why did this happen?”

“What should we be learning from this?” “This is so very challenging!

How do we react to our reality in the

best way we can?”

For a passionate Chazaq staff the “kushta” or truth is not that complicated: “We are in galus and kiruv is sorely needed.”

Rav Schachter also spoke about allusions of how the Three Weeks will one day be days of joy. Chazaq is working to do just that. Chazaq’s slogan is “Building a Stronger Future.” In its ten year of existence, Chazaq has done just that! Here are some of the Chazaq organization’s accomplishments: Chazaq organizes hundreds of shiurim each year in different communities. Last year Chazaq helped over 200 kids transfer from public school to a yeshiva. In addition, Chazaq runs after-school programs for public school students.

Chazaq is planning to run many more shiurim in Brooklyn and in other communities. If you know anyone that has kids in public school that wants to transfer their kids to a yeshiva then please call 718-2859132. If you are interested in finding out about future Chazaq shiurim in Brooklyn then please email Robbie@chazaq.org.

If you would like Chazaq to organize shiurim or events in your community/shul or would like more details then please call Robbie at 516-455-7710.

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Pheffer Amato Starts School Supply Drive Monday

T A few of the boys who finished their model of the Bais Hamikdash at the Learn & Live of Woodmere at the Young Israel of Woodmere show off their handiwork.

Coming this winter iy”H there will be a full, regular L&L program at the YI of Woodmere. For more information email learnandlivefr@gmail.com.

Goldman Sachs Volunteers at Kulanu PHOTO CREDIT: RENA BRONSTEIN

his coming Monday, August 7, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Beach) will start a two-month backto-school supply drive at her district office, 95-16 Rockaway Beach Boulevard in Rockaway Beach. The drive will collect basic supplies, such as backpacks, notebooks, pens and rulers, every weekday between 9AM and 5PM, until Friday, September 29.

“All children need basic supplies to succeed,” said Pheffer Amato. “But having been a paraprofessional for years, everyone knows not every child gets equal access. I’m doing this drive because I know the South Queens community will step up to make sure everyone has the basic tools for educational success. This is a generous, tight-knit community, and we always

come together to support our own!”

Supplies for students of all ages, K-12, will be accepted. Needed supplies include: - Pens - Paper clips - Three-ring binders - Pencils - Crayons - Index cards - Rulers - Paper folders - Dividers - Pencil sharpeners - Backpacks - Composition books - Erasers - Magic markers - Post-it notes - Loose-leaf lined paper

UJA-Federation Volunteers Pack Backpacks for Kids in Need

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n June 26, volunteers from the Goldman Sachs Team Works program visited Kulanu Center for Special Services. The Team Works program allows members of the GS team to spend a day or two per year on critical volunteer programs and projects in their area.

The team, led by David Goldenberg and Devora Rogoff, came to the Cedarhurst-based Kulanu Academy campus to work alongside individuals with special needs.

They started their day with a tour of the facility and met the students at the center’s middle and high schools.

They engaged in some group games and exercises with the CDOS (career development and occupational studies) students, led by the organization’s senior clinical supervisor.

There were smiles all around as the students were overjoyed by the interaction. After a joint lunch with members of the day habilitation program, the volunteers and adult participants travelled to Kulanu’s new satellite site. They joined us in the task of painting the new facility so that it will be ready to house classrooms and our expanding adult services program come this fall. A group of volunteers returned back to the main campus to begin construction of the school’s greenhouse.

Kulanu is very appreciative of the partnership and support of the Goldman Sachs staff and their Team Works program. We are proud that they joined “All of Us” for a very fun and productive day.

ore than 90 children, teens and adult volunteers will pack 900 backpacks filled with back-to-school supplies for underprivileged children in the Five Towns communities during UJA-Federation of New York’s 8th Annual Long Island Tov B’Yachad Supplies for Success on Sunday, August 13, 2017, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at HAFTR Middle School Gym entrance on Frost Lane Lawrence, NY. The backpacks will be distributed to needy children at local yeshivas and other organizations. This year, approximately 12,000 backpacks will be distributed throughout Long Island and the metro NY area via UJA-Federation’s network of nonprofits, schools, yeshivas, shelters

and local organizations that provide help for people in need. Since its inception, the Supplies for Success program has distributed more than 50,000 filled backpacks, working to ensure that New York area children return to school with the tools they need to succeed.

WHAT: Volunteers assemble backpacks for children in need during UJA-Federation of New York’s Tov B’Yachad 8th Annual Supplies for Success initiative.

WHEN: Sunday, August 13 at 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

WHERE: HAFTR Middle School Gym, entrance on Frost Lane, Lawrence, New York WHO: Volunteers (parents and children) of all ages

For a jump-shot you must swish For a mission that’s just a mish The answer is simple: knish.

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HALB Summer Educational Technology Institute: Mastering 21st Century Tools

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hile their students are vacationing during the months of July and August, the faculty and staff members of the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach (Lev Chana Preschool, HALB Elementary School, SKA High School for Girls and DRS High School for Boys) have a special opportunity to enhance their educational technology skills with a variety of workshops.

Under the direction of Rabbi Dr. Jeffrey Rothman, HALB principal of academic initiatives and advanced learning, and with the assistance of HALB’s educational technology integrators Rabbi Aaron Fleksher, Mrs. Rivky Watman and Mrs. Estee Lightstone, the Institute is offering beginning and advanced sessions on iPad apps; Google Drive, Forms and Docs; Haiku Learning Manage-

ment System; iMovie; Screencasting; Voicethread; and Social Media apps among others. The SMART Board Notebook software workshops are being given through the Center for

Initiatives in Jewish Education.

This is an incredible opportunity for HALB teachers of all subjects to expand their educational toolkit and experience the potential

for the teaching and learning in the classroom. Last summer, over 75 faculty members – from K-12 – attended 200 workshops. We look forward to a strong turnout once again!

Meet Rachel: An Orthodox Physician’s Journey to Cord Blood Banking By: Rachel, Riverdale, New York

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s a spiritual and religious person, and as a physician, it was clear to me that even as I hope and pray that our children will never need to use them, cord blood and tissue banking provides an incredible opportunity to do as much as we can as parents to protect our children from future harm.

When we were pregnant with our first child, there were so many decisions to make, so many new experiences – it was overwhelming. And the bigger picture – that we were going to be responsible for a new life on this

earth – filled us with joy as well as awe and trepidation. As we contemplated how to give our daughter the best start possible, we heard from a close friend about Maze Cord Blood and cord blood and tissue banking.

We read more about it and considered it for our daughter.

For myself, as a spiritual and religious person, I believe that everything is in G-d’s hands, and I pray that G-d will always grant our children safety and that they will know only good health. As a physician as well, however, I have seen the realities of disease and death affecting individuals and families. Therefore, it was clear to me

“I’m a little bit like Savta Simcha.

I bring along extras of everything.”

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that even as I hope and pray that our children will never need to use them, cord blood and tissue banking provides an incredible opportunity to do as much as we can as parents to protect our children from future harm.

Once we decided to bank cord blood for our daughter, and decided to use Maze on our trusted friend’s recommendation, we were so glad we did. Their prices were reasonable.

The instructions for collecting the samples at the birth were clear and simple. Courier pickup of the samples at the hospital happened seamlessly. And throughout the process, Maze provided excellent customer service. When I called, I got a friendly voice on the other end of the line, and prompt and clear answers to my questions. Their Westchester-based location was reassuring to us as well, considering we live in Riverdale and could sit with someone at Maze oneon-one if we needed.

In fact, we had such a good experience that we chose Maze again for our second daughter, who was born just a few weeks ago. For a parent, the choice to bank cord blood is clearly a smart and reassuring investment.

And for the Jewish parent, there’s no better option than Maze Cord Blood. *** Rachel is a proud mom and practicing physician, based in Riverdale, New York. Maze Cord Blood is one of the lowest-priced options among all FDA-approved and AABB-accredited cord blood banks with no annual fees and a $50K Quality Product Guarantee. Maze Cord Blood is currently offering a $400 discount on their cord blood banking services.

Visit www.MazeHealthyFuture. com or call 914-488-0057 to learn more about their services.

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Achiezer’s Westwood Financial Management Division: Inaugural Summer Seminar a Huge Success

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wish we had a program like this in high school. So many of my friends could have benefited from it.”

That’s an actual quote from one of the many enthusiastic participants in Achiezer’s recent seminar, “Targeting Financial Success,” which was held on July 26. This community member shared his feelings that it is this kind of proactive education that can enable community members to function with a healthy financial perspective.

The program was attended by men and women of all ages and backgrounds, from young, up-and-coming businessmen, to middle-aged couples looking to get their finances in order, to motivated employees wishing to advance their careers.

The room was packed, with every seat taken and then some. Mr. Morris Smith, who has years of experience in the financial management and investment world, opened the program and spoke about how crucial it is to properly manage and understand

one’s financial situation and economic health.

Participants were privileged to hear from four professionals with extensive experience in their fields. All of them were enthusiastic about sharing their knowledge with the community to encourage financial independence and growth.

Sara Glaz, Financial Advisor at Munk Wealth Management Group, explored how to invest money responsibly and evaluate level of risk. Stacey Zrihen, Senior Advisor,

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get and to the point, allowing the program to finish promptly as scheduled.

The presentations were followed by a lively and exciting question-and-answer session, moderated

by Mr. Michael Fragin, after which many people lined up to for further discussion with presenters.

Enthusiastic participants agreed that this evening out was an enjoyable and worthwhile investment. They left feeling empowered with concrete, practical financial advice to enable them to real choices for success.

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YLX Marches into Second Half

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s YLX begins the second half of another incredible summer, attendance continues to rise! YLX: the YID Learning Experience is the community night program designed for all teenaged boys that are “in town” for the summer. The jam-packed evenings, which include Mincha and Maariv, incredible food, and phenomenal learning with experienced and friendly chavrusos, may be the secret to this increase in members.

Week 3 of YLX was a powerful evening kicked off by the one and only R’ Benny Wielgus. He entertained with stories and a penetrating message about the power of overcoming the yetzer hara – even just once. After the speech the YLX boys dove headfirst into the intriguing sugya of Michavein l’echol basar chazir v’uluh b’yado basar t’leh – the discussion regarding the halachos and approach

to one that believes he is violating an issur and is in fact not. On Thursday although the skies threatened rain, YLX held another legendary weekly barbecue entirely sponsored by Seasons, longtime friends and supporters of YLX. All enjoyed the competitive basketball and utilized a professional fire-pit arranged by YLX’s own onstaff pyro-technician Pinchas Lipsky.

Week 4 of YLX began as usual, with an incredible spread sponsored by longtime YLX partner Carlos & Gabby’s. YLX continued the sugya from the week before with a slight twist” if one is michalel Shabbos but unwittingly engages in pikuach nefesh is he “off the hook”? On Tuesday YLX was privileged to host world renowned speaker R’ Fishel Schachter. He drew a capacity crowd (with a few left standing due to lack of seats!). The crowd was riveted by his entertaining, unusual, and inspiring

stories of emunah and bitachon and the idea that as Jews we need to be there for each other. On Wednesday YLX chavrusa R’ Moshe Rabinowitz was misayem Masechta Bava Metziah and the crowd of close to 60 attendees enjoyed a Nine Days fleishig feast to celebrate. Sushi Tokyo chipped in

with sushi to enhance the siyum.

On Thursday, in observance of the Nine Days there was no barbecue.

YLX did, of course, have the weekly basketball and fire pit. YLX is the answer to long summer nights, providing exciting Torah learning and wholesome camp-like experiences.

YLX is held Monday through Wednesday at Bais Medrash Heichal Dovid, 215 Central Ave. in Lawrenc; and on Thursday at the Young Israel of Wavecrest and Bayswater. It is open to all high school aged boys and is free of charge. For more information contact Rabbi Aryeh Dachs at YIDLearningExperience@gmail. com or 410.258.5134 YLX is made possible by members of the community and local food establishments: Traditions, Seasons, Carlos & Gabby’s, Sushi Tokyo, Avi’s Pizza, and Pizza’le.

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YOSS in Camp Dora Golding

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any of the talmidim of Yeshiva of South Shore are spending their summer at Camp Dora Golding, vacationing and refreshing themselves for the upcoming school year. Last week the boys were treated to a visit from the Menahel HaMechina, Rabbi Zev Davidowitz. Also shown are Rabbi Eli Herzberg, rebbe in camp; Mr. Alex Gold, Camp Director; and Mr. Binyamin Daiches, Assistant Camp Director.

College Students Connect to Torah and Israel on Yeshiva University’s July in Jerusalem Program

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or decades, a post-high school year of Torah study in Israel has played a crucial role in shaping young observant Jews’ future spiritual identities and connection to Judaism. But not all have the opportunity to enroll in a seminary or yeshiva before they begin their college studies.

Now in its tenth year, Yeshiva University’s July in Jerusalem Program provides a unique opportunity for Jewish students from any college or university to immerse themselves in a month of learning, traveling and giving back to the land of Israel.

“It’s a condensed yeshiva or seminary experience, capturing that bubble of spiritual growth where you don’t have to worry about grades or tests and can just focus on your connection to your Judaism,” said Shoshana Schechter, the program’s director. “Many of our students haven’t been raised in the yeshiva system and have never had the chance to do this before. We give them the opportunity to take ownership of their relationship to Torah and provide them with the spiritual and historical context to appreciate what they’re taking in about the Land of Israel that’s

all around them.”

For each morning of the four-week program, students came together to study such topics as the relationship between the Jewish nation and the Land of Israel in the Bible; the psychology behind mitzvot; Jewish philosophy; Talmud; and prayer. They spent the afternoons volunteering at organizations such as a treatment center for elderly dementia patients, soup kitchens and Hatzalah.

In the evenings, the students explored the Land, kayaking down the Jordan River, walking through the ruins of ancient synagogues and dancing at the Kotel on Friday night.

Many students also shared in chavruta learning with other YU students who are in Israel right now participating in the YU-Bar Ilan University Summer Research Initiative, which gives undergraduates the opportunity to study in the labs of top Israeli scientists. At the end of the July in Jerusalem program, each pair of chavrutas presented what they had learned together at a siyum; many will continue to learn together when they return to YU’s New York campuses in the fall.

“I wanted to be part of July in Jerusalem because it stood

out as something different,” said Raquel Erdos of Brooklyn, New York, who is studying biology at Stern College for Women. “It wasn’t just a trip to Israel to hike a lot and see the country, but it was also a chance to connect to so much more. We got to learn during classes almost every morning and evening, and we constantly had faculty like Rabbi Uri Orlian and Dr. Yitzchak Schechter there for any questions we may have had, as well as Mrs. Nava Orlian and Mrs. Shoshana Schechter.”

Erdos found a volunteer trip to care for olive trees in a forest especially meaningful.

“It wasn’t just about helping

the trees itself – as important as that was as well – it was about doing our part to help on the land we received and growing a closer connection to Hashem,” she said. “As hot as that day may have been, we all did it with a smile as we bonded with God and with each other as a group.”

“The highlight of my experience were all the times when I got to speak outside of class with the rabbis and all teachers and administrators to learn and hear advice about their own lives,” said Laura Lachman of Baranquilla, Colombia, who graduated this spring with a degree in accounting from Sy Syms

School of Business.

Ariella Kohansieh of Great Neck, New York, wanted to attend July in Jerusalem because she had never had the opportunity to study for a year in seminary in Israel. “The faculty were incredible – they not only taught us Torah with sincere passion, but taught us how to live a sincere Jewish life by example,” she said.

“The learning, volunteering and touring were amazing. I learned so much about Israel and my own Judaism.”

July in Jerusalem is made possible with the generous support of Mary and Gerald a”h Swartz.

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On July 27, Senator Todd Kaminsky attended the Lone Soldier Bake Sale that was held at Breezy’s Boutique of Cedarhurst, NY. The Lone Soldier Bake Sale supports Americans that are serving in the IDF without immediate family members in the country.

Pictured from L-R: Committee members Rebbetzin Penina Feigenbaum of Irving Place Minyan (IPM); Kayla Feigenbaum; owner of Breezy’s and FounderCoordinator of the Five Towns Lone Soldier Bake Sale Breezy Schwartz; Senator Todd Kaminsky; Rivki Rosenwald; and Pammy Solomon

Kaminsky and Miller Call for MTA to Explore South Shore Ferry Route

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enator Todd Kaminsky and Assemblywoman Melissa “Missy” Miller called for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to explore the establishment of a ferry route to Manhattan originating along the South Shore of Nassau County.

Senator Kaminsky and Assemblywoman Miller sent a letter to Joseph Lhota, Chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (“MTA”), requesting that he join them for a tour of potential docking sites near Inwood, or other suitable locations, on the South Shore of Nassau County.

“A ferry route along the South Shore will create options for commuters when the next crisis regarding the LIRR inevitably arrives.

Regardless of the success of this summer’s planned repairs, the long-term economic viability of Long Island depends on improving and diversifying our mass-transit system. It is not enough to simply say, ‘We made it through the Summer of Hell,’ and then act surprised when a ‘Winter of Hell’ immediately follows, and we are not prepared. A ferry route would be a key, new way to get passengers off of our roads, and out of Penn Station,” said Senator Todd Kaminsky.

“Solving our ongoing transportation problems is going to require

new ideas and fresh solutions. Long Island commuters deserve relief from train cancellations and delays. Unreliable public transit has led to congestion and gridlock on our roadways as residents become wary of taking the train and choose to drive. A ferry from our community to Manhattan would alleviate these issues and provide residents with a safe, reliable commute. Revitalizing and expanding our transit system with a ferry route along the South Shore is a wise investment in our future and helps address a serious ongoing problem we’re facing right now,” said Assemblywoman Missy Miller.

“The possibility of a ferry in Inwood would give another, more reliable mass transit option with direct access to Manhattan and vice versa.

It can open up new economic opportunity here and the prospect is very exciting. Thank you Senator Kaminsky and Assemblywoman Miller for spearheading this effort,” said Adam Mayer, a resident of Inwood who utilizes the LIRR. The Senator and Assemblywoman’s call for a South Shore ferry comes amid summer-long repairs at Penn Station and looming repairs, yet to begin, in the East River tunnels.

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Kia! Karate Comes to Avnet

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iscipline. Leadership. Endurance. Stamina. There are many different ways to work on these skills and attributes. One such method is through the art of karate, and at Avnet that’s exactly what we’re doing. Twice a week, our camp-

ers are privileged to be trained in the martial arts. The class is age-appropriate so the kids are all having enormous fun while participating.

They are learning the importance of stretching and loosening their muscles.

“I take karate during the year and this is a great opportunity for me

to work on my skills,” says camper Shmully Klein.

They are learning speed. Everyone must do their assignment quickly.

The sensei does not let our campers lollygag around. They are learning self-defense. Most importantly they are building self-esteem. At the end of each session the kids are exhausted

but happy. They leave with smiles on their faces knowing that they accomplished something. They know they improved in one way or another.

“I felt great after today’s karate class,” remarked Noam Bornstein, a longtime Avnet camper. “It was a lot of fun and everyone had a great time.”

Felder & Pheffer Amato Birth Certificate Bill a Blessing for New Parents

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ew parents have many blessings to count, but with so much to do in the whirlwind days following the arrival of a newborn, extra time is not one of them. Yet, for decades, the New York State Department of Health has allowed only 5 days after the delivery for new parents to apply for their infant’s birth certificate.

A recent bill co-sponsored by Senators Pamela Helming (R-Ontario County) and Simcha Felder (D-Midwood), and by Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Howard Beach), gives new parents an additional 10 days to apply and one less reason to lie awake at night.

“The arrival of a new child is a joyous occasion, but it comes with plenty of stress,” said Senator Felder.

“I can’t count the number of problem cases we’ve had over the years as a result of the short application deadline.”

The narrow window to apply has long been a great source of aggravation for new parents scrambling to make the cutoff. Missing the deadline can cause months of headaches when adding a new child to a family health insurance plan, registering for food stamps, qualifying for government benefits, and other issues.

Observant Jewish parents, who often wait up to eight days before naming a

child, face particular difficulties.

“I represent a large Orthodox Jewish community, and this is a crucial issue here,” said Assemblywoman Pheffer Amato. “Not everybody is named at birth. If your religious tradition dictates that you give your child a name eight days later, the state forces you to either submit a name prematurely, or go through the time and expense of filing birth certificates twice. Also, as a mother, I know firsthand that any extension you can get to help attend to the myriad responsibilities of those all-important first few weeks is a big help.

So I see this as win-win. I thank Senators Felder and Helming for their

strong advocacy.”

The new legislation, now awaiting passage in the Assembly, extends the cutoff to a total of 15 days – three times longer than the original – so new parents have a bit more time to attend to their infant’s needs, and maybe even catch up on some sleep.

“Our goal was to lessen the burden on parents so they can focus more on their new child, and less on paperwork,” said Senator Felder.

“This common sense legislation is a genuine benefit for new parents and improves the quality of life of all New Yorkers…even those who are just a few days old.”

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Over 125 people attended the Father/Son Kinus Program run by Yeshiva of South Shore and Camp Machaneh Yisroel in Yeshiva of South Shore on Tisha B’Av.

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Gedolei Torah and Horaah Address Siyum on Second Cycle of Dirshu’s Kinyan Halacha Program Siyumim Celebrating New Poskim Held on Three Continents

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ecently I saw an older man, perhaps he was 70-years-old, preparing a coffee on Shabbos. First he put the instant coffee in his cup, followed by the sugar. Then he added the hot water after which he went to get another cup and began pouring from one cup into the other. I asked him what he was doing and he replied, ‘It is Shabbos. I am using a kli shlishi.’

“When I explained that before adding the coffee one must first pour the hot water into a kli sheini or shlishi to cool off the water so that it doesn’t cook the coffee, the Yid seemed very surprised. He had no idea…”

This story was told by the esteemed Skverer Dayan of Boro Park, HaGaon HaRav Yechiel Mechel Steinmetz, shlita, to illustrate how if

one does not properly learn halacha he can make the most rudimentary errors in halacha and possibly transgress basic laws of hilchos Shabbos.

Rav Steinmetz delivered his address at the recent siyum on the second machzor of Dirshu’s Kinyan Halacha, the in-depth halacha program, where he celebrated the fact that Kinyan Halacha is preparing many of Klal Yisrael’s future poskim. The five-and-a-half-year program covers all the major areas of psak halacha necessary for practical horaah and indeed scores of new poskim have emerged as a result of the program.

Kinyan Halacha Siyumim in America, Europe and Eretz Yisrael Siyumim were held in major centers, most prominently the American

siyum held at the Ateres Golda Hall in Boro Park, the European siyum held at the Beis Rochel Hall in Antwerp, and the siyum in Eretz Yisrael held in Ramat Gan. Nearly 1,000 talmidei chachomim, who have been toiling over the most intricate sugyos in horaah over the past five-and-a-half-years have now completed the program and have amassed the tremendous amount of knowledge that will empower them to serve Klal Yisrael as poskim muvhakim for decades to come.

At the siyum in Ateres Golda of Boro Park, the guests of honor were the mesaymim with their extended families who – after five-and-a-halfyears of in-depth toiling and taking tests every six months both on the new material learned and chazara of the material learned in previous years – had finally completed the cycle.

In their honor, more than 35 prominent rabbonim and dayanim as well as the Nasi of Dirshu, Rav Dovid Hofstedter, took time from their busy schedules to join the siyum and seudas mitzvah that followed to show their esteem for the yeoman accomplishment of Dirshu’s lomdei Kinyan Halacha.

HaGaon HaRav Steinmetz, Shlita: Celebrating Together with the Tur, Bais Yosef, Shach, Taz, Pri Megadim…!

The evening was opened by Rabbi Yaakov Herbst of Lakewood, one of the talmidei chachomim who had completed the years’ long cycle.

Rabbi Herbst cited the words of the Maharshal who says that a siyum, the completion of an area of Torah, is such a profound simcha that upon saying Birchas Hamazon one should recite the words, “Shehasimcha b’meono,” recited at the simcha of a chassan and kallah.

Rav Herbest than asked the Skverer Dayan to address the crowd.

Rav Steinmetz spoke about the tremendous simcha there is in Heaven when so many new dayanim and poskim are created to serve Klal Yis-

HaRav Yechiel Michel Steinmetz imparting divrei bracha at the siyum

rael. He then cited the words of the Tiferes Shlomo who says that when a person makes a siyum all of the holy Tanaim and Amoraim mentioned in that masechta come down from the celestial worlds to participate in the simcha. “Imagine,” exclaimed Rav Steinmetz, “that together with us in this room are the Tur, the Bais Yosef, the Shach, the Taz, the Pri Megadim and all of the other great poskim over whose psakim these yungeleit have so toiled to understand! Imagine, they have all come down to celebrate the Kinyan Halacha siyum!”

Rav Steinmetz also publicly hailed the mesiras nefesh of the Dirshu wives who, with simcha, forgo the help of their husbands and material comforts so that their husbands can keep up with the demanding schedule of learning and chazara necessitated by the program.

Rav Hofstedter: The Importance and Difficulty of Learning Halacha L’maaseh Perhaps one of the most unique, important aspects of the program is the hadracha – the practical guidance for each participating yungerman. Each avreich receives a kuntress outlining all the material being learned for the forthcoming half year. The program also provides mareh mekomos and constant guidance in what to learn and where emphasis should be placed.

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The singing and spirited dancing at the siyum was infused with an otherworldly simcha with a depth and magnitude that can only be understood when one contemplates the amount of effort expended to arrive at such an august moment of yedias haTorah.

Rav Dovid Hofstedter was then asked to address the siyum. In a comprehensive Torah discourse, Rav Dovid outlined the importance of learning Torah in a way that one actually takes his learning to its ultimate halachic conclusion. “I was once visiting with the great posek of our time, HaGaon HaRav Shmuel Wosner, zt”l. Rav Wosner told me the most difficult area of limud haTorah is learning halacha l’maaseh.

‘We see,’ said Rav Wosner, ‘that very few talmidei chachomim in each generation merit this special level of Torah learning as Chazal teach us, ‘One thousand enter [the yeshi-

va] but only one actually emerges as one who is worthy of horaah, [ruling comprehensively on practical halachic matters].’’”

HaGaon HaRav Prizant, Shlita: “How Much Simcha Would My Holy Father-in-Law Have Had to be at Such a Siyum The guest speaker was HaGaon HaRav Shaul Yehuda Prizant, shlita, Rav of the Sanz-Klausenberger Community of Union City and a sonin-law of the previous Sanz-Klausenberger Rebbe, zt”l. Rav Prizant said, “How much simcha would my holy father-in-law have had to be at such a siyum and to witness what Dirshu with all of its programs of accountable limud Torah has done. My father-in-law founded Mifal Hashas in order to produce Yidden who would learn and be tested on all of Shas. He understood the importance of such an organization and always spoke about the importance of sustained hasmadah and goal setting when it comes to learning.”

At the Antwerp Kinyan Halacha Rabbi Chaim Starck, a Dirshu

Festive dancing at the Dirshu Kinyan Halacha Siyum

learner who completed all of Shas with tests before embarking on the five-and-a-half-year cycle of Kinyan Halacha related that the structure that Dirshu gave him was the primary factor in enabling him to complete Shas and Halacha.

As Dirshu is about to embark on the third cycle of the Kinyan Halacha program, Rabbi Avigdor Bernstein, a member of Dirshu’s hanhala, related that over 3,700 people have

signed up for the third machzor! In addition, numerous large and small kollelim have declared their intent to spend the next five-and-a-half-years learning with the Dirshu Kinyan Halacha program.

Rav Prizant concluded, “Baruch Hashem, due to Kinyan Halacha and Dirshu’s other programs Klal Yisrael is being enriched with so many lomdim muflagim.”

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Hillel Day Camp

Exciting Camp Feature! Back for a 4th Year!

How are the youngest Five Townsers spending their summer? Over the summer season we will be speaking with local day camps to learn how our children and teens are spending their eleven weeks of summer vacation. Between swimming, sports, learning, trips, projects, cheers and lots of ices, we know their days are jam-packed with fun.

Hillel Day Camp has the motto, “It’s about the campers,” so they decided to let TJH readers know about Hillel from the eyes of their campers in their summer interview. Here you’ll hear from different campers – in their own words! – about why Hillel is the best place to spend the summer. Hillel Day Camp’s 950+ campers range from those in its Day Care program –that enables mommy staff to have their children on campus – to the CITs that are becoming their staff members of tomorrow.

Tell us about your toddler division. For some of them it’s their first exposure to a “big camp” setting. How do you make them feel comfortable?

Rabbi Jordan Nadelbach, Assistant Director: Hillel’s Toddler groups are well-run and action-packed. My daughter is having an experience beyond my imagination. The 2-year-olds swim twice a day in an in-ground heated pool with tons of lifeguards. They partake in all the wonderful shows and special activities that Hillel offers along with the music, sports, nature, moon bounce, art and other weekly activities. Hillel hits a home run when it comes to its toddler program.

What about your CITs? What

special things do they do?

Naomi Wiener, CIT: The CIT program is terrific. It’s the best of both worlds. Not only do we gain the experience working with campers of all ages or in specialties, but we are also campers hanging out with our friends, going on trips, learning from our mentors, Penina Wiener, Rabbi Jake Berman, and Abby Lewan, and preparing ourselves to be Hillel staff.

What sets Hillel Day Camp apart from all the others?

Megan Scharf, G5: Hillel is better than all other camps because I get to see my friends from other schools, it’s so close to my house, and the activities are amazing.

Rebecca Warshawsky, G4A: I love the heated pools. My counselors are amazing. I looooove the

chocolate room, especially when we made chocolate roses.

Illyana Spitz, G2C: Camp Hillel is 1000% amazing. We go swimming twice a day in the most amazing pools. We have activities such as String Art, Cardio Fitness, Yoga, tons of sports, baking, chocolate designs, jump rope, see a lot of shows, and go on trips every week.

Lauren Ross, G4A: Hillel is the best because the counselors always do my hair beautifully.

Ayelet Glatt, G4A: Every year we get a new activity like beauty school plus the counselors are nice and are always playing with us.

Sammy Mayer, B3A: When I wake up there is a smile already on my face because I’m so happy I’m going to camp.

Ariana Haft, G7: More sports

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and also swim periods are longer at Hillel than another camp I was in. And it’s cleaner. Hillel rocks!

Rachel Koren, G6: Hillel has a larger space to have fun than other camps and they know specifically what kids enjoy.

Kaitlin Pollock, G6: I think Hillel has better activities than other camps, like chocolate making and beauty school. Also being on Central Avenue is really awesome because we get to walk to Warren Levy and Fitwize.

Elisabeth Gurtman, G7: We get to hang out with our friends and do fun things instead of school stuff.

So, what’s a “regular” day like in camp?

Madison Pollack, G7: Fun Abigail Winder, G6: Amazing Lily Azizo, G6: Fun, awesome, sporty, and cool Adina Lax, G6: There’s always something new which makes me look forward to the day at Hillel Rebecca Dagan, G7: Hillel has different activities which makes it fun and awesome.

What are your favorite activities?

Maor Shabtay, B4A: Basketball leagues Alex Pantazakos, B4A: Dodgeball Nicole Guetta, G3B: Creative cooking Orly Leibowitz, G2B: Fitwize Rebecca Ben-Dayan, G3B: Gaga Shalom Singer, B3A: Warren Levy, nature, just being with my friends? I can’t choose Joey Weisel, Coach: Gaga in Hillel’s Gaga Pits Kayla Jakubowitz, G4A: Soccer is my favorite because working together as a team is awesome and I love the coaches too. They are awesome.

Shirel Alkobi, G4A: I love all the sports and the bag I made at jewelry making and chinuch.

I love learning new things I didn’t know before.

Julie Schechter, G4A: Swimming because it gives me energy for the day.

Ruthie Shulman, G4A: Soccer at Brandeis is so fun and my mom’s shirt decorating skills makes me excited for camp How do you get into the “camp spirit”?

Rylee Gluck, G4A: Hillel has a special spark that makes you have fun, and the shows and trips are great.

Eliana Leitner, G6: Friends cheering you on in sports.

Eliana Aminov, G6: All your friends are nice and I’m always excited for the activities.

Ariella Geron, G6: You get to make new friends and the coaches help you get better at activities Kayla Fleschner, G6: The people that work at Hillel are the best. They always encourage us to be part of all the activities.

Bailey Levine, G6: My counselors and division head have so much energy that it’s infectious.

Tell us about your campus.

Abby Wiener, G2C: The camp is so big – it’s like a sleepaway camp. Each bunk has its own room, there are 4 gyms, 3 gorgeous heated pools, 2 great playgrounds, 2 huge fields, and my sisters go to play golf and tennis at the Lawrence Yacht and Golf club.

What trips do you enjoy?

Isabelle Parkoff, G4A: Fishing because I caught a lot and it was fun Kayla Chill, G4A: Bounce Leah Kammerman, G4A: It was exciting to catch and reel in fish when we went fishing.

Alex Jakubowitz, G4A: @play was my favorite trip because when you combine friends and fun it’s great.

Isabella Steiglitz, G7: Hershey Park was the best Julia Leavitt, Counselor: Hershey Park was incredible

2,000+: people in our heated, ageappropriate swimming pools with ALL campers swimming 2X a day 950+: campers 100+: years camping experience of the UPPER Staff Team 50+: staff members trained in CPR and AED 28: Nassau or WSI certified lifeguards 25: Professional athletic coaches 18: Response to Emergency trained personnel 4: fully air-conditioned gyms 3: Certified registered nurses on staff 2: New York Mets players who visited Hillel Day Camp 1: visit from an Olympic Gold Medalist

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Camp MaTov

Exciting Camp Feature! Back for a 4th Year!

How are the youngest Five Townsers spending their summer? Over the summer season we will be speaking with local day camps to learn how our children and teens are spending their eleven weeks of summer vacation. Between swimming, sports, learning, trips, projects, cheers and lots of ices, we know their days are jam-packed with fun.

Rabbi Shonek, thank you for speaking with us. Camp MaTov has been around for decades. How did it all start?

Camp MaTov began over 40 years ago when a local yeshiva rebbi, Rabbi Feuerstein from YOSS, felt that the neighborhood boys needed some level of yeshiva in the summer.

Originally, the camp only went till 12:30. Rabbi Brown and Rabbi Kalish took turns running the yeshiva camp until Rabbi Brafman took over.

In the mid-1990s, we started offering afternoon camp. It has since taken off but, we still are primarily summer yeshiva Camp MaTov (just don’t tell the campers!).

How long have you been with Camp MaTov and what is your position?

When Camp Torah Vodaath closed down in the early 1990s, I joined Camp MaTov. I am the rebbi for 7th and 8th grade in the morning and the head counselor of the camp.

We’re already well into second half. How many boys having been enjoying their summer fun at Camp MaTov? Our 120-plus campers come from the local yeshivos and we have three vans coming from Queens every day.

Tell us about your different divisions. What special things does each one do?

Junior division is run by Rabbi Avki Klein. He creates a ruchniyus atmosphere for the boys while they do the swimming, arts and crafts, and games. Rabbi Ben Czeladnicki (Rabbi C) runs the youngest division and heads our creative club style activities. This year, he is doing fun and strange science projects with his guys. The intermediate division is run by Rabbi Menachem Engel.

He keeps the division in a state of excitement and is also our “In It To Win It” lunchtime emcee. The seniors are run by Rabbi Dovid Libman who brings his

professionalism to making sure that the leagues go great.

What sets Camp MaTov apart from all the others?

Every camp is great! We pride ourselves on two things. First, we are a learning camp, as our motto goes, “The community camp where learning comes first.” This includes our b’nei Torah staff who shteig in their learning time too. Second, we try to be pashut and keep the camp affordable while providing a great summer.

Tell us about your rebbeim and your wonderful staff.

We have many local rebbis as our rabbeim; the learning is run by Rabbi Zev Braun, our learning director.

What’s a “regular” day like at Camp MaTov? 9:30 till 12:30 is learning time with the rebbi. This includes learning, davening for the youngest bunks, special assemblies, and anything

else you would find in a regular yeshiva day. 12:30 is when the lunch (deliciously provided by Silver Creek Caterers) and activities begin.

At lunch there are contests, raffles, games, etc. The afternoon is filled with sports, swimming and trips.

Did you do anything different for the Three Weeks and the Nine Days?

Chazal tell us to lessen our simcha during the Nine Days. We have a short thought about the churban every day at lunch during the Nine Days followed by the whole camp singing “Al naharos Bavel” or “Im eshkocheich.” The whole atmosphere is different during these days. On erev Tisha B’av, the camp puts on a special play with songs called a cantata to prepare us for Tisha B’av.

B’ezras Hashem, next year we will be singing about Moshiach coming and no longer mourn the churban.

What are the kids’ favorite activities during a regular camp day?

Baseball! Swimming! Trips!

Hockey! Football! Bowling!

Basketball! Soccer!

It looks like you’re having fun too. What makes you smile the most during the day?

When I see that the campers are enjoying themselves so much that they don’t even realize the infusion of ruchniyus.

How do you get the ruach going in camp?

Well, Rabbi Engel gets the oilam going every day at lunch with his game show. The music, the singing, it’s just what the boys like.

What trips do the kids enjoy?

We have two fishing trips a summer with the second one a late day fishing. The

juniors love the zoo. We just went to @playamusement in Farmingdale. This is besides bowling and the batting range.

We usually go on a trip a week.

Thank you so much for your time. I hear the game show is about to start. Can’t wait to hear what it will be about today!

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By the Numbers 1: Drone – each trip – won in the Chinese auction with tickets acquired through learning 2: Weekly MaTov Torah Trivia questions 3: Club-style activities (chess club, science club, woodworking/crafts club) 340: Inches long, the largest fish we ever caught 180: Freeze pops given out daily at dismissal 200: Hours spent preparing the end of summer camp video

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You gotta be kidding Yankel walks into a coffee shop and asks the waitress: “How much is the coffee?”

The waitress replies, “Coffee is four dollars.”

“And how much is a refill?” asks Yankel.

“Free,” says the waitress.

“Then I’ll take a refill!” Yankel says.

You Know You Drink Too Much Coffee If… August is your favorite month not because “the sun is shining and the weather is sweet, makes you want to move your dancin’ feet” but because it’s National Coffee Month!

When people ask you your suit size you say, “Venti.”

You use your iPhone as a saucer.

You haven’t had meat in 12 years because you can’t handle the thought of not being able to have coffee and cream for 6 hours.

In your mind a yawn is a silent scream for coffee.

You make kiddush on coffee.

Your local barista knows more about your life than your therapist (which I recommend you get if you don’t have one yet…he/she may even have a Keurig machine).

Starbucks owns the mortgage on your house.

You name your cats “Cream” and “Sugar.”

You soak your dentures in coffee overnight.

Your dream vacation is to visit the “Maxwell House.”

Your first-aid kit contains two pints of coffee with an I.V. hookup.

Your doctor tells you, your blood type is COFFEE. Your coffee mug is insured by Lloyds of London.

You don’t sweat, you percolate.

You go to “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” seminars (which are filling up really fast in your area…so call within the next 5 minutes to secure a seat!!!) because they have free coffee.

You have a picture of your coffee mug on your coffee mug.

Your morning cup of coffee is so strong it wakes up the neighbors.

You perfected the post-sip “Ahh.” (And then you wonder why you have no friends?)

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WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE TRIVIA 1. As one of America’s most iconic food joints, you’d think that Dunkin’ Donuts was started by one of the founding fathers, but it wasn’t. Who is the founder of Dunkin’?

in the African tribal region of Kopi. Control of the bean fields is one of the major points of contention in the tribal conflicts.

As such, they are rare and very expensive. d.

a.

An Irishman named Duncan O’Neil b.

A plumber named Duncan Smith

c.

An Italian named Giovanni Gallo

d.

A nice Jewish boy from Massachusetts, the son of European immigrants, named William Rosenberg

2. Kopi Luwak is the world’s most expensive coffee (up to $600 per pound). How is it made? a.

It is made from coffee beans that are eaten and then excreted by a Sumatran wild cat.

b.

c.

The beans are cut and dried for 6 months in the sun.

It is made from extremely bold beans that are grown

Its coffee beans go through a three step process where they are chopped up and replanted twice before being used to make coffee.

3.Which of the following is the only commodity that is globally traded more than coffee? a.

Gold

b.

Oil

c.

Steel

d.

Wheat

4. Which country drinks the most coffee per capita? a.

Israel

b.

USA

c.

Italy

d.

England

e.

Finland

5. Why was the founder of Keurig once hospitalized?

7. How did the coffee drink called “cappuccino” get its name?

a.

While working on an early proto type of the machine, he was testing out heating tubes and sustained severe burns.

a.

b.

She was having her triplets delivered. (The second year after she started the company.)

It was made up by a goofy employee at Starbucks who until this day claims, “Uh, dude, the name just came to me in a dream... bro.”

b.

c.

He drank too much coffee.

“Cap” means light in Italian and “puccino” means brown. Since the drink is light brown it is called cappuccino.

d.

He was skydiving and his parachute didn’t inflate (but his instructor’s did and he was able to evade serious injury).

c.

Cappuccino means foam in Italian and the drink is very foamy.

d.

The drink got its name because of its resemblance to the brown hoods worn

by Capuchin monks.

f.

Brazil

6. All of the coffee in the world is grown in the area between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.

What is this area known as? a.

Java Line

b.

Bean Belt

c.

Coffee Circle

d.

Roast Circle

Answers: 1. D-Due to poverty, William Rosenberg was forced to leave school by eighth grade to help support his family which had lost its store in the Great Depression.

He worked as a salesman for various food-related businesses.

After World War II, he started a company that delivered meals and coffee to factory workers on the outskirts of Boston, Massachusetts. Within a short time, he had 200 catering trucks, 25 inplant outlets and a vending operation. Noticing that forty percent of his revenues came from coffee and doughnuts, he started a retail shop that specialized in those products, opening his first

coffee and doughnut shop, the “Open Kettle” on Memorial Day in 1948, later renaming it “Dunkin’ Donuts.” In 1955, upon opening his sixth shop, he decided on the concept of franchising his business as a means of distribution and expansion.

2. A-The process is said to improve coffee through two mechanisms: selection and digestion.

Selection occurs because the cats choose to eat coffee berries containing better beans. Once the beans are eaten, fermentation occurs in the cat’s digestive tract.

3. B-Oil is the only global com-

modity which is traded more than coffee.

4. E- The average Finn drinks 12 kilograms of coffee per year.

Americans consume 400 million cups of coffee per day, or equivalent to 146 billion cups of coffee per year; making the United States the leading consumer of coffee in the world. But we are not the per capita leader. (I guess we can’t always be #1 in everything.)

5. C- According to the Boston Globe, one day in the spring of 1995, Keurig co-founder John Sylvan checked into Boston’s

Beth Israel Hospital with heart attack symptoms. After numerous tests, doctors determined that he wasn’t having a heart attack and did not have a brain injury. Eventually, he was diagnosed with caffeine poisoning. At the time, he was drinking approximately 30 or 40 cups of coffee a day.

6. B- Brazil is the largest producer of coffee.

7. D- Cappuccino means “small hood” in Italian. The coffee beverage has its name because it resembles the color of the hooded robes worn by monks and nuns of the Capuchin order.

Wisdom Key: 6-7 correct: You are good. You should treat yourself to some good raw Kopi Luwak coffee beans.

4-5 correct: You are a “grande.” (Before you get excited, it doesn’t mean you are amazing and grand. In Starbucks parlance it means you are in the middle.)

0-3 correct: You are totally decaf, dude.

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ashi comments that the word “eikev” used here as meaning “because” or “therefore” is really the same word in Hebrew for the heel of a human being. Like all parts of our bodies, the heel is valuable, useful and vulnerable. Just ask

very day.

Eikev in the sense of heel also represents stability and proper balance.

If, G-d forbid, our heel is injured or hurts badly we cannot eat or certainly run properly. We limp and moan and pray for medical relief. Well, the

The wicked limp through life unbalanced and morally crippled.

Achilles! Fashion states that sinful people use the heel to trample on G-dly commandments and moral strictures. The heel thus becomes a negative representation of the use of the human body for nefarious purposes.

In American slang when wish to insult someone or describe that person in a negative fashion we call that person a heel. This can perhaps help us to understand the name of Yaakov in the Torah. He was called Yaakov because at birth he was holding on to the eikev of his brother Eisav. The mission of the righteous is to prevent the wicked from trampling, with their heels, on all that is moral, holy and good. In that sense the task of the Jewish people throughout its history has been to hold on to the heel of Eisav and prevent it from crushing goodness and morality. And so this struggle remains with us until this

same idea applies to situations when we use our heel improperly to step upon any of the commandments and values of the Torah.

The wicked limp through life unbalanced and morally crippled. The heel that tramples on good, aches.

It is a constant reminder of the true cost of sin and disobedience. This is really the substance of the entire message of the oration of Moshe to all of Israel here in the book of Devarim. Nothing can be clearer to us than the words of Moshe. He warns us to be very careful with how we use our heel. We should treat it as a vital organ and limb and not foolishly misuse or abuse it. Be careful what you step on. Perhaps this is implicit in the words of the Talmud, that one should lower one’s eyes when walking in the public street. Step carefully.

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From the Fire

Parshas Eikev Growing Up

By Rav Moshe Weinberger Adapted for publication by Binyomin Wolf

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hat is the nature of the transition of a young man or woman from a child, who is exempt from the mitzvos and punishments of beis din, to bar or bas mitzvah, when he or she is obligated to observe the mitzvos and is subject to the punishments of beis din (Chulin 12a, Sanhedrin 68b; Chagigah 2a; etc.)? Teshuvos HaRashba (Yi’ud Rishonim) explains that a child under bar or bas mitzvah is halachically not considered a bar daas, possessing mature intellect. No one should be offended by this. Even a genius like the Vilna Gaon was exempt from mitzvos as a child. The Rashba explains that the fact that a child is not a bar daas is a halacha l’Moshe miSinai, a direct transmission from Sinai.

Let us look at this more closely.

What is the precise nature of this change in intellectual maturity between childhood and adulthood?

The Navi Yeshayahu, who offers us so much consolation regarding the upcoming redemption in the haftarahs we read in the seven weeks after Tisha B’Av, also describes eighteen serious challenges the Jewish people will face at different times in history.

The Gemara (Chagigah 14a) explains, based on pesukim in Yesha-

yahu, the nature of the malady of our generation, the last one before Moshiach at the end of time. Our generation is also hinted at in the name of our parsha, Eikev, which means “heel,” the last and least part of the body. But it also a hint at the fact that our generation is the generation of ikvisa d’meshicha, the footsteps of Moshiach. What is the main issue plaguing us? “The youth will elevate himself over the elder and the lightweight over the honored one” (Yeshayahu 3:5). The Gemara explains that this means that for the youth and the lightweight, “serious things appear to him as insignificant.” Regardless of a child’s intellectual acumen, the key sign of intellectual maturity is the ability to recognize the true importance of important things and not ascribe undue significance to trivial matters. As the Yerushalmi (Brachos 5:2) says, “Without intellectual maturity, how can one make distinctions?”

Rav Yerucham Levovitz, the Mirrer Mashgiach, zt”l, writes that one of the most fundamental principles of Yiddishkeit is to properly understand the importance of things. The passuk at the beginning of our parsha (Devarim 7:12) says, “And it will be, because you will heed these laws...”

Rashi explains that this refers to the

mitzvos one tends to take lightly. The Torah is telling us we must listen to these mitzvos just like we listen to the other laws. We must recognize their importance despite the fact that people usually take them lightly. And the Mishnah in Avos (2:1) says, “Be as careful with a ‘light’ mitzvah as with a ‘heavy’ one, for you do not know the reward of mitzvos.” The evil inclination’s main goal in this generation is to cause people, both adults and children, to shrug off profound matters as insignificant and give great deference and respect to trivial things.

Many adults today fail to recognize what is and is not important. A frum Jew will scoff at a man studying in kollel for twenty years, calling him a benchwarmer. But a moment later he will discuss A-Rod’s retirement with the greatest admiration and respect. While there is nothing wrong with appreciating a human being’s ability to hit a ball, the inability to understand what is important in life and what is insignificant is profoundly disappointing.

The Gemara (Sotah 49b) says, “At the time of the footsteps of Moshiach, chutzpah will increase... and [people will perceive that] the wisdom of the scholars becomes putrid.” The chutzpah we see in both children (and

adults who think like children) today is a function of the lack of daas, intellectual and spiritual maturity.

Being an adult means knowing that major spiritual potential exists in every encounter one has with others. Every single conversion with another person is an opportunity to give a kind word, offer encouragement, or spread positivity and light.

Simply consider Rivka Imeinu.

She offered a drink to Eliezer, as well as his camels. The Torah spends passuk after passuk relating the details of this ostensibly insignificant act of kindness. Hashem obviously wanted us to understand that we would not be who we are and that our people would not be complete without this act of kindness, which ultimately was the sign by which Eliezer made the match between Rikva and Yitzchak.

This couple then formed the foundation of the Jewish people, who are the building blocks of a long process ultimately culminating in the redemption at the end of time. The Torah wants us to understand the deep significance in every act of kindness.

Contemplate the kindness of Shifra and Puah, also known as Yocheved and Miriam. They took care of and comforted suffering Jewish babies during Pharaoh’s mass slaughter

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of Jewish children. All they did was what comes naturally to any mother. They cooed and comforted crying children. Yet their quiet acts of kindness formed the basis for the birth of Moshe Rebbeinu, our redemption from Egypt, and the Jewish people’s acceptance of the Torah shortly afterward, all of which are the precursor of the ultimate redemption. Hashem wants us to understand that the details in life are not so minor. Profound significance is hidden within them if only we recognize their true importance and seize the subtle opportunities for greatness hidden in day-to-day life.

It is a sign of childish immaturity to only appreciate things that seem “big” and important. But truly “big” people recognize the importance of the things that seem small to others.

For example, the individuals who currently or have previously served as president of our shul over the years are important people in their respective professions. Yet they involve themselves in the countless myriad of details that are an inherent part of maintaining the daily operation of the shul. That is true greatness.

Rav Yerucham, who lived at the beginning of the twentieth century, recounts how, in his time, using microscopes, scientists were just discovering entire ecosystems, whole worlds, in objects and organisms smaller than a grain of sand. He saw in this a tremendous lesson. If so much exists in mere physical objects, how much more greatness must be hidden in the thoughts, words, and actions of a Jew. He explains, “This is the work of mussar, to magnify things. Because of the weakness of our vision and the frailty of our hearts, we do not see the greatness of things. But mussar is the ‘magnifying glass’ allowing us to gaze deeply into the inner essence of things... to draw out from everything the greatness hidden within every detail.”

Consider the mitzvah of bringing one’s first fruits to Yerushalayim.

There is no defined minimum amount one must bring. Therefore, one may technically fulfill his Torah obligation by bringing even one seed from one of his fruits, thereby fulfilling his obligation for an expansive field.

One tiny seed could justify a person

using the prayer found in the Torah (Devarim 26:15), “Look down from Your holy dwelling, from Heaven, and bless Your nation Israel and the land that You gave us, just as You swore to our fathers...” And the Gemara (Sotah 39a-b) explains that, when a Jew fulfills the mitzvah to bring first fruits, the kohanim would offer the prayer,

representative of the Rebbe had come to Curaçao. Groisman consulted with Rabbi Kotlarsky, who was able to assist him.

Shortly thereafter he wrote Kotlarsky a warm letter thanking him, and asked him “to tell the Rebbe that a small Jew from Curaçao felt that the Rebbe . . . touched my soul.”

Rabbi Kotlarsky sent a copy of the

The evil inclination’s main goal in this generation is to cause people, both adults and children, to shrug off profound matters as insignificant and give great deference and respect to trivial things.

“Master of the World! We have done what you have decreed of us. Now do with us what you promised us!”

How can all of this be? It is possible that while everyone else comes to Yerushalyim bringing baskets and baskets of luscious fruits to the Beis HaMikdash, one particular Jew brings just one tiny seed to fulfill his obligation and this justifies such profound prayers? The fact that it can is a lesson to us that we cannot judge the importance of an object or act by looking at how big or small it is. We must look deeply to see what significance the Torah places on it.

In Rabbi Joseph Telushkin’s book released on the twentieth yahrtzeit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, zy”a (p. 204), he recounts the following story that illustrates this beautifully: In 1982, Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, who today directs development for the global network of shluchim, was asked by Rabbi Chaim Hodakov, the Rebbe’s chief of staff, to visit the small Jewish community on the Caribbean island of Curaçao to and deliver a speech about Judaism there. One of those who attended Kotlarsky’s talk was a man named Chaim Yosef Groisman, who seemed startled that a representative of Chabad had come to his hometown.

Decades earlier, Groisman’s grandmother had told him that if he ever encountered a difficult, seemingly insurmountable problem, the person to whom he should turn was the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Now, indeed, Groisman had a problem, and a

letter to the Rebbe, who was moved by Groisman’s heartfelt thanks, though distressed by one aspect of the man’s warm regards: “I must take exception to your

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referring to yourself as ‘a small Jew from Curaçao,’” he wrote to Groisman. “Every Jew, man or woman, has a soul which is part of G-dliness above, as explained in the Tanya. Thus, there is no such thing as ‘a small Jew,’ and a Jew must never underestimate his or her tremendous potential.”

Every Jew, every detail, has such potential packed within it. May we merit being big people and may we merit spiritual, intellectual, and emotional maturity, thereby finally earning the complete fulfillment of that which we say in kedushah in Mussaf on Shabbos: “Indeed I will redeem you, the last ones like the first ones, to be to you G-d, I am Hashem your G-d.”

Rav Moshe Weinberger, shlita, is the founding Morah d’Asrah of Congregation Aish Kodesh in Woodmere, NY, and has served as Mashpia in Yeshiva University since 2013.

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Nice Guys Finish Last

By Eytan Kobre

To finish first, you must first finish. -Rick Mears

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n the late 1980s, British sprinter Derek Redmond shattered the United Kingdom’s 400-meter record, catapulting him into the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. After an injury forced him to withdraw – and five surgeries later – Derek qualified for the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, ready again to compete for world supremacy.

Redmond breezed through the preliminary rounds of the 400-meter sprint and was poised to take the semifinal run as well. But with only 175 meters to go, Redmond grabbed his right hamstring and pulled up lame, in excruciating pain. Redmond knew the race was over for him, but he was determined to finish the race at all costs. So he hobbled along the track on one leg, hopping towards the finish line.

Seemingly out of nowhere, a man burst through security and dashed towards Redmond. “That’s my boy,” Jim Redmond insisted, “and I’m going to help him finish this race!”

And arm-in arm, father and son hopped the final 100 meters to the finish line in front of 65,000 wild-

ly-cheering live spectators and millions of adoring television viewers.

Redmond understood that people with meaningful lives finish what they start.

“All the commandment that I order you today, you should watch to do, so that you will live and multiply and come and inherit the land that G-d swore to your forefathers” (Devarim 8:1). While this is understood simply as a directive to keep all of G-d’s commandments, the words “all the commandment” also can be interpreted to mean “the entire commandment” (Tanchuma, Eikev 7; Rashi, Devarim 8:1; Sota 13b). It is not enough to start performing a commandment; we must make sure to finish it too.

We are to encourage those who begin to perform a commandment to finish it as well (Yerushalmi, Pesachim 10:5). Completing “all of it and not (merely) part of it” is a key component of the consummate good deed (Sefer Chareidim). Conversely, one who starts to perform a commandment and fails to complete it devalues his status and imperils his family (Sota 13b; Tanchuma, Eikev 7; Yalkut Shimoni, Bereishis 144).

Halacha, too, recognizes the value

of finishing what was started (see e.g. Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 585:4 [the person who blows the first sounds of the Shofar on Rosh Hashana should blow them all]).

The value of finishing applies to the mundane just as it does to the spiritual.

Indeed, Jewish soldiers were ordered to leave the battlefield and return home if they had built a house and not dedicated it, planted a vineyard and not redeemed it, or were engaged to a woman and were not yet married to her (Devarim 20:5-7).

Before they could be deemed battle-ready, these soldiers had to finish what they started at home.

It is easy to start something new.

The sense of novelty is a natural motivator, and we don’t pay much attention to the potential obstacles, drawbacks, or challenges we may soon face. And then it isn’t new anymore.

Remember that musical instrument you started learning to play and then stopped (I do), that language you started to learn and then stopped (I do), that book you started to read and then stopped (I do), the diet or exercise regimen you started and then stopped (I do). Incomplete endeavors leave an unwelcome spot

on the psyche, eroding the habit of finishing what we started. And that erosion is sure to work its way into the spiritual life too.

A Chinese truism says that when you’ve made it 90 percent down the path, you’re halfway to your destination. The last few steps are where our faith or stamina or focus may falter.

It is those last few steps that test our resolve and challenge our dedication.

But the credit that goes along with being a closer – the credit for the entire commandment – is worth it (Sota 13b; Tanchuma, Eikev 7).

The Jewish people at-large, not Moshe, were credited with burying Yosef (Yehoshua 24:32), because, while Moshe had taken the bones from Egypt (Shemos 13:19), he did not bury them in the Land of Israel – the Jewish people did that. And because they completed the task, they are credited as having performed it entirely (Sota 13b; Tanchuma, Eikev 7).

The Land of Israel is extolled as a land that G-d desires and watches closely “from the beginning of the year until the end of year” (Devarim 11:12). Noting that the Torah shifts from calling it “the year” to simply calling it “year,” the Satmar Rebbe

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explains that it is natural to be excited about beginnings – a new project, a new job, a new relationship, a new year. And so we commit ourselves to the idea that this will not be the same old year we had last year and the year before that and the year before that.

No, no, no. This will be our best year.

The year to end all years. This will be the year.

But that initial excitement and enthusiasm often wanes. And what was destined to be “the year” ends up as just “a year.”

We voice our trust that G-d will redeem us again, “the end like the beginning” (Shabbos Mussaf). We will merit redemption – individual and collective – when the end of the year is like the beginning of the year; when all the promise and optimism and hope of “the year” carries through to its conclusion; when the year that starts as “the year” also ends as “the year” – the year to end all years. *

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Dereck Redmond wasn’t the only

Olympic runner who fought bravely to finish just for the sake of finishing.

With a time of 2:20:26, Ethiopian runner Mamo Wolde won the marathon at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, Mexico. But hardly anyone speaks of Wolde.

People instead tell of John Stephen Akhwari of Tanzania, who fin-

field, Akhwari had early on been eclipsed by the other runners, and, after about 30 kilometers, his head was throbbing, his muscles were aching, and he crumbled to the ground.

Olympic officials urged him to stop, but Akhwari refused. With bandaged knee, Akhwari picked himself up and hobbled the remaining 12 kilometers

Akhwari circled the track slowly until finally collapsing across the finish line. It is one of the most heroic efforts in Olympic history.

ished with a time of 3:25:17 – good enough for dead last.

After Wolde crossed the finish line, the remainder of the field strayed in, one by one. Three hours and six minutes into the race, 55 runners had crossed the finish line.

Only one runner remained on the course: Akhwari. Way back in the

towards the finish line.

Nearly twenty full minutes after all the other runners had crossed the finish line, Akhwari entered the stadium. He was bleeding. His knee was dislocated. He was hobbling.

Only a small crowd remained. Day had turned to night. Akhwari circled the track slowly until finally collaps-

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ing across the finish line. It is one of the most heroic efforts in Olympic history.

Mobbed by reporters after his finish, Akhwari was asked why he persisted so doggedly in the face of defeat and why he just had to finish what appeared to be a meaningless exercise.

“My country did not send me 10,000 miles to start the race,” Akhwari replied matter-of-factly.

“They sent me to finish.”

With the approach of Elul – the homestretch of the year – we ought to rededicate ourselves to the commitments we made at the beginning of the year and see them through to completion.

Because, like Akhwari, G-d didn’t put us here to start; G-d put us here to finish.

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

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The Observant Jew

Tu B’Av, the Shidduch Crisis, and the Meaning of Life

By Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz

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K, with a long, impressive title like this you’re probably expecting some deep philosophical explanations and kabbalistic insights. Nope. Not here.

Not now. Instead, you’ll get a bit of homespun wisdom combined with basic Jewish insights you’re probably familiar with.

Now, let’s ask the basic question everyone should be asking about the “shidduch crisis”: If, since Creation, Hashem has been sitting and making matches, the daughter of so-and-so to so-and-so, the wife of so-and-so to so-and-so, the money of so-andso to so-and-so, and so on, how can there be a crisis? If Hashem is making shidduchim all the time, what’s

the problem?

So you may say, “There aren’t enough boys to go around; there are more girls,” but that doesn’t make it any better. Hashem is the One Who decides boy or girl (various Gemaras notwithstanding) so shouldn’t He be able to make a better system?

I recall a conversation I once had with a fellow who had a son-in-law who was a talmid chacham. “I got him,” he said with a proud smile.

“Everyone else wanted him but I got him.” I was surprised. Didn’t the daughter get him? Didn’t Hashem arrange it? It sounded strange to hear him declare that he was the one who “made” the shidduch.

True, Chazal say a person should

always try to marry the daughter of a talmid chacham and marry his daughter to a talmid chacham, but can a person actually take credit for that? Perhaps, though, that’s part of the crisis.

In Chovos HaLevavos Shaar HaBitachon, R’ Bachya discusses the necessity of completely trusting in Hashem. He says that when a person trusts in his own intelligence, wealth, or strength (all given to him

by Hashem, of course) then Hashem will step back, as it were, and allow the person to pursue his objectives using those traits he possesses that he thinks will make him successful.

When he is not successful, he will come to the realization that Hashem

is in charge and at that point G-d will come back and take over.

From my experience, I have seen parents, as well as young men and women, thinking they had all the insights and answers and approach shidduchim like those relying on their own abilities. They come up with lists of things they’re looking for and what they won’t consider as matches for their children, but they’re not the things Hashem thinks they should look for. Looks, money, and yichus should not be the primary desired characteristics; good middos and a devotion to Hashem should be what we look for. A girl can be considered a “bas talmid chacham” if she is good and wise and a yarei

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Shamayim even if her father and brother are am aratzim.

A kind boy who is careful about mitzvos and making time to learn is more valuable than the brilliant Yeshiva bochur who belittles those who know less than he does. Don’t you want your child to have a spouse who will be good to them rather than just be a feather in the parents’ caps?

What we need to do is stop imposing our own standards on people and follow Hashem’s guidelines.

That’s how we’ll find the shidduch He wants us to have. (Of course, it’s a vicious cycle because even if we’re doing it right, the other side may not be, thus contributing to the national crisis.)

For a clue about what’s important, let’s look at Tu B’Av and Yom Kippur when the girls would go to the vineyards to find husbands. First of all, they went to dance in the vineyard.

Yes, even though the single men would see them, they would dance.

Why? Because simcha is such an im-

portant ingredient in life that people had to dance to show their inner joy and love of life.

They borrowed dresses so those who didn’t have wouldn’t be embarrassed. In fact, they specifically had to borrow dresses from people of a

grape juice stains out?! That’s also part of it. People who can take challenges and disappointments in stride should be a hot commodity in the shidduch market.

Of course, the words they said, which end the Gemara’s recounting

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If Hashem is making shidduchim all the time, what’s the problem? lower station in life than they, not from equals, so as not to embarrass someone who didn’t have anyone to borrow from. This tells us that the feelings of others are more important than what people think of us. I can’t make sure I’m all decked out when someone else is suffering. This sensitivity is something to look for.

Wait a minute – white dresses?

In a vineyard? How will you get the

of the events, are that one should look for a woman who has yiras Hashem with good deeds. This is of primary importance. The best yichus one can have is their connection to Hashem.

If we remember that and try to take every opportunity to cleave to Hashem, improving our own yichus, and leaving the ins-and-outs of matchmaking to Him, I think we’ll be dancing at a lot more weddings.

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Behind the Scenes at Your Simcha The People Who Make it Happen

By Malky Lowinger

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here’s nothing quite like the thrill of making a simcha, and baruch Hashem, our growing community seems to be celebrating more simchas than ever before. But while the rest of us are admiring the décor and enjoying the smorg, there are those among us who are ensuring that all details are running smoothly and that everything is just so.

These people work behind the scenes night after night, using their skills and creative talents to help make our simchas joyous and memorable occasions. We may not notice who they are and we probably don’t really appreciate everything they do.

But they are unquestionably the ones who make it happen.

The Caterer “A simcha,” says Gedalya, former manager at Ateres Chaya Hall, “is like a Broadway show. Everything

has to be synchronized and properly coordinated. And in the end, when you’ve overcame all obstacles and everything went well, you take a bow.”

It all starts during the planning stages, when dozens of big and little decisions need to be made. In general, says Gedalya, the planning goes smoothly. But it’s a good idea for machatanim, and even spouses, to discuss their expectations in advance to make sure they’re on the same page. That would eliminate those awkward moments when one ba’al simcha thinks a carving station is a great idea but his new mechutan thinks it’s a waste of money.

“A chasunah,” Gedalya says, “is sometimes an opportunity for a person who works hard to make a nice simcha. And there’s nothing wrong with that, especially when this baal simcha is also a tremendous baal chessed. It’s his night to enjoy a beautiful simcha. So why not?” But, Gedalya points out, his machatanim,

and sometimes even his wife, may feel otherwise.

What’s the number one mistake people make when planning a simcha? “They miscalculate the number of people who will attend,” Gedalya explains. This can go either way.

“There are people who think everybody is coming to their simcha and then there are those who think nobody is coming. “ Use common sense, he suggests.

“Go through your list and you’ll get a pretty good idea of who will probably show up. By using simple logic you can arrive at a pretty accurate number.”

In his role as manager at a popular simcha hall, Gedalya had to deal with some unusual scenarios most of which were unexpected. Did he ever have to calm down a nervous kallah?

“Well, yes,” he says, “but more often than not it’s been the chosson who’s had cold feet.”

Oy. What did he do?

“Usually, we wait. We let him sit alone in the room for a few minutes to gather his thoughts. Or his rosh yeshiva comes in to speak to him.

Once he calms down the simcha continues and nobody is the wiser.”

Occasionally a kallah is so anxious about how she looks in a sheitel after the chuppah that she will delay coming out for dancing. “One kallah kept us waiting for an hour and forty five minutes. She said she felt like a freak. So we served the main dish and kept the ‘program’ moving until she was ready.”

Gedalya’s most memorable night?

The evening of August 14, 2007. “It was a Thursday,” he says, “the night of a major blackout across New York City.” Others may have been at a loss on how to handle the situation, but – according to Gedalya – the key to every difficult situation is to remain calm and to find creative solutions.

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hot but people danced. Eventually, we brought the dancing outside to the sidewalk where it was a bit cooler.

And somehow we had music.”

Which was better than the night when the music didn’t show up at all. “They had double booked two weddings on the same night!” Gedalya remembers. “And here it was an hour before the chuppah with no band. It was a busy Kislev season and we made a number of calls for replacements but nobody was available – until we reached someone who had just had a cancellation. That was truly hashgacha pratis.”

The inspiring moments, says Gedalya, far outweigh the challenges. “One chosson learned that he had a serious heart condition just two weeks before his chasunah, and he needed major surgery. The kallah’s parents were distraught but decided to let their daughter decide whether to go ahead with the shidduch. She said she’s going to stick with him.

The wedding was postponed for a while, but it was eventually rescheduled for after the procedure. It was one of the most emotional simchas I’ve ever been to.”

The Photographer “I’m probably the most educated photographer in the world,” says Ira Thomas. He may be right. A graduate of NYU Law School and Business School, Ira was a trial lawyer in Memphis for many years.

But the lure of simcha photography was irresistible to him, and the satisfaction of being an integral element in other people’s simchas was downright alluring. So he walked away from the courtroom and decided to become a full time photographer instead. He hasn’t looked back

since.

The industry has changed dramatically over the years, Ira says, most notably with the advent of digital photography. “The techniques and the fundamentals of photography are still the same,” he says. “But with digital you can experiment.

And you can be way more creative.”

Ira points out that back in the “old days,” each photo cost him about 75 to 80 cents to develop. Not a huge sum, but it certainly adds up. Today, he says, “I can shoot the same picture

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chosson arrives, and they’ll be in the foreground blocking the face of the kallah.”

“This is my parnassah,” says Ira. “So I try to tell them in the nicest possible way to please step to the side. Take as many pics as you want.

But don’t hold your arm up in front of the action. Let me do my job!”

Another challenging area is the families that arrive late. “I would say about fifty percent of the bridal parties are half an hour late. Twenty five percent are 40 minutes late.

“They had double booked two weddings on the same night!” Gedalya remembers.

“And here it was an hour before the chuppah with no band.” over and over with five or six different settings. I can add some cool effects and play with photos that I would have perhaps deleted. Some of the best wedding photos started out by accident.”

But the digital age has also been the source of Ira’s greatest challenge.

Today, he says, the amateur photographer is ubiquitous at virtually every simcha. “But these amateurs fail to appreciate that they’re ruining many of our shots because they are standing in the periphery of our photos holding out their cameras and smartphones. “ Ira says the badeken especially has become difficult to photograph, what with all the guests and amateur photographers who are blocking the view. “I can be up on a ladder waiting for that big moment when the

And meanwhile I’ll be sitting there doing nothing but waiting.” Ira doesn’t blame the hair and makeup ladies for the delay. “That’s rarely the issue. Usually it’s the bride who doesn’t have the self-confidence that she looks good enough for pictures, so she keeps going back for last minute touch-ups.”

Ira comes to his simchas well prepared. “I’m on site at least an hour and a half before my starting time, sometimes even longer. I bring lots of equipment, and I need time to set it up. I’m also busy shooting pictures of the ring and the dress and the shoes and the invitation. Plus, I like to leave plenty of time to scout out the venue, especially if it’s a hall I haven’t been to in awhile.”

Being a wedding photographer is a labor of love, says Ira. But it also has

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kept him somewhat sleep deprived.

“I typically sleep about four hours a night,” he confides. “Sometimes I take the chosson and kallah to Times Square for photos and I’ll get home at 3:30 in the morning. Then I get up for the 6:30 minyan. That doesn’t leave much time for sleep, does it?”

The Makeup Artist “When you love what you do,” say Suri, a makeup artist, “you don’t feel like you’re working. And I honestly love what I’m doing.” Suri, who has been making people up for over 25 years, is a real people person. And that, she says, is an essential part of the job. “People are at their worst and at their best on the day of their Simcha, and some are really very stressed. I’m here not only to make them look their best but also to calm them. My goal is to make them feel comfortable.”

How many faces does she do on a typical week? “I could do forty people in a week,” she says, “and up to ten in one wedding party, although I once did a huge family where the job lasted from 8:00 AM until 10:00 PM. I had been on my feet that whole day!”

Yet Suri never finds her work to be boring or repetitive. That’s because she treats each face as if it were a fresh palette. “Each person is unique. I like to work back and forth between the eyes and the lips, redefining. If I darken the lip, I’ll lighten up the eye. It’s a continuous process.”

Suri says the key to maintaining a serene pre-simcha atmosphere is punctuality. “My biggest challenge,” she says, “is to factor in the people who are not on time. Then the photographer is waiting, and everybody

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is feeling rushed. Of course, sometimes stuff happens but it’s best to try to be organized.”

Any new trends in makeup artistry today? “The big trend in makeup is fake eyelashes,” Suri says. “It’s not really necessary, but these days all the brides want it. “ Suri herself prefers a more natural look and likes to place just a few individual lashes at the edges of the lid . “But the bold look is in and that’s the new trend.”

Like every makeup trend (think blue eye shadow and dark lipstick liner) it will come and go. “In two years they’ll be looking at their albums and saying, ‘What was I thinking?’”

Suri recommends that a kallah’s makeup should be done at the hall whenever possible. “At the hall, we will be experiencing with the proper lighting, and she will be putting on that white dress. All that makes a big difference. “ Social media has had a huge effect on the simcha makeup industry with so many artists showing off their work on Instagram and Facebook.

Suri cautions families to do their homework. “These beautiful photos of gorgeous kallahs may not be all they seem to be. It’s easy to create fake cheekbones or take off ten pounds in a photo.” she says. “Make sure you are looking at genuine photos.”

Making up clients for Shabbos presents its own challenges but Suri says there are tricks to the trade. “I can make any lipstick last longer by doing certain tricks. But my clients should know not to eat anything oily on Shabbos because that layer of oil will get on your lips and ruin the makeup. “

Suri encourages aspiring makeup artists, especially if they have an artistic flair. But they also need to exude self confidence. “If you are confident, then your customers will have confidence in you. But if you hesitate or ask them endless ques-

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the dresses.” Edna is a self-described “take charge person” who helps guide the family through the traditional scenarios. “It’s not strictly about the dresses,” she points out. “It’s about making the day klap.”

Among her duties, says Edna,

“The kallah’s sister forgot her petticoat?

The chosson’s collar stays are missing?

We need an extra veil for after the chuppah? A lint brush? Shoe polish?

Needle and thread? I have it all.” tions, they will become uncomfortable with your work. Sure you can get input from the client, especially if she wants something specific. But as the makeup artist, you’re the one who knows best.”

The Dresser There are those who feel that the services of a wedding dresser are totally superfluous. After all, don’t we all know how to dress ourselves? But then there are those who’ve used a dresser during a simcha, and feel that it was totally worth it. For some, it’s been a lifesaving (or simcha-saving) experience.

Edna has been “dressing” bridal parties for over sixteen years and has been involved in over 2,600 simchas.

So what, exactly, does she do?

“A dresser,” explains Edna, “relieves the stress of the day and allows the mom to focus on the simcha and the children and not the details and

is making sure that the kallah davens Mincha at the proper time, that the cathedral veil will be bustled for dancing, that the kallah will have a pair of socks for when she changes into sneakers , that the deck tichel is readily available, that the changing room is neat and organized, that the men’s neckties aren’t flying during dancing (she anchors them down), and, of course, that the gowns and dresses are steamed, pressed, and ready for the photographer to begin shooting.

One of her greatest responsibilities, says Edna, is ensuring that everything runs on time. This is no small feat and Edna offers one bit of advice to the bride and her mom. “I believe hair and makeup should be done at the venue whenever possible.

Very often, when it’s done at home, you lose track of time and you start running late. Or, you get caught in traffic and you arrive at the venue

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a bundle of nerves. If you come to the hall early, you are usually more focused and relaxed. And that will help the day run on schedule.”

Edna comes to her simchas well prepared. “I’m a little bit like Savta Simcha,” she laughs. “I bring along extras of everything. The kallah’s sister forgot her petticoat? The chosson’s collar stays are missing? We need an extra veil for after the chuppah? A lint brush? Shoe polish?

Needle and thread? I have it all.”

Edna is prepared for anything and everything. But her most memorable scenario was the night that the kallah’s gown caught on fire. “She was taking pictures in front of the tea lights that the florist had set up, and her veil and then her gown somehow touched the flame. The photographer ran to put it out with his bare hands and boruch Hashem not much harm was done. But I had to cut out the part of the gown that was burned and we had to get a new veil. Oh, yes, we also had to bandage up the photographer’s hand for the rest of the night.”

Still, nothing compares to the feeling of gratification of helping people celebrate their simchas. “My favorite part,” says Edna, “is when customers come back to me years later thanking me for making it happen. They tell me that I took care of them as if I were their ‘mommy.’

Every compliment leaves me with a special feeling. And the ultimate compliment is when they tell me they won’t book a date for their simcha until they are sure I’m available that night.”

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Investing in Israel Real Estate

By Gedaliah Borvick

Jerusalem project under construction

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wo clients recently asked us to help them purchase an investment apartment in Israel.

Liat lives in Israel and wanted to buy a small Jerusalem apartment for her children which they could flip in a few years to acquire a larger home in a less expensive community. Jonathan wanted to get a “piece of the rock” which he could sell in a decade and use the profits to purchase a larger apartment for his family’s use.

Liat: Short-Term Horizon Liat’s son and young family are just starting out and, in about four years, will want to purchase a four-bedroom apartment. We decided that the best low-risk, strong short-term upside investment opportunity would be to purchase “on paper” in a new project being developed in a large population center, where demand outstrips supply.

Ramat Baka is being constructed by a third-generation builder and will be ready in about two years. It is located on the border of two lovely Jerusalem communities, Arnona

and Baka, and is within a 15-minute walk to Emek Refaim and 40 minutes to the Kotel. Offering excellent access to transportation, shopping and communal facilities, Ramat Baka has been a strong success, as over 40% of the units have been sold in slightly over half a year.

Liat observed that prices for 1-bedroom units in the immediate vicinity rose from 1,550,000 three years ago to 1,900,000 earlier this year. Accordingly, Liat purchased a one-bedroom unit in Ramat Baka for around 1,600,000 NIS, with the expectation that soon after completion, this unit will be valued at 2,000,000 NIS. Liat’s son expects to sell the apartment and use the profit to purchase a larger unit in a lower-priced community.

Jonathan: Long-Term Horizon Jonathan lives in London, England, which has seen its currency and real estate values dip after Brexit. Consequently, many British clients want to hold on to their as-

sets, with the expectation that both the pound and the properties will rebound soon.

Jonathan’s plan is to purchase a large Jerusalem home when he retires in ten years. To achieve that long-term goal, he wanted to immediately buy a property with upside potential – with as little cash as possible – which he would sell to help fund his future Jerusalem home. We identified an interesting project in a lovely older neighborhood in southern Tel Aviv that is just starting to gentrify. The developer is creating a new community on an almost 6-acre plot, which will feature lovely parks and nine buildings containing over 600 residential units.

This project is in its infancy and will not be ready for six years.

Jonathan deposited 7% on contract signing, which will be held by the project’s attorney for the next 1.5 years until the building permit is received. Upon the developer obtaining the building permit, my client will pay an additional 13%, and the entire 20% will be deposited into an

account controlled by the financial institution that is giving the bank guarantee. The final 80% payment will be due upon receipt of the keys in about six years.

Jonathan purchased a 3-bedroom unit for around 2,100,000 NIS, or 22,000 NIS per square meter, and the unit’s expected value upon completion is 3,340,000 NIS, or 35,000 NIS per sqm. This profit will go a long way toward helping Jonathan purchase his dream home in Jerusalem.

Obviously, no one has a crystal ball and we can only look back at recent history to project future property values. Nevertheless, I am excited to revisit these transactions in a few years’ time and see how these investments have worked out.

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

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Dating Dialogue

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

Dear Navidaters,

Our daughter Miriam has a friend named Naomi who was always considered the class queen. I know that might sound bad, but let’s face it, every grade has a queen.

It’s the way it is. Naomi was and is today very beautiful. She’s smart, sweet and comes from a well-known, affluent family. There’s nothing wrong with our daughter Miriam. I think she’s pretty terrific too, but Naomi was always the queen.

Anyway, Naomi was set up with Mendy and they dated seven times. Naomi was absolutely crazy about Mendy and told her close friends, including our daughter, that he was the one for her and that she believed they would be getting engaged soon. For some reason, though, Mendy decided Naomi wasn’t for him and stopped dating her.

A few months later someone wanted to set Mendy up with our daughter. Miriam was reluctant to go out with him, for obvious reasons, but by then Naomi was – and is – dating someone else pretty seriously, and we all convinced her to give it a try. From the first time we met Mendy, we were less than impressed and didn’t know what all the fuss was about. Yes, he is very handsome and comes from a wealthy family and seems friendly and nice and well-rounded – but it became clear to my husband and myself that he is not very smart. We were sure that after one date Miriam would realize that he was not a good fit for her, being that Miriam is extremely smart. But she was thrilled that he wanted to go out with her again (and again).

When we tried to gently discuss with Miriam our concerns over Mendy not coming off as particularly smart, her answer was something along the lines that if he was good enough for Naomi, he must be a great catch. Frankly, we feel that Miriam is being motivated by the idea of “getting” the guy who dumped Naomi. I know it sounds crazy, but too many conversations we’ve had with Miriam seem to point to that conclusion on our part.

We’re very concerned because we believe that once the thrill of landing the jackpot is over (and it looks like there’s a good shot that he’ll be proposing shortly), Miriam will find herself very unhappily married to someone who isn’t very smart and not someone with whom she can have an intelligent conversation. And Miriam is definitely someone who has always prided herself on her “smart talk.”

What can we do?

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.

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t’s kind of late in the game to boost your daughter’s confidence, which is key to making sound personal choices. A mature person is one who has experienced both success and failure and has grown from both.

Miriam is an adult but according to you, she seems to be harboring juvenile Cinderella-type feelings.

It’s good that the two of you have been talking to your daughter but the outcome of these conversations seems to be one-upmanship/scoring a catch. You can suggest to your daughter that she make a list for herself and write down the pros and cons of marrying Mendy. She can write another list about the pros and cons of living with Mendy. She can write a third list about what life might be like five years down the road with Mendy – not material and career achievements – but what would they be sharing (such as interests, hobbies, etc.). Throw out various idea for structuring honest journaling.

Encourage her to evaluate things on paper in all key decisions. Tell her that it’s a useful way to be honest with oneself and sort things out.

Be sure to reassure her that it will be private. Good luck.

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ow you have me scratching my head. You refer to Miriam as one “extremely smart” cookie. She prides herself on her “smart talk” and is disdainful of guys who can’t hold their own in the brains department. That is, until she meets Mendy.

Mom, we’re not in high school anymore. Gone are the rankings: Queen, Valedictorian, Miss Congeniality – whatever the competitive nonsense. Miriam may have dated

Mendy initially out of curiosity (“let’s see what all the fuss was about”).

Still, if Miriam continues to date him, there is more to Mendy than meets your eye. Attributes such as chemistry, sense of humor, and kindness are less tangible than eye color, height, bank account, or IQ. It seems Mendy has what it takes to keep Miriam interested; trust her – if she is as astute as you say, she likes Mendy for all the right reasons. No contest!

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omeone needs to sit Miriam down calmly and lovingly – to get the story straight. You mentioned numerous times how smart your daughter is. Is she really the type to only marry a man because he was rejected the class “queen”? Find out what else she sees in him and why she finds him to be marriage material. Make sure to explain why. “Being good enough for the class queen, so good enough for me” is not an appropriate response.

Through the nuances in your letter, it appears you are consumed with this idea that Mendy is just not smart enough for your daughter. You give no other reason why you do not see it.

In the years I have spent setting people up, I have found that there is often a conflict between what the parents want and what the daughter actually really wants. Perhaps this is just one of those cases! It could be she is looking for a man who has may other good qualities but doesn’t come across as “the class valedictorian”-type and that is perfectly fine with her.

Definitely sit down with her for the important discussion of what she sees in him to understand her better.

If you still can’t get any other reason out of her, you may want to send her a dating coach or therapist to discuss her feelings before she makes anything official.

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ome things never change! As much as most of us don’t want to admit it, we really do care what others think! And sometimes to a dangerous degree. Obviously, Naomi’s legendary title did a real number on Miriam (and probably the rest of the class), and the power it has always held over her is hard to outgrow.

To think that the man who thought Naomi wasn’t good enough for him is interested in them can make anyone feel like they’ve suddenly been bumped to the head of the line. More than a queen!

Having said that, somewhat sarcastically (but there is often truth in sarcasm), don’t forget that mak-

Is Miriam someone who has made sound or questionable decisions in the past?

ing a list of personality traits is all very well and good until one meets Mr. Right – and when the chemistry is suddenly so perfect, what maybe what was once thought to be a non-negotiable must-have is not as important as one might originally have thought. Just because Miriam

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is so bright doesn’t necessarily mean that she can’t be very happy with someone who takes a backseat to her in brain power but leads the way in so many other important matters.

However, if Mendy is more than just “not very smart” and is downright dumb (sorry Mendy), there is one ploy you can try and see if it might be a roundabout way of providing Miriam with a wakeup call. It would go like

this: Invite Mendy over for a family gathering. Rather than just talk about fluff, steer the conversation into some discussions that are of a more intellectual nature that require critical thinking and ask Mendy for his opinions on various subject matters. Mendy may surprise all of you and respond in an impressive way. But if your worst fears are realized, and he comes across as “not very smart,” as you fear, Mir-

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iriam is dating the perfect package, except you think he is lacking in the intelligence department. Being that Miriam has always prided herself on her intellect, you are concerned that once the fairy dust wears off and reality hits, Miriam will not feel fulfilled in her marriage. Your second apprehension is that Miriam’s relationship with Mendy is driven in large part by his ex, Naomi, the class queen. In Miriam’s mind, Mendy somehow elevates her status and self-worth because he dated Naomi. I think you have two reasonable concerns.

Before I proceed, I want to throw out the idea that everyone has different definitions of “smart.” It’s important that we have a working definition of “smart.” You and I may use it in different ways. What is he lacking? You mentioned that he is well-rounded. When I hear “well-rounded,” I conjure up a Renaissance man and I associate that quality with being “smart.” So, what is it that Mendy is missing in your opinion? Can you put your finger on it? Is he uninformed about the world, does he sit quietly when you talk about medical breakthroughs? Or does he have difficulty constructing a sentence? This is very unclear to me. There are different types of intelligences, so when I hear someone say “he’s not smart,” I’m hon-

estly not sure what you mean. I’m also wondering if you and your family have always considered yourselves very smart and have viewed others as “not as smart.” You’ll decide if any of the aforementioned is applicable.

Let’s talk about your confidence in your daughter’s priorities and values for a moment. Is Miriam someone who has made sound or questionable decisions in the past? Do you feel she has had always had a good head on her shoulders? Is she someone who is easily influenced by social pressure or status? While getting caught up with the fact that Mendy dated the beauty queen can be fun and exciting in the beginning, as her relationship with Mendy progresses I find it immature of her if she were still to be hung up on that. And that would speak to a larger issue. Is Miriam ready to get married?

When the bills start pouring in and they have their first fight, the “queen” won’t be there whipping out her checkbook and playing referee.

There’s another possibility. Is this family stuck in a cyclical conversation, i.e. “We don’t think Mendy is particularly smart.” “But Naomi dated him.” “But we don’t think Mendy is particularly smart, honey.” “But he has to be because Naomi dated him.” See what I mean?

iam should be able to witness Mendy for herself in a whole new objective setting and possibly take pause and wonder what she might be getting herself into. Better for Miriam to come to such conclusions on her own than have you or your husband point it out to her, in which case she very possibly would protest.

If you’re truly worried, it’s worth a shot!

I wonder what would happen if you were to open up a new dialogue. “You and Mendy are getting pretty serious. We’re so excited for you! We’d love to hear all about Mendy and your feelings for him.

Tell us what you love about him.” I am wondering if Miriam would respond differently. I am wondering if Miriam is responding almost defensively to your “dig” about Mendy’s lack of smarts.

I am hoping that this gentle yet powerful tweak in your approach would open the door to a more meaningful dialogue about Miriam’s feelings for Mendy. If all she comes up with is “Naomi this” and “Naomi that,” you can open a new dialogue about your concerns that Miriam’s focus is off target. You can offer to send her to therapy or to speak with a mentor, if need be. Miriam will need professional help to evaluate her priorities in her relationships with men.

Now… if Miriam’s new response to your new dialogue about her feelings for Mendy is mature and on target, i.e., He treats me respectfully. He is kind-hearted. We have similar values and priorities. He excites me. We have great conversation. He has great relationships with his family. We have great chemistry. I’m so happy with him. We share the same non-negotiables and the same goals. We are a great match hashkafically…then you and your husband may want to swallow your concerns about Mendy’s intelligence. Not everyone is highly intellectual, and that is OK. Say

Try to get to know Mendy and see him through Miriam’s eyes.

your child had a favorite puzzle that excited her and stimulated her but it was missing one piece…would you tell her to throw it out because you couldn’t stand to see her putting in all her effort only to have an incomplete puzzle?

Open up that new dialogue and get to learn about Miriam’s deeper feelings for Mendy. If everything adds up and they have a mature relationship, you may want to consider dropping this for good.

Try to get to know Mendy and see him through Miriam’s eyes. In my experience, when Mom and Dad are hyper-focused on a perceived flaw in their child’s beloved, the child tends to withdraw from her parents and begins to slowly exclude them from her life. No parent or child wants this. Let’s try to create some new, positive and constructive interactions between you and Miriam. If, by chance, that is something that has been challenging for you and/or your husband in the past, you may want to consider speaking with a professional for one or two sessions to help guide you. Best of luck.

Sincerely, Jennifer Mann, LCSW

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New Thoughts on Using Leverage in Relationships

By Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.

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have always said to people in abusive relationships that it wouldn’t hurt to apply some leverage to get their erring spouses to perk their ears up and listen to them.

Of course leverage has to be real.

You can’t make idle threats. If you never back up a threat then you’re not taken seriously. That ends up being worse than not making the threat at all. You look weak, like a person who has no backbone. Respect for you goes down and the mistreatment goes up. (This is true as well for any relationship you are in including with your kids, colleagues or friends.)

So leverage is powerful. My problem with it – the reason I never liked it – is because it doesn’t seem very nice. True, if you weren’t being treated nicely, it doesn’t seem to be such a problem to not be nice yourself. Tit for tat, right?

Well, not exactly. First of all, nekama is wrong. The Torah (see

Pirkei Avos, for example) makes that plain. Second, as I tell angry people, bursting with rage at the indignities they suffered, “Do you really want to sink down to their level?” In other words, when you “give it back,” you become no different than the abuser you’re so mad at. Is that who you want to become?

Then there’s the third problem: Shooting yourself in the foot. See, angry people, often victims of bad treatment, say, “I want to teach him/ her a lesson.” The problem is you’re not. Not only aren’t you teaching a lesson, you’re doing the exact opposite: You’re being confusing, muddying up the waters. After all, what you’re communicating is that you’re angry, not what the other person did wrong.

And you make them angry in the process. Then, what happens when the other person is angry? Do they think clearly? Do they reason to

themselves, “Oh, my spouse is angry at my behavior; I need to improve”?

Fat chance.

The optimal environment for learning is one of low stress, preferably one of positive feelings about oneself. Arguments are hardly conducive to that.

So tit for tat never seemed like a good idea to me for all these reasons.

Yet, I would tell people – repeatedly – that if they objected to the inconsideration, lies, disrespect, or criticism they were constantly receiving they could plan on a serious consequence, issue a threat they would keep, and get some changes made. I didn’t like the idea of threats but I didn’t see another option. Threats seem nasty, going just as low as your adversary went. But they work.

I never made peace with the approach: I liked to think of myself – and my clients – as nice people, and

threats that you actually carry out aren’t nice.

Then something clicked this year during Tisha B’Av. Yeshayahu issued, basically, a threat. One hundred years before the Churban. We didn’t listen. And the Borei Olam carried out His threat. It was horrific. But He does only the right thing. What’s more, we are meant to follow His example. His actions are a roadmap for us. Not only that, we are supposed to understand His actions as tov, good.

How can we reconcile what seems like an impossible contradiction? On the one hand, issuing threats, and carrying them out no less, seems nasty, cruel, beneath us. On the other hand, G-d did it and He only does tov.

The problem with this reasoning process – like in all of the annoying arguments we get into – is that we’re seeing it only from our own perspective. Dying a horrific death, our

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perspective, cannot be good. It isn’t.

Even Hashem Himself would agree.

After all, He is the One who gave us a Torah that puts a high value on life.

But that is not the whole story.

Look at our pains and tribulations from G-d’s side: He created this amazing world just for us and we are tasked with making it even better.

We are supposed to elevate it. Exactly what does that mean?

It seems to me the job we have is to get us back to the clarity we had before we ate the forbidden fruit. The lines between good and evil were not blurred back then. We were not influenced by ego yet. Rationalization had not yet entered the picture.

We have to clear away the cobwebs of confusion that we spin every time we advocate for ourselves and exclude the position of the Other.

But what did we do at the times of the Churban instead? What do we continue to do to this very day? The same thing the prophets chastised us for. In a world where the very ob-

jective of existence is to pursue the Good, Hashem has to stand against evil.

So a point comes after much warning and much patience where He has to burn the Beis Hamikdash.

Not only does that stand eternally

Like I said, we muddied things up so long ago that now it’s hard to know when we are justifying wrong behavior because it will be to our benefit if we do. Strict honesty is called for: Is it for our egos or really for the greater Good that we decide to place some

Is it for our egos or really for the greater Good that we decide to place some threats and carry them out? as a warning for all generations​ but it also presents a template of how we need to act in the face of evil. Sometimes we have to make and carry out our threats.

There is one catch, though: If we don’t come from a place of trying to further what is Good, then the whole template thing comes crashing down.

And that’s difficult to know for sure.

threats and carry them out?

But think of the outcome if we are honest. We’re creating more Good and eliminating evil from our lives, possibly from the world. I often get calls from men who have either been handed divorce papers, kicked out of the house, or at least threatened with all of the above because their wives no longer could tolerate verbal or

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emotional abuse. Suddenly, the reality of what their wives have been telling them for years hits them. They come into therapy very seriously wanting to work on themselves. Baruch Hashem. When they succeed in changing, they literally reduce evil in the world and increase Good. So the leverage their hurting wives finally applied was good, too. Perhaps this is a new slant on what we can take away from Tisha B’Av. My hope is that people won’t need such drastic measures to listen to their spouses. Show that you want to make things great without the leverage and prove me wrong! Come hear me speak at the Levi Yitzchok Library, 564 Central Ave, Cedarhurst, NY, on August 15 at 8 PM. I’ll be speaking on “3 Keys to a Spectacular Marriage.”

Dr. Deb Hirschhorn is a Marriage and Family Therapist. She can be reached at 646-54-DRDEB or by writing drdeb@ drdeb.com.

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Health & F tness

The Severity of Food Allergies

By Cindy Weinberger MS, RD, CDN

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ome parents may wonder why schools are strictly nut-free and why they can’t send eggs or milk to school. While you may be frustrated because your child loves a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, another mother is worried about protecting her child from an allergic reaction. Two out of twenty five kids have a food allergy. Onethird of these kids can suffer from a life-threatening emergency.

Today, many adults are self-reporting food allergies without a diagnosis from a doctor. Without consent from a doctor, many are experimenting and finding relief with elimination diets. Most physicians and registered dietitians do not advocate unnecessary dietary restrictions. It is important to get an actual diagnosis from a physician or allergist before eliminating certain foods. One reason some may restrict certain foods is because of confusion over the terms. So let’s start with the basics.

What is a food allergy? A food allergy is when a specific food results in an immediate adverse response in the immune system. Most food allergies are IgE mediated, meaning the immune system identifies the food as an invader. The body then overreacts to fight this “invader” by producing antibodies called immunoglobulin

E. An allergy can manifest as itching, hives, stomach cramps, vomiting, diarrhea, swelling, anaphylaxis breathing, dizziness or loss of consciousness, and death. An allergy is consistent – meaning, each time you eat that food, a reaction will occur.

Specific food allergies can be tested by skin pricking, or a double blind, placebo-controlled food challenge.

Some people diagnose themselves as allergic to a certain food,

reactions that are not diagnosed.

This can be referred to as a food sensitivity. A food sensitivity is inconsistent and can cause nausea, stomach pains, vomiting, bloating, diarrhea, headache, irritability, joint pain, eczema, and lack of energy.

Who is at risk for developing allergies? Like most health conditions, allergies are genetic. If you have food allergies, it does not necessarily mean that your offspring will.

Like most health conditions, allergies are genetic.

while it is just an intolerance. A food intolerance is when the food is not properly absorbed or broken down in the digestive tract. This may be a result of enzyme insufficiency or a reaction to a naturally occurring chemical in the food. This does not involve the immune system or any immune response. It is entirely malabsorption. Food intolerance results in nausea, stomach pains, bloating, vomiting and diarrhea. A food intolerance can be diagnosed with a hydrogen breath test.

There can also be adverse food

However, if your spouse has food allergies too, your kids are more likely to develop the food allergy as well.

Some used to believe that avoiding highly allergenic foods during pregnancy and when breastfeeding can decrease the risk of food allergies.

Unfortunately, this strategy has not been proven effective at reducing food allergies. Babies with severe eczema are at a higher risk of developing peanut allergies. But that risk can be reduced by eating peanut-containing foods as early as 4-6 months.

Unfortunately, allergies cannot be prevented. If you feel that you or someone you care for may have a food allergy, seek a physician’s advice. Get an actual diagnosis before restricting certain foods. Restricting foods from a kid’s diet for no reason can lead to a lack of necessary nutrients. If actually diagnosed with a food allergy, make sure your child is prepared. If your child is verbal, teach him/her to warn people of his/ her allergies and not to accept any food from anyone without inquiring of its ingredients. Keep an Epi-pen with you or on child at all times, and make sure it’s not expired. Allergy awareness is a big issue and proper actions can save a life.

Cindy Weinberger MS, RD, CDN, is a Master’s level Registered Dietitian and Certified Dietitian-Nutritionist. She graduated CUNY Brooklyn College receiving a Bachelor’s in Science and Master’s degree in Nutrition and Food Sciences. Her Dietetic Internship was completed under Brooklyn College primarily in Ditmas Park Care Center and Boro Park Center where she developed clinical and education skills to treat patients with comprehensive nutrition care. She is currently a dietitian at Boro Park Center and a private nutrition consultant. She can be reached at CindyWeinberger1@gmail.com.

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Bris Milah, a Covenant of Millennia

By Dr. Hylton I Lightman, MD, DCH (SA), FAAP

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ris milah – the “covenant of circumcision” – debuted nearly 4,000 years ago. Our forefather Avraham entered into an everlasting covenant with G-d whereby G-d promised there would always be Jews in this world. He and Avraham sealed the deal with the latter becoming circumcised; in fact, Avraham circumcised himself. As Avraham invested himself personally in this covenant, the communal bonds grew exponentially.

The circumcision ceremony today remains the same. The baby’s penile foreskin is removed and blood is drawn from the reproductive organ. Blessings are recited, after which the baby’s name is announced to the world.

Bris milah celebrates Jewish life.

It is one of those “lines in the sand” whereby even those most distant from traditional Judaism throughout the ages have circumcised their sons. Even during the most arduous times for our people, including the Crusades and the Holocaust, Jewish parents have perpetuated this very same covenant. Remarkably, despite our people’s vicissitudes and tumultuous history, including attacks on circumcision itself, circumcising our Jewish boys at eight days of age has continued uninterrupted from Avraham until present day.

I’m afraid things might be changing.

A recent New York Times article spoke about the growing trend among some Jewish parents choosing not to circumcise their sons.

Zoe Greenberg, the article’s author, writes about parents who opt for a medical circumcision by a medical physician in a medical office. Her article includes interviews with other parents who are joining a growing American trend of not circumcising at all.

The reasons cited? Medicaid no longer covers the costs of circumcision. The 2012 recommendation of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) state that while the benefits of circumcision outweigh the risks,

porting the benefits of circumcision.

Further, bris milah is a tremendous spiritual experience.

Bris milah takes place on the 8th day of life. Why? Because then every Jewish baby boy has experienced the transcendence of one Shabbos.

The baby’s precious soul is being nourished even after it has entered this material world. What an awesome foundation for a Jewish child upon which to build his life.

But bris milah taking place on the 8th day of life has even deep-

Why? Because then every Jewish baby boy has experienced the transcendence of one Shabbos.

it is no longer recommending “universal newborn circumcision.” The growing Hispanic community does not circumcise their sons. And sadly, there are Jewish parents who see bris milah as irrelevant.

Bris milah irrelevant? I’m concerned.

As a pediatrician, I believe that circumcision reduces the incidence of urinary tract infections as well as penile cancer and the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases. Jewish women have a lower incidence of gynecological cancers than their non-Jewish counterparts. There’s no dearth of medical literature sup-

er meaning. The number seven is about the physical in this world. G-d created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. The seventh year is the “Shemittah” or Sabbatical year. Seven cycles of Shemittah culminate in the 50th year – one year beyond the seventh – in the Yovel or Jubilee year. The number eight goes beyond the physical and brings us to the supernatural, which means it’s infinite.

Therefore, bris milah is on the 8th day because our precious sons (and daughters) enter into a religion founded upon faith whose survival in this world has been miraculous. Our

contributions to this world, through medicine and law, ethics and morality, and so much more, have defined and brought society and this world so much further along. They have been and continue to be infinite.

It’s unfortunate that our adversaries have used bris milah for evil reasons. History is replete with accounts of them taking Jewish boys and men to see if they’re Jewish by looking at the area of the bris milah.

I can’t even contemplate what came next. But I am quite certain that not circumcising our boys will not stop our enemies from trying to sniff and snuff us out. Quite the contrary.

The more we cling to our faith and its precepts, the more we thrive. The irony is that the very same civilizations that have sought our destruction are now dead and gone – and we, the Jews, are still here.

Being a Jew is being a member of the best club in the entire world.

How proud we should be of bris milah. Its unremitting continuity for several millennia testifies to our tenacity and perseverance. And that’s something to celebrate.

Dr. Hylton I. Lightman is a senior statesman amongst pediatricians, an internationally-recognized authority and diagnostician, a public speaker, expert witness and go-to resource for health issues in the Orthodox Jewish community.

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Cold Summer Sweets August is here and the heat is on. Cool off with the sweet taste of summer – the perfect finish to an outdoor family barbecue

Strawberry Sorbet

Refreshing Fruit Soup

Ingredients 1/3 cup water 1/3 cup sugar 2 ½ cups fresh or frozen unsweetened strawberries 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 tablespoon liqueur, optional

Preparation Place the sugar and water in a small saucepan and stir over low heat until sugar dissolves (3-5 minutes). Boil the mixture for one minute and then remove from heat. Pour the sugar syrup into a container and place in refrigerator until completely chilled.

Meanwhile, thaw the frozen strawberries or clean the fresh strawberries.

Place the berries in a food processor and blend until they are pureed.

Transfer to a large bowl, add lemon juice and liqueur, if you are using it.

Refrigerate that mixture until thoroughly chilled. Once both mixtures are chilled, combine the simply syrup with the strawberries. Transfer the mixture into a 8- or 9-inch stainless steel pan, cover with plastic wrap and then place in freezer. Once the sorbet is completely frozen (around 4 hours), remove from freezer and then let stand at room temperature until partially thawed. Transfer mixture into food processor and then process to break up any large ice crystals. Place the sorbet back into pan and refreeze for at least three hours.

Note: If you find that after freezing the sorbet the sorbet is too sugary or needs more sugar, add more sugar syrup (too watery) or water (too sugary) and then refreeze the sorbet.

Ingredients 5-6 ripe plums 5-6 ripe peaches 5-6 apricots 1 can pitted cherries 2 cups water or more to cover 1 package raspberry or cherry flavored gelatin

Preparation Wash and cut fruits into slices or chunks. Add all ingredients to pot and then simmer on stove for 20 minutes until fruit is soft. If you like your soup to be smooth, blend the soup with an immersion blender once cool.

Refrigerate until serving.

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Lemon Mint Granita

Ingredients 4 Meyer lemons 1 cup filtered water ½ cup sugar 10 mint leaves

Preparation Using a vegetable peeler, zest long strips from 2 of the lemons and set aside.

Juice the lemons through a fine mesh strainer.

Combine the water and sugar in a saucepan and simmer on medium heat until the sugar dissolves. Take the pot off the heat and add the zest and mint. Allow the flavors to steep for 30 minutes while the mixture cools.

Once cooled, strain the zest and mint from the sugar syrup and stir in the lemon juice. Pour the mixture into a pan or flat-bottomed glass dish.

Place in the freezer for 30 minutes.

After 30 minutes, stir the mixture very thoroughly with a fork and allow it to freeze for another 30 minutes. Repeat this process every 30 minutes for 3-4 hours. Make sure to mix the granita well every time, scraping down the sides. If the mixture isn’t stirred thoroughly you might wind up with small blocks of ice, which aren’t nearly as fun to eat.

Best when served within 24 hours of making it.

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Differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we don’t have 50 percent representation of women in tech and leadership.

Discrimination to reach equal representation is unfair, divisive, and bad for business.

- From a manifesto written by a Google employee which decries the PC culture of Google and rocked the company, resulting in the writer being fired

I think Senator Blumenthal should take a nice long vacation in Vietnam, where he lied about his service, so he can at least say he was there.

What he [Dershowitz] is saying is “all of those black people are there and they don’t like Trump and so he’s not going to get a fair trial and so they should take it out of that jurisdiction. It shouldn’t be there to begin with.” I don’t like that, and I’m surprised that Alan Dershowitz is talking like that. We will not stand for it. We will push back against that because that is absolutely racist.

- Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), responding to famed attorney Allan Dershowitz’ assertion that the special prosecutor empaneled a second grand jury in Washington, D.C., even though there is already a similar grand jury empaneled in Virginia, because a D.C. grand jury will likely have a significant amount of black people who are likely be anti-Trump

If I had said that race didn’t matter, she’d have called me a racist. She throws around the term so loosely and so inappropriately, and it weakens her credibility just by calling everybody a racist by calling me a racist, when she calls real racists racists, nobody is going to believe her. ... Race matters and Maxine Waters ought to know that. ... Being black doesn’t give you a license to call people racist any more than being Jewish gives you a license to call people anti-Semitic. So she ought to understand that every criminal defense lawyer knows that race matters, ethnicity matters, political affiliation matters... She targeted me for no good reason, she ought to be ashamed of herself.

– Alan Dershowitz, responding to Waters

– President Trump in a tweet after Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D, CT) – who lied about serving in Vietnam and being on the Harvard swim team – accused him of having bad ethics

Mr. President: Your bullying hasn’t worked before and it won’t work now. No one is above the law.

- Senator Blumenthal’s response

Last night, thousands of settlers desecrated the Plaza of Al-Buraq Wall, the western wall of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and held a festive event, prayers and Talmudic ceremonies on the occasion of what is called the Ninth of Av according to the Hebrew calendar, or the so-called Destruction of the Temple.

-The official news agency of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Wafa, reporting on Tisha B’Av kinnus at the Kosel

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It will be easier for Reince Priebus to go into a souvenir shop and find a novelty license plate with his name on it than it will be to find a job after this.

- Jimmy Kimmel

But “the Mooch,” as he likes to be known, quickly went too far, even in the eyes of a president …

- The New York Times, claiming inside knowledge, reporting that President Trump was upset with Anthony Scaramucci’s rant several weeks ago while on the phone with a reporter

The President likes people with backbone. And at the moment, Scaramucci is empowered: we’re told the President loved the Mooch quotes.

- Axios.com, claiming inside knowledge, reporting that President Trump “loved” Scaramucci’s rant

Two gentile businessman meet on the street. One of them says, “How’s business?” The other one says, “Great!”

- Jerry Seinfeld, on the Norm Macdonald Live show, illustrating how there are certain jokes that only Jews get

So, what do we offer that’s unique? I don’t know. I’m sure everyone that’s tried this has been unique in some ways, but again we’re trying to follow very logically. We’re thinking about what the right end state is. And we’re trying to work with the parties very quietly to see if there’s a solution. And there may be no solution, but it’s one of the problem sets that the president asked us to focus on. So we’re going to focus on it and try to come to the right conclusion in the near future.

- Jared Kushner, addressing the Israel/Palestinian situation to Trump administration staffers, in a speech which was leaked to the press

The shards that cut me the deepest were the ones that intended to cut. Knowing that after eight years of working really hard for this country, there are still people who won’t see me for what I am because of my skin color.

- Michelle Obama at the Women’s Foundation of Colorado’s conference

For those of you who know me, I was very restrained. I didn’t dump the nachos on him or anything, which I think was an option.

- Gov. Chris Christie at a news conference in Trenton, addressing a viral video in which he is seen lashing out face-to-face at a heckler at a baseball game, while holding a bowl of nachos

Thank you Senator McCain. Thank you Sen. McAfcin…

- Minority leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), attempting to thank Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) for voting against repealing Obamacare

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Today, President Trump officially removed Anthony Scaramucci as his communications director. And this was a little awkward – when Scaramucci called an Uber to pick him up at the White House, Sean Spicer was driving.

– Jimmy Fallon

Scaramucci lost his job after just 10 days, following an obscene interview with the New Yorker. You know it’s bad when you get fired after 10 days and everyone’s still like, “What took so long?”

- Ibid.

He’s out after 10 days. So Scaramucci is gone, but his cologne will linger forever.

- Ibid.

The Russia story is a total fabrication. It is just an excuse for the greatest loss in the history of American politics. That’s all it is…. We won because millions of patriotic Americans voted to take back their country. Have you seen any Russians in West Virginia or Ohio or Pennsylvania? Are there any Russians here tonight? Any Russians? … Try winning at the voter booth.

Try winning at the voter booth. Not going to be easy, but that’s the way you’re supposed to do it.

– President Trump at a rally in West Virginia

You know, you look at Israel – Israel has a wall and everyone said do not build a wall, walls do not work. 99.9 percent of people trying to come across that wall cannot get across and more.

- From a recently leaked transcript of President Trump’s first phone call with Mexican President Peña Nieto back in January

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My daughter attended this camp, and now is serving in the IDF. I am aghast at the outrageous decision to raise a Palestinian flag, as it shows complete ignorance of the situation. I am disgusted at the politically correct movement that sees moral equivalence in violence in defending oneself/country versus violence to destroy another.

The people responsible should no longer work in a Jewish camp, organization, or represent any cause that is affiliated with Israel.

- Carrie Warren, responding to Camp Solomon Schechter raising a Palestinian flag over their campgrounds in order to “help develop empathy” and as a sign of “friendship and acceptance”

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Political Crossfire

Once Again, the Guardrails Hold

By Charles Krauthammer

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future trivia question and historical footnote, the spectacular 10-day flameout of Anthony Scaramucci qualifies as the most entertaining episode yet of the ongoing reality show that is the Trump presidency. (Working title: “The Pompadours of 1600 Pennsylvania.”) But even as the cocksure sycophant’s gobsmacking spectacle stole the show, something of real importance took place a bit lower on the radar.

At five separate junctures, the sinews of our democracy held against the careening recklessness of this presidency. Consequently, Donald Trump’s worst week proved a particularly fine hour for American democracy: (1) The military says no to Trump on the transgender ban.

Well, not directly – that’s insubordination – but with rather elegant circumspection. The president tweeted out a total ban on them serving in the military. It came practically out of nowhere. The military brass, not consulted, was not amused. Defense Secretary James Mattis, in the middle of a six-month review of the issue, was reportedly appalled.

What was done? Nothing. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs simply declared that a tweet is not an order.

Until he receives a formal command and develops new guidelines, the tweet will be ignored.

In other words, the military told the commander-in-chief to go jump in a lake. Generally speaking, this is

not a healthy state of affairs in a nation of civilian control. It does carry a whiff of insubordination. But under a president so uniquely impulsive and chronically irrational, a certain vigilance, even prickliness, on the part of the military is to be welcomed.

The brass framed their inaction as a matter of procedure. But the refusal carried with it a reminder of institutional prerogatives. In this case, the military offered resistance to mere whimsy. Next time, it could be resistance to unlawfulness.

(2) The Senate saves Sessions.

Trump’s relentless public humil-

because he wouldn’t get another attorney general – the committee’s entire 2017 schedule was set and there would be no hearings to approve a new AG. That was a finger to the eye of the president. Every once in a while, the Senate seems to remember that it is a coequal branch.

(3) Senate Republicans reject the Obamacare repeal.

The causes here are multiple, most having nothing to do with Trump. Republicans are deeply divided on the proper role of government in health care. This division is compounded by the sea change in public opinion as, over seven years,

Under a president so uniquely impulsive and chronically irrational, a certain vigilance, even prickliness, on the part of the military is to be welcomed. iation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions was clearly intended to get him to resign. He didn’t, in part because of increasing support from Congress.

Sessions’ former colleagues came out strongly in his defense and some openly criticized the president’s shabby treatment of his first and most fervent senatorial supporter.

Indeed, Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, warned Trump not to fire Sessions

Obamacare has become part of the fabric of American medicine, and health care has come to be seen as a right rather than a commodity.

Nonetheless, the stunning Senate rejection of repeal was also a pointed rejection of Trump’s health care hectoring. And a show of senatorial disdain for Trump craving a personal legislative “win” on an issue about whose policy choices he knew nothing and cared less.

(4) The Boy Scouts protest.

In a rebuke not as earthshaking but still telling, the chief executive of the Boy Scouts found it necessary to apologize for the president’s speech last week to their quadrennial jamboree. It was a wildly inappropriate confection, at once whining, self-referential, partisan and political.

How do you blow a speech to Boy Scouts? No merit badge for the big guy.

(5) The police chiefs chide.

In an address to law enforcement officials, Trump gave a wink and a nod to cops roughing up suspects.

Several police chiefs subsequently reprimanded Trump for encouraging police brutality – a mild form, perhaps, but brutality still.

Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said it was all a joke. Nonsense. It was an ugly sentiment, expressed coyly enough to be waved away as humor but with the thuggish undertone of a man who, heckled at a campaign rally, once said approvingly that in the old days “guys like that” would “be carried out on a stretcher.”

Whatever your substantive position on the various issues involved above, we should all be grateful that from the generals to the Scouts, from the senators to the cops, the institutions of both political and civil society are holding up well.

Trump is a systemic stress test.

The results are good, thus far. (c) 2017, The Washington Post Writers Group

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Good Hum r

Knish Conundrum

By Jon Kranz

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n the English language, nearly all words that begin with the letters “kn” start with a “k” that is silent. This is common knowledge, especially among knuckleheads, knights, knaves, knackers, knockouts and New York Knickerbockers with knobby knees. Technically, the “kn” combo is referred to as a phonogram, i.e., a combination of letters that together represent a single sound. When it comes to the “kn” combo, there is at least one exception to this phonogram phenomenon. It is a delicious exception that when uttered should bring a smile to anyone within earshot. It is the incomparable, undeniable and indescribable . . . knish.

Admittedly, there are other words that begin with “kn” in which the “k” is not silent, e.g., Knesset and kneidlach (matzah balls), both of which obviously are uniquely Jewish. The exact origins of the knish are a bit murky but the question is: do people still care about the knish?

The word “knish” is Yiddish and, according to some scholars, derives from the Ukrainian “knysh” and the Polish “knysz.” A knish basically is a pocket of dough in which a variety of fillings are encased, including potato, kasha, broccoli and spinach, among others. Knishes, like overweight nerds, can be round or square and, like exhausted sunbathers, can be fried or baked.

Many other cultures stuff and cook doughy pockets in a similar fashion including the Spanish empanada (not to be confused with the Spanish Armada), the Chinese dumpling (not to be confused with

the Apple Dumpling Gang), and the Polish Pierogi (not to be confused with the outfit former politician Ross Perot wears when performing martial arts, called the Perot Gi).

The knish actually is not the only form of stuffed dough consumed

by Jews. The other is known as a kreplach, which arguably sounds even more Jewish than knish. That said, naming a baked good either knish or kreplach is the equivalent of naming a baby boy Yitzi or Yan-

Who cares about the outdated, irrelevant and unhip knish? Well, to that I say the knish is poised to make a resurgence. What’s my proof? I’m glad you asked.

One of the greatest silver screen thespians of all-time, Mr. Al Pacino, was interviewed on a variety of topics. The interviewer, for reasons unknown, briefly mentioned that she once painted a few paintings at the beach and sold them for 25 cents apiece in order to buy a knish. In

Imagine if the famous line had been as follows: “It’s a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi swims with the knishes.” kel or naming your boat the Floating Mensch, Kvetchy Canoe or Rav Raft.

While the “k” in knish is pronounced as written, there are several words in the English language that feature letters with unexpected pronunciations. For example, try saying the following words: answer (“w” is silent), February (first “r” is silent), colonel (pronounced like “kernel”) and licorice (pronounced with an “ish” ending). Other words have competing pronunciations like often (some pronounce the “t”), aunt (some say “ant”), envelope (some say “onvelope”) and caramel (some say “car mel”). But, luckily, nobody refers to a knish as a nish, kneina hora (and nobody says neina hora).

I know what you’re thinking.

response, the Oscar-winning Mr. Pacino politely responded: “The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.” That’s right, the incomparable Al Pacino made a joke and the punchline involved the knish! That’s almost as good as finding out that: (i) when Pacino’s The Godfather: Part II character, Michael Corleone, said “I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse,” he was offering an irrefusable knish; (ii) when Pacino’s Scarface character, Tony Montana, exclaimed “Say hello to my little friend,” he was talking about saying hello to his little, hot delicious friend, the knish; or

(iii) the screenplay featuring Pacino’s blind character, Lt. Col. Frank Slade, was originally titled “Scent of a Knish.” (Hoo-ah!)

Speaking of Pacino and The Godfather movies, remember when the Corleone family is told that their creepy henchman Luca Brasi has been killed? Imagine if the famous line had been as follows: “It’s a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi swims with the knishes.”

Anyway, the fact that legendary Pacino even allowed the word “knish” to exit his big-screen mouth instantly elevates the delectable treat to a whole new level and resoundingly shows that the knish is still relevant and, dare I say, totally hip. For this reason, it would be most appropriate to end with an “Ode to the Knish”: Nothing is more delish Than a freshly baked knish It is my favorite dish The answer to my wish Potato or kasha filling Either way I am willing Sell them and make a killing Even without top billing For bait to catch a fish For catering a Chosen’s Tish For a jump-shot you must swish For a mission that’s just a mish The answer is simple: knish.

Bottom line: Never knish and tell.

Jon Kranz is an attorney living in Englewood, New Jersey. Send any comments, questions or insults to jkranz285@ gmail.com.

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The Six Forgotten Heroes of TA

By Avi Heiligman

Isadore Jachman

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he “Forgotten Heroes” column is usually written in a historical manner telling the exploits of people in battle that are rarely told about to the public. However, we are going to deviate from that historical narrative a bit as I recently went on a journey to find two forgotten heroes. Well, they were almost forgotten, as we will see.

A few months ago I was approached to do research for a project done by my elementary and middle school, Talmudical Academy of Baltimore. TA is celebrating its 100th year as a Jewish day school. It was the third such school in America at the time and the first outside New York. Going through old dinner journals I found several references to former students who served during World War II. Several became chaplains while most of the others served with distinction in all theaters of the war to which the U.S.

sent troops. Out of the 432 former students who served, six were killed in battle. While going through the names, one in particular stuck out as being familiar. A quick internet search revealed that this particular soldier received the highest possible honor – the Congressional Medal of Honor. What was also fascinating was his story and how two countries honored Isadore Jachman.

The story of Isadore Siegfried Jachman is interesting from the beginning in that he was born in Berlin, Germany. His family moved to Baltimore in 1924 when he was just two-years-old. Old TA records show that he attended the school in the late 1920s to the early 1930s, although his name is listed as Siegfried Jackman. To his friends both in TA and in the army he was known as Izzy. Izzy’s parents apparently used the American spelling of the last name but the army used Jachman

in their records. In any case, he left TA after graduating middle school – TA didn’t have a high school until a decade later – and joined the army in 1942. Even though many German-born Americans had a tough time entering the army Isadore had no problem since he was Jewish.

Several members of his extended family perished in the Holocaust.

Many soldiers wanted to get a chance to actually fight against the Nazis but that wasn’t always a given. A large percentage of the army was sent to fight the Japanese (they fought alongside Marines who had almost no presence in the war against Germany) and an average of six out of seven servicemen were placed in non-combat roles. The solution for those itching to fight was to join the paratroopers who made several jumps behind enemy lines. Isadore volunteered (all paratroopers were volunteers for the

hazardous duty) and joined the 17 th Airborne Division. Soon he attained the title of staff sergeant in Company B, 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment in the 17 th Airborne Division.

The Battle of the Bulge was Hitler’s last, desperate effort to win the war and it took the might of the Allied armies to push back the Nazis.

Right in the middle of the fighting were the three American paratroop divisions. The 82nd Airborne was locked in heavy battle against three powerful SS Panzer divisions at Elsenborn Ridge. The 101st Airborne famously was surrounded by five German divisions in Bastogne and held out until reinforcements arrived. To their west, the 17 th Airborne deployed to Flamiege, Belgium. Isadore’s company was pinned down by enemy fire coming from artillery, machine guns and small arms. To add to that deadly barrage two tanks were advancing

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on his positions. He grabbed a bazooka (an anti-tank weapon) and ran across an open field to get a good shot at the Panzer tanks. One of his shots damaged a tank and the other retreated. Sadly, Isadore suffered fatal wounds in that attack. Years later it was discovered that the statue the town had erected of an American soldier was actually Isadore Jachman, who they considered to have saved their village.

Many have the custom to go to a cemetery on Tisha B’Av. This year my father and I went to my shul’s cemetery on the other side of town.

It is small, as there is only a one lane road going through the length of the cemetery. While we were backing up I suddenly stopped as I recognized one of the gravestones from a picture when I was doing research. It was for Jacob “Jack” Shapiro, one of the six TA graduates who was killed.

21-year-old Jacob was born in Baltimore and attended TA as a young-

ster. He served as a private in the army and beyond that there is little information on his service. We do know that he was killed in action on July 11, 1944 and received the Purple Heart.

Knowing that Isadore Jachman was buried about ten minutes away we decided to go find the cemetery,

with flags near it. As were about to pull out I noticed a section all the way on the side and went to look.

There, in a small section, was the grave of Isadore next to his parents.

The stone read that he had received the Distinguished Service Cross but there was no mention of the Medal of Honor. A plaque lay on the ground

Isadore’s company was pinned down by enemy fire coming from artillery, machine guns and small arms.

which was easier said than done.

After getting lost we finally pulled up to the cemetery but after searching for a while we could not find the kever. As with Jacob Shapiro’s grave there were pictures online so I knew we were looking for tall, thin stone

that indicated that he had been awarded the Medal of Honor. Later I discovered that after he was killed he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the Purple Heart.

Five years later his family received the Medal of Honor and the plaque

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was added to his grave. A letter from President Truman was sent to his family and a copy of the citation was sent to TA. Of the four other TA students that didn’t make it back home, two – Sergeant Herman Cummins and 2nd Lt. Morris Margolis – were killed in separate plane crashes. Margolis was on a B-26 bomber over Italy when it was hit by flak. Private Harry Shoenig and PFC Albert Baskin were also KIA but their records from the army are scant. Records from TA show that they attended TA at the same time as Isadore Jackman.

This was a fitting “field trip” for Tisha B’Av, as the stories of these soldiers killed in action were finally told.

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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Making More by Paying Less

By Allan Rolnick

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hen affluent clients want to pay less tax, they turn to accountants, attorneys, and financial advisors, among other advisors. And we can make a nice living helping clients accomplish that goal. (At the risk of sounding self-serving, it’s because we’re worth it.) But you won’t find any tax professionals populating the Forbes 400 or your hometown paper’s list of richest local residents.

Having said that, there are a few people who have made legitimate fortunes helping people pay less tax.

They just aren’t working where you think they are.

Most of us don’t give much thought to tariffs, simply because we don’t directly pay them. When we do pay them any mind, we typically think of international trade policy and raw materials like steel. But governments impose import taxes on consumer goods, too, including luxury favorites like perfume and cologne, watches and jewelry, highend spirits, and the like. And while those duties don’t add up like income taxes, buyers don’t want to pay any more of them than they have to.

Robert Miller grew up in Massachusetts and attended Cornell University’s prestigious School of Hotel Administration. But he took a different direction than most of his classmates, and five years after graduating, he launched the first Duty-Free

ests to the Paris-based luxury-goods conglomerate LVMH. But Miller kept 38% of the company, and today his net worth stands at about $2.8 billion.

And how does a guy who made billions helping his customers side-

Miller kept 38% of the company, and today his net worth stands at about $2.8 billion.

Shop in Hong Kong. In 1962, Miller secured the rights to operate the first duty-free shop in America, in the Honolulu airport. This opened his doors to servicemen returning from Asia and wealthy Japanese travelers.

Miller and his partners eventually expanded the chain to over 420 locations in airports and high-end retail locations across the globe. In 1997, his partners sold their inter-

step taxes live? Pretty much exactly how you’d expect. Miller, now 84, is a champion yachtsman – he sailed his 42-meter monohull Mari-Cha IV to a world record Atlantic crossing in six days, 17 hours, and 52 minutes.

He owns a 36,000-acre sporting estate in Yorkshire, along with houses in New York, Paris, and Gstaad. (It’s pronounced G-schtad, for those of you don’t regularly ski the Swiss

Alps.)

Miller’s three daughters have earned their own fame as socialites and for marrying spectacularly well. Pia, the oldest, married a grandson of oil baron J. Paul Getty.

Marie-Chantal, the middle, married Crown Prince Alexander of Greece.

(We know the Greeks may not be the most prestigious royals these days, but their blood is more blue than ours!) And Alexandra, the baby, married the son of Prince Egon von Furstenberg.

Miller’s success in helping customers avoid import duties may not hold any direct lessons for us. But he’s obviously done some sophisticated income tax planning, too. And that’s where we come in. So call us when you’re ready to save, and let’s see if we can help you afford more luxury goods on your next international flight!

Allan J Rolnick is a CPA who has been in practice for over 30 yea rs in Queens, NY. He welcomes your comments and can be reached at 718-896-8715 or at allanjrcpa@aol.com.

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FYI

By Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS

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e are very into abbreviations – especially now that we possibly communicate more by text than talk. People just don’t talk much anymore. It’s all initials and abbreviations. They won’t say, “I’m a physician’s assistant or a physical therapist.” It’s either a PA or a PT. But think back: did anyone ever to say I’m a BM? Well, other than it having potentially negative connotations or politically incorrect ones because BP/Business Person would be more correct than BM/Business Man anyway! A person used to take the time to tell you, “I’m in business!”

And, historically, if someone called themselves OT, I would have thought they meant that they were on time. Unless, of course, it was certain individuals who never are! But otherwise if anyone said OT, especially with an Austrian or German background, I would have thought of course they meant on time – since using abbreviated speech would account for how they can be so exactly on time everywhere all the time.

I’m not sure if anyone even takes the time for full-out laughter anymore. They just say LOL and move on.

Where is everyone in such a rush to?

The interesting thing to notice is what professions don’t get abbreviated! For instance, no one says I’m an ST! After all, how would that sound?

They are in the field of perfecting speech and they don’t even have the

capacity to use it. No way! A speech therapist must enunciate every syllable so you know how good they are at their job! In fact, they usually even tack on exactly what their specialty is. For example, they’ll say, “I’m a speech and language specialist with an emphasis on early stage intervention and alternative skills tech-

outright what they do. And they’re going to think, I just gave like 25 years of my life for this degree I’m not shortening my job description one iota. “I’m a pediatric interventionist nerurothoracic surgeon.” Right there they’ve told you they did 4 years of medical school, 3 years of internship, 6 years of fellowship, five years of

They didn’t get a shortcut in training – and they’re not giving you one in hearing about it!

niques.” Phew. By the time they finish stating their profession, you can be completely comfortable that they are adept!

A physical therapist would more likely need to cartwheel and weight lift in front of you to show they have the skills and strength to work with you. They speaking in longer sentences wouldn’t impress you. However, now that they are going to be required to get a doctorate to be a PT, maybe they’ll think they earned themselves more floor time.

I mean, look at an MD? The only place they are willing to abbreviate their credentials is on their license plate. And that’s so that policemen are sure to let them park anywhere.

They know no cop cares exactly what their specialty is. But ask a doctor

hospital clinical affiliation, and multiple years of research to earn this convoluted title! They didn’t get a shortcut in training – and they’re not giving you one in hearing about it!

Have you noticed the abbreviations used for therapists? They’re either an LCSW, or an MFT, or a ...

WXYZ! We are letter obsessed. And why? Where are we in such rush to is what I want to know?! After all, we never have to run to answer the telephone anymore; it’s following us around. If we need anything at all, Amazon can deliver it. And guess what? Soon they say cars will drive for us, and we will pick up even more time. What are we so preoccupied with that we can’t say a full sentence?

OK, I’ll be honest with you, I feel – possibly – that I have excuses. For

me, I’m often pretty busy figuring out how to work the “ever changing technology.” And when I’m not doing that, I’m sometimes looking for my cellphone. And I do still drive places a lot – hardly an Uber for me! Therefore, I also need to think where I left my car keys. Because, of course, keys never have to be in touch with a car anymore, so who accesses them on a regular basis? As long as the keys are in the general vicinity of the car, it will drive! In fact, there have been times that I’ve driven somewhere, then gotten dropped off, and someone else took the car, while I left with the key. It’s fine till they turn off the engine. And then they’re stuck in yenems velt, unable to reach me since I’m strolling the aisles of Gourmet Glatt oblivious to their call – because I left my phone charging with them in the car!

So maybe I don’t have time for full sentences?! Perhaps abbreviations give me some of that extra time I might have left somewhere. And perhaps everyone has moments of mayhem and madness that make them feel they need to recoup some time. Maybe we can give everyone the benefit of the doubt and figure they are not really rushing around either. They are all just, shall we call it, re-balancing their time!

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

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