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Former First Minister of Northern Ireland Lord David Trimble has nominated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, according to a statement from Netanyahu’s office. Lord Trimble won the prize himself in 1998 for his efforts to find a solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland. As a Nobel laureate, his nomination of Netanyahu and Prince bin Zayed will lead the Norwegian Nobel Committee to discuss the issue. The announcement comes less than a month after a ministerial delegation from the United Arab Emirates landed in Israel for the first-ever official visit from the Gulf state following the Sept. 15 signing of the U.S.-brokered Abraham Accords with the UAE and Bahrain at the White House. In a Nov. 20 letter to the Nobel Committee, Continued on p.2
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n November 19, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, who is widely respected as America’s foremost expert in the field, appeared at a press conference of President Trump’s Covid-19 task force to deliver long-awaited good news: “Operation Warp Speed has been supporting, directly and indirectly, six candidate vaccines, four of which are either in or completed Phase III clinical trial. I want to briefly tell you about two of them. . . Two of the vaccines, one by Moderna and one by. . . Pfizer, have completed trials. . . “With regard to Pfizer, it was 95% efficacious not only against disease that’s just clinically recognizable, but severe disease. There were 10 cases of severe disease -- one in the vaccine [test patients], nine in the placebo [test patients]. For the Moderna trial, it was 94.5% efficacious. 11 severe events, 0 in the vaccine, 11 in the placebo. . . That is extraordinary. . . “The speed did not compromise at all safety nor did it compromise scientific integrity. It was a reflection of the extraordinary scientific advances in these types of vaccines which allowed us to do things in months that actually took years before. So I really want to settle that concern that people have about that,” Dr. Fauci emphasized. Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center and an attending physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, was also impressed with the rapid pace of vaccine development. If anyone had asked scientists in January when the genome of the Covid-19 virus was first published, whether 11 months later two huge clinical trials showing such effectiveness and safety of new vaccines would have been completed, “no one would have said that was possible,” Offit
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Egyptian Star Faces Lawsuit For Having Picture Taken With Israeli Egyptian singer and actor Mohamed Ramadan is facing a lawsuit after posing for pictures with Israeli celebrities in Dubai. A hearing is scheduled for Dec. 19, the Egypt Independent reported on Monday. Emirati journalist Hamad al-Mazrouei originally posted the picture of himself, Ramadan, and Israeli pop star Omer Adam on Twitter. Al-Mazrouei commented on the photo before deleting it from Twitter: “The most famous artist in Egypt with the most famous artist in Israel, Dubai brings us together.” Before it was taken down, the photo was picked up by Israel’s official Arabic-language Twitter. Other pictures, of the Egyptian star posing with Israeli actor Elad Tesla and soccer player Dia Saba, also went viral. Ramadan is a very popular figure in the Arab world. The Egyptian Syndicate of Artists announced on Monday that it was suspending Ramadan pending an investigation, Ahram Online reported. Ramadan must return to Egypt for questioning by a union committee before the first week of December, the syndicate stated. (JNS)
Israeli singer Omer Adam (left) in a picture with famous Egyptian singer and actor Mohamed Ramadan (center). (Source: Twitter)
Netanyahu To Visit Bahrain ‘Soon’ As Crown Prince Salman’s Guest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday that he had accepted an invitation from Bahraini Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa to visit the Gulf state. No date was set for the visit, with the Israeli premier saying only that it would be “soon.” The two leaders held their second-ever talks on Monday, focusing on the strengthening of bilateral relations between their respective countries, according to a statement from Netanya-
hu’s office. The Israeli premier characterized the discussion as “very friendly.” “Both of us are very moved by the fact that we can bring peace to our peoples and our countries in a very short time,” said Netanyahu, adding, “Therefore, he also invited me to make an official visit to Bahrain soon.” Netanyahu said he would take great pleasure in making such a visit on behalf of all citizens of
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Minister Netanyahu and Crown Prince bin Zayed. There is every likelihood that the work of these two leaders, which continues, will encourage further Middle Eastern states to join them in normalising relations, leading to much needed prosperity and peace for peoples across the region.” In conclusion, Trumble wrote that despite resistance from the Palestinian leadership, the “changing paradigm” in the region resulting from the Abraham Accords stood the best chance of encouraging the Palestinians to reach a lasting accommodation with the State of Israel. “I know from my own experience how dangerous, damaging and corrosive are decades of violent ill-will between close neighbours and I wish for nothing more than to see peace between Israelis and Palestinians. I believe this comes within closer reach as a direct result of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s and Crown Prince bin Zayed’s leadership. “Award of the Peace Prize will not only recognise the achievements of these men, but will also serve to encourage a widening and deepening peace in the Middle East. I strongly urge governments everywhere and international bodies such as the United Nations and European Union to play their own roles by supporting and advancing the foundations laid by Prime Minister Netanyahu, Crown Prince bin Zayed and the others involved in the Abraham Accords,” he wrote. (JNS)
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Lord Trimble explained that he was nominating Netanyahu and bin Zayed “in recognition of their historic achievements in advancing peace in the Middle East.” Noting that U.S. President Donald Trump “has already been nominated for the prize for his contributions to this cause,” he said that therefore the Israeli and UAE leaders deserve the same recognition. He went on to state: “Despite decades of intensive efforts, until now peace between Israel and Arab nations has proved elusive. Four major wars have been fought between Israel and Arab states, and Israel has been subjected to countless terrorist attacks, leading on four further occasions to major conflicts between Israel and Palestinian Arabs. “In the 72 years since the foundation of the modern State of Israel in 1948, until recently only two Arab countries made peace with Israel: Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994. In the last few weeks, three more countries, the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Bahrain and the Republic of the Sudan, have all agreed to normalise relations with Israel: the first such peace deals in 26 years. “These far-reaching achievements are the result of the courageous leadership, diplomatic energies and relentless pursuit of peace by Prime
Israel. The Israeli prime minister’s talk with the Bahraini crown prince comes a day after he made an unannounced flight to Neom, Saudi Arabia for talks with Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Yossi Cohen, the head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, also participated in the meetings. (JNS)
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POLITICS ANDPolitics CULTURE American and Culture masks played a significant role in bringing its curve down. And it’s true that this is one of the rare charts in which that story at least has a surface plausibility. The problem is that there’s a right-hand side to that chart now:
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Do Facts Matter? I wanted to share a few charts with you. The heroic Ian Miller (@ianmSC) has more of them. The CDC credited masks with bringing down Arizona’s curve. Is it planning a follow-up statement now? (I’m just playing with you; we already know the answer.) And here’s New Mexico as well, for good measure:
And finally, here are three states that believe in science! That’s funny: I guess by an interesting coincidence they all just abandoned their sciency strategies at exactly the same time (because, remember: rising case counts are always somebody’s fault!): In short, the world looks nothing – as in nothing at all – like it should if the cartoon version of the virus and the government responses were correct. And yet people continue to believe it. And not only do they believe it: but they shame and condemn you if you don’t believe it. Why,
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Then there’s Minnesota, which has had all kinds of crazy restrictions, and Florida, which was mostly open for a while before becoming completeTHE LIBERTARIAN ly open on September 25. Isn’t it odd that their LINE case counts are the opposite of what the hysteria Friday, November 22, 2019 The Jewish Press Page 11 BY TOM WOODS would lead you to expect?
Here’s New Jersey. The governor there said Tom Woods is host of The Tom Woods Show, and the author of 12 books. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. His e-books are available at TomsFreeBooks.com.
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America Last? Here we are in the midst of the second wave of a once-in-a-half-century pandemic, with the economy flattened and millions of Americans unemployed, and Joe Biden says that one of his highest priorities as president would be to… reenter the Paris Climate Accord. Trump kept his America First promise and pulled America out of this Obama-era treaty. Biden wants us back in – immediately. Why? Paris is an unmitigated failure. You don’t have to take my word for it. National Geographic, a supporter of climate change action, recently ran the numbers and admits in its recent headline: “Most Countries Aren’t Hitting 2030 Climate Goals.” That’s putting it mildly. Most haven’t even reached half their pledged target for emission reductions. Robert Watson, the former chair of the InterStephen Moore is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation and an economic consultant with FreedomWorks. He is the co-author of “Trumponomics: Inside the America First Plan to Revive the American Economy.”
you’re “selfish”! I’ll never forget, earlier this year, when people protested lockdowns because their livelihoods were being destroyed, everything they’d devoted their lives to was being taken away, and their kids were suffering very badly – and the lockdowners, being the compassionate lovers of mankind they always claim to be, responded: “You just want a haircut, you selfish person.”
governmental Panel on Climate Change, laments, world superpower status away from the U.S. The “Countries need to double and triple their 2030 re- China 2025 plan for technology domination doesn’t duction commitments to be aligned with the Paris involve switching to expensive and unreliable entarget.” ergy sources. Its plan is to goad the U.S. into doing Gee, this sounds like a treaty we definitely that. should be part of and pay the bills for. The tragedy of all this is that we have a clean The one country making substantial progress in and efficient source of energy. Thanks to the shale reducing carbon emissions is the U.S. under Pres- oil and gas revolution, the cost of fossil fuels has ident Donald Trump. fallen by 70-80 percent Even though our gross – and the costs will condomestic product is way tinue to fall thanks to The communists in Beijing are up over the past four the superabundance of years, our carbon dioxthese energy sources. obsessed with seizing world superpower ide emissions are down. The U.S. has more status away from the U.S. Our air pollution levels fossil fuel energy than and emissions of lead, virtually any other nacarbon monoxide, and tion. We are technologother pollutants are at record-low levels. ically ahead of the rest of the world in drilling proMeanwhile, Beijing is far and away the largest ductivity and have become a net exporter. polluter. Year after year, it makes hollow promisGas is the planet’s wonder-fuel. It should be the es to stop climate change while it builds dozens of 21st-century power source. It makes no sense econew coal plants. India and its one billion people are nomically or ecologically to switch to windmills and hooked on coal, too. solar panels – unless you are an investor in these Here is Paris in nutshell: We put our coal min- expensive 19th-century energy sources. ers out of work and cripple our $1 trillion oil and Across the globe, world leaders are overjoyed gas industry while China and India keep polluting that under a Biden administration, the U.S. would and laugh at us behind our back. reenter the Paris Accord. Why wouldn’t they be? These nations have bigger and more immediate We pay the bills. We hang our booming free market development priorities than worrying about cli- economy on a cross of climate change regulation. mate change models and their guesstimates of the We pretend that the world is complying – when global temperature in 50 years. their actions speak much louder than their words. China has much deeper and sinister ambitions. We trust, but we don’t verify. Those don’t involve cleaning up the planet. The To rejoin the Paris Climate Accord would be to communists in Beijing are obsessed with seizing replace America First with America Last.
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us to back Bill Thompson in that contest. agement. November 27, 2020 The Jewish Press Page 7 We have long admired Mr. de Blasio forFriday, his quick Another major responsibility of the comptroller mind, signature open-mindedness and profound is the auditing, vetting and investigating of virtualsensitivity to the plight of New Yorkers of all back- ly anything involving government spending. Here grounds and stations in life. We were particularly again, a cooperative spirit among the comptroller, taken with his understanding of our community’s the mayor, and other public ofcials is essential, religious needs and the need for their reasonable with clear understanding as to where the jurisdicaccommodation. tional red lines lie. Indeed, The Jewish Press enthusiastically supMr. Stringer’s credentials readily recommend ported him in his past races for City Council and pub- themselves. lic advocate. But all the talk of New York as a “tale of two cities” and of “taxing the rich” to pay for everBrooklyn District Attorney increasing spending made us wary. It also obscured Weinberger’s thesis, though, has been discredited Jonathan Pollard was sentenced to life in prison some of the important, practical things he was sayThe Jewish Press urges the reelection of Charles the years by statements elected cials for over military and secrets over inghanding about the cityU.S. having to pay itsintelligence bills and prudentJ. Hynes as Brooklyn district from attorney. Mr.offi Hynes reviewed classifias ed Brooklyn portions ofDA theand prosecutors’ to years ago, when he was released after who ly Israel. prepareFive to face a looming scal crisis. is a 24-year veteran has more On such core many social believed issues asthat abortion, thanfiearned being returned to of ce. Over the le and revelations that the damage Pollard serving 30 years, meantsame-sex he would case marriage and “stopBut andhefrisk,” Mr. He de Blasio’s posi- was yearssaid he has transformed the likely reputation of the ofto have caused was caused by Albe cut some slack. was not. was released tions parole hardly restrictions differ from those of his Republican op- drich ce toAmes. where(Ames it is now rst choice of who many of was athe high CIA official was with – which finally ended last ponent, Joe Lhota – as Mr. Lhota himself acknowlthe most talented young lawyers seeking work in week – that prohibited him from traveling to Israel. charged with treason for giving critical defense edged in hisreaders campaign commercials. Of course, law enforcement. 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It approaches is hard to fathom why the U.S. Andde theBlasio life sentence was also a violation a plea or Mayor would be indifferent to any of increasinitiated to crime prevention, thought that travelwithout by Pollard posed bargain struck between es in crime, as some have Pollard claimed.and prosecutors; government such as rehabilitation programs incarcerathe achieved United States after his having theJoe sentencing judge unilaterally decided on any Lhota has served the public welltoasrely MTA tion,risk thattohave remarkable results in been comand before that as Rudy Giuliani’s budbating up recidivism. in federal prison for 30 years. achairman secret memorandum written by then Secretary of locked get director and deputy mayor. But he never reHe has also closely with Indeed, we attempted were baffltoedwork by the statement isDefense Caspar Weinberger who argued that Pollard Continued onBrookp.81 ally connected with the voters and made his case. lyn’s diverse groups, including the Orthodox, in a cohad caused more damage to American national secuMr. than de Blasio, on the other hand, connected – operative effort to bring downContinued crime rates. on Thisp.73 has rity any American spy in U.S.has history. big time – as evidenced by the lopsided polls in his involved taking into account the differing social dyfavor. He is likely headed for a historic victory on namics of the various communities in an effort to November 5 and will have an unusual mandate to maximize effectiveness of investigation and proselead the city. cution. The approach reflects a hard-nosed assessBill de Blasio has the intelligence, compassion ment about what it takes to enforce the law in manand innate good sense to be a great mayor and take ifestly different circumstances across the borough. our city to new heights. The Jewish Press calls on Mr. Hynes’s opponent, Ken Thompson, brings its readers to vote for him on November 5. much to the table: he has many good ideas and has had important crime ghting experience as an assisComptroller tant U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, but he is relatively conclusion. But I won’t belabor thetime The Have Won Scott care interview young and his willElliot come.Resnick’s For now, Mr. Hynes TheSoviets Jewish Press endorses M. Stringpoint. He wants girls to be more The Trump team’s focus on with Bruce Abramson regarding hatov er for comptroller. He is admirably suited for the deserves reelection both in terms of hakoras open, lessOne picky, on dates, election has overshadowed the credibility of and election fraud for what he has done for Brooklyn the Jewish ofce byfraud dint of experience and demeanor. of happier community, and for theam experience and accumulated responsibilities of the is the to and encouraged compromise. the major crushing blow to freedom ofcomptroller and unable to agree with the he both will bring to theassertion next four that yearsPresident as Brookoverall and management of has the been ve municipal-worker Those are all good wisdom ideas – for speech thought that latter’s chieflike prosecutor. union pensionbyfunds combined assets of ap-Butlyn’s and boys. I would to Trump’s claims should be taken orchestrated socialwith media gi- girls proximately $141 billion. As Manhattan borough ants and their “progressive” allies suggest something additional: seriously. president Mr. Stringer has served as a trustee for Continued on p.67 Older boys should give more in the mainstream media. The operative word here is How many tens of thousands girls a chance. Rejecting a profile “seriously.” It is a well-established of Biden supporters would have is not hishtadlus, and in most maxim that the courts are availvoted for Trump if they had, for cases, the profile is not the person. able to anyone who has a claim. To be considered publication, letters must be typed. Letters chosen publication may, at the editor’s discretion, be What harm is for there in meeting example, heardforof the investigaHowever, notwithstanding that shortened and/or edited for greater clarity. All letters must be signed – The Jewish Press does not publish anonymous tions of Biden’s connections with a prospective life-partner for a cup right, for claims to pass muster in letters. Letters should be e-mailed to letters@jewishpress.com. Opinions expressed in the Letters section are those ofeditorial coffeepositions for half anJewish hour? What our court system, the party raising Russia and China? of our readers and do not necessarily reflect the of The Press. During the Cold War, Sovi- has an older boy (man?) gained the claim has to produce evidence at a profilethan and the thinket PremierHonesty Nikita Khrushchev by looking it. Modern Orthodox Whither More problematic ap- supporting While many “not for me” without actually banged his shoe on the table at ing Mr. Abramson quotessuch Sidney And Ethics? athy, of course, is the proliferation Jews used to characterize bepointing to something definite theReader UnitedAvner Nations, declaring, Powell alleging that Dominion Bloch (Letters, of frum Jews who have no com- havior as a phenomenon found alContinued on p.81 he didn’t “We willrightly bury you.” Systems –inwhich managed Oct. 25) condemns the wide- that punction aboutlike? cheating, stealing, Voting most exclusively the haredi secspread frum Jews to lying, andunderstand what have you, usually tor, such avoting characterization is no I can to some de- electronic Theapathy threatamong was unnecessary. in many states the seemingly never-ending series gree to make money in an illicit true (if everback-door was). The him not finding thefashion girl’s –longer We have buried ourselves. Walkis faulty andit has Letters our chosenbut foralso publication at misdeeds the editor’s discretion, of scandals that has of engulfed to cover may, up(enough). the attractive But programs enabling remote access ing in the tradition Soviet to- picture be shortened and/or edited for greater clarity. All letters must be signed – The Continued Jewish Presson p.67 community in recent years. of friends and neighbors. talitarians, the left has complete we all know that unattractive girls to the vote tally. It’s technically does not publish anonymous letters – and e-mailed to letters@jewishpress.com. dominance of the mainstream also manage to get married, per- feasible, he says, but how serimedia, social media, public educa- haps because of their personality ously are we to take this allegation, academia, the FBI, and the and other attributes. tion when even Mr. Abramson So I am making a plea to older concedes that he has “no specific massive Washington bureaucracy. David Ferster boys: Please don’t hide behind that experience with the Dominion simple “not for me” excuse. If you System.” are required from heaven to meet Feasibility is not evidence. It’s Older Boys: a certain number of girls before feasible, for example, that there Give Girls a Chance Re “Do Older Girls Really Want you get married, why wouldn’t you will be a cure for each and every to Get Married?” (November 20): try to meet as many as you can, cancer, but no scientist would The anonymous author of this as soon as you can, so you finally claim that such cures will definitively exist one day. article suggests that the answer reach the required number? You might be surprised. Line Unproven claims, such as those is no based on his experience of girls not jumping at the chance them up, reserve a table at your advanced by the aforementioned to grab him. Apparently, if girls favorite Starbucks, and I will pray and recently-sacked attorney are willing to pass him up, they for you. Sidney Powell – part of Trump’s must not be sufficiently desperate Yechiel Feuerman “truly great team” whom Mr. and therefore older girls must not Teaneck, NJ Abramson invoked regarding really want to get married. rigged election claims – must be While I feel sympathetic for Sorry, vigorously rejected. the author to some degree, his There Wasn’t Fraud Continued on p.72 experiences hardly support his I read with great interest and
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Saeb Erakat, Not Just A Victim Of Covid-19 By STEPHEN M. FLATOW Saeb Erakat, a member of Yasser Arafat’s negotiating team, died from Covid-19 earlier this month. The fact that he died in an Israeli hospital tells us something about the man himself, but doesn’t explain anything about his advocacy on behalf of the kleptocrats he worked for, the disservice he may have done to the Palestinian cause, or the part he played in bringing about his own demise. Erakat was held in esteem by many on the Israeli left and, of course, by the peace processors who controlled U.S. foreign policy during the Clinton and Obama administrations who believed then, and now, that Israel giving up land is the only way to bring peace to the Middle East. I never met Erakat in person. I was told by the late Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 that Arafat, “was, is, and will always be a terrorist, and was surrounded by terrorists.� So I counted Erekat in that crowd and had no desire to meet him face to face. But I did get to “know� Erakat on Twitter. Erakat’s repeated Twitter refrain was “two states 1967 borders.� Was he being nuanced? Was he inviting a reply from Israelis? No, that was simply his position. Stephen M. Flatow is a vice president of the Religious Zionists of America, an attorney in New Jersey and the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995. He is the author of “A Father’s Story: My Fight for Justice Against Iranian Terror.�
Never once did Erakat say the Palestinians were ready to sit down with their counterparts in Israel to reach a negotiated agreement. And he never passed a chance to take a swing at Israeli policies or outright lie. A more recent anti-Israel slander from Erakat was his announcement on March 20 of this year that Israelis were “spitting on Palestinian cars and property in order to transfer the Corona disease to them.� Before his hospitalization at Hadassah Medical Center, he became fixated on the death of his nephew Ahmed Erakat. Ahmed was killed following his attempt to kill Israeli guards at a Jerusalem checkpoint by ramming them with his car. Israeli policy is to not return the bodies of terrorists to their families. Erakat’s hypocrisy was on full display in one of his last tweets: “For the 108th day Ahmed Erakat’s body remain held by the occupying power (Israel), not allowing us to bury him like what all humans do when their loved ones die. He was murdered June 23rd. This is not who we are as human beings. These are is not our value. They still jail 66 bodies.� No mention from Erakat of the bodies of two dead IDF soldiers or two Israeli captives being held by Hamas in Gaza. No urging that his fellow Palestinians allow Israeli parents to bury their sons. Erakat had previously suffered from pulmonary fibrosis and received a lung transplant in the United States in 2017. And when Erakat became
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ill with the Covid-19 virus, he didn’t seek treatment at a Palestinian facility. He wanted to go to Hadassah Medical Center. No doubt, an Israeli hospital is better equipped than any of the PA’s hospitals. But the question is: Why? It’s not because Israel prohibits the PA from training doctors. It doesn’t. And it’s not because some Israeli blockade prevents the PA from importing medical equipment. There’s no such blockade. Rather, it’s because the PA prefers to spend its money on guns, not butter. Or, in this case, guns and terrorists’ salaries, not ventilators. The PA has 65,000 policemen on its payroll. It has one of the largest per capita security forces in the world. According to one source, more than $1 billion on those forces was spent in 2018. Another big chunk of the PA’s annual budget is used to pay imprisoned terrorists and the families of dead terrorists. In 2017, the PA paid $160 million to terrorists in Israeli prisons, and another $183 million to terrorists’ families. Imagine how many Palestinian Arab lives might have been saved if the PA had spent even a fraction of that money on medicine and equipment to combat the novel coronavirus. In the end, despite his treatment at Hadassah, Erakat died. He was done in as much by the policies of the Palestinian leadership of which he was a part as by Covid-19.
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Nuremberg’s Universalism & Noble Aims By MELANIE PHILLIPS
This past weekend marked 75 years since the start of the Nuremberg tribunals, which tried leaders of Nazi Germany for their part in the Holocaust and other war crimes. A clear line links these tribunals to the current possibility of an investigation into Israeli “war crimes” by the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court. The Nuremberg tribunal – drawn from the victorious allies after the Second World War – was the first international criminal court in history. It held these Nazis to account for the newly created crime against humanity, as well as for other atrocities. The principle it enshrined – that all of humanity would be guarded by an international legal shield – laid the foundations for modern international criminal law. But this noble principle was fundamentally flawed. Its visionary architects, such as the eminent British lawyer Hersch Lauterpacht, thought the way to save Jews and others from persecution was to trump national sovereignty by holding oppressors to account through international tribunals. Others, however, such as the Lithuanian-born lawyer Jacob Robinson, fruitlessly warned that this was a trap because only national sovereignty would safeguard the Jews. “The basic guarantee of Jewish Melanie Phillips is a British journalist, broadcaster and bestselling author. A longer version of this op-ed first appeared on JNS.
freedom is the democracy of the country where the Jews live,” he maintained. The flaw in international law is that it is based on supposedly universal values. But the values that stand against savagery or dehumanization are not held universally. They are the specific product of Western societies and are based on the Hebrew Bible. By superseding national sovereignty, human-rights universalism was bound to be innately hostile to the Jewish people, whose singular culture is always in the way of universalizing doctrines. States gain power over others if they form like-minded blocs. And since the majority of the world’s states are despotic, corrupt, or murderous, any institutions that bring them together will create a force not for justice and freedom, but for injustice and persecution. That’s why transnational institutions such as the United Nations or the International Criminal Court fail to hold to account the worst human-rights violators in the world, such as Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and scores of others, and instead train their sights on democratic, human rights-obsessed Israel. And that’s why international law has become fashioned into a weapon against the Jewish people. The International Criminal Court is expected soon to rule on a request by its prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, for her to investigate allegations of Israeli war crimes. Earlier this year, Israel’s former attorney-general, Professor Elyakim Rubinstein,
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What About Jewish Refugees From Arab Countries? By JAMES SINKINSON When the mainstream media and United Nations refer to refugees in the context of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, they’re usually referring to so-called Palestinian refugees. Rarely do they address the hundreds of thousands of Jews who were forcibly exiled from their homes and communities in the Middle East and North Africa during the mid-20th century. While many, if not most, Palestinian refugees only arrived in their new homes in the Holy Land during the previous century, Jews lived in places like Iraq for more than 2,500 years. In fact, the Jewish presence in the wider Middle East predates the rise of Islam, as well as the Arab conquest, occupation, and colonization of the region, by more than 1,000 years. In the early part of the 20th century, some 850,000 Jews lived in what is today known as the “Arab world.” However, today there are no more than a few thousand Jews left in that region. In other words, their disappearance was one of the most successful ethnic-cleansing events in modern history. In 2014, the Knesset passed a law mandating that November 30 would be the Day to Commemorate the Expulsion of Jews from the Arab Countries and Iran. On two separate occasions, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) ruled that Jews
James Sinkinson is president of Facts and Logic About the Middle East (FLAME). A longer version of this oped appears o JNS.
who fled from Arab countries were bona fide refugees who fell under its mandate. Many of the most pertinent and relevant resolutions on the conflict that reference refugees – including UN General Assembly Resolution 194 and UN Security Council Resolution 242 – do so without defining the type of refugee. That means such resolutions – whether referencing compensation or assistance – can and should also apply to Jewish refugees. Meanwhile, there have been 172 resolutions specifically on Palestinian refugees, 13 UN agencies and organizations mandated or newly created to provide protection and relief to Palestinian refugees, and tens of billions of dollars disbursed by the international community to provide services and assistance to Palestinian refugees. During that same period, the United Nations offered no specific resolutions, no support by UN agencies, and no financial assistance from the international community to reduce the suffering of Jewish refugees from Arab countries. Unlike Palestinian refugees, the Jews from Arab countries were not involved as combatants, Jewish leaders did not call for the destruction of the countries they lived in nor the annihilation of their inhabitants; they were not even in a theater of war. Overnight in 1946 – two years prior to Israel’s declaration of independence – thanks to a decision by the Arab League, all Jews in member states were considered enemies. Their citizenships were revoked, their bank accounts were frozen, tens of thousands were thrown out of certain professions, and many were imprisoned simply because of their identity.
While the number of 1948 Palestinian refugees is around two-thirds of the number of Jewish refugees, the difference in personal and communal assets is stark. Although the average Palestinian refugee was rural and had few assets, the Jews of places like Baghdad and Cairo were urban, cosmopolitan, and wealthy. According to research undertaken by an international accountancy firm, the total assets of these dispossessed Jews in today’s currency would be worth around $250 billion. In 2009, the U.S. Congress passed a bill recognizing the plight of the Jewish refugees, noting that for any “comprehensive Middle East peace agreement to be credible and enduring, that agreement must address and resolve all outstanding issues relating to the legitimate rights of refugees, including Jews, Christians and other populations displaced from countries in the Middle East.” The U.S. resolution encourages the president and administration to mention Jewish and other refugees when mentioning Palestinian refugees in international forums. Israel took these refugees in and helped them be absorbed into their new-old home. This does not, however, mean their pain and suffering should be forgotten, or that redress should not be demanded. While some measures did refer to an international fund for both Arab and Jewish refugees displaced by the conflict, the issue remains on the sidelines. But in order for the Israel-Arab conflict to be resolved, the crime of ethnic cleansing of Jews has to be acknowledged and generous redress must be demanded and granted.
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My Mother, Irene Klass – 10 Years Later By Naomi Klass Mauer The years go by and I still want to pick up the phone and tell you something, Ma. Ten years don’t really mean anything to me. I still remember the last day of your life. My husband, Ivan, had just died and I was packing to take him on his final trip to Israel, the land he loved so much. My sister, Hindy, called me on the phone and said, “Mommy doesn’t look the same. Do you think you could just come over and take a look.” I immediately drove the two blocks from my house to hers. When I came in, I understood exactly what Hindy meant. My mother’s eyes were wide open and she was looking all around, seemingly with comprehension. For the last year, she had not been herself. Her eyes were always closed and she gave no indication that she was aware of anything. Hindy visited her every day and sat with her and talked to her, but there was never any response or expression. Seizing the moment, I said, “Ma, Ivan died and I am taking him to Israel to bury him.” Instantly, my mother started to cry and her breathing became very rapid. She had loved my husband, and every Shabbos when he would go to her house to make Kiddush for her, she would say, “Take my pulse, Doc, and he would comply and say, “Like a teenager mom.” And then they would see who could quote more Shakespeare. Mom usually won. Hindy said, “Maybe, you shouldn’t have told her that,” but I was overwhelmed. She had heard me and she had understood me and she knew who I was and she was reacting. I started to cry and Hindy did also, but she also called Hatzalah. They came and were very concerned about her rapid breathing and took her to the hospital. I went back home and prepared for the funeral of my husband. I was very sad. I knew that he could not continue to live the life he was left with after the second debilitating stroke. He, who had always taken care of everyone, had become totally disabled. But it was still very hard for me to part from him. After the service, we left for the El Al terminal and awaited the flight. As I was boarding, I got the call from Hindy, Mom had just died. In spite of all the heroics they tried on her, she was ready to leave this world and join my father who had died 10 years earlier. I think she felt that with Ivan in heaven, she would be taken care of. What can I write about my mom that I haven’t already written these past 10 years? I was recently cleaning out a drawer and I found a typewritten paper “WOMAN OF THE YEAR AWARD, IRENE KLASS.” I have no idea when this is from and who gave her the award, though she was honored a number of times. She never sought honor
Irene Klass, co-founder of The Jewish Press
or awards, but when it was for an important tzedakah, she couldn’t refuse. I started to read and decided that they said it perfectly and I will print what they said about her. “A journalist with an interesting, unusual, benevolent life-style that stresses relationships with other human beings, a woman possessed by Torah and G-d, Irene Klass says that her greatest ambition is to continue writing columns, editing the Woman’s page of The Jewish Press, aiding Jews in every part of the world, and being a good wife, mother and grandmother. She does all well. Irene Klass has published hundreds of articles, stories, poems, book reviews and column biographies of unusual men and women. She has said again and again ‘you don’t live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too,’ Speaking of her feelings for Israel, Irene says, ‘my heart always beats a little faster, and I experience a moment of inner joy, when I land in Lod Airport and feel the ground of Israel under me.’ She has reiterated that Israel is a wonderful country and that all Jews should refrain from negative emphasis, and take a more meaningful and positive attitude for our Holy Land. These feelings of hers are often reflected in the pages of The Jew-
ish Press. It is interesting to point our that Irene is a happy person because she enjoys her role in life and constantly preaches and lives the theme that happiness is the only commodity that multiplies by division. Married to Sholom Klass, Publisher of The Jewish Press, Irene has always enjoyed a closeknit family. Her dream for the future is to see Israel obtain permanent peace and enjoy its place in the society of nations. Her selection as Woman of the Year is well deserved.” There you have it. My mother was all that and so much more. She was a big baalat tzedaka (charity giver) and she was deeply religious and modest in dress and speech and conduct. I have tried all my life to model myself after her and to make her proud. Her memory will live on in all who knew her and the many who benefited from her generosity, but especially in the hearts of her children and grandchildren, and the great-grandchildren who knew her. And for those great-granddaughters, little girls named after her, she will serve as an inspiration. May her memory be a blessing. If anyone recognizes the event described above, please contact me and tell me about it.
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ment this month as “specially designated global terwith al Qaeda. The designation not only sanctions MJN’s assets but now allows President Obama to use a Bush-era military doctrine to capture Jamal terrorists overseas. The State Department document designating MJN as terrorists does not By mention Rabbi the BenBenghazi Packer attack. Director of the Jerusalem Heritage House This despite an October 2012 Wall Street Journal report that ghters afliated with Jamal’s group unable to convince the Saudis to officially estabparticipated in the Benghazi attack. lishEarlier relations with IsraelThe now. this month, Daily Beast quoted Despite many believe that it’satonly a matsources conthis, rming MJN’s involvement Benghazi. ter Recently, of time. The clearly evidentCouncil warming of unofa new UN Security resolution added MJN to itsbetween list of sanctioned Qaeda groups. ficial relations the two al countries seems Unlike the State Department description, the unstoppable. UN resolution details MJN’s alleged involvement Meanwhile, Bahrain announced it plans to in the attack on the U.S. special mission and nearopen anannex. embassy in Jerusalem and invited Prime by CIA Minister Netanyahu to visit of Bahrain in the resnear A UN narrative summary the sanctions future. Even most optimistic would have olution reads:the “Muhammad Jamalfolks set up a training in Libya where Libyan and quickly foreign Isravioto becamp pleasantly surprised about how lent extremists were trained. Some of the attackel, the UAE, and Bahrain have bonded – politicalers of the U.S. Mission in Benghazi on 11 Septemly, economically, and socially. It’s truly wild. ber 2012 have been identied as associates of Muhammad Jamal, and some of the Benghazi attackElections? Like It ers reportedly trained atLooks MJN camps in Libya.” Were you not told ahead of time quoted about NetEarlier this month, this reporter informed Middle Eastern cials saying it anyahu’s secret trip tosecurity Saudi of Arabia? Neither was fromnor thewas Muslim Brotherhood who was militants Benny Gantz Foreign Minister Gabi Muhammad Jamal from sprang terrorist leader Ashkenazi. That’s right, the prime minister of Isprison in 2011. technically at war with IsraelThe visited a country Muslim Brotherhood connection may serve rael and didn’t inform the defenserole minister as further evidence of an Egyptian in the beforeBenghand.attack. That is quite a high level of dysfunctional. hazi All indications are now pointing toward elecTurkey and Qatar Moving Away that tions in the near future. Some are suggesting From Friendly Relations With U.S. this could become official as soon as next week. It’s not only Saudi Arabia. Now major U.S. allies Benny an investigation into Turkey andGantz Qatarlaunched are discussing developing clospossible corruption by Prime er relations with Russia at theMinister expenseNetanyahu of Americoncerning the submarines Israel. ca, according topurchase informed of Middle Easternbysecurity ofIsraeli cials. police already investigated this situThe In aand shocking security of ation decideddevelopment, not to indictthe Netanyahu, but cials further said Qatar and Turkey are leading seGantz thinks there should be some more investicret talks to study the possibility of renewing relagatingwith – strictly for the of the country, obvitions Syria and Irangood in response to President ously. Obama opening dialogue with Tehran over its nuclear program. Polls continue to indicate a neck-and-neck Qatar and Netanyahu’s Turkey, alongLikud with Party Saudi and Arabia, race between Nafwere deeply involved in supporting the insurgentali Bennett’s “Yameena/Righward” Party for the cy targeting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s largest party in the Knesset if elections were held regime. Those countries are said to be some of the today. As mentioned in previous updates, Bennett biggest opponents of Iran’s alleged nuclear-weaproutinely polls well and then his support plumons aspirations. According to the security ofthis cials,time Turkey, mets on Election Day. Maybe will Qatar be difand Saudi are disappointed with ferent. We Arabia might find out in the next fewObama’s months. outreach to Iran and what they view as a U.S. failure to act militarily in Syria. Covid in Israel “They view America has losing major credibilithe of number ty,”With said one cial. of new Covid/Corona infections relatively under control most of Israel, The foreign ministers of Qatarinand Turkey, the of say, have a change thecials decision has been beenquietly made discussing to try to return all in attitude toward Syria and Iran along with closer students to school in the next two weeks. Some strategic Russia returned that couldthis include students relations (5th and with 6th grade) week weapons and oil deals. and 11th and 12th grades will return on Sunday. Last week, the Daily Mail reported Saudi AraSeventh through chief, 10th grade return shortly bia’s intelligence Princeshould Bandar bin Sultan, afterhis that. said country will make a “major shift” away from its relationship with theapplies U.S. inin protest of Obama’s However, this only “green” and “yeldialogue with Irancountry. and inaction in Syria. to this is low” areas of the The exception primarily in the Arab community where numbers remain high. Additionally, the number of infections is reportedly skyrocketing in Gaza as well as throughout the Palestinian-controlled areas of Judea and Samaria. It’s somewhat unclear what can be done to lower the numbers. Maybe they are waiting for Russia’s vaccine to save them. If Putin isn’t promising 100 percent effectiveness, you kind of got to wonder how effective it is. The update isn’t so funny this week, so I’ll end with a joke: Quebec.
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Hizbulah Behind Recent Terrorist Attacks Militants acting on orders from the Iranianbacked Hizbullah were responsible for a spate of killings and attempted terrorist attacks in Israel during the past month, according to information shared with this column from informed MidChanukah is coming up, but Quebec is refusing dle Eastern security ofcials. to engage in the holiday It has decided to aralThis past Friday, thespirit. Palestinian Authority low family for theofupcoming Christian rested twogatherings cells consisting Fatah militants in holiday but not who the Jewish one a few days earlier. the West Bank admitted upon interrogation to being recruited by worthless, Hizbullah to carry out More about this has-been of attacks a place Israel, security ofcialsattempt said. to use atagainst the end of thethe update. Quebec’s The ofcials said the cells were being directed by historical anti-Semitism to regain its former hisQais Obeid, an Israeli Arab and a grandson of fortorical importance is Diyab similarObeid. in certain ways to mer Knesset member Obeid defected the majority of the population of Quebec: ugly and to Lebanon and became a senior ofcer of Hizbullah. stupid. The ofcials further said Hizbullah directed the cells to carry out attacks in the name of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, thePollard militaryis wing of Fatah. Jonathan Free! The attacks were also to be carried out in the The big news in Israel this week is the freename of the Abu Musa Brigade, a small group based dom of convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. Of in Syria allied with Fatah. The ofcials said the Abu course, I’m not is going to write theany details of the Musa Brigade not known toall have serious excase here. can find those online. Just keep in istence in You the West Bank. this month, column rst reportmindEarlier that, unlike in thisthis news update, there is a ed that thenews Iranian-backed Hizbullah is what nancing lot of fake out there, so be careful you cells of the Al Aqsa Martys Brigades, the military read and believe. wing of PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah orAfter serving 30 years in prison and enduring ganization. another five years of severe parole said restrictions, The security ofcials, meanwhile, there is the U.S. government decided not to furtherwere exinformation that Hizbullah- nanced militants behind a spate of killings here in recent weeks. Spetend Pollard’s parole, making him a free man and cically,him the to ofleave cials New said York the jihadists allowing City andwere evenbeto hind the murder earlier this month of Israeli remake aliyah to Israel, which he is expected to do. servist Seraiah Ofer, who was bludgeoned to death Esther, is currently receiving atPollard’s his home wife, in Brosh Habika, in the northern Jormedical treatment in the U.S. for cancer and the dan Valley. couple haswere indicated once sheIsrael’s is wellShin enough There mediathat reports here Bet Service investigating a possible toSecurity travel, they willwas be coming to Israel. Prime crimMininal Netanyahu motive in that attack.spoke to the Pollards by ister recently The security ofcials said there is information phone and encouraged them to come to Israel as the Hizbullah-backed cells also carried out the deadsoon as possible. ly shooting last month of Gal Gabriel Kobi, who was Here’s supportsniper for Pollard breaks down killed by ahow Palestinian in the city of Hebron. Kobi had been on reserve duty during the Jewish demographically: holiday of Sukkot. • American religious Jews consistently supFinally, the of cials said is information ported Pollard’s appeals for there clemency and fairthat Hizbullah-nanced militants carried out a ness. There was a broad consensus within the drive-by shooting on Road 446 in the West Bank community that his an sentence andNo overall treatlast week targeting Israeli car. one was inment justice system was radically disjuredby inthe thatU.S. attack. proportionate and likely motivated at least in part Was The Muhammad Jamal Network by anti-Semitism. Involvedsecular/reform/conservative In The Benghazi Attack? Jews • American Is the State Department hiding the involvement hate Pollard and did nothing for him. One relative of an Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood-linked terrorofistmine said he should get attack? the death penalty even group in the Benghazi though he is personally against penalA new United Nations report the ties death perpetrators of He the also attack to theseem Muhammad Network, ty. doesn’t to think Jamal any other spies or MJN. should get the death penalty – just the Jewish one who spied for Israel. Aaron Klein is Jerusalem bureau chief and senior This is not an uncommon sentiment in the reporter for WorldNetDaily.com. He is also host American Jewish community. No wonder all the of an investigative radio program on New York’s psychologists always have tonstalk of work. 770-WABC Radio, the largest radio station the U.S., every Sunday between 7-9Israeli p.m. His •inRight-wing/religious/traditional Jews website is KleinOnline.com. regard Pollard as a hero and will celebrate his arrival in Israel. • Left-wing Israelis hate everything that rightwing Israeli Jews love – the Land of Israel, Judaism, and Pollard. Secret Saudi Trip News leaked out this week that Prime Minister Netanyahu discreetly joined U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for talks with government officials in Saudi Arabia. Another significant diplomatic breakthrough for sure; however, they were
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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer moved quickly Former Liverpool Labour councillor Jeremy last week to remove the Labour whip from former Wolfson, whose constituency was a hotspot for leader Jeremy Corbyn pre- meDia Watch Labour anti-Semitism, told a special report from pto alestinian vent him from taking his place the Jewish Press, “I welcome as a parliamentary Labour Sir Keir Starmer’s decision to MP. withhold the whip from CorThe move came a day after byn. The decision by the NEC Corbyn was reinstated by a to lift Jeremy Corbyn’s suspanel of five from the party’s pension was totally appalling National Executive Commitand upsetting to the UK Jewtee. Corbyn was suspended ish community.” from the party last month after he claimed the scale of anCases Rise ti-Semitism in Labour reportin Broughton Park ed in the Equality and Human While Covid cases in SalRights Commission Report ford in Greater Manchester was “exaggerated.” are falling generally, the JewThe NEC panel of five decidish area of Broughton Park ed to reverse Corbyn’s suspenbucked the trend last week, resion before a full meeting of the cording Salford’s largest numNEC on which Starmer supber of cases. A total of 64 peoporters now enjoy a majority. ple in the area tested positive Starmer made his decision Jewish Labour Movement parlia- in seven days – an increase to bar Corbyn from the La- mentary chair MP Dame Margaret of 73 percent on the previous bour parliamentary party af- Hodge week. ter Jewish Labour Movement Salford councillor Rabbi parliamentary chair MP Dame Margaret Hodge Arnold Saunders confirmed to The Jewish Press threatened to leave the party. that numbers were going up in highly populated
Jewish areas, but said he has no knowledge of law-breaking within the community. He did acknowledge that an illegal wedding took place a few weeks ago in a Salford warehouse – where some of the 200 guests erected screens to prevent them being seen – but noted, “The police said the people involved were from out of town.” Rabbi Saunders said North Manchester charedi Jewry has suffered one recent Covid death. “There are quite a few people isolating and some have Covid,” he said. “Virtually none of them are seriously ill. Most people have it very mildly and most are younger people.” He attributed the rise in the number of cases in the community to the prevalence of large families living in the same home. He said, “I know they are isolating, because they are phoning me, asking me what money they can get from the government,” adding, “I think most people are complying with the rules.” As the current lockdown comes to an end next week, synagogues will once again be able to open with restrictions. The opening up of places of worship comes after appeals to the government from the chief rabbi, the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, Manchester Machzikei Hadass, the Gatehead community, and various faith leaders.
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Does The Government Have The Right To Micromanage Our Lives? An Interview with Prominent Attorney Ron Coleman By Elliot Resnick Jewish Press Chief Editor As of last Friday, hosting more than nine peo- wasn’t allowed to dictate such matters. the kind of broad-based decrees you’re talking ple in one’s home is illegal in New York. Filling So did a lot of people, but just about every time about is just absolutely ridiculous. It’s got to stop. up a shul is illegal. Running a normal school is someone has brought this stuff up in front of judgIf the government can control how we illegal. Revealing your face indoors is often illegal. es, they just roll over and say, “It’s an emergency.” pray, when we can go to school, what we Making a living in many fields is illegal. Well, there’s no mention of an emergency in the wear, and whom we invite into our own Do American governors and Constitution. home, in what way are we a free people? mayors really have the authoriIt’s well understood that govI have no idea. As of right now, we really arty to unilaterally make all these ernment has police powers and en’t. There seems to be unlimited power that the rules? If they do, in what sense there are going to be emergen- judicial branch has completely failed to protect us are American citizens free? cies [during which you have to] from. You’re right. I don’t know in what way we’re The Jewish Press recently listen to the government, but it a free people. posed these questions and othdoesn’t follow that therefore all In April, many Americans were willing ers to Ron Coleman, a promithe things you listed are okay, to overlook the government’s harsh rules nent lawyer who is a partner that they’re okay without leg- because, in a place like New York, 700 peoat Dhillon Law Group, a gradislative action, or that they’re ple were dying a day and it truly felt like an uate of Princeton University okay forever and for no reason. emergency. Today, though, 35 people are dyand Northwestern University In the last couple of weeks, ing a day in New York – that’s a 95 percent School of Law, and a frum Jew. Justice [Samuel] Alito – who is reduction in deaths – and for a while we were Last month, Coleman filed known as the least likely jus- actually down to five people dying a day. In a lawsuit on behalf of several tice to comment publicly – went what sense, then, can the government claim rabbis in Rockland County, NY, public and said fundamental our situation is still an emergency? whose shuls were located in one liberties are being challenged The government no longer has to prove it. It of New York Governor Andrew by these lockdowns. That’s re- just has to keep asserting it. Cuomo’s restrictive Covid-19 ally a big deal, and we have to So what’s the solution? More legal action? zones. hope one of these cases makes Or is time to follow Martin Luther King Jr.’s The Jewish Press: What’s its way to the Supreme Court. example and proclaim, as he did, that followthe status of your lawsuit What specifically do you ing an unjust law is immoral and engage in against Governor Cuomo? hope the Supreme Court civil disobedience? Coleman: We’ve actually will do? To some extent, that has happened, but it dismissed that lawsuit without The Supreme Court has to hasn’t happened enough to really affect policy. prejudice – which means we can make it clear that [the ruling Also, we’ve seen that mass disobedience is tolerre-file it – because the facts on in] Jacobson – which is rou- ated and celebrated by the government when it’s Ron Coleman the ground changed so much. tinely cited by courts as stand- politically favored but sporadically punished by The governor and his gang ing for the authority that these the government when it’s not politically favored. changed the whole format of the lockdowns, and emergency powers can be used by state governSo it has to be a legal fight, and ultimately I we’re trying to see if we can take a different ap- ments – doesn’t [justify the current rules]. think it’s going to have to be the Supreme Court proach because the lawsuits [that have been filed Jacobson involved inoculations. If you didn’t making some kind of decision here. against Covid restrictions so far] have been over- get the inoculation, you had to pay a penalty. Some frum Jews believe many of the govwhelmingly unsuccessful. Judges have really re- It didn’t involve depriving you of your ability to ernment’s laws are unfair and even un-Amerfused to acknowledge that there are serious reli- make a living, it didn’t apply to where you go to ican, but hesitate to violate them openly gious liberty rights being infringed here. school or what you wear. It wasn’t this indefinite because they believe it would be a chillul When [the government started asserting un- rolling emergency situation, and it also involved Hashem. What’s your opinion? precedented peace-time powers] in March, we legislative action. Different people have different views of the were [assured that they would just last] a couple There’s no legislative action here. The legis- matter, and I’m not a posek. of weeks. Yet, here we are in late November and latures have given broad-based authority to the I do know, however, that things reached a nobody on the bench seems prepared to put any governors to act under point a month or two kind of limit on what these powers are. It’s a di- emergency powers on ago where the targeting saster for democracy. It’s a disaster for free speech the model of a statute of Orthodox Jews was so “There seems to be and free religion. that was designed after obvious and so shameAnd one of the things we’ve noticed is that 9/11 that the ACLU and less that it would have unlimited power that the when you file these lawsuits, the [government] most other civil liberties been a chillul Hashem in reads them and changes the way they’re doing organizations at the time my view to just sit down judicial branch has completely things based on how you attack them. opposed very strongly and take it. So people What do you mean? because they foresaw learned in secret and yefailed to protect us from.” For example, the most recent version of the exactly this kind of situshivos met in secret and lockdowns to a large extent has gotten rid of the ation. they covered their winfocus on frum communities [because of the lawThe ACLU isn’t doing dows with boards and suits brought against the government]. anything now, however, because it’s just a branch garbage bags. And that was a Kiddush Hashem. It’s more of a blanket prohibition – which in a of the Democratic Party, and for some reason the There’s no bigger Kiddush Hashem than that. way is less Constitutionally offensive because it’s Democrats have made [these lockdowns and rules] People have to behave themselves, but we’re not targeting a religious group. But on the other their “thing.” adults and adults are entitled to make adult choichand, it’s more Constitutionally offensive because Some state constitutions – including arguably es about what they do and where they go. No one it’s targeting all the free citizens who live in these New York’s constitution – say that the legislature who doesn’t want to go into a shtiebel or a Rebbe’s areas. can’t give the governor legislative powers. He tisch or a beis medrash has to go. Do governors and mayors have the right can’t take over its job. It’s called a non-delegation So the hashkafic question is one that I can’t to tell people how many guests they’re al- clause. possibly answer, but it’s an ongoing fight and I lowed to have for dinner, what they can Even if a state constitution doesn’t have a do think that it’s important little by little to push wear, where they can go to school, and what non-delegation clause, there are still separa- back in our conduct and do the right thing without businesses and shul may remain open? I al- tion-of-powers issues. The idea that a governor Continued on p.20 ways thought in America, the government can stand in the shoes of a legislature and make
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National Council Of Young Israel Slams Tlaib’s Tweets On Monday, the National Council of Young Israel (NCYI) condemned Rep. Rashida Tlaib for several tweets lauding the BDS movement and called on Congressional leaders to do so as well. On Monday, Tlaib tweeted, “Sec. Pompeo has moved to suppress BDS, a peaceful protest movement protected by the 1st Amendment” in response to last week’s announcement by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the United States would henceforth consider the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement anti-Semitic. “I hope that Mr. Blinken and President-Elect Biden’s Administration will change course from Trump’s State Department & not target or suppress support of Palestinian human rights,” she wrote. The previous day, she tweeted, “So long as he doesn’t suppress my First Amendment right to speak out against Netanyahu’s racist and inhumane policies,” referring to the announcement that Joe Biden intends to have Antony Blinken serve as his Secretary of State. “The Palestinian people deserve equality and justice.” Said NCYI President Farley Weiss: “As global anti-Semitism increases and hate crimes against
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Behind the News in Israel By Tzvi Fishman, Jewish Press Israel Correspondent
Otzma Yehudit Deal Sparks Uproar Sephardi Chief Rabbi Says Wigs Are Tainted By Idolatry Destroyed Carlebach Moshav Sivan Rahav-Meir
Rabbi Kahane from the Knesset in 1988, pushed elections in Israel, I suggest they come here to live, hardest for the controversial union. Prime Minis- serve in the IDF, and join us on shiva calls to Jewish them and toby burn allterror.” the wigs. The wig fromNetanyahu idol worship was transformed into forbid families victimized Arab ter Benjamin himself led the initiative, hardi rabbi of Israel, sent a letter to a colleague a “However, there a kashrut wig ofthe ‘hashkafa.’ who wore aparty kerchief In response after to thethat uproar overarose the union, Netfearing strengthAofwoman the new left-wing led organization that professed tohypocrisy assumeand authority strongly attacking the practice of women covering cover and her former head became a ‘Mizrachnikit,’ anyahu said, “Look at the left’s double by Yair Lapid IDF Chief of Staffpopular Benny TV The merger ofgroup Otzma – headed by for- of to An optimistic of Yehudit men, womLast week, journalist bridging the gap between Israel and in the center thefully country. standards. They condemn a then, right-wing bloc was that forcan Gantz. mer Kach activists – the with the Bayit and Diaspora Jewry. en, and children burnt-to-theJewish PressWhat columnist Sivan Joining group a atcharedi the recording over the Ramatter, and since the issue their hair with from a wig, arguing that HaYehudi wig hairs arethe while wore a wig and of the gentiles. prevent the Left’s ability to form while at Baruch Marzel, a longtimehav-Meir student of Rabbi KahNational Union parties triggered explosion concerned your ground of Mevo Modiim gath-an studio announced that gotten, she is headwasofthenonsense!” singer Yehuda Katz, and wordAre wentyou out thataitcoalition, wasabout possible to used inmoshav idol worship inhas India. the same time they work to include Islamic extremane and a leader in Otzma Yehudit, told The Jewish protest. children leaving home for a year ered this week in a Jerusalem studio to ing on shlichut to the United States for well-known for his upbeat repertoire Kikar HaShabbat, an Israeli charedi news site, He also argued that wearing wigs is immod- obtain kosher certification on wigs that have no istshusband, in the Knesset order a left-wing bloc Press, “We don’t delude ourselves into believing that (Her In aa letter Lichtenand in living intoa create foreign land? record small song ofstudents, hope, “WeRabbi Won’tMoshe with her family. of Carlebach Last week in who Petach est. “Women wear a a year suspicion of being connectreported thatto inhis his weekly Motzei Shabbat lec- hits. of their own.” Bibia suddenly decided to Yedidiya embraceMeir, our ideology. stein, co-rosh yeshiva of will Yeshiva Har Etzion, It’s only for a year. And I think Give Up,” praying that it go viral. is a well-known journalTikvah,wrote he joined group of has popular ture a month ago, Rav Yosef said, “I carefully re- regular hair covering are ed with idol worship. was simply to ist stay in power and pre- PressThe thatMembers anyone “who in any a His Jewishthey’re Press excited. asked For Libby them Kahane, it’s an advenRabbi himself.) The Jewish recently of thehelps moshav choirway tolda union Israeliwith singers in amotivation lively fundraising searched the matter, via several channels, and the “Nonetheless, the ready, gaon the true modest daughters election.” He cult glorifi es power andhas violence…will bear the vent the Left from winning the Kahane’s widow, forWe’re her reaction thethem brouhaha. ture. trying totoget spoke with her to added learn more. The that Jewish Press support been concert. HaRav Yosef Shalom of Israel. What did the Tothat as he soon as “I the elections are The over,Jewish the union be- “I don’t like the falsifications that appear in many responsibility for around the desecration Hashem“In thata will Press: pouring in from the globeof for strange way,” said, can’t rah mean byYehudi, ‘and the What stipulated that tween Bayit National Union,will andyou Otzma result when they sit in the Knesset as representa- help she replied. “My husband be Yedo- articles and speeches,”Eliashiv but thing thatloosen up anyas such only be of the woman’s hudit will dissolve. tives of religious Jewry.” never preached genocide, some kashrut journalists claim. inhair Heaven, Reb Shlo- head’? ing in America? “A woman a kerchief Yehudit, he said, stands for Israel being a He never called for theawarded Respected authorwho Rabbi wore Benny Lau said he would mo killing of on Arabs. favored isOtzma so happy that this Rahav-Meir: I give the He condition (Bamidbar 5:18). We learn Jewishthis state. “That true JewishTorah education even “go to war” to torpedo the union, asserting that catastrophe to Arab lands isthat bringing a weekly shiur in in transferring Israel’s Arab thatpopulation the kashrut supervifrom a means woman toYehudit fully cover headreminiscent became aof the Klal our schools, judicial based on that Jewish law, Otzma stands her for racism the country’s Jewish Yisrael together. I will be to safeguard Jewish lives sionand begin at the time of must cover aher hair system – for Jerusalem Judaism instead democracy as thebezrat constitution of majority. Nuremburg Laws. The kindness and ofgenHashem, the haircutting throughout reasons of modesty. Did the taking, ‘Mizrachnikit,’ charedi a erosity the nation, thefrom aliyah of all Jews from all over the In response, Rabbiwhile BaruchaKahane, sonwore of Kach “He didn’t hate Arabs – he loved Jews. Even when people all the stages leading to the Torahof intend the all modesty to Yeshiva University’s world, the defi is aCollege Jew?’ according founder Rabbi Meir Kahane, told The Jewish Press, over the and country, andnition all of ‘Who Stern in Man- he was outlawed from the Knesset, he didn’t abandon finished product. Without of a gentile wig? I am not wig of gentiles. nonsense!” to halacha.” “I guess thatthe means Joshua, What King David, Yehuda the over hattan. In addition, my his great love for the State. He continued to say Halthe world, has been this,teach no permission could be speaking now of halacha. I Asked for his to husband AIPAC calling Otzma Maccabee, and David Ben Gurion were all racists overwhelming. students that Mediand I will be lel on Yom HaAtzmaut and Likereaction we granted.” am speaking about common Yehudit “racistand andsisreprehensible,” Marzelextensively said, “AI- nat Yisrael was holy, even though its leaders misused too.” Otzma Yehudit is suing Rabbi Lau for slander. are traveling all brothers sense. This is modesty? PAC has a leftist agenda.This Before theyNorth interfere with their power in evil ways.” He argued that “hair Interestingly, Likud, which fought hard to expel ters, mamash.” around America, week, Israeoverwhelming majority of hair – if not all of it – is is Last which is called Russian, or rather thethe foolishness of spending Shabbatot in government allocated part of idol worship. I am 100 percent certain of lithe Brazilian, European, Arwomen who wear them.” Jewish communities, shekels tothis. A man who buys a peya nachri (a gentile wig) 80 million gentinian, and the like, also Last week, Rav Yosef ad- meeting people and the Rav restoration of talking about Israel and Sivan Rahav-Meir shouldn’t then wonder why he has troubles – be- ward dressed Gross directly, come from India by the way the displaced communiTorat Eretz Yisrael. hold he has brought idol worship into his home.” of merchants in India who sending him a 40-page halaty. Shoshana Sheiner, The World Mizrachi Movement, teaching them as much English as poschic letter explaining his distribute the hair to these In decrying the prevalent practice, the chief their moshav, which was founded in however, who has lived on the moshav which is organizing our shlichut, has sible before we take off. An Interview with Hazon Founder Haim Teitelbaum countries, where it isWhen sold stance (which was strongly rabbi chastised Rav Modechai Gross of Bnei Brak, Do you have a game plan? 1975 by Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach and for 38 years, is skeptical. “I will bearranged a full schedule of meetings as a product of the place.” advanced by his late father, a leading Ashkenazic authority, who said the popyou parachute into Los Angeles, devastated by a fire in late May that lieve it when I see it,” she told The and events. Rav Yitzhak this year. ular wigsstunned sold in residents Orthodoxwith stores are not tinted by “I In and a recent interview, former Sephardi Chief Rab- intoNorth normalcy intohow fascism, white, and noYosef one for example, are introduced to left the little Jewish Press. remember long black America is a earlier big place. By Tzvi Fishman stands up to oppose them. ToWhat them,can evenone intermarat aAvraham kiddush on Shabbat, more than thechief clothes onstated: their back it took before the evacuees from Gush couple from Israel someone bi Ovadia Yosef, as well). idolatry. The rabbi Rav Schlesinger, Jewish Press Israel Correspondent riage is aYosef virtue. how do stimulate a connecand“When a suitcase or two was of personal be- Katif resettled hope years to accomplish? for you Rav Mordechai Gross and Rav writes:in“Seventeen ago, it be- kashrut mashgiach the matter made known in thewere pastpermanently The time has come for the Jewish people in Zion tion? longings. new homes. Right now I only trust in As the saying goes, a little candle that the hair of these wigs came from practices came known that most of the hair of peyot nachri- Chanichei HaYeshivot, said the wigs certified by to comes rise upfrom and temples say “No!”inThere beup nothe for Over just two days, 120,000 people Hazon, ot Torah. That’sSpain, the common But the donations represent only a joined Hashem.” cancan light aroom room filledthem with come dark- from With India. There, heads China, Thailand, South of idol worship, many women stopped wearing poisonous distortions very wella social movement founded 2018,toafter one its are small percent of the vast sum in needed ness. Ourthe Sages teach that the redemp- denominator for all Jews, the cultural The of police still investigating thethat undermine them. This was very admirable. Suddenly, Rav of tens and tens of millions of idol worshippers America, and other locations, which he visits peof which our existence. advertisement was removed the Prima Park rebuild the community. Many offrom the 55 tion of Israel comes slowly, slowly, a glue that binds us as a nation. Both possibility thatsprings the fire, eruptriodically to make certain no hair Indiaand is (Hindus) in thelittle rites idol worship Gross comes along and grants permission, and Why isare Hazon a grassroots movement as the op-dawning Hotel in Jerusalem two ago. banthe Israeli Sabra from from Tel Aviv destroyed homes were notweeks covered byTheedgiant atof a time, like of day. on Lag B’Omer, was an actshaven of Arab intermixed them. Jews from Boca Raton, FloriThat year, ruling was to will once againToday, the“Afashion wasmother publicly reinstated. posed to an initiative leading rabbis? ner proclaimed: father and family. The (Buddhism). insurance. the still-dazed fire= aarson. Hopefully, our made example inspire re- in wealthy Shoshana harbors no doubts. “I ofthe Great spiritual leaders areligious gifts from heaven. courage to betemporarily normal.” The followingin day, in response victims are quartered couples from In Israel to become da, have the same starting point from Continued meantime,on wep.47 are makingshlichim sure thein voice Israto and boycott threats by radical leftists, the thecomplaints religious moshav of Chofetz Chaim thisofall-important goal of Sinai. That’s the pulse we all share. el’s majority gets heard. the hotel took down the ad. But many rabbis have come out in support of the Haim Teitelbaum, founder of Hazon alongside Rav Dror Aryeh of the Sederot Hesder Yeshiva, has movement: Rav Shmuel Eliahu, Rav Tzvi Tau, Rav filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against the Prima Shlomo Aviner, Rav Dov Lior, Rav Yehoshua ShapiPark Hotel and its advertising agency. “It’s outra- ra, and Rav Yaacov Ariel, to mention just a few. What’s new about your message? For many told The Jewish Press. “We didn’t get everything geous,” told Themany Jewish Press,residents “that a tiny mi- pletely destroyed. The infrastructure was severely This he Sunday, former of the nority can impose its beliefs over the overwhelming years, charedi rabbis have rejected Israel as Mevo Modiim devastated by a fire in May 2019 damaged as well. [The] agreement will pave the we wanted, but it’s the best deal we could achieve Interview Mechinot Program RabbitheYitzhak Nissim the forerunner to Mashiach in Head part because majority of Israelis who cherish theAn normalcy of the with found reason to say “Shehecheyanu.” The Hev- way for the residents to return and rebuild their without an endless battle in court. Jewish family, which has insured our existence from Torah doesn’t govern it. el Regional Council announced thatserve an homes.” “We wanted rightyou to what decidetowho can move Tzvi Yehuda Kook taught that the holiness is yelling theModiin beginning of time.” notRabbi different? at you,the telling do, sometimes Every 18-year-old boy and girl in Israel must agreement had been reached between the Israel She said, “While arson was suspected, the fire into the restored community, but we didn’t getand it. is not measured in the level Yiddishkeit Teitelbaum, 38,national is the father of But five is and lives in of Israel The IDF is founded on discipline. In of basic training, without any reason, compelling you to do exercises in the army (or do service). every high Land Authority and to theserve? the moshav not classified as an of so residents in addition to ourand houses, andhave houses of its individual citizens, but in terror, itsand enabling the dein- Right the settlement Migron. Aresidents reserve offiofcer in the chores now, until you are exhausted, you don’t the all soldiers go through theact difficult frequently school graduateofready Thirty years ago,IDF, the was gathering ofexperience the exiles and the resettlement Eretz he under Rabbi Sedan and Rabbi Yigal humanizing of learning how to takeoforders. luxury walking away. the developers are offering granting them license rebuild homes. left without governmental compensation. Be- for ourofgrown children, IDFstudied decided the legal answer to Eli thatto question istheir no, and thus were Yisrael, its defense of millions Jews, and its didn’t fulfi ll- contractors Levinstein, who was are called both outspoken of ToIn addition, with the advances we have The transition from was being a freeof and independent teenpre-army academies “mechinot” were born. their status never legalized, they The village established 45defenders years ago by cause to bid for all theofconstruction of 100 new ment of the Torah commandment keep rahThe values in Israeli society. achieved in protecting the rights oftownhouses. religious soldiers, director of the Mechinot 56 have private insurance or rightsto to theEretz plotsYisof units, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach and Program some ofand hisitsstuduplexes, and four-family The rael under national sovereignty. Thebut Jewish Press: What led to form Hait’s not easy to dati in Tzahal. To succeed, beginacademies isthe Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim, ayou former IDF tankon Prima Park Hotel promoting the dents, residents were never awarded of- land they lived on. Jewish Now there is a communal sigh Advertisement community is be being described as having aa tradiNow“Our that job physical Jewish settlement of the traditional zon? ning soldierfamily. needs The a lothotel of motivation. That’s job ist who still serves in reserve duty as a commander in is tototake groups of these removed ad the due to ficial legal right to live on the site, which cast a of relief tional religious lifestyle, so we hope tothe attract peoand athe reason sing once again. According Israel was to be aPre-MilJewish country has been fortified, the next phase of our re- pressure of religious mechinot. We strive to instill our students the Teitelbaum: Army Rabbinate. He alsoestablished heads the Elisha by radical leftists. ple who share our worldview. shadow on the chance of them returning to their to the agreement, 38 of the veteran families of the largely undisciplined, apathetic, must be strengthened by returning to our with a burning spirit of Religious Zionism, a love for state, but inAcademy recent years, foreign backed demption itary Torah near Neve Tzufelements, in the Shomron. area, between the moshav after thePress: fire. Howhave will be able to return as owners of their moral Torah culture. by great financial resources, waged war to alter moshav the “Unfortunately, Land practices of Israel, overathis the broad willunderstanding oflocated the vast majority of Jewish of The Jewish would you describe know-it-all kids and turn them into city of Modiin and the airport, has become very exHila Yerushalmi, who served as a mediator rebuilt homes and officially registered properties.” What exactly are you proposing? Arrest- Israelis the Jewish identity of the state. The Hazon Movewhodestiny, want Medinat Yisrael history and a spirit of idealism, to be and a miserut Jewish mechinot? the price of buying our new is between the regional council residents, Longtime moshav resident, Nechama Silver, pensive, women who dress Searching ment wasNissim: created to remind Amand Yisrael that thetold To- ingminiature state Jewish values. So institutions, nefeshwith for and the nation founded onall thepublic Torah andhomes Tanach. Rabbi Post high-school learning programs versions ofimmodestly? Yehoshua Bin Nun homes on forthe non-kosher rah isJewish the foundation ofinour Marriage, converandWhen the country’s culture must be into accord with the a young person the inner meanbefore one’s induction thenation. army. Secular mechinot of reach for us, so weunderstands are going need another The Press, “Forty out of the 50 homes on signed agreementfood? as a member of the resi- out andspeak Yehuda When we about the true Jewish identity sion, kashrut, Shabbat, and the sanctity of the kotel dents’ sacred traditions Torah and Torah law. ings of Am Yisrael, Yisrael, and Medinat Yisrael, focusmoshav on Zionism, character building, physical committee. “It’s aHaMaccabee.” Chanukah miracle,” she miracle along theofEretz way.” the were badly damaged and and others commust remain to Jewish tradition and Torah law Thatinmeans no becomes more permits for gay parades, no the IDF a privilege and not an obtraining whiletrue religious mechinot focus on Religious Zi- and a return to Torah values, we mean on a public serving in orderTorah, for Israel to fulfi ll midot its divine mission of being level. We are still a long way from establishing mod- government recognition of same-gender couples, no ligation. onism, Tanach, and along with strenuous esty patrols on whatever the streets. first to need to conduct a lighttiyulim. unto the nations. financial support, more in liberal lecager who does he We pleases being a disci- granting Once them the student begins hisno career Tzahal, group a national program of public education regarding the turers Since the family is the cornerstone of our nation, or curricula in remain the country’s public schools that soldier is a serious challenge for many people. does the mechinah in touch with him? We strive to strengthen a student’s emunah while plined modesty, theconditions honor due women,and andrigid. the contradict it must be preserved in Hashem’s holiness. A father, a mother, Torah noatmore government fundIn of addition, army aretoSpartan Absolutely. Forvalues, example, the Elisha Torah Acadkeeping him attached to down-to-earth man- laws like. can’t and children – this is as Jewish family seen normalcy, ing alternate brands of greater share You remain a spoiled kid in Tzahal. For many munity, emy,for that’s the full-time jobJudaism, of one ofaour [Torah inifestation in the world, most clearly in the not re- right now aside from the one you recently so we’ll probably voluntarily dismiss the Resnick What a person it’s does in first his or hertheir homesmartphones is his or her lawsuit. same-gender parenting. Who ever heard of such a dropped? of TV time he for visits Jewish programming, totalgraduates national structors]. every base wherea our of the youngsters, the time turn of Am Yisrael to its eternal homeland. Continued p.18it high business, but publicly – nationally there box is nofor room thing? In all from of nature, doesn’t exist. 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making a fuss. Are you currently involved in any other lawsuits related to Covid restrictions
Murphy of New Jersey, but Cuomo has made Murphy look like “The Great Emancipator,” so there’s a real lack of appetite to continue that lawsuit. He’s much more sensitive to the com-
in New State York Supreme Court on behalf of a construction safety association challenging the rationalization of Covid regulations. We have a hearing on that coming up hopefully.
Friday, November 27, 2020
Large Satmar Wedding Just Got A Lot More Costly
either ran unopposed or had minor party opposition. One bright spot for the Republicans in this election cycle is they defeated two freshman Democrats. From a seniority standpoint only 10 Senators, 8 of them Democrats, are in the upper house for more than 10 years. The average age of the state Senators is 50 years old, ranging in age from 30 to 81, and they stay in office an average of six years. After decades of criticism that the state Senate is only made up of old straight white men, the ceiling of a monolith gender-based, ethnic legislative body has been broken. This Senate session is shaping up to be one that includes the most diverse members from various cultures, ethnic backgrounds, religions and race. There will be 18 female Senators – and eight Jewish Senators, down from nine. State Senators and their ancestors hail from a veritable United Nations of countries including Guyana, Croatia, Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Puerto Rico, Taiwan, China, India, Costa Rica, Colombia, the Caribbean, Jamaica, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Ethiopia and other African countries. Over in the state Assembly, the expression “the
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influence in the Legislature,” State Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar told The Jewish Press. “They (the legislature) would have to be declaring war on the governor and most stuff gets worked out behind closed doors, which I don’t always agree with. The Legislature operates with a fly swatter while the governor operates with a pick axe.” Next up, Republicans and Conservatives are already interviewing candidates to try to unseat two powerful and well-financed statewide incumbents, Cuomo and senior U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (D – Prospect Heights, Brooklyn) in 2022.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New Israel-based Agriculture York City Mayor Bill de Blasio were more than Firm Wins New York Business Award just a little peeved with the Satmar community this week after news reports disclosed a secret Soos Technology, an animal science company wedding in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Sunbased in Kidron, Israel, was named the $1 million day, November 8 that allegedly had as many as grand prize winner of Grow-NY, a global food and 7,000 uninvited guests who heard about the event agriculture business competition. through word of mouth. Every year, commercial hatcheries around the The wedding celebration featured the grandworld produce 15 billion chicks: 7.5 billion are feson of the community’s Grand Rabbi Aaron Teitelmales that can lay eggs and 7.5 billion are males baum. The wedding was for Joel Teitelbaum and that have no commercial use and are therefore his bride Miriam. exterminated after they hatch. This Both top elected officials called the practice involves major animal sufjoyous occasion irresponsible, illegal, fering and abuse, and a huge waste immoral, a disgrace, disrespectful to of energy, water, incubation space, the community in the midst of a panand production capacity that could be demic and deceptive since the rabbinused to ensure better nutritional seic leaders are said to have promised curity globally, according to company not to hold such a ceremony which officials. could turn into a superspreader Soos has developed artificial-intelevent infecting attendees and others ligence-driven software that controls with the coronavirus. customized incubation cells affecting New York City Health Commisthe sex development process in chicksioner David Chokshi publicly conen embryos through temperature and demned the crowds at the nuptials humidity controls, CO2 (carbon dioxand leveled the Yetev Lev synagogue ide) levels and sound vibrations, acon Hooper Street with a $15,000 cording to the company profile. fine. Officials at a New York Fire DeThe competition requires that Chassidim dancing at the secret wedding on November 8. partment engine and ladder compawinners commit to operating in the ny next door turned a blind eye and Central New York, Finger Lakes or did not take any initiative to proactively investi- more things change the more everything remains Southern Tier region for at least one year, comgate the singing, dancing, shaking and jumping the same” aptly applies. Some new members were mitting to growing their innovative products and around in the bleachers by thousands of attendees elected, longtime incumbents were shockingly creating jobs in New York state. because they were not given any orders to do an defeated and a few seats flipped between Repub“With our Grow-NY prize money, we plan to inspection. lican and Democratic party representation. For create more than 20 high-paying research and enthe most part, however, the 150-member, Demo- gineering jobs in the next two years, by building Senate Democrats Crowing cratic-controlled, lower house is still firmly in the the NY Poultry Research Hub, which will connect Over Election Wins hands of the Democrats as the party is holding academic research with poultry startups and corSenate Democrats are likely to have at least a onto a supermajority with more than 100 seats. porations to commercialize validated research. 42-member conference when the new session beOne of the longtime incumbents who lost this We are thrilled to put down roots in the Grow-NY gins in January. The Senate session will begin the year was 76-year old Ellen Jaffee (D – Suffern, region,” SoosTechnology CEO Yael Alter said in a year with the most lopsided division in the cham- Rockland County), who served the Rockland Coun- prepared statement. ber’s history. Never before has the upper house ty Jewish community since 2006, often running “The innovations this company has helped had a veto-proof supermajority of one-party rule. unopposed. Jaffee will be succeeded by 34-year old drive are creating a lasting economic impact on The shift in power essentially occurred over a Michael Lawler (R – Pearl River, Rockland Coun- New York’s agribusiness as we continue our work two-year period. Since 2018 there have been 31 ty). Lawler tested positive for the coronavirus at to build our economy back better,” Cuomo said. new members elected to the 63-member legisla- the end of March. Coronavirus Update tive body with Democrats taking over traditionalWith the loss of Jaffee and another Jewish ly Republican-held seats throughout the state, as incumbent, David Buchwald (D – White Plains, Governor Cuomo says we are not experiencan aging GOP conference saw consistent losses as Westchester County), who ran for an open con- ing a second wave of coronavirus because in orlong-tenured members retired. gressional seat, there are now 21 Jewish members der for that to happen the virus must mutate In order to achieve their goal of gaining a su- in the state Assembly. One of those is new to the and attack as a new deadly disease. However, permajority, the Democrats needed to hold onto Assembly: Anna Kelles (D – Ithaca, Tompkins the death rate in New York resulting from ristheir newly-minted members and flip some seats County). ing coronavirus infections soared from 330 (11 held by retiring Republicans. In this month’s elecBoth houses can now override a gubernatorial deaths per day on average) in October to a protion, where one race is still undetermined, four Re- veto but some observers believe that will only be jected 760 deaths (25.3 deaths per day on averpublican-held seats from retiring members flipped a powerful weapon in an arsenal that will likely age) in November. to Democrats and two Democratic-held seats from never be used. Even though there is a stronger farCuomo explains the rise to more people travelretiring members were retained. Two Democrats left wing in both houses, Governor Andrew Cuomo ing to visit loved ones and the cold weather where elected in 2018 and 13 Democrats elected in 2019 played down any possibility of a revolt saying he gatherings are mostly indoors and maskless. all retained their seats. helped get many of these members elected and Cuomo cautions New Yorkers not to let your The Republicans, it turns out, did not appear has developed personal relationships with many guard down, maintain social distancing, wear a to put up much of a fight. In six races Democrats key members. mask and to battle virus fatigue. Do not get comfaced weak opponents who couldn’t raise much As the far-left from Democratic Socialists gain placent. money and could not articulate the law and or- more power in the legislature, the Conservative A vaccine for the general population is not der messaging some republicans found to be key Party is seeing their legislative ranks shrink. expected to be available for at least another six arguments for victory. Four freshman Democrats “The governor has a lot of methods of creating months. Stay safe. Stay healthy.
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‘We Need To Investigate And Prosecute Hate Crimes’ An Interview with Manhattan DA Candidate Tali Farhadian Weinstein By Baruch Lytle Jewish Press Staff Writer On Monday evening, Tali Farhadian Wein- security, justice. stein, who recently announced she’s running for I can always imagine…what my life would Manhattan District Attorney, interviewed histo- have been like if we had not left Iran. So, it was rian and award-winning author Deborah Lipstadt natural for me to build my career around wanting about her 2019 book Antisemitism: Here and Now, to deliver those things for other people. When I over Zoom as part of a virtual fundsee barriers to opportunities, I want raiser. to tear them down. And I try to bring During the event, Weinstein shared that sense of commitment to equality stories about anti-Semitism her family and to access to all of my work. experienced in Iran. “My father lived You served as a law clerk for in Isfahan,” she said. “As a kid, he both Judge Merrick B. Garland couldn’t go to school on rainy days beand later for Supreme Court Juscause they would say that something tice Sandra Day O’Connor. Name would wash off the Jewish students something you learned from Juswhen they were wet and get on everytice O’Connor that you cherish to body else and contaminate them.” this day. Weinstein asked Lipstadt how she Tali Farhadian She really modeled feminism in acwould define anti-Semitism. “There Weinstein tion. She was so committed to women was one scholar who said an anti-Semnot just being in positions of authority ite is someone who hates Jews more than is abso- but really leading. She used to say, “I’m glad to lutely necessary,” Lipstadt replied. “But, on some be the first [woman on the Supreme Court] but I level, it’s true. I can hate someone, but if I hate hope I’m not the last.” them one iota more because they are a Jew, or This was a person who when she left law school a woman, or they’re black – then I’ve gone from couldn’t even get a job, went all the way to the pinhate…into prejudice.” nacle of the law. It was really important for me as Lipstadt also observed, “The Nazi’s didn’t come a young woman lawyer in a very male profession into office in January 1933 planning to kill Jews. to have her as a role model as well as a mentor. It starts with words. Words count, words make a Most recently, you served at the Brookdifference. And then you escalate and you see how lyn DA’s office as manager of the Conviction far you can take it.” Review Unit and you led the design and creAfter the event, Weinstein took a few moments ation of Brooklyn’s Post-Conviction Justice to speak with The Jewish Press. Bureau. What fuels your desire for convicThe Jewish Press: Your family escaped tion fairness? from Iran when you were four years old Change begins with reckoning. That’s what I during the Iranian Revolution. After a peri- learned when compiling our first-of-its-kind reod in Israel, your family immigrated to the port detailing the reasons for our first 25 exonerU.S. in 1979. How has your life experiences ations, which added up to a staggering 426 years shaped your worldview today? of wrongful imprisonment. We must do more to Weinstein: My experience as an immigrant is deliver justice even after conviction. the framework in which I see everything. I never I want to bring both of these models – a Contook for granted the things my parents brought viction Review Unit and a Post-Conviction Justice me to this country to experience: fairness, safety, Bureau – to Manhattan and prioritize reviewing
Ritz Carlton Becomes First Hotel In Bahrain To Offer Kosher Food Last week, the luxurious Ritz Carlton Hotel in Manama, Bahrain became the first hotel in the kingdom to offer kosher food. “The Ritz Carlton, Bahrain prides itself on providing an elevated luxury experience for our guests at every touch point during their stay; in particular their dining experience,” said the hotel’s general manager, Bernard de Villèle. “Bahrain is unique as it already has an indigenous Jewish population, and since the recent normalization of relations, we are seeing a greater interest from Jewish and Israeli travelers, and we want to be able to provide The Grand foyer at Ritz Carlton Hotel in Manama, Bahkosher food for those who prefer this rain. option,” he added. The hotel is providing kosher food with fies more than 1 million ingredients in 10,000 the help of OU Kosher, which currently certi- plants in more than 100 countries.
wrongful convictions, addressing parole and clemency proceedings, promoting conviction sealing, and addressing excessive sentencing. New Yorkers are experiencing an increase in crime in 2020. Have our city leaders taken the best approach in dealing with this crisis? We were hit particularly hard in New York just with unbelievable trauma of the pandemic…. We need to focus on rebuilding trust with every community while also working to ensure every New Yorker is safe and protected. I think that what we need is to insist that we have leaders that are ready to act and respond to this crisis and to hold them accountable to that. Is the city doing enough to address the distinction between peaceful protesting and looting and rioting and to prosecute those who are wreaking havoc? Peaceful protesting is one of the things that we cherish the most. We have to hold on to the idea that speech is not a crime. I don’t think that looting is free speech – you have to be able to make that distinction and hold accountable people who destroy property, wreck our city, are parasitic and sort of piggyback on peaceful protesters to be destructive. Is the current system tough enough on hate crimes? How should the criminal justice system address hate crimes in order to fend off another rise in anti-Semitic violence in New York City like we saw in 2019? We can’t abide by this in our midst. When hate crimes present, we need to investigate them and follow through and prosecute them. And then we have to make sure that our prosecution is connected to other strategies of prevention. It’s not just about sending a message. It’s also about educating, understanding why people are developing the prejudices that lead them to commit these acts of hate and trying to rehabilitate them so we don’t get stuck in a cycle.
Sheriffs Fire Back At Governor Cuomo At a press conference on Monday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called New York sheriffs who refuse to enforce a new executive order limiting indoor gatherings to 10 people “dictators.” The sheriffs are not backing down, though, questioning both the Constitutionality and wisdom of the order, which took effect on Friday, less than a week before Thanksgiving. In a statement released later on Monday, the New York State Sheriffs’ Association said: “How are officers to know, without violating citizens’ right to privacy and other Constitutional rights, how many people are in the home? How are they to determine if the family gathering is to be deemed “essential” or “nonessential”? “If twelve people normally reside in the home, are the officers to order two of them to move out? If eleven individuals are found to be present in the home, who is to be charged with violating the order, all eleven or just the last guest to arrive?”
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A lot of times halacha is counterintuitive – the opposite of what we would have guessed on our own. But common sense plays a role. It doesn’t always win the day, but it does play a role. They say in the name of Rav Chaim Soloveitchik that in addition to the yud gimmel middos shehaTorah nidreshes bahem, there’s a 14th middah of sevarah. So sometimes if it doesn’t make sense, you have to rethink the whole thing.
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Can A Halachic Halachic Corner With Conclusion Sound Rav Hershel Schachter Absurd? The Jewish Press: Is there a rule in halacha that a psak can’t be absurd? In other words, suppose a posek studies an issue and concludes that the halacha is x, y, and z, but the conclusion seems absurd. Does that mean he probably made a mistake and should rethink the issue? Rav Schachter: It has to be mistaber. It has to make sense. But halacha is a self-contained discipline with its own system of logic. And just like chemistry or physics doesn’t always follow common sense, the same is true of halacha.1 So sometimes common sense would lead you to think, “How can it be that that’s the halacha?” But that’s, in fact, what the halacha is.
1. See Nefesh HaRav, p. 18.
Rav Hershel Schachter is rosh yeshiva and rosh kollel at Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. Over Zoom, he gives a weekly Tuesday night shiur, 8:00-9:30, on Hilchot Shabbat (meeting ID: 913 8591 7840) and Friday shiur at 10:30 a.m. on the parshah (meeting ID: 968 6636 5881. E-mail Rabbi Yaakov Taubes (Yaakov.taubes@yu.edu) about joining Rav Schachter’s daily Gemara shiur.
TORAH FROM A TV ANCHOR BY SIVAN RAHAV-MEIR
vent yourself since any framework, style, or technology may become obsolete in the twinkling of an eye. Yitzchak comes upon the world stage after the great revolution of Abraham his father, the first Jew, who rebelled against idol worship. The revolution of Yitzchak is different – not to rebel, but to toe the line, to continue the tradition, to dig the same wells. Perhaps this Yitzchak-ness is the cure for what ails our frenetic generation, a generation that suffers from chronic attention deficit disorder. Yitzchak reminds us that the world is built on persistence, dedication, and the investment of hard work. Life is not only about extreme moments of “wow,” but also about the simple love of our father’s ways and the desire to continue in his path.. (translation by Yehoshua Siskin)
My Favorite Verse I once was asked to pick the verse I loved most in the entire Torah. When the project organizers heard my choice, they expressed some surprise. My verse came from last week’s parshah: “And Isaac again dug the wells of water which they had dug in the days of his father, Avraham, and the Philistines had stopped them up after Avraham’s death; and he gave them names like the names that his father had given them” (Genesis 26:18). What in this verse is there to love? The Torah is talking about someone who returns and does what his father did. He digs wells that were dug by his father and then stopped up. Even when he gives the wells names, he does nothing new, but rather calls them by the same names his father chose. We live in a world full of innovation and excitement. At any given moment, you may be forced to rein-
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the story and what it teaches us. The very first lesson is that we must be very careful not to hurt someone’s feelings. Sometimes, hurting someone deeply can have a long-lasting effect and impede us from success in our own lives. In this case, Reb Yosef’s failure to ask for mechilah prevented him and his wife from starting their own family for many years. (Similarly, because the shevatim never properly asked Yosef for forgiveness, the 10 martyrs had to die.) The second lesson is that if we do wrong to someone, we should make it our business not to procrastinate in asking for forgiveness. Because he put the matter off, Reb Yosef needed a miraculous intervention. The woman had to be brought back from the dead, and he needed to give up his entire life’s savings. The third lesson is that we sometimes need to go to more than one tzaddik for help. In this case, it took the joint effort of the Maggid MiKozhnitz and the Chozeh MiLublin to rescue this couple from their misery. The fourth lesson is that we must have emunas chachomim, complete belief in our tzaddikim, in order toT:10" avail ourselves of their help. Reb Yo-
A Powerful Story (Part II) Last week, I related a story about a man, Reb Yosef, who was childless for many years. Pushed by his wife, he went to see the Maggid MiKozhnitz and insisted that the Rebbe bless him with a child. The Maggid asked him if he was willing to become impoverished, and he agreed. So, the Maggid sent him to the Chozeh MiLublin, who reminded Reb Yosef that when he was young, he had broken off an engagement and never properly asked the woman for forgiveness. The Chozeh directed Reb Yosef to find her and ask for mechilah. After traveling to a faraway city, he amazingly bumped into her, and she agreed to forgive him if he gave his life’s savings to her brother to help him marry off a child. He did so, and he and his wife finally merited to have a son. When he gave his life savings to the brother, however, Reb Yosef astonishingly discovered that the woman who had forgiven him had really passed away 15 years before. Now, let’s take a closer look at
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Honor your– father-in“L’fum tza’ara agra –by The rewardany is ish es avivand ve’es imo read, vedavak b’ishto whenOn he B’Iyun that?Vs. that others. the mind becomes warped reading Hashem hangs On Love At First Sight what it keep says on the cigarette packQ:to Why in the yeshiyouthat won’t home until seven o’clock at night.” law and mouth shut. The less you say, the according to the difficulty.” There’s nobody who’s forsakes his your father and mother he goes his is A: In general, the subject has already been treatgentile novels. the world in the merit Q: Is it true that when the right one comes age, so welike have speak andyou’re say avos sotomuch time isI put into And told talk him,–iyun, “If do this faithfully more he’ll to to you. He’ll think somebody alive doesn’t haveread reason tomodern praise and wife.” But in between it’sup very inadvisable be ed in today’s theyou’ll moreof you cut loose the along Ofwho course, if love you thesight? ones,thank then the one whofrom is every “bolit will be at first that is amouth chet. closed. Open up your the mouth, slower and method of week, if the every Sunday you’ll be a kollel man, then if yousmoking keep your Hashem. alone…. waysdeeper of nations, the better off you are…. people are going to be completely ruined by them. am piv b’shaas meriA: It’s definitely not true. You have to know that Anybody that smokes today studying andabout we’llEven talk Monday too.”vah” Well,–was that’s all itkeeps was. you’ll begin to bray, anda he sees should that .you’re a donkey (June Everybody needs mashgiach Nobody is soGemara, ifnot it’sso a much romance that 50 Hakodosh Boruch Hu has prepared (February 1984) one written who wrong ones1995) too. know that there is no longer the heton covering more ground? It didn’t go any further than that. in disguise. righteous that he can rely on himself, and under years ago – it doesn’t havehisany indecent scenes mouth shut at the And many times the wrong one comes along first. So er “shomer psa’im Hashem,” that A: That’s aand verynogood question,isby (February 1978) It’s veryofimportant to know that with your wife’s Q&As with Rav be Avigdor visit Continued onsight, p.27 theof eyes your parents, you are more certain immorality described –there’s however, time there when a you For havemore to make sure it will love atMiller, first Hashem the ones who are the way. The truth is that up until rerelatives watches you haveover to smile always, no matter what. www.torasavigdor.org or e-mail info@torasavigdor. quarrel. He doesn’t an- and second sight, and third sight. unaware. He’s and not akeep pesi.quiet. He’s aAnd rasha. cently, in the yeshivos they rav used spoke to learn tonight Q: The about the obli- org.And the truth is that it shouldn’t be your sight Smile always they’ll like you. swer back. You’re a choiteh gamur if you smoke a big part of the mesechta. They used It’s good for your you’re relying on. The best way to look at your future today. to cover sometimes an entire mesechta, health, too, by the way. kallah is through the eyes of your mother or your (December 2000) sometimes half of the mesechta. Many times you sud- aunt. [When] your aunt looks at the kallah, she sees Today however, there is a compedenly hear that this her. You don’t see her. You see her hair all puffed up. On Vegetarianism tition for who can cover less ground. and this man passed But your mother and your aunt see the kallah. And Q: What is the Torah perspec- That’s how it is! A make boy says, “Ininedible. my ye- Next that them cameIsthe mashing of that’s babying myimportant. daughter and for making myself into a away. that so? Was very tive of vegetarianism? shiva we covered only with six blatt in Ke- of the the tuna the addition of mayo I tried to her that made lunchhe perfect sick? ratio Wasn’t he schmatta. And that’s whytoinexplain the olden days theI women used A: Vegetarianism can be regarded suvos this last– year.” So thetoother not so much makeboy it soggyhealthy? but enoughNo, to counteres make out of love, not out of obligation, but this she didn’t get peo- to the shidduchim. They knew and this like any other superfluous thing that a balance its dryness. Using theple residual brand girl; it. that’s the right one. They knew her character. don’t Pesach that realize Continued onthe p.27 person adopts. The Torah doesn’t say tuna was okay, but Pesachhe mayo verboten, so ButMy had know nothing to do with lunch and evdiedwas because of the thefeelings boy doesn’t anything about her characthe process required extra finesse. erything to sees do with the he imminent the physfight with his wife. ter. He just a nose, sees thedemise paintedofeyelashes, As I went into the pantry to get the icality parenting. 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She had never been away from home me a little shove… After a brutal winter, it was glorious waking up to en, so I was legitimately caught off guard. I slowly before for any long period of time, and this was goa morning that was sunny and warm, lifting the spir- opened her whimsical owl lunch box and put in the ing to be a new experience for everyone. After we its of even a non-morning person such as myself. Af- hot pink cold pack with the rest of her lunch. Unex- kissed her goodbye, we watched her cross the length or ter inhaling my first cup of Starbucks veranda blonde pectedly, tears sprang into my eyes as I sealed shut of 34th street. In my mind’s eye she was a five-yearShabbos mode option available on all our lifts. and waking up my youngestaadsa726@yahoo.com daughter for school, I the Velcro fastener of the bag. The owl and I contem- old again. How was I letting a five-year-old cross began the lunch-making process. It was Wednesday: plated ™ each other and I gently put the bag next to my this gigantic street without holding my hand? And Sam Guidan daughter’s cereal bowl. tuna and salad day. how was it possible that now both of my babies had Shomer Shabbos A few days later, I shared my bittersweet moment crossed that street and left me alone on the other I meticulously cut up the sweet orange pepper, Call for FREE consultation (646) 543-8811 making sure each strip was the perfect thickness with a friend. Instead of getting the moral support I Ask about our bonus additional-year warranty and our pre-owned StairLifts Continued on p.35 without any of the seeds or weird white webbings expected, I was mom-shamed. She chastised me for
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Q: Why do we thank Hashem for healing us if He is the one who made us ill?
A: …of course we would prefer that there should never be any illness and never any enemies. We should live in clover always; we should be reclining in the grass under the fig trees eating ice cream all our lives. But then, when would we remember HaKadosh Baruch Hu? You would never think about him. If everything went smoothly always, you can be sure that HaKadosh Baruch Hu would never be in your thoughts. And therefore it was necessary to bring the illness to remind you that He’s around. It was necessary to bring the enemies to remind our people; and so what happened? We cried out, “Ana Hashem hoshia na” and “Refa’einu Hashem” and we remembered Him, and when that great achievement of remembering Hashem was accomplished…then He helped us and He sent a refuah and He sent the yeshuah…. And the truth is that the lesson could have been even better if the enemies would have continued. If the enemies would have continued, we would have learned more and more emunah in Hashem. But HaKadosh Baruch Hu, in His kindliness, decided to give us a change of diet, and, therefore, after giving us a certain amount of in-
struction in emunah by means of difficulties…He changed the tactics and He gave us emunah in the form of happiness when we were delivered from the troubles. But really He could have continued the first treatment. So when we thank Him for saving us from the troubles, we are thanking Him for two things. First of all, that He didn’t continue the treatment. … And secondly, we thank Him in order to utilize the happiness as a different way of recognizing Him and thinking about Him. By thanking Him, we recognize Him in a more pleasant way. And if you thank HaKadosh Baruch Hu that He made you well, then HaKadosh Baruch Hu sees that you know how to utilize the second way and so He will continue. (November 1973)
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A: And the answer is that women are not stubborn. And it’s a wonder, it’s a miracle that they’re not. Because why should she marry you? You propose to her – what do you have to offer? Many times it’s a miracle that any man gets married. You look at his face and listen to him talk, and you’re surprised that he got married. But he found some foolish girl who took him. Almost every fool finds a foolish woman that accepts him. And that’s nashim daatan kalos, women are light-headed. And even after they married, they’re light-headed in the sense that even though sometimes they’re wronged, sometimes they’re insulted, but it’s not so hard to win over an angry wife. To win over an angry husband is a more difficult job. Men are more stubborn and women are more yielding. That’s what it means; their minds are lightContinued on p.29
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B’Nefesh that inIwould an ef- take Israeli accents mixed accentson of the olim like ourto send meadvisor list ofexplained local that orders holiday, a minyan hadwith assembled street behind I was soa excited. Forstores as long as could remember, fort to process us as quickly as possible, selves. It was an unbelievable experience and one I to by phone. it was a dream of mine to move to Israel. My parents my yard (appropriately socially distanced of course) the Teudot Zehut had not beenforissued, know for certain that Iwith will arecall and retell to our Nefesh shared a link a “Seder in ahome Box” celebrate the occasion tefilah chagigit. raised meB’Nefesh with a strong appreciation for our and we needed to book an appointment children, siblings, parents and, grandparents when so program, which provided everything needed for a sedin New York but a love for our homeland of Israel. The prayers were inspiring, but none more with the Ministry of Interior to acquire er, including a complete seder plate! we im yirtzeh Hashem merit to spend Pesachs toMy parents often told me of their own experiences for me than the song of L’shana Haba b’Yerushalaythese essential documents. Little by little, our Pesach prep essentials began gether with them again. studying, and volunteering, in Israel long before it im. For so many years whenever I sang that song – The problem was… we???? were in to a twopouring in without us ever having leave home. Of whether I better preparing now. or I’mathoping to host By became a common practice. at start the end of the Seder a simcha – I felt week quarantine and could not travel course there were many hiccups along the way. As a a lot of relatives – old and new – for the seder next in They sent me to schools where the prayer for a deep longing for my aliyah dream to be realized anywhere… andnot theappreciated local Ministry In- kosher for year. new olah, I had howof many the State of Israel and the IDF were part of the dai- the coming year. And here we finally are. Crazy or terior branches were all closed due to the Pesach foods in Israel are actually kitniyot. I also did ??????????? ly services, and students sang Hatikvah at every not, here we are. coronavirus pandemic so the we difference would have not quite have a grasp of between a kischool event. Every year, rain or shine, we proudly May we all merit to spend next year at home in to travel to aeither Avivresulted or Yerushalogram and pound,Tel which in an inordinate marched in the Israel Day Parade. And at our shul, Yerushalayim. layem… we couldn’t take a cab since amount ofand bananas arriving at our door. Rabbi Oppenheimer theFinally, Young ofonKew Gardens Hills, our rav, current Health Ministry regulations only I Israel realized erev Pesach that the olive oil I Continued from p.9 Rabbi Yoelpassenger always threaded allow one per cab… andhouse wehis–Shabbos had ordered –Schonfeld, the only oil I had in the was not LEIBEL'S drashot current from the one State Israel. couldn’t lease a car orall.easily rent kosher forwith Pesach afterevents But somehow, weofmade it. In we so many ways, my upbringing echoed words since lacked the necessary Teudat Zeand to celebrate the holiday of Pesach by eating As the eve of Pesach dawned, our house was the sparkling of Rabbi Yehuda Halevi: “Libi bm’zirach v’anochi hut tofrom complete these transactions. matzah and being careful to516 refrain from vioclean my son’s sponga adventures. Counters and 476-0845 b’sof – My in the East I am in Inhma’arav other words, weheart wereiscovered. stuck. lating the prohibition against eating chametz. cabinets were appropriately Food,and if not a bit SERVING BROOKLYN, QUEENS, the ends of the West.” With the country essentially in lockBut over this, our hearts are saddened – that simpler than our parents normally serve, was piled on With two months of ulpan (intensive Hebrew MANHATTAN AND LI My parents were nervous sending me to Israel Whenever I explain to a native Israeli that we are down even after our quarantine ended, we We An Israeli’s knew that single making most aliyah important three weeks document before is the persecution we face stops us from doing the plata and filled the fridge. Our table was set comlessons) under my belt, I’m afraid I still have a made due without. We postponed school his Teudat Zehut, or Israeli Identifi cation Card. This Pesach would be a challenge. My husband and I were plete with a plastic seder plate. so, and we are in danger for our very lives. We during the Second Intifada. To ease their worries, I recent olim from New York, the reaction is always lot to learn. I have slaved away attempting to reregistration. Thanks towould the intervention card is blessed needed the most basic of face tasks, as always tofor spend the chag with our families. In agreed Thistoyear certainly not beincluding like our no Pesachs prepare ourselves to fulfill the commandment a list of safety conditions, travthe same. A huge smile crosses their andsuch words member whether an inanimate object is considof ourbut local absorption center Nefesh registering for schools, a bank account, and 10welcome years of marriage, weopening never even had to kasher our eling past, nonetheless, we wouldand best. As we sat “And you shall live by them – and not die beon public transportation ordotoour Yerushalayim. of and berachot stream forth. Then the smile ered zachar or nekeivah (male or female) and to down to begin a local bank totoo open a my family leasing a cause of them” and…”Be very careful to guard kitchen forcar. Pesach. our seder, Inervous felt homesick To be honest, I was agreed – for though for a is replaced with a look of utter confusion. “Histagag- B’Nefesh, memorize seven different forms verb con- different bank account forofIus despite the lack Generally speaking, olim they from North America your soul carefully. Our prayer, thus, is that yearthe would becrazy?!” different from allof other years. sedarim. Flashes previous Pesachs crossed my Imind. reason. feared that Israel, aof land had ta?!This – Have you gone ask. “Why would jugation. a Zehut. took be receive their Zehut arrival Benwhile Gu- pictured you should keep us alive and watch over us and Within ofTuedat our arrival inupon thetocountry –inand WeTeudat did our best toAnd observe family anda sing and dreamt ofmy for husband so long,customs would disyou everdays leave America to move Israel?” a cab to the deserted airport and rented rion However, we made aliyah in the most redeem us soon so that we can fully observe we The were still in quarantine – all non-essential stores family niggunim, but it felt strange to be so far away I Airport. have watched Hebrew videos, listened to Heanswer to that question is not one I’ve been appointment. That the land would feel foreign and a car using his American passport. (The unusual circumstances. On the morning of our move, Your laws and do Your will and serve You with were shut down. Online shopping turned out to be a from family and to be alone here in Israel. brewtosongs, worked way through my kids’ different than anything I expected. I wondered if able easily and convey in mymy heavily-accented, not-yetagent was confused where my husband the Israeli government had announced that only whole heart. Amen.of nowhere is referred to whole other catastrophe as only Israeli credit cards But were we really alone? Maybe not. We were surHebrewHebrew. book collection. But, as theI grapple saying goes, sions. Upon receiving some adorable of brew aslang, the middle treasured vision of my future would pictures face a rude perfect Truthfully, at times with my was fromby since incoming passengers were Israeli be allowed into the country. rounded millions of cousins. Although Israel was in could becitizens used on would most Israeli websites. thequestion more you know theYork, moreI left youbehind realizea lovyou awakening. the kids, a parent inevitably responds “Ani cholah as “sof haolam, smola” (at the end of the world, the myself. In –New senton straight to quarantine and not Thankfully, just hours our flight, received lockdown seder night, our gansa mishpacha found We’re going through a frightful time. But almost I quickly learned thatbefore one cannot even we apply for an being Turns out I had maytah nothing aleyhem” to fear. I spent a glorious ing family, don’t know.a stable and demanding career as an at- aleihem!” or “Ani – which liter- turn left). renttogether. cars). There was a coordinated effort a last-minute permit from the Israeli bank government a way to to come all of us are in our homes, and we celebrated the SedIsraeli credit card without an Israeli account to – allowed two weeks trekking around theover country and falling in torney, and a week supportive community in Washington This in ulpan Inot-yet-citizen lamented class allyFinally, translates “I am sick them!” or “I and die have adishes wholeinvocabulary for terms of afterascoronavirus enter the country despite our status. erIsraelis with beautiful comfortable dining the country for people torestrictions go to their porches which wepast did not have and could not get to in the time due across The scene outside the Ministry of Interior in Tel Aviv.rooms love with our homeland. What I remember most from Heights. that my chicken soup just hasn’t tasted the same over them!” endearment that they liberally apply to even near partially lifted, When we landed in Israel, we – along 20 othwith plenty of good food. We slept in comfortable sing Mah Nishtanah as we one.booked an apto coronavirus-related complications. It with seemed like were wonderful trip is with landing in Ben Gurion Airport Why did I North stuff my life into duffle bags and fly since we moved Israel. I explained despite While these responses sound tragic, actumale is often referred to as “achi” ited number of people were beingand allowed into(my the pointment on and Sunday the Ministry of they er olim from America – 15 were metthat by masked beds, ate A strictly kosher matzah meat, and conMy family I walked out to our front yard at ap- strangers. we would need ourtoown modern-day Pesach miracle to that and the passengers spontaneously bursting into apwith my husband and kids amidst an international building at a time. Every person, regardless of apInterior in Tel Aviv. We packed the family into the and gloved Jewish Agency employees. We were told tinue to enjoy being with our closest ones in peace proximately 8:30 and began our rendition of the four make the chag happen this year. searching at multiple supermarkets and butchers, ally mean that the parent is crazy (in a good way) brother) or “chabibi” (my dear). A female might ??????? I can still recallout. thewe overwhelming singular pandemic to live halfway across the world? To live in plause. pointment time, was assigned a ticket number upon car rental and headed Unbelievably, this was prior to our arrival that processing normally takes and security. The Jewish people have gone through questions. Within minutes, heard another famiEnter the wonderful people of Israel. In response I could not find basar lavan (literally translated about the pictures. Another favorite response is be referred to as “imalah” (mommy) or “neshama” feeling having finally arrived home, even though I arrival a country where, unfortunately, times about of unrest and would beterms allowed in only when his or her theof second time Ian had left we our apartment since 3-4 hours. We were processed matter of have minfar, far more difficult times. ly from the building Then heard voices from to Facebook post wrote inquiring websites asawhite meat) onIall the bone. AllinI acould find any- only “Chavlaz,” which isover. acronym for “Chaval al (soul). While these may seem condescendhadn’t even left my seat yet. outnumbered years of peace. A country where despite was hope called. arrived in Israel a little more a month ago. tickerLet’s utes. that this special Pesach will mark the across the street. Over the next 10 than minutes, we heard that accepted American credit cards, a flurry of e-mails we where was deboned schnitzel! hazman!” – which technically translated means ing or even sexist in America, here they are part Why did Iround I left move Because even I ever my years of litigation experience, I about findtomyself frusWhile theoretically reasonable, system to my husband with thebefore kidsthrough in the As I watched kids zooming the for empty beginning of the end of this awful this plague. Let’sled hope round after ofhere? Mah Nishtanah echoing came pouring in. Amy college friend offered pay our Nervously, My non-religious ulpan teacher looked at me “A waste of time!” Oddly enough, this phrase ac- of the daily vocabulary of on Israelis. (These terms aliyah, Israel was my in home. Here I cannot only tratingly to handle thethe most basic of adminmasses of redemption people grouping the stairs car, with the plan to switch when I had completed terminal, my husband signed stack documents that the quickly follows our outside night of the sethe streets of our new home Modi’in. groceries. unable A complete stranger offered tooflend us one made inhis disbelief. “Aviva” “Inext thought you tually means that experience ishelp amazing seem toas have caught on ago. as much among the of a homeland, itand and istrative tasks. A into country where I somehow cannot building, violating all3,300 social distancing guidelines. my meeting. When Ithe arrived atwith thebut government offi ce, don’t that were thrust his demanded, hands. The thing we support clusion just it did years Voices ofdream the elderly mixed those ofbuild the young. of credit cards. A she Modi’in neighbor took the time were a religious woman?! How can you use basar you only wish there could be more! olim, though). My number was 532. As number 409 was called, I however, I couldn’t believe what I saw. knew, weorder were out the airport number and in a cab heading seem to an of appropriate of pieces of prepare it for others to return home in the future. Here, lavan in your soup?!” Apparently, in Israel, basar Want to describe to someone how your day has As I was reviewing my article this afternoon, checked that my mask was properly adjusted and Standing outside the building were about 100 to our two-week quarantine. chicken from a supermarket website (who sends two despite all the unrest and people trying to get inside. In an apparent to my son Adi added that he’s experienced a simiIt wasn’t untilinthat evening thatpork. we realized that chaos, lavan is chicken another way of saying… No wonder gone? IIf things went poorly, you might effort lament feel whole. pieces of a package?). ensure both employee and public safety, only a limwe had not received our Teudot Zehut. Our Nefesh Continued ongame p.14 Onit the of Yom (literally translated as lar learning curve during recess. As of Israel celebrated its 72nd (and my that none the religious stores werebirthday able to fulfill was eve “al hapanim” A popular wasused pre-to mean really bad). Per- among kids is dag maluach (salty fish), which is a son his 6th order. birthday!) this past week, I found myself HaAtzma’ut, requested “on its face,” Ibut dinner theof something – that could bizarre name for the familiar game of “red light, reflecting lot on this even question andusing my first to paring (As a aside note, when thetrip right haps you madewhen a mess of Tehillim waftedsalat” (literally, making a green light.” (Even a Google search could not unIsrael. I was 17Israeli years old at thegenerally time, and my terminology, stores onlyparents carry sounds be described as “la’sot my kitchen wingifted me cutlets. with theIfopportunity to visit a friend deboned you really want white meatwho on through salad). thethe source of this Israeli There are three versions of the end of this story. cover wood for winter, the odd Alter didn’tname.) permit his famdow. 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er – they’re more yielding. And it’s a very great advantage in the family because when there are quarrels, it’s usually the woman who takes the first step to placate the husband. Otherwise, when you have an embittered woman, a stubborn woman, so you know you’re headed for divorce. It’s a great blessing that woman are daatan kalos.
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and shouting. But he made a mistake because now there comes out from the other car a very big man. But he wants to maintain his bluff, so he raises his fists. And his wife sees that there’s tzaros. So his wife screams and drags him back to the car. Now, that’s the worst thing that could be; it’s a big shame for him to retreat. But his wife is pulling him, so he acts like he’s yielding to her and he gratefully climbs back into the car. You see this always on
“It’s not so hard to win over an angry wife. To win over an angry husband is a more difficult job.” Now, it doesn’t mean in a negative sense, that their minds are lightheaded, that they don’t have sense. In a certain sense, it’s the opposite – the Gemara says that bina yeseira nitna lenashim, that women have a stronger understanding; they can have intuition in certain areas where many men will do foolish things, dangerous things, and even risk their parnasa and sometimes their lives, whereas a woman sees through it right away. Here is a man who got a bump on his car from somebody driving behind him. So he gets out bristling
the street. Because with a little bit of common sense a woman can look through all the falsehood of men’s artificial lives. To him, to win the battle of staring him down – that’s more important than saving his life. But to her, to save him from getting being beaten up is more important than winning the staring battle. That’s what it means nashim daatan kalos. (October 1982) For more Q&As with Rav Avigdor Miller, visit www.torasavigdor.org or e-mail info@torasavigdor.org.
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In the Talmud Bavli in Taanit, page 5:72, it’s written about the famous song regarding the question to the tree. Rabbi Yitzchak asked the tree how can he bless him when he is already so beautiful and full of fruit. And then Rabbi Yitzchak blessed the tree that his offspring should be as wonderful as he is. Rabbi Yitzchak had left the land of Israel and went to Babylon and found a friend and a great scholar in Rav Nachman. He then wanted to bless Rav Nachman that his offspring should be just as wise and as learned as he. And indeed Rav Nachman was blessed with 3 great sons who carried on the torch and light of the Torah. They were Ravs Zutra, Rava and Ravin. We all come from a special tree that belongs just to our family. Yes, all the trees together make up the forest, or the orchard. However, each tree in itself is special and one of a kind. There are fruit-bearing trees and there are barren trees. Each one symbolizes the population of the world. Whether it’s in a physical sense or in a spiritual one. Each person in the world comes from a certain tree made from his
My Bubby’s Tree By Michal Popper So many years have passed since I last sat with my beloved grandmother Mrs. Irene Klass. It’s not by coincidence the families into which we are born. We are all fruits of different types of trees, and these trees make up all the forests and orchards of the world. When Hashem created the world, it consisted of water. The upper waters and the lower waters. And Hashem saw that the world cannot exist on water alone. And on the third day of creation G-d created the land with all it entails; the earth, the flowers, the grass, and all the trees. There are so many parables written about the trees that compare us, and give us strength to go on. It is written in the Torah that man is the tree of the field. A tree has so much symbolism and meaning for our lives. Rabbi Nachman of Breslov explains how important it is to sit in the fields amongst the trees and grass and listen to how they sing praise to the Almighty.
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parents and of their parents and so forth. I know that I come from Avraham Avinu and Sara Emeinu. And from generation to generation my family tree was full of great men and woman who passed on the torch and light of the Torah to me and my children. My beloved late grandmother, whom I loved so much, Mrs. Irene Klass, was truly a tree full of fruit. To begin with she loved to sing, and this song about the blessed tree, was one of her favorites. That makes perfect sense. Her roots were soaked in Torah and light. She was constantly passing on her wisdom and generosity to her family and to just about everyone she met, just like a big tree can give shade, food and comfort to so many people. The fact that I am one of the fruits from that tree, gives me the ability to be just like her, filled with so much light and giving to others. It gives me the strength and desire to want my children to be just like that tree and my grandmother as well. When a person thinks of another individual, they can picture him in a certain time and place. However, when a person pictures an object like a tree, it can be in any time period, shape or color. That is what makes the parables to a tree so great and
encouraging. Because if I want to be like a certain person it might happen or it might be too overwhelming and out of reach. However, if I compare myself and who I come from, to a tree, my imagination can run as high and as vast as I please. And through those thoughts I can reach the sky. I can feel that I too can be like that great tree that I come from. My grandmother was such an inspiration that it’s almost impossible to stand in her footsteps. Her wisdom and her charity, her insights to life and her kind and loving heart are things that are emulated and cherished by all of her descendants. How can we be just like her? How can we make sure that our tree bares fruit just like hers? I feel that the mere fact that a person knows and realizes where he comes from and from which tree he was born, automatically gives us the strength, courage and honor to want to be just like the parents and grandparents we come from. May her blessed memory live on within me and my children, and give me the ability to nurture and water my tree just as she nurtured hers. When we connect to our roots, no storm or trouble can break us. Thank you, Bubby, for your strong roots. I’m holding on in this world, despite all its storms, thanks to your hard work. May I make deep roots and fruits just as you did.
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What level of priority should a frum Jew give to studying sefarim like Koheles, Shir HaShirim, and Iyov?
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The Torah’s “measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.” Someone who studied Iyov (11:9) would know that. Rabbeinu Yona comments (Avot 2:15) that there is an infinite number of ideas in the Torah, all of which shape our lives and make us better avdei Hashem. But we have a limited amount of time to learn, and the priority has to be learning Torah that one’s “heart desires” (Avodah Zarah 19a). Each person is drawn to a different part of the Torah. That said, the neglect of these three sefarim is harmful because what each one offers is profound and unique. I spent decades teaching Koheles and Shir HaShirim (on Sukkot and Pesach, respectively) completing multiple cycles of both. (I didn’t teach Iyov because it’s not read on any Yom Tov and because Iyov is more challenging and, for many people, its ideas are uncomfortable.) Koheles – though superficially austere – penetrates the depths of the human psyche, exposes the gamut of fantasies that preoccupy people, and guides us, sometimes gently and other times forcefully, to the proper way to live, serve G-d, and find meaning in life. Shir HaShirim is a beautiful love song that metaphorically describes the relationship between G-d and the Jewish people, all the vicissitudes of our history, the tenacity of our faith, G-d’s love for us, and our vision of the future. As Koheles leaves us more perceptive about our personal lives, Shir HaShirim leaves us uplifted about our national lives. Those who peruse it only casually lose out tremendously. The same is true of Iyov. It’s more difficult to learn, but indispensable in grounding us in ultimate reality and our purpose in life. Halacha shapes how we act. These sefarim shape how we think and thus should be high priority. — Rabbi Steven Pruzansky is the Israel regional vice president for the Coalition for Jewish Values
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Some commentators say the Torah relates stories about our forefathers at great length because they reveal proper character traits and ways of behavior that precede the Torah. Kohelet, Shir HaShirim, and Iyov deal with proper traits and behavior, and with the love between the Jewish people and Hashem. These matters are as fundamental as the entire Torah itself – perhaps even more so. Sometimes we focus on the details of Torah and forget the main thing. It’s forbidden to forget the foundation of foundations – the covenant of our forefathers and proper middot. — Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, chief rabbi of Tzefas *****
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After I heard Rabbi Sholom Gold point out that studying two chapters of Tanach a day leads one to finish it in a year, I decided tofollow this schedule and made my first pass through the material. It was life-changing and made Tanach – including these rich but difficult books – feel and become more accessible. (Of course, two chapters a day means fairly superficial study, which these books in particular resist.) The Rambam, in “Laws of Torah Study,” includes all of Tanach as material that a father must ensure his son possesses as part of his basic obligation (Mishnah and Gemara are not included). The Rambam also assumes Jews must regularly review these texts. Others, such as Rashi, disagree. Even so, the Gemara refers to all of Tanach as “zil karei bei rav,” information schoolchildren know. I suspect Rashi thought Jews clearly would know Tanach because the Gemara assumes its mastery as background. Then of course are the ideas in these books – ideas that should underlie a Jew’s approach to the world. Thus, these three books seem to me either part of a basic fulfillment of a mitzvah, and/or the kind of information any adult Jew is expected to have. Challenging they may be, with lots of competitors, but they have to be on the list of what we’re trying to understand, in our own way, at our own pace. — Rabbi Dr. Gidon Rothstein, author, regular contributor to www.Torahmusings.com *****
These sefarim are part of the canon of the 24 sifrei kodesh of Tanach. As such there is an obli-
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gation to learn them as part of the mitzvah of Talmud Torah. The Talmud in various places discusses the study of different books of Kesuvim (see Shabbos 116b, Avoda Zara 19a, Yoma 77a, and Megillah 21a), including Koheles (Shabbos 152a). Indeed, in many communities the books of Shir HaShirim and Koheles are read in shuls on Pesach and Sukkos, respectively. (In the last generations, some communities refrained from teaching Nach due to their distorted use by the Haskalah movement. But that, obviously, in no way diminishes their value as part of Written Torah, G-d forbid. This topic deserves its own discussion.) As far as priority goes: That needs to be determined on a case-by-case basis in consultation with one’s rav or mashpia. One of the considerations is one’s preference as one should study m’makom she’libo chafetz (Avodah Zarah 19a). It should also be noted that the public study of Koheles may have been downplayed, and some poskim maintain that a blessing is not made when reading it (Halachot U’Minhagei Rabbenu Shalom of Neustadt, 121. 125, Shaalos v’tshuvos Mahari Bruna, 66. Levush 663:2. Magen Avraham, Orach Chayim 662:1. Machazit haShekel 490:9) due to the fact that the sages had initially considered hiding the book of Koheles, though they ultimately decided not to (Shabbos 30b). The same may be said about Shir Hashirim, due to its allegorical nature, speaking about the relationship between Hashem and the Jewish people in romantic terms. In general, these sefarim are best studied with a competent teacher, due to their often cryptic and nuanced language. — Rabbi Simon Jacobson, renowned Lubavitch author and lecturer
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Decision To Arrest The Schneerson Rabbanim Our recent columns have featured excerpts from NKVD (Soviet secret police) interrogations of four Jews arrested in Chernigov, Ukraine in March 1939. They afford a painful glimpse into conditions in the Soviet Union’s Marxist “paradise,” where ordinary citizens – particularly Torah-observant Jews – lived under constant fear of arrest, incarceration, torture, exile to distant locations, hard labor in Siberian concentration camps, or execution by firing squad. My father, Reb Schneur Zalman Butman (1903-1983), related that, early in 1939, the NKVD of Ukraine made a decision to arrest all surviving Schneerson rabbanim: the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s father, Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Schneerson (1878-1944), rav of Yekatrinoslav (Dnepropetrovsk); his uncle – my grandfather – Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, rav of Chernigov; and his cousin, Reb Levi Yitzchok Schneerson, a shochet in Chernigov. Fulfilling its sinister plan with precision, the NKVD arrested all three Schneerson rabbanim on the same day, Wednesday, March 29, 1939, even though they lived in cities far from each other, Yekatrinoslav and Chernigov! My father’s words are confirmed in the book, Hamashpia Shelo Chozar, which is a biography of Reb Avrohom Boruch Pevzner, a distinguished Lubavitcher chassid. It records that on February 2, 1939 (weeks before the arrests of all three Schneersons), the deputy director of Ukraine’s NKVD sent a letter to the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs (which
directed the NKVD), describing activities of the Jewish underground connected to the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe (the Rebbe Rayatz,), who had left the USSR in 1927 and lived then in Poland. In another communication, dated April 16, 1939, the deputy minister writes of the need to interrogate family members of the “Tzaddik Schneerson” (the Rebbe Rayatz), specifying, among other names, Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Schneerson of Yekatrinoslav, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of Chernigov, and Reb Levi Yitzchok Schneerson of Chernigov. Pursuant to those communications, the NKVD arrested all three. Unfortunately, none of the arrested Schneerson rabbanim returned. Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Schneerson, the Rebbe’s father, passed away in exile in Alma Ata, Kazakhstan, on the 20th day of Menachem Av, 1944; Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson passed away in Kharkhov, Ukraine, in 1939 (see below); and Reb Levi Yitzchok Schneerson of Chernigov passed away in exile in 1943. Early in 1940, the Rebbe’s father, Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Schneerson, wrote to my father testifying that when he and my grandfather – Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson – were in Kharkov on the fifth of Teves, being transported from one jail to another, my grandfather collapsed and expired. He saw the body lying on the ground covered by his coat, and he wrote that Reb Levi Yitzchok Schneerson of Chernigov also witnessed this scene. Relating the news to my
mother was extremely painful, and she grieved long for her father. It is vital for our generation to realize what Jews of that era experienced and to cherish our good fortune living in a land that guarantees us freedom to practice our faith without hindrance. It is said of our ancestor Avraham that he didn’t seek to serve Hashem with mesiras nefesh, yet, when it was required of him, he was ready to give up everything for Hashem’s sake. Jews of the Soviet era had no choice but to have mesiras nefesh, but we who live in free societies can still learn from their example. As the Rebbe Rayatz said – based on Scriptural verses where “nefesh” means desire – mesiras nefesh means subordinating one’s personal desires to the Divine will, which all of us can do safely. May Hashem bring an end to our long and bitter exile, and may we pass from the gloom of this galus to the light of the true ge’ulah now!
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Forgetting To Mention Rain In The Amidah (Part I) Question: Recently the chazzan in my shul created a stir when he didn’t include the proper mention of rain during chazaras hashatz. Our rabbi didn’t require him to repeat the Amidah, but many congregants felt the rabbi erred and murmured their discontent. Who was right and how can we, in a tactful way, prevent such a lapse from occurring again? A Concerned Congregant Answer: Our initial reaction is to point out that having accepted the authority of a rabbi whose responsibility is to deal with such matters – and who, in many cases, must render halachic decisions on the spur of the moment – the congregants should not question his decision. Isn’t he a scholar who spends much of his time learning Torah and who spent years in preparation for his current responsibility? If he were made aware of the discontent, he would surely respond with a discourse or shiur to clarify the matter. Your question is quite timely, though. We will soon – on December 5 at Maariv – be substituting “Veten beracha” (in Mevarech HaShanim) for “Veten tal u’matar li’veracha” in the ninth berachah of the Amidah. These words are a request for seasonal precipitation. You, however, must be referring to the words “Mashiv haruach u’morid hagashem,” which is not a request but rather a statement of descriptive praise of Hashem’s greatness, which is included in the second blessing of the Amidah. We start saying these words in Mussaf of Shemini Atzeret because that’s when the rainy season begins. Rabbi Yosef Caro (Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chayim 114) writes that if a person happened to say “Mashiv haruach” during the summer or fails to say it in the winter, he does not have to repeat the Amidah – even if he has not yet concluded the blessing (Ba’er Heitev). Likewise, if he says “Morid hatal” during the winter or failed to do so during the summer, repeating the Amidah is not necessary. The Rema (ibid.) adds that Ashkenazim are not accustomed to say “Morid hatal” either in the summer or the winter. They go straight from Atah gibor to Mechalkel chayim. Indeed, some people say “Ata gibor…ata rav le’hoshia, mechalkel chayim” 90 times shortly after the change is made on Shemini Atzeret – the equivalent of saying that part of the Amidah three times a day for a whole month of 30 days – since Rabbi Caro writes (Orach Chayim 114:8) that a chazakah (a presumption of regularity) sets in after 30 days of performing a specific act. However, if a person said “Morid hagashem” (“He makes the rain fall”) in the summer (when Rabbi Yaakov Klass is chairman of the Presidium of the Rabbinical Alliance of America; rav of Congregation K’hal Bnei Matisyahu in Flatbush, Brooklyn; and Torah Editor of The Jewish Press. He can be contacted at yklass@jewishpress.com and Rabbi@igud.us.
The Chasam Sofer states that it’s extremely beneficial for an undeserving person to pray because Hashem will be gracious to him as a result. Hashem waits for the teshuvah of those who need to repent, and teshuvah can be achieved through tefillah. The mere fact that a person diminishes RABBI DOVID GOLDWASSER himself serves as an atonement and makes him more worthy of Hashem’s blessing. As for deserving people who do the will of Hashem: The Chasam Sofer explains that Hashem desires the tefillos of tzaddikim. Additionally, when the tzaddik prays, he opens the Gate of “This is the gate of the heavens” (Bereishis Prayer, which is not easily opened, and allows the prayers of others to enter. As we know, “Hashem 28:17). Rashi writes that Yaakov rested at the spot does the will of those who fear Him, and their cry where prayers ascend RABBI to heaven. In “Shaar He will hear and save them.” DOVID GOLDWASSER The Yalkut Shimoni tells of an extremely poor Ha’avodah,” Rabbeinu Yonah cites Rabbeinu Yehuda bar Yakar who says that crying while individual who prayed and cried to Hashem from praying is like nisuch hamayim (the pouring the depths of his heart for an honorable livelihood that wouldn’t of the water on the depend on the help of mizbe’ach in the Beis human beings. HaMikdash). According to a familiar adage One day, Eliyahu It’s known that HaNavi appeared to with tears, one’s of Vishnitzer chassidim, a tear him in the guise of a prayers can pierce non-Jew and offered the heavens, reach shed during prayer is more him two valuable gold the Throne of Glory coins. He advised him (kisei hakavod), and powerful than many fasts. to use these coins to bring about miracles do business and said and wonders in this he would be very sucworld. Rabbeinu Yonah writes they can do so because the Gate of cessful. The man was reluctant to take a gift from a mortal person, so Eliyahu told him to take it as Tears is never closed (Bava Metzia 59a). R’ Yosef Weissmandl cites the Sefer Arugas a loan that he would repay in the future. The man took the coins, sold them for a huge HaBosem who expounds on the uniqueness of the Gate of Tears. We find that R’ Akiva was amount of cash, and became exceedingly wealthy. inspired when he saw that dripping water was The wealthier he became, though, the less he able to bore a hole in the rock. But it only bore a prayed. He became so involved in his business hole because it dripped continuously on one spe- affairs that he didn’t have time to daven. Morecific spot for a long period of time. If the water over, he no longer had a pressing need to pray, as had randomly dripped and spattered, it wouldn’t he had become very successful. Hashem summoned Eliyahu HaNavi and have penetrated the rock. The Gate of Tears allows us to crack the iron said, “I had a faithful servant in My world who wall that separates us from Hashem. But all the continually poured out his heart before Me. From tears must be directed towards the same mark the time you gave him those two coins, though, – to the goal of bringing the redemption. If the he stopped praying.” “Master of the world,” said Eliyahu HaNavi, tears are haphazard, with different targets, they won’t be able to effectively shatter that iron wall. “I will go back to him and retrieve those coins” The Medrash Eicha notes that the Gate of – and he did so. From the moment the man reRepentance is also never closed, and the Divrei turned the coins, his good fortune took a downturn and he soon lost all his money. Yisroel asks: If so, why is a gate needed at all? Deeply pained, the man began praying to He explains that a gate usually has a lock that can only be opened with a key. However the Gates Hashem with a broken heart. When Eliyahu HaNavi reappeared to the man of Repentance and Tears are shut with the signet of Hashem whose “seal is truth.” These gates can and asked him how he was doing, he told him only be opened with truth. When a person does that he had lost all his wealth. “Do you know why?” asked Eliyahu HaNavi. teshuvah or cries, his true feelings emerge and his remorse and prayers can open the gates. So “Because from the moment you began to prosper, it’s important for there to be a gate, but it can be your tefillos ended. Hashem desires your tefillos. I can give you back the gold coins on the condiopened by anyone with the right key. According to a familiar adage of Vishnitzer tion that your prayers don’t disappear.” The man realized his mistake and promised chassidim, a tear shed during prayer is more not to abandon his fervent and heartfelt prayers. powerful than many fasts. In discussing the function of tefillah, the Cho- Once again the man was given two golden coins, vos HaLevavos notes that Hashem is fully aware and once again he was extremely successful. But of what we need in life and what we are missing. this time he maintained his commitment to saying heartfelt and sincere prayers. Why, then, must a person pray for his wants?
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we don’t need rain) instead of “Morid hatal,” he must go back to the beginning of that blessing. If he has already concluded the berachah, he must repeat the entire Amidah, regardless of whether he resides in an area where rain is needed in the summer. The Bach notes that he is also required to repeat the Amidah if he mentioned both geshem (rain) and tal (dew) in the summer. The Mechaber continues: “If he didn’t say ‘Morid hagashem’ in the winter, we instruct him to repeat the Amidah. However, if he mentioned ‘tal’ [which is also a kind of precipitation], he doesn’t
have to repeat the Amidah. According to the Mishnah Berurah, the rationale for this ruling is as follows: “Morid hatal” is not a request (like “veten tal u’matar li’veracha” – see Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chayim 117), but rather a praise, and “morid hatal” is considered sufficient praise. In your shul, what probably transpired was that the chazzan said “Morid hatal” instead of “Mashiv haruach u’morid hagashem” and your rabbi saw fit Continued on p.44
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movement of the sun and moon, he says: “The sun [and] moon stood in their zvul” (Habakuk 3:11). The commentators (see Targum and Radak) explain that in this context, “zvul” refers to the place in which the sun and moon typically dwell. Indeed, the rabbis teach us that zvul is the name of one of the seven heavens (Chagigah 12b). In Ugaritic, Akkadian, and other Semitic languages, cognates of “zvul” mean to lift or to elevate. Rabbi Dovid Tzvi Hoffmann (1843-1921) therefore suggests that the “zvul” denotes a lofty abode located in a high place, like the Holy Temple (which stood atop a mountain) or the location of the celestial luminaries (which are up in the sky). He notes that an Arabic cognate of “zvul” means butter or grease because such oily grub rises to the top when mixed with water. The most common Hebrew word for castle or palace is “armon” (which appears 32 times in the Bible). Ibn Janach and Rabbi Shlomo Pappenheim write that the root of “armon” is reish-(vav)-mem, which means height. This root relates to palaces, as they are typically tall buildings. The Radak also cites this explanation, but ultimately concludes that “armon” is derived from
Castle In The Sky Leah named her youngest son Zevulun, saying, “This time my husband will live with me (yizbeleini), because I have birthed for him six sons (Genesis 30:20). The word “zvul” denotes a prominent dwelling place – a sort of castle or palace, if you will. Other Hebrew and Aramaic words for castle or palace are “armon,” “apadna,” and “tirah.” Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (to Genesis 30:20) writes that “zvul” doesn’t simply designate a dwelling-place; rather, it denotes a home that completely meets all objectives of the one for whom it’s intended. Thus, the Talmud says (Rosh Hashanah 17a) “zvul” refers specifically to the Holy Temple. Rav Hirsch says this edifice is the fitting location for G-d’s presence to rest. He also connects “zvul” to the common Mishnaic word “zevel” (fertilizer), which readies the ground to be a fitting dwelling place for seeds so they may thrive there. When the prophet Habakuk reflects back on Joshua stopping the
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ing imperial taxes. He thus explains that “Padan Aram� (Genesis 31:18) refers to the Free State of Aram as opposed to other polities that existed in the Aram area. The word “tirah� appears seven times in the Bible. It seems to refer to some sort of enclosed castle or fort, perhaps even a fortified village. The
He explains that “tirah� is related to this root because a castle is typically constructed with rows Continued from p.35 (turim) of boards. The Radak writes that “tirah� comes from “tur� as castles are typically built with its own root, aleph-reish-mem. Menachem Ibn rows of hewn stone. Saruk traces “armon� to the quadriliteral root Rabbi Pappenheim also suggests that “tirah� aleph-reish-mem-nun. is related to netirah (safeguarding, protecting), “Apadna� appears once in the Bible which, in turn, stems from the tet-reish (Daniel 11:45), and the commentators root. He explains that the constant vigiexplain that it denotes a palace. In the lance and mindfulness needed to watch Talmud, “apadna� sometimes means, over something (netirah) means that not a palace, but a den that is especially one’s thoughts must be kept straight on grand or kingly. Rashi (to Bava Metzia it; they cannot deviate. 35a, Bava Basra 6b, and Shabbos 77b) Two related corollaries are the words defines “apadna� as a royal triclinium, “tahor� (a pure or clean state that can which basically means a fancy dining only last if one carefully watches to room. make sure it isn’t sullied) and “iter� According to Rabbi Dr. Ernest (closed – i.e., so closely protected that it Klein (1899-1983), “apadna� comes is locked up and cannot function). Based from Old Persian, a language that deon this last connection, Rabbi Pappenscends from the Indo-European linguisheim writes that “tirah� refers to an imtic family. Dr. Chaim Tawil, however, penetrable castle or fortress, whose detraces this word to the Akkadian “appafenses are so well-designed that no one danu,� which he understands to mean a can enter or exit. colonnaded audience hall. According to Rabbi David Chaim Chelouche Tawil, the word is of Semitic origin, not (1920-2016), the late chief rabbi of NeIndo-European. Indeed, an tanya, similarly writes that Arabic cognate of this word, “tirah� derives from the root “fadan,� means palace or high tet-reish (guarding), as it de“Apadna� appears once in the Bible (Daniel 11:45), tower. note as sort of fort or citadel Rabbi Shlomo Pappenbuilt to protect a king’s suband the commentators explain that it denotes a palace. heim of Breslau (1740-1814) jects. He also writes that a traces “apadna� to the bilittirah is generally built with In the Talmud, “apadna� sometimes means, not a palace, but eral Hebrew root peh-dalet, a wall surrounding it and is which means redemption or thus similar to a crown (an a den that is especially grand or kingly. freedom (as in “pidyon� or atarah), which is a special “pedut�). Another derivative ornament that goes around a of this root is “efod� (vest or regal head. He explains that apron), which is a sort of royal vestment worn by Ibn Ezra (to Gen. 25:16) writes that “tirah� car- “atarah� is derived from a combination of the roots people who were free and unindentured (e.g., see ries the same meaning as “armon.� ayin-tet (cover) and tet-reish (guard). I Samuel 2:18 and II Samuel 6:14). In the same Rabbi Shlomo Pappenheim maintains that the Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein is the author of way, he explains that “apadna� refer to the sort of root of “tirah� is the two-letter string tet-reish, “Lashon HaKodesh� and the recently-published luxurious domicile where a freed man might live. which means straight line. Other words that de- “G-d Versus Gods: Judaism in the Age of Idolatry.� Taking this explanation a step further, Rabbi rive from this root include “tur� (row), “matarah� He currently lives with his family in Beitar Illit, Pappenheim suggests that the Biblical Hebrew (target or goal towards which one shoots straight), Israel and can be reached at rabbircklein@gmail. word “padan� denotes an independent region that and “matar� (rain, which falls straight down- com. A form of this column also appears on Ohr had its own sovereignty and/or was free from pay- wards). Somayach’s website.
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Sha’arei Bina Torah Academy: A Place For Academic Achievement And Spiritual Growth
IT’S MY OPINION
The Puzzle Of Life It seems that the lowly jigsaw puzzle might hold the key to dealing with many of life’s most vexing problems. The puzzle pieces are an array of separate segments that eventually fit together. As they are laid down, one can see just a very small portion. Only when the entire puzzle has been assembled does the proverbial bigger picture come into view. The technological age that we live in has created an atmosphere of instant gratification. Gone are the days when correspondence consisted of sending out a hard copy letter topped with a stamp and receiving a reply days later. Email, texts, and tweets are immediate vehicles, and so is much of what goes on in our lives today. Waiting to see what will develop, taking a deep breath or a step back, has become a lost art. My grandparents came to America fleeing the murderous pogroms that were rampant in Eastern Europe. After weeks locked in the steerage section in the hold of a ship, they landed at Ellis Island. It was a voyage propelled by sheer desperation. They had no money. They didn’t speak the language. After life in their little shtetl, the hustle and bustle of New York must have been totally dumbfounding. They proceeded to the Lower East Side tenements. There were no welfare programs or food stamps. There were also no pogroms. In one generation, with blood, sweat, and tears and the help of Hashem, they attained the American dream. Unfortunately, all those whom they had left behind in Poland perished in the Shoah. The chilling lesson was clear: If not for the carnage that had compelled them to leave, they too would have died. The Jewish concept of gam zu l’tovah, that something that seems quite grievous could actually turn out for the good, has been replaced with a compelling need to quickly get to the bottom line. Despite our greatest desires to the contrary, there are still many instances that require time to work through. We find ourselves enmeshed in a major quagmire. There has been a deadly worldwide pandemic, financial disaster, mayhem in our streets, and now disturbing election results that include suspect computer software, unverified ballots, and precincts that did not follow voting laws. In many ways we are in a state of collective suspension. We are waiting: for the country to open up, for our economy to recover, for distribution of an anti-Covid vaccine. We are waiting for the results of voter fraud investigations and recounts of the election. Patience may be the last thing that we want to consider, but at this point, there is no choice. The puzzle pieces are not all in place. We cannot yet observe an overall view. It will be interesting to see what comes next.
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Sha’arei Bina Torah Academy for Girls presents a premier opportunity for education, combining excellence in Judaic studies with a stellar secular education. The limudei kodesh curriculum is strengthened by the professionalism of its Jewish educators who are fully committed to providing a strong and warm learning environment. The strength of the secular studies department is evident by the school’s accreditation by the Association of Independent Schools (AISF), the National Council for Private Schools Accreditation (NCPSA), and the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools (MSA-CESS). Sha’arei Bina’s goals of academic achievement and spiritual growth reflect the school’s dedication to fostering a lifelong love of learning as well as the development of good character, communal responsibility, and sterling middot. The school develops within each student a commitment to Am Yisrael, Torat Yisrael, and Eretz Yisrael. Sha’arei Bina has been working closely with its medical advisory board to determine the best way to continue offering an excellent and safe educational experience in light of Covid-19. Classes meet in the building with all students and staff wearing masks and maintaining appropriate social distancing. Students also have the option of attending school virtually from home on a semester-by-semester basis. Should an individual, class, or entire school need to quarantine or miss school, learning can continue uninterrupted due to the technological infrastructure in place. Appreciating that education should be more than imparting factual knowledge, Sha’arei Bina cares for the social and emotional needs of students as well. The school has built “wellness periods” into its schedule, creating time for students to take a break from class, spend time outside under the newly installed canopy tents, and lower their masks while social distancing. Although there will be many changes taking place at Sha’arei Bina this year in order to create and maintain the safest and healthiest environment as possible, the school has found creative ways to continue students’ chesed and community involvement in a safe and meaningful way. Its mission of offering rigorous Jewish and secular academic studies in a warm, positive, wholesome environment does not change whether classes are taking place virtually, in-person, or in a blend of the two.
Sha’arei Bina Torah Academy for Girls is located in Hollywood and serves the South Florida Jewish communities. Due to Covid-19, the school is offering a virtual open-house experience this year. For more information or if you would like to “attend” the open house at your convenience, visit www.shaareibina.org or contact the school office at 954-927-5544 or by email at office@shaareibina.org. Parents and their daughters are also invited to set up an appointment to meet with head of school Dr. Rochelle Brand (RBrand@ shaareibia.org).
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Florida PJ Library Goes Virtual Jewish families are finding new ways to stay busy during the pandemic through PJ Library, a Jewish Federation program that provides free, monthly Jewish-themed children’s books to Jewish homes. Named after bedtime attire, PJ Library aims to promote a love of reading while exploring timeless Jewish values and traditions. Since mid-March, PJ Library has offered a virtual daily schedule of social media posts offering virtual story time, music videos, and creative hands-on art projects. The goal is to connect families with shared Jewish experiences in the comfort and safety of their homes. “We’ve presented everything from woodworking to holiday experiences, like an apples and honey tasting party for Rosh Hashanah and a DIY edible sukkah for Sukkot,” says PJ Library co-chair Jerri Bassuk. “My co-chair, Heather Pachter. and I are very proud of how we’ve been able to serve our PJ Families.” As
a result of their efforts, during the past eight months, subscriptions have grown from approximately 3,750 to 3,880 participants. PJ Library is made possible by the Harold Grinspoon Foundation and the Blank Family Foundation. Thanks to funding by those charitable foundations as well as the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, thousands of local children can enjoy free Jewish books. PJ Library allows youngsters to build their own Jewish library at home. Families with participating children open their mailboxes each month to find a brand-new book featuring a Jewish topic. The program is free for Miami-Dade County children ages 6 months through 8 years. PJ Our Way is the next chapter of the program and invites kids ages 9 to 11 to join a secure and engaging online community of peers and select their own monthly books. The books are free of charge and available even to kids who did not previously participate in PJ Library. The Russian PJ program is reaching out to Russian-speaking Jews in Miami to provide them with PJ Library books and involve them in exciting programming with other Russian-speaking Jewish families. The PJ Goes to School initiative provides local Jewish schools with training and support to incorporate PJ Library books into their classrooms to enhance the Jewish content of their educational curriculum. For more information or to sign up for PJ Library, visit www. pjlibrary.org, email pjlibrary@hgf.org, or call 413-276-0800.
ZOA Florida Members To Be Recognized As ‘Zionists In The Spotlight’ ZOA Florida is proud to announce that two of its board members will be recognized as “Zionists in the Spotlight” honorees at the upcoming ZOA Virtual Superstar Gala on Sunday, December 27 at 7 p.m. The Virtual Superstar Gala will feature an outstanding lineup, including: Rapper/actor Ice Cube; Ambassador to Israel David Friedman; Israel’s new ambassador to the U.S. and U.N. Gilad Erdan; philanthropist Dr. Miriam Adelson; actor Jon Voight; Dr. Kiron Skinner, former director of policy planning at the State Department and current fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University; investor and media entrepreneur Dr. Bruno Wu, and more. Florida’s contribution to this prestigious group will be local superstars Dr. Craig Deligdish and Gila Bronner and Dr. Daniel and Staci Layish. All these honorees have been committed to Jewish and Zionist causes their entire lives. As ZOA was re-establishing its office in Florida after more than 35 years, Dr. Deligdish became the founding board member of ZOA Florida. “It is a tremendous source of pride to have been the first ZOA Florida board member in the newly re-established region,” Dr. Deligdish says of his role. “ZOA Florida is truly a success story and the true honor is ours to continue to be a part of it.” At the beginning of 2018, the popular Orlando-based pro-Israel group “Zionistas” was looking to ZOA as a gateway to national Zionist involvement and a new lay leader to cultivate this development. Dr. Layish was highly recommended for the role. “I have been honored to carry the torch started by Sandi Solomon and the ‘Zionistas’ group to grow the ZOA presence in Orlando. I’m proud of how my wife, Staci, and
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I have helped expand ZOA’s crucial work and voice,” he says. “We hope that being recognized as ‘Zionists in the Spotlight’ will inspire others to get involved and support ZOA.” ZOA Florida Executive Director Sharona Whisler stated, “Having two of our board members featured as ‘Zionists in the Spotlight’ honorees is a proud first and well-deserved recognition and tribute.” ZOA Florida has achieved substantial credibility and recognition in the few years that its presence has been established. Accomplishments include myriad of activities, such as exclusive briefings with elected officials, expert panels combating anti-Semitism, bringing a larger Florida representation to lobby at ZOA’s Capitol Hill Mission, and attracting hundreds to its “Heroes for Israel” galas, including Governor Ron DeSantis, who was honored at last year’s event. ZOA speaks with consistent clarity about the ongoing threats facing Israel as well as Jewish students on college campuses, and the organization’s voice is needed now more than ever. A robust ZOA campus department reaches students across the country and educates them about Israel and how to fight against the ever-present anti-Zionism on campus. ZOA maintains a tireless government relations department, lobbying on Capitol Hill for the future prosperity of the Jewish people and all of Israel, including the biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria, and a fierce Center for Law and Justice, which takes on cases against anti-Semitism and fights the anti-Semitic boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign (BDS). To learn more and to sponsor or place an ad for this not-to-be missed event, go to https://zoa.org/mission-events/annual-gala/ or contact florida@zoa.org or 212-481-1500.
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Saint-Exupéry And The Little Prince: The Jewish Connection Writer, poet, journalist, French literary laureate, aristocrat, and pioneering aviator, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) is best known for his enchanting and much beloved adult fable, The Little Prince, which has been translated into some 300 languages, including Hebrew (see exhibit). A tale of loneliness, friendship, love, and loss, it is an allegory for Saint-Exupéry’s own life as, viewing the world as a place of wonder through the pure and innocent eyes of a child, he seeks to understand love and attain peace and inner harmony in a world where it has, sadly, become increasingly difficult to do so. As the adult narrator tells the story, his plane crashes in the Sahara desert and he is suddenly greeted by a young boy whom he calls “the Little Prince.” During eight days stranded far from civilization, he repairs his plane while the Little Prince tells the story of his life on his home planet “Asteroid B-612” – a tiny asteroid no larger than a building – and of his great love for a single rose that had suddenly begun growing on the asteroid’s surface and his efforts to protect it against the growth of dreaded baobabs, which some critics see as a metaphor for Nazism. Feeling that his beloved rose was taking him for granted, the Little Prince left his planet to explore the rest of the universe, and he describes to the narrator various characters he encountered on his voyages who teach him important lessons. The fundamental message of the book, and its most oft-cited quote, is: “One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye” – which is actually a very Jewish idea. A commercial pilot before World War II, Saint-Exupéry had achieved fame in France as a leading pioneer of international postal flight, flying airmail routes through Europe, Africa, and South America and registering patents on his flying inventions, some of which are still in use today. During an attempt on December 30, 1935, to break the speed record in a Paris-to-Saigon air
race, he and his mechanic-navigator crashed in of the French resistance and a leading activist the Libyan desert close to the Nile Delta in what urging the United States to join the fight against turned out to be only the first of many air crashes. the Nazis. It was then that, urged by his editor to Although they both miraculously survived, they write a children’s book to compete with P.L. Trahad no idea where they were, they had only about vers’ recent release of Mary Poppins, he wrote The a day’s worth of liquids, and they faced extreme Little Prince, which was published in 1943 in the U.S. in both English and French. desert heat and rapid dehydration. The text reflects the perOn the verge of a terrible death, they were finalspective of a lonely and dely found by a Bedouin on a spairing refugee distraught camel who saved their lives. about events transpiring in his beloved French homeThe Little Prince’s home, land and his desire to return “Asteroid B-612,” was named to childhood innocence and for Saint-Exupéry’s plane, simplicity. and his experience played Restless to rejoin his a seminal role, not only in compatriots fighting for the The Little Prince, but also in liberation of France, and alSaint-Exupéry’s award-winning memoir, Wind, Sand though he was in poor health and eight years past the and Stars (1939). As his biographer, Stacy Schiff, notes, maximum age for military pilots – and notwithstanding Saint-Exupéry and his Little significant immobility arisPrince “remain tangled together, twin innocents who ing out of his previous crashes and injuries, including an fell from the sky.” inability to turn his head to Saint-Exupéry was a passionate anti-Nazi who made the left to check for enemy major contributions to the aircraft – he tirelessly and Allied war effort, both as a single-mindedly lobbied for permission to fly missions writer and as an aviator. He Original publication of in support of the Allied war joined the French Air Force The Little Prince in Hebrew. effort. at the start of War World After finally receiving apII and flew reconnaissance missions until France signed its shameful Armi- proval from General Dwight Eisenhower himself, stice of June 22, 1940 with Nazi Germany and Saint-Exupéry left the United States in April 1943 formed the collaborationist Vichy government to join the Free French Air Force and fight with shortly thereafter. the Allies in North Africa. After crashing yet anIn his highly controversial “An Open Letter other plane and serving an eight-month groundto Frenchmen Everywhere” – courageously writ- ing, he was assigned a reconnaissance mission on ten at a time when there were sharp divisions July 31, 1944 to collect intelligence on German between the French Gaullists and the Vichy re- troop movements in and around the Rhone Valley gime – Saint-Exupéry rallied support for nation- preceding the Allied invasion of southern France, alist France. He earned the Nazis’ enmity when during which he disappeared without a trace. the piece was published in the November 1942 The French government spent decades searchNew York Times Magazine and thereafter became ing for the aviator’s lost Lockheed aircraft and, widely disseminated. The Nazis were also none although a piece of the aircraft was recovered in too pleased with his fervent denunciation of an- October 2003 off the coast of Marseille, significant ti-Semitism in War Pilot (1942). dispute continues as to whether it was shot down Following its Nazi master, the Vichy govern- by the Germans or met some other fate. ment attacked him in the most vile and racist When I first read The Little Prince, which I interms as a defender of Jews – which he unabash- stantly cherished, I noted the author’s lovely dededly was – and banned all his books. One sad re- ication to his friend, Léon Werth but, even after sult of that ban was that The Little Prince would countless readings through the decades, I never only appear posthumously in his native France thought about who Werth might be and what he might have done to merit Saint-Exupéry’s enafter the war. He came to New York City on December 31, chanting dedication: 1940, where he became a leading expatriate voice To Léon Werth I ask children to forgive me for dedicating this book to a grown-up. I have a serious excuse: this grown-up is the best friend I have in the world. I have another excuse: this grown-up can understand everything, even books for children. I have a third excuse: he lives in France where he is hungry and cold. He needs to be comforted. If all these excuses are not enough, then I want to dedicate this book to the child whom this grown-up once was. All grown-ups were children first. (But few of them remember it.) So I correct my dedication: To Léon Werth, when he was a little boy.
Israel First Day Cover and stamp honoring Saint-Exupéry (1994). The stamp features an excerpt from the book where the narrator first meets the Little Prince and a photo of the B-38 plane in which Saint-Exupéry was killed.
As a young man, Werth (1878-1955) left a promising career in philosophy to lead the unconventional life of an anti-clericalist and anti-bourgeois anarchist writer. A noted French writer and art critic, he became Saint-Exupéry’s “soulmate” upon their first meeting in 1931 and is broadly considered to be Saint-Exupéry’s mentor. Werth played a key role in Saint-Exupéry’s Continued on p.41
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pious Jews of a past generation (possibly evoking memories of his own grandparents): “In Alsace in Continued from p.40 the middle of the nineteenth century, there was a certain Jewish purity, as there was a Protestant life and work, including particularly The Little purity. These austere religions offered only dePrince. Like Saint-Exupéry, Werth was a loyal manding things to lean on. Those who practiced Frenchman, a renowned novelist and journal- them were a suspect group, in the opposition. That ist, and a candid and honorable man unafraid to led to pride more than to facility.” publicly challenge authoritarianism and the staYet, Werth still clung to his identity as a tus quo, notwithstanding the consequences. Un- Frenchman; in his October 21 entry, he wrote: like Saint-Exupéry, however, he “I care about a civilization, about was a Jew who was forced to flee France. I have no other way of (with his non-Jewish wife) for his dressing (likely a metaphorical reflife when the Nazis suddenly sent erence to how he holds himself out, their mighty Wehrmacht into Parrather than an actual reference to is in June 1940. clothes). I can’t go out completely After going into hiding at a vilnaked.” lage near the Swiss border, Werth However, in a December 9, 1940 wrote 33 Jours (33 Days), a searjournal entry, he finally identifies ing memoir of his feelings during himself as a Jew, though he main33 days of terror before finally tains concerns about the narrowing finding refuge. The miraculous reof his worldview that might repreceipt of this manuscript prompted sent. “I’m a Jew, but am I going to Saint-Exupéry to immediately fly reduce the world to the comforts to New York to use his connections Photograph of Léon Werth. Jews will have in the Europe of toto find a publisher for 33 Jours. morrow?” Then, on July 9, 1941, he Inspired by the manuscript and frightened manifests actual pride in identifying himself as a about the Nazi conquest of France, he penned Jew: a powerful introduction to the book in which he wrote: “The one who haunts my memory tonight is I am going to Lyons to declare that acfifty years old. He is ill. And he is Jewish. How will cording to the terms of the law of June 2, he survive the German terror?” 1941, I am Jewish. I feel humiliated. It is the Saint-Exupéry’s best efforts to find a publishfirst time that society has humiliated me. I er for 33 Jours failed (it was finally published 50 feel humiliated, not because I am Jewish, years later, a fascinating story by itself). Even so, but because I am presumed to be of inferior he found a way to bring his Jewish friend’s tale of quality because I am Jewish. It is absurd; it the fragility of the human condition to the world may be the fault of my pride, but that’s the through a philosophical allegory and a stirring way it is. parable of faith in the form of a children’s story, [I am being forced] to claim that I am which became The Little Prince. When he rejoined from a Jewish nation to which I felt no conthe war effort to fly missions for the Allies over nection…. But if a foreigner means to humilthe burning skies of Europe, it was thoughts of iate me through this nation, I am hurt, and the horrors of Auschwitz and Werth’s fate that obI don’t know if it is this nation or myself I sessed him. must defend. But simple dignity obliges me Born the son of a clothing merchant into an to identify myself with it…. It would be just assimilated Jewish family, Werth had little to no too cowardly to deliberate whether or not I Jewish education and he was largely indifferent to feel Jewish! If you insult the name of Jew in his Judaism for most of his life. Like most French me, then I am Jewish, totally Jewish, JewJews, who were thoroughly assimilated – which, ish to the tips of my toes, Jewish to my very of course, made no difference to Hitler, who sought guts. After that, we will see. to exterminate them in the same ovens as the most As others go to declare their cattle and the charedi Jews – he saw himself as a Frenchman, weight of their pigs, I went to the prefecture to first and foremost, dedicated to the French secular declare I was Jewish…. I made my declaration and liberal culture that he believed would surely at the prefecture. I threw out the word “Jew,” protect his civil rights. as if I were about to sing the Marseillaise. That changed, however, when he was forced to go into hiding, anti-Semitism became his life’s He thereafter recorded everything that he reality, and his very life depended on the silence could learn about the deportations and murders of of his non-Jewish local neighbors. In Deposition the Jews and, in a March 27, 1944 entry, he mani1940-1944, a detailed account of his life in hiding, fests deep sympathy for his fellow Jews: “Now and his first journal entry about Jews (an October 3, then I wish – oh, I’m well aware it’s a very faint 1940 response to the Vichy government’s issuance wish – that I were deported to the depths of Poof its anti-Jewish law that same day) seems more land, to be with the people who are suffering, with concerned about his French identity than any- those suffering the most.” thing else: Another Saint-Exupéry Jewish connection was his great admiration for civil engineer and Jewish Vichy is preparing a statute regulating aviator Captain Jean Israël (1913-1995), whom he Jews. A Polish Jew at least felt Jewish. Peofirst met in 1939 and describes in Pilote de Guerre ple in the Nalewki neighborhood of Warsaw (Flight To Arras) as amongst the squadron’s bravdid not conceive of themselves as Polish. But est defenders during the Battle of France. ConsisFrench Jews no longer felt Jewish. Those tent with his extreme hostility to anti-Semitism, who felt most Jewish in their hearts were Saint-Exupéry, when discussing Israël’s heroics, only Jewish through the memory of a few always made a point to refer sarcastically to his family traditions. hero friend’s “very big and very Jewish nose.” Shot down on a mission on May 22, 1940 Israël Only a few days later, however, he wrote that was held in a POW camp in Silesia for over five there are two kinds of Jews: materialistic assimi- years before being freed by the Allies, and he later lated Jews and observant Jews. As to the former, became a colonel in the French air force. he wrote with contempt: “They have lost – and Saul Jay Singer serves as Senior Legal Ethics they are proud of it – all contact with Judaism, not Counsel with the District of Columbia Bar and is to say with anything resembling religion. They a collector of extraordinary original Judaica docudidn’t feel Jewish, they felt rich.” ments and letters. He welcomes comments at saul. In contrast, he wrote with admiration of the singer@verizon.net.
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News Briefs Select Stories You May Have Missed Israel/Mideast News POLLARD ON MAKING ALIYAH: ‘GOD WILLING, VERY SOON!’ Five years after his release on parole and two days after his travel restrictions ended, Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard released a statement on his next steps. “Thirty years ago, my beloved wife Esther found her way into USP Marion, the highest security prison in the United States, where I was languishing in a dungeon cell three stories underground behind 13 locks and keys. Esther reached out and cut the shackles off of my heart and restored my soul to life. That is when the fight for my freedom began in earnest. “Fast forward 35 years. Today, Esther, fearlessly cut the GPS device off of my wrist, restoring me to almost complete freedom (with full authorization from the parole office). The final step to freedom that remains is our return home to the Land and the People we love. God willing, very soon!” In his statement, Pollard said he and his wife were “overwhelmed with gratitude,” adding, “[W]e want to thank all of the wonderful people in Israel and in the U.S. from the bottom of our hearts who fought for us throughout all of the long years on the road to freedom.” He said that due to his wife’s “dire medical situation” the couple would stay in the United States for a time, “calmly and quietly arranging [their] aliyah to Israel and assuring Esther’s on-going medical treatment.” He also released a picture showing him holding his tracking bracelet after Esther cut it off.
NETANYAHU, MOSSAD CHIEF FLY TO SAUDI ARABIA TO MEET WITH CROWN PRINCE Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made an unannounced trip to Neom, Saudi Arabia on Sunday to meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a senior official confirmed to Israel Hayom. The official added that Yossi Cohen, the head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, was at the meeting as well. Riyadh has yet to officially comment on the reports of the meeting, which was arranged by U.S. Special Representative for Iran Elliott Abrams. The Israeli official noted that while Riyadh had initially agreed to the meeting’s occurrence being leaked to the media, the story broke sooner than planned.
ISRAELI JUDOKA PETER PALTCHIK TAKES GOLD AT EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS Israeli judoka Peter Paltchik took gold in the European Judo Championships’ under-100 kilogram division in Prague on Saturday, defeating Russia’s Arman Adamian. The gold was a first for Paltchik, who is considered one of Israel’s top athletes and a potential Tokyo 2020 Olympic medalist. He previously took bronze at the 2018 European Championships in Tel Aviv. “My whole body hurts. It feels amazing. In the finals, I constantly told myself this is mine,” Paltchik told Israel’s Kan public broadcaster after his win.
Jonathan Pollard holding his cut-off tracking bracelet.
Paltchik won with a “golden score” – achieved when a judoka pins their opponent for 25 seconds – when his match with Adamian went into overtime. He defeated Bulgarian Boris Georgiev in the quarterfinals and Georgia’s Varlam Liparteliani in the semi-finals to make it to the finals. Paltchik was the second Israeli to take home a medal at the competition after Tal Flicker took silver in the under-66 kilogram category on Thursday.
NETANYAHU: THERE CAN BE NO GOING BACK TO THE IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the pressure on Iran must be maintained, and that there could be no return to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal. In his speech at the annual memorial ceremony for Paula and first Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion at Sde Boker in the Negev, Netanyahu said that it was thanks to Israel’s determined stand against Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and the JCPOA that many Arab countries had “fundamentally changed their approach” to the Jewish state. “There can be no going back to the previous nuclear agreement,” he added. “We must stick to an uncompromising policy to ensure that Iran does not develop nuclear weapons and stops its aggressive behavior, including its support for terrorism.” Joe Biden has promised to rejoin the JCPOA, from which U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew in 2018, if he becomes president.
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Berel’s Musical Debut What Jewish family hasn’t attempted to give their children the opportunity to study music? In the olden days, you couldn’t throw a stone in our neighborhood without hitting a kid with a violin case. Our family was no exception. My sisters shlepped shticker from a piano for years. I murdered a clarinet, and it was decided my little brother, Berel, would become a virtuoso on a violin. How did this great decision come about? Simple. My cousin Solly, who had outgrown his violin, gave us his instrument. That launched Berel’s career. Since money was rather scarce in those days, we didn’t have money for Berel’s lessons, so Mama decided to let Berel be a self-taught man. She gave him the violin, my cousin Solly’s old violin music books, and, shoen, Berel was set. The first day he had the violin, he broke all but one string. For the next three days, Berel sawed away on that one string mercilessly. The neighbors were convinced we were hiding a cat and were pulling out the hairs one by one in slow torture. The next Sunday, Papa heard Berel playing. He decided then and there to get Berel a violin teacher. As soon as the music teacher put a full set of strings on the violin, Berel almost sounded good. The squeal from four strings is better than from one. Berel’s playing was consistent – terrible from the beginning to the end. He sawed away for hours on end. Our neighbors were convinced that the cat they thought we were torturing now had kittens. Such sounds – oy! I remember the first piece Berel played. It was called “The Firefly.â€? It was a simple three-note song. How bad could a kid mess up three notes? After the third week of sawing away at “The Firefly,â€? the neighbors asked Mama how much she wanted for the violin! They were taking up a collection. We could have made some profit on the deal, but Mama took such offers as a sign of jealousy. Our next-door neighbor even threatened to buy her Herby a drum. Berel practiced mercilessly every day. Mama would sit patiently in front of him and count, “One, two, three – noch a mull, tataleh. One, two, three‌ ut a zey.â€? I guess it’s the dream of all parents to see their little ones as great instrumental virtuosos. We had one neighbor who had this nachas. Her son, Sammy Weingarten, was a violinist with a small radio station orchestra. I remember one year shortly before Chanukah when Sammy was asked by our shul to play to raise money for the Chanukah fund. Sammy suggest-
ed all the kids in the neighborhood get together for a concert. He wrote a simple piece, which consisted of no more than four notes, figuring: How bad could four notes sound? He soon found out! The orchestra was formed. It consisted of Bernie Pearlman on trumpet, Herby Foreman on saxaphone, Herby Berman on drums, my sisters on piano, me on clarinet, and Mr. Klugman on mandolin. Mr. Klugman was close to 70 and was quite good on the mandolin. Sammy figured: If he put Klugman next to the microphone, he could drown out the rest of us. Sammy called the piece he wrote, “Our New Land.â€? Each of us took home the music and practiced diligently for four weeks. I don’t think the New York Philharmonic ever put in as much effort. Everybody knew their part, but, when we got together, somehow or other, nobody ended up playing at the same time. Berel was three notes behind, Herby Berman even further behind, Bernie Pearlman’s trumpet sounded like a wounded buffalo, and my sisters kept complaining the song’s four notes were broken on the piano they were assigned. The only one who didn’t complain was good old Mr. Klugman. He could barely hear even with his hearing aid. He kept muttering, “Ah zhey shain (how beautiful)‌â€? During the finale of the concert, we were so inspired that we almost lost control of ourselves. Berel was so filled with rapture that he sawed away at that violin with such persistence that he broke three strings, Herby, in mitten der innen, put his stick through the big bass drum, Bernie almost swallowed the trumpet mouthpiece, and my sister fell off the piano stool. Nu, nu – Spike Jones (may he rest in peace) couldn’t ever get such a sound even if he tried. Mr. Klugman, whose hearing aid went dead earlier in the afternoon plunked away oblivious to what was going on and smiled all the way through. He thought we were great. Beads of sweat ran down Sammy Weingarten’s face as he tried to hide his agony. After the selection was over, everybody cheered. Naturally, they cheered – it was over! Shortly thereafter, Sammy told Mama that the life of a musician was a hard one and that Berel should only play for amusement. Papa agreed with Sammy and recommended the lessons come to an end. And with that, Berel’s career as a musician ended. Shortly thereafter, the neighbors began visiting Mama again and a new life opened up for us! (originally published in 1965, condensed)
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The Gemara (4b and 5a) derives from pesukim that the biblical prohibition to eat and benefit from chametz takes effect at midday on Erev Pesach. R. Yehuda (mishnah, 11b) says that one must discontinue eating chametz at the end of the fourth hour of the day and must discontinue deriving benefit from it at the end of the fifth hour. At the beginning of the sixth hour, one must burn This week’s Daf Yomi Highlights is based upon Al Hadaf, published by Cong. Al Hadaf, 17N Rigaud Rd., Spring Valley, NY 10977-2533. Al Hadaf published semi-monthly, is available by subscription: U.S. – $40 per year; Canada – $54 per year; overseas – $65 per year. For dedication information, contact Rabbi Zev Dickstein, editor, at 845-356-9114 or visit Alhadafyomi.org.
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one’s chametz. They Sought To Distance From Violation The Gemara explains that although min haTorah one may eat and benefit from chametz until the end of the sixth hour (i.e., midday), the sages advanced the deadline for eating chametz because people might err regarding the time. On a cloudy day, people might eat chametz after midday, thinking it is only the fifth hour. Why Not Burn Earlier As Well? The Kesef Mishneh (Hilchos Chametz u’Matzah, 1:9) asks why R. Yehudah permits a person to wait until the sixth hour to burn his chametz. He argues that since the sages decreed that it’s forbidden to benefit from chametz in the sixth hour, they should have obligated a person to dispose of his chametz prior to that point (see Tosafos 12b, s.v. “neichol”).
A Matter Of Semantics At first, the Kesef Mishneh suggests that perhaps R. Yehudah in fact means that a person must finish burning his chametz by the beginning of the sixth hour (i.e., the end of the fifth hour). In conclusion, though, he is inclined to say that burning chametz during the sixth hour is permissible, as a simple reading of the mishnah indicates. He explains that although the sages forbade benefiting from chametz during the sixth hour, they evidently did not say that it must be treated exactly like chametz after midday and therefore did not require one to dispose of it prior to the sixth hour. Nonetheless, the accepted custom is to burn one’s chametz prior to the sixth hour because bitul needs to be done again the next morning. The Rosh (Pesachim, siman 9, also cited by the Mechaber, Orach Chayim, 434:2) writes that it must be done again because the nighttime bitul doesn’t include the chametz one ate in the morning for breakfast.
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to recognize spiritual truth when presented with it. As Divine Providence would have it, as I was writing this article, I got a call from someone whom I used to be friends with. I had sent her something funny, and she responded by calling. As we caught up a bit, she cheerfully told me that her only son had gotten married a year previously to a Catholic girl whom he met at university – in Israel. This friend had made aliyah from Canada as an ardent and idealistic Zionist. Her siblings don’t have any children. So in terms of Jewish continuity, with her son’s intermarriage, the link in her family’s chain has been broken, severed… lost. One of the reasons I’m not in touch with her anymore (her choice) is because of the disparity in our religious views. For her all her Israeli idealism, she is woefully spiritually unintelligent. I say unintelligent and not ignorant because she does know the basics of Judaism. She’s had Shabbat dinner, she’s been to shul, she lives in Israel. So how do we look at Jews who are so removed from their Judaism that they intermarry, don’t flinch if their children intermarry, and have no idea what the big deal is? Well, we can be angry, frustrated, appalled, even confused, but maybe the same way people are deficient in other types of intelligence, perhaps these people lack the spiritual intelligence necessary to recognize and come close to G-d. Their complete lack of comprehension about the real meaning of life and our place in it makes no sense otherwise. And the same way we have compassion for people with other kinds of handicaps or deficits, maybe we can have compassion for them as well. It may not change them, but it will change us, and maybe that extra bit of Ahavat Yisrael will heal those suffering from being spiritually challenged so that we endure fewer losses to our nation and less suffering overall.
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shopping that night but came home without the electrolyte-filled fruit. “Well, I was filling up my wagon in the grocery that night. I saw there was only one quarter of a watermelon left, and I quickly took it. Then, I saw the boys from the dorm down the block. They were also buying food for before the fast. I heard them say, ‘Oh, there’s no watermelon left!” They sounded disappointed. “I felt bad for them. I figured, they were more people than us and we could manage without it. So I gave them the quarter of watermelon from my wagon.” Comprehension dawned. I smiled. “Wow! You gave away your watermelon, and two days later, Hashem sent it to our door when we needed it!” The next Friday found me shopping without my list again, but this time there was one item I wasn’t forgetting. As soon as I came home, I made sure to put the watermelon in the fridge. As I started tidying the house, I called my grandmother to wish her a “Gut Shabbos.” “So where will you be for shalosh seudos?” I asked while discussing her meal arrangements. “I will be joining your parents for that meal,” she responded. “I guess I’ll miss you, then.” My baby wasn’t walking yet and we did not use the eiruv. My grandmother does not like to make anyone feel left out. “You know what? I will stop by and visit you on the way. How does that sound?” “Sounds great! Looking forward!” We schmoozed for a few more minutes and hung up. The phone rang again. “Hi, I’m passing by the grocery,” my husband was on the line. “Need anything?” “I’m so happy you called!” I was amazed at the
perfect timing. “My grandmother is coming by on Shabbos afternoon. Can you pick up some nosh?” “Sure.” My husband is the expert when it comes to hosting. Sure enough, I soon found myself unpacking a full box of snacks, chocolate and fruit. “Oh no!” I stopped, dismayed. “You bought watermelon!” “So?” “I forgot to tell you that I had already bought that earlier. Okay, I guess double is better than none.” I started rearranging my fridge to make room for the second quarter of watermelon. The final phone call in our saga came some hours later. We happen to live just down the block from my parents, which makes for some convenient erev Shabbos last-minute deliveries. I was on the phone with my mother, having asked her to send me something or other, when she suddenly asked, “You wouldn’t happen to have extra watermelon, would you? Somehow, we forgot to buy watermelon this week. Bobby’s coming for the seudah, and I really wanted to serve that for dessert. It’s too late to send anyone to the store now…” Almost breathless from excitement, I said, “Mommy, you won’t believe it, but we actually bought an extra quarter watermelon this week. We really don’t need it. This is amazing!” Pondering our watermelon tale, I was struck by the tiny glimpse we received of heavenly banking. I do not presume to understand, but I could see that our investment of a quarter of watermelon for a group of hungry boys had been repaid in full. We’d received both our own Shabbos dessert plus another chance to “invest” had been brought to our doorstep. It made me wonder why I would ever keep anything for myself. Giving it to someone else would mean having it placed in my heavenly bank account to accumulate interest that never stops growing, with generous dividends paid down here as well. Sounds worthwhile, doesn’t it?
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The strength of a few words, softly whispered, carefully transported on the beams of a gentle smile. They bring a surge of vigor with the power of a tsunami . Meet Mayan. Only nine years old but with the ability to imbue others with profound strength. Mayan was stricken with leukemia. While her friends were learning to jump rope, she was spending weeks at a time in a scary hospital witnessing what no child should ever see. Ezer Mizion staff and volunteers supported her and her family emotionally, psychologically, and practically with a broad range of programs. All those who met her commented on her strong will to fight this battle and win. Mayan spent a great deal of time at Ezer Mizion’s Oranit, a guest home for cancer patients and their families to live during the duration of treatment. Several women were discussing their illness. “I have no strength!” said one. Our nine-year-old giant headed toward the group. With a powerful embrace, she sent sparks of potent vitality to the woman who had spoken. “What do you mean you have no strength? G-d only sends cancer to people who are heroes!” A stem cell transplant was needed to save Mayan’s life. Ezer Mizion was able to find a perfect genetic match in its registry. It was a success and Mayan returned to living the life of a nine-year-old. Here’s another story: Nowadays transplants are done via stem cells, which is much easier than removing actual bone marrow. The blood is collected much like a blood donation, the stem cells removed, and the remainder of the blood returned to the donor via the other arm. A several-hour process, it is admittedly time consuming but with only minor discomfort and the donor is able to return to his normal schedule the next day. Occasionally, though, a patient’s condition will warrant an actual bone marrow transplant. Tomer had registered with Ezer Mizion and was familiar with the stem cell routine. A few hours of his time was a small price to pay, he thought. He was very much looking forward to receiving that electrifying call: You can save a life! But the call wound up being a bit different. The voice on the phone asked him if he’d be willing to undergo a bone marrow transplant. The marrow would be removed from his pelvic bone. Surgery? Anesthesia? Pain? Recuperation? Tomer was taken aback. But only for a moment. He quickly rallied and assured the caller that he was ready. There were no trumpets. No drum roll. Just a quiet smile on the caller’s face. He wasn’t surprised. One of the many heroes in Israel who know what it means to save a life.
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Parler differs from traditional social media companies in more than its philosophy. For one, while most social media companies decide what posts you see based on algorithms geared to your viewing habits, Parler shows users all posts from people they follow. It also doesn’t collect much data from its users and doesn’t allow users to easily cross post from other platforms. Parler has two rules: nothing criminal can be posted on the platform and no spam or bots are allowed. Aside from that, users can enjoy the platform in any manner they see fit. After signing up and creating a username, users are encouraged to follow a variety of well-known conservative figures. The user experience mimics Twitter. A retweet on Parler is called an “echo” and likes are called “votes.” Instead of Twitter’s blue check, Parler employs yellow badges to indicate that a user is a “verified influencer.” Founded by John Matza and Jared Thomson in 2018, Parler is based in Nevada and has approximately 30 staff members. It reportedly received funding from conservative hedge fund manager and Cambridge Analytica co-founder Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah. Conservative talk show host Dan Bongino is also an investor. Parler may sound like a breath of fresh air to those who feel they are being censored on Facebook and Twitter. However, the platform is not without a dark side. Earlier this month, the ADL released a report in which it notes that among Parler’s users are conspiracy theorists, mem-
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tle in the store was worth only $2, so you would have to pay with two bottles! “I should add,� concluded Rabbi Dayan, “that taking a bottle initially without intent to buy it, but rather to use it and later replace it, is tan-
ities, this rule applies even if the customer doesn’t have money. He must sell commodities to raise cash (unlike a borrower who can repay with commodities if he Rabbi Dayan said, “To replace doesn’t have money). He must do so the juice from the mini-bar because there is a with a bottle from the store would clear understanding and implicit be cheating the hotel.� condition that the seller wants money, not value, in return for his goods� [Sma 101:10; tamount to theft and is certainly Aruch HaShulchan 101:3]. prohibited� [Choshen Mishpat 348:1, “Some maintain, however, that 359:2; Pischei Choshen, Halvaah 4:6; if the customer doesn’t have money, Kinyanim 3]. he can pay with commodities, like a borrower. Even so, if he has money, Rabbi Meir Orlian is a faculty he must pay with money� [Taz 101:6, member of the Business Halacha InTumim 101:5]. stitute headed by Rav Chaim Kohn. “Furthermore, even if you could To pose a question or to engage a BHI pay with commodities,� Rabbi lecturer, call 877-845-8455 or e-mail Dayan said to Mr. Metzger, “the ask@businesshalacha.com. To receive purchase price of the bottle your BHI’s newsletter, e-mail subscribe@ wife drank was $4 whereas the bot- businesshalacha.com.
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How Different? How Are Are They They Different? The right photo is different thedifferent left oneways. in seven ways. (See Can you find them? The right photo is different than the left one inthan seven Candifferent you find them? answers below, upside down)
Dena Nierenberg (center) hosted “We’ve Got Talent,” a non-competitive talent show featuring 22 performances to benefit the Zichron Shlomo Refuah Fund. The event also featured spa services and a dinner. Answers to this week’s challenge: 1) The lamp on the back wall at right is now bigger. 2) The girl with the red top at right is now wearing a blue top. 3) The bottom handle of the camera hand stabilizer bracket has been shortened. 4) The middle hand rail of the steps at left has been removed. 5) The necklace of the lady at the left is now fully visible. 6) The sleeve of the top she is wearing is longer 7) The girl seen partially behind the lady with the red outfit is no longer there.
Alef Beis Parsha Questions for Your Shabbos Seudah א א-
– אליפזWho stole all of ’יעקבs money on the way to ?לבן
ב ב-
– בית אלWhere did יעקבcamp on the way to ?לבן
ג ג-
– גלעדWhere did לבןcatch up to יעקבwhen he was escaping with his family?
ד ד-
– דודאיםWhat did רחלtrade her time with יעקבfor?
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' – הWho warned לבןnot to harm יעקבwhen he caught up to him?
ו-ו
– ויפגעו בו מלאכי אלוקיםFill in the blank: “_________ ויעקב הלך לדרכו.
ז ז-
– זלפהWho was the younger of the two ?שפחות
ח ח-
– חרןWhere did לבןlive?
ט ט-
יעקב – טלואmade a deal that all the spotted sheep would be his. What’s the Torah’s word for “spotted”?
י-י
– ישיבת שם ועברWhere did יעקבspend 14 years on his way to ?לבן
כ כ-
ארץ ישראל – כנעןwas still called this during ’יעקבs time.
ל ל-
– לוזThe original name of בית אל.
מ מ-
– מחנייםWhere did יעקבmeet the angels on his way back to ?ארץ ישראל
נ נ-
רחל – נשיםtold לבןthat she couldn’t get off the camel because “דרך ____ אנכי.”
ס ס-
– סולםWhat were the מלאכיםclimbing up and down in ’יעקבs dream?
ע ע-
רחל – עקרהwas afraid that יעקבwould divorce her because she was this.
פ פ-
– פי הבארThe words the תורהuses for the opening of a well.
צ צ-
לבן – צעירהdefends himself for switching רחלand לאהbecause it wasn’t the local custom "לתת ה______ לפני הבכירה.”
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– קדמהFill in the blank: “______”ופרצת ימה ו
ר ר-
– רחלWho gave לאהthe סימניםso she wouldn’t be embarrassed under the ?חופה
ש ש-
יעקב – שער השמיםsaid that בית אלwas this.
ת ת-
רחל – תרפיםstole these from her father and hid them in her saddle.
How Many Did You Get Right? 22 – You’re a gaon. 20 – You’re a yode’a sefer. 18 – You’re a talmid chacham 16 – You’re a masmid. 15 or less – You need to chazer more! These parsha questions were prepared by Aviva Taragin Hexter l’iluy nishmat Yehuda Dovid ben Shaul
How Many Did You Get Right? 22 – You’re a gaon. 20 – You’re a baki. 18 – You’re a talmid chacham
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W E E K LY DVA R TO R A H F R O M E R E T Z Y I S R A E L
Seven Years Later… She Called Me
REMOTE, NOT REMOVED RABBI YEHOSHUA FASS
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In 2013, I wrote a column in The Jewish Press under the title, “The Tragedy of Herb Gorman.” Gorman, a Jewish baseball player, suddenly fell ill in the sixth inning of a game in 1953 and died before the game was over. His young wife, Rosalie, watched him being helped off the field by teammates. I always wondered what happened to Mrs. Gorman. Well, she recently learned of my sevenyear-old column and contacted me. I had a lengthy phone call with this most interesting 88-year-old woman who fielded all my questions and filled in all the blanks of the story. Let’s dial back about 70 years ago to Los Angeles. At the time, professional baseball teams in the big West Coast cities belonged to the Pacific Coast League, one rung below the major leagues. L.A. had two teams: the Hollywood Stars and the Los Angeles Angels. Herb Gorman played on the Stars and enjoyed immense popularity with Jewish fans as he was one of the team’s best players. In 1951, Rosalie Bloom, who was 19 years old at the time, was set up with Herb, who was 26, on a blind date. The date turned out to be a double date, and Rosalie was actually initially more excited about the other fellow, Robert Merrill. Seven years older than Herb and already famous for being part of the New York Metropolitan Opera, Merrill had played semi-pro ball years earlier and had used his salary to pay for voice lessons. (Many years later, he would sing the national anthem for big games at Yankee Stadium.) Rosalie enjoyed being in the company of Merrill, but her date, Herb Gorman, eventually won Continued on p.62
nderstanding Yaakov Avinu’s frame of mind in Parshat Vayetzei offers an enlightening insight as to how to best navigate in a time of ambiguity and grave uncertainty. The last two pesukim of the parsha state: “And Yaakov went on his way, and angels of G-d encountered him. And Yaakov said when he saw them, “This is a G-dly camp [Machaneh].” And he called the name of that place Machanayim” (32:2-3). An obvious, linguistic problem in the second pasuk is pointed out by Rashi: Why would Yaakov call the place “Machanayim” (“Camps”) in the plural tense, rather than “Machaneh” in the singular tense? The single tense is used by Yaakov in the first pasuk when he says, “This is a G-dly camp [Machaneh].” Why the discrepancy? Rashi suggests that the use of the plural “Machanayim” actually refers to two sets of angels, one set that accompanied Yaakov in the Diaspora and the second set that came to escort him into Eretz Yisrael. However, the Ramban objects to Rashi’s explanation. He points out that Yaakov was, at this point in his journey, far away from Eretz Yisrael; and it isn’t logical that the angels of Eretz Yisrael would greet him at this particular location. Ramban offers an alternative suggestion and explains simply that the use of the plural “Machanayim” refers to Yaakov’s own entourage which, combined with the camp of angels that he encountered, is deserving of the plural tense description “Machanayim.” Combining both of these thoughts, I’d like to suggest that Rashi and Ramban – while coming from different directions – are each focusing on a similar, core personality trait of Yaakov. Rashi believed that while Yaakov was far from Eretz Yisrael, he was so confident and inspired that he felt he was on the cusp of entering the Land. His
faith was so complete that he believed his very next step would be on Israeli soil. The Ramban felt that Yaakov – who was traveling with his family, in danger and peril, exposed to enemies lying in ambush – never felt alone. His complete faith in Hashem allowed him to feel that he was constantly walking in the presence of G-d; and that his camp and G-d’s camp were intertwined. Interestingly, the language of these two pesukim lends itself to this very idea. The pasuk describes how Yaakov actually encountered the angels, before even seeing them: “… And angels of G-d encountered him. And Yaakov said when he saw them…” Yaakov felt close to Hashem and to Eretz Yisrael and experienced the encounter before the actual sighting. This particular kind of faith was Yaakov’s unique strength. Chazal tell us that Avraham referred to the location of the Bet Hamikdash as a mountain, Yitzchak referred to it as a field, while Yaakov referred to it as a house. The fundamental difference between them is that Avraham felt that G-d’s presence was far from reach (perhaps reserved for the spiritual elite); Yitzchak felt that the Shechina was a little closer but still a place requiring travel; while Yaakov, in contrast, was unusual in the extent to which he felt Hashem’s presence in his midst. Especially now, as many of us are feeling pulled in so many different directions, emotionally and spiritually; striving to be virtually present in our professional or communal activities and simultaneously stuck in our homebound routines. The resulting disruption leads to a state of distraction and even distancing from our idealized personal goals. Perhaps, this is Yaakov's gift to us: The lesson of striving to reach a level of spirituality that enables us to perceive the Machaneh Elokim, the G-dly camp, which surrounds each of us and thereby gives us the security and confidence to face the array of challenges that life brings in the unknown future. Rabbi Yehoshua Fass is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Nefesh B’Nefesh. He is a member of the Mizrachi Speakers Bureau (www.mizrachi.org/ speakers).
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her heart and the hearts of her parents, too. “Everybody loved him,” Rosalie said. “He was such a kind, loving, man.” In 1952, Rosalie Bloom and Herb Gorman were married at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Rosalie remembers seeing many celebrities – or stars – at Hollywood Stars ballgames, including Gene Autry, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Burt Lancaster, Barbara Stanwyck and others. One celebrity fan that stands out in Rosalie’s mind all these years later is Danny Kaye. “When Herbie came to bat, Danny would stand up and yell, ‘Give it a klop, Herbie, give it a klop,’” she said. After three seasons with the Stars, Gorman was obtained by the St. Louis Cardinals. Herb busied himself during spring training in Florida trying to make the roster while Rosalie met the players’ wives and hit if off with the wife of star outfielder Enos Slaughter. But when Slaughter found out the Gormans were Jewish and that his wife was friendly with Rosalie, he ordered his wife to stop seeing Mrs. Gorman. “Enos Slaughter was an anti-Semite and the meanest son of a gun,” Rosalie said. “The biggest star on the team was Stan Musial, and he was the opposite. He was the kindest, sweetest, nicest man.” Gorman’s efforts in spring training paid off and he headed north with the big league squad. The Gormans sublet an apartment in St. Louis and Herb patiently waited for a chance to play in his first major league game. Finally, on April
19, 1952, Gorman made his major league debut in the seventh inning at Chicago’s Wrigley Field. Pinch-hitting for the pitcher, Gorman grounded out as the Cubs went on to thrash the Cardinals 8-1. It would be his only major league appearance, as he was sold to the San Diego Padres of the Pacific Coast League as April ended and went on to play in 108 games for San Diego in 1952 while batting .261, well below his career average. On April 5, 1953, the Padres were playing a big doubleheader against rival Hollywood in their home park downtown, only a short walk from the Pacific Ocean. Gorman played left field in the first game. It was the last game of his life. The first game was going great for Gorman as he rapped two doubles in two at-bats. But within minutes after trotting back to his left field position in the sixth inning with his wife watching, Gorman called “time” and staggered toward the infield. Teammates helped him to the dugout where he walked unaided to the clubhouse. The team trainer quickly applied oxygen and sent for a doctor who called for an ambulance. Gorman, who fell unconscious, was rushed to the hospital still wearing his baseball uniform. Upon arrival at the hospital, the 28-year-old Gorman was pronounced dead. A massive blood clot that reached the heart would later be ruled as the cause of death. Rosalie tries not to think of that day, but two things pop into her mind: seeing her husband lying on a hospital gurney and asking for a rabbi after learning of his death. Teammates learned of Gorman’s death in the
ninth inning while losing 4-2. When the game concluded with the same score, the almost 4,000 in attendance were informed of Gorman’s fate and that the second game would be cancelled in accordance with a vote of his teammates. Gorman’s young widow made sure a rabbi would officiate over a proper Jewish funeral. At the service, while looking at Gorman’s grieving parents and widow, Rabbi Morton J. Kohn of San Diego’s Temple Beth Israel, said, “Herb Gorman had learned to play the game of life equally as well as he had learned to play the game of his profession.” “We were only married for 14 months,” Rosalie recalled. “I was 21 when he died and went back to my parents’ home. For six months, I hardly left my room.” After three years, Rosalie found love again. “I met a real nice man and we have been married for 64 years and have two sons.” Now 88, Rosalie is more active than people half her age. She loves traveling and driving around whatever country she’s visiting. She prefers to be behind the wheel instead of being a passenger in a tour bus. Borneo is on her radar and she’s toying with the idea of becoming a political volunteer. One thing’s for sure: She gets my vote as one of the most interesting people I have ever met over the phone. Irwin Cohen – an author, columnist, and public speaker – worked for the Detroit Tigers (doing marketing and public relations) from 1983-1992 during which time he became the first Orthodox Jew to earn a World Series ring. He can be reached at irdav@sbcglobal.net.
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A Communal Call To Action As Congress Considers $270M Gap In Nonprofit Security Funding By Sandy Eller With the pandemic posing an unprecedented worldwide safety threat, it has been easy to lose sight of the fact that less than a year has passed since horrific massacres unfolded in a Jersey City kosher market and, just days later, in the home of a Monsey rabbi. But while there is reason for cautious optimism as multiple Covid vaccine trials seem to be nearing their successful conclusions, anti-Semitism – among other hate crimes – remains an ongoing, immediate, and growing threat, making increased funding for the federal Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSPG) a critical issue. Last year’s $90 million allocation to the NSPG was historic, but the terror attacks of the past twelve months, coming as they did on the heels of synagogue attacks in both Pittsburgh and Poway, make it clear that additional funding is needed to protect Jewish targets in the face of an increase in anti-Semitic attacks. While the House Appropriations Committee, chaired by Representative Nita Lowey (D-NY), has responded with a proposed allocation of $360 million for the NSPG, its sister committee in the Senate has kept funding even at $90 million, with the final amount to be awarded determined over the next few weeks through congressional negotiation. “It’s a no-brainer that we need more funding,” Robert Goldberg, senior director of legislative affairs at the Jewish Federations of North America, told The Jewish Press. “FBI director Chris Wray testified again in September that one of the highest security concerns in the country is ethnically and racially motivated extremists targeting the Jewish community and other minority soft targets.” While the threat of anti-Semitic terror has been present for years, the reality that they are coming from local sources and not foreign agents is a relatively new concept. Goldberg credited both Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) for spearheading the current Senate effort to approve $360 million in funding for the NSPG, citing the recent terror attacks as well as an alarming uptick in anti-Semitic confrontations that have taken place in New York City, primarily in Brooklyn’s Jewish communities. “Unfortunately, so many appropriations decisions are made based on budget concerns and not risk concerns,” noted Goldberg. “The Department of Homeland Security’s preparedness programs are designed to bolster the ability of states and localities where risks are greatest to prepare and defend themselves, something that is evident here.” Goldberg noted that a grassroots effort to have elected officials take action could potentially result in tens of millions of dollars in additional resources to protect Jewish communities nationwide. An action alert sent out by the JFNA urges constituents to contact their congressional representatives to advocate for the additional funding and also includes a pre-filled form that can be submitted with a single click. A similar email was sent out by Agudath Israel of America to its constituents, hoping to corral more public support for the effort. Having seen that communal advocacy can generate positive results, Rabbi Abba Cohen, vice president for government affairs and Washington director and counsel at the Agudah, emphasized the importance of a substantial increase in security funding for the nonprofit community in the Senate. “As House-Senate negotiations over the bill will move forward, we must convey the strong
message to Appropriations Committee negotiators to boost NSGP funding significantly – making the House-approved $360 million a target goal and approving an amount as close to that as possible in the bill that will eventually emerge,” said Rabbi Cohen. No matter how much money will ultimately be allocated, grants would be capped at $100,000 for each nonprofit which could be used for various improvements. Bollards, which are typically placed at four foot intervals to prevent ramming attacks, are a particularly effective security measure and one that can save lives, noted David Pollock, associate executive director and director of public policy and security at the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York. He estimated the average price of each bollard at $5,000 to $6,000, although the cost could vary by conditions at each location, and buildings with large frontage would need a significant number of the devices to keep vehicles at bay. “If you read what the bad guys are writing, there is a lot of support for ramming which is a low-tech way to mow down a large number of peo-
ple at once and requires no skills,” observed Pollock. “For most places, the only way to effectively install bollards is with a significant increase in funding.” While much has been said about bulletproof glass, Pollock explained that it doesn’t really exist. Instead, nonprofits should be looking for improvements that will prevent people from seeing in, while still allowing light, but more importantly, can withstand an attack by a determined intruder for 10 minutes, enough time to move potential victims to safety. While both the JCRC (working with the UJA Federation) and the Agudah are implementing community security initiatives that will help Jewish institutions spend their security funding wisely when it comes in, it is clear that the goal for now is to ensure that maximum dollars are allocated. “We need people to write to their representatives and their senators and urge them to make sure that this $360 million allocation is a priority, especially this year,” said Pollock. “With everything that is going on, we need to make sure that people are protected.”
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BY HENNI HALBERSTAM
BY HENNI HALBERSTAM
One And Done Dear Dating Coach, In the past few months, I have only gone out one time each with the last 5 girls I was set up with. I believe that if I’m sure that we are not a good match, then I shouldn’t waste anyone’s time. Why bother agreeing to a second date, if I can tell on the first date that we are not meant to be? My family and the shadchanim all disagree with me and constantly pressure me to go out a second time – especially if travel is involved. They have started calling me “Mr. One and Done.” Since when is being decisive a bad thing? Who is right? Drive-By Dater Dear Drive-By, I love meal-planning and organizing our dinners for the week. Really, I love all forms of organization, and never turn down the chance to write a list (Yes, I know this makes me sound super exciting). Together as a family, we agree on meals that we like and assign them each a day. This encourages everyone to be accountable for the dinners we choose, reducing my chances of a ‘supper
There’s A Time For Everything By Miriam Beigelman Waiting is a part of life. Even so, I don’t like it. Waiting at the doctor’s office, on line at the supermarket, or next to the phone for someone important to call tests my patience. I waited over 20 Get help years to meet my husdealing with:
stand-off.’ (We’ve all been there. The “I will not eat this!” duel that warns you to never bring broccoli to a gun fight, er, dinner.) The only thing that meal planning does not account for is “the toddler.” The toddler you see, always holds that one card that can’t be contested; where they simply eye the perfectly proportioned, non-touching, ketchup-friendly dinner and state, “I do NOT like this.” A rational response such as “But you haven’t even tasted it,” is wasted on the superior intellect that the toddler obviously possesses as you are sent back to the drawing board to meal plan once more.
a definite red flag, or some sort of glaring incident that clearly showcased a blight on a dater’s character. Maybe the dater was offensive, unpleasant, or did something you found to be truly repellant. If there was a distinct act that you found to be absolutely distasteful then a second date is redundant. You however, seem to be expecting every first date to offer you some sort of looking glass into a future that only you get to define.
You Can Give Someone… Of course, there are circumstances where a second date is not warranted. Perhaps there was
Is A Chance. Really, a first date is merely two semi-strangers making conversation for a period of time to determine if the conversation and connection can be further explored at a later date. The information that you have gathered at the end of that first date is superficial and based more on what you see versus what you may get. To believe that you can tell in that period of time that you will ‘never ever absolutely’ be able to forge an everlasting connection is premature and perhaps arrogant. You believe that you are being decisive, but instead it feels derisive. I would encourage you to stop making snap judgments without giving yourself the gift of just a bit more time. This time is precious to you, and not a waste at all. So, pick up your fork and knife and allow yourself to explore – because a meal that didn’t initially appeal may become your favorite. Henni Halberstam is a dating and relationship coach. To schedule a phone session with her, or to contact her for any other reason, e-mail hennihalberstam@gmail.com.
band. Waiting for my spouse dwarfs anything else I have ever waited for. It tested much more than my patience. My confidence and faith were challenged. It’s difficult to see the years pass while still hoping to marry. It’s difficult to continue praying after being told no repeatedly. I had this nagging feeling that perhaps I was doing something to perpetuate my single state. It’s tiring to chase something elusive. It’s a roller coaster of emotions when it looks like a relationship will succeed and then it slips through one’s fingers like a wet eel. Afterwards, making sense of what went wrong is head-spinning. Constantly pining for marriage affects the ability to live in the here and now. I don’t think there’s a way around this reality. How could there be? A part of me always wished my circumstances were different. And living a dual life sapped my energy. I wish I had had the secret for how to be single, date, want to get married, and be im-
mersed in one’s life at the same time. My mistake, though, was thinking that marriage is the goal and being single is second best. Marriage is good, and should be a goal, but that doesn’t mean a person can’t embrace her single life. Before I got married, I sometimes told my mother that I was embarrassed to go somewhere because I was single. She would always respond, “Is being single a crime? You did nothing wrong. You have nothing to be embarrassed of.” That usually set my thinking straight. Indeed, there is no shame in being single, just like there is no shame in having any other challenge. Waiting can be painful. People wait for all sorts of things to happen. Some wait a long time. I waited over two decades to meet my husband. But I now understand that there is a time to be single and a time to be married. After a long wait comes deeper appreciation. The darker the night, the brighter the light at the end of the tunnel.
The Best Thing… I am so glad that you have been set up so quickly and efficiently in the past few months. In a time when so many have struggled to be matched, you have been blessed with a support group that is working hard to help you find your bashert. Still, you believe that if you are sure on the first date that you are not suited for one another, then it is prudent to refuse a second date (if she is so inclined of course). You don’t want to “waste time” and don’t understand why others would try to compel you to date girls that are wrong for you. Finally, you think it’s silly to go out a second time just because you’ve traveled somewhere; surely it’s smarter to simply move-on.
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COVENANT & CONVERSATION RABBI SACKS RABBI LORD LORD JONATHAN SACKS
Light In Dark Times Editor’s Note: Before his passing, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks prepared a year’s worth of Covenant & Conversation columns based on his new book, “Lessons in Leadership.” The Jewish Press is honored to publish these columns, which are being distributed weekly by The Office of Rabbi Sacks. What is it that made Jacob – not Abraham or Isaac or Moses – the true father of the Jewish people? We are called the “congregation of Jacob,” “the Children of Israel.” Jacob/Israel is the man whose name we bear. Yet Jacob did not begin the Jewish journey; Abraham did. Jacob faced no trial like that of Isaac at the Akeidah. He did not lead the people out of Egypt or bring them the Torah. To be sure, all his children stayed within the faith, unlike Abraham or Isaac. But that simply pushes the question back one level. Why did he succeed where Abraham and Isaac failed? It seems that the answer lies in Parshat Vayetzei and Parshat Vayishlach. Jacob was the man whose greatest visions came to him when he was alone at night, far from home, fleeing from one danger to the next. In Parshat Vayetzei, escaping from Esau, he stops and rests for the night with only stones to lie on, and he has an epiphany: He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of G-d were ascending and descending on it…. When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the L-rd is in this place, and I was not aware of it.” He was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of G-d; this is the gate of heaven.” (Gen. 28:12–17) In Parshat Vayishlach, fleeing from Laban and terrified at the prospect of meeting Esau again, he wrestles alone at night with an unnamed stranger: Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with G-d and with humans and have overcome.”…So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “It is because I saw G-d face to face, and yet my life was spared.” (Gen. 32:29–31) These are the decisive spiritual encounters of Jacob’s life, yet they happen in liminal space (the space between, neither a starting point nor a destination), at a time when Jacob is at risk in both directions – where he comes from and where he is going to. Yet it is at these points of maximal vulnerability that he encounters G-d and finds the courage to continue despite all the hazards of the journey. That is the strength Jacob bequeathed to the Jewish people. What is remarkable is not merely that this one tiny people survived tragedies that would have spelled the end of any other people: the destruction of two Temples; the Babylonian and Roman conquests; the expulsions, persecutions, and pogroms of the Middle Ages; the rise of antisemitism in nineteenth-century Europe; and the Holocaust. It is truly astonishing that after each cataclysm, Judaism renewed itself, scaling new heights of achievement. During the Babylonian exile, Judaism deep-
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ened its engagement with the Torah. After the the greatest speeches ever made on the subject: Roman destruction of Jerusalem it produced the great literary monuments of the Oral Torah: MiIt is not the critic who counts; not the man drash, Mishnah, and Gemara. During the Middle who points out how the strong man stumbles, Ages, it produced masterpieces of law and Torah or where the doer of deeds could have done commentary, poetry, and philosophy. A mere them better. The credit belongs to the man who three years after the Holocaust it proclaimed the is actually in the arena, whose face is marred State of Israel, the Jewish return to history after by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valthe darkest night of exile. iantly; who errs, who comes short again and When I first became Chief Rabbi, I had to unagain, because there is no effort without error dergo a medical examination. The doctor had me and shortcoming; but who does actually strive walking at a very brisk pace on a treadmill. “What to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiare you testing?” I asked him. “How fast I can go, asms, great devotions; who spends himself or how long?” “Neither,” he replied. “I will be obin a worthy cause; who at the best knows in serving how long it takes for your pulse to return the end the triumph of high achievement, and to normal, after you come off the treadmill.” That who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while is when I discovered that health is measured by daring greatly, so that his place shall never be the power of recovery. That is true for everyone, with those cold and timid souls who neither but doubly so for leaders and for the Jewish peoContinued on p.66 ple, a nation of leaders. (This, I believe, is what the phrase “a kingdom of Priests” (Ex. 19:6) means). Leaders suffer crises. That is a given of leadership. When Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of Britain between 1957 and 1963, was asked what the most difficult aspect of his time in office was, he famously replied, “Events, dear boy, events.” Bad things happen, and when they do, the leader must take the strain so that others can sleep easily in their beds. Due to the serious situation individuals Leadership, especially in matters of the spirand families find themselves: Isolation, stress, it, is deeply stressful. Four figures in Tanach – marital tensions, coping with children, etc. Moses, Elijah, Jeremiah, and Jonah – actually prayed to die rather than continue. This was not only true in the distant past. Abraham Lincoln Licensed Psychotherapist suffered deep bouts of depression. So did Winston is accepting new patients Churchill, who called it his “black dog.” Mahaton the phone or electronic link. ma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. both attempted suicide in adolescence and experienced depressive illness in adult life. The same was true Dr.arikorenblit@gmail.com of many great creative artists, among them Michelangelo, Beethoven, and Van Gogh. Is it greatness that leads to moments of despair, or moments of despair that lead to greatness? Do those who lead internalize the stresses and tensions of their time? Or is it that those who are used to stress in their emotional lives find release in leading exceptional lives? There OUR SERVICE IS A CUT ABOVE THE REST is no convincing answer to this in the literature Shomer Shabbos thus far. But Jacob was a more emotionally volWe also do ALL masonry atile individual than eiincluding: ther Abraham, who was basketball and tennis courts, often serene even in the driveways, patios, sidewalks, face of great trials, or stoops, polished concrete Isaac, who was particularly withdrawn. JaAND MORE... cob feared; Jacob loved; Jacob spent more of his time in exile than the other patriarchs. But Jacob endured and persisted. Of all the figures in Genesis, he was the L A W N S great survivor. A N D The ability to survive L A N D S C A P I N G and to recover is part of what it takes to be a leader. It is the willingness to live a life of risks that makes such individuals different from David Rabinowitz 1.877.591.LAWN [5296] others. So said Theowww.elegantlawns.com 260 Doughty Blvd. Inwood, NY dore Roosevelt in one of
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know victory nor defeat. Jacob endured the rivalry of Esau, the resentment of Laban, the tension between his wives and children, the early death of his beloved Rachel, and the loss – for 22 years – of his favorite son, Joseph. He said to Pharaoh, “Few and evil have been the days of my life� (Gen. 47:9). Yet, on the way he “encountered� angels, and whether they were wrestling with him or climbing the ladder to heaven, they lit the night with the aura of transcendence. To try, to fall, to fear, and yet to keep going: that is what it takes to be a leader. That was Jacob, the man who at the lowest ebbs of his life had his greatest visions of heaven.
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Shulamith Of Brooklyn Shows Hakorat Hatov To Its Custodial And Maintenance Staff
Shulamith Of Brooklyn held a school-wide assembly that focused on the incredible gift of Shabbos. The event started off with a special guest speaker, Rav Nosson Greenberg, noted lecturer and rav in Far Rockaway/Five Towns. The girls absorbed and appreciated the lifelong messages about the importance of Shabbos, zemirot, and divrei Torah. As soon as he finished, the school had a special musical performance by a very talented duo on the guitar and
violin. As the music was coming to an end, the girls were exposed to a surprise lesson in hakarat hatov, kiddush Hashem, and u’nishmartem me’od l’nafshoteichem. The hands-on fundamental lesson was most apparent as Shulamith surprised its workers who have worked so hard to keep the students and staff safe during this pandemic. The amount of time they spend on cleaning and sanitizing our building so everyone could be safe is truly amazing. After calling them up to the front of the assembly and giving them the verbal recognition they deserve, an artistic banner made by some of the 8th graders was shown for all to see. On one side were these three important mitzvot written in Hebrew. As the girls were showing their sincere appreciation, the banners were turned around to show a big, huge thank you in their native language, “Merci beaucoup bontrvay” for all that you do to keep us safe.
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By Rav Yitzchok Fingerer This week’s parshah discusses a woman who gives birth. The highlight of a mother’s life is cradling a newborn in her arms. There is no greater joy. She is euphoric. Why then does she become tamei at precisely this time? It seems so incongruous. Just when the woman is at the zenith of her life, she’s precipitously demoted from her glory. The Gemara (Taanis 2a) says the key to childbirth is exclusively in Hashem’s domain. Based on this statement, Rav Menachem Mendel of Kotzk explains that throughout the gestation period, the Shechina’s presence is manifest, nurturing the pregnancy. When the baby is born, though, the Shechina departs. The consequence of this vacuum is impurity. In other words, the impurity is not a punishment. Rather, it’s a reflection of the greatness and holiness of the woman. It’s precisely because she is so holy that impurity seeps in. Life isn’t easy. There are so many challenges and tribulations. We fall. We mess up. We feel low. We feel down. We’re at the brink of giving up. Don’t feel low. Don’t feel down.
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so he could marry her. How would you predict the passage of time would feel to you if you had to wait seven years before marrying the person you loved? Presumably, for most of us, those seven years would drag on and feel like “forever.” Interestingly, though, “they seemed to [Yaakov] but a few days (ke’yamim achadim) because of his love for her” (Bereishit 29:20). Somehow, the seven years “flew by” for Yaakov, which flies in the face of our hypothesis that the seven years would feel excruciatingly slow. In fact, Rabbi Moshe Alshich is so convinced that because of Yaakov’s love and longing for Rachel, “every day would feel like a thousand years,” that he contends that it’s only in retrospect that he could say the time went by quickly. During the seven years, it was painful and agonizing. It is only afterward that the power of his love and connection to Rachel made him forget the excruciating anguish of the wait. Other commentaries disagree. They assume Yaakov saw the seven years as passing quickly even while he was waiting. The Abarbanel suggests Yaakov’s love for Rachel was so great that he thought that seven years was a steal of a deal. He would have been ready and willing to spend even more time waiting for her. Consequently, the time frame did not seem daunting for him and he went through it with a positive mindset. Similarly, Samuel David Luzzatto (Shadal) suggests that his love for her infused each day with peace, enjoyment, and hope. It is pain, discomfort, and negative emotions that make time
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When Time Flies While every minute has 60 seconds and every hour has 60 minutes, our perception of time can change, making some minutes feel like hours and some hours feel like minutes. In a fascinating experiment, Leah Campbell and Richard Bryant studied how first-time skydivers perceived time in relation to their first jump (detailed in their article “How time flies: A study of novice skydivers”). Divers who felt afraid reported that the experience took longer than it did in reality, and divers who felt excited reported that it took shorter than it did in reality. Time drags on when we are afraid and really does fly when we’re having fun. Yet, researchers Philip Gable and Bryan Poole present an important caveat to this adage. Just being content or satisfied doesn’t necessarily make time seem like it’s passing quickly; it’s fun or excitement in the pursuit of a goal that makes time fly (as summed up in their paper “Time flies when you’re having approach-motivated fun”). Yaakov, who loved Rachel very deeply, offered to work seven years for her father Lavan
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seem slow to pass. Peace and positive emotions make time fly by. The Chatam Sofer approaches this question, not from an emotional standpoint, but from a goal-oriented perspective. Only someone who is waiting for time to pass would feel that time is moving slowly. However, to Yaakov’s credit, despite the fact that he loved Rachel very much, he was able to treat each day with the proper reverence, taking advantage of his time, acting productively and being mindful of his task each day. Rabbi Aharon Kotler takes this explanation one step further. Not only did Yaakov not squander his time; he used the time to work toward a goal. He knew that he still needed to develop himself personally and spiritually in order to build a family and fulfill the destiny that was outlined in his dream. He used this time to continue cultivating his strengths. Combining the approaches together, we learn from Yaakov two essential ingredients for leading a momentous and engaged life that doesn’t feel like it’s dragging on: 1) savor the experience of positive emotions and 2) simultaneously plan and implement meaningful goals. Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Schiffman, the assistant rabbi at Kingsway Jewish Center and a licensed psychologist practicing in Brooklyn, can be reached at PsychedForTorah@gmail.com. You can follow him on his website www.psychedfortorah. com and social media platforms (Facebook and Twitter @psychedfortorah, Instagram @rabbi_dr_ mordechai_schiffman)
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In Memoriam My Rebbe, Rav Dovid Feinstein, Zt”l By Jack Forgash As told to Michal Rosenberg
I was a student in MTJ in 1960. After high school my father sent me there to learn because of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein. There I learned Talmud, but I also learned how to deal with people. I met Rav Moshe at my interview and was put into Rav Dovid’s shiur, who was first starting to teach classes in the beis midrash. I was in his shiur for two years. There were 20 of us, and our interactions were that of a rebbe and talmid, but also like a friendship, with all the chavrutot and learning together. When I went to college I continued at MTJ in between classes. Sometimes I would drive Rav Moshe home for lunch because I was the only one with a car. I formed Just One Life in 1988, an organization that supports pregnant women in Israel who are in crisis, such as single mothers, women getting divorced while pregnant or who got pregnant while in the army. There are many halachic questions that come up when dealing with these issues, and I would call Rav Dovid when I had a question. He became the rabbinical authority for Just One Life, along with Rav Pam. I would bring photos of the babies and their mothers to show Rav Dovid when I would visit the yeshiva and he would smile and ask questions about the mother’s situation. He would ask me to show the photos to Rebbetzin Malka and would tell me later that she enjoyed seeing them. Ten years ago, Rav Dovid asked me to join the Rav Feinstein, center, with Jack Forgash, left, and his son Elliot Forgash at Elliot’s wedding. MTJ board. I asked him, “Rebbe, it’s 50 years latand it uplifted the Jewish people after the Hoer! Why area funeral you asking me now?” He answered ing and interested in other people. experienced of a close A lot of poor Jews would come to collect tzelocaust and continues to this day. (Artscroll, the me,deported “You’re family and family ivor, from Hungary, my should stick togethdakah from the students in the beis midrash, household name that disseminates Torah througher.”I So I joined, and sometimes at board meetings, mber attended, unfortunately. and one day when Rav Moshe was giving shiur out the world, was born in MTJ, with Rav Dovid his parents, his grandmother, when I would contribute ansix idea, he would say, “I a lady came in collecting and was chased out by encouraging his great friend, Artscroll founder like that.” a bachur. Rav Moshe stopped the shiur, excused Rabbi Meir Zlotowitz, and giving his haskama on The main lesson I learned from Rav Moshe and himself and went out to give the woman tzedakah many sefarim.) Rav Dovid was chesed. The way they would greet from his own pocket. Then he went over to the baAfter watching the funeral on Zoom on Suneveryone at the yeshiva; there was an open door. chur and gave him tzedakah to give her as well. day, I went to the airport to say goodbye to Rav People came from all walks of life, every type of We used to go across the street to Sam’s Deli Dovid, my rebbe, my adviser, my friend. Jew – and even non-Jews. Rabbis from the OU, Agudah, Young Israel, Torah uMesorah, all came for lunch, and Rav Dovid would come in, sit and to the yeshiva to ask questions to Rav Moshe and eat with us. He was my posek, my rebbe and my Do you neeD someone to say later to Rav Dovid. He was always humble, invit- friend. I looked up to him tremendously. The Feinstein family, Rav Moshe and Rav Dovid, emulated the avos in the way they built up Jewish values Recite Yizkor Prayer and the Jewish way of Daily Mishnah Learning (optional) life to where it was before the Holocaust. 1-888-999-7685 Like Avraham, their info@kaddishfoundation.org chesed was unbelievto learn about the Kaddish prayer, visit us at able. Like Yitzchak, www.kaddishfoundation.org Kaddish Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization they had gevurah. Rav Dovid had the strength to carry on his father’s mission and together they carried the world Jewish community on their backs. They weren’t just roshei yeshiva, but roshei klal Yisrael. And like Yaakov, their Torah was known WWW.GREENBAUMMONUMENTS.COM throughout the world Rav Dovid Feinstein and Jack Forgash shaking hands.
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Letters to the Editor Mr. Resnick asked Mr. Abramson what he thinks about conservative concerns that Democrats voted in unusually large numbers in cities like Detroit and Milwaukee compared to other major cities and that this statistical anomaly is potentially indicative of something foul afoot. Mr. Abramson admits that statistics alone cannot prove fraud, but asserts that something “interesting” happened there. Could the “interesting” be the large number of mail-in votes coming from urban, largely Democratic voters who were encouraged, unlike Trump voters, to vote safely by mail? Charlotte Hart
Loves Aliyah Journal
I just wanted to give a shout-out to Aviva Horowitz-Karoly for her helpful, down-to-earth column about her absorption into Israeli society. As someone who is considering aliyah in the not too distant future, G-d willing, I consider her commentary on her experiences as a roadmap for how to traverse Israeli bureaucracy. Despite any frustrations in that process, Aviva always puts a positive twist on it all and hers has become the first column I turn to. We can all use her positivity – at this time more than ever. Hatzlacha to her and her family! Perele Stulman
Trump: Time to Move On
Trump has been a strong advocate for the Jewish people. He should be applauded for moving the American embassy to Jerusalem, commuting Rubashkin’s prison sentence, and many other outstanding accomplishments. The Jewish people are indebted to him. Yet, Trump alienated millions (Jews included) by mishandling the coronavirus pandemic and is tarnishing his legacy by refusing to concede the election. He is also sabotaging the new administration’s ability to lead the country on January 20. Trump should defer to the will of the American people instead of subverting the democratic process and delegitimizing millions of voters. David J. Mond, MD Miami, FL
Trump Deserves Our Gratitude (I)
Pres. Trump has been a highly polarizing figure. Yet, whether one hates him or loves him, approves or disapproves of his policies and behavior, voted for him or against him, there’s no denying that he and key administration officials – notably Jared Kushner, David Friedman, and Jason Greenblatt – have been very good for Israel and the Jews. The American embassy in Israel was moved to Jerusalem, the Palestinian consulate in that city and the PLO office in Washington were
shuttered, Palestinian Authority and UNRWA funding stopped, Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights was recognized. The Abraham Accords – unprecedented normalization agreements – between Israel and, so far, the U.A.E., Bahrain, and Sudan were signed. The U.S. left the fatally-flawed Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) and imposed strict sanctions on Iran’s rogue regime. It also left the disreputable UN Human Rights Commission. American diplomats – most prominently Nikki Haley – stood steadfastly with Israel in international forums. Vice President Pence affectionately addressed the Knesset, and President Trump went to the Kotel. Further breaking taboos, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited the Golan and the Psagot Winery in Sha’ar Binyamin. Area C products will now be labeled “Made in Israel,” he announced, and the BDS movement, and organizations supporting it, “anti-Semitic.” Also significant, was the executive order expanding Title VI Civil Rights protections to Jewish university students and special envoy Elan Carr’s efforts to fight anti-Semitism. Considered separately, all the above acts are praiseworthy. Collectively, they require an enormous hakaros hatov. Richard D. Wilkins Syracuse, NY
Trump Deserves Our Gratitude (II)
The recent release of Jonathan Pollard from his travel restrictions only confirms that President Trump and his administration have been the most favorable of any president toward Israel. Certainly, if his record stands, Israel will be eternally grateful to Trump as he has supported it politically, economically and militarily. The irony is that while over 80 percent of polled Israelis favored the election of Donald Trump, only 31 percent of American Jews voted for him. Nelson Marans New York, NY
Criticized for Speaking?
I was taken aback by the article, “Prominent Rabbi Criticized For Speaking With Reform Leaders,” in last week’ issue. I am in no way criticizing the gedolei Yisrael who differ with Rav Eliezer Melamed, but I think Rav Melamed displayed greatness when he took it upon himself to have a dialogue with members of the Reform movement. As Am Yisrael, we are a unified whole. This whole contains divisions: Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist. Rav Melamed sees
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us as one unified people and reminds us that we are commanded to love our fellow Jews and that the unity of Am Yisrael is a foundation of our nation’s security. Would the Lubavitcher Rebbe of blessed memory or the recently-departed Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks ever turn up his nose to another Jew due to his group affiliation? I think not! These men embraced all Jews equally. They did not cast judgment. Rav Melamed is a beacon of light in a sometimes dark world. And as my family progresses along in the aliyah process through Nefesh B’Nefesh, I will most certainly seek out Rav Melamed as a mentor and teacher for our family upon our arrival in Israel. Reuben M. Hoch, M.D. Parkland, FL
Will the Republic Last?
November 19 was the 157th anniversary of the delivery of the Gettysburg Address. I am going to quote from that epic speech and add my own words as a commentary on the current situation: Twelve score and four years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great election and its aftermath, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We have a president that cannot accept that the election was clearly won by his opponent. If the president continues on his path citing fraud, I am concerned that “government of the people, by the people, for the people” may “perish from this earth.” Alan Howard
Thank You, Mr. President
Over 74 million Americans voted for President Trump in the election, which tells me that half the country never bought the media hysteria on the Covid-19 pandemic. The health experts projected 2.2 million Americans dying from Covid-19. A total of 675,000 Americans died from the 1918 flu pandemic, yet the media never blamed President Wilson for those deaths. After all, he was a Democrat. Around 239,000 Americans have died from Covid-19, but Trump is being blamed because he’s not implementing a foolish national mask mandate. The majority of Americans who died from Covid-19 were in Democrat-run states. Why isn’t the biased media blaming those states’ governors? Or China, for that matter? In the final presidential debate, Mr. Trump said a vaccine would be coming out shortly. The media said he was lying – that a vaccine wouldn’t be ready until mid-2021. Here we are in November, with a vaccine that is 90
percent effective. We should give Mr. Trump and his administration credit for producing the most quickly-developed vaccine ever. Brian J. Goldenfeld Oak Park, CA
How Do You Know?
Letter writer Avi Goldstein found The Jewish Press suppositions that voter fraud may have occurred “disquieting.” I have no idea what illegalities may have been perpetrated in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada, and Georgia – and neither does Mr. Goldstein. That, however, didn’t prevent him from writing that “the chance that massive mistakes, or fraud, took place is close to zero!” I wish I were blessed with such extraordinary insight and irrefutable knowledge, but, alas, as a mere mortal, I’m not. Myron Hecker
Time to Think Strategically
Letter writers Avi Goldstein and Josh Greenberger are both outstanding authors and extraordinarily bright fellows. So it’s interesting that they came to diametrically different conclusions with regard to our recent presidential election. Mr. Goldstein believes that Joe Biden’s victory is a fait accompli while Mr. Greenberger asserts that the results are flawed. Mr. Goldstein is pragmatic. President Trump has to overturn the results in numerous states – and that’s simply not going to happen. This leads us to ask how a brilliant individual like Josh Greenberger can still hold out hope that his hero will ultimately prevail. To answer this question, let me quote American poet laureate Bob Dylan: “We all see the same thing, we just start out from a different point of view.” Mr. Greenberger, in his heart of hearts, must be aware that the race is lost, but he won’t concede because he’s a disciple of Rabbi Avigdor Miller who proclaimed that the Democratic Party is essentially evil. But, as Paul McCartney wrote, there’s “good and bad in everyone.” So since Mr. Biden will take the reins in January (barring the current president’s continued obstinance), the Jewish community must develop a relationship with him and his running mate rather than demonize them as has become the trend in charedi circles. Yaakov Stern
We Need a Redo
The chaotic election on November 3 mirrored elections in Venezuela and elsewhere where socialists attempted to win by hook or by crook. How dare the Democrats claim
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there is no widespread fraud when the evidence is so compelling? What does one call dead people voting? What does one call ballot-harvesting of nursing homes with ill and demented people in their 90s? What does one call changing the dates on ballots? What does one call using voting machines that were known to have serious flaws and could be manipulated to change votes? These things are supposed to occur in banana republics, not the USA. If there is no election integrity, there is no democracy. The Democrats have rendered null the American people’s votes and usurped our government without firing a shot. No one should accept this kind of travesty of an election. We must demand a redo – an in-person election in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nevada, Arizona, and Georgia. This election must be monitored carefully by neutral people. Remember, where there’s no honesty, there is no liberty. Freda Goldman Baltimore, MD
Fishy Business
It’s very interesting how the day after election night, piles of pro-Biden ballots in key states mysteriously came out of nowhere. And why has no one seriously addressed why U.S. voters often had the option of voting multiple times? I myself, a New York voter, received
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two duplicate ballots at home, while still having the option of voting in person. This could not have been just a” simple” error. Nor can it be ignored that the Democrats were the loudest voices pushing for voting by mail and that they requested over 25 million mail-in ballots. There were clearly efforts to sabotage this election by ensuring an overwhelming abundance of mail-in ballots in order to steal the electoral vote (if only by a small margin) from President Trump. Raphael T. Brooklyn, NY
What Next?
Bruce Abramson (“Are Claims of Election Fraud Credible”) makes a plausible case that fraud in this past election could have been perpetrated. Unfortunately, without concrete and admissible proof, it’s unlikely that Trump will prevail. That leaves us with the likelihood of a Harris-Biden administration (I placed Biden’s name second intentionally). At the end of the interview, Dr. Abramson notes that leftists will likely riot no matter who the next president is if they don’t get their way and their policies aren’t implemented. Unfortunately, as we have seen, neither de Blasio nor Cuomo will do anything about it. There is a way to fight back, though. I’m not suggesting counter demonstrations or violence, but a concerted letter-writing campaign, which was used with a fair amount of success in the past by Rav Avigdor Miller, zt”l. Aside from being an outstanding Torah leader, Rav Miller was a political askan and organized letter-writing campaigns that elicited responses from both politicians and the media and resulted in the mitigation of several possibly devastating decrees. We must keep ourselves constantly aware of potential executive orders, pending legislation, and the like, and write polite, but firm letters to politicians who may have a say in the matter. The pen is indeed, “mightier than the sword.” With Hashem’s help, our efforts to keep in check potential threats will succeed. Mordechai Schlanger Brooklyn, NY
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sued last Friday by the U.S. Parole Commission, the arm of the Justice Department that supervises the release of federal prisoners, announcing its decision not to extend the travel restrictions it had placed on Pollard five years earlier: “After a review of Mr. Pollard’s case, the U.S. Parole Commission has found there is no evidence to conclude that he is likely to violate the law. Thus, in accordance with the statute, the commission has ordered that, as of today, his parole supervision is terminated and he is no longer subject to the conditions of his parole.” At the time of his arrest, Pollard had been a civilian employee of the U.S. Navy, which was the only way he had access to the documents he turned over to Israel. Surely that access ended upon his arrest. Nor could there have been any reasonable fear that Pollard could disclose critical secrets he had
committed to memory. Not only is it inconceivable that 1980s secret national security information would be relevant in 2015, but can anyone believe he still retained the information in any meaningful way after 30 years? The post-incarceration parole phase of the Pollard saga only confirms our belief that people in high places harboring anti-Israel animus materially drove the unprecedented harsh treatment he received. Indeed, Weinberger – a notorious critic of the Jewish state – reportedly was beside himself over the fact that Israel was able to obtain information he had ordered kept from it. Sadly, Pollard’s legal odyssey seems less about the illegal acts he committed and more about for whom he committed them. But equal justice under the law should be important to all of us. At all events, Jonathan Pollard has more than paid his debt to society and we wish him well.
Abbas’s Latest Gambit Anticipating the end of the Trump era, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has begun moving to ingratiate himself with the Biden camp. After spending the good part of the last two years refusing to engage with Israel or the United States, Abbas has suddenly done an about-face and announced that the Palestinian Authority will resume security arrangements with Israel and accept tax revenues collected by Israel on behalf of the PA from Palestinians living in Israeli-controlled areas. Abbas has also indicated to Biden aides that he is prepared to revise the PA program of subsidizing families of Palestinian terrorists who murdered or maimed Israelis (and Americans) and are incarcerated in Israeli jails or dead. This latter practice led the Trump administration to suspend much of the U.S. funding of the Palestinian Authority. (To be sure, Abbass is saying something very different to Palestinians in Arabic.) Abbas has also recently called upon Palestinians to end their public criticism of the United Arab Emirates,
Bahrain, and the Sudan over the normalization agreements they recently concluded with Israel. Hopefully, if Biden becomes president, he will see right through all of this. But Abbas could well have been heartened by some tentative major Biden national security appointments. His choices for secretary of state and national security adviser have come straight from the ranks of the Democratic foreign policy establishment of the Obama years that espouses a faux “evenhandedness” in U.S. dealings with Israel and the Palestinians. This “evenhandedness” pressures Israel for ever-increasing concessions to the weaker Palestinians and is joined at the hip with the discredited and counterproductive two-state solution Abbas claims to support. It also encourages Palestinian recalcitrance. As Biden rounds out his team in anticipation of succeeding President Trump, the direction he plans to take will become more apparent. We hope Abbas will be sorely disappointed – for the sake of both the security interests of both United States and Israel.
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pain? Research has shown that because pain includes both the mind and the body, mind-body therapies may have the ability to reduce pain by altering the way you perceive it. The following techniques can help you take By Rachel Bluth your mind off the pain and can possibly even work to override established pain signals. Breathing. Deep theShaya core Dear Dr. Yael, Dear Mrs. Bluth, theDeep yeshiva would soon be breathing calling us is that that needs to be learned as it will be am terrified struggling my physical health. II am thatwith my son, who is now in ye-I technique had been caught with drugs or stealing, and were used in many of the other techniques. In order to have a lot of pain because of my medical issues shiva in Eretz Yisroel, has fallen prey to some bad sending him home. Mrs. Bluth, what are we to do? use this technique correctly, you need to inhale and nothing seems to help. I tried working with a friends. I don’t know much of the details other Who should we believe? Is it possible that our son through your breath for a personal trainer who to myisapartment, but deeply than what he tells me,came but that not very much has been hidingyour this nose, from hold us and that he really and then exhale very slowly through he wasn’t about my medical and I don’tvery wantknowledgeable to rush into rash actions or accu- few has seconds, a drug problem? your mouth. You should be able to physically feel conditions. My doctor suggested that I try physical sations that may be baseless and get him thrown a difference after doing this technique correctly. therapy. However, the clinic he told me to use is out of yeshiva along with others I suspect who Dear Friend, To help you focus, youpassed can close This very busy. The physical therapists there treat so have caused this problem. I think Shaya has theyour ‘drugeyes. problem’ us tohas the second important which many people at aonce get no attention. With brings A little over yearthat ago,I just before he graduatstage and graduated to fulltechnique dependency on is imagery. COVID-19, I’m also extra nervous being around ed high school, my son, an active sports fan, broke drugs. He has become addicted and has managed Imagery. Imagery when you close your even eyes so people football becausewith of my condi- to seek hismany arm playing hispre-existing friends. We rushed out those whoiscan supply the need, and imagine something peaceful to you. Many tions. Should I stick with the physical therapy dehim to the hospital where he had to have surgery to in Israel, and even at the cost of losing his good enjoy thinking of him the beach, buttowith imspite my worries? What do places, you think should do? people set the bone, broken in two andIhad a metal friend by stealing from in order procure agery, you will “see” the beach in your mind, as A Reader rod inserted to set the bones together. During this those drugs. if you’re actually there. Using imagery with deep time, when he was in severe pain, the doctors preYou need to get Shaya home so that you can get usually makes the techniques more efDear Reader, scribed a few tablets for the pain and cautioned him breathing him into treatment for his drug addiction. You must generally peopleand maintain their I truly understand your Thepain. world fective to take them only when he wasconcerns. in the worst also getand in touch with helps the yeshiva make them focus better. Listening to calming music can is aAll very different place right now. You have evseemed to be going smoothly, with the aware that some of their staff and talmidim arealso insome and help ery right to be apprehensive about treated enhance broken bone finally healed and the being rod removed. volved in this drugtechnique traffickingfor and salepeople of drugs within stay more in publicfinished settings. I’m not sure what away your medi*Shaya school, went to sleep camp them their walls. I amrelaxed. sad to say that this is not the first Progressive Relaxation. Progressive relaxation calaconditions butcare it seems though going to time as JC, takingare, great to beas careful and avoid I have heard of other families who have expeinvolves you mentally relaxing each part of your a crowded physical therapy clinic is not ideal for any sport that could hurt the healing arm or cause rienced what you are going through because some body in order. This will relax all of your muscles, you. However, your health is very important and physical harm as he was due to leave in late Au- yeshivos abroad turn a blind eye to such goings on. usually can done while on your medical conditions should be treated gust current for yeshiva in Eretz Yisroel. Seemingly, all andYour quest to be save your son concentrating is time-sensitive breathing and relaxing eachgrasping muscle/body pet appropriately. went well and, as planned, we saw him off on his deep so don’t waste another moment at false in order. You can use an app or a recording or walk I personally have an amazing physical theraflight for his year of study in yeshiva. We had no hope that this is just a passing phase. through my pist who reason tocomes worry to atmy thathome. point.I feel very safe in the yourself It only takes this one by or verbally two pillssaying, to get “now someone arm will relax, it will feel like it has no weight,” comfort of my own den and the individual attenAt the beginning, he called us every erev Shab- young and impressionable to become dependent. Some therapists you a tape to help tion has he been extremely to my bos and sounded fine,beneficial but not too longwellbeafter, etc. Caught early enough will and make with strong and diligent walk you through each step of this relaxation ing. I highly recommend this course of treatment Shaya asked us to get in touch with his doctor to support from the family, to pursue any avenue of When thoughts break through, return for youa cannot compare of technique. see you. if weFirstly, could get prescription for the morelevel of his help towards the goal of remission and rehabilitato the breathing repetition and start over. Contintraining and schooling of a physical therapist to pain medication. This seemed odd to us as he had tion, success and good quality of life can be achieved. this for to 20 Your minutes. Afterward, sit that personal My physical therapist done of so awell all thistrainer. time without it. We did make ue Butdoing you must act 10 quickly. goal and your focus quietly for a minute or two while your thoughts has a doctorate degree and many years of experithe call to his surgeon, who refused the request must be to first extricate your son from the source Thentoyou can open your eyes quietence. a health professional, he understands sayingAsthat over the counter medication shouldmy be return. of his ‘need feed’ environment andand intosit a theraly for another minute to help your body transition medical needs. He provides me with a comprehenall he needed to give him relief from any discom- peutic and health-orientated society who can help a relaxed state. sive recovery planWhen that he every visit and fort at this point. weadjusts relayedatthe message him maintain wean off his addiction and relearn good health Hypnosis. Hypnosis can be helpful for some depending on my progress. to him and said we were sending him Tylenol and habits. You must find the strength to withstand people in alleviating pain. Make sure to see In addition, all his equipment is sanitized, or Motrin with friends who were going to Israel, Sha- this painful and costly journey if you have anysomehope who is certified in hypnosis can help you one-time-use, hehanging always up wears appropriate ya exploded in and anger, on us. We didn’t one of seeing your son return to good and health. your PPE. As I mentioned hear from him for twobefore, weeks.the individual atten- reduce As for thepain. blind eye of the yeshiva, sad to say, Positive Thinking. When we are states sick we tionUpon is the best part. At most clinics that I’ve vistheir return to the States, our friends who it is no different than yeshivos in the or may anyfeel that we will never get better and we often foited in the past, therapists have spent just a few had so kindly brought him the medication, said where else, that have become a business other than cus on what we cannot do instead of what we can minutes with me before leaving me alone for the that he looked terrible and that he was in great concentrating on the chinuch and physical/spiriour thoughts focus the on what we remainder of the the session. I have often felt pain most of time. They suspected he ignored was on do. tualRefocusing education of our children,togiving weakest can do will help make you feel better about yourand uneasy about performing therapy exercises drugs far stronger than what we sent with them. kids the accessibility to fall prey to the drug dealers feel better in general. Many people likeyou to on A myweek own.after Withour myfriends currentcame physical back therapist, with this self and and suppliers of death and destruction. I hope write down 5 things they are thankful for daily to Inews, get an entire session with his full attention and Shaya’s friend called us and told us that will be able to achieve your goal of saving your son them him retrain their brain to think more once posmy recovery has been faster as boys a result. was ‘bad also help Shaya had fallen in with three who Iwere and seeing return fully healed and happy itively. Just spending a few minutes each night referred to a few clinics, but always felt that they news’ and they were supplying him with drugs. he has been through the system of recovery. There things abouttoday yourself can also did not give the attention I needed to recover. He also told me us that Shaya had stolen money from on arepositive many organizations available to help help you the improve your mood and help reduce pain. If you would like to contact my physical therahim to get the pills and he was no longer on good recovering addict and their family. May you watch Hatzlocha with your pain and repist, his information: termshere withisShaya but felt we should know. Shaya return to goodreducing health and walk him to the member that many of these ideas can be used toDr. Zvi Gutman, DPT. (646) 481-7854 . www. He also said that if we didn’t get Shaya help, chuppah in the best of health. gutmanpt.com (Accepts Medicare, Medicaid and gether to help you during this trying time. Please most insurance. No additional fee for the home reach out for help from a competent professionRachel Bluth is a writer and lecturer with an active practice in the Fivephysical Towns, offering advice al for your therapy and to if couples, you areyoung still visit.) adults and children. She can be reached at chronicles@jewishpress.com or c/o The Jewish Press, 4915 16 Avenue, suffering, perhaps seeing a psychologist can help From a psychological point of view, have you Brooklyn NY, 11204. ever tried psychological techniques to reduce your you as well!
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SERUV LISTING The names listed below are Mesarev Ledin or have been Harkhakot D’Rabbeinu Tam. A beth din has issued a seruv against each person listed below for a) withholding a get upon being ordered to grant one, b) refusing to appear before beth din in matters pertaining to a get, or c) otherwise failing to follow the order of a beth din in matters pertaining to a get. For the halachot regarding how one should treat a person who is mesarev ledin, please consult a competent Orthodox rabbi.
JACOB MOSES BINSON of Montreal, Canada, issued by Bet Din Zedek of Montreal in August 2005 SHIMON KNOPFLER of Brooklyn, New York, issued by Beth Din of America, March 2009 STEVEN SCHER of Roanoke, Virginia, issued by Beth Din of America, November 2009 DOVID WASSERMAN of Brooklyn, N.Y. issued by Bais Din Tzedek of Flatbush, December 2017 CHANOCH LEBOVIC of Washington Heights/ Toronto/Brooklyn, issued by Beth Din Zedek, Kollel Avreichim, March 2011 JUTE DAVID KESTLER of Fairlawn, New Jersey, issued by Beth Din of America, March 2012 DAVID NAHMANNY of Brooklyn, New York, issued by Beth Din of America, June 2012 CHAIM YEHUDA HOFFMAN of Brooklyn, New York and Florida, issued by Israeli Rabbinic Court, July 2014 MORDECHAI OVADIA of Lakewood, New Jersey or Las Vegas, Nevada, issued by Bet Din Zedek Shaarei Mishpat, March 2015 AARON AKABERI of South Setauket, issued by Beth Din of America, May 2015 YOSSI ELKOUBY of Marbella, Spain and Paris and Lyon, France, issued by Beth Din of London, February 2016 BARUCH GREENWALD of Boro Park, New York, issued by Beth Din of America, July 2016 MEIR KIN of Las Vegas, issued by Rabbi Hershel Shachter, Rabbi Nachum Sauer, & Rabbi Avraham Union, Tammuz 2010 GAVRIEL NACHMAN WALLACH, of Brooklyn, New York, issued by Bet Din Btzedek Tishpoit, January 2018 YONA RENDLER, of Brooklyn, New York, issued by Beth Din of America, February 2019 CHAIM MEIR LAUBER of New York, NY, issued by Bet Din of America, April 2019 YOSEF COHEN, of Brooklyn, New York, issued by Beth Din of America, November 2018 DOVID YITZCHAK EIZIK (IKE) SHAIN of Spring Valley, NY, issued by Bet Din of America, August 2020
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Medication Dear Dr. Yael, I am struggling with depression and anxiety. I am currently seeing a therapist, but I am still having a hard time. I do not know what to do. I am reluctant to take medication because I am against medication in general and I also feel like I should be able to work hard enough to overcome my struggles without medication. On the other hand, I want to get better and be a better wife, mother, etc. What is your opinion on medication for depression and anxiety? A Reader Dear Reader, I am so sorry that you are suffering. Depression and anxiety are real diseases that can affect us greatly, sometimes beyond our control. Therapy, by itself, can help many people overcome their depression, anxiety and other emotional hurdles. Therapy can provide a safe, supportive
environment to work through people’s thoughts, feelings and experiences, all of which can be overwhelming. Through this process, many people feel they are empowered to overcome some of their struggles and they learn techniques to help them calm themselves and improve their mood. It is also important to work on building your self esteem as this will help you feel stronger and more able to conquer your emotional difficulties. However, although it can be transformative, sometimes therapy on its own isn’t enough. In answer to your question, I feel that some people need an adjunct to therapy that can help them develop more stability in how they experience and deal with life. Medication designed to help with these issues can aid in making therapy more effective from the provider’s perspective and more productive for the client, including with day-to-day living in between sessions. It could also, on its own, address and treat certain issues in ways that may lie outside the scope of therapy. Medication has nothing to do with “how strong you are” or how hard you work. No one should ever feel inferior because they needed to use medication to help them overcome their depression, anxiety, or any other emotional difficulties. If you were diagnosed with a medical condition, would you feel bad that you have to take the prescribed
medication? Would you ever say to yourself that you should be strong enough to overcome strep or another bacterial infection on your own? Emotional conditions are no different than medical conditions and should be thought of and treated the same way! While psychotherapists generally do not prescribe medication, they can often identify the potential need and recommend that a client go to a psychiatrist for evaluation. Seeing a therapist can help with this as well, as the experience of receiving treatment from a psychiatrist, feeling its negative associations in society, and embarking on a medication regimen can seem daunting. Once it’s started, however, and with the close involvement of the psychiatrist and therapist, medication can prove successful in helping people break through barriers they face in seeking contentment and satisfaction in their personal, home and work lives as well as in relating to themselves. Medication can help augment therapy and help people feel well enough to do the hard work you described. Finding the right combination of medication is imperative, so please do not give up if you do not feel relief right away. Unfortunately, psychiatric medication is not as exact of a science as other medication and may need more trial and error and tweaking. Please seek the help you need in order to make your therapy more effective. Your bravery to reach out to me for help and to get the therapeutic help you need is admirable! Hatzlocha with finding the right tools to help you be a better you!
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Seeds of Growth By Shifra Weiss
Secondary infertility is a life of great challenges and great growth, and I want to share my process with you. Day Day71 Yesterday a long it I felt horIt's day one ofwas the cycle. It'sday. beenMost a yearofsince I rible, like had Here, the flu and couldn’t The visited thisIoffice. there is time for memove. to nurse said that the results are ok, and they’re gowrite. This is the office where you wait, it's the ing to continue but I should raise my dose. I ran nature of the place. to the pharmacy and saw they had just closed. I am farther a motheraway, to an eightI Let hadme tointroduce go to a myself. pharmacy despite year-old son, bornand a few years after our marriage. feeling horrible, had to wait there for ages. I felt sick, I felt like Iand couldn’t evencontinues. get up from It'sso been a long journey my journey the chair I was sitting on. Although compared to and the unimaginable I finallynothing got home, rested, miraculously felt struggle of primary infertility, secondary is better. I decided that I’m doing my infertility whole misha great struggle that is rarely acknowledged. Read loach manos tonight. Whatever it is it is, I need to any the magazine article and you'llI’m know that everyone grab opportunity while feeling well. is Ioverwhelmed from all their kids, getting them made two things that were lemon flavored, out in the morning, doing homework with so many attached a small lemon candy and wrote, ‘when kids, pilesyou of laundry – everyone but me – it seems. life gives lemons, make lemonade.’ Message I feel different reading all the articles, feel well taken. inadequate, if I'm mood, not a real jugglingwas the in a I was in aasgreat butmother Menachem real struggles everyone else has.had a whole histerrible mood.that I got angry at him, sy fit and then realized something – he was still When it's vacation time, they're all kvetching about stressed from me feeling so sick this morning. He how hard it iswhen to have the noise tumult of felt horrible I called himand from the of, pharmacy havingso nounwell. schedule.He’s Theynot talklike as ifme everyone is second feeling that the going through the same thing, and laugh at the I feel well I’m better and forget about all my pain. impossibility of it,from how they’re forin everyone He’s still in pain seeingwaiting his wife pain. toIget back to school and finally have some quiet. think that I’m just going through the treatment, realize how my kvetching, I smilebut andnow join Itheir conversation. They includemy difficulties, really weigh him down. I’m not the only me, because my son is home too. But they’d never one suffering, so is he. know that my early morning schedule remains the So, I cleaned up the kitchen, prepared a yumsame, whether it’s vacation or not. And sometimes my supper and set the table nicely. As much as it’s the quiet that’s impossible. I’m desperate for his support throughout this difficult journey, he’s desperate Secondary infertility means a lifefor of mine. doctors, stress, Today I’m around, addingand a new I hope I tests, running no onemedicine. knows. It means won’t react negatively to it. I spoke to a friend feeling unwell from all the medication, having a yesterday, who been doing treatment years schedule thathas no one knows about, it means for being and years, unfortunately without results, but tired or hormonal often, and no one can imagine she told why.me that she has no reaction to shots at all. She feels fine when she’s taking the shots. IncredIn this past year, Hashem has granted me the gift of getting to know a special woman who has not yet been blessed with children and has been doing treatments for over twenty years. She shared that she feels that no cycle is for naught, she has received a gift from each cycle. No matter the outcome, she has grown from the experience. It gave me a reason to try.
But this time, I am enlisting the support system of thehow women of Klalgives Yisraeleach as I begin an IVF cycle. what I ible Hashem person exactly decided to write a diary to allow you tobegin accompany they’re meant to go through. I can’t to imagme on my journey and to allow myself the benefit ine someone going through this journey for so of writing tobut discover whatHashem I can gainmakes from theit easier many years, at least forprocess. her in this way.
Tomorrow I take an ultrasound to see if the one The first time I did an IVF cycle was a year ago. It follicle developed as planned and if more joined. was so overwhelmingly emotional that I needed a My blood tests show that my numbers are still year to recover. To prepare myself. I spent the year low, so there’s hope. Let’s see what happens totrying to build up my physical system that was morrow. depleted from years of synthetic hormones pushed I’m on a journey of hills and valleys and ups into my body andasthe accompanying that hand, I and downs, and long as I hold stress onto His went through. Each time there was a devastating I’m ok. no I just pushed even I needed let go.on erev My retrieval will more. probably taketoplace
Purim Purim, but even Purim I also or didmotzei a lot of emotional andpossibly spiritual healing itself. Can it be that I’ll be in an operating room through numerous therapies and teachers, to teach while everyone is listening to megillah? Actually, myself to truly let go, trust a process, and trust besides for being overwhelmed by logistics, I’m Hashem. I feel like I have many more tools to deal looking forward. I like feeling Hashem close to me with the incredible stress and I'm looking forward in the operating room. It’s obvious that Hashem to putting them into action. is in control. Maybe I’llitbe pregnant by Pesach? Yes, I know might be for nothing, and I am scared of the negative results, but I don't have to live in Skipped 8 utter fearday of devastation. I decided that I'm going through this process as an investigative reporter. Day My9assignment: What gift can I receive from this I’m finishing mypen/shovel appointments process? I take my and lettoday. the I took off theexcavation few daysbegin. around retrieval. I should celebrate. B”H I’m feeling better than at the beginning of the Day 2But instead of celebrating, I just want to week. It's the firstsoday of sun after a long and rainy winter; sleep. I am tired. portent of a gift that will rise follicles. from the rain. is Today there were three NotToday as many the first of my early morning outings. Will my son as I hoped for, but at least more than one. Each think something is amiss whenofmyithusband getsPlease one adds to the percentage working. him ready? I'm sure won'thave even enough realize. I put out Hashem! Maybe I’llheeven to freeze his clothes and was about to leave, when I saw him some, just in case…. hiding under the table, finishing off an oversized I know Hashem is running the show. I’m feellollypop that I had hid from him. He's just fine. I ing down now. I know it’s just tiredness, so I’m not went off even before brachos and a coffee, the allowing myself to feel down from the down-ness. earlier I leave, the quicker I get home. When was waiting in the clinic today theretowas It's anI interesting experience here. It's supposed
each other and when we pass each other in the street, our eyestears. share Ia secret message. a lady fighting wanted to go over to her, to tell her I understand her so I remember Rosh Hashanah I was sitting in thewell. park with Yossi, when I had done a whole cycle and the last ultramy eight-year-old, and she came to the park with sound showed the follicles too big and I’d miss ovuher son, who I also discovered is eight. She also has lation, and the whole cycle went in the garbage. I three-year-old son. We both knew what we were remember sitting outside the office, fighting tears. davening for, although we didn't say a word. We I thought then that it was all for nothing. shared machzorim, played Jewish geography, Now I know better. Nothing is for nothing. All discussed which cheder they're learning in – but as the cycles I went through, all the years of strugif we had a secret pact, nothing of the biggest topic gle, they’re all for something. Something big. in our tefillos was mentioned. In our hearts we both All the imahos were akaros. They needed to wished that we'd meet the park the next light Rosh of holy have great darkness toinproduce Hashanah with a carriage, but not a word was souls. The greater the darkness, the greater the exchanged. light. I can see by Yossi, he is an incredible boy andThat's I know because he as has years tefillos colwhoit’s I think of today I sit in theofmorning lected into one neshama. clinic for the first time in this cycle. Will I meet her When we get up to shamayim after 120, they again? Will I meet other women who I will know will not ask us how many children we had, becarry pens in their pocketbook for shots and not to cause that’s not up to us. They will ask us Asakat write? Who arrive at work listening to all the b'priah v'ribiah? Did you do your share? Did you women complain about how hard it is to get all the try? And me, and my fellow sisters along my jourkids out to school and feel like telling them that her ney, will answer with a resounding Yes! morning was also hard, because she didn't have all Yagata u’matzasa tamain. No one works hard, the kids to get out to school? and then the hard works achieve. Our efforts are justBut hishtadlus. believe who says I didn't meetOnly anyone I know.someone We're a silent they worked hard, and then they found the agift sisterhood in the waiting room, 7:00 am, sharing that Hashem bestowed themfate. with. There is nothsecret struggle and a shared ing in our power that can produce results, we can Later I'm going to eat with my husband. only do today, our effort andout then daven that Hashem He's gifts us.totally not the type. Actually, now that I think about it, the time went out to eat Perhaps thelast gift I’mwe meant to find is was within the toil? probably a year ago, when we were doing Who have We I become ontalking this journey? What treatment. had been about going outhave to I become on this journey? How have I become spend time together for weeks but didn't want to on thistake journey? Can I give to acanceled greatertoday, me? off seder. When his birth chavrusa I’mright learning to trust Hashem, let Him lead he away said we're going out totolunch. me, to follow Him step by step, hour by hour, shot of the hardest partsall of treatment is the strain by One shot. I am joining the incredible women it puts on a marriage. It needs to be actively Continued on p.F4 counteracted by special time together.
be a secret who's going for treatment. I hope I don't meet anyone I know, but there's a part of me that hopes I do meet someone I know, because then I'll have someone to share my secret world with.
We're sitting and eating together, relaxing and enjoying each other's company when I get a phone call from a number I don't recognize. Luckily, I pick up, because it's the clinic. They received my test results and I'm good to go.
There's a lady in my neighborhood that I met here last year. We didn't speak a world, but we both saw
Tomorrow I can begin taking shots. Four days of shots every evening and then back to tests. The journey begins.
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FAMILY ISSUES
Mind Over Manners By Mrs. Rifka Schonfeld
A Survival Life be With Young Children WhyGuide Girls For Should Confident Do ever notice that andMazlish womenwrote apol-a In you 1980, Adele Faber andgirls Elaine ogize so much more than boys and men? seminal parenting book entitled How to Talk SoWhy Kids isWill that? How come women often Listen and Listen So Kids Will start Talk. sentences In January with, mayFaber’s be wrong, but…?” Howteamed can we a 2017,“I Adele daughter Joanna upas with her friend King to confidence? write a new book for parentsociety helpJulie build girls’ ingFirst, younger children. The 2017 entitled How we need to explore whybook, women say sorry to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide more than men. Dr. Stephen Hinshaw, the author Life Triple with Children Ages 2-7,that utilizes many of the oftoThe Bind, explains in adolescence parenting techniques from the original, but modifies boys and girls are expected to individuate – to them for the modern parent and younger children. growThe as fitheir own unique rst section of Faberindividuals. and King’s But book girls deals
are presented withright somewhen paradoxes: kids can’t behave they don’t feel right. If Be confident, but not conceited we don’t take care of their feelings first, we have a Be chance smart, of butengaging no one likes know-it-all All we’ll little their acooperation. Ambition is good, trying too hard badsince have left is our abilitybut to use greater force.isAnd we’d to reserve for emergencies such as Belike assertive, butbrute onlyforce if it doesn’t upset anyone yanking children out of traffi c, we’ve got to face this else feelings things head-on. So let’s dig in! In general, girls are rewarded for noticother words, wetohave to deal with these neging In and responding other people’s feelings, ative emotions before we can deal with the negative whereas boys are rewarded for asserting thembehavior. Even with children as young as two-yearsselves. Girls are assertive are labeled old, we need who to address their negative feelingsasin
“bossy” or “know-it-alls” in ways thatwith boys are life is tough and you are going to fight people. not. You just have to get used to it.” He is not going to How can feeling you notice imbalance in those your chilwalk away like this he has dealt with negadren? Pay attention to the way they speak. Notice tive feelings. Questions. daughter colors on the(apolocounter if your daughterIfisyour always over-apologizing for theeven third timesomething that week, is you impulsively gizing when notmight actually bad or want to say, “Why her did you did you color onmight the counther fault), hedges statements (“this be er again? Didn’t I tell you a million times that the just me” or “I hope this doesn’t offend anyone”). If crayons are for paper?!” She will not likely have a that’s the case, she can use some confidence buildgood answer to that question, and whatever reason ing! how can help: she Here’s did color on you the counter will still remain. Pay attention to language. If thingsown go wrong, especially Comparison. Whenyour you are a woman, perhaps you fall into the same in public places like supermarkets, school lobbies, or trap of we nottend wanting to at appear too assertive. Start shuls, to look the other children who are behavingabout like perfect angels. thoselanguage instances, we thinking the ways thatInyour can want your to say, “Look at Shaindel. She’s quietly helping affect children. her mother load her groceries into the bag. How come Allow for conflict. Let your daughter know you can’t do what Shaindel is doing?” This comparthat it’s okay to disagree. Nothing bad will come ison only emphasizes the negative feelings, rather of a disagreement, as long as it is conducted in a than attempting to get to their core. polite and constructive Encourage her to Children, manner. especially young children, Lecture. stand for what she believes in. have up a limited amount of information that they can Beincareful how you why use when the word “sorry.” take at a time. That’s we begin to lecThere are times it is necessary to say ture we lose themthat completely. They retreat intothat their negative feelings and nothing that we you are sorry. Save thehear wordalmost for those times! And have said. make sure you mean it. The rest of the time, banNowword that so we’ve overisall of the mistakes that ish the thatgone no one apologizing for havparents make when speaking to their children who ing an opinion.
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The Case of the Missing Blood Tests
Situation: A young man contacted me regarding a Covid-19 test he took several weeks ago. The test thank G-d came out negative, but fortunately it called to his attention he had moderately high blood pressure! He was told to get blood tests as quickly as possible and was waiting for the results. Problem: The lab where he took the blood tests were told to rush the results under the emergency nature of the circumstances. In the meantime, this young man went to two doctors, a general practitioner and a cardiologist. However, no conclusion could be reached or any explanation for the high blood pressure until the results of the tests could be viewed. Another doctor he had known for over twenty years wrote the prescription for the tests. Back and forth this gentleman called the lab and the prescribing doctor and it was taking an enormous amount of time for these to be forthcoming. The lab claimed they sent the results to the doctor and the doctor was saying he did not have them. After several days elapsed, the lab called to say they have the results. Only one problem,
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of Klal Yisrael, each one of us holding on strong to Him as we follow the path that he showed us alone. Trusting His knowledge of a bigger picture
where the tests were administered. I explained what had transpired up to date and explained to him that this situation was of utmost importance for these results to be administered on an emergency basis. At this point we were getting close to a week from the start of the tests. This supervisor advised me to call the actual location of the lab where all test results were sent. However, I further conveyed to him that the original doctor who wrote the prescription still had not received ANY results! He told me he would check it out and get back to me, which he did. Additionally, he conveyed that he had no idea why these results were not faxed to the prescribing doctor. I asked him to please go over with me all the tests, especially the cholesterol. He then advised that somehow, the cholesterol was not indicated on the prescription originally written. I contacted the doctor who told me unequivocally that he is sure it was included. No matter how I argued I was told this young man has to go back to the lab to take another blood test for his cholesterol to be checked. I did not want to be the bearer of this news to the young man. So, I insisted on talking to someone who could possibly check the blood tests and see if there was any blood left over to check the cholesterol. I was told the blood
this young man to check the cholesterol!! Indeed, he would have to go back to the lab. I was infuriated. The clock was ticking away, perhaps in a dire situation. In the meantime, from additional stress and aggravation, the numbers on this man’s blood pressure kept steadily rising! Ultimately because of my insistence, he did not have to go back to the lab, as they were able to magically find just enough blood to administer the test without him having to reappear. But I now had the entire head of the lab where the blood is actually shipped, to monitor from the moment this young man’s blood test results come in to work on it immediately and send it both to the doctor, as well as to the young man. Furthermore, I had to address the fact that there usually is another charge for an additional blood test being done, but I got the lab to waive this charge in its entirety. This whole scenario should have never happened from a reliable and well recognized lab. Going forward this man got a free test, as well as the fees waived for the first test that did not include the cholesterol. This column comes out the third week of every month and you can e-mail me at mimib@jewishpress.com.
than we see, trusting Him to give us whatever we need for the process. We are like an actor. He sets up the stage, He gives us the props, He gives us the perfect scenery that we need for this show. All we have to do is be a good actor. The props we don’t need
for our individual script would be detrimental to our scene. So, he doesn’t put it on our stage. (Sometimes we cry that it’s not there – we forget that we can’t switch scenes in the middle of the play…) The curtains are drawn, let the show begin.