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Dear Readers,

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t’s hard to believe that you can be so powerful.

But you are.

It’s hard to think that your voice can be so loud in such a big crowd. But it can be.

And if each person uses their power and raises their voice, then the noise that we will make together will shake the world.

But there’s not much time for us.

In less than two weeks, just days from when you’re reading this magazine, our voices will be cut short. Our opinions and our concerns and our fears will be not heard if we don’t utilize the short time we’re given now.

If you are a parent and send your children to yeshiva, you must speak up.

If you are a grandparent with grandchildren in yeshiva, you must speak up.

If you have neighbors or friends whose children go to yeshiva, you must speak up.

If you know a child – any child – in yeshiva, you must speak up.

There are forces in Albany that are trying to take away the autonomy given to yeshivas in New York. They want to dictate what subjects should be taught, who should be teaching them, and how many hours a day these subjects should be given.

Instead of the yeshiva’s menahel and administration working on the year’s curriculum, the local public school’s administration will be deciding if your child should be focusing on the theory of evolution or Palestinian rights or gender definitions in class.

All too often our community has seen personally the power of the individual. Take, for example, what happened in Queens just a few weeks ago with the Democratic primary for Queens district attorney. Melinda Katz won the protracted election against Tiffany Caban with a mere 60 votes.

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That means that those 60 people who decided to drive their car to the polls instead of home after work and took a few minutes out of their schedule were the ones who brought her into office. Sixty people. That’s less than the amount of people who live on your block or who are in the pizza shop on Motzei Shabbos. But those sixty people are powerful. They were able to sway an election that could have easily gone the other way.

That’s the power that each of us have.

The community leaders and organizations have made it easy for us to speak up against the state’s endeavors. You don’t have to get into your car. You don’t have to detour a few blocks from your home.

All you have to do is pick up your phone or head to your computer. I did it while sitting in my car before I headed onto the boardwalk for my walk.

It took less than a minute. That was it? I thought.

Yup. That’s it. But each letter, each person who takes less than a minute of their time to protest the injustice, is another person who is speaking out. And each letter needs to be read. It needs to be counted. It’s given weight and consideration.

Please, quickly, put down this paper (if it’s Shabbos, please wait until after Havdalah), and go to: https://voice.torahumesorah.org/#allSupporters. Take 30 seconds of your time and send it to the powers that be. And then forward the link to your neighbors, your family, your friends, your WhatsApp groups. They don’t need to be living in New York State. But they need to care. They need to care about our children and the next generation.

And together, we can – and we will – save our community’s yeshivas.

The power is yours.

Wishing you a wonderful week, Shoshana

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Contents LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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COMMUNITY 8

Readers’ Poll Community Happenings

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TJH Speaks with…Camp Areivim

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The Danger Facing our Cildren’s Education

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NEWS

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Global

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National

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Odd-but-True Stories

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ISRAEL Israel News

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But Is It Kosher? by Rafi Sackville

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JEWISH THOUGHT Rabbi Wein

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Growing Up by Rav Moshe Weinberger

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To Lead is to Listen by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

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The Wandering Jew The Heroic 101st Squadron by Avi Heiligman

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HEALTH & FITNESS When is Someone Ready for Marital Therapy? by Dr. Deb Hirschhorn 90 The White Coat by Hylton I. Lightman, MD

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I tried not to let her see my heart sinking. She told me her name and that her father had dropped her off at camp in her mother’s stead, alone, too early. I almost took her with me to get help locating her father but quickly changed my mind. She had been so quick to talk to me. So quick to walk away with me. And I didn’t want her to come out of this experience thinking that is OK. “Actually, you shouldn’t move from where you were. I don’t want you to think all strangers are nice. I am but I don’t want you to think everyone is.” I texted my boss that I’d be late and tried my best to see if I could track down the girl’s father. I couldn’t. But thankfully, one of the counselors showed up early and took over for me.

I don’t want anyone to come away from this article thinking that he is a terrible father. I’m not here to accuse him at all. I’m sure he’s a wonderful father who was just a bit overwhelmed and slipped up. I’m simply writing this to remind parents to teach children about all kinds of safety, not just holding Mommy’s hand while crossing the street.

1. Tell your children not to leave the car when somebody drops them off if things don’t look right. Her father might have thought she was supposed to go inside and adults would be waiting for her. Only she could have known that is not correct.

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The Rise of Anti-Semitism on the Left by Marc A. Thiessen

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Dear Editor, I was late to work today. Okay, so I get that’s not exactly breaking news, especially considering it was only by eight minutes, but that’s not why I’m writing this. I’m writing this letter because of the reason I was late.

Let’s backtrack a bit. I was running on time today. I managed to make lunch, gather snacks, and give my mother shaliach mitzvah money for her upcoming flight to Israel before I headed out the door – on time.

I was already walking to work when I saw her. Sweet, cute and olive skinned; she couldn’t have been more than 7. I don’t know how long she was standing on that lawn. I don’t know how many people walked by. Hashem knows I almost did. She was sobbing so softly, and standing so alone, that’s it’s a wonder I did see her. I’m ashamed to admit, I almost kept going, but thankfully that impulse was quickly overpowered by my maternal instincts.

I asked her if everything was okay. She kept sobbing. That’s when it became clear that she was completely without supervision. I quickly pulled out my cell phone, silently praying that it would work (I have terrible luck with cell phones.) “Do you know your mother’s number? I can call her for you.”

She didn’t. Not that it mattered because her mother was not in the area anyway. It had been her father who had dropped her off. “I only know some of my father’s number.”

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3. Teach your child NEVER TO MOVE if she is lost, no matter how convincing the adult, until someone she knows arrives.

It’s a scary world out there and nobody should have to experience that firsthand, chas v’shalom. Please take care of your children. We all want them safe.

Sima Ross Dear Editor, Who was this man that when he was no longer conscious, it was the Daf that played by his bed? Who was this man that just a few months ago, following Ma’ariv the night of Rosh Chodesh Adar, when everyone else turned to go home, he, despite being unable to articulate the words, launched into the tune for mi’shenichnas Adar marbim b’simcha with all his energy causing people to stop in their tracks, come back and dance with him. Who was this man that despite battling cancer, continued to emphatically proclaim, “Baruch Hashem, Hashem is amazing?” (Information based on an article by Rabbi Efrem Goldberg of the Boca Raton Synagogue). The answer is he was my friend who lived in Florida, taken after 47 years of life, who I knew as a child and looked up to in yeshiva as an adult and someone who had many, many friends, Rabbi Dr. Brian Galbut, z”l, Baruch Tzvi Ben Reuven Nosson, z”l.

This Shabbos we are reading parshas Eikev, a direct hint to ikva d’Moshicha and Brian’s name, Baruch Zvi, also hints to Moshiach.

Brian’s second name, Tzvi, is referenced in a verse that refers to Moshiach. The Medrash Rabbah, Shir Hashirim (2:22) on the verse, “Domeh dodi l’tzvi” (2:17), says that

just like a deer is revealed, and hidden, and again hidden, so it will be with Moshiach. He will come and then be concealed and then reveal himself again, and when concealed we will struggle to believe in him, but ultimately, he will resurface.

So, what must be done now based on Brian’s life example to bring Mashiach immediately?

In sefer Devarim, a book of tochacha, the word simcha appears no less than 12 times. The clear and unequivocal message is that to leave a state of exile and achieve redemption, pure simcha is necessary, and that was Brian’s essence, simchat hachaim. Anyone around him was influenced by his utter embrace of life and constant smiling aura, representative of a celebratory existence.

Learn from Brian how to make redemption occur; don’t only be conscious by the Daf, but love it, embrace it, celebrate that you were given the Gemara to learn. Brian affected many, but his example should not just affect many but cause all of klal Yisroel to be in a state of “Ivdu et Hashem b’simcha” (Psalms 100:2), namely, what is an eved Hashem?

He is b’simcha. Then, not only will we rejoice with Moshiach, but ultimately with Brian himself when techiyat hametim is ushered in when we will then also be reunited with all of our family, friends and brethren.

Steven Genack Dear Editor, We missed you this week! I couldn’t find your paper anywhere and then my daughter reminded me that you took off for one week during the summer.

Happy you were able to get some “vacation” but my Shabbos wasn’t the same.

A loyal reader

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The Week In News

Millions Face Starvation in Zimbabwe

A severe drought in Zimbabwe and an ensuing decreased food harvest have left over 2 million people facing starvation in the African country.

The droughts, which depleted numerous sources of clean water throughout the nation, took place from October to May. By July, the country had declared the drought a national emergency.

World Food Programme (WFP) country director Eddie Rowe told CNN that the food crisis was further exacerbated by the country’s economic crisis. “The food security situation in the country has been compounded by the economic situation. This year we have more hungry Zimbabweans than ever before,” said Rowe.

Adding to the crisis are the low water levels that have damaged the country’s main hydro-electric plant in Kariba, leading to widespread blackouts all across the country. The country is also facing a financial crisis and has reintroduced the Zimbabwe dollar a decade after it was abandoned amidst rampant inflation.

According to a UNICEF report in June, a third of Zimbabwe’s population – or 5.5 million people – will be in need of food assistance by 2020. As the country lurches towards a humanitarian disaster, the UN launched a campaign this week aiming to raise $331 million aid from around the world.

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U.S.’s Loss of Strength in Asia?

According to a new report, the U.S. military is no longer the primary force in Asia. Missiles from China’s rapidly improving military could overwhelm U.S. bases in the area in just hours.

The study by the United States Study Center, at the University of Sydney, in Australia, warned that

America’s defense strategy in the Indo-Pacific region “is in the throes of an unprecedented crisis” and could struggle to defend its allies against China. In order to ensure security, Australia, Japan and other U.S. partners need to build up and refocus their forces in the region and consider increased cooperation with the U.S. China’s military is making huge strides as compared to the U.S. and its Asian allies, primarily in the area of missiles.

“China has deployed a formidable array of precision missiles and other counter-intervention systems to undercut America’s military primacy,” the report states. Those missiles number in the thousands, the report says.

Almost all U.S. military installations in the Western Pacific, as well as those of its key partners and allies, “could be rendered useless by precision strikes in the opening hours of a conflict,” according to the report.

China’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday it had not seen the report, but spokesperson Geng Shuang stressed that the country’s military policy was “defensive in nature.”

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peaceful development and our national defense policy is defensive in nature,” Geng insisted.

A November 2018 report to Congress from the National Defense Strategy Commission acknowleged that “the U.S. military could suffer unacceptably high casualties” and “might struggle to win or perhaps lose, a war against China or Russia.”

Six months later, the U.S. Defense Department’s annual report on China’s military said Beijing was intent on developing a world-class military and becoming “the preeminent power in the Indo-Pacific region.” According to the Pentagon report, more than 2,000 short-, medium- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles that can hit land and sea targets are part of that plan.

The Australian study questions the U.S.’s ability to keep up with China’s advances and warns that Washington is facing a crisis of “strategic insolvency.” It notes that it is critical that Japan and other allies in the region need to step up to fill the voids the U.S. is leaving.

ISIS Perpetrates Terror in Afghanistan

“I was with the groom in the other room when we heard the blast, and then I couldn’t find anyone,” Ahmad Omid told the Associated Press. “Everyone was lying all around the hall.”

While the Taliban denied any connection to the attack, Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani said that the group’s close ties with ISIS meant that the militia could not absolve itself of blame. Writing on Twitter, Ghani said that the Taliban “cannot absolve themselves of blame, for they provide [a] platform for terrorists.”

Ghani also vowed to crush ISIS in response to the blast, saying that he “called an extraordinary security meeting to review and prevent such security lapses.”

While ISIS was presumed to be defunct after Syria conquered its last remaining strongholds earlier this year, the Salafist group has pulled off a slew of attacks lately. Afghanistan has also become a hotbed of insurgent activity as the U.S. and the Taliban negotiate a ceasefire that would end 18 years of war between the two sides.

A day after the wedding massacre, ISIS detonated a series of bombs all across the Afghani city of Jalalabad.

Occurring on the day the country celebrated its 100th Independence Day, the attacks wounded over 60 people and has increased pressure on Ghani’s fragile government to act.

Johnson Talks Brexit

At least 63 people were killed and another 182 were injured after a suicide bomber aligned with ISIS blew himself up at a wedding party over the weekend in Afghanistan.

The gruesome bombing is just the latest in a string of attacks in the war-torn country that have been perpetrated by ISIS lately.

Over 1,200 guests had been present at the wedding for a young Shia couple in Kabul on Saturday when a Pakistani terrorist detonated the suicide belt he was wearing. Pictures of the gutted Dubai hall following the blast showed total destruction, with festive clothes scattered among pools of blood and the floor submerged beneath the shattered tables and glass.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said this week that he will demand that the European Union negotiate a new Brexit deal when meeting with German Prime Minister Angela Merkel and French President Emanuel Macron.

Johnson, who recently replaced Theresa May as the British prime minister, is slated to meet with the two prominent European leaders later this week on the sidelines of the G-7 summit in France. As the trip approaches, Johnson vowed to express the fact the England’s par-

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Philippines: Dengue Fever an Epidemic

With almost 150,000 people already diagnosed with dengue fever, the Philippines has classified the

mosquito-borne virus as a national epidemic.

The government said in a statement this week that it had decided to define dengue fever as an epidemic in order to locate areas that have been hit the hardest.

“It is important that a national epidemic be declared in these areas to identify where a localized response is needed and to enable the local government units to use their Quick Response Fund to address the epidemic situation,” said Health Secretary Francisco Duque.

Dengue, a mosquito-borne virus common in warm weather countries, can lead to organ failure and has no known treatment. Symptoms usually include pain in the forehead and eyes, a red rash, and a fever.

The Philippines has been battling a massive outbreak of the virus that experts say is the result of the government banning a popular immunization in February. Known as Dengvaxia, the French-made vaccination is the only one currently available. Once widely popular, use of the vaccine plummeted after it was blamed for the deaths of 14 children in 2016-17. The government summarily banned the drug until an investi-

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inet Office under the codename Operation Yellowhammer, the dossier offers a rare glimpse into the covert planning being carried out by the government to avert a catastrophic collapse in the nation’s infrastructure,” wrote the Sunday Times. “The file, marked ‘official-sensitive’ – requiring security clearance on a ‘need to know’ basis – is remarkable because it gives the most comprehensive assessment of the UK’s readiness for a no-deal Brexit.”

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liament has no intention of reversing the 2016 referendum calling on the UK to leave the EU. With the House of Commons having voted down the deal Theresa May reached with the EU three different times, Johnson says that a new deal is needed if his country will leave the body with an agreement.

However, Johnson reiterated that the UK will leave the European Union with or without a deal on October 31 even if no agreement is reached. The option of a “No Deal Brexit” has raised fears of severe repercussions for England if it crashes out of the union, with government officials warning of dire consequences that would put millions at risk.

On Sunday, leaked Irish government documents warned that the UK would suffer from widespread food, medicine, and gas shortages in the event of a No Deal Brexit in October.

Further repercussions include imposing a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland and massive delays at ports and border crossings.

The report was classified as top secret and was compiled by a jittery Irish government that is attempting to prepare for a No Deal Brexit.

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In the wake of the scare, vaccine use fell all around the country, leading to an epidemic of measles and dengue fever. The latter has been particularly deadly and has already taken the lives of 622 people since January.

In addition, 146,062 people are currently stricken with dengue, a 98% increase since the year before.

The majority of the cases are children under the age of 10, with the Western Visayas the hardest-hit with more than 23,000 cases.

Italian PM Resigns Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced his intention to resign on Tuesday, as a political crisis rumbles on in Rome that could eventually lead to new elections.

Conte has been under pressure since one of the country’s deputy prime ministers – Matteo Salvini, who leads the right-wing Lega party – called for a snap election earlier this month. Salvini declared the

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Conte launched a stinging tirade directed at Salvini in the Italian Senate on Tuesday before saying he would go to the president to formally resign as leader. He said Salvini’s actions had been grave and would have consequences for the country.

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“(Salvini) has shown that he is following his own interests and those of his party,” Conte told a packed Senate. “His decisions pose serious risks for this country.”

Conte – a law professor who was appointed by both parties who form a coalition in Rome but is not affiliated with either – added that the political crisis probably meant the end of this current government.

Italy – the third largest euro zone economy – has been governed by a two-party coalition since elections in March 2018 yielded no outright winner in Rome. The Lega party favors tax cuts and aims to stop illegal immigration while the Five Star Movement (M5S) promotes initiatives that

would extend benefits for citizens.

This coalition has been on a rocky road since it first came to power.

Some of the tension has been caused by government appointments, the country’s relationship with the European Union, and, more recently, a high-speed rail link.

The country’s future is now in the hands of Italian President Sergio Mattarella. He will first receive Conte who will formally resign and then it will be up to him to hold consultations to see whether any parties can form a majority. If not, he will call for a fresh election and decide whether a technocratic and caretaker government should be put in place. Meanwhile, Italy’s opposition Democratic Party (PD) has reportedly discussed forming a coalition with M5S. The instability in Italy has caused uncertainty in a country that has been plagued by political turmoil.

The Italian government, just like other euro zone nations, has to put together its spending plans for the new year by mid-October. The prospect of an early election has led investors to contemplate what sort of economic targets Italy will present to officials in Brussels.

The country has one the highest public debt piles globally, above 130% of its debt-to-GDP (gross domestic product), and any increase in spending could increase public debt even further – an issue which has strained relationships between Brussels and Rome.

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Meth Taking Over Asia

Methamphetamine, commonly known simply as “meth,” has traditionally been associated with the American South. Commonly found in Appalachia and the Southwest, the lab-created drug has been the one of the most frequently abused substances in the United States.

However, the drug has now found a new audience in Asia, and business is booming. The explosive popularity of meth, or “yaba” (madness drug) as it’s called in Southeast Asia, has authorities scrambling to contain what is rapidly becoming the region’s biggest drug crisis.

A recent report released in July by the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) sheds light on the staggering sums of money involved in the area’s meth trade. According to the findings, the meth trade earns between $30 billion and $61 billion annually in countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Bangladesh. The eye-popping numbers mark at least a 100% increase from the yearly $15 billion the UNODC estimated the narcotic earned in 2010.

“No situation is exactly comparable, but this is off the charts,” noted Jeremy Douglas. A veteran law enforcement officer with 16 years of service under his belt, Douglas told CNN that he has never seen anything like the explosion of the meth trade in his entire career.

Experts blame a number of factors for the drug’s rapid increase in production. Commonly made in a lab, meth producers don’t need the vast expanses of land that cocaine or opium production require. In addition, Myanmar’s lawless Shan State has emerged as a drug-making hub due to the lax oversight by law enforcement.

Massive Chinese infrastructure in the region has also built new

roads, bridges, and tunnels, enabling drug traffickers to easily transport their products to once-unreachable markets in Australia and New Zealand.

“It’s a perfect storm in terms of the production of methamphetamine,” says John Coyne, a former intelligence commander in Australia’s Federal Police. “It’s pushing Southeast Asia into what could be in time a methamphetamine epidemic.”

Freeing an Agunah

In an interesting ruling, on Tuesday, Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau ordered the Jerusalem burial of a woman put on hold until her son agreed to grant his estranged wife a religious divorce. Hours later, the man in question expressed his willingness to grant the get, and the funeral of his mother was set to proceed, reports said.

The woman, whose body was flown to Israel from the U.S., was due to be buried in the cemetery on Har HaZeisim on Tuesday morning but Rabbi Lau instructed the burial society to stop the proceedings until her U.S.-based son delivers the divorce papers, known as a get, to a rabbinic court.

Rabbi Lau said the measure was taken in an effort to pressure the husband, an ultra-Orthodox man, into freeing his wife from the bonds of Jewish marriage after refusing to grant the get for over 10 years. His mother had supported him from holding back the get from his estranged wife.

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until the son provides a kosher divorce,” Rabbi Lau wrote in explaining his decision. “We hope this move will soon bring about a divorce and the woman will be released.”

Rabbi Lau was acting in accordance with a ruling by the Agudas Harabonim in the U.S. in Canada, which applied punitive measures against the husband several years ago to pressure him to divorce his wife. Among the restrictions the U.S. rabbis laid down were denying burial rights to the man’s family.

Although he had denied his wife a divorce, the man had remarried by relying on a rare method of approval granted by another rabbinic forum, one that is not recognized by the Agudas Harabonim.

Rabbinical courts have attempted to deal with men who cruelly withhold gittin from their wives by putting pressure on the husbands through any legal means available, including fines and excommunication from the community. In Israel, where rabbinical courts are recognized by the state, some have even been jailed in recent years. In April, an Israeli man finally gave his wife a divorce after he was fired from his job and jailed for refusing to do so.

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Israel and the United Arab Emirates have been holding a series of covert talks in recent months regarding coordinating the fight against Iran, the Wall Street Journal reported.

According to anonymous U.S. officials, the secret sit-downs were organized by the United States Special Representative for Iranian Affairs, Brian Hook. Two of the meetings took place in 2019, with another one happening in 2018. The exact dates and locations were not disclosed and their existence remains a highly classified secret, with only a few U.S. government officials knowing of the talks.

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The sit-down between Israel and the Emiratis, which refuse to offi-

cially recognize Israel’s existence, comes amid a push by the Trump administration to bring Israel and its Arab adversaries to collaborate in battling Iran. Known as the Iran Action Group, the initiative reportedly includes Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Dubai, Bahrain, and Jordan.

“The Iran Action Group has been working with several countries to coordinate diplomatic, security and

intelligence activities in response to Iran’s escalating aggression,” a senior U.S. official told the Wall Street Journal.

“These efforts have helped to preempt and neutralize multiple Iranian threats including terrorist and cyber operations in third countries, planned attacks against international shipping, and illegal trafficking in arms,” the official said.

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The report sheds light on the long-rumored covert alliance between Israel and the UAE. In 2018, the New Yorker published an extensive expose regarding the clandestine ties that have developed between Israel and its ostensible adversary as they both sought to scuttle the Iran nuclear deal in 2015.

According to the article, after then-President Obama signed the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, “U.S. intelligence agencies learned of phone calls between senior United Arab Emirates and Israeli officials, including calls between a senior Emirati leader and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.”

Allegedly, Hillary Clinton was heard telling people as a presidential candidate that she “knew that the UAE and Saudi Arabia were already working together behind the scenes with Mossad to counter Iranian influence.”

The New Yorker added that U.S. intelligence entities “picked up on a secret meeting between senior UAE and Israeli leaders in Cyprus.”

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A 40-year-old police officer was moderately wounded on Thursday after being stabbed by two Palestinian terrorists in Jerusalem’s Old City.

According to police, the pair left the Temple Mount, where they had stashed the knives, and attacked the officer guarding the esplanade. Despite suffering from upper body injuries, the officer managed to radio for backup, leading other officers to shoot one terrorist dead and mortally wound the other.

The terrorists were aged 14 and 16 and hailed from Jerusalem’s Al-

Ezaria neighborhood, which is considered by authorities to be a hotbed of terrorism and crime. The officer was evacuated to Shaare Tzedek Medical Center and is recuperating from his injuries.

Police added additional forces to guard the Old City following the attack and restricted entry to the Temple Mount. A member of the Arab Waqf, which manages the Temple Mount, was also injured by police gunfire.

Old City Police Commander Haim Shmueli praised the officers for their rapid response to the attack.

“This evening we saw the swift and determined response of Israeli police officers who have been in the Old City all year,” he said. “We are investigating the incident and are conducting it accordingly. Tomorrow police will be deployed with increased readiness to allow freedom of worship on the Temple Mount.”

Welfare Minister Haim Katz Resigns

Israel’s Welfare Minister Haim Katz resigned on Friday following his indictment on a slew of corruption charges.

A few days prior, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced that he had decided to prosecute Katz over charges of fraud and breach of trust. The decision came following a multi-year bribery probe by police into Katz’s relations with some of Israel’s most powerful corporations.

In his resignation letter, Katz denied all of the charges against him and claimed that none of his actions were criminal. “In everything I have done as a minister and a Knesset member, I have operated professionally and ethically on behalf of the public,” Katz wrote. “Serving the public is the mission of my life, so I will continue to serve the citizens in any way I can.”

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Deputy Foreign Minister and fellow Likud party member MK Tzipi Hotovely responded to the resignation by calling on Netanyahu to appoint her to the now-vacant post.

Writing on Twitter, the veteran lawmaker said that the premier needed to make her a minister in order to avoid offending the Religious Zionist community to which she belongs.

“I expect the prime minister to appoint me as a minister,” wrote Hotovely. “This is the moment of truth vis-a-vis Religious Zionism that is part of the Likud. This high-quality sector wants to see an appropriate representation [in the government] from the ranks of the ruling party.”

On Wednesday, Mandelblit announced his decision to indict Katz on charges of fraud and breach of trust, while removing the bribery charge from the rap sheet. After the indictment, Mandelblit told Netanyahu that Katz must resign from his post to fight the charges, following the precedent set in the 1990s mandating indicted ministers to resign.

Terrorists Dress like IDF Soldiers

The IDF killed three Hamas commandos after they attempted to infiltrate Israel from the Gaza Strip on Saturday evening.

Dressed in IDF uniforms, the squad of terrorists attempted to cross into Israel from the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday evening under the cover of a rocket barrage fired at Sderot. However, military spotters noticed the heavily armed men approaching the border fence under the cover of darkness, setting off a massive firefight.

Three men were killed from IDF tank and helicopter fire while the remainder escaped back into the Gaza Strip. “A short while ago, IDF troops spotted armed suspects near the security fence around the northern

Gaza Strip. An IDF attack helicopter and a tank fired at them,” said the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit.

Following the incident, Hamas threatened that “the anger and rage in which our people are exposed to will explode before the occupation unless the siege is removed from the Gaza Strip and its crimes and organized terrorism and repeated burglaries into the al-Aqsa mosque are stopped.”

In addition, the governing body in the Gaza Strip has accused the international community of “helplessness and silence” in the wake of Israel’s “crimes of violations.”

The firefight comes as tensions between Hamas and Israel continue to escalate. Earlier in the day, three rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip into Israeli communities on the Gaza border, with shrapnel falling into a Sderot backyard. Six people were lightly injured, with two of them suffering from cuts after being hit by flying glass.

The rocket fire from the Gaza Strip followed a ramming attack in Gush Etzion that injured two brothers and a stabbing attack on Tuesday in Jerusalem’s Old City.

Tlaib Hates Israel More than She Loves Her Grandma

Democratic Party Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib summarily rejected Israel’s offer last week to let her visit her grandmother in the West Bank if she promised not to promote anti-Israel boycotts during her visit.

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri had decided to permit Tlaib to enter Israel on humanitarian grounds, reversing an earlier decision to ban the Palestinian lawmaker from the Jewish State.

Tlaib refused the offer, however, saying that she could not give up her political beliefs simply to visit her ailing grandmother. “I have decided

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that visiting my grandmother under these oppressive conditions stands against everything I believe in – fighting against racism, oppression & injustice,” she tweeted.

The decision to permit Tlaib to enter on humanitarian grounds came after Israel caused a furor on Thursday by announcing that it would bar Tlaib and fellow legislator Rep. Ilhan Omar from conducting a high-profile and provocative trip to Israel within the coming weeks. The move was the first time the Jewish State has ever prevented a sitting U.S. politician from arriving in Israel, leading to a storm of criticism in the U.S. Israeli officials had justified the ban by pointing to Tlaib and Omar’s history of virulent anti-Israel statements and support for the BDS movement. Yet following the announcement, Tlaib appealed personally to Deri and asked him to reconsider, saying that she wanted to visit her elderly grandmother in the West Bank.

In a letter to the Interior Ministry, Tlaib asked to be admitted into Israel on humanitarian grounds and promised not to initiate any provocative activities during her visit.

“I would like to request admittance to Israel in order to visit my relatives, and specifically my grandmother, who is in her 90s and lives in Beit Ur al-Fouqa,” wrote Tlaib.

“This could be my last opportunity to see her. I will respect any restrictions and will not promote boycotts against Israel during my visit.”

Following the appeal, Deri decided to allow Tlaib to visit her family.

The decision came after intense negotiations between the lawmaker and the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., and was reportedly approved by Prime Minister Netanyahu himself. Deri said in a statement that he “expressed hope that she will live up to her promise and that the visit will only be for humanitarian needs.”

Israel has originally said that it would not prevent Omar and Tlaib from arriving despite their history of anti-Israel activity. However, Netanyahu decided to reverse the decision last week, reportedly following a personal request from President Donald Trump to bar them from Israel. The unprecedented ban on the two lawmakers led to a flood of criticism in the United States, with Democratic Party politicians charging that Israel was making itself a partisan issue by aligning with the GOP.

Jordanian Arrested for Plotting Terror Attack Israel announced on Monday that it had arrested a 21-year-old Jordanian male for planning to carry out a stabbing attack.

According to authorities, Mohammed Matzalah was in Israel illegally after overstaying the tourist visa he had received to visit his sister in the Palestinian city of Tulkarem.

During his sojourn in Israel, he became radicalized and decided to murder an IDF soldier.

In order to carry out the attack, Matzalah purchased a knife and infiltrated the nearby Israeli city of Hadera on July 22. While wandering the streets in search of a target, Matzalah aroused the suspicions of a local police officer, who demanded that he present identification.

After realizing that Matzalah was in Israel illegally, the police officer attempted to bring him into the local police station. Matzalah refused the officer’s orders and drew the concealed knife he was carrying, leading to a brief struggle between the two.

Another officer nearby then drew his weapon and shot the terrorist in the leg, enabling his partner to arrest him. No police were injured during the melee.

Matzalah faces a slew of charges, including planning to carry out a deadly terror attack, aggravated assault, possession of a knife, and illegal entry into Israel. While the attack occurred in late July, the situation had been kept under a gag order until Monday due to the sensitive ties between Israel and Jordan.

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‍×?×?‏ ÎÂÇÛ Ă”Ă˜Ă?Ă‚ĂƒĂ‡ .‍ה×? בקור×? ק×? עץיק בקור×? ×œ×”×’×™×”â€Ź :[‍די׌×? דמעכבות‏ Ă”Ă˜Ă?Ă‚Ăƒ Ăƒ ĂšĂ?Ç ÆÅÇÆË Ăš ÚËÂĂ? Ăš ĂƒĂ‹Ă›Ă?Ç Ă…Ă‡ĂƒĂ?Æ â€Ť×˜×˘×•×Ş ד×?×¤×™×œ×•â€Ź :‍קור×? בתורה‏ ÆËÒÛ Ă‘Ă‹Ăƒ ÆËÒÛÎ ÆÒÇÛÂÇÛ Ă?Ă‹Ă™ĂšĂ–ĂƒĂ‡ Ă…Ă‡ĂƒĂ?Æ Ă‹ ĂšĂ?ÂËÇ Ă‘Ă‹Ăƒ ĂšĂ?ÂËÇÎ Ă‚Ăš ÆĂ?ĂšĂƒ Ă‘Ă‹Ăƒ Ă?ËÙÚÖÆÒÖĂ? ĂƒĂ‹Ă›Ă?Ç ÆÂÚËÆ Ă‹Ă’Ă– Ă‹ĂšĂƒĂ… ĂƒĂ‹Ă›Ă?Ç .‍ ככתבה‏:‍היה הץפר ×?×? י׊ בומתכוי×&#x;‏ ‍×?ת‏ â€Ť×’×œ×™×•×&#x; ה׊"ץ‏ â€Ť× ×ž×™ ל×?‏ ÔÇĂ?Ă› Ă?Ă‚ ÆËÆÇ .‍הדברי×?‏ ÔÛÇÆË Ăš ĂšĂ?Ă‚ ÙËÓÖË Ă‚ Ă„ ÑÆ ÇΠĂ?Ă…Ă‚ ĂŽĂ?ĂŽ Ă?ÇÎ Ă? ÎÂÇÛ ‍ מג"×?‏.'‍הקור×? כו‏ ‍ מדברי×?דברי×? ×”×?×œ×”â€Ź:â€Ť×œ×§×¨×™×?×” הקד׊‏ Ă‘Ă‹Ăƒ ÔÇĂ?Ă› Ă‘Ă‹Ăƒ '‍גמ‏ ÎÇÔ ÇËÎÔ ĂŽĂƒĂ™Ă‹Ă› Ă‹Ă…Ă? ĂŽ ĂƒĂ‹Ă˜Ă‹Ă‡ ĂœĂ?Ă‚ĂŽ ĂšĂ?ÂËÇ Ă‘Ă‹Ăƒ ‍ץימ×&#x;×›×œ×§× ×• ועיי×&#x; פר"×— ץ"ץ בל׊ו×&#x;‏ Ă?Ă‚ ÆËÆÇÎ Ă”Ă?Ă› ‍דהוה ליה ×œ×ž×›×Ş×‘ והיו׊יקר×? הדברי×?‏ :‍ץ"ז‏ ĂšĂ?ÂËÇÎ ÔÇĂ?Ă› Ă?Ă‚ ÆËÆ(‍ ז‏ÔÇĂ?Ă› Ă?Ă‚ ÆËÆÇÎ Ă”Ă?Ă› Ă… ĂšĂ?Ç ÆÅÇÆË Ăš ĂƒĂ‹Ă˜Ă‹Ă‡ Ăœ Ă‘Ă‹Ăƒ Ă”Ă?ÛÎ Ă› ‍וב׊עריך‏ ‍פרק ×”×™×” קור×?‏ â€Ť×œ×ž×“×¨×Šâ€Ź ‍ עיי×&#x;‏.'‍מבע"ל כו‏ ‍ד"×” )דברי×? ו( ×œ×ž×¤×¨×˘ כגו×&#x;‏ Ă…ĂƒĂŽĂƒ Ă?Ă‡Ă‹Ăƒ Ă‚ĂŽĂ‚ ÄÆÇÒ Ç ĂœĂ‡Ă˜Ă? ÎÇÔ ÇËÎÔ ĂŽĂƒĂ™Ă? ĂœĂ›ĂšĂ– ÆĂ?Ă…Ă™ ÆĂ?ĂŽ ‍גמ' ההו×?‏ Ă?Ă‚ĂŽ .'‍קץבר ר' וכו‏ â€Ť×Ą×•×˜×” ×™"×– ע"בבל׊ו×&#x; כץדר×&#x; ול×?‏ (‍ ו‏ÆÉÚÙ Ă‘Ăƒ ËÚÙ Ă‚Ă™ ÂÆÇ ĂœĂ‡ĂšĂ™ĂŽ ĂœĂ‡ ÇÒË ÚĂ?ÂËÇ Æ ĂŒĂ? ÚÉÂÇ Ă†ĂŽĂ‰Ăœ Ă?Ă‹Ă?Ă› ‍תוץ' תוץ' ד"ה‏ (‍ה‏ ‍ לימ×? לק"׊ ׊תה×?‏:‍עיי×&#x; ביתך מזוזות‏ Ă†ĂŽĂ‹ĂŽĂƒ Ă‘Ă‹ĂƒĂ‡ Ă?Ă‡Ă‹Ăƒ Ă‘Ă‹Ăƒ ÄÆ ‍ מד×?×™×Ś×˜×¨×™×š ליה קר×?‏:â€Ť×§×œ"ה‏.'‍דה×? עזר×? כו‏:‍דכתיב‏ ĂšĂ?Ă‚ Ă‹ĂƒĂšĂ… ĂŠ Ă? ÑÇÛÎ ĂŽ ÚÙÎ Ă‡ĂƒĂŽ ÑÇÇĂ? Ă?Ă‚ Ă‹Ă‚Ă? Æ ĂœĂ‡Ă?ĂŽĂ? â€Ť×œ×™×” ב׊×?ר ×›×œâ€Ź ‍כו' מג"×? רי׊ ץימ×&#x;‏ ÇÒ ÔÇĂ?Ă› Ă?Ă‚ ÆËÆÇÛ Ă†ĂœĂ‚Ă› ÑÇÛÎ ĂŽĂ?Ăƒ Ă”Ă?Ă›Ă?Ăƒ Ăˆ Ă‚ Ă?ÉÇ Ă‹ĂƒĂš Ă‹ĂšĂƒĂ… Ă†ĂƒĂœĂ? :‍ככתבה ץביר×? × ×?מרה ×œ×§×¨×•×Şâ€Ź ÒÇÇĂ? ĂœĂ‡Ă?Ă‹ĂšĂ˜ ĂœĂ‡Ă˜Ă? ‍תדרו׊‏ â€Ť×œ×Š×•×&#x;‏ Ç (‍ח‏ ÇÆÎ Ă‹ĂšĂƒĂ“ Ă‘Ă’ĂƒĂšĂ‡ ÂÚÙ ĂšĂ?Ă‚ ÇÆËËĂ?ÔÊ Ă‹Ă‚ Ă? Ă› Ă™ (â€Ť×˜â€Ź Ă? Ă› ‍ דל×?‏.â€Ť× ×™×Ą×™×? ×’×?ו×&#x; התורה בכל ׊מע‏ Ăš Ăœ ÆËÄÆÎ Ă‚ĂšĂ‡Ă™Ăƒ ‍דכתיב‏ ‍׊ומע‏ ‍רב‏ ÔÚÖĂ?ĂŽ ÂÚÙË (‍ ×™â€ŹĂŒĂ‹Ă–Ă? Ă‚Ă‹Ă˜Ă‡Ă? Ă†ĂœĂ‚Ă› Æ ¨¢š™ ¹š ¢ªž¢ Ă? Ă‘Ă’ĂƒĂšĂ‡ ÇÆË Ă‘ĂœĂ‹Ă‹Ă‡Ă†Ăƒ ÇËÆ :‍מ׊ו×? בכל ל׊ו×&#x; ׊×?×Ş×”×˘×œ ×œ×‘×‘×šâ€Ź

Âą ‍מותיב‏ ¢ªž¢ Âą ™§¢³¢™ž Ă? ĂŒĂ‹Ă’ĂˆĂ‚ĂŽ Ă”Ă?ÛÆ ÆËÎ Ă‹ ËÛÚÅ Ă‚ĂŽ Ă‚ĂŽĂ› ÇÆÎ Ă‹Ă”ĂƒĂ? ‍™ ׊מע‏¼ ¢§ ÂŚÂ?¹š™ ž¥™ ™œšÂ&#x; ¹š

Ç ÂÚÙ ‍ עד ×?×™×›×?‏.‍ עד ×›×?×&#x;‏:‍Œ ×›×¨×‘× ×&#x;‏¹š™ ÆÚĂ?Ă‚Ă’ Ă?Ă‹ĂšĂƒĂ…Ă† Ă?Ă‹ĂšĂƒĂ… ÂÇÆÆ R ÇËÆÇ ĂƒĂ‹ĂœĂ? Ă”ĂƒĂ? ÂÇÆÆ Ă”Ă?Ă› ĂƒĂ‹ĂœĂ?

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‍יחיד מ׊מע‏ ‍ ל׊ו×&#x;‏.‍×?ב לכל ׊רי‏ ‍דמעיקר×?‏ :(‍)׊×? יז‏ ‍ ׊מו ×?בר×?‏.‍ מץדר ׊בחיה‏:‍׊רתי‏ ‍בהיות‏ :‍×?׊ר בחרת בו׊מו ×?ברה×?‏ ‍ו׊מת‏

‍מ( ]במדבר ]ע"׊ ×‘×ž×’×™×œ×”â€Ź Ă‡Ăƒ ÔÄÖ ËÚ ÆÛÔĂ? ĂŒĂŽĂˆ ÆÛÔĂ? ĂŒĂŽĂ‡Ă†Ă‡ ÚÖÓĂ? ‍מ×?ימתי‏ (‍ ץ‏,[â€Ť×œ×Š×•×&#x;‏ ‍]כד×?×™' ׊בת‏ (‍ ע‏,[‍תד"×” ×›×œâ€Ź ÆËÆÇ Ă?ÆËÒÛ ÇÆÇ ÚÖÓĂ? ÆËÆÇ ÇÒĂ?Ă? :‍הדר×&#x; ×˘×œ×š פר׊ת ק"׊‏ ,[:‍פח‏ ÎÂÚÛË ĂŒĂ? ÆÛÔĂ? ÉĂ?Ă› ÇÒĂ?Ă? ‍ זמ×&#x;‏.‍ המקר×?‏.‍היה קור×? בתורה‏ ĂŽĂ˜Ă‹Ă’Ă‡ ÛÉÒ ‍ההפץקות‏ ‍והגיע זמ×&#x;‏ ĂœĂ‡Ă’Ă‡Ă›Ă‚ĂšĂ† Ă•Ă‚ ÛÉÒ ÆÛÔĂ? ĂŒĂŽĂ‡Ă†Ă‡ ‍תורה ה׊ל×?‏ ÚÖÓĂ? ‍ בי×&#x;×‘×ž×Ş× ×™×Ş×™×&#x; בי×&#x;‏.‍ בפרקי×?‏:‍– ק"×Šâ€ŹĂ•ÂŒr Âş|”m Ŕi‍×?ור‏ ĂƒĂ‚ ÆÛÔÒ ĂœĂ‚ ĂœĂ‡Ă‰Ă?Ă›Ă? ĂœĂ‡Ă’Ă‡ĂšĂ‰Ă‚ Ă…ÂŒqÂŒrĂ i– ĂŠi‚ mĂ” ˆ p| .1 ‍מפר׊‏ mĂ” ˆ ÇÎÇĂ? Ă?ÎÇÔÆ Ă†ĂŽĂ‰ĂœĂƒ Ă?Ă†ĂšĂƒĂ‚ ÂÇÆ ĂœĂ‡ĂšĂ˜ â€Ť×œ×”×• ×œ×Š× ×™×” בי×&#x; ×Š× ×™×”â€Ź  ¢ ݤ žÂ?¢²¢ p| Â–Ă•ĂˆmÂŒr Š i p“i ÎĂ?ĂŽ ĂƒĂ‚ ÆÛÔÒ Ă?ĂšĂƒĂ‚ .â€Ť×•×œ×§×ž×&#x;פר׊ה ר×?×Š×•× ×” ×ž×¤× ×™ הכבוד‏ € qĂ” pÂŽ € qÂş (‍כ‏ Ă†ĂœĂ?ÇÂÎ ËÚÛ ĂœĂ‹Ă›Ă”Ă’ Æ q kƒ € oÂťr ÂŽ Â…m ŒŒi m€ Â? p| q€ÅŽ q ‍ ׊ו×?×œâ€Ź:'‍כו‏ Ă•Ă‡Ă“ĂƒĂŽĂ‡ Ă?ÚÂÎ (â€Ť× ×›×‘×“ ׊ר×?וי ג‏ nĂ” |Ă•Âˆ k€ ƒ .2 qŠiÂ’ m– Ă‹Ă’Ăœ ÇÎÇĂ? Ă?ÎÇÔÆ ĂŽĂ?ĂŽ ĂŽĂ‰ĂœĂƒ ÆÚÛ ÂËÆ ËÚÛ mº…mà ¾”o Ăƒ ”q ‍×?×?‏ ‍‹ ×œ×Š×ž×˘ ב׊לו×? ×?ד×?‏Պ o ¥¢ ݤ žÂ?¢²¢ Ă i mĂŒpà ‰… mÂťq|

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Accurate, well-researched, vowelized Or HaChaim text

Ă†Ăˆ ĂœĂ‡Ă’Ă‡Ă›Ă‚Ăš ‍מכ×?×&#x;‏ Ă?Ă‹ĂšĂ˜Ă? ĂœĂ‚Ă‹Ă˜Ă‹ Ă‡Ăˆ Ă‡Ă’Ă’Ă‡ĂƒĂœ '‍ יוץף ×?מר ודברת ב×? × ×ž×™ ד×?מרי‏ÄÇÄ ĂœĂ?ÉÎĂ? Ă‡Ăˆ ÕÓÇË ĂƒĂš Ă‹Ă’Ăœ ÉĂ?Ă˜Ăœ Ăœ ‍ ×•×”×™×™× ×• ודברת ב×?‏.‍ ר׊ות לדבר ב×?‏ÆËÆÛ Ă?Ă…Ă‚ĂŽ ÆĂ?ÇÅ ĂšĂƒ (:‍דיומ×? )דף ×™×˜â€Ź Ă†ĂœĂ” ÆËÆÇ ÇÒĂ?Ă? ĂŽĂ˜Ă‹Ă’Ă‡ ĂƒĂ‚Ăˆ ÅÆ ÆĂ?ĂŽ ĂŽĂ›Ă? ‍בה‏ (‍ ×?‏ÄÇÄĂ?Ç ĂŽĂ˜Ă‹Ă’Ă‡ ËÚÂ Ă‡Ăƒ ÔÄÖ ĂƒĂ‚(‍ ×‘â€ŹĂ‡Ăƒ ÔÄÖÇ ĂŒĂšĂ…Ăƒ ĂŒĂŽĂ†Ă? .‍בקור×? ×œ×”×’×™×”â€Ź

â€Ť×›×”×œ×›×Ş×&#x; ×•×›× ×§×•×“×Ş×&#x;בחץרות וביתרות‏ ‍קרי כדי להבי×&#x;‏ ‍ו×?×? כוו×&#x; ×œ×‘×•â€Ź â€Ť×œ×˜×˜×¤×Ş ומזוזת ×œ×§×¨×•×Ş כדי×&#x;‏

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The Yaakov and Ilana Melohn Edition of Or Hachaim includes:

‍הקב"×” יעקב‏ ‍ ׊הרי ×ž×Ś×™× ×• ׊קר×?ו וי×?מר יעקב‏.‍ממקומו‏ ‍׊יעקר יעקב‏ ‍וי×?מר ×?להי×? לי׊ר×?ל ×?ל תזכרו‏ ‍גמ' ל×?‏ ‍ בתר׊מ×?ר׼ ×?ר×?‏.‍ז×?ת ברדתו ×œ×ž×Ś×¨×™×? ×Š× ×?×ž×¨×”× × ×™ עו׊ה חד׊ה‏ :(‍מו‏ â€Ť×œ×?× ×Š×™ ×ž×“×™× ×Ş×•â€Ź ‍×?חר‏ .‍וי×?מר ×”× × ×™ )בר×?׊ית ל×?ר×?‏

‍×?ב‏ ‍ יעקב‏,[‍ ד"×” ×’×™' ×?חרת‏:‍ע"×– ב‏ ÇÚĂ?ĂˆĂœ ĂŽĂ‚ ‍׊היה ×œ×¤× ×™×”×?‏ ‍ ×‘×Ş×—×œ×” ×”× ×”×¨ י׊בו‏:‍ ר×?×Š×•× ×•×Ş כתיב‏,‍הי"ד‏ ĂšĂ?Ç ÂÇÆÙĂ?Ă? ĂƒĂ™Ă”Ă‹ ÚÙÔËÛ Ă‚ĂŽ ‍פ"×?‏ ÇÚĂ?ĂˆĂœ ĂŽĂ‚ Ă‡Ă’Ă’Ă‡ĂƒĂœĂœ ĂŽĂ‚ ‍ ×”( ]×˘× ×™×&#x;‏,[:‍ג( תוץפת×? כח‏ ‍ב׊בת ×”×™×” ×Š× ×?מר בעברו×?ומר ×?ל ×?ר×?‏ Ă‘Ă?Ç ÇÎ ĂŽĂ–ĂŠ ‍ד( ]ר"×” דף‏ (‍)יהו׊ע כד‏ '‍קרחה פיר׊ו תוץ‏ ĂƒĂ™Ă”Ă‹Ă‡ :(‍)בר×?׊ית כד‏ ĂŽĂ‚ ĂœĂ‡Ă‹Ă’Ă‡Ă?ÅÙÇ ĂœĂ‡Ă‹Ă’Ă‡Ă?ÅÙÇ ĂœĂ‡Ă’Ă‡Ă›Ă‚Ăš '‍ וע' תוץ‏.‍קיג‏ ‍ב×&#x;‏ ‍ ×?בותיכ×?×?ל עיר × ×—×•×¨â€Ź,[.â€Ť× ×—â€Ź ĂœĂ‡Ă‹Ă?ĂŽĂ? Ă…Ă‡ĂƒĂ”Ă› ÆÛÅÉ ÆÛÇÔ ËÒÒÆ ‍ × ×”×¨×™×?‏,[:‍ ובכורות יד‏.‍פץחי×?וב"בקיב‏.â€Ť×§× â€Ź ‍ ×?ב המו×&#x; גוי×?‏.â€Ť×”×˘×•×œ×?‏ â€Ť×œ×§×ž×&#x;‏

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‍׊×?×™×&#x; מ׊יבי×&#x;‏  ¹ž š³¤ ² ¢¹ ªž³š ‍בפ"×§×‘×Ş×¤×œ×” פירו׊‏

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â€Ť×•×œ×?‏ ™¹ž°š ¢­ ¨ž›¤ š³¤ ² ¢¹ ªž³š :‍הכבוד‏ .‍מתכוי×&#x; ×œ×§×¨×•×Şâ€Ź Â?¹­ž ¹ž¤Â&#x; â€Ť×ž×¤× ×™ ×‘×§×•× ×˜×¨×Ą ׊×?×™×&#x;‏

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‍קור×? התיבות‏.‍תימה ×?כתי ×”×? ק×? קרי‏ Â?¢›§š Â¨ÂœÂ˘Âœ ªž³š ™³¢™ ¢ ž­œšž ‍בקור×? להגיה ׊×?×™× ×• ×?ל×? ככתיבת×&#x;‏

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‍כמו‏ ‍×?ל×? ×›×œ×•×ž×¨â€Ź …ˆ™˜ Â?‚ “š†…Š ™ ™Â?Â â€Ť×œ×?ו דוק×?‏ :â€Ť×›× ×§×•×“×Ş×&#x; ×•×›×”×œ×›×Ş×&#x;‏ â€Ť×‘×›×•×œ×™×” ה׊"ץ‏

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Carolina with 300 flying hours, putting her in the elite cadre of only 89 aviators who are currently piloting the next-generation F-35. She will now be assigned to the Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 based out of Japan and will be tasked with flying combat-support missions for U.S. troops stationed in the Pacific.

yourself,” added Satz. “The syllabus thoroughly prepares you for that first time you take off and for every flight after that, it’s an exhilarating experience.”

Satz also thanked her instructors for assisting her in making history and said that her previous career piloting helicopters helped her pass the Marines’ demanding flight course.

“I’m very grateful for the instructors, the maintainers, and countless others at 501 who lent me their expertise and time while I was going through the syllabus,” Satz said.

Hickenlooper Drops Out Satz, 28, is a licensed commercial helicopter pilot and joined the Marines after college. She has spent the past four years training all across the U.S. in order to pass the F-35 training course, including a sojourn at an unnamed airbase overseas.

“At each of my training schools I did my best,” Satz said. “I truly believe that showing up prepared and working diligently are two major keys to success.”

“The first flight in an F-35 is by

Acknowledging his dismal showing in the polls, former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper dropped out of the race to be the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee last week.

“I ran for president because this country is being ripped apart by politics and partisan games while our biggest problems go unsolved. Now today, I’m ending my campaign for president, but I will never stop believing that America can only move forward when we work together,”

Hickenlooper announced in a video he posted on Facebook.

The 67-year-old went on to thank his campaign staff for their “great work against long odds.” He is the third candidate to leave the race, following California Congressman Eric Swalwell and former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel.

The former governor had struggled to stand out from the dozens of candidates competing to take on President Trump in the 2020 presidential election. Since throwing his hat into the ring last March, he has never risen above 1% in the polls and only raised $1.1 million in the second quarter, lower than any other candidate.

Markedly more moderate than other Democrats, Hickenlooper’s reluctance to embrace the party’s more radical positions added to his poor

showing in the polls. In June, the former governor was roundly booed at the Democratic Party’s presidential debate after declaring that “socialism is not the answer to America’s problems,” which added to his image as one who is out of touch with the electorate.

Running out of money and bleeding staff, Hickenlooper was long expected to bow out of the race long ago and will reportedly run for Colorado’s open Senate seat instead. Confirming that he is weighing that option, Hickenlooper said on Thursday that he heard from “many Coloradans who want me to run for United States Senate” and that he would “give that some serious thought.”

July Was Hot, Hot, Hot Scientists have confirmed what many around the world have suspected: July was the world’s hottest month, with temperatures higher than any other period since weather data collection began in 1880.

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The current year is also on pace to tie 2017 as the hottest year in history and follows a sweltering June that holds the record as the hottest June ever. The surge in temperatures around the world also makes it the hottest month in 140 years, topping the previous record set in July 2016.

Contributing to the overall temperature increase was a record heat wave that saw sweltering record-breaking temperatures in capitals all across Europe. Temperatures in Paris reached an all-time high at 42.6 degrees Celsius, along with Belgium (41.8°), Germany (41.5°), Luxembourg (40.8°), and the Netherlands (40.7°).

With temperatures in 10 of the past 11 years rising consistently, scientists are warning that the planet is beginning to heat up. “If you put all of the Julys for the last 20 or 40 or 100 years, there’s a clear trend upward. That’s the concern – that longterm trend. Not a single day or single month in particular,” climate expert Michael Allen told Time.

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Social Media Causes Indirect Harm

A new study has found the social media mainly causes damage in teenagers by indirectly encouraging harmful behaviors. The findings contradict previously held conclusions that blamed social media use for causing direct harm such as depression and internet addiction.

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tracked over 10,000 British children between the ages of 13 and 16 in England. Since 2013, the teens answered frequent surveys regarding their social media usage as well as their personal sleep patterns, relationships, and overall health.

According to the conclusions of the study published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, social media-related problems are mainly tied to the harmful actions it causes. Failing to

find a direct link between heavy usage of popular sites such as Facebook and Instagram, researchers said instead that the aforementioned platforms can result in misuse by emotionally immature teenagers. This includes cyberbullying, sleep deprivation, internet addiction and lack of physical exercise.

The findings also showed a disparity between how social media affects different genders, with health prob-

lems overwhelmingly affecting teen girls over teenage boys. For example, cyberbullying was the most damaging online behavior for girls, followed by sleep problems and a lack of physical activity. However, only 12% of boys suffered from such phenomena as opposed to the 60% of girls.

“Our results suggest that social media itself doesn’t cause harm, but that frequent use may disrupt activities that have a positive impact on

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mental health such as sleeping and exercising, while increasing exposure of young people to harmful content, particularly the negative experience of cyber-bullying,” noted study co-author Russell Viner in a statement.

In light of the study’s conclusions, researchers suggested that parents and teachers take a different approach when regulating social media behavior among teens. Rather than limiting screen time, the academics suggested that children be taught proper and healthy social interaction instead.

“The message, really, is that it’s not social-media use, per se, that causes harm,” explained co-author Dasha Nicholls. “It’s about getting a balance between social-media use and other age-appropriate activities, and ensuring that there aren’t specific negative things happening online.”

NYPD Officer Pantaleo Fired This week, NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo was fired from the police force and will not receive his NYPD

pension because of his actions connected to Eric Garner’s death in 2014.

“It is clear that Daniel Pantaleo can no longer effectively serve as a New York City Police officer,” Commissioner James O’Neill said on Monday.

Officer Pantaleo was found guilty in a disciplinary trial earlier this month of using a chokehold on Garner, the New York man whose final words, “I can’t breathe,” became a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement.

The departmental administrative judge officially recommended Pantaleo be fired. O’Neill, an officer for 34 years, cited that recommendation repeatedly in his announcement on Monday, but he said the decision to terminate Pantaleo was still not easy.

“Had I been in (Pantaleo’s) situ-

ation, I may have made similar mistakes,” he admitted.

O’Neill said contributions Pantaleo has already made toward his pension will be returned to him. O’Neill said Pantaleo was not informed of his dismissal ahead of time and that he had no plans to speak with him.

Pantaleo had been suspended pending the commissioner’s decision.

Garner’s death, three weeks before the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, started the resurgence of police accountability and brought the Black Lives Matter movement to the forefront of the media.

O’Neill said he faced pressure from many sides in this decision, and he admitted that if he were still an officer, he would probably not be happy.

“I know that many will disagree with this decision, and that is their right,” O’Neill said. “There are absolutely no victors here today. Not the Garner family, not the community at large, and certainly not the courageous men and women of the police department who put their own lives on the line every single day in service to the people of this great city.

Today is a day of reckoning, but can also be a day of reconciliation.”

The New York City Police Benevolent Association, the union representing NYPD officers, slammed the firing and said O’Neill had chosen politics and self-interest over the police officers.

“The damage is already done.

The NYPD will remain rudderless and frozen, and Commissioner O’Neill will never be able to bring it back. Now it is time for every (police officer) in this city to make their own choice,” President Patrick J. Lynch said. “We are urging all New York City police officers to proceed with the utmost caution in this new reality, in which they may be deemed ‘reckless’ just for doing their job.”

Pantaleo’s attorney, Stu London, said that Pantaleo was “disappointed” and “upset,” but said that they planned to appeal the decision.

Despite the disciplinary trial, Pantaleo has avoided criminal charges in the death. A grand jury in New York declined to indict the officer in 2014. The Justice Department declined to bring federal civil rights charges last month.

The city of New York settled with Garner’s estate for a whopping $5.9 million in 2015.

A New Deterrent for Smoking

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued new regulations that would mandate graphic warning labels be placed on all tobacco products.

First announced on Thursday, the updated rules mandate tobacco companies to add disturbing illustrations on products such as cigarettes and rolling tobacco alongside the traditional warnings regarding the dangers of smoking.

The 13 new warnings include graphic illustrations of various health problems resulting from tobacco consumption, including blackened lungs, cancerous tumors, and amputated toes. The pictures would not only apply to cigarettes, rolling paper, and chewing tobacco but would also need to be featured in all tobacco advertisements.

In addition, the pictures must be prominently displayed and cannot occupy less than 50% of the area on the front and back of packages and 20% of total space on ads. The changes come after a study published in 2016 by the journal Tobacco Control found that the images cause smoking to drop by 5% in the short term and 10% overall.

The FDA had previously attempted to mandate the graphic images back in 2009 but was blocked after a judge ruled that the changes violated the First Amendment. However, acting FDA Commissioner Ned Sharpless said that warnings accurately portray the damage smoking causes and could not be disputed in court as mere fearmongering.

“With these new proposed cigarette health warnings, we have an enormous public health opportunity to fulfill our statutory mandate and increase the public’s understanding of the full scope of serious negative health consequences of cigarette smoking,” said Sharpless. “Given that tobacco use is still the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the U.S., there’s a lot at stake to ensure the public understands these risks.”

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Texas Municipalities Hit by Ransomware Attack

Dozens of municipalities across Texas were hit by a coordinated ransomware attack over the weekend after its servers were breached by hackers.

According to the Texas Department of Information, at least 23 municipalities were affected, with the attackers primarily targeting small local governments. The department said that the response was being headed by the Texas Division of Emergency Management along with other state agencies such as the National Guard and the Texas Department of Public Safety.

The Department of Information said in a statement that it “is fully committed to respond swiftly to this event and provide the necessary resources to bring these entities back online.”

In a ransomware attack, hackers commonly remotely take over a computer network and hold its contents hostage until the victim pays for its release. Payment is commonly provided via untraceable digital currency such as Bitcoin after which the hackers unlock the network.

For security reasons, the state refused to provide further details such as the sum demanded by the hackers or the names of the affected locations. Saying that it was focusing on recovering from the attack, the Department of Information said that “we’re not currently releasing who’s impacted due to security concerns.”

Ransomware attacks have become increasingly prevalent in recent years, as hackers target the often-lightly protected data networks used by municipalities. In June, Baltimore agreed to pay millions of dollars to regain its files while two Florida towns were forced to shell out more than half a million dollars earlier this year.

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Police Foil Attacks Law enforcement officials say that police have succeeded in foiling three mass shootings across the United States within a few days of each other. All three deadly incidents were stopped as a result of tips from the public after the potential shooters

expressed interest in carrying out an attack.

In Ohio, police arrested James Reardon, 20, amid suspicions that he planned on opening fire at a Jewish center in Youngstown. Authorities said that Reardon had attracted attention after uploading a post on Instagram showing a man shooting a firearm. The caption read: “Police identified the Youngstown Jewish Family Community shooter as white

nationalist Seamus O’Reardon.”

New Middletown Police Chief Vince D’Egidio said that his officers believed that Seamus O’Reardon was a pseudonym for James Reardon.

“He was implying that he was going to be identified as the shooter of the Jewish center. That kicked off a very intensive investigation, a very rapidly evolving investigation,” D’Egidio told WKBN-TV. A police raid on Reardon’s

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house uncovered a small arsenal of semi-automatic firearms along with a wealth of anti-Semitic literature.

Reardon faces charges of telecommunications harassment and aggravated menacing.

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In one Instagram post, Wagshol is seen wearing a bulletproof vest and wrote that “if you don’t own titanium body armor in 2019…” During a search of the residence, officers seized a .40 caliber handgun, a .22 caliber rifle, a rifle scope with laser, 4- firearm optic sites, a firearm flashlight, numerous .40 caliber, .22 caliber and .300 Blackout rounds of ammunition, body armor with a titanium plate, camouflage shirt, pants and belt, a ballistic helmet, tactical gloves, a camouflage bag, and computers.

In Florida, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office arrested 25-year-old Daytona Beach native Scott Wix after he texted a friend that he was considering different locations in order to maximize casualties during a potential shooting attack.

“A school is a weak target… I’d be more likely to open fire on a large crowd of people from over 3 miles away... I’d wanna break a world record for longest confirmed kill ever,” Wix texted. In another text, Wix wrote that “a good 100 kills would be nice. I already have a location (laughing cry face emoji) is that bad?”

While Wix told officers that he didn’t own any weapons, a raid on his apartment turned up a hunting rifle and over 400 bullets.

The three would-be shootings come as the United States finds itself in a national debate on gun control after a spate of attacks. Within this past month, a white supremacist killed 20 people at a Texas Walmart while another shooter killed ten people at a nightclub in Dayton, Ohio.

Lethal Bronzing Destroying Florida Palms

A bacterial disease known as lethal bronzing has destroyed tens of thousands of Florida’s iconic palm trees.

Over the past decade, what began as a relatively small infestation on Florida’s Gulf Coast has morphed into a nearly statewide problem, and the pace of its spread continues to increase.

A tree will dry out and die within about half a year of contracting the disease, with no chance of recovery once infected. The fronds and central spear leaf of an infected tree will change from their usual green to a shade of bronze.

The disease is transmitted by a miniscule winged insect called a haplaxius crudus, also referred to as an American palm cixiid or a treehopper. These insects inject bacteria through saliva when consuming a palm leaf’s sap. Once inside a tree, the bacteria migrate to its base and multiply until they clog the plant’s circulatory system, essentially “starving” the tree as it becomes unable to get sufficient nutrients and sugars.

There are preventative measures which can be taken, but once a tree has become infected, the only practical solution is uprooting. The disease doesn’t affect humans or animals.

According to experts, lethal bronzing likely originated in Mexico’s Yucatan region. It has since spread to Texas and the Caribbean, in addition to Florida, and some fear that it may continue spreading towards California and Arizona.

A Waste of a Vacation Millions of vacation days go unused every year. That means, all those days you could have spent on a beach you instead spent sitting at your desk going over end-of-the-year reports.

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days went unused, I don’t just see a number – I see 768 million missed opportunities to recharge, experience something new and connect with family and friends,” U.S. Travel Association President and CEO Roger Dow said.

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U.S. Travel Association, Oxford Economics and Ipsos, workers in the United States left a whopping 768 million days of vacation unused in 2018, a 9% increase from 2017. Of those, 236 million were completely forfeited, which comes out to $65.5 billion in lost benefits.

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amount to $151.5 billion in additional travel spending and would create 2 million American jobs.

One of the main culprits for the increase in unused vacation days is

that the number of earned days off is increasing faster than workers are using them. Workers did not use an average of 27.7% of their earned days off in 2018, up from 25.9% in 2017.

Although there was a large increase in unused vacation days, on average, American workers took more days off in 2018: 17.4, up from 17.2 off in 2017. However, that is a significant drop from the 20.3 average vacation days used from 1978 to 2000.

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A group of former U.S. Navy and Air Force fighter pilots have launched a campaign aimed at getting the Defense Department to begin screening aviators for cancer from as early as the age of 30.

The retired aces allege that the assorted cancers they are battling is a result of their time in the cockpit and demand that the Pentagon ramp up screening for the disease. In an interview with the McClatchy website, a number of aviators spoke of the health problems they suffer from ever since turning in their wings and want the U.S. military community to begin paying attention.

“We are dropping like flies in our 50s from aggressive cancers,” said retired Air Force Col. Eric Nelson.

The 48-year-old veteran spent almost all of his military career as a weapons officer on the F-15E Strike Eagle, racking up more than 2,600 hours in the air and commanding six squadrons.

Only three months after retiring, Nelson was diagnosed with prostate cancer. While undergoing treatment, Nelson spoke with fellow pilots and realized that he was not alone in dealing with the deadly disease. The 30-year veteran says that a number of his former brothers in arms have been stricken with health problems, with the most common issues being prostate and esophageal cancers, lymphoma, and glioblastomas.

As a result, the demobilized veterans want the military’s health care to begin screening pilots already at the age of 30. Currently, the Pentagon’s TRICARE only pays for pros-

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tate cancer tests from the age of 50 for regular soldiers and 40 for those with a family history of the disease.

Yet the veterans say that the screening needs to begin earlier.

“When you’re 30 years old you need to start screening for prostate cancer, even if it comes out of your own pocket,” Nelson said. “You need to see a urologist once a year. Not your primary care physician, not your flight doc. Pay the money and stick around for your great-grandkids.”

The effort faces an uphill battle, however, as the U.S. military disputes the link between fighter jets and cancer. Scientific research done on the issue is also inconclusive.

While a 2009 study by the American Association for Cancer Research found that “prostate cancer rates in the military were twice those in the general population, and breast cancer rates were 20% to 40% higher,” another study in 2011 found that no such disparity existed.

Her Money’s Worth

Dawn Winfield-Hunt is my type of gal. Instead of throwing money away, she is making her money work for her.

Winfield-Hunt, 57, recently got married. And she remembers her wedding constantly. It’s not because of her flashy new ring or her new name. Winfield-Hunt is keeping the wedding bliss alive by wearing her bridal gown – over and over and over again.

“Usually you only get to wear your dress once and then you put it in a box and forget about it,” Winfield-Hunt said. “But I liked mine and decided to wear it the following day for a BBQ with friends and everyone loved it.”

A barbecue is not the only place the white gown went. So far, the blushing bride wore it to go shopping, while paddleboarding, and even while doing chores around the house.

“I plan on wearing it every now and then until my first anniversary next year,” Winfield-Hunt noted.

“It will be covered in seaweed, wine stains, and probably won’t even be white anymore but I don’t care.”

Winfield-Hunt’s friends are amused by her dress drama. Others, though, are confused when they see a woman in a lace gown shopping for milk and eggs.

“The dress puts a smile on people’s faces, many of which think it is my wedding day and congratulate me as they are passing by in the street,” the bride said.

Referring to her trip to the grocery store, Winfield-Hunt quipped, “When I arrived at the checkout in the supermarket, the lady said she had received a message through her earpiece saying ‘bride in aisle 12’ which is pretty funny.”

Wearing a dress for numerous times is one way to get the most for your money. Even though Winfield-Hunt bought the gown for a great price, wearing it more than once has given her a bigger bang for her buck. She bought the dress for $365 at a thrift shop – but noted that it still had a $2,186 price tag on it and was never worn.

“I have definitely got my money’s worth by wearing it on the weekends,” she added.

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Hansen is an avid coin collector and is working toward a collection that includes an example of every coin ever made by the U.S. Mint from 1792 to the present, said John Brush, president of David Lawrence Rare Coins, who is helping Hansen curate his collection and was in Chicago to bid on the dime.

“When you’re bidding a million dollars on a coin, it’s nerve-wrack-

A South African restaurant is selling creepy crawlers for dinner.

The Insect Experience, a pop-up food concept in Cape Town, serves larvae instead of linguine and snails instead of spaghetti.

“We sort of wanted to try and create a viable protein alternative that is sustainable and ethical and could really create quite a positive change going into the future,” food scientist Leah Bessa said.

Bessa and her partners own Gourmet Grubb, which produces ice cream made from an insect-based dairy alternative they’ve named EntoMilk. It’s made from Hermetia illucens, the black soldier fly.

According to Bessa, insects are healthy and are high in protein.

“Insects are very underutilized or not really very well understood, so we really wanted to try and highlight their potential. And also their taste, as well, because you know people don’t really know much about them, what they taste like, how they can be used,” Bessa said.

Customers at the restaurant are treated to mopane polenta fries – polenta fries made with flour created with mopane worms, then sprinkled with mopane chili salt. If worms aren’t their thing, they can chow down on pasta with black soldier fly larvae garnished with mealworms.

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ing,” Brush said. “You kind of get the sweaty palms, because that’s a lot of money.”

Hansen is now closer to his goal, but he has a long way to go. He has only six coins left to complete his collection but those coins are not available for sale.

Dr. Jerry Buss, late owner of the NBA’s Los Angeles Lakers, had owned the valued dime previously.

It last went up for auction in 1988.

It’s a Bug’s Life

The 1894-S is known as a Barber Dime because it was designed by engraver Charles E. Barber, who designed many coins for U.S. Mints.

The coins were struck at the San Francisco Mint on June 9, 1894.

Another 1894-S dime sold in 2016 to an anonymous buyer for almost $2 million.

Sounds like it was worth every penny.

Want to know how people living in the tiny Siberian village of Pikhtovoye get their mail? It’s all thanks to Galina Yermolova and her mail monster truck.

Pikhtovoye is isolated from the rest of the world by a swamp and a thick forest. Only five people live there – including Galina and her husband. Every week, Galina travels ten miles through the forest to the closest post office to collect the mail, supplies, and pensions for her

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neighbors.

“We used to go by tractor. It would take us three hours,” the 56-year-old said.

But recently, the couple’s son gave them a life-changing gift: a huge-wheeled monster truck built by a friend that can plough through the muddy tracks much faster.

With her husband at the wheel, Galina can now reach the post office in a speedy hour.

The village in which the post office is situated is home to around 100 people. There, cows roam the roads around the post office.

Galina loves her position as post-

woman. She says it helps her socialize with her neighbors.

“There are only six of us here,” she said. “For me, this job is about being able to talk to people.”

Galina doesn’t just bring mail to her neighbors. While traveling to the bigger city, Galina picks up news from villages nearby. As one resident said, “Galya finds out what’s going on in neighboring villages, if something has happened. Otherwise what would we do? We have TVs with 120 channels, but how would we know what happens here?”

Galina wasn’t always a mail carrier. She previously worked as a teacher, a librarian, and a shop assistant.

“When all those professions ceased to exist (in the village), I had to join the post office,” she explains.

In the late 1980s, around 450 people called Pikhtovoye their home. But by the mid-1990s, the local school closed down and only the elderly remained in town. Galina and her husband, who works in forestry, are the only people in the village who have jobs.

But with Galina at the wheel, delivering mail is not a chore.

The World is Your Huge Oyster

Recently, oyster farmers in France stumbled upon a huge oyster weighing 3.2 pounds and named it “Georgette” in honor of a retiring worker.

The 10-inch-long sea creature was discovered at Talmont-Saint-Hilaire last week. Oyster farmers carefully placed the giant mollusk back in the water.

“I was working in the channel and walking along and I felt something with my foot,” said Mathieu Naslin, an employee of the Viviers de la Guit-

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tière oyster farm.

“I picked it up and it was a huge oyster,” he told AFP on Thursday.

Another mammoth oyster was found at a farm close by in the Sables d’Olonne area in April, weighing in at 1.3 kilograms.

“It’s extremely rare,” said Naslin, adding that he had never seen anything like it during eight years in the job.

The team has estimated that Georgette is 13-15 years old, taking into account that a commercial oyster normally grows about three centimeters a year and stays in the water for three years.

The farm has no intention of selling Georgette, even though her meat is edible.

“There are people who go for very big oysters, but we want to keep it alive and why not keep it growing. It’s like a trophy,” Naslin said. “Quite a few people have offered to buy it. As a joke, the boss told us he would not let it go for under 2,000 euros ($2,240).

But we would not sell it, even for 30,000 euros.”

Pearls of wisdom for a gem of a find.

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Community Cleveland Indians All-Star Yasiel Puig Visits Camp Simcha

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leveland Indians all-star outfielder Yasiel Puig paid a surprise visit to Camp Simcha in Glen Spey, NY, this week. Puig signed autographs for the campers, danced with them, and led a baseball clinic. Camp Simcha and Camp Simcha Special are Chai Lifeline’s flagship summer programs for children with

cancer and chronic illnesses.

“Yasiel Puig is an all-star on the field, but an even bigger all-star mensch off of it,” said Rabbi Simcha Scholar, Chai Lifeline CEO. “We are grateful for his taking the time to visit our campers and providing them with memories they’ll never forget.”

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During the Three Weeks, Ruach Day Camp Uniondale organized a Book Drive for Hindi’s Library in memory of Dr. Hindi Krinsky, a young mother and educator who passed away. To continue her legacy and honor and her love of teaching literacy and of reading, friends and family began collecting and donating books to organizations around the world. This was part of an effort in camp to increase our acts of chessed during the Three Weeks.

Lean on Me: A Night of Chizuk and Support

By Five Towns Girl

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he rain was coming down in buckets. The thunder and lightning were so loud, I jumped every time the noise exploded in my ears. My windshield wipers were going extra fast and it was still not enough to get a clear picture of the road ahead of me. But I was determined to get to my destination: a talk given by Dr. Pelcovitz on anxiety. This will be my game changer, I said as I drove. And it was.

I arrived 15 minutes early. The event was in a house and I was shy to be the first one to arrive. But as I turned down the block I saw hordes of people streaming into the house. I quickly found a spot for my car and ran through the rain to make sure I got a seat. When I came in, there were 30 people there. I couldn’t believe it.

So many people. I grabbed a seat and waited. As I sat, the group multiplied to 60, then 100, then 200, and then 300. There was standing room only.

People poured in through the door still until the room was completely full and there wasn’t even anywhere to stand. Someone told me afterwards that people had to leave because there was simply no more room.

The mere mob scene at the event made me want to cry. So many people wanted to learn about mental illness?

So many people wanted to support the cause which had been a silent one for ages? So many people were affected?

I wondered then what it would be like

if this event took place in a shul and how many more people could be accommodated.

“I look normal to you, but I suffer from mental illness. It is an invisible illness. I may smile, but I am crying on the inside. I may lead a normal life, but I am dying in my head.” When these powerful words were spoken, I sat there crying. Me too. These were words that I could relate to, but that I could never say myself: to my friends, my family, let alone a crowd of 300.

These words shattered a stigma. They broke the glass I was spending my life in. They reached out and held my hand and the hands of hundreds. I am not alone. The person who said these words looked just like me. She was wearing a cute dress and a pretty fall with a ribbed band. She didn’t look disheveled, unkempt, or even crazy. She looked like we all look. All of us Five Towns mothers. That is what made me cry. How invisible this illness truly is.

Dr. Pelcovitz took the podium next.

“Mental illness is real. It is a physical illness just like any other. It is no different than cancer,” he said. A doctor saying the very words I was yelling into an abyss for most of my adult life. I felt validated. I felt strong. I felt understood. Dr. Pelcovitz went on to describe the nature of the illness. He talked about how we should approach it when we see it in our friend, child, or partner. He said to name the monster inside of you is halfway to destroy it.

He said that we can rise through fall-

ing. He said the most beautiful music can be created because of the most terrible struggle. He then focused on how a mentally ill person needs to be treated. He said that all there needs to be are four words: “How are you doing?” These words can save a life.

Isolation is most prevalent in mental health because people don’t want to be viewed as crazy or incapable. When someone has cancer, people help with food and childcare. When people are depressed, nobody helps and nobody knows. The silence can be deafening, the pain of loneliness is debilitating.

Dr. Pelcovitz stressed the fact that anxiety, depression, and mental disorders are very common. His speech was full of studies and research results. He said 1 in 4 children take medication to help them live successful lives. 1 in 6 adults have mental illness. He focused on how to help those struggling. Empathy, being at the person’s side, and understanding the reality of how difficult it is to have the illness. They are not yelling because they are mean; they are yelling because they are in pain. He also said that speaking about your condition with others makes you feel less of this pain. That is why de-stigmatization of this illness is key to recovery and to the safety of those affected. It is maamish hatzalas nefashos: just sitting next to them and holding their hand and listening to them talk.

Dr. Pelcovitz ended with a question and answer session. Before the talk, everyone was asked to write

down questions. I wrote mine in big angry letters: Why are there are no halacha seforim on mental health?

WHY NOT? I introduced myself and shoved the folded paper into his hand.

It was an anger building up in me for quite a while. As far as I was concerned nobody mentioned mental illness in ANY sefarim, let alone a halachic one. I was feeling disconnected and alone, especially during the Three Weeks, Nine Days, and Tisha B’Av. Being that I was already depressed it is difficult to add to the mourning because it might push me over the top and into an irreversible situation. Dr. Pelcovitz answered that a person with mental health issues does not have to mourn. “Why isn’t this written in a sefer?” I asked quietly. There were no clear answers, but I felt like I started a conversation.

I left invigorated and connected.

On my way home, I dreamt of a support group for frum women and one for men as well. I dreamt of the halacha sefer that is yet to be written. I dreamt of a time where mental health would be affordable and Bikur Cholim wouldn’t have to raise $200,000 in one year to help those in need. I dreamt of the stigma falling away and the curtain being lifted. I came home smiling, invigorated, and almost happy.

To join Bikur Cholim in a race to raise funds for mental health treatment, go to https://racery.com/r/racehope-virtual-race-2019/ or https:// fr5tbikurcholim.com.

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Avnet Campers Win at Sportsmanship

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fter weeks of practice and healthy competition, the G’vaot and Harim boys and the Agamim and Naharot girls at Avnet put their abilities to the test for their teams in the playoffs for the Softball and Net Leagues (hockey, basketball, football and soccer).

Headed by Rabbi Joey Werner

(HALB 3rd grade rebbe), and Rabbi Aaron Fleksher (DRS 9th grade rebbe), Avnet’s sports program encouraged team spirit and proper sportsmanship within a fun and challenging environment. Players were guided by their coaches in clinics to build their skills and grow in confidence.

Avnet-wide, including the Tipot

and Ma’ayanot divisions, there were daily games of camp classics like kickball, dodgeball, volleyball and gaga. Added to the mix were innovative games like matball, four goal soccer, knee hockey and relay races.

Avnet would like to thank the generous sponsors of the softball jerseys: Apple Bank, Armitron, Broadway

Remedies, Five Fifty, Gotta Getta Bagel, Gourmet Glatt, Graze/ Carlos & Gabby’s/Upper Crust, Sharmel Caterers, Sushi Tokyo, Tammy Roz DDS, Traditions and Warren Levi.

Every camper was an MVP at Avnet this summer!

Pictured here are players in the G’vaot and Harim divisions.

mance unlike anything the Jewish world has ever experienced before!

The excitement, anticipation, and incredible quality of each act has the audience sitting at the edge of their seats the whole time. No matter one’s age or interest, GTT has something for everyone. Audience members from all walks of Jewish life have agreed that this show is “a dream come true.”

Girls Talent Tour will be coming to perform in the Five Tows on September 22 in TAG, which will benefit the Friendship Circle of the Five Towns.

The Friendship Circle provides friendship, support and assistance to individuals with disabilities and their families.

“We are so excited to bring our

show to your community, and can assure you that the talents for the upcoming show will blow your mind away. We might be biased, but this is definitely a show you don’t want to miss!”

Our amazing judges, Shaindel Antelis, Devorah Schwartz, and Maayan Davis, along with our guest judge Bracha Jaffe, are getting ready to join us that evening and can’t wait to see and judge the talent we already have lined up. Don’t wait! Go on www.dreamontalent.com to buy tickets before we are sold out. For sponsorship and advertising opportunities go on www.dreamontalent.com/sponsor. Can’t wait to see you all at our show where “dreams come true.”

Girls’ Talent Tour

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he same scene is replayed in households across the country. A once-a -year shot at the school play, a treasure trove of talents undiscovered, just a typical girl or woman without much of an outlet to express her talents.

Then came the day that changed everything. A talent competition for women and girls that raised money for a local worthy charitable organization in the community, a real audience so full of support and energy, and world-renowned judges poised and professional, daring you to bring your all. There is nothing quite like the electrifying feeling of being up on a stage and showing the world what you can do. The opportunity for self-ex-

pression and connection with other people who share your passion has a noticeable effect on self-confidence and self-esteem. And that’s why so many women and girls choose to audition for a chance to perform in Girls’ Talent Tour.

Girls’ Talent Tour was started by Batya Zachter in December 2018 as a platform for women and girls to express their talents, while benefiting local charitable organizations. Sifting through the many audition videos, a number of talented Jewish women and girls are hand selected to bring an unforgettable evening, complete with a panel of world-renowned judges, and a competition no one will want to miss. GTT is an interactive perfor-

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A Remarkable Siyum at CMY

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t’s hard to imagine how Camp Machaneh Yisrael could get any better. With all the exciting programming, trips, and special activities, you might have guessed that there isn’t anything that could be improved on. Or so you might have thought. But, on last Monday night, we went one better. Campers, parents, counselors and head staff gathered for a siyum on the entire Shas. Yes, you read that correctly. Camp Machaneh Yisrael, along with the parent body, made a siyum

on all of Shas Mishnayos. The campers and their parents had previously divided the Mishnayos and together covered all the perakim. Everyone involved spent the entire summer learning tirelessly in order to reach the goal of completing Shas. After a full camp days of sports and activities, you would imagine that our happily exhausted campers would want to relax when they returned home. But, instead, they would take out a Mishnah and learn, so that we could celebrate a siyum

by the end of the camp season.

Hundreds of CMYers and their parents turned out to celebrate this momentous occasion together. The evening turned out to be very special. Rabbi Haber introduced the program and welcomed all the parents. Rabbi Mordechai Jacobs was misayeim on behalf of all of CMY, and then the celebrations began. A CMY musical ensemble consisting of Meir Mordechai Bornstein, Yaakov Miller and Rabbi Drebin led the entire room in joyful

and inspired singing and dancing around the gym in Yeshiva of South Shore.

The spirited celebration was something to experience!

Parents were overheard speaking to one another and remarking that they had never participated in such a special siyum in their lives!

Rabbi Metz spoke to all the misayemim and joined the simcha. His words were inspirational and added so much to the siyum.

Everyone who participated in the siyum had a most enjoyable evening. It was truly a night that will not be forgotten soon by anyone who was there.

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The boys at Camp Matov enjoyed indoor and outdoor fun this week

Supporting Our Lone Soldiers

By Danielle Aronovitz

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es, it’s been five years!

We are amazed and proud to have held our fifth annual Lone Soldier Center Bake Sale in which the outpouring of love, support, cookies, cakes, babkas and challahs of all shapes and sizes have brought together a community supporting The Lone Soldier Center in Israel founded in memory of Michael Levin, a”h.

As you all may well remember, our first bake sale was founded in response to the terrorist attack in which three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped at the bus/hitchhiking stop at the Israeli settlement of Alon Shvut in Gush Etzion, in the West Bank, as they were hitchhiking to their homes.

The three teens were Naftali Frenkel (16, from Nof Ayalon), Gilad Shaer (16, from Talmon), and Eyal Yifrah (19, from Elad), Hy”d.

So, sitting around a Shabbos table five years ago, after hearing about the kidnapping and murder of Naftali, Eyal and Gilad, Hy”d, we knew something had to be done. But what?

After making some calls and researching which organization would best benefit from any funds raised, it was decided that the Michael Levin Lone Soldier Center in Israel was a fitting way to honor the memory of these

tzaddikim.

So the word went out. And the response was amazing.

Here’s a bit of background. The Lone Soldier Center Mission Statement is the following: “The Lone Soldier Center in memory of Michael Levin was founded by former lone soldiers to support lone soldiers serving today. Michael was an American-born lone soldier who fell fighting in Lebanon in 2006. The Lone Soldier Center was created by a group of his friends, former lone soldiers following-through on a dream of Michael’s – to create a body to assist, feed, connect and care for lone soldiers in the IDF. Today we are making his dream a reality; the LSC provides lone soldiers with meals, support, advice, housing and the family and community they are missing. There are currently 7000 lone soldiers serving in the IDF, from 52 countries around the world. The Center’s staff and hundreds of volunteers work very hard to build this family and provide for many of the basic off-base needs of lone soldiers. We do this to ensure they will be included, supported and succeed in adjusting to life in Israel.”

Our Bake Sale has been supporting this Center and has been an annual success because of the work of so many involved. It is especially gratifying to the parents of our local Lone

Soldiers who visit our bake sale. They are so very much appreciative that their children are not forgotten and in indeed, honored.

Our sale has been graciously hosted annually at Breezy’s-Dimples on Central Avenue in Cedarhurst.

Finally, a word of thank you and hakaras hatov to the growing number of local stores, home businesses and home bakers who generously donated their talent, time and baked goods for the sale. Thank you all!

We would like to thank the following vendors: Breezy’s and Dimples for hosting; Alan’s and Glick’s bakery; Baked b’Simcha; Camp Shira; Crawfords; David’s Cookies; Fantasticks; Five Towns Jewish Times; Kiss the Kosher Cook; Kosher Guru; Lisaabittanbakes; Naomi_Tgis; Ronit’s Treats; T and Cakes; The Jewish Home; The Jewish Press; Toby Schwartz Creative

Thinking; Wendeliciousbabkas.

Donations are still being accepted.

Checks made payable to: U.S. Supporters of the Lone Soldier Center, in Memory of Michael Levin. Mailed to: 60 Meadow Drive, Woodsburgh, NY 11598, or www.lonesoldiercenter.com.

All of us on the bake sale committee take this opportunity to thank you for supporting our Lone Soldiers who protect our Land of Israel each and every day.

Tizku l’mitzvos.

Lisa Abittan, Danielle Aronovitz, Chani Axelrod, Breezy Beckerman, Pam Bluth, Sara Goldberg, Lisa Hecht, Beth Kafka, Susie Lewin, Chava Lowy, Aidel Miller, Naomi Nachman, Pamela Salamon, and Susan Weingarten

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Throughout the summer, the flame of Aish Kodesh burned bright, with 15 individuals participating in a six-week daily summer kollel. Rabbi Yoni Levin, assistant rav at Aish Kodesh, delivered a daily shiur, and Rabbi Yehoshua Rubsenstein delivered a daily 20-minute shiur before Mincha, in addition to a guest speaker each Wednesday. Aish Kodesh was honored to be a place of daily Torah vibrancy and inspiration to the community during the otherwise quiet summer weeks.

Last week Color War broke out at Ruach Day Camp Uniondale.

Our teams were Green (aretz) and Blue (mayim). Both teams beautifully displayed achdut and sportsmanship during the two days of Color War. A good time was had by all during all the competitive activities – sports, banner presentations, Stomp performances, and English and Hebrew songs.

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CHAZAQ’s Shidduch Initiative is a Trailblazer in Dating

By Shabsie Saphirstein

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HAZAQ’s Shidduch Initiative recently held its launch event in the main shul of the Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills with the participation of Rav Chaim Kanievsky’s son-in-law, Rav Yitzchak Kolodetsky, and Rabbi Paysach Krohn.

Rabbi Yaniv Meirov, CEO of the CHAZAQ organization, greeted the overflow crowd spanning all demographics of Orthodox Jewry highlighting the initiative’s vision. Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld encouraged everyone to involve their own shuls in the program as the bais haknesses is the center of all Jewish life. The rav explained the ambitious goals to incorporate shuls and communities around the nation in one forceful unity. He urged rabbonim far and wide to pick up this initiative in their organizations and to lend their name to the rabbinical advisory panel.

The audience heard tips, tools and advice from four powerful leaders in the world of shidduchim: Baila Yaniv, founder of Partners in Shidduchim, explained how it is incumbent on each of us to rise to the occasion and take upon ourselves the responsibility of assisting in the process of making shidduchim. She encouraged all to dedicate 10 minutes weekly to search their online database allowing both singles and their advocates to view more than 80 shadchanim with over 1,000 singles. Adopt-a-Shadchan’s founder Lisa Elefant emphasized that their 120 shadchanim and 1,500 plus shidduch profiles are generated from registered shuls submitting local singles. Thereafter, a shadchan coaches and mentors the singles designated to their group gratis. Marc Goldmann, Saw You at Sinai website’s CEO, revealed that they have made over 3,200 matches since their inception and currently boasts thousands upon thousands of active profiles alongside 300 shadchanim. In collaboration with Saw You at Sinai, the attendees learned how all the singles on YU Connects’ listing receive a personalized shadchan; many are trained within their facility. Its events coordinator, Margie Glatt, shed light onto the many

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get-togethers held throughout the year alongside special discussion groups organized for singles and their parents.

The keynote address was delivered by the venerable Rabbi Paysach Krohn who pointed out in the name of Rav Aharon Kotler, zt”l, that it is incumbent on each and every person to take upon themselves the burden of helping with shidduchim no matter their age or current marital status as this helps the world stand strong. The rav then related in the name of Rav Itzeleh Volozhiner, zt”l, that his father Rav Chaim, zt”l, explained “lo l’atzmo nivra” means that we were placed on this world to support, care for and feel the pain of one another. The Torah begins with a beis, numerically two, simply because no one person should exist alone; only Hashem remains Echad, as One. Rabbi Krohn is a popular mohel, noted author and educator in many areas including shidduchim.

The rav illuminated on his concept of the three Cs in dating. Initially the parents are Concerned to ascertain the best match for their child, when that fails it leads to a Challenge, and eventually transitions into a full Crisis mode. The CHAZAQ Shidduch Initiative was designed by Odeleya Jacobs specifically to act as a movement to change the manner Orthodox Jewry views the dating process.

Rav Asher Weiss was recently at the Krohn home and repeated in the name of Rav Yonason Eybeschutz, zt”l, that the Anshei Kenesses Ha’gedolah established the concept of a shul in order to daven three times a day with a minyan and strengthen

each another as individuals. Every rabbi must institute the notion of all shomer Shabbos shuls maintaining two PALs to act as the Promoters, Advocates and Liaisons for shidduchim at their venue. This allows for every Orthodox shul to establish a committee of two men or women selected to distribute relevant tools to aid singles on the course of dating.

With the new year soon upon us, the CHAZAQ Shidduch Initiative is spearheading its Elul Project. Elul is an acronym for “ani ledodi v’dodi li” – I am for my friend as my friend is for me. The program will complete its rabbinic board and establish its first 50 shul partners before the Yamim Nora’im.

The Gemara states that Moshiach will not arrive until all the neshamos of the guf are driven out.

Hashem placed all the souls set to be born in a special storage house that must be emptied prior to us welcoming Moshiach. The Gemara in Shabbos 31 reads, “asakta” – to be involved in the mitzvah of b’pirya v’rivya – pru urvu – creating children. This is taken beyond its literal sense to include helping

to redt a shidduch to all who may struggle to find a zivug. Rabbi Krohn related that when one of his daughters was struggling with dating, each time he engaged in checking on her behalf, he also made a call for someone else’s child. A month and half after starting this practice his daughter became a kallah. Always have others in mind during your tefillos.

Rav Chaim Kanievsky’s sonin-law, Rav Yitzchok Kolodetsky, continued the evening with segulos for shidduchim. The rav mentioned how the gates in Shamayim are opened as our Queens community created an eis ratzon starting this initiative. The rav then explained the significance to welcome the Shabbos kallah ten minutes prior to the z’man. Fifteen years ago, Rav Shteinman, zt”l, instituted this tikkun on a visit to Lakewood, NJ, that resulted in no Hatzalah calls during that Shabbos. The rav described that the sanctity of Shabbos improves with its laws being reviewed at the table during the meals. Singles should take upon themselves assisting families that struggle. Often mothers are overwhelmed or a family may have a special needs child.

In the merit of helping parents with these burdens, midda k’negged midda, Hashem will bestow upon them the zechus to raise a family of their own.

Search “shidduch” on TorahAnytime.com to hear Rabbi Krohn’s words of inspiration and “Rabbi Kolodetsky” for the Rav’s divrei chizuk and yeshua. Encourage members of your shul’s leadership to join this momentous project. Contact the CHAZAQ Shidduch Initiative at shidduch@Chazaq.org.

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Nine Days Chessed at Camp Shira

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uring the Nine Days, Camp Shira campers were involved in a variety of chessed activities. The junior division in their Storytime Specialty made get well cards for Chai Lifeline patients to be delivered to them soon. The juniors also made a Mitzvah Wall.

The entire senior division made cards to distribute at nursing homes. The fourth and fifth grade bunks went to three different nursing homes to spread cheer to residents in Far Rockaway, Woodmere, and Inwood. The girls brought the cards that the younger campers made and sang and danced. A great time was had by all residents and campers.

The girls at Camp Shira baked for the Lone Soldier Bake Sale.

Last week at Camp Shira was Israel week so the campers made different flavored rugelach. Shira Extreme campers (those entering 6th and 7 th grades) made sure to bake extras and helped to make the pack-

ages look beautiful. In addition, the third graders made chocolate-covered pretzels and marshmallows which were delivered to the bake sale.

As a Nine Days activity, the third graders worked on a mitzvah wall.

They discussed different ways of acting kindly toward others. They made “bricks� with pictures to show

the mitzvahs they hope to do.

It is our hope that these small acts of chessed by Camp Shira campers will touch others and help bring the geulah!

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Summer Learning at YIW and the YIW/Camp Kaylie Kollel

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he Young Israel of Woodmere Bais Medrash was alive once more this summer with the sweet sounds of serious Torah study.

Along with the many learning opportunities, a large group of motivated young men gathered every morning to learn a full morning seder with Rav Yosef Nusbacher. This extraordinary kollel program was enthusiastically co-sponsored by YIW and Camp Kaylie.

“I continue to be amazed and impressed by the boys’ tremendous motivation and positive energy,” said Rav Nusbacher, senior rebbe at Yeshivat Sha’alvim. “The community was also exceptionally supportive of the kollel, from the parents who energetically engaged in the Father-Son learning to the rabbanim of YIW who were so enthusiastically involved.”

“Our aim was to create structured learning for the boys, especially at this critical juncture leading up to their year(s) of spiritual growth in Israel,” said Meir Avracen, coordinator of the kollel. “It also served the important purpose of enhancing the

already vibrant Kol Torah within the Young Israel of Woodmere.”

Following davening and breakfast, Rav Nusbacher delivered daily shiurim on sugyot in Masechet Sukkah, which were followed by scrumptious lunches and basketball intramurals in the YIW gym. The kollel members returned in the evenings to partake in a dynamic night seder program. Rav Shay Schachter, Rosh

Bais Medrash at YIW, gave engaging shiurim on an ongoing basis, as did numerous guest rabbanim, including Rav Shalom Axelrod, Rav Yehuda Balsam, Rav Daniel Feldman, Rav Aaron Glatt, Rav Aryeh Lebowitz, Rabbi Dr. Aryeh Leibowitz (Sha’alvim), Rav Yoni Levin, Rav Menachem Penner, Rav Isaac Rice, Rav Elly Storch, and Rav Akiva Willig. Additionally, the kollel heard a guest morning shiur

from Rav Michael Rosensweig, a rosh kollel and rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva University.

“The fact that so many talmidei chachamim were willing to take from their precious time to give us shiurim not only enriched our learning, but served as a testament to the value and importance of our kollel,” said Abie Kupchik, a member of the kollel and incoming Shana Aleph student at Yeshivat Sha’alvim.

“The Woodmere community is blessed to have so many opportunities for spiritual growth over the summer months. It is always inspiring to see hundreds of men and women flocking to shul at all hours of the day, to engage in serious talmud Torah,” said Rav Shay Schachter. “Walking through the hallways of the Young Israel of Woodmere, one was overtaken by the sounds of a shiur in the main shul for women, Rabbi Well’s kollel for retired men on the second floor, and a group of 40 young men arguing over a line in Tosofos in the same building. Watching the great enthusiasm and energy of these young Kollel members makes us proud and confident that a bright future lies ahead for the Jewish people.”

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The JEWISH STAR Wine & Dine Jerry talking about ‘illegals’…

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Jerry is not politically oriented; he expressed Jerry’s profound sensitivity to issues of ilcompassion and nothing more. legal immigration stems from his family’s exThis precipitated a strong response from periences at the DP camps, and research he the other guests — and me, who distin- has done on the Shoah. guished Jerry’s parent’s immigration to the The Harrison Report on the condition of United States from the current wave of illegal Jewish DPs after the war, sent to President immigrants.

Truman, found that the former concentration hen Jerry shocked us by saying that his camp victims were still imprisoned behind parents, and certain uncles, and aunts, barbed wire and fed mostly bread and coffee, had actually entered the US illegally too. and that no camp permitted family groups to He explained that his parents, their sur- live together. viving siblings, and a number of cousins had The report included the following paraspent the years from 1945 to around 1952 graph: “As matters now stand, we [the U.S. in DP camps in Germany (Feldafing and Army] appear to be treating the Jews as the Foehrenwald, among others). Because of Nazis treated them, except that we do not the United States’ harsh immigration poli- exterminate them. They are in concentration cies, many Jewish survivors of concentration camps in large number under our military camps languished in Germany, forlorn and guard instead of S.S. troops.” often depressed as they waited to leave the Paragraph 5 of the report provides that country that had murdered their families and dehumanized, brutalized and starved them in “the most absorbing worry of these … victims concerns relatives, wives, husbands, parents Auschwitz.

Certain survivors were notified that their and children … and they cannot understand immigration would be expedited if they in- why the liberators should not have underformed U.S. authorities which persons in the taken immediately the organized effort to reDP camps were communists. Some members unite family groups. … Even where informahas beenmet received to relatives other of Jerry’s family were actively engaged in the On Tuesday, August 20, Senator Toddtion Kaminsky withasmembers ofin the camps … it depends on personal attitude of black market, and were periodically arrested Five Towns community representing Teach NYS at his district office in Rockville for their activities. When they attempted to camp commandants … whether permission Centre.

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Jerry’s parents, uncles and aunts and some of his mother’s cousins loved to spent hot days at Brighton Beach before heading up to Turkins bungalow colony in July for the summer. One Sunday afternoon in late June, his normally gentle Uncle Dovid began to angrily scream at another couple on the beach, yelling, “The moysers [traitors, informers] are here!” Then he yelled in Yiddish, “Let’s catch them and let ’em have it!”

By that time many years had passed and they were no longer youngsters. The Moysers, recognizing that they had been exposed, rapidly packed up their beach chairs, bags and lots and lots of foods (hey, they were Holocaust survivors after all) and began to run across the sand away from Jerry’s family, who packed up their beach chairs and food Directions: to chase them, creating what must have apPreheat oven to 350. peared to observers as a scene out of a Fiddler Mix all ingredients except apples and on the Roof version of “It’s a Mad Mad Mad knead into dough. Set aside in refrigerator. world,” with an ensemble of older Shoah surPeel and grate apples and sprinkle with vivors playing the roles. sugar, at least four Tbsp. (cinnamon optionFor my recipe this week, I’ve chosen al). Set aside.

Rose’s Apple Cake, by Joanne Caras, from Take dough out of refrigerator and divide The Holocaust Survivor’s Cookbook. it into two parts. Roll out one part of dough 5 toBBY 6 Granny apples lbs.) students are(3creatively joining together to help money and spread it intoraise a greased 9 byfor 13 our cake pan.

3 cups flour Emergency Brick Campaign.

The Schnitzer sisters in Far Rockaway, pictured Spread apples evenly over dough.

3 tsp. baking powder out remainder of dough and group place it above, their beloved school.

Another 1 cup are sugardoing everything they can to helpRoll on top to cover apples. Take a dull knife and 2of eggs students in Great Neck raised over $2,500 selling lemonade and goodies. draw a brick pattern on dough. Poke holes 1/4 cup orange juice We greatly appreciate the sense of achrayus felt by and students! with point ofour knifeparents and sprinkle sugar on top.

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he past few weeks of the YLX program have been beyond memorable.

R’ Mordechai Kamenetzky spoke to the boys before Parshas Matos Masei about being careful to consider all the outcomes of our actions. In his inimitable style R’ Kamenetzky shared an entertaining story about someone he knows who abandoned his car on the George Washington Bridge without properly considering the consequences.

On the final night of YLX 2019, Rabbi Aryeh Dachs arranged another YLX Grand Finale. It was extraordinary! The boys enjoyed a lavish barbecue, a basketball game and a record sized bonfire assembled by YLX pyro-professional’s Pinchas Lipsky and Co. Then, the one and

only duo Dan Alon and Yonaton Mashiach regaled the boys with a dynamic musical kumzitz performance. The night was just getting started when the amazing Charlie Harary surprised YLX and delivered a deep and riveting story. The final performance by Shmuel Broderson was enjoyed by all as he hip-hopped rhymes about our eternal struggle with the yetzer hara! This ended another remarkable YLX season.

YLX enabled close to 100 teenagers to spend their long summer nights in a meaningful way, learning, and enjoying positive camaraderie with friends and mentors.

Rabbi Dachs looks forward to continuing and expanding YLX programming – stay tuned!

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A crowded audience attended a reception benefiting CHAZAQ’s life-changing Program for public school students to attend yeshivos on Thursday, August 8 at the home of Dr. Paul and Drora Brody, to commemorate the eighth yahrzeit of Mrs. Bea Brody, Baila bas HaRav Ya’acov Aryeh, a”h. The reception, featuring guest speaker Eli Rietti, author of “The Frum Revolution,” marked CHAZAQ’s inaugural Great Neck reception in private homes.

(L-R) Yaniv Meirov, CEO CHAZAQ; Rabbi Jonathan Rietti and son Eli Rietti; Reception Chairpersons Dr. Paul and Drora Brody; Rebecca Josef, who spoke about how her daughter benefited from the CHAZAQ program.

Not shown: Rav Ilan Meirov, Director, CHAZAQ, who declared that under the program 309 public school students transferred to yeshivas over the past year but that this represented only 7% of potential students.

OHEL Hosts “Grieving Alone, Grieving Together” for Bereaved Parents of Adult Children

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he death of a child is an unimaginably heart-wrenching tragedy that can impact the daily lives of those who have endured it. While the age of a child has little bearing on the breadth of one’s grief, it is OHEL’s observation, and we have been repeatedly told that the loss of an adult child has been insufficiently acknowledged or addressed. It is with this in mind that OHEL’s trauma and bereavement program has initiated support programs and services for parents who have lost adult children – whether through illness, suicide, accidental drug overdose, or natural causes.

Many of the couples had attended OHEL’s first-of-its kind Weekend Retreat for Bereaved Parents, which was held at the beautiful grounds of Camp Kaylie at OHEL, upstate New York in May. Our most recent event, “Grieving Alone, Grieving Together,” attended by over thirty parents, was hosted at the OHEL Jaffa Family Campus last Monday.

The two guest speakers for the evening were Dr. Norman Blumenthal Director, OHEL Miriam Center for Trauma, Bereavement and Crisis Response, and Rabbi Mordechai Dov Fine, rav of Congregation Machzike Hadas, Scranton, PA. Rabbi Mordechai Dov Fine spoke

Dr. Norman Blumenthal

powerfully about the importance of emunah in times of hardship and his message resonated with many of the parents, while Dr. Norman Blumenthal validated the grief and sense of loss that can co-exist with it.

While no parent may fully recover from the loss of one’s child, providing psychoeducation and support can help parents move for-

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ward, taking the love and memories of their child with them. These OHEL retreats and group events provide a unique and irreplaceably safe, warm, and welcoming environment, where parents become more comfortable in sharing their stories, and build life-long friendships of support amongst their peers who understand.

Those couples new to the group were warmly and sensitively welcomed. Each parent was looking to support and encourage each other.

They spoke of one another’s losses and shared one another’s pain.

One couple commemorated the fourth yahrtzeit of their daughter and spoke beautifully about their daughter and what has helped them cope with their loss. Several other parents were in the planning stages for a first anniversary yahrtzeit and so this touching story provided much support to these parents.

The gratitude and transformative value expressed by all the participants for both the retreat and this latest event was overwhelming. Couples expressed how “the retreat has gotten them through the last few months,” some saying they “keep quoting all the things I learned at the retreat” and that “this program was just what [they] needed” and “thank you to OHEL for doing this for us.”

David Mandel, CEO of OHEL, who was also in attendance, commented, “The turnout of both events speaks to the inherent need of support services for such parents, which OHEL feels privileged to provide.”

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Around the Community The annual Yeshiva of South Shore Concert on the Lawn benefitting the Heller Learning Center took place on August 13 at the home of Ari and Chaya Cohen in Lawrence. The concert featured Zusha and Pumpidisa and was catered by Oasis Caterers and Izzy’s Brooklyn Steakhouse.

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Rabbis Dovid (R) and Mordechai (L) Shenker, directors of Camp Nageela, are pictured on either side of the 14 bar mitzvah-age boys who celebrated a joint bar mitzvah in camp this week. Camp Nageela, in Fallsburg, NY, is an exciting summer program where children are introduced to Torah and mitzvos. To visit Camp Nageela and support JEP/Nageela’s programs to help children enjoy being Joyfully Jewish, contact Rabbi Dovid Shenker at 516-374-1528, ext. 203 or visit jepli.org/donate. Tizku l’mitzvos!

Camp Revach’s Chessed Marathon

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pecial,” “meaningful,” “being able to give back while having fun,” “best trip ever” were just some of the comments being heard after Camp Revach’s annual Chessed Marathon on Wednesday, August 7. During the Nine Days, Camp Revach embarks on a chessed mission in which each bunk goes on their own bus performing acts of kindness all around town. These chassadim are carefully planned to personify mitzvos bein adam lichaveiro in helping us promote ahavas Yisrael. Some “stops” included decorating frisbees for sick children in hospitals, packing special treats for Yad Mickey in the Tomchei Shabbos boxes, giving donuts to policemen, washing a Hatzalah bus, baking challahs for others, among other activities. Our senior bunks even helped set up a new wedding hall in Valley Stream opening this coming September. The trip included some fun and refreshing stops as

well. Every bunk had fun taking pictures at a photo booth and each girl was treated to a refreshing Rita’s ices.

Special mention to Gourmet Glatt who sponsored all the items on our scavenger hunt list (Something that has an expiration date of 2020, something that reminds you of the Nine Days…) and were then donated to the

JCC food pantry. The girls realized how much their donations make such a big difference. “It’s the little things that count” – our running summer campaign.

Three bunks also hosted a lemonade stand. Parents and the public alike were invited to attend. We made a grand total of over $250 to donate

to Tomchei Shabbos. Thank you to all those who came and supported us in our chessed endeavors.

This trip was descriptive of what Camp Revach is all about – chessed, caring, and empowering the girls to take the initiative in helping others.

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A Smile for Every Season

By Leeba Leichtman

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“Yeah, what’s up? Oh, hang on one sec. Chani, sweetie pie, Mommy’s on the phone right now. Here’s some crayons. Can you go color at the table for a little while? Mommy’s trying to organize the freezer. Okay, back with you, Yehudis. What’s going on?”

“I wanted to tell you—” “Oh boy, one minute. Avi!! Get down off the counter! It’s not safe!

What? Elisheva hid your cupcake in the cabinet? Shevs, that’s not nice.

Please give it back to him. Oh, Yehudis, I’m sorry… It’s just that I have nothing to do with the kids now that camp’s over – and honestly, it’s like this every Sunday the whole school year long. I’m trying to get things done, the kids are bored stiff, and then they take it out on each other or get really whiny, y’know? I’m getting a headache just thinking about it. I wish there were a way to have camp the whole year…”

“There is!”

“Wait, what?”

“Yep, you heard me, Esti. That’s why I called – to tell you about it! I just signed up Shani and Akiva – because they even take boys up to Pre1A. Last year, Shani brought home all these gorgeous art projects, necklaces, and all these new dance moves and songs she learned. They played sports, had a full-blown camp song with motions… The whole kit and caboodle! So worth it – I got to breathe and catch up with work and laundry while my kids got an energy outlet, learned new skills, and met new friends. It literally saved us! They have an after-camp situation, plus this Funday Sunday program where they do all sorts of fun, creative stuff.”

“Okay, this time you got me – I’m all ears. What’s this program called?”

“Glick.”

“Glick? I better sign up quick!

Hey, I’m a poet and I didn’t even know it! Well, thanks, Yehudis,

you’re a savior.… Talk to you later, when my kids are at this Glick place and I can actually hear you!”

It’s that time of year… The time to bid camp farewell and prepare for many months of serious business: homework, tests, and book reports.

Or is it? Kayla Weisz of Glick Girls doesn’t think so; in fact, at Glick, the fun is just beginning! Even in the winter, our campers keep the heat up with pumping music, dance, and art to warm up their creative juices and get the smiles going. Your child will learn skills like food art, sports,

jewelry making, and more while she experiences the joy of accomplishment, attentive guidance, and new friendships.

Glick’s got something for everyone: each time’s a new adventure, accessing each child’s unique potential and interests. With girls from nursery through 5th grade, you might worry what you’re doing with your preschool boys who don’t yet have Sunday school – but Glick’s got you covered there, too.

So don’t get left out of the fun…

It’s Glick, so sign up quick!

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Europe Prepares for Dirshu World Siyum and European Wide Convention

By Chaim Gold

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orty-five years ago, a yungerman named Rabbi Simcha Bamberger came to Manchester, England, as one of the city’s first four kollel yungeleit. Rav Osher Westheim, one of the prominent rabbanim in Manchester at that time, asked him if he could perhaps say a shiur. When Rabbi Bamberger proposed a Daf HaYomi shiur, Rabbi Westheim discouraged him, saying, “If you will be lucky, you will have one person show up! Do something easier.” Rabbi Bamberger was adamant that he wanted to start a Daf HaYomi shiur and put up signs and other forms of publicity. The day of the first shiur dawned…and one person showed up. That one person eventually brought another and by Masechta Shabbos they had ten people. Just one year later, there were 130, and today some 300 people come to listen to Rav Bamberger’s shiur every day!

Hanhalas Dirshu meeting with HaRav Osher Westheim

Fast forward about three decades.

Dirshu started its new, ambitious, daily Mishnah Berurah program entitled Daf HaYomi B’Halacha. When someone proposed starting a Daf HaYomi B’Halacha shiur in Manchester, England, a prominent rav responded, “If you are lucky you will have one person attend.” Dirshu persevered.

Today, ten years later, there are thirteen Daf HaYomi B’Halacha shiurim in Manchester! That is the power of Torah and the power of what even one person with a desire to be marbitz Torah can accomplish.

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Like Rav Bamberger’s shiur, Dirshu has had a revolutionary impact on limud haTorah and limud haTorah with accountability in Manchester.

This year, Europe will be a central component in Dirshu’s World Siyum where the accomplishments of lomdei Dirshu who have toiled and been tested on Shas will be acknowledged and be’ezras Hashem, legions of new lomdei Dirshu will be inspired to join and raise the bar of their own limud haTorah to unprecedented levels.

Rav Hofstedter was accompanied

by Rabbi Chanoch Greenblatt, head of Dirshu’s operations in Manchester, and senior members of Dirshu’s hanhalah in Eretz Yisrael, Rabbi Avigdor Berenstein and Rabbi Shlomo Rozenstein. Together, they visited the Event City Convention Center, the largest indoor venue in Manchester where some 4,000 people will, be’ezras Hashem, gather in the largest celebration of limud haTorah that Manchester has ever seen.

Rav Hofstedter also met with leading Manchester rabbanim, HaGaon HaRav Gavriel Krause, shlita, Av Beis Din, HaGaon HaRav Yisroel Chaim Horowitz, shlita, rav of the Satmar community, and HaGaon HaRav Chaim Heimlech, Dayan at Machzikei Hadas and a longtime Daf HaYomi B’Halacha maggid shiur in his pervious tenure as a Dayan at the Adas of Melbourne, Australia.

In addition, Rav Hofstedter visited the Heythrop Park Resort Hotel near Oxford, the site of the upcoming Dirshu European Convention and World Siyum that will be held on Shabbos, 13-15 Teves/January 10-12.

Five years ago, the Convention site, with its 200 rooms was sold out weeks in advance. This year, there will be some 500 rooms to accommodate the Dirshu learners from all over who seek to attend.

The Achdus Element Another major development in the march towards the World Siyum is the phenomenal response from French Jewry to the efforts of Dirshu to promote limud haTorah in France.

Virtually of all the prominent rabbanim in France representing literally the entire cross-section of Orthodox Jewry in France have come out in enthusiastic support of Dirshu’s harbatzas Torah effort and have urged the hanhalah of Dirshu to make a country-wide siyum in the largest indoor venue possible. The communities of Paris, Strasbourg, Lyon, and Marseille are expected to participate in the World Siyum which will be held on 15 Teves/January 12 in the Dom de Paris, a beautiful, domed, indoor stadium that holds more than 5,000 people.

Rabbi Shlomo Rozenstein, Dirshu’s public relations director, commented, “The achdus in the French community is phenomenal. Charedim, non-charedim, Sefardim and Ashkenazim are all fully mobilize to not only attend the siyum but to utilize it as a springboard to encourage more and more accountable limud haTorah among all French Jews. It is very moving to see so many different communities working together with remarkable achdus for the singular purpose of promoting limud haTorah.”

“If All French Jews are Participating; I Want to as Well!”

Rabbi Rozenstein shared a remarkable story that gives insight into the impact that the siyum is making on members of the community, people who would appear to be far removed from limud haTorah.

“There are two brothers, the Cohen brothers, who own a network of sefarim and Judaica stores in France. They have become big supporters of the concept of a grand World Siyum and created a website

where they are encouraging people to sign up to learn a blatt Gemara on the Shabbos before the siyum so that the entire collective community can make an additonal siyum haShas together with the lomdei Daf Yomi. On the website you can pick your blatt or several blatt that you will learn on that Shabbos. In this way, the entire Shas will be completed.

“When I was in Paris, I was touring the Dom de Paris stadium with members of the technical staff. One of the people was the production manager, the person in charge of the sophisticated sound system. He heard me talking with others about signing up to learn on the internet and how it is a joint effort being undertaken by French Jewry. Suddenly, this person, who on the outside did not look Jewish at all, exclaimed in French. ‘I want to sign up too!’ We asked him if he is Jewish, explaining that being Jewish is a prerequisite to signing up. He answered, “Yes, of course, I am Jewish, and if all French Jews are participating, I want to as well!’ We pointed out a problem: ‘But you don’t know how to study Talmud!’ He had a ready, ada-

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Another deeply moving moment of a different sort of achdus transpired on the last night in Manchester. Manchester is very far north, thus, in the summer one cannot daven Maariv until about 10:30. Rabbi Chanoch Greenblatt had arranged to pick up Rav Hofstedter from his place of lodging at 10:20 in order to daven Maariv at a local shul.

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This is especially important for seniors doing their Medicaid planning. I have seen instances where children want to do Medicaid planning for a parent, but cannot easily reallocate assets, removing them from the estate, to qualify.

Considering the government can look back to any transfers for a five-year period, losing time in transferring the assets could cost the estate dearly. I have also seen situations where a parent loses mental capacity during the planning process, hindering their ability to complete the process. A valid Power of Attorney, prepared by an elder law attorney, can give children (and parents) necessary tools to take care of parent’s finances, get them the proper care and protect their assets, in the event they lose mental or physical capacity.

Plan to Meet Medicaid Eligibility Requirements to Protect Your Parent’s Assets If your parent(s) need nursing home or home health care, Medicaid determines whether they are eligible, based on financial income and assets – it’s a means-tested program. So, for your parents to qualify for the Medicaid program, in New York, essentially, they need to be financially impover-

ished. If they are single, they can keep assets up to $15,450 ($22,800 if they are married) and still be eligible (as of 2019). As for their income, they can make up to $859, if they are single and up to $1,267 if they are married.

If they have resources above those limits and have not done advanced planning, they may need to “spend down” their assets. This means they will be required to deplete most of what they own to pay for nursing home or home health care until they reach the poverty-level resource limits – in order for Medicaid to begin coverage.

If you plan far enough in advance, with the right counseling-based elder law attorney, your parents won’t have to worry about spending down their assets.

What Kind of Planning Can We Do to Get My Parents Ready?

Since the government can look back for a period of five years to see if your parents transferred assets out of their estate, it is best to do the legal planning before that period. Since we don’t know when and if our parents will need nursing home care, it is important to plan as soon as possible. One of the best planning tools we can use is an Irrevocable Living Trust, which can remove assets from their estate, but preserve them for the future.

When working with an elder law attorney, you can create this type of Trust in a way that works best for your parents and your family.

It’s extremely important to do a full analysis of your parent’s and family’s unique situation and needs. While the information in this article can help you toward that end, it is only a small sample of the many aspects of planning that can and needs to be done.

Monet Binder, Esq., serves Queens, Brooklyn and Long Island, dedicated to protecting families, their legacies, and values. All halachic documents are approved by the Bais Havaad Halacha Center in Lakewood, under the direction of Rabbi Dovid Grossman and the guidance of Harav Shmuel Kaminetsky, shlita, as well as other leading halachic authorities. To learn more about how a power of attorney can help you, you can send her an email at monet@mbinderlaw.com or call 718-514-7575.

The information in this article is intended solely for your information. It does not constitute legal advice, and it should not be relied on without a discussion of your specific situation with an attorney.

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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 Areivim

By Susan Schwamm

Camp Areivim, one of the premier all-boys’ camps in the Five Towns, started 10 years ago and has since grown to over 800 campers. This week, we spoke with Rabbi Yanky Hersh, Rabbi Yossi Bennett, and Rabbi Yosef Friedler, camp directors, to learn more about the non-stop ruach at Camp Areivim.

Rabbi Hersh, you opened Camp Areivim ten years ago. Tell us your story.

Rabbi Y. Hersh: I grew up in Flatbush and learned in Yeshiva Torah Temimah. When I was 17 years old, together with a group of friends, I started a camp in the Ukraine. That’s for another time, but it was an incredible experience that gave me tremendous insight into how to develop a successful camp program. When I got married, I became a rebbe in the Hebrew Academy of Cleveland. After my first year teaching, I was asked to head their day camp and did so for six years.

Twelve years ago, I moved to Far Rockaway and became a 5th grade rebbe at Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island. After my first summer, a number of parents of the yeshiva approached me and asked me to start a camp for their older boys who weren’t going to sleepaway camp. One thing turned into another, and Camp Areivim was born at the beautiful new campus of Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island. In the first year of Camp Areivim, we had under 50 campers.

It was a tremendous success.

M o s t camps start with younger ages and even-

tually build up; we started with older boys and built down. Eight years ago, we branched out to younger age groups and added more divisions over the years. Six years ago was the first year that we introduced our preschool division, called Areivim Freshies, making Camp Areivim the premier boys’ summer c a mp accommodating boys ages nursery through 8th grade. It’s nine years later, and our enrollment has grown to over 800 local boys in 2 separate campuses, b’li ayin horah.

Give us some details of how the camp is structured.

YH: Interestingly enough, although the camp has grown tremendously, I wanted to keep my original intent in providing each age group with their own personalized program. I’m extremely proud of how the camp has become four incredibly age-appropriate divisions that run like well-oiled machines. Each division has its own individualized program highlighted in each one of their own weekly newsletters: The Freshies Flash, The Areivim Ju-

nior Herald, and The Areivim Times for the Seniors and MITs. It could have only happened by having an extremely dedicated head staff.

All of the division heads are able to perform an unbelievable balancing act! They are incredible at being responsible and organized while at the same time giving non-stop fun to the campers.

Our Freshies division is for boys in nursery, kindergarten and Pre1A. Mrs. Chana Bayla Orlansky directs this division together with her Assistant Director, Mrs. Estee Leff, and with their signature warmth, love, experience, organizational skills and bubbly personalities, it’s no wonder that our topnotch program is so successful.

Rabbi Yosef Friedler, an incredible mechanech who teaches alongside me during the year as a 5 th grade rebbe at YKLI, directs our YKLI campus which houses our Freshies and Junior divisions.

Our Junior program is for boys in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades.

It is headed by the tremendously exper ienced and caring Rabbi Tzvi Me de t sk y, who puts lev v’nefesh into design-

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ing a program that is perfectly suited to this age group. He is assisted by a number of extremely talented and organized division heads: Rabbi Tzachie Diamond, Rabbi Boruch Oppen, and Rabbi Shimmy Isaacson. Last year we hired Rabbi Yosef “Joey” Newcomb, who adds enormous energy and geshmak to the division, and this year, Rabbi Yoni Posnick, an extremely popular rebbe in the neighborhood, to round out our Junior Div ision Staff.

The Senior Division is housed in the beautiful Mesivta Ateres Yaakov building and is for boys in 4th-8th grades. Rabbi Yossi Bennett, another exempla r y mec hanec h a nd S ’ga n Mena hel at Mesivta Ateres Yaakov, directs the Senior Campus.

He is my right-hand man in running all of the day-to-day and behind-thescenes aspects of camp. Besides being so organized, professional and personable with both staff and campers alike, he is phenomenal at taking care of every last detail of every program, ensuring that everything runs smoothly.

Rabbi Tsvi Greenfield, an incredibly popular rebbe at Mesivta Ateres Yaakov, serves as the Head Counselor for the Senior Division. Rabbi Greenfield is known for his warmth and keen insight into children. He is assisted by Rabbi Nechemya Weiss, a major new addition this year, who serves as our MIT Division Head and League Commissioner.

These three mechanchim have really perfected the Senior Division, incorporating all the elements of a sleepaway camp in a day camp setting.

The M.I.T.s participate in camp responsibilities, help out in the canteen, on bus routes and in shul. They serve as our gabbaim, ba’alei tefillah, and ba’alei kriah. They have their own extremely intense leagues and specialized activities and overnights all over the East Coast every other week of camp.

In addition to the overnights, we incorporate an

awesome night activity program called Areivim Extreme. This includes everything from late night local activities, trips, inter-camp games, sports tournaments, Rita’s, BBQ’s, Carlos & Gabbys – the campers just love it!

Overnights! That sounds fun. Tell us more.

Rabbi Y. Bennett: The Seniors and M.I.T.s go on specialized overnights every other week. They go all over the East Coast. We’ve gone to Connecticut, Philadelphia, the Catskills, the Poconos, Boston, Maine, New Hampshire, Niagara Falls, Lake Placid, Lake George and Lakewood, to name a few.

The overnights include really amazing activities and adventures. Some of our activities included white water rafting, banana boating, trampolining, zip-lining, horseback riding, kayaking and rock climbing. We visited Six Flag’s Great Escape, Dorney Park, Six Flag’s New England, Dave & Buster’s, Sahara Sam’s, Mountain Creek Water Park, Clementon Water Park, and Connecticut Sports Center, amongst so many other amazing locations.

This year, we went on a three-day overnight to Boston and Connecticut! Including Fenway Park, Six Flags New England and tons of other stuff! It was amazing!

Wow! That sounds incredible. Wish I could have joined! What trips do the Juniors enjoy during the summer?

Rabbi Y. Friedler: The Juniors go on really exciting trips as well! They have day trips at least once a week and numerous late nights throughout the summer.

This year, we had an amazing late night trip to Coco Keys Water Resort in Mount Laurel with state-of-the-art coach buses! It was a fantastic trip!

Other trips this summer included SkyZone, Bounce!, Adventurers, Adventureland, the Cyclones Baseball Game, Legoland, Mini Golf, Paintball, Laser Tag, and much more!

Sounds like a party! What do you feel makes your camp particularly special and unique?

YH: It’s really a home away from home. We try to develop the achdus that makes the kids feel “we’re all in it together.” The atmosphere at camp is infectious. When parents or anyone else come to visit the camp the response is always, “Where was this when I was a kid?!” It’s really incredible!

YB: From the head staff all the way through the campers in the Freshies division, there is this unique feeling of “all being in it together.” This is a focus of ours, as you can tell from our logo.

Our staff is hand-picked throughout the school year.

Our morahs in the Freshies division are married, highly experienced, and understand the sensitivities of the children. The

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same goes for our other divisions in which, aside from having caring and responsible bochurim for counselors, they are joined by other married kollel yungerleit as well.

YH: We gear our program to what the boys want and need. We understand the need for longer camp hours the older the boys get. Whereas our Freshies division is dismissed at 3:30 daily and our Juniors at 4:30, our Senior and MIT divisions have a full day beginning with minyan at 9:00 through dismissal at 5:30! The older the camper, the more he needs to be engaged in a kosher, Torahdikeh, fun environment. The kids enjoy themselves, come home, and are wiped!

YF: Our campers are engaged and occupied with activities at all times. There’s very little downtime.

Even during lunch, every day, we have some sort of competition.

We’ve Sushi Day, Ice Cream Lab, a Chopped competition, the Great Egg Challenge, Minute to Win It, Hole in One, wacky races, zany contests and ich veis vos! The staff are constantly involved with the kids!

We try to accommodate every camper so that he is engaged in activities that are important to him. We make sure that we always have a healthy balance of activities.

I know you also have a great learning program. Tell us about it.

YF: Our learning director, Rabbi Tzvi Finkel, is unbelievable! He runs all of our learning programs.

He is very hands-on and is involved in all the learning in every age group. He is also extremely creative! He has introduced a number of extracurricular learning programs with fantastic incentives for learning over Shabbos (Masmidei Areivim), reviewing shnayim mikrah v’echad targum, age-appropriate kriyah programs, and all sorts of other ideas.

He is so encouraging and ensures that the learning in Camp is both serious and geshmak!

YB: Our rebbeim are quite experienced and know how to motivate our campers. Even the Pre1A bunks in the Freshies Division have a rebbe in the morning, focusing on kriyah, ensuring that the summer is a bridge to the coming school year.

The goal is that our boys should feel the simcha and warmth of learning and to come into the next school year on a high.

YH: I actually had a rebbe call me. He was

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very surprised that a certain boy who had entered his class, who was just an average boy the past year, was now at the top of his class. The rebbe said that he asked the boy what had changed and he said that he had a great summer of learning at camp. This boy happened to have won our Masmidei Areivim learning contest having learned over 20 blatt of Gemara over the course of the summer!

YH: Each division has their own designated Leagues. Our leagues are a very competitive and exciting part of camp! We play a lot of sports – baseball, basketball, hockey, flag football, soccer, volleyball, newcomb, kickball and dodgeball. Baruch Hashem, our campuses have ample grounds and facilities for it all, and the boys play different sports each day. We have designated League commissioners who oversee all the League activities. The counselors get heavily involved in the games hyping up the campers. We emphasize achdus, sportsmanship, and menschlechkeit and always include honorable mentions in our weekly league highlights.

That’s beautiful. Can you tell us a little more about the Freshies program?

YB: It’s hard to say “highlight.” So many things are going on at our camp. Every day, at the end of

YH: We already mentioned the rebbeim in the Freshies division, but the Freshies also have their own sports clinics given by Rabbi Boruch Oppen who focuses on a different sport each week. They learn from a very young age the rules, fundamentals and how to play each sport.

We have a Wheel of Fun Park with 30 different wheeled vehicles. They have their own swimming pools, inflatable water slides, jungle gyms, and arts and crafts room as well.

They also enjoy age-appropriate trips throughout the summer such as bowling, sprinkler parks, the fire station, Fun Fusion, Bounce U, Chuck E. Cheese, Adventurers, puppet shows…

Tell us about your campus and facilities.

YH: Last year we expanded to two separate facilities. The Freshies and Junior Divisions are located on the Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island campus.

We’re in their state-of-the-art building and enjoy their sports facilities on the adjacent properties. We have an outdoor hockey rink, volleyball court, soccer field, 2 dodgeball courts, 2 playgrounds, baseball turf and football turf (the same turf used in the Meadowlands!). We also have outdoor basketball courts, an indoor gym, two gaga pits, and two brand new in-ground, heated swimming pools.

The Senior Division is located on the Mesivta Ateres Yaakov campus with a state-of-the-art, brand-new college regulation gymnasium, expansive Bais Medrash, designated Game Room, and access to the beautiful, local fields. This exclusive campus gives our senior campers the opportunity to have their own designated space to engage in and enjoy activities age-appropriate for older boys.

Tell us more about Leagues.

The summer is actually coming to a close. Can you narrow down the summer to a single highlight?

Every day, at the end of the day, we look at each other and say, “This was the best day of camp!” the day, we look at each other and say, “This was the best day in camp.” Different kids enjoy different things. It’s important to pinpoint and try to tap into what each child enjoys most and thrives from.

Every camper has his own highlight!

YF: It’s hard to say. We do so much and we present everything in such a fun way. Sometimes even the most ordinary of things becomes so much fun because of the way the staff gets into it!

YH: If I had to pick, I’d say that for the Freshies they love their huge commercial inflatables! It’s like a carnival for them every day! For many Juniors, their double-period, hour long swim in our brandnew pools is the highlight of their day. For most of the Seniors and MITs it’s definitely the overnights and for others, the intensity of the Leagues!

This is our final “camp chat” of the summer. Any last words to share before everyone goes back to school?

YH: I truly believe that camp is a stepping stone for the coming year. We put an enormous amount of energy creating a Torahdikeh environment for our

campers.

I also feel that a camp setting is the best place for a child to work on bein adam l’chaveiro. At camp, the entire day is spent interacting with other children. Our staff is consistently involved as positive role models to their campers. There is very little downtime, and the campers need to be occupied with kosher fun. I often say that the two months of the summer can sometimes have a bigger impact on a child than the ten months of the school year.

It gives me tremendous chizuk when I see over 800 campers safely and happily engaged in all the camp fun. It’s a great feeling. I hope to continue, be”H, being involved in making positive impressions on our boys’ lives – next year, in Areivim Yerushalayim!

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TJH You gotta be kidding Jimbo and Bubba go on a fishing trip.

They rent all the equipment: the reels, the rods, the wading suits, the rowboat, the car, and even a cabin in the woods.

They spend a fortune.

Centerfold Stuck in Camp Mode?

If you exhibit four or more of the following signs, you are stuck in camp mode and are having a hard time integrating yourself back into society at large.

The first day they go fishing, but they don’t catch anything.

You bring your own jar of pickles to the Shabbos table.

The same thing happens on the second day, and on the third day.

When your father brings out the ices for dessert, you attack him.

Finally, on the last day of their vacation, one of them catches a fish.

When your father says it’s time to bench, you jump up on the chair (that your mother just reupholstered).

As they’re driving home they’re really depressed.

Jimbo turns to Bubba and says, “Do you realize that this one lousy fish we caught cost us fifteen hundred dollars?”

Bubba replies, “Wow! It’s a good thing we didn’t catch any more!”

Right when you wake up in the morning you immediately run to see if the day’s activities are posted on the fridge.

When you want a cup of ice, you tell your mother that you think you sprained your finger.

You sleep with a flyswatter.

When your mother tells you to make your bed, you ask, “Why? Is tomorrow visiting day?”

You eat 3 hot pretzels for supper (which is the only meal of the day).

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Miriam, her sister, her daughter, and her son are playing volleyball.

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You wonder why your family looks at you strangely when you wear the same clothing for 6 days in a row.

When you see a chair with a back support on it, you think it may be one of the seven wonders of the world.

When it’s raining outside, you take soap and shampoo and shower outdoors (because you are so funny).

You don’t like going from the front of your house to the backyard…because you hate walking up “the hill.”

You take Laffy Taffys from the family’s nosh cabinet and store them under your bed.

When your mother asks you why you insist on wearing a blue shirt every day, you respond, “Blue rocks, red stinks!”

When you see someone replacing the garbage bag, you say, “Hey, I didn’t know those things are replaceable!”

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Across 3 BarackObama 6 StarSpangledBanner 9 Hiroshima 11 Olympics 10 Barbeques 12 Milhouse 13 Emancipation

14 Camp 15 Gladiolus 16 CyYoung 17 AbrahamLincoln 13. Christopher Columbus 14. Lewis and Clark 15. Margaret Thatcher

Answer to Riddle Me This: The worst player is Miriam’s sister. Draw a diagram, putting Miriam’s sister and son directly across the net from each other. It doesn’t matter whether they’re on the left or the right side of the diagram. Now, try putting Miriam’s daughter on the same side as the sister. The daughter will be diagonally across from the son (the best player’s sibling), meaning that the best player is the daughter. Since the daughter (the best player) is on the same side as the sister, the sister must be the worst player. If you put Miriam’s daughter next to the son then Miriam will be the best player, but the sister will still be the worst.

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Torah Thought

Parshas Eikev

By Rabbi Berel Wein

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n this week’s Torah reading Moshe teaches us that he was instructed by Heaven to construct an ark made of wood in order to house the two tablets of stone that he received on Sinai. I have written about this subject before, and it is one that has been noted heavily by the commentators to the Torah. But I have become aware of an insight that I feel has great relevance to understanding many of the issues that confront us here in Israeli society and the world generally.

Certainly, there was no shortage of gold, silver, bronze or any other type of valuable and special metal in the camp of Israel during their sojourn in the desert of Sinai. We know from the construction of the Temple/Tabernacle that large amounts of gold and silver as well as bronze were used in order to create that structure and the artifacts inside. So why would Moshe be instructed to fashion a simple and plain box of wood to house the most precious artifacts that humans have ever known – the tablets of Sinai?

Is it not almost disrespectful to treat such holiness in a mundane and ordinary fashion? After all, the tradition in all Jewish communities and synagogues is to decorate and beautify Torah coverings, crowns, breastplates, and pointers. And here,

eternal tablets of stone of Sinai represents the fact that the Torah itself requires no outside affirmations or adornments. It stands alone, it means what it says, and is not subject to human improvement or editing. The fact that we decorate the appearance

The Torah itself requires no outside affirmations or adornments.

the two tablets of stone of Sinai are relegated to an undecorated plain wooden box! This fact alone should make us aware that there are great and profound lessons here.

The wooden box that encased the

of the scrolls in our synagogues is to enhance our own respect in view of the contents. Over the centuries, and especially over the last few hundred years, there are those that wished to adorn the Torah with strange but

temporarily popular crowns and decorations. There was a period in the 19th and even in the 20th century when there were those that claimed that the Torah was for socialism.

Others claimed it was for capitalism or other forms of economic and government systems. Everyone attempted to adorn the Torah with its own brand of covering and decoration. By so exalting the Torah, they, in fact, cheapened it and made it factually irrelevant. The improvements became detriments and the unique message of Judaism was perverted if not lost completely.

We are accustomed to homiletic interpretations of words and ideas of Torah. This is part of the “seventy faces” of Torah. However, we should always remember that the text means what it says. The Torah is carried in a simple unadorned wooden box. To us mere mortals, this is what makes it so meaningful Shabbat shalom.

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From the Fire

Parshas Eikev Growing Up

By Rav Moshe Weinberger Adapted for publication by Binyomin Wolf

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

Let us look at this more closely.

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

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

The Gemara (Chagigah 14a) explains, based on psukim in Yeshayahu, the nature of the malady of our

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

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

Rashi explains that this refers to the mitzvos one tends to take lightly. The

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

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

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

is a function of the lack of daas, intellectual and spiritual maturity.

Being an adult means knowing that major spiritual potential exists in every encounter one has with others.

Every single conversation with another person is an opportunity to give a kind word, offer encouragement, or spread positivity and light.

Simply consider Rivka Imeinu.

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

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

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

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what comes naturally to any mother.

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

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

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

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

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

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

One tiny seed could justify a person using the prayer found in the Torah

(Devarim 26:15), “Look down from Your holy dwelling, from Heaven, and bless Your nation Israel and the land that You gave us, just as You swore to

was the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Now, indeed, Groisman had a problem, and a representative of the Rebbe had come to Curaçao. Groisman consulted with

The key sign of intellectual maturity is the ability to recognize the true importance of important things and not ascribe undue significance to trivial matters.

our fathers...” And the Gemara (Sotah 39a-b) explains that, when a Jew fulfills the mitzvah to bring first fruits, the kohanim would offer the prayer, “Master of the World! We have done what you have decreed of us. Now do with us what you promised us!”

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

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

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

Rabbi Kotlarsky sent a copy of the letter to the Rebbe, who was moved

by Groisman’s heartfelt thanks,

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though distressed by one aspect of the man’s warm regards: “I must take exception to your referring to yourself as ‘a small Jew from Curaçao,’” he wrote to Groisman. “Every Jew, man or woman, has a soul which is part of G-dliness above, as explained in the Tanya. Thus, there is no such thing as ‘a small Jew,’ and a Jew must never underestimate his or her tremendous potential.”

Every Jew, every detail, has such potential packed within it.

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

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

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Jewish Thought

Parshas Eikev On Leadership: To Lead is to Listen

By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

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f only you would listen to these laws ...” (Deut. 7:12).

These words with which our parsha begins contain a verb that is a fundamental motif of the book of Devarim. The verb is sh-m-a. It occurred in last week’s parsha in the most famous line of the whole of Judaism, Shema Yisrael. It occurs later in this week’s parsha in the second paragraph of the Shema, “It shall be if you surely listen [shamoa tishme’u] ...

(Deut. 11:13). It appears no less than 92 times in Devarim as a whole.

We often miss the significance of this word because of what I call the fallacy of translatability: the assumption that one language is fully translatable into another. We hear a word translated from one language to another and assume that it means the same in both. But often it doesn’t.

Languages are only partially translatable into one another1. The key terms of one civilization are often not fully reproducible in another. The Greek word megalopsychos, for example, Aristotle’s “great-souled man” who is great and knows he is, and carries himself with aristocratic pride, is untranslatable into a moral system like Judaism in which humility is a virtue.

The English word “tact” has no precise equivalent in Hebrew. And so on.

This is particularly so in the case of the Hebrew verb sh-m-a. Listen, for example, to the way the opening words of this week’s parsha have been

translated into English: If you hearken to these precepts ...

If you completely obey these laws ...

If you pay attention to these laws ...

If you heed these ordinances ...

Because ye hear these judgments ...

There is no single English word that means to hear, to listen, to heed, to pay attention to, and to obey. Shm-a also means “to understand,” as in the story of the tower of Babel, when G-d says, “Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand [yishme’u] each other” (Gen. 11:7).

As I have argued elsewhere, one of the most striking facts about the Torah is that, although it contains 613 commands, it does not contain a word that means “to obey.” When such a word was needed in modern Hebrew, the verb le-tzayet was borrowed from Aramaic. The verb used by the Torah in place of “to obey” is sh-m-a. This is of the highest possible significance.

It means that blind obedience is not a virtue in Judaism. G-d wants us to understand the laws He has commanded us. He wants us to reflect on why this law, not that. He wants us to listen, to reflect, to seek to understand, to internalize and to respond.

He wants us to become a listening people.

Ancient Greece was a visual culture, a culture of art, architecture, theatre and spectacle. For the Greeks generally, and Plato specifically,

1 Robert Frost said: “Poetry is what gets lost in translation.” Cervantes compared translation to the other side of a tapestry. At best we see a rough outline of the pattern we know exists on the other side, but it lacks definition and is full of loose threads.

2 Anna O. (Bertha Pappenheim) famously described Freudian psychoanalysis as

knowing was a form of seeing. Judaism, as Freud pointed out in Moses and Monotheism, is a non-visual culture. We worship a G-d who cannot be seen, and making sacred images, icons, is absolutely forbidden. In Judaism we do not see G-d; we hear G-d. Knowing is a form of listening.

Ironically, Freud himself, deeply ambivalent though he was about Judaism, in psycho-analysis invented the listening cure: listening as therapy2.

It follows that in Judaism listening is a deeply spiritual act. To listen to G-d is to be open to G-d. That is what Moses is saying throughout Devarim: “If only you would listen.” So it is with leadership – indeed with all forms of interpersonal relationship.

Often the greatest gift we can give someone is to listen to them.

Viktor Frankl, who survived Auschwitz and went on to create a new form of psychotherapy based on “man’s search for meaning,” once told the story of a patient of his who phoned him in the middle of the night to tell him, calmly, that she was about to commit suicide. He kept her on the phone for two hours, giving her every conceivable reason to live. Eventually she said that she had changed her mind and would not end her life. When he next saw the woman he asked her which of his many reasons had persuaded her to change her mind. “None,” she replied.

“Why then did you decide not to commit suicide?” She replied that the fact that someone was prepared to listen to her for two hours in the middle of the night convinced her that life was worth living after all3.

As Chief Rabbi I was involved in resolving a number of highly intractable agunah cases: situations in which a husband was unwilling to give his wife a get so that she could remarry.

We resolved all these cases not by legal devices but by the simple act of listening: deep listening, in which we were able to convince both sides that we had heard their pain and their sense of injustice. This took many hours of total concentration and a principled absence of judgment and direction. Eventually our listening absorbed the acrimony and the couple were able to resolve their differences together. Listening is intensely therapeutic.

Before I became Chief Rabbi I was head of our rabbinical training seminary, Jews’ College. There in the 1980s we ran one of the most advanced practical rabbinics programs ever devised. It included a three-year program in counselling. The professionals we recruited to run the course told us that they had one precondition. We had to agree to take all the participants away to an enclosed location for two days. Only those who were willing to do this would be admitted to the course.

“the talking cure,” but it is in fact a listening cure. Only through the active listening of the analyst can there be the therapeutic or cathartic talking of the patient.

3 Anna Redsand, Viktor Frankl, A Life Worth Living, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006, 113-14

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We did not know in advance what the counsellors were planning to do, but we soon discovered. They planned to teach us the method pioneered by Carl Rogers known as non-directive or person-centered therapy. This involves active listening and reflective questioning, but no guidance on the part of the therapist.

As the nature of the method became clear, the rabbis began to object.

It seemed to oppose everything they stood for. To be a rabbi is to teach, to direct, to tell people what to do. The tension between the counsellors and the rabbis grew almost to the point of crisis, so much so that we had to stop the course for an hour while we sought some way of reconciling what the counsellors were doing and what the Torah seemed to be saying. That is when we began to reflect, for the first time as a group, on the spiritual dimension of listening, of sh-m-a Yisrael.

The deep truth behind person-centered therapy is that listening is the key virtue of the religious

life. That is what Moses was saying throughout Devarim. If we want G-d to listen to us, we have to be prepared to listen to Him. And if we learn to listen to Him, then we eventually learn to listen to our fellow humans:

to find leaders who speak, very rare to find leaders who listen. But listening often makes the difference.

Listening matters in a moral environment as insistent on human dignity as is Judaism. The very act of

Listening is a profound affirmation of the humanity of the other. the silent cry of the lonely, the poor, the weak, the vulnerable, the people in existential pain.

When G-d appeared to King Solomon in a dream and asked him what he would like to be given, Solomon replied: lev shome’a, literally “a listening heart” to judge the people (1 Kings 3:9). The choice of words is significant. Solomon’s wisdom lay, at least in part, in his ability to listen, to hear the emotion behind the words, to sense what was being left unsaid as well as what was said. It is common

listening is a form of respect.

The royal family in Britain is known always to arrive on time and depart on time. I will never forget the occasion – her aides told me that they had never witnessed it before – when the Queen stayed for two hours longer than her scheduled departure time.

The day was 27 January 2005, the occasion, the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The Queen had invited survivors to a reception at St James’ Palace. Each had a story to tell, and the Queen took the time to

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listen to every one of them. One after another came up to me and said, “Sixty years ago I did not know whether tomorrow I would be alive, and here I am talking to the Queen.” That act of listening was one of the most royal acts of graciousness I have ever witnessed. Listening is a profound affirmation of the humanity of the other.

In the encounter at the burning bush, when G-d summoned Moses to be a leader, Moses replied, “I am not a man of words, not yesterday, not the day before, not from the first time You spoke to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue” (Ex. 4:10). Why would G-d choose to lead the Jewish people a man who found it hard to speak? Perhaps because one who cannot speak learns how to listen. A leader is one who knows how to listen: to the unspoken cry of others and to the still, small voice of G-d.

To read more from Rabbi Sacks, please visit www.rabbisacks.org and follow @RabbiSacks on social media.

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The Wandering

Jew

Budapest Memories

By Hershel Lieber

Pesi at the Duna River, with parliament in the background

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esi and I arrived in Budapest in May of 1979. It was going to be a three-day stopover including Shabbos before entering the Soviet Union. I have an avid interest in geography, history and current events, so I was somewhat knowledgeable about the Hungarian brand of socialism.

After the 1956 Revolution, the leadership of both the government and the Communist Party was headed by

An abundance of food and consumer goods available in Budapest

By the Duna (Danube) River

Janos Kadar. He well understood the underlying reasons that led to the uprising and the exodus of over 200,000 Hungarians, including many Jews. He instituted changes but kept the key role of the government and economy

nities to own small businesses, a sense of freedom and well-being would prevail. The stores were fully stocked, the people were well-dressed, and there was a hint of Budapest’s former portrayal as the “Paris of the East.”

We were saddened that in a city with such a large Jewish population, so few people showed any interest in preserving tradition and connecting to Yiddishkeit.

in the hands of the Party. His changes were mainly cosmetic, but they enhanced the lives of the population to the level that there was a general feeling of contentment. Kadar’s system was called “goulash communism” because it was based on the premise that by providing people with material goods, travel privileges, and opportu-

Besides our general enjoyment of touring we had a yearning to meet and spend time with the Jews of this community. Although Hungary had over 80,000 Jews – most of them in Budapest – the Orthodox kehillah was very small and poor. There was the main synagogue on Kazinczy Utca and a few smaller shuls. The main shul was

headed before the War by the largerthan-life personality Rabbi Koppel Reich. The building was very large, and although it was quite dilapidated, one could see the detailing in the building and imagine the past grandeur of the interior. In contrast, the non-Orthodox (Neolog) Dohany Synagogue, an architectural gem and tourist attraction, was maintained and was in excellent condition. In the Kazinczy Synagogue’s courtyard were the kehillah’s offices, a kosher butcher shop, and a kosher soup kitchen which doubled as a restaurant called Hanna. Across the street there was a kosher bakery with mouthwatering Hungarian pastries.

I know, because we were their steady customers during our stay.

A Jewish museum and the rabbinical seminary, which trained rabbis for pulpits in the U.S.S.R. and other Eastern European countries, were two other institutions in this area of Budapest. The building that distressed us most was the five-story mikvah. That prewar structure was one of the most modern in its heyday. The amount

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Entrance to Kazinczy Synagogue

of dressing rooms, showers, baths, boros and mikvahs in one edifice was an accomplishment of note for the large Orthodox community that existed in those days. When we arrived, only one floor and two mikvahs were in use at different times for women and men. We were saddened that in

The dilapidated facade of the Kazinczy Synagogue

a city with such a large Jewish population, so few people showed any interest in preserving tradition and connecting to Yiddishkeit.

Foremost in my mind was the connection my parents, a”h, had to Budapest. Although both my father and mother came from Krakow, Poland,

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The Dohany Synagogue

they spent 1943-1945 in Hungary. My mother’s book, A World After This, details their dangerous escape from Poland. Their flight took them from Bochnia, Poland, to Kosice, Slovakia, and onward to Debrecen, Hungary. My father was arrested there and taken to a jail in Budapest. My mother followed

him there and had a daring meeting with Adolf Eichmann, ym”sh, to secure his release, which did not happen. Her book described the ingenious plan which finally brought about his escape from the prison. The hardships and perils that they went through were always part of our family’s sedarim’s

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At the entrance to the Orthodox kehillah building

legacy, especially, the final days of the capture of Budapest by the Red Army.

My parents were hiding in a basement as the fighting was taking place from one street to the next. The Red Army was looking for the Nazis house by house, and a group of Soviet soldiers entered the cellar where my parents and others were hiding. A commander approached them and, out of the blue, accused them of being German spies.

Plucking chicken feathers by hand

The commander did not heed to my mother’s protests and gave his soldiers a command in Russian. Immediately, his platoon raised their rifles and pointed them at my parents. My mother screamed, “Evrei” (Russian for Jew) over and over to no avail. My father forcefully shouted to her that they should say Shema. Without a moment of hesitation, they cried out, “Shema Yisroel Hashem…” in unison. With-

PESI’S SURPRISE BIRTHDAY GIFT TO ME Traveling to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union with Pesi gave us the opportunity to visit the Jewish communities and synagogues in a number of countries. For my birthday in 1981, Pesi surprised me with a gift, which she artistically created depicting the places which we visited. She would get up in the middle of the night, while I was sleeping, to paint this beautiful and meaningful watercolor. To this day I treasure this work of art, which hangs prominently in our dining room.

Description of the Artwork (right top and going clockwise) The Altneu Shul and Kehilla House in Prague The cemetery where the Maharal is buried, in Prague The entrance to the Remu Shul in Krakow The amud where I davened at during the Yomim Noraim, in the Nozyk Synagogue in Warsaw The entrance to the Choral Synagogue in Moscow The kever of the Chidushei Harim and the Sfas Emes in Gur, Poland The kever of the Remu in Krakow (right blue) The Choral Synagogue in Moscow The entrance to the Kozinczy Synagogue in Budapest The Dohany Synagogue in Budapest The Choral Synagogue in Leningrad (center)

At the kosher butcher shop in Budapest

in a split second, one of the Russian soldiers bellowed, “Stop! Stop! Evrei, they are Jews!” This story was repeated by my parents year after year, and though we all knew it well, it always elicited emotions of fear and joy.

We had arrived on Thursday and had a day and a half to tour the main sights of this cosmopolitan city. We were constantly on the go to see the most that we could. The Chain Bridge that crosses over to Buda, Fisherman’s Bastion, the huge ornate Parliament building, the Duna (Danube) River, the main shopping street Vaci Utca, Margaret Island, Kossuth Lajos Square, and, of course, Buda Castle.

We headed to Andrassy Utca, Budapest’s most elegant Avenue, where my mother lived for most of her stay near the Opera House disguised as a gentile. It was amazing how much we covered in such a short time. I guess we were younger then, with a lot more energy.

Our free-spirited mood changed drastically when we walked through the Jewish section which was also the ghetto during the war years.

Walking past decaying buildings and crumbling facades, we could not help imagining what living there meant during that era. Many buildings, including the Kazinczy Synagogue’s doors, were bullet-riddled from the street battles that took place between the Nazi captors and the Soviet liberators. People living in this slum area appeared deprived and depressed. It was a far cry from the other sections that we visited earlier.

Shabbos was rather pleasant. We met a couple, the Ehrenfelds from Boro Park, and ate together at the Hanna restaurant. I did not have any

long conversations with Chief Rabbi Weiss but connected well with the shochet, Rabbi Mendel Krausz. He invited us for kiddush in his apartment. We had a very nice discussion but could not converse with his wife since we did not speak Hungarian.

I remember that the furniture were remnants from the time of Franz Josef and that she had egg noodles drying on her sofa. We met the Rosh Hakahal, Mr. Fixler, who had powerful connections with the government and was helpful to me during my future trips to Budapest.

At shalosh seudos, in the small adjacent shul, I sang some of the zemiros with muted accompaniment of the older mispallelim. The tunes we sang were melancholic, and our feelings matched that mood. Yes, we were glad we came, but our memories of Budapest left us with mixed emotions.

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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But Is It Kosher?

By Rafi Sackville

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hrough this column you’ve read about the Western Galil, and about Ma’a lot, in particular. You decide to visit for a few days.

While here you eat out at one or more of the numerous eateries. No problem doing so because you’ve checked the kashrut, and it’s all above board.

After a few days, you’ve had enough eating out, and you’re delighted to discover not one, but four large supermarkets from which to choose.

The two main malls in the city each house supermarkets: Supersol and Yaynot Bitan. Two years ago, another, Gadban, went up in the industrial area. Finally, Dabach, the biggest and fanciest of all supermarkets, recently opened up on highway 89 at the entrance to the city.

The Dabach family controls almost 60% of the fresh meat market in Israel, as well as a large portion of the fresh fruit market here in the north.

Gadban also run a chain of supermarkets up north.

What could possibly go wrong buying in any of the four? They’re just supermarkets, after all. Most of the goods available in supermarkets come in closed packages. They’re stamped for kashrut. What issues could there be in any of the four supermarkets when one could simply avoid the non-kosher goods? For example, you want to buy bread rolls, cold cuts, mustard and pickles, all items that have come sealed and fresh directly from the factory.

Do these premises need a kashrut certificate?

You check to find that Supersol and Yeynot Bitan are under the auspices of the local rabbinical council.

Dabach is not. Gadban was...sort of.

When Gadban opened its doors almost two years ago, it did so with minimum fanfare. With what appeared to be goodwill to the majority of the Jewish residents in the city of over 20,000, they advertised that they were under the hashgacha of the

local religious council headed by Rabbi Meir Sayag.

Gadban’s doors were opened via a campaign of slashed prices and specials. For six months they slowly developed a respectable clientele. Then, with the same minimum of fuss, they had a “falling out” with the rabbinical council. Their acquisition of a kashrut certificate had been a ruse contrived to build their customer base.

By the time they were operating without a hashgacha, their prices had been raised to reflect the average market value but the damage had been done. The citywide notice put out by the rabbinical council had little, if any effect. Their marketing strategy had worked.

Then Dabach opened their supermarket to even greater fanfare. Huge banners ran up and down the highway. The new, fresh look, the specials, and advertising campaign combined to make a perfect consumer storm.

There were performing artists, free gifts, and an underground car park accessible by a moving walkway.

It is a huge and well stocked business with produce that is both cheaper and of better quality than that at the kosher supermarkets. Because the Dabach family are so prominent and well-known, and because they attract a large number of non-Jew-

ish customers, they saw no need to request a kosher hashgacha. Keep in mind that one shouldn’t discount the demographics of the Western Galil, where Jews make up less than 30% of the population.

My wife and I spent three weeks during the summer in Far Rockaway and Lawrence, where there are numerous kosher supermarkets and eateries. Customers have little to worry about when buying kosher.

Walking down Central Avenue during the annual sidewalk sale was a reminder of the power of the frum community in this area of New York where many more enjoy keeping Shabbat than they do where we live.

The strength of your wonderful New York community demands the highest of standards. As a religious body, the Jews of the Western Galil are not as discerning or as halachically savvy. Moreover, the sheer volume of advertising in the Five Towns makes the job of the kashrut board easier than in Ma’alot, where there is a greater burden of responsibility placed on the local rabbinate, and whose messaging is not as powerful as, let’s say, this newspaper.

For this reason, Rabbi Meir Sayag, the Mara D’Atra, ruled that frequenting the premises of Gadban or Dabach supermarkets is forbidden. He gave

a simple, but compelling example of why G-d-fearing Jews should not frequent such establishments.

The rav explained that walking into the door of either Gadban or Dabach poses a stumbling block for people. My wishing to purchase the aforementioned items for an afternoon picnic could lead to someone else thinking that my presence alone is cause enough to believe the kashrut is above board. As a result, they might purchase items for their picnic whose kashrut is questionable. The rolls, pickles and mustard are good to go, but the cold cuts? Instead of buying a closed package, they may ask a worker in the meat section to slice them an assortment of meats. And whose to say the machine or knife wasn’t used for slicing cheese or sharp vegetables like onions?

The argument from people I know about only purchasing close packages does not take into consideration just how easy it is to mislead others into drawing the wrong conclusions.

So next time you walk into one of the many well-stocked and pleasant supermarkets here in New York, remember that all the hard work has been done for you by your kashrut board.

Furthermore, the scenario in Ma’alot is not analogous to buying in Shop and Stop on Burnside Avenue where customers are conscious of the fact that non-kosher foodstuffs are on sale. In Ma’a lot, the problem arises when people operate under the misconception that if it’s in Israel, there shouldn’t be a problem purchasing from any supermarket in the country.

You might think that of all the places in the world there could be no better place to trust the kashrut of a supermarket than in Israel.

Think again.

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

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t’s a lazy late summer Sunday. My wife is out shopping for uniforms with my daughters. My seven-year-old son is trying to spark up his half-broken remote control car. My 12-year-old is lounging on the couch, trying every which tactic to convince me to take him to Citi Field for a Mets game. But my attention is somewhere else. I’m in the middle of reading about the proposed state guidelines which may cripple the yeshiva system as we know it.

In the background, faintly, I hear a new Eitan Katz song playing on the Bluetooth speaker, and my ears perk up. “Ashrecha na’arei Yisroel v’ashrei chelkecha.” Blessed are you, Jewish children, and blessed is your lot.

The irony of the moment hits me – this is what they are trying to take away.

Those words, in my mind, become more than a song. The lyrics turn into a prayer. Look, Hashem, at these children and the life that we strive to give them; please don’t let the evil winds change that. Let us be able to teach them about Your world and Your Torah. And let them continue to live wholesomely in Your ways.

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omewhere in the noise and busyness of our daily lives, the news about the proposed changes to the yeshiva system caused me to perk up several months ago when there was a threat of seven hours of mandatory secular studies in

our yeshivos. But when those guidelines didn’t come to be, I went back to my cocoon, content in my ignorance.

Unbeknownst to me until last Sunday, the threat to our yeshiva system is still very much alive. And the threat is not limited to the number of hours

that yeshiva students may be required to spend on secular studies. There are guidelines being considered that may dictate who gets to teach in yeshivos and which secular topics must be covered.

Writing in Tablet magazine, Mar-

vin Schick, who was president of RJJ School in Staten Island for 30 years, described the proposed regulations as “an attempt by New York State to impose a rigid set of rules that would alter the essential character of private schools, parochial and independent alike, where parents and educators work together to instill their values and strengthen their communities.”

“These guidelines would be catastrophic to the yeshivos,” Rabbi Meyer Weitman, dean of Torah Academy for Girls, told TJH. “Even the top academic schools would be drastically impacted. At TAG we have a very high standard of academic excellence, but there is no school that I know of that can live up to the guidelines.”

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Among the proposed guidelines is a mandate that would require inspections within three years of opening a school and would require every school to be inspected by 2023. Under state law, local public school officials are required to ensure that the education given in nonpublic schools is “substantially equivalent” to that given in district public schools. The guidelines would require local public school officials to assist in establishing secular curriculum in nonpublic schools and would require a certain number of hours of secular education in yeshivas, depending on grade level.

In other words, public school officials would dictate what should be taught in yeshivas and by whom the lessons should be given. Additionally, certain subjects will be required to be taught in addition to the standard English, math and science, including consumer and family science, visual arts, theater, and media arts. And teachers will be held to yet undefined standards.

These guidelines and the interference of public school officials in yeshivas will go into effect regardless of how well students excel on their New York State regents or New York State Assessment Tests. In fact, although there may be some yeshivos in some locations that can use improvement, and that are working towards improving their educational standards, by and large Orthodox Jewish schools have an excellent reputation. “In our community we have excellent schools that fit every hashkafa,” Mr. Richard Altabe, principal at Hebrew Academy of Long Beach, points out.

“There is no question that our graduates are extremely successful,” Rabbi Yaakov Bender, rosh hayeshiva of Yeshiva Darchei Torah, adds. “And the state knows that. They know that our graduates are the best lawyers and doctors and accountants around.

In fact, seven boys from Yeshiva Darchei Torah graduated Harvard in the last nine years.”

Intrinsically, the threat facing the yeshivas is not about learning more math or science. Yeshivas are constantly updating their curricula to comply with the standards dictated by the Board of Education. But that’s not what this is about. It’s more than that.

Perhaps the best way to understand the danger of the proposed guidelines is to understand the goal of the organization that went to the state in the first place and pushed for them.

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“These proposed regulations would destabilize the entire Yeshiva system,” notes Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva of South Shore. “They would undermine the independence of our yeshivas, by shifting control from parents and principals to bureaucrats in Albany.

“By forcing additional hours of secular instruction, the State Education Department is showing total insensitivity, if not disregard, for the significance and the prominence of the revered tradition and tremendous success of dual curriculum that days schools, yeshivos and Bais Yaakovs across the board offer,” adds Rabbi Kamenetzky. “These guidelines would cripple the yeshiva system and its ability to ensure the future of a vibrant, religious Orthodox Jewish community in New York State.”

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erhaps the best way to understand the danger of the proposed guidelines is to understand the goal of the organization that went to the state in the first place and pushed for them.

According to a report by that organization – which filed a formal complaint four years ago against dozens of yeshivas for “mass educational neglect” – the reason that the Orthodox community is concerned about the proposed changes is because the Orthodox community believes that “outside influences” would teach Orthodox children about things such as “the right to challenge rabbinic authority, about cultural relativism … about gay rights, about the values of cultural integration, about evolution, about the importance of a university education, about scientific findings that challenge Scriptural and religious ‘truths,’ about popular culture, and so on – all matters that the haredi Orthodox consider anathema.”

In the era of social media, gaining traction does not require a big operation, and the organization pushing the guidelines is often described as “one man with a fax machine” – or one man with an ax to grind. It is led by an individual who has a grievance about the subpar education that he received in a chassidish school near-

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ly two decades ago. But, rather than dust himself off and move on or try and push for change in schools that offer a subpar education, he chose to take on the entire Orthodox Jewish school system from chassidic to Modern Orthodox. Although he has gained less than a handful of allies within the Orthodox community – his initial complaint letter to the DOE only garnered 52 signatures – he has gained strong support from various secular New York Jewish organizations and individuals, including attorney Norman Siegel, former executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union.

Many liberal non-Orthodox Jews – who don’t have any connection to the Orthodox community and the yeshiva system – have sided with this individual and his organization in pushing the state to institute draconian changes to the yeshiva system.

As one individual who is familiar with this organization explained, “The non-Orthodox Jewish world

prides itself on academia and books.

If you go into any non-Orthodox Jewish house, there are dozens and dozens of books because they believe that Jews are the ‘people of the book.’ They don’t realize that ‘the book’ refers to the Torah. They see us as a group of Jews who are insulating ourselves from reading and writing, and it bothers them at the core. So they love what this organization is doing. There are a lot of liberal Jews supporting the cause.”

Many of those pushing for the Department of Education to infiltrate yeshivos and institute the new guidelines have never entered a yeshiva. Many of them have never met

a yeshiva-educated adult who has received a yeshiva education and is now attending Columbia University or is a partner at Deloitte. When many of the guideline supporters hear the code words “yeshiva” or “Orthodox,” their ears start to buzz. For them, it’s not about education or math or science – it’s about battering a community that they’ve been disparaging for years.

When those pushing for the guidelines recently attempted to infiltrate the Rockland County education system by proposing an essentially anti-Orthodox school resolution, Rockland County Legislator Aron Wieder put the group’s efforts in perspective.

“This resolution has nothing to

do with education,” he pointed out.

“The evidence is right before your eyes. Look around you. Who showed up this evening to support this resolution? It is the same people that have attacked the eiruv, the same people who have called the chassidic community a cult, and it is the very same people who tolerate labeling the chassidic community as cancerous.”

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o draconian are the proposed guidelines that the Catholic community, the New York State Association of Independent Schools (NYSAIS), and other private schools have joined together with the Orthodox schools to fight back. In perhaps a strange twist of fate, the Dalton School, a famed private coeducational college preparatory school on New York City’s Upper East Side, and Satmar are now on the same side of this issue.

“Dalton doesn’t want the gov-

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ernment telling them, ‘You need to have X number of hours of math and X number of hours of theater arts, when they may be doing something completely different in STEM that the state never heard of before,” Mr. Altabe explains. “The Catholic schools are afraid because the way the regulation is written puts the local superintendent of the public school as the arbiter of whether the private school is good. And in a lot of these communities, the Catholic school is competing with the public school, and the competition would be determining whether they’re good enough. That’s not fair.”

When proposed guidelines for private schools came out a few years ago, New York State Education Department Commissioner MaryEllen Elia held a series of meetings with PEARLS (Parents for Educational and Religious Liberty in Schools), an association of chassidic schools; the Agudath Yisroel; Torah Umesorah; and other school organizations to try to address the concerns of those who were pushing for changes in the Orthodox school system. But suddenly the Commissioner stopped talking to the organizations. Despite lobbying efforts, she refused to come back to the table. One askan involved in the process told TJH, “I believe the Commissioner stopped talking to us when the ‘progressives’ took power in New York State. Once a large portion of these progressives/socialists moved into different positions and that became the power base in New York State, they put pressure on the Board of Regents and the Commissioner, and that changed the dynamic. The Commissioner totally shut down. We tried every avenue to get through, and there was no way.”

That left no choice for the community but to file a lawsuit to prevent the regulations from coming to fruition.

Several months ago, the court ruled that the proposed regulations were unlawful.

However, that could be a shortlived victory.

The court’s decision was based on the fact that the proper procedures were not followed before the guidelines were enacted. State regulations require a public comment period before new guidelines are voted on by

the Board of Regents. To rectify this, on May 30, 2019, the Education Department started over and put out a set of onerous guidelines for review.

The comment period, which is underway, ends on Labor Day, September 2, 2019, after which the Board of Regents will vote whether to adopt the guidelines.

Since we are in the crucial comment period, this is the time when our voices need to be heard.

“The Board of Regents is required to read each and every letter sent in,” notes Rabbi Weitman. “It’s not like a letter to the U.S. president that goes to the press room and then the trash bin.

They are required to go through these letters. They were shocked when they saw a few thousand letters in the beginning of this campaign. Should they see 100,000 letters, it will, b’derech ha’teva, change their perception.”

Mr. Altabe concurs. “I know for a fact that the Board of Regents is overwhelmed by the amount of letters that they are getting,” he says, referring to the many letters the community has been sending.

“They had no clue that there was such a feeling. They really thought that a few people in some organization were speaking for klal Yisroel. They were never in a yeshiva…. They think that when we are studying religion in the first part of the day that we are just chanting prayers.

“The pressure from the letters and the outcry from thousands of parents is a noise that has to be listened to; that’s the beauty of America,” he adds.

“Whether you’re parents of children in yeshivos, or graduates of such mosdos, it is imperative to make your voices

heard,” Rabbi Kamenetzy urges.

Now is the time. And time is running out.

If the guidelines pass as is, in addition to yeshivas being required to offer many more hours of secular studies per week, local public school districts would have the authority to decide if the material in yeshivas is being taught “effectively” and who the teachers for those subjects will be.

Additionally, parents who send their children to “non-compliant” schools could find themselves brought up on charges, with a family court judge to decide where their children should be educated.

“My fear is that once you hand the keys to the government, it’s a slippery slope. They could decide whatever they want,” explains Mr. Altabe. “We could end up having the same issues

The public comment period for the proposed yeshiva guidelines ends on Labor Day, September 2, 2019. The more letters against the regulations that are submitted, the more of a voice we have in expressing our concerns against these guidelines. Each letter is read; each person’s concerns are considered. Go to https:// voice.tora humesora h. org/#allSupporters to submit a standard letter to the Board of Regents or to write a personal letter expressing your alarm at the state interfering with our children’s education. Share this information with friends and family and implore them to write letters as well. Every letter must be reviewed by the Board of Regents. The deadline is fast approaching; time is of the essence!

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that England is facing right now. In England, there is an agency that goes into the yeshivas and analyzes what is going on. They recently went into one of the more modern Jewish schools that teaches the boys and girls separately and they said, ‘This is not OK because you are not offering equal education to the boys and girls.’”

“There is no way in the world that we could operate with the hours that they are asking for, with the curriculum that they are asking for, and with the requirements for staffing that they are asking for,” Rabbi Weitman adds.

“Obviously, none of us are against having secular education taught in schools – we have it and we want it,” Rabbi Bender says. “But when the government mandates and dictates to us what we can learn and when we have to learn it, it’s a terrible thing for us. Reb Chaim and the Netziv closed Volozhin in Russia because the government insisted on them teaching certain things. I’m not saying that we are in that place, but we cannot let them dictate how and what we learn in our yeshivos. We need to do everything in our power to stop it.” s parents and grandparents, we want our children to succeed and to be given a well-rounded, superior education. But we should be able to decide who will be teaching them and what will be taught in those classes. Our children spend more time in school each day than in our homes, and we want to be able to determine what they are being exposed to during those long school days. If we – parents, grandparents, yeshiva alumni, current students, etc. – do our part and make our voices heard, there is no doubt that we will have Siyata Dishmaya and the forces that seek to shake our educational foundation to its core will be defeated.

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

Dear Navidaters, My brother was dating a lovely girl for about seven months yet he felt there wasn’t that click or perfect chemistry so he broke it off. Shortly after, the girl started dating another guy from the same community. My brother was shocked that she was able to move on so quickly (two weeks) after their breakup while he still was emotionally dealing with it. In fact, he is starting to have second thoughts about “letting her go.” It may be a bit too late to repair their relationship as her new dating life is going pretty well.

What do you advise me to do to help him? He is 34 years old, and this is the first girl in a long while that he cannot stop thinking about even though he is no longer dating her.

Thanks for all your advice.

Rachel

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There is an incredible remez which drives this point home. In halacha, we are taught that the length of each row in a Sefer Torah is 45 letters long.

The amount of missing letters in those 12 rows totals 540 (45x12). By no coincidence is this is the same exact gematria as mesunin, as in he’vu mesunin ba’din. In a mind-blowing concurrence, there are 22 days of Bein Hameitzarim, the Three Weeks, plus 12 hours of mourning into the 10th of Av which also totals 540 hours (22 x 24 + 12)!

We should be zocheh that this be the last year of mourning the churban Beish Hamikdash and all of the absence should make the love stronger to reunite us with Hakadosh Baruch Hu with love and admiration with the ing relationships. When he was seven rebuilding of the Beis Hamikdash with months into a relationship, he broke it bi’as go’el tzedek b’mheira b’yameinu, off because of, as you’ve stated, “lack Amen. of perfect chemistry.” The lens he was

It’s a common part of human nature – what we can’t have we suddenly want more than ever.

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looking through in his relationship was fogged; he simply could not see clearly. Suddenly, when this girl was not available to him, his anxiety was lifted and he was able to see the relationship and chemistry through a defogged lens. He wants her back. He must work this issue through with a therapist until he is in a healthy place.

If this girl becomes available again (which she will if she is his bashert), he will be able to navigate the relationship to reach a good outcome.

Regardless if he ends up with this

particular girl, getting professional help for this issue of anxiety and commitment will undoubtedly help him get to the chuppah.

The Single Tova Wein orry to hear about your brother’s suffering. Maybe he acted too hastily and

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ear Rachel, I can tell what a caring and devoted sister you are to your brother. The best thing you can do for your brother right now is to encourage him to speak with a professional. You can be a listening ear and a supportive shoulder to cry on, but your brother has to figure this one out on his own.

Your brother let this woman go and, now that she has moved on, he seems to be focusing in on his feelings for her. If this is your brother’s pattern (date, break up, want to date again), he owes it to himself to figure

this out. Sometimes there is anxiety at the root of this cycle. A person is afraid of choosing the wrong person, or making a mistake, so he breaks up with woman after woman believing that he will feel more confident with the right one. Sometimes, it’s a commitment issue; the man or woman really doesn’t want to settle down and be married.

If you have a pattern of helping your brother a bit too much, you may

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is regretting what he did or maybe because his ex-girlfriend is dating someone else, her value in his eyes has suddenly risen. This happens to people very often under various scenarios. Have you ever found yourself putting a dress back on the rack in a store and suddenly you notice someone else purchasing it? All of a sudden, you strongly believe that this was the nicest dress you’ve ever seen in your life and you can’t believe you put it back! It’s a common part of human nature – what we can’t have we suddenly want more than ever.

But r e g a r d i ng how you can help your brother, you can encourage him to remember all the reasons why he broke up with her in the first place and encourage him to think

want to speak with somebody. Sometimes when we are overly “helpful,” we have a habit of enabling undesirable behaviors because the enabler’s message is “you can’t do this yourself. You need me.”

I can’t give you specific advice to give to your brother because I truly don’t know what is best for him. But he can figure that out in therapy. And all you can do is suggest that he go so that he can begin to make sense of his choice and his current feelings of longing.

All the best, Jennifer Mann, LCSW

Your brother has to figure this one out on his own. about how serious these matters must have been for him to break up after seven months of dating.

If he can’t remember the why’s, then maybe he has commitment issues and should be speaking to a professional. And even if he can remember the why’s, maybe he still needs to sort things through with a professional, even if it’s just to help him move forward at this point and also find clarity about why he is still single and whether his expectations are realistic.

As a sister, all you can ultimately do is listen and be supportive.

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

Hi Readers!

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

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Dr. Deb

When is Someone Ready for Marital Therapy?

By Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.

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omeone asked me if his wife was “ready” for marital therapy because he didn’t think she was. The question puzzled me. Why does anyone have to be ready? You just do it.

Like the time, when I was about 8 years old in summer camp and I stood in diver’s pose ready to dive head first into the water…for a half hour. I didn’t have the nerve to just do it. Finally, I just did it – and it was wonderful! So exciting, so exhilarating!

But we often let fear stop us from doing wonderful things.

Fear was implanted within us to be used in moderation, like eating delicious food should be done in moderation, or even sleeping needs to be done in moderation (unless you’re sick). In moderation, it keys us up a bit before a performance, a speech, a talk with the boss. This is good. The flow of adrenaline creates a state of alertness that we wouldn’t otherwise have.

By narrowing the blood vessels, adrenaline increases blood pressure.

This, in turn, speeds up heart rate. It also expands the lungs, brings calories to the muscles, and even dilates the eyes’ pupils a bit. All these are useful before a test and before a debate.

But therapy is neither a test nor a debate. It is not a performance and there is no boss, either.

So what is the fear about?

We are often afraid of what our spouse will say about us. That may be our second biggest fear. But one of the more frightening aspects of therapy is the possibility of being known by this stranger, this therapist from whom we would rather hide. That may be the biggest fear.

We are used to our spouse. We have let our hair down in front of them so many times, it’s old. But the therapist, who is a stranger? Ah, that’s different. We don’t want to look like a fool or a fraud in front of them.

We don’t want to look evil or empty, either.

But when you stop and think about it, that really makes no sense.

After all, who is this stranger to matter to us? Think, instead, of therapists more like a conduit, a bridge, to get from here to there. True, you do form a bit of a relationship, but they really are here only to serve the purpose of helping you on your journey.

They are not supposed to be judgmental anyway; every code of ethics for every therapy profession forbids judgmentalism.

Think about it this way: a man who comes hobbling into the hospital for help, leaning heavily on his crutches, is not to be blamed for his broken leg. The hospital’s job is to set the bone right and send him on his way.

Now, it could happen that the therapist is immature and makes foolish judgments about the person coming in the door, and worse, shares them with that person. Frankly, this is a reflection only on one person – the therapist. For that, you are entitled to make a complaint to the professional organization that he belongs to, whether psychology, social work, mental health counseling, or marriage and family therapy.

So there is absolutely no reason for fear of the therapist.

People are often afraid of even a bigger “adversary” – themselves.

They often spend a good deal of time beating themselves up and they are justifiably afraid that, in therapy, they will have to face those characteristics in themselves that they would rather not look at.

But the reality is that they’re already hating themselves because of these imagined flaws and the best thing they can do for themselves is shine a spotlight on them to see how innocuous they really are.

And even if you think I’m wrong – that these flaws are not at all innocent but rather terrible – there is always a good reason for their existence in your makeup. You created them as a means of survival at a time in your life when you knew no other thing.

And they worked – they enabled you to survive.

So, you see, there is really no reason to be afraid of facing yourself, either.

If this is true, then how did this person who confronted me come to the conclusion that his wife was not “ready”? Is there a difference between marital therapy and regular, old, individual therapy?

Perhaps that is what this person thought. I can only guess. If we get back to the issue of fear, perhaps he thought that his wife was not “ready” to hear “the truth” about her from his lips.

Ah! Now that is a line I’ve heard before!

Someone believes he has the unvarnished truth “about” his spouse and is bursting to share it because once the spouse “knows” and hears it in the neutral, safe space of the therapy office, then all problems will magically be resolved.

I wish.

There is no such thing as “truth.”

Only G-d has the Truth. And we have our biases! One spouse never can objectively share information about the other because he or she is not objective!

Now, Mr. Edwards will argue that “facts are facts.” That is true. But people have a funny way of presenting only the facts that make their point and leaving out others. Today, I was talking to Mr. Edwards (all names

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and stories are made up) and he told me that his wife went into a panic three times during the weekend, thinking she’d lost her phone when the phone was in the bottom of her purse each time. One of those times, they were driving in traffic and she wanted him to stop the car, turn on the light, and let her search for the missing phone.

When he told her he was pulling to the side of the road and that she should “try to calm down,” she got….

What? You tell me, what do you think she got?

Madder. Of course. And he knows it. He knows beyond the shadow of a doubt that when someone’s amygdala (part of the brain that reacts to potential fearful situations with full sirens blasting) has been aroused, the last thing to calm that poor amygdala is to say, “Calm down.”

So I pointed out to him that his reaction probably wasn’t too helpful. He admitted it but said he was at the end of his rope. Well, I can understand

that. Living with a highly anxious person who is not doing her homework to become centered and calm can be, indeed, stressful.

But here’s the thing: Mr. Edwards does not have the goods any more

are justified and therefore we don’t need to look at them.

So I gently ask Mr. Edwards to focus on his own reactions and see what he can do better by using the tools that I have given them. Then, of

Think, instead, of therapists more like a conduit, a bridge, to get from here to there.

than Mrs. Edwards does.

They each have: 1. their side, their version of things 2. their own not-so-helpful reactions to the things their spouse does 3. their biases that their reactions

course, I do the same with his wife.

So what is there to be “ready” for in marital counseling? Each person has to be willing to look at themselves, whether it’s individual or marital therapy, and each person

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has to be willing to fall in love with themselves, too. To do that, looking at themselves must be followed by fixing the things about themselves that they don’t like.

It’s only when you love yourself that you have the capacity to love another.

So maybe that’s the answer. Maybe that man wasn’t ready to love himself, and he found it convenient to say his wife wasn’t “ready.” I admit it is harder sometimes to love yourself than to tear yourself apart.

But which feels better? Which makes more sense? Which do you want?

Give me a call and we will talk about what you really want. Together, of course.

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

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Health & F tness

The White Coat Photo credit: Musealia/Icíar Palacios

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

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ymbols. The ancient world had symbols for fertility, wealth, birth, and death. Today’s world is replete with them. The blue-andwhite wheelchair occupied by a stick figure. The red circle with a line im-

posed over a black, lit cigarette. The peace sign. The list is endless.

The power of symbols endures because symbols are creative, useful tools in generating awareness and building knowledge. Interestingly,

using a symbol does not bring about conditions. Rather, the primary central reason for how a particular symbol is seen lies in its use over time.

Symbols give form to concepts and ideas, thereby defining a world.

The white coat is an excellent example.

For over 100 years, the white coat has served as the physician’s symbol.

A child’s earliest memory of a doctor is the person in the white coat. In

How did the white coat come into being?

In the late 19th century, physicians wore black because it connoted more somber attire. Medical encounters then were rather solemn in nature as seeking medical advice was considered the last step in life. With the advent of the new century, medicine began to shift from home remedies and more into the realm of bioscience.

Further, the Flexner Report of

Whatever we take on in life should be with the highest level of integrity. fact, at almost all medical schools – 97% to be specific – the first symbolic act is the “White Coat Ceremony (WCC).” This rite of passage for medical students, which was created in 1993 by Dr. Arnold P. Gold at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, entails a “ceremonial cloaking” as one embarks on a medical career. It is combined with the recitation of the Hippocratic Oath.

Some health care training programs for physician assistants, occupational therapists and others conclude with the WCC. The WCC is a once-in-a-lifetime milestone. Spouses, parents, and others flock to watch their loved one’s big moment.

1910, which was published under the aegis of the Carnegie Foundation, called for restructuring medical education around laboratory science, in addition to other recommended changes. Physicians – both full-fledged and those in training to-be-physicians – embraced the white coat as a way to distinguish themselves from the quacks and snake oil healers who shunned evidenced-based medicine.

As the field of medicine evolved and changed in the 20th century, the white coat emerged as the symbol of medical authority and respect. It is a uniform that elicits trust and respect.

The closing years of the 20th century witnessed some doctors choos-

ing not to wear the white coat after their professional training had concluded. In particular, pediatricians and psychiatrists said many patients found it too intimidating and distancing from patients. Others said that the coat, unless washed regularly, is a “hotbed” of germs.

Today’s statistics show that 72% of hospital physicians and almost all medical students wear white coats at least 75% of the time. It sure is an easy way for people to determine that they are medical professionals. In a study conducted by the University of Michigan, over one-third of the 4,062 patients who were polled said that the white coat influenced their satisfaction with the care rendered.

So perhaps it is true that clothes do indeed make the man.

Unfortunately, and tragically, there are demented minds that have misused and abused this symbol of professionalism, caring, and trust.

Recently, my wife and I visited the Museum of the Jewish Heritage in

New York’s Battery Park City to tour the exhibition “Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.” This well-done exhibit with 700 original objects and 400 photographs, including a cattle car that transported Jews and others to the Nazi death and concentration camps, is engaging, jarring, thought-provoking, and gut-wrenching.

It was a horrifying moment for me to come to a display case with a white coat. Yes, you read this correctly. A white coat.

The person who wore the white coat was Dr. Georg Renno. Renno (forgive me but he does not deserve the title “Doctor”) was born in Strasbourg and studied medicine in Munich and Heidelberg. He became an assistant doctor in the Leipzig-Dosen hospital under Hermann Paul Nitsche, a psychiatrist who subscribed to “racial hygiene” and was one of the Nazis’ proponents of murdering patients deemed “unfit” or “unhealthy.”

Renno was deputy head of the Hart-

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hein killing center (he checked people shortly before they were murdered) and was responsible for the introduction of gas. He also was in charge of Hartheim’s children’s ward and assured that all physically and mentally disabled children were murdered for the sake of racial hygiene. After World War II, Renno worked for the pharmaceutical company Schering.

In the 1960s, he was tried for war crimes and was unfortunately not convicted. In 1975, the trial against him was shelved because he was unable to stand trial. Right up until his death in 1997, he proclaimed his innocence.

The thought that Renno paraded around in a white coat while plotting and planning the deaths of innocent people is too much to comprehend.

Renno and slimebucket murderers and perpetrators of his ilk use a powerful symbol to deceive, to trick us into believing that that which they represent is actually present or real.

They trick us when we believe that

whoever wears the symbol embodies that image because we believe that the symbol and the person are one and the same. What a hoax. What a perversion of the Hippocratic Oath.

The takeaway lesson from Renno’s white coat should be that whatever we take on in life should be with the highest level of integrity. We don’t always know the answers – and nor are we expected to. The White Coat Ceremony with the recitation of the Hippocratic Oath is at the beginning of one’s medical education. It is the goal of a long journey. But having that goal is so important in all matters in life.

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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Health & F tness

Diet or Exercise?

By Cindy Weinberger MS, RD, CDN

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xcess weight is a global public health issue affecting approximately 78.6 million Americans, amounting to 35% of the population.

It is estimated that by 2030, 57.8% of the world’s population (3.3 billion people) could be either overweight or obese. Having a BMI above normal limits (>25) indicates one is overweight and is at risk for mortality and morbidity from chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and several cancers.

Since obesity causes so many diseases, it is often referred to as the obesity epidemic. Weight loss can reduce the health risks associated with obesity. However, the most effective strategy for weight loss remains unclear. Some programs stress physical activity, others recommend diet.

There are also mixed opinions if diet and exercise should be individual or combined.

The number one question is: when trying to be healthy and/or lose weight, should I diet or exercise or both?

Researchers asked 1,200 people across the globe what they think is the main factor that makes people overweight. In addition, the researchers calculated the participants’ BMI by obtaining their height and weight.

Interestingly, those who felt that it’s more important to be physically active to fight obesity had higher BMIs than those who felt dieting is the key to weight control.

When watching what you eat, you control the amount of calories you

strict calories for weight loss purposes lose about 2 pounds a week, while those who exercise but don’t restrict calories lose less than a half a pound each week. Research also shows that people who diet and exercise for weight loss lose the same amount of

When watching what you eat, you control the amount of calories you are consuming

are consuming. When focusing on exercise, it is likely for one to overeat with the intentions of working off those excess calories, but often the workout does not combat the extra calories. People tend to overestimate the amount of calories they burn while working out and, in addition, compensate for the extra activity by eating more. Exercising alone is not the answer!

A study in the International Journal of Obesity and Related Metabolic Disorders shows that those who re-

weight as people who only diet. So one might think dieting alone is the answer. However, those who exercise and diet are more successful at keeping the weight off. A study by Johns et. al provides evidence that behavioral weight management programs combing diet and exercise are more effective for weight loss over 12 months than interventions based on diet or exercise alone.

A study by Seo and Sa recommends that when combining diet and exercise starting with physical activ-

ity intervention and then adding in a healthy, balanced diet promotes more weight loss than the addition of physical activity into a dietary program.

When starting physical activity, one is likely to see visual changes such as clothing fitting better. This may help motivate them to go one step further and make dietary changes. A study from Stanford University suggests that exercise and diet are best maintained when starting at the same time, but if one is unable to do both at the same time, start with exercise.

The bottom line is when trying to lose weight one should cut the calories, but add in some physical activity to keep the weight off long-term. Exercise also boosts your mood and energy so that you can keep going with your weight loss plan.

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. She can be reached at CindyWeinberger1@gmail.com.

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In The K

tchen

Carrot-Date Muffins

By Naomi Nachman These muffins are great for packing and taking with you on trips. My family spends most of the summer traveling, and these are easy to transport. Just toss one batch into your travel bag on the way out the door. You can prepare them in advance and freeze them; the recipe is easily doubled.

PAREVE YIELDS 12 MUFFINS

Ingredients Streusel Topping 1 cup flour 1 cup sugar ⅛ cup sweetened shredded coconut, optional ½ cup canola oil Muffins 2 cups whole dates, pitted

¾ cup boiling water ½ cup canola oil ¾ cup packed dark brown sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract ½ teaspoon cinnamon 2 cups flour ½ cup shredded carrots ¼ cups ground walnuts, optional 2½ teaspoons baking powder ½ teaspoon kosher salt

Preparation Prepare the streusel topping: In a medium bowl, stir together flour, sugar, and coconut, if using. Add oil. With a fork, stir together until well combined and mixture begins to hold together but is still crumbly.

Prepare the muffins: Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat a 12-cup muffin tin with oil or nonstick cooking spray.

Place dates into a shallow bowl; pour boiling water over them; allow to soak for 15 minutes. Transfer dates and soaking liquid to a food processor fitted with the “S” blade; and process until almost smooth but a few pea-sized date pieces remain. Set aside to cool slightly.

In a medium bowl, combine flour with baking powder and salt.

In a bowl, whisk together oil and brown sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs, one at a time, followed by vanilla and cinnamon. Add half of the flour mixture; stir well to combine. Add date puree, carrots, and nuts; mix well. Add in remaining flour mixture. Do not overmix.

Divide batter among the muffin cups. Top with streusel, pressing down gently to adhere.

Bake for 30 minutes until brown.

Cook’s Tip: Do not over-mix the batter or the muffins will be dense and tough.

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

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Notable Quotes “Say What?!”

Every brick you laid in our land and every house you built in our land will vanish… This land is for its people, its residents and the Canaanites who were here 5,000 years ago. We are the Canaanites.

- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas engaging in revisionist history during a recent speech

I’m sorry I was born white and privileged. It disgusts me. And I feel so much shame.

- Recent tweet by a famous Hollywood actress

So Denmark, I’m ready to sweeten the deal. There’s a couple of ways we could do it. We could do a straight trade. Greenland for Florida, OK? - Conan O’Brien, referring to President Trump’s recent inquiry about purchasing Greenland

It’s just amazing that people call him a cheat in golf. You wanna call a cheat in golf? I’ll tell ya, Bill Clinton, he took a Mulligan on putts, chips, when I played with him. I don’t think Bill Clinton could’ve broken 100. At least the president, Mr. Trump, he can shoot 80. 78 to 84, probably.

- Champion golfer John Daly in an interview with TMZ Sports, discussing his golfing experience with various presidents

Your candidate might be better on, I don’t know, healthcare than Joe is, but you’ve got to look at who’s going to win this election.

- Dr. Jill Biden on MSNBC imploring voters to consider her husband’s electability, despite his shortcomings

Well, I just swam and I kept swimming .- Angel More, age 16, who last week become the youngest woman to complete the 28-mile swim around Manhattan, in an interview on Fox News

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Tlaib’s grandmother. She doesn’t have to see her now!

BDS is a [baloney] purity test by people who want to appear woke but actually slept through history class. It’s predicated on this notion, I think. It’s very shallow thinking that the Jews in Israel, mostly white, and the Palestinians are browner, so they must be innocent and correct, and the Jews must be wrong. As if the occupation came right out of the blue, that this completely peaceful people found themselves occupied.

- Tweet by President Trump

-Bill Maher, HBO

If we’re really going to be a transparent newsroom that debates these issues among ourselves and not on Twitter, I figured I should talk to the whole newsroom and hear from the whole newsroom. We had a couple of significant missteps, and I know you’re concerned about them, and I am, too. But there’s something larger at play here. This is a really hard story – newsrooms haven’t confronted one like this since the 1960s.

It got trickier after [inaudible] … went from being a story about whether the Trump campaign had colluded with Russia and obstruction of justice to being a more head-on story about the president’s character. We built our newsroom to cover one story, and we did it truly well. Now we have to regroup, and shift resources and emphasis to take on a different story. I’d love your help with that. As Audra Burch said when I talked to her this weekend, this one is a story about what it means to be an American in 2019. It is a story that requires deep investigation into people who peddle hatred, but it is also a story that requires imaginative use of all our muscles to write about race and class in a deeper way than we have in years.

In the coming weeks, we’ll be assigning some new people to politics who can offer different ways of looking at the world.

We’ll also ask reporters to write more deeply about the country, race, and other divisions. I really want your help in navigating this story.

Let me read one of the cofounders of the [BDS] movement, Omar Barghouti. His quote: “No rational Palestinian would ever accept a Jewish state in Palestine.” So that’s where that comes from, this movement. Someone who doesn’t even want a Jewish state at all.

Somehow, this side never gets presented in the American media.

– Ibid.

Maybe folks should boycott his show.

– Tweet by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) in response

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has just tweeted that she will not come to Israel.

Yesterday she sent me a letter where she asked to be permitted to visit her grandmother who is 90, “because it can be my last opportunity to meet her.” I authorized this humanitarian trip, but it turns out that it was a provocation to embarrass Israel. Her hatred for Israel overcomes her love for her grandmother.

-Tweet by Israel’s Minister of the Interior Aryeh Deri

Rep. Tlaib wrote a letter to Israeli officials desperately wanting to visit her grandmother.

Permission was quickly granted, whereupon Tlaib obnoxiously turned the approval down, a complete setup. The only real winner here is

Yesterday, I noticed for the first time, Tlaib with the tears. All of a sudden, she starts with tears. Tears. And I don’t buy it. I don’t buy it. I don’t buy it for a second because I’ve seen her in a very vicious mood at campaign rallies – my campaign rallies – before she was a congresswoman. I said, “Who is that?!” And I saw a woman that was violent and vicious and out of control.

And all of a sudden, I see this person who’s crying because she can’t see her grandmother. She can see her grandmother. They have given her permission to see her grandmother, but she grandstanded and she didn’t want to do it.

-President Trump, talking to the press

- New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet, at a recent staff meeting declaring that the Times will switch its focus from collusion to race, according to a leaked audio of that meeting

I’m wondering to what extent you think that the fact of racism and white supremacy being sort of the foundation of this country should play into our reporting. Just because it feels to me like it should be a starting point, you know? Like these conversations about what is racist, what isn’t racist, I just feel like racism is in everything. It should be considered in our science reporting, in our culture reporting, in our national reporting.

- One staffer’s question to Baquet

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It’s fun, so why not have some fun? Hallelujah!

- Kathryn “Kitty” Hodges, age 103, of Seattle, after setting a new Guinness World Record for being the oldest female tandem skydiver last week

Like anyone who’s being honest with themselves, I know that I have made mistakes. I am sorry for harm I have caused. I have listened, and I have learned a lot.

- 2020 presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren appearing at the Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa, and apologizing for lying about being a Native American numerous times in order to gain acceptance into schools and to get teaching positions

This wasn’t no business move. This was personal.

They thought they’d send me here to die.

- Odell Beckham Jr. talking to Sports illustrated about the Giants trading him to Cleveland in the offseason

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Political Crossfire

The Rise of Anti-Semitism on the Left

By Marc A. Thiessen

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ecently, the State Department revised its definition of anti-Semitism to include “drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis” – an apparent response to the rise of the anti-Israel BDS (Boycott, Divest and Sanctions) movement whose supporters routinely make such comparisons.

That is a good thing. Just a few days ago, I sat in the former SS headquarters of the Auschwitz concentration camp with Piotr Cywiński, director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Speaking beside a window overlooking the gas chamber and crematorium where countless souls perished, he explained that there is no difference between hatred of Israel and hatred for Jews.

“It’s the same old story with some different words,” he said. “If you are speaking with somebody who is defending some anti-Israeli ideologies, maybe not in the first minute, maybe not in the second minute, but in the third minute you will find that the same old story accusing Jews of every bad thing in the world. For me, that’s very, very clear. I never saw any anti-Israeli theory that was not anti-Semitic.”

In an interview, my American Enterprise Institute colleague Danielle Pletka and I asked Cywiński about politicians such as Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Rashida Tlaib,

D-Mich., who recently said that boycotting Israel is no different from boycotting Nazi Germany.

“I can’t see why people feel free to compare Israel to the Nazis,” Cywiński said. “I don’t want to comment on it on an intellectual level. It’s simply an insult. It’s an insult to the victims and an insult to the survivors and an insult to a whole country, to a whole society.” There was a time, he

is rising across the world. A recent CNN poll found that more than a quarter of Europeans say Jews have too much influence in business and finance, while 1 in 5 said Jews have too much influence in the media and politics. Anti-Semitic incidents are on the rise as well. Here is the United States, we saw neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville chanting, “Jews will not replace us!” and horrific shootings

“I never saw any anti-Israeli theory that was not anti-Semitic.”

said, when “if somebody would [say] something like this, it would be the end of his political career. Now it’s a question of two days maybe of troubles. And this is something terrible, because that means that there’s no more responsibility with words.”

As for the BDS movement, he said, “I don’t know why some politicians have a deep need to focus so permanently on this only one country. If you look to the United Nations, how many resolutions were concerning Israel and how many were concerning, let’s say, Sudan?”

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at synagogues near San Diego in April and in Pittsburgh last year. In 2018, France reported a 74% increase in anti-Semitic attacks, while in Germany they grew by 60%.

While the rise of far-right populism has played a role, many victims say those on the right account for only a fraction of these anti-Semitic incidents. In December, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights asked European Jews who was responsible for the most serious incident of anti-Semitic harassment they had experienced: only 13% said it was someone with a far-right political

view, while 30% said it was an “extremist Muslim” and 20% said it was someone with left-wing views.

The fact is anti-Semitism is a growing problem on the left. In Britain earlier this year, three members of the Labour Party resigned after accusing the party and its leader, Jeremy Corbyn, of being – as a former Labour general secretary put it – “institutionally anti-Semitic.” In Washington, congressional Democrats have struggled to confront anti-Semitism within their own ranks.

Cywiński says the rise of left-wing anti-Semitism is not surprising. “Do not forget that the Nazi party in Germany was a party of workers,” he says.

“We are many times thinking about the Nazis as far right. They were also very deeply speaking…to the left, using some leftist language.”

Whether on the left or the right, we all have an obligation to confront anti-Semitism and other forms of racism and xenophobia. Asked if politicians who express anti-Semitic attitudes should come here, Cywiński says everyone should come. “People need to see Auschwitz. People need to come not only to cry over all of the victims…but maybe to feel their own responsibility today.” (c) 2019, Washington Post Writers Group

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Political Crossfire

Beware “Moral Hazard” in Hong Kong

By David Ignatius

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atching videos of Chinese protesters singing the U.S. national anthem in the streets of Hong Kong, or hearing the tear-jerking chorus of “Les Miserables” during a sit-in at the Hong Kong airport – only someone with a heart of stone wouldn’t want to assist these brave people who are fighting for their freedom.

But beware. The problem is that easy gestures of support could get these Chinese freedom fighters killed.

It’s a problem that insurance companies call “moral hazard,” when they inadvertently encourage people to take risks or engage in unsafe behavior by promising or implying that they’ll be protected or rescued.

President Trump has been as erratic on Hong Kong as on most foreign-policy issues. In the early days, he all but invited Beijing to crack down, calling the protests “riots,” and saying it was a matter between Hong Kong and China, “because Hong Kong is a part of China.”

Last week, as a crackdown seemed near, Trump whined about being blamed for Chinese intervention and offered a “personal meeting” to resolve the crisis peacefully with the “great leader” President Xi Jinping.

Then, on Wednesday, he personalized the issue even more by linking a trade deal with Xi with a cooperative resolution of the Hong Kong crisis.

Much as I dislike Trump’s crass and self-centered comments, he is avoiding one important mistake in the Hong Kong crisis. He’s not implying that the United States is prepared

to step in to protect the demonstrators from the consequences of their actions. He recognizes that Hong Kong is a matter for Beijing and Hong Kong to resolve, and he’s not writing checks that the American people in the end wouldn’t cash.

We need to be honest, with ourselves and others: America won’t go to war to save free speech in Hong Kong.

It probably wouldn’t go to war to protect the independence of Taiwan, either. The U.S. should subtly raise the cost of potential Chinese intervention and maintain some ambiguity about our actions. But we should be careful

the crunch came, U.S. policymakers correctly judged that it was too dangerous to intervene.

An idealistic, interventionist America has a tendency to make promises it can’t keep. When protesters proclaim universal rights, we rightly stand with them intellectually.

But sometimes we go further, implying that we’re with them on the barricades, too. But that’s rarely true – and for good reason: it’s too dangerous.

The power of the weak against despotic enemies is that they start conflicts that they can’t finish – in

We should be careful about facile rhetorical threats that raise the costs for others.

about facile rhetorical threats that raise the costs for others.

The Hong Kong protests present a problem that arose often during the Cold War years. Anti-communist freedom fighters rose up in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968.

The United States had supported the overthrow of communism and, in the case of the Hungarian revolution, the CIA had apparently maintained some covert networks of support. But when

the hope that a great power will come and rescue them. The Bosnians and Kosovars did that in the Balkan wars of the 1990s; Iraqi Kurds weaponized their vulnerability against Saddam Hussein at the end of the 1991 Gulf War. Arab Spring protesters did the same thing in Egypt, Syria, and Libya in 2011.

When the United States encourages these uprisings, we incur a moral liability: if we don’t come to the as-

sistance of those whose hopes we’ve raised, we are diminished as a people.

There’s blood on our hands when the tanks roll in.

But if we do intervene with our own troops, we make a far more dangerous commitment. The American people are still angry about the sacrifice of American blood and treasure in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that weren’t adequately anchored in American self-interest.

What’s the sound course, between the moral hazard of recklessly encouraging risk and the moral blindness of ignoring brave people fighting for their rights? The right answer is awkwardly somewhere in the middle – supporting causes like the democracy protests in Hong Kong, and trying to deter despotic powers like China from intervening, without implying that we’ll intervene directly ourselves to save the martyrs.

The State Department seemed to get it about right in its statement last week: “We condemn violence and urge all sides to exercise restraint, but remain staunch in our support for freedom of expression and freedom of peaceful assembly in Hong Kong.”

Keeping faith with people who nobly aspire to freedom isn’t a spasm of support but a long game that plays out over decades. This is the restrained but steadfast approach that ultimately won the Cold War, and it’s a commitment that China will test at its peril.

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Forgotten Her es

The Heroic 101st Squadron

By Avi Heiligman

Al Schwimmer with Prime Minister Ben Gurion

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ince 1948 squadrons in the Israeli Air Force have been among the finest in the world.

Their record for downing enemy aircraft as well as their myriad other missions have been studied at military academies for decades. Several squadrons deserve mention but it is the 101st that has been around since 1948 and captured headlines during the Israeli War of Independence.

As the newly formed Israeli Defense Forces started organizing their forces, brand new units were formed.

Pilots that either had been trained under British rule or had come from overseas were placed in the 101 st Fighter Squadron under former RAF pilot Modi Alon. Alon, along with Ezer Weizman, were sent to Czechoslovakia to learn how fly the S-199 fighter plane. They were met there by experienced pilots from abroad who would join them in Israel. The pilots were known as Machal volunteers and had been recruited from the U.S. and other places across the globe.

Towards the end of May, the Arabs were advancing on both Tel Aviv and Yerushalayim. The outnumbered Israeli Givati Brigade managed to temporarily halt the advance on Tel Aviv by blowing up a bridge that was

David Ben Gurion visited the 101st Squadron. Modi Alon is in the sunglasses

vital to the Egyptian advance. The Egyptians were desperately trying to fix the bridge and had 6,000 troops, hundreds of vehicles, and a lot of anti-aircraft weapons in the area protecting the engineers who were fixing the bridge. However, despite all these

a pilot in the Marines during World War II. After seven years in the military, he settled in Los Angeles where he learned that his family, that had stayed in Europe, had perished in Auschwitz.

The second pilot in the squadron

Minimal damage was inflicted but the psychological effect on the Egyptians was huge.

defenses, they weren’t expecting an air attack. The Israelis sent their only four fighter planes ready for action into the fray equipped with 150lb. bombs and loaded machine guns.

This was the 101st’s first mission (and by extension the IAF’s first mission as well), and the action took place on May 29, 1948.

The four pilots were led by Hungarian-born Lou Lenart who had moved to the U.S. as a child and was

was Ezer Weizman who was a Tel Aviv native and married Moshe Dayan’s sister-in-law. During World War II, Ezer joined the RAF (Royal Air Force) and served in India. Eddie Cohen was the third pilot and had served with the South African Air Force during World War II in Italy. Alon rounded out the group but had not seen action until the Israeli War of Independence.

As expected, the planes had problems from the start of the attack. The

guns jammed, and the bomb bay doors refused to budge. The Egyptians sent up a ferocious amount of flak (anti-aircraft fire) and downed Eddie Cohen’s plane. He was the IAF’s first casualty but the other three pressed forth with the attack.

They dropped their bombs on targets of opportunity, and in Lenart’s case, that meant on a cluster of trucks.

Minimal damage was inflicted but the psychological effect on the Egyptians was huge. Thinking that this raid was just the tip of the iceberg and that dozens more were to come, they dispersed, and Tel Aviv was safe.

Today, the name of the bridge is “Ad Halom” (Until Here), marking the place where the advance stopped.

A few days later, Alon took off looking for Egyptian planes that had been bombing Tel Aviv. He found two C-47 Dakotas that had just bombed the city and knocked the bogeys (air force term for enemy aircraft) out of the sky. These were the first air-toair kills in IAF history. For the next few months, the squadron had some successes in combat missions while operating out of an airstrip by the Herzliya Airport. On October 16, Alon and Weizman were returning from an attack mission when Alon’s plane

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crashed while approaching Herzliya Airport, and he was killed. Earlier this year, it was decided to rename the airport in honor of the downed commander.

Dr. Sidney Cohen, an experienced World War II pilot from South Africa, replaced Alon as the commanding officer of the 101st Squadron. In addition, he served as the base commander and was in charge of the IAF’s first pilot training course. Cohen graduated the four candidates, which included future commander of the IAF, Moti Hod (“Forgotten Heroes” wrote about Hod a few weeks ago). Many of the Machal volunteers left Israel at the end of hostilities, and in March 1949 Weizman took command of the now depleted squadron. Cohen later returned to Israel to become a doctor at Tel Hashomer Hospital and served

as an airborne doctor during the Six Day War and the Yom Kippur War. The IAF was in desperate need for any type of aircraft, and the answer for the 101st came from another Machal volunteer. New Yorker Al Schwimmer had been a flight engineer for TWA and used his contacts to obtain surplus World War II American planes. Three B-17 bombers and P-51 Mustangs, as well as transport planes, made it to Israel under his direction. The 101st now had enough aircraft to split into two squadrons.

Several commanders followed Weizman as the commander of the squadron including future air force commanders Benny Peled and Moti Hod. Weizman, one of the pioneers of the 101st, later became the president of Israel. The 101st Squadron changed over to French-built Dassault Mystere

fighter-bombers in 1956.The squadron was very active during the Six Day War and the Yom Kippur flying Dassault Mirage III, Nesher, and Kfir fighters. In September 1973, the squadron shot down twelve Syrian MiG jets. During the Yom Kippur War, Squadron Commander Lt. Col. Avi Lanir scored his third aerial kill in the first days of the war. On October 13, his Mirage was hit by a missile during a mission over Syrian-held territory. Sadly, he was captured and tortured to death by the Syrians, making him the highest-ranking Israeli pilot to be captured. He was succeeded by double ace (five kills makes a pilot an ace. A double ace has at least ten air victories) Yisrael Beharev. He had twelve kills – all MiG 21 fighters – during his flying career, including five during the Yom Kippur

War. Today, the 101st flies F-16 fighters after making the switch in the 1980s. Many famed Israeli pilots flew with the 101st including Machal pilot Mitchell Flint, three-time ace Giora Epstein, and Iftach Spector, who flew during the operation that knocked out the Iraqi nuclear project in 1981. The 101st is the longest serving fighter squadron in the IAF as they use top-of-the-line fighters and technology to protect Israel. Many forgotten heroes have served in the squadron as many of the missions are still classified.

Avi Heiligman is a weekly contributor to The Jewish Home. He welcomes your comments and suggestions for future columns and can be reached at aviheiligman@gmail.com.

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Now I Know Why They Call It a “Joy” Stick!

By Allan Rolnick, CPA

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arenting is full of special moments that create lifelong memories. Your heart bursts with joy as you watch them take their first steps, ride their first bike, and bring home their first report card.

When they get a little older, there’s the pride you feel when they bring home their first “real” paycheck, tear into the envelope, and listen to them wail in distress, “Hey, what in the world is FICA?!?”

Glenn Giersdorf, who lives an hour outside Philadelphia, didn’t experience that moment quite the same way as most parents. That’s because his son Kyle spends six to ten hours per day sitting in his room playing Fortnite, an online video game where players meet on a virtual island and battle it out to be the last one standing. But Kyle is no average teenage slacker, and he had his sights set higher than just flipping burgers or scooping ice cream like his classmates.

If you don’t have gamers of your own at home, you may not realize how big “e-sports” have become. Yes, professional video games are here.

With spectators, even. In 2018, 380 million viewers watched 6.6 billion hours of competition on platforms like Twitch and YouTube. There were

nearly 3,500 tournaments offering more than $1.5 billion in prizes.

E-sports generated another $906 million in revenue from sponsorships, advertising, media rights, game publishing, merchandising, and tickets.

(Look, before we go any further, we know it’s a stretch to call sitting in a recliner with a joystick a “sport.”

But you can play golf from an electric cart with a cigarette in one hand and

gural Fortnite World Cup. Last month, 100 survivors met for the live finals in front of 23,000 fans at New York’s Arthur Ashe Stadium.

When the shooting was over, Kyle – who competes under the screen name “Bugha” – had taken down the largest single score in e-sports history…$3 million. That’s a million bucks more than Tiger Woods made for winning the Masters!

He’s won over $200,000 since March, and he’s not old enough to drive himself to the store.

a highball in the other and millions of players call that a “sport,” so who’s to judge? Not Uncle Sam – in 2013, the U.S. issued a P-1A visa, reserved for internationally recognized athletes, to a Canadian League of Legends champ. Even the Olympics are looking to get into the action!)

So…earlier this summer, forty million players entered online qualifiers to compete in the inau-

Now comes the real battle – fighting off the hordes coming after Kyle’s prize! The first $600,000 goes to his management team, Sentinel Sports. He can expect to pay roughly $850,000 in federal income tax, $116,000 to self-employment tax, and $212,000 to New York. Fun fact: he’ll be the only kid in his class cursing the 2017 tax reform, which costs him over $200,000 in state tax he

can’t deduct anymore. In the end, he’ll wind up with just $1.2 million.

He says he wants to use his winnings to buy a new desk for his room.

E-sports are growing fast, which means Kyle Giersdorf won’t be the only underage winner grappling with taxes. Take “H1ghSky1” from Seattle, for example, the youngest player on the FaZe Clan team. He’s won over $200,000 since March, and he’s not old enough to drive himself to the store!

Kyle’s story has us looking forward to the day when tax planning finally becomes the spectator sport it deserves to be. Can you imagine thousands of cheering fans scalping tickets to watch us take on tangible property regulations, rental real estate loss allowance phaseouts, and the step-transaction doctrine? So call us before your kid hits the big time…. We’ve got the trick shots you need to help him keep what he wins!

Allan J Rolnick is a CPA who has been in practice for over 30 years in Queens, NY. He welcomes your comments and can be reached at 718-896-8715 or at allanjrcpa@aol.com.

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Catskill Fever

By Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., MFT, CLC

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o, does anyone think there is not enough traffic on the road?

Especially on Thursday night heading up to the Catskill Mountains?

And trust me, as beautiful a vision as one may conjure up and envision of sprawling mountains sprinkled with trees, lakes and views, most people are not heading up there for some luxurious accommodations. More likely they are landing somewhere on a questionable continuum.

Some are escaping to a simple rickety bungalow with, at best, a ceiling fan for cooling or a noisy, in-theone-window AC. And added to that, a layout of very few rooms but tons of inhabitants.

OK, it’s true. Others have some upgraded “homelike” accommodations. But that’s all pretty surface. If you delve into the plumbing, the sturdiness of the walls, or solidness of the foundation, your experience may be very disheartening.

So, it’s probably more about the delicious community this lifestyle provides than the actual bricks and mortar, if used at all.

It’s also very much about separating from the seriousness and obligations that “home” and routine force us to confront. And leaving day-to-day problems back there!

Don’t think this means we get up there and have no leaks, no brown water, no shortage of hot water, no peeling paint, no broken AC, no

crawling ants, no creatures invading, etc. There’s certainly plenty of that.

But who wants to focus on that when we’re there for the relaxation and fun?

On top of that, getting there and back can be quite trying. The roads are often packed with other likeminded travelers. And Google Maps and Waze, for all their touted brilliance,

9 p.m. on Thursday evening or you’re in big trouble! Really? That’s when everyone plans to leave to avoid any trouble?! But no, that’s when the authorities decide to close the roads heading up there to update their toll booths. What happened to doing the work the other six nights a week or the other 10 months a year, when very

What happened to doing the work the other six nights a week or the other 10 months a year, when very few people travel that way?!

seem only to be successful in getting us on some random, hardly used road and not getting us anywhere a moment sooner. In fact, half the time when they divert us from known roads, they desert us all together!

So, I ask you, do we need more obstacles provided to us for our trip up and back?

And this summer, they certainly have been provided!

Just two weeks ago, mid-week, we got a sudden warning: if you are heading upstate, be up there before

few people travel that way?!

And then there comes this one particular weekend in the summer that everyone and their guests head to the mountains. It’s the one when everyone is really chomping to get away. Because for three weeks of the summer, activity is limited and the last nine days of that period even more so, since these commemorate the days leading up to the destruction of the Beis Hamikdash. So, of course, the weekend after these days end, everyone wants to celebrate the

opportunity for comfort and renewal.

Therefore, who in the world wants the destruction of our weekend?!

Well, guess what happens? A major traffic warning goes out! There is a 50-year reunion commemorating one of the largest music festivals this same weekend! With thousands of extra cars heading in that same direction on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday and back on the road with us Sunday and Monday. Seriously, we just had the three last weekends before it, with little incentive to go anywhere, and which even restricted from listening to music – couldn’t they have scheduled their reunion for any one of those days?!

Isn’t it amazing? So many have left the Catskills as a vacation spot for supposedly fancier and more exciting destinations, such as air travel all over the world, luxurious cruises, even the Hamptons. All these options have greatly replaced the mass migration to the mountains. And yet, it seems that somehow, for the Catskills devotees, there’s still no getting away from it. We are consigned to a stressful trek to this relaxing (?!) getaway!

And it’s all part of the fun.

Rivki Rosenwald is a certified relationship counselor, and career and life coach. She can be contacted at 917-705-2004 or rivki@rosenwalds.com.

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