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Contents LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

COMMUNITY Readers’ Poll

Community Happenings

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NEWS

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JEWISH THOUGHT Rabbi Wein

Jewish Warrior by Rav Moshe Weinberger

Parsha in Four by Eytan Kobre

PEOPLE The Wandering Jew

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HEALTH & FITNESS Trauma: Numbness and Hypersensitivity by Dr. Deb Hirschhorn 92

National Salad Week by Cindy Weinberger, MS RD CDN 94 Meeting the Pediatrician by Hylton I. Lightman, MD 95

The Mother of All Diseases by David E. Simai, MD

Dear Editor, Last week in the park I saw a youngster shooting around with a basketball. There was no question this young person would soon dominate the yeshiva league, and if they weren’t entering the yeshiva league, they would one day dominate games with their peers. Then I thought of my nineteenmonth-old son who just got a basketball hoop about his height. He hit a few shots and had some great dunks but we don’t know about his future in basketball nor in anything else. Lastly, I thought about the fifteen-year-old missing teen that was found in Vermont. It was with great elation that after texting my friend about it he was found. We just read parsha Pinchas and gedolim point out that it’s read during the Three Weeks as it has all the sacrifices mentioned, a hint that during this time sacrifices can return. In addition, the three- week, twenty-one-day period relates to the twenty-one-day period from Rosh Hashana to Yom Kippur, the time of greatest growth possible. With the occurrence in Vermont and knowing the love we have for our children who all have unique paths, we should remember we are all children of G-d and now is when that love can come through and the final structure can be actualized. Steven Genack

Dear Editor, Congresswoman Kathleen Rice is tooting her horn for voting against the BDS bill requested and supported by the Jew haters in her Democrat Party. This is least she should have done. She continues to call for and supports the impeach of our President Donald Trump who has been the best president for Israel in its history. I got a news flash for the congresswoman; a large majority in her congressional district are not in agreement with her. Instead of calling for the impeachment of the president, she should call the out the Jew-haters in her Democrat Party. If she keeps this up, she may be looking for a new job after the next election. To my fellow Jews, call her office 202-225-5516, tell her to stop calling for the impeachment of the president, and stand up for the Jewish members of her district and criticize the Jew-haters in her party, the Democrat Party. Alan Ernst, Cedarhurst, NY Dear Editor, I wish to share with you my personal thoughts on an issue that I have seen and likely many of you have experienced as well, and in fact have read about on occasion before, and feel it is high time to express, Continued on page 10

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discuss, and, fairly expediently, resolve. We can all relate to that utter disgust that overcomes us when we simply smell a spoiled bottle of milk. Worse yet, assuming a product to still be fresh since it was only recently purchased and noting that the stamp indicates ample time till expiration, taking a sip of a glass of spoiled milk. I can’t tell you how many times I have prepared my ingredients for a cheesecake only to open the container of cream cheese and smell the sour aroma wafting through my kitchen. Just this week I had to throw away two packages of sour cream, from two different companies, mind you, that upon opening looked like curdled soup in contrast to the thick and creamy texture that sour cream should be. These events are unfortunate, especially when we realize that we invested double the price as compared to the alternatives. I have become extremely frustrated with this phenomenon. My husband graciously accepted the stringency of eating Cholov Yisroel while in his fifth grade class, as a merit

for the terrible attacks happening in Eretz Yisroel. He maintains this stringency till today, and I and our family gladly accepted this beautiful halacha and custom when we got married. We cannot help but notice, that without fail, and on the items that are noticeably more expensive than the other kosher, non-Cholov Yisroel options, a majority of milk, sour cream, heavy cream, and other products that we purchase spoil very rapidly, many times way before the stamped expiration date. It is nearly impossible to reach anyone to provide feedback regarding this phenomenon as the product rarely either have a website or without a phone number listed or web contact. There is essentially no real way to voice concern for this issue, and no person to hold accountable for these for lack of a better term, failures. I could replace the item at the supermarket, if they are willing, as they usually are, to replace it. But it is the concept that is all too problematic. I have spoken to a few places, and the only reasonable explanation I have heard is actually counter-intuitive. All milk products in the U.S. are

regulated the same way with extra scrutiny by the FDA. The Cholov Yisroel sourced products are no different then, and often come from plants that mainly produce non-Cholov Yisroel options for the public. The speed of spoiling quickly occurs, potentially, due to the trucking and the standards taking place after products leave the plant. One theory is that the trucking utilized for the Cholov Yisroel brands are lax in their handling and upkeep of the cold temperatures necessary to keep dairy products from spoiling. Another idea suggested is the receiving at stores that exhibit some carelessness while receiving goods at their loading docks, leaving items on sidewalks, exposed to heat, or simply not refrigerated as it should be. In all likelihood, there are a number of contributing factors that are responsible for the degradation of the product integrity over time – a severe lack of care for a consumer already making multiple sacrifices in the selection purchased, the cost of said purchase, and the limited time to use it before it goes bad. Friends, I believe we need to take the words of Rav Moshe Feinstein, zt”l, in one of the Cholov Yisroel te-

shuvos to heart where he writes that a “baal nefesh yachmir,”, loosely translated as “one who is concerned with their soul should be stringent in this” and apply it to the macro of the situation and experience of fellow people. Apart from the “V’ahavta l’reyacha k’amocha” regarding the price or cost expended on maintaining Cholov Yisroel products, the standards of the Cholov Yisroel industry, from the factory to our homes, needs to maintain the respect and dignity deserving of said stringency and the people seeking to keep it. I encourage anybody who knows anyone in a position of influence or control in this industry, supermarkets, trucking companies, brokers, etc., please let the individuals with the ability to do something about this to know about this letter and suggest that they immediately order a review of the procedures, or lack thereof, contributing to the product degradation and identify the cause of this phenomena along with actions to remedy it. Yours Truly, Eva David, MD Continued on page 12

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Dear Editor, I was taken aback to recently see advertising for a concert at a frum camp featuring major frum singers on Sunday, July 28, during the Three Week period, aka bein hametzarim, between Shiva Asaar b’Tammuz and Tisha b’Av, when we mourn the Churban. When I shared my surprise with friends, one suggested to me that it was perhaps acapella, which some view differently/more leniently than music with instruments. However, after the concert, I saw clips online with instrumental accompaniment, so that clearly was not the case. Anyway, I happened to later hear a radio interview with a camp staffer who justified it by saying that music was a big part of the therapy of their camp for special children. I understand that, and I can see an argument that if it is allowed for the children, staff that works with them could be allowed to attend along with their charges, as part of their job. However, this concert was advertised for the public at large, like a regular concert during the rest of the year. It was like business as usual, who heard of the Three Weeks? We have this short period when

we mourn the Churban. Do we really need to have full-fledged concerts then too? At least if there is one for children that may need it, can’t there at least be some respectful nod to the time of the year and our tradition by some type of a heker, doing things a bit differently, e.g. just acapella, or limiting it to just to the camp regulars? For those who absolutely need music, there are plenty of recordings as well. But business as usual? That I don’t get. Chazal teach us that whoever is misabeil on Yerushalayim sees its simcha. In the zechus of properly observing the Three Weeks period, may we be zocheh to see binechomas Zion bikarov. Sincerely, An Observant Jew Dear Editor, Jews are a hard people to figure out. They are, undoubtedly, the brightest minority on the face of the Earth. There is no profession in which they are not held in the highest esteem. They excel in the arts, science, medicine, law and finance. But right here in America they’ve shown their political intelligence to be an oxymoron. In this area they

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of them ever bring up the danger to Israel of Obama’s support for the Iranian nuclear deal and handing over billions to that Israel-hating regime, or voice concern for Obama’s support for the Muslim Brotherhood leader Muhanmed Morsi as president of Egypt? Were they tongue-tied or just ignoring the wishes of their constituents, knowing that the “D” in front of their names on the ballots would be enough to get the Jewish vote? And just where do they stand today with the likes of newbie Democratic congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her sister colleagues, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, both radical Muslims, all of whom are outspoken Israel/Jew haters? Where is the outrage over the dangerous verbiage emanating from their mouths that stokes the fires of Jew hatred not only among Americans but around the world? Why have Jewish lawmakers not demanded the ouster of Omar from her prestigious seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee? Their silence says it all. They are also sliding dangerously close to an anti-Israel platform for their 2020 presidential campaign. After all, not one of their present announced candidates deigned to show up to address the recent AIPAC meeting. Not one of these candidates uttered a word of support for Israel during the recent rain of rockets from Gaza. Former Alaska Democratic senator Mike Gravel tweeted, “Long Live Palestine!” Bernie Sanders called Israel “racist” and he might just be the Dem’s candidate to run the country and set our foreign policy. Zev Jabotinsky in the early 1930s warned Europe’s Jews of the impending Holocaust. They refused to face reality and heed his clarion calls. America under Obama clearly changed our position in support of Israel and initiated an anti-Jewish movement led by George Soros’ support of such groups as J Street, Jewish Voice For Peace, T’ruah, Black Lives Matter, and MoveOn among others. This movement has slowed under the leadership of pro-Israel/ Jewish President Trump. However, the upcoming 2020 elections will tell the story of whether American Jewry will be threatened by the now-open Jew-hating brazenly promulgated by the Democrat Party. When will Jews finally wake up to this fact and utilize their votes and dollars to defeat their enemies and finally give support to the party that supports them? Allen Bergstein

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The Week In News

Massive Gold Heist in Brazil

A group of armed men made off with at least $40 million worth of gold in a daring heist in Brazil’s main airport last week. The eight men had driven up to the cargo terminal at Sao Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport in two SUVs made to look like those used by the country’s federal police. After arriving at the terminal, at least four heavily armed and masked men entered the warehouse

where the gold was being held. The criminals can then be seen on CCTV footage using a forklift to load the cargo onto their vehicles. After taking the logistics manager and another employee hostage, the thieves drove off with 1,650 pounds of gold. The SUVs were later found abandoned in a crime-infested neighborhood near the airport after the men ditched them for getaway cars. No shots were fired during the raid, and no one was injured. Police believe that the audacious heist was an inside job and are investigating airport employees who would have known where the precious metals were being stored. The night before the heist, the group kidnapped the manager from the Brinks security company responsible for guarding the cargo and forced him to reveal information about where it was being stored. “The crime was perpetrated by a well-organized gang,” said police chief João Carlos Miguel Hueb. “This certainly wasn’t their first robbery.” Since the robbery on July 25, police have been able to arrest three people in connection to the heist. One of them, an airport cargo super-

visor, initially claimed he had been kidnapped by the bandits. They have not yet found the gold.

Thousands Arrested in Moscow Civil Unrest

More than a thousand people were arrested in Moscow on Saturday as massive civil protests in the Russian capital refuse to die down. Protesters are angry at a decision by Moscow’s electoral body to bar several opposition candidates from contending in the race for city council in September. The protests had been called by opposition leader Alexander Navalny, who was subsequently jailed for a month as a result. Throughout the day, policemen decked out in full riot gear battled the

estimated 20,000 protesters in the heart of Moscow. Chanting “We love Russia! They love money!” demonstrators were hauled off to waiting police vans and taken in for questioning. By the end of the day, more than 1,300 citizens had been arrested for their part in the unrest. According to a local legal aid group, 150 of the detainees remained in custody while the rest were released. A number of Russian opposition leaders were also arrested throughout the day, such as opposition candidate Dmitry Gudkov, who was arrested while visiting prisoners in Moscow. The U.S. Embassy in Moscow slammed the Moscow council for the “use of disproportionate police force,” while Russian human rights groups accused police of being overly brutal towards demonstrators. Moscow residents have been infuriated ever since a slew of prominent opposition politicians were banned from running for city council in September. The electoral body had disqualified several of the signatures the politicians had collected out of the 5,000 needed to run and then banned them from contention for not having enough signatures.

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Finland: The World’s Happiest Country

Finland is still the world’s happiest country, as the northern European country heads the World Happiness Index for the second straight year. Coming in second was Finland’s Scandinavian neighbor, Denmark, followed by Norway, Iceland and The Netherlands. Rounding out the top 10 were additional cold and mountainous nations such as Switzerland, Sweden, Canada, and Austria. Israel fell out of the top 10 this year to take 13th place, behind Costa Rica and Australia. Israel traditionally performs well on the happiness index and came in at an even better 11th place the year before. Meanwhile, bottoming out on the list at No. 156 was war-ravaged South Sudan, a country suffering from rampant poverty and desolation. The other nations in the lower ten are also torn apart by constant violence, including Syria (149), Yemen (151), and Afghanistan (154). The seventh World Happiness Report was published in conjunction with the United Nations in honor of the International Day of Happiness. In the report, countries are ranked based on six variables that make up well-being: income, freedom, trust, healthy life expectancy, social support, and generosity. “The top 10 countries tend to rank high in all six variables, as well as emotional measures of well-being,” noted economics researcher and report co-author John Helliwell.

Libya Mourns Those Killed in Shipwreck At least 140 Libyans died this past week after their ship capsized in the Mediterranean Sea. The ship had departed from the

port city of Al Khoms on Wednesday and was packed with over 400 migrants who had hoped to reach Europe. Ninety minutes into the journey, however, the crew radioed for help after the craft began to capsize for reasons that remain unknown. Following frantic rescue efforts by international organizations, the Libya Office of the International Organization for Migrants (IOM) announced that at least 140 of the passengers died, while another 145 had been rescued.

Libyan authorities buried the bodies of 46 migrants on Sunday. United Nations Secretary General António Guterres tweeted that he was “horrified” by the tragedy and added that the high death toll showed the need for “safe, legal routes for migrants and refugees.” Libya is a popular exit point for African and Middle Eastern refugees who hope to reach European shores. Yet the trip is often hazardous due to the unsafe boats used by smugglers which often lead to tragedies such as the one that occurred this past week. Since January, over 600 people have drowned trying to reach Europe via the Mediterranean. 2019 will likely be the sixth consecutive year with more than 1,000 deaths on the high seas.

France: Hands Off Our Wine

Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron officially signed into law a bill that allows the French government to levy special taxes on certain revenues that large American tech companies such as Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple earn in France. U.S. President Donald

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Trump, incensed by the levies, has threatened to impose retaliatory tariffs on French wines. “They shouldn’t have done this,” Trump said Friday, speaking to reporters. “I told them, I said, ‘Don’t do it because if you do it, I’m going to tax your wine.’” Trump, who does not drink alcoholic beverages, still likes American wines better than French ones. “I’ve always liked American wines better than French wines — even though I don’t drink wine,” he said. “I just like the way they look, okay?” French Agriculture Minister Didier Guillaume shot back at the U.S. president on Tuesday. “It’s absurd, in terms of having a political and economic debate, to say that ‘if you tax the GAFAs, I’ll tax wine.’ It’s completely moronic,” he said on France’s BFM Television. He added a crucial distinction. “American wine is not better than French wine,” Guillaume asserted. GAFA is the acronym by which the new tax law is known in France — Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple. It would impose a 3 percent tax on certain revenues these firms earn in France on the grounds that they were paying insufficient income taxes.

Japan-Korea Trade War Heats Up

The trade war between Japan and South Korea is heating up after Tokyo announced curb exports to its neighbor. Earlier this week, Japan decided to remove South Korea from a “white list” of countries that are granted preferential trade status. The 27 trusted export countries on the list have an easier time exporting their products by getting Japanese deferments for much of the approval process. Yet with South Korea being left off the list, Seoul will now need to get approval for every contract it signs with Japanese companies, something that often takes as much as 90

days. The length of time and the extra bureaucratic hassle has left South Korea fuming over the immense economic damage it will suffer due to the inability to purchase Japanese products for its thriving tech sector. “If restrictions remain, Korean chipmakers’ production lines and therefore global semiconductor supply chains are likely to be disrupted. Korean chipmakers are major actors in global semiconductor supply chains,” wrote Fitch Ratings in a report regarding the standoff. Tokyo has invoked national security concerns to justify its decision to clamp down on the products it exports to South Korea. Yet Seoul has rejected Japan’s worries of sensitive technology being used for weapons as out of hand and argues that the new measure is punishment for a Korean Supreme Court ruling in 2018 requiring Japanese corporations to compensate former wartime laborers. Tensions between both countries has risen as a result, with South Korean citizens launching boycotts on Japanese products. Tourism between the two nations also slumped, with South Korean travel agencies scrapping once-popular vacation packages to neighboring Japan.

Tree Planting Marathon

On Monday, Ethiopia planted more than 353 million trees in 12 hours, which officials believe is a world record. The marathon tree planting was part of a wider reforestation campaign named “Green Legacy,” spearheaded by the country’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. Millions of Ethiopians across the country were invited to take part in the challenge, and within the first six hours, Ahmed tweeted that around 150 million trees had been planted. “We’re halfway to our goal,” he announced and encouraged Ethiopians to “build on the momentum in the remaining hours.” After the

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An artist called “A Gargoyle” took part in the festival Statues en Marche in Marche-en-Famenne in Belgium this week. The free street festival is a gathering of living statues posing as sculptures.

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in the atmosphere because of human activity. The study, carried out by researchers at Swiss university ETH Zurich, calculated that restoring degraded forests all over the world could capture about 205 billion tons of carbon in total. Global carbon emissions are around 10 billion tons per year.

Pakistani Military Aircraft Crashes At least 17 are dead after a Pakistani army plane crashed into a residential area in the major city of Rawalpindi early Tuesday morning. Locals said that they heard a loud explosion around 2 a.m. after seeing a plane flying low over the city, which adjoins the Pakistani capital of Islamabad. It then somersaulted in the air and crashed. The plane came down in a suburb of Rawalpindi, between Bahria Town and the Defense Housing Authority, which is populated by working-class villages. A number of houses were destroyed in the crash. According to the military’s Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) news agency, 12 of those killed were on the ground when the plane hit. The other five dead were crew members. Another two people have been reported injured. Among the dead were two high-ranking officers in the Pakistan army.

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“It’s as if the entire city of Warsaw left…. It’s a gigantic loss,” he said. “This must end, young people must stay in Poland,” Morawiecki added.

To Be Young and Polish For the past 15 years, since joining the European Union, the country of Poland has seen many of its youths leaving its borders. This week, a new law attempts to keep the younger

generation in Poland by scrapping income tax for around 2 million young workers. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said the tax exemption will bring new opportunities for young people “so they match those available in the West.” Poles under the age of 26 who earn less than 85,528 Polish zloty

($22,547) a year will be exempt from the country’s 18% income tax starting August 1. The allowance is generous, considering the average Polish salary stands at just below 60,000 zloty ($15,700) a year. When advocating for the new law in the parliament, Morawiecki noted that 1.7 million people left Poland in the past 15 years.

The exodus has had a negative impact on the economy. “In the past three (or) four years we started seeing worker shortages and (realized) that we need those people back,” said Barbara Jancewicz, who heads the Economics of Migration Research Unit at the Center of Migration Research in Warsaw. Immigration experts are skeptical that the strategy of tax exemptions for the young will work. “It’s not all about money,” said Heather Rolfe, the head of employment and social policy team at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, a think tank in London. “The research that has been done on young Polish migrants in the UK has highlighted that often young people leave as a kind of rites of passage, they will go to get away from their family, to gain some independence,” she explained. When Poland and seven other central and Eastern European countries joined the European Union in 2004, its citizens gained the right to work across the bloc without the need for a work permit or visa. The UK has been the most popular destination for Polish migrants since 2004: almost 1 million now reside in the British Isles. Despite the major economic advances Poland has made in recent years, salaries are still significantly higher in the UK. The tax exemption is just one of many welfare handouts announced by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party ahead of the European elections in May. A general election must also take place by November. The government expects the welfare package, which also includes new benefits for families with children and bonus pension payments, to cost 40 billion zloty ($10 billion). Morawiecki says that the reforms are an investment into society and economy. And while the law gained an overwhelming support in the PiS-dominated Polish parliament, it has sparked some criticism too.

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Ryszard Petru, member of the parliament for the opposition Now! party, called the measure “extremely deceitful populism.” Speaking in parliament, Petru said that instead of making young people better off, the costly new law will likely lead to employers slashing wages, keeping the after-tax pay packages the same.

Israel Conducts Arrow Missile Test in U.S.

Israel conducted a successful test of its Arrow anti-ballistic missile system in a joint test together with the United States at an Alaskan air base last week. The advanced Arrow-3 successfully brought down ballistic missiles three separate times, including taking down one outside of the Earth’s atmosphere. The tests occurred over a 10-day period at Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska (PSCA) in Kodiak, Alaska, the first time Israel has tested the missile defense system outside of its borders. Defense Ministry personnel said that Israel was forced to perform the tests in remote Alaska due to the inability to fire off long-range missiles in the Middle East as a result of the region’s sensitivity. Following the tests, which mimicked Iranian ballistic missiles, Israeli rocket scientists cleared the system to be fully operational. “Ten challenging years of development have culminated in this moment: the Arrow 3 weapon system completed a test campaign, during which an Arrow 3 interceptor completed full interception of the target,” said Moshe Patel, who heads the Israel Missile Defense Organization. “In addition, the fact that the tests were conducted in Alaska, tens of thousands of kilometers away

from Israel, is another significant achievement that demonstrates the operational capabilities of the Arrow 3 system to successfully face any threat.” News of the highly classified test first started filtering out in Israel over the weekend amid reports that Ron Dermer, who serves as Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, had made a secret trip to Alaska. The military censor originally banned Israeli media outlets from publishing additional information regarding Dermer’s Alaska trip but said that it constituted “an additional and significant upgrade in the security coordination with the U.S. against Iran.” The successful interceptions were first officially announced by Prime Minister Netanyahu at a cabinet meeting on Sunday, who showed ministers and U.S. Ambassador David Friedman a video of the tests. “They were successful beyond any imagination,” exulted the prime minister. “The Arrow 3 – with complete success – intercepted ballistic missiles beyond the atmosphere at unprecedented altitudes and speeds.” The missile launch comes amid reports of tensions that Iran had tested a long range Shihab-3 missile on Friday, the latest launch of the missile that has an estimated range of 1,000 kilometers. According to reports, the test was conducted near the Iranian capital of Tehran and was the result of months of preparation. The test was part of Iran’s efforts to improve the accuracy and range of its missiles despite contravening U.S. Security Council resolutions which ban such tests. A day later, an Iranian military official insisted that the test was for “defensive needs” only. Speaking with Iran’s Fars news agency, the officer said that “the missile power of the Islamic Republic is entirely defensive, and is not against any country, and only to respond to possible aggression against the country’s territorial integrity.”

Abbas: PA Will Cut Off Ties with Israel Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas recently announced that the Palestinians

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el’s demolitions of 12 illegally-built multi-story buildings in the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Sur Baher. The structures were constructed without a permit next to the security barrier, which separates Judea and Samaria from pre-1967 Israel. Due to their prominent location that overlooks the barrier, Israeli defense officials classified them as a security threat that could be used to smuggle terrorists into Israel. The demolitions came after a multi-year legal challenge by Palestinian and human rights groups and only ended after the Supreme Court gave the final approval earlier this year. The destruction of the buildings has resulted in significant civil unrest throughout Jerusalem, with daily riots breaking out in various flashpoints over the past week.

UN Passes More Anti-Israel Resolutions The United Nations (UN) passed a pair of anti-Israel resolutions last week, including one that lambasted

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In an overwhelming 40-2 vote with nine absentions, the UN Economic and Social Council’s “situation of and assistance to Palestinian women” resolution singled out Israel for brutalizing Arab women. According to the decision, the Israeli occupation remains a major obstacle for Palestinian women and girls with regard to the “fulfillment of their rights.” The decision concluded by demanding that Israel “immediately cease all measures contrary to international law, as well as discriminatory legislation, policies and actions in the Occupied Palestinian Territo-

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ry, including East Jerusalem.” Supporters of the resolution included Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Pakistan, who – ironically – frequently come under international criticism for refusing to honor women’s basic rights. In another resolution, the UN blamed “Israel’s occupation of Palestinian and Syrian lands” for the suffering of the Palestinian and Syrian people. According to a UN press release, the resolution “reaffirmed the inalienable right of the Palestinian people and the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan to all their natural and economic resources” and called on Israel “to immediately cease its exploitation of natural resources and its dumping of waste materials in the occupied areas.” The decision passed by a wide margin of 45 in favor, 2 opposed, and 4 abstentions. Criticizing the pair of anti-Israel decisions was former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley. “It amazes me how the U.N. condones votes like these,” Haley tweeted. “It is a total mockery of human rights to allow Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, and Yemen to name Israel as the world’s only violator of women’s rights.”

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would stop honoring agreements they had with Israel following the demolition of illegal Arab houses in Jerusalem. Abbas said that a committee would be set up to implement the decision of the PLO Central Council to totally cut off ties with the Jewish State. Senior advisor Omar al-Ghoul added that “President Abbas’s remarks also include security coordination” with Israel, including suspending operations against the Hamas terror group Speaking at a leadership meeting he convened in Ramallah, Abbas described Israel’s demolitions of the illegally built residential buildings in Jerusalem as “ethnic cleansing and a crime against humanity.” “We will not give in to the dictates and the illegitimate occupation policy, especially in Jerusalem,” asserted Abbas, adding that “our hands were extended to a just, comprehensive and lasting peace, but we cannot surrender to the occupation. There is no peace, security and stability in the region without our people accepting all their rights, ending the occupation and establishing our independent state.” Abbas was referring to Isra-

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The New Right reached a deal on Monday with the Jewish Home and National Union parties for a joint run in the upcoming elections in September. The united slate will be headed by former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, who switched with Naftali Bennett as the leader of the New Right last week. The move makes Shaked the only woman to currently head a political party in Israel as well as the first time that a Religious Zionist party will be headed by a secular politician. Following Shaked on the Knesset list is Education Minister and Jewish Home leader Rabbi Rafi Peretz, while third place goes to National Union head Bezalel Smotrich. After ceding the leadership role to Shaked, Bennett is a distant fourth. The alliance will be named the United Right and will remain together until after the elections on September 17. As soon as the final ballots are counted, the New Right is expected to split off to become an independent bloc while the Jewish Home and National Union will stay together. In addition, all three parties agreed to support Prime Minister Netanyahu as prime minister, despite the reluctance of Bennett and Shaked to commit to such a move. The union notably left out the farright Otzma Yehudit party and the libertarian Zehut, raising fears that the two parties will waste crucial right-wing votes by failing to cross the electoral threshold. The union came after marathon negotiations between the parties and only saw progress after Peretz agreed to step down as the leader of the Knesset list in favor of Shaked. Peretz had vigorously opposed Shaked heading the union in the past due to claims that a secular person should not lead a party that is committed to observance of Jewish law.

A confidential report by the UN Refugee Agency’s ethics committee into the goings-on at the United Nations Refugee Works Administration (UNWRA) has exposed far-reaching corruption inside of the organization. The report, which was leaked to the Al-Jazeera television network, reaches extremely unfavorable conclusions and harshly criticizes the NGO’s top officials as corrupt. The list of compromised officials includes UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krahenbuhl, former Deputy Commissioner-General Sandra Mitchell, and Chief of Staff Hakam Shahwan. According to the report, the aforementioned officials are responsible for an “abuse of authority for personal gain, to suppress legitimate dissent and to otherwise achieve their personal objectives.” The report singled out Krahenbuhl for being the cause of the widespread corruption and accused him of neglecting his administrative duties in order to travel around the world on the agency’s dime. Krahenbuhl also allegedly hired and promoted personal friends and ruled with a lack of accountability, leading the report to recommend that he be removed from his position. Officials also used UNRWA’s recent cash flow crisis caused by reduced U.S. aid to “concentrate decision-making power” and “disregard agency rules and … procedures.” The organization, which represents the Palestinians in the Middle East, has been criticized for years by Israel for collaborating with terror organizations such as Hamas. Earlier this year, former Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat launched an initiative to remove UNWRA schools from East Jerusalem after studies showed that the curriculum taught by the agency was heavily skewed against Israel.

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Israel Police Creating New Unit to Integrate Ethiopians

The Israel Police recently announced that it is forming a new unit to promote the integration of Ethiopian Israelis only weeks after the community launched widespread riots over claims of racism. The new unit will be directly subordinate to the police commissioner in order to strengthen and expand its influence within the organization and will be given the highest priority. The unit will be staffed by senior officers and will have the ability to give and enforce commands throughout the force. Immediately following its establishment, the unit will work to formulate policy and create new procedures for officers regarding interactions with Ethiopian Israelis. The unit will also issue recommendations to the senior brass over how to recruit more Ethiopians and to improve cultural diversity overall within the police in order to integrate more minorities. The decision to dedicate a new unit to deal with the Ethiopian population comes amid widespread claims of racism and police brutality vis-a-vis the community. Earlier this month, Israel was rocked by a wave of violent riots after an Israeli

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Israel Hits Iranian Targets in Iraq

Israel has expanded its operations against Iranian targets to Iraq, where Air Force jets have struck twice in ten days, a report said on Tuesday. Israel commonly conducts strikes in Syrian territory, targeting Iranian missile shipments meant for the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah to use against the Jewish state, but strikes in Iraq by Israel have not been reported since the 1981 bombing of a nuclear reactor. Asharq Al-Awsat, an Arabic-language newspaper published in London, cited Western diplomatic

sources as saying that an Israeli F-35 plane was behind a July 19 strike on a rocket depot in a Shiite militia base north of Baghdad. The IDF has not commented on the report. The Saudi-based al-Arabiya network reported at the time that members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps and Hezbollah had been killed in the strike. It said the base had received Iranian ballistic missiles, which had been hidden inside trucks, shortly before the strike. The strike was carried out by an unmanned drone. Two Iranians were wounded in the strike; one was killed. Asharq Al-Awsat also said that Israel was behind another strike in Iraq carried out on Sunday at Camp Ashraf, the former headquarters of the exiled People’s Mujahedin of Iran, located 40 kilometers northeast of Baghdad and 80 kilometers from the Iranian border. That strike targeted Iranian advisers and a ballistic missile shipment, the report cited sources as saying. The report also mentioned a strike in Syria last week that it blamed on Israel, in which nine were killed including six Irani-

ans fighting for the Syrian regime, claiming it was meant to prevent Iran from taking over a strategic hill in the Daraa province in the country’s south. Israeli missiles targeted “military positions and intelligence facilities belonging to Iran and [pro-Iranian] militias” in the southern provinces of Daraa and Quneitra early on Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at the time. The other three killed in the strike were pro-regime Syrian fighters. Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes in Syria since the beginning of the conflict in 2011, targeting Iranian and Hezbollah forces in the country, as well as those loyal to the Assad regime, as part of a stated policy to prevent arms transfers to Hezbollah in Lebanon and the entrenchment of Iranian military forces across from Israel’s northern border. Regional Cooperation Minister Tzachi Hanegbi boasted last week that Israel is the only country in the world that has been “killing Iranians.” In a speech to the UN General Assembly last September, Prime

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According to a report released by the Central Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday, the name Muhammad is the most common name in Israel overall and especially among Muslim boys. Among Muslim girls the most common name is Miriam, with 523 girls given that name in 2018. The most popular baby name in Israel in 2018 among Jewish boys was David, given to some 1,447 newborns. Ariel was second on the list, given to 1,323 children. The most common name among Jewish girls for the third year in a row was Tamar, given to 1,289 girls in 2018. The name Noa dropped to fourth most popular and Maya rose to second. The names Ayala, Abigail, Arbel, Ophir, Carmel, Shai-Lee, Aviv, Omer, Gefen, Levi, Hallel, Halali, Mayall, Ariel, Anhal, Emmanuel and Tohar rose in popularity from 2000 to 2018, as well as the names Aria, Miley, Mila, Emily, Romi, Liv, Lenny, Alma, Emma, Eve, Gaia and Ann. The name Maya was especially common in Kiryat Ono and Kiryat Motzkin and was given to 6% of girls born in each of these areas. Maya was also most common in Beer Sheva, Givatayim, Hod Hasharon, Herzliya, Haifa, Kfar Saba, Modi’in, Nahariya, Netanya, Petah Tikva, Rosh HaAyin, Rishon Lezion, Ramat Gan, Ramat Hasharon, Raanana and Tel Aviv.

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Paige A. Thompson was arrested by the FBI on Monday for theft, after having been accused of stealing data from Capital One credit card applications in what is one of the top ten largest data breaches ever. Personal information, including Social Security and bank account numbers, of more than 100 million individuals was compromised in the massive data theft. Thompson took hold of the information between March 12 and July 17, according to court records. Among the data allegedly collected from a company cloud-based server were Social Security and bank account numbers. The bank said “the largest category of information” accessed from applicants who applied for credit cards between 2005 and 2019 was personal information including names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth and self-reported income. About 140,000 Social Security numbers were accessed and 80,000 bank account numbers from credit card customers were pilfered by the Seattle woman, Capital One said. Other data that was obtained includes credit scores, limits, balances and “fragments of transaction data from a total of 23 days during 2016, 2017 and 2018.” In a news release, Capital One said that “100 million individuals in the United States and approximately 6 million in Canada” were affected. “While I am grateful that the perpetrator has been caught, I am deeply sorry for what has happened,” said Richard D. Fairbank, Capital One chairman and CEO, in a statement. “I sincerely apologize for the understandable worry this incident must be causing those affected and I am committed to making it right.”

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16 Marines Arrested for Human Trafficking

Officers from the 1st Marine Division said that they decided to arrest the troops in a deliberately high-profile fashion in order to drive home the severity of what they have done. “The release of this information was really so we could be transparent about what happened today,” noted Major Kendra Motz, who serves as the division’s spokesperson. “It was a very large arrest.” “It’s a shock to the system,” added Motz. The 16 Marines are not the only servicemen detained for the criminal conspiracy. According to NCIS spokesperson Jeff Houston, three other Marines were arrested on the

U.S. military officials were shocked after 16 Marines were arrested last week for human trafficking. The 16 were arrested in front of their entire unit during morning roll call at Camp Pendleton in California. As they stood at attention with their brothers in arms, investigators from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) showed up and took them

same day, although he refused to expound on the circumstances. “Out of respect for the investigative and judicial process, and to protect witnesses, NCIS will not comment further until the investigative and judicial process has completed,” he said. The mass arrest comes after other Marines from the same base were detained in early July after they were caught smuggling three Mexican nationals into the United States in the backseat of their car. During the resulting interrogation, the migrants said that they paid the troops $8,000 to infiltrate them into California. A search of the Marines’ cellphones found ties to the other 16 who were picked out of morning formation. The two Marines whose arrest set off the probe have been named as Byron Law II and David Salazar-Quintero. They were charged with “transportation of aliens for financial gain and aiding and abetting.”

“Hero” Hacker Won’t Go to Prison

A British hacker who singlehandedly stopped a massive computer virus from spreading will not face jailtime for creating criminal malware two months prior to his heroics. Marcus Hutchins rose to fame after he found a way to end the WannaCry cyberattack in 2017. For his actions, Hutchins became a celebrity and was widely seen as a hero by many. Yet only two months later, Hutchins was arrested by FBI agents in Las Vegas and jailed. Authorities said that he played a key role in creating malicious malware that stole banking passwords and had been investigating him for years prior to the cyber-attack that thrust him into the spotlight. Hutchins pleaded guilty to eight of the ten charges in the indictment and faced a maximum 10-year prison sentence. However, U.S. District

Judge J.P. Stadtmueller cited his heroics in stopping WannaCry to sentence him only to time served, saying that Hutchins had clearly left his criminal ways behind. “Mr. Hutchins turned the corner with regard to the conduct that led to these charges,” Stadtmueller said. While acknowledging the seriousness of Hutchins’ actions, the judge wrote that it will “take the people like [Hutchins] with your skills to come up with solutions because that’s the only way we’re going to eliminate this entire subject of the woefully inadequate security protocols.” Hutchins, a British citizen employed in the United States, exulted after the verdict and thanked his lawyers for representing him pro bono. “Incredibly thankful for the understanding and leniency of the judge, the wonderful character letter you all sent, and everyone who helped me through the past two years, both financially and emotionally,” tweeted Hutchins. In 2017, Hutchins had discovered a so-called “kill switch” that defanged the WannaCry virus that had crippled medical centers all over Britain. Over the next three days, he worked tirelessly to decipher and destroy the virus until the threat was lifted. WannaCry had taken over computers that used older versions of Microsoft Windows by encrypting users’ computer files and demanding money to reopen them. A failure to pay the ransom left the files mangled beyond repair, causing millions of dollars’ worth of damage.

U.S. and Guatemala Sign Immigration Agreement

Guatemala agreed to sign an immigration agreement with the United States after President Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs should they refuse the accord.

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According to the Guatemalan government, the agreement is valid for two years and needs to be reviewed every 90 days. The agreement would significantly limit the rights afforded to illegal immigrants that have infiltrated the U.S. from Central America by forcing them to apply for asylum in Guatemala first. Legally, the U.S. is not required to honor asylum requests from those with pending appeals in

another country, potentially removing a powerful tool undocumented migrants utilize to prevent their deportation. As undocumented immigrants with pending asylum requests cannot be deported from the U.S. until the appeal is processed, something that often takes years, law enforcement is often helpless to remove the said migrants from U.S. streets. The accord is extremely contro-

versial in Guatemala and suffered a setback two weeks ago after the country’s Constitutional Court ruled that President Jimmy Morales needed congressional approval for the deal. As Congress is in its summer recess, the decision meant that the potential agreement would be set back for months and perhaps scrapped entirely due to the country’s overwhelmingly negative sentiment towards Trump.

The House Judiciary Committee looks set on filing articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. In a court filing on Friday, the House Judiciary Committee asked for the materials Robert Mueller had used in his report about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential elections. According to the committee, the House has officially opened up an impeachment inquiry into Trump and such evidence is vital for their upcoming effort to prosecute the president. “Because Department of Justice policies will not allow prosecution of a sitting President, the United States House of Representatives is the only institution of the Federal Government that can now hold President Trump accountable for these actions,” read the filing. “To do so, the House must have access to all the relevant facts and consider whether to exercise its full Article I powers, including a constitutional power of the utmost gravity—approval of articles of impeachment.” In a news conference later that day, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler said that the powerful committee is seriously considering impeaching Trump despite Mueller’s disastrous performance at Congress a day before. “We are using our full Article I powers to investigate the conduct of the president and to consider what [Constitutional] remedies there are,” Nadler said. “Among other things we will consider are obviously recommending articles of impeachment.” Nadler’s drive for impeachment

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Dan Coats will leave his position as director of national intelligence following fraught relations with President Donald Trump. Trump announced in a tweet that Coats will finish his term overseeing the U.S. intelligence community on August 15 and will be replaced by Texas Congressman John Ratcliffe. “A former U.S. Attorney, John will lead and inspire greatness for the Country he loves,” tweeted Trump. The president notably failed to praise Coats and simply thanked him “for his great service to our country.” In his resignation letter, Coats wrote that it was a “distinct privilege” to serve as national intelligence director but that it was “time to move on.” The move replaces Coats, who frequently clashed with Trump over a range of matters, with someone more in tune with the president’s personal beliefs. The Republican

Attorney General William Barr announced last week that the United States will resume the federal death penalty following a 16-year hiatus. Barr instructed the Bureau of Prisons to begin setting a timetable for the execution of five men currently on death row. The move will likely thrust the issue into the national spotlight, as the 16-year moratorium caused the controversial policy to be moved to the back burner. “The Justice Department upholds the rule of law – and we owe it to the victims and their families to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system,” Barr said in a statement. Despite polls showing that the death penalty is highly unpopular today, President Donald Trump has spoken favorably of capital punishment in the past. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump frequently called for the death penalty to be meted out for those convicted of heinous crimes such as terrorism and killing law enforcement. “I think they should very much bring the death penalty into vogue,” Trump said following the brutal attack on Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh last year.

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Garlic Festival in Northern California. The shooting began at around 5:40 p.m. local time on Sunday and lasted for around a minute before he was shot and killed by police.

The inaugural wave of executions is slated to take place in December and January. The first inmate to be executed is Daniel Lewis Lee, who was found guilty in 1999 of murdering a family of three. He is scheduled to die of lethal injection on December 9. Following Lee will be Lezmond Mitchell, who was convicted in 2003 of killing a 63-year-old grandmother. His execution date is set for December 11, only two days after Lee. On December 13, Wesley Ira Purkey will be put to death for killing a 16-year-old girl in 2003, while Alfred Bourgeois will die on January 13 for killing his own daughter.

Officials said that the three policemen who were sent to guard the festival prevented what could potentially have been a massacre. “It could have gone so much worse, so fast,” said Gilroy Police Chief Scott Smithee. “I can’t tell you how proud I am of the officers for being able to engage this guy as quickly as they did because we had thousands of people there in a very small area.” The fatalities included Stephen Romero, a 6-year-old boy, and Keyla Salazar, a 13-year-old girl. When the shooting started, Stephen’s mother grabbed him and ran. She was shot in the hand and stomach. Stephen was shot in his mother’s arms. Trev-

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Puerto Rico is having a hard time deciding who will be its governor after Governor Ricardo Rossello resigned last week. Rossello was forced to step down after his personal profane text messages were released in a blockbuster newspaper expose. While the now-ex governor first rebuffed calls for his resignation, the hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans that flooded

the streets left him no choice. Yet Rossello’s decision to leave his position set off a fierce succession battle over who will take up the island’s top post. As per Puerto Rico’s constitution, the next governor is slated to be Justice Secretary Wanda Vasquez. However, Vasquez has come under escalating pressure not to take the governor’s job by the protest movement that forced out Rossello. As a politician known for her close relationship to Rossello, many protesters say that it would be wrong for Vasquez to step into his shoes. Following Rossello’s resignation announcement on Thursday, demonstrators appeared in the streets holding signs that read, “Wanda, we don’t want you either!” amid chants of “Wanda, you’re next!” On Sunday, Vasquez took to twitter to assert, “I have no interest in occupying the position of Governor.” Vasquez’s unpopularity has led Puerto Rican power brokers to ask former Congressman Perdo Pierluisi to run for the top job. Formally the island’s lone congressman who served from 2009 until 2017, Pierluisi enjoys wide support and is seen as a consensus candidate. Another person whose name is being floated as an alternative is Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz. However, he himself has been dogged by scandals, with a number of his aides being arrested earlier this year for alleged corruption that bilked the island of millions. The key challenge is finding a candidate with experience in government who is not too close to Rossello, who Puerto Ricans view as a symbol of corruption. “They removed the governor, but they haven’t really dealt with the underlying problem,” University of Connecticut Professor and Puerto Rico expert Charles Santiago told The New York Times. “You put another person in, and how does that change the structural conditions of society?” Rossello’s resignation goes into effect on August 2. According to Puerto Rico’s order of succession, the secretary of state should be next in line after the governor. But the man holding that position, Luis G. Rivera Marín, resigned on July 13 in connection to the group chat scandal that embroiled the governor. Vasquez is next in line.

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Trump Commutes Sentence

On Monday, President Donald Trump granted clemency to seven men, including Ted Suhl, an Arkansas man convicted in 2016 of paying bribes to a state official. He commuted Suhl’s sentence and also commuted the sentence of Ronen Nahmani, a Florida man convicted in 2015 of selling synthetic marijuana. The remaining men received pardons for convictions stretching back decades. Nahmani, 44, a frum Jew, was convicted in 2015 of conspiring to distribute synthetic marijuana in Florida. At the time, his lawyer argued that his client, a father of five, should receive no more than a decade

behind bars, but the judge opted for the maximum sentence of 20 years. In explaining the commutation, the White House noted the size of Nahmani’s family, his wife’s terminal cancer diagnosis, and the fact that he had been a nonviolent, first-time offender with no previous criminal history. “These extenuating circumstances underscore the urgency of his request for clemency,” the White House statement said. The commutation was urged by people across the political spectrum, including several current and former Democratic and Republican politicians, according to the statement. Including Monday’s announcement, Trump has granted 15 pardons and six commutations since taking office. In contrast, in his first three years in office, President Obama issued 17 pardons and no commutations, though he had issued more than 200 pardons and 1,700 commutations by the end of his presidency. Trump had granted clemency to Joe Arpaio, the conservative former Arizona sheriff convicted of criminal contempt; Dinesh D’Souza, a conservative commentator convicted of campaign finance violations; I. Lewis

Libby Jr., a former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney who was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice; a pair of Oregon cattle ranchers convicted of arson on federal lands; and Alice Marie Johnson, a 63-year-old woman who had been serving life in prison for a nonviolent drug conviction. Trump’s five pardons issued on Monday were to John Richard Bubala, who pleaded guilty to improper use of federal property in 1990; Roy Wayne McKeever, who pleaded guilty to a drug charge in 1989; Rodney Takumi, who was arrested while working at an illegal gambling parlor in 1987; Michael Tedesco, who was convicted of drug trafficking and fraud in 1990; and Chalmer Lee Williams, who was convicted of several crimes related to theft and sale of weapons. Obama had already pardoned Tedesco in 2017, but Monday’s action by Trump fixes a clerical error related to the pardoning of Tedesco’s fraud conviction.

that these minor, clerical errors are insufficient grounds to invalidate otherwise eligible votes,” Cabán campaign attorney Jerry Goldfeder said in a statement on Monday. “While it is everyone’s right to avail themselves of the judicial process, I urge all participants in this hard-fought election to come together and join me in beginning the hard work of reforming the criminal justice system in Queens,” Katz said. “This is a major moment for this borough, and it will take the support of all its residents to make this effort a success. I will be spending the months ahead preparing for this critical task.”

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Borough President Melinda Katz was declared the winner of the Queens district attorney Democratic primary on Monday, although the results will undoubtedly be challenged by her opponent, Tiffany Cabán. Katz had pulled ahead of Cabán by just 60 votes. The Board of Elections certified the results of the June 25 primary on Monday afternoon. Around 91,000 ballots were cast in the election. “This is a great day for the people of Queens, who have waited patiently for the long recount process to conclude,” Katz said in a statement on Monday. Cabán’s team will be challenging more than 100 ballots it says were wrongly invalidated by the Board of Elections. “Legal precedent established several years ago by The Appellate Division, Second Department indicates

Josh Lanik made a fortune on his vacation. He’ll have a lot to say at show-and-tell this year. Lanik, a teacher in Nebraska, had spent the day at the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, last week. The eagle-eyed 36-year-old spotted something that looked out of the ordinary. “It was blatantly obvious there was something different about it,” Lanik said. “I saw the shine, and when I picked it up and rolled it in my hand, I noticed there weren’t any sharp edges.” He showed the stone to his wife and put the treasure in a bag with other finds. Before leaving the park, they stopped by the Diamond Discovery Center in the park to see what kind of treasure they’d unearthed. Unbeknownst to Lanik, he was carrying around the largest diamond found in the park so far this year. It weighed in at 2.12-carats. More than 75,000 diamonds have been unearthed at the park since the first ones were discovered in 1906. So far this year, 296 diamonds have been registered at the park, weighing a total of 53.94 carats. “Mr. Lanik’s gem is about the size

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Baby Flying High

Last week, on July 27, Middle East Airlines-Air Liban celebrated a

brand-new addition: a baby girl was born on the flight between Qatar and Lebanon. A female passenger went into labor shortly after takeoff and gave birth, with help from the crew, just minutes after entering Iraqi airspace. Reports from local media say the woman gave birth in the plane’s restroom. A spokesperson for the carrier has confirmed that flight crew

facilitated the delivery and that the plane was quickly diverted to Kuwait. “Announcements were made to check if there was any doctor on board to assist with the delivery, but no doctors were on board that flight,” Rima Mikaoui, MEA director of public relations, told USA Today. “MEA Cabin Crew handled the situation (they assisted the lady with the delivery) and all went well. The baby was delivered on board and was well taken care of,” Mikaoui continued. “The flight was diverted to Kuwait where the mother and the baby born disembarked to receive medical attention; the flight resumed its operation to Beirut.” We’re thinking this little baby is going to be a pilot when she grows up – would be fitting, no?

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Kenora was full of checks and boxes last week as more than a thousand people turned out in plaid to celebrate the PLAIDurday event in the Ontario city. 1,359 people came decked out inthe iconic pattern, which set a Guinness World Record for a gathering in one place with people wearing plaid patterns. “It’s an amazing day! Every time we stage an event whether it’s Hockey Day in Canada or the Canada Summer Games rowing events, people turn out to show their support,” Mayor Dan Reynard told the Kenora Miner & News. “I know we’re going to do it. We’re not just going to win, we’re going to smash the record!” The previous record was set in Atlanta by 1,146 people. I would have gone to Kenora that day but I seem to have misplaced my Burberry scarf.

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not have new shoes to start back to school.” Carrie was shopping with her fourth grade daughter in the store in May when her daughter asked if they could buy a pair of shoes for her classmate. “I jokingly said to the clerk, ‘How much would it cost to buy the rest

But the story doesn’t end there. The next day, when Carrie came to the store to put the shoes in boxes, the employees informed her that a new delivery had come in with hundreds of more shoes. “I said, ‘We will open a few boxes, if it’s kids’ shoes we will try and get it.’ We begin to open the boxes in the back of the store and in the loading dock – box after box are kid shoes,” Jernigan wrote on Facebook. She went on to write, “12 hours, 95 big boxes, a huge trailer and approximately 1,500 pairs of shoes later these 3 excited kids got to buy out the store.” Carrie plans on giving away the shoes to children before schools starts. “I always tell my kids, if you ask them what they want to be when they grow up, they say be kind, and so I don’t care what they do in life as long as they are kind and good people,” Carrie told KFSM. “And so it just reiterates to me that their hearts are in the right place, and if it’s in the right place they can do amazing things.” Local businesses and residents have been enthusiastic about Carrie’s giving. They want to hold a Back to School event where shoes and other items would be handed out to children in need. People have also donated money so Carrie could purchase more shoes to give out to children. Sounds like a “shnoe-ball” effect of kindness.

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n Wednesday, July 17, a large group of BBY parents came together for an important meeting to discuss the façade emergency that the school is facing. Participants were provided with a clear understanding of what is at stake, the nature of what caused the collapse of the building’s façade, the urgency of the repair, and a greater appreciation of their role in raising the $1.2 million that is necessary to complete this project. The presenters included Rabbi Ephraim Blumenkrantz, Executive Director; Mr. David Mandel, volunteer construction repair specialist; and Mr. Mel Zachter, BBY trustee.

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Rabbi Blumenkrantz opened his remarks by stating unequivocally, “We are in the midst of a genuine emergency” and went through the history and step-by-step nature of the investigation and its conclusion. He also encouraged all attendees to do their best to raise the needed funds. Mr. Mandel explained the process for installing and securing a brick façade and the incredible flaws that existed in our building. He then expounded upon the conclusion that the entire façade needs to be replaced. Mr. Zachter took the

liberty to recognize and thank the parents for their role in maintaining the school until now but emphasized how critical it was that they carry this project as well. There was a tremendous sense of camaraderie and concern and a high level of transparency. BBY is comprised of 1,250 students from across the community and their safety is paramount. This is a serious safety concern for our entire community. Please visit www. rayze.it/bbybricks/ to make a generous donation.

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JCCRP Riding the Waves of Digital Marketing: The Future Is NOW

n today’s rapid changing economy a successful business can’t compete without having a well thought out digital marketing strategy. Some of the components of a proper digital marketing strategy include a website, social media presence, email marketing, and search engine optimization (SEO). Additionally, a company’s active involvement in the Amazon marketplace is a crucial component as it is the largest and fastest growing retailer in the world. Digital marketing, as with e-commerce and online presence, is the present and the future, and failure to adapt could have serious repercussions for companies. In recognizing these crucial skills, the JCCRP career services division presented a 6 week digital marketing course given by an industry leader, Alan Horowitz. Alan is a master Amazon seller, having sold millions of products on the online retailer, including many top sellers. The course teaches the strategies one must use to gain more followers on Instagram, how to place successful products on Amazon, and how to turn Facebook friends into customers. Michelle of Far Rockaway expressed, “I run a children’s clothing store in the Five Towns, so I knew this course would be crucial for my parnassah. The instructor is fantastic! He clearly explains how to successfully market my clothing and products, and he even answers all of my follow-up questions. I’ve followed a lot of his advice over the past three weeks, and it’s really increasing my bottom line.” Many companies have a digital marketing strategy in place but need more skilled employees to fill those

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Hundreds Come Out to Support Shalom Task Force’s Education Department

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hunder, lightning, rain and flooding did not deter a crowd of over 250 from coming out to support Shalom Task Force and its Educational Department. On Monday evening, July 22, Shalom Task Force hosted its annual Spin to Win Ping Pong 3rd annual Spin to Win Ping Pong tournament and barbeque. Graciously hosted at the home of Sarah and Ian Boczko, co-chaired by the Boczkos, Daniella and Elisha Graff, and Bailey and Brian Sigman, the night was filled with fierce competition, a lavish barbecue, and a program that no one in that room will ever forget. This year, Estee Ackerman re-

turned to play participants in oneon-one matches, easily defeating all of her competitors. Teams of three battled it out to take home the elusive Spin to Win Trophy. This year, Shimon Melool, Levi Lipovenko, and Aharon Melool defeated Ari Lipsky, Mordechai Shapiro, and BJ Frenkel to become the 2019 Spin to Win champions. Sarah Boczko delivered opening remarks sharing her personal passion to educate youth in our community about heathy relationships. In her reflections, Shoshannah D. Frydman, Ph.D, LCSW, executive director of Shalom Task Force, reiterated to the crowd that domestic abuse can, and

does, happen in every community. The crowd was then honored to hear the story of survival and strength of a survivor of domestic abuse from our community as she shared her experience as a victim of domestic violence and her journey to safety. She bravely told her story for the first time in public and did this with a deep desire to raise awareness around the prevalence and reality of abuse. Everyone in the room understood, more now than ever, how important the work of Shalom Task Force is for all of us. Founded 25 years ago, Shalom Task Force combats domestic violence and promotes safe relationships, healthy

families, and supportive communities. It operates a national domestic-abuse hotline for Jewish victims and Sarah’s Voice, which provides free legal advice and services to survivors. Shalom Task Force also provides rabbinical and professional training on domestic abuse and offers prevention workshops to over 3,000 young men and women each year in the United States and Israel. To reach the Shalom Task Force Domestic Violence Hotline, call 718337-3700 or 888-883-2323 (tollfree). For more information, visit www.shalomtaskforce.org.

Amit’s Annual Day of Learning for Women to Feature Keynote Speaker Raizi Chechik

MIT is holding its annual Yom Iyun, a day of learning for women and by women, on Wednesday, August 7, 2019, at 9:30 a.m. The event will feature keynote speaker Raizi Chechik, Head of School, Manhattan Day School, who will be giving a talk on “Letters Floating in the Air: The Story of the Woman who Printed the Vilna Talmud.” Ms. Chechik is a creative and dynamic educator who has two decades of school leadership experience. She studied Tanach and Counseling at Michlala Jerusalem Teacher’s College, holds an MA in Jewish

History, and has done doctoral work in both Education and Jewish Studies. Ms. Checkik is a recipient of numerous professional and academic awards, among them the national Grinspoon-Steinhardt Award for Excellence in Jewish Education. “The annual Yom Iyun is truly a ‘happening,’” said Mimi Mehlman, the event chairwoman for the past 20 years. “We began as an educational group with many prominent keynote speakers in Lido Beach and have grown exponentially over the years. Our Yom Iyun has motivated hundreds of women to come together to learn, as a chabura, many val-

ued and insightful lessons from our Torah and beyond.” As a passionate Jewish educator, Raizi Chechik’s experience and insight fits well with the mission of AMIT to provide a cutting-edge Jewish values-based education Israeli children throughout Israel, 70% of whom live in the periphery and come from disadvantaged homes. The Yom Iyun will take place at Sephardic Temple, 775 Branch Boulevard, Cedarhurst, New York, from 9:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. For more information and to make reservations, please contact Robbie Fried at RobbieF@amitchil-

dren.org, or call 212-477-5691. Founded in 1925, AMIT is the premier education network in Israel, serving 35,000 students each year in its 110 schools in 33 cities throughout Israel. AMIT enables students to realize their fullest potential and strengthens Israeli society by educating and nurturing children from diverse backgrounds within a framework of academic excellence, religious values, and Zionist ideals. For more information, please visit www.amitchildren.org.

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Chabad Mineola Visits Police Officers

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hen I read the news that sadly the New York Police Department continues to investigate three separate incidents of officers mocked by groups of men who doused them with buckets of water, I became really upset and incensed. What a disgrace. I am out-

raged. So, what could I do? I was impatient I have to do something to counterbalance the lack of respect in New York City. So I called the Police Commissioner of Nassau County, Patrick Ryder. He gets on the phone. And I said, “Today I want to say thank you Commissioner, and to all your police brass and all the wonderful men and

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n Camp Atara we are always having a stupendous time! Our goal is to have an amazing time and include every camper. Mrs. Ariella Newman started an exciting and innovative way to work b’achdus during the Three Weeks. Every counselor received bracelets and when a camper is mevatar or

shows good middos she receives a bracelet. Each individual camper is required to earn a minimum of 25 bracelets a week and then the bunks will compete to see which bunk has the most bracelets! We are working on our middos and rebuilding the Bais Hamikdash one good deed at a time!

women of the Nassau County Police Department. “I wanted to tell you all of how upset I was on what transpired in New York City against police officers, and to let you know loud and clear, that out here in Nassau County, we all have the utmost respect and admiration to each of you.” Commissioner Pat Ryder immediately invited me to attend a regularly scheduled weekly staff meeting, with all the chiefs of the department. “Here in Nassau County we must never tolerate these kinds of incidents, of disrespecting police officers,” I said at the meeting. “Today we must all respond forcefully, to note our deepest respect for all of our police officers, who work on our behalf day and night. “We here in Nassau County, under all your leadership Commissioner Ryder, and all your able staff, we all note with admiration, all the amazing prevention work being done here, your aggressive pro-active approach to safeguarding us from the opioid epidemic, setting up the local Police Councils and your very pre-emptive security conferences for our places of worship. All this, and much more, speaks loudly of who you are and the important goals you have set for the Police Department on behalf of all of us. For all of this we are much indebted.” Why should we respect Police Officers? In this world today, we see a lot of criticism towards police officers. Every day they go to work knowing they are going to get called names,

or even get shot at. Nevertheless, they do this every day for our protection. Now in today’s divisive environment, sadly police officers around the country are being, quote, “thrown under the bus.” Let’s remember, the police don’t make the laws, they just enforce them for our protection. They are citizens, too. Just like each of us, they are citizens, too. They have rights, like we do. They are moms and dads just like we are. Why treat them differently? They have kind hearts too. Officers don’t only arrest the bad guys and give out tickets for running a red light. They have a kind heart. So many fficers have excelled in their good deeds for communities and individuals, even when no one recognizes them for it. Just because they gave you a lousy ticket doesn’t mean they don’t have any kindness in them. They deal with the dirty work. How many times have they to deal with a drug addict or a rapist? How many times have they showed up on a call where a child has been beaten? Officers deal with all these cases. Lots of times, the dirtiest work is the hardest work. So, the next time you see a police officer, thank them for what they do. Give them the respect they deserve and stand up to help them. Thank you, officers, for keeping us safe. May the Al-mighty watch over you, protect you and all your families. G-d bless America! Rabbi Anchelle Perl is the director of Chabad Mineola, NY.

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On Sunday evening, July 28, the men of The Young Israel of Oceanside took to the seas on their annual menâ€™s fishing trip. A great time was had by all as they boarded the Dolphin in Freeport and enjoyed drinks and a delicious Carlos & Gabbyâ€™s dinner. Congratulations to Barry Grossman for getting the biggest catch. Thank you to David Goldstein and Marc Nudleman for organizing the event.

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Mets Stars Wow Hillel Day Camp Campers

iti Field came to the HAFTR Campus in Lawrence, NY, as Jeff McNeil, the MLB leader in batting average, and Dominic Smith, both of the New York Mets, spent last Friday morning at Hillel Day Camp speaking with campers and staff of all ages and signing autographs. In what has become a tradition at Hillel, campers were able to ask the stars questions about their lives, the team, and what it takes to be a MLB player. The Mets stars graciously answered as many questions as they could, even when they had to do with the Yankees. The players stressed the importance of teamwork and supporting their teammates on and off the field. Evan Leibowitz, the Hillel Director, pointed out to the campers with the help of McNeil and Smith that this theme supports Hillelâ€™s Kindness Project where campers and bunks are focusing on supporting their bunkmates and community in kindness and chessed. Smith pointed out that the Kindness endeavor is so important because people accomplish more when they work in unison and as a team. Mets Day at Hillel is a day that so many of the campers look forward to. Some even bring a baseball the first day of camp to be signed when the day arrives. One camper in particular brought in the whole Mets team in baseball cards in the hopes that he would get the players to sign their cards. In the end, the lucky camper

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got his cards signed by both McNeil and Smith. Thank you to Jeff and Dom for giv-

ing up their morning before a game to come and bring so many smiles and joy to the campers at Hillel. Just

maybe the Hillel campers brought Jeff enough luck to hit his 10th homerun that night.

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Kaminsky Secures New Ambulance and Life-Saving Equipment for Lawrence Fire Department

From L to R, top row: 2nd Assistant Chief Michael Beilinson, 1st Assistant Chief Thomas Foy, Chief of Department James C. McHugh, ex-Capt. Meyer Adler (Liberty Medal recipient), Senator Todd Kaminsky, Lt. Shoshana Weiner (Liberty Medal recipient), Lawrence Mayor Alex Edelman, and Cedarhurst Mayor Ben Weinstock. From L to R, bottom row: LCFD members Anderson Monzon, Adam Kris, Nicole DeSibio and Malik Mavrik

enator Todd Kaminsky announced last week that he secured a $255,000 grant for the Lawrence-Cedarhurst Fire Department (“LCFD”), which was used to purchase a brand-new ambulance, electronic patient care report equipment, and a Lifepak monitor-defibrillator. Kaminsky also presented New York State Liberty Medals – the highest award a State Senator can bestow on a civilian – to three LCFD members for utilizing the Lifepak device to save a fellow firefighter. “The brave men and women of the Lawrence-Cedarhurst Fire Department put their lives on the line day in and day out to save the lives of neighbors in need -- and deserve the equipment and resources they need to do just that,” said Senator Todd Kaminsky. “That is why I procured crucial funds to purchase a new ambulance and vital, lifesaving equipment, and was honored to award three LCFD medics with New York State Liberty Medals for saving a fel-

low firefighter’s life utilizing equipment purchased from this grant. I am confident that the fruits of this grant will continue to save lives in our community and further the heroic work of the department’s EMTs and paramedics.” On December 21, 2018, LCFD exCapt. John Kelly went into cardiac arrest while working in the firehouse. Immediately, Lt. Shoshana Weiner and ex-Capts. Meyer Adler and Robert Player jumped into action, beginning CPR and defibrillation utilizing the Lifepak device Senator Kaminsky procured for the department. Lt. Weiner, a seasoned paramedic, began advanced life support interventions, and ex-Capt. Kelly regained a pulse and was transported in an Inwood Fire Department ambulance, as the LCFD’s ambulance was busy responding to another cardiac call. Ex-Capt. Kelly regained consciousness that night and was discharged from the hospital just over a week later.

Senator Kaminsky awarding a Liberty Medal to ex-Capt. Meyer Adler for his heroic work

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Fun in the Sun Continues at Camp Shira

amp Shira campers revved into second half on their gokarts! The “On the Go” theme has been an absolute camp-wide sensation, and this week the camp-

ers enjoyed a visit to Outer Space! They defied gravity at Spring, floated weightlessly in the pool, and had an amazing week in so many ways! Next week the campers will piv-

ot to doing chessed projects for the Nine Days. But even first half was all about chessed as Camp Shira campers raised nearly $10,000 for Chai Lifeline while enjoying Bowlathons,

Ezra Academy Wins Another Award

he first Sunday of June was the annual Salute to Israel Parade. Although it feels like a distant memory its reverberations are still being felt. With over forty thousand marchers and even more spectators lining the streets, this year had to be one of the best parades. The energy was amazing, and the theme “Rak B’Yisrael” was a major reason why. Over sixty-five schools participated, and each was judged based on their presentation, enthusiasm and overall appearance. Ezra Academy was recently informed that they were awarded third place in this year’s parade. Aside from the tremendous pride the school feels for this recognition, it is

also accompanied by a monetary prize given by the JCRC, the organization that coordinates the parade. We would like to thank the students who oversaw the design, drawing and painting of our stunning banner: Jacob Kaplan, Sofia Izrailova, Baruch Natanov and Ilana Aminov. Aliza Davidov and Nathan Murdach also deserve special mention for their creative and cool t-shirt design, which merged the logos of the Tzahal and Ezra Academy. There were thousands of small steps taken at the parade, this is another giant step in Ezra Academy’s achievements and accomplishments.

Swimathons, and even adorable Trikeathons depending on the age! This summer has truly been a Summer to Sing About at Camp Shira!!

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Around the Community The Fun Never Stops at Simcha Day Camp

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Avnet Undercover: The Mystery of Day Camp Revealed By Michelle Zimmerman I’ve always wondered what REALLY goes on during a typical day at camp. My children usually come home happy and exhausted, but the details of their experience are somewhat of a mystery. If you’re a parent like me, you put your children on the bus or leave them by the door only to have them return hours later with various disjointed clues as to their activities. You might have to decipher the ices stains on their face, the congealed remnants of lunch on their shirt, or the art project in their backpack. On behalf of interested parents everywhere, this intrepid reporter, “AKA” a nosy mom, decided to go undercover at Avnet (with the camp’s permission of course) to see what really happens behind-the-scenes. Join me for an unprecedented look at Avnet – a place where no parent has gone before (well, unless they work there).

y day begins at 7:45 a.m., long before the doors officially open. I arrive decked out in an Avnet T-shirt, baseball cap and sunglasses, so I can remain incognito (at least in my own mind). Daniel Stroock, the director, is already in his office checking phone messages and emails. At 8:25 I listen in as he leads the morning planning meeting with all the division heads and senior administrators. I’m enjoying my coffee and the air-conditioned office at 8:45, when suddenly everyone jumps up to greet the buses. The staff assembles at key locations to aid in the arrivals and direct campers to their line-up areas. I squeeze into a corner as my own children walk by. It’s a good thing that I’m out of the way, because pretty soon the halls are bustling with a few hundred chatty campers who are heading to their bunks. I decide to follow any one of the division heads, but before I can tag along, they have all dispersed to check on how their campers are settling in. I’m trying to figure out my next move, when I hear the sounds of tefillah coming from children of all ages. Malkie Behar, director of Camp Operations, spots me looking lost and hands me a schedule of places to be

at different times throughout the day. This seems easy enough, until I take a closer look. It’s only 9:30 and they have me here till 10 p.m. This must be a typo. My first stop is to watch the outdoor carnival being set up on the grounds. There is a crew preparing the inflatable rides and even a train. Since nobody is looking, I climb into a bounce house to practice my acrobatics. About 30 seconds later, I’m ushered out. What? I was just testing it. I’m putting my sneakers back on, when I realize I’m late for a color war meeting. Yup, they’re planning this already, and it is only week three. Now I feel elite, since I’m privy to their debate about possible team colors and creative breakout ideas. I want to chime in and suggest they choose colors we’re already stocked with at home, but I worry that would result in the loss of my press pass. Imagine how pleased I am a minute later when a staff member actually raises that exact issue – and they agree to avoid purple! Next, it’s off to the pools for instructional swim. I try to not get splashed as I see the youngest Tipot blowing bubbles and learning to float. It’s a good thing I’m not wearing my bathing suit because the water looks really inviting. I’m ready to check in on the sports staff who are busy teaching the Agamim’s G4 girls “Matball.” It’s a game that combines baseball, kickball, and some other sports. I’m totally confused, but the kids are thrilled to play. Lunch finally arrives at 12:15 and I’m starved. Snack was not on my schedule. I fill a plate with a sloppy joe, rice pilaf, and salad. I’m sampling the cuisine when I see that I’m expect-

ed on the DRS campus. The G’vaot and Harim boys are boarding buses for a trip to LAUNCH trampoline park. I’ve already gotten the jumping out of my system at the carnival, so I just wave goodbye. I run back to the outdoor basketball courts at the New Woodmere campus where the G5 girls are in the middle of an intense game. I can’t help but cheer as they make amazing shots and show great sportsmanship. Since I didn’t have time to eat dessert, I’m thrilled that I’m invited to a Country Cooking class. Cupcakes are on the menu! I decide to try everything to ensure “quality control.” I’m delighted to report that the extra icing I slathered on was delicious. I can see that the Ma’ayanot boys are coming to the fields for softball leagues. I’m starting to get tired. I could easily sit here for hours, under the shade of a nice tree, and watch them play. Who needs to go to a baseball stadium when there are so many talented players at Avnet? I need to hurry back to the pools to watch free swim. I’m on my way, when I spot afternoon ices being distributed. I’m embarrassed to admit that I swiped a couple when a counselor wasn’t looking. Boy, was that refreshing! I’m trying to find the oldest Naharot girls when I realize it’s already 3:45 p.m., and they are beginning dismissal. How did the day go so fast? I didn’t even get to see fitness, wacky science, chesed, chinuch, or ballet. In the next 20 minutes, I’m amazed by the whirlwind of activity as over a thousand campers and staff are seamlessly ushered to the right buses and carpools. By 4:05, the campus has almost cleared out. The DRS campers

still have one more hour. I head back to Daniel’s office to say my goodbyes, when I see yet another senior staff meeting. I don’t want to interrupt, so I wait. This time they are reviewing the day, planning more trips and discussing new programming. Trust me, there are some great surprises on the way, but I’ve been sworn to secrecy. At 4:45 word comes that the Ma’ayanot girls have finished dinner and are heading to Warren Levi Martial Arts for their late-night event. The DRS boys have also been dismissed. I try to act like I’m part of the “inner circle” and stay till 6 p.m., when all the buses have finished their routes and the final campers have been picked up from Warren Levi. I think it’s my cue to leave and am hustling to the door, when Malkie reminds me to check my schedule. It says “staff night 7- 10 P.M.” Are these people kidding? Apparently not. I may have picked the wrong day to observe. I’m ready for bed, but staff night is starting. I mingle during the pizza dinner and then settle in with everyone to watch the movie “Wonder” in the 400-seat auditorium. The next thing I know, someone is tapping me on the shoulder to wake me. The movie is over, and I conked out in the middle. What did you expect after such a long day? I stumble home after 10 p.m. The lights are still on. Although my husband is snoring, my kids are still awake. After a dizzying day trying to keep up with the staff and campers at Avnet, I don’t have the energy to inquire further. I try to sneak upstairs, when I’m asked, “Mom, do I see ices on your face?” Busted! Until next time…

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5 Av: A Special Opportunity on a Special Day

Av. August 5. It’s a special day. And a special opportunity. Especially for the Kollel Chatzos talmidei chachamim of the Meron Kollel – and their partners. It is known that the Arizal highlighted the significance of learning at chatzos and proclaimed that tefillos at midnight are particularly precious to Hashem. Therefore, to these talmidei chachamim, who dedicate night after night to Torah and tefillah, the yahrtzeit of the Arizal is especially meaningful. And there’s still more. On 5 Av, in addition to the usual Torah and teflilah, the talmidei chachamim of the Meron Kollel Chatzos perform the holy Ketores Segulah, revealed to us by the Arizal, at the kever of the Arizal. Passed from generation to generation, Yidden in time of need have performed this segulah and merited miraculous salvations. The tefillah of the ketores itself is lauded numerous times throughout the Zohar by Rabi Shimon bar Yochai. In fact, the Zohar writes that if Yidden would recognize the greatness of this segulah, they would don it like a crown on their heads. Still, it was the Arizal who instituted this segulah and underscored its greatness, teaching us “when a minyan of ten ehrliche yiden gather at midnight and perform the special Ketores Segulah with kavana, they make a tremendous impact in Shamayim and poel tremendous salvations.” Throughout our long, bitter galus years, gedolei hatzaddikim, including the holy Apta Rav and Shinover

Rav, zt”l, advised Yidden to perform the holy segula, so they should merit life and peace and salvation. And so, the talmidei chachamim of Kollel Chatzos and their partners eagerly anticipate 5 Av. For the past several years, after the talmidei chachamim performed the Ketores Segulah on behalf of hundreds of Yidden from around the world who yearn for a yeshua, countless of these individuals called to share the miraculous yeshuos they merited in the merit of this segula. On 5 Av, before traveling to learn at Meron, the talmidei chachamim will gather at the kever of the Arizal at the venerated Bais HaChaim in Tzfas, so that they can perform the Ketores Segulah with the holy kavanos prescribed by the Arizal at the kever of the Arizal. The segulah includes reciting Parshas Ketores, the pasuk “Vaya’as es hamenorah,” three times forward and backward, the perek of “Vihi noam” seven times and other holy pesukim forward and back. At the conclusion, there is a heart-stirring tefilla, in which the talmidei chachamim implore Hashem to have mercy on His precious Yidden. During this tefilllah, the talmidei chachamim will specify the names of all the donors and their personal bakashos. Afterwards, the talmidei chachamim will travel to Meron to immerse themselves in their nightly Torah and tefillah seder. This special segulah, which has transformed the lives of hundreds of Kollel Chatzos sponsors, can be a source of miracles for you, as well. Call 24 hours 718-887-9114 to become a Kollel Chatzos partner.

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Around the Community Campers at Camp Toras Chaim had fun with color last week during their summer â€œcolor runâ€?

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Camp Simcha Campers Spend Day in 5 Towns

n Monday, July 29, Howard and Martha Hershkovich of Woodmere hosted more than 40 Israeli Camp Simcha campers and counselors for a day of relaxation and fun. The campers, who arrived early that morning at JFK Airport, started off the day with their own minyan at Aish Kodesh, followed by a gourmet breakfast at the Hershkovich home.

The group was then wowed and amazed by magician and illusionist Marc Garfinkel who put on a show for the kids. The entertainment didn’t end there. Elisha Aryeh of Smiles Through Cars arrived with a collection of luxury sports and vintage cars for the campers to ride in and enjoy. After the exciting morning, the group

toured Manhattan in style, aboard a double-decker bus, before finally making their way to Camp Simcha in Glen Spey, NY, where they will spend the next two weeks. “These children experienced a day they won’t soon forget,” said Chai Lifeline’s Andy Lauber, who helped coordinate the activities. “Many thanks to the Hershkovich family

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for serving as gracious hosts to our campers and for bringing the joy of Camp Simcha to 5 Towns.” Camp Simcha is Chai Lifeline’s flagship summer program for children and teens with cancer and blood disorders. To learn more about Chai Lifeline, please visit www.chailifeline.org.

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Summer Smiles at Machaneh Hakayitz

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This Week TJH Speaks with... 1, 2, 3…8 weeks of amazing summer fun! For two months of the year our children bask in the sun, swimming, singing, and soaking up the fun every day. How are they spending their time away from their desks? In this annual feature series we speak with camp directors and head counselors to learn more about our community’s amazing, spectacular, incredible, marvelous, unbelievable (you get the point!) camps.

Camp Machane Yisrael By Susan Schwamm

Camp Machaneh Yisrael, located on the Yeshiva of South Shore campus, was started over two decades ago. The fun never stops for the lucky campers from all over the community who spend their summer days at CMY. This week, we were able to spend some time with Rabbi Yitzy Haber and Rabbi Zezy Fuld, who took a few minutes out of their busy day to tell us a little bit about the crazy fun that goes down at Camp Machaneh Yisrael every day. sofer, to teach the boys about Rabbi Haber and Rabbi Fuld, we are sure that you of experience in the day camp system and is working alongsafrus and to write a Megilhave many new and exciting things to share. Each side Rabbi Jacobs to guarlas Eichah that we used on year, we are really amazed by your new and innovaantee that the campers Tisha B’Av. tive initiatives. You have truly changed what people have an even better expethink of when they hear the words “day camp.” The truth is that the CMY began the Dynanite program, the amazing rience than ever before. reason we wanted this “after camp” camp that features fabulous trips and I get it. You love to “up interview is because our is run by the talented Rabbi AJ Jacobs. your game” each year. I, readers would like to know RYH: True. And myself, have seen a few of what’s new in CMY this this year we have your weekly camp videos and, summer, and so would we. We added Rabbi honestly, if I were a boy of are always so impressed with Menachem the right age, yours is the camp what you’ve done in the past. How B o r e n - I would want to go to. We’ve heard of you’ve changed the whole concept of a stein to the very innovative and special Father-Son city day camp. So, please tell us what you our al- Tisha B’A v program that you have initiated. Can have going on this summer and maybe include some r e a d y you tell us more about that? secrets that you haven’t told anyone before. It’s t a lentRZF: Our Tisha B’Av program brought hunalways great to have an “exclusive.” ed Dynanite s t a ff . R a b b i Borenstein has decades

dreds of fathers and boys closer together and gave them a better understanding of the meaning of Tisha B’Av, about what it is that we are actually mourning. It was very meaningful, and all those who attended felt they had gotten so much out of it. Last year, we also brought in Rabbi Oppen, a

RYH: Well, in customary CMY fashion, we intend to “blow you away” once more. We didn’t want this year’s interview to be the same as every other year. So this year you get to hear about the camp from the campers themselves. Would you care to interview some of our campers?

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we have an amazing time. Just last week a camper got to throw chocolate chips at my friend’s face after he put marshmallow fluff all over it to see how many would stick. He won! He had 28 chips stick.

Sounds like a lot of fun. Is there any other sort of wild thing you want to share?

Wow! That was unexpected! We would really enjoy hearing from your campers. Let’s hear what they have to tell us about CMY 2019.

RYH: Come on in Mish and Mush, Moishy Shikufitsky, and Labels for Laibel (obviously all names were changed for the privacy of the campers).

Seems like you really came prepared.

RYH: We really wanted you and your readers to get a better understanding of what it is that we are so excited about.

Well, hello camper. What’s your name and how old are you?

Laibels for Label: I’m Label and I’m 8 and a half years old.

How many years have you been going to CMY? Laibel: Two years.

Tell me why you picked CMY and what your favorite part of camp is.

Laibel: Well, I chose it because I was hearing really great things about it from my friends. Besides, I knew Rabbi Haber and Rabbi Zezy from before. I figured if they were running this camp, it had to be awesome. My favorite parts are the wacky lunch games that Rabbi Haber and Rabbi Zezy play with us during lunchtime. That way even if lunch isn’t so great (it almost always is),

Laibel: Well, I know this sounds a little weird but our directors thought that the theme of the summer should be “pickles”! And so we are focusing on pickles. Rabbi Picker of the Amazing Maxx program got a pickle to light up! It was

“We want every CMY camper to have the camp experience of a lifetime!” crazy! We also have a “Pickle Song” that we sing that gets longer each week. You have to hear it to believe it!

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Amazing Maxx program. It’s very different from other camps and we do some re ally great stuff. Not only lighting up pic kles, even t hough t h a t w a s pretty cool.

Y o u sound very enthusiastic. W h y don’t you tell us more about the Amazing Maxx program?

Moishy: It would be impossible to tell you everything but let me give you a few examples. We’ve been learning woodworking, and we built our own footstools. Mine came out really great. It’s a lot of fun to make something that you get to use after.

Anything else you learned that you can use later?

Moishy: Well, we did learn how to build a

Let’s call in another fire. OK, we’re not cavemen! Still, it’s good to camper. I understand know that if you go out for a barbecue and somethat you are part one forgot the matches, you won’t have to eat cold of the Amazing hot dogs! Maxx program. What’s your Yes, I see that that could come in handy. Is there name and how something more you’d like to share? Moishy: I guess one of the best things is that do you like your program? we learn how to work together in teams. We’ve Moishy: My name is Moishy Shikufitsky and I really enjoy the

done some team building and as cool as it is to do something yourself, it’s sometimes more fun to do it together with other guys.

I would say that the Amazing MAXX program truly

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is amazing. I also understand that the Dynanite program is really lots of fun. What sort of things do you do?

Moishy: You got it. Rabbi AJ Jacobs and Rabbi Borenstein make sure that the night programs really rock! We have great trips of all kinds, and we really can’t wait for what AJ and Rabbi Borenstein will come up with next. We have overnights and some wacky and crazy shows. One thing I can tell you: CMY is never ever boring! There’s something happening all the time.

You guys certainly sound like you’re having fun. How about you two? Are there other activities that you would like to mention?

Mish and Mush: There sure are! We have Monday madness, trampoline parks, and we go on great trips all the time. We’ve done water tubing, water parks, and boating and…we can’t even remember all the stuff! We agree that it’s never boring! Moishy: We’ve a lso had rock climbing, and kumzits p r o grams, a n d this is only for the first half of the summer! But don’t think it’s

all about entertainment. Our bunks also have a prize box for middos where you can get tickets for good middos and get prizes daily. And that’s a lot of fun, too.

and gives 100-plus percent all the time. RYH: That is so true. Let me give you an example. Rabbi Gewirtz not only plays with the younger campers during their sports periods, he also helps them learn how to play. He teaches them how to physically play the games and also teaches them the rules of the games through a very innovative trivia game he’s developed. So the campers not only have loads of fun, but they are much better players by the end of camp. He is definitely not alone in his dedication. The entire staff works together beautifully for the benefit of each and every camper.

My head is swimming from all this action! As I said, you really seem to be having a fantastic time this summer. Rabbi Haber and Rabbi Zezy, these campers really do seem to be having an amazing experience. With lots of fun. But I know that there’s also an educa- I have to say that you two have really “blown me tional aspect to your camp. How does that work? away” today. I want to thank both of you and the RYH: Well, besides the prize box for middos, campers for sharing all that you can about CMY. we had a penny competition between the bunks Any last thoughts? to raise money for tzedaka. The winning bunk got to decide where the money would go. In just one week, we raised over $1,355 in coins. It was pretty impressive. Especially since it was the second grade bunk that won! The winning tzedaka was Hatzalah. We are also having a Siyum Hashas Mishnayos this summer. Now, that is an exclusive. The campers and their fathers have been learning Mishnayos, and in the second half of the summer we will have a special siyum for fathers and sons. It will be a very impressive program. This sounds wonderful. I get the feeling, though, that we haven’t heard even half of what’s been going on this summer. And, I’m sure you still have a lot up your sleeves. RZF: Very true. We have to have a few surprises left, after all. But, I would like to tell you what is NOT a surprise. And that is, that what makes this camp so special is not just the exciting and innovative programming. It’s the staff of counselors, rebbeim, and all the rest of or workers. Everyone at CMY loves working here. Really. And each staff member is professional and dedicated

RZF: First of all, thanks for giving us the opportunity to share the CMY experience with you and your readers. I know I speak for both of us and all the CMY staff when I say that uppermost in our goals is to give every single camper an exhilarating and rich camp experience with lots of Torah content. We want e ver y C M Y camper to have the c a mp experience of a lifetime!

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Camp Toras Chaim By Susan Schwamm

Camp Toras Chaim, founded more than thirty years ago by Mrs. Sora Kamenetzky, a veteran educator known for her warmth and creativity, provides a fun-filled summer to more than 165 of the youngest campers in our community, ages two-and-a-half through five years old. This week, we spoke with Mrs. Kamenetzky about the ruach, excitement, and spirit that imbues each day at Camp Toras Chaim. Camp Toras Chaim has been around for so many years. How did it all begin?

Camp Toras Chaim was the groundbreaking preschool camp of the Five Towns, created as the first-ever professionally run camp program specifically geared towards the needs and mindset of preschool-age children.

Starting with just eight tots, in a small kindergarten room at Yeshiva Toras Chaim of South Shore, it soon blossomed into the most popular preschool summer program in the area.

How do you get these little campers involved in the all the activities?

Camp Toras Chaim is the original themebased summer camp – we’ve had themes like “A World of Fun,” which focused on geography, or “Sea the Fun,” which had the children immersed in aqua- and sea-related activities. The simple yet appealing and engaging themed activities draw the children from the start of the activity till the very end. The familiar theme songs resonate in our community, and the theme songs are profession-

ally scored and orchestrated to lend life lessons as well as whimsical fun! Activities are kept short and keep the campers engaged throughout. The kids come home with both lessons and memories that they carry with them through their adult lives.

Tell us about your staff.

The large ratio of staff members to campers is indicative of the tender loving care that Camp Toras Chaim affords every camper. In fact, this year’s camp is filled with second-generation campers whose parents are reliving the memories of fun (hey! Maybe a theme for next year!) that they experienced as young preschoolers! The moros are professional teachers, all licensed and experienced preschool teachers from across the wonderful spectrum of yeshivos and girls’ schools in our area. The assistants are responsible young women whose first focus are

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tion to the traditional petting zoo and pony rides, there is much more! The Camp Toras Chaim kids are treated to professional magic shows, planetarium visits, bubblemania shows, professional puppet shows, theater performers, jugglers, zany comedians, balloon artists, and so much more.

What’s this year’s theme?

This year’s theme is “Fun from Head to Toe”

their you ng charges. Activ ities are interactive where staff and campers meld in one spirit, playing music, cheering each other on in sports, and reveling in their swimming skills that they learn under the care of licensed Water Safety Instructors. But most importantly, it’s about giving every camper an opportunity to shine through activities and positive reinforcement in their ability to succeed.

What’s a “regular” day like in camp?

It’s always exciting! A bunk’s schedule includes activities such as playground, swim, bikes and balls, ball pits and moonwalk in addition to the daily creative arts and crafts projects which correspond to the summer’s theme. There are amazing shows and extracurricular activities as well. Of course, in addi-

“The smiles that they have during the summer remain with them well into their future.” and the kids are indeed having just that! From the “Nose Knows” week to the “Eyes Have It!” every week, through activities, games, projects and fun, the children explore the wonders of the senses and the niflaot haBorei! We strive to give the children a wholesome camping and chinuch experience, and the smiles that they have during the summer remain with them well into their future. Just ask the thousands of lucky alumni who will all say that it’s the

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“best camp ever”! Indeed, it is, from head to toe! Hands down!

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You gotta be kidding Four American spies were in a sleeper cabin on a train to Moscow. One of the men thought it would be funny to play a trick on the other three. He went out to the teacart and asked for four cups of tea to be delivered to his cabin in 10 minutes. Returning to his cabin, he spoke to his fellow spies about how the Russians will bug everything, and how they listen to every word said anywhere. His roommates argued that although the Russians are really into spying, they couldn’t possibly listen to everything. The first man said, “I’ll prove it.” In a hushed voice he said, “Comrade, can we get four cups of tea?” Not a minute passed, and there was a knock on the door with the teacart delivering tea for the four men. The rest of the evening the other three men were very quiet and nervous. As morning rolled around, the first man found he was the only one in the room. Opening the door, he found a Russian guard outside the door. “Do you know what happened to my bunkmates? he asked. “Secret police came in night, and took them because they are spies. You are free to go,” the Russian replied.

4. J

8. Defender that shall not be seen.

4. Loyalty to the party. Loyalty to the Motherland.

10. H

1. The Work of a Nation. The Center of Intelligence.

5. B

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“Why did the secret police leave me?” he asked curiously. The guard replied, “They liked your joke about the tea!”

Riddle me this? You are a spy and need to send an item to a contact in another country without letting anyone else have access to it. All unlocked items will be opened in tran- sit. There is no way to send a code or a key to your contact. How can you send this item securely and make sure that the contact will get it and be able to open it? See answer on the other page

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National Intelligence Trivia With the Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats stepping down, there is an opening at the position, which oversees all of the U.S.’s intelligence agencies. Before you apply for the job, you may want to take this test to see if you know enough to get through the first round of interviews. 1. Which of the following countries does not have a spy agency that is considered amongst the best in the world? a. Russia b. China

Agency c. Bureau of Intelligence & Research

Reconnaissance Office (which was created in 1961 but not formally acknowledged until 1992) do?

d. Drug Enforcement Administration

a. It performs reconnaissance for the air force b. It is responsible for all telephone surveillance conducted by all intelligence agencies

3. How old does an applicant need to be to join the CIA?

c. India

a. 18-25

d. Pakistan

b. 25-35

e. Britain

c. It builds, maintains, and gets data from satellites

c. 21-55

f. Israel

d. 30-45

g. U.S. h. Canada

d. It sends spies into other countries to search for soldiers who are missing in action

4. Which agency was created in 2002?

2. Although its budget is classified, some estimate that this agency is actually the largest in the world. Its headquarters is approximately the size of the Pentagon. a. National Security Agency

b. The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Security Branch (NSB)

d. National Spy Agency 7. What is the approximate total 2019 budget for all of the U.S government’s intelligence agencies? a. $2 billion b. $32 billion c. $81 billion d. $222 billion

6. Which of the following is not part of the federal government’s network of intelligence agencies?

c. Cybersecurity Agency

b. Treasury’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis Central Intelligence

d. Department of Homeland Security 5. What does the National

a. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency b. Army Intelligence and Security Command c. Department of Energy,

 Wisdom Key 6-7 correct: You should apply for the job, unless your name is Edward Snowden. 3-5 correct: You won’t get past round one in the U.S., but try heading north to Canada - you are certainly good enough to lead their intelligence agency (“Someone left a beer over at the huuuckey game, this could be dangerous, eh!?”) 0-2 correct: I think the agency that’s the best fit for you is the U.S.’s National Spy Agency. Take these along with you when you apply, they will be impressed –

Answer to Riddle Me This: Place a lock on the item and send it to your contact. They will place their own lock on the package and return it to you. You remove your lock and send it back. When they receive it, they can unlock the package, which only has their lock on it now, and retrieve the item.

 Answers

a. Immigration and Custom Enforcement

Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence

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4. D 3. B

7. C 6. D

2. A

5. C

1. H

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Torah Thought

Parshas Matos By Rabbi Berel Wein

he word for a staff, stick or even a scepter is the same word – mateh – that is used to describe the tribe or an integrated group of people. As has been often noted, the Hebrew language is rather sparing in its vocabulary. Therefore, often the same word is used with other meanings in different circumstances. But there always is a connection between the various uses of the word in different literary context.

Simply put, a tribe or group of people – no matter how talented and capable they may be individually – still requires a leader, someone who will wield a staff and a scepter over them. The great analogy of this is a symphony orchestra, where each one of the musicians performing in that orchestra is immensely talented. But, for the orchestra to perform correctly, it requires a conductor to wield a baton.

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In music and in the performance of a philharmonic orchestras, all the written notes are always the same. But it is the genius of the conductor that transforms the written notes into a soaring performance. It is the conductor that hears and anticipates the correct moment and instance where the individual musical instruments should be introduced. It is the baton of the conductor that creates and directs the sound and music of the orchestra. So, too, it is the tribal leader, who wields the staff of leadership, that creates the identity and definition of the tribe itself. It is perfectly understandable why Moshe should gather the heads of the tribes of Israel together to

but words are of great consequence as well. The words that we use define us and let others know what we are. Verbal commitments should be made sparingly and carefully, for they are truly the batons of leadership. This is true for parents and family life as well – never promise children things or items that are beyond one’s reach or control. The same can be said of the commercial world as well. Unfortunately, we have learned that in the political and diplomatic world, words are not necessarily to be believed or acted upon. However, the standards of Torah do not allow for such laxity – no matter how negative the consequences may be – for

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inform them regarding the laws of vows and verbal commitments. For, if the leaders of the tribe are themselves lacking in fulfilling their promises, commitments and sworn oaths, then certainly the tribe that they lead will also not be trustworthy in the long run. Leaders lead not only by thoughts and ideas but, even more so, by verbal commitments and action. Deeds certainly speak loudly,

fulfilling one’s stated commitment. This has to be taught to the people by the leadership of the family, tribe and community. And, the Torah does not naïvely assume that this is something which will be self-understood. Knowing human nature for what it is, the Torah chooses to emphasize this point in its choice of words and subject that constitute the opening section of this week’s reading. Shabbat shalom.

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From the Fire

Parshas Maasei Jewish Warrior, King of Opposites By Rav Moshe Weinberger Adapted for publication by Binyomin Wolf

he Degel Machaneh Ephraim, zy”a, teaches, in the name of his grandfather the Baal Shem Tov, zy”a, that the forty-two journeys of the Jewish people in the desert correspond to the journeys each individual takes in his life. When a person leaves the womb, this corresponds to when the Jewish people left Egypt. And when the Jewish people entered Eretz Yisroel, this corresponds to a person’s journey into the land of eternal life after 120 years in this world. How do we retain a sense of equanimity and centeredness when we must transition from one journey to another throughout our lives? Reb Leibele Eiger, zy”a, points out that the word “of them, bam” in the pasuk “And you shall speak of them,” has the numerical value of forty-two. And the pasuk continues, “And you shall speak of them when you sit in your house and when you walk on the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.” We must speak of them, words of Torah and emunah, wherever we go and wherever we travel. We can thrive through every test and trial we face if we hold onto truth and faith. If we remain certain in our purpose, then we will succeed despite all of the contradictions and challenges of a world in which many people seem to have taken leave of basic human decency and morality. But the Baal Shem Tov’s teaching about the 42 travels of the Jewish people does not only apply to people

on an individual level. It also speaks to the travails of our nation as a whole as we journey on toward the times of Moshiach.

The Encampments – A Paradox of Opposites We know that the names of our stops during our journey in the desert (Bamidbar 33:5-49) have profound meaning. On one hand, it says we camped in Miska, from the Hebrew word meaning sweetness. Many aspects of our lives are sweet and we have much to be thankful for. But we also camped in Mara, meaning bitterness. Dozens of our brothers have been killed sanctifying G-d’s name and millions of our brothers, sisters, and friends in Eretz Yisroel have had to run for bomb shelters multiple times every day. Their lives had been in a state of upheaval, as they experienced bitterness day after day. The Jewish people camped in Har Shafer, meaning “beautiful mountain.” Sometimes are on top of the world. The view is stunning. But at other times, we camp in Tachas, meaning “low.” When we watch the parents, brothers, sisters, and wives of all of the soldiers killed protecting our people, we feel like we are living at the opening of Gihenom, at the lowest place. We camped at Refidim, which means weakness. Our Torah, mitzvos, and emunah suffer and we often

do not do what Hashem expects of us. But we also camped in Midbar Sinai, where we received the Torah, attaining the highest level of prophecy and connection to G-d’s will. Today too, we have seen how even people with little outward connection to Torah and mitzvos have begun saying Tehillim, lighting Shabbos candles, putting on tefillin, and doing many other mitzvos and acts of kindness in order to merit the salvation of the Jewish people. At one point, the pasuk tells us we camped in Makheilos, meaning, “community” or “congregation.” We were united. And we see how, in the past few weeks, our people have been united more than any other time in the recent past. We are united in prayer and resolve, knowing that our cause is righteous. But at other times, we stop off in a place called Chatzeiros, meaning “courtyards.” Especially when we are not besieged from the outside, every Jewish group separates itself into its own courtyard and unfortunately barely views other Jews as part of the same people. We camped in Sukkos, a place named after temporary, rickety structures. When thousands of rockets fall all over Eretz Yisroel, and when tunnels dug under our communities and neighborhoods, we feel vulnerable and frightened. We feel as if our entire existence is dependent on the protection of some flimsy walls and roofs which the wind could blow away

at any moment, leaving us completely exposed. But at other times, we feel we are camped in Eisam, meaning, strong. We feel grateful for how Hashem has blessed our people with the resolve, ingenuity, resources, and intelligence to build up one of the most powerful militaries in the world in just a short time. We sometimes feel we are encamped by the Red Sea, encircled on all sides by enemies and pushed up against the sea. We feel we have no escape. But at other times, we sense that we are camped in Eilim, where the psukim tell us there were wellsprings, date palms, and where we were able to rest from the weariness of our travels. We enjoy the prosperity and economic success with which Hashem has blessed our people. But at other times, we feel we are camped in Dafka, meaning “stricken” or “beaten.” We feel pressed, hit, and beaten by attacks from all directions, physically, emotionally, and diplomatically. We feel we are under siege wherever we live in the world, whether it is in the U.S., Britain, Paris, Morocco, or anywhere else in the world. We sometimes feel camped in Rimon Paretz, meaning “break through.” We break through every attempt by our enemies to attack us and put us on the run. But, sadly, too often we are camped in Charada, meaning “trembling.” We sometimes feel we are camped in Chashmonah, where we feel as

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mighty as the Chashmonayim, or in Etzyon Gaver, meaning “effective strategy” and “strength.” At those times, we take pride and comfort in how our military neutralizes our enemies while protecting our soldiers and minimizing the battle’s impact on civilians. But at other times, we feel like we are in Kivros Hata’avah, buried in the desires of this world, completely helpless to use all of our might to reign in our own animalistic desires. And at other times, we camp at Kadesh, meaning “holiness.” Our connection to holiness and our desire to do Hashem’s will is often strong and we use those times to increase our connection to Hashem and improve ourselves.

My Hero – Dovid Hamelech As the events in Eretz Yisroel swirl through my mind all day, every day, my thoughts continually return to the ultimate hero of the Jewish people: Dovid Hamelech. The tzaddikim teach that our job at the end of days is to reveal the great soul of Dovid Hamelech, as the pasuk (Hoshea 3:5) says, “And they sought Hashem their G-d and Dovid their king.” In all of his journeys, he seemed to be full of contradictions. The Gemara (Moed Katan 16b) says that “when [Dovid Hamelech] would sit and study Torah, he would be as refined as silk, and when he went out to war, he hardened himself like wood.” Chazal are not teaching us that Dovid suffered from multiple personality disorder. Rather, his personality was so great and all-encompassing that it contained everything within it. He was simultaneously composed of the might of war and the highest and most refined level of ethics and morality. These two extremes complement one another. The more perfection one has attained, the more he includes apparent opposites within himself. That is why Reb Leibele Eiger teaches that the 42 journeys of the Jewish people in the desert, which seem to contain so many opposites within them, are hinted at in the mitzvah of “And you shall speak of them when you sit in your home and when you go on your way…” We must be prepared to cling to the Torah and

the certainty of our faith in the midst of the full range of disparate experiences during our travels through this world.

The Illumination Within War Who else but Rav Kook, zy”a, could have written a section in Oros called “Oros Hamilchama, The “Illumination of War”? Rav Kook writes, as translated by Rabbi Betzalel Noar, as follows: We regard the early generations, recounted in Torah, Prophets, and Writings; those generations that were engaged in war – they are great people we cherish and glorify. We understand that the spark of soul is the determining factor: that state of the world that necessitated war

that we should only be encamped in Maska, a place of sweetness. We forgot that we must sometimes set up camp in Etzyon Gaver and Rimon Paretz, places of strategy, might, and breaking through all obstacles. Dovid Hamelech and Rav Kook teach us that while there is a time for gentleness and refinement, there is also a time to kiss our Gemaras, place them down, pick up our weapons, and go to battle against the enemies of the Jewish people who seek to destroy us. That is no less a part of Torah and Yiddishkeit than the study of Torah. Indeed, even a simple reading of Tanach reveals that most of it is comprised of how the Jewish people conducted themselves in war. Now is the time in history when we must enclothe ourselves for battle and clean the world of the cockroach-

If we remain certain in our purpose, then we will succeed.

caused these souls (whose inner feeling was whole) to appear. The battle for existence, for existence of the nation, the War of G-d, was with an inner consciousness. Mighty in spirit, they knew in the depth of darkness to choose good and eschew evil. Though I go in the valley of the shadow of death I shall fear no evil. When we meditate on them, we, with all the spirituality that we so desire, long for their strength, for the solid life force that dwelled in their midst, and out of this longing our spiritual strength is hardened and our physical strength is softened, and those strong souls return to live in us as ever. Rav Kook is teaching us that we cannot view the strength and might of warriors as somehow alien to our religious, Torah-based life. During our two thousand year exile, we have become accustomed to thinking of a Jew purely as the refined, pale student in the beis medrash. We began thinking

es of Hamas and their ilk. The whole world is trembling in fear as radical Islamists populate their countries. They look on helplessly. Right now, our people are the only ones making way for Hashem’s kingship in the world. We are the only ones who have taken it upon ourselves to finally clean house, ridding the terrorists of their missiles, guns, grenade launchers, and attack tunnels. We are the only ones standing up to the evil of Hamas, which prides itself on its love of death and bloodshed. We are like Dovid Hamelech, “redhaired with beautiful eyes” (Shmuel I 16:12); red like Eisav the warrior with the refinement and elevated spirit reflected in his beautiful eyes. Chazal say (Bereishis Raba 63:8) about Dovid Hamelech, “He killed with the consent of the Sanhedrin.” Even when Dovid Hamelech expressed the warrior aspect of his personality, he did not do so with cruel abandon. He conducted himself in war according to halacha and morality. We also see

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this in our brave brothers in the IDF. While the enemies of our people stoop to lower and lower depths of cruelty both to our people and their own, the Jewish warriors in Eretz Yisroel never stoop to the level of their degraded enemies. They go above and beyond what any nation has done when defending themselves against the imminent threats we face today. When I see how our nation is rising to the challenge against it with greater moral clarity, more davening, more mitzvos, and more resolve to use the truth to fight against the attacks, lies, and propaganda of our enemies, I feel a surge of pride in our nation. I am filled with love and nachas when I think about the Israeli soldiers, commanders, political leaders, and people. I am proud to be a Jew. When we hold onto our faith and know with certainty that destroying terrorists who attempt to kill every single Jew as they hide behind their own women and children is G-d’s work, we have nothing to fear. The parsha is named after our “journeys,” not our encampments. Why? Because the main thing is that in life, we do not stop. We must keep moving forward, looking for how G-d’s will expresses itself in all of the various permutations of life’s challenges. May each of us and all of our brothers and sisters in Eretz Yisroel merit to reach a level on which we can contain all of the disparate aspects of life in this world within us. May we recognize that we must serve G-d in all of the different ways the Torah demands for the vast array of differing life circumstances we encounter in our journeys. And may Hashem take vengeance upon every terrorist snake who has harmed even a single hair on the head of any Jew. May Hashem soon send Moshiach to remove every evil regime from the earth to make way for the great-grandson of the greatest king, Dovid Hamelech, soon in our days.

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

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Parshas Maasei By Eytan Kobre

Weekly Aggada Take vengeance for the Jewish people from the Midyanites; after, you shall be gathered unto your people (Bamidbar 31:2) This is comparable to a rabbi who commanded his student, “Do not lend with interest,” but then he (the rabbi) lends with interest. So the student confronted the rabbi. “Rabbi! You tell me not to lend with interest, but you lend with interest. Is it permitted for you but prohibited for me?” “I told you not to lend with interest to another Jewish person,” replied the rabbi, “but you may lend with interest to a non-Jew. As it says, ‘To the non-Jew, you shall lend with interest; and to your brother, you shall not lend with interest’” (Devarim 23:21). So it is with G-d and the Jewish people. The Jewish people said to G-d, “Master of the Universe! You wrote in Your Torah, ‘Do not take vengeance and do not bear a grudge’ (Vayikra 19:18). Yet you take vengeance and bear a grudge, as it says, ‘Hashem is a jealous and avenging G-d, Hashem avenges and is full of wrath; Hashem takes vengeance on His adversaries, and He bears a grudge against His enemies’” (Nachum 1:2). G-d responds: “I wrote in the Torah, ‘Do not take vengeance and do not bear a grudge against your people’ (Vayikra 19:18), but I take vengeance and bear a grudge against idolaters.”

Therefore, it says: “Take vengeance from the Midyanites…” (Bereishis Rabba 55:3).

Weekly Mussar Novach went and he captured Kenas and her suburbs, and he called her Novach, after his name (Bamidbar 32:42) Rashi, in the name of R’ Moshe HaDarshan, explains that the city’s name of Novach did not last. But while that may be accurate historically, why the need to tell us? Who cares what the city was named and why and how it lost its name? Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch explains that the Torah here underscores just how misplaced are the hopes and aspirations of society around us. Society attempts to memorialize life in the ephemeral, naming cities, monuments, buildings, bridges, and roadways (and countless other things) after figures of renown. But as permanent as those monuments surely seem when they are dedicated, they are fleeting. Take, for example, Petrograd or Leningrad or St. Petersburg or whatever it is named now. From 1712 until 1918, St. Petersburg was the capital of the Russian Empire, named for Peter I (the Great). The city was renamed Petrograd in 1914, at the beginning of World War I, because it sounded less German. Then, in 1924, the city was renamed Leningrad after the death of Vladimir Lenin. And, in 1991, it again became St. Petersburg when the Soviet Union collapsed. It was a

testament to Lenin...but only until it became convenient to rename it. And the same could be said for countless cities, monuments, buildings, bridges, and roadways (and countless other things) that have no lasting impact. Our aspirations are so different. We know that monuments of wood and stone don’t last – the only testaments to man’s accomplishments in this world are those that truly live on forever: the impact one has on others or the legacy one leaves through his or her children. That is how we memorialize greatness.

Weekly Anecdote Take vengeance for the Jewish people from the Midyanites; after, you shall be gathered unto your people (Bamidbar 31:2) Our sages explain that G-d’s assurance that Moshe Rabbeinu would first take vengeance for the Jewish people and only then pass away provided Moshe with a passport for life: so long as he did not take vengeance for the Jewish people, he was assured of life. R’ Aryeh Leib Gunzberg (16951785), author of the Shaagas Aryeh, was the rav of Minsk. His strongwilled nature and refusal to submit to the city’s elitist lay leadership inevitably led to conflict. And one day – a Friday afternoon, no less – the community’s “ruling class” expelled him from the rabbinate, sending him and his wife away by wagon with their only worldly possessions: his

tallis and tefillin and a sack of flour. Then, bad turned to worse when, just a short distance from the city, their wagon driver apologized profusely but was forced to ditch the Shaagas Aryeh and his wife. After all, he himself needed to make it home for Shabbos. So, with no choice, the Shaagas Aryeh and his wife stepped off the wagon and made their way to a nearby village. There, they found a small house with a mezuza on it. They knocked on the door and its owner, “Blumka the Widow” they were later told, opened. She agreed to host them for Shabbos, and she used the Shaagas Aryeh’s flour to bake three challos for them. After Shabbos, just before he and his wife departed, the Shaagas Aryeh thanked Blumka and blessed her. “Because you hosted us, you will merit that G-d will host you in His city. You will ascend to Eretz Yisrael and live out your old age in Yerushalayim. And in the merit of the three challos you baked for us, you will merit to establish three shuls – two outside Eretz Yisrael and one in Eretz Yisrael.” The years rolled on. The Shaagas Aryeh wandered from town to town until he was appointed rav of Volozhin. And when he passed away, R’ Chaim Volozhiner, filled his place. One day, an elderly woman visited R’ Chaim. She was Blumka the Widow, she explained, who had hosted the Shaagas Aryeh and his wife so many years earlier. In the ensuing years, she had managed to build two magnificent shuls – one in Minsk and one in Vilna – and she felt it was now time to fulfill the final phase of

the Shaagas Aryeh’s blessing. So she had come to ask R’ Chaim for a Letter of Approbation to take with her to Eretz Yisrael so that the Vilna Gaon’s students who had emigrated there would accept and assist her. “What’s your hurry?” R’ Chaim asked. When he saw the puzzled look on Blumka’s face, he explained. “You have in your hands the blessing of one of the great sages of our time that you will merit to emigrate to Eretz Yisrael in your old age and establish a shul there. That’s your passport for life! Why hurry? So long as you remain here, the sage’s blessing assures you of life. Return to Minsk. There’s plenty of time to emigrate to Eretz Yisrael…”

Weekly Halacha And you shall not pollute the land that you are in, for the blood will pollute the land; the land will not

have atonement for the blood spilled in it, except through the blood of the one who spilled it (Bamidbar 35:33) Because the word for the term “pollute” also means “flatter,” this verse also serves as a “warning to flatterers” (Sifri). Indeed, according to some, this verse is an outright prohibition against certain forms of flattery (chanufa) (Sefer Yereim 55; Chofetz Chaim, Prohibition 16; Ramban to Rambam, Sefer HaMitzvos, Shoresh 5; Orchos Chaim 103; Ramban, Bamidbar 35:33). Prohibited flattery comes in nine forms: (1) telling a wicked person that he has not sinned; (2) publicly praising a wicked person as having positive attributes; (3) privately praising a wicked person; (4) befriending a wicked person; (5) endorsing an unfit leader; (6) failing to protest the bad acts of others; (7) failing to protest the bad acts of others out of fear that it will not have the desired effect; (8) failing to protest improper speech;

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and (9) honoring the wicked out of a (misguided) sense of peace (Sha’arei Teshuva 3:187-199; Orchos Tzaddikim, Sha’ar HaChanifus). Still, not all flattery is off-limits. A man should flatter his wife for marital harmony, his creditor to stave off demands for repayment, and his rabbi to teach him Torah (Orchos Tzaddikim, Sha’ar HaChanifus). Flattery may sometimes be employed to assuage those receiving rebuke (Alshich, Vayikra 19:17; Orchos Tzaddikim, Sha’ar HaChanifus). And some are of the opinion that flattery is permitted to escape danger (Tosfos, Sota 41b; Torah Temima, Bereishis 33:10; Sefer Yereim 248; but see Sha’arei Teshuva, 3:187-88; Yad Ketana, Dei’os 10:13; Ha’aros of R’ Elyashiv, Nedarim 22a). Flattery also might be permitted to avoid sizeable financial loss (Torah Temima, Bereishis 33:10). R’ Moshe Feinstein was asked whether the honor of opening the Aron Kodesh could be bestowed upon a philan-

thropic Jewish doctor married to a non-Jew, lest the doctor discontinue his generous financial support of the congregation (Igros Moshe, Orach Chaim 2:51). R’ Moshe explained that the prohibition against flattery assumes some correlation between the flatterer’s negative character and the honor being bestowed, such that the honor could be construed as approving of an errant character. Since opening the Aron Kodesh was unrelated to the doctor’s intermarriage, R’ Moshe ruled that it was permissible – especially given the prospect of financial loss. The Weekly Halacha is not meant for practical purposes and is for discussion purposes only. Please consult your own rav for guidance.

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

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Shabbos in Berlin By Hershel Lieber

The Orthodox synagogue in West Berlin

he year was 1983; the month was August. I had just come back from Sanok in southern Poland, where I was arranging an authorization to build a wall around the Jewish bais olam. After an overnight stop in Krakow to obtain a letter of request from the official congregation which was in charge of Jewish cemeteries in Galicia, I continued on to Warsaw. In Warsaw, I met with a delegation from Agudas Yisroel that came to sign an agreement with the Polish government about the preservation of the over800 Jewish cemeteries scattered throughout Poland. Rabbis Chaskel Besser and Chaim Duvid Halberstam came from New York and former Knesset Member Rabbi Yehuda Meir Abramovicz came from Israel. I had a chance to meet with them and told them what my mission was in Sanok. They said that with the signing of an

Rabbi Duvid Weiss (center) with me at the brunch hosted by Avrohom Auerbach (left)

agreement with the government the authorization I needed will be easier to obtain and that the building of the wall will be able to proceed unimpeded. I did not have much time to socialize with them since I was running late to catch a train to West Berlin, Germany. My mission in Germany was actually to spend a Shabbos in East Berlin. I was planning to meet Peter Honnigman and his wife who had organized a small group of young Jews and was teaching them about Yiddishkeit. I was going to spend Shabbos connecting with them through studying and leading the Shabbos meals. Rabbi Mordechai Neustadt from the Vaad had just begun a relationship with the Honnigmans, and my role was to advance this bond. There were very few known Jews in East Germany and no organized activities, and this

could be the start of a kiruv program to these lost neshamos. The train pulled out of the Gdansk station in Warsaw an hour late, at 11 p.m. I was only able to get a seat in a second-class car with eight seats. I sat with two Muslims from Lebanon, and over a couple bottles of beer we carried on a good conversation. Since they sat across me, I was able to stretch out on my four-seater bench. After davening Maariv and learning the Daf Hayomi, we closed the lights, and I began to drift off into sleep. I was awakened soon after, at 1 a.m., when the train stopped in Poznan, and a family of three sat down on my bench. The rest of the twelve-hour trip I had to sit upright and barely slept. When we exited Poland and when we entered Germany, I had to show my passport and visa. This happened again when we entered and exited East Berlin and

a final time when we entered West Berlin. Somehow, I did not feel uncomfortable to put on my tallis and tefillin and daven with everyone around me on the train. In a sense, I felt a pride in doing my thing regardless of what my fellow sojourners thought. When I arrived at the Main Station it was Friday morning at 10:40 a.m. I found a public phone and tried calling the Honnigmans in East Berlin. The phone rang many times, but no one answered. I called Pesi in the United States, who called Rabbi Neustadt, who said he will try to reach them. It was close to noon, and I was stranded at the Haupbahnhof in West Berlin with no idea where I would be for Shabbos! I took my luggage and went to the visitorsâ€™ center, and we called the Judische Gemeinde in East Berlin but no one answered.

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In contrast to the drab and lifeless Eastern sector seen behind the Berlin Wall

Kurfurstendamm Strasse, the neon-lit main street in West Berlin

I called back Pesi who found out from Rabbi Neustadt that the Honnigmans forgot that I was coming and had left East Berlin on vacation! I was able to procure the address of the Jewish Community Center in West Berlin and grabbed a taxi and rushed over. They helped me get a

hotel reservation near the Orthodox synagogue, and I quickly checked in. There was a small shop in the vicinity called the Shalom Shop, where I picked up some challah, wine and nosh for Shabbos. I bought some fruit, vegetables and soda at a local supermarket as well. It would have

to be a meatless Shabbos with only cold food, but I would not go hungry. The shul was actually very close to my hotel. When I came in, I was warmly greeted by a number of mispallelim, mostly older gentlemen. When Rabbi Duvid Weiss, the rav, came in, he immediately approached

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East German soldiers at the Soviet Memorial in East Berlin

part of the seudah talking. The rebbetzin was extremely gracious, and the food was delicious! The next day in shul there was an aufruf and a kiddush. Again, I joined the rabbi and his family for the day seudah. In short, my expectations of a lonely and depressing Shabbos turned into a day of true nachas ruach! In shul on Shabbos, I met Avrohom Auerbach, a Gerrer chassid living in Berlin, who asked me to join him for the Sunday brunch he was hosting in honor of Rabbi Weiss. After taking a bus tour of West Berlin, I joined them for this meal. The table was set for with a variety of dairy and vegetable dishes, topped off with a buttery Bundt cake and coffee. The Auerbach family was especially outgoing, and we all had a wonderful time. I left the event at 1:30 p.m. and rushed to get to a bus which would take me to the East Zone and a tour of East Berlin. In took an hour to process the passports at the legendary Checkpoint Charley, the only crossing point between East

Standing in front of the Berlin Wall in the British Zone

and West Berlin. Before crossing, I took photos of the Berlin Wall, which was full of graffiti deriding the Communist regime of East Germany. Slogans demanding freedom and justice on behalf of Germans

We went to see the Soviet War Memorial, and our Communist guide spoke gloriously of Russia’s role in defeating Nazi fascism. After a visit to a park where we picked up some drinks, we headed to the

Slogans demanding freedom and justice on behalf of Germans trapped behind the barrier filled every spare space on the wall.

trapped behind the barrier filled every spare space on the wall. Finally, we entered the East Zone which, in contrast to the West, was drab and lifeless. There were no advertising signs and no bright neon lights and very few cars. People were shabbily dressed, and their unsmiling demeanor matched the mood of the locale.

world renowned Pergamon Museum. There, I was able to view the facade of the throne room from the royal palace of Nebuchadnezzar of Assyria. German archaeologists robbed these treasures from Babylonian lands that were controlled by the Ottoman Empire. My stay in East Berlin was under four hours but it made a lifetime im-

pression on me. The contrast to West Berlin was so stark, that I wondered how I would have fared for an entire Shabbos in that gloomy atmosphere. I guess, I will never know.

Hershel Lieber has been involved in kiruv activities for over 30 years. As a founding member of the Vaad L’Hatzolas Nidchei Yisroel he has traveled with his wife, Pesi, to the Soviet Union during the harsh years of the Communist regimes to advance Yiddishkeit. He has spearheaded a yeshiva in the city of Kishinev that had 12 successful years with many students making Torah their way of life. In Poland, he lectured in the summers at the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation camp for nearly 30 years. He still travels to Warsaw every year – since 1979 – to be the chazzan for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur for the Jews there. Together with Pesi, he organized and led trips to Europe on behalf of Gateways and Aish Hatorah for college students finding their paths to Jewish identity. His passion for travel has taken them to many interesting places and afforded them unique experiences. Their open home gave them opportunities to meet and develop relationships with a variety of people. Hershel’s column will appear in The Jewish Home on a bi-weekly basis.

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My Israel Home

The Remarkable Guatemala-Israel Relationship By Gedaliah Borvick The sign pointing to the Embassy of Guatemala in Jerusalem

Prime MInister Benjamin Netanyahu with Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales in Jerusalem in November 2016

uatemala Street in Jerusalem’s Kiryat Hayovel neighborhood serves as an eternal expression of Israel’s appreciation to the Latin American country for voting in favor of the United Nations Partition Plan in November 1947. That vote was the beginning of a special friendship between these two countries. In May 1948, Guatemala was the second country (after the United States) to officially recognize Israel following David Ben Gurion’s declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel. Seventy years later, Guatemala was the second country – again following in the footsteps of the U.S. – to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and moved its embassy to Jerusalem. Guatemala values its bond with Israel and has shown its commitment in numerous ways. Four cities in Guatemala have renamed streets and squares “Jerusalem the Capital of Israel” in support of their country’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s cap-

ital. Furthermore, Puerto Barrios, a city with over 55,000 citizens, passed a bill in 2018 to name all of the city’s streets after Israeli cities and communities. The mayor of Puerto Barrios explained: “We believe that everyone who helps the State of Israel will be blessed by G-d. We are great supporters of the State of Israel; we love the citizens of Israel and are interested in deep cooperation between our countries.” This relationship is reciprocal. For example, on June 3, 2018, thousands of Guatemalans lost their homes to a series of deadly volcanic explosions in which almost two hundred people were killed and another 250 people were declared missing. Five months before the deadly volcanic eruptions, Israeli officials from the search-and-rescue and victim-identification organization ZAKA came to Guatemala to train a crew of 45 volunteers – comprised of Jewish community members and emergency services representatives – in performing search and rescue. Due

Guatemala Street in Jerusalem

to this training, the crew was prepared to immediately help when disaster struck. In addition, IsraAID, an Israeli-based humanitarian aid agency, and the Israeli government sent emergency medical teams to treat injured victims of the volcano. One hundred new houses are now being built in the district that was devastated by the volcano, thanks to a charitable initiative spearheaded by ZAKA. This neighborhood has been renamed “Jerusalem” in honor of the Israeli volunteers who have worked tirelessly to help rebuild the region. With a predominantly Catholic country of about seventeen million citizens and a tiny Jewish population of only one thousand people, what is the source of the longstanding friendship between Guatemala and Israel? One motive may be to appease the Unites States, due to Guatemala’s reliance on U.S. funding to improve security, as their country suffers from some of the highest levels of drug-related vi-

olence in the region. In addition, Guatemala feels indebted to Israel for security assistance. In 1977, the U.S. cut off military aid to Guatemala, and for a number of years, Israel became the largest supplier of weapons, military training, and surveillance technology to the Guatemalan government. Furthermore, many Guatemalans were fascinated by the story of Israel, a young nation building their homeland in a hostile region in the aftermath of the Holocaust. And finally, 40% of the country’s citizens are evangelical Christians and feel a religious attachment to Israel. They truly view Israel as a “light unto the nations” that brings salvation to the entire world.

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FROM HOLLYWOOD TO JERUSALEM BY RIVKAH LAMBERT ADLER

Chana Studley Uses Her Past to Help Others Deal with their Pain

erusalem resident Chana Studley’s soft-spoken demeanor belies a dramatic life story. Her life to date has been marked by several divergent, even discordant, phases. In the 1980s, while still living in the UK, she was a victim of three separate violent personal attacks. The attacks were followed by an intense period of healing and the genesis of a career as a trauma counselor. Parallel to that, she had a 20-year-long career in Hollywood, creating special effects. She and her team won an Academy Award for Best Achievement in Visual Effects 1994 for the movie Babe. After connecting with her Jewish roots, Studley moved to Jerusalem, opened a wedding dress gemach, taught sewing classes, established a coaching practice, and recently published a novel titled, The Myth of Low Self-Esteem: a novel about PTSD, Hollywood and healing, based on some of her life experiences.

The Journey to Judaism Studley’s childhood memories of Israel consist of a single decorative item. “I remember there was a plaque in our hallway that my parents had picked up on a trip to Israel,” she recalled. “It

was made from wood from the Mt. of Olives, some touristy thing that said Shalom.” Her interest in Judaism didn’t begin in earnest until she was an adult. “Before the age of 30, my connection with Israel was non-existent. I was living in California and searching, which I think a lot of people are doing in LA. They are looking for a career or to marry someone or to become famous. “For me, a successful career made the internal space feel more empty. I tried yoga and meditation and walking on the beach. I recall going with a friend on a Friday night to ‘a meal and some singing.’ It sparked something in me. “This was a community that was wonderful and very accepting. I lived on Venice Beach. There’s a shul right on the beach. The community of the beach was so wonderfully accepting. A very friendly, open community who just accepted me,” she said. Speaking of her first time entering that shul on Venice Beach on Shabbat, she recounted with a laugh, “I walked in, and the first frum woman I met asked, ‘What are you doing for lunch?’ I thought, ‘Why do you care?’ “That woman was Elisa Rubinstein, wife of [the New York-based]

Rabbi YY Rubinstein. She invited me to lunch, and we’ve been good friends ever since.” Studley’s journey to Jewish observance put an end to her days in Hollywood. “At the time, I was working in Hollywood, doing special effects in movies. I started keeping Shabbat. I couldn’t do that and keep my career, so I gave up my career.” She had worked as a freelancer in Hollywood but was in high demand. She helped design wings for a movie star, a lion in George of the Jungle, and a tiger in the movie Dr. Doolittle. She spent hours observing animals so she could produce life-like replicas. To channel her artistic energies, Studley taught art classes in a Jewish day school in LA for five years. A decision to take a year off and come to Jerusalem to learn Torah at Neve Yerushalayim launched yet another phase of her life. “I was here three months and knew I wanted to stay,” she commented about that pivotal time. She officially made aliyah in 2010. Looking back on her varied achievements, Studley reflected, “I see that they tie together now. I always thought I had two careers – theater, TV, movies, sewing, wedding dresses [on the one hand] and the counseling and coaching

career [on the other]. “The book has put those altogether, and what I see now is they are all creativity. The day after I finished the book, I printed it out to show a friend. The next day, I woke up with ideas for three or four new books. “Before that, the creativity was with my hands. Now its creativity with words. Now it’s coming out in the form of stories. When I’m counseling, I’m often telling stories to help people see the truth about their situation,” she explained.

Trauma Counseling Healing from her own trauma after surviving three violent attacks led to a 30-year career in coaching and counseling people in crisis. Coming to Israel added yet another dimension to that side of her. “Since I’ve been in Israel, my own personal experience with trauma has become very helpful in helping people here who are suffering for many different reasons,” she noted. Studley trained with United Hatzalah’s psycho-trauma and crisis unit and got certified with the World Health Organization. “Israel is one of the first countries to have psycho-trauma units attached to first responders. The person first re-

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sponders help might need psycho-trauma stabilizing,” she explained. Her work helps stabilize victims of domestic violence or construction accidents, witnesses to terrorist attacks and sometimes first responders themselves, in the moment of trauma. Her work with United Hatzalah is also preventative. “If someone gets help immediately, they are 80% less likely to get PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) afterwards. We’re now training people all over the world with techniques that were developed here.” Elaborating on her position as a trauma counselor, Studley explained that trauma means different things to different people. “Depending on your level of consciousness, that will determine how you respond. A first responder is trained to cope with high stress. Someone else might be traumatized by something minor. We’re always processing everything through our thinking. That’s how you’re going to experience life.” By way of explanation, she told this story. “I was in the Old City of Jerusalem. A friend was visiting from New York for the first time so I took him to the Ramparts Walk. There was a European couple ahead of us. They were stuck between a turnstile and a padlocked gate. “The woman collapsed in terror to her knees. Her eyes rolled back in her head. She started shaking and sank down to the floor. I was able to hold onto her by the arms and assure her that she was going to be okay. “Her husband was fine. This is a really good example of how trauma is completely relative to your thinking and not dependent on the outside situation.” She offered another story to illustrate the same point. A previous client “had a fear of needles and needed a medical treatment that required a lot of injections. She was experiencing thoughts about the injections. It wasn’t the injections. It was her thoughts about needles. “It’s not the actual thing. It’s our thoughts about the thing [that are causing us pain]. That’s why we’re always feeling our thinking. Even if my actual circumstances are fine at the moment.” These stories illustrate one of Studley’s chief points when she works with clients. “It’s almost natural to blame

the outside circumstances,” she said. “If I have a belief that my discomfort comes from someone else’s actions, then I’m at the mercy of the world or other people. If I can see that I’m really only ever experiencing my thinking, there is some freedom available to not be a victim of my circumstances.” Studley elaborated on her work with a woman who had experienced a terrible trauma. The client told her that other therapists “have been torturing

levels. First floor, lots of natural light and open spaces. In the basement, there are housewares and garden equipment. Below that, it’s trash and broken mannequins. “Low thinking is when my thinking is in the basement, where it’s dark and hard to make good decisions.” She encourages her clients to “keep going up on the elevator. From the roof, there’s a café, a view of the beach, fresh air. It’s possible to see the bigger picture and

“THE FIRST FRUM WOMAN I MET ASKED, ‘WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR LUNCH?’ I THOUGHT, ‘WHY DO YOU CARE?’” me for 10 years, getting me to relive and describe what happened to me.” Studley took a different approach. “I didn’t ask her about her traumatic experience. I don’t want people to get drawn into the content of what happened. [I help them] understand that right here, right now [they are] okay. [They are] only experiencing thoughts about what happened to [them]. That [awareness] brings freedom from what happened in the past.” Another strategy she employs uses an analogy of a department store to teach her clients to how to slow their thinking down. “We have different level of consciousness available at any time. In a department store, there are different

easier to make good decisions. “[Like when you’re] in the basement, your thinking is speeded up when you’re anxious. [When your ] thinking slows down, there is more chance for peace, intuition and wisdom. Good things can come when your thinking slows down. “I teach people how to slow their thinking down so they can find their own answers. Slower thinking has wisdom for their own answer to come through.”

The Myth of Low Self-Esteem The Myth of Low Self-Esteem is an unusual title for a novel. It’s also one of the organizing principles of Studley’s counseling and coaching practice and

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a main theme of the novel. “As a Jew, I believe that everyone is a pure neshama. When people talk about their low self-esteem, they are usually talking about their thinking. The [essential thought that] you can never be broken or damaged. Once we understand this, we are able to change our thinking,” she elaborated. To illustrate this point, she used the analogy of dirty Shabbat candlesticks. “Silver candlesticks are still beautiful under the dust and wax. Similarly, we can never really be damaged.” Her book, The Myth of Low Self-Esteem, started out as a self-help book. According to Studley, in that format, “it was way too preachy and teachy. I suddenly woke up with the idea that if I turned it into a story, the characters could do the journey. It seemed more accessible.” Early reaction to the novel, “has been amazing. For me, it’s been a great experience because people know me as someone who is creative with my hands. People who know me are surprised to see I’ve written something. “The response has also been great because self-esteem and trauma touches so many people. Hopefully people can read [the book] and learn from the stories. It’s describing how all human experience happens.” Studley mentioned Sydney Banks, founder of the Three Principles, who was one of her most influential teachers. “My favorite quote from Sidney Banks is, ‘If everybody learned not to be afraid of their own experience, that alone would change the world.’ “Even if you’ve never experienced trauma, or low self-esteem, everyone has problems. Those thoughts can be scary. Your heart beats a little faster. That makes you feel not so good. It’s a vicious cycle. “Anxious thinking shakes up the snow globe. It can be a phone bill. Or carpool. [These things] keep shaking up the snow globe. Now put the snow globe down. The glitter will settle naturally on its own. “Hashem gave us this ability to heal ourselves and also our minds. We are naturally made to heal ourselves. [We can learn to] not be afraid of the scary thoughts, to tell ourselves, ‘I know they are going to pass.’ All storms pass. That’s why I think [the message of this book] applies to anyone, whatever their

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circumstances are.” Even though the book was just published in December, she has already had readers report that it has helped them understand their own thinking. “People get helped just from reading the book,” she reported. Others readers, inspired by her approach, want to work directly with her. Studley works face-to-face with people in Jerusalem or by Skype worldwide. Some clients grasp the core idea in just one session. For others, it might take a while. “Change can happen overnight,” she noted. She works to remind her clients that “the terrible things that happened in the past aren’t happening anymore. They are only experiencing their thoughts about the situation. They learn not to be afraid of the experience. Their flashbacks come less and less often.” She’s already planning a few more books, using the same storytelling approach. “The stories for the next few books are situations where there is

a lot of misinformation. By turning them into novels, I will make the information more accessible.” Studley is currently at work on a novel about ADHD and drug company corruption. “I’m loving writing and watching it unfold before me,” she noted.

that thoughts] are internal and under my control, my back feels stronger today than when I was a teenager. My pain went away. “Back pain can be fixed without need surgery or medications. This is information people need to hear,” she stated emphatically.

“WHERE I AM NOW, LIVING A TORAH LIFE IN JERUSALEM, IS MUCH MORE REAL.” In the future, she plans to write a novel about back pain. “Since my attacks, I had back pain for 20 years. Pain comes from stress. 99.9% of the time it’s coming from stress. Stress is caused by thoughts. “Thinking is so powerful. When I was in a place of thinking like a victim, I had back pain. [Recognizing

ooking back on her journey from Hollywood to Jerusalem, Studley reflected, “In many ways I’m very grateful for the experience. I got paid good money to fly around the world and meet interesting and challenging people. I got to dance with John Travolta!

“It’s so clear to me now how much an illusion it all is. You’re only as good as your last project. It’s very easy to get sucked up in that. People value themselves by what car you’re driving or who you know. There is a lot of backstabbing, which comes from fear, because it’s very competitive. “I got sucked up into it too. One of the stories I told myself in the book was that I would be successful if my name would be on the movie poster. I wanted my name on the poster. I made that criteria up and then measured myself against it. That’s how we set ourselves up for failure. We create a story and then measure ourselves against a story we made up. “Where I am now, living a Torah life in Jerusalem, is much more real. The values I have now seem true and real to me. It’s not stories. It’s real. Volunteering for Hatzalah and working with lone soldiers are real, and I value them so much more.”

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Dating Dialogue

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

Dear Navidaters, I feel like there is no good way for me to explain to my parents that I don’t want to date. I’m 24 years old, and I’m in graduate school. I enjoy seeing friends, meeting for dinner, or just having the ability to pick up and do a weekend getaway to Miami with girlfriends. I have told my parents that when I’m ready I will know. I am a huge disappointment to my parents. It isn’t easy knowing they are ashamed of me. They make comments all the time to their friends about me and how I’m just wasting my time being a silly young girl. Or that I’m not serious about my life. Is it wrong to be 24 and not want marriage or not feel ready? I’m a very pragmatic kind of person. I don’t think it’s possible for every 19-, 20-something-year-old to feel ready. I’m sure a lot are, but it can’t be that most who are getting married are actually doing it because they want to. I don’t think I’m doing anything wrong and I’m certainly not hurting anyone. Is there anything you tell to other parents out there whose kids don’t want to get married as young as their friends’ kids? I told my parents I’m writing into the Navidaters column and that I’m asking this question, so feel free to direct your answer to both me and my parents. Thank you!

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The Panel The Rebbetzin Rebbetzin Faigie Horowitz, M.S. t’s OK to feel unready to date at age 24. Finishing school and starting your career without major responsibilities is fine. However, do understand that what your parents are worried about is that you are focused on enjoying life and that settling down to marriage and commitments is not in your near future. In other words, a lot of this has to do with what you are communicating with them. You can tell them that you do plan to date, settle down with a husband, and build a Jewish family. But not just yet. You have goals to achieve and milestones to meet (graduation, repayment of student loans, becoming self-sufficient, etc.). Talking about enjoying life and knowing when you are ready is not reassuring to Jewish parents. Clear focus and goal orientation are. So get specific. Understand yourself better. Take paper and pen in hand and journal about your shortterm and long-term goals. Then sit down and talk to your parents. Remember to frame the conversation in terms that they can relate to – talk about your plans, short-term and long-term. Perhaps you want to talk about getting some life skills under your belt. Perhaps you want to talk about having a nest egg as well. Do not talk about other people and their children. Bring your parents into your head and heart so that they see a mature, thought-out person, not a party girl. Tell them you will want their help and support when you begin dating in the future but that right now you have some goals you want to accomplish. Ask them for their support in your present goals. Keep the communication going with periodic sharing after the big conversation. Keep in mind that if you are true to your goals, you may be asked to

contribute to the household expenses. Being an independent adult as you desire to be does not jive with commitment-free living. You should offer to contribute as a sign of your maturity and understanding of finances. Practice what you are saying by paying your own way, not mooching off your parents and going off to enjoy yourself with your pals. You want to be treated seriously? Think seriously and act seriously.

The Mother Sarah Schwartz Schreiber, P.A. hoa! Huge disappointment? Sounds like a heavy stone, girlfriend. Before I address your parents, I’d love to hear their version of the story. Until then, I’m withholding comment. Back to you. You won’t be the first 24-year-old who hasn’t dipped her toes into the exhilarating wellsprings of shidduchim. I know, I know. You’re having the time of your life and wouldn’t want to terminate the party with (gasp!) marriage! Here’s a newsflash for you: dating does not guarantee marriage (although most people wish it would.) Dating can be fun. Dating can be educational: you learn about human nature, about the habits of the male species, about yourself. You get to know your likes and dislikes, your strengths, hopes and aspirations. Over time, you may even meet someone who’s enjoying the ride as much as you. And then…. Marriage. Contrary to your worst imaginings, marriage does not signal the end of spontaneous dinner dates or trips to Miami. As a matter of fact, on our last trip to Florida, I counted over twenty young couples looking starry-eyed and ecstatic in an airboat while bouncing over the Everglades. Of course, marriage has its risks, challenges, and sleepless nights. So does graduate school, a professional

career, or any other grown-up endeavor worth pursuing. Finally, two words. Family therapy. If you believe your parents aren’t hearing your concerns about dating and marriage or you feel your hesitation (perhaps, anxiety) is bigger than you are, enlist the help of a professional for guidance and support. Yeah, you’re only 24; still plenty of time to marry and start a family. Still, at 24, you’re not too young to gain insight about your goals and your future. And it’s certainly high time you made peace with your parents.

The Shadchan Michelle Mond t this point, you’re at a junction where you don’t feel the desire to date, however, you are feeling frowned upon for this decision. You must first recognize where your parents are coming from. Your parents are disappointed because they hear about the world of shidduchim and how difficult it is to find a quality guy. They recognize how, in shidduchim, it only gets harder as time goes on. The fact that you don’t want to begin to date worries them because they are your parents and they love you. They worry that you might wake up too late in the game to find the quality guy they know you will be looking for. There is no magic formula I can give you to assuage your parents’ worries – they are just doing what parents do. The best advice I could give is to show your parents how you are truly being realistic right now. Assure them that you are not ready to get married, so dating would be the wrong decision and a waste of everyone’s time. There is a saying that goes: “The right person at the wrong time is the wrong person.” You must also assure your parents that you understand the reality of the decision you are making, articu-

You’re not too young to gain insight about your goals and your future.

lating that you realize the longer you wait the more difficult it may be. If you are truly not ready for marriage, your bashert is undergoing his own journey and not ready either. You will be united at a time when you are both in a healthy mindset and ready for marriage, iy”H. I must also warn you that the decision to start dating is not always an easy jump, even for people who do want to settle down. If you are waiting for the anxiety to go away, do realize that you may need some help getting there. Speaking with a therapist to get you prepared and help sort your thoughts and fears can help tremendously. I wish you much luck and clarity getting to that point.

The Single Tova Wein t’s definitely easy to understand why some people don’t feel ready to date at your age or any specific age. We are not all cookie-cutter individuals who feel the need to live cookie-cutter lives. Unfortunately, our community often doesn’t leave much wiggle room for people who feel a little “different” and actually listen to their own hearts, rather than just follow the herd, without questioning whether or not it makes sense for them and whether or not it’s the path they need to pursue at the moment. It’s important for you to be un-

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derstanding of how your parents feel and why they’ve been pressuring you. Obviously, they are caught up in the “group think” of what all young men and women must do to be supposedly “happy.” And, I’m sure that they truly do want to see you happy. They are probably

afraid that you will miss the boat and eventually find yourself alone and unhappy. They want to belong to the “in-law,” “grandparent” club. They don’t want to constantly worry. I think the best approach with your parents is to be honest with them and

Pulling It All Together The Navidaters Dating and Relationship Coaches and Therapists

f you and your parents have been circling the drain regarding you not wanting to date and get married now, I suggest you sit down with a qualified family therapist. Oftentimes people I run into who read the column will say, “Jen, you always recommend seeing a therapist.” Well, maybe I often do. Guilty as charged. The reason is because it can be incredibly helpful to involve an objective third party who can act as a mediator between parties; in this case, parents and adult child, to help you effectively communicate and reach some sort of peaceful understanding or resolution. And when that can’t happen, at least a light is shed and people often leave with greater clarity and food for thought. I’m not going to directly address your parents because I’m uncomfortable doing so, but I will address this issue at-large. First and foremost, I will begin with you. Your life is yours. Our community has a clear-cut path, which does indeed promote marriage at a younger age. This works beautifully for so many and should be cherished and never judged. It does not, however, work for everyone. And you very well may be someone who needs to enjoy her young to mid-twenties as a single woman, enjoying her life

on her terms. There is nothing wrong with this decision. I hope you have thought about it and weighed the pros and cons and are completely at peace with your decision. Some panelists pointed out that if you have anxiety about marriage, you may want to address that professionally, as well as the ramifications of waiting “too long.” These are all personal things that you must weigh. As for your parents, I, of course, feel for them. And you may as well. As hard as it may be, if you can put yourself in their shoes, their daughter isn’t doing what everyone else is doing. And they may be genuinely worried about you. I will say to all parents whose children do not want to get married at a young ag, or whose children are taking a different path than they had hoped and wished for: It is hard. It is painful. It is sad. You need to be seen and held and supported. However, this pain and these expectations must be kept far away from our children, as best we can. Because placing our pain on our children when they have not met our expectations will drive them away from us. Our children are here to help us grow as people. Their

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explain how you feel, so that they don’t keep chasing their tails, running around talking to shadchanim, trying to set you up constantly, or trying to understand you better and maybe tap into some empathy toward your feelings. But while you are talking to them, be sure to feel and show empathy for them as well regarding t heir st r ug g le s and fears, their hopes and dreams. Hopefully you can

job is not to make us happy. Their job is to find the life that feels right and comfortable for them. This maybe is one of the most difficult challenges parents can be faced with. Though your adult child is not a small child, you may want to read a wonderful book that my special neighbor and dear friend introduced to me a few years ago. It is called The Conscious Parent; Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children by Dr. Shefali Tsabary. This book has helped many parents who visit me in my practice, as well as thousands of parents who have read this book on their own (myself included.) Though some of the concepts may be new and scary and you may cry or struggle with them, it is an enlightening read and may transform your relationships with not only your children

We are not all cookie-cutter individuals who feel the need to live cookie-cutter lives. all support one another in your individual needs – with patience, compassion and love.

but with everyone in your life. We aren’t in control. And when we try to be, through manipulation or love, threats of pulling away or being disappointed, we sadly lose. All the best, Jennifer

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

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

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Trauma Numbness and Hypersensitivity By Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.

his is the third entry in a series following Bessel van der Kolk’s book, The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. It is so frustrating when you’re with someone who has no emotional reaction. Sometimes people will “push” their spouses or friends with some sharp words just to get an emotional reaction – and it still doesn’t come. With other people, the reaction comes when there was no provocation in the first place. That’s a little crazy making. As someone said who I just interviewed today, after having had intense couples therapy during which he and his wife thoroughly healed, “It was not like walking on eggshells in the beginning; it was more like walking in a minefield.” Numbness on the one hand; drama on the other. It turns out that both are reactions to trauma. How does nature pick out which reaction a person will have? And what is the meaning of the flashbacks? Why can’t they just go away? Why don’t people “get over” their memories? And why doesn’t therapy, even long-term therapy, for trauma work very well? Van der Kolk and colleagues studied this and have a lot to say about it. It’s fascinating. One of their early pieces of research had volunteers who wanted to get over their trauma tell van der Kolk their experiences. Someone would read the script back to them while they were in a scanner to record brain activity. The researchers already knew that just reading back their story would cause people to have flashbacks

and that is what they wanted to understand better. The area of the brain responsible for speech – the ability to put thoughts and feelings to words – is called Broca’s area. The stunning finding of this research: when people were experiencing a flashback, Broca’s area “went offline.” This explains why therapy is so difficult for trauma survivors. They simply cannot put the horror they experienced into words. If, at the moment the trauma is occurring, Broca’s area is offline, then it will also not be possible for the person to remember or describe what happened. While it is true that people will eventually be able to say something to others, their accounts are lacking because the “terror, rage, and helplessness” they feel is “almost impossible to articulate.” However, while Broca’s area went silent, Brodmann’s area 19 “lit up” for these participants. This brain area is in the visual cortex and usually captures images as they are seen in real time. In normal circumstances, these images are moved to other brain areas to be interpreted, given meaning. That is, our experiences happen in a context and the meaning derives from that context. For an image to simply be there, devoid of the story with which it goes, would make no sense. But that’s what was observed in the scans. “Once again, we were witnessing a brain region rekindled as if the trauma were actually occurring.” Not only that. The prefrontal cortex, where we think and make sense out of experience, stopped working. This also contributes to a sense of a

loss of time. (I read elsewhere that there is a good reason why the brain reacts this way. Calories are needed in emergencies so that people can run or fight. Therefore, any part of the body that doesn’t need those calories is cut off. This leaves the energy in the extremities to run, and the only part of the brain that functions is the part needed just for that purpose. Thinking and speaking take too long and are not useful when automatic reactions will preserve us. Why this state of affairs lasts instead of being temporary is another question.) Something else surprised the researchers: during flashbacks, the activity that I’ve described above only occurred in the brain’s right hemisphere. The right side of the brain is considered the intuitive, artistic, visual, emotional one while the left is rational, logical, linguistic and sequential. It is the seat of executive function. Sequence is as important for a coherent story as the verbal component. But that is governed by the right side. “Without sequencing we can’t identify cause and effect, grasp the long-term effects of our actions, or create coherent plans for the future.” This now clarifies why people who are re-experiencing a traumatic event will act as if it’s happening in the moment: the left brain is needed to “tell” the right brain that this is a past experience but the left is offline; the sequencing is missing. What’s more, it is the left that understands what the emotions mean and why we have them. Without it, we simply will feel the rage or terror that we felt back

then. Moreover, there is no “cool down” effect. Later on, nothing has changed. We don’t ever realize that the experience we just had was “just” a memory. It always feels as if it’s just happening now. This experience has a toll on the body because adrenaline is released each and every time the person re-experiences the event, just as if it were happening now. Although medication can lessen the impact to some degree, the adrenaline is still released; the brain still “wants” to react as it always has. There is no medication that “tells” the left brain to start working and help out the right brain adjust its activation. This still doesn’t explain the vast difference in the way survivors might react. Fortunately, or unfortunately, the worst road disaster in Canadian history provided that information. In the fall of 1999, an eighty-seven car pileup occurred when a sudden dense fog settled over a road. A married couple in one car survived, although there were many deaths in that crash that day. This couple, Stan and Ute, were trapped in their cars as other cars kept slamming into each other and to theirs. They saw cars on fire and people in them. When they were rescued, they were sent in an ambulance to the ER but were found to be intact physically and were sent home. They couldn’t sleep that night. “They were irritable, jumpy, and on edge. They felt that if they let go, they would die.” They started drinking to get through. They were hounded by images and questions. Finally, they sought help after three months.

As was done in the earlier study, an fMRI scan was done on each. Stan emerged sweating, with heart racing and blood pressure soaring for he had gone into flashback mode. Ute, on the other hand, reacted dramatically differently when she went into the scanner, and the script of the trauma was read back to her. Her brain scan showed that, basically, her entire brain shut down. She said that both during the accident and during the reliving of it, she felt “nothing.” It turns out that growing up, Ute learned the trick of dissociating from her emotions. Her father had died early and her mother was nasty to her. She endured the verbal attacks by blanking out. “Over the years, our research team has repeatedly found that chronic emotional abuse and neglect can be just as devastating as physical abuse and sexual molestation.” For Ute, shutting down was a brilliant survival mechanism at the time and came to her aid again during and after the accident. Of course, this is no

way to live, and without proper treatment, dissociated people will not get their lives back. But talk therapy is not the answer because such people “cannot think, feel deeply, remember, or make sense

out of what is going on. Conventional talk therapy, in those circumstances, is virtually useless.” And it should now be clear why conventional medications don’t work, either. “Consider the case of antidepressants. If they were indeed

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through activities that help people start to become aware of their own bodies. Interestingly, he found that many of the traumatized people that came for help “could not feel whole areas of their bodies. Sometimes I’d ask them to close their eyes and tell me what I had put into their outstretched hands. Whether it was a car key, a quarter, or a can opener, they often could not even guess what they were holding.” The shutting down of the brain means precisely that: shutting out information from the outside. This would explain why it’s pointless to get angry at a spouse who “won’t listen.” It may be better to learn whether he or she was suffering from trauma and then take the correct steps to address it. Dr. Deb Hirschhorn is a Marriage and Family Therapist. If you want help with your marriage, begin by signing up to watch her Masterclass at https://drdeb. com/myw-masterclass.

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National Salad Week By Cindy Weinberger MS, RD, CDN

he last week of July not only marks the halfway point of the summer, it also marks an important week for nutrition lovers. The last week of July is National Salad Week. Why does salad deserve so much recognition? The nutrition provided to us by eating salad helps us live longer and better. Of course, by salad, I don’t mean pasta salad or potato salad. I’m talking about actual healthy salads, containing primarily fruits and/or vegetables. Eating salad daily can be one of the healthiest – and easiest – eating habits one can adopt. Eating salad is the simplest way to obtain your recommended servings of vegetables daily. The guidelines are to consume 5-9 servings of fruits and vegetables daily. Why is salad so healthy? Salad is generally packed with fiber. Fruits and vegetables are loaded with fiber which helps keep one fuller for longer and helps keep the digestive system happy. Additionally, fiber helps lower cholesterol levels in the bloodstream, thus reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease. Fiber also decreases the spike in glucose, making salad an excellent choice for diabetics. By loading up a salad with vegetables, you are loading up on fiber too. Aside from fiber, salad is rich in many nutrients such as antioxidants, phytochemicals, vitamin C, vitamin E, vitamin K, folic acid, lycopene and beta-carotene. Salad has been linked to building stronger bones (due to vitamin K), better eyesight (due to vita-

min A), and a reduced risk of developing diabetes (due to magnesium). Research has also shown a strong association between high consumption of fruits and vegetables and a lower risk of developing cancer (mainly due to antioxidants). Finally, the reason we’ve all been waiting for: weight loss! Vegetables are the only food that can be eaten in an unlimited amount. They’re

in the fresh produce aisle. The choices are endless these days. Buy a few different bags so you can try them all and decide which is your favorite one. Or buy a variety just to switch things up, so you don’t get bored of either one. Make sure to keep the salad greens refrigerated. Many other vegetables are also offered pre-washed and cut up in the fresh produce aisle as well. If you

Get creative with your salads.

that healthy. A salad is not only a low-calorie, high-fiber meal. It also comes packed with vitamins and nutrients. Salads are both full of hearthealthy, cancer-fighting agents, and are fantastic weight loss and weight maintenance tools. A large salad also increases satiety, leaving little room for excess calories. Some feel lazy or simply don’t have the time to cut up a salad. Luckily for those individuals, getting a salad just about anywhere is as easy as 1,2,3. If preparing a salad at home, one can purchase pre-washed, pre-checked, cut up romaine lettuce, Italian lettuce, butter lettuce, iceberg lettuce, spinach, kale, arugula, or other blend of salad greens from any supermarket

don’t want the trouble of cutting up a salad at home, just walk into any supermarket or grocery store and browse the premade salad section. You ought to find one that you like out of the large variety. When going out to eat, don’t worry – restaurants have your back too. Every restaurant has salad on the menu, and even better, many places offer an option to create your own salad! A common complaint in terms of salad is the prep time. My recommendation is to prepare an extra-large salad in the beginning of the week. This way you won’t have to chop up salads daily. Get all the work done in one shot. You can even store the salad in separate containers for an easy

grab and go. Hold off on the dressing until you are just about ready to eat it, otherwise the salad will get soggy. Get creative with your salads. Try different vegetables daily or weekly to increase variety and health benefits and so you don’t get bored. You can even include fruit, nuts, seeds, legumes, grains, and protein to make it a more a wholesome meal. Nowadays, just about anything goes into a salad! The tricky part is that the non-vegetables additions sometimes add a lot of calories. Be conscious of portion sizes of the additions. Furthermore, limit salad dressing. Steer clear of fatty, mayonnaise-y, creamy dressings – those can add unimaginable amounts of calories. A combination of any of the following – olive oil, salt, spices, herbs, vinegars, lemon and lime juice – make a delicious and healthy salad dressing. Incorporate salads into your daily menu to enjoy the delicious and nutritious perks. Turn every week into National Salad Week!

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. She is currently a dietitian at Boro Park Center and a private nutrition consultant located in Brooklyn and the Five Towns. She can be reached at CindyWeinberger1@gmail.com.

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Meeting the Pediatrician By Hylton I. Lightman, MD, DCH (SA), FAAP

love it when it happens. Sometimes, parents-to-be (a couple expecting their first child) call, asking to meet with me in person. Their bundle of joy is on the way and they want to speak face-to-face prior to the arrival of their newborn and bringing him to my office. In the language of pediatrics, it is called the “prenatal visit.” Other times, a family is switching to the practice, perhaps because they have relocated to the area. They also want to meet in person before “officially” joining the practice. Many new families come to us through the recommendation of friends and family, and I am always grateful for people’s good words. Social media plays no small role here. No matter how parents find their way to us, they are warmly welcomed and embraced into our “extended family.” What do we pediatricians find special about meeting with parents who ask to come in before they bring in the kids and/or before their beloved baby is in this world? For the most part, these are parents who know what they want, despite their nervousness. Further, they want to partner with the pediatrician, believing he or she is a key person in their children’s lives. Their children’s well visits, strep throats, broken bones, school and social issues and who knows what else

matter to me and my team. We are there, alongside Mommy and Tatty, helping to bring this child from one phase to the next, making sure that the child(ren) receive the best health care. This visit is a great time to discuss some topics that are important to bringing the baby safely home from the hospital:

worrying for your 120 years in this world.) The prenatal visit as an opportunity to “frontload” important information and hear from parents their concerns so together we can launch the best health care platform even before the baby is born. Parents have questions and you learn so much from the questions

The continuity of care and intersection of a family in the development of a wellrounded child drew me to pediatrics.

• Car seats (you need one to bring the baby home from the hospital) • Bedding for crib or bassinet • Sleeping on the back • Immunizations family members need to protect the newborn • Technology and other means to prevent leaving a child in a car • The predictable lack of sleep for parents and baby (explanation: Once you become a parent, you sign on to

which span the spectrum. How is the practice set up? How often will we be bringing in our newborn? I am going to try to nurse my baby but if it isn’t for me, then where do you hold? What is your opinion about ADHD? One question I’m asked more often than not: Why did you choose pediatrics, Dr. Lightman? Medicine was my calling from the time I was a small child. It was during medical school (at the University of the

Witswatersrand) while dissecting a cadaver I had a revelation: The perfection of the human body proves that Hashem runs this world. There is no way a human being could have ever “invented” the human body. The continuity of care and intersection of a family in the development of a well-rounded child drew me to pediatrics. Further, I would be a presence in people’s lives over the long term, not just in an acute situation. The long term affords me the opportunity to get to know people and to tailor medical and health care to each person, thereby assuring each one gets what he needs and at the best levels with the highest standards possible. At a minimum, the prenatal visit lays the foundation for a solid parent/ doctor relationship through the first two decades of life. In an era when most change seems to happen in nanoseconds, it is a great feeling, through assuring the best health care, to have meaningful long-term relationships that lead to something even more enduring – the development of a kind, caring person who will hopefully make a positive difference in this world. Dr. Hylton I. Lightman is a pediatrician and Medical Director of Total Family Care of the 5 Towns and Rockaway PC. He can be reached at drlightman@totalfamilycaremd.com, on Instagram at Dr.Lightman_ or visit him on Facebook.

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The Mother of All Diseases By David E. Simai, MD

would like to apologize for my long hiatus from writing. I would also like to thank all my dedicated readers for their constant encouragement over the past few years. I returned to my writing desk after meeting many readers, young and old, who asked me over the past couple of years, “Are you Dr. Simai? I really enjoyed reading your column. Why did you stop writing?” Today, I would like to discuss how addressing and treating one illness can heal and affect so many seemingly unrelated medical symptoms. Here are a few interesting cases that I have encountered so far in my career.

Scenario A: I will start with the most fascinating true case. Ari, an 11-year-old special needs child was never able to use the toilet. He wore diapers since the day he was born. He visited one of the premier pediatric urologists in New York City once or twice a year to address this issue. This year, a report from the urologist stated that Ari’s urinary control had deteriorated. At home, he would stop urinating in his diapers for prolonged periods. A urodynamic flow study showed that Ari’s bladder would not empty even when a tremendous amount of water was injected into it. The urologist called this a Urogenic Bladder and suggested that there was no effective treatment for this condition. Ari would have to be catheterized daily in order to prevent Urinary Tract Infections (UTI) and relieve him from the mounting pressure in his bladder. His father discussed the report with me shortly after visiting the urologist. His father asked me what I thought

about the urologist’s diagnosis. I told him that as far as I recalled a Urogenic Bladder was a disease that I learned about back in medical school. I remembered that it usually affected the geriatric population as a result of nerve damage due to longstanding diabetes. I had never seen that diagnosis in a pediatric patient. I had heard of the famous pediatric urologist that he saw – the head of a department at one of the most lucrative New York City Hospitals – and I felt humbled to try to find the answer for this condition. I prayed that G-d would help me assist Ari and his family. I reviewed Ari’s medications: laxatives, iron and some psychiatric medicine, basically the same medications he has been on for a few years. I met Ari just a year or two prior to this visit. Is he pooping? I asked. His father replied with a smile – yes, the same way he has been pooping for years – nothing changed. And he was still on a generous dose of the laxative Miralax. Is it his medications causing this issue? A recent MRI of the spine was performed and showed that the spinal cord was intact with no “tethered cord.” Will his bladder ever work again or would he have to be catheterized daily? This case was a true mystery and, with G-d’s help, I was able to make a suggestion that completely relieved his symptoms. Scenario B: Chani, a four-year-old girl presents in my office with burning on urination. Just a month ago, she was diagnosed with a UTI and given antibiotics. Today again, her urine sample tested positive for a UTI. Her parents are worried. Until recently, she

never had any UTIs. Why is she getting recurrent infections? I asked if there was a history of any urinary reflux in the family: negative. Did she finish the course of antibiotics as prescribed: yes! I proceeded to ask: is Chani constipated? No, her parents reported confidently that she has been “pooping regularly for the past month.” Does Chani have a kidney issue? Resistant bacteria? When would her UTI’s end? Chani’s very concerned parents asked me. Scenario C: Gila is an 11-year-old girl. Her extremely frustrated father brought her in to my office demanding a solution. It seems that Gila’s friends and teachers can no longer tolerate the strong odor that emanates from her for the past few months. Her principal requested that she should seek medical attention before returning to school. It seems that Gila suffered from enuresis; she had lost proper control of her bladder. She often wets herself during the daytime which causes a harsh odor. She has a chronic issue with bedwetting as well. On most nights, she wakes up wet in the middle of the night. Gila says that she “poops” regularly. She even says that she poops twice or three times a day. Gila’s father is frustrated with the school, and concerned that his daughter is not gaining the expected urinary control an 11-year-old should have. Scenario D: Chaim, a brand-new patient in my practice, is a 6-year-old boy

who visited me for the first time this morning. As I walk into the room, I notice that Chaim is laying on the examination table, doubled over in pain. His parents appear very worried about his condition. Chaim started developing sharp pains last night that come and go, and they intensify with time. He has no fever, no vomiting, and when I offered him his favorite food (pizza) he said that despite the pains he would eat it. The abdominal pains are sharp and very tender in the right lower quadrant area, where the appendix lies. His parents are worried about possible appendicitis and ask whether they should rush him to the emergency room immediately. Chaim does not recall how his bowel movements looked and the frequency. He seems to be too uncomfortable to even think about it. Scenario E: Dina is an 18-year-old college student. She dorms at college in Manhattan but came home this particular Shabbos. She started having excruciating stomach pains after the Shabbos day meal. Dina’s father is a physician, concerned with his daughter’s pains. He brings me to her room and asks me to examine her. Her appetite was amazing right until the pains started. Dina has intermittent severe pains that are getting worse. She says that she has soft bowel movements a few times a day. She recounts having two soft bowel movements today, “maybe like diarrhea.” On exam, she has diffuse, widespread tenderness and increased bowel sounds. Linking the report of the diarrhea to the pains and gas pattern on exam,

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I feel that her issue is a stomach virus and suggest to hydrate her and avoid dairy. The following day, Dina is rushed to the emergency room. A surgical resident examines her and orders a CT scan of her abdomen. The scan shows that her intestines are completely filled with feces and that the appendix cannot be visualized. The attending surgeon insists that Dina should be rushed to the operating room for an emergency appendectomy. Her dad, who is a physician, is concerned about appendicitis as well. Dina’s mom, however, is very nervous about the operation. She calls and asks if I could convince the surgeon not to operate yet. Scenario F: Moshe is a 19-year-old yeshiva/college student who comes to my office complaining of frequent urination for a month and low back pain for one week. Prior to coming to see me, he was seen at a local urgent care and had normal urine and blood test results. No medication was given to him. He denies any fever, weight loss, or fatigue. Moshe says that he has no constipation. He moves his bowels “twice a day or more.” His bowel movements are soft and normal in appearance. His blood and urine tests rule out a UTI and diabetes. His back pains did not start after trauma or intense exercise. His interesting presentation was a mystery.

would be the right remedy for my patient and they both felt optimistic about the idea. We were all surprised how Ari’s bowel movements dramatically increased in volume with the higher laxative regimen. After several weeks of treatment, Ari started urinating on his own, with even better flow than before all of his troubles started. His Urogenic Bladder – a condition that is incurable – completely resolved. Scenario B: Chani, 4-year-old girl with frequent UTIs With further consultation, it seems that Chani only poops once every two or three days. I showed Chani the Bristol Chart and she pointed out that most of her bowel movements resemble Bristol #1 (most constipated type). She also reports that “pooping hurts” and can be a time-consuming ordeal. Giving Chani a treatment that started with laxatives and continued with supplemental fiber and, most impor-

her nighttime enuresis was significantly reduced as well. Scenario D: Chaim, 6-year-old with pain in the right lower quadrant Despite his very severe abdominal pains, Chaim did not have fever, vomiting, and was able to walk and jump with minimal pain. Therefore, I decided that we had enough time to try him on a high dose laxative treatment before ordering any tests. I gave him a few capfuls of Miralax and sent him home with a bottle of Gatorade. At lunchtime, on my way home, I stopped by Chaim’s house and found him to be completely pain-free. He moved a very large bowel movement and was walking around the house, looking for that pizza with a re-invigorated appetite. Scenario E: Dina, our college student who was about to be operated on for possible appendicitis Dina’s case was a bit more com-

This case was a true mystery, and with G-d’s help, I was able to make a suggestion that completely relieved his symptoms.

Case Discussions Here is how each of these scenarios unfolded: Scenario A: Ari, special needs child with Urogenic Bladder In the most fascinating chain of events, I started Ari on a much higher dose of laxatives. As suggested by the normal MRI, I believed Ari did not have any neurological damage to his spinal cord. My hypothesis was that Ari’s years of fecal impaction and sub-optimal treatment of his constipation led him to develop a completely neurogenic - dysfunctional bladder. I met my two friends, Dr. Elliot Paul and Dr Jeffery Lumerman, two fine adult urologists (who encounter patients with neurogenic bladders), at a shalom zachor and asked if there was a chance that treating constipation

tantly, proper bowel training resolved her constipation and prevented her UTIs from recurring. Scenario C: Gila, the unhappy girl with enuresis Our very depressed Gila also reported to me that her bowel movements were irregular. She pooped twice daily because she only partially defecated each time. Her bowel movements were very small and painful (again, Bristol 1). I suggested that in order to get her back into the classroom as soon as possible, she should start on two medications: a bladder muscle stabilizer and a regimen of laxatives. Within just a few days Gila’s odor was gone and she returned to her classroom smiling. After the first week of treatment,

plex. When I called and voiced my concern, the attending surgeon sent a message that if the patient was not operated on he would not assume any responsibility for her. I agreed to accept Dina onto my service and treat her under my watch. I ordered the pediatric floor to give Dina a complete bowel clean out (like adults do before colonoscopies). The following morning, I visited Dina and was shocked that she, also, was pain-free. She recalled that after few doses of laxatives, she started having huge bowel movements and felt relief. A week later, her father reported to me that Dina admitted that she was not completely honest with us about her bowel habits. The truth was that

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she really did not have a bowel movement for two straight weeks before the pain started. An important lesson I learned from this case is that kids are often fearful or reluctant to share information about their health in front of their family members (especially if the family member is an adult). When I was getting medical history from Dina in her house, her father was in the room with me. Because her father was in the room, she stuck to her initial story she told him. Her management would have been completely different if she would have told me the truth. So today, when I see patients with stomachaches, I often ask parents to leave the exam room for a minute so I can get a clear description of bowel habits. The parents are immediately asked to come back to the room for the physical exam and comfort their children. Scenario F: Moshe, our yeshiva/college boy with frequent urination and backaches This case was not so easy to treat. I asked Moshe to try a laxative for two weeks and phoned his mother to discuss this. She strongly felt that “Moshe has the opposite problem.” I agreed that if the laxatives would not help these issues, I would send him to a urologist. Mom agreed to the plan. After two weeks, I called Moshe’s mom and asked if he was doing better. She replied that “he took his medicine but he did not feel any improvement at all.” He was still urinating frequently and having back pains. Moshe even showed up at the office again for another urine test which was normal. At his request, I referred him for abdominal x-ray and ultrasound. A few days later I phoned his concerned mom to discuss the results. The abdominal ultrasound was completely clear and the x-ray – you guessed it – showed a pattern of gas consistent with constipation. I commented that it’s interesting that the laxatives I prescribed did not help Moshe; I was perplexed as to why that was the case. But his mom said half laughing, “ You know, Doctor, he did not take the prescription as written. We were so convinced that he was not constipated that he only took it once every 2 or 3 days.”

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Luckily, after taking his laxative regimen as prescribed for one week, all of Moshe’s symptoms completely resolved. He was urinating regularly, and his back pains disappeared.

In Conclusion I often joke around with parents that constipation affects nearly 100% of our patients, yet nearly 100% of the parents in the practice report (and insist) that their kids are “pooping fine.” One of the most memorable comments that my father, Dr. Eliyahu Simai, told me numerous times, “Remember what I tell you my son: constipation is the mother of all diseases.” My father’s words stay with me all the time, and I hear his words each time I encounter a patient with abdominal pains. I am fascinated sometimes when my mind quickly scans many “exotic” diagnoses, or when excruciating pains set fear of abdominal emergencies. Ultimately, the good, old-fashioned diagnosis of constipation comes back and “saves the day.”

The point of this article is that as parents, we should focus on a few fundamental ideas: 1. Diet. Make sure that children have enough fiber in their diet by eating more fruits and vegetables that are high in fiber (such as berries, oranges, kiwis, dates and prunes). Try to buy fiber-enriched bread, brown rice, cereals and crackers and other products. Routinely examine the nutritional facts of every item that you pick up and choose the type of product that has the highest fiber content. 2. Monitor. Do not assume that your child is pooping “fine.” Look up the Bristol bowel movement chart and familiarize yourself with it. Know that normally, children should have one soft BM daily. 3. Bowel Training. Just as you remember your young infant defecating each time they nursed, older kids and adults have a similar gastro-colic reflex. Our bodies react to food entering our gastrointestinal tract by emptying it from the other direction. It is

crucial for us to train ourselves and our kids to listen to our body and set aside time after meals to defecate. This may mean that you will need a few extra moments before breakfast, but those few minutes with literally change your day and your life. 4. Do not hesitate to give your child a laxative as prescribed by your healthcare professional. And always keep in touch and follow up with your physician. If your symptoms do not improve, it may mean that you are not being treated correctly, or alternatively, your diagnosis may be wrong. As trained physicians, it is easier for us to recognize “acute abdominal pain” which necessitates emergency treatment from milder conditions. We are trained to analyze the medical history we hear and combine it with the physical findings in front of us to properly diagnose our patients. If your child is in severe abdominal pain, please contact your doctor for medical advice. Please do not try to self-diagnose your children. As you

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read in this article, making a correct diagnosis may be extra difficult, especially since your children may prefer not to volunteer important details about their health with you. Wishing you a fun-filled, pain-free summer. NOTE: Name, gender, geographical area and other identifying information were deliberately altered in this article in order to protect the patient’s privacy. This article is not intended to help diagnose or treat any specific disease. Always consult with your personal physician before diagnosing or treating yourself or your child for any of the above mentioned illnesses. Dr. David Simai is a Board-Certified pediatrician from the Five Towns. He established a private practice in Cedarhurst in 2005. Dr. Simai is affiliated with NorthShore-LIJ, NYU Winthrop and Mt Sinai South Nassau Communities Hospital. For comments, please contact Dr. Simai via email at davidsimai@yahoo.com.

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Fiesta “Chicken” Enchiladas By Naomi Nachman

It is so hard coming up with dairy meals for the Nine Days. Sometimes, I feel like I am eating lunch twice a day! I took my recipe for chicken enchilada and I “dairyfied” this recipe for the Nine Days. At first, my kids didn’t even realize that the soy chicken wasn’t real chicken – especially since it was served with guacamole and pico de gallo. Ingredients 1 small onion, chopped 1 clove garlic, minced 2 pkg soy chicken, cubed 1 cup salsa, divided ¼ cup cream cheese 1 TBS chopped cilantro 1 tsp ground cumin 1 cup shredded cheddar & Monterey Jack cheeses, divided 8 flour tortillas (6 inch)

Preparation Preheat oven to 350°F. Heat large skillet sprayed with cooking spray on medium heat. Add onions and garlic; cook and stir 2 minutes. Add soy chicken, ¼ cup salsa, cream cheese, cilantro and cumin; mix well. Cook 5 minutes or until heated through, stirring occasionally. Add ½ cup shredded cheese; mix well. Spoon about 1/3 cup chicken mixture down center of each tortilla; roll up. Place, seam-sides down, in 9X13-inch baking dish sprayed with cooking spray; top with remaining salsa and shredded cheese. Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until heated through. Serve with pico de gallo and guacamole.

Ingredients Pico de Gallo

Ingredients Perfect Guacamole

4 plum tomatoes, chopped into ½ inch dice ¼ cup cilantro leaves, finely chopped 1 lime, juiced 1 small red onion, diced 1 small jalapeno pepper, seeded and finely chopped Salt and pepper, to taste

Preparation

2 ripe avocados ½ red onion, minced (about ½ cup) 2 cloves garlic 1 jalapeño 1 handful cilantro leaves, finely chopped 1 TBS fresh lime or lemon juice ½ tsp coarse salt A dash of freshly grated black pepper 1 ripe tomato, diced (optional)

Mix all ingredients in a bowl and marinade 3 hours before eating to soak up all the flavors.

Preparation In a food processor, add onions, garlic and jalapeño and blend. Once it is smooth, add rest of ingredients. If you are using tomatoes, fold them in by hand.

Naomi Nachman, the owner of The Aussie Gourmet, caters weekly and Shabbat/ Yom Tov meals for families and individuals within The Five Towns and neighboring communities, with a specialty in Pesach catering. Naomi is a contributing editor to this paper and also produces and hosts her own weekly radio show on the Nachum Segal Network stream called “A Table for Two with Naomi Nachman.” Naomi gives cooking presentations for organizations and private groups throughout the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan area. In addition, Naomi has been a guest host on the QVC TV network and has been featured in cookbooks, magazines as well as other media covering topics related to cuisine preparation and personal chefs. To obtain additional recipes, join The Aussie Gourmet on Facebook or visit Naomi’s blog. Naomi can be reached through her website, www.theaussiegourmet.com or at (516) 295-9669.

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simple & filling suppers for

the Nine Days fIsh tacos

MEATLESS MAINS Homemade pizza Baked tilapia WaffLes

Grilled cheese Cheesy vegetable frittata Broccoli baked potato Pancakes Blintzes Eggplant parmesan Crepes Creamy fettucine alfredo Spaghetti pomodoro Cheese pancakes Fish tacos

spaghetti pomodoro

Stuffed shells Fish ‘n’ chips Lasagna Tortellini Caesar salad Fried fLounder

Don’t know what to serve your family without being able to turn on your grill? Here are some ideas for delicious dinners. Mix ‘n’ match a main with filling sides and a simple dessert to create a unique meal to satisfy your hungry family members this week.

Falafel Mushroom calzones Aglio e olio spaghetti Honey mustard salmon Tuna burgers

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grilled asparagus Fruit soup Mashed potatoes Sweet potato fries Salad niĂ§oise Wilted spinach with garlic Egg drop soup Steamed edamame

Sliced pickles Fried rice Vegetable eggrolls CaulifLower soup Portobello mushroom caps Corn salsa Grilled asparagus

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Spaghetti Pomodoro

Blueberry Pancakes INGREDIENTS 2 cups flour 2 tablespoons baking powder 1 teaspoon kosher salt 3 tablespoons light brown sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 ½ cups milk 5 tablespoons butter, melted 2 cups fresh blueberries Butter for frying DIRECTIONS In a large bowl whisk the flour, baking powder, salt and brown sugar together. In separate bowl whisk the eggs, vanilla and milk together. Add the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients, and mix until just combined. Mix in the melted butter and stir until combined; the batter will be slightly lumpy. Heat griddle to medium-low heat. Melt a small pat of butter on the griddle. Scoop out ¼ cup of pancake batter onto the hot griddle and top evenly with blueberries. Cook until the edges are set and bubbles form on top of the pancake. Flip and cook until browned. Serve warm.

INGREDIENTS Sauce 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil ½ head garlic, chopped 1 onion, chopped finely 1 ½ cup basil, chopped finely 6 ripe tomatoes, quartered One 12-ounce can Roma tomatoes Salt and pepper, to taste Spaghetti Pomodoro Salt, to taste 1 tablespoon unsalted butter ¼ ounce Parmesan, grated 1 basil leaf, julienned 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil DIRECTIONS For the sauce: Heat the olive oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Add the garlic and onion and cook until both are light brown, about 6-7 minutes. Add ½ cup of the basil and the ripe tomatoes. Cook for 30 minutes. Then, add the canned Roma tomatoes. Cook for 45 more minutes. Add the remaining basil and season with salt and pepper, to taste. Pour the sauce into a food processor and process until the desired texture is attained. For the spaghetti pomodoro: Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil over high heat. Cook the spaghetti until the desired tenderness is reached. Meanwhile, heat the tomato sauce in a pan and add the butter. Melt together and stir thoroughly. Once cooked, drain the spaghetti and add to the sauce. Heat through with the Parmesan and basil just briefly. Plate and top with the extra-virgin olive oil.

Aglio e Olio Spaghetti INGREDIENTS 1 lb. spaghetti 7 cloves garlic, thinly sliced 1/3 cup good quality olive oil ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes ¼ cup fresh parsley, minced 1 cup grated Parmesan DIRECTIONS Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Once the water is boiling, drop in the pasta and stir for a minute until the water returns to a boil. Cook the pasta for about 12 minutes or until cooked to al dente. While the pasta is cooking, combine the garlic and olive in a skillet. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon to keep the garlic from burning. Cook the garlic for about 10 minutes. Then, reduce the heat to medium-low and continue to cook the garlic for another 5 minutes or until the garlic is a golden color. Remove the pan from the heat, stir in the red pepper flakes, and season with salt and pepper to taste. Drain the pasta, reserving about 2 tablespoons of the pasta water. Toss the pasta in the olive oil sauce with the reserved pasta water. Sprinkle with the parsley and cheese and toss to evenly distribute.

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Creamy CaulifLower Soup

son with salt and pepper, to taste. Fold up all 4 sides of the foil and cover tightly.

INGREDIENTS 1 head garlic 4 tablespoons olive oil, divided Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper 2 heads cauliflower, cut into florets, or use frozen 1 onion, diced 5 cups vegetable stock 3 fresh thyme sprigs 1 bay leaf ½ cup heavy cream

Place cauliflower florets in a single layer onto the prepared baking sheet. Add 2 tablespoons olive oil; season with salt and pepper, to taste. Gently toss to combine. Place garlic onto the baking sheet. Place into oven and roast until cauliflower and garlic is tender and golden brown, about 30-35 minutes. Let cool before squeezing cloves from skin.

DIRECTIONS Preheat oven to 425°F. Lightly oil a baking sheet or coat with nonstick spray.

Heat remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil in a large stockpot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Add onion, and cook, stirring occasionally, until tender, about 3-4 minutes. Stir in vegetable stock, thyme and bay leaf. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 5 minutes.

Cut head of garlic, about 1/4-inch, to expose tops of garlic cloves. Place garlic head, cut side up, in a sheet of foil. Drizzle with 1 tablespoon olive oil; sea-

Stir in cauliflower and garlic. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer, covered, until cauliflower is tender and falling apart, an additional 10 minutes. Puree with an

Easy Pizza Dough INGREDIENTS 3 cups all-purpose flour 1 ½ teaspoons instant yeast 1 teaspoon kosher salt 1 ¼ cups lukewarm water 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for bowls and brushing

DIRECTIONS In the bowl of a stand mixer, add the flour, yeast, and salt. While the mixer is running, add the water and olive oil and beat until the dough forms a ball. If the dough is sticky, add additional flour, 1 tablespoon at a time, until the dough is smooth and not sticky. If the dough is too dry, add additional water, 1 tablespoon at a time. Scrape the dough onto a lightly floured surface and gently knead, for about 5 minutes. Divide the dough in half and form into 2 balls. Lightly grease 2 medium bowls with olive oil or nonstick cooking spray and place a dough ball inside of each bowl. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let the dough rise in a warm place until doubled in

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immersion blender until desired consistency is reached. Stir in heavy cream; season with salt and pepper, to taste. If the soup is too thick, add more vegetable stock as needed until desired consistency is reached. size, about 60 to 90 minutes. Preheat oven to 475°F. Lightly grease baking sheet or pizza pan with nonstick spray or olive oil. Turn one of the dough balls out onto a lightly floured surface, keeping the other one covered until ready to use. Gently press out dough from the center into 6-inch circle, leaving a 1-inch border around the edges. Gently stretch dough into a 10 to 12-inch circle. Transfer pizza dough to the prepared pan and brush lightly with olive oil. Top with sauce and desired pizza toppings. Bake for 12 to 17 minutes or until the crust is golden brown. Remove from the oven and let sit for a few minutes before slicing and serving.

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Easy Fruit Salad

Corn Salsa INGREDIENTS 3 cups fresh corn, cooked and shucked 1 cup grape tomatoes, quartered 1 cup bell pepper, seeded and diced ½ red onion, diced ½ cup finely chopped cilantro ½ jalapeno, seeded and diced finely 2 cloves minced garlic 1-2 limes, juiced salt and pepper to taste DIRECTIONS In a large bowl, combine all of the ingredients together and season with salt and pepper to taste. Chill until ready to serve.

INGREDIENTS Salad 4 cups strawberries, hulled and halved 1 cup blueberries 4 mandarin oranges, peeled and segmented 3 kiwis, peeled and sliced ¼ cup fresh mint leaves, torn Dressing ¼ cup orange juice Zest of 1 orange 1 tablespoon honey, or more, to taste ½ teaspoon poppy seeds Pinch of nutmeg DIRECTIONS Make the dressing: In a small bowl, whisk together orange juice, orange zest, honey, poppy seeds and nutmeg; set aside. Make the salad: In a large bowl, combine the fruits. Stir in orange juice mixture and gently toss to combine. Let sit at least 15 minutes before serving, garnished with mint, if desired.

Salted Caramel Milkshake INGREDIENTS 2 large scoops vanilla ice cream ½ cup milk ¼ pint full fat milk 2 tablespoons dulce de leche Small pinch sea salt DIRECTIONS In a blender, add the milk and ice cream and blend until all combined. Add in the dulce de leche and salt, and blend once more until frothy. Pour into chilled glasses.

Chocolate Pudding INGREDIENTS 2/3 cup sugar ¼ cocoa 3 tablespoons cornstarch ¼ teaspoon salt 2 ¼ cups milk 2 tablespoons butter or margarine 1 teaspoon vanilla extract DIRECTIONS Stir together sugar, cocoa, cornstarch and salt in medium saucepan; gradually stir in milk. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture boils; boil and stir 1 minute. Remove from heat; stir in butter and vanilla. Pour into individual dessert dishes. To avoid a skin from forming on top, press plastic wrap directly onto surface; serve warm or refrigerate at least 2 hours. Garnish with whipped topping, if desired.

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Notable Quotes “Say What?!”

He’s also served at the pleasure of a racist president, taken part in thinly veiled propaganda on behalf of a farright government in Israel and gotten chummy with outright bigots and apocalyptic loons. None of this will be inscribed on his Hall of Fame plaque. — From left-wing website Daily Beast, decrying Yankee great Mariano Rivera’s induction into the Hall of Fame since he likes Trump and Israel

Mr. President Trump to me, he was a friend of mine before he became president. So, because he’s president I will turn my back on him? No. I respect him. I respect what he does and I believe he’s doing the best for the United States of America. I’m sort of dumbfounded how unappreciative she is of our country. While I’m not saying we forcibly send her anywhere, I’m willing to contribute to buy her a ticket to go visit Somalia, and I think she could look and maybe learn a little bit about the disaster that is Somalia – that has no capitalism, has no G-d-given rights guaranteed in a constitution, and has about seven different tribes that have been fighting each other for the last 40 years. And then, maybe after she’s visited Somalia for a while, she might come back and appreciate America more. — Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) in an interview with Breitbart, talking about America-bashing Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who comes from Somalia

There was a senator, I think it was after my pancreatic cancer [in 2009], who announced with great glee that I was going to be dead within six months. That senator, whose name I’ve forgotten, is now himself dead and I am very much alive. — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in an interview with NPR

My fear for my career has always been to not be the player that I knew that I could be, and now I’m face to face with that, and I’m at a place where I have no choice but to be completely dependent on G-d. — NBA player Jeremy Lin, who in 2012 played incredibly for the Knicks (“Linsanity”), in a recent interview on Taiwan TV

— Mariano Rivera, responding to the criticism in a Fox News interview during which he also said that he would always support Israel

Donald Trump is a guy who — you understand, he hurts you. My testosterone sometimes makes me want to feel like punching him, which would be bad for this elderly, out-ofshape man that he is if I did that. This physically weak specimen. — 2020 presidential hopeful Sen. Corey Booker while talking about civility in politics on “Late Night with Seth Meyers”

I think if you look at Amazon, although there are certain benefits to it, they’ve destroyed the retail industry across the United States so there’s no question they’ve limited competition. — Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on CNBS

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48 — Number of times Special Counsel Robert Mueller asked lawmakers to repeat their questions during his Congressional testimony last week

99 — Number of times Mueller said he “can’t” or “won’t” get into the substance of the question

I just want to congratulate you, sir, because I thought you – especially as chairman and all the members of your committee – I thought, the Democratic members did a really good job, whatever slowness there was on the part of the witness was just, you know, life. I think you really did a good job in those questions you put to him, and if you listen to the highlights yesterday, you got the payload. It happened. You got the proof. This president should go. — MSNBC’s Chris Matthews congratulating House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) for doing a “really good job” at Wednesday’s hearing with former Special Counsel Robert Mueller despite the common consensus being that Mueller hurt the Democrats’ cause due to his lackluster performance

I don’t normally take the time to respond to critics in the media when they have no clue what they’re talking about, but this modernday McCarthyism is toxic, and damaging, because of the way it warps our entire public discourse. — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell responding to a new push by the Washington Post and MSNBC saying that he is a “Russian asset” and referring to him as “Moscow Mitch”

This modern-day McCarthyism was pushed by big-time outlets. The smear that I am “a Russian asset” ran in the opinion pages of the Washington Post. The accusation that I am “un-American” was broadcast on MSNBC. This is the state of left-wing politics in 2019.

Rep. Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA...... As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded. Cumming’s District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place. — Saturday tweet by President Trump that triggered mass media calls of racism, merely one week after CNN and MSNC called Trump a racist a combined 1,107 times (calculated by Grabian Media) due to his spat with Rep. Ilhan Omar

Al Sharpton would always ask me to go to his events. He would say, “It’s a personal favor to me.” Seldom, but sometimes, I would go. It was fine. He came to my office in T.T. during the presidential campaign to apologize for the way he was talking about me. Just a conman at work! — President Trump after Al Sharpton went to Baltimore to “show his support”

— Ibid.

I just practice before the majors. Regular tournaments I don’t practice. If you’ve seen me on TV, that’s when I play golf. Every day of my training is thinking, “All right, what am I awful at?” and working on it. — CrossFit champion Mat Fraser, age 29, who will go for his fourth gold medal in August at the 2019 CrossFit games to tie the record for most wins ever, in an interview with USA Today

He’s a bit of a keyboard gangster. — Police Commissioner James O’Neill responding to the Sergeants Benevolent Association’s president calling for his ouster due to the recent water attacks on NYPD officers

— Golfer Brooks Koepka responding to Tiger Woods telling the media that “I texted [Koepka] congratulations on another great finish, and I said, ‘Hey dude, you mind if I tag along and play a practice round?’ I’ve heard nothing”

More than 4 Jewish pigs killed in #Jerusalem today by the Palestinian bomb explode. #Israel #Gaza. — Resurfaced 2011 tweet by a CNN editor, leading to the resignation of the editor from CNN

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Mr. Nahmani is a non-violent, first-time offender with no criminal history. He has five young children at home and his wife is suffering from terminal cancer. These extenuating circumstances underscore the urgency of his request for clemency. — Statement by President Trump after granting clemency to an Orthodox Jewish man from Aventura, Florida

I’m still trying to catch my breath because I’m so overwhelmed. I can’t believe what happened and I’m so grateful. — Szylvia Nahmani, in an interview with Hamodia, after her husband was granted clemency

If you did a shot any time Mueller said, “I can’t answer that,” you were blacked out by 10 a.m. “I’m getting redacted today, man.” — Jimmy Fallon

I’m coming. No one will cancel my show. — Singer Jon Bon Jovi responding to BDS protesters, ahead of his performance in Tel Aviv

You just kind of shake your head and laugh. I won a few games before he was here.

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Mueller’s Testimony was Good News for Trump – and Pelosi By Marc A. Thiessen

obert Mueller’s disastrous testimony has taken the wind out of the sails of the Democratic impeachment drive. That is a victory for President Trump. But it also was good news for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. For most Americans, the Mueller investigation was about whether the president of the United States conspired with Russia to steal the 2016 election. Americans were told that the president was a traitor who had colluded with Vladimir Putin to subvert U.S. democracy. So, when Mueller released his report in April finding that “the investigation did not establish that the Trump Campaign coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities,” the country breathed a sigh of relief and was ready to move on. A Harvard-Harris poll in May found that 65% of Americans said Congress should not begin impeachment proceedings against Trump, and 80% of Americans said they wanted their “congressional representatives working more on infrastructure, health care, and immigration” instead of investigating the president. Pelosi was listening and tried to steer her caucus away from the suicidal push for impeachment. But many Democrats refused to

listen to her or the American people. Instead of focusing on substantive issues, they kept focusing on investigating Trump. Despite Mueller’s public declaration that he did not want to appear before Congress because “the report is my testimony,” they insisted he appear – even threatening to subpoena him. As a result, the prospect of Mueller’s testimony loomed over the country for months. That was a huge risk. The Washington Post reports that Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) conducted focus groups in key battle grounds that showed “the public’s impression of the new House majority is bound up in its battles with Trump, not in its policy agenda” and the party’s preoccupation with investigations was “overshadowing the party’s agenda, threatening its grip on the House in 2020.” Rep. Charlie Crist, D-Fla., a DCCC vice chairman, warned that “it seems like there is a preoccupation with what’s happening as it relates to the White House, and so everything else sort of gets drowned out.” Democrats took the House in 2018 by focusing on kitchen-table issues like health care and prescription drug prices to flip districts Trump won in 2016. But the impeachment obsession is threatening vulnera-

ble freshman Democrats in those Trump districts. Rep. Ben McAdams, D-Utah, who won in a Trump district, complained that “I’m spending zero hours per week, zero minutes per week on investigations and impeachment, and I’m spending a lot of time on the issues that my district sent me here to work on…but it doesn’t break through.” Many of McAdams’s colleagues were unmoved by such entreaties. While pushing for Mueller to testify might overshadow their policy work, they calculated that it would also provide sound bites that would be politically devastating for the president. Their bet did not pay off. Mueller sounded fragile and confused and gave Democrats no new ammunition to use against Trump. To the contrary, when he was asked by Rep. Douglas A. Collins, R.-Ga., “At any time in the investigation, was your investigation curtailed or stopped or hindered?” Mueller replied “no.” It’s hard to make a case for obstruction when the special counsel says he was not obstructed. Democrats’ impeachment drive was never going to work. Even if they did pass articles of impeachment, the Senate is not going to convict him. The only way they’re going to get Trump out of office is by beating

him in the 2020 election. But instead of focusing on things they need to do to defeat Trump at the ballot box – such as a policy agenda to win back working-class voters who voted for Obama but defected to Trump in 2016 – they’re focused on impeachment. Not only is that not winning back those Obama-Trump voters, it is pushing them away, because it is perceived as an effort to invalidate their votes. So, the Mueller debacle was a gift to Pelosi. She gave her Democrats a shot at making their case for impeachment, and it blew up in their faces. Yet despite the obvious failure of the Mueller hearings, some pro-impeachment Democrats are undeterred. Politico reports that in a closed-door meeting after Mueller left Capitol Hill, House judiciary committee chairman Jerry Nadler, D.-N.Y., pushed to launch impeachment proceedings. Talk about a tin ear. Pelosi understands that if Democrats run in 2020 on impeachment and Socialism they could lose not just the White House, but their House majority as well. The question is: does her caucus now finally get it – or will they continue their suicidal impeachment drive? (c) 2019, Washington Post Writers Group

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