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When I did my last minute shopping on Friday last week, it was with a heavy heart. I knew that some of our brothers and sisters were being threatened, cowering in corners as a gunman raged. They too were shopping for Shabbos when their erev Shabbos preparations were cut short. As I went up and down the aisles with my shopping cart, I wondered what I would do if I was, G-d forbid, in that situation. These innocents also didn’t think it could happen to them. They couldn’t imagine that terror would come to their doorsteps and invade their lives as they went about their errands.

Sadly, four of our brothers didn’t leave that supermarket on Friday.

They died because they were Jews.

And now, because of the outrage across the world and in France, the French government is forced to admit that Jewish lives matter. They

are forced to stand up against those who have been terrorizing and threatening the Jewish community for years.

Around ten years ago, my brother invited a friend for Shabbos.

He was French and was learning in America. We spoke about the French Jewish community and the blatant anti-Semitism that many Jews there feel and experience.

Eventually, his family moved to the United States; it became too hard for them to live in a country that didn’t want them.

Where does French Jewry go from here? Do they stay in a country that is now promising their protection and trust in the government’s pledge of support? Or do they leave and start all over—in a new country, without their friends, their language, their business, their culture? These are hard questions for a community to answer, but they should know that their brothers and sisters worldwide are here to give

them support in any way we can.

On a less serious note, this week is midwinter vacation in many local schools. Some families will be heading to sunnier and warmer pastures. Don’t worry— we’re still here for you! Make sure to grab a TJH on your flight to Florida and flip through our Florida Dining Guide, reviews on the newest restaurants, and tips on the best that Florida has to offer. For those of you who are staying in New York, I’m sure I’ll meet you in the pizza shop, ice cream shop, coffee shop…you get the point!

But there’s so much more to do in New York than eating. Check out our New York trip guide and some great ideas on how to keep the kids entertained this week. I bet you won’t be hearing any “I’m so bored!” during this vacation.

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Love your Swiss Fudge article!

Those cookies have been calling me for years. Sometimes their call is so loud that I can’t even hear myself think—let alone my children who are screaming in the background for supper. My only thought is my Swiss Fudge cookies—

you are not the only one with a deep connection with those delectable delights.

Swiss Fudge cookies, though, do have some competition on my shelf.

I happen to love Reisman’s Brownie Bars—when they’re fresh, they are oh-so-yummy dunked into my morning coffee. Definitely beats a Swiss Fudge in the dunking category. Don’t know if you love BB just as much as me, but maybe we can lobby Reisman’s to start selling them to Costco in bulk.

A fan of Rocky and Swiss Fudge, Chani W. Dear Editor, As the New Year has arrived, many people have had changes made to their medical/prescription insurance coverage. Many people may not realize that even though their card might look like their old one, the ID number and other information might be different.

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many did not know Joe in his lifetime.

But in his absence, understand that the lesson he taught is universal and possibly larger and greater than any school can teach.

I urge everyone to join the call for Joe’s good name to grace the Lawrence Middle School. As the newly re-named Joseph Sanford Jr. School, countless students of future generation will spend crucial years of personal development enveloped in an atmosphere personified by his civic duty, volunteerism, selfless acts, and personal sacrifice.

To sign the petition to re-name Lawrence Middle School after Joseph Sanford Jr., please go to: http://www. ipetitions.com/petition/re-name-lawrence-middle-school-in-honor-of-fallen.

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To the Editor, On an early Friday morning this past December, a selfless hero rushed from his home in Inwood to fight a fire raging in the Woodmere home of someone he never met, not knowing whether that day he would be the rescuer or the one in need of rescue.

When 17-year Inwood volunteer firefighter Joseph Sanford, Jr. died several days later from injuries he sustained while battling that blaze, he left

behind a family and a legacy of community service and supreme bravery.

Joe’s memory will be forever associated with the spirit of altruism and his sense of duty; he was a good man who gave everything for his community, expecting nothing in return. For that alone, we must make sure he is remembered in a meaningful way that leads others to emulate his example and perpetuate his calling.

The Lawrence School District recently announced a comprehensive restructuring plan, which will include renaming the Lawrence Middle School.

The district trustees have already issued a public call for suggestions. On the evening before Joe’s funeral, I launched an online petition to gather support for re-naming the Lawrence Middle School in memory of fallen firefighter Joseph Sanford Jr. The petition has since drawn over 300 signatures, and more than a hundred comments celebrating the beauty and purpose of Joe’s life. Like me,

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Dear Editor, I appreciated Mr. Matt Solomon’s wonderful piece on the Israeli elections. I religiously read his articles printed weekly in a national Jewish publication, and I always appreciate his keen insight, spot-on reasoning and wonderful writing.

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Global Japanese Government: Take a Break!

There is an unusual problem in Japan: they are working too hard. According to last year’s jobs records, less

than half of the allowed vacation days were actually taken by workers in Japan in 2013. In response, Japan has announced new laws to force workers to take a break. The government is aiming to raise the days taken to 70 percent by 2020.

The reasons for the strong work ethic are varied. In an uncertain economy, Japanese companies are demanding more of their staff. Many younger

workers are expected to put in as many as 100 hours of overtime a month. But almost two-thirds of workers were also unwilling to take their allowed time off because “it would inconvenience their colleagues,” says a study by the Japan Institute for Labor Policy Training.

More than half of those polled also said they simply had no time for vacation because of their heavy workload.

Workers said that anyone taking time off

in such a stagnant economy risked being perceived as lacking commitment. As a result, Japan’s curse of “karoshi,” or death by overwork, has spread from older, senior employees to younger staff.

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Currently, employees are entitled to a minimum of 10 days paid leave annually, with the figure increasing one day for every year that they work to a maximum of 20 days a year. And while the Labor Standards Law requires firms to grant paid leave, the assumption is that employees need to request that leave. If they fail to do so, the company is not violating the law.

Under the revised law, which is to be discussed when the government reconvenes in late January, companies will be required to ensure that their employees take time off. The government said the revisions are designed to prevent overwork and to enable employees to have an appropriate “work-life balance.”

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The perpetrators also published documents with the personal contact information of senior American military officers, as well as files they claimed were Pentagon war scenarios. However, many of the documents were publicly available files and didn’t belong to the U.S. military. “ISIS is already here, we are in your PCs, in each military base,” read another tweet.

The Central Command’s YouTube account was also apparently hacked, with two Islamic State propaganda videos posted entitled, “O Soldiers of Truth Go Forth,” and “Flames of War.” It wasn’t immediately clear who was behind the cyber-attack, which ironically took place as President Barack Obama delivered a speech about cyber-security.

Twitter spokespeople said they were aware of the hack and were working to fix it. Shortly afterwards, the @CENTCOM Twitter user was suspended. A Pentagon official said that CentCom was aware of the cyber-attack, but had no immediate information about how it took place.

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signals were coming from the seabed less than one kilometer from where the tail of the plane was found, Malaysian Navy chief Abdul Aziz Jaafar said.

The Indonesian meteorological agency has said stormy weather likely caused the plane to crash as it flew from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore on December 28. But a definitive answer is impossible without the black box, which should contain the pilots’ final words as well as various flight data.

“There’s like 200-plus parameters they record,” said aviation safety expert John Goglia, a former U.S. National Transportation Safety Board member.

“It’s going to provide us an ocean of material,” he said referring to the black boxes and the trove of information investigators should be able to download in a few weeks’ time.

The search, which has involved U.S., Chinese and other international naval ships, has recovered 48 bodies so far. 32 remains have been identified. All but seven of those onboard the flight were Indonesian. Of the foreigners, there were some from South Korea, one Singaporean, one Malaysian, one Briton and a Frenchman – co-pilot Remi Plesel.

The disaster has once again placed Indonesia’s chaotic aviation industry under scrutiny. Indonesian officials have alleged Indonesia AirAsia did not have a license to fly the route on the day of the crash, although the airline rejects the claim. After the crash, Indonesia’s transport ministry quickly banned AirAsia from flying the Surabaya-Singapore route. Dozens more routes operated by five other domestic airlines have also been suspended for similar license violations.

The mystery behind the crash of AirAsia Flight 8501 may soon be solved.

Indonesian divers have found the crucial black box flight recorders of the Airbus A320-200 plane that crashed in the Java Sea two weeks ago with 162 people onboard. The box itself took some time to locate as it was stuck under debris from the main body of the plane. The recorders were discovered 100 feet below the sea. On Tuesday, investigators revealed that the cockpit voice recorder was located.

After a frustrating two week search often hindered by bad weather, officials raised hopes by reporting that strong ping signals had been detected by three vessels involved in the search. Those

Long Lines for Basics in Venezuela

Deepening food shortages in Venezuela have forced the government to put military personnel in charge of food distribution. The search for basic items such as detergent and chicken has led to

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Saudi Cleric: Snowman is a No Go

Many countries in the Middle East don’t always get to enjoy snowfalls in the winter, but last week, a large storm covered many areas with blankets of snow. As children rejoiced in the winter wonderland and ran outside to build snowmen and forts, a Saudi cleric rained—or snowed—on their parade.

According to Sheikh Mohammed Saleh al-Munajjid, a snowman with “clear facial features” is un-Islamic and is prohibited. “A similar ruling applies to figures that are made out of dough

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150 people were slaughtered in and around the town of Baga in Nigeria, located near the border with Chad, in days of chaos in which Boko Haram fighters seized a key military base on January 3. Survivors described days of relentless violence in which, one witness said, some people were slaughtered “like insects.”

Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, a military spokesman, said on Monday that the evidence available so far indicates a death toll of no more than 150, including insurgents killed in combat with troops. The military has said 14 soldiers were killed and 30 were wounded in the Baga attack, and that it was making a plan to restore “law, order and normalcy” to the area.

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon as well as the United States and other countries have condemned the Baga bloodshed, which highlights the increasingly brazen tactics of an insurgent movement in Nigeria’s northeast as well as the inability of Nigerian forces to respond effectively. President Goodluck Jonathan is running for re-election in the Febru-

and other sweets,” he added.

However, “if the head is cut off or the features are erased, then the prohibition no longer applies,” the cleric said. Snowmen are only allowed if they resemble a “three-dimensional figure with no features.”

The decree was posted on the popular Salafist question and answer website Islamqa. The ruling falls in line with an injunction in Islamic law banning the creation of images and artistic representations of living beings.

According to Al-Jazeera, al-Munajjid is considered a highly respected scholar in the Salafist movement, a fundamentalist stream of Sunni Islam that is dominant in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states. The cleric has stirred controversy in the past, including with a fatwa he issued permitting the hacking of “Jewish websites,” as well as blaming the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami on “Christian immorality.”

Several centimeters of snow fell in the northern Saudi Arabian desert last week, following days of inclement weather that saw blizzards sweep through parts of Israel, Lebanon, Syria and even Pakistan.

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ary 14 elections, but it is uncertain how voting can proceed in areas under Boko Haram’s sway.

One survivor of the Baga violence, Ibrahim Gambo, estimated that more than 500 people may have died and said he did not know what happened to his wife and daughter. The 25-yearold truck driver said he was part of a civilian militia that, bolstered by a belief that its fighters were protected from bullets by a magical charm, initially had success in resisting Boko Haram insurgents.

But the army told his militia group to pull back so a military plane could attack Boko Haram forces, which then surrounded Baga when the plane didn’t arrive."It is sad that our fortification charm became ineffective once we showed fear,” Gambo said.

Yahaya Takakumi, a 55-year-old farmer, told Nigeria’s Premium Times that he escaped from Baga with one of his wives, but does not know the whereabouts of four of his children, his second wife and his older brother.

“We saw dead bodies especially on the islands of Lake Chad where fishermen had settled,” the newspaper quoted Takakumi as saying. “Several persons were killed there like insects.”

Boko Haram fighters opened fire on vessels carrying fleeing residents, Takakumi said. He and other survivors managed to flee to Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state.

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long lines, some stretching for blocks, outside grocery stores in Caracas.

A dearth of foreign currency exacerbated by collapsing oil prices has led to shortages of imports from toilet paper to car batteries and helped push annual inflation to 64 percent in November.

The lines will persist as long as price controls remain in place, said Luis Vicente Leon, director of a Caracas-based polling firm.

The price for Venezuela’s oil, which accounts for more than 95 percent of the country’s exports, has plunged by more than half from last year’s peak in June to $47 a barrel this month.

President Nicolas Maduro last week vowed to implement an economic “counter-offensive” to steer the country out of recession, including an overhaul of the foreign exchange system. He has yet to provide details. While the main government-controlled exchange sets a rate of 6.3 bolivars per U.S. dollar, the black market rate is as much as 187 per dollar.

“This is the worst it has ever been – I’ve seen lines thousands of people long,” Greisly Jarpe, a 42-year-old data analyst, said as she waited for dish soap in eastern Caracas. “People are so desperate they’re sleeping in the lines.”

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In a major tension-easing initiative, Cuba has completed the release of all 53 prisoners it had promised to free, the Obama administration said. The release of the remaining detainees overcomes a big hurdle for historic talks next week aimed at normalizing ties after decades of hostility. The list of 53 is part of last month’s breakthrough U.S.-Cuba agreement.

The United States welcomed Cuba’s action as a milestone, but senior U.S. officials said Washington would keep pressing Havana to free more peo-

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Lifting the secrecy around the freed dissidents, the White House provided the full list to congressional leaders.

There had been questions whether Havana would release all those it had pledged to free as part of the deal that Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro announced on December 17 to restore diplomatic ties, which Washington severed more than 50 years ago.

Among those on the release list were people designated by Amnesty International as “prisoners of conscience” such as brothers Bianco Vargas Martín and Diango Vargas Martín, members of the Patriotic Union arrested in 2012 and sentenced on public disorder charges to four years in prison. U.S. officials said as many as eight people on the list had been released even before the December announcement, some because they were already scheduled for release.

One U.S. official said Obama could exercise executive powers “in a matter of days and weeks” to begin easing some business and travel restrictions. Officials project the first of those changes could be announced around the time of the January 21-22 talks in Havana, when U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Roberta Jacobson begins

high-level negotiations.

Reopening the U.S. embassy in Havana for the first time in 53 years will also be a “near-term” focus for the administration, but there is no timeline, one official said. “You don’t erase decades of mistrust overnight but you can chip away at it,” he added.

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MI5 Chief Warns of Threats to the West

Contaminated Beer Leaves Dozens Dead Sixty nine people died this week after drinking contaminated beer in Mozambique.

Provincial health director, Paula Bernardo, told Radio Mozambique on Monday that 196 people have been admitted to hospitals in the northeastern Tete province with medical issues related to the beer consumption. On Sunday evening, district health officials said 56 people had died and 49 were hospitalized after drinking the beer at a funeral on Saturday.

Pombe, a traditional Mozambican beer, is made from millet or corn flour.

The exact source of the contamination is still unknown, but authorities believe

Blood and traditional beer samples were sent to the capital Maputo to be tested, said provincial health director Carle Mosse.

Mozambique is a country in Southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest. It is the world’s 35th-largest country in physical size, with a population of over 25 million.

The head of Britain’s MI5 Security Service warned on Thursday that al Qaeda militants in Syria are plotting attacks to inflict mass casualties in the West, possibly against transport systems or “iconic targets.”

MI5 chief Andrew Parker warned a strike on the United Kingdom was highly likely.

“A group of core al Qaeda terrorists in Syria is planning mass casualty attacks against the West,” Director General Parker said in a rare public speech at MI5 headquarters in London. His last public speech was in October 2013.

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Four Die Al Kiddush Hashem in Paris Attack Jews around the world were horrified last Friday when four Jews were killed by a radical Islamist inside a kosher supermarket in Paris. The victims who tragically lost their lives in the attack were Yoav Hattab, 21; Philippe Braham, 45; Yohan Cohen, 22; and Francois-Michel Saada, 64, Hy”d.

Before they were killed, the four victims were held hostage for several hours by radical Islamist Yoav Hattab hy'd Amedy Coulibaly, 32, who was part of the same terror cell as brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, who carried out the Charlie Hebdo attack earlier in the week. Coulibaly took hostages in the supermarket at the same time that the Kouachi brothers, who had been on the run, were holed up in a print shop 25 miles away and surrounded by police.

In a telephone interview with a French television station during the standoff, Coulibaly boasted of having killed a police officer the day before and said,

“We coordinated from the beginning, when they started with Charlie Hebdo and I started with the police.”

According to reports, Coulibaly entered the supermarket at around

his reward. He had a weapon in each hand and boxes of cartridges nearby.

He suddenly began to pray.” While the terrorist was roaming the aisles, a hostage got in touch with the police

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noon and began shooting. He took 16 shoppers hostage and threatened to kill them if the Kouachi brothers were captured or hurt. Six additional shoppers evaded the terrorist by being ushered into a basement freezer by store employee Lassana Bathily, who happens to be Muslim.

One of the surviving hostages told a French news agency after the attack, “It was obvious that the terrorist was preparing to die. He said it was

who told him that the assault against the terrorist was imminent and that as soon as they heard it, they should lay on the floor. When the assault came, the hostages fled. However, four did not make it.

Ynet News reported that victim Yohan Cohen’s cousin, Yonatan, said, “The police told the family the terrorist threatened to kill a 3-year-old boy, and Yohan tried to stop it. He managed to grab the terrorist’s weapon but be-

fore Yohan had a chance to shoot him, the terrorist…killed him on the spot.”

The four victims were flown to Israel for burial on Tuesday. At the funeral, the wife of Philippe Braham, who is survived by four children, spoke about their fifth child—a 3-year-old boy who passed away several years ago and is buried in Israel. “What can I say? Philippe, my dear love. He was a perfect person, always a husband, a father who lived only for his children. Today, he is with my son.” Valerie added, “I’m crying, but I know that you all cry with me, and I thank all of you for all of this.”

Michel Saada’s son, who lives in Israel, lamented, “All his life, he loved Israel. He really wanted to live here, and he will. He’s here now, and I’m sure he’s really happy.”

May Hashem, the true Source of comfort, bring nechama to their families and all of klal Yisroel.

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here,” Renzi said.

Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu – who earlier in the day encouraged French Jews to emigrate to Israel – and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas were also present and walked just a few steps from one another.

“In the same way that the civilized world stood today with France against terror, so it must stand with Israel against terror,” Netanyahu said at a ceremony in a Paris synagogue following the march.

The head of France’s 550,000-strong Jewish community, Roger Cukierman, said Hollande had promised that Jewish schools and synagogues would have extra protection, by the army if necessary,

after the killings. He also called for limits on hate speech and more control on suspected jihadists.

White House Apologizes for Absence of High-Profile Diplomat at Paris Rally The world was abuzz when photos emerged of heads of state attending the Paris rally with an obvious major world player absent: the United States.

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At least 3.7 million people united to show their sincere sadness following last week’s Paris attacks. According to the Interior Ministry, an estimated 1.2 million to 1.6 million marched in Paris

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and another 2.5 million in other cities, making it the biggest public demonstration ever registered in France. Commentators said the last time crowds of this size filled the streets of the capital was at the Liberation of Paris from Nazi Germany in 1944.

Seventeen people, including journalists, police, and innocent bystanders were killed in a three day murder spree that began on Wednesday morning with a shooting attack on the political weekly Charlie Hebdo, known for its satirical comments on Islam and other religions.

President Francois Hollande and leaders from Germany, Italy, Turkey, Britain, Israel and many other major countries marched from the central Place de la Republique ahead of a sea of French and other flags. Giant letters attached to a statue in the square spelled out the word “Pourquoi?” (Why?) and small groups sang the “La Marseillaise” national anthem.

“Paris is today the capital of the world. Our entire country will rise up and show its best side,” Hollande said.

The terrorists, two French-born brothers of Algerian origin, targeted the periodical for its publication of cartoons depicting and ridiculing the Prophet Mohammad. The bloodshed concluded on Friday after one of the murderers took hostages at a Jewish supermarket leaving four hostages and the gunman dead.

Hours prior to the march, a video surfaced featuring a black man strongly resembling the gunman responsible for the attack at the kosher deli. In the video clip, he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State insurgent group and urged French Muslims to follow his example.

Two of the gunmen had declared allegiance to al Qaeda in Yemen and a third to the militant Islamic State. All three were killed during the police operations in what local commentators have called “France’s 9/11.”

There were around 2,200 police and soldiers patrolling the streets of Paris to protect marchers from potential attackers. Police snipers adorned rooftops and plainclothes detectives were dispersed throughout the tremendous crowd.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were among foreign leaders that linked arms and marched with Hollande.

Renzi said the fight against terrorism will be won by a Europe that is political, not just economic. “The most important is the Europe of values, of culture, of ideals and that is the reason we are

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before the killings in Paris last week.

The two largest terror attacks by al Qaeda on record are the September 11th attacks in America and when suicide bombers killed 52 commuters in London on July 7, 2005. After al Qaeda’s leader Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Special Forces in 2011, the threat posed by the network seemed to regress but spies in Europe and the United States have been concerned lately that al Qaeda militants from Pakistan have appeared in war-torn Syria, in what some intelligence analysts say could be part of a plot to mount a major attack against the West.

Parker also revealed that around 600 British extremists had traveled to Syria, many joining the militant group which calls itself “Islamic State” that has taken control of swathes of Iraq and Syria.

The group is an offshoot of al Qaeda and is responsible for beheading two U.S. journalists and an American and two British aid workers in an effort to put pressure on a U.S.-led international coalition bombing its fighters in Syria.

MI5 was founded in 1909 to counter German espionage ahead of World War I. It has taken responsibility for preventing three possibly fatal “terrorist plots” against the United Kingdom in recent months.

“We face a very serious level of threat that is complex to combat and unlikely to abate significantly for some time,” said Parker, who has strongly advocated for more surveillance rights to spy on militant communications on the Internet. “My sharpest concern as Director General of MI5 is the growing gap between the increasingly challenging threat and the decreasing availability of capabilities to address it,” he said.

Twitter and Facebook are crucial to militants, and therefore technology giants should give security services greater access to their networks, the head of Britain’s GCHQ eavesdropping agency said last year. “The dark places from where those who wish us harm can plot and plan are increasing,” Parker said.

“We need to be able to access communications and obtain relevant data on those people when we have good reason.”

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On Monday, the White House admitted that it was indeed an oversight and a higher-profile official should have been sent to Paris to participate in the rally along with 1.5 million other people to demonstrate their unity against terrorism.

The United States was represented at the rally by Ambassador to France, Jane Hartley.

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas were in Paris for weekend security meetings but did not attend the march.

Secretary of State John F. Kerry said he would visit Paris on Thursday; he was in India during the rally.

Kerry brushed aside the criticism, calling it “quibbling a little bit,” and said many embassy staff, including Hartley, attended the march. “But that is why I am going there on the way home, to make it crystal clear how passionately we feel about the events that have taken

place there,” he added.

“I think it’s fair to say that we should have sent someone with a higher profile” to the event, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said on Monday.

More than 40 leaders including French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attended the Sunday march that was organized in response to days of terrorist attacks that left 17 people dead.

ISRAEL The High Cost of Terrorism A new study out of Tel Aviv University is measuring the huge financial cost of terrorism. So, just how much does terrorism cost society? Estimates of the cost of the 9/11 attacks, for example, range from about $45 billion for direct costs (the value of damaged or

destroyed factories, equipment, housing and structures, merchandise, lost wages, pain and suffering) to over $100 billion when indirect costs are included (the increase in airport security, purchasing of new equipment for security, etc.).

But there are costs even beyond the “indirect” ones. What about the productivity lost as workers spend extra time at the water cooler discussing how anxious they are? The time lost to commuters who decide to take a longer but safer route? The loss of sleep and increase in anxiety and the associated loss in productivity? These, too, are a “cost of terrorism,” says Dr. Sharon Toker of TAU. In collaboration with Dr. Gregory A. Laurence of the University of Michigan and Dr. Yitzhak Fried of Syracuse University, Toker set out to measure those ancillary indirect costs.

A preview of the report shows that terrorism costs society a lot more than had been thought until now. In just one parameter – sleep – terror’s impact is sufficient to cause significant slowdowns in productivity. When fear of terrorism is in the air, people have a hard time sleeping, and more often than usual find themselves suffering from a full state of insomnia and in an almost constant state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion.

The study was conducted in Israel, taking a group of 670 Israeli workers chosen at random beginning in 2003 – at the peak of the Second Intifada, during which 550 attempted terrorist acts led to the deaths of 880 civilians. The workers underwent routine annual checkups as part of the Tel Aviv Medical Center Inflammation Survey every year until 2009. In addition, they filled out periodic questionnaires that assessed the incidence of insomnia, fear of terror, fear for personal safety, tension experienced in public places, level of workplace support, and signs of job burnout.

The results showed that fear of terror was almost inexorably linked to factors that significantly reduced workplace productivity. “We found that the higher your levels of fear of terror at baseline, the higher your risk of developing

insomnia — and those who were more likely to develop insomnia were also most likely to experience job burnout several years later,” said Toker. “Burnout is a direct outcome of depleted resources, so those who consistently don’t get enough sleep report job burnout.”

The good news is that with help and support, these emotional strains take a much lighter toll. Toker says they found that “those who reported support from colleagues developed significantly less insomnia and little incidence of job burnout after several years.”

French Victims Buried in Israel

The four Jewish men who were brutally killed in HyperCacher kosher supermarket in Paris were laid to rest in Israel this week. The burial decision came after the Israeli Foreign Ministry reached out to the families with an offer to bury the victims in Israel, despite the fact that they were not Israeli citizens.

The victims, who were killed shortly before the start of Shabbos last week, were Yohan Cohen, 22, an employee of the HyperCacher store; Yoav Hattab, 21, a student of Tunisian origin and the son of the chief rabbi of Tunis; Phillipe Barham, 45, an executive at an IT company, a father and the brother of a rabbi; and François-Michel Saada, 64, a retired father of two. Tearful mourners held placards bearing their portraits with the words: “I am dead because I’m Jewish.”

Amedy Coulibaly, the Islamist gunman who murdered the four men and held others hostage before he was killed

by French security forces at the kosher store, reportedly told a French journalist at the height of the siege that he had deliberately chosen to target Jews.

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During the summer, a number of anti-Israel rallies turned violent, including one in which many Jews were trapped inside a synagogue.

Following the Friday attack on the HyperCacher market, Israeli leaders

upped calls for French and European Jews to make Israel their home. “To all the Jews of France, all the Jews of Europe, I would like to say that Israel is not just the place in whose direction you pray, the State of Israel is your home,” Prime Minister Netanyahu said in a televised statement.

“This is not how we wanted to welcome you to Israel,” said President Re-

uven Rivlin, addressing the victims by name as he fought back tears during the ceremony attended by more than 2,500 people including Israeli political leaders. “We wanted you alive.”

Rivlin said that it was unacceptable that Jews were once again living in fear in Europe. “We cannot allow that in 2015, 70 years since the end of World War II, Jews are afraid to walk in the

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streets of Europe” wearing a skullcap and prayer shawl, he said.

Lighting a torch of remembrance, Yonatan Saada said his father had longed to move to Israel. “He was in love with Israel, he wanted to live here,” he said, his voice breaking. “He’s here now.”

Speaking in Hebrew, a mournful Valerie Braham paid tribute to her husband Philippe. “I am crying but I know that you’re all crying with me,” she said.

For many Israelis, the killings were further evidence that France is becoming hostile territory for Jews and proof that the authorities there are unable to protect them. The Jewish community in France numbers 500,000 to 600,000 people. French migration to Israel hit a record high last year of 6,600 people, and many believe the trend will accelerate.

Addressing the crowds, Netanyahu said that although Jewish people have the right to live anywhere in the world in safety, they know where their real home is, Netanyahu said. “I believe that they know deep in their hearts that they have only one country, Israel, their historical homeland which will always be ready to receive them with open arms as much-loved sons,” he said.

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Eleven years after filing a billion-dollar lawsuit, victims of terror attacks in Israel between January 2001 and February 2004 hope to prove to an anonymous Manhattan federal court jury that the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization were behind the attacks.

Jury selection begins Tuesday in the trial, expected to last up to three months.

It is occurring despite a last-ditch unsuccessful attempt by the PLO and PA to convince appeals judges that a Manhattan court does not have jurisdiction. The effort was rejected by the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals.

The lawsuit was brought in 2004 under the Antiterrorism Act of 1991 by victims of seven shootings and bombings near Jerusalem. The attacks killed 33 people and wounded hundreds more, including scores of US citizens.

“The injuries remain very fresh for most of these people,” plaintiffs’ attorney Phil Horton said. “It is often hard to work with them because the pain is still so great. There have been a lot of tears in conference rooms.”

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“This case is really about the rule of law. Can you take the law into your own hands or not?” Horton said. “Terrorism is the opposite of the rule of law.”

If successful, the plaintiffs expect to recover a substantial amount of any award, although attorneys would not be able to pursue documentation of the groups’ assets until they win, he said.

“The one thing I’m sure about is they wouldn’t be spending what are clearly enormous sums on the case if they didn’t believe there was money to be collected at the end of the day,” Horton said.

In court papers, lawyers for the PA and PLO say a US court should not have jurisdiction over the case just because the PLO maintains a 12-person office in the United States. The PA and PLO’s home is in the West Bank, they say.

The publicity of the trial, “some of it inevitable, some of it sought by plaintiffs, will undermine the confidence in the PA’s ability to govern and contribute to a worsening of tensions in the region at a delicate moment,” the lawyers representing the PA and PLO said in court documents.

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In fact, the prestige of hosting the Olympic Games is so dimmed that four cities have already dropped out of the bidding for the 2022 Winter Games, leaving only Kazakhstan and China as the bidding nations. Many nations don’t want to bear the crushing expense of trying to meet the IOC’s demanding standards only to see their facilities plunge into disuse or even ruin within months after the Games’ end.

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Each year, the Milkin Institute, an economic think tank, measures jobs, wages, salaries and technological output to map out the cities it believes “hold the key to economic success.”

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Fugitive Caught 40 Years Later

In September 1977, Robert Woodring was sentenced to ten months of prison time for removing a yacht to keep it from being seized by authorities.

Now, nearly four decades later, the former Florida resident has been arrested in Mexico and will be arraigned in a U.S. federal court this week.

Woodring was taken into custody in Guadalajara, Mexico, last month in an operation involving authorities from the United States and Mexico, the U.S. At-

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On Monday, in the late afternoon, smoke filled one of Washington, D.C.’s busiest subway stations, resulting in one person’s death and injuries to 84 others.

Many of the victims were riding on the Virginia-bound Yellow Line train that had departed from the L’Enfant Plaza station shortly before 3:30 when it suddenly came to a halt and began to fill with smoke. Officials said it was due to an “electrical arcing event,” when water

Founding Fathers’ Time Capsule Opened

tled and unpacked by custodians at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts in a gallery hung with oil portraits of both men.

Among the items in the box were two dozen coins including a 1652 Pine Tree Shilling struck by colonists in defiance of England, a bronze medal portraying George Washington, a silver plate made by Revere, and colonial records and newspapers. Galvin said he expected the items would be displayed at the museum for some time before being placed back beneath the state house cornerstone, possibly with additional items from this era.

The capsule was first placed under the cornerstone of the 18th-century state house building, a Boston landmark topped by a gilded copper dome made

by Revere’s company, on July 4, 1795 in recognition of America’s 20th anniversary of independence. Adams was then governor of Massachusetts, and Revere a colonial icon and silversmith best known for alerting Colonial fighters to the approach of British Forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775.

The unveiling marked the first time its contents have been seen publicly since 1855, when it was also removed

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hits the third rail and generates smoke.

Riders were forced to evacuate the smoke-filled train and station but as much as an hour went by before firefighters were able to lead passengers out of the cars. Some began to choke on the smoke, others lost consciousness.

DC Interim Fire Chief Eugene Jones told the Washington Post that firefighters did not immediately enter the tunnel to help the riders because they wanted to ensure that power to the third rail had been shut off. He also took issue with passengers’ claims, saying that the delay was “nothing like” the length of time they described.

Jonathan Rogers told The Post that he was aboard a Yellow Line train as it headed to Pentagon Station, which is one station away from L’Enfant Plaza.

He said smoke quickly came through the subway car’s doors.

“It started to get scary pretty quick,” he related. The driver tried moving the train backwards, but smoke continued to enter. “People started praying,” he said.

“Smoke was coming in pretty steadily.

Some people were fine and some people were just hurting pretty quickly.”

Passenger Saleh Damiger was quoted by the newspaper as saying that people were choking and yelling aboard the train. “It was a lot of smoke,” she said.

“We couldn’t see each other. ... We felt like we were almost going to die.”

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Ross DeVol, chief research officer at the Milken Institute. “You also find a great deal of immigration occurs as it attracts talent to these dynamic cities. This tends to propel housing prices higher which is good if you [already] live in one of these metros.” The wage growth and employment opportunities that these cities provide are important considerations to make when looking at career progression, he says.

This begs the question: if you don’t live in a top city, should you move to one? “If you look at the top 50 cities, all of them have net in-migration, more people moving in than moving out,” says DeVol. “If you’re living in what might be a stagnant metropolitan economy, you should certainly consider the possibility of moving to one of these dynamic metros,” he recommended. Moving, however, isn’t for everyone. Stagnant areas tend to have lower housing prices and if you’re in a middle-wage job it might make sense to stay put. Still, living in a dynamic city allows for more potential wage growth. “More importantly, if you have a family, your kids may have better economic opportunity.”

The bottom line, says DeVol, is that there’s big risk in moving to one of these cities. “You may have to initially step back [career-wise] a bit further…there are high-tech STEM skilled jobs but even if you work in the leisure industry, if you’re embedded in one of those metros, it pulls up wages for everyone.”

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The Week In News torney for the Southern District of Florida said in a statement. Woodring, who formerly lived in the Fort Lauderdale area, had also been sentenced to seven years in prison in a related mail fraud case, officials said.

In 1984, he was indicted on charges of failure to appear to begin his sentence, prosecutors said, and now is to be arraigned this week.

Too Close? Alaska Town’s Residents Under One Roof

The population of Whittier, Alaska, is just 218 and most residents live under one roof.

The small, isolated town is unique in its infrastructure; it is only accessible by sea or a two and half mile tunnel that runs through Alaskan mountainous terrain. During the summer, there is 22

hours of sunlight (that’s an amazing suntan!), and during the winter, the days are dark and cold making living conditions brutal.

The population remains small due to the harsh winter living conditions which force the town to remain indoors during the winter months. The Begish Tower houses most households of Whittier along with the post office, general store, video rentals, and playground. The 14 story building was previously an Army barracks built in the 1950s.

One would think this town would be king of snow days but no such luck, kiddos! The school is connected to Begish Tower via an underground tunnel; it can be a blizzard outside and 32 degrees below zero but classes are always in session.

Residents adore their homey, comprehensive community.

“It would be silly to say that you live a lonely life living in the building because I have friends and neighbors and students and coworkers that are right down the hall,” local teacher and Begich resident Erika Thompson says. “If you’re having a bad day, if you’re having a day when you think, ‘Gosh, I haven’t talked to another human being for a while,’ you can just walk down the hall, or get in the elevator.”

Like they say, it’s not about quantity, it’s about quality: a couple of good neighbors are more valuable than a city filled with millions of strangers.

Sandy Hook Parents Sue City for Poor Security

This December marked two years since Adam Lanza stormed into Sandy Hook Elementary School and ruthlessly shot children, staff, and teachers.

Now two families of first graders killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre are suing the town of Newtown and its board of education, alleging security measures at the school weren’t adequate.

The parents of Jesse Lewis and Noah Pozner filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Connecticut town last Friday. The families are seeking unspecified damages in the lawsuit, which is expected to be filed in state Superior Court in Danbury over the next few weeks.

One strong allegation is that the staff at the school was unable to follow the security policies in place. According to the suit, classroom doors could

only be locked from the outside with keys, leaving teachers and students vulnerable to intruders, and the front of the school didn’t have security glass to protect against gunshots. In addition, in one of the two classrooms where students were killed was a substitute teacher who did not have a key or proper training in security protocols.

“We are hopeful that the town of Newtown’s elected and hired representatives will work with these families who have already suffered, and continue to suffer, unimaginable loss to help resolve this matter in the most efficient and constructive way possible,” Donald Papcsy, a lawyer for Lewis' and Pozner’s parents, said in a statement.

“As residents of the town, we all either have, or are going to have, students in our Sandy Hook schools, and we promote the idea of learning from the past and protecting our children in the future.”

Last month, the families of nine of the murdered victims filed a lawsuit in state court against the maker and sellers of the Bushmaster AR-15 rifle that Lanza used in the shooting, saying the gun should not have been sold for civilian use because of its devastating firepower.

Reports by state police and the state child advocate said Lanza’s parents, teachers and others missed obvious red flags that should have been clues to how deeply troubled he was. They said he should have received more appropriate treatment for his mental health problems. Lanza’s obsessions with firearms, death and mass shootings have been documented by police files, although investigators previously concluded the motive for the shootings may never be known.

Ebola Survivor to Return to Africa to Provide Aid

An American doctor who survived Ebola last fall announced this week that he is returning to the heart of the worst Ebola outbreak in histo-

The Week In News Increased Security Albuquerque DA to Following Paris Attacks Bring Murder Charges Against Police Charges

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If you plan to fly in the next few weeks, be prepared for beefed up airport security following the attacks in Paris last week. All across the U.S., airport security staff has taken on extra precautionary measures, according to the nation’s top homeland security official. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson was sure to clarify that the measures were not in response to “specific, credible intelligence of an attack,” but rather are preventative. The new measures are also being taken, Johnson said, because of “the recent public calls by terrorist organizations for attacks on Western objectives, including aircraft, military personnel and government installations and civilian personnel.” He was chiefly referring to last week’s violent terrorist attacks in Paris but also mentioned the recent attacks in Canada and in a coffee shop in Sydney, Australia.

Security screeners increased the number of random searches of passengers and carry-on luggage. In recent months, intelligence officials warned of numerous Iraqi and Syrian militants possibly possessing Western and European passports. The U.S. is demanding that foreign airports, especially in the Middle East, increase their screening of passengers flying into the U.S. Johnson also informed the public that the Transportation Security Administration has been instructed to conduct an immediate short-term review to determine whether more security measures are necessary at airports in the U.S. and overseas. The agency’s Federal Protective Service will also expand its presence at the more than 9,500 federal buildings it guards nationwide. The U.S. government also boosted security at federal buildings after the October shooting at the Canadian Parliament building in Ottawa that killed one soldier.

On Monday, the district attorney in Albuquerque, New Mexico, brought murder charges against two officers who shot a mentally ill homeless man during a standoff last year, bypassing a grand jury and taking the case before a judge who will decide at a public hearing whether the case should move forward.

“Unlike Ferguson and unlike in New York City, we’re going to know.

The public is going to have that information,” District Attorney Kari Brandenburg said. “I think officer-involved shooting cases are important around the country where we want to share all that information with the public.”

The March shooting death of James Boyd, 38, led to violent protests and helped drive a major federal-ordered overhaul of the Albuquerque Police Department amid a rash of police shootings over the last five years.

It also came during a year when po-

lice tactics came under intense scrutiny nationwide, fueled by the fatal shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri, and the chokehold death of another unarmed man in New York City.

Grand juries declined to charge officers in those cases, leading to large protests.

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ry: West Africa. But Dr. Rick Sacra, a family doctor from Massachusetts who contracted Ebola while treating patients in Liberia in September, will not be treating Ebola patients when he returns to Liberia. He is set to depart on January 15, and will work with aid group SIM USA in the emergency department and teaching.

Dr. Sacra was discharged from Nebraska Medical Center Ebola-free on September 26. He was later re-admitted with an upper respiratory infection and said he also had a complication called uveitis, or swelling of the eye. But he said he’s “95 percent” better.

“I guess I’m less nervous about this trip because I know what I’m getting into a little more,” Dr. Sacra said at a news conference. “The thing I was afraid of last time, I’ve had it, and I’m through it. Thank G-d.”

“Doctors say I’m immune, but I don’t plan to test that,” he added. He is the first American to return to Africa after surviving Ebola.

Health care workers are at special risk of infection from Ebola. The World Health Organization says more than 500 have been infected in the current epidemic.

“Ebola is both hard to get and easy to get,” Dr. Sacra pointed out. “It’s hard to get in community settings, normal settings like this or sitting in a restaurant or walking on the street. But in the health care setting, where you’re dealing with people who are very sick, dealing with blood and body fluids, it is very easy to get,” he added.

“Even when the proper precautions have been put in place, you still see health care workers getting sick with Ebola,” he added.

Just hours before Sacra spoke, London’s Royal Free Hospital said one of the 500 infected health care workers, Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey, was better. “Royal Free Hospital is pleased to announce that Pauline Cafferkey is showing signs of improvement and is no longer critically ill. She remains in isolation as she receives specialist care for the Ebola virus,” the hospital said in a statement.

Cafferkey was diagnosed with Ebola in December after treating patients in Sierra Leone.

“Even after Ebola is finished in West Africa, if we don’t continue to be very strategic about strengthening the health system there, then they’ll be vulnerable to another epidemic, whether it is Ebola or whether it is another disease,” Dr. Sacra said.

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In Albuquerque, police said SWAT team member Dominique Perez and former Detective Keith Sandy fatally shot Boyd, who had frequent violent run-ins with law enforcement. Video from an officer’s helmet camera showed Boyd appearing to surrender when officers opened fire, but a defense lawyer characterized him as an unstable suspect who was “unpredictably and dangerously close to a defenseless officer while he was wielding two knives.”

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Brandenburg refused to provide specifics about the reasons for bringing the case but said it was a lengthy and deliberate process. The officers have not been booked or arrested, which will not happen until a judge decides whether the case can advance at a preliminary

hearing. A date has not been set.

The criminal charges were the first Brandenburg has brought against officers in a shooting. She also is waging a fight with the Albuquerque Police Department over allegations she committed bribery while intervening on behalf of her son in a burglary case. Police believe she should be charged with bribery because, they say, she offered to pay a victim not to press charges. The attorney

general’s office is handling the matter.

Despite the investigation, Brandenburg said the charges against police had nothing to do with the agency’s investigation into her and that her office got the case long before the bribery claims came to light.

Since 2010, Albuquerque police have been involved in more than 40 shootings — 27 of them deadly. After Boyd’s death, outrage over the numbers

grew and culminated with protests that included a demonstration where authorities fired tear gas and another that shut down a City Council meeting. The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the use of force by the department.

Police are legally empowered to use deadly force when appropriate, and a 1989 Supreme Court decision concluded that an officer’s use of force must be evaluated through the “perspective of a reasonable officer on scene rather than with the 20/20 vision of hindsight.”

That’s Odd This Bus is for the Dogs

Thought the passenger next to you on this morning’s commute was hairy, smelly and had really bad breath?

Well, it could be because your neighbor wasn’t a person heading to work; it was a black Labrador heading to the dog park.

Eclipse has no patience, it seems, for lazy human folk. When her owner takes his time smoking and the bus heading to the dog park arrives, she jumps on solo and rides to her stop—to the delight of her fellow Seattle commuters.

She and her owner, Jeff Young, live right near a bus stop.

Once on the bus, Eclipse looks out the bus windows for her stop. When the bus reaches the dog park, she hops off— again, on her own. “She’s a bus-riding, sidewalk-walking dog,” Young says proudly.

Young admits that sometimes Eclipse heads onto the bus without him, but he then catches up with her at the dog park, which is three or four stops away.

Commuter Tiona Rainwater says, “All the bus drivers know her ... she makes everybody happy.”

And it’s not just drivers who love this dog. A Metro Transit spokesman says the agency loves that a dog appreciates public transit.

Well, it always nice to get a ride to the bark, I mean, park.

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The Week In News Flying (Almost) Solo Do you want an aisle seat, window seat or middle? How about all three?

Perhaps you’d like the whole plane.

Chris O’Leary got the flight of his life when he found himself the only passenger on a Delta New York-bound flight after hours of delays.

The passenger started tweeting

about his amazement before the plane took off, saying how he got a personalized safety briefing and a one-on-one run down from the captain about the flight.

“It was definitely the most memorable flight I’ve been on in recent memory if only for the sheer lack of passengers to become bothersome,” O’Leary told ABC News. “There were no screaming babies, no one listening to loud lyrics or

reclining their seats or taking off their shoes.”

Unfortunately for O’Leary, he wasn’t truly able to fly solo; the plane went back to the gate to pick up one more passenger who slept through the whole flight, seemingly unfazed by the extra room.

It isn’t clear how many people were originally scheduled to be on board the 76-seater regional plane, but according

to O’Leary, he was the only who was not rebooked on an earlier flight after they faced a number of delays. O’Leary was actually scheduled for a 7:15 a.m. flight out of Cleveland but when that flight got cancelled, he was re-booked on this flight, which was scheduled to take off at 9:39 a.m.

The flight was delayed for hours, and since O’Leary learned of the delays by phone notifications, he stayed in his hotel until shortly before the flight was actually due to take off. When he arrived at the airport, he heard his name being paged on the loud speaker and he was informed that everyone else had been rebooked on earlier flights because of the delay.

“Part of this is my own stupidity but it ended up working out in my favor,” he related.

Oftentimes when planes fly with a small number of passengers the plane itself is needed in the destination city for a later flight.

Hey, It’s Halladay!

Roy Halladay may be proving to be more entertaining in his retirement than during his years playing ball. On Sunday, he posted something on Twitter that got the world’s attention—and hopefully a specific someone.

The photo posted on Twitter shows a smiling Halladay at an amusement park standing next to a fan wearing a Halladay t-shirt. The fan, though, is unaware of the shot, since his back is to the camera and seems oblivious that he is stand-

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Halladay posted the pic with the words: “Oopps you missed me! Walked right by me! Hope he gets to see his pic with me on Twitter, he doesn’t know we took this.”

Can’t imagine what the fan was looking at that was more exciting than seeing his sports idol.

Walking Down the Aisle—Again

It was 19 years ago—when they were three years old—when this couple first met. Now Briggs Fussy and Brittney Husbyn are married and once again walked down the aisle together.

In 1995, Fussy stood as the ring bearer and Husbyn was the flower girl at Fussy’s grandmother’s wedding.

“We were 3 years old, I think,” Fussy related. “It was my godmother’s wedding and Brittney’s mom worked with her. She needed a flower girl.” On that day, no one knew that they will end up spending their lives together.

In 2007, when they were in the same class in high school, they discovered that they had walked down the aisle together years before.

“We were in class and she had a picture with her from the wedding,” Fussy said. “I started to laugh because it was the same one we had hanging in the hallway at home, but I never knew who she was. That wedding was the only time I ever saw her.”

Eventually, the two ended up dating, and on January 10, they finally walked down the aisle once more in front of 300 family and friends—as husband and wife.

“Everybody loves it – especially my godmother, she takes all the credit,” Fussy said. “It’s constantly brought up that we walked down the aisle together again.”

They’re One in a Million

“It’s going to be interesting,” Jase Kinsey told KULR. “I think it will be a lot of fun though in the end, because they’ll be so close.”

Worker Skipped Work for 24 Years

Every child is special, but when Ian, Cade and Milo entered this world in early December, the identical triplets were really exceptional.

“To have a patient with spontaneous identical triplets is incredibly rare,” Billings Clinic maternal fetal medicine physician Dr. Dana Damron told the Billings Gazette. In fact, he said they were one in a million.

The proud parents, Jase and Jody Kinsey of Miles City, Mont., also have a 6-year-old son named Jax and were surprised when they found out about the triplets.

Want to work, but not really? Head to India, where labor laws make it hard to fire anyone bar criminal misconduct.

A.K. Verma, an executive engineer at the Central Public Works Department, though, was really pushing it. Just this month, the worker was fired from his job. Don’t feel too bad for him: he last showed up for work in December 1990.

“He went on seeking extension of leave, which was not sanctioned, and defied directions to report to work,” the government said in a statement last Thursday.

Even after an inquiry found him guilty of “willful absence from duty” in 1992, it took another 22 years and the intervention of a cabinet minister to remove him, the government said.

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•Drive to Leshem - the newest “legal” yishuv in the Shomron to see the ancient industrial complex of Dir Saman •Dairy lunch at Hatzrif Shel Tamari (Tamari's Cabin) in picturesque Havot Yair

•After lunch- a short stop at the home and studio of Judaica Artist Irit Galmor overlooking Nahal Kana in the mixed Dati-Chiloni community of Nofim.

•Taking care of the security needs throughout Yehuda and Shomron is what One Israel Fund does best. We will visit Karnei Shomron, one of the most developed yishuvim in the Shomron, where a new sophisticated camera system is being built

•We begin our day in Pnei Kedem, a yishuv of young pioneering families •Buckle up for a Jeep Tour along the Judean Desert with breathtaking views of the Dead Sea •Dairy Mehadrin lunch at Sde Bar followed by a cheese making workshop – everyone goes home with freshly made cheeses. This youth (at risk) village is known for its environmentally advanced projects.

•A visit to King Herod’s palace/fortress/burial site at Herodian; could Herod still save Judea? We’ll retrace the steps of The Bar Kochba and Great Revolts.

•Unique for One Israel Fund, we will end our day at the studios of the new Voice of Israel broadcasting network where our very own tour guide hosts a weekly show, Rejuvenation with Eve Harow. An exclusive, behind the scenes tour of the studio during its Live at 5 Show. Special taping of commercials for the One Israel Fund trip participants.‫ה‬

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Join us for a special day to visit communities in southwestern Israel which bore the brunt of attacks this past summer.

•Maskiot – In June 2008, Maskiot was a Nachal outpost in danger of being closed. Families expelled from the community of Shirat HaYam in Gush Katif breathed new life into this village. Today it is a growing vibrant community.

•Rotem is located in a beautiful northern section of the Jordan Valley.

Over 20 young families created this idyllic community where they live in harmony with nature and a message of ecological awareness. An organic olive grove, natural cosmetics company, holistic treatments and homemade bakery are just a few of the local enterprises.

•Dairy lunch at the delectable Café Café •Netiv Hagdud - Tour with agronomist Chaim Oren and try the restorative pure Argan Oil that he and his wife Sylvie harvest and sell all over the world •Visit Naama & Omer Atidya on their Einot Kedem Ranch; a little house on the ‘prairie’ where we can buy their olive oil and dates. This inspirational young couple also provide a haven for youth at risk

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•Nestled in the Egyptian and Gazan borders is Shlomit, where One Israel Fund is building a very unique mikvah •The Steel Tower @ Kerem Shalom – Birds eye view of the current situation •At Ein Hashlosha meet one of the local security chiefs and understand what flower and power really means •Lunch at Alumim - hear why they did not leave during the summer conflict •Kibbutz Beeri- at the ANZAC Memorial learn of the region’s battles in WWI a century ago •In honor of upcoming Tu B’shvat we will visit Ora’s unique fruit orchard at Kfar Maimon and buy jam, beers and liquors

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The New York Lottery began in 1967; its first slogan was “Your Chance of a Lifetime to Help Education.” Well, recently, the lottery certainly helped education, I mean, educators, when a retired elementary school principal won the November 4 Mega Millions jackpot.

Harold Diamond, 80, claims that he only won the $326 million lotto because he listened to his wife, Carol, a former math teacher.

“This is Carol’s favorite spot,” said Diamond, standing inside a Valero gas station not far from his home in Wurtsboro, about 90 minutes north of the city.

“She said, 'Stop at the Subway,’ and if I didn’t stop at the Subway that particular night, we wouldn’t be standing here today. So I have to thank her for making me stop here,” said Harold, who worked at Monticello School District for 39 years.

They had stopped to buy a sandwich when he decided to spend $10 on 10 sets of Quick Pick numbers at the nearby gas station. The next day, the unsuspecting winner stopped for a snack after playing golf.

“The gal that works behind the counter said, ‘Gee someone [at Valero’s] was a single winner,’” he recalled.

He immediately wondered if he could have been the one — but it wasn’t until much later that night that he and Carol saw the numbers on TV. “I saw the first five numbers so I immediately knew we won a million,” he told reporters, as his wife stood quietly beside him holding a bouquet of flowers.

“And then when I saw the last number, I yelled up to my wife, ‘I think we won a few bucks!’”

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Actually, what the Diamonds won was the largest jackpot in the history of the New York Lottery — an astounding amount even after taxes. The lump sum payout was $197 million and the former principal pocketed $130 million.

Diamond said he’s glad his wife made him stop at Valero. “I always listen to what she says,” he told the crowd.

They plan on returning to Hawaii where they celebrated their 25th anniversary.

They have been married for 55 years.

Diamond’s win was the 29th time a New Yorker took the top prize on the multi-state mega jackpot game, which launched in 2002.

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On Tuesday, January 13, Lavish Layette had the Grand Opening of its spacious new location. Keren Stefansky took creative photographs of all the babies who came to celebrate the new store. Lavish Layette used to be located in the back of another store on Central Avenue but has now grown to need a space of its own. The stores provides wardrobes for babies sizes newborn/preemie through size 2 with tons and tons of super accessories.

Lavish Layette is now located at 406 Central Ave. 516-256-9130.

Rena Max, Spelling Bee Champ On January 7, Rena Max won the school-wide spelling bee at the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County in Plainview for the second year. Max, a 6th grade student from Plainview, will represent HANC Plainview at the Long Island Spelling Bee, which will be held at Hofstra University on Sunday, February 8. “Rena was among eight other students from grades 4, 5, and 6 who wowed the school with their advanced spelling skills,” said Mrs. Karen Fleishman, spelling bee coordinator.

Rena won the bee by successfully spelling “bhangra,” a form of Indian folk dance.

Rena Max with Mrs. Fleishman and Rabbi Fogel, HANC Plainview principal

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SKA Senior Ilana Rudinsky Named Intel Semifinalist SKA is proud to announce that Ilana Rudinsky, a 12th grader at the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls, has been named a semifinalist in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search. She is one of 300 students nationwide and the third SKA student to achieve this honor. Ilana’s research project is entitled “Effects of Carbon Chain Length in Thiol-Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles Coating a Nafion ® Membrane on PEM Fuel Cell Efficiency.”

The Intel STS is the nation’s most prestigious pre-college science competition. Congratulations Ilana!

The students who competed in the school-wide spelling bee with Mrs. Fleishman, fifth grade general studies teacher and spelling bee coordinator.

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Mr. and Mrs. Martin and Zena Cohen, Guests of Honor

This past Motzei Shabbos, Midreshet Shalhevet held their sixth Annual Scholarship Dinner honoring Mr. and Mrs. Martin and Zena Cohen, Mr. and Mrs. Yossi and Elaine Farber, and Mrs. Hindy Feder. Held at Temple Hillel, guests were greeted with a beautiful smorgasbord of delicacies before sitting down to dinner. Assistant Principal Mrs. Shaindy Lisker commenced the presentation with welcoming remarks and introduced Rosh Mesivta, Rabbi Zev Meir Friedman.

Rabbi Friedman highlighted the extraordinary qualities of each of the honorees and took a moment to memorialize the victims of the recent tragedies in France.

Menahele, Mrs. Esther Eisenman then took the floor and spoke about the honorees and presented their gifts. Mr. and

Hakarat Hatov Honorees, Mr. and Mrs. Yossi and Elaine Farber

Mrs. Martin and Zena Cohen, Guests of Honor, are close partners to Shalhevet.

Their commitment to Torah values and active roles in tzedaka organizations have made a strong impact in the Jewish community. Their daughter, Tehila, a twelfth grader at Shalhevet, has benefitted from the secure partnership the Cohens and Shalhevet have created. The Hakarat Hatov Honorees, Mr. and Mrs. Yossi and Elaine Farber, epitomize the definition of baalei chesed. Their dedication to Shalhevet and to the community at large is outstanding. The Farbers constantly open their home and run many Shalhevet activities. Their daughter, Shira, a senior at Shalhevet, clearly reflects the middot and Torah values she learned at home and her successes are built on the strong relation-

ship between the Farbers and Shalhevet.

Teacher of the Year, Mrs. Hindy Feder, is one of a kind. A teacher with high expectations, her students work hard to meet success and thrive in her class.

Mrs. Feder also serves as the Israel Guidance liaison and helps each student find the seminary that is best suited for her.

From the words of senior Devora Chait, “You have deepened our appreciation of learning more than we could have imagined, and we are truly appreciative that we have the opportunity to learn from you every single day, whether in class or out. When we grow up, we all want to be Mrs. Feder.”

The evening wrapped up with a touching Thank You video from the Shalhevet students acknowledging both

Mrs. Hindy Feder, Teacher of the Year

the school and the people who support it for giving them an unbelievable education and incredible opportunities.

OHEL Lights up the Lives of its Children and Families During Chanukah Chanukah is a special time for many of us, and these eight unique days of simcha is especially felt in the many OHEL Children’s Home & Family Services residences and programs.

The week before Chanukah started, OHEL’s Sibshops program was already celebrating with a fun pre-Chanukah ice skating trip for siblings of individuals with special needs. The boys and girls, between the ages of 6-11, came from Far Rockaway and Brooklyn, and the over50 kids and facilitators spent the day in the Aviator, enjoying an afternoon of ice skating, pizza, presents, donuts and Chanukah fun!

Parents had been raving to the Sibshops staff all week about how much fun their children had on the trip. “My daughter had an amazing time, thanks for arranging it all, and she loved the gift!” said one thankful mother. Another said, “Thank you for a super trip. The kids all had a great time!”

OHEL also had a special Chanukah

party for families and children in OHEL’s Foster Care system. It gave a much appreciated opportunity for parents, families, and children in similar situations to hang out together and enjoy a fun night of food, dancing, donuts, complete with a fun and interactive magic show. To top off the fun night, the kids even got to choose from a selection of presents to take home with them.

The Chanukah festivities continued throughout the week, with menorah lighting and present exchanges in all of OHEL Bais Ezra’s residences.

On the seventh night of Chanukah, Ateres Chaya, a grand simcha hall located in the heart of Brooklyn, hosted the highly anticipated annual OHEL Chanukah party. Every year OHEL staff, volunteers, individuals and board members all gather to celebrate together. It was a truly uplifting and inspiring evening, with nachas infused throughout the entire venue.

There were over 700 people who came to the OHEL Chanukah party, gra-

ciously sponsored once again by Sammy and Lea Trencher. There were smiles that warmed the heart, dancing, food, and sufganiyot sponsored by another good friend of OHEL’s children.

The incredible party featured all different kinds of entertainers, including magicians, face painters, and balloon

sculptures. There were gifts and giveaways on every table, and nobody left the party empty-handed! One of the OHEL Bais Ezra clients who was at the party said that they look forward to the party all year and that they enjoy having the opportunity to get dressed up and dance.

Around The Community Opportunity to Invoke the Infinite Zechus of the Chofetz Chaim as Dirshu Prepares for First Daf HaYomi B’Halacha Siyum

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By Chaim Gold What do Radin and Venezuela have in common? What is the connection between a new shiur before morning seder in one of Lakewood’s elite chaburos and the kever of the heilige Chofetz Chaim? What do a pre-davening shiur, an evening shiur in Monsey, and new shiurim in Marine Park and Chicago have to do with the unique Sefer HaGibborim that will remain permanently at the kever of the Chofetz Chaim?

Three questions with one answer!

The answer is that they are all related to the mounting world-wide anticipation for the upcoming historic siyum of Dirshu’s first machzor of Daf HaYomi B’Halacha – its highly successful and popular daily learning program of Mishnah Berurah and the mussar sefarim of the Chofetz Chaim – that will transpire in just over two months.

ling to Radin to participate in an exclusive maamad, a maamad that has the power to immeasurably enrich the lives of both present and future Daf HaYomi B’Halacha participants. The trip, to be undertaken in advance of the siyum, will have a dual purpose. First, the delegation will visit the Chofetz Chaim’s kever and say, “We are here at the kever of the Chofetz Chaim. We are about to complete the first machzor of daily Mishnah Berurah. In the merit of daily learning the Chofetz Chaim’s Mishnah Berurah and mussar sefarim, Hashem should answer our tefillos!”

The Gemara (Bava Metziah: 85) tells us that when one of the Amoraim was ill, he approached the kever of his rebbi. Wanting to invoke the powerful zechus of his rebbi, whose Torah he constantly learned, he approached the kever and said, “I learn your Torah!” The Gemara explains how in that merit, he was An Inseverable healed. Acting on Bond and a the lesson learned Once-in-a-Lifetime from that Gemara, Opportunity Dirshu will place The bond bethe ‘Sefer Gibtween Dirshu and borim’ in a special the heilige Chofetz place at the kever of Chaim, zy”a, is an the Chofetz Chaim inseverable one. where it will reDirshu’s Daf HaYmain. omi B’Halacha proWhat is the gram of halacha and ‘Sefer Gibborim’? mussar – endorsed It is a sefer conby Gedolei Yisra- The kever of the Chofetz Chaim taining the names el worldwide – is devoted to learning of all current Daf HaYomi B’Halacha the sefarim written by the Chofetz learners, as well as any person who acChaim. The program has brought tens cepts upon himself to learn daily halaof thousands the world over to learn the cha with Daf HaYomi B’Halacha and Chofetz Chaim’s Mishnah Berurah and mussar. The names will be placed at mussar sefarim daily. With Dirshu on the kever and remain there as an eternal the cusp of completing the seven-year merit for those inscribed in it. It is truly program of the entire Mishnah Berurah a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. and in the midst of preparations for the historic siyum, a momentous event will Elite Lakewood Chaburah Starts take place at the kever of the Chofetz Daf HaYomi B’Halacha Shiur Chaim. The event offers the wider pubThe public reaction to this opportulic a unique, one-time opportunity to nity in America, Eretz Yisroel, Europe invoke the tremendous zechus of the and elsewhere has been overwhelming!

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Dirshu’s offices worldwide have been On 12 Shevat/February 1, more constantly receiving names of both vetthan 15 gedolei rabbanim and poskim eran Daf HaYomi B’Halacha learners together with a group of senior mem- and countless new members that have bers of Dirshu’s hanhala will be travel- undertaken to join now or in the future.

The new Lakewood Daf HaYomi B’Halacha shiur

The day-by-day increased public interest and enthusiasm for the Daf HaYomi B’Halacha program is a remarkable testament to its popularity. One of the manifestations of that growth is the numerous new Daf HaYomi B’Halacha shiurim that have opened at the request of the wider public. As always, Dirshu remains committed to opening a shiur for any group that desires one.

Recently, additional shiurim have opened in Monsey and Lakewood, with anticipated openings in Chicago, Marine Park and numerous other locales.

There is even a Daf HaYomi B’Halacha chaburah of some 25 yungerleit in Caracas, Venezuela! Yes, in far-off Caracas, a daily oasis of halacha and mussar can be found as Daf HaYomi B’Halacha is learned and monthly tests are taken religiously.

One of the most exciting recent developments is that in Lakewood, 25 members of the elite Dirshu Chaburah led by Rav Moshe Pruzansky felt that they would gain tremendously from a daily shiur before morning seder in Daf HaYomi B’Halacha. Every day, 25 yungerleit come early, long before the official start of morning seder, to get in their daily limud of Daf HaYomi B’Halacha. The maggid shiur, Rav Yisrael Zucker, is a close talmid of the well-known posek, HaGaon HaRav Shlomo Miller, shlita, Rosh Kollel of the Kollel Avreichim of Toronto and Av Beis Din of the Bais Horaah of Lakewood.

In Monsey, two new shiurim have recently begun. The first shiur transpires every morning immediately after Shacharis in Rav Yisroel Hartman’s shul. The story behind that shiur is the Dirshu Kollel that learns Gemara there

every morning before Shacharis. The members of the Dirshu Kollel declared that they would very much like to bring practical halacha into their lives on a daily basis. Despite their busy schedules, they felt compelled to make time after davening for a Daf HaYomi B’Halacha shiur. The maggid shiur is Rav Shmuel Adler.

Another new Monsey shiur is given every evening by Rav Chaim Schabes, Rav of the Knesses Yisroel Shul and one of Monsey’s distinguished rabbonim. Rav Schabes acquiesced to the request of several baalei batim who greatly wanted to bring daily halacha and the resultant bracha into their lives.

Why Not You?!

Now there is an absolutely unique opportunity to have your name inscribed for perpetuity in the ‘Sefer Gibborim’ that will be permanently housed at the heilige kever of the Chofetz Chaim! It is an opportunity to join Klal Yisrael’s newest Daf HaYomi, The Daf HaYomi B’Halacha and access the unending zechus of the Chofetz Chaim!

The Daf HaYomi B’Halacha is marching and is already nearing the end of Chelek Vav. For seven years, thousands upon thousands of Yidden have taken approximately a half hour out of their schedules to bring halacha and mussar into their lives.

To join Daf HaYomi B’Halacha or to access a shiur near you and to get your name placed in the Sefer Gibborim, please call Dirshu at 188-5-Dirshu, extension 106, fax to 732-9873949 or e-mail, info@kolleldirshu.org.

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Around The Community Five Towns Marriage Initiative Using our Time Wisely The Pele Yoetz tells a story of a king who had a treasure house. He decided to open it wide for all his countrymen.

The people were all informed of the treasures that were there for the taking, and they were told that it would only be opened for a limited amount of time.

Not one person even bothered entering the treasure house.

The Pele Yoetz says that this is the

way we treat time. We have been given a tremendous gift from Hashem and yet we don’t value the commodity He has bestowed upon us.

There is a pasuk in Bamidbar that says that people disgrace the words of Hashem by not keeping His mitzvos properly (15:31) The Chofetz Chaim says that people will be required to give an accounting of the time they had and

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R’ Avigdor Miller was once asked why Hashem has placed so many luxuries in this world. Rabbi Miller said that the purpose of the luxuries and items that are not necessary to our survival are there to test us: will we waste our time or use them properly?

When a person finishes his years on earth he has an opportunity to rectify his misdeeds in gehenom, but there is no way to rectify time that was not put to good use. We have the chance in this world to accomplish and if we squander it, it remains, and we won’t get the time back. ‫ב"ה‬ In Koheles, Rashi uses an example to illustrate this concept. He says that when a person prepares before Shabbos they have what to eat on Shabbos but when a person doesn’t put in the time to prepare, then they won’t have what to ‫ב"ה‬ eat. So he cautions us to take heed and use our time in this world to its fullest.

One of the good places where we can direct the extra time in our lives is towards our marriages. An outing is transformed from a luxury and time waster to a higher realm when its purpose is to be a “date night” out to grow our marriage.

It might not be as much what you do with your time, as much as it is what your intention is behind what you do.

Your intentions can turn your acts into mitzvos and let you save the time you have for all eternity. May we merit to invest our time in the right places and use it in the right ways!

Five Towns Marriage Initiative provides educational programs, workshops and referrals to top marriage therapists. FTMI will help offset counseling costs when necessary and also runs an anonymous shalom bayis hotline for the entire community Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 9:30-11p.m. For the hotline or more information, call 516430-5280 or email dsgarry@msn.com.

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Village of Lawrence Trustee Michael Fragin, Rabbi Dovid Kramer, Senator Dean Skelos and Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky at the swearing in of Senator Skelos as Senate Majority Leader in Albany last week

The Flatbush Basketball League Week #8 Recap In the China Glatt Division Batampte Pickles was looking for their first win of the season oh so badly as they faced off against Oh Baby. The game was close throughout as newly acquired Yisroel Azarfar scored 12 for Batampte, and they looked hopeful. For Oh Baby, Mordechai Minkoff and Mordechai Lebovits had 8 each. The game was so close that it went into overtime.

Batampte Pickles almost had their first win; however, it was the 1 point difference that Oh Baby had in this 29-28 win over Batampte. Oh Baby moves into 2nd place with a 5-3 record.

In the battle between Father and Son & Avenue N neighbors, Supreme RX Pharmacy faced off against Pizza Heaven, and it was not a pretty sight. Shimon Greenwald was welcomed back in a big way scoring a season high 38 points and Yitzy Waxman helped out with 18 as well. Ezra Beyda was held to just 5 points throughout the game and was unable to compete with Greenwald in the paint. With this loss, Supreme now has an even 4-4 record, and falls to third place going into week #9.

In the Jewish Home Division ITP was looking to upset Pizza Nosh after last week’s win against Holy Schnitzel, and it came down to the wire.

Yanky Weber led scores for ITP with 11, and Yosef Kapetas had 8. With the return of Yossi Muller for Pizza Nosh and his 11 points, together with Motti Kolodney’s 13, they did not allow that to become a reality. Pizza Nosh stole this one by a score of 33-32.

In the third close game of the night, Holy Schnitzel faced Quality Carpet.

After last week’s win against Pizza Nosh, and with the cheering of Mr. Frank, Quality looked to take this one away from Holy Schnitzel as well. And boy it was real intense battle, as the score was 13-11 Schnitzel at half. The game was close until the last 5 minutes of the game when Holy Schnitzel took over as Uriel Mahperi led them with 10, and Eliahu Hara and Mordechai Cohen each had 8. Shilo Azarfar sat out for this game as Holy looked desperately for his help; however, they were able to hold onto the win with a 38-31 victory. In the loss, Moshe Frank led Quality with 10, and Moishe Kornitzer had 9. Where will Shilo end up next week?

In The Jewish Connection Division The Visual Image: 45; Rami’s Pizza: 29—Uzi that’s two straight losses for your Rami’s Pizza team. After being up 15-13 at halftime in a low scoring affair, Zevi Tepper and Dovid Miller combined for 29 to lead TVI. Rami’s went scoreless for five minutes in the start of the third as TVI pulled away. Yossie Friedman led Rami’s with 15 too little, too late. Neil’s Visual Image squad wins despite a 2 point and possession technical foul for what else? “Not Wearing Their Shirts.”

In the second High School Division game, “the cream always rises” again.

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Avraham Fuchs, and Avrumi Sternheim got feeds from League MVP Mendy S to win this one 46-32 over Meir’s Pizza World. With the Agudah Reunion next week, there is a chance we’ll see Plaza go down.

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By Tehilah Ebrani, Class of 2014 The annual Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls reunion in Israel is an event we have all been hearing about for years. On Monday night, December 30, it was the Class of 2014’s turn for this reunion which has been one of the most anticipated events since graduation.

The Class of 2014 gathered in Michlalah for dinner with Mrs. Helen Spirn, SKA’s Head of School, and Dr. Tzipora Meier, Principal Grades 11-12. It was the first time the class had been together since we graduated SKA and we were so happy to catch up with our former classmates.

There was much spirited schmoozing and hugging. We also saw a video filled with divrei brachah that the SKA faculty and staff had put together for us; it was shown to heartfelt applause. It was so nice to see everyone again.

After the reunion, Mrs. Spirn and Dr.

Meier visited every seminary that their students attend, took pictures of the girls at each school, and sent our parents a much appreciated photo of their daughters. Freshman year of high school is just the beginning of being a part of the SKA family!

Are Parent-Teacher meetings that much different in Israel?

Read what Rafi has to say on page 74

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1,800 Celebrate Yeshiva Darchei Torah’s 42nd Anniversary

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Rabbi Shlomo Avigdor Altusky; Rabbi Moshe Lubart, Harbotzas Torah Awardee; Rabbi Yaakov Bender and Ronald Lowinger

Rabbi Yaakov Bender, Rosh HaYeshiva Rabbi Shlomo Avigdor Altusky; Eytan Feldman, Parents of the Year awardee; Rabbi Yaakov Bender and Ronald Lowinger

Yumi Kleinbart, Hakoras Hatov Awardee, is congratulated by Rabbi Yaakov Bender’ Ronald Lowinger, President; and Lloyd Keilson, Co-Chairman of the Board of Trustees

Ronald Lowinger, President of Yeshiva Darchei Torah, Dinner Chairman

Rabbi Yaakov Bender, Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky, Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder, and Rabbi Baruch Rothman

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Rabbi Shlomo Avigdor Altusky; Rabbi Yaakov Bender; Yossi Preiserowicz, Alumnus of the Year; and Ronald Lowinger

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Yeshiva Medrash Chaim Lakewood, under the leadership of the Rosh HaYeshiva, Rabbi Rephael Moshe Gettinger, held its annual Five Towns Parlor Meeting in Lawrence last Tuesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chaim Czermak. The hosts are grandparents of an alumus of the yeshiva, and were eager to share the good work and accomplishments of the Yeshiva Medrash Chaim with their fellow community members.

Boruch Hashem, the parlor meeting was well attended by alumni and friends of the Yeshiva, as well as friends of the hosts who reside in the greater Five Towns area.

The crowd was privileged to hear divrei bracha from Rabbi Yaakov Feitman, shlita, one of the prominent senior rabbanim in the Five Towns, who spoke about the relationship between rebbi and talmid. He quoted from his rebbi, Rav Hutner, zt”l, that a yeshiva

is not just a place to learn, but also to connect to a rebbi and learn from his ways.

After recently spending a Shabbos together with the Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Feitman related that he personally experienced Rabbi Gettinger’s signature warmth that is a tremendous beacon of strength from which his talmidim draw support and encouragement to advance in their learning and avodas Hashem.

The Rosh HaYeshiva then ad-

dressed the crowd and added to the above that a key component in this rebbi-talmid relationship is when a rebbi can inspire his students to realize their tremendous individual strength and potential. When the rebbi can inculcate in the talmid a feeling of pride in being a tzelem Elokim and the tremendous kochos with which each person is blessed, this enables him to continue to strive higher.

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human behavior. The population was an unknown, but there was no time for preparations. We simply dug deep into our own emotional reserves and jumped in floppy feet first.

After the meetings with the soldiers, the unexpected brushes with war did not let up. The Chanukah mission happened to coincide with the end of the shloshim for the four rabbis brutally murdered in their synagogue in Har Nof. The community had quite understandably closed ranks and gathered strength in its members’ ties with each other, but a connection between a community leader and Lev Leytzan allowed the bereaved to open their hearts to us—friends who wanted only to care for them. We cautiously entered the homes of the mourners, beautiful young families torn apart by violence and grief.

The somber mood was pervasive, but we knew what to do. We slowly began to break the ice with slow exaggerated improvisation while assessing the fam-

ilies. When the children realized they had permission to have fun, noise and joy erupted and the families basked in the shine of each others’ smiles for a while. Consoled and at peace, if briefly, the families invited us back for two more nights! It was a real learning experience for us because we witnessed the real life pain of war but also felt the satisfaction of helping those it touched.

The fruits of our labors were confirmed when the following note was sent to us via Facebook from someone in the Har Nof community: “Such holy souls [Lev Leytzan]. What are their names? I do not know. Where do they come from? I have no clue. They simply appeared by our door. They brought light to our home where it had been taken away.

These pure souls raised our souls!”

By tending to the warriors on the frontlines of Israel’s conflicts we joined them in their vulnerability. We exposed ourselves and made ourselves accessible for the good of others just like conventional soldiers do on the frontline. This kind of outreach made

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Touching down in Israel to begin our 11th annual Chanukah mission, our Lev Leytzan medical clowns expected to face the battles we’ve been fighting for a very long time: those that take place in cancer wards, ICUs, orphanages, and nursing homes both at home and abroad. We had no idea that our mission this year would take us beyond those institutional battlegrounds to the frontlines of the actual war in Israel, but that is exactly what happened.

The trip started out similar to others. Our eleven medical clowns, Yitzy Biderman (MAY), Sam Cohen (Yeshiva Gush Etzion), Josh Fagin (HaKotel), Josh Friedman (Netiv Aryeh), Jacob Goldsmith (DRS), Yoni Katz (YU), Tzvi Korman (MAY), Avi Schwartzblatt (MAY), Tayla English (Darchei Bina), Tova Fertig (Be’er Miriam), Adina Goldberg (SKA) and our Patch Adamtype leader Neal C. Goldberg, Ph.D., were armed with hundreds of gifts collected by our partner organization, the Ossie Schonfeld Memorial Toy Fund.

Our goal was to make Chanukah as fun and memorable as possible for the sick children and their families whose homes and hospital rooms we would visit.

While playing in the pediatric oncology ward of a hospital in Tel Aviv, we received a call to arms that would bring us closer to the frontlines of the

conflict in Israel than we had ever been before: we were asked to work with young soldiers in the hospital still recovering from wounds inflicted in the Gaza War some months earlier. It was an honor just to be asked and the job would be a pleasure to undertake, but the task was not without its own very new, mostly psychological challenges for us.

After all, the young warriors were the same age as the medical clowns themselves and they had witnessed the most atrocious aspects of

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Clowning on the Frontlines: Views from Lev Leytzan’s Medical Clowns on 11th Annual Israel Chanukah Mission

the Chanukah mission 2014 the trip of a lifetime with far-reaching benefits for the people we touched. It wasn’t always easy to achieve, but that’s the kind of battle we medical clowns at Lev Leytzan like to fight!

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Getting it “Write”: At this past week’s Learn and Live Program, R’ Dovid Frischman presented the melacha of kosev to the boys

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On Thursday, December 25, HANC High School hosted a Yom Iyun for students and parents. In keeping with the theme of the school year, the focus of the day was the topic of kavod.

The morning began with teachers, students and guests davening Shacharit followed by a sumptuous breakfast.

Teachers gave sessions on various topics of kavod, and students along with their parents attended these interactive and informative sessions. This shiurim covered the topics of kavod Shabbat, kavod habriot, kavod beit kenesset and seforim, and kavod atzmi, among others.

HANC was also privileged to hear noted author and lecturer, Rabbi Paysach Krohn, who riveted the audience with fascinating stories and inspiring lessons on kibbud av v’em and other aspects of kavod.

A highlight of the day’s program was the presentation of a newly inaugural monthly award to students who exemplify the quality of kavod. These

students were selected by their teachers and recognized amidst cheers from their fellow students. They awardees are freshman Zack Plutzer, sophomore Michal Kaufman, junior Rebecca Shamash, senior Jacob Berman.

This program proved to be an outstanding success. Parents commented how much they enjoyed the program from beginning to end. They appreciated the fact that HANC provides such excellent opportunities for parents and their children to learn together in a positive way.

Thank you to the Moldovan, Daitch, Maryles, Katz, Ginsberg, Magori, Hill, and Levine families whose generous sponsorships were behind this day of learning.

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Since the beginning of Sefer Beraishis, the boys at Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island have been learning, reviewing and have taken weekly test on the parsha of the week. At end of Parshas Vayechi, the boys were given a final on Sefer Beraishis. All boys who scored at least a 90 percent average throughout the entire Sefer Beraishis and at least and 84 average on the final were invited to partake in a Choson Beraishis Seuda to celebrate and congratulate them on these results. The boys have amassed a great deal of yedios and have thrown themselves into learning Sefer Shemos with the same zerizus. Pictured here is Rabbi feiler’s seventh grade class enjoying the seuda.

Every week the boys in Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island are encouraged to read the parsha twice and to read the Targum one time, to train them to fulfill the halacha of Shnayim Mikroh V’echad Targum. Each grade is given a certain requirement of how much to read. Every Thursday, the boys who complete their class’s requirement are treated to a special frozen delight. This past Monday, January 13, the boys who did their requirements every week were treated to pizza, soda, and fries from David’s Pizza shop. Those boys who did less but at least seven to nine times were treated to pizza and soda or just pizza. A byproduct of this project is that it also helps the boys with their kriah skills.

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Yeshiva of South Shore Goes to HASC

YUTorah Surpasses 100,000 Shiur Milestone More than 3,500 shiurim of Woodmere’s Rabbi Moshe Weinberger now available free to the public Begun as an ad-hoc gathering of shiur recordings, YUTorah (www.yutorah. org) has become a formidable force in the spread of Torah learning worldwide, reaching a major milestone upon passing the 100,000 shiur mark this January.

“The growth of YUTorah has been exponential,” said Rabbi Robert Shur, director of YUTorah since 2007. “What started in 2004 with a little over 1,000 shiurim grew to 10,000 about two and a half years later. It took another five years to get to 50,000, with the second 50,000 taking less than three years.”

The list of contributors and lecturers is extensive, from across Yeshiva University and around the world. While some contributors have just a handful of recordings, there are 20 rabbis or lecturers with more than 1,000 uploaded to the site. Rabbi Hershel Schachter,

Nathan and Vivian Fink, Distinguished Professorial Chair in Talmud, and Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz of Bais Haknesses of North Woodmere, a daf yomi contributor and host of the “Ten Minute Halacha” series on the site, each have more than 4,000 recordings on the site. The recent addition of some 3,500 shiurim of Rabbi Moshe Weinberger, mashpiah at YU, now available free to the public for the first time, helped YUTorah break the 100,000 mark.

The collection of Rabbi Weinberger’s shiurim has been maintained over the last 21 years primarily by Moshe Cederbaum, a member of Congregation Aish Kodesh, Rabbi Weinberger’s shul in Woodmere. Cederbaum said the opportunity to reach a wider audience to spread Torah motivated the move to YUTorah.

“Through YUTorah many more people in Eretz Yisrael and other places have easy access to shiurim,” said Rabbi Weinberger. He said that he spoke with congregants who agreed that YUTorah provided the “widest impact” of making the shiurim available to the public and with YUTorah as the “easiest forum online. None of this would have been possible without the assistance of Moshe Cederbaum.”

The YUTorah site has become a conduit for yeshivot in Israel, allowing their alumni to continue listening to shiurim from their rabbis. Shuls and individuals worldwide turn to YUTorah to stay linked to a wide variety of learning opportunities on many topics, geared towards a diverse audience. The site’s popularity is reflected in its more than four million annual visits from 185 countries,

as well as thousands of downloads of its mobile apps for Android and iPhone.

Users can dedicate and sponsor days, weeks or months of learning. In 2006, longtime YU Benefactors Marcos and Adina Katz gave a generous gift to endow YUTorah. “They are visionaries who appreciated the potential of online platforms for the revolution of Torah study around the world,” said Rabbi Yaakov Glasser, David Mitzner Dean at YU’s Center for the Jewish Future.

“The growth of YUTorah in surpassing 100,000 shiurim is a testament to the community of scholars and students who turn to YUTorah as their virtual spiritual home,” added Rabbi Glasser. “YUTorah is a nexus of multiple Torah communities, revolving around the vibrancy and Torah leadership of Yeshiva University.”

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a young innocent girl pleading to have just one day in her life to eat when she wants to and play undisturbed – to no avail. At some point, the promises and bribes for eating, doing therapy, and taking medication lose their allure…but her parents have no choice.

The Salvation Unfortunately, no cure is yet available for Yitti or her approximately 30,000 peers in America, a highly disproportionate number of whom are Jewish. However, Heavenly help has been sent her way in the form of the Child Life Society organization and its Lifeshine Respite Program in Key West, Florida.

Key West is a small town of 25,000 located at the southern tip of the Sunshine State that has for many decades been iconic for its physical beauty and Caribbean-like climate.

The prestigious New England Journal of Medicine published a landmark study in 2007 revealing that high salt, aquatic climates help break down the mucus of cystic fibrosis patients and change the entire equation of their daily lives. Breathing becomes easier and less painful. Infections and hospitalizations are drastically reduced, by as much Primary sponsor of the Weissman House, Steven Weissman, with Rabbi as 50%. Most of all, folChaim A. Wolkenfeld lowing an adequate stay, child with cystic fibrosis, Mr. and Mrs. the therapeutic effects remain in effect Breuer originally knew next to nothing for several months after returning home. about the dreaded disease that fills the The broader medical community lungs and digestive system with thick, cheered. sticky mucus, let alone that they were Upon this discovery, Rabbi Chaim both amongst the approximately 10 mil- A. Wolkenfeld, founder and director of lion healthy Americans who carried one Child Life Society, sprang into action. A or more of the cystic fibrosis genetic middle-aged, soft spoken chossid with mutations. a British accent, Rabbi Wolkenfeld has “I want to cry for my daughter every been the figure standing between Jewish day,” says Mrs. Breuer. “Everything is a families struggling with cystic fibrosis struggle.” She has little appetite to eat, and despair for over 15 years. As leadand certainly no appetite for the “chest er of this unique organization, Rabbi thumping” and other aggressive forms Wolkenfeld sees it as his obligation to of daily therapy necessary to loosen offer these families the absolute best resome of the mucus. A sterile hospital lief out there. room – needles, IV and all – is the home Through the organization’s flagof cystic fibrosis patients for several ship “Lifeshine Respite Program,” two weeks or months a year due to recurrent weeks or more in Key West are now lung infections. Heavy coughing, irrita- available “on the house” for these famtion, runny mucus, gasping for air are ilies. Everything from airfare for every commonplace – 24/7. family member, car rental, kosher food No eye can remain dry and no heart and more is sponsored by Child Life can remain untouched at the thought of Society. Lodging takes place at Child

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By: Shimmy Blum “When I was told that the air in Key West, Florida, would offer my daughter real relief, I frankly did not believe it.”

It may seem counterintuitive for one not to jump at a chance for relief from an excruciating situation, but that is precisely where Mrs. Henny Breuer* found herself.

It was like a bolt of lightning when Mrs. Breuer’s youngest child, 3 year old Yitti*, was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. Beautiful and with an adorable personality, Yitti seemed no different than any other child in her family and neighborhood. But, following this news, not a single moment would ever again be completely “normal” for the Breuer family.

Like virtually every other parent of a

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Life Society’s own comfortable “Weissman House,” which includes a kosher kitchen and stocked pantry, magnificent swimming pool, children’s entertainment and much more.

“It looks and feels like you’re going to a beautiful resort,” remarks Mr. Dovid Azoulay*, the father of Chaim*, a teenage boy with cystic fibrosis, “but in reality you’re going to a hospital without machines and taking medicine simply by breathing.”

The positive effects of two weeks or more in Key West air remain solid for 6-8 months or more after the return trip.

“Chaim breathes better, coughs less, is less fatigued and engages in more sports since we left Key West; if he misses one day of chest thumping therapy, he’s still okay,” says Mr. Azoulay*.

“You can just sense that he now feels free to do his own thing, himself, just like any other boy his age.”

Families marvel at the fact that simply breathing Key West air and being at the salty beach is essentially a form of medicinal therapy – quite a heavy dose after two consecutive weeks. Many families refuse to turn on the air conditioner in the home and keep all the windows open for cross ventilation, in order to inhale as much natural air as possible. “I have a friend with a cystic fibrosis child whose oxygen level measured a near-perfect 98% near the Key West shore,” Mrs. Breuer relates.

While in Key West, everyone in the family gets to step back and take a breather, pardon the pun. No work. No school. No worrying what the neighbors think. And a lot less pain. Parents can invest quality time and affection in all their children in the picture perfect atmosphere. Everyone’s batteries

get recharged for the bumps in the road ahead. “When Chaim suffers, everyone around him does too,” says Mr. Azoulay*. “When he gets to be happy, so is everyone else.”

Adding a Home; Doubling Relief The Lifeshine Respite Program has drawn the families of those suffering from cystic fibrosis to knock down Rabbi Wolkenfeld’s doors. However, with the Weissman House alone, he was very restricted as to how many people he could help. Due to medical considerations, only one family with cystic fibrosis patients can stay at the home at once. Many requests for help unfortunately had to be declined.

Thankfully, Rabbi Wolkenfeld hasn’t rested. In recent months, he’s worked actively to acquire a second Key West home to serve as a therapeutic respite home. It is currently under renovation so that it can accommodate its special visitors and offer them a swimming pool. Once adequate funds will be raised, b’ezras Hashem, its doors can swing wide open.

Our suffering brothers and sisters see a beautiful new glimmer of hope on the horizon…

Will we help bring it closer?

The Cedarhurst community will join on Sunday, January 25 at 10:00 am for a special Breakfast Parlor Meeting on behalf of the new therapeutic respite home. It will be held at the home of Avrohom and Helen Pultman, 493 Arbuckle Avenue, Cedarhurst, NY. For more information about available dedications for the new home, please visit www.childlifesociety.org or call 718853-7123. * Name has been changed.

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As a master text messenger, your job is to figure out what ^*$%@#&?! means. The nine letter text message code can be translated into two English words that are opposites. What are the two words?

To assist you, each symbol stands for one of five letters: ! stands for Y, E, G, P, or T @ stands for F, B, A, Q, or T # stands for R, E, A, N, or Z $ stands for F, E, N, S, or H % stands for S, T, Y, M, or W ^ stands for P, D, E, H, or C & stands for U, K, H, T, or B * stands for O, J, G, I, or Z ? stands for E, L, D, N, or C

Jimbo went to the doctor with two burned ears.

“The phone rang, and I accidentally picked up the iron,” he explained.

The doctor asked him, “What about the other ear?”

Jimbo replied, “They called back.”

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Cell Phone Phacts • Cell phones went on sale in the U.S. in 1983 and cost approximately $4,000.

• In 2012 Apple sold more than 340,000 iPhones per day, which is around 4 per second.

• Cell phones have 18 times more bacteria than toilet handles.

• Smartphones have more computing power than the computers used for the Apollo 11 to land on the moon.

• 70% of mobile phones are manufactured in China.

• More than 90% of adults have their mobile phone within arm’s reach all the time.

• More than 4 billion people own mobile phones. But only 3.5 billion use a toothbrush.

• According to Guinness World Records, Sonim XP3300 Force is recognized as the toughest phone. It survived an 84 foot drop without any operational

“Life is wh at when you happens rc is charging ell phone .”

damage.

• The Philippines is ranked number one globally in usage of text messages with about 1.4 billion text messages being sent every day.

• Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was the first owner of the phone number 888-888-8888, but it proved unusable as he was receiving over 100 wrong numbers a day, mostly from babies playing with phones.

• The average person unlocks his or her cell phone 110 times a day.

• 90% of text messages are read within 3 minutes of receipt.

• The average American cell phone user will have about three unused or outdated cell phones in possession.

• In 1985, 45-year-old communications researcher Friedhelm Hillebrand defined the length of a standard text message. He typed random sentences on his typewriter and almost all of them were under 160 characters long.

• Most Americans will only use their mobile phone for about 12-16 months before getting a new one.

• Texting came into existence 21 years ago.

• The first photo to be shared using a cell phone was taken by Philippe Kahn in 1997. He sent pictures of his daughter Sophie from the maternity ward. Kahn is a French inventor who developed the world’s very first camera phone.

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16. You can text faster than you can type on a keyboard.

2. You occasionally feel your thigh vibrate out of nowhere.

17. You think that “Social Security Number” means your iPhone lock screen code.

3. You have tried to swipe open a book.

18. You get upset when your kids ask to play on your phone… because you want to play on your phone.

4. You judge people by the pattern on their iPhone case.

5. When your phone is dead, and someone asks you what the weather is like, your first instinct is to say, “I don’t know,” rather than look outside or simply open the front door.

6. You justify being on your phone all the time because you “might miss a work email.”

19. If you left your phone in your office (before the weekend) and realized when you arrived home, you turn around and drive an excess of an hour each way in order to retrieve your phone.

20. When airport TSA tells you to put your phone through the security check, you get a slight panicky feeling and wonder how you will retrieve it if it gets stuck in the machine.

7. At least once a week you panic that you can’t find your phone, and then realize it’s in your hand.

8. When you close your eyes, you see Candy Crush combos.

9. You keep your phone on while flying, despite the fierce warnings of the captain to shut your phone.

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When you don’t feel your phone in the pocket you thought it was in you quickly give yourself a rapid and fierce pat down, as if you are arresting yourself.

10. This year you have spent more time arbitrarily scrolling through your Camera Roll than doing anything else.

Your Addiction Level

11. When you wake up in the morning, you check your phone while still in bed.

12. Books make you twitch with anxiety.

13. When packing, the first thing you pack is your phone charger.

14. You try to turn down the brightness on the sun.

15. You get excited when you’re at a restaurant and your friend goes to the bathroom.

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Je Suis Juif

French Jewry: Where Will They Go From Here?

BY BRENDY J. SIEV

This

summer, we reported on France and how the Jewish population was faring in a country full of Arab Muslims and anti-Semitic tensions.

This week, the crisis has peaked, shifting from individual attacks to a hostage crisis in a kosher supermarket last erev Shabbos.

Yehoshua Fridman’s family is rooted in Northern France for as long as they can track it: the 14th century. His business, in high-tech engineering, is located in Paris. His father led the Rashbi School in Paris until his parents immigrated to Israel six years ago.

They closed the school. It was too dangerous to

keep it running.

Fridman and his family moved to the States when his life and family were threatened by Paris extortionists. His business remains there, and his business partner was visiting with him stateside when the hostage crisis occurred.

In Paris, his partner lives within walking distance to the supermarket. When the crisis began, his 13-year-old daughter called her father immediately. She and her mother were under the bed, petrified that someone would fire through the window. Thousands of miles away, Fridman reports, he and his partner heard the gunshots through the phone.

“Fear,” says Fridman, “that’s what French Jews live with every day.”

France,

French Jews are extremely pro-Israel

the country with the third largest Jewish population in the world, is home to some 480,000 Jews and 5 million Muslims. But these numbers do not reflect the reality on the ground. Some estimate that that 5 million is actually 12 million. And Muslims are concentrated in the major French cities—Paris, Lyons, Marseilles. In Paris, some estimate, the population is 40 percent Muslim.

That means that it’s too dangerous to wear a yarmulke, or any

sign of Judaism, publicly.

While a single Muslim may not hurt a Jew, the young Arab Muslims often walk in packs. Together, at best the packs beat up their victims. At worst— anything is fair game.

The French have a strong history of anti-Semi-

“Fear, that’s what French Jews live with every day.” tism. They are hardened, in many ways, and arrogant about their culture. Until this week, they looked the other way, for the most part, when Muslims attacked Jews.

Furthermore, the French justice system is not as strong as the American justice system. (Even Arab women who are abused by their husbands are told by the government to keep what happens in their home private. The government will only help a woman if her husband harms her to the extent that she is hospitalized.) Judges are government appointed; the minister of justice has instructed the judges to act with leniency. Her extremely liberal and forgiving outlook has cost her country lives: the terrorists should have been jailed and should not have been allowed out, free to terrorize and kill.

do they ensure that funding keeps coming, but their voting bloc put the current French president, Hollande, into power. This president has taken to bashing Israel, including initiating a vote to give Israel two years to return the territories.

French Jews are proudly pro-Israel. Therefore, this Israel-bashing has been perceived within the country as Jew bashing. Worse, it has sent a message to Arab Muslims living in France: you can do anything to Jews.

Empowered, those who took the Jews hostage on Friday spent months planning. They had clearly been observing the store and French Jewish habits and knew when to have the greatest impact and hurt the most people.

French Jews like their food fresh, and so they shop for Shabbos at the last minute.

They buy late, and they buy a lot. Unlike in major American cities, the kosher supermarkets in France are few and far between. This particular supermarket is very popular: it is close enough to home that people can shop there before Shabbos without risking getting stuck in traffic. Usually, hundreds of people crowd the store late in the day.

That’s when the terrorists decided to strike. The final tally: three days of bloodshed, three assailants, 17 dead, including 4 Jewish shoppers and 1 Jewish cartoonist, targeted attacks on the satirical newspaper, Charlie Hebdo, and a kosher supermarket.

For years, police have guarded Jewish

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the march on Paris demonstrated this week, the French finally realize that the Jews are only the first target. French youth Praying on the streets of Paris; some say Paris is 40 percent Muslim have started studying martial arts, as French Jews have been since 9/11.

Anti-Muslim groups are gaining tracThis comes down to walking down the street. tion, and in all likelihood the next French president Samuel Gotsman, a teenager from Miami, visits will be a neo-Nazi.

Paris each summer with his father. He reports, “The Even the Jews will vote for her. streets there are narrow. Whenever we pass someThe panic in France is palpable. People utilize one on the street, one of us has to move sideways. the words “Palestinian” and “Israel” as fronts for a As the Jew, it always has to be me.” Once, though, thinly-veiled anti-Semitism and a validation of the Samuel did not, and his shoulder brushed against the attacks. Any tensions in Israel lead to tensions in passerby. The man began cursing. To ensure that France.

Samuel and his father would not become “prey,” Fridman has a friend, an optician with a chain of Samuel’s father hit the other man. This stopped eyeglass stores, who is selling his established busi- what could have become a more serious altercation. ness and moving to Israel.

Over the past year, the French government The flight to Israel will likely impact the French banned pro-Palestinian marches, but protesters igeconomy, and Fridman is unsure whether the French nored the bans. They continued to smash cars, government has processed that or not. Most French rampage through business centers, and even threw Jews, says Fridman, are in business and employ makeshift bombs at police. Their attacks have escamany people. The cost of labor is high; Jewish busi- lated; now they have begun to attack businesses and nesses pay a lot in taxes; the economic loss of Jews newspapers, slaughtering civilians. on the French economy should be substantial.

More than 75,000 French Jews were sent to conThis week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu centration camps during World War II. Jewish peoof Israel arrived at the supermarket to show solidar- ple have not forgotten: both Fridman and Gotsman ity with French Jews. The New York Times reported, will not be returning to France, even for planned vis“Many people waving Israeli flags gathered to cheer its. French aliyah has gone up: around 400 French him, and some said they would seek to immigrate to Jews arrived in Israel in just one week during the Israel because they no longer felt safe in France.” height of the Gaza war. In fact, many moved to cities During the summer, Natalie Melka, a French Jew in the Negev, including Ashkelon and Ashdod. living in New Haven, CT, told TJH that, in France, Despite an ancient Jewish presence in France “If you don’t show signs of Judaism, you’re okay. (the community harkens back to the year 39 CE), a But if you affirm your Jewish identity, you’re at- total of 5,000 French Jews have immigrated to Israel by the end of December. French Jews feel more setacked.” cure in Israel, even when under attack.

Over the summer, Natan Sharansky said, ‘’If aliyah predictions for 2014 are met, one percent of French Jews will have moved to Israel this year. Within a single year, and for the first time in history, a Jewish community in the West is sending a full percent of its Jews to build their lives in the State of Israel. We await you in Israel with open arms.”

Those who stay in France, Fridman claims, are generally the middle or lower classes who cannot financially uproot themselves, despite their stress and constant fear.

After more than a thousand years of history in France, the Jewish community in France is fleeing.

Fridman shakes his head. “It’s a doomed Finally being protected, an officer guards a Jewish school after the attacks country.” 

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The French finally realize that the Jews are only the first target.

schools. But this week, the interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, said that 4,700 police officers would be posted to guard the country’s 700 Jewish schools and other institutions. The big difference: now the officers are armed. But Fridman wonders like many other French Jews, “What happens when the children leave the school?”

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Initially, with the first wave of Muslim immigrants into France, Jews felt comfortable appearing Jewish. Anti-Semitism was limited to comments (from native French) on the street. In fact, Fridman says, Jews and Muslims shared mutual respect. With the birth of the second generation of French Arab Muslims, hatred began.

That was in the 1990s. By the 2000s, France had become, according to Fridman, “unbearable and dangerous.”

Before 9/11, Jews passed mosques after services without incident, despite hundreds of worshippers that poured into the streets. But 9/11 and al Qaeda empowered the Muslim youth. The youth acted out of hand.

Their numbers grew. Worse still, they do not work. Through various government welfare programs, one recently convicted (and unemployed) terrorist was making 10,000 euros a month, double a French engineer’s salary. These government programs are here to stay; those who benefit support the socialist/communist parties who want these programs. Arab Muslims have such power that not only

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69 Rabbi Berel Wein

Parshas Vaeira

It is Pharaoh’s false claim to superhuman qualities that will doom him and Egypt to defeat and destruction. ficulties are rendered moot by the fact that Pharaoh never for a moment really considered giving in to the demands of Moshe.

Even later, after coming under the pressure of the plagues and the wishes of his own advisors, and after agreeing to the three-day sojourn in the desert, Pharaoh refuses to allow the families of the slaves to accompany them, thus obviating his seeming concession to Moshe.

Pharaoh’s stubbornness, his intransigence in the face of the reality of the plagues, is characteristic of people who view themselves as gods and superior beings. Pharaoh cannot afford any show of compromise or accommodation to the demands of Moshe. By so doing, he would admit to the fact that, in truth, he is not a god and thus his entire basis for rule over Egypt would be threatened.

Complete dominion over others that is based upon a colossal lie of superhuman status eventually is doomed to collapse. It may take centuries for this to occur but history has shown us that it always does occur. It is Pharaoh’s false claim to superhuman qualities that motivates his stubbornness and is what will doom him and Egypt to defeat and destruction.

Moshe, on the other hand, does possess superhuman qualities. But the one main quality that the Torah itself

eventually make him “the most humble of all human beings.”

Someone who is able to communicate with Heaven freely, almost at will, and who can perform miracles and bring plagues upon a mighty empire can easily be seduced into believing in his own powers and abilities. Thus the opening sentences of this week’s Torah reading are vitally important for they are the key to the humility of Moshe and thus to the salvation of the Jewish people from Egyptian bondage.

We must always be wary of the great human being who slips into the belief that he is somehow superhuman.

It is this issue that highlights and contrasts the two antagonists – Pharaoh and Moshe – in the drama of the Jewish redemption from Egypt.

Shabbat shalom.

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most emphasizes in its description of Moshe, over his decades of leadership, is a most human one – humility, modesty, and the realization of the difference between the created and the Creator.

The opening verses of this week’s parsha teach us this lesson of humility.

The Jewish people and Moshe himself complained to G-d that somehow things were not going according to the plan that they envisioned. G-d’s response is that one of the limitations of humans is that they can never truly fathom G-d’s will and His direction of human affairs. This is an important lesson that Moshe must learn and assimilate into his personality. As he journeys through life, it is this quality that will

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he extended, tension-filled confrontation between Moshe and Pharaoh forms the backdrop for the story of the plagues and the redemption of the Jewish people from Egypt.

Pharaoh, from the outset, is unwilling to consider the request of Moshe to allow the Jewish people a three day furlough to worship G-d in the desert. The commentators to the Torah differ as to whether or not this was a sincere request

by Moshe or simply a negotiating gambit to loosen the grip of Pharaoh on the Jewish slaves.

We do not find that G-d specifically endorsed or instructed Moshe to make such a proposal to Pharaoh. Nevertheless, all of these questions and dif-

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Parshas Vaeirah

Kiruv: The Message and the Medium

The Wonder of Free Will The answer to these questions is based on understanding one of the wonders of Creation: free will. To allow man to shape himself into what he

— kiruv rachokim and kiruv karovim.

And so we must understand how to be effective in this role.

Being an effective educator isn’t based on being right, it’s based on my message being accepted. However, before they accept my message, they have to accept me. And before they accept me, they have to like me.

When we don the robe of educators, whether to our children or to our peers, we need to focus on both the truth of our message as well as the method we use to present it. It must be pleasing and readily acceptable to others, otherwise it just won’t be heard.

some? Did he cut a good figure? Would people want to accept him as a person?

Because he wasn’t of perfect speech, Moshe assumed this would greatly influence his chances of acceptance. He understood human nature. We accept that which we like, and we believe what we want to believe.

We accept that which we like, and we believe what we want to believe. he will forever suffer the consequences.

Here lies one of the great dilemmas of Creation. How do you take man, more brilliant than the highest form of angels, and give him free will to choose “bad”? A malach has no temptation to sin. He recognizes that every sin damages him, and every mitzvah helps him. If man is wiser than the greatest of celestial beings, how does he have free will to damage himself? He would never do it!

To allow man to actually have free will in a practical sense, Hashem created man with many temptations and desires that pull him in different directions.

Further, to actually allow the ability to choose either side, Hashem created in man a powerful, active imagination that allows him to create his own view of the world — his own reality. Of everything in Creation, man alone has true free will because he alone was created with competing natures. He alone possesses the power of imagination, which allows him to shape his worldview as he so desires. He can believe what he wants to believe.

This seems to be the answer to the question on Rashi. Whether Moshe was telling the truth or not was only part of the question. The crux of the issue was, “Do we want to believe him?” To the Jewish people, he was bringing news of redemption. As such, they wanted to believe him. On the other hand, Pharaoh had a strong interest in not accepting Moshe’s words, so he was unlikely to believe him.

But Moshe understood that there was another element that would influence whether his words would be received as truth — what kind of impression did he make? Was he hand-

The reality is that we are all teachers of the Torah way. Whether we teach by standing up in a classroom, modeling proper behavior to our children, or inviting not-yet-religious neighbors for a Shabbos meal, there is an obligation upon every Jew to influence his fellow Jew. We are all in the business of kiruv

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Hashem said to Moshe, “Go to Pharaoh and tell him to let my people go.”

Moshe responded, “The Jewish people haven’t accepted my word. How will Pharaoh listen?” Rashi explains that this is one of the ten kal vachomers written in the Torah. The Sifsei Chachamim clarifies: “The message that I am carrying is for good of the Jewish people, yet they have not accepted it.

Surely then Pharaoh, to whom this message is detrimental, will reject it.”

However, Moshe added one more phrase: “when I am of blocked lips.”

The actual statement that he said to Hashem was, “The Jewish people haven’t accepted my word. How will Pharaoh listen when I am of blocked lips?” The Sifsei Chachamim explains that this was the pivotal point of the kal vachomer. As an infant, Moshe burnt his tongue, and from that point on, he had difficulty with speech. Now many years later, Moshe assumed that the reason his words weren’t accepted was because of his speech impediment. Effectively he was saying, “I am bringing good news to the Jews, yet they don’t believe me because of my lack of clear speech. Surely Pharaoh, who is biased against my message, will not accept it either because of my unclear speech.”

This Rashi is difficult to understand. Moshe wasn’t a salesman selling a product. He wasn’t claiming that his charisma and leadership would cause an uprising. According to Moshe’s claim, the All Powerful Master of the Universe sent him on a mission. There was only one question: was he telling the truth? If he was a representative of G-d, then both the Jewish nation and Pharaoh had better listen. If he wasn’t, then who cares what he said? The words and the style of his delivery weren’t relevant. Either he was sent by Hashem or he wasn’t. What difference does it make how clearly he spoke?

will be for eternity, Hashem put him in a position where he can freely choose his path — where he can just as easily choose the “bad” as the “good.” If he chooses “good,” he is credited with shaping himself into that form of perfection that he reaches. If he chooses the “bad,” he is held accountable, and

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Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz

Do the Math

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y grandfather used to be a bookkeeper and he used to always tell my mother to do math in her head without using a calculator, which is something that she used to say to me. I hated it but followed her lead, and now I do math in my head and it comes in handy all the time. I tell it to my kids also and they roll their eyes, but when they can figure out the change in the supermarket faster than the cashier who’s using the register, even they have to admit it’s pretty cool.

I know, some people say, “Aha! Another day gone and I didn’t use algebra,” but I think some types of math are really important. When my mom wanted to buy something but thought it was too expensive, my father would put it into perspective. Let’s say it was a $900 refrigerator. My dad would say, “If it lasts ten years, that’s ninety dollars a year, less than two dollars a week, it’s like a quarter a day. That’s not a lot of money to have fresh food.”

I used a similar rationale when I did the cost-benefit analysis for putting a back-up generator in my home.

If my freezer defrosts and I lose a couple hundred dollars of food, that’s money saved right there by preventing a meltdown. And, of course, there are other types of meltdowns possible. I won’t cast aspersions at my wonderful wife and children but let’s just say that the stress of being without power can be pretty difficult. With an ex-

tended power outage, the necessary follow-up therapy alone would cost more than the generator! Doing the math helped make the decision easier.

extra fifteen feet before you get into your car and compare that to how long it will take someone else who wants to park in that spot to get out of their car,

If you make someone’s day, to quote my wife’s grandfather, “Could you buy that for money?”

There are other ways we can do the math. If you need gas and one place is close but is more expensive than the farther station, figure out how many gallons you need now and the price difference. See if it is worth your time. If you’re getting ten gallons at twenty cents more than you might have paid, decide if your time and inconvenience (not to mention extra mileage) is worth more than two dollars.

If you can do a favor for someone, figure out how much it will cost you (an extra five minutes? Two minutes?) and weigh that against how much it will help them or make them feel good. If you make someone’s day, to quote my wife’s grandfather, “Could you buy that for money?”

Of course, as I’m required by contract to mention shopping carts at regular intervals, figure out how long it will take you to push the wagon the

move it, and get back into their car before they can do so. It’s at least four to five times longer for the next person,

so who but a coldhearted individual would put them through that?

You can take that to all different scenarios as long as you remember that everyone has a common denominator: time stops for no man. If I can transform my time into a mitzvah because I’m saving someone else’s time, I’ve put it to a better use than I probably will if I’m callous towards others.

And there’s more.

A friend of mine suggested that I upload my weekly parsha sheets to a certain website in Israel that hosts hundreds of divrei Torah sheets. I actually had a fellow who lives near me ask to be on my mailing list (as can any of my readers, e-mail me at info@JewishSpeechWriter.com and put Subscribe in the subject) because he saw it there. That man sends out divrei Torah, so who knows how many more people are reading it now.

But distributors aside, according to the site, since my friend recommended it a year ago, I’ve gotten over 2,500 downloads. With an average of 1,000 words per sheet, that’s over TWO AND A HALF MILLION words of Torah (each word being greater than all the other mitzvos) which my friend gets credit for simply from giving someone an idea. If you do the math, you’ll see how quickly things add up!

In life, we are supposed to make a cheshbon hanefesh, a reckoning of our souls. We’re supposed to weigh the benefit of a sin against how much we will lose by committing it, and the relatively cheap cost of a mitzvah against the incalculable reward we will get for it. Who knew that such a cheshbon could include actual arithmetic? I sure didn’t, but it works, because when you put the facts on the table, the answers are simple and clear.

You can put your calculator back on the shelf because these calculations must be done in your head and heart—and I guess that about sums it up.

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guishes free will from free teshuva.

The author of Akeidas Yitzchak, Rabbi Yitzchak Menachem Mendel Danziger, zt”l, offers another novel explanation. Unlike the aforementioned approaches, his circumvents the problem entirely by suggesting that Hashem did not actually harden Pharaoh’s heart.

Rather, by spacing the different makkos over time, He gave Pharaoh the opportunity to be misled, to fall back into a

false sense of security that somehow the worst had passed and that teshuva was truly unnecessary. Even though this process recurred repeatedly, Pharaoh’s inherent desire to retain his slaves pre-

no one seems to be reading it. Perhaps you seek to make new connections or are trying to get that meeting set up and cannot get anywhere. While the scope of this post does not allow for a detailed

By spacing the different makkos over time, He gave Pharaoh the opportunity to be misled. vented him from relenting and acknowledging Hashem’s ultimate justice.

I believe that this last approach has significant implications for us as leaders.

Maintain the focus – So often, we come up with a great idea, something that we think will be a tremendous boon for our organization. But life gets in the way and we fail to follow through. We pick up the idea again a month or so later, only to lose steam again after a short while. Momentum fails to develop and the idea loses traction and currency. If we are to achieve such goals, we need to properly plan for them and determine the time commitment and resources necessary to advance the vision and get the job done right.

Keep the conversations going – Similarly, we may task an idea or project to a coworker. Weeks later, we wake up to discover that nothing meaningful has been achieved.

Maybe he does not share your passion or vision. Perhaps he lacks the requisite skill set. Or maybe he simply has too much on his own plate. In order to advance the agenda it is imperative that you check in regularly, to gauge progress and to understand the challenges.

Not only will your coworkers appreciate your ongoing interest and concern, but you can help him overcome various obstacles that seem to be holding things up.

Network early and often – We often get discouraged by “radio silence.” We just sent a killer email advertising a new program or offer and got no response.

We post great content on our blog and

discussion on networking and growing your business, be assured that one key component to long-term success is persistence and making multiple contacts.

One consultant that I spoke with shared research that suggests that it’s

not until the eighth connection that deals close. Make sure that you have a strong product and go through the process of letting others know about it and how it can help them in their endeavors.

But also be prepared to stay after it for a while and not lose focus or momentum.

Your prospects are not playing hard to get; they are just as busy as you and need to be convinced that your product or service can really help them. Regular, but sensitive and respectful communication will keep you on the front burner and help you advance your goals.

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erhaps the most fundamental philosophical conundrum contained in this week’s parsha relates to the apparent injustice associated with the hardening of Pharaoh’s heart (Shemos 7:3, et al). Where was the justice, we wonder, in Hashem augmenting Pharaoh’s inherent cruelty and stubbornness, practically guaranteeing that the Egyptian ruler would resist releasing his Hebrew slaves? Moreover, how could Pharaoh be blamed and punished for not reacting properly to the preliminary forms of divine retribution, thus causing him and his people unremitting suffering and eventual destruction?

There are many approaches to dealing with the above questions. Rashi (Ibid) suggests that Hashem foresaw that Pharaoh would anyway not repent, so he used the opportunity to display His immense strength to Bnei Yisrael. In sharp contrast, S’forno suggests that Hashem hardened Pharaoh’s heart in search of true teshuva. Pharaoh was given a strong dose of heavenly resilience to stand up to G-d, as it were, until he was ready to accept the truth of his own accord. Ramban’s explanation follows closely with that of S’forno.

Rambam (Teshuva, 6) takes yet a different approach, one which strongly distin-

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Rafi Sackville

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bout 15 years ago at a PTA meeting, a father sat down, told me who his daughter was, and before I could say anything, began criticizing me with unusual vitriol. I waited patiently until he’d finished. When he asked me if I had anything to say in my defense, I said, “Yes. I don’t teach your daughter.”

It’s been over thirty years since I stepped into my first classroom in Israel. It was in Beth Shemesh in the years before the surrounding area became modern and anglicized. Back in the mid-eighties, the town had a reputation for crime that was neither exaggerated but not completely deserving: there are good people wherever you find yourself in our Israel. Crime and drugs were rampant and many students in our school knew someone who was in some kind of trouble.

The first few months were trying and taxing. What made it manageable was it was the year I met my wife and got married. Despite the steep and taxing learning curve, I look back fondly at my experience there.

I learnt much about life through the eyes of my students. Meeting their parents was just as interesting and entertaining. Parent/teacher evening even more so.

Avi was the wildest boy in the school. If there had been an award for destructive behavior he would have taken it by a country mile. Upon meeting his mother, I mentioned his behavior. She smiled at me and with great pride said, “Yes, he gets it from both sides of the family.” With that one sentence she effectively rendered my criticism useless.

Fifteen years later I called Avi after hearing he had fulfilled his lifelong dream of becoming a car mechan-

been waiting outside with him.

“What’s going on? Who are these people?” I asked him.

“These are my grandparents who recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. These are my parents. This is my new brother. And this is my sister who is about to get married. As soon as we finish with the teacher meetings we’re on our way to sheva brachot for my other sister.” He said all of this while smiling and looking directly into my eyes. He was proving a point and enjoying himself while doing so.

I am currently working at Ort Ma’alot in the Western Galil. We recently held our bi-annual parent/teacher nights. That’s not a grammatical error. The previous week parents were invited to meet the homeroom teachers who told them which professional homeroom teachers they should see the following week.

It was an exercise in futility. Most parents weren’t willing to return again. This made the hours between 2-7pm quite boring and lonely. I got my grading done, wrote lesson plans, and during those five hours met with only ten parents.

Those who did sit opposite me in the overheated English room were parents of problematic children.

Benny and Bella suffer from overbearing parents who have taken the joy out of their kids’ lives.

Roni has a negative view of himself possibly due to his parents’ bitter divorce.

Ofek suffers from a debilitating muscle disorder which prevents him from using any writing implements. He is embarrassed to bring his iPad to school because he doesn’t want to appear different from everyone else. We came to a compromise and discovered a way to make his Galaxy5 phone English lesson-friendly. What I knew about the other six students was that they had problems outside school which were more than likely the cause of their poor behavior.

I have long understood that criticism of problematic students doesn’t help their sense of self-esteem or their grades. Winning them over is a long process which requires patience and a belief that, despite their behavior, they are good kids at heart. The process can take weeks, even months.

One of my tenth grade students (we’ll call her Ora) falls into such a category. She misses lots of classes.

If I want to find her, the easiest place is the hidden part of the school grounds we affectionately call the “machshesha,” where students hang out smoking.

Ora is such a heavy smoker it already shows in her face. She smokes a pack a day. It sickens me to see her so, but my sympathy only goes so far. When she told me she smokes at home, with her parents, I began to

“Why don’t you begin on the left foot and tell us the bad news first,” he suggested. ic. He sounded relaxed and happy. He told me he was making a great living and couldn’t have asked for better in life. Who would’ve thought?

Danny never stopped yelling in class. I warned him that I was going to inform his parents. His father appeared calm when we met. “Mr. Cohen,” I said.

“Danny does not stop shouting.” Mr. Cohen slapped his hand down hard on the table and screamed at the top of his lungs, “I’LL KILL HIM!” The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

Eli went missing four Tuesdays in a row. He had a better excuse for every absence: his grandparents were celebrating their 50th anniversary; his sister got engaged; his mother gave birth and they had a brit; his other sister got married. Yes, yes, I was thinking to myself, and hair grows on my teeth.

When I arrived at school there was a crowd of people waiting for me. I could see them as I got off the bus. I checked my watch, but no, I wasn’t late. Eli was there. He walked in followed by every soul who had

hesitate before trying to talk her out of lighting up.

Her parents sat on either side of her. The father, a gruff man who according to Ora “never, ever smiles,” had a week-long stubble and looked like a gangster.

Ora told me it was a lucky thing he was there because he’s always away on business. When I asked her where, she said she wasn’t sure. “Maybe it is Columbia, or one of those places in South America…maybe.”

Ora’s mother is a happy, smiling woman who beams optimism. She is much younger than her husband.

I told them both that I wanted to begin our talk on a positive note, with the right foot forward, as it were. Ora’s father leaned in towards me.

“Why don’t you begin on the left foot and tell us the bad news first,” he suggested. He looked threatening. I glanced at Ora and her mother who were both smiling, before looking back at the father who hadn’t even smirked, and decided it was safe to praise the good I saw in Ora. He wasn’t having any of it. He sat back and patiently waited until I’d finished, but suddenly came to life when I made mention of Ora’s long list of absenteeism.

“But you’re at school! Where do you go?” he asked her without looking at Ora. When he asked me, I claimed ignorance. What was the point in telling him she was smoking when she smokes at home with both of them?

The meeting wound down without resolution.

Mother walked out hand in hand with daughter, with the father five paces ahead showing no interest in either of them.

The following day I asked Ora how her father had reacted to the meeting. She told me she had no idea because he’d left early that morning for “somewhere.”

The funniest incident I ever witnessed occurred one cold, November night in a large yeshiva in New York. Parent night was a madhouse. Teachers were sitting around the walls of the gym. Parents sat on chairs in the middle of the basketball court awaiting their turn to talk to teachers.

Dovi, a very funny young man who was never without a glint in his eye, walked up to me and asked if I wanted to see something funny. Sure, I told him.

He motioned to his parents who followed him towards the teacher sitting on my right. I watched as they spoke to him for a couple of minutes. There was nothing funny or extraordinary about the meeting. As his parents walked away, Dovi leaned over to whisper in my ear.

“Well, did you see that?” he asked me.

“Yes, I did. What was so funny?”  “He isn’t my teacher.”

Rafi Sackville, formerly of Cedarhurst, lives in Ma’alot in Western Galil. He teaches in the local high school.

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Here are some great ideas of activities and trips to take this midwinter vacation.

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Fun Fuzion at New Roc City 19 LeCount Place New Rochelle, NY 10801 914-637-7575 Fun Station USA 40 Rocklyn Avenue Lynbrook, NY 11563 516-599-7757 Funzone 229 Route 110 Farmingdale, NY 11735 631-847-0100 New York Skyride Empire State Building 350 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10118 212-279-9777 Chelsea Piers Hudson River—Piers 59-62 New York, NY 212-336-6800 Woodmere Lanes 948 Broadway Woodmere, NY 11598 516-374-9870 Strike 10 Lanes 6161 Strickland Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11234 718-763-6800

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Jewish Children’s Museum 792 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn, NY 11213 718-467-0600

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Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum Pier 86, 12th Ave. and 46th St. 212-245-0072 9/11 Memorial and Museum 200 Liberty Street New York, NY 10006 212-266-5211 Sony Wonder Technology 550 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10022 212-833-8100 New York Hall of Science 47-01 111th Street Corona, NY 11368 718-699-0005 Jewish Museum 1109 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10128 212-423-3200 Long Island Children’s Museum 11 Davis Avenue Garden City, NY 11530 516-224-5800

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Staying home this vacation? No problem! Spend the day indoors and have a great time with your friends with these amazing stay-cation ideas!

Best for: Girls ages 7-13 Want to feel pretty and preened? Spend the day at the spa with your friends and you’ll come out relaxed and even more beautiful!

Activity #1: Manicures and pedicures! Bottles of nail polish in different colors can create hours of fun! Experiment with different designs, alternate colors of polish, and then start again! Make

Scavenger Hunt Best for: Boys and girls ages 5-12 Activity #1: We’re going on a treasure hunt, we’re going on a treasure hunt! With just a little bit of preparation, your day can be filled with lots of fun! The night before, plan the hunt with your parents. They can help you with the clues, using pictures or cute riddles. Don’t listen in— you want to enjoy the fun, too! When your

Activity #2: Beauty salon beauties—your friends will love to have their hair blow dried and curled. Know how to French braid or make a twist?

Take turns making each other’s hair curly, straight and fantabulous! Make sure to take pictures so you can remember your handiwork!

friends come, split up into teams and search around the house for “buried treasure.” When each clue is found, a small prize is given to the team that found it first. The last clue holds the treasure—filled with small toys and prizes for everyone! X marks the spot!

Activity #2: When having a snack, keep up the theme by playing “I spy.” You can give everyone a turn by going around the circle and giving each person a turn to be the “I spy” leader.

Don’t Be “Board””

and play tic-tac-toe using your delicious cake! Have your friends play once or twice before taking home their delicious games.

Best for: Boys and girls 6-12 Activity#1: Think that board games are boring? Think again! For the first activity of the day, make your own board game—by baking a cake! Using a cake mix (it’s just easier), have each person bake a square chocolate cake or have two people “share” a 9x13 cake. Go on to your next activity while the cake bakes. When the cake is baked and cooled, place frosting in a piping bag

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Best for: Boys and girls 4-13 Who says someone has to have a birthday just so we can party? Bring out the streamers and balloons—we’re gonna celebrate!

Activity #1: Parties are fun because they’re… parties! You and your friends can have fun decorating your party room with streamers, balloons and fun signs. Colorful markers, glitter, glue and scis-

sors are the essential supplies, but you can use so many more items to decorate the room. Make paper chains with construction paper and cut out party hats for everyone.

Activity #2: Once the room is adorned with festive decorations, let the games begin! Choose two or three party games that you enjoy—pin the tail on the donkey, musical chairs, balloon dance, freeze tag, pass the present…these are all great games and are so much fun! Keep the music blasting, have nosh and cake (or cupcakes) on hand and maybe even send home a party bag when you’re done!

Activity #2: Know any fun board games? I do. There are so many out there, that there is bound to one that tickles your fancy. Playing games is a great way to spend the day indoors—and have fun! To make it even more fun for you and your friends, have them bring their games to your house as well. This way, you’ll have a stack of games to choose from and you’ll be able to switch off when you need a break. Make sure to pop a huge bowl of popcorn and have some iced tea or hot cocoa on hand.

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Esther Ottensoser

A Winter Wonderland

The serene beauty of winter. The snow so magically falls, the everyday hustle and bustle comes to a slippery halt, the children are busy making snowmen and sledding down the hills, and...school is closed! With the children home from school (due to a snowstorm or midwinter vacation), here’s a winter-themed activity that will entertain and bring this beautiful, snowy scene indoors (without the wet boots and gloves!).

Tip: Be prepared—the ingredients are all non-perishable, but the weather is unpredictable, so make sure to stock up!

Sledding Snowmen You will need: 4 (Mann brand) chocolate covered wafers 2 medium size marshmallows Regular size and mini chocolate sandwich cookies 2 candy canes per snowman Melted baking chocolate to be used as the “glue” Edible markers Directions: Using your melted chocolate to “glue” four wafers together to form the base of the sled.

“Glue” the candy sticks on. See picture.

Allow to dry.

Use a drop of melted chocolate to “glue” two marshmallows together for the snowman.

Using your edible markers, decorate your snowmen.

Create a hat by using a dab of chocolate to connect a mini sandwich cookie to half of a large sandwich cookie. Attach the hat to the snowmen using another dab of melted chocolate. Glue the snowmen to the sled.

Melted Snowman Cupcake You will need: Cupcakes Marshmallow Fluff Colored sour belts Small and regular sized sandwich cookies Medium size marshmallows Edible markers Melted baking chocolate to be used as the “glue”

Directions: Frost cupcakes with marshmallow fluff. Use your edible markers to draw a snowman’s face. Create a hat by using a dab of chocolate to connect a mini sandwich cookie to half of a large sandwich cookie. Attach the hat to snowman using another dab of melted chocolate.

Use a toothpick to attach the marshmallow to the cupcake. Cut the sour belt to size and drape it across the snowman for his scarf.

Toss some mini marshmallows around the snowman to finish off your winter scene.

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Trauma In Children mother had passed away.

3. The way ethics and aggression are handled in the show or game. When my children were very young, I was happy for them to watch Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street because they put fears and violence in proper context. I have noticed

If a child sees a scary movie and has nightmares, is that trauma?

What are parents to conclude? I’ve had parents coming in wondering how to abate their child’s nightmares after mistakenly letting them watch “children’s” movies and other parents reporting that their children were not affected by similar content. To figure it out, I would consider the following: 1. The age of the child. Younger children’s brains have not matured enough for them to understand what is purely fiction and what is a reasonable threat.

2. What other stressors are in the child’s life. When a child is separated from parents, a parent or grandparent is sick, or, say, a child is bullied in school, that child will feel more vulnerable.

A person in that position is more likely to be influenced by disturbing ideas.

As it happens, I was watching this movie maybe a year or two after my grand-

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that current children’s movies often will do this, which is good. However, that is insufficient for the program to be safe.

4. The degree of graphic focus on violence or scary things. The last five years have shown a crop of movies that are just too graphic. Remember that we are primarily visual learners. Our brains attend better to visual stimuli than to auditory stimuli. (That is one reason why sites like Torah Anytime and Rabbi Fohrman’s alephbeta.org are so successful; we can focus better on the message when we have something visual to focus on.)

Now, let’s return to the original question: If a child sees a scary movie and has nightmares, is that trauma? My answer is that that is actually the wrong question because it doesn’t really matter what you call it. If the child has nightmares, we know something is amiss. There is no reason for us to unnecessarily expose our children to disturbing images. There’s nothing to gain and much to lose.

Although we would not give too much weight to the DSM, if they do not consider nightmares resulting from electronic media to be trauma then kal

v’chomer anything they do consider to be traumatic must be really disturbing.

Here is what the DSM considers trauma to a child younger than 6: Experiencing actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence either • directly • witnessing it happen to others • learning that it occurred to a parent or caregiver figure.

With this, are various symptoms that may occur. And please note that “intrusive memories may not appear distressing and may be expressed as play enactment.” (DSM) Don’t overlook the seriousness of this last point. It is all too easy for adults to be callous, saying, “Oh, she’s fine” if a child is quiet and not acting out. Inquire!

Find out what the play is all about. Listen openly, not dismissively.

Now before you breathe a sigh of relief, consider that young children don’t grasp nuances and metaphors. If, in a fit of pique, you say, “I’m going to kill you” or “I wish you weren’t born,” rest assured your child will take that literally.

And that could, indeed, be traumatic.

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puter games could lead to nightmares or to pleasant dreams. Many studies have concluded violent content leads to increased aggressive behavior.

In the case under discussion, the child was five and the content was not violent but scary.

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hen I was five or so I would have this recurring nightmare. I would walk past an oil painting of my deceased grandmother and her eyes would follow me. I had been as close as a little kid can get to a grandma. When she died I was heartbroken. So theoretically her being sort of alive in the painting could have been nice, like she was watching over me. But it didn’t feel that way. It was creepy. And scary.

And it all started with a movie my parents let me watch on TV. After all, they were watching too. But guess what?

Their presence did not prevent the creepy idea from getting stuck inside my head.

Is that trauma? According to the “bible” that insurers require therapists to use, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders, it is not considered traumatic for children to have nightmares and fears resulting from electronic media.

But this conclusion must be taken with a grain of salt: The latest DSM is disappointingly unreliable and invalid. And that’s according to those who should know. Dr. Allen Frances was the chairman of the last DSM, number IV. And his reaction to the new one, number 5 (yes, they went from Roman numerals to Arabic ones for marketing purposes): “This is the saddest moment in my 45 year career of studying, practicing, and teaching psychiatry. The Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association has given its final approval to a deeply flawed DSM 5.”

Over the years, thousands of studies have been done on the effects of TV and now video games on children. The results have been mixed. One study of high school students showed that com-

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Notable Quotes

Compiled by Nate Davis

“Say What?”

The newly elected congressmen and women from the midterm elections were sworn in today. This Congress will be the most diverse ever, with 104 women…That’s right, 104 female lawmakers. In other words, there’s going to be a lot of filibusters that go like this: “You know what you did.”

– Jimmy Fallon

One of the new gadgets at the Consumer Electronics Show is a belt that tells the person wearing it when it’s time to lose weight. Another device is a pair of jeans that says, “Hey, try a salad.”

– Conan O’Brien

And I think the other big thing is that I think he’s a Democrat and so I know that as a Republican that there are some people that really don’t like that.

- Curt Schilling on why John Smoltz was recently voted into the Hall of Fame and he was not According to a new report that just came out, the average college freshman reads at a seventh grade level. Or if you’re an optimist, every seventh grader now reads at a college freshman level.

– Conan O’Brien

We tend to forget how often it happens and we’re Americans so we don’t want to single out people, but when you look at that list just since 9/11, we had the Madrid bombings in ‘04; London in ‘05; Mumbai; the Kenyan mall attack; Benghazi… ISIS; Boko Haram, who killed an entire village this week; Pakistan…killing all those kids at school; Canada, the parliament; Australia…. And that’s just the terrorists, let’s not forget also governments. That’s the thing that I think gets lost. It’s inside the establishment and it’s outside. Saudi Arabia today, a blogger gets a 1,000 lashes…

These two guys who shot up the cartoonist the other day they were avenging the prophet when they did it. A bad idea. To martyrdom, a bad idea. Women as second class citizens, a bad idea. And unfortunately the terrorists and the mainstream share a lot of these bad ideas…. When there’s this many bad ideas, there’s something wrong with the orchard.

- Bill Maher

A new study has found that watching Fox News can make you more conservative and watching MSNBC can make you more liberal. And watching CNN can make you think that no plane has ever safely reached its destination.

- Conan O’Brien

Do you have a father? Do you have a brother? Are you the same person?

- Jeb Bush, at a recent fundraising event for his probable presidential run, when asked how he will differentiate himself from his father and brother

We have new Baseball Hall of Fame guys going in.

There are two great honors if you’re a baseball player.

Getting elected to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown is one, and owning a mediocre steakhouse is the other.

– David Letterman

President Obama’s just come back from vacation, and I know how it is when you’ve been gone for a week or two—your desk is piled up.

And he had other pressing problems to address. So I don’t think there’s any reflection on our country or no criticism is worthy.

- Jimmy Carter, in an interview with Katie Couric, defending the absence of any Obama administration officials from the massive antiterrorism rally in Paris on Sunday Well, one of the origins for it is the Palestinian problem and this aggravates people who are affiliated in any way with the Arab people who live in the West Bank and Gaza, what they are doing now — what’s being done to them. So I think that’s part of it.

- Jimmy Carter on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, arguing that the Paris attack is not due to radical Islam but because of Israel

The FDA is warning New Yorkers about Chinese food after a major Brooklyn distributor was found with rats and birds nesting in boxes of ingredients. The distributor says it’s all a misunderstanding — those ARE the ingredients.

– Seth Myers

Sportscaster Jim Rome has angered marching bands across the country after he called them “dorks” on Twitter. Marching bands are crafting a reply, but it’s taking them forever to spell it out on the field.

– Seth Myers

There were no screaming babies, no one listening to loud lyrics or reclining their seats or taking off their shoes.

- Chris O’Leary of Brooklyn telling ABC News about his experience of being one of only two passengers on a 76 seater Delta Airlines flight (due to a series of delays resulting in the rest of the passengers taking earlier flights)

In Las Vegas, the Consumer Electronics Show is going on... The Consumer Electronics Show included a Wi-Fi kettle, which is a kettle that lets you boil water from anywhere in your house. Gee, finally.

– Jimmy Kimmel

Macy’s may create a discount clothing chain similar to T.J. Maxx. Meanwhile, J.C. Penney will continue operating out of an unmarked van.

- Jimmy Fallon Macy’s is interested in creating discount clothing stores similar to T.J. Maxx.

It’ll be great for customers who love the style of Macy’s, but prefer all that clothing thrown on the ground.

- Ibid I’d rather die standing up than live on my knees.

- Stéphane Charbonnier, or “Charb,” editor of Charlie Hebdo, in an interview with Le Monde newspaper in 2012 while discussing threats that had been made to the newspaper over its representation of the Prophet Mohammed. He was killed last Wednesday by Islamic terrorists in the Charlie Hebdo’s offices.

The Girl Scouts announced that they’re adding three new cookies this year, which include Rah-Rah Raisins and two gluten-free flavors. Even Jehovah’s Witnesses said, “If they ring the doorbell, pretend we’re not home.”

- Jimmy Fallon

Our findings suggest that iPhone separation can negatively impact performance on mental tasks. Additionally, the results from our study suggest that iPhones are capable of becoming an extension of ourselves such that when separated, we experience a lessening of “self” and a negative physiological state.

– From a University of Missouri about people’s connection to their smart phones

AMERICAN SOLDIERS, WE ARE COMING, WATCH YOUR BACK. ISIS. - A tweet sent out on the U.S. Central Command’s twitter account, when it was taken over by hackers known as “Cyber Caliphate” (while President Obama was giving a speech on cyber-security)

As head of the Egyptian state, Al-Sisi occupies an office once occupied by Anwar Sadat, who was murdered by Islamic extremists for his opening to Israel. This was an act of tremendous bravery by Al-Sisi, and if the Nobel Peace Prize committee is looking for someone who plausibly deserves it, they could start there.

-George Will, discussing Al-Sisi’s courageous speech against radical Islam

I really think this is sort of quibbling a little bit.

– Secretary of State John Kerry responding to criticism of the Obama administration for not sending any senior officials to the Paris peace rally

Kim Jong Un is either 32 or 33. They actually aren’t sure.

North Korean scholars agree that when he entered the world a silver eagle ascended and promised 1,000 years of prosperity for his people.

That should kick in any day now.

– Jimmy Kimmel

This is a chronic problem. I stopped calling them Muslim terrorists…I mean they have no respect for anybody’s life, that’s not what the Koran says.

– Former Gov. Howard Dean (DVT) on MSNBC, shortly after the terrorist attack in France took place

We’re going to have a family conversation.

– Speaker of the House John Boehner after 25 conservatives opposed his reelection as speaker

Potential presidential candidate Jeb Bush will release a decade’s worth of tax returns to avoid comparisons to Mitt Romney.

Yeah, they’re nothing alike.

They’re just both former governors from wealthy families whose parents gave them super-weird names.

– Jimmy Fallon Charlie Hebdo Attack and Mossad Link: Is Israel Venting its fury for France’s Recognition of Palestinian State?

– Headline of a conspiracy theory article that appeared on the International Business Times website before it was removed and an apology was issued

President Obama posted a video on Facebook yesterday announcing his plan to make the first two years of community college free. Unfortunately he was interrupted when Biden got confused and threw a bucket of ice water on his head.

– Jimmy Fallon African American man - CNN’s Chris Cuomo’s description of one of the French Muslim terrorists who is of African descent

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On the TV this morning the weatherman said to dress warm if you’re going outside.

If you need a TV weatherman to remind you to dress warm, you’ve got bigger problems than the cold weather.

– David Letterman

If you guys need any tips on winning back to back, you know where to find me.

– President Obama at a White House ceremony for the 2014 NBA champions, the San Antonio Spurs

It’s inconceivable that the thinking that we hold most sacred should cause the entire Islamic world to be a source of anxiety, danger, killing and destruction for the rest of the world. Impossible! That thinking – I am not saying “religion” but “thinking” – that corpus of texts and ideas that we have sacralized over the centuries, to the point that departing from them has become almost impossible, is antagonizing the entire world. It’s antagonizing the entire world! Is it possible that 1.6 billion people should want to kill the rest of the world’s inhabitants – that is 7 billion – so that they themselves may live? Impossible!

– Egyptian President Al- Sisi in a speech to Muslim Imams

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Former Arkansas governor and potential 2016 candidate Mike Huckabee is releasing his twelfth book later this month called, “G-d, Guns, Grits, and Gravy.” The craziest part: that’s just his favorite aisle at Wal-Mart.

- Jimmy Fallon

Israel supports Europe in the struggle against terrorism, and the time has come for Europe to support Israel in the exact same struggle.

– Prime Minister Netanyahu at a memorial service in France

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Hillary Clinton is the leading presidential contender for the Democrats. Former Clinton aide John Podesta said Hillary will highlight her differences with President Obama if she runs. The biggest difference: Hillary is still interested in being president.

– Jimmy Fallon

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Health & Fitness

David Elazar Simai, MD

It’s the Little Things That Matter Most Part I Dear Readers, This week, I decided to write the first of a three part series on some interesting cases that I have witnessed as a physician.

It goes without mention that as you read these exciting and memorable stories, there is always Divine intervention that guides us healthcare providers in each step that we take. The main point of these stories is not to point out that very often persistence on the side of the parents and doctor is required to avoid a medical crisis.

I changed some details in each case in order to protect the identity of the patient.

The first case occurred in the middle of my third year as a pediatric resident at Schneider Children’s Hospital (now known as Cohen’s Children’s Hospital). During my residency at Schneider’s, residents were assigned to cover small community hospitals. As third year residents, most of us had more downtime, assuming a more senior role and leaving the juniors to do most of the hard work – drawing bloods, writing notes and reporting to us on the progress of the patients.

It was on a winter day that I assumed the role of senior resident at a small community hospital in Queens. The pediatric floor was considerably smaller than the one at Schneider’s and the usual census ranged between 2-8 patients per day. Scanning the patients that day, I noticed much of the ordinary, “run of the mill” cases – an infant with bronchiolitis, two toddlers with gastroenteritis (a stomach virus), a 9 year old asthmatic and an 11 month old with pneumonia.

The usual arrangement was that the junior residents would gather all the information about the patient and present to the senior resident at 8:30 am. At some point in the day, an outside attending physician would join us and sign our charts. Most attending physicians were extremely busy, and did not show much interest in teaching us or arguing with us about patient plans. (In those days, the hospitals would force outside pediatric attendings to cover the pediatric floor for a few weeks every day and would not compensate them for their time.)

After being briefed about all the patients on the floor, I decided to personally go from room to room and address any of the parents’ concerns. The first room housed the baby with pneumonia. I always had a meticulous order when mak-

ing rounds. Before stepping into the room, I would glance over the vital signs recorded on the patient’s clipboard. The vital signs give a doctor very important information about the progress of a patient. In this case, my junior resident reported to me that the patient was an 11 month old girl that was in her third day at the hospital for pneumonia. Her chest x-ray was reported negative, but she had a cough and fever, along with a mildly elevated white count. My junior reported that she was doing great, her fever was down and her parents were anxious to take her home. Being that her fever was down, her attending was okay with the idea, and advised that she would see the patient at her office within 1-2 days. The clipboard did show that the patient’s fever disappeared and her oxygen saturation was 99% on room air.

I proceeded to peek inside and the sounds of the vital signs monitor caught my attention. The baby was moving a bit, but her oxygen saturation was at a mere 90%. Any level below 92% is considered dangerous. Being that I was a senior resident and had the liberty to spend as much time as I wanted with patients, I took the opportunity to do some detective work. I introduced myself to the parents who appeared to be a young, Orthodox family from Kew Garden Hills. They were excited to leave the hospital after three days and were thankful that everything was going well. I asked them if they would mind if I checked the baby before they left. “Sure,” they replied, perhaps wondering why another young doctor wanted to “experiment” on their child, but they were kind and allowed me to spend a few minutes listening to her lungs. If you’ve ever examined an infant at that age, you know that it’s quite a challenge to examine their lungs. In order to listen properly, the child has to be breathing regularly, without crying. So, I sat down next to the parents, had the baby sit on her daddy’s lap, and spent a few long moments listening and playing simultaneously. All along, my eyes were looking at that oxygen saturation monitor.

Surprisingly, even when the baby was

comfortable and smiling, her oxygen saturation did not exceed 91%. Seeing that, I listened even more carefully. After all, the child did come in with fever, received three days of IV antibiotics, and her fever had disappeared. Why would her oxygen level be so low? She was definitely not wheezing. But after listening for a full five minutes, I was suspicious that one small area in the lower right side of her lungs was not moving air at all!

I kept my concerns to myself and calmly asked the parents, “Do you mind repeating the whole story to me?”

Reluctantly, the mother recalled the entire story...

On Saturday night, while performing havdala, they noticed that the baby had a clove in her mouth. A day later, she developed a cough. Their doctor examined the baby and sent her for an x-ray to make sure that she did not aspirate the clove. The x-ray was negative. The next day, the cough worsened and the child developed fever. At this point, the baby was seen at the emergency room at Flushing Hospital. Her x-rays did not show any pneumonia, but she did have an elevated white count in her blood work that did point to possible bacterial pneumonia.

After hearing these details, I informed the parents that my concern was the baby’s oxygen saturation was low, along with the findings that one small segment of her lungs was not ventilating well.

“What do you suggest, doctor?” The parents both sadly asked, not believing that their departure from the hospital may be delayed. “I would like to do some more tests before sending you home, but I will discuss this with your pediatrician,” I answered.

I called the pediatrician and informed her of my suspicion. “David,” she answered, “I sent her for an x-ray on Sunday which was negative – but do whatever you think is best” was her reply. A few minutes later, the x-ray technician came to the floor and performed the test. I descended to the basement of the hospital where the x-rays were developed in order to review the x-ray with the radiologist. This time, however, the diagnosis was pretty clear cut. The x-ray revealed

a collapse of approximately half of the right side of the lungs.

Within two hours the little girl left the hospital. No, she did not go home, she left via ambulance to Schneider Children’s Hospital. Three operations later, the entire clove was removed from her lung. It seems that cloves are one of the hardest foreign objects to remove from the lungs, because they have sharp edges that embed deep in the lung tissue. The baby spent a few weeks in the ICU before being discharged from the hospital.

Two years ago, I came across the baby’s mother and was happy to hear that she is doing well and is almost completely recovered.

Since then, however, my wife monitors the passing of the cloves at havdala very carefully. Personally, I feel a special gratitude to G-d when I smell the sweet, buoyant aroma of the cloves every week. It reminds me that Divine intervention guides us as parents and doctors. It also reminds me to look at the small things in life. These little things are G-d’s blessings!

As parents, we should try and do our utmost to prevent our infants and toddlers from choking or aspirating small toys, nuts, screws and other household items.

So when you smell those cloves this week, please have in mind the importance of every aspect of your child’s life – large and small!

Wishing you and yours much health and happiness, David Elazar Simai, M.D. Dr. David Simai is a Board Certified Pediatrician from the Five Towns. He is a full time attending in his own private practice since 2007 in Cedarhurst, New York. In addition, he is an Attending Physician at LIJ-Cohen Children’s Hospital, North-Shore Manhasset University Hospital and South Nassau Communities Hospital. He can be contacted for consultation at 516 374-2228 or via email at davidsimai@yahoo.com.

NOTE: name, gender, geographical area and other identifying information were deliberately altered in this article in order to protect the patient’s privacy. This article is not intended to help diagnose or treat any specific disease. Always consult your personal physician before diagnosing or treating yourself or your child for any of the above mentioned illnesses.

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A Closer Look at Some of Florida’s Newest Eateries

BY BRENDY J. SIEV

South Florida has some great restaurants, but the two we have featured here offer food that is

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trip: you won’t savor these tastes anywhere else.

Backyard BBQ & Brew Backyard BBQ & Brew 9460 Harding Avenue, Surfside, FL 33154 305-763-8818 backyardmiami.com

What

makes Backyard BBQ & Brew unique and different is not the steak: it’s the smoker.

Ribs, chicken, and brisket smoke slowly for hours—we’re talking between 3-and-a-half and 12 hours—to bring fallingoff-the-bone flavor to your table.

This means that the food is delicious and atypical. The smoker’s scents of hickory and applewood linger on the meat. The menu offers four kinds of ribs; the longest and most popular short rib is aptly named “the Dinosaur.”

We enjoyed slow-smoked ribs that melted in our mouths.

The brisket was not reminiscent of a high holiday; we smelled a light waft of wood while we savored its tenderness. The spare ribs were braised and smoked as well, with a mild molasses flavor.

We also enjoyed popcorn chicken, made with dark meat.

It was excellent and perfectly fried; it came with a hot sauce on the side. The French fries

with truffle mushroom sauce was different from the usual fries with ketchup. For those who like sausages, share an appetizer of three flavors of sausage. You’ll certainly enjoy.

If you do not want to waste a rib on someone whose favorite food is ketchup, the kids’ menu offers inexpensive options (a burger for $7; a hot dog and fries for $5). For those over the age of 21, the bar offers wine and beer options, with 12 microbrews on tap.

The wait staff (shout out to Richard!) was excellent and attentive. Our water glasses were never close to empty, and the servers knew the menu well.

The ambiance is warm, with real country music playing in the background. The decor, like an upscale, converted barnyard, includes fun lighting, high ceilings, and an open bar. The walls are paneled in reclaimed wood, and chairs are painted in various colors to match the reclaimed look. Various seating options are available, including outdoor tables near the palm trees.

Offy Shifman, the owner, is there every night, a break from his usual job: he owns Kosherica cruises. He opened Backyard BBQ because of his cruise experience. “I’m always in tune with food trends, especially in the non-kosher world,” he told us. Barbeque and smoking are particularly big now.

But more than that, Offy said, “I love barbeque myself. I’m the neighborhood barbeque guy.”

His efforts have paid off. The restaurant, even late at night, is full, and the reservations keep coming. In fact, a quarter of the restaurant’s customers’ are non-Jews. Most love it and come back after their first meal.

You can check out the full menu online. Be sure to make a reservation: most nights, the line stretches out the door.

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Sushi & Tapas is the dining experience so many of us have been waiting for: excellent food that’s different, delectable, and perfectly balanced, delivered with fabulous service and great drinks.

This is Asian-Peruvian fusion, and every food on the menu offers a perfect balance of heat, acidity, and sweetness. The food is light and flavorful: you finish your meal full but not heavy. Many dishes are crafted from Peruvian specialties including aiolis and potatoes from Peruvian vegetables. The menu is unlike any other kosher restaurant; it’s worth a plane trip.

Every detail has been attended to, down to the water in your glass: diners have the option of regular or Vero water, a sparkling water option that comes with unlimited refills. Glasses are always full; plates always cleared; crumbs quietly wiped. The servers are particularly accommodating and attentive without hovering. They are extensively knowledgeable about the menu, down to the details about its preparation, key to 26’s success: most kosher diners are unfamiliar with the food on the menu and the servers explain and recommend the top food options.

The full bar offers not only the usual kosher wine menu, but excellent mixed drinks. We enjoyed an espresso martini and a cucumber margarita.

The margarita was reminiscent of a pisco sour, with a great combination of salty, lime, some sweet, jalapeno, and tequila. The passion-rita included a bit of cayenne pepper and salt on the edge of the glass to balance the sweetness.

Some delicious examples of excellent dishes: Hamachi Tiradito, a sashimi with lime, cilantro, and serrano peppers. It was excellent and needed no wasabi or ginger. The Tuna Tower was beautiful, with crispy onions on top of masago and shiitake mushrooms. The Sunshine Salad was served in a hulled half of a grapefruit, featuring tiny, perfectly cubed pieces of tuna, avocado, and grapefruit.

Our favorite: the Nikkei Hamachi Tacos. The tacos featured the

We also recommend:

• Cafe Emunah: Different and delicious, with a funky, spiritual menu. Worth the trip to Fort Lauderdale—or visiting if you’re up there anyway.

• Fuego: An excellent new grill with interesting sides and sliders. We’ve enjoyed the burgers, steak, and yucca with sauce.

• Fresco: Light and pleasant for a lunch or dinner. Enjoy some shakes, sushi, and great salads.

sweetness of pineapple with the acidity of lime, the crunch of the taco (freshly made in-house), and the soft texture of the fish. We also loved the causita, a popular Peruvian specialty, the testones topped with ceviche, the papa huancaina that featured Peruvian potatoes. The Peruvian Trilogy featured salmon anticuchos. For this, the chef rubbed the salmon with aji-panca, a Peruvian pepper, before serving it with a yellow pepper aioli. The salmon was coated in toasted sesame seeds for crunch and served on a stick.

That night included some specials, including mahi-mahi saltado with huancaina noodles. The noodles were suffused with the richness of a cheese sauce and the mahi mahi was excellent. Another special we sampled was pan-seared branzini with a white truffle risotto, cooked in a fish base. The fish was moist with a crisp crust, and the risotto was Chef Ramsey-worthy.

The presentation, it goes without saying, was beautiful and inviting.

Even the dessert, churned ice cream with crunch, was presented in two perfectly symmetrical spheres on a bed of crunch.

We met the chef. Chef Fernando Chang grew up in Peru to immigrant Asian parents. He takes great pride in the menu that he personally designed and created. Chef Chang meets with diners each night. Since his fusion food is incomparable, you can almost envision celebrity chefs on the Food Network nodding as they taste the cuisine. Really.

And Chef Chang’s children are formidable chefs in their own right.

Valerie has cooked at the Venetian in Las Vegas; Fernando, Jr., has also cooked in well-known kitchens.

The black and white decor is complemented by dark-stained wood and richly glazed tiles. The lighting keeps the trendy ambience. Most important are the acoustics. At times we have gone out to popular, packed restaurants where we have shared great food but little conversation: we had to shout to hear each other. But acoustic engineers were part of 26’s planning. The restaurant, even with a full house, sounds lively, but, magically, you can enjoy a conversation at a normal tone with those at your table.

Overall this atypical menu, with balanced flavors and textures, will make you rethink your dining experience. Flavors are savored and do not overpower each other; your palette will experience recognition of flavor—sweet, sour, spicy—and the firmness or softness of each bite. 

• Grill Time: If you’re taking the whole family out, including the kids, the food is consistent and the portion sizes large.

• House of Dog: For great beer, hot dogs, and burgers.

• Levy’s Deli: Good deli and schwarma and nicesized portions. We have it on good authority that even non-Jews love the food.

• Kosher Subway: Despite those enticing billboards, this is not a real kosher deli. But Subway’s sandwiches are inexpensive and made to order. The daily special costs $4.50 for a sixinch sub; you can also get a $7.50 meal, including a six-inch sandwich with a soda and chips. If you’re on a trip or need a quick, cheap meal, you can drop in and not drop a lot of cash. Note: Because it’s on the JCC campus, you’ll need to have your ID ready to show to the guard at the gate in order to get in.

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be sunshine, palm trees, and gentle sea breezes. You’re going to Florida! And we’re here with some helpful tips to make your stay more enjoyable and delectable.

Shh! Here are some of South Florida’s secrets.

Best Deal on Disney, Universal, and Legoland Theme Parks: Yes, you read that right. Orlando Torah Academy has procured deeply discounted ticket packages. Visit www.orlandotorah.com/ theme-park-tickets. html or call 407-2704936 to see their fabulous prices— even by Florida resident standards.

Best Beach: We know that when you hear the words “Miami,” “Florida,” and “beach,” you have visions of SoBe (that’s South Beach to the natives). But we recommend another beach: the Hollywood Broadwalk. No, that’s not a typo. The Hollywood Broadwalk is not even a wooden boardwalk: it’s a lovely, paved, wide path on the beach itself. Bikes and those fun multi-person bikes are for rent, and it’s a pleasure to walk, enjoy a drink, grab some Ben & Jerry’s from its onthe-beach storefront and play in the sand here. It’s also more family-friendly than the other local beaches.

May we also recommend taking a walk on the beach at night? Just bring a sweater, as the sea breeze can get intense.

Best quirky things to do in middle of the winter: Strawberry Picking: Yes, you can. Go north a bit and there’s the Girls’ Strawberry U-Pick in Delray Beach near Boca (thegirlsstrawberryupick. com, 14466 South Military Trail, Delray Beach, FL

33484, (561) 496-0188).

Drive south, and there’s Burr’s Berry Farm (12741 SW 216th St, Miami, Florida 33170), a farm that doesn’t even require bending for picking berries and veggies (and, yes, there’s a Groupon for that).

Best Family Pizza Place:

Canoe! Kayak! Bike! Swim!

Hike! Check out T.Y. (Topeekeegee Yugnee) Park (3300 North Park Road, Hollywood, FL 33021, (954) 3578811) with its awesome Castaway Island (be sure to check out when the lagoon is open) and Oleta State Park (3400 Northeast 163rd Street, North Miami, FL 33181, (305) 919-1846). For horseback riding, visit Tree Tops Park (3900 Southwest 100th Avenue, Davie, FL 33328, (954) 357-5130).

Krispy Kreme. Nothing beats the hot-off-thedonut press taste of Krispy Kreme donuts. Sit down inside, and kids can take, wear, and keep Krispy Kreme paper hats while they eat.

Or use the drivethru and take ‘em home for breakfast. The entire establishment is kosher, so enjoy different coffees, cocoas, and fraps, or oatmeal for those watching their weight. If you’re willing to bring your children’s report cards, Krispy Kreme gives each child a donut for every “A” on their report card (six donut/A maximum).

Best Mall: Shopping is a sport or recreation, too. Enjoy the Aventura Mall, with its play area for children (be forewarned: adults and children must wear socks in order to enter), Lego store, and great shops. This is the largest mall in the United States south of Atlanta. If you’re hunting for real bargains, Nordstrom’s Rack and Off 5th are located just a few blocks away. (For parents of doll-crazy daughters: If you’re willing to drive a bit more to the Sawgrass Mall, you can visit Barbie’s Dreamhouse.)

Mama’s Pizza. This tiny little pizza place serves fresh pies in two sizes at low prices. Mondays between 4:30 and 6:30, buy one pie at $11.95, get the second at half price. We also like their Greek salad, made fresh down to the chopped tomatoes, with a pesto dressing option, and their fresh versions of calzones.

Best Donuts:

Ice Cream!

Here you can enjoy kosher Carvel, Baskin Robbins, Yum-Yum Yogurt (new! and it has a Groupon!), and, for those who keep cholov Yisrael, check out Skoops. (We love their Skoopacinos, and they sell pizza and muffins, too!) 

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Florida Dining Guide

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For those of you who are enjoying time off in sunny Florida, we miss you. But in between walks on the boardwalk and laps in the pool, make sure to check out these wonderful restaurants for lunch or dinner (or anytime in between!). Call before you go; these places fill up fast!

26 Sushi & Tapas 9487 Harding Avenue Surfside, FL 33154 (305) 570-2626

Backyard Barbeque 9460 Harding Avenue Surfside, FL 33154 (305) 763-8818

Chai Wok 1688 N.E. 164th Street N. Miami Beach, FL 33162 (305) 705-2110

Chosen Chinese 660 West Hallandale Beach Blvd Hallandale Beach, FL 33009 (954) 248-3111

Asi’s Grill & Sushi Bar 4020 Royal Palm Avenue (Off of 41st St.) Miami Beach, FL 33140 (305) 604-0555

Beyond by Shemtov’s 514 West 41st Street Miami Beach, FL 33140 (305) 538-2123

China Beach 3919 Alton Rd. Miami Beach, FL 33140 (305) 534-3034

Dunkin Donuts 341 W. 41st St. in Miami Beach 3951 Stirling Road in Dania Beach (Hollywood)

Café Emunah 3558 N Ocean Blvd Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308 (954) 561-6411

China Bistro 3565 NE 207th Street (The Waterways) Aventura, FL 33180 (305) 936-0755

Fresko 19048 NE 29 Avenue Aventura, FL 33180 (786) 272-3737

Asia Boca Raton 7600 W. Camino Real (off Powerline Rd.) Boca Raton, FL 33433 (561) 544-8100 Bagel Time 3915 Alton Road Miami Beach, FL 33140 (305) 538-0300

Café Vert 9490 Harding Ave Surfside, FL 33154 (305) 867-3151 Capri Sushi & Italian 726 - 41st Street Miami Beach, FL 33140 (305) 534-0551

China Kikar Tel Aviv 5005 Collins Avenue (In Carriage Club North) Miami Beach, FL 33140 (305) 866-3316

Fuego 2520 NE 186 Street North Miami Beach, FL 33180 (786) 520-4082 Gigi’s Cafe 3585 NE 207th St (The Waterways Shoppes) Aventura, FL 33180 (305) 466-4648

Grill House 976 41st Street (off Alton Road) Miami Beach, FL 33140 (305) 674-9005

Kosher Gourmet 7508 Universal Blvd.

Orlando, FL 32819 (407) 354-1296

Picasso Pizza 4051 Stirling Road Davie (Hollywood), FL 33314

Grill Time Boca Raton 8177 Glades Road (Just west of Florida’s Turnpike) Boca Raton, FL 33433 (561) 482-3699 Grill Time North Miami 16145 Biscayne Blvd (just south of 163rd Street) N. Miami Beach, FL 33160 (786) 274-8935 Holy Bagels & Pizzeria 93 NW 1st St Downtown Location Miami, FL 33128 (305) 961-7878 House of Dog 456 W 41st Street Miami Beach, FL 33140 (305) 397-8733 Jerusalem Pizza 761 NE 167 St North Miami Beach, FL 33162 (305) 653-6662 Kikar Tel Aviv 5005 Collins Avenue Miami Beach, FL 33140 (305) 866-3316

Lenny’s Pizza 544 Arthur Godfrey Rd. Miami Beach, FL 33140 (305) 397-8395 Lotus 9487 Harding Ave. Surfside, FL 33154 (305) 397-8062 Lower East Side Restaurant 8548 Palm Parkway Orlando, FL 32836 (407) 465-0565

Pita Hut Aventura 1850 West Dixie Hwy Aventura, FL 33160 (305) 792-0821 Rare Steakhouse 4101 Pine Tree Drive (off 41st Street in Tower 41) Miami Beach, FL 33140 (305) 532-7273 Seventeen Restaurant 1205 17th Street (Crossing of Alton Rd and 17th St) Miami Beach, FL 33139 (305) 672-0565

Lul Cafe 18288 Collins Avenue (in Shopping Complex) Sunny Isles, FL 33160 (305) 933-0199

Shalom Haifa 18533 West Dixie Highway North Miami Beach, FL 33183 (305) 936-1800

Mexico Bravo 16850 Collins Ave Sunny Isles, FL 33160 (305) 948-1158

Skoops Miami 1140 NE 163 St North Miami Beach, FL 33183 (305) 949-9100

Montefiore 4017 Prairie Ave. Miami Beach, FL 33140

Soho Asian Bar and Grill 19004 NE 29th Avenue Aventura, FL 33180 (305) 466-5656

Mozart Cafe 4433 Stirling Rd (opposite N. 64th Avenue) Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314 (954) 584-5171

Subres Grill 2218 N.E. 123rd Street (former location of Sara’s Restaurant) North Miami, FL 33181 (305) 899-0095 Subway (in the JCC) 18900 NE 25th Ave North Miami, FL 33180 (305) 663-9883 Thai Treat 2176 NE 123 Street North Miami, FL 33181 (305) 892-1118 The Coffee Bean 19501 Biscayne Blvd Aventura, FL 33180 (305) 466-9243 The Harbour Grill 9415 Harding Ave Surfside, FL 33154 (305) 861-0787 Uncle Noodle’s Pizzeria 2530 Miami Gardens Dr Miami, FL 33180 (305) 918-8998 Weber Cafe 3565 NE 207 Street (in the Waterways) Aventura, FL 33180 (305) 935-5580 Yum-Yum Yogurt 2451 NE Miami Gardens Drive Miami, FL 33180 (305) 705-3784

TJH is not responsible for the kashrus or atmosphere of any establishment listed.

Please check before you go to ensure a pleasant experience. Bon appetit!

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Kosh Miami 9477 Harding Ave Surfside, FL 33154 (305) 763-8601

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Grand Cafe Espresso Bar 2905 Stirling Rd Hollywood, FL 33312 (954) 986-6860

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Parenting Today

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Chinuch Workshops: Practical Torah Guidelines and Strategies for Achieving Successful Chinuch

Determining your Child’s Individual Derech The Gra, in his commentary on Mishlei (ibid.), writes that a child’s derech is determined by the mazal into which he is born. Mazal is a term used for a spiritual force that emanates from certain celestial bodies and formations.

There are seven different mazalos that appear daily, each at a different hour, and a person who is born during the time when a specific mazal appears receives the “trait” of that mazal. Although this acquired “mazal-trait” cannot be altered, nevertheless each person has the free will to utilize this innate trait to become a bainoni, rasha or tzaddik, (average, wicked or righteous person). For example, a person who is born in mazel ma’adim (ruddy) will be someone who sheds blood. He can choose one of three options: 1. Bainoni – to heal ailments through bloodletting (This was a common practice in the time of Chazal and can be equated with becoming a surgeon.)

2. Rasha – an armed robber 3. Tzaddik – a shochet or mohel.

When it is written that Dovid Hamelech was ruddy, (Shmuel I 16:2), it means that he was born in mazel ma’adim and utilized this trait virtuously to

arrangement. A child who is not handy can be given a babysitting job.

• Parents must find ways to keep an

“Parenting isn’t imposing your will; it’s discovering who your child is.” wage wars (milchamos mitzva) for the benefit of the Jewish nation (Shabbos 156a and Rashi ad loc., as explained by Rav Chaim Friedlander in Sifsei Chaim, Pirkei Emunah Vehashgacha, 186-7).

The Malbim explains that parents can determine their child’s derech by their natural innate desires and tendencies. For example, parents can observe if their child: • Is bright and grasps concepts easily or is slow at learning, • Is naturally inclined and skillful in certain fields and can master them more easily, for example mathematics, computers, homemaking, hairstyling, etc., • Is handy or has two “left hands,” • Is active or quiet, • Is an extrovert and loves to play with friends or is an introvert and prefers to keep busy playing alone or reading books at home.

In each of the above examples, the child must be taught and educated according to his intellectual ability, capability, and unique nature. Only then will his chinuch endure.

Therefore, in the above examples: • A child should be placed in a school or class that fits his level of learning and comprehension.

(Although at times placing a child in a class of better students may motivate him to excel in his studies, nevertheless, it may have a reverse effect by giving him an inferiority complex.)

• A child who is handy should be assigned suitable household chores, for example, minor repairs or to help in household

active child busy, and they should not force a quiet child to be active.

• Similarly, the extroverted child needs to be in the company of others, while the introvert should not be forced to go to friends’ homes. (However, he can be encouraged to play with friends by arranging for a friend to play with him.)

Criticizing and disciplining must also be done according to a child’s derech. Parents must be sensitive to their children’s individual natures and customize their comments and disciplinary actions for each child’s individual personality. At times, it may even be necessary to overlook rebuking or punishing a particular child. This is especially true with a child who is very sensitive or suffers from low self esteem.

Parents who ignore this principle, saying, “This is the way my parents dis-

ciplined me, and this is the way I will discipline my child. If he doesn’t like it, it’s his problem,” are risking causing permanent emotional damage to their children.

Chinuch can be compared to a pair of shoes. Just as shoes must be the proper size and appropriate for the season, similarly, chinuch must be paired properly, practically, emotionally and psychologically to match the child. All training, role modeling and disciplining must be according to the child’s derech.

Parents must be flexible and use different chinuch techniques on each child since chinuch strategies that work with one child may not work with another.

As Rav Chaim Dov Keller, the Rosh Yeshiva of Telshe Chicago, once remarked, “Parenting isn’t imposing your will; it’s discovering who your child is and what makes him ‘tick,’ and then matching him with a chinuch suited to his intelligence, abilities and capabilities.”

Discovering and working with a child’s individual derech has very positive effects on the parent-child relationship because the child feels that his parents understand him. This feeling will create a strong kesher − connection and closeness – between the parents and their child, with the long-range benefits of a more obedient child through the adolescent years.

Main points to work and focus on: > Parents should start noticing the differences in their children’s individual natures, strengths, weaknesses and capabilities. > They should work with, and not against, their child’s derech, and start to diversify their chinuch techniques and strategies to “tailor make” a plan that suits each child.

Rabbi Morgenstern does family counseling and lectures extensively in Israel and abroad on shalom bayis, chinuch habanim, family communication, shidduchim, dating and personal growth, and has produced a popular CD series on these topics. His articles on these topics and Jewish hashkafa have appeared internationally in Jewish newspapers and magazines.

For more information or to schedule a lecture, contact Rabbi Morgenstern in Israel at 952236-4197 or at rabbi@toras-chaim.org. You can also request to receive his weekly Parsha Pearls and chinuch articles by e-mail. Please include your name in the request.

Articles are dedicated to the memory of his parents, Reb Yerachmiel Yisroel Nesanel z”l and Leah Gittel a”h. T.N.T.B.H

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renowned posek once remarked, “Before you aosken on a shaila, pasken on the person.” This means that two people can ask the same shaila and based on their individual situation, they may get two different answers, both of which are correct.

The same principle applies to child-raising. The first step in chinuch is to know your child – who he/she is, his/her strengths, capabilities and weaknesses.

Shlomo Hamelech gives us this most important child-raising principle in the famous pasuk, “Chanoch l’naar al pi darko. Gam ki yazkin lo yassur mimena.” – Educate a child according to his way (darko) so that he will not deviate from it when he gets older (Mishlei 22:6). Darko refers to the child’s individual nature and character traits, and the pasuk is telling us that if parents want their chinuch to last, they must be mechanech their child according to his individual derech.

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Halachically Speaking

Rabbi Moishe Dovid Lebovits

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ruit smoothies are a popular treat. However, they often contain strawberries and other fruits that might harbor insects. Many kosher-certified yogurts contain strawberries and raspberries. Are these smoothies and yogurts permitted? How about jams? These issues will be dealt with in this article.

Background If more than fifty percent of the product has insects then it is muchzak with insects (most of the time one will find an insect in the item) and is prohibited d’oraisa. If the frequency is greater than ten percent (see below) then it is called a miyut hamatzui and is prohibited d’rabanan without prior checking.

If the frequency is under ten percent, then it is a miyut sh’eino mutzui, and no checking is required. Nonetheless, the

Chochmas Adam says, “It is proper for a person to check what he eats because in this way one will save himself from many insects. I can testify on myself that many times I was saved from this [by checking first].”

Cooked The Shulchan Aruch says that if food was cooked without checking then one should examine it afterwards.

If this is not possible, then the food is permitted b’dieved. The Shach says this is based on a sfek sfeika. One sofek is whether there are any insects, and the other is that maybe they are smashed and may not be whole (see below regarding puree). The Pri Megadim clearly says that this would not apply to fruits or vegetables which are in the category of muchzak b’toloyim (insects) since it is an issur d’oraisa to eat such

foods without checking. Some poskim argue and maintain that the reasoning of the Shach applies even if the fruit is muchzak to have insects. The accepted custom of many is to follow the Shach as explained by the Pri Megadim above.

Therefore, fruits or vegetables which commonly have insects, but are not muchzak, would be permitted according to the above Pri Megadim.

Pureed The Shulchan Aruch says that a “berya” is forbidden. This only refers to a whole creature, but a broken one is permitted. Furthermore,[ if a berya is crushed and its form is not recognizable, it is permitted. The Gr’a[ says that this heter does not apply to the issur of eating insects. Most poskim argue with the Gr’a. This heter would not contradict the rule that is commonly known as ein mevatlin issur l’chatchilah (one may not purposely make bitul on an item. The rule only applies when we have intent to do so. Furthermore, the intention is to crush the fruit, not the insect. When a hechsher is given on a pureed product, the manufacturer does not crush the insects for us. Therefore, it is not considered having intent to be mevatel issur l’chatchilah. The Taz does say that if there is an easier way to accomplish the same goal without being mevatel the issur, then it is not considered “not having intent to be mevatel.”

Nevertheless, frozen fruits and vegetables often cannot be checked; therefore, the Taz’s stringency would not apply.

However, fresh produce can be checked and one is obligated to do so.

Not Pureed – Jam Many yogurts are flavored with pieces of fruit that are not pureed. We cannot apply the heter of a berya being crushed, since there might be an insect in this part of the fruit. The same issue is relevant to jams since the fruit is not pureed. However, by the time the produce reaches the company which makes the jam, it is not muchzak since the fruit is washed. Therefore, even raspberries can be made into jam without being pureed since it is a miyut hamatzui.

Frozen Produce Frozen strawberries and raspberries

can be checked, but it is more difficult to check for insects. Even if a product has many insects in the field, they are not muchzak by the time they reach the consumer, especially since frozen strawberries are washed before they are frozen. Therefore, frozen strawberries are generally considered a miyut sh’eino matzui.

Bitul Normally, a forbidden item is permitted in a mixture if there are sixty times more of the permitted amount than the issur (about 1.6% of the whole mixture). Since an inspection can detect an insect, it is not considered a mixture and is not subject to the halachos of bitul. In addition, an insect is a berya (when not cooked and crushed) and a berya is not batul. The Aruch Hashulchan offers the following reasoning as to why many do not check for insects: firstly, insects mixed in vegetables are a mixture and are subject to the halachos of bitul. Secondly, he quotes a number of poskim who say that insects are batul in close to 1000. Lastly, he says that the laws of berya may not apply to something which is disgusting to a person, such as an insect. This is only a limud zechus on those who do not check produce before eating it.

Miyut Hamatzui We have previously established that any fruit or vegetable with a ten

fruit which are a miyut hamatzui. Harav Yisroel Belsky shlita holds that the determination whether an item has a miyut hamatzui may only be calculated after it has been washed.

In Conclusion Smoothies - This is the practical application of our discussion: fresh strawberries are permitted since they are pureed. Therefore, there is no concern of “ein mevatlin issur,” since the strawberries are not pureed with the in-

they are a miyut hamatzui, since they are pureed.

Jams - Jams consist of cooked strawberries with other ingredients.

Frozen strawberries are used in most cases. Since frozen strawberries are a miyut sh’eino matzui, they are permitted. In regard to raspberry jams, since frozen raspberries are a miyut hamatzui and are cooked, one can rely on the sfeik sfeika of the Shach mentioned above.

Yogurts – Frozen strawberries are

used for manufacturing yogurts. We established that frozen strawberries are a miyut sh’eino matzui. Therefore, it is permitted to purchase yogurts with strawberry pieces.

Purchasing Smoothies at a NonCertified Smoothies Store – Stand Although we have established that frozen strawberries and raspberries do not pose any kashrus issues in smoothies, it is still not advisable to buy from a non-certified stand unless you know that cold smoothies are the only items they make on the machine, and no other fruit juices are added to the mix. By definition, some liquid has to be added to facilitate the pureeing of the fruits.

One must make sure that only water is used, since some added fruit juices may be non-kosher.

Disclaimer: the above article is not intended to present the opinion of the Kof-K on this matter.

Rabbi Moishe Dovid Lebovits is a former chaver kollel of Yeshiva Torah Vodaath and a musmach of Harav Yisroel Belsky shlita. Rabbi Lebovits currently works as the Rabbinical Administrator for the KOF-K Kosher Supervision.

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tent to crush the insects. Frozen strawberries are also acceptable, since frozen strawberries are considered a miyut sh’eino matzui. Both fresh and frozen raspberries are permitted even though

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of every fruit being infested are not likely. The OU will not certify a jam that contains fruit which is muchzak.

However, there is no practical application of this rule, since most jams use

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percent possibility of infestation must be checked. This is the opinion of the Mishkanos Yaakov. The Rivash says the shiur is close to fifty percent. The Shevet HaLevi holds that even produce with an infestation rate of under ten percent must be checked.

The earlier poskim do not discuss how to calculate the miyut hamatzui.

Do we look at the infestation rate of each individual fruit, or do we focus on the amount that one normally buys or cooks at one time? In addition, do we figure according to the volume of food that one individual eats or his entire family?

The opinion of the Chasam Sofer is that one has to check every fruit individually to see if it has the shiur of miyut hamatzui. Harav Elyashiv shlita holds that the shiur is calculated according to the amount of produce one buys. Harav Wosner shlita focuses on the amount of produce that one normally would check for insects. Harav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach zt”l says that lettuce is calculated according to the head of lettuce. Harav Shachter shlita calculates according to an individual serving size. Therefore, if one insect is found in ten servings then it is called “miyut hamatzui.” According to the Chasam Sofer, one can cook fruit into a jam because the chances of ten percent

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Forgotten Heroes

Avi Heiligman

Ion Degen

Master Tanker

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or most of the major wars during the 20th century, tanks have been part of the battle plan. For WWII warriors having a reliable tank in large numbers was vital to their success on the battlefield. The Americans had the Sherman tank that, while inferior to many German tanks, had the advantage of numbers.

The Germans had several versions of their tanks, called panzers, which included the feared Tiger tank.

For the Russians, it was the second-most produced tank in history—the T34. In the hands of skilled operators, the medium tank, a well-protected tank with an 85mm main gun, was a brutal weapon against the Germans. One of these operators was Ion Lazerevich Degen, a Jewish soldier who became a renowned doctor in Israel after the war.

Ion Degen, who later went by the name Yonah when he made aliyah, was only 16 when the Germans invaded Russia during the summer of 1941.

After finishing ninth grade, he joined the army as a volunteer. He had several useful skills like a skilled marksman and horseman so he was sent to the 130th Division. Along with many underclassmen, he was sent into battle right after the invasion. His youth rifle platoon consisted of 31 boys in high school, 27 of which were Jewish.

The fighting from the onset was fierce and at times was hand-to-hand combat. Degen’s division was surrounded and the Germans were slowly closing in on their positions. At one point, he knocked a German sergeant out of his senses by hitting him with the butt of his rifle. When he came around he began cursing Jews and Degen shot him instead of taking him prisoner. He was separated from the rest of his unit but along with another soldier they managed to continue fighting using German weapons that they had found.

Degen was wounded in the leg, and for the next nineteen days, his friend cared for him as they tried to escape. Sadly, his friend drowned in a river they were crossing.

Degen came to a Ukrainian village and the locals cared for him even though the Germans announced that anyone harboring Jews or Communists would be shot. After being transferred under cover by the locals, he soon was sent to a Russian hospital.

The doctors wanted to amputate his leg but he refused. He soon regained full use of the leg.

Only four soldiers from Degen’s original unit survived the attack and all were wounded. A few years after the war, to his astonishment, he saw his friend that he thought had drowned. It turned out that he survived but lost a leg during the Battle of Stalingrad.

After spending five months in the hospital and several more wandering the country trying to recover, Degen rejoined the army. This time he was in a reconnaissance unit in a battalion of armored trains. During the battles in the Caucuses in the summer of 1942, his commander was killed and Degen was chosen for the leadership position based on his mathematical skills that came handy during battle. The night of October 15, 1942, his four man (actually the radio operator was a woman) recon unit was returning from a mission when they ran into two German sentries by a river. Both were killed with knives but other Germans heard the commotion and fired. One Russian was killed and Degen was wounded in the leg for a second time in his military career.

There were many battles on the eastern front that have for the most part been lost to history. In his memoirs, Degen recounts the heroism of individual tanks and soldiers that gave

the Germans a taste of their own medicine. He knew about a tank crew that destroyed seventeen German tanks and a self-propelled gunner who singlehandedly destroyed seven of the best Nazi panzers. Degen soon became a member of the exclusive tank aces (destroying at least five enemy tanks) group.

Degen was released from the hospital and joined the 21st Tank Training Regiment. He was then transferred to the First Kharkov Tank School where he graduated with the rank of junior lieutenant after a year. In the spring of 1944, he was given a new T-34-85 tank and a crew that was new to battle. His “green” crew was soon thrown into the war, and by war’s end, Degen had lost two full crews as casualties. They went into the 2nd Guards Tank Brigade which was a famous unit that was known for being in thick of big battles. Most tankers didn’t survive two offensives with the 2nd Guards. After surviving two major battles and knowing that he had been wounded severely twice before, other tankers gave Degen the nickname of “Lucky.”

In June 1944, the 2nd Guards were part of the offensive to take Vilnius, Lithuania. They soon were in the thick of battle and Degen’s three tank platoon was shot up but managed to kill many Germans. By the end of the war, he had killed twelve tanks and four self-propelled guns.

Eight of the tanks were Panthers and one was the dreaded Tiger tank. In addition to the vehicles, he also personally took out many Nazi soldiers and numerous weapons like machine guns.

In one battle, he was in charge of three tanks that were supposed to be sent to the rear. However, over a score of German Panthers was advancing and scared the daylights out of most Russian crews. A general pleaded with Degen to push back the Germans and promised the tankers medals galore.

Even though they didn’t have to go back into the fight, they did anyway.

Noticing that the Panthers were exposed from the sides, each of Degen’s tanks shot up six German tanks. They even managed to capture one intact and bring it to the Russian rear. Degen and his fellow tankers were given medals for their heroism but he was twice rejected for the rank of Hero of the Soviet Union because he was Jewish.

January 21, 1945: Degen was wounded yet again which ended the war for him. In a frontal attack, a shell exploded in his face and he was sent to hospital for six months. This time, both of his legs were smashed and seven bullet holes pierced the arms of his shirt. Another tank unit saved him from capture and brought him to the rear.

After the war, even though he had very little formal education, he decided to go to medical school. De-

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gen became a trauma orthopedist and was one of the first doctors to replace limbs. Writing close to a hundred medical dissertations, he became an expert in the field. In 1977, he immigrated to Israel and was honored by the Jewish nation for his role in WWII. His record made him one of the best tankers of all time and a true hero.

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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The Attorney Responds: As soon as a Workers’ Compensation case begins, insurance carriers notoriously seek ways to not pay injured

workers the money they deserve. Until there is a hearing directing the carrier to pay weekly awards, the carrier can do as they please. Even though a fraud provision has always been on the books, the governor, through the Workers’ Compensation Board, has tightened up on fraud cases along with other recent reforms. Now, new guidelines under

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Section 114 of the Workers’ Compensation Law specifically target employees and employers. In the past, it was rare to raise fraud charges, as it was only brought up in situations with egregious circumstances, such as the traditional case of when the claimant returned to work without informing the carrier and then continued to cash weekly compensation checks. Those were usually discovered by hiring investigators who performed video surveillance of the injured workers.

Unfortunately, it’s becoming more common today for carriers to raise fraud as a defense in a variety of situations which don’t necessarily involve the claimant returning to work without informing the carrier. Now, in addition to investigators following injured workers around to confirm their work status, carriers closely analyze all documents filled out to search for inconsistencies in how the accident occurred or to see if a prior injury wasn’t properly disclosed.

This has caused a tremendous increase in the number of cases that are affected by this. If the fraud is deemed serious, the Workers’ Compensation Law Judge or the carrier now has the power to refer the case to the District Attorney’s office for criminal prosecution with potential prison time. Therefore, it is always prudent to retain an attorney as soon as possible to ensure that your case has a proper work up from the beginning of the case.

At this point you are going to need to request a hearing to move the case along. The most important thing to keep in mind is if the injury is serious enough to miss time from work or if the injury is permanent. It is highly advisable to consult with an attorney right away since, among other things, when filling out the stacks of forms from the insurance company and the Workers’ Compensation Board, you don’t want to inadvertently put information which could be misconstrued and end up with criminal prosecution down the line.

No column is a substitute for competent legal advice. Please consult with the attorney of your choice concerning specific legal questions you may have.

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You’d like to believe the royals are too classy to throw someone under something as plebian as a bus, per se — but that sure sounds like what’s happening!

Stories about princesses always ends with a moral, and this one is pretty simple. Being a princess isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and there isn’t always a happy ending! So if you want to pay less tax, make sure you do it right. 

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Infanta Cristina de Borbon, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca, is the sister of Spain’s King Felipe VI and sixth in line to the Monarquía Hispánica. The Infanta grew up in the Royal Palace of Madrid, where she probably logged a ride or two in a carriage. And yes, she wore her mother’s diamond-crusted floral tiara at her wedding. But she chose a thoroughly modern career, graduating from college, earning a master’s degree in international relations at New York University, and working for UNESCO in Paris. Today she’s a working mom of four children.

She’s also — if you believe Spanish judge Jose Castro — a tax cheat, named in a corruption scandal that’s rocking Spanish society.

Cristina’s husband, Iñaki Urdangarin, isn’t a prince. But he’s a former pro handball player and Olympian.

(That’s close, right?) Urdangarin, who was named Duke of Mallorca upon his marriage, is accused of embezzling €6 million ($7.4 million) in public funds through the Instituto Nóos, a charitable foundation he ran. Prosecutors say that he organized a series of sporting events for the regional governments of the Balearic Islands and Valencia — and hugely overcharged them.

Cristina hasn’t been accused of participating directly in the fraud. However, she and her husband co-owned a company called Aizoon that received €1 million from the sports foundation, money that she and her husband used for personal expenses like furniture for their house in Barcelona, salsa lessons, and pricey hotel stays. Naturally, there were no taxes paid on those funds. The judge says, “There are many indications that Cristina profited from illegal funds on her own behalf, and also helped her husband to do so, through silent cooperation and a 50% stake in his business.”

The judge also says that letting Cristina off the hook “would leave the question open and discredit the notion that justice is equal for all.”

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The message is to take it a day at a time. There are no guarantees. New York weather is an authentic slice of life. This is not take-no-risk-California – 60’s and sunny all winter long. That feels like a world of make believe – no wonder all the fairylands and movie studios are located there! We are the city of reality. We are the place where the year starts by dropping the ball. And who ever knows where the ball is going to land. New Yorkers learn to roll with the punches, figure it out as they go along.

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30 MEADOW LANE

LAWRENCE 4 Houses. Brnd New Construction. 4 rs. 5BR, 3 full bths + 2 half bths. EIK, LR/DR, den area off kit. Lndry on 2nd r.

Full bsmnt w/ half bath. 4th oor has prvte brs and bth.

Prvte drvwy. Call Chaya Moller for a showing. 516-506-3347 $625K

21 WILLIAMS CT.

5BR/2.5BA Cape. Open plan, Hardwood Flrs, new kitchen. 2-car attached garage.

Deep yard. Call Melissa @ 347-757-0224 $925,000. Also for rent $4,000/mo

56 MURIEL

PLAINVIEW

FAR ROCKAWAY

FAR ROCKAWAY

MOTIVATED SELLER!! 3BR/1.5 BA SD near FR schools and shuls. Newly renovated, full BSMT. $389,000 Call Melissa @ 347-757-0224

Young, legal, 2 family semi-detached, 3 over 4 bedrooms.

5 full baths. 1st oor is a duplex with a huge eat in kitchen w/radiant heat. Large master bedroom with bath..W/D hookup in both apts. Call Sherri 516-297-7995

LAWRENCE

Stunning renovation completed. Gorgeous cntr hall. 5 lrg bds. Mstr suite w/ sitting rm. Gourmet Kosher Kitchen with Great Room. LR w/ Frplc, huge custom DR. 4 full bths & full bsmnt. Call Sherri for further details . 516-297-7995

APARTMENT RENTALS

COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES

FAR ROCKAWAY

CEDARHURST

#1 Far Rockaway and 5 Towns Rental Specialists

JANUARY 15, 2015

Boro Park for Sale 54th St. (Bet. 11th & 12th Ave.,) 2 family, attached, 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, built-in closets, Kosher Kitchen & Passover Kitchen, Mint Condition. Asking 1.6 Mil. Serious buyers only.

Email: Goingrealty@Gmail.com

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TJH Classifieds REAL ESTATE FOR RENT Cedarhurst Apartment Share Available for Frum Female 2 bedroom apartment in lovely area, 2nd floor of house Shomer Shabbat, kosher & pet friendly $800 monthly + security Please call: (917) 330-5470

Apartment for Rent in 2 family house 4 Bedroom 2 Bath in Cedarhurst Close to the LIRR, Shuls, and Shopping Huge rooms!

Asking $2800 plus utilities Call Daniel 516-900-3867 cedarhurstrentals@gmail.com

Apartment for Rent 2 bedrooms in Far Rockaway (near BBY) Asking $1500 (including heat, hot water) Call: 516-225-4558

For Rent 3 Bedroom Apartment New to market, Very nice condition 2 bathrooms, 2 porches, washer and dryer in the basement On Dinsmore, in a 3 family house Asking $1775 call: 516-225-4558

HELP WANTED

HELP WANTED

MISC.

Salon in Cedarhurst is looking For a friendly, experience hair dresser, part time.

Please send resume to; saraeidel@aol.com

Yeshiva in Queens seeks full time secretary.

Immediate opening. Experience preferred.

Please email resume to ndsudwerts@gmail.com

Brand New and Free! “Same Boat” single mom support weekly voicemail message... .call 24/7 to be cheered up, enlightened, and infused with new strength!

206-6000-812

Yeshiva in Queens seeks full time secretary.

Immediate opening. Experience preferred.

Please email resume to ndsudwerts@gmail.com Seeking a highly motivated, organized person with sales and computer experience to work for a real estate consulting firm in Cedarhurst.

Please email a resume and salary requirements to sgoldberg@metrorefunds.com Due to simchos, Torah Academy for Girls, Far Rockaway seeking qualified, experienced elem & jr high moras.

Fax resume to 718-868-4612 attn: Rabbi Weitman Master Faster, an agency providing ABA therapy is looking to hire an individual to do ABA in Williamsburg Sundays for 4 hours and one afternoon during the week for additional 4 hours.

Please call our office at: 845-477-5000 ext.105 or email your resume to: services@masterfaster.org

Amazing Job Opportunities in Cedarhurst Shomer Shabos Office.

Flexible hours for working moms! Part time and full time jobs available. Seminary girls welcome.

Seeking capable, efficient individuals to join a fast-paced growing office.

Excellent communication skills and strong organizational skills required.

Basic Computer Skills necessary.

Ability to multi-task and detail-oriented.

Email resume to FTSadresponse@gmail.com CATAPULT LEARNING Teachers for Title I in Boro Park and Williamsburg Chassidic boys schools *College/Yeshiva Degree Required *Strong desire to help children learn *Excellent organizational skills *Small group instruction *Competitive salary Email resume: nyteachers@catapultlearning.com Fax# (718) 381-3493

MISC. DJ YOSSY MUSIC and LIGHTING for any event, the crowd will love it. Djyossy.com 845 774 5949

Looking for donation of car or minivan in good running condition.

Tax exempt receipt available for full market value.

Please call 347-342-8196

BAYSWATER JEWISH LIBRARY IS NOW OPEN

A wide selection of both the latest and classic novels, Biographies, Short stories, Holocaust, self-help, cookbooks, And more!

OPEN MONDAYS FROM 6:30-7:30 PM AND FRIDAYS FROM 2:00-3:00 PM $25 yearly membership - (718) 327-0604

Can You Sell?

Looking to make some extra cash?

On-The-Marc is hiring motivated part time sales people. Six to 8 hours a week with unlimited income potential.

Must have/own car.

For more information Call Marc at 917-612-2300

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Grocery Section Gefen

Paskesz

Tomato Sauce

Givat

Mayim Chaim

Cereal

Yummy Kids Yogurt

Spring Water

Assorted

15oz

3 liters

Assorted

$

.79

2/$5

$

2/$1

Sabra

Jack & Jill Cookies

Kariot

Kosherific

Hummus Assorted

6.99 Case Price Only.

Cereal

$

Fish Sticks & Fish Shapes

13.20oz

10oz

75 Ct

2/$3

2.99

$

Devash

Glicks

Fit & Free

Milk

Canola Oil

Cooking Spray

4.49 Kemach

skippy

18oz

16.3oz

Corn Flake Cereal

Yogurt

1/2Gal.

5.99

$

6oz

Creamy Peanut Butter

$

$

$

2/$5

$

Shibolim

Gefen

Glicks

Glicks

Snapple

2.69

1.99

.99

Lite Mayonnaise

Crisp Snax

1.99

$

$

Chick Peas

Chow Mein Noodles Thin/Wide

32oz

6oz

London Broil

Minute Steak

8.99Lb

8.49Lb

64oz

.89

2/$3

2/$5

$

Meat Dept. All of our meats are beis yosef only Family Pack

All Flavors

15oz

10oz

3.49

2.99

Fruits & Veg. Plum Tomatoes

Grape Tomatoes

$

$

$

2/$3

Family Pack

Family Pack

Small

Kiwis

5/$1

3/$1

Ground Beef

Chicken Cutlets

4.49Lb

4.29Lb

$

$

Bakery Beigels

Sponge & Marble Cake

Obelanders

Rainbow Cookies 8oz

3.99

3.49

$

Oranges

Deli Dept.

Obelanders

Assorted Cookies 12oz

15oz

$

1.09Lb

.99

$

Monday through Wednesday

CHICKEN DINNER SPECIAL FOR 4

Includes: Soup Of The Day, Main Dish & Side Dish

All For Only $15.99

Sale valid 01/15/15 -01/21/15. Cash & Carry only. We reserve the right to limit quanitities on sale items. Not responsible for typographical errors. While supplies last. No rain checks.

ORDERS CAN BE EMAILED, FAXED, OR CALLED IN 1913 Cornaga Ave. • Far Rockaway • T. 718.471.7555 • F. 718.471.9102 • E. Kosherworldorders@yahoo.com

FREE PARKING • FREE DELIVERY • FRIENDLY SERVICE • CURB SIDE SERVICE Store hours: Sun 8-8 • Mon. - Tue. 7-8 • Wed. 7-10 • Thu. 7-11 • Fri. 7-1 1/2 Hours Before Shabbos

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